The book lover's favourite season continues into October, with publishers bringing out door-stoppers, page-turners and enough literary catnip to see readers through to summer. Among the highlights is All Heart, the memoir by Mick Fanning, published by Simon & Schuster for $37. Most people know Fanning as a three-time world surfing champion, or, thanks to one extraordinary day in 2015, the guy who punched a shark. The memoir shows a different side of him, with Fanning writing about the highs of his surfing career alongside the terrible loss of his three brothers and his father.
Also arriving this month is Ply, the third novel from Hernan Diaz, author of In the Distance and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Trust. Published by Picador for $34.99, Ply jumps a few centuries into the future. An orphan grows up in a city where the state has disappeared and becomes a "pincher", someone who steals electricity from the grid to power underground concerts. She then gets caught in a scientific experiment that could change reality itself. Diaz is thinking about technology and capitalism, with a wild adventure to carry readers through.
Sylvester Stallone also has a memoir out this month. The creator of Rocky Balboa offers his own brand of motivation, with the book's release prompting the reminder: "Nobody owes nobody nothing. You owe yourself."