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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In 1972, Tasmanian-born John Woodroffe was standing on Oxford Street, London, waiting for his now-wife Katy, when a woman fell from a fifth-floor window above and struck him. He survived. Five decades later, a chance conversation with a friend reignited his need to know who she was.
On 28 April 1996, a gunman killed 35 people and wounded 23 others at the Port Arthur historic site — the worst mass shooting in Australian history. The tragedy led directly to Australia's National Firearms Agreement, a major reform of the country's gun laws.
The signed autobiography of Peter Sculthorpe, the Launceston-born composer known for weaving the Australian landscape and Aboriginal music into his work. Softcover, 1999, 334 pages, indexed.
Suzi P is a little swift parrot who struggles to find a place to raise her family in peace on Bruny Island. But the creative scientists find a way to protect Suzi P and her family, so they can grow up safe and sound from hunters and loggers.
Designed and built in 1867 on the Huon River, SV May Queen is one of Tasmania's most distinctive coastal traders and now sits resplendent in Constitution Dock, Hobart.
Swallows Fly North is a novel about boys growing from romantic children to the realities of manhood during the years from 1940 to 1963; a tale of migration, regeneration and the protection of cultural heritage.
![Struck Down - she fell on me from a fifth-floor window: a Tasmanian's memoir of tragedy| John Woodroffe | Signed | 2023 [USED – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/struck-down-Kk2tOt.png "Struck Down - she fell on me from a fifth-floor window: a Tasmanian's memoir of tragedy| John Woodroffe | Signed | 2023 [USED – SC]")
