Poems by Henry Lawson
Henry Lawson was born in 1867 and published poems from 1888-1918. His works are often about rural life on mainland Australia.

Oliver by Charles Dickens

The Secret River by Kate Grenville
Written about struggling in England in the late 1700s and life for early settlers of Sydney and surrounds, around 50 years from 1777, published in 2005. Some of the lifestyle would have been similar for early settlers of areas in Tasmania where there was limited infrastructure.

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Set in Iceland, tells a tale of a young woman who is a murderer. Based in 1829, published in 2013.

the birdmans’ wife by Melissa Ashley
A woman’s experience of travelling to Australia, about the artist Elizabeth Gould and her journey’s in Tasmania (and Australia with some setting in England). Set during 1828-1841.

Gould’s Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
Gould’s travels in Tasmania 1828-1841.