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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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Rebel With a Cause - from soldier to senator and beyond
Outspoken, unexpected and refreshingly honest - the candid memoir of Jacqui Lambie.

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Spycatcher – The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer | Peter Wright | 1987 [USED – HCDJ – Good]

Peter Wright's autobiography of his career as a senior officer and Assistant Director of MI5 — the British domestic intelligence service — published in 1987. Spycatcher became one of the most famous banned books in British publishing history. The British government attempted to suppress publication in Australia and elsewhere, arguing it breached the Official Secrets Act. T


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Tasmania Now & Again by R.W.Baker |HCDJ 1980|

Robert Wilfred "Bob" Baker (1917–1985) was a Tasmanian lawyer, legal scholar and politician. Born in Adelaide, his family moved to Tasmania in 1919; his father was involved in the founding of the Risdon zinc works.


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Tasmanians All
Former journalist RA Ferrall writes profiles of well known and influential men in Tasmania in the 20th century.

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The Dictates of Destiny
The memoirs of Tasmanian writer Royce Hall.

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Women to Remember - signed
A snapshot of the lives of 13 influential Tasmanian women: Gwendoline Estelle Hesketh - Amy Sherwin - Edith Holmes - Margaret Edgeworth McIntyre - Lorna Loughran - Grace Emmie Russell - Elizabeth Orr - Isabella Mead - Amy Casson Rowntree - Dolly Dalrymple Johnson - Florence Perrin - Fanny Cochrane Smith - Mary Kingsmill.

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Behind the Masks - Poet Gwen Harwood remembered by her friends
Surprising personal glimpses of the eminent and enigmatic Australian and Tasmanian poet Gwen Harwood.

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Lion - A Long Way Home - Young Readers' Edition
Saroo Brierley became lost on a train in India at the age of five. Not knowing the name of his family or where he was from, he survived for weeks on the streets of Kolkata, before being taken into an orphanage and adopted by a family in Tasmania.

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Can My Pony Come Too? used
The story of one family's move from a seemingly idyllic home in Tipperary in Ireland to a challenging new life in Australia and eventually Tasmania.

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Kettle on the Hob - Cotton family of Kelvedon, Quaker settlers on Tasmania's East Coast, 1828-1885 | Frances Cotton | 1991 [USED – SC]

Francis and Anna Maria Cotton, English Quakers, emigrated to Van Diemen's Land in 1828 with their young family and friend Dr George Fordyce Story, settling at Kelvedon, on the East Coast near Swansea. This book, compiled by a descendant, tells the family's story from 1828 to 1885, drawing on their letters and papers, including correspondence with son-in-law Joseph Benson Mather.


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