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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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A Frog in the Billabong
The memoir of a French woman living in Tasmania. English translation edition.

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A Great Tasmanian
A written portrait of Frederick Smithies OBE - Tasmanian explorer, mountaineer, and photographer.

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A Hand on the Helm – The Life and Times of George Weymouth Cox 1909–1992 | G.W. Cox | 1993 | Numbered 107/200 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

The biography of George Weymouth Cox — Tasmanian bushman and conservationist — covering his life from 1909 to 1992.


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A Living Force - Andrew Inglis Clark
A Living Force and the ideal of the Commonwealth - a book about the work of Tasmanian lawyer Andrew Inglis Clark in developing the Australian Constitution. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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A Miscellany of Tasmaniana - Selected Vice-Regal Speeches
William Cox's excerpts from speeches he gave as Governor of Tasmania (2004-2008).

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A Mortal Flame – Marie Bjelke Petersen, Australian Romance Writer 1874–1969 | Alison Alexander | 1994 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

A biography of Marie Bjelke Petersen — one of Australia's most popular novelists of the early 20th century, now largely forgotten despite having sold hundreds of thousands of books in her time.


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A Peopled Frontier - the European Heritage of the Tarkine Area
A Peopled Frontier documents the considerable history of human activity (European only) in the Tarkine region of north-west Tasmania which contains a large tract of temperate rainforest and is often described - erroneously, according to the author - as a wilderness.

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A Place in the Stockyard - used
A celebration of the agricultural successes and tribulations of Tasmanian women living and working in agriculture and on farming properties.

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A Salute to Max Angus - Tasmanian Painter
Rich in detail and drawing on the memories of Max’s family and friends, this book about revered Tasmanian watercolour artist Max Angus brings together all the facets of his life, and in doing so, illustrates Tasmania’s social history over the century of his life span.

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A Step Back
From Duty to Gumboots...

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