Tasmania


Most Read This Week Tagged "Tasmania"

Lyrebird Hill
To Name Those Lost
Fatal Impact (Dr. Anya Crichton, #7)
The Ambitions of Jane Franklin : Victorian lady adventurer
Into That Forest
Shadow Of The Thylacine: One Man's Epic Search For The Tasmanian Tiger
Lost Voices
The Last Tiger
The Black War: Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania
When the Night Comes
Bay of Fires
Poet's Cottage
A Bone of Fact
The Survivors
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Bruny
Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
English Passengers
Limberlost
Dusk
Death of a River Guide
The Hunter
Flames
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Van Diemen's Land
In Tasmania
The Bluffs
Past the Shallows
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. StedmanA Town Like Alice by Nevil ShutePicnic at Hanging Rock by Joan LindsayThe Secret River by Kate GrenvilleThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Fictitious Australia
470 books — 123 voters
For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus ClarkeVanishing Falls by Poppy GeeGould's Book of Fish by Richard FlanaganThe Alphabet of Light and Dark by Danielle WoodThe Roving Party by Rohan Wilson
Tasmanian Gothic
24 books — 3 voters


Robbie Arnott
After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon and olive. Skeletal in the mist. When they reached them, they saw fluorescent pink tags hanging from the twisted artwork of their branches. Orange bike lights hammered into dolerite boulders, beneath flakes of minty lichen. (p.193)
Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

Richard Flanagan
Tracker Marks was of a different opinion. Though he seemed more white than a white man, he had no time for their ways. For him his dress, his deportment was no different than staying downwind in the shadows of trees when hunting, blending into the world of those he hunted, rather than standing out from it. Once he had excelled at the emu dance & the kangaroo dance; then his talent led him to the whitefella dance, only now no-one was left of his tribe to stand around the fire & laugh & praise his ...more
Richard Flanagan

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Tasmania A group for those living in, or interested in Tasmania
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Underground Knowledge — A discussion group This global discussion group has been designed to encourage debates about important and underrep…more
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The Tassie Book Club The one stop Book Club for anyone from Tasmania, Australia. We’re about a love of all books, fro…more
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This group is aimed to get you geared up for the 2017 Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival. Wh…more
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