A picture book for children from about 5 years old, looking at the poos of Australian animals — which ones are square, which ones sparkle, which animals poo hundreds of times a day, and what role poo plays in the Australian environment.
Gladys Dinnacombe, a UK author, delves into the history of the women of Staffordshire and their families who were transported as convicts to Van Diemen's Land.
Michael, an aspiring writer who has recently finished his PhD, takes a job as the secretary to his literary hero, Lucian Clarke, a reclusive novelist with a mysterious cosmopolitan past, who lives in a cottage in a village on a mountain outside Hobart which gives the book its title, Wood Green.
Two of Harry O'May's histories of Tasmanian maritime life bound together in one volume — Wooden Hookers of Hobart Town and Whalers out of Van Diemen's Land. O'May was one of the most diligent historians of Hobart's seafaring past — he documented the ships, the masters, the trades and the men of the Derwent and the southern seas in a series of books published from the 1940s to the 1960s.
Dodging ships and weathering gales, the small ships were the lifeblood of Tasmania's islands, bringing in the necessities of life and taking away island produce including livestock, dairy produce and mutton birds in season.
Woven Landscape is an examination of what makes a place through its connections to flora, fauna, geology and known heritage, using the Tasmanian Midlands as an example.