A Very Secret Trade

Author of the bestselling Truganini , Cassandra Pybus has uncovered one of the darkest and best kept secrets in Australian colonial history. Shortlisted for the 2025 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Longlisted for the 2025 Tasmanian Literary Awards Premier's Prize Longlisted for the 2024 Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award In the nineteenth century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania. They cultivated contacts in the colony who