Building Stories Tasmania is an illustrated tour of Tasmania's most distinctive buildings - working waterfronts, former hydro sites, pubs, bookshops, hotels, theatres and small-town main streets - told through the people who built, worked and lived in them: convicts, clergy, brewers, booksellers and activists.
My Kemp Ancestors traces six generations of David Gatenby's Kemp family line, opening on the Isle of Sheppey before following the family chapter by chapter from William Kemp and Amelia Fowler onwards.
Riverine documents four autumns of collaborative work by artists Raymond Arnold, Ian Westacott and John Wolseley, camped along the Banyena/Richardson River at Bonnie Brae, a regeneratively managed farm in Victoria's Wimmera region; the book brings together more than 50 paintings, watercolours and etchings with essays by farm steward Prue McAllister and the three artists.
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Browse thousands of Tasmanian books at The Book Cellar - convict history, local and family history, Aboriginal Tasmania, maritime, art, nature and fiction, new and out of print. Books ship from Campbell Town, Tasmania.
100 Years of Western Tasmanian Mining traces a century of mining on the west coast — from the district's earliest mineral discoveries, including tin at Mount Bischoff in 1871, silver-lead around Zeehan and Dundas in 1882, and the Mount Lyell copper field in 1883, through to the mining industry of the mid-1970s.
Jennifer Cossins's illustrated picture book of 101 collective nouns — a murder of crows, a wisdom of wombats, a smack of jellyfish — each paired with a full-colour animal illustration. Cossins is a Tasmanian illustrator and author whose work has attracted attention well beyond Tasmania.
Written by European royal correspondent Trine Villemann, this publication provides a contemporary journalistic account of the modern Danish Royal House. The text chronicles the court's history leading up to the marriage of Tasmanian-born Mary Donaldson to Crown Prince Frederik, offering an independent perspective on the transition from a traditional constitutional monarchy into a modern royal family.
This the 7th outing in the Tasmanian Pufferfish mystery series; it sees a wealthy polo-playing tourist murdered and our detective heroes battling to unravel what was meant to be the perfect murder.
Elizabeth Stamp, a journalist for Architectural Digest and CNN, selected 150 bookstores from around the world worth making a detour to visit, each chosen for a distinctive feature — an unusual backstory, a notable collection, or a striking setting. It's the eighth title in an established series that has previously covered bars, restaurants, hotels, houses, gardens, golf courses and vineyards.
The Book Cellar is one of the 150 — featured for our setting in the convict-built cellars of Foxhunters Return, an 1830s coaching inn in Campbell Town.