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- 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,...
- Location(s): Tasmania, Australia, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Espionage, 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...
- 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...
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
- 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....