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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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A Step Too Far See details
A Step Too Far
Life as a Country Cop - this book gives you a front row seat, or perhaps a backstage pass, to a life in the police force.
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A Train Driver's Story - signed See details
A Train Driver's Story - signed

The memoir of a Tasmanian train driver, captures the evolving culture of working in the railways.

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After Port Arthur See details
After Port Arthur
A decade on, journalist Carol Altmann looked at how the people, the place, the killer, and the whole of Australia had changed since the horrific massacre at one of Australia's most infamous historic landmarks, Port Arthur convict site.
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Alan Villiers – Voyager of the Winds | Kate Lance | 2009 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print] See details
Alan Villiers – Voyager of the Winds | Kate Lance | 2009 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]

A biography of Alan Villiers, one of the last great sailing ship seamen and one of the most significant maritime writers of the 20th century. Written by Kate Lance and published in 2009. Villiers was based in Tasmania for a formative part of his career. He worked as a journalist at the Hobart Mercury, and it was from Hobart that he joined a Norwegian whaling fleet bound for Antarctica as a reporter.

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Ali's People See details
Ali's People
One hundred of former Examiner journalist Alison Andrews' interviews with Tasmanian local identities.
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Alice and Daniel Stanfield See details
Alice and Daniel Stanfield
A First Fleet family's impact on Australia - the family history of some of the marine privates who came to Australia with the First Fleet, and their descendants.
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All That We Inherit - Walkers in Van Diemen's Land See details
All That We Inherit - Walkers in Van Diemen's Land
All That We Inherit - being family memorials of the Walkers and Mathers of Hobart and the reminiscences and memoirs of James Backhouse Walker F.R.G.S., solicitor and Sarah Benson Walker, the wife of George Washington Walker, banker both of early Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land.
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An Activist Life - Christine Milne autobiography See details
An Activist Life - Christine Milne autobiography
An Activist Life is the story of an apparently ordinary woman - Christine Milne, a high-school English teacher from northwest Tasmania - who became a fiery environmental warrior and Greens leader, pitted against some of the most powerful business and political forces in the country.
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An Australian Democrat See details
An Australian Democrat
The life, work and consequences of Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmanian statesman and constitutional lawyer.
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An Early Tasmanian Story See details
An Early Tasmanian Story
A Tasmanian family history with the Oakdens, Cowies, Parramores, Tullochs and Hoggs.
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