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6 Visit us today! collinsbooks.com.au fiction The Road to Little Dribbling Bill Bryson RRP $39.99 Golden Lion Wilbur Smith RRP $39.99 In this epic African adventure, Wilbur Smith returns to his longest-running series – and the very beginnings of the Courtney family saga in the late seventeenth century – with co-author Giles Kristian. Golden Lion follows Hal Courtney’s adventures after the Christians have routed the Our Price Muslim invaders in Ethiopia in the $ 99 mid-seventeenth century. 34 To mark the twentieth anniversary of Notes From a Small Island, Bryson makes a brand-new journey around Britain to see what has changed. With his matchless homing instinct for the funniest and quirkiest, his unerring eye for the idiotic, the endearing and the ridiculous, this Our Price promises to be every bit as good $ as his classic. 99 34 Napoleon’s Last Island Tom Keneally RRP $32.99 Tom Houghton Todd Alexander RRP $32.99 As a boy Tom Houghton escapes the harshness of the schoolyard by cocooning himself in the cinema of the golden age of Hollywood. Almost thirty years later, he is offered an acting role but with the rigours of his past finally catching up with him, Tom finds himself questioning everything he thought he knew about himself. 305654_1015_BEY1442_OPTA.indd 116/10/15 3:04 PM When Tom Keneally discovered that Betsy Balcombe, a young girl living on St Helena while the Emperor Napoleon was exiled there, had become the Emperor’s intimate friend, he was impelled to write another novel, exploring the intersection between the ordinary people of the world and those we deem exceptional. According to Yes Beneath the Rising Sun Peter Watt RRP $29.99 Due 10th november As the Allied forces fight to repel invaders in the Pacific, the Duffy and Macintosh clans face their greatest challenges at home. Jessica and James Duffy, David McIntosh and Sarah all have different war stories. From the frontlines of the Pacific to the back lots of Hollywood, a new generation faces deadly missions, impossible choices and an inescapable family legacy. Dawn French RRP $32.99 Manhattan’s Upper East Side has its own rigid code of behaviour. It’s a code str