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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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Notable Tasmanians
Written in 1980, Notable Tasmanians profiles men who had influenced the development of Tasmania in the preceding 50 years, including: Sir Henry Jones, Harry Fisher, K.J.Binns, W.H.Simmonds, Z.Broinowski, Holyman, Jack Williams, A.G.Ogilvie, Hugh Quigley, Ludbrooks, Sir Denham Henty, Roelf Vos, Engel Sypkes, Edmund Rouse, Angus Bethune, Jack Edwards, Neil Blatt and Joe Lyons.

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Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here - signed
Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here is a luminous, compelling and utterly surprising memoir by Heather Rose, the bestselling author of Stella Prize-winner The Museum of Modern Love and Bruny.

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Old Dar My Grandfather
Author Rex Greeno was born on Flinders Island, 30 kilometres off the north east coast of Tasmania. Here he tells the story of his grandfather's life, as a fisherman and Tasmanian aboriginal.

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Old Sea Dogs of Tasmania Book 2 - used
More portraits, stories and seascapes from the southern seas around Tasmania.

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Olive Pink - Artist, Activist & Gardener - signed
This beautiful selection of Central Australian flower paintings by colourful and feisty Australian figure Olive Pink - originally from Tasmania - are a striking, if little known, part of her unique historic legacy. Signed by the author.

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On the Town - used
A history of the seedy world of 19th century Launceston's brothels and prostitutes.

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One Tough Bastard - Mike Wilson
The revealing story of Mike Wilson of the Huon Valley.

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One Woman's War and Peace
A nurse's journey in the Royal Australian Air Force - East Timor, Bali, Afghanistan - by Wing Commander Sharon Brown (Ret'd).

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Open Slather
Biography of Tasmanian businessman Michael Kent.

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Opening Doors
Stories of people in Launceston in northern Tasmania.

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