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1 y separately published work icon Hobartdocious : A Tasmanian Tail Haidee Neil , Naomi Orana (illustrator), Hobart : Forty Degrees South , 2017 14248254 2017 single work picture book children's
1 y separately published work icon 40 ̊ South Short Story Anthology 2012 : The Ten Best Entries from the 2011 Competition Rachel Edwards , Leigh Swinbourne , Hobart : Forty Degrees South , 2012 Z1933796 2012 anthology short story
1 2 y separately published work icon Last Days of the Mill P. R. Hay , Hobart : Forty Degrees South , 2012 Z1918801 2012 selected work poetry art work biography 'For seven decades 'The Pulp' constructed the social, economic and environmental circumstances of life on the North-West Coast. In 2011, on the last day of its operation, artist Tony Thorne went on site armed with sketchpad and camera. And writer Pete Hay came to Burnie armed with notepad and recorder, to talk to displaced mill workers. The result is this extraordinary collaboration of dramatic monologues in the vernacular voice of the mill floor and artworks of stark, confronting beauty that vividly capture the dying days of an industrial colossus.' (Publisher's blog.)
1 y separately published work icon Moriarty's Super Gene Melvin Freestone , Hobart : Forty Degrees South , 2012 6029448 2012 single work novel humour

'A reflection on consciousness and its awakening - Moriarty's Super Gene challenges the reader to examine the personal instruments that we all accumulate to navigate through life.'

'The hero, Moriarty, is at once a participant in the game of life, a critic of humanity's foibles, a philosopher and a proud leftover from the '60s. He wrestles with everything from the decay of democracy, excessive political correctness, the horrors of Nazism and the extreme danger of climate change denial. Yet this is a book of great optimism which reaches the reader through humour, familiar experiences and fine analytical writing. It is an opportunity for some personal maintenance.'

'Perhaps its greatest strength is that it is a primer to an achieve better future, for a more just and humane world.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 y separately published work icon Snow Petrel : A Father - Son Voyage to the Windiest Place in the World Jon Tucker , Hobart : Forty Degrees South , 2012 25790167 2012 single work autobiography

'When Ben Tucker and his kid brother Matt decided to sail south from Tasmania, looking for icebergs in a small home-built yacht, their father Jon was allowed to come along as their cabin-boy, on a promise of good behaviour.

'The unfolding adventure took them through thick pack ice to become trapped at the windiest location on the planet, a remote location in East Antarctica.' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon Of Things Being Various A Poem is a Parachute The Grove Road Poets , Hobart : Forty Degrees South , 2011 Z1832715 2011 anthology poetry
1 y separately published work icon The Blue Cathedral Cameron Hindrum , Hobart : Forty Degrees South , 2011 14625877 2011 single work novel

'Queenstown is below, stitched into the bottom of the valley, the dark geometric shapes of the Mount Lyell headframe away to his left and the vast sail of Mount Owen on the other side of the town, opposite him. The summer sky is clean and clear, vast and high, an endless cathedral ceiling. This is where he comes when he wants to hide.

'1983 - The Franklin River Dam Blockade has invited protesters to Tasmania's remote West Coast. For one local delinquent, coping with an ill father and an uncertain future, their arrival brings a time of challenge and confrontation, when Billy begins to feel everything sliding out of control.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 y separately published work icon Proving Flight Mary Kille , Hobart : Forty Degrees South , 2011 14248881 2011 selected work poetry

'This collection of poems is a companion to Mary Kille's first book, Happenstance.

'Both books reflect some acutely remembered experiences from her earlier years in England, but mostly people, places and pleasures of the lovely north west coast of Tasmania.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 2 y separately published work icon The Lighthouse Kids of Maatsuyker Island Sheryl Hamilton , Jonah Wiltshire (illustrator), Evie Hamilton (illustrator), Hobart : Forty Degrees South , 2010 Z1771967 2010 single work picture book children's This is the story of seven-year-old Jonah and four-year-old Evie's adventure living on Maatsuyker Island. Jonah and Evie were lucky to be the first children in more than 10 years to live on the island exploring and discovering the 'magic of "Maat"'. They were there from February to May 2010 with their Mum and Dad, Sheryl Hamilton and Al Wiltshire, who were volunteer PWS caretakers as well as Bureau of Meteorology weather observers.

