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Alice and Daniel Stanfield
Added: Apr 14, 2026
 
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A First Fleet family's impact on Australia - the family history of some of the marine privates who came to Australia with the First Fleet, and their descendants.

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Charles Whitham
Added: Nov 13, 2025
 
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Charles Whitham - A man of passion – on foot and in eloquent prose – for the wilds of Western Tasmania.

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Around the Ragged Tier
Added: Apr 23, 2026
 
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The history of William and Charles Kingston and their descendants - Tasmanian family history.

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

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The Usurper - Jorgen Jorgenson biography
 
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The turbulent life of renowned convict Jorgen Jorgenson in Iceland and Van Diemen's Land 1780-1841.

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Mary Donaldson's Dysfunctional Danish In-laws - a book about Denmark's royal family.

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1823 Before and After
 
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William Effingham Lawrence family history.

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566 The Story of Charlie Eady - signed
 
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Tasmanian cricketer Charlie Eady is best known for his colossal score of 566 for Break O'Day against Wellington in 1901-02, but his life extended far beyond that single performance.

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A Bone of Fact - David Walsh autobiography
 
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David Walsh - the creator of MONA in Hobart, Tasmania - is both a giant and an enigma in the Australian art world - this is his autobiography.


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A Bushman's Daughter
 
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A memoir of growing up at Moltema.

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A Compulsion to Kill - Tasmania's Earliest Serial Killers
 
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A Compulsion to Kill is a dramatic chronological account of 19th-century Tasmanian serial murderers. In this book Robert Cox probes the essence of both the crimes and the killers themselves.

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A Convict Pioneer and His Descendants - Cooper Smith
 
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In 1844 at the age of 17, Cooper Smith of East Sussex, England was sentenced to twelve years beyond the seas for stealing two shirts, and so transported as a convict to Van Diemen's Land. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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A Disgrace to the Profession (and other proud claims)
 
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Selected In Black and White columns from The Examiner 2007-2013, written by journalist Martin Stevenson.

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