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2 Visit us today! collinsbooks.com.au Biography & True Stories Natural Born Keller A Mother’s Story Rosie Batty Bryce Corbett RRP $32.99 In this profoundly moving and inspiring memoir, Australia’s domestic violence crusader Rosie Batty tells her story of compassion, courage, grace and forgiveness. Since the tragedy that changed her life forever, Rosie’s advocacy work has forced an unprecedented national focus on family violence. A percentage of royalties from sales of this book are going to the Luke Batty Foundation. From the Heart: Women of Letters Marieke Hardy Michaela McGuire RRP $29.99 Due 18th November Uplifting, passionate and compelling, From the Heart is a wonderful new collection from your favourite Australians of note. Contributors include rock star Amanda Palmer, Senator Penny Wong, and beloved chef Stephanie Alexander. All royalties for this book will go to Edgar’s Mission animal rescue shelter. In Order to Live Yeonmi Park RRP $32.99 In Order to Live is the story of Yeonmi Park’s struggle to survive in the darkest, most repressive country on earth; her harrowing escape to South Korea through China’s underworld of smugglers and human traffickers; and her emergence as a leading human rights activist, all before her 21st birthday. The Lightless Sky Gulwali Passarlay Nadene Ghouri RRP $29.99 Trafficked into Iran, Gulwali began a twelve month odyssey across Europe, spending time in prisons, suffering hunger, cruelty, brutality and nearly drowning in a tiny boat on the Mediterranean. Gulwali’s is the central story of our times, and this memoir celebrates the triumph of courage and determination over adversity. Amanda Keller RRP $29.99 By turns hilarious and moving, much loved Australian personality Amanda Keller takes us on a nostalgia filled journey through her life. Vivid, funny and hugely entertaining, Natural Born Keller will have you laughing out loud, nodding in recognition and occasionally bawling uncontrollably (in a cathartic sort of way). Reckoning: A Memoir Magda Szubanski RRP $49.99 In Reckoning, Magda Szubanski, one of Australia’s most beloved performers, tells her heartbreaking, joyous and intimate story. With courage and compassion she addresses her own frailties and fears, and asks the big questions Our Price about life, about the shadows we $ inherit and the gifts we pass on. 4499 Plain-Speaking Jane Jane Caro RRP $34.99 Jane Caro is known for saying what she thinks across the news and entertainment media. In this memoir she talks frankly about her battle with anxiety and shows that anxiety is not a life sentence. Written with panache and wit, Plain-speaking Jane is an unflinchingly honest celebration of a perfectly imperfect life. Interestingly Enough: the life of Tom keneally Stephany Evans Steggall RRP $49.99 For five decades Tom Keneally has been one of Australia’s most loved literary figures. Celebrated as one of the world’s finest writers, he is also respected for his humanitarianism and commitment to republicanism and other causes. The breadth and richness of Keneally’s Our Price life and work is brilliantly explored in $ 99 this engaging authorised biography. 44 The Man with the Golden typewriter Fergus Fleming RRP $29.99 When he had finished writing Casino Royale, Ian Fleming treated himself to a gold-plated typewriter. It was on this glittering machine that he typed not only his novels, but also letters. Though Fleming was not an especially reflective or literary man his correspondence is energetic, engaging and full of wry remarks, succinct comments and insightful observations.