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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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Flotsam & Jetsam - Henry Button autobiographical fragments |SC|
Added: Aug 10, 2026

Henry Button (1829–1914) was one of 19th-century Launceston's most prominent figures — rising from cub reporter to sole proprietor of the Launceston Examiner by 1887, and serving as Launceston alderman and mayor. He married Emma Glover, granddaughter of the celebrated colonial artist John Glover.


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The Plonkermaker - Rossarden
Paul Tapps's memoir as a boy growing up in Rossarden, a Tasmanian mining hamlet in the northern Midlands.

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The Power of Two
The David Foster story.

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The Remarkable Mrs Reibey
A biography of colonial Australia's most powerful woman, Mary Reibey in Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania.

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The Road to Lower Crackpot - Tasmazia
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

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]

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
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
A written portrait of Australian Aboriginal footballer Michael Long.

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The Straitsfolk - John Scott and his Tasmanian Aboriginal Family, David Howie and his Aboriginal Associates

British sealer John Scott arrived in Bass Strait in 1806 and had children with at least three Tasmanian Aboriginal women, fathering at least nine children before drowning off King Island in 1843. Scottish-born David Howie, appointed Constable of the Straits, patrolled Bass Strait and King Island; in 1845 he played a key role in the aftermath of the Cataraqui disaster. This book traces the lives and Tasmanian Aboriginal descendants of both men, drawing together family trees, John Scott's own diary, and the wider Bass Strait sealing community of the 19th century.


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The Tasmanian Exhibition, Launceston - softcover

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


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