Collins Booksellers Christmas Reading Guide 2017 Collins Christmas 2017 Catalogue WEB | Page 6

Visit us today! collinsbooks.com.au FICTION ADA Kaz Cooke RRP $32.99 Kaz Cooke invites you to an audience with the amazing Ada. She’s a showgirl and a story teller with a trunk full of stories and secrets. A funny, tender novel about an extraordinary woman who made the very best of everything life threw at her. MRS. M Luke Slattery RRP $29.99 From journalist Luke Slattery comes a rich and intense novel of an imagined history of desire, ambition and dashed dreams, and a portrait of one passionate, unforgettable woman - Elizabeth Macquarie. IN THE MIDST OF WINTER Isabel Allende RRP $39.99 Sweeping from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala to turbulent 1970s Chile and Brazil, and woven with Isabel Allende’s trademark humanity, passion and storytelling verve, In the Midst of Winter is a mesmerizing and unforgettable tale. This is the captivating new novel from the author of The House of the Spirits and The Japanese Lover. A VINEYARD IN ANDALUSIA Maria Duenas RRP $32.99 A Vineyard in Andalusia tells of glories and defeats, of silver mines, family intrigues, vineyards, cellars, and splendid cities of faded grandeur. This is a story of courage before adversity, and of a destiny altered for good by the force of passion. LOVE AND OTHER CONSOLATION PRIZES Jamie Ford RRP $24.99 Seattle 1909. Ernest, a half Chinese boy is raffled off as a prize and ends up working in a brothel where he falls in love with Maisie, daughter of a madam and Fahn a Japanese maid sold into servitude. On the eve of 1962, Ernest looks back on the past while his daughter, a reporter begins to unravel their tragic past. SEVEN DAYS OF US Francesca Hornak RRP $29.99 It’s Christmas, and the Birch family are coming together at their home in Norfolk. But one of the family members has been told that she must stay in quarantine for a week, and so too should her family. A week with your nearest and dearest can feel like an eternity, especially when they’re all harbouring secrets… THE ZANZIBAR WIFE Deborah Rodriguez RRP $32.99 The Zanzibar Wife is a bewitching novel of clashing cultures and conflicting beliefs, of secrets and revelations, of mystery and magic, by the author of Our Price the international bestseller The Little $ Coffee Shop of Kabul. 99 27 DEADLY KERFUFFLE Tony Martin RRP $29.99 SIXTY SECONDS Jesse Blackadder RRP $29.99 Deadly Kerfuffle is a smart, riveting and incredibly funny novel inspired by actual letters to the editor in a local newspaper. Through biting satire and a cast of unforgettable characters, it’s an insight into the kind of paranoia that could only ever blossom in the quietest and safest of places. The Brennans have made a sea change, from chilly Hobart to subtropical Murwillumbah. Feeling like foreigners in this land of sun and surf, they’re still adjusting to life in a sprawling purple weatherboard, when one morning, tragedy strikes…Sixty Seconds is a haunting, redemptive story about forgiveness and hope. THE GREATEST GIFT INTO THE WORLD Rachael Johns RRP $32.99 Stephanie Parkyn RRP $29.99 The Greatest Gift is a poignant, heart-warming story of two women: one who wants nothing else than to be a mum, and one who never wanted to be a mother, from the ABIA award-winning author of The Patterson Girls. DUE 22ND NOVEMBER Inspired by a true story, Into the World is a compelling novel of the life of Marie-Louise Girardin battling perilous seas, her own self-doubt, and finding unforeseen loves on a journey to reclaim her child.  Abandoned by her lover and fleeing the wrath of her family, Marie-Louise must make a desperate choice. Find a man or become one.