JANUARY 2019 The Moscow Sleepers Stella Rimington

For fans of Spooks, Homeland and The Night Manager, the latest thriller in Stella Rimington's bestselling espionage series sees Liz Carlyle investigating a sinister Russian plot tense, gripping and global in scope.

Sales points • Stella Rimington has a strong sales track record, with her total TCM standing at over 300k copies • Her novels are inspired by her long experience as head of MI5, giving them an unmistakable ring of authenticity loved by readers and press alike • Deadly Refuge features the migrant crisis and growing tensions between Russia and the West an urgent, current and compelling for readers of thrillers from le Carre to Lee Child, and fans of TV dramas like Spooks and The Night Manager

Description For fans of Spooks, Homeland and The Night Manager, the latest thriller in Stella Rimington's bestselling espionage series sees Liz Carlyle investigating a sinister Russian plot tense, gripping and global in scope. A man lies dying in a hospice in upstate Vermont. When a stranger visits, claiming to be a childhood friend, the FBI is alerted.

News of this suspected Russian illegal and his deathbed guest soon reaches MI5 in London. Liz Carlyle and her colleague Peggy Kinsolving are grappling with an impenetrable Russian conspiracy and call in MI6 to try and shed light on this new turn of events. Then a top-secret source known as Mischa resurfaces and requests a clandestine rendezvous in Berlin where Liz learns of the Russian secret service's cynical new plan to undermine the German government, involving child migrants. Liz and Peggy's mission to link and track down this insidious network will take them round the world, from Montreal to Moscow. Forced to negotiate tricky inter-service rivalries, they soon realise that these obstacles pale in comparison to the danger they face from the Russian threat...

The latest expertly-plotted thriller in Stella Rimington's bestselling series, Deadly Refuge is a white-knuckle ride through Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 the dark underbelly of international intelligence, simmering political animosities and global espionage. ISBN: 9781408859759 Format: Paperback - C format About the Author Dimensions: 233x156mm Extent: 320 pages Dame Stella Rimington joined the Security Service (MI5) in 1968. During her career she worked in all the main fields of Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) the Service: counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism. She was appointed Director General in 1992, Bic2: the first woman to hold the post. She has written her autobiography and nine Liz Carlyle novels, most recently, Breaking Illustrations: Cover. She lives in London and Norfolk. Previous Titles: Author now living:

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Bloomsbury JANUARY 2019 The Kinship of Secrets Eugenia Kim

The riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart

Sales points • A beautiful novel full of detailed and moving insight into a fascinating, unexplored period of recent Korean history • For readers of Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson • Inspired by true events, The Kinship of Secrets builds on the story developed in Eugenia Kim's last book, The Calligrapher's Daughter. Together the novels explore sixty years of modern Korean history

Description The riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart In 1948 Najin and Calvin Cho, with their young daughter Miran, travel from South Korea to the United States in search of new opportunities. Wary of the challenges ahead, Najin and Calvin make the difficult decision to leave their other daughter, Inja, behind with their extended family; soon, they hope, they will return to her.

But then war breaks out in Korea, and there is no end in sight to the separation. Miran grows up in prosperous American suburbia, under the shadow of the daughter left behind, as Inja grapples in her war-torn land with ties to a family she doesn't remember. Najin and Calvin desperately seek a reunion with Inja, but are the bonds of love strong enough to reconnect their family over distance, time and war' And as deep family secrets are revealed, will everything they long for be upended'

Told through the alternating perspectives of the distanced sisters, and inspired by a true story, The Kinship of Secrets explores the cruelty of war, the power of hope, and what it means to be a sister.

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781526602848 Eugenia Kim's debut novel, The Calligrapher's Daughter, won the 2009 Borders Original Voices Award, was shortlisted Format: Paperback - Demy format for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was a 2009 Best Historical Novel and Critic's Pick by the Washington Post. A Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages Bennington College MFA graduate, Kim teaches at Fairfield University's MFA Creative Writing Program. She lives in Bic1: Washington, DC. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

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Bloomsbury JANUARY 2019 Fox 8 George Saunders

An enchanting and darkly comic fable of human greed and nature, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, exquisitely illustrated by Chelsea Cardinal

Sales points • An enchanting modern fairytale with a difference, brought to life by Chelsea Cardinal's magical illustrations, Fox 8 will be a Christmas present to treasure for readers of all agesWinner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders is one of the most acclaimed and beloved writers at work today. He has received MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, won the Premio von Rezzori Prize, the inaugural Folio Prize and the PEN/Malamud Prize for excellence in the short story, and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2013, he was named one of the world s 100 most influential people by Time magazineAn international bestseller, Lincoln in the Bardo has sold over 250,000 copies

Description Fox 8 has always been curious, and a bit of a daydreamer. And, by hiding outside houses at dusk and listening to children s bedtime stories, he has learned to speak Yuma . The power of words and the stories built from them is intoxicating for a fox with a poetic soul, but there is‘danju’ on the horizon: a new shopping mall is being built, cutting off his pac’s food supply. To save himself and his fellow foxes, Fox 8 will have to set out on a harrowing quest from the wilds of nature deep into the dark heart of suburbia.

About the Author George Saunders is the author of nine books, including Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the 2017 Man Booker Prize, was shortlisted for the Golden Man Booker Prize, and won the Premio Gregor von Rezzori Prize 2018. Tenth of December was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the inaugural Folio Prize. He has received MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships and the PEN/Malamud Prize for excellence in the short story, and was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2013, he was named one of the world s 100 most influential people by Time magazine. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.Chelsea Cardinal is a graphic designer, Price: AU $21.99 NZ $24.99 illustrator and fashion designer. She grew up on the Canadian prairies, attended the Alberta College of Art + Design, ISBN: 9781526606488 moved to New York in 2005, worked at GQ Magazine for many years and is now freelancing. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 196x129mm Extent: 64 pages Bic1: Illustration Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

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Bloomsbury JANUARY 2019 Edinburgh Alexander Chee

The debut novel, never-before-published in the UK, from bestselling author Alexander Chee, told with the force of a dream and the heft of a life' (Annie Dillard, Publisher's Weekly)

Sales points • The first UK publication of bestselling author Alexander Chee's debut novel (which forms the heart of his essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel) • A haunting, deeply moving story of the reverberations of trauma, the nature of shame and the guilt of survival • For fans of Hanya Yanigahara, Garth Greenwell and Siri Hustvedt

Description Every word makes me ache - Written with exquisite empathy and grace' Roxane Gay

Singularly beautiful and psychologically harrowing - One of the best American novels of this century' Boston Globe

Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys' choir. At their summer camp, situated in an idyllic and secluded lakeside retreat, Fee grapples with his complicated feelings towards his best friend, Peter. But as Fee comes to learn how the director treats his section leaders, he is so ashamed he says nothing of the abuse, not even when Peter is in line to be next. When the director is arrested, Fee tries to forgive himself for his silence. Yet the actions of the director have vast consequences, and in their wake, Fee blames only himself.

In the years that follow he slowly builds a new life, teaching near his hometown. There, he meets a young student who is the picture of Peter and is forced to confront the past he believed was gone.

About the Author Alexander Chee is the bestselling author of the novels The Queen of the Night and Edinburgh. He is a contributing editor Price: AU $19.99 NZ $21.99 at the New Republic, an editor at large at Virginia Quarterly Review, and a critic at large at the Los Angeles Times. His ISBN: 9781526609144 work has appeared in The Best American Essays 2016, The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Guernica, and Tin House, Format: Paperback among others. He is an associate professor of English at Dartmouth College. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages alexanderchee.net Bic1: @alexanderchee Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury JANUARY 2019 Pulse Michael Harvey

Stranger Things meets The Departed. A hugely original thriller, with film rights already snapped up by New Line Cinema

Sales points • Film rights have been sold to New Line Cinema, to be adapted by one of the writers of Stranger Things • A highly original, exciting blend of thriller and science-fiction, perfect for fans of Stephen King • A new standalone novel from the author of the popular Michael Kelly crime series, whose fans include John Grisham, Michael Connelly and Kathy Reichs. Harvey is also a documentary-maker and co-creator of the hit television series Cold Case

Description Stranger Things meets The Departed. A hugely original thriller, with film rights already snapped up by New Line Cinema

Daniel Fitzsimmons seems like an ordinary American teenager. He loves his brother, his friends, his school work. But Daniel has powers. Powers that he does not understand, and is not sure he can control. Daniel can't risk telling those around him what is happening, but when a mysterious stranger offers an insight into what he is experiencing, he becomes Daniel's unofficial mentor. And when a tragedy threatens to derail his life, and with the police growing ever more interested in his past, Daniel's powers will finally come into their own.

About the Author Michael Harvey is the author of The Chicago Way, The Fifth Floor, The Third Rail, We All Fall Down, The Innocence Game, The Governor's Wife and Brighton. He is also a journalist and documentary producer. His work has won numerous national and international awards, including multiple news Emmys, two Primetime Emmy nominations, and an Academy Award nomination. He holds a law degree with honors from Duke University, a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University, and a bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, in classical languages from Holy Cross College. He lives in Chicago. Price: AU $29.99 NZ $52.99 @MichaelHarvey88 ISBN: 9781408895351 michaelharveybooks.com Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury JANUARY 2019 The Dissent of Annie Lang Ros Franey

Impulsive, brave and lovable, Annie Lang is a truly memorable heroine

Sales points • 'The stamp of real talent, a writer who has a genuine feel for her craft' - The Times • Impulsive, brave and lovable, Annie Lang is a truly memorable heroine • For fans of Kate Atkinson, Miriam Toews and Mark Haddon

Description My story starts and ends at railway stations, though of course I can't know this yet as I clamber off the boat-train at Victoria that warm May afternoon - Growing up in a strict religious family in the 1920s, Annie Lang is witness to disturbing events that no one will explain. Only the family dog may know the answers. Six years on, student Annie returns from France to find her beloved brother in a mental hospital and her ally, the Sunday school teacher, vanished without trace. With the help of her childhood diary, and sister Beatrice, Annie turns detective to unearth the truth. Her journey leads to a discovery so disturbing that she believes it will ruin all their lives, unless they can atone for the past. Ros Franey beautifully captures that point when a child can sense, and indeed dissent against, secrets that adults think they are too young to grasp. Impulsive, brave and lovable, Annie Lang is formidable when she takes matters into her own hands.

About the Author Ros Franey grew up in Nottingham where this book is set. She is a maker of award-winning documentaries. Two films about the Guildford 4 and the book she co-authored, Timebomb, contributed to the quashing of their case. This is her second novel; her first, Cry Baby, received excellent reviews. She lives in Camden, North London

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Muswell Press JANUARY 2019 The Rainbow Conspiracy Stuart Hopps

A riveting gay thriller set in the early days of the Aids epidemic

Sales points • For lovers of Milk, Angels in America and Call Me By Your Name • The debut title in Muswell's gay fiction list • This is a good debut novel, that begins with an interesting exploration of love and loss, and develops into a page turning thriller. I read it in one sitting - not wanting to put it down - and it has been a long time since I've been that gripped by a book' Goodreads

Description From a chance encounter with a handsome lifeguard on the beach in Cape Cod, attraction blooms for the young Clive Spoke. The US of the late sixties offers freedoms he has not yet tasted in Britain and ex-Marine Dennis Montrose is happy to oblige. Years later, and now a leading theatrical agent, Clive is devastated to learn of the early death of that first love. Rushing to the US to comfort Dennis' partner he finds there is more to his demise than meets the eye. With his trusty PA Shirley Morris by his side, Clive sets out to investigate and uncovers a devastating and destructive conspiracy aimed at the burgeoning gay community.

About the Author Stuart Hopps is an eminent award-winning choreographer. He has worked on many major feature films with directors such as Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jarman and Ang Lee. He has also produced work for the Royal Opera House and the Welsh National Opera and has taken his own work to the Edinburgh Festival. He lives in Deal, Kent and this is his first novel

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Muswell Press JANUARY 2019 The Syndicate Guy Bolton

THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED NEW THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE PICTURES

Sales points • For fans of Sky series Ray Donovan as well as films Chinatown and L. A. Confidential, this is a bold and powerful noir from an exciting British screenwriter • The hotly anticipated sequel in a series featuring Detective Craine • The author is well connected

Description June 1947 Eight years have passed since the events of The Pictures. Jonathan Craine has left his old life in Hollywood behind him, content to live out his days on a farm in rural California with his teenage son. But when infamous mobster and Las Vegas founder Bugsy Siegel is killed at his home in Beverly Hills, Craine is forced to face his past once again. Summoned to Las Vegas to meet mob head Meyer Lansky, Craine is given the impossible task of finding Siegel's murderers. He has no access to crime reports, no police contacts and no one to help in his investigation other than an ageing hit man and a female crime reporter with her own agenda. But Lanksy's orders aren't to be ignored; if Craine can't find Siegel's murderers in five days, he and his son will both be killed.

About the Author Guy Bolton lives in London and has worked in publishing, film and television. He currently works in drama at the BBC. Guy is also a screenwriter whose work has been optioned by Bedlam Productions, Hat Trick and Tiger Aspect. The Pictures is his first novel. Last year it was short-listed in the Telegraph Harvill Secker crime writing competition.

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Oneworld JANUARY 2019 The Pictures Guy Bolton

Murder is his business. An exhilarating new talent, Guy Bolton's unforgettable 1930s Hollywood fixer moves within the dark recesses of the film business to electrifying effect.

Sales points • For fans of Sky series Ray Donovan as well as films Chinatown and L. A. Confidential, this is a bold and powerful noir from an exciting British screenwriter • The opener to a series featuring Detective Craine

Description World-weary Jonathan Craine is a detective at the LAPD who has spent his entire career as a studio fixer', covering up crimes of the studio players to protect the billion-dollar industry that built Los Angeles. When one of the producers of The Wizard of Oz is found dead under suspicious circumstances, Craine must make sure the incident passes without scandal and that the deceased's widow, the beautiful starlet Gale Goodwin, comes through the ordeal with her reputation unscathed. But against his better instincts, Craine finds himself increasingly drawn to Gale. And when a series of unsavoury truths begin to surface, Craine finds himself at the centre of a conspiracy involving a Chicago crime syndicate, a prostitution racket and a set of stolen pictures that could hold the key to unravelling the mystery.

About the Author Guy Bolton lives in London and has worked in publishing, film and television. He currently works in drama at the BBC. Guy is also a screenwriter whose work has been optioned by Bedlam Productions, Hat Trick and Tiger Aspect. The Pictures is his first novel. Last year it was shortlisted in the Telegraph Harvill Secker crime writing competition.

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Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Tirzah and the Prince of Crows Deboray Kay Davies

A hauntingly beautiful coming-of-age tale set in the Welsh valleys of the 1970s

Sales points • The second novel by Deborah Kay Davies, acclaimed writer of Reasons She Goes to the Woods • Reasons She Goes to the Woods was widely reviewed and was shortlisted for the Encore Award and longlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction

Description Brought up by a staunchly religious family, Tirzah has always lived quite a sheltered life in the Welsh Valleys. As she reaches her teenage years, she begins to question her upbringing and her values, moving for the first time beyond the narrow confines of the world she knows. She begins a relationship with Osian, a local boy, but the guilt of their secret relationship weighs on them both heavily and they are soon forced to go their separate ways. Tirzah turns to the forest for comfort, where she finds another lost soul, a boy named BrA n. As they try and find their way in the world, things take an unexpected turn and Tirzah finds herself experiencing things she could never have imagined. Tirzah and the Prince of Crows is an immersive, layered and powerful novel from acclaimed writer Deborah Kay Davies.

About the Author Deborah Kay Davies won the Wales Book of the Year 2009 award with her first work of fiction, the short story collection Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful. When her debut novel, True Things About Me, came out in 2010, she was selected by BBC TV as one of the 12 best new British novelists. And when the novel was published in New York in 2011, Lionel Shriver chose it as her personal book of the year. She lives in Cardiff.

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Oneworld JANUARY 2019 A Tiding of Magpies Steve Burrows

It is in the silent spaces between the facts that the truth often lies.

Sales points • Birder Murder series opener A SIEGE OF BITTERNS won the Arthur Ellis Award and was shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writers Award • The Birder Murder series is set in Britain's prime birding country in Norfolk • The fifth instalment of the popular Birder Murder series

Description When his most celebrated case is suddenly reopened, Detective Chief Inspector Jejeune s long-buried secrets threaten to come to light. Meanwhile, his girlfriend, Lindy, faces an unseen threat of her own, one which Jejeune may not be able to protect her from. Between fending off inquiries from the internal review and an open murder case to solve, more than ever Jejeune will have to rely on the help of the stalwart Sergeant Danny Maik. But Maik is learning things on his own that have caused him to question his DCI s actions, both past and present. In the current case, and in the former one, the facts seem clear enough. But it is in the silent spaces between the facts that the truth is often found.

About the Author Steve Burrows has pursued his birdwatching hobby on six continents. He is a former editor of the Hong Kong Bird Watching Society magazine and a contributing field editor for Asian Geographic. Steve now lives with his wife, Resa, in Oshawa, Ontario.

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Oneworld JANUARY 2019 The House of Impossible Beauties Joseph Cassara

A gritty and gorgeous debut inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza made famous by the seminal documentary Paris Is Burning

Sales points • A heart-wrenching, gritty and gorgeous novel about an unconventional family in this case, a family of unforgettable transgender, gay and trick-turning New Yorkers • Inspired in part by Jennie Livingston's critically acclaimed documentary Paris is Burning a behind-the-scene glimpse at the golden age of New York Drag Balls • Studio 54 meets Tangerine meets Nan Goldin a novel that has massive potential for cross promotion in the visual arts, fashion, dance and music worlds • Editor of the Year Juliet Mabey's Man Booker entry and lead title for Spring 2018

Description A gritty and gorgeous debut that follows a cast of gay and transgender club kids navigating the Harlem ballroom scene of the 1980s and '90s, inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza made famous by the seminal documentary Paris Is Burning It's 1980 in New York City, and nowhere is the city's glamour and energy better reflected than in the burgeoning Harlem ballroom scene, where seventeen-year-old Angel first comes into her own. Burned by her traumatic past, Angel is new to the drag world, and has a yearning to help create a family for those without. When she falls in love with Hector, a beautiful young man who dreams of becoming a professional dancer, the two decide to form the House of Xtravaganza, the first- ever all-Latino house in the ballroom circuit. Into the house come Venus, a whip-smart trans girl who dreams of finding a rich man to take care of her; Juanito, a quiet boy who loves fabrics and design; and Daniel, a butch queen who accidentally saves Venus' life. The Xtravaganzas must learn to navigate sex work, addiction and persistent abuse, leaning on each other as bulwarks against a world that resists them. All are ambitious, resilient and determined to control their own fates, even as they hurtle toward devastating consequences. Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 Told in a voice that brims with wit, rage, tenderness, and fierce yearning, The House of Impossible Beauties is a tragic ISBN: 9781786074409 story of love, family, and the dynamism of the human spirit. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 416 pages About the Author Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Joseph Cassara was born and raised in New Jersey. He holds degrees from Columbia University and the Iowa Writers' Bic2: Workshop and has been a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Centre in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The House of Illustrations: Impossible Beauties is his first novel. He lives in Iowa. Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Kintu Jennifer Nansubuha Makumbi

An award-winning debut that vividly reimagines Uganda's troubled history through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan

Sales points • The debut novel from the winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize • Longlisted for the Etisalat Prize for Debut African Fiction • Selected by Publishers Weekly as One of the Best Books of 2017' in the US the author has earned comparisons to Marlon James and Yaa Gyasi • The author lives in the UK and will be available for interview on publication

Description 'A soaring and sublime epic. One of those great stories that was just waiting to be told.' (Marlon James, Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings)

The year is 1750. As he makes his way to the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the Buganda Kingdom, Kintu Kidda unleashes a curse that will plague his family for generations. As the centuries pass, the tale moves down the bloodline, exploring the lives of four of Kintu Kidda's descendants. Although the family members all have their own stories and live in very different circumstances, they are united by one thing the struggle to break free from the curse and escape the burden of their family's past. Blending Ganda oral tradition, myth, folktale and history, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi has brought to life an extraordinarily colourful cast of characters to produce a powerful epic a modern classic.

About the Author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, a Ugandan novelist and short story writer, has a PhD from Lancaster University. Her first novel, Kintu, won the Kwani' Manuscript Project in 2013 and was longlisted for the Etisalat Prize in 2014. Her story Let's Tell This Story Properly' won the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Makumbi lives in Manchester with her husband, Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 Damian, and her son, Jordan. ISBN: 9781786074430 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 All the Tears in China Sulari Gentill

The new book in The Rowland Sinclair Mysteries

Sales points • Davitt Award winning crime series. • Sulari is well-loved in the literary community attending a huge number of events and festivals all year round. Over 20,000 Rowland Sinclair Mysteries have now been sold. • 12-month marketing plan will start in the second half of 2018 designed to introduce new fans into the series. • Major marketing campaign for the new book will hit in January 2019 and Sulari will embark on a national tour.

Description Shanghai in 1935 is a 20th century Babylon, an expatriate playground where fortunes are made and lost, where East and West collide, and the stakes include life itself. Into this cultural melting pot, Rowland Sinclair arrives from Sydney to represent his brother at international wool negotiations. The black sheep of the family, Rowland is under strict instructions to commit to nothing - but a brutal murder makes that impossible. As suspicion falls on him, Rowland enters a desperate bid to find answers in a city ruled by taipans and tycoons, where politics and vice are entwined with commerce, and where the only people he can truly trust are an artist, a poet and a free-spirited sculptress. All the Tears in China throws a classic murder mystery into a glitzy, glamourous, tawdry and dangerous world, entrancing both new and old readers.

About the Author Award-wining author Sulari Gentill set out to study astrophysics, graduated in law, and then abandoned her legal career to write books instead of contracts. Born in Sri Lanka, Sulari learned to speak English in Zambia, grew up in Brisbane and now lives in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains of NSW where, with her historian husband, she grows French black truffles, cares for a variety of animals and raises two wild colonial boys. Sulari also paints, but only well enough to know

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BLM Pantera JANUARY 2019 A Dangerous Language Sulari Gentill

When a Communist agent is murdered on the steps of Parliament House, Rowland Sinclair finds himself drawn into a dangerous world of politics and assassination.

Sales points • A glorious repackage of the Rowland Sinclair Mysteries from Australian author Sulari Gentill, featuring all-new art deco covers • A new Rowland Sinclair Mystery, A Dangerous Language, follows in October • Supported by an extensive marketing and PR campaign, with colourful dumpbins, posters and bookmarks available for stores

Description Volunteering his services as a pilot to fly renowned international peace advocate Egon Kisch between Fremantle and Melbourne, Rowland is unaware how hard Australia's new attorney-general will fight to keep the raging reporter off Australian soil.

In this, it seems, the government is not alone, as clandestine right-wing militias reconstitute into deadly strike forces. A disgraced minister, an unidentified corpse and an old flame all bring their own special bedlam. Once again Rowland Sinclair stands against the unthinkable, with an artist, a poet and a brazen sculptress by his side.

About the Author Award-wining author Sulari Gentill set out to study astrophysics, graduated in law, and then abandoned her legal career to write books instead of contracts. Born in Sri Lanka, Sulari learned to speak English in Zambia, grew up in Brisbane and now lives in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains of NSW where, with her historian husband, she grows French black truffles, cares for a variety of animals and raises two wild colonial boys. Sulari also paints, but only well enough to know she should write, preferably in her pyjamas.

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BLM Pantera JANUARY 2019 Where to Find Me Alba Arikha

A gripping and poignant tale of chance encounters, tangled lies and painful discoveries, Where to Find Me is an inspiring account of how to face and overcome the effects of loss and tragedy in our daily lives.

Sales points • A long-awaited new novel by the acclaimed author of Soon • A poignant tale about identity, loss and rebirth, which will appeal to all fans of Julian Barnes's Levels of Life, or Ian McEwan's Atonement or Louis de Bernieres's Captain Corelli's Mandolin • Extensive review coverage, author events and media exposure guaranteed • A book which deals with themes of culture clash; it has a strong sense of place, and is written in a very terse and direct way

Description Hannah Karalis, a teenager living with her family in 1980s Notting Hill, becomes fascinated by her neighbour, Flora Dobbs, an enigmatic elderly woman who has clearly had an interesting past but the improbable friendship that the two strike up is abruptly cut short by Flora's sudden departure from the neighbourhood. Eighteen years later, Hannah is astonished to receive a black notebook, which sets her on a quest to discover the truth and to confront the ghosts of an unresolved past. A gripping and poignant tale of chance encounters, tangled lies and painful discoveries, Where to Find Me is an inspiring account of how to face and overcome the effects of loss and tragedy in our daily lives.

About the Author Alba Arikha is the author of four books: Muse and Walking on Ice, published by Macmillan in 1998 and 2000. Her memoir, Major/Minor, about her adolescence in Paris, was published by Quartet Books, shortlisted for the Spear's Award and selected among the best books of 2012 by The New Yorker. Her last book, a narrative poem, Soon, was set to music and performed as an opera at the Riverside Studios, London. In addition to her books, Alba is also a singer-songwriter, has performed in London and Paris and recorded two CDs. Price: AU $27.99 NZ $29.99 ISBN: 9781846884481 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Alma Books JANUARY 2019 Lyrics Volume 2 Alexander Pushkin

The founding father of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted a long-lasting influence well beyond the borders of his motherland. A slightly lesser-known aspect of his writing is his vast production of shorter verse, a genre at which he excelled and arguably still remains unsurpassed.

Sales points • Beautifully packaged • Second volume in the new Alma Classics' Pushkin Lyrics series • Follows the success of the new editions of Pushkin's works: Ruslan and Lyudmila, Boris Godunov, The Captain's Daughter and The Queen of Spades • Translated by a board of acclaimed translators

Description The founding father of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted through his novel in verse Eugene Onegin, his plays, his short stories and his narrative poetry a long-lasting influence well beyond the borders of his motherland. A slightly lesser-known, but by no mean less important aspect of his writing is his vast production of shorter verse, a genre at which he excelled and arguably still remains unsurpassed. This volume, part of Alma's series of the complete poetic works of Alexander Pushkin, collects the poems Pushkin wrote during his time in St Petersburg as a young intellectual and his subsequent stay in the Caucasus and the Crimea, and includes many significant poems of his early maturity, such as My Homeland', Something or Nothing'' and A Storm', each presented in a verse translation opposite the original Russian text. Enriched with notes, pictures and an appendix on Pushkin's life and works, this will be essential reading for anyone wishing to delve deeper into the Russian bard's genius.

About the Author Alexander Pushkin (1799 1837) was a dramatist and poet, penning such influential works as Eugene Onegin and Boris Godunov. He is now considered the father of modern Russian literature.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781847497321 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 448 pages Bic1: Poetry by individual poets Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Alma Classics JANUARY 2019 Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender Is the Night is at once a scathing critique of the materialism and hypocrisy of the Roaring Twenties and a poignant and sensitive account of personal tragedy and disillusionment.

Sales points • Contains extensive notes and extra material on the author's life and works

Description While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple, meet the young film star Rosemary Hoyt. Her arrival causes a stir in their social circle and exposes the cracks in their fragile marriage. As their relationship unravels, glimpses of their troubled past emerge, and a series of disturbing events unfolds. Peopled by an unforgettable cast of aristocrats and high-fliers, Tender Is the Night is at once a scathing critique of the materialism and hypocrisy of the Roaring Twenties and a poignant and sensitive account of personal tragedy and disillusionment.

About the Author Considered one of the finest American writers of the twentieth century, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 1940) was the author of various novels and short stories chronicling life in the US during the Roaring Twenties.

Price: AU $9.99 NZ $12.99 ISBN: 9781847497383 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Alma Classics JANUARY 2019 The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer

Unfinished at the time of his death, The Canterbury Tales is widely regarded as Chaucer's masterpiece and one of the greatest and most influential works in English literature.

