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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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Blackmans Bay & Tinderbox by Julie Gardam See details
Blackmans Bay & Tinderbox by Julie Gardam

A local history from south of Hobart, Tasmania.

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Bothwell - the Gateway to the Highlands: Ratho golf links, Scottish settlers, River Clyde district | Gwen Webb | 1989 [USED – SC – Out of Print] See details
Bothwell - the Gateway to the Highlands: Ratho golf links, Scottish settlers, River Clyde district | Gwen Webb | 1989 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

Known as the "gateway to the highlands" for its position at the edge of the Central Plateau, Bothwell retains around 60 buildings and sites of historic significance, and holds the Australasian Golf Museum, home to a claim to the oldest continuously running golf course in Australasia, established at Ratho Farm in the 1820s by settler Alexander Reid. The Irish patriot John Mitchel spent time here, and radio astronomy pioneer Grote Reber later lived and worked nearby at Dennistoun.

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Bothwell Revisited See details
Bothwell Revisited
A history of Bothwell in the Central Highlands of Tasmania.
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Brothers' Home Derby See details
Brothers' Home Derby

Derby, in Tasmania's North-East, began life as "Brothers' Home" — the name given to the settlement that grew around the Krushka brothers' tin mine, discovered in 1876. Renamed Derby in 1887, the town grew to over 3,000 people at its mining peak, with the Briseis Mine becoming one of the richest tin mines in the world.

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Brown's River - A history of Kingston and Blackmans Bay by Julie Gardam See details
Brown's River - A history of Kingston and Blackmans Bay by Julie Gardam

A history of Kingston and Blackmans Bay in southern Tasmania, by Julie Gardam. The district takes its original name from Brown's River, named after botanist Robert Brown, who collected plant samples there in 1804 — known to the area's Aboriginal people as promenalinah.

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Browns River to Kingston - signed, Julie Gardam See details
Browns River to Kingston - signed, Julie Gardam

Local Tasmanian history.

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Bruny Island's Quarantine Station in War and Peace See details
Bruny Island's Quarantine Station in War and Peace
A book that documents research into all aspects of human occupancy of the Quarantine Station site at Barnes Bay on Bruny Island, Tasmania.
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Building on Firm Foundations - the Cooper Family in Tasmania - stonemasons, builders and architects See details
Building on Firm Foundations - the Cooper Family in Tasmania - stonemasons, builders and architects
Building on Firm Foundations - a history of the Cooper family in Tasmania - stonemasons, builders and architects.
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Buttons, Bodices, Braces & Britches See details
Buttons, Bodices, Braces & Britches
The story of Slater's Country Store, Sheffield, in northern Tasmania. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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By Derwent Divided – The Lake Illawarra, the Tasman Bridge and the 1975 Disaster | Tom Lewis | 3rd Edition 2025 [HC] See details
By Derwent Divided – The Lake Illawarra, the Tasman Bridge and the 1975 Disaster | Tom Lewis | 3rd Edition 2025 [HC]

On 5 January 1975 the bulk carrier Lake Illawarra struck two of the pylons of Hobart's Tasman Bridge, bringing down two spans of the bridge and sinking the ship in the Derwent River. Seven crew members and two people on the bridge were killed. The collapse divided Hobart for nearly two years — cutting the city in half and forcing residents on the eastern shore to take lengthy detours or use a ferry service until the bridge reopened in October 1977.

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