MUST-READ BOOKS

Autumn reading is upon us and we have some beauties to whet every appetite.

BEHIND THE SEAMS - MY LIFE IN RHINESTONES

By Dolly Parton

A beautifully illustrated celebration of Dolly Parton's iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stories and 450 full-color photographs, including exclusive images from her private costume archive.

In Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones, global superstar Dolly Parton shares, for the first time, the full story behind her lifelong passion for fashion, including how she developed her own, distinctly Dolly style, which has defied convention and endeared her to fans around the world.

$85.00 Ebury Press

WIFEDOM By Anna Funder

A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to remember her own…

When she uncovers his forgotten wife, it’s a revelation. Eileen O’Shaughnessy’s literary brilliance shaped Orwell’s work and her practical nous saved his life. But why – and how – was she written out of the story?

$36.99 Hamish Hamilton

My Friend Anne Frank

By Hannah Pick-Goslar

The inspiring and heartbreaking true story of two best friends torn apart and reunited against all odds. When Hannah Pick-Goslar's family fled Nazi Germany for Amsterdam, she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbour; precocious, outspoken and fun-loving Anne Frank.

But in 1942, life quickly changed for the thirteen-year-old girls. The Nazi occupation of Amsterdam meant the friends were separated without warning. Hannah called on Anne, but there was no trace of her or her precious diary. Hannah was tormented over the fate of Anne, wondering if, by some stroke of fortune, she had escaped danger and was alive and well elsewhere.

$35.00 Rider

ONE MORE TIME By Mandy

Magro

Grace Burrows knows her seventieth birthday celebration is going to be enchanting. But it's also the evening she'll have to finally reveal a secret that she knows will devastate her familyher time left with them is too short to be fair... Scarred by the war, Charlie Wilson knows he's made a lot of mistakes. But when old feelings and resentments are drawn to the surface, tempers fray and Charlie and Grace are left on opposite sides of the same old argument. Fate, however, will give them one last chance to be truthful - and as a touch of magic sparks, everything changes...

$32.99 Harper Collins

APHRODITE'S BREATH - A MOTHER AND DAUGHTER'S GREEK ISLAND ADVENTURE

By Susan Johnson

In life, as in myth, women are the ones who are supposed to stay home like Penelope, weaving at their looms, rather than leaving home like Odysseus. Meet eighty-five-year-old Barbara and her sixty-two-year-old writer–daughter Susan, who asked her mother—on a whim—if she wanted to accompany her to live on the Greek island of Kythera.

What follows is a moving unraveling of the mother–daughter relationship told in irresistible prose. Strikingly original, funny and a forensic examination of love and finding home, amid the stories of the people, olives and wonders of the birthplace of Aphrodite.

$34.99 Allen & Unwin

THE LAST LIFEBOAT By Hazel Gaynor

Liverpool 1940. Alice King stands on the deck of SS Carlisle, waiting to escort a group of children to Canada as overseas evacuees. She is finally doing her bit for the war. In London, as the Blitz bombs rain down and the threat of German invasion looms, Lily Nicholls anxiously counts the days for news of her son and daughter’s safe arrival. But when disaster strikes in the Atlantic, Alice and Lily – one at sea, the other on land – will quickly become one another’s very best hope.

$14.99 Harper Collins

Broken Bay

By Margaret Hickey

Old loyalties and decades-long feuds rise to the surface in this stunning crime novel, set in a spectacular Australian landscape known for its jagged cliffs and hidden caves.

Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti has taken a holiday in Broken Bay at precisely the wrong time. The small fishing town is now the scene of a terrible tragedy.

Renowned cave diver Mya Rennik has drowned while exploring a sinkhole. Mark’s boss orders him to stay put and assist the police operation. But when they retrieve Mya's body, a whole new mystery is opened up, around the disappearance of a young woman twenty years before.

$32.99 Bantam