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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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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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Heroes of the Huon

Profiles of notable people connected to the Huon Valley area of southern Tasmania, edited by David Hammond for Huon Eldercare.


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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
A history of the Holyman shipping and aviation pioneers of Tasmania, Australia.

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Housewife Superstar – The Very Best of Marjorie Bligh | Danielle Wood | 2011 [USED – SC]

Danielle Wood's celebration of Marjorie Bligh — the eccentric Tasmanian domestic adviser who published a library of practical books on food, household management, health, beauty, poetry, gardening and recycling, 
and built a devoted following across Australia through sheer force of personality and practical wisdom.


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How to get there from here
A memoir by Maggie Mackellar, from her time on a Tasmanian sheep farm.

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Hunting for a Living
The true story of a professional hunter who has earned his living from his skill with high powered rifles.

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I Excel!
The Life and times of Sir Henry Jones, of the IXL jam factory in Hobart, Tasmania.

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I Shed My Skin - A Furneaux Islands Story
I Shed My Skin - A Furneaux Islands Story evolved out of an exhibition of Jane Giblin’s artwork which toured Tasmania in 2019. It revolves around strangers who come to a remote land and learn how to win a living from it.

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Ian Pearce Pianoman
An account of the life and times of Tasmania's gentleman of jazz, Ian Pearce.

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