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Billy: A Boy from Queenstown Tasmania – under-aged boys signing up in the Great War (2026) – Sandra Stubbings See details
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] See details
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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Errol Flynn - My Wicked, Wicked Ways - an autobiography See details
Errol Flynn - My Wicked, Wicked Ways - an autobiography

A hero to millions who adored his portrayals of Robin Hood and Fletcher Christian, Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn (1909-1959) lived a life that far surpassed any adventure he ever acted out on screen: exotic travels, criminal exploits, passionate love affairs, violent confrontations, scandals, and international fame.

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Errol Flynn and the Sword of Fate See details
Errol Flynn and the Sword of Fate

The amazing true origins of Hollywood's swashbuckling legend.

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Errol Flynn – The True Story of Australia's Hollywood Icon | Patricia A. O'Brien | 2026 [NEW – SC] See details
Errol Flynn – The True Story of Australia's Hollywood Icon | Patricia A. O'Brien | 2026 [NEW – SC]

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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Escape to an Island - Eleanor Alliston life on Three Hummock Island |SC 1989| See details
Escape to an Island - Eleanor Alliston life on Three Hummock Island |SC 1989|

Post World War Two life as a cattle farmer on Three Hummock Island, Bass Strait, off the north west coast of Tasmania.

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Fair Dinkum Dutch Courage See details
Fair Dinkum Dutch Courage
Stories of the Dutch settlers in Ulverstone, Tasmania.
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Finding My Feet - Hanny Allston, My Story See details
Finding My Feet - Hanny Allston, My Story
At 19, Hanny Allston faces a 'perfect storm'... yet despite the times of struggle, Hanny's story glows.
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Flinders - used See details
Flinders - used
A biography of explorer Matthew Flinders.
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Flotsam & Jetsam - Henry Button autobiographical fragments |SC| See details
Flotsam & Jetsam - Henry Button autobiographical fragments |SC|

Henry Button (1829–1914) was one of 19th-century Launceston's most prominent figures — rising from cub reporter to sole proprietor of the Launceston Examiner by 1887, and serving as Launceston alderman and mayor. He married Emma Glover, granddaughter of the celebrated colonial artist John Glover.

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Fonthill - used book See details
Fonthill - used book
The fascinating story of the Tasmanian colonial property Fonthill in the Midlands, and the three families - Tabarts, Burburys, Harveys - that have dominated its stewardship over almost 175 years.
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Footprint of Consequence - memories of a young Englishwoman at Cape Grimm See details
Footprint of Consequence - memories of a young Englishwoman at Cape Grimm
In 1966 Brigit Fleming Smith, a young Englishwoman, married an Australian from Victoria who had recently bought enough shares in the old Chartered Land Company of VDL to give him overall control in farming Woolnorth at Cape Grim in Tasmania's north-west.
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