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.
Margaret Sonnemann's practical guide to finding and photographing the Aurora Australis — the southern lights — over Tasmania and southern Australia. Tasmania sits at the right latitude to see the aurora regularly during periods of high solar activity, and the island's dark skies — away from mainland city light pollution — give exceptional viewing conditions. The Tasmanian Midlands in particular, including the country around Ross and Campbell Town, offers some of the darkest night skies in the island's accessible areas.
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.
The heartbreaking stories of the early Australian colony's forgotten children, and those who succeeded against all odds as convict orphans in the Queen's Orphan Schools in Hobart, Van Diemen's Land.
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.

