Just Tassie Books

A historical novel set at Patterdale — John Glover's property near Evandale in northern Van Diemen's Land — and told through the lives of Glover's family in the colonial period. Garrow Head draws on the history of the Glover family and their neighbours at Patterdale to explore what colonial life actually looked like on the ground — the farming, the relationships with convict workers, the interactions with the local Aboriginal community, and the domestic realities behind the landscapes Glover was painting.

A comprehensive chronological account of Tasmania's geological history, written by Keith Corbett, Patrick Quilty and Clive Calver and published in 2015. The book places Tasmania's major tectonic, magmatic and mineralisation events in their order of occurrence — tracing the island's geological story from its earliest Precambrian rocks through to recent geological time.

Libby Lester's study of how news media coverage has shaped environmental conflict and public debate in Tasmania. Softcover, 2007, 189 pages, indexed, used.