Finalist stories from Forty South's Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2026, an annual short story competition open to writers in Australia and New Zealand on an island, or island-resonant, theme.
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.
C M Nicholson's guide to Tasmanian herbal remedies, including salve-making basics and bush first aid. Self-published, softcover, 2026, 239 pages.
![The Vanishing Wild – Australian Wildlife and the Fight Against Extinction | Justine Hausheer | 2026 [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/vanishing-wild-Hbfn6d.png "The Vanishing Wild – Australian Wildlife and the Fight Against Extinction | Justine Hausheer | 2026 [NEW – SC]")
Australia has lost more biodiversity than any other developed nation in the last 200 years. Justine Hausheer's 2026 book documents what is being lost and what is being done to prevent further extinctions.
![Furnishing Van Diemen's Land – Tasmanian Furniture of the Early Colonial Period 1803–1870 | Peter Hughes | 2026 [NEW – Large HCDJ]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/furnishing-van-diemens-land-jzD5M2.png "Furnishing Van Diemen's Land – Tasmanian Furniture of the Early Colonial Period 1803–1870 | Peter Hughes | 2026 [NEW – Large HCDJ]")
Peter Hughes's comprehensive study of furniture made in Van Diemen's Land during the early colonial period — the most thorough treatment of this subject since Craig, Fahy and Robertson's Early Colonial Furniture in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land (1972).
![Daughters of the Tide | Arianne James | 2026 [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/daughters-of-the-tide-4TYKh8.png "Daughters of the Tide | Arianne James | 2026 [NEW – SC]")
A Tasmanian gothic debut novel weaving historical fiction with selkie folklore. It's 1923, and Isla Findlay lives with her parents in a rambling mansion on a wild stretch of the Tasmanian coast — a house steeped in family secrets, tragedy and rumours of madness. When Isla's estranged aunt finally returns home, long-buried childhood memories of selkie stories begin to surface, along with disturbing dreams of seals and a haunting song Isla starts to hear even while awake.
![Find Me | Holly Craig | 2026 [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/find-me-D13Kaw.png "Find Me | Holly Craig | 2026 [NEW – SC]")
A suspense novel set in fictional Tasmanian mountains, where a missing person sets off a search that drives the story.
A newly researched true account of Billy Gadd, a young lad from Tasmania's West Coast mining town of Queenstown who managed to enlist in the AIF during World War I while under the legal age.
![A Life with the Birds of Tasmania – Els Wakefield (2026) [New Release Heavy Hardback Edition]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/a-life-with-the-birds-9a5ArZ.png "A Life with the Birds of Tasmania – Els Wakefield (2026) [New Release Heavy Hardback Edition]")
A comprehensive modern compendium and personal memoir documenting the extraordinarily diverse birdlife of Lutruwita / Tasmania. Compiled by Els Wakefield, one of the state's most experienced lifelong birders, this heavy large-format volume acts as both a detailed reference work and a visual celebration of the island's avian fauna.
