The Tasmanian Motorcycle Club was formed in Launceston in 1905 as the Tasmanian Automobile Club, and has run continuously ever since. Author Ken Young, a club life member and its history officer, researched the club's full history for this book, and believes it to be the third-oldest such club in the world.
Richard Davis's centenary history of the Faculty of Law at the University of Tasmania, founded in 1893. Softcover, 98 pages, illustrated, used.
100 Years of Western Tasmanian Mining traces a century of mining on the west coast — from the district's earliest mineral discoveries, including tin at Mount Bischoff in 1871, silver-lead around Zeehan and Dundas in 1882, and the Mount Lyell copper field in 1883, through to the mining industry of the mid-1970s.
Jennifer Cossins's illustrated picture book of 101 collective nouns — a murder of crows, a wisdom of wombats, a smack of jellyfish — each paired with a full-colour animal illustration. Cossins is a Tasmanian illustrator and author whose work has attracted attention well beyond Tasmania.
Written by European royal correspondent Trine Villemann, this publication provides a contemporary journalistic account of the modern Danish Royal House. The text chronicles the court's history leading up to the marriage of Tasmanian-born Mary Donaldson to Crown Prince Frederik, offering an independent perspective on the transition from a traditional constitutional monarchy into a modern royal family.
Elizabeth Stamp, a journalist for Architectural Digest and CNN, selected 150 bookstores from around the world worth making a detour to visit, each chosen for a distinctive feature — an unusual backstory, a notable collection, or a striking setting. It's the eighth title in an established series that has previously covered bars, restaurants, hotels, houses, gardens, golf courses and vineyards.
The Book Cellar is one of the 150 — featured for our setting in the convict-built cellars of Foxhunters Return, an 1830s coaching inn in Campbell Town.
A comprehensive and well illustrated history of Tasmanian railways.

