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40 South Short Story Anthology 2026
Added: Jul 23, 2026

Finalist stories from Forty South's Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2026, an annual short story competition open to writers in Australia and New Zealand on an island, or island-resonant, theme.


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Daughters of the Tide | Arianne James | 2026 [NEW – SC]
Added: Jun 21, 2026

A Tasmanian gothic debut novel weaving historical fiction with selkie folklore. It's 1923, and Isla Findlay lives with her parents in a rambling mansion on a wild stretch of the Tasmanian coast — a house steeped in family secrets, tragedy and rumours of madness. When Isla's estranged aunt finally returns home, long-buried childhood memories of selkie stories begin to surface, along with disturbing dreams of seals and a haunting song Isla starts to hear even while awake.


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Fiction by Tasmanian authors or set in Tasmania, from historical novels to contemporary stories.

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The Hermit in Van Diemen's Land | Henry Savery | 1964 Edition [USED – HCDJ – Good]

Henry Savery's satirical sketches of colonial Hobart society, first published in the Hobart Town Gazette in 1829 — edited with a biographical introduction by Cecil Hadgraft and notes on the persons by Margriet Roe, published by University of Queensland Press in 1964.


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The Hobart Hotel
Historic Tasmanian fiction based around the Wrest Point Casino Hotel.

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The House of Now and Then
After a humiliating public scandal, Olivia is hiding from the press in a remote Tasmanian house when an unknown man knocks on her door, seeking Pippa, a woman who once lived there.

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The Hunter - A mission to find the last thylacine
An unnamed man, M, arrives at a remote house on the fringe of a vast wilderness and soon disappears into a world of silence and stillness. His one mission is to find the last thylacine, the fabled Tasmanian tiger. A novel.

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The Jam Factory and other stories
Stories set in old Tasmania.


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The Jam Maker
An historical novel set in Tasmania, 1874.

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The Journeys of Hamlin Baylis Wells
In his first journey, Hamlin Baylis Wells, thirty years an undercover detective, has a major decision to make. His immaculate career and religious convictions are at odds with an impulsive decision not to declare a large sum of money found during a police operation.

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The Labyrinth - used
Erica Marsden's son, an artist, has been imprisoned for homicidal negligence. In a state of grief, Erica cuts off all ties to family and friends, and retreats to a quiet hamlet on the south-east coast near the prison where he is serving his sentence.

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The Last of the Apple Blossom
7 February, 1967. Walls of flame reduce much of Tasmania to ash. Young schoolteacher Catherine Turner rushes to the Huon Valley to find her family's apple orchard destroyed, her childhood home in ruins and her brother dead.

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The Lavender Keeper
Lavender farmer Luc Bonet is raised by a wealthy Jewish family in the foothills of the French Alps. When the Second World War breaks out he joins the French Resistance, leaving behind his family's fortune, their home overrun by soldiers, their lavender fields in disarray.

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