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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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Memoirs of Freycinet, Tasmania - Molly Greaves' history in images & verse, Coles Bay See details
Memoirs of Freycinet, Tasmania - Molly Greaves' history in images & verse, Coles Bay

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

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Memorial Days – A Memoir of Grief and Healing on Flinders Island, Tasmania | Geraldine Brooks | 2024 [NEW – SC] See details
Memorial Days – A Memoir of Grief and Healing on Flinders Island, Tasmania | Geraldine Brooks | 2024 [NEW – SC]

Geraldine Brooks's memoir of grief — written in a remote shack on Flinders Island in Bass Strait off the coast of Tasmania — after the sudden death of her husband of over thirty years, the American writer Tony Horwitz.

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Mick and The Cleaner – The Story of a Knockabout Trainer and a Champion Racehorse | Peter Staples | 2016 [USED – SC] See details
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 See details
Miracle on the Mountain
A true search and rescue story in the Tasmanian highlands.
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Miss Leake's Journal - used See details
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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Miss Lily See details
Miss Lily
A portrait of the Tasmanian artist Curzona Allport.
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Montgomery of Tasmania See details
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 See details
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 - Stories from the Tasmanian High Country See details
Mountain Men - Stories from the Tasmanian High Country

The stories of ten men who lived or worked in the Tasmanian High Country between 1870 and 1990. Hunters, prospectors, guides, rangers and tourism operators are the subject of this collection of stories from Tasmania's High Country, all of whom played a role in the development of nature tourism and recreation in the Cradle Mountain–Lake St Clair region.

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Mountain Stories: Volume 1 | Simon Cubit | Tasmanian History See details
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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