Collins Booksellers Autumn Reading Guide 2016 Autumn 2016 | Page 13

follow us MILITARY UNNECESSARY WARS Henry Reynolds RRP $29.99 ENEMY Australian governments find it easy to go to war, then their leaders seem to be able to withdraw with a calm conscience. In Unnecessary Wars Henry Reynolds shows how the Boer War left a dark and dangerous legacy, demonstrating how those beliefs have propelled us into too many unnecessary wars without ever counting the cost. Ruth Clare RRP $32.99 Weaving a striking personal narrative with a revelatory exploration of the effects of war, Enemy is a bold, compelling and ultimately triumphant memoir from a hugely impressive new Australian writer. ANZAC DAY THEN AND NOW Tom Frame RRP $39.99 Peter Stanley, Jeffrey Grey, Carolyn Holbrook, Ken Inglis, Tom Frame and others explore the rise of Australia’s unofficial national day. Does Anzac Day honour those who died pursuing noble causes in war? Or is it part of a campaign to redeem the savagery associated with armed conflict? FOR LOVE OF COUNTRY Anthony Hill RRP $35.00 For Love of Country is a sweeping family saga recreated from historical archives. An impeccably researched portrait of the Eddisons, a soldiersettler family who sacrificed everything for war, from the award-winning author of Billy Young. WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT Kim Barker RRP $27.99 This is a true-life Catch-22 set in the war-torn countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan written by Kim Barker, one of the region’s longest-serving correspondents. Swift, funny, and wholly original, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot captures the absurdity and tragedy of our modern wars. A DOG CALLED HOPE Damien Lewis Jason Morgan RRP $32.99 When Special Ops soldier Jason Morgan was left crippled by a mission that went wrong, his wife left him and overnight he became a paraplegic father with three young boys to raise. This is the story of how Napal, his black Labrador service Our Price dog enabled Jason to rebuild his $ life, reconnect with his family and 99 find true peace. 27 13 OUR VIETNAM NURSES Annabelle Brayley RRP $34.99 From the bestselling author of Bush Nurses and Nurses of the Outback comes this collection of compelling and moving stories of our heroic nurses in the Vietnam War. DUE 2ND MAY FABULOUS HISTORY TITLES AT GREAT PRICES LOST BOYS OF ANZAC WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE COLD WAR DADDY? Peter Stanley RRP $34.99 Ann Curthoys Joy Damousi RRP $34.99 The Lost Boys of ANZAC were the first Australians killed at Gallipoli. This book traces who these men were and why they came to volunteer for Our Price the AIF in 1914. $ 1499 Sifting through the key political and social developments in Australia from the end of World War II to Our Price the early 1990s, this book is a powerful $ and poignant telling of the ways in which 99 the political is personal. 14 MENZIES AT WAR DIRTY SECRETS: OUR ASIO FILES Anne Henderson RRP $34.99 Meredith Burgmann RRP $32.99 This book focuses on the period between 1941 and 1949. During this time Menzies developed the leadership qualities that made him so successful. Our Price Menzies At War was shortlisted for The $ Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. 99 Well-known Australian mavericks, activists, movers and shakers reflect on their own ASIO files. In this moving, funny and sometimes chilling book, leading Australians open their ASIO Our Price files and read what the state’s security $ 99 apparatus said about them. 14 12