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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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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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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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Destiny – The Extraordinary Career of Pianist Eileen Joyce | Tunley, Rogers & Meher-Homji | 2017 [USED – SC – Out of Print] See details
Destiny – The Extraordinary Career of Pianist Eileen Joyce | Tunley, Rogers & Meher-Homji | 2017 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

Eileen Joyce was born in Tasmania — in Zeehan, the west coast mining town, in 1908 — and went on to become one of the most celebrated pianists of the 20th century. Percy Grainger described the young Joyce in 1926 as "the most transcendentally gifted young piano student he had heard in the last 25 years."

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Destroyer Man | John Alliston | First Edition 1985 [USED – HCDJ – Good] See details
Destroyer Man | John Alliston | First Edition 1985 [USED – HCDJ – Good]

The memoir of John Alliston — a British destroyer captain who transferred to the Royal Australian Navy during the Second World War, commanding HMAS Warramunga among other vessels, before settling in Australia after the war and raising his family on Three Hummock Island in Bass Strait off the north-west coast of Tasmania.

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Dick Richey the Flying Fisherman See details
Dick Richey the Flying Fisherman
A memoir of flying, fishing, rescues and family in Tasmania. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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