Books

The eight best entries in the Van Diemen History Prize 2022-2023 as selected by judges Tony Fenton, Dr Kristyn Harman, Kirstie Ross and Chris Champion (Editor, Forty South Tasmania).  The...

Patricia Giles remembers painting each of the 300 works in this book. She has regaled Alison Alexander with stories that make this a warm and engaging portrait of a leading...

Theodore has an adventure at the beach where he finds himself in trouble. The second book in Sharon J Yaxley's children's series.  

A magical night-time adventure about searching for dreams amongst the starlight. Chi was restless as he cuddled his favourite toys. Tigey and the teacup drift into the night sky on a...

Shouts of "stop the presses" are being replaced by the cry of “put it online, mate" and after 25 colourful years as a newspaper reporter and editor, Gary Delaney is...

Most people know of the Tasmanian Tiger. But do you know how they became extinct? And were there ever "too many tigers"?    In Monica Reeve’s fifth book with Forty...

With Tasmania's significant growth in tourism has come resistance, acceptance, profit and loss. In the past five years, questions have been raised over issues including whether Tasmania has reached peak...

Following the success of their first collaboration, Towns of Tasmania: A Journey Through Time (Forty South Publishing, 2018), Bert Spinks and Pen Tayler have created a second volume celebrating the...

A brilliant new book, featuring the highest quality writing and photography, celebrating the unique style and spirit of Tasmania’s smaller towns. Featuring Strahan, Stanley, Ross, Richmond, Evandale, Deloraine, Bothwell, Queenstown,...

Trail Running Tasmania takes readers, runners, and explorers to every corner of Tasmania on an epic trail running adventure. Run the Overland Track, reach the quartzite summit of Frenchmans Cap,...

CLICK HERE to download free teacher notes for this title. The overcrowding of British prisons in the early 1800s was a problem solved, the ruling classes believed, by the transportation...

REPRINTS ARRIVING AT THE END OF JULY 2025 - ORDER NOW Margie Kirk’s fantastic artwork and beautiful words combine to take readers on a tour of 14 Tasmanian towns where...

Spanning Europe from Greece to Denmark, from the Czech Republic to Scotland, readers are taken on a fascinating journey to sites relevant to the development of medical practice and medical...

The true story of two Tasmanian soldiers caught up in the horrors of World War I Using long-lost letters sent home from Australian soldiers at Gallipoli and on the Western...

Friendship and conflict in Van Diemen’s Land.   Umarrah, a young Aboriginal man, is rescued from drowning by George, a young Van Diemen’s Land settler. Umarrah uses their emerging friendship...

More than twenty years on from the formation of the Australian Haiku Society in 2000, and the publication of the First Australian Haiku Anthology (2001), haiku in this country has...

Kay wakes up on a floundering yacht. The Tasmanian coastline has receded, and her partner, Sam, has mysteriously disappeared. An eerie fog hinders visibility. With no means of communication with...

In Unwrapping Clouds, the past isn’t a thing mined but rather gently sifted through, coaxing gems of memory to the surface of now. Whether describing the delicate, fading whorls of...

The History of Goshen, Terryvale, Goulds Country, Priory, The Marshes, Pyengana, West Pyengana, Bullock Drivers and the Sawmills of the Municipality of Portland, North East Tasmania  This is Garry Richardson’s...

In the early nineteenth century, amidst public anxiety about the threat to public order and respectability posed by juvenile offenders, over two thousand boys who had been eking out a...