Collins Booksellers Spring Reading Guide 2015 | Seite 2

2 Visit us today! collinsbooks.com.au BIoGRAPhy & TRUE SToRIES Maggie SMith iS thiS My Beautiful life? Michael Coveney RRP $32.99 Jessica Rowe RRP $29.99 No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith, one of Britain’s best-loved actors. This new biography shines the stage-lights on the life and work of a truly remarkable performer, one whose career spans six decades. In this extraordinary memoir, Jessica reveals herself as a woman who thought it would be easy to have it all. But what was supposed to be her beautiful life derailed in the very public collapse of her television career, her long struggle to conceive, her fears and what she believed to be failings as a mother, then the diagnosis of post-natal depression. But with help and family support Jessica finally rediscovered her ‘sparkle’. Our Price 2799 $ due 8th SepteMBer due 26th auguSt Vera: My Story take My hand: inSpiring nurSing StorieS froM the Mcgrath foundation Vera Wasowski Robert Hillman RRP $29.99 ‘My revenge on Hitler is a lifetime in which delight has reached me from a hundred sources, and been welcomed.’ Vera’s story is one of courage, unconventionality and lust for life. Acclaimed biographer Robert Hillman has captured the fierce and passionate life of an amazing Australian, from a childhood in a Jewish ghetto in Poland to an adventurous career as an ABC TV researcher and producer. Jo Wiles RRP $32.99 due 26th auguSt reckleSS Chrissie Hynde RRP $35.00 the girl Who liVed In her rich and incredibly frank memoir, Chrissie gives us an insight into her fascinating career as well as the bittersweet success and tragedy of The Pretenders. Funny, evocative and candid, Chrissie’s story is sure to go down as a classic of the Our Price genre, and an essential read $ 00 for all rock fans. Susan Berg RRP $29.99 The Girl Who Lived is the remarkable story of a teenage girl’s fight to find happiness. As the sole survivor of a boating accident Susan’s experience of guilt led to sex and drugs, and the unexpected journey of teenage motherhood. This is a compelling memoir from a brave and courageous woman. 30 due 1St SepteMBer due 1St SepteMBer PolITIcS doujon’S heart Marr on Shorten: Quarterly eSSay iSSue 59 Greg Callaghan Ian Cuthbertson RRP $29.99 David Marr RRP $22.99 due 21St SepteMBer When Jane McGrath met her breast care nurse, her words were, ‘Today I met an angel’. It was then she realised she could make a difference to all Australians experiencing breast cancer. This collection of stories is a moving tribute to the strong bonds that form between nurses and their patients. It is also a celebration of Jane McGrath’s enduring and precious legacy. Bill Shorten is the man who would be our next prime minister. David Marr is the nation’s leading writer of political biography. This controversial and brilliant new essay looks at the making of Shorten. It also addresses a key question: how does the union movement for good or ill continue to shape the Labor Party? due 26th auguSt When young Australian Doujon sustained terrible head injuries and it was obvious he would not recover, his parents honoured his previous wish to be an organ donor. On this same day Kosta Gribilas was told that without an urgent transplant, he would soon die. But he was to receive Doujon’s heart and so began an extraordinary friendship that would sustain both boy’s families through the dark days to come.