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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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Our Disappearing Heritage - the cultural landscape of the Central Plateau See details
Our Disappearing Heritage - the cultural landscape of the Central Plateau
A consideration of the heritage of the Central Plateau region of Tasmania, illustrated by Des Murray.
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Parattah - Junction Town of the Southern Midlands, 150 Years of Railway History | Steven Figg | 2025 [NEW – SC] See details
Parattah - Junction Town of the Southern Midlands, 150 Years of Railway History | Steven Figg | 2025 [NEW – SC]

Parattah, in Tasmania's Southern Midlands, grew up as a railway town on the Main Line between Hobart and Launceston, which opened through the area in 1876. Confusingly, the station was originally named "Oatlands Station," since it was as close as the line came to the actual town of Oatlands, before being renamed Parattah in 1882.

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Pateena Road – Families and Farms of the Pateena District | Mary MacRae & Mary Dadson | 2008 [USED – SC – Out of Print] See details
Pateena Road – Families and Farms of the Pateena District | Mary MacRae & Mary Dadson | 2008 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

A local history of the farms and families of the Pateena district — the rural community off the South Esk River near Longford and Hadspen in Tasmania's Northern Midlands.

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Peppermint Bay See details
Peppermint Bay
A history of the Woodbridge area, on the Channel in southern Tasmania.
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Pioneers and Their Memories of Tasmania’s High Country: Ned Terry Stories, Photos and Life in the Central Plateau See details
Pioneers and Their Memories of Tasmania’s High Country: Ned Terry Stories, Photos and Life in the Central Plateau

Stories from the lives of the old folk of Tasmania’s High Country and Central Plateau, brought together by Ned Terry in an illustrated history book with photos throughout.

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Places of Industry & Transport in Launceston - The Cheerful Noise of Foundries See details
Places of Industry & Transport in Launceston - The Cheerful Noise of Foundries

As the third book in the Stories in Stone series, this issue - The Cheerful Noise of Foundries - Places of Industry & Transport in Launceston - tells the stories behind Launceston's transport and industrial heritage.

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Places of Leisure in Launceston See details
Places of Leisure in Launceston
Places of Leisure in Launceston tells the history of Tasmania's northern city from the viewpoint of being considered the "home of sport and manly exercise". Published in the Stories in Stone series of local history.
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Places of Management, Mentoring & Medicine in Launceston See details
Places of Management, Mentoring & Medicine in Launceston
As the second book in the Stories in Stone series, this issue - A Model Municipality: Places of Management, Mentoring and Medicine in Launceston - tells the stories behind Launceston's places of administration, communication, health and welfare, education, religion and mentoring.
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Port Cygnet 1792-1860 See details
Port Cygnet 1792-1860
Port Cygnet 1792 - 1860, Volume 1 - A local Tasmanian history.
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Prosperous - the Kennedy Murrays and the origins of historic Evandale in Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania See details
Prosperous - the Kennedy Murrays and the origins of historic Evandale in Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania

Evandale, now known as one of Tasmania's best-preserved Georgian villages, began as "Murray's Prosperous village" — a farm hamlet founded by Kennedy Murray Jr, born in 1799 on Norfolk Island to First Fleet-era parents, who successfully applied to Governor Macquarie for a land grant here in 1818.

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