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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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Ticklebelly Tales – Stories from the People of the Hydro 1910–2006 | Heather Felton | 2013 [NEW – HCDJ]

Building Tasmania's hydroelectric power system was one of the largest and most ambitious engineering undertakings in the state's history, carried out over nearly a century in some of the most remote and difficult terrain in the country. Ticklebelly Tales tells that story through the people who actually did the work — the construction workers, engineers and families who lived in the temporary townships built around the dam and power station sites, often in genuinely harsh conditions, from 1910 through to 2006.


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To War and Back from Hobart to Rabaul and on to Borneo, life's journey by Gordon Abel part two of eight

A young Tasmanian soldier's journey through the terrors and boredom of World War Two - life with the coastal artillery, the Australian Water Transport and then an Army Small Ship to Borneo.


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Transplantation - Jocelyn HC Thomas & Charlotte Partridge
Research celebrating a Tasmanian family bicentennial 1824-2024.

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Travels in Dreams | Bill Mollison | 1996 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

The autobiography of Bill Mollison — the Tasmanian who co-developed permaculture in the 1970s alongside David Holmgren, and whose Permaculture: A Designers' Manual became one of the most influential environmental design books of the 20th century.


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Truganini - Journey through the apocalypse
The inspiring and haunting tale of Truganini, the aboriginal woman who became an icon for a monumental tragedy - the so-called extinction of the original people of Tasmania.

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Valley People - the stories of some 36 characters of the Fingal Valley

The stories of some 36 characters of the Fingal Valley with black/white photographic portraits by local GP Dr Jim Marwood.


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Villains and Valour - Convict Ancestors and Descendants of the Holmyard Family, Van Diemen's Land to Tasmania - Merlene Fawdry

A multi-generational history of the Holmyard family - from convict transportation to Van Diemen's Land, through the Female Factory and the Assizes, to their descendants in the Deloraine and Westbury districts of Tasmania. By Merlene Fawdry.


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Viv and Hilda - Meeting the Robeys of Maria Island, Tasmania - Kathy Gatenby

Kathy Gatenby's biography of Viv and Hilda Robey, whose family farmed the southern end of Maria Island until it became a national park in 1971 - one of the island's last farming families.


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Watcher of the Skies - Alfred Barrett Biggs

The story of Alfred Barrett Biggs, pioneer in astronomy, seismology and telecommunications.


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Water Colour - worn copy
Featuring wild and warming tales from a life spent in the natural world, WATER COLOUR is master fly fisher and storyteller Greg French's follow-up to his book Frog Call.

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