![Death at Sea – The Bass Strait Ferry Tragedy | Gregory Wane | 2021 | Signed by Author [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/death-at-sea-aw6Ake.png "Death at Sea – The Bass Strait Ferry Tragedy | Gregory Wane | 2021 | Signed by Author [NEW – SC]")
On Christmas Eve 1903 the ferry Coogee, travelling from Launceston to Melbourne, collided with the sailing barque Fortunato Figari in Bass Strait. The collision sank the Coogee and killed most of those aboard.
![Design for Convicts – An Account of Design for Convict Establishments in the Australian Colonies During the Transportation Era | James Semple Kerr | 1984 [USED – HCDJ]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/design-for-convicts-zh4FYq.png "Design for Convicts – An Account of Design for Convict Establishments in the Australian Colonies During the Transportation Era | James Semple Kerr | 1984 [USED – HCDJ]")
An architectural and historical account of the design and construction of convict establishments across the Australian colonies during the transportation era — covering prisons, penitentiaries, probation stations, barracks, hospitals and associated infrastructure built to house, control and employ convict labour.
![Destiny – The Extraordinary Career of Pianist Eileen Joyce | Tunley, Rogers & Meher-Homji | 2017 [USED – SC – Out of Print]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/destiny-eileen-joyce-wdTISv.png "Destiny – The Extraordinary Career of Pianist Eileen Joyce | Tunley, Rogers & Meher-Homji | 2017 [USED – SC – Out of Print]")
Eileen Joyce was born in Tasmania — in Zeehan, the west coast mining town, in 1908 — and went on to become one of the most celebrated pianists of the 20th century. Percy Grainger described the young Joyce in 1926 as "the most transcendentally gifted young piano student he had heard in the last 25 years."
![Destroyer Man | John Alliston | First Edition 1985 [USED – HCDJ – Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/Destroyer%20Man%20John%20Alliston-Wavgbx.png "Destroyer Man | John Alliston | First Edition 1985 [USED – HCDJ – Good]")
The memoir of John Alliston — a British destroyer captain who transferred to the Royal Australian Navy during the Second World War, commanding HMAS Warramunga among other vessels, before settling in Australia after the war and raising his family on Three Hummock Island in Bass Strait off the north-west coast of Tasmania.
