Books we Love

TO WIN: Email competition@slim-magazine. com.au with the BOOK of your choice in the subject line. Include your contact details. Competition ends: 28th October 2022 ONE OF THE BEST WAYS OF RELAXING, READING FEEDS YOUR MIND AND INSPIRES ACTION. HERE’S OUR PICK OF THE SEASON’S TOP TOMES.

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BELIEVE Sam Frost with Kristine Ross

Former Bachelorette and Home and Away star, Sam Frost has very publicly shared her mental health struggles. Her vulnerability has inspired others to share their stories with her. In her memoir Believe, Sam provides lessons and insights she’s learned through her own life challenges. In 2020, with her sister, Kristine, Sam launched BELIEVE by Sam Frost, an online community focusing on mental health, where everyone is included and imperfection is celebrated. In her book, Sam shares her own experiences navigating dark mental health periods and, alongside Kristine’s own insights, offers warm, gentle inspiration and tips to help you come through to the other side of your own. Believe is a personal story, a battle cry, and a reassurance for the many of Sam’s fans who have struggled as she has. RRP $32.99. Hachette Australia.

THE AVOIDABLE WAR: THE DANGERS OF A CATASTROPHIC CONFLICT BETWEEN THE US AND XI JINPING'S CHINA Kevin Rudd

Former Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, who has studied, lived in, and worked with China for more than forty years, is one of the very few people who can offer real insight into the mindsets of the leadership whose judgement will determine if a war will be fought. The Avoidable War demystifies the actions of both sides, explaining and translating them for the benefit of the other. Geopolitical disaster is still avoidable, but only if these two giants can find a way to coexist without betraying their core interests through what Rudd calls "managed strategic competition". Should they fail, down that path lies the possibility of a war that could rewrite the future of both countries, and the world. RRP $34.99. Hachette Australia.

QUEEN MENOPAUSE Finding your majesty in the mayhem - Alison Daddo

A friendly, frank, compassionate and comprehensive companion for any woman experiencing menopause, or anyone wondering what to expect. Every woman will eventually go through menopause - that's half the population of the planet! And yet it's something that is still not fully explored. After going through her own 'change', Ali Daddo wanted to explore all the feelings around menopause and especially the post-menopausal years that so many women talk about as being 'the best years of their life'. Alongside stories from some very well known Australian women, including Georgie Parker, Anita Heiss and Rhonda Burchmore, Queen Menopause is the book Ali wishes she'd had when she was approaching menopause. RRP $32.99 Allen & Unwin.

THE LITTLE BOOK OF HERMÉS Karen Homer

A pocket-sized, illustrated book depicting the work and history of the House of Hermes. The iconic bags, the instantly recognizable packaging, the celebrity fans; Hermes is the last word in luxurious accessories. Through the generations, Hermés have created innovative and exquisite accessories for the most glamorous customers. From their nineteenth century saddlery workshop to 1960s Paris and beyond, Hermés has graced the arms and wardrobes of style icons from Grace Kelly and Jane Birkin to Victoria Beckham and Kim Kardashian. Little Book of Hermés tells the story of the evolution of the House of Hermés, through beautiful illustrations of the most coveted items and authoritative text by fashion historian Karen Homer. RRP $24.99. Welbeck Publishing.

MANAGING EXPECTATIONS A Memoir in Essays - Minnie Driver

Managing Expectations is a “memoir-ish”, tell-most, by Minnie Driver: A-list actor, mum, singer and songwriter, exploring her life most extraordinary. With searing honesty and bags of laughs, Minnie Driver tells us how things not working out so often worked out remarkably well, and how reaching for the dream is easily more interesting, expansive, sadder and funnier than the dream itself coming true. Says Minnie of her life in the book, “wanting something impossible to become true . . . trying to make something impossible happen, and failing repeatedly, other things happened. Things that became my life. A life I love, because it was made with so many holes that I enjoy filling in.” RRP $32.99 Allen & Unwin.

THE CANDY HOUSE Jennifer Egan

The long-awaited sibling novel to Jennifer Egan's Pulitzer Prizewinning novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad. A fierce and exhilarating testament to the transcendence of human longing for real connection, love, privacy and redemption. It’s 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. He’s 40, with four kids, and restless when he stumbles into a conversation with mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or “externalizing” memory. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, Own Your Unconscious, which allows you access to every memory you've ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others, has seduced multitudes. But not everyone. The Candy House is a bold, brilliant imagining of a world that is moments away. RRP $32.99. Hachette Australia.