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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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The Cotton family of Kelvedon on the East Coast of Van Diemen's Land 1828-1885.
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Kindred - A Cradle Mountain Love Story See details
Kindred - A Cradle Mountain Love Story
Kindred - A Cradle Mountain Love Story, traces the achievements of two unconventional adventurers - Gustav Weindorfer and Kate Cowle - and their fight to preserve Tasmania's Cradle Mountain wilderness where they pioneered eco-tourism.
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King of the Wilderness - Deny King See details
King of the Wilderness - Deny King
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Knopwood - a biography See details
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La Trobe - Traveller Writer Governor
This lavishly illustrated biography of Charles Joseph La Trobe uncovers the man behind the public name, as not only an important colonial figure but an author and artist.
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Lady Franklin's Revenge - used See details
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Laszlo - the Gentleman from Budapest See details
Laszlo - the Gentleman from Budapest
A biography of the author's father, recounting the challenges he faced as his world in Budapest, Hungary crumbled around hime and the new life he built in Australia.
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Learning to Live Learning to Die See details
Learning to Live Learning to Die
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Legacy of a Norfolk Plains Convict - William Webb See details
Legacy of a Norfolk Plains Convict - William Webb
The history of the convict William Webb, transported for theft, and the very successful legacy his family left to the young colony in the Northern Midlands of Tasmania and beyond.
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Let Me Out of Russia - a struggle for freedom See details
Let Me Out of Russia - a struggle for freedom
A true story of a Tasmanian family.
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