Trouwerner

To its first people, Trouwerner was the world. They lived there according to the seasons and ancient traditions, as their ancestors had done for countless generations. Then the island was discovered by Europeans. It became a penal colony called 'Van Diemen's Land' and everything changed.

Through the lives of one man and his kin, these 16 short stories chronicle the human tragedy behind the colonization of Tasmania from 1791 to 1835.

S. PITT is a British/Australian writer of long and short, mainly historical, fiction. She has won several awards for her short stories, most recently for 'Ice-bear' which was short-listed for the Historical Novel Society's 2016 shord story award and included in the anthology 'Distant Echoes.' Her Cli-fi novel, 'The Boy Who Found Salt' was short-listed for the 2020 London Book Fair 'The Write Stuff' competition. Widely travelled, S. Pitt has spent significant parts of her life in remote areas of the world and this is reflected in her work. A constant theme in all her writing is the interplay of historical events, landscape and mythology.