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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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We Were The First - early pioneering in north-west Tasmania and Trowutta
Added: Aug 12, 2026

Seafield Deuchar (born Brisbane, 1886) studied at Cambridge before settling near Wynyard in Tasmania's north-west in 1916, taking up and clearing pioneering farmland near Trowutta. This book, illustrated throughout with Deuchar's own paintings, covers clearing the forest, building the family home, water supply, early agriculture and exploration of the district, and the pioneers of Trowutta and district.


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Who Gives a Figg - Snowy & Chris Figg
The Tasmanian family history of Snowy and Chris Figg of Parattah, near Oatlands in the Southern Midlands.

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Who Gives A Figg - William Figg
A Tasmanian family history focusing on William Figg who was transported on board the convict ship Commodore Hayes, landing at Sullivans Cove, Van Diemen's Land in 1823.

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Wild Oats - the convict family Goodson
Wild Oats is the true story of a family of convicts, the Goodsons.

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Wildflowers, Weeds & Wilderness
The legend of Florence Perrin - biography of a Tasmanian botanist.

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William Cawston - Convict Boy to Colonial Photographer 1827-1916 - hardcover
A tribute to one of Australia's lesser known pioneer photographers - the ex-convict William Cawston.

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William Henry Williams - Tasmania's First Professor of English
William Henry Williams was one of the three foundation lecturers at the newly established University of Tasmania in 1892, and in charge of the undergraduate and Honours program in Classics, English Language and Literature until his retirement as Professor Emeritus in 1925.

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William Rose Watts - Six Stolen Mugs
This is the biography and family history of convict William Rose Watts, born in Essex in 1811 and transported to Van Diemen's Land for 14-years for stealing six ceramic mugs from his employer.

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Win & Clyde – Side by Side in Tasmania's Far South West | Janet Fenton | 2010 [USED – SC]

The story of Winsome "Win" King and Clyde Clayton, who lived their lives together in one of the most remote parts of Tasmania — the far South West. Written by Janet Fenton, the daughter of Win's brother Denny King, who tells the story from direct, first-hand family knowledge of the country and the people.


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Winnaleah Days - a North-East Tasmania history by Glenn Carins

The story of the North East Tasmanian farming district surrounding Winnaleah.


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Winspear History and Recollections – A Tasmanian Family History 1783–2001 | Susan Barter | 2001 | Numbered 21/50 Hardcover Edition [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]

Susan Barter's family history of the Winspears in Tasmania — tracing the family from 1783 through to 2001. The Winspear family history traces the line from their origins in 1783 through to the present day — covering the arrival of the family in Van Diemen's Land and the spread of descendants across Tasmania and elsewhere over subsequent generations.


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