Just Tassie Books

Richard Flanagan — the only author to have won both the Booker Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction — gathers twenty years of his essays, articles and speeches, ranging across subjects including Manus Island, MONA, the natural world, the Black Summer bushfires, Indigenous Australia, the erosion of democracy, and Salman Rushdie, alongside pieces on family and love.

Heroes and Villains tells two very different life stories that converged on the same ship to Hobart - Peter Degraves, industrialist and Major Hugh Macintosh, soldier of fortune. The two men's paths meet in the book's third section, aboard the colonial ship Hope, bound for Hobart, where Degraves went on to found Cascade Brewery — today Australia's oldest brewery. 

Peter Marmion's large-format photographic record of toogelow — the Indigenous name for Port Davey, the remote inlet at the southern end of Tasmania's south-west wilderness, accessible only by boat, light aircraft or multi-day walking track. Port Davey and the surrounding Bathurst Harbour country sit at the heart of the South West Conservation Area — one of the most remote and least-visited landscapes in Australia, and one of the most ecologically significant.

G. Hawley Stancombe and Eric Ratcliff's history of the main coaching highway between Hobart and Launceston — the road that became the Midland Highway, and remains today the primary artery connecting Tasmania's two largest cities through the island's historic pastoral heartland.