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- Location(s): Tasmania, India, Melbourne
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Late 20th/Early 21st Century
As a five-year old in India, I got lost on a train. Twenty-five years later, I crossed the world to find my way back home. Five-year-old Saroo lived in a poor village in India, in a one-room hut with...
- Location(s): Tasmania
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The deeper the water, the darker the secrets There were so many times I thought about telling you the truth, Eva. What stopped me was always the same thing… When Eva’s husband Jackson tragically drowns, she longs to meet...
- Location(s): Bay of Fires
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Deep in a national park on the east coast of Tasmania, the Bay of Fires is an idyllic holiday community. There are no more than a dozen shacks beside the lagoon – and secrets are hard to keep: the...
- Location(s): Tasmania
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
This handsome collection, the first to bring together the finest stories about Tasmania, includes works by notable early Australian writers, such as Marcus Clarke and Tasma: internationally renowned practitioners, like Hal Porter, Carmel Bird and Nicholas Shakespeare: and a...
- Location(s): Isle of Man, Tasmania
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1800s
Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley wants only to smuggle a little tobacco, brandy and French pornography from the Isle of Mann to a secluded beach in England. Yet somehow in the process he and his crew end up weighing anchor...
- Location(s): Freycinet
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Freycinet is about obsessive love and cruel murder in the Tasmanian wilderness, as Ginny O’Byrne experiences disturbing visions of torturous fates for two missing young women. In Freycinet (pronounced Frey-sin-ay), Ginny is simultaneously enchanted but also strangely horrified by...
- Location(s): Tasmania
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Kieran Elliott’s life changed forever on a single day when a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that haunts him still resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal town he once called...
- Location(s): Flinders Island
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1830s onward
It is 1839, a preacher is looking after a small group of Aborigines, who have come from Tasmania, formerly Van Diemen’s Land.the Aborigines have all been guided into taking up”Western” notions, from dress to food. He is appalled by...
- Location(s): Tasmania
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The hunter arrives in an isolated community in the Tasmanian wilderness with a single purpose in mind: to find the last thylacine, the tiger of fable, fear and legend. The man is in the employ of the mysterious ‘Company’,...
- Location(s): Bruny Island, Tasmania
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Mary lives in Hobart, and is triggered into going to Bruny Island, where she once lived with her husband, the lighthouse keeper there. Her decision, in her dying days, prompts division within her own family, yet her trip has...
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