Collins Booksellers Spring Reading Guide 2014 August 2014 | Page 5

like us on facebook 5 THe kinG’s curse deeper waTer Philippa Gregory RRP$32.99 Jessie Cole RRP $29.99 This is the riveting story of Margaret Pole, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, and who was one of the few surviving members of the Plantagenet Dynasty after the Wars of the Roses. Plantagenet, once carried proudly by Margaret like a crown upon her head, is now, at the end of the 15th century, the most dangerous name in England... Innocent and unworldly, Mema is still living at home with her mother on a remote, lush hinterland property. One day she saves a stranger from a raging creek. She takes him into her family home. His sudden presence is unsettling, but slowly he opens the door to a new world of beckoning possibilities that threaten to sweep Mema into the deep. Our Price 2799 $ due 14TH auGusT THe sleepwalker’s Guide To dancinG Mira Jacob RRP $27.99 The story of a family, divided across generations and cultures, wrestling with its future and its past. The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing is at once magical, mouth-watering and heartbreaking a man called oVe Fredrik Backman $29.99 Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He is described by those around him as ‘the neighbour from hell’. But behind the surly pedant there is a story, and a sadness. And when his neighbour accidentally flattens Ove’s letterbox, it sets off a comical and heart-warming tale of unexpected friendship which will change one man - and one community - from their very foundations. moTHers and dauGHTers clausTropHoBia Kylie Ladd RRP $29.99 Tracy Ryan RRP $29.95 Kylie Ladd’s new novel is a clear-eyed, insightful and wildly entertaining look into the complicated, emotional world of mothers and their teenage daughters by the acclaimed author of Into My Arms, Last Summer and After the Fall. Claustrophobia is the taut, compelling story of a young Perth wife who sets about to protect her husband by stalking his ex-lover, but unexpectedly falls into a passionate affair and a world of lies. The realities of obsessive attachment and social isolation are explored through a deft and thoughtprovoking look at a complex personality and a plot that twists its page-turning way into our psyche. THe miniaTurisT courTinG TrouBle Jessie Burton RRP $29.99 Kathy Lette RRP $32.99 Beautiful, intoxicating and filled with heart-pounding suspense, The Miniaturist is a magnificent story about love and obsession, betrayal and retribution, appearance and truth. Tilly and her mother set up an all female law firm and soon they are rescuing women who have been cheated, ripped off or ruined by the men in their lives. But when Tilly’s 13-year old daughter goes missing, she faces the biggest moral dilemma of her life. Should she betray her beliefs and take the law into her own hands? due 1sT sepTemBer Our Price 2799 $