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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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Housewife Superstar
Housewife Superstar - the Very Best of Marjorie Bligh - is the life story of eccentric Tasmanian domestic goddess, and former Campbell Town resident, Marjorie Bligh.

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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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In Morse Mode
Alan Dyer of Sheffield in north west Tasmania traces the family histories of James, Charles and Edwin Morse who migrated to Van Diemen's Land between 1842 and 1855.

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In My Day – A History of General Nurse Training at the Royal Hobart Hospital 1803–1993 | Cheryl Norris | 2011 | Signed by Author [USED – SC – Out of Print]

A history of general nurse training at the Royal Hobart Hospital, spanning from the hospital's earliest colonial origins in 1803 through to 1993. The Royal Hobart Hospital's roots reach back to the earliest years of European settlement in Van Diemen's Land, and nurse training there evolved over almost two centuries from informal colonial-era care through to the structured professional training systems of the 20th century.


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In Sunshine or in Shadow
A memoir about going home to Tasmania by Martin Flanagan.

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In Tasmania | Nicholas Shakespeare | 2007 [SC]

Nicholas Shakespeare — novelist and biographer of Bruce Chatwin — came to Tasmania on holiday, found a house on an east coast beach near Swansea, and decided on the spot that this was where he wanted to live. He didn't yet know that his ancestor was Anthony Fenn Kemp — the corrupt, colourful and influential figure now known by some as the Father of Tasmania — or that he would find relatives still living on the island.


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