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My Kemp Ancestors - David Gatenby |Signed, new| See details
My Kemp Ancestors - David Gatenby |Signed, new|
Added: Oct 23, 2026

My Kemp Ancestors traces six generations of David Gatenby's Kemp family line, opening on the Isle of Sheppey before following the family chapter by chapter from William Kemp and Amelia Fowler onwards.

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Woodside Descendants - a Sesqui-Centenary - family history from the Huon / Franklin, by DF Clark, signed See details
Woodside Descendants - a Sesqui-Centenary - family history from the Huon / Franklin, by DF Clark, signed
Added: Nov 7, 2026

Published privately by the author in 1991 to mark 150 years of the Clark family's settlement at Woodside in the Huon Valley, this traces the family from the earliest land alienation and settlers in the valley, through successive generations of the Clark family and the families who married into it — among them John and Ann Kellaway of the neighbouring property Woodstock, and the Schenck, Ballantyne and Gulliver families.

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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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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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Chrissie Venn - Suffer Little Children - North Motton unsolved murder, 1921 See details
Chrissie Venn - Suffer Little Children - North Motton unsolved murder, 1921

Chrissie Venn: Suffer Little Children examines the murder of 13-year-old Chrissie Clare Venn at North Motton, Tasmania on 26 February 1921, a case that remains unsolved.

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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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Colonial Era Cemetery of Norfolk Island See details
Colonial Era Cemetery of Norfolk Island

A record of the 150 convict and colonist graves in the colonial-era cemetery at Kingston, Norfolk Island, covering both the first (1788–1814) and second (1825–1856) settlement periods.

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Colour and Movement - the life of Claudio Alcorso See details
Colour and Movement - the life of Claudio Alcorso
Colour and Movement: the Life of Claudio Alcorso tells the story of one man's journey from a luxurious life in elite Rome, to that of a bankrupted tenant on Morilla Estate in Tasmania, where he watched as the winery he created transformed into MONA.
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Conservation Worrier - used See details
Conservation Worrier - used
Academic and conservation warrior, Jamie Kirkpatrick, looks back on his life and achievements.
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Crossing The Bar - legal bric-a-brac - used See details
Crossing The Bar - legal bric-a-brac - used
Former Tasmanian Governor, William Cox reflects on his career in the law and Army Reserve.
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Dear Cousin - The Reiby Letters See details
Dear Cousin - The Reiby Letters
"Dear Cousin - The Reiby(sic) Letters" is a compilation of 22 letters of renowned female convict and subsequently successful Van Diemen's Land business woman Mary Reibey, her children and their descendants - written between 1792 and 1901.
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Dear Mother Dear Father - Letters of Catholic Father John Corcoran Wallis See details
Dear Mother Dear Father - Letters of Catholic Father John Corcoran Wallis
A collection of the letters written home by seminarian and later priest of the Catholic Archdiocese of Hobart, Father John Wallis, between 1927 and 1949.
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Defiance See details
Defiance
Stories from nature and its defenders by Dr Bob Brown.
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