Tasmania 40°South Issue 81INSIDE ISSUE 81: The Balfour correspondent James Dryburgh Collinsvales boy soldier Gary Barker About books: Tasmania reimagined Clarissa Horwood Mules gold Debbie Rudder Albatross Island Chris Champion Davids long leg Martin Bicevskis Astride the stegosaurus David Bonham Artists and artisans: At home with pardalotes Mike Kerr Forty South Tasmanian Writers Prize 2016, Short story: No man is an island Craig Cormick AND MUCH MORE

After a slight accident with the Christmas tree and its decorations

ritual and convention

lending the reader a unique insight into the world through Martin’s eyes and into his deepest discoveries

Welcome to the magical world of Bluey the Blue Tier Dragon

spy a large

it wasn’t the disappointment of a poor technical performance

he spots an elderly woman shovelling something off the road

The deep south-west Part 4: Wildlife | Hilary Burden

His quest to find for himself a design philosophy that honours his father’s creations parallels his unflagging search of the wild and beautiful country

be immersed in the extreme wilderness of takayna/Tarkine

REVIEW: "In this book one enters the fantasy world of Tasmania’s Tolkien

The who's who of trees | Carol Freeman