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.
An examination of the Anzac landing and initial battles that followed that questions some of the long cherished claims of noted historian Charles Bean.
This Folio Society volume presents Steven Pinker’s foundational work on linguistics and cognitive science, The Language Instinct. The text argues that language is a human biological adaptation rather than a cultural creation, blending cognitive neurobiology with evolutionary anthropology.
A history of the female convicts transported from England to Van Diemen's Land aboard the Duchess of Northumberland in 1852–1853 — the last convict ship to bring female prisoners to Tasmania before transportation to the colony ended. The book documents the women themselves — who they were, what brought them to transportation, and what happened to them after arrival in a colony where convict transportation was already winding down.
A memoir from John Cook, one of Tasmania's last kerosene lighthouse keepers. A story about madness and wilderness, shining a light onto the vicissitudes of love and nature.
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.
![The Last Ladies – Female Convicts Transported on the Duchess of Northumberland 1852–1853 | Christine Woods | 2004 [USED – SC – Out of Print]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/the-last-ladies-PvDJdo.png "The Last Ladies – Female Convicts Transported on the Duchess of Northumberland 1852–1853 | Christine Woods | 2004 [USED – SC – Out of Print]")
