Building Stories Tasmania is an illustrated tour of Tasmania's most distinctive buildings - working waterfronts, former hydro sites, pubs, bookshops, hotels, theatres and small-town main streets - told through the people who built, worked and lived in them: convicts, clergy, brewers, booksellers and activists.
My Kemp Ancestors traces six generations of David Gatenby's Kemp family line, opening on the Isle of Sheppey before following the family chapter by chapter from William Kemp and Amelia Fowler onwards.
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Compiled, printed and published by Henry Melville, editor of the Hobart Town Colonial Times and a persistent critic of Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur's administration. Melville printed the Van Diemen's Land Annual from his Colonial Times office each year from 1831 to 1837; this 1982 Melanie Publications facsimile, numbered 129 of 200 copies, reproduces the 1834 edition
Clifford Craig's bibliographical study of one of the most extraordinary episodes in early Australian publishing — the unauthorised "pirated" Van Diemen's Land edition of Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers, printed in Launceston by Henry Dowling between 1838 and 1839, while Dickens's original London serial publication was still being released.
Australia has lost more biodiversity than any other developed nation in the last 200 years. Justine Hausheer's 2026 book documents what is being lost and what is being done to prevent further extinctions.
Set in a remote Tasmanian seaside town, an outsider who volunteers on the local ambulance discovers strange goings on after a terrifying accident during a call out.
A biography of Tasmanian artist Patricia Giles, who has had a career as an artist spanning six decades, painting en plein air through the challenging weather of Tasmania.