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Riverine - Raymond Arnold, Ian Westacott and John Wolseley
Added: Sep 24, 2026

Riverine documents four autumns of collaborative work by artists Raymond Arnold, Ian Westacott and John Wolseley, camped along the Banyena/Richardson River at Bonnie Brae, a regeneratively managed farm in Victoria's Wimmera region; the book brings together more than 50 paintings, watercolours and etchings with essays by farm steward Prue McAllister and the three artists.


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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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From the Edges of Empire - Convict Women from Beyond the British Isles
Remarkable stories of convict women transported to Australia who were born or tried outside the British Isles.

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Fun in Tasmania Activity Pack | Young Reed | [NEW]

Puzzles, mazes and 8 colouring pencils, all Tasmania-themed — the perfect companion for a long car trip around the island, a rainy afternoon, or a flight home with restless kids. Designed to keep children occupied without a screen, this pack is sized to slip into a day bag or the seat pocket of the car.


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FungiFlip – A Pictorial Guide to Tasmanian Fungi | Gates, Ratkowsky & Wiltshire | 2018 [NEW]

A fold-out laminated field guide to the fungi of Tasmania — colour illustrated, weatherproof and compact enough to take on any walk.


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Furnishing Van Diemen's Land – Tasmanian Furniture of the Early Colonial Period 1803–1870 | Peter Hughes | 2026 [NEW – Large HCDJ]

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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Gaolbird - the true story of William Swallow Convict & Pirate
This children's picture story book tells the outrageous and unbelievable true story of a convict pirate named Swallow from Simon Barnard, the 2015 CBCA winner of A-Z Convicts in Van Diemen's Land.

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Garden of a Thousand Roses – How to Make a Rose Garden in Australia | Susan Irvine | 2003 | Signed by Author [USED – SC – Good]

Susan Irvine's practical guide to making a rose garden in Australia — first written and published before she acquired Forest Hall, the property near Elizabeth Town in northern Tasmania where she later developed a celebrated garden that inspired the books that followed. This edition is a reprint published after Forest Hall had established her reputation in Tasmania.


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Gardeners, Plant Collectors, Friends - Hobart Town & Beyond
A book about the early gardeners of Van Diemen's Land.

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Gardening in Tasmania - TD Raphael handbook

A vintage Tasmanian gardening handbook by Thomas Dividson Raphael, a botanist whose research on Tasmanian garden escapes — plants that spread from cultivation into the wild — was published by the Royal Society of Tasmania in 1955 and remains cited in official Tasmanian vegetation surveys today.


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Garrow Head – A Novel of John Glover's Family and Patterdale | Annette Tyson | 2022 | Signed by Author [NEW – SC]

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.


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Gatty – Prince of Navigators | Bruce Brown | 1997 [SC] – Harold Gatty, Campbell Town's Famous Aviator

A biography of Harold Gatty, one of the most significant navigators of the 20th century. Gatty was born in Campbell Town,Tasmania on 5 January 1903, though his family moved to Zeehan when he was an infant and he had no memory of the town himself. Despite this, Campbell Town has always claimed him with pride.


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