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Islands of the Island State - Rees Campbell explores 40 of Tasmania's 6,500 offshore islands, their history & wild food | 2026 [NEW – SC]
Added: Sep 8, 2026

Rees Campbell, author of the bestselling Eat MORE Wild Tasmanian, turns her attention to Tasmania's off-shore islands. There are some 6,500 islands, islets, rocks and reefs around the state, and this book visits 40 of them — from the largest, Flinders Island, to the remote and uninhabited Pedra Branca and Mewstone in the Southern Ocean, to some of the smallest and closest, like the Harbour Islets in the state's far North West.


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Furnishing Van Diemen's Land – Tasmanian Furniture of the Early Colonial Period 1803–1870 | Peter Hughes | 2026 [NEW – Large HCDJ]
Added: Jul 15, 2026

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).


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Food & Lifestyle

Cookbooks and lifestyle books celebrating Tasmania's food, wine and produce. A favourite section for anyone who loves Tasmania's food culture.

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Permaculture – A Designers' Manual | Bill Mollison | 1996 [USED – HC – Out of Print]

Bill Mollison's definitive work on permaculture design — the book that took the system he developed with David Holmgren in Tasmania in the 1970s and turned it into a practical manual that has been used by designers, farmers and communities around the world ever since.


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Pioneer Tapestry - Buildings of Early Tasmania

Buildings of early Tasmania, illustrated with paintings by Kathleen Cocker, with text by G. Hawley Stancombe — including a painting of Balmoral and the Methodist Chapel here in Campbell Town.


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Priceless Heritage - Historic Buildings of Tasmania |HCDJ 1964|

Priceless Heritage grew out of a photographic competition held by The Mercury newspaper in 1963–64, marking the paper's 109th anniversary and organised with the National Trust of Australia (Tasmania). Judged across six categories, the competition drew 106 winning historic properties from across the state.


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Pubs in Hobart from 1807 – A Gazetteer | David J. Bryce | 1997 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

David J. Bryce's gazetteer of hotels, taverns and public houses in Hobart from 1807 through to the late 20th century — a comprehensive single reference on the subject. At 183 pages plus appendices, the book lists Hobart's licensed premises in gazetteer format — organised to allow researchers to track specific premises, their licensees, locations and histories across nearly two centuries of Hobart's social and commercial life.


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Quaker Life in Tasmania
A booklet to accompany an exhibition capturing the first hundred years of Quaker life in Tasmania.

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Roadkill Recipes - Australian Wildlife on the Verge
A book about Australian wildlife road kill - how it happens, how it decomposes, and how to cook it, from shabu shabu bandicoot to parma wallaby, done with a touch of humour.

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Seafood Everyday - delicious recipes from a Tasmanian country kitchen
Seafood Everyday is a full colour cookbook of 80 original recipes by Tasmanian chef, stylist and photographer Eloise Emmett.

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Secrets of the Island - used
An oral history of Tasmanian surfing, beautifully illustrated.

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Seven Places
Twenty-one poems from seven Tasmanian National Trust properties - Clarendon, The Old Umbrella Shop, Franklin House, Latrobe Court House Museum, Runnymede, Oak Lodge and the Penitentiary Chapel Site.

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Slow Cooker 2 | Sally Wise | 2012 [NEW – SC]

The follow-up to Sally Wise's Slow Cooker — 128 new recipes with a focus on smaller households and more vegetable and fish dishes.


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