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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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In the South - Tales of sail and yearning
Tales of sail and sea in the Australian south, of design and artistic craftsmanship, teacher-mentors, sprung planks, loss and the rescue of ageing boats.

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Isis Valley Soldier Settlers, Campbell Town, Tasmania
In 1921 part of the Bicton estate was purchased by the Closer Settlement Board and the land divided into four farms to be rented to returned soldiers - Harry Bayly, Malcolm McGhie, Alan Atkinson and Harry Jones were the successful applicants for the farm blocks.

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Island Affair – A Memoir of Life on Three Hummock Island, Bass Strait | Eleanor Alliston | 1984 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]

Eleanor Alliston's memoir of the years her family spent living on Three Hummock Island — a remote Bass Strait island off Tasmania's north-west coast — in the aftermath of the Second World War.


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Island Stint
Life in the Furneaux Islands of Bass Strait in the 1950s.

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Jack Thwaites
A biography of pioneer Tasmanian bushwalker & conservationist Jack Thwaites from the early 20th century.

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James Fenton of Forth - a Tasmanian pioneer 1820-1904
A biographical and historical tribute to Tasmanian pioneer James Fenton, written to commemorate the centenary of his death.

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John Dyer 1809-1882 and his Descendants
A biography of John Dyer, a free (i.e. not a convict) immigrant to Van Diemen's Land who became in turn a Longford farmer, Hadspen innkeeper and Kentish / Sheffield pioneer.

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John Youl - The Forgotten Chaplain 1773-1877
A biography of the eventful life of John Youl, first chaplain of the Anglican Church in northern Tasmania.

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Just One Tasmanian Policeman
A book that details the working life of a police constable in Tasmania / Van Diemen's Land - James Stevens 1817-1883.

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Kate Weindorfer
A biography of Kate Weindorfer, the woman behind the man Gustav and the mountain - Cradle Mountain in Tasmania.

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