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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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From the Menu Launceston
Showcasing some of the work and recipes of restaurants and cafes around Launceston in the north of Tasmania.

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

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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Garden of a Thousand Roses – How to Make a Rose Garden in Australia | Susan Irvine | 2003 | Signed by Author [USED – SC – Good]

Susan Irvine's practical guide to making a rose garden in Australia — first written and published before she acquired Forest Hall, the property near Elizabeth Town in northern Tasmania where she later developed a celebrated garden that inspired the books that followed. This edition is a reprint published after Forest Hall had established her reputation in Tasmania.


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Gardeners, Plant Collectors, Friends - Hobart Town & Beyond
A book about the early gardeners of Van Diemen's Land.

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Gardening in Tasmania - TD Raphael handbook

A vintage Tasmanian gardening handbook by Thomas Dividson Raphael, a botanist whose research on Tasmanian garden escapes — plants that spread from cultivation into the wild — was published by the Royal Society of Tasmania in 1955 and remains cited in official Tasmanian vegetation surveys today.


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Glimpses of Gold - CWA
Glimpses of Gold gives a brief history of the CWA Country Women's Association in Tasmania as of the mid-1980s.

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Goitre Monitor - history of iodine deficiency in Tasmania, first in the Tasmanian iodine trilogy, signed | Paul A.C. Richards & John C. Stewart | 2007 [USED – SC]

Goitre Monitor is the first book in a trilogy on iodine and public health in Tasmania, followed by Iodophor (2020) and Seaweed (2022), both also in our stock. Goitre Monitor traces the early history of goitre and iodine deficiency in Tasmania — from first European reports and Launceston General Hospital case records, through the earliest thyroid surgery in Tasmania, 20th century household nutrition surveys, the introduction of iodised salt prophylaxis, to the notorious 1960s Tasmanian thyrotoxicosis epidemic.


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Good Life Growing
How to grow fruit and veg anywhere in Australia.

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Gorgeous Gardens of Tasmania
A journey through some of Tasmania's most spectacular public and private gardens.

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Gorgeous Gardens Way Down South
A casual pictorial wander through some of the beautiful gardens of southern Tasmania.

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