Grasping at Shadows: Balfour, the mining town in the Tarkine by Heather Nimmo | PBHeather Nimmos engaging book is a chain of reminiscences as well as the story of the swift rise and fall of the gallant mining field called Balfour. Of the hundreds of books on the history of our mining fields, this is the only one I know which so neatly combines these two ingredients of history and memoir. ~ Professor Geoffrey Blainey In 1975, a young Adelaide teacher, who wanted to write for the theatre, fell in love with a geologist and followed

for better or for worse

" (Excerpt from A Passion for Dance

The Last Voyage of Aratus is accompanied by several short

Nellie Crawford | Knit two

Together they must travel incredible distances

adores her sister

Ben used to work in call centres when he was a Uni student and doodled cartoons while trying to get people not to hang up on him

the wild coastline of the great South West

history and the people they meet on the track

kunanyi / M ount Wellington

authoritative

Beautiful Tasmania may be a theme for this issue: we have Terry Mulhern writing about the seminal works of Colonial artist William Buelow Gould