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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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The Way My Father Tells It
The story of an Australian life, that of John Bowden told by his son renowned journalist Tim Bowden.

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Let Me Out of Russia - a struggle for freedom
A true story of a Tasmanian family.

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A Disgrace to the Profession (and other proud claims)
Selected In Black and White columns from The Examiner 2007-2013, written by journalist Martin Stevenson.

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A Place in the Stockyard - used
A celebration of the agricultural successes and tribulations of Tasmanian women living and working in agriculture and on farming properties.

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Bartley of Kerry Lodge – A Portrait of a Pioneer in Van Diemen's Land | Yvonne Phillips | 1987 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

A biographical portrait of Theodore Bartley, an early pioneer of colonial Van Diemen's Land. Bartley and his wife Hannah raised sixteen children at their property near Launceston.


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Breaking the Mould
The story of Joy, a biography of someone who overcame a childhood of violence and abuse in Tasmania.

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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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Half a Lifetime - 39 Years in Forestry in Tasmania, by North-East historian Garry Richardson | Foreword by Bob Gordon, Forestry Tasmania | 2009 [USED – SC]

Garry Richardson was born in the Huon Valley in 1950 and joined the Tasmanian Forestry Commission straight from school. Over 39 years he rose to being an experienced practitioner who acted as reviewer and mentor during the introduction of the state's Forest Practices Code — a career spanning enormous change in how Tasmania managed its forests. This is his own account, full of anecdotes reflecting the range of skills and life experience gathered across a forestry career, and the friendships built with colleagues across the wider forest sector.


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In Sunshine or in Shadow
A memoir about going home to Tasmania by Martin Flanagan.

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Kate Weindorfer
A biography of Kate Weindorfer, the woman behind the man Gustav and the mountain - Cradle Mountain in Tasmania.

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