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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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Biography

Biographies and memoirs of the people who shaped Tasmania – settlers, pioneers, convicts, politicians, farmers, mariners and ordinary Tasmanians whose life stories were written down. Many of these are self-published or small-run family histories that are genuinely hard to find elsewhere, alongside more widely published biographies of well-known Tasmanian figures.

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The Woodpecker Papers
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]

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
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
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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They said we were isolated - my life at Top Farm on Tasmania's west coast

In 1974, twenty-year-old Joanna and her husband Peter set out to turn a remote, neglected property on Tasmania's wild west coast into a working cattle enterprise. Three hours' drive from the nearest town at the end of a rough, sandy track, Top Farm offered no plumbing, no telephone and no neighbours.


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This Errant Lady - Jane Franklin's Overland Journey to Port Phillip and Sydney, 1839

In 1839, Jane, Lady Franklin — wife of Tasmania's Lieutenant-Governor Sir John Franklin — did something almost no colonial woman of her time did: she set out from Hobart to Port Phillip, then overland from Melbourne to Sydney, travelling through country few Europeans had crossed.


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This Farmer Went to War
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
The story of a pioneering family in Tasmania - Richard Loane of Ireland and his descendants.

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Thomas Hainsworth - a Remarkable Pioneer
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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Three Indians and the Caterpillar - Destination Cradle Mt 1828-1935

This book relates the experiences of some of the men and women who ventured to Tasmania's Cradle Mountain in the years prior to WWII when the destination was not so popular and was difficult to access.


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