Just Tassie Books

Set in early 19th century Hobart Town, The Sooterkin is a darkly comic novel about a convict woman who gives birth to a creature that may or may not be human — a being the colonists cannot categorise and don't know what to do with. Tom Gilling uses the premise to examine colonial society's obsessions with classification, propriety and the fear of the strange in Van Diemen's Land.

Karl von Stieglitz's 1958 centenary history of Holy Trinity Church, Cressy, consecrated in 1858 by Bishop Francis Russell Nixon in Tasmania's Norfolk Plains district.

This vintage TMAG booklet serves as an important mid-twentieth-century pictorial and historiographical record of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania. It compiles historical commentary alongside archival photographic plates, sketches, and portraits from the museum's early collections.