Welcome to The Book Cellar
The Book Cellar is a “bricks and mortar” bookshop located beneath an historic coaching inn at Campbell Town in the heart of Tasmania.
Our online store features a constantly updated catalogue of current Tasmanian titles that can be purchased via our secure shopping cart. The bulk of our Tasmanian books, both antiquarian and out of print, are also catalogued and this can be viewed online. Any books from our Tasmanian catalogues can be purchased by contacting The Book Cellar by phone or email.
All our listed titles are all held in stock ready to ship on the day payment is completed.
The Book Cellar can be contacted on 03 6381 1545
New Arrivals
Oatlands Past to Present | Oatlands District Historical Society | [NEW – SC]
Added: Jul 15, 2026
A new local history of Oatlands and the surrounding area — compiled by the Oatlands District Historical Society. Oatlands sits in Tasmania's Southern Midlands on the Midland Highway corridor, about 85km north of Hobart and 40 minutes south of Campbell Town. Its main street of intact colonial sandstone buildings is one of the most complete examples of colonial-era architecture in Australia.
Our price: AUD 39.95
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An Imperial Disaster
An historical study of the shipwreck of the convict transport ship George the Third on entering the D'Entrecasteaux Channel after a 4 month voyage from England, with great loss of life.
Our price: AUD 49.95
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Fight the Fiery Fiend - Colonial Fire Fighting 1803-1883
A history of how the early European settlers in Van Diemen's Land fought fires, including those on ships in the River Derwent. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
Our price: AUD 19.50
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First Person | Richard Flanagan | 2017 [USED – HCDJ]
Richard Flanagan's 2017 novel — his first after The Narrow Road to the Deep North won the Man Booker Prize in 2014. A young writer is hired to ghost-write the memoirs of a charismatic and morally bankrupt con man in a matter of weeks. As the narrator is pulled deeper into his subject's world, the boundaries between the two men and between truth and fiction begin to dissolve.
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Honour Denied – Teddy Sheean, a Tasmanian Hero | Dr Tom Lewis | 2016 [USED – SC]
The story of Ordinary Seaman Edward "Teddy" Sheean — a Tasmanian from Latrobe who, on 1 December 1942, strapped himself to an anti-aircraft gun on the sinking HMAS Armidale and continued firing at Japanese aircraft to protect his shipmates in the water, even as the ship went down beneath him. He was 18 years old. He did not survive.
Our price: AUD 28.00
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Merle Oberon – Face of Mystery | Bob Casey | 2008 [SC]
For most of her career, Merle Oberon — one of Hollywood's leading actresses of the 1930s and 1940s, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Dark Angel (1935) and starring opposite Laurence Olivier in Wuthering Heights (1939) — claimed to have been born in Hobart, Tasmania, to white British parents, and that her birth records had been destroyed in a fire.
Our price: AUD 19.95
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Motherland
The author says... Motherhood has not been an easy journey for me. After moving to the farm in 2019 with a 6-month-old in tow, I soon felt the pang of isolation. I started the Motherland Australia podcast to fill a gaping hole I felt out here... connection.
Our price: AUD 26.50
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Port Dalrymple Shipping from 1963 to 1972
A book of colour photographs recording the ships that sailed into Port Dalrymple in northern Tasmania in the last decade prior to the advent of mass containerisation and the decline of the vast numbers of seafarers required to man the new type of ships. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
Our price: AUD 35.00
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Some of My Bush Friends in Tasmania - softcover
A facsimile edition of Louisa Anne Meredith's two volume set, originally published in 1860 and 1891.
Our price: AUD 29.95
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![The Vanishing Wild – Australian Wildlife and the Fight Against Extinction | Justine Hausheer | 2026 [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/vanishing-wild-Hbfn6d.png "The Vanishing Wild – Australian Wildlife and the Fight Against Extinction | Justine Hausheer | 2026 [NEW – SC]")
![Furnishing Van Diemen's Land – Tasmanian Furniture of the Early Colonial Period 1803–1870 | Peter Hughes | 2026 [NEW – Large HCDJ]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/furnishing-van-diemens-land-jzD5M2.png "Furnishing Van Diemen's Land – Tasmanian Furniture of the Early Colonial Period 1803–1870 | Peter Hughes | 2026 [NEW – Large HCDJ]")
![Oatlands Past to Present | Oatlands District Historical Society | [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/oatlands-past-to-present-3vjGiy.png "Oatlands Past to Present | Oatlands District Historical Society | [NEW – SC]")
![A Donation to the Colony – Epic Voyage on the Hannah: German & British Free Settlers and Their Contribution to Van Diemen's Land | Eva Meidl | 2004 [SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/a-donation-to-the-colony-DE8znQ.png "A Donation to the Colony – Epic Voyage on the Hannah: German & British Free Settlers and Their Contribution to Van Diemen's Land | Eva Meidl | 2004 [SC]")
![First Person | Richard Flanagan | 2017 [USED – HCDJ]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/first-person-wS7qbv.png "First Person | Richard Flanagan | 2017 [USED – HCDJ]")
![Honour Denied – Teddy Sheean, a Tasmanian Hero | Dr Tom Lewis | 2016 [USED – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/xctmpuQkvie.png "Honour Denied – Teddy Sheean, a Tasmanian Hero | Dr Tom Lewis | 2016 [USED – SC]")
![Merle Oberon – Face of Mystery | Bob Casey | 2008 [SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/merle-oberon-IYS5jL.png "Merle Oberon – Face of Mystery | Bob Casey | 2008 [SC]")
