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22 Visit us today! collinsbooks.com.au gift craft Big Magic The Craft Companion Elizabeth Gilbert RRP $29.99 Ramona Barry Rebecca Jobson RRP $65.00 Elizabeth Gilbert shares her wisdom and unique understanding of creativity. Whether you long to write a book, create art, cope with challenges at work or simply want to make your everyday life more vivid and rewarding, Big Magic will take you on a journey of exploration filled with wonder and unexpected joys. Utopia: The Scripts Santo Cilauro Tom Gleisner Rob Sitch RRP $35.00 The multi award-winning ABC TV series UTOPIA is now a book! It features the scripts of all episodes across both series, as well as lots of stills and behind the scenes photographs. This is political satire at its most hilarious. The Craft Companion is the ultimate guide to navigating the new craft frontiers. From applique and baskets to weaving and zakka, this beautiful book features old and new crafting Our Price techniques. With many years in the craft $ and design industries, Ramona Barry and 00 Rebecca Jobson are bona fide craft gurus. 60 Alice Melvin: Cut & Sew This is a beautiful new range of make-your-own kits illustrated and designed by one of Britain’s rising stars in illustration. Cut Out & Sew Bears in a Bag RRP $22.00 Create mother and baby bear along with a beautiful bag with this charming sewing kit. The pack contains a fabric kit and illustrated step-by-step instructions. Cut Out & Sew Apron Gilliamesque RRP $18.99 Terry Gilliam RRP $59.99 Make a colourful kids apron with this pack which is perfect for all kinds of creative play. The pack contains a fabric kit and full instructions. From his no-frills childhood via the cutting edge of ‘60s and ‘70s counter-culture, Terry Gilliam’s life has been as vivid and unorthodox as one of his films. His encounters with the great and the not-sogood are revealing, funny and hugely entertaining. This book is an unrestrained look into a unique creative mind and an incomparable portrait of late twentieth-century popular culture. Cut Out & Sew Bunting RRP $14.99 This delightful string of bunting can be easily made with this pack which contains a fabric kit, biasbinding and illustrated step-by-step instructions. Household Wisdom Sinatra: The Photographs Shannon Lush Jennifer Fleming RRP $29.99 Andrew Howick RRP $60.00 This book focuses on the decades after the war when Sinatra towered over the American entertainment landscape. These were the years of the Rat Pack and Las Vegas, socializing with Jack Kennedy and Marilyn Munroe, and making music with Nelson Riddle, Count Basie and Quincy Jones. Household Wisdom has practical and inspirational ideas to suit every budget. With plenty of Shannon and Jennifer’s trademark tips for solving stains and repairing things Special Price around the house, this is a book that no $ 99 homemaker should be without. 14 Binge The Annotated Little Women Tyler Oakley RRP $35.99 Louise May Alcott John Matteson RRP $55.00 For someone who made a career out of oversharing on the internet, Tyler Oakley has a shocking number of personal mishaps and shenanigans to reveal in his first book. With millions of fans clamouring for more Tyler Oakley, he delivers his best untold, hilariously side-splitting moments with trademark flair in Binge. Renowned Alcott scholar, John Matteson brings his expertise to this beautiful book. Through photographs taken in the Alcott family home readers discover Our Price the extraordinary links between $ 00 the real and fictional family. 50