BCL Books - Local Books - Hobart & Tasmania

Local Books - Hobart and Tasmania

It's always fun reading books from your local area - there's a familiarity to the people and the places that can make the books even more enjoyable. It's also interesting when travelling to read books set in or about the places you're visiting - just keep in mind most of them are fiction.

Below are local books for Hobart and Tasmania including books for Children and Young Adults, Historical books (books set in or written pre-1940s) and Contemporary books.
 

Children / Young Adult

• Kenny's Big Adventure - by Phillip Garside - A children's book about a boy, his autistic brother Martin, and their father who takes them on a trip to Tasmania to find the Tasmanian Tiger. Aimed at upper-primary school students.
   
• Tasmania children's writer, Nan Chauncy, used Browns Cave at Chauncy Vale as the inspiration for the setting of her famous children's novel They Found a Cave - a story about a bushranger who hides out in the cave. See books by Nan Chauncy available from independent booksellers around Australia and worldwide.
   

Historical Fiction & Non-Fiction

• For the Term of His Natural Life - by Marcus Clarke - Published in 1874, this novel tells the story of a man who is charged with a crime he didn't commit and is sent to Australia. Much of the novel is based on true accounts from the Port Arthur penitentiary.
   
• The Sooterkin - by Tom Gilling - This fantasy novel set in Hobart Town in the 1800s tells the story of a woman who may have given birth to a seal pup and the reactions from those in the penal colony.
   

Contemporary Fiction & Non-Fiction

• Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger - by Margaret Mittelbach & Michael Crewdson - Irreverent travel-like book that tracks the history and the myths associated with the Tasmanian Tiger. Interspersed with art. 
   
• The God in the Ink - by Kathryn Lomer - This novel tells the story of a woman growing up in rural Tasmania in the 1960s and her return to the town after spending years overseas.
   
• The Rainbow and the Rose - by Nevil Shute - Novel published in the 1950s about a retired pilot who has crashed his plane in an inaccessible region of Tasmania and the man who tries to save him.
   

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