In Tasmania
$26.26
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
19 March 2018
Summary
A brilliant account of 200 years of Tasmanian history and an acclaimed writer’s discovery of his secret connection with that island and its past.
In Tasmania on holiday, novelist and Chatwin biographer Nicholas Shakespeare discovered a house on a 9-mile beach and instantly decided this was where he wanted to live. He didn’t know then that his ancestor was the corrupt and colourful Anthony Fenn Kemp, now known as ‘the Father of Tasmania’, or that he would find relatives living on the i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143790945 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143790943 |
| Author: | Nicholas Shakespeare |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 19 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 357g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 128mm x 29mm |
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About The Author
Nicholas Shakespeare
Nicholas Shakespeare was born in 1957. The son of a diplomat, much of his youth was spent in the Far East and South America. His novels have been translated into twenty languages. They include The Vision of Elena Silves, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, Snowleg and The Dancer Upstairs, which was chosen by the American Libraries Association in 1997 as the year’s best novel, and in 2001 was made into a film of the same name by John Malkovich. His recent novel, Secrets of the Sea, was a best-seller in Germany. He is married with two small boys and currently lives in Oxford.
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