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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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Tasmanian Food Gardening for Beginners and New Arrivals
A condensed version of Growing Vegetables South of Australia from Steve Solomon, written from the experience of 40 years of hands on serious food gardening.

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Tasmanian Gardens
Photographer Alice Bennett and author Meg Bignell explore the gardens and landscapes of Tasmania and unearth a library of tales told in plants, design, artistry, topography and hard work.

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Tasmanian Menu
Tasmanian Menu is a cookbook celebrating Tasmanian landscapes and Tasmania's fresh produce.

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Tassie Terms – A Glossary of Tasmanian Words | Maureen Brooks & Joan Ritchie | 1995 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

A glossary of words, phrases and expressions specific to Tasmania — compiled by Maureen Brooks and Joan Ritchie and published by Oxford University Press in 1995. Tasmania has its own distinct vocabulary, shaped by its convict history, its isolation from the mainland, its particular environment and the communities that developed here.


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Tea in the Library
Tasmanian Annette Freeman's memoir of opening a bookshop cafe in the Sydney CBD.

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The Agrarian Kitchen - hardcover
This collection of recipes from the phenomenally popular cooking school, The Agrarian Kitchen in Tasmania's New Norfolk, celebrates the simple pleasures of cooking and eating in tune with the seasons, and the rhythm of a life lived close to the earth.

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The Agrarian Kitchen - softcover
This collection of recipes from the phenomenally popular cooking school, The Agrarian Kitchen in Tasmania's New Norfolk, celebrates the simple pleasures of cooking and eating in tune with the seasons, and the rhythm of a life lived close to the earth.

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The Art of Apple Branding | Cowles & Walker | Award-Winning Tasmanian Apple Label History | 2005 [USED – HCDJ]

Christopher Cowles, former Studio Head of Graphic Design at the Tasmanian School of Art, and David Walker, a professional photographer and librarian at the Tasmanian Archives and Heritage Office, spent 15 years researching this study of the paper labels once pasted onto wooden apple crates for export, at a time when Tasmania was known internationally as "the Apple Isle."


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The Australian Convict Recipe Book
This little cookbook includes 150 practical recipes from colonial Tasmanian times plus historical photographs, convict rules and rations and the unabridged story of Bessie Baldwin, convict cook to Governor Sir John Franklin.

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The Australian Historical Recipe Book

Join John Caire in exploring Australia's most popular recipes over the years, including some introduced from Europe and Asia.


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