Rail Trails of Tasmania
Rail Trails of Tasmania
Published by Railtrails Australia
ISBN 0-9579759-1-0
For the uninitiated, rail trails are walking and cycling paths following now defunct railway lines. Tasmania, according to the authors [Fiona Colquhoun, Alexander McCooke, Vince Aitkin, Barry Holt and Tony Maddock], is particularly well-endowed with tantalising rail trails which traverse wineries, national parks, farmland, bushland, rainforest and even the seaside.
And, as they point out, rail trails are easy to cycle and walk. “Trains weren’t good at climbing steep hills, they usually tunneled through them or went around them.”
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The Death of a Drag Queen
The Death of a Drag Queen and other stories
By Julian Halls
Published by Ginninderra Press
ISBN 1 74027 219 6
Not everyone within these pages is a drag queen. Not every one is gay, though the main characters in each short story definitely (or defiantly, or hesitatingly) are. Having said that, be prepared for a wide gamut of situations that really have very little to do with gayness (if there is such a distinction), but rather more with love, loving, fear of growing old and other emotions. Julian Halls is a very talented writer and his stories have both pace and pathos. He has mined many autobiographical memories, which gives an intensity to the stories themselves, but does so in ways that are witty, reflective, and above all, entertaining.
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