In Tasmania

In Tasmania on holiday, novelist and Chatwin biographer Nicholas Shakespeare discovered a house on a 9-mile beach and instantly decided this was where he wanted to live. He didn't know then that his ancestor was the corrupt and colourful Anthony Fenn Kemp, now known as 'the Father of Tasmania', or that he would find relatives living on the island. Shakespeare interweaves his personal journey into a new-found paradise with a brilliant account of the two turbulent centuries of Tasmania's...
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In Tasmania on holiday, novelist and Chatwin biographer Nicholas Shakespeare discovered a house on a 9-mile beach and instantly decided this was where he wanted to live. He didn't know then that his ancestor was the corrupt and colourful Anthony Fenn Kemp, now known as 'the Father of Tasmania', or that he would find relatives living on the island. Shakespeare interweaves his personal journey into a new-found paradise with a brilliant account of the two turbulent centuries of Tasmania's history in this fascinating and timely book.NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE is the author of THE VISION OF ELENA SILVES, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, THE HIGH FLYER, for which he was nominated for the Grants list in 1993 and THE DANCER UPSTAIRS which was chosen by the American Libraries Association as the best novel of 1997. In 1999 his biography, BRUCE CHATWIN was published to great critical acclaim. His novel SNOW LEG was published in 2004.