Category: Books

The All-Animal Vet

The All-Animal Vet cover showing Margareta Shiel and various animals

Stories from a vet in outback Australia Cattle, sheep, horses, and the occasional ostrich or buffalo – a vet on her own has to think on her feet! As a newly minted vet in rural Queensland, Margareta Shiel performed her first-ever caesarean on a cow at midnight by the lights of a tractor (the cow […]

Dora Freeman’s (Un?)Eventful Life

Dora Freeman's (Un?) Eventful Life cover. The title curves across the top hald of the image with a pair of scissors between the "un" and "Eventful". Below is a swirl of pink ribbon around a dressmaker's mannequin wearing a wedding veil.

Dora knows perfectly well how Harry died – let the police work it out if they can. Dora’s self-important husband, Harry, always told her nothing ever happened in her life. Now Harry has been found dead at the bottom of the Alum Cliffs near Kingston, Tasmania, so that’s definitely something! As Dora adjusts to her […]

Never Miss A Beat

'Never Miss A Beat' cover. The title is in large block capitals above a headshot of the author, a grey-haired white man looking straight into the camera. He is holding a wooden lyre-shaped musical instrument.

‘A “Who’s Who” of intercultural music-making in Australia in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Essential reading for anyone with an interest in the history of music in Australia’ — Jim Franklin, composer ‘A colourful and eventful journey of courage and determination’ — Sandra Ridgewell, musicologist ‘A life made rich by a passion for […]

Huon Writes

Covers of Huon Writes 1 and Huon Writes 2

Ten stories – fiction and non-fiction, in ten distinctive voices – from the beautiful Huon Valley. Read them in one go or dip into them on a break – you’ll be entertained and informed by these ten perspectives on what it means to live in the Huon. Huon Writes has been jointly produced by Ashwood Publishing […]

For Love and the Sea

Cover of For Love and the Sea by Jutta Townes. A snapshot of the author as a young woman is features on a background of swirling ocean waves, with a map of the world above the title.

At 18, Jutta Townes leaves her German coal-mining town and migrates to Australia. She meets a lanky Australian engineer with a yen to sail around the world, and together they buy a traditional wooden yacht and grab adventure with both hands. They sail the eastern coasts of Australia, Africa and South America and the oceans […]

The Peregrinations of Geordie Stubbs, Rogue

Cover of The Peregrinations of Geordie Stubbs, Rogue. The title is in ribbon banners across two antique hemisphere maps. The author's name, John Tully, is on a suitcase in the bottom right corner

Geordie Stubbs has roamed the world getting into scrapes. He’s seen the trenches of World War I, the union wars of America’s industrial heartland and the rise of Nazism in Germany, and journeyed through revolutionary French Indochina and Singapore to wash up among the migrant labourers who built Australia’s post-war boom. Now in Hobart Gaol […]

The Gentle Care for Broken Things

Coiver image for The Gentle Care for Broken Things. In the foreground is a broken violin lyin gon gold-coloured linen, and in the background is a faded image of the Tasmanian town of Dover and the moutain Adamson's Peak, in dark ble and teal tones.

An imaginative novel blending real events and historical figures with fiction as it follows the story of a unique violin, the people it touches, and the strange and magical history of Tasmanian folk music as played from Cape Barren Island to the Huon Valley. In the year 1700 in Milan, a violin is rejected by […]