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1 .Mary Queen of Scots : an illustrated life / Susan Doran.
Doran, Susan
London : British Library, 2007.
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2 .Menzies at War [paperback]
Henderson, Anne
Kensington, NSW New South Books 2014.
Summary: In the months following his resignation as PM in late August 1941, Menzies swayed between relief at his release from the burdens of office as PM and despair that his life at the top had come to so little.
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3 .Jumbo: The Unauthorised Biography of a Victorian Sensation [hardback]
Sutherland, John
London, UK Aurum Press Ltd (UK) 2014.
Summary: Using the heartwrenching story of Jumbo's celebrity life, tragic death in Canada in 1885,and his enduring cultural legacy, John Sutherland writes the first comprehensive 'biography' of the animal who gave us one of our favourite words.
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4 .Reservoir Dad [paperback]
Greagen, Clint
Sydney, NSW Bantam Books Australia 2014.
Summary: If David Sedaris had got married and had kids, he would have been Reservoir Dad. Fall-on-the-floor funny, sharp, witty and just a little bit sexy ..
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5 .I, Migrant: A comedian's journey from Karachi to the outback [paperback]
Shah, Sami
Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin 2014.
Summary: An intelligent, hilarious and moving memoir - from Karachi to Western Australia. Read I, Migrant and laugh til you cry. Despite nearly being killed by a kangaroo and almost lynched and run out of town after his comedy was taken far too seriously, Sami Shah is very happy to be living in Australia.
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6 .The Best Years of Our Lives [paperback]
Clapton, Richard
Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin 2014.
Summary: A rocking, uproarious memoir that tells the story of OzRock as well as one amazing life in music. Fasten your seatbelts for one wild ride!
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7 .Summit 8000: Life and Death with Australia's Greatest Mountaineer [paperback]
Lock, Andrew
Carlton, Vic Melbourne University Press 2014.
Summary: A thrilling memoir of the spectacular high-altitude mountaineering achievements of Andrew Lock: the only Australian to have summited all fourteen 8000-metre peaks in the world, including Mount Everestandamp;mdash;twice. andlt;brandgt; Here Andrew Lock gives us a gripping account of his death-defying ascents.
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8 .The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses [hardback]
Birmingham, Kevin
London, UK Head of Zeus 2014.
Summary: THE MOST DANGEROUS BOOK tells the painful, heartbreaking, exhilirating story of how Joyce's novel was conceived, written, published, burned, acclaimed and excoriated before taking its place as a masterpiece of world literature. Joyce's book ushered in the modernist era and changed the novel forever.
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9 .What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir [paperback]
Newman, Lance
New York, US Crown Publishing 2014.
Summary: Kristin Newman's funny, sexy, and ultimately poignant debut memoir about mastering the art of the vacationship. Equal parts laugh-out-loud storytelling; thoughtful, candid reflection; and wanderlust-inspiring travel tales, this book is a compelling and hilarious debut that will have readers scrambling to renew their passports.
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10 .Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight [paperback]
Barbree, Jay
Sydney, NSW Macmillan Australia 2014.
Summary: Full of photos, this book includes many personal details such as what Armstrong felt when he took that first step on the moon, and what he felt about the future of space exploration. Working from years of notes, and with the Armstrong family, J. Barbree has written the definitive biography of America's most famous astronaut and a great modern hero.
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11 .There Goes Gravity: A Life in Rock and Roll [hardback]
Robinson, Lisa
New York, US Penguin Books Australia 2014.
Summary: Lisa Robinson has interviewed the biggest names in music--including Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, John Lennon, Patti Smith, U2, Eminem, Lady Gaga, Jay Z and Kanye West. She visited the teenage Michael Jackson many times at his Encino home.
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12 .SAS Insider: An elite SAS fighter on life in Australia s toughest and most secretive combat unit [paperback]
Macklin, Robert
Palmer, Clint
Sydney, NSW Hachette Australia 2014.
Summary: As a bush kid in the Northern Territory of Australia, growing up in a one dog mining town, Palmer s best friends were mostly Aboriginal kids, and the outside world barely existed. But he had one driving ambition - the army. Enduring the toughest of training, Palmer soon demonstrated his fighting capabilities and became part of the Australian SAS.
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13 .The fights of my life [paperback]
Combet, Greg
Davis, Mark
Carlton, Vic Melbourne University Press 2014.
Summary: From his childhood in Rooty Hill in the western suburbs of Sydney, Greg Combet rose to the leadership of the trade union movement and went on to become a senior minister in the Rudd and Gillard Labor Governments. Along the way he has been a key player in numerous national strugglesandamp;mdash;defending workers rights and making historic reforms.
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14 .Johann Sebastian Bach (Illustrated Lives of Great Composers) [paperback]
Dowley, Tim
London, UK Pan Macmillan Australia 2014.
Summary: A new and fascinating biography of the most outstanding composer in musical history, covering Bach's earliest musical efforts in Eisenach, his cultural inheritance, his series of posts as organist or musician, and his stormy career in Leipzig.It also traces the significant stages of development in his family and his music.
