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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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Baron Bischoff
Philosopher Smith and the birth of Tasmanian mining.

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Bartley of Kerry Lodge – A Portrait of a Pioneer in Van Diemen's Land | Yvonne Phillips | 1987 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

A biographical portrait of Theodore Bartley, an early pioneer of colonial Van Diemen's Land. Bartley and his wife Hannah raised sixteen children at their property near Launceston.


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Behind the Masks - Poet Gwen Harwood remembered by her friends
Surprising personal glimpses of the eminent and enigmatic Australian and Tasmanian poet Gwen Harwood.

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Bert's Story – The Autobiography of B.A. Farquhar of Rushy Lagoon | B.A. Farquhar | 1990–1992 |[USED – SC ]

The autobiography of Bert Farquhar — former owner of Rushy Lagoon, Tasmania's largest farm, spanning nearly 22,000 hectares near Cape Portland on the state's far north-eastern tip. Rushy Lagoon has recently been in the national news — the sale of the property from the estate of New Zealand's Pye family to a UK forestry investment firm for over $100 million was approved by Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers on 8 July 2026, amid some controversy.


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Billy Vincent – Bush Pilot | Guy Nicholson | 2007 | Signed by Both Author and Subject [USED – SC – Good]

Guy Nicholson's biography of Billy Vincent — the Tasmanian bush pilot who spent decades servicing the remote communities and properties of the Bass Strait islands and north-west Tasmania from his base at Smithton, logging over 20,000 hours in light aircraft.


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Billy: A Boy from Queenstown Tasmania – under-aged boys signing up in the Great War (2026) – Sandra Stubbings

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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Blockade
Two weeks at the Franklin River Protest in words and photographs.

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Blood, Sweat & the Sea - used, signed
A Tasmanian maritime biography of John Muir, who built the business of Muir Engineering, designing and manufacturing some of the world's best anchoring and mooring systems. Signed by John Muir on the title page.

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Bob Brown Gentle Revolutionary

The first biography about Dr Bob Brown, the Tasmanian politician who took the Greens from the political wilderness into the mainstream, and redefined political ethics along the way.


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Born or Bred? Martin Bryant

Born or Bred? Martin Bryant - the making of a mass murderer - a biography of the gunman responsible for the Port Arthur massacre.


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