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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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Island Affair – Life on Three Hummock Island, Bass Strait | Eleanor Alliston | 1989 [USED – SC – Out of Print]
Added: Sep 8, 2026

Eleanor Alliston's memoir of the years her family spent living on Three Hummock Island — a remote Bass Strait island off Tasmania's north-west coast — in the aftermath of the Second World War.


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Errol Flynn and the Sword of Fate - correcting the myths of the Hollywood swashbuckler's Tasmanian origins, with a Hobart walking tour | Bob Casey | 2021 [USED – SC]

Bob Casey, a founder of the Errol Flynn Society of Tasmania, sets out to correct the many myths surrounding Hollywood's most famous swashbuckler — Hobart-born Errol Flynn (1909–1959) — drawing on Flynn's own not-always-reliable autobiography, My Wicked, Wicked Ways, and Earl Conrad's 1978 memoir.


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