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collins booksellers BIOGRAPHY & TRUE STORIES FINDING MY VIRGINITY Richard Branson RRP $35.00 In Finding My Virginity, Sir Richard Branson shares the secrets that have seen his family business grow from a student magazine into a global brand, his dreams of private citizens flying to space develop from a childhood fantasy to the brink of reality, and his focus shift from battling bigger rivals to changing business for good. ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG NATURALIST THE ZOO QUEST EXPEDITIONS David Attenborough RRP $39.99 In 1954, David Attenborough travelled the world finding rare animals for London Zoo's collection, and filmed the expeditions for the BBC. The programme, ZOO QUEST, not only heralded the start of a career in broadcasting, but changed the way we viewed the natural world forever. This is his story. FROM THE COVER WORKING CLASS MAN Jimmy Barnes RRP $49.99 In this anticipated sequel to Working Class Boy, Jimmy picks up the story of his life as he leaves Adelaide with a then unknown band called Cold Chisel. An honest reflection on success, fame and addiction; this memoir reveals how Jimmy Barnes used the fuel of childhood trauma to ignite and propel Australia’s greatest rock’n’roll story. WORKING CLASS BOY Jimmy Barnes RRP $32.99 Working Class Boy is a powerful reflection on a traumatic and violent childhood, which fuelled the excess and recklessness that would define, but almost destroy, the rock’n’roll legend. This is the story of how James Swan became Jimmy Barnes. DARE NOT LINGER Nelson Mandela, Mandla Langa RRP $39.99 Dare Not Linger is the story of Mandela’s presidency, drawing on the memoir he began to write but was unable to finish. Author, Mandla Langa, has completed the task using Mandela’s unfinished draft, detailed notes Our Price that Mandela made as events $ were unfolding and a wealth of 99 previously unseen archival material. 34 REVEAL Chris Heath RRP $34.99 Author Chris Heath has been working closely with Robbie for many years to create a personal and raw account of fame, fortune, family and music; a vivid and detailed story of the real highs and lows as Robbie has found his way forward, that is unprecedented in its intimacy and honesty. ALL THE BURNING BRIDGES A BOLD LIFE Steve Bisley RRP $32.99 Kerri-Anne Kennerley RRP $44.99 Actor Steve Bisley reflects on loving, losing, wrecking and running – the bridges burned – in the decades since hitchhiking away from the small family farm on the central coast of NSW in the 1960s. All the Burning Bridges is the sequel to Stillways, Steve’s acclaimed first memoir. Wine bars and strip clubs, girls with flowers in their hair, lust, and the best music the world has ever heard. In her new autobiography A Bold Life, the queen of A ustralian television reflects on a lifetime’s memories, good and bad. Honest, fabulous, powerful and poignant, this is Kerri-Anne Kennerley’s own extraordinary and Our Price inspiring story of A Bold Life. 39 99 $ ME. YOU: A DIARY Dawn French RRP $39.99 This is Dawn's first non-fiction project in almost a decade. It's interactive - the reader and Dawn will spend a year together travelling through the days, the months and the seasons of the year to make sense of it. And have some fun along the way…