Collins Booksellers Spring Reading Guide 2014 August 2014 | Page 7

collins booksellers...let your mind wander THe mandarin code 7 colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His years of pilGrimaGe Chris Uhlmann and Steve Lewis RRP $29.99 Haruki Murakami RRP $35.00 This is politics peeled bare. In the second darkly satirical thriller from the authors of The Marmalade Files, politics gets deadly. A body pulled from the murky waters of Lake Burley Griffin links Canberra, Beijing and Washington in a titanic struggle where war is just a mouse click away. Veteran reporter Harry Dunkley is chasing the scoop of his career, hunting for his best friend’s killer. Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. One day Tsukuru Tazaki’s friends announced that they didn’t want to see him, or talk to him, ever again. Since that day Tsukuru has been floating through life, unable to form intimate connections with anyone. But then he meets Sara, who tells him that the time has come to find out what happened all those years ago. THe cHildren acT THe wonders Ian McEwan RRP $29.99 Paddy O’Reilly RRP $29.99 Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge. She is called on to try an urgent case: a seventeen-yearold boy, Adam, is refusing the medical treatment that could save his life. In the course of reaching a decision Fiona visits Adam in hospital - an encounter which stirs long-buried feelings in her and powerful new emotions in the boy. Her judgment has momentous consequences for them both. The Wonders is a novel about a misfit trio who become instant international stars. Magnificently inventive, this book challenges our ideas about celebrity, disability and the value of life. Paddy O’Reilly is one of Australia’s finest authors at the peak of her career. due 1sT sepTemBer THe Golden aGe Golden Boys Joan London RRP$32.99 Sonya Hartnett RRP $29.99 This is a story of resilience, the irrepressible, enduring nature of love, and the fragility of life. It is 1954 and thirteen-year-old Frank Gold, refugee from wartime Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio. At the Golden Age Children’s Polio Convalescent Hospital he meets Ela with whom he forms a forbidden, passionate bond. The Jenson boys live in a world of shiny, new things. Their affluent father, Rex, has made sure that they’ll be the envy of the new, working-class suburb they’ve moved to. But underneath the surface of the perfect family, is there something unsettling about the Jensons? Sonya Hartnett’s new novel is perfectly formed and utterly compelling. DUE 27TH AUGUST nesT losT and found Inga Simpson RRP $27.99 Brooke Davis RRP $26.99 Jen spends her time watching the birds and tending her garden. The only person she sees regularly is Henry. When a girl in Henry’s class goes missing, Jen is pulled back into the depths of her own past. When she was young she lost her father and her friend Michael - both within a week. At last, when the answer does come, like the wet, it is in revitalising downpour. This Australian debut novel is a story to make you laugh, cry and feel a little wiser. At seven years old, Millie Bird realises that everything is dying around her. Agatha Pantha is eighty-two and has not left her house since her husband died. Karl the Touch Typist is eighty-seven when his son leaves him at the nursing home. Three lost people needing to be found. But they don’t know it yet. Millie, Agatha and Karl are about to break the rules and discover what living is all about.