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15 .Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art [paperback]
Hoffman, Carl
Melbourne, Vic Text Publishing 2014.
Summary: The mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in New Guinea in 1961 has kept the world and his powerful, influential family guessing for years. Now, Carl Hoffman uncovers startling new evidence that finally tells the full, astonishing story. Despite exhaustive searches, no trace of Rockefeller was ever found.
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16 .Resurrection: A true story of power and forgiveness [paperback]
McDermott, Patricia Anne
Paddington, NSW Jane Curry Publishing 2014.
Summary: Patricia's memoir reveals the untold stories from Temora. Using a collection of family and friends' recollections, as well as witness statements and official reports, we learn the power of four young girls and a closed minded community, a common attitude of guilty until proven innocent, and how a young man's life can be ruined in a split second.
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17 .A Very Private Diary: An Irish Nurse in Wartime [paperback]
Morris, Mary
London, UK Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2014.
Summary: Mary Mulry was eighteen years old when she arrived in London from Ireland to begin training as a nurse. The year was 1939. She could not have predicted what the next seven years would bring. Nurses were not allowed to keep diaries on active service, but Mary - fortunately for us - was not one for following rules.
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18 .Agent Cicero: Hitler's Most Successful Spy [hardback]
Simmons, Mark
Stroud, UK The History Press 2014.
Summary: Hitler promised to give this spy a villa after the war was overbut instead he paid him hundreds of thousands in counterfeit money This is the story of the most successful German spy of World War II, the Albanian Elyesa Baznaan untrained opportunist. Bazna working as a valet to the British ambassador to Turkey in Ankara.
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19 .Forty-Four: A Tale of Survival [paperback]
Rundle, Graham
Rowville, Vic Five Mile Press 2014.
Summary: At age seven, Graham Rundle was taken by his father for a holiday to Eden Park, a Salvation Army boys home outside Adelaide. As soon as his father left, Graham was given old clothes to wear and told from now on he was known as 44. This portrays what happened to Graham from 1959 until 1968, living in fear of sexual abuse.
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20 .Was It Something I Said?: Misadventures in Suburbia [paperback]
Thomas, Ros
Nedlands, A Uwa Publishing 2014.
Summary: Whether writing about her foiled attempt to seduce her husband, the homesick Irishman she found on the beach or why dog-people and cat-people can never be friends, Ros Thomas does so with the kind of humour and clarity that keeps her readers coming back week after week.
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21 .And Some Fell on Stony Ground: A Day in the Life of an An RAF Bomber Pilot [hardback]
Mann, Leslie
Overy, Richard
Thriplow, UK Icon Books 2014.
Summary: Published with Imperial War Museums - a powerful fictionalised memoir of a bomber crew member, introduced by award-winning historian Richard Overy.
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22 .Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace [hardback]
Morton, Michael
New York, US Simon & Schuster Australia 2014.
Summary: The shocking true story of a young father who spent twenty-five years in prison for a crime he did not commitand his eventual exoneration via DNA evidenceand return to life as a free man.On August 13, 1986, just one day after his thirty-second birthday, Michael Morton left work to pick up his three-year-old son Eric.
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23 .The Man In The Box [paperback]
Wade, David
Chatswood, A New Holland (aust) 2014.
Summary: Former policeman David Wade had two wishes in life ... to beat cancer and to will the Sydney Swans to a premiership title before he died. Only one came true. The Man in the Box is the story of Wades brave fight and the unheralded Sydney Swans team that grew to know him and believed in him as they made an unlikely charge for the 2005 title.
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24 .The Youngest Battalion Commander in the AIF: The Boy Colonel, Lieutenant Douglas Marks [paperback]
Davies, Will
Milsons Point, NSW Random House Australia 2014.
Summary: Known as The Boy Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Marks, was the youngest battalion commander in the AIF and highly regarded not only as a future military commander, but as a business and community leader. It was a blustery day on the 25th January 1920 at Palm Beach to the north of Sydney and the surf was wild.
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25 .Returned Soldier: My Battles: Timor, Iraq, Afghanistan, Depression and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder [paperback]
Prascevic, James
Melbourne, Vic Melbourne Books 2014.
Summary: James Prascevic provides a brutally honest, first-hand account of the front lines of combat, witnessing the disturbing consequences of war for civilians, the thrill of being caught in a fire fight, the shock of losing a mate, and of the training that got him into those situations.
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26 .I Don't Know What You Know Me from: Confessions of a Co-star [hardback]
Greer, Judy
New York, US Baker & Taylor 2014.
Summary: Like Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and other (bestselling) co-stars, Judy Greer is taking pen to paper and in her honest, self-deprecating, and hilariously relatable way reminding us why she's not America's sweetheart but America's best friend.
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27 .At the Altar of the Road Gods: Stories of motorcycles and other drugs [paperback]
Mihailovic, Boris
Sydney, NSW Hachette Australia 2014.
Summary: In At the Altar of the Road Gods Boris reveals the consequences of high-sides, tank-slappers, angry police and pilgrimages to Bathurst and Phillip Island, and explains how motorbike riding was the rite of passage into manhood he'd been searching for.
