Collins Booksellers Autumn Reading Guide 2016 Autumn 2016 | Page 3

collins booksellers 3 BIOGRAPHY & TRUE STORIES KEN DONE: A LIFE COLOURED IN Ken Done RRP $32.99 This is an exuberant memoir by Australian artist Ken Done. From his studio on Sydney Harbour to the ochre tints of the outback or the luminous palette of tropical waters, Ken’s artist’s eye is ever drawn to beauty and colour. But through good times and bad, what has sustained him are the simple pleasures of life: family, home and, of course, painting. WHOLE WIDE WORLD Tom Dusevic RRP $29.99 DUE 1ST MAY In this exuberant and compelling memoir of family and childhood, readers will be swept away by Tom Dusevic’s verve, warmth and honesty. From rowdy street protests and footy crowds, to the serenity of the Roselands Raindrop Fountain and storm-water canals, to the fevered set of a TV quiz show and the disco floor, Dusevic launches himself into the whole wild world. EVERYWHERE I LOOK Helen Garner RRP $29.99 Helen Garner’s new book includes her famous and controversial essay on the insults of age, her deeply moving tribute to her mother and extracts from her diaries, which have been part of her working life for as long as she has been a writer. It is filled with the wisdom of life. LIFE AS I KNOW IT Michelle Payne John Har