Set in early 19th century Hobart Town, The Sooterkin is a darkly comic novel about a convict woman who gives birth to a creature that may or may not be human — a being the colonists cannot categorise and don't know what to do with. Tom Gilling uses the premise to examine colonial society's obsessions with classification, propriety and the fear of the strange in Van Diemen's Land.
In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp in the remote Tasmanian highlands, when Sonja Buloh was three years old and her father was drinking too much, Sonja's mother walked into a blizzard never to return.
The unit history of the 48th Battalion AIF in the First World War, written by W. Devine and published in 1919 — in the immediate aftermath of the war, making this a near-contemporary record rather than a later retrospective history. The 48th Battalion was raised in South Australia and Western Australia in 1916 as part of the 12th Brigade, 4th Division AIF, and served on the Western Front through major engagements including Pozières, Bullecourt, Dernancourt and the Hundred Days Offensive of 1918.
Karl von Stieglitz's 1958 centenary history of Holy Trinity Church, Cressy, consecrated in 1858 by Bishop Francis Russell Nixon in Tasmania's Norfolk Plains district.
![The Sooterkin | Tom Gilling | 1999 [USED – SC – Out of Print]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/sooterkin-FJ8K7f.png "The Sooterkin | Tom Gilling | 1999 [USED – SC – Out of Print]")
![The Story of a Battalion – History of the 48th Battalion AIF in the Great War | W. Devine | First Edition 1919 [USED – HC – Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/Story%20of%20a%20Battalion-GWkNmF.png "The Story of a Battalion – History of the 48th Battalion AIF in the Great War | W. Devine | First Edition 1919 [USED – HC – Good]")
![The Story of Holy Trinity Church, Cressy 1858-1958 - Centenary History by Karl von Stieglitz [Vintage Softcover Booklet]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/story-holy-trinity-church-cressy-ajG2KT.png "The Story of Holy Trinity Church, Cressy 1858-1958 - Centenary History by Karl von Stieglitz [Vintage Softcover Booklet]")
