Collins Booksellers Christmas Reading Guide 2019 Collins Booksellers Christmas Reading Guide 2019 | Page 6

FICTION Field of Poppies Carmel Bird RRP $29.99 Due DEC 3 Cilka’s Journey The Drover’s Wife Heather Morris RRP $32.99 The Drover's Wife is utterly authentic, brilliantly plotted, thoroughly harrowing and entirely of our times, exploring race, gender, violence and inheritance. Grandmothers Grandmothers follows four grandmothers whose lives and grandchildren become unexpectedly entangled. This is a funny and heart-warming novel about four very different women, from the author of The Cleaner of Chartres. Wolfe Island Paris Savages A German scientist sails three Badtjala people to Europe to perform to huge crowds…A story of love, bravery, culture, and the fight against injustice, Paris Savages brings a little-known part of history to blazing life. Lucy Treloar RRP $29.99 Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of an island sinking into Chesapeake Bay, has resigned herself to annihilation, until one night her pregnant granddaughter arrives begging for sanctuary. Wolfe Island is the stunning new novel from the author of Salt Creek. Incidental Inventions Elena Ferrante, Andrea Ucini RRP $29.99 Gathered here in a beautiful gift edition and accompanied by a new, original introduction by the author and Andrea Ucini’s intelligent, witty and beautiful illustrations, this is a must for all Ferrante fans. Give a gift card The Bee and the Orange Tree Melissa Ashley RRP $35.00 OUR PRICE $30 00 This keenly-awaited second book from the author of The Birdsman’s Wife, restores another remarkable woman to her rightful place in history. The Bee and the Orange Tree is a deeply absorbing portrait of a time, a place, and the subversive power of the imagination. Due nov a oo 19 That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. F. Scott Fitzgerald bo ok a n d s u 7 pp Due NOV feature TITLES From the author of the The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul, comes a captivating story set in the colourful but chaotic land of Haiti, as four very different women work together to find a lost child. Literary ESSAYS Deborah Rodriguez RRP $32.99 d m t al ental he Salley Vickers RRP $32.99 Find Me Katherine Johnson RRP $32.99 Island on the Edge of the World 19 5 In this spellbinding new exploration of the varieties of love, the author of Call Me by Your Name revisits his characters' complex lives in the years after their first meeting. 5 Due NOV Due NOV André Aciman RRP $29.99 Due NOV Based on what is known of Cilka's time in Auschwitz, and on the experience of women in Siberian prison camps, Cilka's Journey is the breathtaking sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Leah Purcell RRP $32.99 Atmospheric and beguiling, this is a novel that seduces the reader with mysteries and beauties but also speaks of something much larger. The planet is in trouble, but is the human race up to the challenge? Pianos and Flowers Alexander McCall Smith RRP $29.99 In Pianos and Flowers we are invited, through the medium of sepia images, to glimpse a world long departed. Through stories behind these photographs there runs the same refrain: the possibilities of love, of friendship, of happiness lie before us. Available in-store and online collinsbooks.com.au