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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
 
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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
 
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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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The Road to Lower Crackpot - Tasmazia
 
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The story of Brian Inder's struggle to make a life for himself in early post-war Australia and the building of the tourism attraction Tasmazia in the Tasmanian village of Lower Crackpot, told with great honesty and humour.

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The Road Winds On
 
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The Road Winds On - the life struggle of one man, LG Irby, and his family to build a road by hand into his property, which ultimately led to the establishment of the township of Sisters Beach. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.


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The Set of the Sails – The Story of a Cape Horn Seaman | Alan Villiers | 1997 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]
 
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Alan Villiers' own account of his early years as a working seaman aboard the last commercial square-rigged sailing ships rounding Cape Horn, published in 1997. Villiers spent time in Tasmania during the formative period of his career — working as a journalist at the Hobart Mercury between voyages, and sailing from Hobart as a reporter with a Norwegian Antarctic whaling fleet.


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The Sherburds
 
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A history of the Sherburds - a family of Van Diemen's Land pioneers, whalers and master mariners descended from convicts and Norfolk Island settlers.

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The Short Long Book
 
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A written portrait of Australian Aboriginal footballer Michael Long.

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The Tasmanian Exhibition, Launceston
 
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The Tasmanian Exhibition Launceston 1891-92, with over 1000 biographies from the Launceston Family Album.

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The Tom Wills Picture Show - used
 
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An Australian sporting biography of Tom Wills, an early colonial cricket celebrity, who put together the Aboriginal Cricket Team set for Great Britain in 1868 and helped write the original Code for Australian Rules football.

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The Track Cutter
 
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A Tasmanian biography of Thomas Bather Moore.

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The Vandemonian
 
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Wall Street and Silicon Valley collide - a Tasmanian memoir.

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The Way My Father Tells It
 
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The story of an Australian life, that of John Bowden told by his son renowned journalist Tim Bowden.

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