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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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People, Pottery & Painting – Life Stories of Eileen Brooker | Sue Abdullah | 2025 [NEW – SC] See details
People, Pottery & Painting – Life Stories of Eileen Brooker | Sue Abdullah | 2025 [NEW – SC]

Sue Abdullah's biography of Eileen Brooker — Tasmanian potter and painter, born 1922, and one of the most distinctive artists of her generation in Tasmania. Brooker studied art in Hobart where she met fellow student and sculptor Oliffe Richmond — a relationship that would prove one of the significant artistic and personal connections of both their lives.

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Persistence Pays - Dr William Russ Pugh's log and journal See details
Persistence Pays - Dr William Russ Pugh's log and journal
A book about the discovery of Dr William Russ Pugh's log and journal of his 1835 voyage from England to New Holland.
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Pioneers and Their Memories of Tasmania’s High Country: Ned Terry Stories, Photos and Life in the Central Plateau See details
Pioneers and Their Memories of Tasmania’s High Country: Ned Terry Stories, Photos and Life in the Central Plateau

Stories from the lives of the old folk of Tasmania’s High Country and Central Plateau, brought together by Ned Terry in an illustrated history book with photos throughout.

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Politically Correct - Talking to Twelve Tasmanian Women See details
Politically Correct - Talking to Twelve Tasmanian Women

Christine Fraser talks to twelve politically involved Tasmanian women. Softcover, 2008, 290 pages, used, out of print.

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Practical Visionaries See details
Practical Visionaries

Three generations of the Inglis Clark family in Tasmania and beyond.

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Prosperous - the Kennedy Murrays and the origins of historic Evandale in Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania See details
Prosperous - the Kennedy Murrays and the origins of historic Evandale in Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania

Evandale, now known as one of Tasmania's best-preserved Georgian villages, began as "Murray's Prosperous village" — a farm hamlet founded by Kennedy Murray Jr, born in 1799 on Norfolk Island to First Fleet-era parents, who successfully applied to Governor Macquarie for a land grant here in 1818.

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Proud to be Tasmanian - Robin Gray and the Liberal Led Recovery See details
Proud to be Tasmanian - Robin Gray and the Liberal Led Recovery
Robin Gray was the leader of Tasmania's first-ever majority Liberal Government and had a profound impact on the state's progress during the 1980's. Here he tells the story of his government, its controversies and its achievements from the inside.

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Question 7 - hardcover See details
Question 7 - hardcover

Richard Flanagan blends memoir and history, tracing his father's WWII imprisonment near Hiroshima through to his own life in Tasmania. Hardcover, 2023, 280 pages.

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Question 7 - softcover See details
Question 7 - softcover

Richard Flanagan blends memoir and history, tracing his father's WWII imprisonment near Hiroshima through to his own life in Tasmania. Softcover, 2024, 280 pages.

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Reaching Out From Trafalgar – Stories of Farmers and Their Farms Around the Trafalgar Estate, Evandale | Tony McCormack | 2015 [USED – SC – Very Good] See details
Reaching Out From Trafalgar – Stories of Farmers and Their Farms Around the Trafalgar Estate, Evandale | Tony McCormack | 2015 [USED – SC – Very Good]

The fourth volume in Tony McCormack's "Reaching Out" series of local farming histories — this time focusing on the farms and properties surrounding Trafalgar Estate, the substantial colonial property near Evandale in northern Tasmania's Midlands.

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