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Death Investigation and the Coroner’s Inquest - Ian Frecklton and David Ranson
Legal book that deals with investigations into deaths by coroners. A coroner should be a a person with a legal AND medical background.

I, The Aboriginal - Douglas Lockwood
The autobiography of Waipuldanya, a full-blood of the Alawa tribe at Roper River as told to Douglas Lockwood. In his youth, Waipuldanya was taught to track and hunt wild animals, to live off the land, to provide for his family with the aide only of his spears and woomeras. This is the story of his boyhood and youth, and how he trained as a skilled medical assistant, to become a citizen of both the Aboriginal and whitefella worlds.

Blast the Bush - Len Beadell
Beadell's story of the people who worked on the British Atomic Testing Project at Maralinga, SA.

Hell West and Crooked - Tom Cole
One of those "outback pioneer" books.

4WD Driving Skills - Vic Wildman

The Princess Bride - William Goldman
As a boy, author William Goldman had loved to hear his father read him The Princess Bride; an epic tale, if a little long winded, of high adventure and true love. But as an adult, Goldman soon realised that dear old dad had been abridging the tale; relating only the ‘good-bits’ of Morgenstern’s story, and dropping anything he considered even the slightest bit dull.

English Passengers - Mathew Kneal
Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley wants only to smuggle a little tobacco, brandy, and French pornography from the Isle of Mann to a secluded beach in England. Yet somehow in the process, he and his crew end up weighing anchor for Australia. Worse, they're forced to carry three temperamental Englishmen bound for Tasmania on a mission to discover the exact location of the Garden of Eden. The year is 1857, and the study of geology is beginning to make serious inroads into areas of religious doctrine.

Shanghai Baby - Wei Hui
Although it caused an uproar in the author's native China, Western readers will find 27-year-old Wei Hui's semiautobiographical offering reminiscent of fiction by the brat pack writers of the '80s, though more cliched and less edgy.

Candy - Mian Mian
Underground China of the late 1980s through mid-1990s - sex, drugs and rock n roll.