Books

What a woman! Intelligent, capable if eccentric, interested in everything from ridding Tasmania of snakes to building a Greek museum – and finding her husband’s fate.

From 1917 to 1939 Marie Bjelke-Petersen published nine heart-throbbing, pulsating romantic novels set mainly in Tasmania – though she herself was a lesbian.

Tasmania started as the society with the most felons: what effect did this have? This book describes the convict system and its results, up to the present.

The University of Tasmania’s first residential college, founded in 1950: student life, pranks, work, and changing attitudes.

Just the history of the council, not the whole city: how the administration and its activities changed over a century and a half.

Old age care has changed immensely since the home was opened – a fascinating story of dedicated care and adaptation to change.

Everything possible about Clarence: city and country, agriculture and industry, sport, schools, big events, the way people have lived, churches, hospitals, wartime …

The activities of uni students over a century, from pranks to serious pursuits – and those pranks of the 1920s were pretty exciting.

A photographic collection illustrating the activities of students over a century.

From convict to tinsmith to industrialist/shopkeeper, developing one of Tasmania’s biggest businesses which remained in the family for three generations, but is now gone.

What a wonderful time I had writing this book, the story of a marvellous community club, its highs and lows, premierships and wooden spoons.

The Zinc Works has a fascinating story: from the pioneer activity of 1916 to the huge giant, Hobart’s largest employer, of the 1950s, then change under different owners.

The second volume of Glenorchy’s history, as it develops in size, population and activities from 1964 to 1998 ,when it was threatened with amalgamation with Hobart.

What stories of immorality and corruption I uncovered researching and writing this book! The most popular book I have written