Sales points • Part of Alma Classics' Evergreen series, The Canterbury Tales are here presented in their original Middle-English • Contains a wealth of material and a substantial number of notes • Ideal for students

Description And specially from every shires ende Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende, The hooly blisful martir for to seke, That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke. Assembling at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, twenty-nine pilgrims begin their journey to Canterbury Cathedral. To entertain themselves on their long road, their host suggests that they regale each other with stories, with the teller of the best tale set to earn a free supper. The pilgrims correspond to all sections of medieval society, from the crusading knight to the drunken cook, and their tales span a range of genres, including the comic ribaldry and deception of The Miller's Tale' and the story of chivalry and courtly romance told by the Franklin. Unfinished at the time of his death, The Canterbury Tales is widely regarded as Chaucer's masterpiece and one of the greatest and most influential works in English literature.

About the Author Considered the father of English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340 1400) led a fascinating life that included being imprisoned and ransomed in France and embarking on a host of diplomatic missions that took him across Europe and exposed him to new literary influences. Best known for Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer was the first poet to be buried in Westminster Abbey. Price: AU $12.99 NZ $36.99 ISBN: 9781847497413 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 528 pages Bic1: Poetry by individual poets Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Alma Classics JANUARY 2019 The Mill on the Floss George Eliot

Tragic and affecting, and drawing heavily on George Eliot's own rural upbringing and relationship with her brother, The Mill on the Floss is one of literature's finest evocations of childhood and adolescence, and introduces, in Maggie Tulliver, one of the most beloved heroines in the English canon.

Sales points • Part of Alma Classics' Evergreen series, The Mill on the Floss is the perfect companion to Alma Classics edition of Middlemarch • Beautifully presented and competitively priced • Contains extra material about the author's life and works, notes and bibliographic information

Description Those bitter sorrows of childhood! When sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless. Raised in the idyllic setting of Dorlcote Mill, the wild and wilful Maggie Tulliver adores her elder brother Tom and is forever trying to gain the approbation of her parents. Yet, as she grows older and the family struggle under the weight of severe pecuniary difficulties, she becomes increasingly caught between the divergent expectations of the four men in her life: a doting father, an obdurate and vengeful brother, a good-looking and frivolous suitor and an earnest old playmate who happens to be the son of her father and brother's sworn enemy. Tragic and affecting, and drawing heavily on George Eliot's own rural upbringing and relationship with her brother, The Mill on the Floss is one of literature's finest evocations of childhood and adolescence, and introduces, in Maggie Tulliver, one of the most beloved heroines in the English canon.

About the Author Mary Ann Evans (1819 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their realism and psychological insight. Middlemarch is her masterpiece. Price: AU $12.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781847497420 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 560 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Alma Classics JANUARY 2019 Life in the Country Giovanni Verga

Also including the well-known stories She-Wolf' and Foxfur', Life in the Country captures, in an objective, non-judgemental prose, the difficult conditions and personal struggles of the peasant class in his native Sicily at the turn of the twentieth century.

Sales points • Part of Alma Classics' new series 101 Pages Life in the Country is one of the most popular short story collection in Italian literature • Only single-volume edition available • Significant work to introduce readers to one of the masters of European Realism

Description Published in 1880, one year before Verga's influential novel The Malavoglias, Life in the Country first marked his stylistic shift towards the verismo school of Italian realism. The collection's centrepiece, Rustic Honour' ( Cavalleria rusticana') which was famously adapted into a play by the author before becoming an opera by Mascagni tells the tale of Turiddu, a poor young man who returns from military service and finds himself embroiled in adultery and a feud with a rival. Also including the well-known stories She-Wolf' and Foxfur', Life in the Country captures, in an objective, non- judgemental prose, the difficult conditions and personal struggles of the peasant class in his native Sicily at the turn of the twentieth century.

About the Author Giovanni Verga (1840 1922) was an Italian novelist, short-story writer and playwright, celebrated for realistic depictions of rural Sicily in the newly unified Italy.

Price: AU $12.99 NZ $14.99 ISBN: 9781847497710 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 114 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Alma Classics JANUARY 2019 The Single Hound Emily Dickinson

This volume, containing some of Dickinson's most original and poignant pieces, helped cement her reputation as one of America's most important poets. Sparse and experimental, yet accessible and intimate, the compositions included in The Single Hound provide an ideal introduction to Dickinson's genius.

Sales points • Part of Alma Classics' new series 101 Pages The Single Hound is a selection of one of the finest Dickinson's poetry • Unique edition • Contains extra material which will make this edition ideal for students

Description When Emily Dickinson died in 1886, having published only a tiny selection of her verse anonymously in journals and newspapers, she left behind a chest containing almost 1,800 poems written on notebooks and loose sheets. Her family members, starting with her sister Lavinia, began editing and compiling them for publication, and one of the most celebrated collections, The Single Hound, was prepared by her niece Martha Dickinson Bianchi and published in 1914. This volume, containing some of Dickinson's most original and poignant pieces, helped cement her reputation as one of America's most important poets. Sparse and experimental, yet accessible and intimate, the compositions included in The Single Hound provide an ideal introduction to Dickinson's genius.

About the Author Hailing from a prominent and well-to-do Massachusetts family, Emily Dickinson (1830 66) chose to live a reclusive life, and her poetic achievements were only recognized after her death.

Price: AU $12.99 NZ $54.99 ISBN: 9781847497727 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 114 pages Bic1: Poetry by individual poets Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Alma Classics JANUARY 2019 Colonel Chabert Honor de Balzac

Part of Balzac's La Comedie humaine cycle, Colonel Chabert is a poignant tale about the pursuit of justice, as well as a portrait of France's transition from the Napoleonic Empire to the Restoration. Inspired by actual events, the novella has captured the imagination of generations of readers and has been adapted for the stage and screen numerous times.

Sales points • Part of Alma Classics' new series 101 Pages Colonel Chabert is a literary gem by the most prolific French writer • Excellent introduction to the writings of the author of the monumental Comedie Humaine • Translated by critically acclaimed translator Andrew Brown

Description An old man arrives at the offices of the lawyer Derville, claiming to be Colonel Chabert, a hero of the Napoleonic Wars who was left for dead on the battlefield, but in fact managed to survive under a pile of corpses before spending years as a recovering amnesiac. Having returned to Paris and discovered that his wife has married an aristocrat who has liquidated all his assets, Chabert enlists the help of Derville to recover both his name and his fortune. Part of Balzac's La Comedie humaine cycle, Colonel Chabert is a poignant tale about the pursuit of justice, as well as a portrait of France's transition from the Napoleonic Empire to the Restoration. Inspired by actual events, the novella has captured the imagination of generations of readers and has been adapted for the stage and screen numerous times.

About the Author The French author and journalist Honore de Balzac (1799 1850), best known for his La Comedie humaine, his vast series of novels and other prose pieces, is considered one of the most influential writers of the nineteenth century.

Price: AU $12.99 NZ $14.99 ISBN: 9781847497734 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 114 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Alma Classics JANUARY 2019 A Perfect Hoax Italo Svevo

In this tragicomic study of deception and disappointment, Italo Svevo who himself was an undiscovered writer until his old age parodies elements of his own life and offers an insightful psychological portrait of a person who has lost touch with reality.

Sales points • Part of Alma Classics' new series 101 Pages A Perfect Hoax is a literary gem by one of the most famous authors of 20th century Italian literature • Only edition in print • Described by the TLS as an elegant and hilarious funny story'

Description Travelling salesman Enrico Gaia decides to play a trick on the conceited ageing litterateur Mario Samigli: he dupes him into thinking that a representative of a prestigious Viennese publishing house wants to commission a German translation of a long-forgotten novel Samigli had written and published at his own expense forty years ago. This leads the old man to reach new heights of self-delusion, spurred on by Gaia's succession of ruses. In this tragicomic study of deception and disappointment, Italo Svevo who himself was an undiscovered writer until his old age parodies elements of his own life and offers an insightful psychological portrait of a person who has lost touch with reality.

About the Author Born in Trieste in 1861, Italo Svevo worked for a family paint business for most of his life and was unknown as a writer until the 1923 publication thanks in part to the efforts of James Joyce of Zeno's Conscience, which is now considered a classic of Italian fiction.

Price: AU $12.99 NZ $14.99 ISBN: 9781847497758 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 114 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Alma Classics JANUARY 2019 The Berenger Plays Eugene Ionesco

While each play in the Berenger cycle is unique, they are all prime examples of Ionesco's conception of the theatre of the absurd, and touch on themes that preoccupied Ionesco throughout his career, such as mortality, alienation, freedom and the evils of Fascism. This volume constitutes a perfect introduction to one of the twentieth century's most original and influential playwrights.

Sales points • Unique edition to contain all The Berenger Plays • This volume constitutes a perfect introduction to one of the twentieth century's most original and influential playwrights. • Contains notes

Description This collection brings together the four plays that feature Ionesco's everyman protagonist Jean Berenger. In The Killer', he comes across a radiant city , an ideal civilization which is unfortunately being terrorized by a killer, whom he decides to track down and dissuade from committing any further crimes. In Rhinoceros', he is the only person in a provincial town who is resisting rhinoceritis , an affliction that turn its victims into the eponymous horned beasts. In Exit the King', he is the powerful King Berenger the First, who refuses to acknowledge that he is dying. And in Strolling in the Air', he acquires the capacity of flight and discovers that the celestial vault is held up by a gigantic pink pillar. While each play in the Berenger cycle is unique, they are all prime examples of Ionesco's conception of the theatre of the absurd, and touch on themes that preoccupied Ionesco throughout his career, such as mortality, alienation, freedom and the evils of Fascism. This volume constitutes a perfect introduction to one of the twentieth century's most original and influential playwrights.

About the Author Born in Romania, Eugene Ionesco (1909 94) became one of France's foremost practitioners of avant-garde theatre.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9780714548487 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Alma Classics JANUARY 2019 Six Plays Luigi Pirandello

Preoccupied with the nature of truth and delusion, and treading dangerously on the borderline between sanity and madness, Pirandello's plays are a daring exploration of human actions and the dark motives lying behind them, and the culmination of the naturalistic school of theatre inaugurated by authors such as Ibsen and Chekhov.

Sales points • Unique edition to include all the best plays by the Italian playwright • Ideal for drama students • Contains notes

Description This selection of plays by Luigi Pirandello contains some of his best-known works, such as Six Characters in Search of an Author an absurdist piece in which the characters, actors and Pirandello himself interact during the rehearsal of a fictional play within the play and Henry IV a tragicomic tale of a man who falls from a horse and believes himself to be the eponymous Holy Roman Emperor. Preoccupied with the nature of truth and delusion, and treading dangerously on the borderline between sanity and madness, Pirandello's plays are a daring exploration of human actions and the dark motives lying behind them, and the culmination of the naturalistic school of theatre inaugurated by authors such as Ibsen and Chekhov.

About the Author Born in Sicily, Luigi Pirandello (1867 1936) studied as a philologist before becoming an acclaimed writer of both drama and fiction. One of the most innovative and influential playwrights of the last century, he is best known for his comic masterpiece Six Characters in Search of an Author, and was the winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $26.99 ISBN: 9780714548494 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Alma Classics JANUARY 2019 Impressions of Africa Raymond Roussel

A veritable literary melting pot, Roussel's groundbreaking text makes ample use of wordplay and the surrealist techniques of automatic writing and private allusion.

Sales points • Part of the newly lunched Calder Publications imprint • One of the major prose works by surrealist Raymond Roussel

Description The first of Roussel's two major prose works, Impressions of Africa is not, as the title may suggest, a conventional travel account, but an adventure story put together in a highly individual fashion and with an unusual time sequence, whereby the reader is even made to choose whether to begin with the first or the tenth chapter. A veritable literary melting pot, Roussel's groundbreaking text makes ample use of wordplay and the surrealist techniques of automatic writing and private allusion.

About the Author Raymond Roussel (1877 1933) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, chess enthusiast, neurasthenic and drug addict. Through his novels, poems and plays he exerted a profound influence on certain groups within 20th-century French literature, including the Surrealists, Oulipo and the authors of the Nouveau Roman.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9780714548586 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Alma Classics JANUARY 2019 Pollen Street Jason Atherton

Celebrating his iconic, award-winning London restaurant, Jason Atherton presents his favourite Pollen Street recipes in this beautiful collection

Sales points • An iconic book for an iconic London restaurant • Celebrating the very best the restaurant offers its patrons • Beautifully illustrated with specially commissioned photography of the dishes as well as the suppliers from across the UK

Description Discover the ingenious recipes and unrivalled attention to detail that made Pollen Street Social a name in the restaurant world, and follow the remarkable journey of a chef who took a risk to fulfil his dreams. Pollen Street Social is more than just a restaurant. Now, in this extraordinary book by the man who made it a reality, you will find out why. This stunning book showcases the very best recipes from the acclaimed Pollen Street Social, Jason Atherton's award- winning London restaurant. Opening in 2011, Pollen Street Social was awarded a coveted Michelin star just six months after opening, and the accolades and awards have continued ever since, and these pages highlight exactly why. The eponymous restaurant is famed for using the very best and freshest produce, and, following the seasons, Jason and his team take inspiration from the suppliers who put their heart and soul into producing the ingredients that form the dishes. With this focus on the importance of his suppliers running throughout, this book also details Jason's journey and his passion for every dish on the menu. The dishes featured range from canapes and afternoon tea to recipes such as Fruits of the Sea, Cartmel Valley Venison Loin and Pistachio Souffle, each of which is beautifully photographed by John Carey. Jason is a marvellous chef that feeds the soul and leads the way for many young chefs, demonstrating what it is to be a chef in the 21st century. Ferran Adria Jason has mastered the art of creating social places, where people feel good and eat well, and which could be seen as the essence of deformalised dining. A visionary in his own right with a clear grasp of today's international restaurant Price: AU $85.00 NZ $92.99 scene. Alain Ducasse ISBN: 9781472905574 Jason Atherton is a realist not a fantasist. He has turned his dreams into reality. Marco Pierre White Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 400 pages About the Author Bic1: TV / celebrity chef cookbooks Having worked under Pierre Koffmann, Nico Ladenis and Marco Pierre White, Jason Atherton ran Verre and Maze for Bic2: Gordon Ramsay before opening his own incredible fine-dining empire. Jason's not only a world-class culinary alchemist, Illustrations: but also featured in national newspapers, magazines and TV series, most recently as the host of Great British Menu and Previous Titles: Author now living: My Kitchen Rules. jasonatherton.co.uk / @_JasonAtherton

Absolute Press JANUARY 2019 Pollen Street 10 Copy Pack

Contains 10 copies of Pollen Street, plus free reading copy.

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Bloomsbury JANUARY 2019 How to Write an Autobiographical Novel Alexander Chee

A memoir in essays, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel explores bestselling author Alexander Chee's education as a man, writer and activist and how we form our identities in life and in art

Sales points • A memoir in essays, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel explores Alexander Chee's formative years, and how his myriad identities: as a queer man, artist, activist, Korean American intersect to form a single, beautiful whole • A paean to the act of writing as sustenance, a way of looking at the world, and a way to work through it examining not only how to write, but why we write • Chee covers a wide range of topics with formal elegance and hard-won wisdom, from his sexual awakening on a class trip to Mexico, to his first experience of drag, from AIDS activism during the height of the epidemic, to growing a rose garden in Brooklyn, NY • For fans of Hilton Als, Teju Cole, Deborah Levy, Derek Jarman and Olivia Laing

Description These essays feel like a life's wisdom its hurts, joys and redemptions salvaged from a great fire - This book makes me feel possible' Ocean Vuong Wonderful' Rebecca Solnit

Alexander Chee is brilliant and brave in equal measure - An essential book' Garth Greenwell As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as masterful' by Roxane Gay, incendiary' by the New York Times, and brilliant' by the Washington Post. With How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, his first collection of nonfiction, he secures his place as one of the finest essayists of his generation.

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author's exploration of the entangling of life, literature and politics, and how the lessons learned from a life spent reading and writing fiction have changed him. In these interconnected essays he constructs a self, growing from student to teacher, reader to writer, and reckoning with his identities as a son, a gay man, Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 a Korean American, an artist, an activist, a lover and a friend. He examines some of the most formative experiences of his ISBN: 9781526609113 life and America's history, including his father's death, the AIDS crisis, 9/11, the jobs that supported his writing Tarot- Format: Paperback reading, bookselling, cater-waiting for William F. Buckley the writing of his first novel, Edinburgh, and the election of Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Donald Trump. Bic1: Bic2: By turns commanding, heartbreaking and wry, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel asks questions about how we Illustrations: create ourselves in life and in art, and how to fight when our dearest truths are under attack. Previous Titles: Author now living: About the Author Alexander Chee is the bestselling author of the novels The Queen of the Night and Edinburgh. He is a contributing editor at the New Republic, an editor at large at Virginia Quarterly Review, and a critic at large at the Los Angeles Times. His Bloomsbury JANUARY 2019 The Doomsday Machine Daniel Ellsberg

From the legendary Pentagon Papers whistle-blower, an eyewitness expose of America's Top Secret, seventy- year nuclear policy that continues to this day.

Sales points • A shocking new expose from the iconic whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers: The first book ever to reveal, from an insider's perspective, the potentially disastrous risk-taking of U.S. nuclear policy, from the 1950s to today, and the system of secrecy that hides these dangers from public scrutiny. • In-demand, award-winning author: Ellsberg has been featured as an expert commentator by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Hannity the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize was recently awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. The Doomsday Machine speaks to this climate by revealing not only how we arrived at this crisis, but also how we can move toward disarmament.

Description Shortlisted for the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction

From the legendary Pentagon Papers whistle-blower, an eyewitness expose of America's Top Secret, seventy-year nuclear policy that continues to this day.

Here, for the first time, former high-level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking firsthand account of America's nuclear program in the 1960s. From the remotest air bases in the Pacific Command, where he discovered that the authority to initiate use of nuclear weapons was widely delegated, to the secret plans for general nuclear war under Eisenhower, which, if executed, would cause the near-extinction of humanity, Ellsberg shows that the legacy of this most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization--and its proposed renewal under the Trump administration--threatens our very survival. No other insider with high-level access has written so candidly of the nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower and early Kennedy years, and nothing has fundamentally changed since that era. Framed as a memoir--a chronicle of madness in which Ellsberg acknowledges participating--this gripping expose reads Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 like a thriller and offers feasible steps we can take to dismantle the existing 'doomsday machine' and avoid nuclear ISBN: 9781608196739 catastrophe, returning Ellsberg to his role as whistle-blower. The Doomsday Machine is thus a real-life Dr. Strangelove Format: Paperback story and an ultimately hopeful--and powerfully important--book about not just our country, but the future of the world. Dimensions: 242x166mm Extent: 432 pages Bic1: General cookery & recipes About the Author Bic2: In 1961, Daniel Ellsberg, a consultant to the White House, drafted Secretary Robert McNamara's plans for nuclear war. Illustrations: Later he leaked the Pentagon Papers. A senior fellow of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, he is the author of Secrets Previous Titles: Author now living: and the subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary The Most Dangerous Man in America. He is also a key figure in Steven Spielberg's film about the Pentagon Papers, The Post. He lives in Kensington, California, with his wife, Patricia.

BLM Press JANUARY 2019 Reading the Rocks Brenda Maddox

A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people who were first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history.

Sales points • The first group history for the trade market of this fascinating group of people and the times in which they flourished • Will appeal to fans of Jenny Uglow's The Pinecone and The Lunar Men and Richard Holmes's The Age of Wonder and Falling Upwards • The book travels far and wide within Britain, from the Scottish Highlands to the banks of the River Wye, from the Pembrokeshire Coast to the libraries and clubs of London • The first geologists were superb and prolific letter writers, leaving behind a wealth of primary material from which Brenda Maddox has drawn a comprehensive understanding of the people and their times and culture.

Description A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people who were first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history. These first geologists were made up primarily, and inevitably, of gentlemen with the necessary wealth to support their interests, yet boosting their numbers, expanding their learning and increasing their findings were clergymen, academics and women. This lively and eclectic collection of characters brought passion, eccentricity and towering intellect to geology and Brenda Maddox in Reading the Rocks does them full justice, bringing them to vivid life. The new science of geology was pursued by this assorted band because it opened a window on Earth's ancient past. They showed great courage in facing the conflict between geology and Genesis that immediately presented itself: for the rocks and fossils being dug up showed that the Earth was immeasurably old, rather than springing from a creation made in the six days that the Bible claimed. It is no coincidence that Charles Darwin was a keen geologist. The individual stories of these first geologists, their hope and fears, triumphs and disappointments, the theological, philosophical and scientific debates their findings provoked, and the way that as a group, they were to change irrevocably Price: AU $27.99 NZ $29.99 and dramatically our understanding of the world is told by Brenda Maddox with a storyteller's skill and a fellow scientist's ISBN: 9781408879559 understanding. The effect is absorbing, revelatory and strikingly original. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages About the Author Bic1: General & world history Born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Brenda Maddox graduated from Harvard University (then Radcliffe) before moving Bic2: to Britain to study at the London School of Economics. Her biographies have been widely acclaimed and she has won the Illustrations: Los Angeles Times Biography Award, the Silver PEN Award, the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Previous Titles: Author now living: Whitbread Biography Prize. She was previously a senior editor at the Economist, and has also regularly contributed to the BBC, to the New York Times as a critic, and was a longstanding columnist for The Times and the Daily Telegraph. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999 and was member of the Editorial Board of British Journalism Review and a past chairman of the Broadcasting Press Guild; she remains a vice-president of the Hay-on- Bloomsbury JANUARY 2019 A Life Less Lonely Nick Duerden

This book is a call to arms e- the beginning of a national conversation about how we can end the stigma attached to loneliness.

Sales points • Authored by journalist Nick Duerden (author of Get Well Soon) • Loneliness is being discussed more and more in the media • Research shows that being isolated and lonely increases your likelihood of illness and dementia. Isolation and loneliness is costing our society millions of pounds

Description Loneliness has reached the levels of an epidemic. From the bullied child to the new parent, from the pensioner who has outlived friends and family members to teenagers who manage their social lives through the glow of a mobile phone, it can - and does - affect anyone and everyone, irrespective of age, race or class. Many suffer in silence, convinced it's a confession too far, a sign of too much vulnerability, a shameful failing. But the human condition is not a failing. What's it like when loneliness descends' How does it announce itself, and how do you recognise it' Do you discuss it, or conceal it' From where can you seek help' A Life Less Lonely shares stories of loneliness and social isolation, and looks for ways in which we can help one another to future-proof ourselves against this most insidious affliction. By talking to those who suffer from it, and by highlighting the work of those who fight to combat it, the book offers guidance on how to spot the symptoms in yourself and in others, how to connect with those around you, and how, by understanding it all better, we might just set ourselves free from it. In this way, what is an epidemic today might not be one tomorrow.

About the Author Nick Duerden is a writer and freelance journalist. He is the author of two novels and a memoir on fatherhood and has appeared on BBC Radio 4 and 5 and Sky News. He has written widely on the arts, travel and health. He lives in London with his wife and two daughters. He is the author of Get Well Soon (Bloomsbury). Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781472957788 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Self-help & personal development Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

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BLM Green Tree JANUARY 2019 The Mother of All Jobs Christine Armstrong

The Mother of All Jobs is about the battle to make modern working parenting actually work. If not for our own sanity, then perhaps for our children's.

Sales points • Women want to read stories from real women in the workplace and know they're not the only ones limping through a work day hoping the nursery won't call. • Explores the tension between our desire for more senior women and the real costs of working motherhood. • Tapping into the anti- having it all' market • Covers the full parenting spectrum from family planning all the way through to the teenage years • Includes key chapters on single parenting, dads and what is needed from the modern workplace to support modern families

Description It's time for a different conversation about working and parenting. As our working days get ever longer and our phones keep so many of us glued to work, the needs of our children and the world of school and childcare has not changed at all. School summer holidays are still longer than our annual leave. Working mothers everywhere are tearing themselves apart, trying to meet the needs of their children, their relationships and their careers and too often feeling like they are failing. So is there a solution'

When Christine Armstrong became a mother, it never occurred to her that she would want to give up her job. But the truth is, combining work and small kids is hard, and when Christine tried it, she found herself desolate with misery. Determined to find a way forward, she looked for answers by interviewing other working mums and found that she wasn't alone.

The Mother of All Jobs brings together the wisdom of the women who opened up about everything (and we mean everything) into a manifesto for happy professional families. Ignoring the glossy lives presented on social media, this book shows that, while it's not always pretty, working parents can thrive if they have the knowledge others learnt the hard way. Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781472956224 About the Author Format: Paperback - C format Christine Armstrong is a writer, speaker and adviser to business leaders on the future of work. She is a contributing editor Dimensions: 233x154mm Extent: 224 pages of Management Today, has three daughters and is, against her own advice, an active member of the PTA. Bic1: christinearmstrong.com Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

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BLM Green Tree JANUARY 2019 Not Fade Away Celia Dodd

Retirement is about change, not age.

Sales points • Retirement is changing, and over 600,000 people every year retire. This is the must-read manual to survive the upheaval and go into your 60s and 70s prepared • Celia Dodd has a good media profile and will be able to do great media to promote • Fits with our other titles aimed at the older market, for example the Sod series

Description Retirement is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be yourself and do what you want to do. It offers new possibilities for personal growth through learning, retraining, travelling and friendship. But it is also one of the biggest transitions we face, and brings huge psychological and emotional challenges. It's not surprising that many people struggle with the adjustment to a different pace of life. Not Fade Away guides the reader through these challenges: dealing with the loss of status and routine, reinventing relationships, managing money, and above all, finding new meaning and purpose. It brings together expert advice and insights from people retiring now, who speak from the heart about the lessons they've learned and the new sources of fulfilment they've discovered. By cutting a clear path through the maze of choices on offer for people retiring today which may or may not involve giving up work completely Not Fade Away inspires you to make up your own mind and take control of your future. And that, experts agree, is the key to a good retirement.

About the Author Celia Dodd is an author and journalist with over 30 years' experience of contributing features on family, relationships, health and education to national newspapers and magazines, including The Times, the Independent, the Daily Mail and Radio Times. This is Dodd's third book; her previous book was The Empty Nest: how to survive and stay close to your adult child.

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 www.celiadodd.co.uk. ISBN: 9781472951335 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Psychology of ageing Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Green Tree JANUARY 2019 Humane Capital Vlatka Hlupic

Humanize your organization for sustainable success, featuring insights from over 50 leading thinkers and practitioners from around the world

Sales points • Insights from 50 international business leaders, including Mick Yates (VP Procter and Gamble, UK), Steve Denning (former Programme Director at World Bank, USA), Paul Polman (CEO of Unilever, UK/The Netherlands), John Stepper (MD Deutche Bank, USA), Richard Straub (President of the Drucker Society Europe, Austria), and Kalyan Madabhushi (General Manager, Royal Dutch Shell Group, The Netherlands). • Marshall Goldsmith, double winner of Thinkers50 Leadership Award and author, has offered to write a foreword for the book. • Vlatka is an active professional speaker typically speaking at 20+ events a year to over 3,000 attendees and will buy copies to use for her speaking and consultancy work (she trains over 300 staff a year); she will also promote the book to her 5,500 connections on LinkedIn and over 20,000 followers on Twitter and Facebook. • Includes a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Description Featuring a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Despite decades of research and evidence, there is still extreme scepticism that businesses can combine a more humane style of management with superior shareholder returns, or that busy managers can be guided effectively by both their heads and their hearts. Vlatka Hlupic has spent 20 years investigating this paradox, developing an insightful critique of why such strong evidence has had limited impact and providing an alternative, practical approach that any employer can implement in order to overcome the unique challenges faced by their organizations. A clear correlation exists between companies that do well and companies that are good that is to say, organizations that promote goodwill internally and externally, and work proactively with stakeholders, employees, society and customers to achieve those goals. While a 'bad' company can do well, its success is unlikely to be sustainable; Humane Capital explores the steps that businesses need to take in order to become a good' organization that can achieve long-term Price: AU $45.00 NZ $49.99 results. ISBN: 9781472957641 Supported by insights from interviews with 58 leading thinkers and practitioners in the field, Humane Capital argues for a Format: Hard Cover radical reassessment of current business models. Using stories of managers from both the private and public sectors who Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages have been effective in making the transition, Hlupic shows how successful leaders have moved their organizations from Bic1: Working patterns & practices controlled and orderly to enthusiastic and collaborative and shows how current leaders and managers can do the same. Bic2: Illustrations: About the Author Previous Titles: Author now living: Vlatka Hlupic is an international award-winning thought leader. She is Professor of Business and Management at the University of Westminster; Visiting Professor at Birkbeck University of London; a former Adjunct Faculty at London Business School; a consultant/Visiting Faculty for Said Business School and a global faculty member of FT/IE Corporate Learning Alliance. Vlatka is also a founder and CEO of The Management Shift Consulting Ltd and the Drucker Society Bloomsbury Business JANUARY 2019 The Compass and the Radar Paolo Gallo

Readers can find their ideal career by identifying their own moral compass and radar system of values and talent

Sales points • Written by Chief Human Resources Officer at the World Economic Forum (based in Geneva), with associated publicity drive at Davos (early 2018) and subsequent WEF events. • Foreword written by Klaus Schwab, Founder and Chairman of the WEF. • Strong author links to Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (keynote speak at annual conference) and Harvard Business Review.

