Just Tassie Books

Peter Hughes's comprehensive study of furniture made in Van Diemen's Land during the early colonial period — the most thorough treatment of this subject since Craig, Fahy and Robertson's Early Colonial Furniture in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land (1972).

Susan Irvine's practical guide to making a rose garden in Australia — first written and published before she acquired Forest Hall, the property near Elizabeth Town in northern Tasmania where she later developed a celebrated garden that inspired the books that followed. This edition is a reprint published after Forest Hall had established her reputation in Tasmania.

A historical novel set at Patterdale — John Glover's property near Evandale in northern Van Diemen's Land — and told through the lives of Glover's family in the colonial period. Garrow Head draws on the history of the Glover family and their neighbours at Patterdale to explore what colonial life actually looked like on the ground — the farming, the relationships with convict workers, the interactions with the local Aboriginal community, and the domestic realities behind the landscapes Glover was painting.

A comprehensive chronological account of Tasmania's geological history, written by Keith Corbett, Patrick Quilty and Clive Calver and published in 2015. The book places Tasmania's major tectonic, magmatic and mineralisation events in their order of occurrence — tracing the island's geological story from its earliest Precambrian rocks through to recent geological time.