Books

Jamison Godfrey | Edited by Chris Champion | Hardback The Drunken Admiral seafood restaurant stands as comfortable on the Hobart waterfront as Jamison Godfrey stands in its kitchen. He was...

Bob Brown writes that "Brazenly Pure is a book of little gems sprinkled in the wind for our enjoyment". This is an apt description. lt is a celebration of wild...

Following the success of Bush Lives: Tales from the Tasmanian backblocks (Forty South Publishing, 2024), Nic Haygarth has compiled another collection of fascinating stories, accompanied by historical and contemporary images,...

Monica Reeve’s third book with Forty South Publishing is a rollicking true story set on the wild west coast of Tasmania. It took place during the author’s idyllic childhood in...

Peter Heerey AM QC is a passionate Tasmanian who grew up in Hobart, attended St Virgil's College and attained his law degree from the University of Tasmania.  Peter moved to...

A graphic, confronting story of poverty, loneliness, racism, rapacity and violence in Van Diemen’s Land. In Nottingham, England in 1810, John Marsden is jobless and desperate to find ways to...

Charles Whitham’s name is etched into the history and geography of the rugged, mountainous landscape of western Tasmania. Today, four geographical features in the area bear his name, and his...

A guide to the geology of Tasmania for everyone From our beginnings as part of North America to our birth during the break-up of the supercontinent Gondwana, through the Ice...

Cleansing the Colony: Transporting convicts from New Zealand to Van Diemen's Land It’s no secret that Van Diemen’s Land was a penal colony for British convicts. Yet surprisingly at least...

Beginning after the American Revolution, the temperance movement spread to England and Ireland in the 1830s with temperance societies encouraging moderation as well as the more extreme teetotalism. In Australia, this movement gave rise...

From Limerick to Campbell Town to Detroit, Tasmanian historian Dr Meredith Hodgson guides us through the remarkable life of Eliza Williams, the convict letter writer.  In 1851 Eliza Williams was...

A small island | One inspired cook Once upon a time there was a girl who loved to cook. She dreamed of raspberries and rosemary and chocolate, and one day...

This book explores the colourful and varied family history of Tasmanian sporting royalty, from the former Tigers and Hobart Hurricanes captain, George Bailey, back to his great-great-grandfather George Herbert Bailey...

Curving into Light will take you on journeys through heat haze and red dust to rippling waters, soft mists and scented rain and to places where the light falls. Lorraine...

From the author of Spinifex Baby, winner of the National 2014 Finch Memoir Prize. What does it mean to have no place to call home, and no family to turn...

Day Hikes Tasmania takes readers, hikers, and explorers to every corner of Tasmania on an epic hiking adventure. Scramble to the top of Hartz Peak, walk along clifftops and beaches...

I have an issue with my nose. It does not do as I might suppose. It runs and runs all day long.  I'm starting to wonder - what might be...

Author: Richard Hays with Paula Heggarty, Lawrie McArthur & Tarun Sen Gupta With a foreword from A/Prof James Brown OAM, PhD, MFM(Clin), MBBS, FRACGP. RACGP National Director of Training. Asking...

‘A cracking tale that closely follows the historical context’  —Aunty Patsy Cameron   ‘I am George Baggs, wrenched from the cradle of my birthing and flung across the sea to...

This book is about disobedience. Positive disobedience. Disobedience as a kind of professional behaviour. It shows how teachers can survive and even influence an education system that does staggering damage...