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To purchase your selections contact The Hobart Bookshop; the Official Partner of Read Tasmania.
Phone 03 6223 1803 or email goodbooks@hobartbookshop.com.au

Paterson, Jim
A Settler's Tale and other verse Poetry
Self published.
0 646 40639 6
RRP: $14.95
Poetry.

Paterson, Jim
Dear God, and other Lamentations
Poetry
Self published.
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Patterson, Carol & Edith Speers (eds)
A Writer's Tasmania
Essay Collection
ISBN: 1876342064
RRP: $25.00
The Book: Fifteen of Tasmania's best-known authors describe their island state in essays full of humour, history and personal anecdote.
The Author: Patterson is the author of many short stories. Speers is best known as a poet and publisher.

Andrew Peek
The Calabar Transcript
Five Islands Press
Poetry.
ISBN: 1 74128 019 2
RRP: $20.00
The Book: Bob Marley, Hamlet, the World Bank and ancient city-state of Benin amongst others feature in this view of Africa and its proud peoples.
The Author: Andrew Peek's writing - poetry, fiction and reviews - has appeared in many publications in Australia, Nigeria and the US. He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Tasmania.

Food/ Wine
Self published
RRP: $14.95
Eat Drink Tasmania is an informed and practical guide to the best of Tasmania’s restaurants, seafood, wine, cafes, watering holes and pubs. This independent publication sells for $14.95 and can be found at larger newsagents, bookstores and major winery cellar door outlets in Tasmania. Or get a copy from the author by telephoning (03) 6239 1541, faxing (03) 6239 1741, emailing gdphillips@bigpond.com, or see www.wine-guide-tasmania.com.au

Poulson, Bruce
Recherche Bay - a short history
History
Management Committee, Southport Community Centre
RRP: $25.00

Poulson, Bruce
The Battlers from the Bush, Vol 1.
Memoir
Esperance Press
ISBN: 1876342056
RRP $ 9.35
Recollections of old Southport, Hastings, Lune.

Pridmore, Walter B.
"Ross...on the Argyle Plains"
Self-published
Non-fiction (History)
ISBN: 0975123920
RRP: $12.95
The Book: An A5 booklet of 76 pages covering Tasmanian regional history. It includes 25 original watercolours by Rose Solomon.

Pridmore, Walter B.
"Port Arthur...as it was"
Self-published
Genre: Non-fiction (History)
ISBN: 064642078SX
RRP: $12.95
The Book: An A5 booklet of 80 pages about Tasmanian regional convict history. It includes 43 original watercolours by Rose Solomon.

Pridmore, Walter B.
"Richmond...and the Coal River Valley"
Self-published
Non-fiction (History)
ISBN: 0975123912
RRP: $12.95
The Book: An A5 booklet of 76 pages that relates Tasmanian regional history. It includes 32 original watercolours by Rose Solomon.

Pridmore, Walter B.
"Richmond Gaol...1825"
Self-published
Non-fiction (History)
ISBN: 0975123904
RRP: $4.95
The Book: An A5 Visitor booklet of 16 pages that tells the history of the settlement of Richmond and environs plus details of the Gaol.
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Quirk, Marilyn
Echoes on the Mountain
Self published and printed by Bokprint, Launceston.
History
ISBN: 064645711x
RRP: $37.00
From a hot summer in WA to the harsh weather of the Tasmanian Highlands the family of the author came about 1949. Marilyn Quirk has always wondered what happened to the migrants newly arrived, who had lived in the little wooden huts. This book is the result of research and interviews with ten of these people from war-ravaged countries of Europe - Poland, England, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania and Berlin, Germany. These are remarkable migrant stories and photographs from the HEC highland village life. Ex-Senator Peter Rae, AO, and Chairman of the Hydro 1993-2004 wrote the foreword and Dr Frank Madill makes comments of recommendation. Some schools are already using this book as a teaching aid and it is also being considered as suitable material to be translated into Braille.

Tony Rayner
Female Factory, Female Convicts
Esperance Press, Dover Tasmania
ISBN: 1876342137
RRP: $33.00
The Book: The social history of 13,000 female convicts transported to Tasmania. Their crimes, punishment, suffering

The Author: Tony Rayner has worked as a social historian since 1979. He is well-known for teaching Tasmanian history and heritage courses with Adult Education.

Reid, John
A Tale from A Time Long Past
Fiction
The Book: The reader is taken back from the modern era to a time when the world had gone mad...but survived due to the dedication of those who refused to capitulate to a dictator.

History
Viking, Penguin
ISBN: 0670041181
RRP: $29.95
"How international race thinking shaped Australian Identity."

Reynolds, Henry
Why Weren't We Told?
History
Penguin
ISBN: 0140278427
RRP: $22.00
A personal search for the truth about our history.

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Rigney, Victoria
Peace Comes Walking
Glass House Books
Biography
ISBN: 1876819960

Rish, David
Portrait of Dog
Young Adult
Angus and Robertson
ISBN: 0207175438
RRP $10.95

Robson, Lloyd
A History of Tasmania, Volume One,
History
ISBN: 0195543645
RRP: $220.00
Van Diemen's Land from earliest times to 1855.

Robson, Lloyd, updated by Michael Roe
A Short History of Tasmania
History
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195541995
RRP $24.95

Roe, Chloe
Ceremonies of the Sun and Moon
Poetry
Self published
ISBN: 0 6463060 9
RRP: $12.00

Jim Ritchie
Jim's Jottings
Attalanta Press
ISBN:0975848607
R.R.P: $19.95
Available from The Devonport Bookshop; via the Author at P.O. Box 1216, Devonport, Tasmania 7310; via the Publisher.
Jim Ritchie's book takes the reader through a whimsical remembrance of growing up in Devonport & surrounding area in the '50s, '60s & '70'. A collection of stories that are a poignant reminder of how things were, his life and his local community.
Jim Ritchie is a long term resident of Devonport on the beautiful North-West Coast of Tasmania. He is not ashamed to lay claim to his convict heritage and is fiercely proud of his birthplace & the community he lives in.

Poetry
Self published
ISBN: 0958544301
RRP: $10.95

Rush, Philip R
Australian Poems that would Captivate a Koala

Poetry
Self published
ISBN: 0958544352
RRP: $10.95

Rush, Philip R
Australian Poems that would Cheer a Chook
Self published
ISBN: 0975813412
RRP: $10.95