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17/04/2025

10/04/2025

Narrow Road to the Deep North - Starts 18th April on Prime Video

ISBN: 9781761357237
Blackgum Item Code: PENG1366
Title: Narrow Road to the Deep North Series Tie In
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RRP: $22.99
Discount: 40%
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August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever.

This savagely beautiful novel is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.

28/03/2025

Congrats to all the winners! Such a great list

The winners of the 2025 Tasmanian Literary Awards have been announced! Congratulations to all the writers and illustrators recognised in the awards.
https://www.arts.tas.gov.au/tasliteraryawards

16/02/2025

https://www.arts.tas.gov.au/tasliteraryawards

Congratulations to everyone who has been nominated for this years literary awards!

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21/01/2025

Richard Flanagan's 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is slated for an April 2025 release of the TV series adaption

18/12/2024

Such an amazing list of authors, congratulations!

Arts Tasmania have announced the longlists for the Tasmanian Literary Awards today! Huge congratulations to all nominated creators including SCBWI members Lian Tanner Author and Fiona Levings Illustration who have been recognised in the Minister for the Arts Prize for Books for Young Readers and Children. The full list for this category is copied below - some brilliant creators there - congratulations to everyone who made it in, we know exactly how many years of hard work this represents for you.

https://www.arts.tas.gov.au/tasliteraryawards

Amazing Animal Journeys by Jennifer Cossins (Lothian Children’s Books, 2022)
Before the Mountain had a Name by Fiona Levings (Forty South Publishing, 2024)
Digger Digs Down by Johanna Bell, illustrated by Huni Melissa Bollinger (University of Queensland Press, 2024)
Feathered Alphabet by Monica Reeve (Forty South Publishing, 2022)
Spellhound: A Dragons of Hallow Book by Lian Tanner (Allen & Unwin, 2023)
The Letterbox Tree by Rebecca Lim and Kate Gordon (Walker Books Australia, 2023)
Too Many Tigers by Monica Reeve (Forty South Publishing, 2024)
When You're a Boy by Blake Nuto (Affirm Press, 2023)

19/11/2024

Just arrived in the warehouse; a whimsical anecdotal dive into the past in Tullah, and the Wee Georgie Wood Railway. Told by a passionate local, and reprinted for the first time in 25 years by her great-grandson for all to enjoy.

ISBN: 9780646706382
Blackgum Item Code: DATH0001
Title: Whistle at the Bridge
Author: Jean Thorne
Here, by one who lived them, are tales of Tullah in the 1920s - a very different Tullah from the one we know today.

Back then, there was only the gelana mine, and no road; the only link to the outside was the 2 foot gauge steam loco Wee Georgie Wood.

They are tales of isolation; of the struggle to rear a family and get higher education for the children; of loneliness, and the lack of facilities (no doctor, no dentist), of the shortage of work after the Great War had stopped the export of metals to Germany.

We learn how the people alleviated their lot - with pigeon racing, wood chopping, cards, billiards, football, dancing, movies and music.

And we find that even in such a small community there existed a definite social pecking order; mine manager, teacher, bush nurse, parson, tradesmen, miners and timber workers.

But they are more than simple outback tales: through them we share the struggles and feelings of the characters - their grief at the loss of loved ones; their pride in achievements for the children through stubborn effort and self-sacrifice; their fight for better pay and conditions at the mine.

And too, we share with them what the author calls ‘the simple pleasures in a unique community now gone forever’.

30/10/2024

Our local award winning author Jennifer Cossins has her book release day today!

22/10/2024

Love it when we get a fabulous book in! Timeless Tasmania has arrived, and is ready to ship now. It's a gorgeous photography book, and my top pick for Christmas! Order now!
ISBN: 9780648178828
Blackgum Item Code: LOBP0002
Title: Timeless Tasmania
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RRP: $65.00
Discount: 40%
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Timeless Tasmania is the second book by Tasmanian Landscape photographer Luke O'Brien following his first book 'Tasmania a photographic journey' published in 2018.

19/05/2024

Such fantastic news from our Tassie writers!

In wonderful news to wake up to on a Sunday morning, Spellhound has won the 2023 Aurealis Award for Best Children's Fiction! I am utterly delighted!