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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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The Tom Wills Picture Show - used See details
The Tom Wills Picture Show - used
An Australian sporting biography of Tom Wills, an early colonial cricket celebrity, who put together the Aboriginal Cricket Team set for Great Britain in 1868 and helped write the original Code for Australian Rules football.
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Theodore Thomson Flynn – Not Just Errol's Father | Tony & Vicki Harrison | 2013 [USED – SC – Out of Print] See details
Theodore Thomson Flynn – Not Just Errol's Father | Tony & Vicki Harrison | 2013 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

A biography of Professor Theodore Thomson Flynn — zoologist, Royal Commissioner, academic and father of Errol. Theo Flynn arrived in Hobart to take up a professorship at the University of Tasmania at the age of 28, where he built a reputation as a leading researcher in marsupial biology.

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We Were The First - early pioneering in north-west Tasmania and Trowutta See details
We Were The First - early pioneering in north-west Tasmania and Trowutta

Seafield Deuchar (born Brisbane, 1886) studied at Cambridge before settling near Wynyard in Tasmania's north-west in 1916, taking up and clearing pioneering farmland near Trowutta. This book, illustrated throughout with Deuchar's own paintings, covers clearing the forest, building the family home, water supply, early agriculture and exploration of the district, and the pioneers of Trowutta and district.

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You Will Never Make the Grade See details
You Will Never Make the Grade
Humorous tales of a Tasmanian cop's experiences whilst policing the island State. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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Footprint of Consequence - memories of a young Englishwoman at Cape Grimm See details
Footprint of Consequence - memories of a young Englishwoman at Cape Grimm
In 1966 Brigit Fleming Smith, a young Englishwoman, married an Australian from Victoria who had recently bought enough shares in the old Chartered Land Company of VDL to give him overall control in farming Woolnorth at Cape Grim in Tasmania's north-west.
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She Lived in Launceston - Isobel Horner of Waratah House 1868-1955 See details
She Lived in Launceston - Isobel Horner of Waratah House 1868-1955

From sad beginnings and a difficult nursing career Isobel Horner progressed to her own private hospital - Waratah - which she later converted to an exclusive guest house at 12 York Street, Launceston.

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Lion - A Long Way Home See details
Lion - A Long Way Home
When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost Indian home town half a world away from Tasmania, he made global headlines.
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A Great Tasmanian See details
A Great Tasmanian
A written portrait of Frederick Smithies OBE - Tasmanian explorer, mountaineer, and photographer.
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Brains in my feet - Encounters while travelling See details
Brains in my feet - Encounters while travelling
Stories from a life of travel by Tasmanian born Danny Gardner.
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Butterfly on a Pin – A Fashion Designer's Memoir of Love, Despair and Reinvention | Alannah Hill | 2018 [USED – SC] See details
Butterfly on a Pin – A Fashion Designer's Memoir of Love, Despair and Reinvention | Alannah Hill | 2018 [USED – SC]

Alannah Hill's memoir of her life and career — from a difficult childhood on Tasmania's northwest coast, where her parents ran the milk bar in Penguin, through her rise to become one of Australia's most recognisable and idiosyncratic fashion designers, and her eventual exit from the label that bore her name.

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