Description Paolo Gallo offers a unique pathway toward identifying the right career, finding the ideal job and developing a moral compass the solid value system that will then anchor the reader in their professional lives.

With a creative and engaging mix of coaching practice, management theories, case studies and personal story-telling, this book helps readers to identify both their own compass which relates to integrity, passion and internal value systems and radar which helps them to understand organizational complexity and read' workplace dynamics and situations.

The Compass and the Radar is founded on a series of searching questions that will enable anyone to find their compass and radar to achieve personal success: e How can I find out what my real strengths and talents are' e Do I love what I do' e How can I find a job with a company that truly reflects my values' e What are the prices I am willing to pay for a meaningful and rewarding career' e How should I define a successful career' Key chapters offer practical tools, as well as insights on the trade-offs and difficult choices that everyone will need to Price: AU $34.99 NZ $36.99 make at some point in their careers all of which will underline the importance of having the most robust moral compass. ISBN: 9781472958792 In the midst of a volatile and uncertain world, one in which technology, AI and digital resources are transforming the work Format: Hard Cover environment, The Compass and the Radar allows readers to pause, reflect, and consider who they are, what they stand Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages for, and how to remain free. Bic1: Entrepreneurship Bic2: About the Author Illustrations: Over the last 30 years, Paolo Gallo has been Chief Human Resources Officer at the World Economic Forum in Geneva; Previous Titles: Author now living: Chief Learning Officer at The World Bank in Washington DC; and Director of Human Resources at the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development in London.

Paolo is a Chartered Fellow of the FCIPD, UK, and Certified Leadership Coach (Georgetown University, Washington DC). Bloomsbury Business JANUARY 2019 Re:Entrepreneuring Charles-Edoard Bouee

Shows how organizations must re-invigorate entrepreneurial spirit at all levels to create new value and stay ahead in turbulent times

Sales points • Marketing and PR support across Europe and around the world from Roland Berger. • Topical subject area for all businesses and organizations in these times of economic volatility and global uncertainty. • Charles-Edouard Bouee is a world-renowned strategist and is involved in various business and community organizations in Europe and China.

Description It has long been assumed that, in the development of any organization, the time for entrepreneurial activity is right at the beginning. Once an organization is established, qualities that were virtues in the organization's start-up and early stages can become vices, and the entrepreneurial founders must cede control to professional managers who can nurture the fruits of their original vision more efficiently. One unintended consequence of this assumption is that large, established organizations tend to be entrepreneur-free zones. Entrepreneurial thinking is tacitly discouraged because it can create novelty, and novelty is a threat to established organizations with large market shares; at the same time, there is insufficient slack in a modern, lean organization to allow for the entrepreneurial traits of speculation and experimentation. Re-Entrepreneuring argues that organizations can no longer aspire to be oases of calm in the shifting sands of a global economy. They must adapt to and become one with the market, by reviving the entrepreneurial outlook of their founders. It would be an over-simplification to say that some people have the entrepreneur gene and others don't. In an organization that encourages and nurtures an entrepreneurial outlook, everyone has the potential to unleash their inner entrepreneur and bring new and dynamic ways of thinking into their work environment. It has more to do with the ways of thinking encouraged by the organizational culture than by any inherent differences in talent or aptitude. The solution presented in this new book from Roland Berger, edited by Charles-Edouard Bouee and Stefan Schaible, is piecemeal yet targeted re-entrepreneuring'. With the help of international case studies and first-hand testimony from Price: AU $49.99 NZ $54.99 business leaders, the authors show how the entrepreneurial approach can be applied to any organization and at all levels, ISBN: 9781472948243 in order to spark innovation, remove operational obstacles and ultimately to create new value. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages About the Author Bic1: Business & management Charles-Edouard Bouee is the CEO of Roland Berger. Prior to his election in June 2014, he was the COO responsible for Bic2: Global Operations beginning from July 2013. Mr. Bouee is an economic advisor to the French Government (Conseiller du Illustrations: Commerce Exterieur) in China, and a member of the Shanghai board of the European Chamber of Commerce in China. Previous Titles: Author now living: In 2012, he was presented with the Gold Magnolia Award by the Shanghai Municipal Government for his civic leadership and business contributions to Shanghai's development. Mr. Bouee is a frequent guest analyst on financial and news media. He is the author of the book China's Management Revolution: Spirit, Land, Energy. Mr. Bouee holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from Harvard Business School, a Master of Science Bloomsbury Business JANUARY 2019 Transforming Organizations Michael Anderson and Miranda Jefferson

Provides evidence and inspiration for doing business differently through the following 4 Cs: Creativity, Critical reflection, Communication and Collaboration

Sales points • Takes lessons and examples from educational, business and leadership research to show how organizations can best prepare themselves for 21st century challenges and opportunities and the first organizational design book to bring in the use of these four key competencies. • Links to newly-approved courses on the University of Sydney's MBA programme for 2017 and 2018 (Creativity, Innovation and Change in Business; The Culture of Business; and Disruption and Innovation in Business) • Potential to market to a range of MBA and Executive MBA modules in innovation and organizational change

Description In a world where current political climates and management cultures make risk aversion commonplace, Transforming Organizations shows how large and cumbersome organizations can change and transition to suit the needs of our rapidly evolving economies. This new title looks at how organizations and their leaders can adapt to an increasingly volatile and uncertain operating environment through the 4 Cs: Creativity, Critical reflection, Communication and Collaboration. Based on extensive research in both the education and business sectors, the authors show how the 4 Cs can be embedded and enacted in many different types of organizations to make them more effective and responsive to emerging challenges, threats and opportunities. The book makes clear links between leading and learning, because leadership is no longer (if it ever was) just a role for CEOs, CFOs and senior managers. For organizations to be flexible and agile in the 21st century, the majority of the employees must exercise leadership something that can only happen if learning is standard feature of that leadership, AND incorporates key 21st century skills (the 4 Cs themselves). However, there is a marked gap between companies knowing what they should do in order to be flexible', be creative' and have clear channels of communication', and how to make that happen in reality. Price: AU $36.99 NZ $39.99 Written for those who have become disillusioned or frustrated with business practices that cannot meet the fast-moving ISBN: 9781472949325 demands of the 21st century, Transforming Organizations provides evidence and inspiration for doing business Format: Paperback - C format differently. The strategies and approaches discussed have been taken from the authors' work in real businesses, both Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages large and small, and are supplemented by a number of illustrative case studies. Bic1: Business & management Bic2: About the Author Illustrations: Michael Anderson is a Professor of Education and Director of Community Relations at the University of Sydney (Faculty Previous Titles: Author now living: of Education and Social Work). Dr Miranda Jefferson is a regular collaborator with Michael Anderson. She is the co-founder and practice leader of 4C Transformative Learning, and has worked in innovation in education and learning for over 20 years.

Bloomsbury Business JANUARY 2019 You Can Win Shiv Khera

Winners don't different things, they do things differently

Sales points • Shiv Khera is an international bestselling author, widely recognised in the field of professional and personal development. • 30 years of insight have been condensed into a single volume for easy assimilation by the reader. • The author has a huge global contact base and frequently travels to the US and UK. • Shiv's conferences and training programs are widely attended and he is a popular keynote speaker.

Description A practical, common-sense guide that will lead you from ancient wisdom to modern-day thinking, You Can Win will help you to establish new goals, develop a renewed sense of purpose, and generate fresh and exciting ideas about yourself and your future. Shiv Khera guarantees, as the title suggests, a lifetime of success. The book enables you to translate positive thinking into attitude, ambition and action, all of which combine to give you the winning edge. This book will help you to: e Build confidence by mastering the seven steps to positive thinking; e Be successful by turning weaknesses into strengths; e Gain credibility by doing the right things for the right reasons; e Take charge by controlling things instead of letting them control you; e Build trust by developing mutual respect with the people around you; and e Accomplish more by removing the barriers to effectiveness.

About the Author Shiv Khera is the founder of Qualified Learning Systems Inc. USA. He is an educator, business consultant and successful Price: AU $27.99 NZ $29.99 entrepreneur and a much sought-after speaker. Shiv inspires and encourages people, making them realize their true ISBN: 9781472965882 potential, and has taken his dynamic personal messages to far ends of the globe; tens of thousands have benefited from Format: Paperback - Demy format his energetic workshops in over 17 countries; millions have heard him as a keynote speaker; and he has appeared on Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 308 pages numerous radio and television shows. His 30 years of research and experience have helped people on the path of Bic1: Self-help & personal development personal growth and fulfillment. Bic2: Shiv Khera is the author of 16 books including the international bestseller You Can Sell. He has been recognized by the Illustrations: Round Table Foundation and honoured by Rotary International and Lions International. Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Business JANUARY 2019 You Can Sell Shiv Khera

In his new book, You Can Sell, bestselling author Shiv Khera tells you the secrets of a successful sales professional, and why Results are Rewarded, Efforts Aren't'.

Sales points • Shiv Khera is an international bestselling author, widely recognised in the field of professional and personal development. • The author has a huge global contact base and frequently travels to the US and UK for work. • The author's conferences and training programs are widely attended. • Popular keynote speaker. • 30 years of insight have been condensed into a single volume for easy assimilation by the reader.

Description Results Are Rewarded, Efforts Aren't

Bestselling author Shiv Khera reveals the secrets of every successful sales professional, and explains clearly and simply why Results Are Rewarded, Efforts Aren't'. You Can Sell teaches you how to gain a thorough and in-depth knowledge of the business world, a clearer understanding of the tasks at hand and, ultimately, how to sell your way to success. This book explains how you can: e Gain success and avoid pitfalls; e Meet and exceed goals; e Establish credibility and grow; e Gain a competitive edge; and e Understand the qualities of a winning professional.

About the Author Price: AU $27.99 NZ $29.99 Shiv Khera is the founder of Qualified Learning Systems Inc. USA. He is an educator, business consultant and successful ISBN: 9781472965929 entrepreneur and a much sought-after speaker. Shiv inspires and encourages people, making them realize their true Format: Paperback - Demy format potential, and has taken his dynamic personal messages to far ends of the globe; tens of thousands have benefited from Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 290 pages his energetic workshops in over 17 countries; millions have heard him as a keynote speaker; and he has appeared on Bic1: Self-help & personal development numerous radio and television shows. His 30 years of research and experience have helped people on the path of Bic2: personal growth and fulfillment. Illustrations: Shiv Khera is the author of 16 books including the international bestseller You Can Win, which has sold over 3.7 million Previous Titles: Author now living: copies in 16 languages. He has been recognized by the Round Table Foundation and honoured by Rotary International and Lions International.

Bloomsbury Business JANUARY 2019 WHAT Did You Say Stopped Play? Wisden

Among the mysteries of cricket is the fact that, of all games, it acts as a magnet for amazing, eccentric, humorous and downright weird happenings. For the past quarter-century the Chronicle section of Wisden has been collecting news of cricket's strangest goings-on. This is just a selection...

Sales points • Published in time for Christmas 2018, WHAT Did You Say Stopped Play' is the perfect blend of Wisden gravitas and humour, and makes the perfect gift for any cricket-lover. • The Chronicle is one of the Almanack's most quirky and popular features, assembling the most remarkable, eccentric, extraordinary and funny happenings in the game at all levels around the world. • Matthew Engel is a successful author and an award-winning journalist. Between 1993 and 2007 he edited 12 editions of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, and in 1994 introduced the Chronicle section to collect news reports of cricket's strangest goings-on. • Illustrations by Nick Newman, the satirical cartoonist and comedy scriptwriter, well known for his work on Private Eye, the Sunday Times, Spitting Image and The Wipers Times.

Description It's normal for rain to stop play in cricket. But that's not all: flying objects, passing dictators, animals of all kinds including a very improbable tiger they have all had the same effect. But even when the game keeps going, cricket is a magnet for the weird and wonderful. For the past quarter-century the Chronicle section of Wisden has been collecting the most remarkable events in the game: the eccentric, the extraordinary and the excruciatingly funny. This is the cricket that reference books would normally ignore, from the village greens of England to the back alleys of Asia. This selection is about Tendulkar-worshippers and angry neighbours; about scoring a thousand and being all out for nought. There are politicians and protesters; celebs and streakers; judges and jobsworths ... and batsmen who really do murder the bowlers.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781472954381 Matthew Engel is a journalist and author who edited Wisden for 12 years (with a gap) between 1993 and 2007. His other Format: Hard Cover books include Eleven Minutes Late (about Britain's railways), Engel's England and That's the Way It Crumbles: the Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages American Conquest of English. Bic1: Cricket Nick Newman is an award-winning cartoonist and writer. He has drawn cartoons for the Sunday Times, Private Eye and Bic2: Wisden Cricketers' Almanack , amongst others. He edited Private Eye - A Cartoon History and has co-authored many Illustrations: Previous Titles: radio and TV shows, films and plays, including The Wipers Times. Author now living:

Wisden JANUARY 2019 Black Boots and Football Pinks Daniel Gray

A collection of lyrical sweet-nothings whispered to old-fashioned wingers, ramshackle dugouts, multiple cup replays and 47 other wonders that made us love football

Sales points • A follow up to Saturday, 3pm, which has sold over 8300 copies • An ode to footballing years gone by. 50 small essays, colour pieces, charming memories of elements of football matches and paraphernalia, in Daniel's charming style. As Daniel says, these are unashamedly nostalgic'. Wistful and whimsical, these will prompt fond sighs of recognition'. • From fanzines to turnstyle operators, football pinks to muddy goalmouths an eclectic mix of 50 wonders fast disappearing or disappeared. The ideal present for any football fan of a certain age.

Description Goalkeepers in trousers, proper division names, turf patterns, pixelated scoreboards and, of course, Saturday evening pink newspapers... They were the gritty stardust that made football sparkle. Here, 50 such wonders are drawn together with evocative charm before they slip from memory forever. Dedicating a chapter to each wonder, Daniel Gray's pieces read more like love letters than essays. Here is a sentimental meander beneath main-stand clocks and through streets where children still play football. Written in the same wistful and whimsical style as Gray's much-admired previous book, Saturday, 3pm, the unashamedly nostalgic Black Boots and Football Pinks will warm the heart and prompt fond sighs of recognition. Gray's words preserve on paper the relics and minutiae of a shared obsession and identity. They make yesterday's football feel within touching distance, and offer cosy refuge from a boisterous game and world.

About the Author Daniel Gray is the author of Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football and Scribbles in the Margins: 50 Eternal Delights of Books. He has written five other books on football, politics, history and travel. His recent work has included screenwriting for the BBC, presenting social history on television and radio, and writing across a number of Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 national titles. ISBN: 9781472958860 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Football (Soccer, Association football) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Sport JANUARY 2019 A Ringside Affair James Lawton

A luminous account of the most compelling and climactic phase of boxing's long history

Sales points • For readers of George Kimball's Four Kings and The Hurt Business and Hugh McIlvanney's McIlvanney on Boxing • A timeless addition to the library of classic boxing literature

Description Rich, authentic and with an understanding of a sport that only intimacy at the closest quarters can bring... essential reading for anyone interested in boxing's last golden age.' Mail on Sunday For three decades at the end of the twentieth century throughout boxing's most engrossing era James Lawton was ringside, covering every significant bout, spending time with the likes of Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Tommy Hitman Hearns, Roberto Duran, Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Evander Holyfield and many other great fighters. Lawton found himself captivated by the sport as he followed it around the world. From a big fight's initial announcement, through the fighters' punishing training regimes, the overblown press conferences and dramatic weigh-ins, up to the bout itself and its savage fall-out Lawton observed and absorbed it all, grateful for the remarkable access he was afforded. He witnessed Ali screaming in pain for his dressing-room lights to be turned out after a fight; he was there to meet Tyson at the prison gates on his release in 1992; he listened as former champions wept while struggling to find their new place in the world. As part of a small, tight-knit group of sportswriters with the privilege of covering each fight in such intimate detail, Lawton formed lifelong friendships and found himself forever altered by being caught up in the whirlwind of a sport at its most spellbinding. A Ringside Affair brings that brilliant epoch back to life and puts it in the perspective it deserves. It salutes the epic quality of boxing's last years of glory, retraces arguably the richest inheritance bequeathed to any sport, and speculates on the possibility that we will never see such fighting again. It is part celebration, part lament, but perhaps most of all it is a personal record of some of most enthralling and challenging days produced by the world's oldest sport.

Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781472945624 James Lawton first started covering top-flight sport as a 19-year-old for the Daily Telegraph in 1963 and, after a seven- Format: Paperback - B format year stint in North America, went on to become chief sportswriter of the Daily Express and the Independent. He has Dimensions: 0x0mm received numerous accolades including being voted sportswriter of the year three times, as well as sports columnist and Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Boxing sports feature writer of the year. He has written 14 books, including an award-winning collaboration with Sir Bobby Bic2: Charlton on his two volumes of autobiography. His Forever Boys: The Days of Citizens and Heroes, was the Sunday Illustrations: Times sports book of the year 2015. Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Sport JANUARY 2019 A Beer in the Loire Tommy Barnes

One family's quest to brew British beer in the heart of French wine country funny, endearing and sometimes just plain surreal

Sales points • Chris Stewart meets Gerald Durrell by way of David Sedaris • There is already TV interest in this very funny tale of a hapless Englishman abroad • Some real laugh aloud bits and I REALLY want to know what happens next! A great book'

Description Tommy Barnes was at breaking point, frustrated by a dead-end job, fed up with renting in London and, to cap it all, failing to make it as a stand-up comedian. But he didn't break - instead he made himself redundant and took off to France with girlfriend Rose to pursue his dream of brewing beer. Settled in a dilapidated house in the Loire they are plagued by calamities (mainly of Tommy's making), boisterous neighbours and an unexpected pregnancy. Not to mention, Burt the Satanic dog who truly has it in for his master. Featuring colourful characters, a stunning location, and an inspiring collection of beer recipes, this is an irresistible feast of humour and heart.

About the Author Tommy Barnes grew up in Hertfordshire in the 80s. He worked as a graphic designer in London whilst performing as a stand-up comedian in his spare time. Happily made redundant, he set off to find a new life in France with his girlfriend Rose and this is their story.

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Muswell Press JANUARY 2019 A Beer in the Loire 8 Copy Pack

Comprises 8 copies of A Beer in the Loire, plus a free reading copy

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Muswell Press JANUARY 2019 Betraying Big Brother Leta Hong Fincher

How the Feminist Five and the rise of China's feminist movement are challenging China's authoritarian government

Sales points • Author is leading commentator on feminism and women's issues in China; has been quoted by BBC, CNN, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, TIME and The Economist; and has written for the New York Times, Ms. Magazine and other outlets. • Author has a strong online presence of 17k Twitter followers (her handle is @LetaHong) • Reviews across the national press. • Extract in national newspaper.

Description On the eve of International Women's Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for 37 days. The Feminist Five became a global cause celebre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf, and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. But the Feminist Five are only symbols of a much larger feminist movement of civil rights lawyers, labor activists, performance artists and online warriors that is prompting an unprecedented awakening among China's urban, educated women. In Betraying Big Brother, journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher argues that the popular, broad-based movement poses the greatest threat to China's authoritarian regime today. Through interviews with the Feminist Five and other leading Chinese activists, Hong Fincher illuminates both the challenges they face and their joy of betraying Big Brother, as Wei Tingting one of the Feminist Five wrote of the defiance she felt during her detention. Tracing the rise of a new feminist consciousness through online campaigns resembling #MeToo, and describing how the Communist regime has suppressed the history of its own feminist struggles, Betraying Big Brother is a story of how the movement against patriarchy could reconfigure China and the world.

About the Author Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 LETA HONG FINCHER is a journalist who has written for New York Times, The Guardian, Ms. Magazine, BBC and CNN, ISBN: 9781788735346 and is the author of Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 233x154mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Feminism & feminist theory Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

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Verso Trade JANUARY 2019 A Massacre in Mexico Anabel Hernandez

The definitive account of the mass disappearance of 43 Mexican students and the government that tried to cover it up

Sales points • Author of the bestselling Narcoland. • Anabel Hernandez is a fearless investigative reporter with an international reputation. • The story of how 43 students disappeared in Mexico in 2014 grabbed headlines across the world - this is the compelling account of what happened to them. • Reviews across the national press and author profiles.

Description On September 26, 2014, 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. According to official reports, the students commandeered several buses to travel to Mexico City to commemorate the anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre. During the journey, local police intercepted the students and a confrontation ensued. By the morning, they had disappeared without a trace. HernAindez reconstructs almost minute-by-minute the events of those nights in late September 2014, giving us what is surely the most complete picture available: her sources are unparalleled, since she has secured access to internal government documents that have not been made public, and to video surveillance footage the government has tried to hide and destroy. HernAindez demolishes the Mexican state's official version, which the Pena Nieto government cynically dubbed the historic truth . State officials at all levels, from police and prosecutors to the upper echelons of the PRI administration, conspired to put together a fake case, concealing or manipulating evidence, and arresting and torturing dozens of suspects who then obliged with full confessions that matched the official lie. In the wake of the students' disappearances, protestors in Mexico took up the slogan Fue el estado It was the state . HernAindez's book is the one that gives most precision and credibility to the claim: by following the role of the various Mexican state agencies through the events in such remarkable detail, she allows to see exactly which parts of the state are responsible for which component of this monumental crime. Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781788735360 About the Author Format: Paperback Anabel HernAindez is one of Mexico's leading investigative journalists. She has worked on national dailies including Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Reforma, Milenio, El Universal and its investigative supplement La Revista. Her previous books including the award Bic1: winning Narcoland, La familia presidencial, Fin de fiesta en los pinos, and Los complices del presidente. Bic2: In awarding HernAindez the 2012 Golden Pen of Freedom, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers Illustrations: noted, Mexico has become one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists, with violence and impunity Previous Titles: Author now living: remaining major challenges in terms of press freedom. In making this award, we recognize the strong stance Ms. HernAindez has taken, at great personal risk, against drug cartels.

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Verso Trade JANUARY 2019 Russia Without Putin Tony Wood

How the West's obsession with Vladimir Putin prevents it from understanding Russia

Sales points • Leading expert on post-Soviet Russia rethinks the global role of Putin and the state of the New Cold War. • Reconsiders the origins of Putin's power and why that matters. • Explores the reasons behind Putin's geopolitical actions in Georgia, Ukraine and Syria as signs of weakness rather than strength. • Fully up-to-date to include the March 2018 elections.

Description It is impossible to think of Russia today without thinking of Vladimir Putin. More than any other major national leader, he personifies his country in the eyes of the outside world, and dominates Western media coverage of it to an extraordinary extent. In Russia itself, he is likewise the centre of attention for detractors and supporters alike. But as Tony Wood argues, this overwhelming focus on the president and his personality means that we understand Russia less than we ever did before. Too much attention is paid to the man, and not enough to the country outside the Kremlin's walls.

In this timely and provocative analysis, Wood looks beyond Putin to explore the profound changes Russia has undergone since 1991. In the process, he challenges many of the common assumptions made about contemporary Russia. Though commonly viewed as an ominous return to Soviet authoritarianism, Putin's rule should instead be seen as a direct continuation of Yeltsin's in the 1990s. And though many of Russia's problems today are blamed on legacies of the Soviet past, Wood argues that the core features of Putinism a predatory, authoritarian elite presiding over a vastly unequal society are integral to the system set in place after the fall of Communism.

What kind of country has emerged from Russia's post-Soviet transformations, and where might it go in future' Russia without Putin culminates in an arresting analysis of the country's foreign policy identifying the real power dynamics behind its escalating clashes with the West and with reflections on the paths Russia might take in the 21st century.

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781788735377 About the Author Format: Paperback Tony Wood lives in New York and writes on Russia and Latin America. A member of the editorial board of New Left Dimensions: 0x0mm Review, he is previously the author of Chechnya: The Case for Independence (2007), and his writing has appeared in the Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Social & cultural history London Review of Books, the Guardian, n+1 and The Nation, among other places. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

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Verso Trade JANUARY 2019 Landscapes John Berger

What does art tell us about ourselves' John Berger on the politics and consolations of creativity.

Sales points • Companion volume to John Berger's highly acclaimed Portraits. • Classic work on art and politics: to be read by fans of Raymond Williams' Keywords, Susan Sontag's On Photography or Roland Barthes' Mythologies. • Increased interest in Berger's life and work following his death in 2017. To coincide with publication of first biography: A Writer of Our Time.

Description In this brilliant collection of diverse works essays, short stories, poems, translations which spans a lifetime's engagement with art, John Berger reveals how he came to his own unique way of seeing. He challenges readers to rethink their every assumption about the role of creativity in our lives. Paying homage to the writers and thinkers who influenced him, he pushes at the limits of art writing, demonstrating beautifully how his artist's eye makes him a storyteller, rather than a critic. His expansive perspective takes in artistic movements and individual artists from the Renaissance to the present while never neglecting the social and political context of their creation. Landscapes alongside Portraits completes a tour through the history of art that will be an intellectual benchmark for many years to come.

About the Author John Berger (1926 2017) was one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. His many books include Ways of Seeing; the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours; Here Is Where We Meet; the Booker Prize winning novel G; Hold Everything Dear; the Man Booker longlisted From A to X; and A Seventh Man. Tom Overton catalogued John Berger's archive at the British Library and edited Portraits: John Berger on Art. He is working on Berger's biography and a book on migration and archives. His collected writing is available at overton.tw. He has organized exhibitions at King's Cultural Institute, Somerset House and the Whitechapel Gallery.

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Verso Trade JANUARY 2019 Radical Happiness Lynne Segal

What is the true meaning of happiness' The radical potential of being together.

Sales points • An urgent critique of fad for 'well-being' and the cult of happiness. • Author is leading British feminist. For readers of Judith Butler, Barbara Ehrenreich and Mary Beard. • A passionate argument for the power of collective flourishing. • Author is very popular speaker and campaigner.

Description Why are we so obsessed by the pursuit of happiness' With new ways to measure contentment we are told that we have a right to individual joy. But at what cost'

In an age of increasing individualism, we have never been more alone and miserable. But what if the true nature of happiness can only be found in others' In Radical Happiness, leading feminist thinker Lynne Segal believes that we have lost the art of radical happiness the art of transformative, collective joy. She shows that only in the revolutionary potential of coming together it is that we can come to understand the powers of flourishing.

Radical Happiness is a passionate call for the re-discovery of the political and emotional joy that emerge when we learn to share our lives together.

About the Author Lynne Segal is Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College. Her books include Is the Future Female' Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary Feminism; Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men; and Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure and the highly acclaimed Out of Time. She co-wrote Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism with Sheila Rowbotham and Hilary Wainwright.

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Verso Trade JANUARY 2019 The New Enclosure Brett Christophers

How public land has been stolen from us

Sales points • Reviews across the national press.

Description Much has been written about Britain's trailblazing post-1970s privatization program, but the biggest privatization of them all has until now escaped scrutiny: the privatization of land. Since Margaret Thatcher took power in 1979, and hidden from the public eye, about 10 per cent of the entire British land mass, including some of its most valuable real estate, has passed from public to private hands. Forest land, defence land, health service land and above all else local authority land for farming and school sports, for recreation and housing has been sold off en masse. Why' How' And with what social, economic and political consequences' The New Enclosure provides the first ever study of this profoundly significant phenomenon, situating it as a centrepiece of neoliberalism in Britain and as a successor programme to the original eighteenth-century enclosures. With more public land still slated for disposal, the book identifies the stakes and asks what, if anything, can and should be done.

