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Apple Island Wife – Slow Living in Tasmania

Apple Island Wife – Slow Living in Tasmania
  • Author(s): Fiona Stocker
  • Location(s): Tasmania
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Present day

What happens when you move to five acres in Tasmania on a hunch, with an alpaca-whispering husband and a feral cockerel for company? Can you eat the cockerel for dinner? Or has it got rigour mortis? Apple Island Wife...

Family Secrets

Family Secrets
  • Author(s): Liz Byrski
  • Location(s): Hobart
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

When patriarch Gerald Hawkins passes away in his Tasmanian home, after ten years of serious illness, his family experience a wave of grief and, admittedly, a surge of relief. Gerald’s dominating personality has loomed large over his wife, Connie,...

Gould’s Book of Fish

Gould’s Book of Fish
  • Author(s): Richard Flanagan
  • Location(s): Tasmania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1828

Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all the living things on the land and the fishes in the sea were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a convict in Van Dieman’s Land who...

Limberlost

Limberlost
  • Author(s): Robbie Arnott
  • Location(s): Tasmania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ned West dreams of sailing across the river on a boat of his very own. To Ned, a boat means freedom – the fresh open water, squid-rich reefs, fires on private beaches – a far cry from life on...

Mole Creek

Mole Creek
  • Author(s): James Dunbar
  • Location(s): Tasmania, Australia, Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Spy, Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day and Wartime Vietnam (Early 1970s)

In the tiny Tasmanian town of Mole Creek, retired Australian cop and Vietnam veteran Pete McAuslan has retreated to his fishing cabin to write his memoirs. In Sydney, his grandson, journalist and trashy true crime author Xander, learns that...

New Beginnings

New Beginnings
  • Author(s): Iris Blobel
  • Location(s): Hobart
  • Genre(s): Romance, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

Twenty-two-year-old Sophie Levesque has been guardian to eight-year-old sister Mia since their mother’s death a few years ago. Luck comes their way when they inherit a small house in Hobart. Problem is, though, they don’t know or have even...

Search for the Light

Search for the Light
  • Author(s): Rosemary Noble
  • Location(s): Tasmania
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1820s

A moment’s foolish mistake costs sixteen-year old Nora her freedom and her family. Sentenced to transportation she has to grow up fast to survive prison, the long journey and then life as an assigned servant in Van Diemen’s Land...

Secrets of the Sea

Secrets of the Sea
  • Author(s): Nicholas Shakespeare
  • Location(s): Tasmania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Following the death of his parents in a car crash, eleven-year-old Alex Dove is torn from his life on a remote farm in Tasmania and sent to school in England. When he returns to Australia twelve years later, the...

The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
  • Author(s): Richard Flanagan
  • Location(s): Hobart
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving―and astonishing―best. In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna’s aged mother is dying―if her three children would just allow it....

The Potato Factory

The Potato Factory
  • Author(s): Bryce Courtenay
  • Location(s): Hobart, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1800s

Ikey Solomon is in the business of thieving and he’s very good at it. Ikey’s partner in crime is his mistress, the forthright Mary Abacus, until misfortune befalls them. They are parted and each must make the harsh journey...

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