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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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Miss Lily
A portrait of the Tasmanian artist Curzona Allport.

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Montgomery of Tasmania
A biography of Henry and Maud Montgomery in Australasia - the parents of Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. Henry was the fourth Anglican Bishop of Tasmania 1889-1901.

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More to a Life than Cricket
In More to a Life than Cricket, Rick Smith tells of some of the extraordinary lives cricketers have lived outside the game.

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Mountain Men
The stories of ten men who lived or worked in the Tasmanian High Country between 1870 and 1990.

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Mountain Stories: Volume 1 | Simon Cubit | Tasmanian History

Mountain Stories is a collection of over 50 tales of the pioneering bush men who worked and lived in one of Tasmania's remotest regions, the arc of country from Great Lake west to the Vale of Belvoir near Cradle Mountain.


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My Capacious Hold-All of Recollections
A largely Tasmanian memoir, strongly embedded in the literary life of Tasmania.

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My Home in Tasmania - hardcover
Louisa Anne Meredith was the wife of one of the early British settlers in Van Diemen's Land. Mrs Meredith's exquisite observations during a residence of nine years in the colony bring to life the bush and the early days of European settlement in Van Diemen's Land.

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My Home in Tasmania - original 2-volume set, 1852
Volumes I & II of Louisa Anne Meredith's illustrated memoir of her time in early Tasmania - My Home in Tasmania During a Residence of Nine Years - an original edition published in London, 1852.

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My Home in Tasmania - softcover
Louisa Anne Meredith was the wife of one of the early British settlers in Van Diemen's Land. Mrs Meredith's exquisite observations during a residence of nine years in the colony bring to life the bush and the early days of European settlement in Van Diemen's Land.

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My Life as a Fish
Paul Allen tells of his journey back from severe brain injury.

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