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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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Great Properties of Tasmania
A celebration of 18 of the remarkable private rural properties of Tasmania including: Ashton & Lawrenny (Ouse); Brickendon, Mout Ireh, Mountford & Panshanger (Longford); Egleston, Winton & Quorn Hall (Campbell Town); Connorville (Cressy); Ellenthorpe Hall, Lochiel & Trefusis (Ross); Enstone Park (Falmouth); Glenelg (Gretna); Meadowbank (Glenora); Stonehenge (Oatlands); and Wesley Dale (Chudleigh).

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Growing Vegetables South of Australia - Year Round Tasmanian Food Gardening by Steve Solomon |Used 2015|

This book provides a guide to producing a 12-month long abundance of fresh vegetables and helps the gardener to understand Tasmania's unique conditions, problems and opportunities.


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Hand Made in Tasmania

Edited by Steven French, Hand Made in Tasmania profiles 39 craftspeople working in Tasmania who left conventional careers for a trade, each sketched over two to four pages.


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Hearts of Oak - Tasmania southern forests by Bill Leitch |Used signed HCDJ|

In Hearts of Oak, Bill Leitch tells the story of the southern forests of Tasmanian from the early days of the convict timber getters.


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Here's Cheers - A Pictorial History of Hotels, Taverns & Inns in Hobart

A pictorial history of hotels, taverns and inns in Hobart which, through its enticing illustrations, encourages us to explore for ourselves the beguiling stories behind the public houses of early Hobart.


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Historic Tasmanian Gardens by P Frazer Simons |Used SC|

Historic Tasmanian Gardens surveys historic gardens and properties across Tasmania, illustrated throughout with black-and-white sketches and (somewhat grainy black/white) photographs.


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Home of Peace
The Eskleigh story.

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Hop Kilns of Tasmania
A photographic journey around Tasmania's historic hop kilns.

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Houses & Estates of Old Glamorgan – Thirty Early Properties of Tasmania's East Coast | Ward, Martin Ferris & Brooks | 2nd Edition 2021 [NEW – SC]

A thoroughly researched history of thirty early properties of the former Glamorgan municipality on Tasmania's east coast — the pastoral and farming country stretching from Swansea south through the Freycinet and Dolphin Sands country. This second edition is revised and updated with three additional properties, each with an architectural description of the house and outbuildings.


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Housewife Superstar – The Very Best of Marjorie Bligh | Danielle Wood | 2011 [USED – SC]

Danielle Wood's celebration of Marjorie Bligh — the eccentric Tasmanian domestic adviser who published a library of practical books on food, household management, health, beauty, poetry, gardening and recycling, 
and built a devoted following across Australia through sheer force of personality and practical wisdom.


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