About the Author Brett Christophers is Professor in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University. A political economist and economic geographer, he is the author or coauthor of five previous books.

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Verso Trade JANUARY 2019 Reclaiming the Black Past Pero G. Dagbovie

The past and future of Black history

Sales points • Well-reviewed • During the Age of Obama, African American history has been processed, packaged, and delivered to the unsuspecting public by amateurs instead of professional historians. Pero Dagbovie exposes these amateurs and their historical inaccuracies in the painstaking style of the professional historian at his very best. Profoundly researched and crisply written, Americans need Reclaiming the Black Past to recognize their history. - Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award winning author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Idea

Description In this information overloaded twenty-first century, it seems impossible to fully discern or explain how we know about the past. But two things are certain. Whether we are conscious of it or not, we all think historically on a routine basis. And our perceptions of history, including African American history, have not necessarily been shaped by professional historians. In this wide-reaching and timely book, Pero Gaglo Dagbovie argues that public knowledge and understanding of black history, including its historical icons, has been shaped by institutions and individuals outside academic ivory towers. Drawing on a range of compelling examples, Dagbovie explores how, in the twenty-first century, African American history is regarded, depicted, and juggled by diverse and contesting interpreters from museum curators to film-makers, entertainers, politicians, journalists, and bloggers. Underscoring the ubiquitous nature of African American history in contemporary American thought and culture, each chapter unpacks how black history has been represented and remembered primarily during the Age of Obama, the so-called era of post-racial American society. Reclaiming the Black Past: The Use and Misuse of African American History in the 21st Century is Dagbovie's contribution to expanding how we understand African American history during the new millennium.

About the Author Pero Gaglo Dagbovie is professor of African American history and Associate Dean in The Graduate School, Michigan

Price: AU $39.99 NZ $42.99 State University. His research and teaching interests comprise a range time periods, themes, and topical specialties, ISBN: 9781786632036 including black intellectual history, the history of the black historical enterprise, black women's history, black life during Format: Hard Cover the Nadir, the civil rights-Black Power movement, African American Studies, hip hop culture, and contemporary black Dimensions: 0x0mm history. His books include Black History: Old School Black Historians and the Hip Hop Generation, The Early Black Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Black & Asian studies History Movement, Carter G. Woodson, and Lorenzo Johnston Greene, African American History Reconsidered, Carter Bic2: G. Woodson in Washington, D.C.: The Father of Black History, and What is African American History' Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade JANUARY 2019 The Balfour Declaration Bernard Regan

A new history of the letter that changed the history of the Middle East

Sales points • Widely acclaimed new history of the foundation of the state of Israel and the origins of the Middle East crisis. • Author is leading campaigner in Palestinian Solidarity movement. • Places the Balfour Declaration within the history of British Imperialism.

Description On November 2, 1917, the British government, represented by Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour, declared that they were in favor of 'the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.' This short note would be one of the most controversial documents of its time. A hundred years after its signing, Bernard Regan recasts the history of the Balfour Declaration as one of the major events in the story of the Middle East. Offering new insights into the imperial rivalries between Britain, Germany and the Ottomans, Regan exposes British policy in the region as part of a larger geopolitical game. Yet, even then, the course of events was not straightforward and Regan charts the debates within the British government and the Zionist movement itself on the future of Palestine. The book also provides a revealing account of life in Palestinian society at the time, paying particular attention to the responses of Palestinian civil society to the imperial machinations that threatened their way of life. Not just a history of states and policies, Regan manages to brilliantly present both a history of people under colonialism and an account of the colonizers themselves.

About the Author Bernard Regan served for twenty five years on the National Executive of the National Union of Teachers. He has been publicly campaigning since 1982 in support of the rights of the Palestinian people to self determination, for much of that time as an executive member of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. He was the principal author of the groundbreaking resolution adopted in 2006 by the Trade Union Congress in support of Palestinian rights. He gained his PhD in 2016 studying with the Palestinian historian Professor Nur Masalha. He has contributed to journals including the Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies.

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Verso Trade JANUARY 2019 The Reform of Europe Michel Aglietta

A powerful and progressive programme for the Eurozone

Sales points • 'A survival manual for the Eurozone' Le Monde

Description The Eurozone crisis since 2010 has instilled political disunity and generated a long period of economic stagnation. The cyclical recovery enjoyed in 2017 is no cause for complacency. It should act as an impetus to undertake long-overdue reforms, which require a change in perspective to develop a medium-term orientation for the next decade.

There is no future for those incapable of investing. There is no stimulus for innovative investment in countries that have been converted to the hegemony of finance at the expense of productive investment. Europe must confront the challenges of the 21st century by recovering its ideological autonomy in the community spirit of its origins,which can be summed up as social progress.

This book demonstrates the need for a long-term vision with two goals: reconstructing a social contract based on an entrepreneurial partnership and investing in the ecological transition. This political vision will restore to citizens of the member-states a sense of belonging to a wider community. To attain this, argues, Michel Aglietta, one ofthe most important heterodox economists today, we must strengthen European institutions at the financial and fiscal levels. This involves making the euro a full currency, endowed with democratic legitimacy.

About the Author Michel Aglietta is Professor of Economic Sciences at the Universite de Paris-X-Nanterre and an advisor to the Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales (CEPII). His previous books include A Theory of Capitalist Regulation and Money: 5,000 Years of Debt and Power.

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Verso Trade JANUARY 2019 The New Poverty Stephen Armstrong

We are living in an age with unprecedented levels of poverty. Who are the new poor' And what can we do about it'

Sales points • Supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Orwell Society. • Widespread coverage on trade paperback launch including serialisation in Guardian. • For readers of Owen Jones, Polly Toynbee, and Ken Loach. • Urgent attack on the government's policy of austerity and universal benefits.

Description Today 13 million people are living in poverty in the UK. According to a 2017 report, 1 in 5 children live below the poverty line. The new poor, however, are an even larger group than these official figures suggest. They are more often than not in work, living precariously and betrayed by austerity policies that make affordable good quality housing, good health and secure employment increasingly unimaginable. In The New Poverty investigative journalist Stephen Armstrong travels across Britain to tell the stories of those who are most vulnerable. It is the story of an unreported Britain, abandoned by politicians and betrayed by the retreat of the welfare state. As benefit cuts continue and in-work poverty soars, he asks what long-term impact this will have on post- Brexit Britain and - on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the 1942 Beveridge report - what we can do to stop the destruction of our welfare state.

About the Author Stephen Armstrong is a journalist and author. He writes extensively for the Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian. He also appears occasionally on Radio 4 and Radio 2. His books include War PLC, The Super-Rich Shall Inherit the Earth and The Road to Wigan Pier Revisited.

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Verso Trade JANUARY 2019 Lenin Slavoj Zizek

One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, i ek shows why Lenin's thought is still important today

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Description Lenin's originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, i ek argues in his new study and collection of original texts, Lenin's true greatness can be better grasped in the very last couple of years of his political life. Russia had survived foreign invasion, embargo and a terrifying civil war, as well as internal revolts such as at Kronstadt in 1921. But the new state was exhausted, isolated and disorientated in the face of the world revolution that seemed to be receding. New paths had to be sought, almost from scratch, for the Soviet state to survive and imagine some alternative route to the future. With his characteristic brio and provocative insight, i ek suggests that Lenin's courage as a thinker can be found in his willingness to face this reality of retreat lucidly and frontally.

About the Author Slavoj i ek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential i ek, and many more.

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Verso Trade JANUARY 2019 In Praise of Disobedience Oscar Wilde

Works of Wilde's annus mirabilis of 1891 in one volume, with an introduction by renowned British playwright.

Sales points • A major new collection of Wilde's extraordinary political writings. • Reviews in the national press, extract in national newspaper, broadcast coverage. • Beautifully designed book.

Description In Praise of Disobedience draw on works from a single miraculous year in which Oscar Wilde published the larger part of his greatest works in prose the year he came into maturity as an artist. Before the end of 1891, he had written the first of his phenomenally successful plays and met the young man who would win his heart, beginning the love affair that would lead to imprisonment and public infamy.

In a witty introduction, playwright, novelist and Wilde scholar Neil Bartlett explains what made this point in the writer's life central to his genius and why Wilde remains a provocative and radical figure to this day.

Included here are the entirety of Wilde's foray into political philosophy, The Soul of Man Under Socialism; the complete essay collection Intentions; selections from The Portrait of Dorian Gray as well as its paradoxical and scandalous preface; and some of Wilde's greatest fictions for children. Each selection is accompanied by stimulating and enlightening annotations. A delight for fans of Oscar Wilde, In Praise of Disobedience will revitalize an often misunderstood legacy.

About the Author Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford where, a disciple of Pater, he founded an aesthetic cult. In 1884 he married Constance Lloyd, and his two sons were born in 1885 and 1886. His novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and social comedies Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No

Price: AU $32.99 NZ $34.99 Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895), and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), established his reputation. In ISBN: 9781788730334 1895, following his libel action against the Marquess of Queesberry, Wilde was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for Format: Hard Cover homosexual conduct, as a result of which he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), and his confessional letter De Dimensions: 0x0mm Profundis (1905). On his release from prison in 1897 he lived in obscurity in Europe, and died in Paris in 1900. Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Philosophy: aesthetics Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade JANUARY 2019 Adorno, Foucault and the Critique of the West Deborah Cook

The alliance of critical theory between Frankfurt and Paris

Sales points • 'Defying conventional wisdom, Deborah Cook makes a compelling case for the complementarity of Adorno and Foucault's critical projects. In so doing, she makes clear that the theoretical legacy of the past century still has much to offer in the struggle to meet the daunting challenges of our own.' Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley

Description Adorno, Foucault, and the Critique of the West argues that critical theory continues to offer valuable resources for critique and contestation during this turbulent period in our history. To assess these resources, it examines the work of two of the twentieth century's more prominent social theorists: Theodor W. Adorno and Michel Foucault. Although Adorno was situated squarely in the Marxist tradition that Foucault would occasionally challenge, Cook demonstrates that their critiques of our current predicament are complementary in important respects. Among other things, they converge in their focus on the historical conditions economic in Adorno and political in Foucault that gave rise to the racist and authoritarian tendencies that continue to blight the West. But this book will also show that as Adorno and Foucault plumb the economic and political forces that have shaped our identities, they offer remarkably similar answers to the perennial question: What is to be done'

About the Author Deborah Cook is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Windsor, Canada. Her previous books include The Turn Towards Subjectivity: Michel Foucault's Legacy (1993), The Culture Industry Revisited: Theodor W. Adorno on Mass Culture (1996), Adorno, Habermas, and the Search for a Rational Society (2004), Theodor Adorno: Key Concepts (2008) and Adorno on Nature (2011).

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Verso Trade JANUARY 2019 The Limits to Capital David Harvey

A major rereading of Marx's critique of political economy, fully updated.

Sales points • Part of a new series of reissues of David Harvey's classic works.

Description Now a classic of Marxian economics, The Limits to Capital provides one of the best theoretical guides to the history and geography of capitalist development. In this edition, Harvey updates his classic text with a substantial discussion of the turmoil in world markets today.In his analyses of 'fictitious capital' and 'uneven geographical development' Harvey takes the reader step by step through layers of crisis formation, beginning with Marx's controversial argument concerning the falling rate of profit, moving through crises of credit and finance, and closing with a timely analysis geopolitical and geographical considerations.

About the Author David Harvey teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the author of many books, including Social Justice and the City, The Condition of Postmodernity, The Limits to Capital, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Spaces of Global Capitalism, and A Companion to Marx's Capital. His website is davidharvey.org

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Verso Trade JANUARY 2019 Hollow City Rebecca Solnit

Acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit and photographer Susan Schwartzenberg survey San Francisco's transformation through gentrification in the early millenium

Sales points • Rebecca Solnit is author of a critically acclaimed series of map books (Univ. of California Press) that offer alternate ways to envision and explore the life of major American cities. • Bestselling author of Men Explain Things to Me, Wanderlust and The Mother of All Questions.

Description Surveying the transformation of San Francisco in the early millenium by Silicon Valley, critically acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit and photographer Susan Schwartzenberg describe the complex interactions that make up a living, creative, diverse city.

One of our most impassioned and acclaimed chroniclers of American urbanism, Rebecca Solnit explores the impact of skyrocketing rents, architectural homogenization, and the links between artists and gentrification. Wealth, she argues, is just as capable of ravaging cities as poverty. Schwartzenberg's social documentary photographs work with Solnit's interlinked essays to memorialize San Francisco's vanishing spaces of civic memory and public life.

Both a portrait of an acute crisis and a call to defend collective public life, Hollow City makes a fervent case for the imaginative potential of cities.

About the Author Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including a trilogy of atlases and the books The Mother of All Questions, Hope in the Dark, Men Explain Things to Me; The Faraway Nearby; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 History of Walking; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received ISBN: 9781788731348 a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). Format: Paperback - B format A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at Harper's. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 184 pages Bic1: City & town planning - architectural aspects Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade JANUARY 2019 The Declarations of Havana Fidel Castro

Castro's defiant messages in the face of US aggression

Sales points • Castro was one of the more extraordinary political figures of the 20th century. A charismatic figure from the developing world, his influence was felt far beyond the shores of Cuba. - Richard Gott, Guardian

Description In response to the American administration's attempt to isolate Cuba, Fidel Castro delivered a series of speeches designed to radicalize Latin American society. As Latin America experiences more revolutions in Venezuela and Bolivia, and continues to upset America's plans for neo-liberal imperialism, renowned radical writer and activist Tariq Ali provides a searing analysis of the relevance of Castro's message for today.

About the Author Fidel Castro (1926-2016) was one of the primary leaders of the Cuban Revolution, the Prime Minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976, and then the President of the Council of State of Cuba until his resignation from the office in February 2008.

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Verso Trade JANUARY 2019 The Putney Debates The Levellers

The dramatic debates at the heart of the English Revolution

Sales points • The dramatic debates at the heart of the English Revolution

Description In a series of debates with Oliver Cromwell in Civil War England of 1647, the Levellers argued for democracy for the first time in British history. Evolving from Oliver Cromwell's New Model army in Parliament's struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the removal of corruption in parliament, universal voting rights and religious toleration. This came to a head with the famous debates between the Levellers and Cromwell at St Mary's church in Putney, London. Renowned human-rights lawyer and author Geoffrey Robertson argues for the relevance of the Levellers' stand today, showing how they were the first Western radical democrats.

About the Author Evolving from Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army in Parliament's struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the removal of corruption in parliament, universal voting rights and religious toleration.

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Verso Trade JANUARY 2019 A Companion to Marx's Capital David Harvey

A step by step guide through Marx's masterwork

Sales points • 2017 was the anniversary of Das Kapital and 2018 is the bicentennial of Marx's birth

Description In recent years, we have witnessed a surge of interest in Marx's work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world's most foremost Marx scholars. Based on his recent lectures, this current volume - finally bringing together his guides to Volumes I, II and much of III of Das Kapital - aims to bring this depth of learning to a broader audience, guiding first-time readers through a fascinating and deeply rewarding text. A Companion to Marx's Capital offers fresh, original and sometimes critical interpretations of a book that changed the course of history and, as Harvey intimates, may do so again. David Harvey's video lecture course can be found here: davidharvey.org/reading-capital/

About the Author David Harvey teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the author of many books, including Social Justice and the City, The Condition of Postmodernity, The Limits to Capital, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Spaces of Global Capitalism, and A Companion to Marx's Capital. His website is davidharvey.org

Price: AU $59.99 NZ $64.99 ISBN: 9781788731546 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 752 pages Bic1: Marxism & Communism Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade JANUARY 2019 A Common Wind Julius Scott

A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era

Sales points • A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era

Description Out of the grey expanse of official records in Spanish, English and French, The Common Wind provides a gripping and colorful account of inter-continental communication networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the new world. A powerful 'history from below,' this book follows those 'rumors of emancipation' and the people who spread them, bringing to life the protagonists in the revolution against slavery. Though it's been said that The Common Wind is 'the most original dissertation ever written,' and is credited for having 'opened up the Black Atlantic with a rigor and a commitment to the power of written words,' the PhD. project has remained unpublished for thirty-two years, since it's completion at Duke University in 1986. Now, after decades of achieving wide acclaim by leading historians of slavery and the new world, it will finally be released by Verso for the first time, with a foreword from Marcus Rediker.

About the Author Julius Scott III is a professor of AfroAmerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan.

Price: AU $49.99 NZ $52.99 ISBN: 9781788732475 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Slavery & abolition of slavery Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade JANUARY 2019 Aisthesis Jacques Ranciere

Ranciere's magnum opus on the aesthetic

Sales points • 'Jacques Ranciere's Aisthesis transforms the field of aesthetic philosophy.' Liberation

Description Composed in a series of scenes, Aisthesis - Ranciere's definitive statement on the aesthetic-takes its reader from Dresden in 1764 to New York in 1941. Along the way, we view the Belvedere Torso with Winckelmann, accompany Hegel to the museum and Mallarme to the Folies-Bergere, attend a lecture by Emerson, visit exhibitions in Paris and New York, factories in Berlin, and film sets in Moscow and Hollywood. Ranciere uses these sites and events-some famous, others forgotten-to ask what becomes art and what comes of it. He shows how a regime of artistic perception and interpretation was constituted and transformed by erasing the specificities of the different arts, as well as the borders that separated them from ordinary experience. This incisive study provides a history of artistic modernity far removed from the conventional postures of modernism.

About the Author Jacques Ranciere is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII. His books include The Politics of Aesthetics, On the Shores of Politics, Short Voyages to the Land of the People, The Nights of Labor, Staging the People, and The Emancipated Spectator. Zakir Paul is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at Princeton University. He most recently translated a collection of Blanchot's political writings.

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781781683088 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Philosophy: aesthetics Bic2: Philosophy: aesthetics Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Academic JANUARY 2019 The World After the War Derek Leebaert

The true story of the British Empire's fall and America's rise in the aftermath of World War II

Sales points • A character and plot-driven drama shedding new light on famous figures we thought we knew Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Winston Churchill • Re-examines how our world came to be: Leebaert argues against the existing post-WWII narrative that has the British Empire collapsing in the late 1940s and America confidently assuming world leadership, contending that the US upheld the Empire as its outer fortress' until the British invasion of Egypt in 1956 • Contemporary relevance: China has said it's emulating America's post-WWII tactics in trying to become today's global leader if Beijing and others are studying this period as a playbook for today's geopolitics, we certainly should, too

Description Only in times of great change can a superpower be challenged. But with Europe in turmoil, Russia newly belligerent, and the world's great superpower tied up with unrest in the Middle East, it finally seemed to be the right time to throw down the gauntlet. That year, 1956, America made the decision to confront Britain and take up the mantle of world affairs. American historian Derek Leebaert spins a riveting global narrative of secret ties, diplomatic quarrels and military interventions, featuring fresh encounters with such political giants as Churchill, Truman, Eisenhower and Johnson. In a volatile world of decolonization, Zionism, proxy wars and the Suez Crisis, we witness the development of the special relationship', rising tensions with Russia and China, and ultimately the shaping of the modern world. Not only that, but this forgotten story provides a vital insight into the changing might of nations today and the superpowers of tomorrow.

About the Author Derek Leebaert is the author of several books on American history and foreign policy, a subject he taught at Georgetown University for fifteen years. Between 2013 and 2015, he was an adviser to Obama's secretary of defense Chuck Hagel. He lives in Washington, DC.

Price: AU $49.99 NZ $52.99 ISBN: 9781786070968 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Underbug Lisa Margonelli

A Bug's Life -

Sales points • Lively, globe-trotting pop science: Margonelli dares us to dive into the mounds of the mighty termites, lords of the underworld • For scientists and non-scientists: Underbug sheds new light on the incredible behaviour of termites: making fuel, remodelling landscapes and showing us the way to new gold mines • A new understanding of nature: the first book of its kind to provide an insight into the crucial role termites play in ecological engineering

Description Termites. The mere mention of the word repels us. The sight of them induces panic we flee or we kill them. Stay a little while, however, and you'll be shocked by just how much we owe them. Not only are these lords of the underworld essential to maintaining our environment's natural order without them our rivers and oceans would turn toxic but they just might be the saviours of our planet. Lisa Margonelli follows the scientists who are looking to termites for inspiration as they tackle the greatest threats facing humankind, from global warming to cancer. With surprises at every turn, this unexpected journey of discovery reveals much about the workings of our world, the ethical and moral considerations surrounding future technologies, and gives us reason to hope for tomorrow.

About the Author Lisa Margonelli's first book, Oil on the Brain, was a national bestseller that was named one of the 25 Notable Books of 2007 by the American Library Association. She has written for numerous publications, including Time, National Geographic, Wired, Salon, Discover and San Francisco Chronicle. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Price: AU $34.99 NZ $36.99 ISBN: 9781786071903 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Popular science Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 The Wolf Nate Blakeslee

Missing Life on Earth' Then this is the perfect book for you

Sales points • A New Statesman Book of the Year • The story of the one of the world's most famous animals: O-Six gained a huge following from not only scientists but the public as well • Documentary coverage on the BBC (this year's Land of Lost Wolves, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01fnfr5) and National Geographic (Yellowstone special, http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/americas-national- parks/episodes/yellowstone/) speaks to the level of enduring interest in the subject

Description A New Statesman Book of the Year All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.' Margaret Atwood The wolf stands at the forefront of the debate about our impact on the natural world. In one of the most celebrated successes of modern conservation, it has been reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park. What unfurls here is a riveting multi-generational saga, at the centre of which is O-Six, a charismatic alpha female beloved by park rangers and amateur spotters alike. As elk numbers decline and the wolf population rises, those committed to restoring an iconic landscape clash with those fighting for a vanishing way of life, hunters stalk the park fringes and O-Six's rivals seek to bring an end to her dominance of the stunningly beautiful Lamar Valley.

About the Author Nate Blakeslee is a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly. His first book, Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town, was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2005 and The Washington Post called it one of the most important books about wrongful convictions ever written. He lives with his family in Austin, Texas.

Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781786074072 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Wildlife: general interest Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Gaza Donald Macintyre

A highly respected voice reveals the truth behind the myths in the Middle East's crucible of conflict

Sales points • Macintyre has unrivalled experience: he's made over eighty visits to the Strip since 2003 and has covered all the major conflicts and Israeli military incursions of the last decade • The conflict seen from both sides: anything but uncritical of Hamas, Gaza nevertheless exposes a series of missed opportunities and foreign policy errors since Hamas won elections in 2006

Description A coastal civilisation open to the world. A flourishing port on a major international trading route. This was Gaza's past. Can it be its future' Today, Gaza is home to a uniquely imprisoned people, most unable to travel to the West Bank, let alone Israel, where tens of thousands once worked, and unable to flee in wartime. Trapped inside a crucible of conflict, the surprise is that so many of them remain courageous, outspoken and steadfast. From refugee camps to factories struggling under economic stranglehold and bombardment, Donald Macintyre reveals Gaza's human tragedy through the stories of the ordinary people who live and work there. He portrays the suffering through siege and war, the failings including those of the international community that have seen opportunities for peace pass by and the fragile, lingering hope that Gaza, with its creativity and resilience, can be part of a better future for the Middle East.

About the Author Donald Macintyre was the Independent's Jerusalem bureau chief for eight years between 2004 and 2012, and before that its political editor and chief political commentator. He is a former presenter of BBC Radio 4's Week in Westminster. He won the Next Century Foundation's Peace through Media Award in 2011 and has previously been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism and for the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. He lives in Clapham, south London.

Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781786074331 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Roadmap to Hell Barbie Latza Nadeau

From sex slaves to drug mules, The Daily Beast's Rome Bureau Chief uncovers a terrifying and intricate web of criminal activity right on Europe's doorstep.

Sales points • A powerful and urgent expose of the criminal network on Europe's doorstep, which has far-reaching consequences for the rest of the continent • Colin Firth's Raindog films in negotiations rights to adapt this book for the screen • Kate Beckinsale plays the author in a film adaptation of her last book, Angel Face • The Italian election is in 2018

Description From sex slaves to drug mules, The Daily Beast's Rome Bureau Chief uncovers a terrifying and intricate web of criminal activity right on Europe's doorstep. Caught between Camorra gunrunners selling to ISIS and Nigerian drug gangs along Italy's picturesque coast, each year thousands of refugees and migrants are lured into their criminal underworld, forced to become sex slaves, drug mules or weapon smugglers. In this powerful expose, investigative journalist Barbie Latza Nadeau follows the weapons trail, meets the Nigerian hair braiders trafficked and trapped by black magic, the brave nuns who try to save them and the Italian police who turn a blind eye as the most urgent issues facing Europe play out in broad daylight.

About the Author Barbie Latza Nadeau is an American journalist in Rome, working for Newsweek, The Daily Beast and CNN. For more than two decades she has covered crime in Europe, Italian politics, the Vatican, the refugee crisis and women's issues. Her previous book about the murder trials of Amanda Knox, Angel Face (2010), was adapted for film (The Face of an Angel, 2015), starring Kate Beckinsale as a journalist based on Barbie herself.

Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781786074591 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Quantum Physics: A Beginners Guide Alastair I.M. Rae

From quarks to computing, this fascinating introduction covers every element of the quantum world in clear and accessible language.

Sales points • Part of the bestselling Beginner's Guide series.

Description From quarks to computing, this fascinating introduction covers every element of the quantum world in clear and accessible language. Drawing on a wealth of expertise to explain just what a fascinating field quantum physics is, Rae points out that it is not simply a maze of technical jargon and philosophical ideas, but a reality which affects our daily lives.

About the Author Alastair Rae is editor of The European Journal of Physics and was until his recent retirement, Reader in Quantum Physics at the University of Birmingham. His Quantum Mechanics, now in its second edition, has become a standard undergraduate text on the subject, and his book on the philosophical implications of quantum theory, Quantum Physics: Illusion or Reality', is in its fourth edition and has been translated into six different languages.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781851683697 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 234 pages Bic1: Science: general issues Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Criminal Psychology: A Beginners Guide Ray Bull

It is a conundrum that has vexed societies throughout history: how do you deal with those that break the law' If their aim is to evade you, how do you identify them' If their aim is to lie, how do you interview them' If they don't see their actions are wrong, how do you help them to successfully reform'

Sales points • Part of the bestselling Beginner's Guide series.

Description Criminal psychology is the discipline which tackles these challenges head on. From the signals which give away we're lying to the psychological profiling of violent offenders, this exhaustive guide, written by the UK's top experts, is the perfect introduction. Also covering policing, and the much debated topic of sexual offenders and their treatment, it will demonstrate how understanding the mind will help us to view modern justice from a more informed perspective.

About the Author Professor Ray Bull is Chair in Forensic Psychology at the University of Leicester. His co-authors are all lecturers at the University of Leicester.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781851687077 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 200x130mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Psychology Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Anthropology: A Beginners Guide Joy Hendry

'A superb guide, one of the very few to combine biological and social approaches.' David Shankland

Sales points • Part of the bestselling Beginner's Guide series.

Description Anthropologists Joy Hendry and Simon Underdown offer the first introductory guide to explore both the biological and social approaches to the study of humanity, from the roots of the Homo genus, to the traits that all humans share, to the vast range of our sacred rituals. Henry and Underdown bring anthropology to life with case studies, explaining why witchcraft was so feared in seventeenth-century England but is embraced in contemporary Sudan, as well as what our relationship with mobile phones (and the bathroom) tells us about ourselves. Covering key study topics, including hierarchy, social identity, rites of passage, and the impact of globalization, this is the essential first step to understanding anthropology - for students and people working in the globalized world, alike.

About the Author Joy Hendry is Professor of Social Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University and is author of the university-level textbook Sharing Our Worlds, now in its second edition. Her fieldwork has been in Japan.

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Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Psychology: A Beginners Guide G. Neil Martin

A riveting exploration of who we are and why we behave the way we do.

Sales points • Part of the bestselling Beginner's Guide series.

