Collins Booksellers Spring Reading Guide 2015 | Seite 3

collins booksellers 3 BIoGRAPhy & TRUE SToRIES due 26th auguSt Where there’S SMoke: outStanding Short StorieS By auStralian Men the Man Who SaVed SMithy Black Inc. (Ed) RRP $24.99 Patrick Gordon ‘Bill’ Taylor was a pioneer of Australian aviation. He became a close friend of Charles Kingsford Smith and it was on a flight in Smithy’s famous Southern Cross that Taylor climbed out of the cockpit to transfer oil to a stricken engine and kept the plane flying. The Man Who Saved Smithy is the enthralling account of Taylor’s remarkable life and achievements. Rick Searle RRP $32.99 Where There’s Smoke presents outstanding short fiction by Australia’s finest male writers. These are tales of love, secrets, doubt and torment, the everyday and the extraordinary. Brilliant, shocking and profound, these tales will leave you reeling in ways that only a great short story can. the ShearerS fleSh WoundS Evan McHugh RRP $32.99 Richard Glover RRP $29.99 Expert outback chronicler Evan McHugh author of bestselling titles such as The Drovers and Outback Heroes - presents the definitive history of the shearer, bringing to life the toil, tumult and toughness of the shearing life, and the effect it has had on Our Price Australia’s national character. Truth can leave wounds - even if they are only flesh wounds. Part poignant family memoir, part rollicking venture into a 1970s Australia, this is a book for anyone who’s wondered if their family is the oddest one on the planet. The answer: ‘No’. There is always something stranger out there. 2799 $ due 1St SepteMBer My life in ruinS Mp untold Adam Ford RRP $29.99 Sean Doherty RRP $34.99 Adam Ford has spent his life exploring the mysteries of the past and in his memoir he recounts his amazing adventures in archaeology. Part memoir, part introduction to a life in archaeology, this book weaves Adam’s adventurous and often humorous tales of his jour