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.
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.
A close study of the 186 carved decorations on the Ross Bridge — the convict-built sandstone bridge that has spanned the Macquarie River at Ross since 1836, and one of the most visited historic sites in Tasmania. The carvings were the work of Daniel Herbert, a transported convict who was a stonemason by trade.
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Latest Releases
Our newest Tasmanian arrivals, updated as fresh stock comes in — worth checking back regularly if you're after the latest finds.
Adam Ouston's second novel... "While searching for inspiration for what will be his final work, an unnamed poet and defender of Tasmania's wild places finds himself trapped down an abandoned mine in the island's mountain rainforests. In the darkness he is visited by memories and voices both from his own past as well as the tortured history of the pillaged landscape to which he has devoted his life and work."
Trish Hodge, a Tasmanian Aboriginal woman and descendant of Mannalargenna, spent twenty years researching and documenting the traditional uses of more than 350 native Tasmanian plants — for food, medicine, tools and seasonal knowledge.
Ringarooma, in Tasmania's North-East, began as "Krushka Town," a private township founded in 1882 by the Krushka brothers, whose enterprise grew out of the region's tin mining boom of the 1870s. The town was renamed Ringarooma in 1888. Glenn Carins traces the history and pioneering families of the district, including Alberton, Krushka Town, Pinega, Talawa/Maurice and Trenah.
A book that describes what exists and what doesn't exist in Tasmania's Tarkine, as used by aboriginal people, or within the wider Tarkine definition used by the tourism industry. An area of great beauty despite its industrial and other uses over 150 years.
One hundred places on the Tasmanian Heritage Register — and the stories of why they were built, who built them, and why they matter. Tasmania has more heritage-listed buildings per capita than any other Australian state, and the stories behind them are often as significant as the buildings themselves.
Bill Wilkinson's comprehensive guide to Tasmania's mountains over 1100 metres, Volume 2 Part B (Section 8), covering the state's west and south-west. Signed by the editor.
![Islands of the Island State - Rees Campbell explores 40 of Tasmania's 6,500 offshore islands, their history & wild food | 2026 [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/islands-of-the-island-state-tTnn8f.png "Islands of the Island State - Rees Campbell explores 40 of Tasmania's 6,500 offshore islands, their history & wild food | 2026 [NEW – SC]")
![The Enigmatic Art of the Ross Bridge Tasmania | Dr Jennie Jackson | 2026 | Signed by Author [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/enigmatic-art-ross-bridge-i59IUJ.png "The Enigmatic Art of the Ross Bridge Tasmania | Dr Jennie Jackson | 2026 | Signed by Author [NEW – SC]")
![Palawa tunapri - Knowledge of Our Ancestors: Trish Hodge's record of Tasmanian Aboriginal plant uses for food, medicine & tools | 2025 [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/palawa-tunapri-ICD3zu.png "Palawa tunapri - Knowledge of Our Ancestors: Trish Hodge's record of Tasmanian Aboriginal plant uses for food, medicine & tools | 2025 [NEW – SC]")
![Tasmanian Built – The Places and Stories of the Tasmanian Heritage Register | King, Torossi, Evans & Plapp | 2022 [NEW – Large SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/tasmanian-built-YLns9Q.png "Tasmanian Built – The Places and Stories of the Tasmanian Heritage Register | King, Torossi, Evans & Plapp | 2022 [NEW – Large SC]")
