Just Tassie Books

The Central Cookery Book was compiled in the 1930s by Alice C. Irvine, Mistress of Domestic Science with the Education Department of Tasmania, and used for generations as the core textbook for home economics classes in Tasmanian high schools. Generations of Tasmanians learned to cook from this book.

A record of Charles Darwin's 1836 visit to Hobart Town aboard HMS Beagle, and the observations he recorded, produced by the Royal Society of Tasmania. Softcover, 2009, 113 pages, colour illustrations, indexed.

Bob Cheek's candid political memoir — the insider account of Tasmanian Liberal Party politics from a man who served two terms in parliament, became Leader of the Opposition in August 2001, and then made history by becoming the first major party leader to lose his seat in a Tasmanian election since 1903.