Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
Set in a vividly captured bygone Tasmania, the third novel by the award-winning author of Flames and The Rain Heron, Limberlost, is an extraordinary chronicle of life and land: of carnage and kindness, blood ties and love.
Ann Cripps, Gardeners, Plant Collectors, Friends: Hobart Town and Beyond
Ann Cripps has profiled and interwoven the stories of over 25 men and women of note who contributed to the horticultural history of Van Diemen’s Land, delving into early books, letters, diaries and other rare manuscripts to bring them to life.
Ron Radford, John Glover: Patterdale Farm and the Revelation of the Australian Landscape
Ron Radford addresses and examines Glover’s painting and farming at his Patterdale estate in northern Tasmania. He also records the recent saving of Glover’s 200-year-old Patterdale farmhouse and the re-creation of his studio and garden. Dr Radford stresses that Glover created Australia’s first great landscape canvases, many poignantly depicting the original Palawa inhabitants.
Henry Reynolds and Nicholas Clements, Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero
Tongerlongeter is an epic story of resistance, sorrow and survival.
Leader of the Oyster Bay nation of south-east Tasmania in the 1820s and ’30s, Tongerlongeter and his allies prosecuted the most effective frontier resistance ever mounted on Australian soil.