ABCD BOOK CLUB with KINOKUNIYA
We love a good book - and lockdown was a good chance to catch up on some long overdue reading!
It made us realise that we have a lot of celebrated Australian Authors and decided to invite ABCD members and the community to join the ABCD Book Club (virtually for now). Each issue of the John Dory we will partner with KINOKUNIYA (the best - and biggest - bookshop in Dubai) to bring you a fiction and non-fiction recommendation.
The team at KINOKUNIYA are also offering 20% discount on the price of each book on presentation of this article or the newsletter EDM. So pop into the book shop and get reading!
FICTION CHOICE...
Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton
Australia, 1983
Life is pretty tough right now for twelve-year-old Eli – what with his mute brother, a convicted murderer for a babysitter, a drug-dealing stepfather, an incarcerated mother and a long-lost father – surely it can’t get any worse?
Think again. He’s about to fall in love, break into prison and cross paths with one of the most notorious criminals Brisbane has ever seen.
A coming-of-age story like no other, Boy Swallows Universe is the most exhilarating novel you’ll read all year.
NON-FICTION CHOICE...
Working Class Man, Jimmy Barnes
THE SEQUEL TO THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER WORKING CLASS BOY
It's a life too big and a story too extraordinary for just one book. Jimmy Barnes has lived many lives - from Glaswegian migrant kid to iconic front man, from solo superstar to proud father of his own musical clan.
In this hugely anticipated sequel to his critically acclaimed bestseller, Working Class Boy, Jimmy picks up the story of his life as he leaves Adelaide in the back of an old truck with a then unknown band called Cold Chisel. A spellbinding and searingly honest reflection on success, fame and addiction; this self-penned memoir reveals how Jimmy Barnes used the fuel of childhood trauma to ignite and propel Australia's greatest rock'n'roll story. But beyond the combustible merry-go-round of fame, drugs and rehab, across the Cold Chisel, solo and soul years - this is a story about how it's never too late to try and put things right.
