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4 Visit us today! collinsbooks.com.au fIcTIoN Wild landS SWeet careSS Nicole Alexander RRP $32.99 William Boyd RRP $29.99 From popular Australian author Nicole Alexander comes an epic novel of bravery, loyalty and impossible love that takes the reader on a spellbinding journey from the streets of early Sydney to the heart of Australia’s wild, untamed Our Price lands. In this enthralling story of a life fully lived, William Boyd has created a sweeping panorama of some of the most defining moments of modern history, told through the camera lens of one unforgettable woman, Amory Clay. It is his greatest literary achievement to date. 2799 $ due 26th auguSt due 1St SepteMBer the other Side of the World circling the Sun Stephanie Bishop RRP $29.99 Paula McLain RRP $29.99 Cambridge, 1963. Charlotte, struggling to cope in England, reluctantly agrees to move to Australia with her university lecturer husband, Henry. Arriving in Perth, the southern sun shines a harsh light on both Henry and Charlotte and slowly reveals that their new life is not the answer either was hoping for. The author of The Paris Wife takes us to the heart of another true story: set in 1920s colonial Kenya, Circling the Sun is about a remarkable woman, Beryl Markham, who lives by nobody’s rules but her own. the World Without uS the landing Mireille Juchau RRP $29.99 Susan Johnson RRP $29.99 Told from the perspective of six, interconnected characters, The World Without Us is a tale of love in all its forms, a mystery and an elegy for a denatured landscape. It is about the ways we become lost to ourselves, and the transformative joys of being found. Susan Johnson’s stunning new novel, written with her trademark wit and insight, brilliantly observes what it is to be human and to love: the betrayals, the long and the short alliances, the disappointments and the joys. The Landing celebrates all of it with verve and style. the reVolVing door of life Alexander McCall Smith RRP $29.99 Once more we catch up with the delightful goings-on in the fictitious 44 Scotland Street. With customary charm and deftness, Alexander McCall Smith gives us another instalment in this popular series, now running in its ninth season in the Scotsman. Anything could happen to Bertie and the gang… the duSt that fallS froM dreaMS Louis de Bernières RRP $32.99 In the golden years of King Edward VII’s reign, Rosie McCosh and her sisters are growing up in an eccentric household, with their young male neighbours. Louis de Bernières’ moving novel follows the lives of these memorable characters as they strike out to seek what happiness can be built from the ruins of the old world.