Tasmania Reads

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Tasmania Reads is an event supported by Libraries Tasmania and UTAS encouraging all Tasmanians to read a book for the pleasure of reading.

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<h1>University of Tasmania – Tasmania Reads </h1><h2>Tasmania Reads and so does the University of Tasmania!</h2>*﻿******************************************************************************************For the Tasmania Reads statewide event, the University of Tasmania is encouraging everyone to join the UTAS Book Club during June and July 2023. The selected book is Limberlost by Robbie Arnott, who is a well known University of Tasmania Alumni.It's easy and fun to join: <ul><li>Register your details via our Eventbrite page for kick off June 18th 2023 </li></ul><ul><li>Visit Fullers Bookshop or Petrarch’s Bookshop to purchase your physical copy of Limberlost. Alternatively, order online from one of the two shops or download audio or digital copies. You can also borrow a copy from the University of Tasmania Library.</li></ul><ul><li>Join our Book Club Sessions during the weeks of the 9th and 16th July to discuss the novel</li></ul><ul><li>Join us either face to face or via<a href="https://utas.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QTUnpgISQi-VPUj5OsNKow#/registration" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> zoom</a> for a lunch time In Conversation with the Author Event in Hobart Wednesday 26th July 12pm-1pm. This event can be attended in person at the venue, The Hedberg Recital Hall, 19-27 Campbell Street, Hobart OR online in Launceston from the new Inveresk Campus Library - room 216. Online Attendance for Launceston attendees only (Zoom Webinar) - please register <a href="https://utas.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QTUnpgISQi-VPUj5OsNKow" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here.</a> </li></ul>

Robbie Arnott is the author of Flames, The Rain Heron and Limberlost. A University of Tasmania alumni, Robbie Arnott’s acclaimed debut, Flames (2018), won a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist award and a Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prize, and was shortlisted for a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, a New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award, a Queensland Literary Award, the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction and the Not the Booker Prize. His follow-up, The Rain Heron (2020), won the Age Book of the Year award, and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the ALS Gold Medal, the Voss Literary Prize and an Adelaide Festival Award. He lives in Hobart.

Shortlisted, Fiction, Indie Book Awards, 2023
Award Commended, Fiction, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, 2023
Award Longlisted, Fiction, Booktopia Favourite Australian Book Award, 2022
Award Longlisted, Dylan Thomas Prize, United Kingdom, 2023
In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him enough money to buy a small boat.
His two brothers are away at war, their whereabouts unknown. His father and older sister struggle to hold things together on the family orchard, Limberlost.
Desperate to ignore it all—to avoid the future rushing towards him—Ned dreams of open water.
As his story unfolds over the following decades, we see how Ned’s choices that summer come to shape the course of his life, the fate of his family and the future of the valley, with its seasons of death and rebirth.

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