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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] See details
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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The Enigmatic Art of the Ross Bridge Tasmania | Dr Jennie Jackson | 2026 | Signed by Author [NEW – SC] See details
The Enigmatic Art of the Ross Bridge Tasmania | Dr Jennie Jackson | 2026 | Signed by Author [NEW – SC]
Added: Mar 26, 2026

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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Local History

A large and constantly updated collection of Tasmanian local and district history books – town histories, community stories, and the histories of local councils, districts and regions right across the state. Many of these titles were produced by local historical societies, councils, and community groups in small print runs, making them genuinely hard to find once out of print. A favourite section for genealogists, local historians, and anyone researching a specific Tasmanian town or district.

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History of the Iron Pot - Derwent Light See details
History of the Iron Pot - Derwent Light

A comprehensive history of the Iron Pot - Australia's oldest lighthouse tower, Derwent Lighthouse - and a study of life in the colony of Van Diemen's Land and of its transition to the modern state of Tasmania.

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Hobart See details
Hobart
Peter Timm's Hobart has been republished here in 2020 to reflect the massive tourism-driven impact of MONA on the Tasmanian State capital.
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Hobart High School to Hobart College 1913-2013 See details
Hobart High School to Hobart College 1913-2013
A history of the revolution in State secondary education in Tasmania.
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Hobart's Tram Trilogy - Elizabeth, Macquarie & Liverpool Streets - softcover See details
Hobart's Tram Trilogy - Elizabeth, Macquarie & Liverpool Streets - softcover
This tram history book is divided into three sections (the Elizabeth Street, Macquarie Street and Liverpool Street trams of Hobart, Tasmania), and recalls the endeavour and enterprise of earlier years, and the importance of the tramway system in the evolution of the city of Hobart and the growth of its suburbs.
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Home of Peace See details
Home of Peace
The Eskleigh story.
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Houses & Estates of Old Glamorgan – Thirty Early Properties of Tasmania's East Coast | Ward, Martin Ferris & Brooks | 2nd Edition 2021 [NEW – SC] See details
Houses & Estates of Old Glamorgan – Thirty Early Properties of Tasmania's East Coast | Ward, Martin Ferris & Brooks | 2nd Edition 2021 [NEW – SC]

A thoroughly researched history of thirty early properties of the former Glamorgan municipality on Tasmania's east coast — the pastoral and farming country stretching from Swansea south through the Freycinet and Dolphin Sands country. This second edition is revised and updated with three additional properties, each with an architectural description of the house and outbuildings.

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How to Play Bridge - Part 1: Kev Bailey's satirical cartoons on the 1975 Tasman Bridge disaster | 1975 [USED – SC] See details
How to Play Bridge - Part 1: Kev Bailey's satirical cartoons on the 1975 Tasman Bridge disaster | 1975 [USED – SC]

Satirical cartoons on the 1975 Tasman Bridge disaster and its long aftermath, by Kev Bailey — staff political cartoonist for the Mercury. On the night of 5 January 1975, the bulk carrier Lake Illawarra struck Hobart's Tasman Bridge, collapsing several pylons into the Derwent River and killing 12 people. The disaster cut Hobart's eastern shore off from the city for years, reshaping the city's transport and politics.

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How to Play Bridge - Part 2: Kev Bailey's satirical cartoons on the 1975 Tasman Bridge disaster | 1977 [USED – SC] See details
How to Play Bridge - Part 2: Kev Bailey's satirical cartoons on the 1975 Tasman Bridge disaster | 1977 [USED – SC]

A second book of satirical cartoons on the 1975 Tasman Bridge disaster and its long aftermath, by Kev Bailey — staff political cartoonist for the Mercury. On the night of 5 January 1975, the bulk carrier Lake Illawarra struck Hobart's Tasman Bridge, collapsing several pylons into the Derwent River and killing 12 people. The disaster cut Hobart's eastern shore off from the city for years, reshaping the city's transport and politics.

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Hydro Construction Villages Volume One – Waddamana, Shannon and Tarraleah | Sarah Rackham | 1981 [USED – SC – Out of Print] See details
Hydro Construction Villages Volume One – Waddamana, Shannon and Tarraleah | Sarah Rackham | 1981 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

The first volume in Sarah Rackham's three-volume series documenting the construction villages built by the Hydro-Electric Commission to house workers and their families during the great dam-building era in Tasmania's Central Highlands. Waddamana was the site of the HEC's first major power station, built in 1916 — now a museum. Shannon and Tarraleah were later construction camps and villages built to support the push into the Central Plateau in the 1930s.

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Hydro Construction Villages Volume Three – Poatina, Gowrie Park and Strathgordon | Sarah Rackham | 1983 [USED – SC – Very Good] See details
Hydro Construction Villages Volume Three – Poatina, Gowrie Park and Strathgordon | Sarah Rackham | 1983 [USED – SC – Very Good]

The third and final volume in Sarah Rackham's series documenting the construction villages of the Hydro-Electric Commission — covering three of the most distinctive HEC settlements in Tasmania - Poatina above Longford, Gowrie Park near Quamby Bluff, and Strathgordon (construction village for the Gordon Dam and at the centre of the Lake Pedder flooding and later the Franklin Dam campaign).

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