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28 .Good Enough: Confessions of a Less-than-perfect Mum [paperback]
Yasa, Dilvin
Sydney, NSW Macmillan Australia 2014.
Summary: 'Good Enough' shares a universal and deeply personal journey. With warmth, wit, and humour, Dilvin Yasa details the embarrassing failings, unexpected triumphs and dizzying and delightful in-betweens of modern-day motherhood. Refreshingly candid, Dilvin sheds light on the unexpected challenges of parenting, and never shies from a tough question.
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29 .Confessions of a Qantas Flight Attendant: True Tales and Gossip fr: True Tales and Gossip from the Galley [paperback]
Beddall, Owen
North Sydney, NSW Ebury Australia 2014.
Summary: Want to know what really goes on on an aeroplane? Let's go behind the scenes and fly high with these tall tales and gossip from the galley! Everyone wants to be a flight attendant, or at least they want to know about the cushy lifestyle they lead u flying to exotic destinations, swanning about in five-star hotels, daytime lazing around the
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30 .1940s Childhood: From Bomb Sites to Children's Hour [paperback]
Marsh, James
Stroud, UK Sutton Publishing (UK) 2014.
Summary: Do you remember collecting shrapnel and listening to Children's Hour? Carrying gas masks or sharing your school with evacuees from the city? The 1940s was a time of great challenge for everyone who lived through it. From the hardships and fear of a World War, with Britain's towns and cities were being bombed on an almost nightly basis, to the ....
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31 .Top Cop 2 [paperback]
Nicholas, David R.
Crows Nest, NSW Ark House 2014.
Summary: Top Cop 2: On the Beat follows on from the bestselling Top Cop. Top Cop 2: On the Beat covers some of the many experiences of Ex Chief Inspector Gary Raymond. This book traces some of the exciting events in the life of a New South Wales Cop.
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32 .Hard Choices: A Memoir [hardback]
Clinton, Hillary Rodham
New York, USA Simon & Schuster 2014.
Summary: Hillary Clinton's candid reflections about the key moments during her time as Secretary of State, as well as her thoughts about how to navigate the challenges of the 21st century.
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33 .Hey, True Blue [hardback]
Williamson, John
Camberwell, Vic Michael Joseph Australia 2014.
Summary: The long-awaited life story of John Williamson: an Australian icon, a much-loved veteran of the music industry and man of the land. Williamson takes us through his life, from growing up on the land in the Mallee and Moree in a family of five boys, to being the voice of Australia.
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34 .Banjo [paperback]
Terry, Paul
Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin 2014.
Summary: A timely re-examination of the life of Australia's best-loved poet and storyteller - the man whose works captured the essence of the Australian spirit.
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35 .Unforgivable [paperback]
Elliott, Collette
London, UK Penguin 2014.
Summary: 'I brought you into this world and I can take you out with one click of my fingers.' What if Baby P had lived to tell his tale? Collette's childhood was a place of filth and terror. Her prostitute mother abused and neglected Collette; leaving her with clients, starving her and beating her to a pulp.
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36 .Hockey: Not Your Average Joe [paperback]
King, Madonna
St Lucia, A University Of Queensland Press 2014.
Summary: Will this man be Australia's next Prime Minister? The son of an immigrant and a Bondi beauty queen, Joe Hockey is one of Australia's most popular politicians with one of the nation's toughest jobs.
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37 .Missing: A True Story [paperback]
MacKenney, Shelley
London, UK Michael Joseph 2014.
Summary: 'You can run, but you can't hide from yourself.' This is Shelley MacKenney's remarkable story of life as a 'missing person'. Abandoned by her mother as a young child and with a father constantly on the run, Shelley's life was never normal. Her family's involvement with South London's criminal underworld left her isolated, vulnerable and lonely.
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38 .Will to Live: An inspiring story of courage, resilience and love [paperback]
Ames, Matthew
Ames, Diane
Camberwell, Vic Michael Joseph Australia 2014.
Summary: Matthew Ames, 39-year-old father of four, thought he had a bout of man flu. Very quickly, a seemingly ordinary illness became a severe case of toxic shock syndrome. The common bacteria Streptococcus A had entered his bloodstream and his body had gone into shutdown. The only way Matthew could be kept alive was to have all four limbs amputated.
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39 .Diary of a Mad Diva [hardback]
Rivers, Joan
New York, USA Berkley Books 2014.
Summary: Anais Nin, Anne Frank and Sylvia Plath wrote the worlds most famous diaries. And where are they today? Dead. But the worlds OTHER great diarist, Joan Rivers, is alive and kicking. And complaining.
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40 .My Story [hardback]
Gillard, Julia
Milsons Point, NSW Random House Australia 2014.
Summary: There is much in Julia Gillards life and parliamentary legacy to be admired and debated. In any reckoning of her achievements, both before and after becoming Prime Minister, this book, written by her and told in her own words, will be essential. I most certainly expect it to be one of the most anticipated books of 2014.
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