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24 Visit us today! collinsbooks.com.au GIFT IT HAPPENED OFF THE LEASH Paddy O’Reilly RRP $29.99 SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED: WOMEN OF LETTERS It Happened off the Leash is a collection of embarrassing and funny stories of dog owners who are bound by their love of dogs. From dangerous stunts to hilarious escapades, the stories in this book will make you laugh and appreciate your dog even more. Michaela McGuire Marieke Hardy RRP $32.99 DUE 28TH NOVEMBER In this all-new anthology, Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire have engaged our finest minds to pen missives of courage, humour and wisdom, giving an entertaining and heartfelt insight into some of our brightest Australian stars. PEGGY AND ME Miranda Hart RRP $35.00 THE WORD DETECTIVE For years Miranda viewed dog owners with some suspicion. She was alarmed by their light coating of dog hair and troubled by their apparent comfort around excrement. But that all changed when Miranda met Peggy. This is a hilarious Our Price account of Miranda’s life with her best $ 00 companion - her dog Peggy. John Simpson RRP $29.99 John Simpson challenges both the idea that dictionaries are definitive, and the notion that language is falling apart. With a sense of humour and an inclination to question the status quo, he gives life to the colourful characters at the OED and to the English language itself. 30 A STREET CAT NAMED BOB James Bowen RRP $19.99 READING PLEASURES National Library of Australia Jennifer Byrne RRP $19.99 A Street Cat Named Bob is a moving, uplifting true story of an unlikely friendship between a man on the streets and the ginger cat which adopts him and helps him heal his life. This story is now a major motion picture. Reading Pleasures is filled with fabulous photographs and artworks, each paired with an inspiring quotation. They amount to an impossible-toexplain love affair between readers and their books. POUNCE! Seth Casteel RRP $29.99 LISTS OF NOTE Shaun Usher RRP $59.99 A beautiful, funny gift book Pounce reveals adorable cats and kittens as they pounce and jump through the air, arms outstretched - all in Casteel’s signature up-close, mid-action style. From a to-do list of Leonardo da Vinci’s to Charles Darwin on the pros and cons of marriage or Julia Child’s list of possible titles for what would later become an American cooking Our Price bible, Lists of Note is a constantly $ surprising A-Z of what makes us 99 human. INCREDIBLE DOG JOURNEYS 29 Laura Greaves RRP $35.00 From heartwarming tales of canine loyalty to mysterious cases of dogs turning up thousands of miles away, these are the incredible true stories of how sixteen remarkable dogs found their Our Price way home. $ A CHRISTMAS CAROL Charles Dickens Colm Toibin RRP $30.95 A Christmas Carol presents a facsimile of that invaluable manuscript, along with a typeset version of the story and a new foreword by Colm Tóibín celebrating its timeless appeal. DUE 28TH NOVEMBER 3000 WET DOG A GUINEA PIG OLIVER TWIST Sophie Gamand RRP $24.99 Alex Goodwin RRP $16.99 Wet Dog is more than a pet photography project. It is a book of portraits of dogs soaked in character, each with a story to tell. Fur and fiction combine in this retelling of Charles Dickens’s most famous novel, adorably adapted with an all-star cast of g uinea pigs. Our Price 1199 $