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Billy: A Boy from Queenstown Tasmania – under-aged boys signing up in the Great War (2026) – Sandra Stubbings
Added: Jun 9, 2026

A newly researched true account of Billy Gadd, a young lad from Tasmania's West Coast mining town of Queenstown who managed to enlist in the AIF during World War I while under the legal age.


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Errol Flynn – The True Story of Australia's Hollywood Icon | Patricia A. O'Brien | 2026 [NEW – SC]
Added: May 17, 2026

A biography of Errol Flynn written by Patricia O'Brien and published in 2026. Flynn was born in Hobart in 1909 and grew up in Tasmania before heading to New Guinea and eventually to Hollywood, where he became one of the biggest stars of the 1930s and 1940s — known for swashbuckling roles in films like Captain Blood, The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Sea Hawk, and for a personal life that generated as much attention as his films.


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

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1015 Copenhagen K (Danish Royal Family Biography) - Used

Written by European royal correspondent Trine Villemann, this publication provides a contemporary journalistic account of the modern Danish Royal House. The text chronicles the court's history leading up to the marriage of Tasmanian-born Mary Donaldson to Crown Prince Frederik, offering an independent perspective on the transition from a traditional constitutional monarchy into a modern royal family.


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1823 Before and After
William Effingham Lawrence family history.

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566 The Story of Charlie Eady - signed
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
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 Burglar's Life
or the stirring adventures of the great English burglar Mark Jeffrey, the story of Port Arthur's notorious grave digger of the Isle of the Dead.

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

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A Compulsion to Kill - Tasmania's Earliest Serial Killers
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
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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