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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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Island Affair – Life on Three Hummock Island, Bass Strait | Eleanor Alliston | 1989 [USED – SC – Out of Print]
Added: Sep 8, 2026

Eleanor Alliston's memoir of the years her family spent living on Three Hummock Island — a remote Bass Strait island off Tasmania's north-west coast — in the aftermath of the Second World War.


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Australia's First Cookbook with Companion Volume - 2 book set in slipcase Edward Abbott

Australia's First Cookbook - The English & Australian Cookery Book by Edward Abbott, with Companion Volume. First published in 1864, Tasmanian Edward Abbott's English & Australian Cookery Book is thought to be Australia's first published cookbook.


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Australian Country Houses, Homesteads, Farmsteads and Rural Retreats
A colour photo illustrated book showcasing historic Australian houses including Tasmania.

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Becoming Ellie - life after racing for a greyhound
Launceston-based artist, Graeme Whittle, has collaborated with author, Lyndon Riggall, on this story about a racing greyhound and her life after an injury ends her racing career.

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Beekeeping at the End of the Earth
A must read guide to cool climate beekeeping examine all aspects of what it takes to succeed as an apiarist from the hobby level through to a small business.

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Before We Eat - charts the journey of food and drink in Tasmania from the wild to the table, past to the present

Paul County and Bernard Lloyd's history of food and drink in Tasmania, from the wild to the table and the past to the present. Softcover, 2003, 328 pages, illustrated.


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Beyond the Shore
An illustrated book of sailing, seafood, and wine along the east coast of Australia.

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Broccoli & Other Love Stories
Paulette Whitney connects readers to the history and culture of more than 55 vegetables, fruits and herbs, sharing her own experiences, horticultural know-how, kitchen wisdom and favourite seasonal recipes from a year in her Tasmanian market garden.

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Bruny Island - Food From the Edge of the World
A bountiful collection of photographs, stories and recipes from the joy of living on Bruny Island, Tasmania - one of Australia's most compact, diverse and interesting food destinations.

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Celebrate - Catering ideas
Catering ideas for perfectly imperfect home gatherings.

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Central Cookery Book (Metric Revised Edition) – A.C. Irvine

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.


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