Building Stories Tasmania is an illustrated tour of Tasmania's most distinctive buildings - working waterfronts, former hydro sites, pubs, bookshops, hotels, theatres and small-town main streets - told through the people who built, worked and lived in them: convicts, clergy, brewers, booksellers and activists.
My Kemp Ancestors traces six generations of David Gatenby's Kemp family line, opening on the Isle of Sheppey before following the family chapter by chapter from William Kemp and Amelia Fowler onwards.
Riverine documents four autumns of collaborative work by artists Raymond Arnold, Ian Westacott and John Wolseley, camped along the Banyena/Richardson River at Bonnie Brae, a regeneratively managed farm in Victoria's Wimmera region; the book brings together more than 50 paintings, watercolours and etchings with essays by farm steward Prue McAllister and the three artists.
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A local history of the Avoca district in the Fingal Valley of north-east Tasmania, covering the period from 1834 to 1984. Avoca sits in the valley of the South Esk River between Fingal and Conara, in country that was among the earliest settled pastoral land in north-east Tasmania.
In this sparkling romantic comedy, a young journalist tampers with her magazine's horoscopes to win her friend's heart - and sets in motion an unpredictable and often hilarious ripple effect. Written by Danielle Wood under the pseudonym Minnie Darke.
Steps to the Scaffold traces the campaigns of Tasmania's Aboriginal bushrangers - among them Musquito, Black Tom Birch, Black Jack, Black Dick, Pevay and Timmy - through the lead-up to the Black War of 1826-31 and its individual figures' own stories.
A wonderful collection of short stories taking the reader around the world- from a dramatic First World War encounter in Australia (Oddfellows) to the faded glamour of ex-pat 1960s Bombay and an epic quest beginning in 1908 Bolivia.
Told from the perspective of the last wild female thylacine, this children's picture book provides readers with an insight into the rare beauty and uniqueness of the amazing Tasmanian tiger and explains their fight for survival.