Collins Booksellers Autumn Reading Guide 2016 Autumn 2016 | Page 12

12 Visit us today! collinsbooks.com.au HISTORY TAKING FLIGHT Kristen Alexander RRP $39.99 OUR MAN ELSEWHERE From her first taste of the air when she joined Bert Hinkler in the cockpit for a joy ride in 1928, Lores Bonney was hooked. She took to the Australian and international skies and braved the challenge of longdistance flying. Thorton McCamish RRP $39.99 A world-famous Australian writer, an inspiration to Robert Hughes and Clive James, a legendary war correspondent who also wrote bestselling histories of exploration and conservation...and yet forgotten? In this dazzling book, Thornton McCamish delves into the past to reclaim a remarkable figure, Alan Moorehead. THE CONVICT’S DAUGHTER Kiera Lindsey RRP $32.99 PAPER: A WORLD HISTORY Mark Kurlansky RRP $39.95 DUE 7TH JUNE DUE 1ST MAY From the author of Cod and Salt, Paper is a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today’s world. Mark Kurlansky challenges common assumptions about technology’s influence, affirming that paper is here to stay. Paper will be the commodity history that guides us forward in the twenty-first century and illuminates our times. BRUCE POSTLE: WOMEN OF AUSTRALIA This is a dramatic and fast-paced biography of a currency lass born to parents who were emancipated convicts. When 15-year-old Mary Ann Gill attempted to elope with gentleman settler John Kinchela in 1848, they became the focus of a national scandal which was nearly their undoing. THICKER THAN WATER Cal Flyn RRP $29.99 DUE 1ST MAY Bruce Postle RRP $29.99 Cal Flyn discovered that her ancestor Angus McMillan, mythologized as a great explorer and pioneer of early Australia, was also the leader of a number of massacres of Indigenous people. Thicker Than Water is part memoir, part travelogue, part histor