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Billy: A Boy from Queenstown Tasmania – under-aged boys signing up in the Great War (2026) – Sandra Stubbings See details
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] See details
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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Can My Pony Come Too? used See details
Can My Pony Come Too? used
The story of one family's move from a seemingly idyllic home in Tipperary in Ireland to a challenging new life in Australia and eventually Tasmania.
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Can you see the mountain? A Legal Journey with a Few Diversions See details
Can you see the mountain? A Legal Journey with a Few Diversions
A member of the pre-baby boomer generation, Peter Heerey AM QC tells of growing up after the Second World War, university life and National Service in Tasmania in the 1950s, and some highlights, and lowlights, from 23 years at the Victorian Bar.
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Catherine's Diary - used See details
Catherine's Diary - used
A glimpse into the Victorian era, Catherine's Diary, is the jottings of a young Birmingham girl who relocates to northern Tasmania with her family in the late nineteenth century.

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Cazaly the Legend See details
Cazaly the Legend

Roy Cazaly is best remembered nationally for his spectacular high marking in Victorian football and the catchcry "Up there, Cazaly!" — later a WWII battle cry and hit song. But Tasmania claims him as one of its own: from 1928 he crossed Bass Strait to coach City in Launceston, then North Hobart and New Town over more than two decades, also representing Tasmania in interstate matches.

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Changing Countries - Margaret Scott See details
Changing Countries - Margaret Scott
Renowned Tasmanian writer and poet Margaret Scott tells of her life moving from one island to another.
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Characters in Charles Street Launceston - damaged cover See details
Characters in Charles Street Launceston - damaged cover
A little booklet that captures some of the people and personalities who populated Charles Street in the city of Launceston in the previous 150 years. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition with a damaged cover.
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Charles Whitham See details
Charles Whitham
Charles Whitham - A man of passion – on foot and in eloquent prose – for the wilds of Western Tasmania.
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Cheeky – Confessions of a Ferret Salesman | Bob Cheek | 2005 | Signed by Author [USED – SC – Good] See details
Cheeky – Confessions of a Ferret Salesman | Bob Cheek | 2005 | Signed by Author [USED – SC – Good]

Bob Cheek's candid political memoir — the insider account of Tasmanian Liberal Party politics from a man who served two terms in parliament, became Leader of the Opposition in August 2001, and then made history by becoming the first major party leader to lose his seat in a Tasmanian election since 1903.

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Ching Chong China Girl - used book See details
Ching Chong China Girl - used book
From fruitshop to foreign correspondent - a memoir of growing up different in a very eccentric but traditional Chinese-Tasmanian family.
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Colonial Artist Henry Mundy and his music See details
Colonial Artist Henry Mundy and his music
A biography and music scores of early colonial artist and music teacher in Van Diemen's Land, Henry Mundy. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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