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FICTION The Returns Philip Salom RRP $29.99 The Returns is a story about the eccentricities, failings and small triumphs that humans are capable of, a novel that pokes fun at literary and artistic pretensions, while celebrating the expansiveness of art, kindness and friendship. The Nickel Boys Due sept The Rich Man’s House Andrew McGahan RRP $32.99 The Rich Man's House is a remarkable new novel from the Miles Franklin Award-winning author of The White Earth. Andrew McGahan's eleventh and final novel, is a gripping and unique thriller. Due aug 13 Due SEPT 24 Ann Patchett RRP $29.99 Told with a blend of wit and heartbreak, The Dutch House is a story of family, betrayal, love, responsibility and sacrifice; of the powerful bonds of place and time that magnetize and repel us for our whole lives, and the lives of those who survive us. Peter Goldsworthy's new novel features a blind detective determined to deliver justice to the man who shot him, even though his failed assassin has broken out of jail and is equally determined to finish the job… Ali Smith RRP $29.99 Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives, a hundred years of empire-making. The dawn breaks cold and still but, deep in the earth, things are growing… Spring is the third instalment in the critically adored, inventive novel cycle, the Seasonal Quartet. Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels including Hotel World, The Accidental and How to Be Both. She has won numerous awards for her work and has been shortlisted for the Man Booker. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge. Inland Téa Obreht RRP $32.99 Mythical, lyrical, and sweeping in scope, Inland is grounded in true but little-known history. Téa Obreht subverts and reimagines the myths of the American West, making them entirely - and unforgettably - her own. feature TITLES Due SEPT 10 The Trespassers Meg Mundell RRP $29.95 Minotaur Peter Goldsworthy RRP $32.99 Spring 3 Tara June Winch RRP $32.99 The Dutch House feature The Nickel Boys is Colson Whitehead's follow-up to The Underground Railroad, in which he dramatizes another strand of United States history, this time through the story of two boys sentenced to a stretch in a hellish reform school in Jim-Crow-era Florida. The Yield Profoundly moving, Tara June Winch's The Yield is the story of a people and a culture dispossessed. It is a celebration of what was and what endures, and a reclaiming of Indigenous language, storytelling and identity. COVER Colson Whitehead RRP $32.99 Fleeing their pandemic-stricken homelands, a shipload of migrants departs the UK, dreaming of a fresh start in Australia. But when a crew member is found murdered and passengers start falling ill, the ship is plunged into chaos… Shop online at collinsbooks.com.au Get social with us The Testaments Margaret Atwood RRP $42.99 OUR PRICE $37 99 When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead. In this electrifying sequel Margaret Atwood answers the question that has tantalised readers for decades - what happened to Offred? The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood RRP $19.99