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LOVE, CLANCY Richard Glover $29.99

Heartfelt and hilarious, this is a book for anyone who has tried to imagine what their dog was thinking. Human beings often write about their dogs, but the dogs don’t usually reply.

In Love, Clancy, Richard

Glover has collated the letters sent by Clancy to his parents in the bush.

They are full of a young dog’s musings about the oddities of human behaviour, life in the big city, and his own attempts to fit in.

You’ll meet Clancy as a puppy, making his first attempt to train his humans, then see him grow into a mature activist, demanding more attention be paid to a dog’s view of the world, with delightful illustrations by cartoonist Cathy Wilcox.

CLIMBING FEAR Leisl Leighton

$29.99

Set against the Victorian Alps comes a suspenseful novel of recovery and new beginnings from a talented new voice. X-Treme TV sports star Reid Stratton has everything, until his best friend falls to his death on a climb while shooting their show. In the

fierce media fallout, Reid begins to question everything about himself. Crippled by a new fear of climbing, Reid returns to CoalCliff stud, his family’s horse farm, to recover.

Single mother Natalia Robinson is determined to start afresh, away from the shadow of her past. A job at CoalCliff Stud where she lived as a child is the perfect opportunity to live the quiet life she always wanted. But she is unprepared to see Reid, and is even more unprepared for the passion that still burns between them.

But after a series of menacing events threaten the new home she is trying to build, Nat realises that Reid is the only person she can rely on to keep her and her daughter safe. Together, Reid and Nat must face the pasts that haunt them if they are to survive the present and forge a future of hope.

RUDIE NUDIE CHRISTMAS

Emma Quay $24.99

A delightful Rudie Nudie celebration of the joy of Christmas from awardwinning creator Emma Quay. Yoo-hoo, Rudie Nudie. Rudie Nudie, where are you? It is very nearly Christmas Day for Rudie one and two.

It’s Christmas Eve and two little rudie nudies are on the run again.