Author A born storyteller, Karen Harrland delivers a suspenseful and confronting Tasmanian drama – that once you start reading you won’t be able to put down. Karen strikes gold with a tale about a girl named Manna, growing up with troubled… Read More »Don Defenderfer
Doctoral Researcher and author of Colour and Movement: The life of Claudio Alcorso Karen Harrland’s Daughter of the Plateau is a love letter to Tasmania’s immense landscapes and powerful coasts. From the raw splendour of the plateau to the unbridled energy of the… Read More »Stephenie Cahalan
Environmentalist Karen Harrland’s story unfolds with blood and tears and yet has the warmth of a remote hut’s fireside in a snowstorm. Like a great stag’s antlers, Karen Harrland’s Tasmanian story enfolds the reader in both the beauty and terror… Read More »Bob Brown
Tasmanian landscape artist and printmaker A provocative, affecting and uniquely Tasmanian novel. This book has the guts to tackle darker aspects of the human condition and the sensitivity to honour its treasures.
16 year old adventurer Heartfelt, emotional but straight to the point. A wonderful journey of a young woman discovering herself and the world around her.
The sun shone through the rainbow bee-eater’s wings as they danced above, turning to emerald. I lay on my back, floating on the warm surface of the dam, the branches of the river red gums suspended in the furnace like… Read More »Rainbow Bee-eater
We had five swags, three daughters approaching a new stage in life, a fire and a horizon as big and flat as you can imagine. Lightning decorated the far skyline as my friend and I talked over some of the… Read More »Sunset, swags and womanhood
This afternoon I was listening to the tail end of a satellite meeting for School Of The Air. My hands were empty, so I decided to begin making a sticky date pudding for a supporter trip I’m catering for next… Read More »How to (not) make sticky date pudding
It’s funny how life can change. Right now I’m sitting in the sun, looking over terraced rosemary and old-man saltbush hedges toward the stone shearing shed and rocky hills beyond. I just finished a coffee, and the kids are being taught… Read More »Rosemary and Saltbush Hedges
Spinifex Baby’, a book not to be left off your reading list. Having not known a lot about the Simpson Desert, other than the fact that it is full of sand and heat, I wondered what would draw anyone to… Read More »Reader Review