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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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Find Me | Holly Craig | 2026 [NEW – SC]
Added: Jun 21, 2026

A suspense novel set in fictional Tasmanian mountains, where a missing person sets off a search that drives the story.


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On a Bright Hillside in Paradise - used
Told from five different points of view, each one revealing something different, On a Bright Hillside in Paradise, tells the story of a family of convict descendants in the back-blocks of Tasmania, on a farm in a place called Paradise.

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Orphans of Browns Creek - a Tasmanian adventure set in the late 1800s
Taken out of an orphanage and put to work as domestic servants in Tasmania’s early colonial days, several children find themselves treated like slaves.

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Out of Ireland (Christopher Koch) - Tasmanian Convict Historical Fiction - 1999 (Used)

This landmark historical novel by celebrated Tasmanian author Christopher Koch provides a powerful, deeply researched account of the 1840s penal colony of Van Diemen's Land. Following the experiences of an Irish political prisoner transported to the antipodes, the text brilliantly captures the landscape, colonial friction, and the harsh realities of the early Tasmanian convict system. It stands as a vital masterpiece of Australian literature and an essential addition for collectors of local fiction and regional historical narratives.


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Out of the Ordinary
An historical novel based around the early life near Wynyard / Table Cape of FM Alexander, founder of the Alexander Technique.

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Pig's Head - a Pufferfish Tasmanian Mystery

A severed head rolls out of the rubbish in a crowded coastal Tasmanian caravan park, and the hunt is on for the killers... and for their victim, a man no one seems to miss, a man no one wants to know.


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Postcards from the Asylum
A collection of poems from Tasmanian poet Karen Knight.

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Preservation
Preservation is a novel based on the shipwreck of the Sydney Cove at Preservation Islands in the Furneaux Group.

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Quintus Servinton
Australia's first novel - Henry Savery's tale founded upon incidents of real occurrence.

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Rainbow Island Tapestry of Time
Gabi opens his inheritance and is plunged into a fantastical chaotic world – the world of the Hidden. He travels through time; history collides with mythology. He means to protect his family but the heroic exploits of the Hidden face an irreconcilable threat to Rainbow Island.

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Reading Madame Bovary
A collection of stories from Tasmanian writer Amanda Lohrey that deal with transition and transformation.

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