Description Why do we become aggressive' How does the brain allow us to see, hear, and feel' Can listening to Mozart improve IQ' How do babies learn to perceive and think' How can we reduce obesity and cigarette smoking' Is being physically attractive an advantage' Psychology, the scientific study of the mind and our behaviour, has never been more popular. From TV experts to the amateur musings of your best friend, the language of psychology has permeated all aspects of everyday life. Here Martin reveals that modern psychology concerns far more than the everyday stereotypes of Freud, Jung, and 'common sense' advice. This Beginner's Guide is informed by the latest cutting-edge research and provides a vibrant and witty exploration of our senses, how our memory works, and what determines our intelligence, development, and personality.

About the Author Dr G. Neil Martin is Reader in Psychology at Middlesex University. He has written over 150 articles on psychology for The Times, THES, Restaurant Magazine, The Observer Magazine and The Psychologist, and is a co-author of Psychology (3rd Edition), the bestselling textbook on the subject in the UK, now in its 7th edition in the US.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781851686025 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Psychology Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Brain, The Anmar Al-Chalabi

A ground-breaking and lively exploration of the latest research on the brain.

Sales points • Part of the Beginner's Guide series.

Description It has been remarked that if the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. Commencing with a brief history of neuroscience, from the ancient practice of drilling holes in the head to relieve headaches to the latest results from MRI and CT scans, this accessible guide sets out to explore exactly what we do know about the brain. Including the most up-to-date research on the cerebral processes behind a wide array of human activity from our capacity for language to how we remember this lively and entertaining introduction assumes no previous scientific knowledge and offers a tantalizing glimpse into man's most complex organ.

About the Author Ammar Al-Chalabi is Honorary Honorary Consultant Neurologist at King's College Hospital and Senior Lecturer in Neurology and Complex Disease Genetics at King's College London Martin R. Turner is a Specialist Registrar in Neurology at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, and a Clinical Tutorial Fellow at Green College, Oxford University. R. Shane Delamont is a Consultant Neurologist at King's College Hospital. All three have extensive experience of teaching the key principles of neuroscience, and between them their specialist fields of expertise cover all of the main areas of contemporary brain research.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781851685943 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 205x135mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Human biology Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Feminism: A Beginners Guide Sally J. Scholz

Scholz invites us to join in with the lively debates and always germane challenges of feminism

Sales points • Part of the bestselling Beginner's Guide series.

Description Feminism is arguably the most significant social movement of the last century and it is far from over. But what appears as a single, unified movement on behalf of women's liberation is really a fascinating coalition of social and political causes, goals, and ideals. By highlighting the themes that form the enduring nexuses between the three waves, taking powerful examples from feminist campaigns, and tackling timely issues such as genocide and war rape, Scholz invites us to join in with the lively debates and always germane challenges of feminism.

About the Author Sally J. Scholz is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, Pennsylvania. She is currently faculty-in-residence at the Center for Peace and Justice Studies at Villanova, where she co-edits the Journal for Peace and Justice Studies. Scholz has lead feminist marches and advises student groups on global feminist issues. She lives in Rosemount, Pennsylvania.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781851687121 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 200x131mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Social issues & processes Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 American Politics: A Beginners Guide Jon Roper

A vibrant introduction to the world's oldest democratic republic.

Sales points • Part of the bestselling Beginner's Guide series.

Description To understand the world events today, you need to understand American politics. Exploring the principles enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, Jon Roper provides a sharp analysis of how history has shaped the way America governs itself. Examining the recent emergence of the right-wing Tea Party movement, President Obama's administration, American foreign policy, and the role of powerful lobbies, this is the perfect primer for anyone interested in the world's most powerful (and controversial) country.

About the Author Jon Roper is Professor of American Studies at the University of Swansea and has taught at the University of Tennessee, the University of Wisconsin, and Ohio State University. He is the author of The Complete Illustrated Guide to the Presidents of America: An Authoritative History of the American Presidency.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781851688173 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Critical Thinking: A Beginners Guide Sharon Kaye

From adverts to blogs, television to newspapers, knowing what to believe is a daunting task. This book teaches you how to analyze people's arguments and explains the main 'fallacies' that are used to deceive and confuse.

Sales points • Part of the Beginner's Guide series.

Description Critical thinking shows people how to analyze arguments, speeches, and newspaper articles to see which faults the authors are making in their reasoning. It looks at the structure of language to demonstrate rules by which you can identify good analytical thinking and helps people to formulate clear defensible arguments themselves. As people are always trying to put a certain point/opinion across in a variety of arenas in our lives, this is a very useful skill. With real life newspaper extracts, a glossary, exercises and answers, and a guide to essay writing, this is an invaluable tool for both students wanting to improve their grades and general readers wanting to boost their brainpower.

About the Author Sharon M. Kaye is Professor of Philosophy at John Carroll University, Ohio. She is the author of a dozen books, including Medieval Philosophy: A Beginner's Guide (Oneworld).

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781851686544 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 196x126mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Philosophy: logic Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Particle Physics: A Beginners Guide Brian R Martin

A wide-ranging tour of the field, from its beginnings in nuclear physics to the discovery of quarks to present- day research into string theory, the mystery of antimatter, and the search for the elusive God particle.

Sales points • Part of the bestselling Beginner's Guide series.

Description Gaining notoriety as the science behind the controversial experiments of the Large Hadron Collider, particle physics explores our most fundamental and mind-blowing problems: How did the Universe start' What are we made of' How small is the smallest thing' Without presuming any prior scientific knowledge, Brian R. Martin takes readers on a wide-ranging tour of the field, from its beginnings in nuclear physics to the discovery of quarks to present-day research into string theory, the mystery of antimatter, and the search for the elusive God particle.

About the Author Brian R. Martin is emeritus professor of physics at University College London, where he was Head of the Physics Department until 2004. His book on Nuclear and Particle Physics, now in its second edition, has become an established undergraduate textbook.

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Oneworld JANUARY 2019 The Palestine-Israel Conflict Dan Cohn-Sherbok and Dawoud El-Alami

An updated edition of this best-selling introduction to the Palestine-Israeli conflict

Sales points • Part of the bestselling Beginner's Guide series.

Description With coverage of all the recent events, the new edition of this best-selling book gives a thorough and accessible account of the history behind the Palestine-Israeli conflict, its roots, and the possibilities for the future. The book is divided into two parts - the first by an American rabbi and Professor of Judaism, and the second by a Palestinian lecturer on Islam. The result is a real insight into the situation, with each author giving full vent to the emotions behind the two sides of the debate. New material outlines recent developments, while an updated conclusion consists of a direct debate between the two authors, which raises many issues, yet offers real solutions to which future peace talks may aspire.

About the Author Dan Cohn-Sherbok is Professor Emeritus of Judaism at the University of Wales and Honorary Fellow of the Centre of Religions for Peace and Reconciliation at the University of Winchester. Dawoud El-Alami is Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Aberdeen.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781780743806 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 195x129mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: General & world history Bic2: General & world history Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Renaissance Art: A Beginners Guide Tom Nichols

Explores the truly original and diverse character of the art of the Renaissance.

Sales points • Part of the bestselling Beginner's Guide series.

Description The fifteenth century saw the evolution of a distinct and powerfully influential European artistic culture. But what does the familiar phrase Renaissance Art actually refer to' Through engaging discussion of timeless works by artists such as Jan van Eyck, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo, and supported by illustrations including colour plates, Tom Nichols offers a masterpiece of his own as he explores the truly original and diverse character of the art of the Renaissance.

About the Author Tom Nichols is a senior lecturer in history of art at the University of Aberdeen. Recent publications include The Art of Poverty, Tintoretto, Tradition and Identity, and Others and Outcasts in Early Modern Europe.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781851687244 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 199x131mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: The arts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 The Bible Paula Gooder

An illuminating, wide-ranging, and impartial introduction to the bestselling book of all time

Sales points • Part of the bestselling Beginner's Guide series.

Description From the language of Shakespeare to the US presidential campaign trail, the Bible's influence is all around us. It is the most-printed book of all time, yet, upon reading it, we are met not by one work but by many: a complex mix of history and parable, law and prophecy. In this authoritative and impartial introduction, Paula Gooder ably guides the reader in how to approach this multifaceted text, and explores its enduring influence on Western culture, from Renaissance art to Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. Featuring textboxes focussing on key details, Gooder provides an illuminating framework for understanding the Bible and shares her infectious enthusiasm for the topic. Covering its origins, content and interpretation, this wide-ranging primer will be of invaluable benefit to those of any and no faith alike.

About the Author Paula Gooder is Canon Theologian of Birmingham and Guildford Cathedrals, Lay Canon at Salisbury Cathedral, Visiting Lecturer at King's College London, and Theological Adviser to the Bible Society. She lives in Birmingham.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781851689903 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 199x130mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Religion & beliefs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Postmodernism: A Beginners Guide Kevin Hart

Hart succeeds remarkably well in providing an accessible and surprisingly comprehensive introduction to postmodern thought. - European Legacy

Sales points • Part of the bestselling Beginner's Guide series.

Description Adopting the role of tour guide, award-winning writer Kevin Hart leads the reader through the pitfalls, conundrums and complexities that characterize postmodernism, while providing an overview of the many different approaches (philosophical, cultural, literary.) to the subject. All the major thinkers are introduced - from Derrida to Blanchot, Irigaray to Foucault, and more besides - while the book is unique among introductory guides in its consideration of the role of religion in a postmodern world.

About the Author Kevin Hart is Professor English at the University of Notre Dame, Illinois, USA. He is the author or editor of 15 books, and has published seven collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Flame Tree: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2001).

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781851683383 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 199x129mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Cultural studies Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Conservation: A Beginners Guide Paul Jepson

Where conservation is heading, and how we can all contribute

Sales points • Part of the bestselling Beginner's Guide series.

Description At a time of unparalleled environmental change, there has never been a greater need for new ways of defending nature. In this forward-thinking work, Paul Jepson and Richard Ladle cover all aspects of modern conservation to provide a fascinating look into how we're fighting for the earth's species and habitats, as well as details on where conservation is heading, and how we can all contribute. Because, it'll be far more than just a pity when we lose the polar bears, pandas, and parrots.

About the Author Dr Paul Jepson is Senior Research Fellow in Conservation Practice at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford. He has been a consultant for a wide range of organisations including the WWF and the GEF.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781851687145 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 200x131mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Politics & government Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Hinduism: A Beginners Guide Klaus Klostermaier

Explaining the origins, beliefs, scriptures and philosophies, Klostermaier's sweeping and highly readable exploration of this fascinating and long-lasting belief system is essential reading for students, followers, and interested readers alike.

Sales points • Part of the bestselling Beginner's Guide series.

Description Explaining the origins, beliefs, scriptures and philosophies of this ancient religion, Klaus K. Klostermaier succeeds in capturing the rich diversity of rituals and gods that comprise Hinduism, while keeping the tone both engaging and informative. Covering contemporary issues such as the relationship between Hinduism and modern Western ideas, and imminent challenges the religion faces, this sweeping exploration of a fascinating and long-lasting belief system is essential reading for students, followers, and interested readers alike.

About the Author Klaus K. Klostermaier, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Manitoba in Canada.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781851685387 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Hinduism Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Animal Behavior John A. Byers

Investigating a whole host of species from around the globe, the first short and affordable introduction to animal behaviour

Sales points • Part of the bestselling Beginner's Guide series.

Description Investigating a whole host of species from around the globe, the first short and affordable introduction to this growing field of study 'Byers ultimately makes the reader yearn to join him and watch animals for a livingE an excellent example of popular-science writing.' Booklist

About the Author John Byers is Professor of Zoology at the University of Idaho. He has written a number of books and articles on the subject of animal behavior, including American Pronghorn, which was awarded Book of the Year by the Wildlife Society. He is a Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society and currently resides in Moscow, USA.

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Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Christianity Keith Ward

From original sin to eternal life, renowned theologian Keith Ward introduces the Christian Faith and systematically compares its many different denominations.

Sales points • Part of the Beginner's Guide series.

Description From original sin to eternal life, the function of prayer to the role of the church, renowned theologian Keith Ward offers a comprehensive survey of the diversity of Christian thinking in this introduction to the world's largest faith. By presenting three different interpretations for over fifteen key doctrines, he invites anyone interested in the contemporary spiritual landscape to consider the Christian faith from a new and refreshing perspective.

About the Author Keith Ward is Professor of Divinity, Gresham College, London and Regius Professor of Divinity, Emeritus, of the University of Oxford. He is author of the best-selling /God: A Guide for the Perplexed/, also published by Oneworld.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781851685394 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Christianity Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Marx: A Beginners Guide Andrew Collier

Introduces readers to Karl Marx the revolutionary. This book covers the various elements of marxist thought, from the early writings to such texts as 'Capital' and the themes of labour and society. It explores the traditional notion of Marx the activist and probes the apparent inconsistencies in his work.

Sales points • Part of the Beginner's Guide series.

Description Although one of the most influential thinkers of the last millennium, Karl Marx was relatively unheralded during most of his lifetime. Famous for predicting the inevitable demise of capitalism, it was only after his death that his immortal clarion call reached a wide audience: 'Workers of the world unite you have nothing to lose but your chains.' Andrew Collier breathes new life into the achievements of Karl Marx, arguing that his work is still of vital relevance in today's global climate of inequality. Covering all the elements of Marxist thought from his early writings to his masterpiece, Das Kapital, Collier probes the apparent inconsistencies in Marx's work and reclaims him as a philosopher and political theorist. This jargon-free introduction is a timely reminder of his undiminished influence, and will fascinate students, activists and interested readers alike.

About the Author Andrew Collier is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton. He is the author of several books including Christianity and Marxism and In Defence of Objectivity

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Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Nutrition: A Beginners Guide Sarah Brewer

Brewer combines the latest science with practical advice on what really matters to explain exactly how food influences our health and well-being.

Sales points • Part of the bestselling Beginner's Guide series.

Description Shocking obesity rates, the rise of eating disorders, killer food allergies, super foods that cure cancer: as the headlines shout every week, we have never been more engaged, or struggled so hard, with what we put in our mouths. Separating fact from fiction, award-winning health journalist and nutritionist Dr Sarah Brewer combines the latest science with practical advice on what really matters to explain exactly how food influences our health and well-being.

About the Author Dr Sarah Brewer is a licensed medical doctor and registered nutritionist and nutritional therapist. She has authored over 50 popular health books, and is a former Health Journalist of the Year, having worked as a columnist for a number of UK newspapers and magazines, including, The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mirror, and Prima. She currently lives in the UK.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781851689248 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x130mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Health & personal development Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Ethics Peter Cave

With characteristic wit, philosopher Peter Cave steers us around well known and not-so-well known ethical traps - in the private sphere, in community life, and in relation to God and religion.

Sales points • Part of the bestselling Beginner's Guide series.

Description From Confucianism to Kant's categorical imperative, from the Ancient Greeks to Amnesty International, This essential volume presents ethics through a fascinating global historical lens and relates it to everyday life and 21st-century politics. Peter Cave traces the development of this key branch of philosophy up to the present day, introducing readers to all the main schools of thought. With his characteristic wit and clarity, Cave takes on good and evil, power and politics, and liberalism and relativism, and handily guides us around some of the most common potholes in ethical reasoning. Applying theory to contemporary concepts like corporate social responsibility and bioethical issues such as so-called designer babies, this is an indispensable primer on the subject.

About the Author Peter Cave lectures in philosophy for The Open University and New York University (London). He frequently contributes to philosophy magazines and journals, lectures around the world, and has scripted and presented philosophy programs for the BBC. The author of eight books on philosophy, including Humanism: A Beginner's Guide and Can a Robot be Human', he lives in London, UK.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781780745763 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 197x128mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Planet Earth: A Beginners Guide John Gribbin

In this lively expedition into the origins, evolution, and workings of our planet, John Gribbin does what he does best: gathers 4.5 billion years of geological history and shares the best bits.

Sales points • Part of the Beginner's Guide series.

Description Planet Earth: A Beginner's Guide is an expedition into the origins, evolution, and workings of our home planet in which John Gribbin does what he does best: takes 4.5 billion years of geological history and digs out the essential bits, from the physics of Newton and the geology of Wegener to the environmentalism of Lovelock. Along the journey, he uses stories from history and more current events to bring the science to a human level. Gribbin's introductory guidebook very much a first step into geology and geography for the uninitiated is filled with his lively voice and unique view, as he takes on the subject of the Earth from an astronomer's perspective.

About the Author John Gribbin is the bestselling author of In Search of Schrudinger's Cat, The Scientists, Deep Simplicity, and In Search of the Multiverse. He trained as an astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge and is currently Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex, England.

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Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Forensic Science Jay Siegel

Follows the evidence all the way from the crime scene to the court room

Sales points • Part of the bestselling Beginner's Guide series.

Description The most remarkable weapon in the fight against crime, forensic science turns bullet trajectories, bodily fluids, and the very structure of our DNA into damning witnesses of our every act. Jay Siegel tracks the journey of evidence from crime scene to courtroom and sweeps away the myths to reveal the incredible complexities and surprising pitfalls of a field that is crucial to our struggle for justice. Packed with examples from real-life cases, this revised and updated edition covers all major areas of forensic science, including drugs, trace evidence, and crime scene investigation. Pathology, anthropology, and the laws that govern this evidence all come under the scalpel in a fascinating introduction to one of the most compelling elements of criminal investigation.

About the Author Jay Siegel is Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Director of the Forensic and Investigative Sciences Program, at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. He is also a recipient of the prestigious Distinguished Fellow award from the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

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Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Climate Change: A Beginners Guide Emily Boyd and Emma Tompkins

Climate change is the greatest single problem we face as a planet. This title guides us through the complex mix of scientific, political, social, and environmental issues to examine the manifold threats it poses and explore the possible futures for our world.

Sales points • Part of the bestselling Beginner's Guide series.

Description Climate change is the greatest single problem we face as a planet. This important introduction skilfully guides us through the complex mix of scientific, political, social, and environmental issues to examine the manifold threats it poses and explore the possible futures for our world. Focusing on the fact that the point of no return, may in fact have already been passed, Boyd and Tompkins highlight the urgent need to start actively adapting to our changing climate if we want to avoid complete catastrophe.

About the Author Emily Boyd is Lecturer in Environment and Development at the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, UK. An associate of the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at the University of Oxford, she been a James Martin and Leverhulme Fellow at its Environmental Change Institute. Emma Tompkins is Senior Lecturer in Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability at the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, UK. She sits on the Editorial Board of Ecology, and Society and was an expert reviewer for the IPCC's fourth Assessment Report.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781851686605 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Pollution & threats to the environment Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Shakespeare: A Beginners Guide Ros King

Shakespeare: A Beginner's Guide provides all the tools the general reader needs to embrace our greatest writer.

Sales points • Part of the bestselling Beginner's Guide series.

Description Whether the fault of tedious teachers or hammy actors, Shakespeare is often seen as dry and impenetrable. In this fast- paced introduction, Ros King sets out to remind us of the sheer beauty and sophistication that can make Shakespeare's works a joy for any audience. Exploring his invention, wit, along with his uncanny characterisation, King argues archaic language should be no barrier to the modern reader. With summaries of The Bard's life and background, explanations of the plays' origins and instructions on how to read his poetry, Shakespeare: A Beginner's Guide provides all the tools the general reader needs to embrace our greatest writer.

About the Author Ros King is Professor of English at the University of Southampton, UK. A textual editor as well as musician and theatre director, she is a specialist on Shakespeare and performance.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781851687893 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 199x130mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: The arts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Energy Vaclav Smil

This authoritative guide, written by international expert Vaclav Smil, reveals how every aspect of our existence is governed by one of the most important concepts in our universe.

Sales points • Part of the bestselling Beginner's Guide series.

Description With his famous equation, E=mc2, Einstein showed us that all matter can be described as energy. It is everywhere; it is everything. In this engaging introduction, renowned author and scientist Vaclav Smil covers a wide range of topics, from the inner workings of the human body to the race for more efficient and eco-friendly fuels. Shedding light on the science behind global warming and efforts to prevent it, and how our daily decisions affect energy consumption, this book highlights the importance of energy in both past and present societies. Whether you're after insight or dinner table conversation, Energy: A Beginner's Guide will amaze and inform, uncovering the science behind one of the most important concepts in our universe.

About the Author Author Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He has written more than 30 books and been a keynote speaker at both the World Economic Forum and the Global Roundtable on Climate Change. In 2010 he was named by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers.

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Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Global Terrorism: A Beginners Guide Leonard Weinberg

What drives someone to become a suicide bomber' Who are al Qaeda and what do they want' This book answers these and other questions in an exploration that ranges from French Revolution to death squads of Colombia, and reveals how terrorism has become an invasive presence that affects government policy, military actions, and holiday destinations.

Sales points • Part of the bestselling Beginner's Guide series.

Description Since the terrible events of 9/11, more attention than ever has been paid to the threats and challenges posed by contemporary terrorists. From suicide bombers to the latest cybertechnology, Leonard Weinberg's readable and objective introduction explains who the terrorists are, where they came from, what motivates them and what, if anything, can be done to stop them. It provides a fascinating insight into such mythical figures as Carlos the Jackal and Osama bin Laden, while also offering a full account of how terrorist 'cells' operate and what they might do in the future. With full resources, including a chronology and list of further reading on the subject, anyone interested in matters of public security and international crises will find this essential reading.

About the Author Leonard Weinberg is Foundation Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada. He has also served as a consultant to the United Nations Office for the Prevention of Terrorism and was a recipient of the 1999 Thornton Peace Prize.

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Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Parapsychology Caroline Watt

A balanced, comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the study of unexplained phenomena

Sales points • Part of the bestselling Beginner's Guide series.

Description From premonitions to apparitions, spoon-bending to mind-reading, the paranormal has bemused and mystified humans for millennia. In this Beginner's Guide, renowned author and scientist Dr Caroline Watt explores the evidence behind such phenomena. In the last one hundred years, parapsychologists have tried to determine whether it is possible to examine paranormal activity using scientific methods. Packed full of interesting characters, surprising incidents and novel experiments, this book takes the reader on a journey through this fascinating research. Parapsychology: A Beginner's Guide traces the history and evolution of parapsychology as a science, and provides a thorough and critical analysis of the research and evidence in the field today.

About the Author Dr Caroline A. Watt is Senior Lecturer in Psychology and a founding member (1986) of the University of Edinburgh's Koestler Parapsychology Unit. She is also former President of the Parapsychological Association, co-author of An Introduction to Parapsychology (McFarland & Co), and leads a popular online parapsychology course.

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Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Anti-capitalism Simon Tormey

Introducing the anti-capitalist movement, a movement that has quickly established itself in the global arena, staging protests at meetings of international organisations.

Sales points • Part of the bestselling Beginner's Guide series.

Description Every aspect of the anti-capitalist world is covered in this helpful guide, from WOMBLES to Zapatistas, NGOs to environmentalism, Paris 1968 to Seattle, and beyond. Picking up where Naomi Klein left off, this is not so much a manifesto as a roadmap, which captures the essence of the movement, and also articulates a range of possibilities for future alternatives to the corporate domination of our planet.

About the Author Author Simon Tormey is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham, England.

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Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Economics James Forder

A lively introduction for anyone seeking to understand the so-called dismal science

Sales points • Part of the bestselling Beginner's Guide series.

Description Almost everyone appreciates that economics is important. Promises are constantly made which relate to economic outcomes 'no more boom and bust' was one from the last government but rarely do things turn out as expected. Whether things go right or wrong, the consequences affect all of us. A proper understanding of the subject is essential to making our society successful. Readers are introduced to the essential building blocks of economic thinking through the exploration of real world economic issues. Crucially, Forder goes beyond a basics presentation of what economists say, and asks what economics is, what it does, and when it is useful.

About the Author James Forder is Tutorial Fellow in Political Economy at Balliol College, University of Oxford and has been teaching economics at Oxford since 1993. He is the co-author of Both Sides of the Coin and author of The Case Against Voting Reform

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781780746395 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 193x128mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Politics & government Bic2: Politics & government Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Bioterror and Biowarfare Malcolm Dando

Uncovering the reality behind the headlines, Dando provides a comprehensive account of what biological weapons are and their prevalence throughout the world.

Sales points • Part of the bestselling Beginner's Guide series.

Description In an age where anthrax can be produced in a garage and multilateral agreements among nations seem ever harder to reach, the threat of biowarfare could rapidly spiral out of control. In this authoritative guide, international expert Malcolm Dando inspects the evidence rarely made available to the public, providing a comprehensive account of what biological weapons are and their prevalence throughout the world. From the history of biowarfare development programmes to the current state of weapons stockpiles, Dando takes care to include what he believes is necessary to reduce the availability and potency of biological agents in the future. Examining the backdrop of legislative wrangling and failed international agreements, this well-argued work interweaves politics and technology to reveal the reality behind this twenty-first century menace.

About the Author Malcolm Dando is Professor of International Security at the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford. He is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Biology and has worked with the British Medical Association, the Ministry of Defence and the United States National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781851684472 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Weapons & equipment Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Cancer Paul Scotting

The only book on this subject aimed at the general reader

Sales points • Part of the bestselling Beginner's Guide series.

Description Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, and one of the most feared diagnoses a patient can face. The number of new cases is expected to rise by 70% over the next two decades, but few of us understand what it is, how it affects the body or what can be done to treat and even prevent it. In this illuminating introduction, Dr Paul Scotting explains the science behind the disease and explores the factors that can increase our risk of developing cancer. Fully revised and updated, Cancer: A Beginner's Guide details the latest breakthroughs, cutting-edge developments and promising new strategies that will help us combat and cure cancer in the future.

About the Author Paul Scotting is Associate Professor and Reader in Development and Cancer Biology at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is donating all his royalties from this book to Macmillan Nurses.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781786071408 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 196x128mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Medicine Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 Micromosaics Heike Zech

Highlights from the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection

Sales points • Beautiful publication.

Description Expertly crafted from thousands of tiny and intricately arranged pieces, micromosaics appear at first glance to be miniature paintings. Closer inspection reveals the extraordinary skill of the virtuoso makers, who were able to create exquisite images brimming with drama and atmosphere.Focusing on 30 highlights from the VA s superlative Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection, which includes some of the finest examples of micromosaics made, this new book explores the technical aspects of micromosaic construction, its roots in antiquity, their incredible popularity in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, and their evolution through the nineteenth century until the technique virtually vanished in the early 1900s.

About the Author Heike Zech is former curator of the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection at the VA.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781851779703 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Mosaics: artworks Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

V&A Publications JANUARY 2019 Only the Ocean Natasha Carthew

Only the Ocean is the moving and extraordinary exploration of innocence (and its loss), of courage and of love in the midst of darkness. Lyrical and otherworldly, Only the Ocean will thrill fans of Sarah Crossan and Patrick Ness

Sales points • A literary and powerful but beautiful voice, combined with the ability to make dark, strange worlds accessible; this is the most dynamic and driving of Natasha Carthew's novels to date, with moving characters, real heart and a thrilling story • With themes revolving around loss of innocence, responsibility for others and class structure, Only the Ocean provides a wealth of material for discussion, delivered in classic Carthew lyrical style • Featuring a range of characters with different motivations and loves, this book delivers a unique and diverse romance

Description The two girls sat at opposite ends of the boat and Kel dug and stretched the oars into the ocean like her life depended upon it because it did. Just so you know,' said Rose, everything, I mean everything, is your fault.' 15-year-old Kel Crow lives in a water-logged world, with a family with whom she shares nothing but blood and a heart defect that she knows could kill her any day. She has a plan to escape, and it's a good one: stowaway on the ship, kidnap the girl, swap the girl to buy passage to America and a life-saving operation. But plans never go how they're meant to - Breath-takingly fierce, smart and tender, Only the Ocean is a story of innocence (and its loss), survival, and courage in the midst of darkness.

About the Author Carthew is a working-class country writer from Cornwall, where she lives with her girlfriend. She has written all her books outside, either in the fields and woodland that surround her home or in the cabin that she built from scrap wood. She has Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 written two books of poetry, as well as three novels for young adults, Winter Damage, The Light That Gets Lost and Only ISBN: 9781408868607 the Ocean, all for Bloomsbury. Her first novel for adults, All Rivers Run Free, is published by riverrun/ Quercus. Natasha Format: Hard Cover has written for many publications on the subject of wild writing, including the Writers' & Artists' Yearbook, Eco-fiction, Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 284 pages TripFiction, the Guardian, the Big Issue and the Dark Mountain Project. Shes currently writing her second literary novel for Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) adults and a new collection of rural poetry. Bic2: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: JANUARY 2019 A Good Night for Shooting Zombies Jaco Jacobs

Sometimes the end is just the beginning of a new adventure.

