Mountains and Valley by Pete Hay and Tony Thorne

Join Petrarch's Bookshop at St Lukes Launceston as we launch Mountains and Valley by Pete Hay and Tony Thorne in conversation with Tasmanian storyteller Bert Spinks.

A testament to the enduring power of two of Tasmania’s great storytellers.

Geographical, historical, political, Mountains & Valley takes us through the Central Highlands and down the Derwent, from the land’s geological formation, on through invasion – ‘the inexorable inward tide’ – and into a time of ‘twee cafes serving Devonshire tea’. We glance into the lives of Kikatapula, making ‘the best of a bad bargain’, an Ouse ambulance driver on the way to ‘a prang just out of Derwent Bridge’ and a spotted-tailed quoll ‘speaking grace / speaking a deceptive delicacy’. ~Jane Rawson, author of Human/Nature: On life in a wild world and Editor of Island.

Book sales available at the event.

Ticket includes a drink on arrival.

St Lukes Launceston

93 Cimitiere Street, Launceston TAS 7250