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Frank Rigney's journey through the pastoral properties and rural history of the Northern Midlands of Tasmania, published in 2008. The book documents the anecdotal histories of properties across the region — the families who settled them, the changes in land use over generations, and the stories that have accumulated around the farms, homesteads and communities of the Midlands.

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.

More than 74,000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen's Land — and they left their mark across the entire island. Michael Nash's guide takes the reader to Tasmania's convict heritage sites, both well-known and lesser-known, examining how each operated during the transportation era and what visitors will find there today.