Sales points • 'Cancer and death aren't exactly fun subjects. But even though you expect the book to be depressing, it's exactly the opposite.' Ingrid Hydenrych in JIP • 'Jaco Jacobs undoubtedly has the gift of writing entertaining stories. His characters are believable, and ever so often there's a hint of humour to make the reading experience even more pleasurable.' Lona Gericke IBBY South Africa Newsletter

Description Martin's life changes the day his dad is killed in a car accident. No one talks about it, his mum refuses to leave the house, and his only consolation through the sleepless nights is solving difficult maths problems. Until he forms an unlikely friendship with his neighbour Vusi who dreams of making a zombie movie. The two are plunged head first into a wild adventure, pulling everyone they know along with them. Shortlisted for the Found in Translation award, it has also since been made into a popular film in Afrikaans.

About the Author Jaco Jacobs is the most popular and prolific children's book author in Afrikaans. He has published more than 140 books and over a million copies have been sold. Jaco is also a well-known columnist, blogger, freelance journalist and translator. He lives in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Kobus Geldenhuys is an award-winning translator who received the South African Academy for Arts and Science prize for Translated Children's and Youth Literature in Afrikaans for his translation of the third book in Cressida Cowell's popular children's series How To Train Your Dragon in Afrikaans. He is also the translator of many Harry Potter titles.

Price: AU $15.99 NZ $17.99 ISBN: 9781786074508 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 A Good Day for Climbing Trees Jaco Jacobs

A funny, warm-hearted novel about a 13-year-old who becomes a local hero by saving a tree

Sales points • Age range: 8-12 • The most loved Afrikaans author of children's books • One of four books given outstanding 'Honour Titles' by the BookTrust's In Other Words initiative 2017 and a marketing grant • A Good day for Climbing Trees is currently being adapted to film in South Africa

Description It's the summer holidays and 13-year-old Marnus feels invisible, sandwiched between a heart-breakingly handsome older brother, and his cute but crafty little brother. Then, one day, a girl called Leila shows up at the house with a petition to save a nearby tree. It is the start of an extraordinary adventure that changes his life: The two become local heroes and bring the community full of weird and wonderful characters closer together. For the first time, Marnus feels people are noticing him.

About the Author Jaco Jacobs is the most popular and prolific children's book author in Afrikaans. He has published more than 120 books and nearly a million copies of his books have been sold. Jaco is also a well-known columnist, blogger, freelance journalist and translator. He lives in Bloemfontein, South Africa || Afrikaans translator of children's books

Price: AU $16.99 NZ $18.99 ISBN: 9781786073174 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 196x128mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld JANUARY 2019 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle

The collection culminates in The Final Problem', in which the evil Professor Moriarty is plotting the detective's downfall. Soon Holmes and Watson are led across Europe in a deadly pursuit of their devilish quarry, until the final showdown in Switzerland, at the precipitous Reichenbach Falls -

Sales points • Unique edition includes all stories originally published under this collection • Beautifully illustrated by David Mackintosh • Contains extra material for young readers, including a glossary and quiz yourself section

Description I know every move of your game - It has been a duel between you and me, Mr Holmes - If you are clever enough to bring destruction upon me, rest assured that I shall do as much to you. With Sherlock Holmes's reputation as the scourge of the criminal underworld preceding him, the ingenious detective, with the aid of Dr Watson, is confronted in these stories by some of his most fiendishly difficult cases yet. The collection culminates in The Final Problem', in which the evil Professor Moriarty is plotting the detective's downfall. Soon Holmes and Watson are led across Europe in a deadly pursuit of their devilish quarry, until the final showdown in Switzerland, at the precipitous Reichenbach Falls -

About the Author Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 1930) is the celebrated author of many adventure novels, including The Lost World and The Poison Belt, and the creator of the hugely popular detective stories of Sherlock Holmes.

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Alma Classics JANUARY 2019 Shadow of the Centaurs: An Ancient Greek Mystery Saviour Pirotta

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Price: AU $16.99 NZ $18.99 ISBN: 9781472940254 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Education JANUARY 2019 Lift Every Voice and Sing James Weldon

A timely and stunning reissue of this picture book featuring the African-American National Anthem.

Sales points • Publishing for the seventieth anniversary of the song's declaration as the African-American national anthem, this stunning picture book features linocuts from noted Harlem Renaissance artist Elizabeth Catlett. • Strong backlist sales of nearly 30,000 copies net. • Special markets appeal--the exhibit featuring this art is on permanent display at the Whitney museum and Ms. Catlett's art is featured in museums around the country. • Noted song in the children's literature community; this song is sung every year at the Coretta Scott King Award breakfast, • Featuring new introduction and backmatter from a noted name in the African-American community.

Description A moving history of the African-American struggle for equality, 'Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing' was written for schoolchildren to sing at an Abraham Lincoln birthday celebration in 1900 and was named the official African-American anthem in 1949. With linocuts of renowned Harlem Renaissance artist Elizabeth Catlett, this text and art pairing captures the achievements, spirit, joy, and struggle of the African-American experience. This reissue will feature new backmatter contextualizing the history of the song as well as the significance of Ms. Catlett as an artist.

About the Author James Weldon John was the principal of a school for African-American children in Florida when he was asked to participate in a birthday celebration for Abraham Lincoln. He decided to write a song and asked his brother, Rosamond, to write he music. The result was one of the most spiritually uplifting songs ever written. He died in 1938. Elizabeth Catlett was an artist whose work is displayed around the world. The illustrations from Lift Every Voice and Sing were originally part of the collection she created with the Julius Rosenwald Foundation grant she was awarded in the 1940s. She died in 2012.

Price: AU $24.99 NZ $26.99 ISBN: 9781681199559 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: Children's Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Children's USA JANUARY 2019 How to be an Outstanding Primary Middle Leader Zoe Paramour

How to be an Outstanding Primary Middle Leader is a compendium of research, advice, anecdotes and practical tips to help middle leaders excel in this complex and demanding role, without compromising their mental or physical health.

Sales points • Includes invaluable advice and practical tips to help middle leaders excel in their role, without compromising their mental or physical health. • Honest advice, research and suggestions for both new and experienced primary middle leaders. • Written by award-winning blogger Zoe Paramour, in her unique, straight-talking and witty style.

Description How to be an Outstanding Primary Middle Leader is a compendium of research, advice, anecdotes and practical tips to help middle leaders excel in this complex and demanding role, without compromising their mental or physical health. Written by Zoe Paramour, experienced middle leader and award-winning blogger of The Girl on the Picadilly Line, this book provides advice and practical solutions to challenges middle leaders are likely to encounter while leading a subject, phase or other whole-school responsibility, from having difficult conversations with colleagues and parents to dealing with an Ofsted inspector and writing a school improvement plan. All advice is drawn from Zoe's own experiences as a middle leader, interviews and conversations with middle and senior leaders, as well as research into leadership. In Zoe's unique, straight-talking and witty style, this book is an accessible and enjoyable read for both new and experienced primary middle leaders looking to reflect on their practice and maximise their impact.

About the Author Zoe Paramour worked her way up from NQT to Assistant Headteacher in five years and has been a middle teacher for three. She has worked in a number of very different schools and has held a variety of posts. Zoe is currently a middle leader in a primary school in North London. She is also a freelance writer and journalist specialising in education and politics, as well as the founder of the award-winning blog The Girl on the Piccadilly Line. She writes for a number of Price: AU $32.99 NZ $34.99 national publications, including The Independent, The Huffington Post, The IB Times and The New Statesman. ISBN: 9781472951861 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child JANUARY 2019 50 Fantastic Ideas for Engaging Dads O' Sullivan, June, Sharp and Alice

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Featherstone Education JANUARY 2019 50 Fantastic Ideas for Exploring Numbers Alison Hutchison

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Bloomsbury Child JANUARY 2019 The Marine Art of Geoff Hunt Geoff Hunt

A superb collection of 150 paintings and sketches by Geoff Hunt, one of the leading marine artists of his generation.

Sales points • 5 key case studies are used to explore the artist's process from the initial inspirations, gathering of source material to the often lengthy artistic progression that leads to the creation of a finished painting. • Features 150 paintings and sketches to illustrate the author's prolific career, painting techniques and influences. • Includes sections on Nelson's Navy, The American War of Independence, illustrating the naval writers and the Modern Maritime Scene, which includes recent commissions from the commercial sector and yachting community • Geoff Hunt is a former President of the Royal Society of Marine Artists, and he is an expert on the Navy of Nelson and Patrick O'Brian.

Description Geoff Hunt is known to millions of readers across the world as the artist responsible for the covers of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels, and more recently for those of Julian Stockwin's Thomas Kydd books. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the leading marine artists of his generation. More than a showcase of the versatility and creativity of his work, this book, written by the artist himself, also reveals its accuracy, through five key case studies that explain the initial inspirations, gathering of source material and often lengthy artistic progression that leads to the creation of a finished painting. The artist has selected over 150 paintings and sketches to illustrate his prolific career, painting techniques and influences, dividing them into sections on Nelson's Navy, The American War of Independence, illustrating the naval writers and the Modern Maritime Scene, which includes recent commissions from the commercial sector and yachting community.

About the Author Geoff Hunt is a former President of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. His work is represented in public and private collections worldwide, and Geoff is an expert on the Navy of Nelson and Patrick O'Brian. In 2004 The Marine Art of Geoff Price: AU $39.99 NZ $42.99 Hunt was published to much acclaim, presenting over 100 of the artist's key works from a thirty year career. Geoff's studio ISBN: 9781472965387 is on the site of Nelson's house at Merton Place. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Art forms Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Adlard Coles Nautica JANUARY 2019 Whitaker's 2019 Whitaker's

Whitaker's 2019 is the definitive resource - the perfect book for anyone interested in current affairs and general knowledge.

Sales points • Easy to use information at your fingertips without the internet - comprehensive contents and around 6,000 index listings • At over 1 million words, no other work of reference has greater coverage - from Astronomy to Zoroastrianism and everything in between! • Over 5,000 authoritative sources are contacted annually for information relating to their organisation • A unique history - in 1940 Winston Churchill sought reassurance that publication would not be interrupted by the Blitz; used by Sherlock Holmes to decode a letter in The Valley of Fear (1915) • A reference library in one volume - ideal for leisure, business and study and a perfect Christmas gift

Description First published in 1868, Whitaker's is the ultimate single-volume reference source - packed with thousands of facts, figures, overviews and statistics relating to the UK and the world. Whitaker's 2019 contains a comprehensive explanation of every aspect of national and local government infrastructure in the UK, astronomical and tidal data for 2019, guides to UK law, education and taxation, overviews of the water, energy and transport industries, essential calendar information, chapters on royalty and peerage, complete results for each constituency from the last UK General Election and an up-to-date list of MPs, government departments and public bodies, directory listings of trade unions and professional bodies, sports results and records, reviews of the year 2017 18 covering the arts, science and politics and monthly summaries of the year's news. Whitaker's is also an excellent introduction to world politics with in-depth profiles of international organisations, the European Union and every country of the world. Our dedicated team of both in-house editors and specialist contributors spend a total of around 6,000 hours updating Whitaker's annually this includes contacting thousands of individuals to update their own organisation's details, Price: AU $155.00 NZ $170.00 researching information from official annual reports, and gathering statistics and facts from the most up-to-date ISBN: 9781472947529 authoritative sources available. Updated continually throughout the year around 2,000 hours of editorial time is dedicated Format: Hard Cover to verifying every piece of information to ensure that, unlike collaborative online sources such as Wikipedia, all the Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 1184 pages material in Whitaker's is neutral and reliable. Now in its 151st edition, the book is completely revised and updated every Bic1: Yearbooks, annuals, almanacs year with at least 60% of the contents - including maps, diagrams and colour infographics - newly compiled specifically for Bic2: this edition. Illustrations: A totally unique combination of every aspect of UK infrastructure, current affairs, world politics, history, finance, Previous Titles: Author now living: astronomical data and reviews of the year, 'Whitaker's remains the most comprehensive compendium of information in the English language' (Jon Snow) and will save hours of research and cross-referencing between different sources.

About the Author Yearbooks JANUARY 2019 The Art of Color Mixing Jeremy Galton, Nick Harris, John Lidzey

A small practical handbook on choosing and mixing colours successfully. It shows how to create the maximum colour range from the minimum number of paints. The authors address watercolours, acrylics and oils, showing how to mix, blend and dilute in order to achieve a range of effects.

Sales points • a comprehensive and practical guide to mixing colours • highly illustrated • covers a wide range of media including oils, watercolours and acrylics

Description A small practical handbook on choosing and mixing colours successfully. It shows how to create the maximum colour range from the minimum number of paints. The authors address watercolours, acrylics and oils, showing how to mix, blend and dilute in order to achieve a range of effects.

About the Author The four authors, Jeremy Galton, Jill Mirza, Nick Harris and John Lidzey, have between them a vast amount of experience in working with the full range of paint media. They have all taught painting at various levels and they also frequently exhibit their work.

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781912217915 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Art techniques & principles Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Herbert Press JANUARY 2019 Superguns 1854-1991 Steven J. Zaloga

One of military history's most exciting subjects - ultra-long-range guns of the 20th century, the pride of Kaiser Wilhelm, Adolf Hitler, and Saddam Hussein.

Sales points • New Vanguard titles on giant 20th century weapons are very strong sellers, especially those connected with Nazi Germany. • This covers some of the most famous and exciting artillery pieces in history, such as Germany's WWI 'Paris Gun', Hitler's V-3 'London Gun', and Project Babylon, Saddam Hussein's legendary 'Supergun' project. • Steve Zaloga will provide an authoritative, dispassionate history and analysis of these much-mythologised weapons.

Description Over the last 150 years, gun designers have sought to transform warfare with artillery of superlative range and power, from William Armstrong's 19th-century monster guns to the latest research into hypersonic electro-magnetic railguns. Taking a case study approach, Superguns explains the technology and role of the finest monster weapons of each era. It looks at the 1918 Wilhelm Gun, designed to shell Paris from behind the German trenches; the World War II V-3 gun built to bombard London across the Channel; the Cold War atomic cannons of the US and Soviet Union; and the story of Dr Gerald Bull's HARP program and the Iraqi Supergun he designed for Saddam Hussein. Illustrated throughout, this is an authoritative history of the greatest and most ambitious artillery pieces of all time.

About the Author Steven J. Zaloga received his BA in History from Union College and his MA from Columbia University. He has worked as an analyst in the aerospace industry for over three decades, covering missile systems and the international arms trade, and has served with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federal think tank. He is the author of numerous books on military technology and military history, with an accent on the US Army in World War II as well as Russia and the former Soviet Union. He lives in Maryland, USA.

Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781472826107 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 48 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey JANUARY 2019 Division Leclerc Merling Robinson and Thomas Seignon

The battle history, men and equipment of the most famous Free French unit of World War II, led by France's best fighting general.

Sales points • Descibes the campaigns and battles of the famous Free France's best field commander, from the Sahara to Bavaria. • The artwork plates will illustrate the range and development of uniforms, tanks and equipment of the French 2e Division Blindee. • Ties in with other Osprey books on the Free French, including MAA 318 The French Army 1939 45 (2) (1998), CAM 249 Vercors 1944 (2012), WAR 117 French Resistance Fighter (2007).

Description 'General Leclerc' was the nom de guerre adopted by the Gaullist officer Philippe de Hautcloque, to protect his family in occupied France. He became France's foremost fighting commander, and his armored division (the '2e DB') its most famous formation. Starting as a small scratch force of mostly African troops organised and led by Leclerc in French Equatorial Africa, it achieved early success raiding Italian and German positions in co-operation with Britain's Long Range Desert Group. Following the Allied victory in North Africa it was expanded and reorganised as a US Army-style armoured division, with American tanks and other armoured vehicles. Shipped to the UK, in spring 1944, it was assigned to Patton's US Third Army, landing in time for the Normandy breakout and being given the honour of liberating Paris in August 1944. Combining a thorough analysis of their combat and organisation with detailed colour plates of their uniforms and equipment, this is the fascinating story of Free France's most effective fighting force.

About the Author M.P. ROBINSON is a Canadian author who lives with his wife and 5 children near Toronto, Canada. He has a BA (Hons) History from York University, and has authored or co-authored 8 books and numerous articles on armoured vehicles and armoured warfare. His historical interest in politics and warfare spans from ancient times right up to the present day. Colonel THOMAS SEIGNON, an active army officer, served in Armor branch from platoon leader to battalion commander. Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 Having a passion for armored vehicles history, he has authored numerous articles plus a couple of books on the subject ISBN: 9781472830074 and is an active member of the French tank museum board and scientific council. He is married and has 3 kids, which Format: Paperback does not prevent him from using the train on a weekly basis between the Joint Staff in Paris and his home in Saumur, Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 64 pages along the Loire valley. Bic1: Second World War Raffaele Ruggeri was born in Bologna where he works and lives with his wife. After studying at the Fine Arts Academy he Bic2: worked in several areas of graphics and design before deciding to devote himself to illustration. He has long been Illustrations: interested in military history and has illustrated a number of books for Osprey. Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey JANUARY 2019 Empire of the Seas Brian Lavery

BBC TV Tie-in to Dan Snow's Timewatch series exploring the navy's rise over four centuries.

Sales points • BBC TV Tie-in to Dan Snow's Timewatch series • A Sunday Times bestseller • Author Brian Lavery is a leading and world-renowned writer on nautical and naval history, and is also the Curator Emeritus of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. He was awarded the prestigious Desmond Wettern Maritime Media Award in 2007, and the Society of Nautical Research's Anderson Medal in 2008. • An excellent introduction for anyone interested in the history of the Royal Navy. • Variety of content, including biographies, personal accounts and historical analysis. • Illustrated throughout with a diverse range of images including contemporary marine paintings, ship logbooks, engravings and portraits.

Description The year 1588 marked a turning point in our national story. Victory over the Spanish Armada transformed us into a seafaring nation and it sparked a myth that one day would become a reality that the nation's new destiny, the source of her future wealth and power lay out on the oceans. This book tells the story of how the navy expanded from a tiny force to become the most complex industrial enterprise on earth; how the need to organise it laid the foundations of our civil service and our economy; and how it transformed our culture, our sense of national identity and our democracy. Re-issued in trade paperback format Brian Lavery's narrative explores the navy's rise over four centuries; a key factor in propelling Britain to its status as the most powerful nation on earth, and assesses the turning point of Jutland and the First World War. He creates a compelling read that is every bit as engaging as the TV series itself.

About the Author Brian Lavery is one of Britain's leading naval historians and a prolific author. A Curator Emeritus at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and a renowned expert on the sailing navy and the Royal Navy, in 2007 he won the prestigious

Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 Desmond Wettern Maritime Media Award. His naval writing was further honoured in 2008 with the Society of Nautical ISBN: 9781472835604 Research's Anderson Medal. His recent titles include Ship (2006), Royal Tars (2010), Conquest of the Ocean (2013), In Format: Paperback - B format Which They Served (2008), and Churchill's Navy (2006). Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Maritime history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey JANUARY 2019 Wildlands Martin Wallace

A two to four player fantasy miniatures board game from Martin Wallace, pitting rival factions against one another in fast-paced skirmishes.

Sales points • An approachable, expandable miniatures skirmish game. • Fully playable introduction set - this box is all that is needed to play the game with up to four players. • Future expansion support, with new factions, battlefields and more.

Description Players: 2-4 Ages: 14+ Playing Time: 30-60 minutes Contents: 20 Unique Miniatures, 20 Character Cards, 120 Action Cards, 42 Battlefield Cards, Double-Sided Playing Board, Counters & Tokens The great Darkness has fallen, and the Empire with it.

The arcane crystals which once powered entire cities were shattered, and the darkness was destroyed by the magics unleashed. All that remains are the lawless ruins known as the Wildlands, and the shards of the crystals that have been strewn across them. Now a few souls, the brave and the desperate, seek the shards to harness their power for their own ends.

Take control of one of four factions, from the spell-slinging Mages' Guild or the nimble Gnomads to the versatile Lawbringers or the hard-hitting Pit Fighters. Each brings their own playstyle, with unique decks of action cards determining their abilities on the battlefield, so plan your tactics carefully. Dash through the ruins to grab the crystals you so desperately desire or focus your efforts on taking out the opposition but take care, danger may be lurking in the darkness - Price: AU $120.00 NZ $130.00 ISBN: 9781472826954 In the Wildlands, opportunity awaits - if you fight for it. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 1 pages About the Author Bic1: Board games Martin Wallace was born in Hampshire in 1962, and started designing board games in 1990. He self-published his first Bic2: game, Lords of Creation, in 1993 and has had over seventy games published since. Martin is best known for Steam, Illustrations: Brass, Discworld Ankh Morpork, and A Few Acres of Snow. Previous Titles: Author now living: Having spent most of his life in Manchester, he now resides in Queensland, Australia.

Osprey Games JANUARY 2019 Wildlands: The Unquiet Dead Martin Wallace

A new faction for Wildlands!

Sales points • A new faction with a unique mechanic enters the fray. • Six new miniatures with a matching activation deck. • Includes rules to use the undead as a player faction or as an environmental hazard.

Description Number of players: 2-4 Ages: 14+ Playing time: 30-60 minutes Components: 6 unique miniatures, 37 cards Within the Wildlands the word is spreading - the dead have not finished with the living. The first expansion for Wildlands introduces the format of a faction box. Each faction box features a new team of miniatures for players to use in their games, as well as an option to use them as environmental hazards.

The Unquiet Dead allows players to play with a unique mechanic of common activation, meaning each card can be used to activate any of the miniatures. This also includes an option for players to use the undead as non-player characters, with more undead flooding the board as battle rages. Please note that this expansion requires a copy of Wildlands: Scoundrels and Scavengers.

About the Author Martin Wallace was born in Hampshire in 1962, and started designing board games in 1990. He self-published his first game, Lords of Creation, in 1993 and has had over seventy games published since. Martin is best known for Steam, Brass, Discworld Ankh Morpork, and A Few Acres of Snow. Having spent most of his life in Manchester, he now resides in Queensland, Australia.

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Osprey Games JANUARY 2019 High Society Reiner Knizla

A new edition of Reiner Knizia's classic auction game, where players must out-bid each other to gain their rightful place within high society.

Sales points • A well-loved classic is revived, with stunning new artwork giving the game a deluxe feel. • A perfect filler - simple enough to instantly understand, yet meaty enough for repeated play. • Reiner Knizia is an award winning game designer who is well known amongst gamers, and High Society sits among his most famous games.

Description Players: 3-5 Playing Time: 20 minutes Ages: 10+ Contents: 55 Money cards, 16 Oversized Status cards It's the turn of the century, and it's time to live large. As the quintessential bon vivant you must spare no expense following the latest trend and surrounding yourself with the fineries of life that you justly deserve. Assert your status, impress your peers, and avoid at every turn. In Reiner Knizia's classic auction game, players must bid against each other for life's luxuries, while avoiding going bankrupt in the process. High Society features 16 stunning Art Nouveau-inspired illustrations by Medusa Dollmaker.

About the Author Dr. Reiner Knizia is one of the world's most successful and prolific game designers. More than 600 of his games and books have been published worldwide in over 50 languages. With sales exceeding 20 million copies, he has won numerous international awards, including five German Game Prizes, two German Game of the Year Awards, the German Education Game Award, four Austrian Game Awards, the Swiss Game Award, three French Grand Prix du Jouet, the Spanish Game of the Year, the Dutch Game of the Year Award, the Danish Game of the Year Award, the Swedish Game Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 of the Year Award, three Finnish Game of the Year Awards, the Australian Game of the Year Award, and the Japan ISBN: 9781472827777 Board Game Prize. Format: Before dedicating himself to the full-time development of games, he obtained a Master of Science degree from Syracuse Dimensions: 163x130mm Extent: 1 pages University (USA) and a PHD in Mathematics from Ulm University (Germany), and was the Operations Director of a eE10 Bic1: Board games billion mortgage company based in the United Kingdom. Bic2: Board games Currently based in Germany, he has teaching assignments at various international universities and institutions on Illustrations: Learning Techniques, Management and Game Design. Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey Games JANUARY 2019 Cryptid Hal Duncan, Ruth Veevers

A unique deduction game for puzzle fiends.

Sales points • A brand new type of deduction game of discovery and misdirection. • The digital companion is entirely optional, but will assist in setup for moments when you want a quick game. • Variable difficulty levels for puzzle solvers of all abilities.

Description Number of players: 3-5 Ages: 10+ Time: 30-50 minutes Components: 5 player booklets, 6 board pieces, 60 cards, tokens & counters You've studied the footage, connected the dots, and gathered what meagre evidence you could. You're close - soon the whole world will know the truth behind the Cryptid. A group of like-minded cryptozoologists have come together to finally uncover the elusive creature, but the glory of discovery is too rich to share. Without giving away some of what you know you will never succeed in locating the beast, but reveal too much and your name will be long forgotten! Cryptid is a unique deduction game of honest misdirection in which players must try to uncover information about their opponent's clues while throwing them off the scent of their own. Each player holds one piece of evidence to help them find the creature, and on their turn they can try to gain more information from their opponents. Be warned give too much away and your opponents might beat you to the mysterious animal and claim the glory for themselves! The game includes a modular board, five clue books, and a deck of setup cards with hundreds of possible setups across two difficulty levels. It is also supported by an entirely optional digital companion, allowing for faster game setup and a near-infinite range of puzzles.

About the Author Ruth is a computer scientist and board game enthusiast living in Norwich, UK. Hal has been playing board games in

Price: AU $59.99 NZ $64.99 Norwich for a decade and designing them for less, with a love of tricky deduction games. Cryptid is the first published ISBN: 9781472830654 design for both Ruth & Hal. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 1 pages Bic1: Board games Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey Games JANUARY 2019 Frostgrave: The Grimoire Joseph A. McCullough

A 122-card collection of spells for Frostgrave, providing the ideal in-game reference for aspiring Wizards.

Sales points • Contains 122 cards, featuring all the spells from the Frostgrave rulebook, Thaw of the Lich Lord, Into the Breeding Pits, Forgotten Pacts, The Frostgrave Folio, and Maze of Malcor. • Perfect in-game reference for Wizards' spell-books.

Description A set of 122 cards featuring all the spells from the Frostgrave books published to date (the rulebook, Thaw of the Lich Lord, Into the Breeding Pits, Forgotten Pacts, The Frostgrave Folio, and Maze of Malcor), providing the ultimate in-game reference guide for aspiring Wizards.

About the Author Joseph A. McCullough is the author of several non-fiction books including A Pocket History of Ireland, Zombies: A Hunter s Guide, and Dragonslayers: From Beowulf to St. George. In addition, his fantasy short stories have appeared in various books and magazines such as Black Gate, Lords of Swords, and Adventure Mystery Tales. He is also the creator of the wargame, Frostgrave: Fantasy Wargames in the Frozen City, and co-wrote The Grey Mountains, a supplement for the Middle-Earth Role-Playing Game.

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781472832672 Format: Dimensions: 151x138mm Extent: 1 pages Bic1: Role-playing, war games & fantasy sports Bic2: Role-playing, war games & fantasy sports Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey Games JANUARY 2019 The Lost Expedition: The Fountain of Youth and Other Adventures

An expansion to The Lost Expedition, introducing a range of new challenges for players to overcome as they continue their search for El Dorado.

Sales points • Four modular micro-expansions that can all be added individually or altogether to the base game, adding new layers of depth to keep players interested. • The Lost Expedition continues to be one of our best-selling games, and has been nominated for a range of prestigious awards. • Fully illustrated by Garen Ewing, acclaimed artist and returning illustrator from the core game.

