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Errol Flynn – The True Story of Australia's Hollywood Icon | Patricia A. O'Brien | 2026 [NEW – SC] See details
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] See details
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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Bert's Story – The Autobiography of B.A. Farquhar of Rushy Lagoon | B.A. Farquhar | 1990–1992 |[USED – SC ] See details
Bert's Story – The Autobiography of B.A. Farquhar of Rushy Lagoon | B.A. Farquhar | 1990–1992 |[USED – SC ]

The autobiography of Bert Farquhar — former owner of Rushy Lagoon, Tasmania's largest farm, spanning nearly 22,000 hectares near Cape Portland on the state's far north-eastern tip. Rushy Lagoon has recently been in the national news — the sale of the property from the estate of New Zealand's Pye family to a UK forestry investment firm for over $100 million was approved by Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers on 8 July 2026, amid some controversy.

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Flotsam & Jetsam - Henry Button autobiographical fragments |SC| See details
Flotsam & Jetsam - Henry Button autobiographical fragments |SC|

Henry Button (1829–1914) was one of 19th-century Launceston's most prominent figures — rising from cub reporter to sole proprietor of the Launceston Examiner by 1887, and serving as Launceston alderman and mayor. He married Emma Glover, granddaughter of the celebrated colonial artist John Glover.

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Letters to Ann See details
Letters to Ann
The love story of explorer Matthew Flinders and Ann Chappelle.
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Lioness - the story of Sue Brierley, mother of Saroo See details
Lioness - the story of Sue Brierley, mother of Saroo
Saroo Brierley's journey home to a small village in India with the help of Google Earth became an internationally bestselling book and inspired the major motion picture Lion. This is the story of his adoptive mother, Sue, and how she came into his life half a world away in Tasmania.
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Marion - Marion Oak Sticht See details
Marion - Marion Oak Sticht
Marion - an historical / biographical novel set on the West Coast based on the life of Marion Oak Sticht, the wife of Mt Lyell's first General Manager Robert Carl Sticht. This is a USED book.
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Question 7 - hardcover See details
Question 7 - hardcover

Richard Flanagan blends memoir and history, tracing his father's WWII imprisonment near Hiroshima through to his own life in Tasmania. Hardcover, 2023, 280 pages.

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Solomon's Noose - used See details
Solomon's Noose - used
The true story of Solomon Blay the convict turned hangman who served as Her Majesty's hangman of Hobart for half a century.
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Spreading the Power – Memoirs of Lindsay C. Powell, Launceston Tasmania | Lindsay C. Powell | 2006 [USED – SC] See details
Spreading the Power – Memoirs of Lindsay C. Powell, Launceston Tasmania | Lindsay C. Powell | 2006 [USED – SC]

The memoirs of Lindsay C. Powell of Launceston — covering his career in electrical power distribution in northern Tasmania and his life as a committed Christian in the La

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Sun Music - Journeys and reflections from a composer's life - Peter Sculthorpe signed SC See details
Sun Music - Journeys and reflections from a composer's life - Peter Sculthorpe signed SC

The signed autobiography of Peter Sculthorpe, the Launceston-born composer known for weaving the Australian landscape and Aboriginal music into his work. Softcover, 1999, 334 pages, indexed.

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The Remarkable Mrs Reibey See details
The Remarkable Mrs Reibey
A biography of colonial Australia's most powerful woman, Mary Reibey in Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania.
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