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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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Something About Mary See details
Something About Mary
From girl about town in Tasmania to Crown Princess of Denmark - a biography of Mary Donaldson.
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Spreading the Power – Memoirs of Lindsay C. Powell, Launceston Tasmania | Lindsay C. Powell | 2006 [USED – SC] See details
Spreading the Power – Memoirs of Lindsay C. Powell, Launceston Tasmania | Lindsay C. Powell | 2006 [USED – SC]

The memoirs of Lindsay C. Powell of Launceston — covering his career in electrical power distribution in northern Tasmania and his life as a committed Christian in the La

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Spycatcher – The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer | Peter Wright | 1987 [USED – HCDJ – Good] See details
Spycatcher – The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer | Peter Wright | 1987 [USED – HCDJ – Good]

Peter Wright's autobiography of his career as a senior officer and Assistant Director of MI5 — the British domestic intelligence service — published in 1987. Spycatcher became one of the most famous banned books in British publishing history. The British government attempted to suppress publication in Australia and elsewhere, arguing it breached the Official Secrets Act. T

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Struck Down See details
Struck Down
In 1972, Tasmanian John Woodroffe was struck down in Oxford St, London by a woman falling from a fifth-floor window.
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Sun Music - Journeys and reflections from a composer's life - Peter Sculthorpe signed SC See details
Sun Music - Journeys and reflections from a composer's life - Peter Sculthorpe signed SC

The signed autobiography of Peter Sculthorpe, the Launceston-born composer known for weaving the Australian landscape and Aboriginal music into his work. Softcover, 1999, 334 pages, indexed.

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Tall Ships and Cannibals - used See details
Tall Ships and Cannibals - used
The life of Captain Richard Copping is the rags to riches story of the illegitimate son of a Van Diemen's Land convict woman, who spent most of his working life at sea and rose to command some of Tasmania's most prestigious sailing ships.
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Tasmania Now & Again by R.W.Baker |HCDJ 1980| See details
Tasmania Now & Again by R.W.Baker |HCDJ 1980|

Robert Wilfred "Bob" Baker (1917–1985) was a Tasmanian lawyer, legal scholar and politician. Born in Adelaide, his family moved to Tasmania in 1919; his father was involved in the founding of the Risdon zinc works.

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Tasmania over five generations, return to Van Diemen's Land? See details
Tasmania over five generations, return to Van Diemen's Land?
Here are stories about the father-son descendants of Abraham Biggs, the author's great-great-grandfather, and their lives in Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania which reflect Tasmania's political history.
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Tasmania... an island far away - migrant stories See details
Tasmania... an island far away - migrant stories

Marilyn Quirk gathers the stories of migrants who made Tasmania home across the 20th century, chapter by chapter by community.

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Tasmanians See details
Tasmanians
A gazetteer of over 3000 Tasmanian people of note at the time of publication.
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