Collins Booksellers Spring Reading Guide 2015 | Seite 3
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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
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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