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Billy: A Boy from Queenstown Tasmania – under-aged boys signing up in the Great War (2026) – Sandra Stubbings
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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 Wedding Journey
 
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The story of Johnstone and Wilmot - a Tasmanian family history.

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The Wisdom of Guilford Young
 
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The life and work of Tasmanian Catholic Archbishop Guilford Young.

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The Woodpecker Papers
 
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The Woodpecker Papers contains nature tales of Tasmania in the late 1800s from Rev Henry Dresser Atkinson, originally published in the Church Messenger and the Church News before 1900, and after that in the Tasmanian News.

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Theodore Thomson Flynn – Not Just Errol's Father | Tony & Vicki Harrison | 2013 [USED – SC – Out of Print]
 
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A biography of Professor Theodore Thomson Flynn — zoologist, Royal Commissioner, academic and father of Errol. Theo Flynn arrived in Hobart to take up a professorship at the University of Tasmania at the age of 28, where he built a reputation as a leading researcher in marsupial biology.


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There Be Dragons - stories of a Tasmanian Childhood
 
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Heather Donaldson's short stories about her childhood in Tasmania are full of scares and dares.

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They Loved Him to Death
 
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A biography of Australian Prime Minister from Tasmania, "Honest" Joe Lyons. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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This Errant Lady
 
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Jane Franklin's overland journey to Port Phillip and Sydney, 1839.

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This Farmer Went to War
 
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The story of Cliff Morse, Preolenna, Tasmania and the 7th Division Salvage Unit in World War Two.

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This Our Fathers Did For Us
 
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The story of a pioneering family in Tasmania - Richard Loane of Ireland and his descendants.

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Thomas Hainsworth - a Remarkable Pioneer
 
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This is the biography of Thomas Hainsworth, a coal miner who arrived in Tasmania from Yorkshire in 1854 and went on to become a mining / geology expert, educator, hospital founder and general pillar of society.


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