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Billy: A Boy from Queenstown Tasmania – under-aged boys signing up in the Great War (2026) – Sandra Stubbings See details
Billy: A Boy from Queenstown Tasmania – under-aged boys signing up in the Great War (2026) – Sandra Stubbings
Added: Jun 9, 2026

A newly researched true account of Billy Gadd, a young lad from Tasmania's West Coast mining town of Queenstown who managed to enlist in the AIF during World War I while under the legal age.

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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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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
Added: Aug 12, 2026

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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Ticklebelly Tales – Stories from the People of the Hydro 1910–2006 | Heather Felton | 2013 [NEW – HCDJ] See details
Ticklebelly Tales – Stories from the People of the Hydro 1910–2006 | Heather Felton | 2013 [NEW – HCDJ]

Building Tasmania's hydroelectric power system was one of the largest and most ambitious engineering undertakings in the state's history, carried out over nearly a century in some of the most remote and difficult terrain in the country. Ticklebelly Tales tells that story through the people who actually did the work — the construction workers, engineers and families who lived in the temporary townships built around the dam and power station sites, often in genuinely harsh conditions, from 1910 through to 2006.

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Mad Scientist | Rory Jack Thompson | Tasmanian True Crime See details
Mad Scientist | Rory Jack Thompson | Tasmanian True Crime

Written during his long-term psychiatric incarceration, this 398-page softcover autobiography provides a deeply unsettling but detailed look into the life, brilliant scientific career, and mental descent of Dr Rory Jack Thompson. In 1983, while serving as a principal research scientist for the CSIRO in Hobart, Thompson was arrested for the notorious murder of his wife, later being found not guilty on the grounds of insanity.

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Proud to be Tasmanian - Robin Gray and the Liberal Led Recovery See details
Proud to be Tasmanian - Robin Gray and the Liberal Led Recovery
Robin Gray was the leader of Tasmania's first-ever majority Liberal Government and had a profound impact on the state's progress during the 1980's. Here he tells the story of his government, its controversies and its achievements from the inside.

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The Last Hermit - tales of Jackey Stevens See details
The Last Hermit - tales of Jackey Stevens
A portrait of Jackey Stevens and his remarkable life in the wilds of Tasmania's west coast.
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The Gatenby Saga – Andrew Gatenby of Barton and His Descendants, Pennyroyal Creek Tasmania | Bacon & Gatenby | 2021 [USED – HC – Out of Print] See details
The Gatenby Saga – Andrew Gatenby of Barton and His Descendants, Pennyroyal Creek Tasmania | Bacon & Gatenby | 2021 [USED – HC – Out of Print]

The story of Andrew Gatenby, who emigrated from Wales in the 1820s and settled in Tasmania's Midlands district. He established the farm Barton and built the Pennyroyal Mill on Pennyroyal Creek, and the book traces his life and that of his descendants across nearly a century, drawn from a unique family archive of diaries, letters and documents.

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On the Town - used See details
On the Town - used
A history of the seedy world of 19th century Launceston's brothels and prostitutes.
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Tall Ships and Cannibals - used See details
Tall Ships and Cannibals - used
The life of Captain Richard Copping is the rags to riches story of the illegitimate son of a Van Diemen's Land convict woman, who spent most of his working life at sea and rose to command some of Tasmania's most prestigious sailing ships.
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A Step Too Far See details
A Step Too Far
Life as a Country Cop - this book gives you a front row seat, or perhaps a backstage pass, to a life in the police force.
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Win & Clyde – Side by Side in Tasmania's Far South West | Janet Fenton | 2010 [USED – SC] See details
Win & Clyde – Side by Side in Tasmania's Far South West | Janet Fenton | 2010 [USED – SC]

The story of Winsome "Win" King and Clyde Clayton, who lived their lives together in one of the most remote parts of Tasmania — the far South West. Written by Janet Fenton, the daughter of Win's brother Denny King, who tells the story from direct, first-hand family knowledge of the country and the people.

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Fonthill - used book See details
Fonthill - used book
The fascinating story of the Tasmanian colonial property Fonthill in the Midlands, and the three families - Tabarts, Burburys, Harveys - that have dominated its stewardship over almost 175 years.
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