Transported: Tales of Misfortune & Roguery by Brian Harrison-Lever | HB & PBCLICK HERE to download free teacher notes for this title. The overcrowding of British prisons in the early 1800s was a problem solved, the ruling classes believed, by the transportation of convicts to the colonies, where labour was in short supply. Men, women and children branded felons were shipped south, often for crimes that in todays world would hardly merit a firm reprimand. Those transported some unfortunate, some, it must be admitted, rogues

England when she was 7 years old

kids leaving school after Grade 10 without anybody batting an eyelid

But this news has given writers and bibliophiles something tangible to celebrate: we now have international recognition of Tasmania’s world-class literary landscape

and each quite different from the other

Even the least articulate among them tried to express something of the grandeur of Antarctica as the iridescent sun shimmered over the summer horizon

In examining the remarkable experiences of unremarkable people

women with legs as long as the Bruce Highway

his great-great-grandfather

and rarely for positive reasons

Dianne Snowden has shed new light on an important part of Tasmania’s history

“This bloke has stolen my life

and newspapers