'Jonah and Evie created all the drawings and models in this book while living on Maatsuyker.' (From the publisher's website.)
1 y separately published work icon No Weather for a Burial David Owen , Hobart : Forty Degrees South , 2010 Z1695165 2010 single work novel crime 'Pufferfish, aka Detective Inspector Franz Heineken, scourge of Tasmania’s villains is back. And back with a refreshed vengence. Pufferfish, prickly, curmudgeonly and irony-charged as everm has to neutralise a new stench in his island paradise.' (From the publisher's website.)
1 y separately published work icon Hawkin's Grove Graeme Bourke , Hobart : Forty Degrees South , 2010 14248172 2010 single work novel historical fiction

'Matilda Langley is a beautiful young woman living with her family in the highlands of Tasmania in the 1850s. She falls in love with a sea captain and ends up with child. Disowned by her father, she flees the family farm. She is waylaid by two masked men. While escaping from the men she falls over a cliff. Because of her injuries, her clearly marked trail is found leading to the river where it is presumed she drowned. Her family believes her to be dead although no body was ever found.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 y separately published work icon Growing Sideways Nick Glade-Wright , Hobart : Forty Degrees South , 2010 14248080 2010 single work novel

'It is the early seventies. Mal Staines, from working-class Burnie, endeavours to reconcile his adolescent frustration and anger whilst searching for artistic enlightenment in Hobart. But from the grimy chaos of his revolting share-house, Mal battles the distractions of his quirky friends and a hedonistic way of life until he forms an unlikely friendship with an immigrant beekeeper. In this coming-of-age story Mal discovers there’s more to his parents than he ever imagined and that qualifying at art school doesn’t necessarily make you an artist.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 y separately published work icon The Legend of Timbs Reef : A Tasmanian Story of Greed, Deceit, Murder and Bush Justice : A Novel Kim McDermott , Hobart : Forty Degrees South , 2009 Z1878659 2009 single work novel crime

'From the wilds of Tasmania's south-west in the 1880s to the boardroom of New York bankers in the 1990s and back again.

'Follow Paul Walker and his fiancée Carol in a dramatic, fast-moving journey as they try to unravel the mystery of the lost gold reef of Frank Timbs and the devastating murder of six innocent men at the Rosebery Mine in 1962.

'The blame lay with Paul's father, Dave. But was he really responsible?

'Each mystery leads Paul and Carol to even more questions and skulduggery culminating in a desperate battle to survive the combination of a crazed killer and the equally deadly vagaries of western Tasmania's terrain and weather.

'Although written as a work of fiction, some events in this book are based on actual events and people. It reflects the ever-present power struggles and corruption found in seemingly responsible company boardrooms and the lengths to which some people will go in their quest for wealth and power.' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon Jack Thwaites: Pioneer Tasmanian Bushwalker and Conservationist Simon Kleinig , Lindisfarne : Simon Kleinig Forty Degrees South , 2008 Z1550011 2008 single work biography
1 y separately published work icon Caterpillars in the Kitchen Jennifer Houghton , Janet Fenton (illustrator), Hobart : Forty Degrees South , 2008 6116653 2008 single work picture book children's
1 y separately published work icon Butternut Jonathan Mills , Lindisfarne : Forty Degrees South , 2008 6116624 2008 single work novel
1 1 y separately published work icon High Mountainous Country : No Reliable Information Ray Stuart , Hobart : Forty Degrees South , 2005 Z1279447 2005 selected work poetry Poetry on Papua New Guinea 1961-1964 through the experiences of a young infantry officer with the Pacific Islands Regiment at Taurama, Manus, and Vanimo; and patrolling in the Gulf District of Papua.
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