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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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.
Kris Gatenby's account of the unsolved 1921 murder of thirteen-year-old Chrissie Venn near North Motton, Tasmania - a case that has puzzled Tasmanians for over a century. Signed by the author.
Neil Grose's collection of fishing yarns from his years as one of Tasmania's fly fishing guides and founder of Rainbow Lodge, Miena — stories rather than a how-to guide. Softcover, 2026, 185 pages.
In the early 19th century, amidst public anxiety about the threat to public order and respectability posed by juvenile offenders, over 2000 boys were transported from the streets of London to the Point Puer Boys Establishment at Port Arthur in Van Diemen’s Land.
Winner of the 2026 Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History.
Paul Helleman's account of deaths and disappearances in Tasmania's national parks, reserves and wild places — covering incidents from across the island's wilderness areas, indexed and thoroughly researched. The book documents what can go wrong when people venture into Tasmania's bush and mountains: walkers lost on the Overland Track, incidents in the Southwest, disappearances never resolved, and the search and rescue operations that followed. signed
![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]")
![What Could Possibly Go Wrong? – Death and Disappearance in Tasmania's Wild Places | Paul Helleman | 2025 | Signed [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/what-could-possibly-NpQKLi.png "What Could Possibly Go Wrong? – Death and Disappearance in Tasmania's Wild Places | Paul Helleman | 2025 | Signed [NEW – SC]")