Description Number of Players: 1-5 Ages: 14+ Playing Time: 30-50 minutes Components: 4 Character cards, 18 Adventure cards, 10 Expedition cards. Explorers have been returning from the Amazon with extraordinary tales conquistadors withered with age marching through the rainforest, unidentified beasts stalking expeditions, and an ominous mountain that is said to be more perilous than the jungle itself! Only the most reckless adventurers would ignore these warnings, but even they might find that they need some help.

The Fountain of Youth & Other Adventures contains four new expansions for The Lost Expedition which can be added separately or combined to provide a host of new challenges for your intrepid explorers.

About the Author Peer Sylvester started his career in boardgaming quite early, because his dad needed an opponent in chess. In third grade he wanted to become a professional chess player. Instead he turned out to become a teacher for math and chemistry. An award-winning board-game designer, he has written a number of books on the subject.

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Osprey Games JANUARY 2019 The Revenger's Tragedy Edited by Gretchen Minton

A major new edition of a canonical play with detailed on-page notes and a lengthy introduction covering its historical, performance and critical contexts

Sales points • Part of the prestigious Arden Early Modern Drama series • On-page notes and comprehensive introduction make this the ideal text for study • A major edition of a much studied play

Description A major new edition of this much studied play offering the standard, depth and range associated with all Arden editions. The on-page commentary notes explain the language, referenes and staging issues posed by the text while the lengthy, illustrated introduction offers a lively overview of the play's historical, performance and critical contexts. This is the ideal edition for study and performance.

About the Author Gretchen Minton is Professor of English at Montana State University, USA.

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781472520456 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Theatre studies Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Arden Shakespeare JANUARY 2019 The Changeling Thomas Middleton and William Rowley

The Changeling's vivid tale of sexual appetite, repulsion, betrayal and lunacy remains one of the most compelling tragedies of the 17th century. This newly revised edition, edited by world-class scholar Michael Neill, will enable you to appreciate and interpret it afresh for yourself.

Sales points • The Changeling is one of the more frequently taught plays of its period, but can present significant problems for readers unfamiliar with the epoch. The pedagogical support offered by the edition in addition to the playtext will make it an invaluable study aid as well as a primary text • While being a highly respected scholar, Michael Neill is able to write in a tone that is extremely engaging for students • Pays careful attention to the play's theatrical qualities, encouraging students to analyse the most exciting contemporary productions, something which literature students often struggle to do effectively

Description The next good mood I find my father in, I'll get him quite discarded

With these chillingly offhand words, Beatrice-Joanna, the spoilt daughter of a powerful nobleman, plots to get rid of the family servant who has crossed her once too often. The Changeling's vivid tale of sexual appetite, repulsion, betrayal and lunacy remains one of the most compelling tragedies of the 17th century. Exposing the vexed relationship between servants and masters, setting notions of `change' against the revelation of psychological secrets' as ways of explaining human behaviour, and exploring the idea of love as a `tame madness', the play reveals the terrifying consequences of ungoverned sexual appetite and betrayal. Featuring the full and modernized play text, this revised edition includes incisive commentary notes which explain the nuances of the play's vibrant, colloquial language and demonstrate its sly delight in the characters' conscious and unconscious wordplay. Michael Neill's illuminating introduction provides a firm grounding in the play's socio-political context, demonstrates how careful close-reading can expand your enjoyment of the play, explains the play's violent linkage of comic and tragic plots and gives theatrical life to the text via a discussion of its stage history, with a particular emphasis on the most interesting recent productions. Price: AU $21.99 NZ $24.99 The New Mermaids plays offer: ISBN: 9781474290272 e Modernized versions of the play text edited to the highest textual standards Format: Paperback e Fully annotated student editions with obscure words explained and critical, contextual and staging insight provided on Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages each page Bic1: Literary studies: plays & playwrights e Full Introductions analyzing context, themes, author background and stage history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: About the Author Author now living: Michael Neill is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Methuen Drama JANUARY 2019 Directing Professionally Kent Thompson

Offers a practical yet sophisticated overview for aspirant and professional theatre directors of the fundamentals of stage direction, education and experience opportunities, developing an aesthetic as a director, pathways to directing professionally, and advancing one's professional career beyond freelance directing.

Sales points • The book meets the needs of undergraduate students through to young theatre professionals, covering both the fundamentals of directing and guidance on how to progress and establish a career as a director • Filled with practical guidance for freelance directors on advancing their careers from someone who hires them and knows what they need to succeed • Uniquely considers the role and qualities of an artistic director, and how to become one

Description How do you develop both the craft of directing as well as a professional career in freelance directing in today's theatre industry' Drawing on his own extensive experience and that of other theatre professionals from the US and UK, Kent Thompson illuminates a pathway from training, apprenticeship and assistant directing to an established career as a director. Directing Professionally first lays out paths for aspirant directors to train, grow and succeed as directors, then advises freelance directors on how to establish and accelerate their professional careers. It also reveals the most significant ways those directors become artistic directors today. With a frank, thoughtful and often humorous examination of the job of professional direction and artistic direction, Thompson writes about the passion, commitment, artistic vision, directorial experience, leadership skills, and powerful persuasive gifts needed to succeed in this extraordinary field. Featuring case studies and brief interviews with professional theatre directors, artistic directors, producers, critics, managing/executive directors, and theatre leaders currently working in the field in the UK and the US, this volume will equip you to develop your career as a professional director in today's theatre.

About the Author Kent Thompson has been Producing Artistic Director of the Theatre Company at the Denver Center for the Performing Price: AU $37.99 NZ $41.99 Arts (DCPA), USA, since 2005. For 16 years, Thompson served as Producing Artistic Director of the Alabama ISBN: 9781474288767 Shakespeare Festival (ASF). In addition to an active career as a freelance director, he has directed and/or taught in major Format: Paperback conservatory programs, including The Juilliard School, North Carolina School of the Arts, Washington University, Boston Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages University, Temple University, DePaul Theatre School, among others. In addition, he has led two major Master of Fine Bic1: Theatre direction & production Arts Programs in Professional Theatre: the University of Alabama/ASF program and the National Theatre Conservatory at Bic2: the Denver Center. Thompson served for eight years on the Board of Directors for Theatre Communications Group and Illustrations: Previous Titles: as its president for three years. Author now living:

Methuen Drama JANUARY 2019 Michael Chekhov's Acting Technique Sinead Rushe

Provides a complete overview of the Michael Chekhov method, offering clear explanations of the principles, practical exercises and application of the exercises to dramatic texts.

Sales points • Complete with exercises and explanations, blending the theories of Chekhov with their practical application • The Chekhov technique is widely taught in acting schools from undergraduate level onwards and this book provides all that's necessary for the newcomer, or those students already familiar with the method • Sinead Rushe, a member of the Michael Chekhov community in the US (MICHA), is a lecturer in acting who teaches the technique to her students at London's Central School of Speech and Drama

Description Intended for actors, directors, teachers and researchers, this book offers an exceptionally clear and thorough introduction to the renowned acting technique developed by Michael Chekhov. Sinead Rushe's book provides a complete overview of the whole method, and includes illuminating explanations of its principles, as well as a wide range of practical exercises that illustrate, step by step, how they can be applied to dramatic texts. Part One provides an outline of the ideas that underpin the work, which help to prepare practitioners to become responsive and receptive, and to awaken their imagination. Part Two charts a journey through the foundational psychophysical exercises that can both orient an actor's training routine and be applied directly to the development of a role. Part Three focuses on more specific and elaborate methods of scene work, characterisation and the art of transformation. Drawing on the full range of Chekhov's writing in English and French, this book also examines unpublished material from the Dartington Hall archives and features interviews with actors who have worked with the technique, including Simon Callow and Joanna Merlin. It illustrates Chekhov's approach by referring to Rushe's own productions of Nikolai Gogol's short story Diary of a Madman and Shakespeare's Othello, as well as characters and scenes in Sarah Kane's Blasted and the contemporary American television series Breaking Bad. Michael Chekhov's Acting Technique is an accessible, comprehensive and contemporary point of reference for those Price: AU $48.99 NZ $53.99 already trained in the method, as well as an initiation and toolkit for practitioners who are just beginning to discover it. ISBN: 9781408156889 Format: Paperback About the Author Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Sinead Rushe is a lecturer in Acting and Movement on the BA (Hons) in Acting at Central School of Speech and Drama, Bic1: Acting techniques London (CSSD) and teaches the Michael Chekhov Technique for acting teachers and for professional actors and Bic2: directors (through Living Pictures and The Actor's Centre). She studied the Michael Chekhov technique intensively at the Illustrations: Michael Chekhov Studio in New York and London as well as in Paris. A director, performer and acting teacher, one of her Previous Titles: Author now living: recent works, Out of Time, was nominated for a 2010 Olivier Award and 2009 Dance Critic's Circle Award for its London run. Sinead is the co-translator into French, with Sarah Hirschmuller, of several works by English playwright Howard Barker.

Methuen Drama JANUARY 2019 Contemporary Plays by African Women Edited by Yvette Hutchison and Amy Jephta

A volume that brings together contemporary work by 21st century women playwrights and play-makers in Africa and offers a contextual and critical framework

Sales points • Access to previously unpublished, new work by African women in one place, with critical notes • Offers insight into a field of African theatre under-represented in mainstream theatre criticism, as well as a chance to have access to these new plays for international programming • Introduces new writers from the continent for the purposes of literary and/or academic studies

Description This volume uniquely draws together seven contemporary plays by a selection of the finest African women writers and practitioners from across the continent, offering a rich and diverse portrait of identity, politics, culture, gender issues and society in contemporary Africa.

Niqabi Ninja by Sara Shaarawi (Egypt) is set in Cairo during the chaotic time of the Egyptian uprising. Bonganyi by Sophia Kwachuh Mempuh (Cameroon) depicts the effects of colonialism as told through the story of a slave girl: a singer and dancer, who wants to win a competition to free her family. Unsettled by JC Niala (Kenya) deals with gender violence, land issues and relations of both black and white Kenyans living in, and returning to, the country. Silent Voices by Adong Judith (Uganda) is a one-act play based on interviews with people involved in the LRA and the effects of the civil war in Uganda. It critiques this, and by implication, other truth commissions. I Want To Fly by Thembelihle Moyo (Zimbabwe) tells the story of an African girl who wants to be a pilot. It looks at how patriarchal society shapes the thinking of men regarding lobola (bride price), how women endure abusive men and the role society at large plays in these issues. Mbuzeni by Koleka Putuma (South Africa) is a story of four female orphans, aged eight to twelve, their sisterhood and their fixation with death and burials. It explores the unseen force that governs and dictates the laws that the villagers live Price: AU $53.99 NZ $59.99 by. ISBN: 9781350034518 Not That Woman byTosin Jobi-Tume (Nigeria) addresses issues of violence against women in Nigeria and its attendant Format: Paperback conspiracy of silence. The play advocates zero-tolerance for violence against women and urges women to bury shame Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 352 pages and speak out rather than suffer in silence. Bic1: Bic2: Each play also includes a biography of the playwright, the writer's own artistic statement, a production history of the play Illustrations: and a critical contextualisation of the theatrical landscape from which each woman is writing. Previous Titles: Author now living: About the Author Yvette Hutchison is a Reader in the Department of Theatre Performance Studies at the University of Warwick. Amy Jephta is a bilingual Cape Town-based playwright and director. Methuen Drama JANUARY 2019 Julie Hesmondhalgh Julie Hesmondhalgh

A working diary revealing the numerous projects and preoccupations of a year in the life of one of Britain's best-loved actresses.

Sales points • A working diary written from the point of view of one of Britain's most cherished and celebrated actors, Julie Hesmondhalgh, most well known for playing Hayley Cropper in ITV's Coronation Street • Considering her time spent as a jobbing actor alongside her role creating theatre from scratch, this offers students of theatre and performance an invaluable insight into so many aspects of the profession • Insightful and impassioned, this working diary also offers a call to arms for the next generation of theatre makers, urging them to employ art to help change the world

Description Actor Julie Hesmondhalgh's working diary begins in November 2016 at the end of a full and exciting year of theatre- making with her company, Take Back. Her work with Take Back fell between filming the third series of Broadchurch for ITV and starring in the award-winning play Wit at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. The book takes in Hesmondhalgh's unique experiences of working in film, theatre, TV and radio drama, and through the ups and downs of life as a working actor and producer, while balancing family life. The events described throughout take place against the backdrop of the huge political change and upheaval as Britain votes in favour of Brexit and Donald Trump is elected as US president. Throughout, Julie Hesmondhalgh considers the impact and challenges of starting a brand new chapter of her career after 16 years in Coronation Street; growing older as a woman in an industry preoccupied by youth and appearance; working with a legend of British film making; running a company; being a parent; experiencing first-hand the huge changes and pressures in the creative industries and arts education; and the lesser-known aspects of an actor's life post-production and publicity. All the while, she attempts to pass on any knowledge or experiences she might have accrued to people starting out in the business in this fascinating year-long journal.

About the Author Price: AU $39.99 NZ $43.99 Julie Hesmondhalgh was born in Accrington, Lancashire, in February 1970. She studied at LAMDA from 1988-1991 and, ISBN: 9781350025691 after graduating, set up her own theatre company, Arts Threshold, with a group of friends. Her TV roles have included Format: Paperback appearances in The Bill, the Catherine Cookson drama The Dwelling Place, a care home worker in Victoria Wood's Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 216 pages comedy film Pat and Margaret, Dalziel Pascoe, Cucumber and the 2016 series of Happy Valley. Her most famous role to Bic1: Theatre: individual actors & directors date has been as Hayley Cropper in the ITV soap Coronation Street. From 2012, she worked extensively in theatre. She Bic2: is a founder member of Manchester-based grassroots theatre company Take Back and a member of The Gap collective Illustrations: in Manchester. Previous Titles: Author now living:

Methuen Drama JANUARY 2019 Brecht and the Writer's Workshop Bertolt Brecht, edited by Tom Kuhn

A collection of previously unpublished texts from major unfinished dramatic projects dating from all periods of Brecht's creative life.

Sales points • The volume contains important Brecht texts which have never before been available in English. Some of this material, particularly the Fatzer fragment, is considered by a number of experts to be among Brecht's most important and challenging work • The contents offer a fascinating insight into this important writer's working methods and practices • Now available in English for the first time, making this material accessible to a wider theatre practitioner audience • Brecht is widely studied at school and university level • The publication of this volume marks 120 years since Bertolt Brecht's birth • This material will be attractive to theatre groups, as well as to academics and students, as it offers up newly available material to perform from one of the most important theatre-makers of the twentieth century • Fatzer is the big draw, but the others are either the better-known ones - for example, Jae Fleischhacker, The Breadshop - or fascinating in their own right including Geherda, Bosching

Description Brecht was never inclined to see any of his plays as completely finished, and this volume collects some of the most important theatrical projects and fragments that were always to remain works in progress'. Offering an invaluable insight into the writer's working methods and practices, the collection features the famous Fatzer as well as The Bread Store and Judith of Shimoda, along with other texts that have never before been available in English. Alongside the familiar, completed' plays, Brecht worked on many ideas and plans which he never managed to work up even once for print or stage. In pieces like Fleischhacker, Bosching and Jacob Trotalong we see how such projects were abandoned or interrupted or became proving grounds for ideas and techniques. The works collated here span over thirty years and allow the reader to follow Brecht's creative process as he constantly revised his work to engage with new contexts. This treasure-trove of new discoveries is also annotated with dramaturgical notes to present readable and Price: AU $56.99 NZ $62.99 useable texts for the theatre. ISBN: 9781474273282 The volume is edited by Tom Kuhn and Charlotte Ryland, with the translation and dramaturgical edition of each play Format: Paperback provided by a team of experienced writers, scholars and translators. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: About the Author Bic2: Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble Illustrations: and critical writings have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera, Previous Titles: Author now living: Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.Tom Kuhn is a Fellow of St Hugh 's College, University of Oxford.

Methuen Drama JANUARY 2019 The Selected Works of Yussef El Guindi Yussef El Guindi, edited by Michael Malek Najjar

The first collected works anthology of the plays of the prolific contemporary Arab American playwright, Yussef El Guindi.

Sales points • Brings together for the first time five of Yussef El Guindi's major plays including Back of the Throat, which premiered in 2005 • Includes details of the performances and the dramatic contribution of the works in the context of the wider American theatre • Features El Guindi's essay, 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Meet Abdallah and Ahmed: Musings about Arabs and Muslims in American Theatre', and a timeline of his work • Highlights El Guindi's work as an Arab American, Muslim American, political playwright and immigrant whose voice consistently speaks for Arabs and Muslims in the US

Description Contemporary Arab American playwright Yussef El Guindi's works focus on the Arab/Muslim experience in the United States. In particular, his plays deal with the complex issues of Arabophobia, Islamophobia, media orientalism and bi- cultural issues faced by both immigrants and second-generation Arab Americans.The plays featured in this collection are: Back of the Throat; Our Enemies: Lively Scenes of Love and Combat; Language Rooms; Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World; ThreesomeThe anthology also includes a range of supplementary material, designed to contextualise the work of El Guindi and support its use by students:- a foreword by Silk Road Rising Artistic Director Jamil Khoury and Torange Yeghiazarian, Artistic Director, Golden Thread Productions- an introduction by Professor Michael Malek Najjar- production stills of productions of El Guindi's plays- a bonus essay by El Guindi titled 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Meet Abdallah and Ahmed: Musings about Arabs and Muslims in American Theatre'- an annotated timeline of the work of Yussef El Guindi.

About the Author Price: AU $56.99 NZ $62.99 Michael Malek Najjar is an associate professor of Theatre Arts at the University of Oregon, USA.Yussef El Guindi is a ISBN: 9781350057173 prolific Arab-American playwright of Egyptian descent whose works have been produced across the USA. He writes full- Format: Paperback length, one-act, and adapted plays that focus on the Arab/Muslim experience in the United States. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Methuen Drama JANUARY 2019 Shakespeare in Action Jaq Bessell

A unique book about how theatre practice impacts and informs productions of Shakespeare which will give students a critical toolkit with which to study the plays as performance.

Sales points • A unique study of theatre practice and its impact on how Shakespeare is performed • Gives students a critical toolkit for understanding and assessing Shakespeare in performance

Description - How do actors prepare a script of a Shakespeare play for performance' - Where do directors begin' - What do Shakespeare's plays offer a designer or choreographer' - How do the cast and creative team work together in rehearsals' With Shakespeare in Action, Jaq Bessell presents thirty interviews with theatre practitioners from some of the larger producing theatres in the UK and the US, exploring the various processes which bring Shakespeare's plays to the stage. Actors, designers, directors and choreographers, including Eve Best, Bunny Christie, Gregory Doran and Lindsay Kemp, share their collective wisdom and experience, and reveal how training and practice informs productions of Shakespeare plays. These first-hand accounts provide students of Shakespeare in performance and practitioners with a critical toolkit with which to study the plays in performance.

About the Author Jaq Bessell is the Director of Postgraduate Studies and Programme Leader for MA/MFA Acting at the Guildford School of Acting, University of Surrey, UK. After gaining her PhD, she spent the six years working in the professional theatre, first at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and later as Head of Research at Shakespeare's Globe in London. Later, she taught acting at the Actor Training Program at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City before joining the faculty in the M.Litt/M.F. A. programme in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in Performance at Mary Baldwin College in partnership with the American Shakespeare Center. She then became a lecturer and fellow at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon- Price: AU $38.99 NZ $42.99 Avon. Her work with actors is the source, form, and outlet for her ongoing research in Early Modern drama, particularly ISBN: 9781408171738 the plays of Shakespeare. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Literature: history & criticism Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Arden Shakespeare JANUARY 2019 Practice-based Design Research Edited by Laurene Vaughan

A companion to the growing field of practice-based design research, this volume draws upon international expertise to address the issues involved in establishing, delivering and undertaking postgraduate practice- based research.

Sales points • First book to address the growing field of practice-based design research • Editor and contributors are leading international scholars in the field of critical design and design research • Includes a wide range of case study examples of practice-based design programs, and of individual PhD projects

Description Practice-Based Design Research provides a companion to masters and PhD programs in design research through practice. The contributors address a range of models and approaches to practice-based research, consider relationships between industry and academia, researchers and designers, discuss initiatives to support students and faculty during the research process, and explore how students' experiences of undertaking practice-based research has impacted their future design and research practice. The text is illustrated throughout with case study examples by authors who have set up, taught or undertaken practice-based design research, in a range of national and institutional contexts.

About the Author Laurene Vaughan is Professor of Design and Communication at RMIT University, Australia.

Price: AU $53.99 NZ $59.99 ISBN: 9781350080409 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 232 pages Bic1: Graphic design Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Visual Arts JANUARY 2019 Mid-Century Modern Interiors Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand

Examining the key interior designers of the American mid-Century.

Sales points • There is great interest (academic and non-academic) in American mid-century modern design its interiors, furniture, fabrics etc • This work is the first scholarly study to focus on the interior design of this seminal period • The focus on the designers' conceptual approach to the designs rather than on the descriptive appearance of their designs is a new approach for interior design history • The Council for Interior Design Accreditation which accredits interior design courses in the USA has, since 2014, included a stipulation that ID courses must include a historical component. We could reasonably expect to see this book on recommended reading lists for such courses

Description Mid-Century Modern Interiors explores the history of interior design during arguably its most iconic and influential period. The 1930s to the 1960s in the United States was a key moment for interior design. It not only saw the emergence of some of interior design's most globally-important designers, it also saw the field of interior design emerge at last as a profession in its own right. Through a series of detailed case studies this book introduces the key practitioners of the period world- renowned designers including Ray and Charles Eames, Richard Neutra, and George Nelson and examines how they developed new approaches by applying systematic and rational principles to the creation of interior spaces. It takes us into the mind of the designer to show how they each used interior design to express their varied theoretical interests, and reveals how the principles they developed have become embodied in the way interior design is practiced today. This focus on unearthing the underlying ideas and concepts behind their designs rather than on the finished results creates a richer, more conceptual understanding of this pivotal period in modernist design history. With an extended introduction setting the case studies within the broader context of twentieth-century design and architectural history, this book provides both an introduction and an in-depth analysis for students and scholars of interior design, architecture and design history.

Price: AU $47.99 NZ $52.99 ISBN: 9781350045712 About the Author Format: Paperback Dr. Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand teaches design history, theory and studio at Syracuse University where she is a Dimensions: 0x0mm Professor in the School of Design. Extent: 208 pages Bic1: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 - Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Visual Arts JANUARY 2019 Inside the Royal Wardrobe Kate Strasdin

Examining the surviving garments of Queen Alexandra, this book explores the dress and society of the royal elite in the 19th century.

Sales points • A rare and in-depth portrait of Alexandra s life, her wardrobe and her times that debunks myths about Alexandra established by popular biographies and histories.Examines wider themes such as marriage, mourning practices, patronage of British textile trades, dress as a public spectacle and the late 19th century female body.Adopts an object- based methodology that is structured by dress types, providing a model for further research in historical dress.

Description Queen Alexandra used clothes to fashion images of herself as a wife, a mother and a royal: a woman who both led Britain alongside her husband Edward VII and lived her life through fashion. Inside the Royal Wardrobe overturns the popular portrait of a vapid and neglected queen, examining the surviving garments of Alexandra, Princess of Wales who later became Queen Consort to unlock a rich tapestry of royal dress and society in the second half of the 19th century.More than 130 extraordinary garments from Alexandr s wardrobe survive, from sumptuous court dress and politicised fancy dress to mourning attire and elegant coronation gowns. Curator and fashion scholar Kate Strasdin places these garments at the heart of this in-depth study, examining their relationships to issues such as body politics, power, celebrity, social identity and performance, and interpreting Alexandr s world from the objects out. Featuringa range of original sources from letters, travel journals and newspaper editorials, to wardrobe accounts, memoirs, tailor’ ledgers and business records. Revealing a shrewd and socially aware woman attuned to the popular power of royal dress, the work will appeal to students and scholars of costume, fashion and dress history, as well as of material culture and 19th century history.

About the Author Kate Strasdin is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the Fashion and Textiles Institute, Falmouth University, UK, and a Visiting Lecturer at DeTao Masters Academy in Shanghai, China. She is Deputy Curator at the Totnes Fashion and Textile Museum, one of the largest private collection of dress in the UK. Price: AU $39.99 NZ $43.99 ISBN: 9781350102347 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: History of fashion Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK JANUARY 2019 Fashion Film Nick Rees-Roberts

Through global case studies this book explores the emergence of the moving image as a core marketing tool for luxury fashion brands.

Sales points • Interdisciplinary in approach, spanning advertising, design, moving-image, lens-based art, music video, documentary film and narrative cinema • Includes a wide range of global case studies • A comprehensive, wide-ranging and up-to-date analysis of fashion film and digital advertising

Description The moving image has become a key marketing tool for luxury fashion, central in enabling brands to shape their visual codes and extend their brand awareness. Fashion Film is the first detailed study of the shifting shape of fashion imagery in the digital age, investigating the role of the moving image in the promotion, communication and spectacle of contemporary fashion. Combining interdisciplinary analysis of cinema and digital culture, this ground-breaking book traces the emergence of fashion film in the 21st century through its historical roots in pre-digital forms of photography, experimental cinema, mass-media advertising and documentary film-making, right up to today's visual spread of contemporary fashion on video blogs, online magazines and live-streamed catwalk shows. Examining collaborations between fashion designers and pioneering image-makers such as Guy Bourdin, Jean-Paul Goode, William Klein and Nick Knight, the book highlights the critical tension between the fashion film conceived as a creative endeavour and as commercial enterprise. Fashion Film also includes a parallel focus on factual representations of fashion through the recent rise of documentary fashion film that goes behind the scenes to follow the processes and personalities involved in making fashion. Accessible and well-illustrated, Fashion Film will appeal to students and scholars of fashion, film, media, photography, celebrity, sociology and cultural studies.

About the Author Price: AU $49.99 NZ $54.99 Nick Rees-Roberts is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris, France. ISBN: 9780857857002 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Visual Arts JANUARY 2019 Directing Screen Performances Robert Klenner

Featuring practical exercises and insightful interviews with successful actors and directors, this is a must-have guide to getting a memorable performance on screen.

Sales points • Examines all the steps the director undertakes in pre-production, production and post-production, from script analysis, pre-visualization, casting and rehearsals, to shooting and editing • Features insightful interviews with successful filmmakers and includes practical exercises which cover topics such as analyzing a script, preparing a brief for the casting director and developing a rehearsal strategy • Features full-color images, step-by-step diagrams and development material, such as storyboards and script extracts, from international filmmakers

Description The core goal of Directing Screen Performances is to teach aspiring directors how to prepare and work with actors. Through a practical exploration of the major approaches to contemporary screen acting, you will learn how to formulate your own effective modes of communication to craft compelling performances. Directing performances for the screen starts well before the actor is cast and finishes well after the last slate is shot. In this book you will learn how to analyze a script, brief the casting director, rehearse the actors, decide on the visual treatment that enriches their performances, direct effectively on set and finesse the character in the edit. The director's process is clearly defined and augmented with illustrations, photographs and graphics, and each chapter concludes with practical exercises to consolidate the new knowledge.

About the Author Robert Klenner is the Acting Head of Directing at The Australian Film, Television and Radio School.

Price: AU $53.99 NZ $59.99 ISBN: 9781474249591 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Acting techniques Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Acad US JANUARY 2019 Sounds, Screens, Speakers Charles Fairchild

An introduction to popular music through the lens of media technology and the social changes brought about by these tools.

