Twelve-year-old Violet, her dog Tassie and a new friend — Thyla, the ghost of the last Tasmanian tiger — go on a wild adventure to learn the real story of the thylacine: how it lived, why it disappeared, and whether there could ever be hope for its return. Written and illustrated by Renee Treml, the book weaves a time-travel adventure story through genuinely fascinating facts about the thylacine.
Deborah J. Swiss traces the lives of four women transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 19th century — following them from their origins in Scotland and Ireland through the voyage, the assignment system, and their years in the colony.
An Australian sporting biography of Tom Wills, an early colonial cricket celebrity, who put together the Aboriginal Cricket Team set for Great Britain in 1868 and helped write the original Code for Australian Rules football.
A tragedy tears an aspiring London musician's life apart. Many years later he is discovered reluctantly performing in a remote Tasmanian pub and is forced to confront his past.
A maritime biography of Captain Edward Primrose Tregurtha, edited by Dan Sprod, with strong links to Tasmania, whaling and nineteenth-century seafaring beginning with his Royal Navy service in the Napoleonic Wars at the age of nine.