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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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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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Chocolatier
Chocolatier is a book by Igor Van Gerwen about the establishment and development of Anvers Confectionery near Latrobe in northern Tasmania.

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Common Grasses of Tasmania
Illustrated with colour photos. Spiral bound guide.

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Complete Preserves - two books in one
Two delicious Sally Wise books published together as a single volume - A Year in a Bottle, and Out of the Bottle.

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Cooking Up Tasmania
A beautifully illustrated cookbook of recipes based on food ingredients that can be found in Tasmania.

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Country Houses of Tasmania – Behind the Doors of Tasmania's Finest Private Colonial Estates | Alice Bennett & Georgia Warner | 2009 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]

A photographic record of the features of some of Tasmania's most historically significant private colonial estates — houses that have rarely been open to the public and whose stories are not well documented elsewhere. The authors gained access to properties across the island, documenting both the architecture and the families who have owned and lived in them across generations — from the earliest colonial period through to the present day.


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CWA The Esk Valley Cookbook – Treasured Recipes of the Countrywomen of the Esk Valley Group in Tasmania | 1999 [USED – SC]

A collection of treasured recipes from the members of the Country Women's Association Esk Valley Group in northern Tasmania, published in 1999. The Esk Valley takes its name from the South Esk and North Esk Rivers that drain the Northern Midlands and Meander Valley — the CWA group covered the towns and farming communities of this district, an area of pastoral and agricultural land that includes Campbell Town, Ross, Longford, Cressy, Perth, Upper Blessington, Deddington, Evandale, Fingal and St Marys.


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Dumbbells to Diamonds - Bob Cheek memoir of Zap Fitness

33 workouts to mega wealth former Tasmanian politician Bob Cheek tells of his experiences in setting up the successful Zap Fitness 24 hour gym business and lessons learnt along the way.


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