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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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Dorothy Edwards - A Life Well Lived
A biography of Tasmanian woman Dorothy Edwards (1907-2006), a former Launceston Lord Mayor.

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Down the Dirt Roads - used
Rachael Treasure’s autobiographical Down the Dirt Roads, is a thoughtful celebration and reflection of life on the land.

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Dr Clifford Craig – A Man for All Seasons | Dr John Morris | 1972 [USED – SC – Good]

Dr John Morris's short biography of Clifford Craig — the Launceston doctor, hospital administrator, historian, author, and collector of Tasmanian prints, art, books and antiques who became one of the most significant figures in 20th century Tasmanian cultural life.


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Dr Edward Swarbreck Hall - Colonial medical scientist & moral activist
A biography of a colonial doctor who proved a thorn in the side of the establishment for nearly fifty years.

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Edith May 1895-1974
Mary Crowther Cree, owner of a cottage on Molly's Point and niece of Sir William Crowther, tells the family story of her grandmother Edith May Muller Crowther, or Molly.

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Edward Braddon
A short biography of Edward Braddon - adventurer, farmer, and statesman.

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Eileen & Oliffe
Eileen & Oliffe: Letters of a Lifetime shares the wartime correspondence between Tasmanian sculptor Oliffe Richmond and Eileen Brooker during World War Two, and reflects both life in Australia and the art scene.

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Electric Eric
The life and times of Eric Reece, a Tasmanian Premier.

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Elphinstones - Pioneer farmers in Tasmania
An Elphinstone family history of pioneer farmers in Tasmania.

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Enid Lyons - Leading Lady to a Nation
A biography of Australia's first woman member of the Federal House of Representatives, Dame Enid Lyon from northern Tasmania.

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