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Old Working Trucks of Tasmania - Tasmanian Truck History 1909 to 1970 | L.J. Morley | 2026 NEW SC
Added: Sep 18, 2026

L.J. Morley's history of Tasmania's working trucks from 1909 to 1970 - from Mt Lyell mining trucks and Huon apple trucks to Hobart's fire engines and wartime army vehicles, with hundreds of photographs.


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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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40 South Short Story Anthology 2026
Added: Jul 23, 2026

Finalist stories from Forty South's Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2026, an annual short story competition open to writers in Australia and New Zealand on an island, or island-resonant, theme.


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A-Z of Endangered Animals
This beautifully illustrated full-colour picture book is packed with interesting facts about endangered animals and is great for young conservationists and students with a keen interest in the world around them.

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Abandoned Women - Scottish Convicts in Van Diemen's Land
Abandoned Women - Scottish Convicts Exiled Beyond the Seas s a rich and evocative account of the lives of women at the bottom of society two hundred years ago.

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Aboriginal Convicts - Australian, Khoisan and Maori Exiles
This book is about the 130 aboriginal convicts who were transported to and within the Australian penal colonies. They lived, laboured, were punished, and died alongside other convicts, but until this ground breaking book, their stories had largely been forgotten.

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Adamsfield – The Town That Lived and Died | Kathleen, Ralph & Timothy Gowlland | 1973 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

A history of Adamsfield — the remote mining township that grew up in the Tasmanian wilderness around the osmiridium fields during the 1920s and 1930s, and was subsequently abandoned. Osmiridium is a naturally occurring alloy of osmium and iridium — two rare platinum-group metals used in industrial applications including the tips of gold pen nibs.


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Adventures at Powranna - More Tasmanian Tales, illustrated by the author, signed | Nairda Lyne | 1969 [USED – HCDJ – Ages 5-9]

Tasmanian children's stories set around Powranna, a small locality in Tasmania's Northern Midlands, near Longford. Illustrated throughout with 76 decorations drawn by the author herself, and cited in Marcie Muir's standard bibliography of Australian children's books. 


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After Port Arthur
A decade on, journalist Carol Altmann looked at how the people, the place, the killer, and the whole of Australia had changed since the horrific massacre at one of Australia's most infamous historic landmarks, Port Arthur convict site.

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Against The Odds - Tasmanian timber pioneers Risbys 1826-1995

Risby Brothers Timber Merchants was founded in Hobart in 1844 by Joseph Risby, and remained in family hands until it closed in the early 1990s — one of Tasmania's longest-running family-owned businesses. The company expanded across the state over the following century.


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Alas, for the Pelicans! Flinders, Baudin & Beyond - Essays and Poems
This collection of essays and poems celebrates the 200th anniversary of the encounter in 1802 between explorers Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders off the shores of South Australia, and examines some of the cultural contexts of their voyages and the ramifications of their discoveries over the ensuing years.

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Alex and the Alpacas Save the World
Alex is expecting a pretty boring summer. But when Mum takes her to visit her mysterious grandfather on his farm in Tasmania, weird things start to happen.

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Alfi the Wombat
A Tasmanian chapter book for 8 to 11 year olds.

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