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A select list of fiction about Tasmania and/or by Tasmanian authors. These titles may be borrowed from the State Library of Tasmania. |
| Benmalek, Anouar |
The Child of an ancient people |
| An orphaned Tasmanian aboriginal boy is rescued by a couple fleeing deportation in France. The trio battle prejudices of society in 19th century Australia. | |
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Bird, Carmel |
The Bluebird cafe
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Bird, Carmel |
Cape Grimm
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Bjelke-Petersen, Marie |
Monsoon music
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Bridges, Roy |
The League of the Lord |
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The author's final novel, set at Port Arthur.
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Butler, Richard |
The Men that God forgot
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Castro, Brian |
Drift |
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A novel of coincidence, mystery and justice set in Tasmania.
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Cato, Nancy |
A Distant island |
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Fictional biography of botanist Ronald Gunn and his travels in nineteenth century Tasmania in search of plant specimens.
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Clarke, Marcus |
For the term of his natural life
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Courtenay, Bryce |
The Potato factory |
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Courtenay, Bryce |
Tommo and Hawk |
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Courtenay, Bryce |
Solomon's song
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Cronin, Bernard |
The Coastlanders |
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Novel set in the far north-west around Marrawah.
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Devine, Angela |
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Dick, Isobel |
Wild orchid |
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A novel of the Brackens, emigrants to Van Diemen's Land in 1840 and their struggle to establish themselves as hop growers.
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Drewe, Robert |
Savage crows |
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Novel set in a Bass Strait island mutton-birding community.
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Flanagan, Richard |
Death of a river guide |
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The narrator reflects on his personal history whilst drowning in the Franklin River |
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Flanagan, Richard |
Gould's book of fish |
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Flanagan, Richard |
The Sound of one hand clapping |
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Post World War 2 experiences of a Slovenian immigrant family on Tasmania's west coast and Hobart's northern suburbs.
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| Friend, Robyn |
The Butterfly stalker
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Gilling, Tom |
Sooterkin |
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The birth of a seal-like child in 1821 Van Diemen's Land results in familial joy and then conflict over the future when a proposal is received from a stranger.
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Godfrey, Elizabeth |
Seed before the wind
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Goodrick, Joan |
Vandemon's daughter
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Graves, Kathleen |
Exile |
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A novel set on the north west coast in the 1920s.
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Greener, Leslie |
Tea for a stranger
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Hay, William Gosse |
The Escape of the notorious Sir William Heans |
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Heans escapes from Point Puer and is assisted by a native guide in his flight.
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Hodgman, Helen |
Blue skies
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| Jacobson, Michael | Windmill Hill |
| An elderly man is removed from a nursing home by his grandson. The pair travel to the rugged West Coast where a tragic story of friendship, war and old age unfolds. | |
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Kneale, Matthew |
English passengers
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Koch, Christopher |
Across the sea wall |
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Koch, Christopher |
The Boys in the island |
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Koch, Christopher |
The Doubleman |
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Koch, Christopher |
Highways to a war |
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Based on the reporting life of Tasmanian foreign correspondent Neil Davis. |
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Koch, Christopher |
Out of Ireland |
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This prequel to Highways to a war delves into one family's convict past.
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Leask, Phil |
The Slow death of Patrick O'Reilly |
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A novel spanning two centuries tells of bushman Patrick O'Reilly and his possible involvement with a lost child and a deserting French sailor. The journal of an earlier French deserter from Baudin's 1802 expedition tells a parallel story.
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Leigh, Julia |
The Hunter |
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One man's mission to locate the last thylacine.
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Lohrey, Amanda |
The Morality of gentlemen |
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Hobart waterfront conflict during the 1950s. |
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Lohrey, Amanda |
The Philosopher's doll
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Lohrey, Amanda |
The Reading group
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McCutcheon, Sandy |
The Poison tree |
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Mystery featuring private investigator Ramdas Nair who seeks clues following the disappearance of the Prime Minister's lover.
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McQueen, James |
Hook's mountain |
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Novel exploring the controversial topic of logging old growth forests in north. |
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McQueen, James |
Travels with Michael and me |
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Collection of short stories including one tale set on unnamed Tasmanian islands.
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Motion, Andrew |
Wainewright the poisoner |
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Fictional biography of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, a convict artist responsible for some fine Tasmanian colonial art works.
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| Murray-Smith, Joanna | Judgement rock |
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A plant hunter seeking a rare orchid arrives on a Bass Strait island, and is drawn into a relationship with the lighthouse keeper. The relationship is challenged by the arrival of a lone shipwrecked sailor.
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Owen, David |
South arm |
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Owen, David |
Pufferfish mysteries
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| Pascoe, Bruce | Ocean |
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Caleb Williams, captain of a Bass Strait sealing ship is unable to forget his relationship with a captive Bunurong woman, despite his marriage to Eugenie, an English woman he met on a visit home to England.
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Porter, Hal |
The Tilted cross |
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A novel set in colonial Hobart.
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Roberts, Barney |
The penalty of Adam
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Rohan, Criena |
Down by the dockside |
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A novel set on the fictional Bellereve Group, most likely the Kent Group of Islands.
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Rose, Heather |
White heart |
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Spellbinding tale of a woman coming to terms with her past.
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Scholes, Katherine |
The Rain queen |
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An Australian nurse seeks answers regarding the murder of her missionary parents twenty years ago.
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Shimmins, Anne |
Eden observed |
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Novel set on an unnamed Bass Strait island.
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Timms, E. V. |
The Challenge |
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A novel set on Bass Strait islands.
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Wilson, Erle |
Coorinna : a novel of the Tasmanian uplands |
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A story that is narrated by animals.
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| Yaxley, Richard | The Rose leopard |
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Zaetta, Louise |
Land of gold and silver |
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The story of the Cerutti family who move from their home in Northern Italy to an isolated Tasmanian mining settlement. |
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