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40 South Short Story Anthology 2026 See details
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] See details
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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Up and Coming / 25 See details
Up and Coming / 25
Stories from the ten finalists in the Young Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2025.
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Vanishing Falls - Tasmanian thriller by Poppy Gee |SC Used| See details
Vanishing Falls - Tasmanian thriller by Poppy Gee |SC Used|

Deep within the lush Tasmanian rainforest is the remote town of Vanishing Falls, a place with a storied past.

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Waiting in the Wilderness – The Arthur River Ferryman 1878–1913: Thames to Tarkine | Pam Wood | 2018 [NEW – SC – Fiction] See details
Waiting in the Wilderness – The Arthur River Ferryman 1878–1913: Thames to Tarkine | Pam Wood | 2018 [NEW – SC – Fiction]

Pam Wood's historical novel based on the life of Henry Gardiner — the first European ferryman on the Arthur River in Tasmania's northwest wilderness, who operated the crossing from 1878 to 1913. Gardiner was born in London in 1834 and came to Tasmania's developing colony, eventually taking the ferryman's role on the remote Arthur River in the Tarkine — one of the most isolated positions in the colony.

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Wanting - hardcover, signed See details
Wanting - hardcover, signed
Van Diemen's Land, 1841. Mathinna, the adopted Aboriginal daughter of the island's governor, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane, sits for her portrait. She is the subject of a grand experiment in civilisation - one that will determine whether science and reason can be imposed in place of savagery and desire.
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Wanting - softcover See details
Wanting - softcover
Van Diemen's Land, 1841. Mathinna, the adopted Aboriginal daughter of the island's governor, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane, sits for her portrait. She is the subject of a grand experiment in civilisation - one that will determine whether science and reason can be imposed in place of savagery and desire.
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Welcome to Nowhere River | Meg Bignell | 2022 [SC – Fiction] See details
Welcome to Nowhere River | Meg Bignell | 2022 [SC – Fiction]

Meg Bignell's second novel — set in a fictional small Tasmanian coastal community where nothing much happens and everything matters. A woman who has always run from anything too real finds herself stranded in Nowhere River — a ramshackle town on the edge of nowhere, full of characters who've also washed up there for their own reasons.

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What the Left Hand Knew See details
What the Left Hand Knew
A tale of mystery, manners and mayhem in the Garden Club of Riot Creek, a small town in a small Tasmanian valley.
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When the Night Comes - used See details
When the Night Comes - used
Running away from the mainland was supposed to make their lives better. But, for Isla and her brother, their mother's sadness and the cold, damp greyness of Hobart's stone streets seeps into everything.
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Whipbird See details
Whipbird
Master Australian story telling... No holds are barred as the Cleary family attempts to put long-held tensions behind them to celebrate a milestone. What could possibly go wrong?
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Why Neville Shot Gus See details
Why Neville Shot Gus
From David Owen, the author of the Tasmanian Pufferfish crime / detective novels comes this stand-alone novella, with plenty of familiar landmarks to spot.
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