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follow us BIOGRAPHY & TRUE STORIES LITTLE ME 200 WOMEN Matt Lucas Ruth Hobday, Geoff Blackwell RRP $60.00 RRP $32.99 Little Me is the hilarious, moving, heart-warming and tear-jerking memoir from one of the world’s best-loved comedians and actors, Matt Lucas. The author says: ‘From my youth to Shooting Stars, Little Britain, Doctor Who and beyond, I’ve decided it’s time to tell my story.’ Set to be become an international publishing event, 200 Women is an extraordinary book about equality founded on two hundred original and diverse interviews with women from around the world. TRUE STORIES: THE COLLECTED NON-FICTION MEMOIRS Mike Willesee RRP $44.99 DUE 14TH NOVEMBER Helen Garner RRP $39.99 After thousands of stories, a legend finally tells his own. Mike Willesee has been Australia’s most revered television journalist for over fifty years. And behind the lens, a businessman, powerbroker, trailblazer and enduring enigma. He never stopped seeking truth. Our Price Memoirs is that truth - the story of $ 99 Mike Willesee’s epic life. Helen Garner goes cruising on a Russian ship. She attends a school dance and a gun show. She writes about dreaming, about turning fifty, and the storm caused by The First Stone. Garner looks at the world with a shrewd and sympathetic eye. Her non-fiction is always passionate and compelling. 39 THERE IT IS AGAIN THIRSTY Don Watson RRP $34.99 Joel Creasey RRP $32.99 Thirsty is a rollercoaster ride of life behind the curtains with Australia’s funniest rising star of comedy. Joel Creasey has known he wanted to be on the world’s stage since he was a child, and nothing was going to get in his way. After his first performance, he had to follow Our Price his dream – that is, to always have $ 99 the spotlight on him. 27 DUE 13TH NOVEMBER From birds, to love letters, imagined apologies, mind-numbing management-speak, Oscar Wilde, Anzac Day, strange people and racehorses, in this collection of his writing Don Watson brings his distinctive voice and way of seeing to a host of deserving subjects. DUE 27TH NOVEMBER THE WOMAN WHO FOOLED THE WORLD VICTORIA & ABDUL Beau Donelly, Nick Toscano RRP $32.99 Sharbani Basu RRP $24.99 The Woman Who Fooled the World explores the lure of alternative cancer treatments, the cottage industry flourishing behind the wellness and ‘clean eating’ movements, and the power of social media. It documents the devastating impact this con had on Belle Gibson’s fans and on people suffering from cancer. Ultimately, it answers not just how, but why, Gibson was able to fool so many. Now a major motion picture starring Dame Judi Dench, Victoria & Abdul examines how a young Indian Muslim came to play a central role at the heart of the empire, and tells a tender love story between an ordinary Indian and his elderly queen. GREAT AUSTRALIAN SCAMS, CONS AND RORTS Jim Haynes RRP $29.99 Australia is the birthplace and setting of some of the wildest, craziest and least-likely-to-succeed cons and rorts in history. From the cleverest double-crosses to the maddest schemes, master storyteller Jim Haynes reminds us that we’ve never been shy of pulling a trick or two. WHERE THE PAST BEGINS: A WRITER’S MEMOIR Amy Tan RRP $32.99 In Where the Past Begins, author of The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan is at her most intimate in revealing the truths and inspirations that underlie her extraordinary fiction. She tells of her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic Our Price relationship between fiction and $ emotional memory. 99 27