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Gay / Teen ISBN: 141166535X RRP: $US14.95 or $US4.93 to download The Book: A S/F adventure with an oddly-assorted gay couple and their clanmates, as they try to rid the world of a very nasty monster. The Author: Happily retired from too many years as an Industrial Chemist in Sydney, he now resides in splendid Tasmanian isolation with his partner and their dogs. See http://tango.id.auWayne, Tango Hidden Treasure Self Published/ Lulu.com. Available from Hobart Bookshop.
Gay / Teen ISBN: 1411656350 RRP: $US13.95 or $US4.41 to download The Book: An English family with one gay and three straight sons accepts a 'disturbed' young American for a short holiday - but none of them is ready for this guest! Authors website: http://tango.id.auWayne, Tango Rafe 'n Me
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Gay / Teen ISBN: 1411645960 RRP: $US13.22 or $US4.38 to download. The Book: The comedic tale of a young gay lad, horribly underendowed in the penis department, his plaintive cry for help...and what happens when the demon appears. Authors website: http://tango.id.au Wayne, Tango Golden
Self Published/ Lulu.com. Available from Hobart Bookshop. Gay / Teen ISBN: 1411652444 RRP: $14.95 or $US4.75 to download. The Book: A gay vampire adventure with a few differences, including a creepy old legend, a kidnapping or two and a highly satisfactory revenge! Authors website: http://tango.id.au
Wayne, Tango Scandinal
Self Published/ Lulu.com. Available from Hobart Bookshop. Gay / Teen ISBN: 1411652452 RRP: $US12.46 or $US4.20 to download The Book: A mythical gay love-story fantasy comedy adventure with giants and dwarves and swords and magic this-and-that...and a whole heap of destruction. Authors website: http://tango.id.au
Wayne, Tango Pyramid
RRP: $US11.95 or $US4.13 to download The Book: A fantasy author loses his dog and finds himself inside his own creation... along with an alien, a dragon, a few giants and some unfortunate gardeners. Authors website: http://tango.id.au Wayne, Tango Wolfmagic 
Publisher: Self-published/ Lulu.com. Available from Hobart Bookshop. ISBN/ISSN: N/A R.R.P $US11.89 or $US4.00 to download. The book: Forced to flee from his murderous brother, Prince David encounters a very strange werewolf in the forest. Can he revenge himself and free Geran from his spell? Gay / Teen Authors website: http://tango.id.au
Wayne, Tango The Swayer of Sankara 
Publisher: Self-published/ Lulu.com. Available from Hobart Bookshop. ISBN/ISSN: N/A R.R.P $US12.70 or $US4.00 to download. The book: David finds something weird in a musty old tomb - and then has to go to hell with, as his mother puts it - 'a professional sodomist'. Gay / Teen Authors website: http://tango.id.au
Weeks, Phillip S. The High Kingdom, The Scattered Realm Series Fantasy Self published ISBN: 1 876156 24 4 RRP $25 First book of a Fantasy Fiction trilogy.
Weeks, Phillip S. Beyond the Southern Border, The Scattered Realm Series Fantasy Self published. ISBN: 1 876156 25 RRP $25 Second Book of Fantasy Fiction trilogy.
Weeks, Phillip S. Across the Northern Frontier, The Scattered Realm Series Fantasy Self published. ISBN: 1 8676156 26 0 RRP $25 Third Book of a Fantasy Fiction trilogy.
West, Ida Pride Against Prejudice Memoir Montpelier Press ISBN: 1 876597 12 7 RRP: $29.95 Reminiscences of a Tasmanian Aboriginal Elder.
