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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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Tasmania's Beaumaris Beach Mystery - worn See details
Tasmania's Beaumaris Beach Mystery - worn
The unsolved disappearance of one foreign tourist and the brutal murder of another on Tasmania's lonely Beaumaris Beach are re-examined two decades later by author Melanie Calvert.
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Tasmania's Forgotten Frontier - used See details
Tasmania's Forgotten Frontier - used
Settled by sealers prior to Hobart, this is the story of Tasmania's forgotten frontier - the north east coast and islands and the pioneers who braved the isolation to create the first permanent settlements in this remote corner of the state.
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Tasmania's North-East - comprehensive history by A.W.Loone |HCDJ - worn| See details
Tasmania's North-East - comprehensive history by A.W.Loone |HCDJ - worn|

Written by Arthur William Loone (1857–1936), a Tasmanian Legislative Councillor for South Esk from 1910 who later died in Scottsdale, this book draws on first-hand knowledge of the district. It covers the discovery of gold and tin, the North-East's mines and railways, biographical details of the pioneers of its various districts, and honour rolls of the men who enlisted from North-East municipalities to serve overseas in the First World War.

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Tasmania's Vanishing Towns - Not what they used to be - used, hardcover See details
Tasmania's Vanishing Towns - Not what they used to be - used, hardcover
The second volume of Tasmania's lost, forgotten and vanished towns from days gone by - a book about ghost towns.
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Tasmanian High Country Huts See details
Tasmanian High Country Huts
An illustrated guide to the wooden huts left behind by the pioneers who lived and worked in Tasmania's remote high country.
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Tasmanian Village: A Story of Carrick (Mary Kinloch Whishaw) - Tasmanian History / Local History See details
Tasmanian Village: A Story of Carrick (Mary Kinloch Whishaw) - Tasmanian History / Local History

Carrick is one of northern Tasmania's most historic villages, its identity long bound up with the Old Carrick Mill on the banks of the Liffey River. In this slim, locally produced vintage booklet, Mary Kinloch Whishaw traces the story of the settlement.

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Tassie Pubs I've Called Home See details
Tassie Pubs I've Called Home
The story of living and working in licensed premises around Tasmania over three decades of profound change.
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Thanks to Providence - Falmouth history See details
Thanks to Providence - Falmouth history
A history of Falmouth, a small seaside town on Tasmania's East Coast and its people.
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The Albert Hall 1890–1980 – A History of the Launceston Concert Hall | Dennis Hodgkinson | 1980 [USED – SC – Out of Print] See details
The Albert Hall 1890–1980 – A History of the Launceston Concert Hall | Dennis Hodgkinson | 1980 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

Dennis Hodgkinson's history of the Albert Hall in Launceston — the city's principal concert and civic hall, built in 1891 and documented here across its first ninety years, published to coincide with its 1980 re-launch after restoration works. The Albert Hall has recently been at the centre of Launceston public debate following its latest major renovation — a project that attracted significant attention for its cost and the questions it raised about the hall's utilisation and future.

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The Archer Heritage See details
The Archer Heritage
A comprehensive account of William Archer of Hertford and Van Diemen's Land, his ancestors and descendants.
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