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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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Mad Scientist | Rory Jack Thompson | Tasmanian True Crime

Written during his long-term psychiatric incarceration, this 398-page softcover autobiography provides a deeply unsettling but detailed look into the life, brilliant scientific career, and mental descent of Dr Rory Jack Thompson. In 1983, while serving as a principal research scientist for the CSIRO in Hobart, Thompson was arrested for the notorious murder of his wife, later being found not guilty on the grounds of insanity.


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Madge's People
Rosemary Brown explores her mother's life in Tasmania from 1889 to 1909 and related family stories.

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Marion - Marion Oak Sticht
Marion - an historical / biographical novel set on the West Coast based on the life of Marion Oak Sticht, the wife of Mt Lyell's first General Manager Robert Carl Sticht. This is a USED book.

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Martin Cash - the last of the Tasmanian bushrangers
The story of Martin Cash, one of the last bushrangers from the convict era in Van Diemen's Land.

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Mary Crown Princess of Denmark
An illustrated biography of Tasmanian woman Mary Donaldson, who married into the Danish royal family to become Mary Crown Princess of Denmark.

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Mary Reibey - Molly Incognita
A biography of convict and emancipist extraordinaire Mary Reibey 1777-1855.

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Memoirs of Freycinet, Tasmania
Memoirs of Freycinet is a history in images and verse of the Tasmanian East Coast area around Coles Bay.

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Mick and The Cleaner – The Story of a Knockabout Trainer and a Champion Racehorse | Peter Staples | 2016 [USED – SC]

The story of Mick Burles — a battling Launceston horse trainer — and The Cleaner, the gelding he began working with at Launceston's Mowbray racecourse in February 2011. What followed was one of Australian racing's better underdog stories.


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Miracle on the Mountain
A true search and rescue story in the Tasmanian highlands.

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Miss Leake's Journal - used
Sarah Elizabeth Leake, Miss Leake, was mistress at Rosedale, her father's property, near Campbell Town in Tasmania's Midlands.

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