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Biographies and memoirs of the people who shaped Tasmania – settlers, pioneers, convicts, politicians, farmers, mariners and ordinary Tasmanians whose life stories were written down. Many of these are self-published or small-run family histories that are genuinely hard to find elsewhere, alongside more widely published biographies of well-known Tasmanian figures.

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Lioness - the story of Sue Brierley, mother of Saroo
Saroo Brierley's journey home to a small village in India with the help of Google Earth became an internationally bestselling book and inspired the major motion picture Lion. This is the story of his adoptive mother, Sue, and how she came into his life half a world away in Tasmania.

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Lost the Spring in my Step - Max Hardy's memoirs
Memoir of Max Hardy, a lifetime resident of Stanley, on the coast of north-west of Tasmania.

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Louisa Anne Meredith - A Tigress in Exile - softcover
A biography of Louisa Anne Meredith, an English immigrant to the East Coast of Tasmania in the 1840s.

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Louisa Anne Meredith - Tigress in Exile
A biography of Louisa Anne Meredith, an English immigrant to the East Coast of Tasmania in the 1840s.

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Love, Passion and Cruelty in Van Diemen's Land
A selection of George Meredith's love letters to his wife Mary covering the colonial period of 1823 to 1836.

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Macquarie - used hardcover
A biography of Lachlan Macquarie - the man who envisaged a nation.

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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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