Mountain
Prue Hutton and Sally Ord, Island Imprints
Hardback | $55.00
With vivid artwork, stories and photographs, creators Prue Hutton and Sally Ord of Island Imprints will transport you to a place of sanctuary through their latest collection of knitting designs. As with their first publication Maria, Voyages in design, Prue and Sally’s Mountain is a record of excursions to various parts of kunanyi/Mount Wellington at different times of the year. The experiences provide the inspiration for artworks, stories and designs for knitted garments to wear and remember.
Both books suggest a way of thinking: to take the time to really see our surroundings rather than briefly look, an invitation to absorb and interpret the discoveries in one’s own way, to avoid fitting neatly into a box, to be an individual.
Tarkine the Tassie Tiger | Tassie Takes Off
David Daniel
Paperback | $22 ea. RRP
How do things become extinct, and what lessons can we learn from the ill-fated thylacine? This is the question author and illustrator David Daniel explores in his latest children’s books, Tarkine the Tassie Tiger and Tassie Takes Off.
Through illustrations and rhyming prose, the books follow Tarkine and two children as they explore the world of biodiversity and the threats posed against it. Suited to children across all ages, the books offer an opportunity to parents and teachers for discussion of important issues, while highlighting the potential to make a positive impact.
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Roadwork Ahead
Martin Wilson
Paperback | $29.95 RRP
How dark will it get? I don’t know
How far will I have to go, down below?
Will I have to fight my way forward?
To find you
~ From ‘Above the Surface’
In his second volume of poems, Martin Wilson’s Roadwork Ahead dives deeper still, detailing a spiritual journey from unbelief to true acceptance of a power greater than himself.
As with his first volume, Splint on an Angel’s Wing, each poem aims to capture a single moment in time through raw and sometimes graphic thoughts and feelings. The result is a detailed exploration of the mind, lending the reader a unique insight into the world through Martin’s eyes and into his deepest discoveries.
Abels Photography - Purity
Bill Wilkinson
Hardback | $25.00 RRP
“The present moment is the eternally pure now. There is nothing else to see. You are always witnessing now. Use this moment wisely.”
As with Bill Wilkinson’s previous publications, The Abels Volume 1 and Volume 2, photographers have generously provided their superb images to bring forth this book, which showcases a wide sampling of Tasmania’s natural features. Readers are invited to immerse themselves in the images and captions, to imagine living in Tasmania as if they are part of the basis of everyone’s life in this beautiful state, and to experience a more leisurely, peaceful lifestyle as they grasp the wonder of being passionately present in the here and now.
I shed my skin, A Furneaux Islands Story
Jane Giblin
Hardback | RRP $75.00
I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story evolved out of an exhibition of Jane Giblin’s artwork which toured Tasmania in 2019. It revolves around strangers who come to a remote land and learn how to win a living from it. Traditions and relationships to the Furneaux Islands, built since the 1890s, were consolidated across five generations. During the latter part of the 20th century, significant changes had to be met.
Giblin travelled up and down the eastern seaboard of Australia interviewing her father’s cousins in addition to some senior Furneaux community members. She knew there was art to be made and stories to tell from their island lives. She sought memories of her great grandparents, feelings about the islands, and farming and birding as well as how they were acclimatising to changed land access and tradition due to successful land rights claims by local First Nations people.
Giblin’s part-collaborator on her exhibition and book is retired lecturer in geography and well-known Tasmanian writer Pete Hay. Hay accompanied Giblin on some of her visits to people and island places of significance. His wit, grit and heart provide a rich sounding board. His poetry and prose add significantly to Giblin’s observations and artwork in this beautifully presented publication.
The Gods must be Disabled
Ben Richardson
Episode 2 / Episode 3
The first two books in a planned series culminating in Episode 1
Paperback | $24.95 RRP
Tasmanian, Ben Richardson, has written and illustrated these two graphic novels about members of a group with disabilities who are found to be old gods.
Richardson is a comedian, writer and illustrator. He is also an Auslan interpreter and grew up with a deaf mother and amongst the deaf community. Ben started stand-up comedy in 2002 at RAW comedy in Melbourne. He did jokes about sign language and having a deaf mother. He has come a long way since then and now makes jokes about being a sign language interpreter and having a deaf mother. Ben has also worked as a disability support worker, and this is where he got the setting for The Gods must be Disabled.
Ben’s true passion is visual storytelling, and drawing comics is a great medium for this. The deaf community loves cartoons, the visual images conveying messages in the same way Auslan does. Ben used to work in call centres when he was a university student and doodled cartoons while trying to get people not to hang up on him. The Gods must be Disabled is an amalgam of Ben’s working life, his involvement with the deaf community and the desperate things we all have to do to make money.
