Welcome to The Book Cellar

The Book Cellar is a “bricks and mortar” bookshop located beneath an historic coaching inn at Campbell Town in the heart of Tasmania.

Our online store features a constantly updated catalogue of current Tasmanian titles that can be purchased via our secure shopping cart. The bulk of our Tasmanian books, both antiquarian and out of print, are also catalogued and this can be viewed online. Any books from our Tasmanian catalogues can be purchased by contacting The Book Cellar by phone or email.

All our listed titles are all held in stock ready to ship on the day payment is completed.

The Book Cellar can be contacted on 03 6381 1545


New Arrivals

Daughters of the Tide | Arianne James | 2026 [NEW – SC]
Added: Jun 21, 2026

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.


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Find Me | Holly Craig | 2026 [NEW – SC]
Added: Jun 21, 2026

A suspense novel set in fictional Tasmanian mountains, where a missing person sets off a search that drives the story.


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Easy & Not-So-Easy Pieces (Richard Feynman) - Folio Society 2008 [USED]
Added: Jun 10, 2026

This beautiful Folio Society production of Easy & Not-So-Easy Pieces compiles the text from Richard Feynman’s 1961–1963 lectures at the California Institute of Technology. It includes the essays from Six Easy Pieces alongside the more advanced physics topics from Six Not-So-Easy Pieces.


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A Donation to the Colony
The epic voyage on the Hannah of German and British free settlers and their contribution to the colony of Van Diemen's Land.

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An Imperial Disaster
An historical study of the shipwreck of the convict transport ship George the Third on entering the D'Entrecasteaux Channel after a 4 month voyage from England, with great loss of life.

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Fight the Fiery Fiend - Colonial Fire Fighting 1803-1883
A history of how the early European settlers in Van Diemen's Land fought fires, including those on ships in the River Derwent. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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First Person - hardcover
What is the truth? In this blistering story of a ghost writer haunted by his demonic subject, the Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan turns to lies, crime and literature with devastating effect

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Honour Denied - Teddy Sheean, a Tasmanian Hero
The story of Tasmanian, Teddy Sheean, an ordinary seaman who has been awarded a Victoria Cross for his action on board the sinking HMAS Armidale.

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Merle Oberon - Face of Mystery
The enigmatic life of Hollywood screen goddess Merle Oberon, reputed to originate from Tasmania.

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Motherland
The author says... Motherhood has not been an easy journey for me. After moving to the farm in 2019 with a 6-month-old in tow, I soon felt the pang of isolation. I started the Motherland Australia podcast to fill a gaping hole I felt out here... connection.

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Port Dalrymple Shipping from 1963 to 1972
A book of colour photographs recording the ships that sailed into Port Dalrymple in northern Tasmania in the last decade prior to the advent of mass containerisation and the decline of the vast numbers of seafarers required to man the new type of ships. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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Some of My Bush Friends in Tasmania - softcover
A facsimile edition of Louisa Anne Meredith's two volume set, originally published in 1860 and 1891.

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Sweet Envy - 100 recipes from the grandest little bakehouse in town

This is the cookbook from Alistair Wise and Teena Kearney-Wise of Sweet Envy, an old-fashioned sweets parlour, cake shop and bakehouse all in one in North Hobart, Tasmania.


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