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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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Greetings from Malta - World War II See details
Greetings from Malta - World War II
A memoir of Malta during World War II by Shirley Thomas of North Down, Tasmania with an introduction by Claudio Alcorso.
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Growing Sideways See details
Growing Sideways
A journey through dark and light... and gallons of paint.
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Growing up in Stanley See details
Growing up in Stanley
Recollections of a boyhood growing up in Stanley on Tasmania's north-west coast in the period 1920-1940.
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Gustav Weindorfer of Cradle Mountain See details
Gustav Weindorfer of Cradle Mountain
A vintage biography of Austrian Australian natural scientist Gustav Weindorfer and his work in the Cradle Mountain area of Tasmania's central region.
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Half a Lifetime - 39 Years in Forestry See details
Half a Lifetime - 39 Years in Forestry
Garry Richardson describes his working life with forestry in Tasmania. This is a USED book.
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Heart of Exile (Patsy Adam-Smith) - 1848 Irish Exiles in Van Diemen's Land - (Used) See details
Heart of Exile (Patsy Adam-Smith) - 1848 Irish Exiles in Van Diemen's Land - (Used)

Written by popular and highly readable Australian historian Patsy Adam-Smith, this compelling volume tracks the lives, adventures, and fortunes of the seven prominent Irish patriots banished to the Van Diemen's Land penal colony following the 1848 Young Ireland rebellion.

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Heaven is Our Home See details
Heaven is Our Home
The recollections and family history of Lancelot Kenneth Geeves of Geeveston in southern Tasmania.
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Henry Reed Van Diemen's Land Pioneer See details
Henry Reed Van Diemen's Land Pioneer
An early Tasmanian biography. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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His Record is on High See details
His Record is on High
The journal of Reverend William Henry Browne LLD, of St John's Church, Launceston Van Diemen's Land covering the period 23 May 1830 to 19 February 1845.
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Holyman's of Bass Strait - used See details
Holyman's of Bass Strait - used
A history of the Holyman shipping and aviation pioneers of Tasmania, Australia.
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