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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 Journals of Charlotte Cleveland
The diaries of an immigrant and artist to Van Diemen's Land from England, in the 1850s.

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Woman of Charity - signed
The Winifred Daphne Booth story - the biography of a Launceston woman who left her estate to charity with the aim helping as many people as possible.

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Ali's People
One hundred of former Examiner journalist Alison Andrews' interviews with Tasmanian local identities.

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Isis Valley Soldier Settlers, Campbell Town, Tasmania
In 1921 part of the Bicton estate was purchased by the Closer Settlement Board and the land divided into four farms to be rented to returned soldiers - Harry Bayly, Malcolm McGhie, Alan Atkinson and Harry Jones were the successful applicants for the farm blocks.

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Politically Correct - Talking to Twelve Tasmanian Women

Christine Fraser talks to twelve politically involved Tasmanian women. Softcover, 2008, 290 pages, used, out of print.


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Forgotten Corners - Essays in Search of an Island's Soul
For the author, Pete Hay, home matters, in this case Tasmania. He might be descended from a Point Puer convict boy and be the son of a legend of Australia's 2/40th 'Tasmanian' Battalion, but he does not claim belonging to Tasmania as a birthright: "You don't inherit a place" he tells us, "you commit to it."

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Greetings from Malta - World War II
A memoir of Malta during World War II by Shirley Thomas of North Down, Tasmania with an introduction by Claudio Alcorso.

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Laszlo - the Gentleman from Budapest
A biography of the author's father, recounting the challenges he faced as his world in Budapest, Hungary crumbled around hime and the new life he built in Australia.

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Watcher of the Skies - Alfred Barrett Biggs

The story of Alfred Barrett Biggs, pioneer in astronomy, seismology and telecommunications.


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Memoirs of Freycinet, Tasmania - Molly Greaves' history in images & verse, Coles Bay

Memoirs of Freycinet is a history in images and verse of the Tasmanian East Coast area around Coles Bay.


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