Whitebeach, Terry (Anne) and Michael Brown Bantam

Publisher: Fremantle Arts Centre Press 2002 distributed by Penguin (except in WA) Genre: Fiction
ISBN 186368373-9 RRP: $14.99 The Book: A novel in which Mick and Toad and assorted dogs and chooks participate in the daily tragicomedy of life on the dole in a small country town. Bantam was listed as a NOTABLE BOOK in the 2003 CBC awards. It was serialised on ABC's book reading in 2004. In 2004 a play called "Bantam, a REAL Book by Mick Brown and Terry Whitebeach" was broadcast on ABC radio's AIRPLAY Whitebeach,Terry (Anne) Watersky
Fremantle Arts Centre Press 1998 distributed by Penguin (except in WA) Fiction (Young Adult) ISBN 1-86368-213-9 RRP: $13.99 The Book: A novel for young adults which explores the dilemmas of moral responsibility and self-determination and celebrates the redeeming nature of friendship. The Author: Terry (Anne) Whitebeach is a Tasmanian fiction writer, poet, playwright, educator, oral historian and community artist. Whitebeach, Terry (Anne) , Beatte Josephi, Susan Hawthorne and John BennettFour New Poets
 Penguin Poetry ISBN 0-14-058697-0 RRP: Out of print. The Book: A collection which explores relationships between family, friends, the land. It won the 1994 Anne Elder Award for a first book of poetry and was short-listed for the 1994 WA Premier’s Award The Author: Terry Whitebeach is a Tasmanian writer of fiction, poetry and radio plays. Her most recent book is a biography of a Kaytetye stockman, Don Ross. She is also an educator, oral historian and community artist. Whitebeach, Terry (Anne), Joseph, Beatte, and Hawthorn, Susan ŒBird Dream
Nature Penguin ISBN: 0-14-058697-0 RRP $ 15.99 A collection which explores relationships between family, friends, the land. Terry Whitebeach is a Tasmanian writer of fiction, poetry and radio plays. _________________________________ Williams, Eugenia Jenny Yenni: A Life Between Worlds Pluto Australia Non Fiction ISBN: 1 86403 149 2 RRP: $29.95 The Book: Yenni is an autobiographical novel about growing up, learning, maturing, taking charge and the survival of an ordinary person in extraordinary circumstances with a happy ending. It tells of the Second World War, liberalisation, shifting borders, clashes of cultures and ideologies, occupation, illegal escape and emigration. It talks about the culture and tradition of countries and the rhythm of life which is unknown in the technically developed West, but also about Yenni’s private struggle with the regime and her marriage. The Author: Jenny was born in 1936 in Kosice, a city now in the Slovak Republic. After the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968, Jenny and her family escaped illegally to Vienna. They arrived in Tasmania in 1969. She is married with two adult children and two grandchildren. Jenny is a recipient of two literary grants from Arts Tasmania. _________________________________________ Winfield, Liz Too Much Happens CACTI distributed by Cornford Press; www.cornfordpress.comPoetry ISBN: 0 9581960 1 X RRP: $19.00 The Book: Long-awaited first volume by a well-known Hobart poet. This book is funny, bleak, sexy, heart-breaking and lots more. The Author: From Hobart’s northern suburbs, Liz is an active organiser on the Tasmanian poetry scene, as well as an accomplished poet. Wood, Danielle The Alphabet of Light and Dark Fiction Allen and Unwin ISBN: 1 74114 065 X RRP $ 22.95 Winner of the 2002 Australian / Voge4l Prize, and short-listed for the 1994 WA Premier¹s Award. Woodward, Ian With Heart and Voice Biography D. Morrison ISBN: 0 646 44631 2 RRP $ 29.95
Wooley, Richie, and Wayne Smith A History of the Huon and Far South Volume One, Before the Orchards Grew History Pub. Huon Valley Council ISBN: 0975605305 RRP $35.00
Young, Jim The Flare of a Match Breakwater Books (St Johns Newfoundland); Dove Communications (Melbourne) 1981 Fiction ISBN: 0859241815 Now out of print but in the library here and usually available from U.S. used book sources. The Book: An autobiographic novel, based on experience on the North Shore of the Gulf of St Lawrence, Quebec, Canada. It concerns a teacher the author employed in a remote fishing village. A Vietnam war draft dodger, he found acceptance and fulfillment in a primitive environment. The Author: Jim Young, an Anglican priest and psychologist now retired, continues to write. He has had some short pieces published, the latest in the current Famous Reporter, and is working on two novels. He is president of F.A.W.-Tas. this year |