Sales points • Historical/chronological approach helps maintain the relevance of the technology discussed, and sets it up to be more easily updated in future editions • The only popular music textbook available that speaks directly to the intersection of popular music and media • Ties popular music and its associated forms of media directly to the ways in which they have affected society and instigated social change • Includes key readings, as well as suggested readings on relevant websites and in newspapers and magazines to supplement and enhance understanding of the main ideas in each chapter • Each chapter includes 'Focus' sections that require students go through the learning process from start to finish, including 1) undertaking original research (discovery), 2) linking this research to other disciplines and methods (integration), 3) enacting the dynamic relationship between theory and practice (application), and 4) making the results of scholarship understood to others (teaching and learning)

Description Sounds, Screens, and Speakers provides a broadly comprehensive survey of the emerging field of music and media. Music has been present at the advent of nearly every new media form since the turn of the 20th century. Whether we look at the start of sound recording, film, television or the Internet, music has been a crucial participant in the social changes brought about by these new tools for making and listening to music. This book examines such changes starting in the late 19th century to the present. From the introduction of the microphone all the way through to music in reality television, the purpose of each section is not simply to move chronologically towards the present, but to focus especially on the tangible social relationships created through specific forms of mediation. With readings at the end of most chapters, key questions to facilitate additional discovery and research, and direction to additional readings and resources on popular websites and news sources, this text serves as the ideal introduction to popular music and media. Price: AU $48.99 NZ $53.99 ISBN: 9781501336232 About the Author Format: Paperback Charles Fairchild is Associate Professor of Popular Music at the University of Sydney, Australia, and the author of Danger Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages Mouse's The Grey Album (Bloomsbury, 2014), Music, Radio and the Public Sphere (2012) and Pop Idols and Pirates Bic1: Music (2008). Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Acad US JANUARY 2019 Explaining Evil Edited by W. Paul Franks

Four leading philosophers present, and defend, their explanations as to why there is evil and how their worldview best accounts for the amount and types of evil that is found in this world.

Sales points • The problem of evil is a core topic in philosophy of religion, taught, researched, and debated at all levels • The dialogue format each philosopher explains why his view of evil is soundest before engaging in a dialogue with the other three (disagreeing) philosophers allows readers to quickly and easily determine the strengths and weaknesses of each account of evil's existence • The four authors (two theists and two non-theists) represent nearly as broad of a range of views as is possible in a book of this format, so that readers can go to a single book and find all the major starting points (e.g., theism, non- theism, realism, non-realism, compatibilism, libertarianism) for explaining evil presented by highly regarded philosophers

Description In Explaining Evil four prominent philosophers, two theists and two non-theists, present their arguments for why evil exists. Taking a 'position and response' format, in which one philosopher offers an account of evil and three others respond, this book guides readers through the advantages and limitations of various philosophical positions on evil, making it ideal for classroom use as well as individual study. Divided into four chapters, Explaining Evil covers Theistic Libertarianism, Theistic Compatibilism, Atheistic Moral Realism and Atheistic Moral Non-realism. It features topics including free will, theism, atheism, goodness, Calvinism, evolutionary ethics, and pain, and demonstrates some of the dominant models of thinking within contemporary philosophy of religion and ethics. Written in accessible prose and with an approachable structure, this book provides a clear and useful overview of the central issues of the philosophy of evil.

About the Author Price: AU $45.99 NZ $50.99 W. Paul Franks is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Tyndale University College, Canada. He has published in the ISBN: 9781501331121 Heythrop Journal, Philosophia Christi, Religious Studies and Sophia. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Ethics & moral philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK JANUARY 2019 Logics of Worlds Alain Badiou, translated by Alberto Toscano

New to the Bloomsbury Revelations series, Logics of Worlds is the follow-up to Alain Badiou's masterwork, Being and Event.

Sales points • The sequel to Alain Badiou's Being and Event now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series • Includes a substantial apparatus of notes and dictionaries of symbols and key terms to help readers navigate this major work of contemporary philosophy

Description Logics of Worlds is the sequel to Alain Badiou's masterpiece, Being and Event. Tackling the questions that had been left open by Being and Event, and answering many of his critics in the process, Badiou supplements his pioneering treatment of multiple being with a daring and complex theory of the worlds in which truths and subjects make their mark - what he calls a materialist dialectic. Drawing on his most ambitious philosophical predecessors - Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Lacan, Deleuze Badiou ends this important later work with an impassioned call to 'live for an Idea'.

About the Author Alain Badiou teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure and at the College International de Philosophie in Paris, France. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works.

Alberto Toscano is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. He is the editor and translator, with Ray Brassier, of Alain Badiou's Theoretical Writings (London: Continuum, 2004).

Price: AU $43.99 NZ $48.99 ISBN: 9781350043015 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 608 pages Bic1: Philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK JANUARY 2019 Plural Maghreb Abdelkebir Khatibi, translated by P. Burcu Yalim

The first English translation of Abdelkebir Khatibi's major work.

Sales points • Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938-2009) is considered one of the most prominent writers of postcolonial Francophone literature from North Africa • Khatibi's work is undergoing a resurgence of interest with a book of poetry released in 2016 and a novel in 2017. There has been an accompanying interest in his non-fiction output • Maghreb Plural is widely considered to be Khatibi's nonfiction masterpiece. Knowledge of this text will be crucial to students and researchers studying his oeuvre • The first ever English translation of classic post-colonial text Maghreb Plural

Description Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938-2009) was among the most renowned North African literary critics and authors of the past century whose unique treatments of subjects as vast as orientalism, otherness, coloniality, aesthetics, linguistics, sexuality, and the nature of contemporary critique have inspired major figures in postcolonial theory, deconstruction, and beyond. At once a philosophical visionary and provocative writer, Khatibi's impressive contributions have been well- established throughout French and continental literary circles for several decades. As such, this English translation of one of his masterworks, Maghreb Pluriel (1983), marks a pivotal turn in the opportunity to wrest some of Khatibi's most profound meditations to the forefront of a more global audience. Including such highly significant pieces as 'Other-Thought,' 'Double Critique,' 'Bilingualism and Literature,' and 'Disoriented Orientalism,' the ambition behind this volume is to showcase the true experimental complexity and conceptual depth of Khatibi's thinking. Engaging the cultural-intellectual urgencies of a colonial frontier (in this case, the so-called Middle East/North Africa) this book expands our contemplative boundaries to render a globally-dynamic commentary that traverses the East-West divide.

About the Author

Price: AU $53.99 NZ $59.99 Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938-2009) is considered one of the most prominent writers of postcolonial Francophone literature ISBN: 9781350053953 from North Africa. During his lifetime he won literary and intellectual prizes in Morocco and France. After earning his PhD Format: Paperback in sociology at the Sorbonne, he returned to live and work in Morocco. He is the author of Class Warrior (2017), Tatooed Dimensions: 0x0mm Memory (2016), Love in Two Languages (1990) and The Splendour of Islamic Calligraphy (2008). His writings challenge Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Islamic & Arabic philosophy the social and political norms upon which the countries of the Maghreb region were constructed. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK JANUARY 2019 Art as Human Practice Georg W. Bertram, translated by Nathan Ross

The first English translation of a new aesthetic theory and introduction to contemporary aesthetics by one of Germany's up and coming philosophers of art and human experience.

Sales points • Georg Bertram is one of Germany's up-and-coming philosophers who is building a real international presence that few other contemporary German philosophers attain • Aesthetics and art theory are thriving areas within contemporary philosophy, and Georg Bertram is at the forefront of this field • This book has an incredibly wide scope including history of art theory, contemporary practices and spanning both the analytic and continental traditions within philosophy. If could be used as an introduction to contemporary aesthetics

Description How is art both distinct and different from the rest of human life, while also mattering in and for it' This central yet overlooked question in contemporary philosophy of art is at the heart of Georg Bertram's new aesthetic. Drawing on the resources of diverse philosophical traditions analytic philosophy, French philosophy, and German post-Kantian philosophy his book offers a systematic account of art as a human practice. One that remains connected to the whole of life.

About the Author Georg W. Bertram is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany. Nathan Ross is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma State University, USA.

Price: AU $43.99 NZ $48.99 ISBN: 9781350063150 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Theory of art Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK JANUARY 2019 Reflective Teaching in Schools, 5th edition Andrew Pollard et al.

Excellent support for trainee and practising teachers, combining evidence-based principles with practical advice and examples to help you get to grips with the realities of the classroom

Sales points • Designed to support initial teacher training, whether in universities or schools as well as professional development throughout the teacher's career • Has the unified voice of an experienced author team • Plenty of examples of real practice such as the new Lesson Study Cases and Toolkit Evidence Summaries, as well as a rich supporting website

Description The book you can trust to guide you through your teaching career, as the expert authors share tried and tested techniques in both primary and secondary settings. For this new edition Andrew Pollard has worked with the same core author team to bring you expert guidance from top practitioners, in the form of a text that is both cohesive and that continues to evolve to meet the needs of today's teachers. It is designed for trainees whether in universities or schools (such as School Direct, SCITT). Reflective Teaching in Schools uniquely provides two levels of support: - practical, evidence-based guidance on key classroom issues including relationships, behaviour, curriculum planning, teaching strategies and assessment - evidence-informed principles' and 'concepts' to help you continue developing your skills. New to this edition: - 10 Lesson Study Cases illustrate the impact this approach can have on classroom teaching, whether in a city Primary School or rural Secondary Academy - 10 Toolkit Evidence Summaries based on the Sutton Trust-EEF Teaching and Learning Toolkit cover topics like collaborative learning - New Reflective Activities and guidance on Key Readings at the end of each chapter Price: AU $60.99 NZ $67.99 - Updates to reflect recent changes in curriculum and assessment across the UK ISBN: 9781350032934 Format: Paperback reflectiveteaching.co.uk provides a treasure trove of additional support. It now includes talking heads' videos on What Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 592 pages is reflective teaching', a new chapter on mentoring, a glossary to help decipher the difference between IEP and LAP, and Bic1: Primary & middle schools much more. Bic2: Illustrations: About the Author Previous Titles: Author now living: Andrew Pollard is Professor of Education and supports educational research at the UCL Institute of Education, UK, and the University of Bristol, UK. He was Director of the UK-wide Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) and advised the government on the National Curriculum Review.

BLM Academic UK JANUARY 2019 Food Studies Willa Zhen

The first book to provide a practical introduction to food studies, using hands-on activities to help students to engage with the multidimensional nature of food without the need for a student kitchen.

Sales points • The first book to provide a hands-on introduction to food studies, combining practical activities with key theories and concepts • Contains pedagogical features such as learning objectives, discussion questions, suggested readings, a glossary, and a companion website • Suitable for traditional classrooms, without the need for a student kitchen

Description Traditional food studies textbooks tend to emphasize theoretical concepts and text-based approaches. Yet food is sensory, tactile, and experiential: reading about food is not enough to gain a full understanding of its many dimensions.

Food Studies: A Hands-on Guide is the first book to provide a practical introduction to food studies. Offering a unique, innovative approach to learning and teaching, Willa Zhen presents creative hands-on activities which can easily be done in a traditional classroom without the need for a student kitchen. Major theories and key concepts in food studies are covered in an engaging, tangible way, alongside topics such as food production, consumption, technology, identity and culture, and globalization.

A fantastic resource for supporting student engagement and learning, the book features: - Numerous practical activities, such as grinding grains to learn about the importance of food technology; working with restaurant menus to understand changes in food trends, tastes, and ingredients; writing food poetry; and many more. - Pedagogical features such as learning objectives, discussion questions, suggested readings, and a glossary. - A companion website offering lesson plans, worksheets, and links to additional resources.

Price: AU $39.99 NZ $43.99 The perfect introduction for students in food studies, anthropology of food, sociology of food, gastronomy, and related ISBN: 9781474298711 courses. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 208 pages About the Author Bic1: Food & society Willa Zhen is Associate Professor at the Culinary Institute of America, USA. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK JANUARY 2019 What Is Public History Globally? Edited by Paul Ashton and Alex Trapeznik

An examination of the theory and practice of public history, as well as its evolution, in a global context.

Sales points • It provides concise and accessible overviews of the rise and current state of public history globally • It shows how citizens are active participants in the creation of public history • It challenges traditional notions of what history is by charting the democratisation of historical practices

Description Across the globe, history has gone public. With the rise of the internet, family historians are now delving into archives continents apart. Activists look into and recreate the past to promote social justice or environmental causes. Dark and difficult pasts are confronted at sites of commemoration. Artists draw on memory and the past to study the human condition and make meaning in the present. As a result of this democratisation of history, public history movements have now risen to prominence. This groundbreaking edited collection takes a comprehensive look at public history throughout the world. Divided into three sections - Background, Definitions and Issues; Approaches and Methods; and Sites of Public History - it contextualises public history in eleven different countries, explores the main research skills and methods of the discipline and illustrates public history research with a variety of global case studies.

What is Public History Globally' provides an in-depth examination of the ways in which ordinary people become active participants in historical processes and it will be an invaluable resource for advance undergraduates and postgraduates studying public history, museology and heritage studies.

About the Author Paul Ashton is an Adjunct at the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, which he co-founded, the Centre for Applied History at Macquarie University and the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra. His publications include Once Upon a Time: Australian Writers on Using the Past

Price: AU $57.99 NZ $63.99 (2016) and Australian History Now (2013). He is also founding co-editor of the journal Public History Review. ISBN: 9781350033290 Alex Trapeznik is Associate Professor of History at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research focuses on Format: Paperback historical and cultural heritage management issues in New Zealand and globally. He is the author of Common Ground' Dimensions: 0x0mm Heritage and Public Places in New Zealand (2000), a key text that helped establish public history as a discipline in New Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Museology & heritage studies Zealand. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK JANUARY 2019 Podcasting Martin Spinelli and Lance Dann

This volume offers the first comprehensive framework for understanding the new modes of digital listening, constructions of fandom and community, cultures of storytelling, and intimacy of this dynamic audio form.

Sales points • Includes an audio podcast series, featuring conversations with leading producers about their work and larger issues in podcasting, social media, drama, narrative and journalism • Studies the current transition in the production, distribution and consumption of audio that is both a valuable historical document and a model for understanding similar transitions in other emergent media • Authors are noted experts and well-connected in the field

Description Grounded in interviews with the producers of some of the most popular and culturally significant podcasts to date (Welcome to Night Vale, Radiolab, Serial, The Black Tapes, We're Alive, The Heart, The Truth, Lore, Love + Radio, My Dad Wrote a Porno, and others) as well as interviews with executives at some of the most important podcasting institutions and entities (the BBC, Radiotopia, Gimlet Media, Audible.com, Edison Research, Libsyn and others), Podcasting documents a moment of revolutionary change in audio media. The fall of 2014 saw a new iOS from Apple with the first built-in Podcasts app, the runaway success of Serial, and podcasting moving out of its geeky ghetto into the cultural mainstream. The creative and cultural dynamism of this moment, which reverberates to this day, is the focus of Podcasting. Using case studies, close analytical listening, quantitative and qualitative analysis, production analysis, as well as audience research, it suggests what podcasting has to contribute to a host of larger media-and-society debates in such fields as: fandom, social media and audience construction; new media and journalistic ethics; intimacy, empathy and media relationships; cultural commitments to narrative and storytelling; the future of new media drama; youth media and the charge of narcissism; and more. Beyond describing what is unique about podcasting among other audio media, this book offers an entry into the new and evolving field of podcasting studies.

Price: AU $36.99 NZ $40.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781501328688 Martin Spinelli is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Media, Film and Music at the University of Sussex, UK. His articles on Format: Paperback media editing, history, aesthetics, law and culture have been widely published and his radio work has been heard on the Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages BBC, NPR and the ABC. He was also the founder of the academic radio program at CUNY, Brooklyn College, USA, Bic1: Radio where he produced an AIDS-educational soap opera with his students broadcast on Radio Africa International. Bic2: Illustrations: Lance Dann is a Senior Lecturer in Audio and Digital Media at the University of Brighton, UK. He has worked as a Previous Titles: Author now living: producer, presenter and writer in radio, podcasting, theatre and digital media. He has written and produced audio dramas for the BBC, produced documentary and podcast series, and worked for several years at the acclaimed theatre company The Wooster Group. In 2017 he created the multi-award winning podcast drama Blood Culture.

BLM Acad US JANUARY 2019 Adaptations in the Franchise Era Kyle Meikle

Adaptation and Convergence Culture situates adaptations within the wider contexts of popular culture in the first decade of the 21st century, including film and television franchises, fan fiction and remixes, board and video games, and theaters and theme parks.

Sales points • Provides the first comprehensive account of adaptation in relation to other 21st century media practices (franchising, transmedia storytelling, world-building), inviting greater dialogue between adaptation scholars and media scholars • Synthesizes different strands of adaptation studies (fan studies, game studies, new media studies) that often remain distinct from one another • Offers readers a better perspective of adaptation as both a product (comic books, films, video games) and a process (fan fiction, modding, remixing) in convergence culture

Description Adaptations in the Franchise Era re-evaluates adaptation's place in a popular culture marked by the movement of content and audiences across more media borders than ever before. While adaptation has historically been understood as the transfer of stories from one medium to another more often than not, from novel to film the growing interconnectedness of media and media industries in the early twenty-first century raises new questions about the form and function of adaptation as both a product and a process. Where does adaptation fit within massive franchises that span pages, stages, screens, and theme parks' Rising scholar Kyle Meikle illuminates adaptation's enduring and essential role in the rise of franchises in the 2000s and 2010s. During that decade-and-a-half, adaptations set the foundation for multiplexed, multiplied film series, piloted streaming television's forays into original programming, found their way into audiences' hands in apps and video games, and went live in theatrical experiences on Broadway and beyond. The proliferation of adaptations was matched only by a proliferation of adaptation, as fans remixed and remade their favourite franchises online and off-. This volume considers how producers and consumers defined adaptations and how adaptations defined themselves through the endless intertextual play of the franchise era. Price: AU $36.99 NZ $40.99 ISBN: 9781501318726 About the Author Format: Paperback Kyle Meikle is Assistant Professor of Communication and English at the University of Baltimore, USA, and Film Reviews Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Editor for Adaptation. Bic1: Film theory & criticism Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Acad US JANUARY 2019 The Wallace Effect Marshall Boswell

The Wallace Effect traces the presence of David Foster Wallace and his fiction in the contemporary literary imagination.

Sales points • Pioneering Wallace scholar provides new insight into how Wallace's work and his persona have infiltrated contemporary American fiction and sparked new questions about literary influence, literary envy, and the utility of genius • Covers Wallace's entire writing career and also traces his reception, legacy, and continuing influence for contemporary writers • Writers and novels discussed include John Barth's The Tidewater Tales, Richard Powers' Prisoner's Dilemma, Jeffrey Eugenides' The Marriage Plot, Jonathan Franzen's Freedom, as well as writers such as Amy Hungerford and Lauren Groff who have written against Wallace and his influence • Bloomsbury is the leading publisher in Wallace studies, and although we have worked with Marshall Boswell before (as a volume editor), this is his first single-authored book with us

Description The Wallace Effect explores David Foster Wallace's contested space at the forefront of 21st-century American fiction. Pioneering Wallace scholar Marshall Boswell does this by illuminating The Wallace Effect the aura of literary competition that Wallace routinely summoned in his fiction and non-fiction and that continues to inform the reception of his work by his contemporaries. A frankly combative writer, Wallace openly challenged his artistic predecessors as he sought to establish himself as the leading literary figure of the post-postmodern turn. Boswell challenges this portrait in two ways. First, he examines novels by Wallace's literary patriarchs and contemporaries that introduce innovations on traditional metafiction that Wallace would later claim as his own. Second, he explores four novels published after Wallace's ascendency that attempt to demythologize Wallace's persona and his literary preeminence. By re-situating Wallace's work in a broader and more contentious literary arena, The Wallace Effect traces both the reach Price: AU $39.99 NZ $43.99 and the limits of Wallace's legacy. ISBN: 9781501344909 Format: Paperback About the Author Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages Marshall Boswell is Professor and Chair of English at Rhodes College, USA. He is the author of four books, including Bic1: Literary studies: from c 1900 - Understanding David Foster Wallace (2004) and John Updike's Rabbit Tetralogy: Mastered Irony in Motion (2001), and Bic2: the editor of three books, including David Foster Wallace and 'The Long Thing' (Bloomsbury, 2014) and A Companion to Illustrations: David Foster Wallace Studies (co-editor, 2013). He served as Guest Editor for a two-part special issue of Studies in the Previous Titles: Author now living: Novel devoted to David Foster Wallace's novels.

BLM Acad US JANUARY 2019 The Kinship of Secrets Eugenia Kim

The riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart

Sales points • A beautiful novel full of detailed and moving insight into a fascinating, unexplored period of recent Korean history • For readers of Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson • Inspired by true events, The Kinship of Secrets builds on the story developed in Eugenia Kim's last book, The Calligrapher's Daughter. Together the novels explore sixty years of modern Korean history

Description The riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart

'A gorgeous achievement' Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko

In 1948 Najin and Calvin Cho, with their young daughter Miran, travel from South Korea to the United States in search of new opportunities. Wary of the challenges ahead, Najin and Calvin make the difficult decision to leave their other daughter, Inja, behind with their extended family; soon, they hope, they will return to her.

But then war breaks out in Korea, and there is no end in sight to the separation. Miran grows up in prosperous American suburbia, under the shadow of the daughter left behind, as Inja grapples in her war-torn land with ties to a family she doesn't remember. Najin and Calvin desperately seek a reunion with Inja, but are the bonds of love strong enough to reconnect their family over distance, time and war' And as deep family secrets are revealed, will everything they long for be upended'

Price: AU $34.99 NZ $36.99 Told through the alternating perspectives of the distanced sisters, and inspired by a true story, The Kinship of Secrets ISBN: 9781526602824 explores the cruelty of war, the power of hope, and what it means to be a sister. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages About the Author Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Eugenia Kim's debut novel, The Calligrapher's Daughter, won the 2009 Borders Original Voices Award, was shortlisted Bic2: for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was a 2009 Best Historical Novel and Critic's Pick by the Washington Post. A Illustrations: Bennington College MFA graduate, Kim teaches at Fairfield University's MFA Creative Writing Program. She lives in Previous Titles: Author now living: Washington, DC.

Bloomsbury JANUARY 2019 Pulse Michael Harvey

Stranger Things meets The Departed. A hugely original thriller, with film rights already snapped up by New Line Cinema

Sales points • Film rights have been sold to New Line Cinema, to be adapted by one of the writers of Stranger Things • A highly original, exciting blend of thriller and science-fiction, perfect for fans of Stephen King • A new standalone novel from the author of the popular Michael Kelly crime series, whose fans include John Grisham, Michael Connelly and Kathy Reichs. Harvey is also a documentary-maker and co-creator of the hit television series Cold Case

Description Stranger Things meets The Departed. A hugely original thriller, with film rights already snapped up by New Line Cinema

Daniel Fitzsimmons seems like an ordinary American teenager. He loves his brother, his friends, his school work. But Daniel has powers. Powers that he does not understand, and is not sure he can control. Daniel can't risk telling those around him what is happening, but when a mysterious stranger offers an insight into what he is experiencing, he becomes Daniel's unofficial mentor. And when a tragedy threatens to derail his life, and with the police growing ever more interested in his past, Daniel's powers will finally come into their own.

About the Author Michael Harvey is the author of The Chicago Way, The Fifth Floor, The Third Rail, We All Fall Down, The Innocence Game, The Governor's Wife and Brighton. He is also a journalist and documentary producer. His work has won numerous national and international awards, including multiple news Emmys, two Primetime Emmy nominations, and an Academy Award nomination. He holds a law degree with honors from Duke University, a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University, and a bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, in classical languages from Holy Cross College. He lives in Chicago. Price: AU $34.99 NZ $36.99 @MichaelHarvey88 ISBN: 9781408895368 michaelharveybooks.com Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury JANUARY 2019 The Moscow Sleepers Stella Rimington

For fans of Spooks, Homeland and The Night Manager, the latest thriller in Stella Rimington's bestselling espionage series sees Liz Carlyle investigating a sinister Russian plot tense, gripping and global in scope

Sales points • Stella Rimington has a strong sales track record, with her total TCM standing at over 300k copies • Her novels are inspired by her long experience as head of MI5, giving them an unmistakable ring of authenticity loved by readers and press alike • The Moscow Sleepers features the migrant crisis and growing tensions between Russia and the West an urgent, current and compelling for readers of thrillers from le Carre to Lee Child, and fans of TV dramas such as Spooks, McMafia and The Night Manager

Description For fans of Spooks, Homeland, McMafia and The Night Manager, the latest thriller in Stella Rimington's bestselling espionage series sees Liz Carlyle investigating a sinister Russian plot tense, gripping and global in scope

A man lies dying in a hospital in upstate Vermont. The nurses know only that he is an academic at a nearby university but they have been instructed to call the FBI should anyone visit their patient.

News of this suspected Russian illegal soon reaches MI5 in London where Liz Carlyle has been contacted by a top secret source known as Mischa who is requesting a clandestine rendezvous in Berlin.

Meanwhile in Brussels a Russian sleeper agent who has lived undercover for years is beginning to question his role, while suspicions have been roused about a boarding school in Suffolk that has recently changed hands in mysterious circumstances.

The latest expertly-plotted thriller in Stella Rimington's bestselling series, The Moscow Sleepers is a white-knuckle ride Price: AU $34.99 NZ $26.99 through the dark underbelly of international intelligence, simmering political animosities and global espionage. ISBN: 9781408859742 Format: Hard Cover About the Author Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Dame Stella Rimington joined the Security Service (MI5) in 1968. During her career she worked in all the main fields of Bic1: Espionage & spy thriller the Service: counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism. She was appointed Director General in 1992, Bic2: Thriller / suspense the first woman to hold the post. She has written her autobiography and nine Liz Carlyle novels, most recently, Breaking Illustrations: Cover. She lives in London and Norfolk. Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury JANUARY 2019 Who's Who 2019 Who's Who

The 171st annual edition of the internationally respected and renowned source book of information on people of influence and interest in every area of public life.

Sales points • More than 33,000 autobiographical entries, about 1,000 of them new for 2019 • The longest established and most comprehensive general biographical reference book • Includes people from all walks of life: government, law, medicine, business, the church, media and the arts • Carefully updated for maximum accuracy from information personally supplied by each biographee, as well as many independent sources

Description Who's Who 2019 is the 171st edition of the world's longest established and most comprehensive general reference book, brought right up to date for the year ahead. The first autobiographical reference book in the world and, after 170 years, still the most accurate and reliable resource for information supplied and checked by the entrants themselves. 'The famous red covers of Who's Who are exclusive and only the enduringly notable get into them... After a week with the new Who's Who (and though it's heavy to pick up) 'you can't put it down' best describes my feeling.' - Matthew Parris, The Times 'The unrivalled compendium of the good and the great' - The Daily Telegraph 'Who's Who is a mirror in which society glimpses a reflection of its own achievement.' -The Times 'Britain's most famous reference book ...a biographical record of the great and the good.' - Daily Mail

About the Author Who's Who is in its 171st year. Price: AU $550.00 NZ $600.00 ISBN: 9781472947581 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 2624 pages Bic1: Dictionaries of biography (Who's Who) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Yearbooks JANUARY 2019 Reeds PBO Small Craft Almanac 2019 Perrin Towler and Mark Fishwick

In a practical handy format the Reeds PBO Small Craft Almanac, published in association with Practical Boat Owner, covers the North Atlantic Coastline from Denmark to the Gironde. It contains essential navigational information for small craft sailors including tide tables, waypoint tidal streams, tidal gates, weather information and IALA buoyage, and represents excellent value for money.

Sales points • Covers the British Isles, Ireland and western Europe from the tip of Denmark to the Gironde. • Over 2,500 waypoints • Tide tables and tidal streams from Denmark to South Biscay • Ideal for small craft navigators. • A long-standing compact almanac with an excellent reputation.

Description In a practical handy format the Reeds PBO Small Craft Almanac contains many unique features for small craft sailors and represents excellent value for money. Meticulously researched, this popular almanac contains a wealth of information presented in an easy to find, quick reference manner for practical on-board use. The Reeds PBO Small Craft Almanac covers the whole of the UK and Ireland and the west coast of Europe from Denmark to the Gironde. It includes a huge amount of information of value to small craft navigators: Tide tables, tidal streams and tidal gates, Secondary port differences, Over 2,500 waypoints, Radio data, Light recognition, Weather information, Principal lights, IALA buoyage, International codes and flags, Sun/moon rise and set plus Emergency information.

About the Author Perrin Towler and Mark Fishwick have been editors of the Reeds Almanacs for many years.

Price: AU $39.99 NZ $42.99 ISBN: 9781472957597 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Boating Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Adlard Coles Nautica JANUARY 2019 Whitaker's Concise 2019 Whitaker's

A UK-centric version of its big sister Whitaker's 2018; packed with thousands of facts and figures. Great value for money!

Sales points • Easy to use - comprehensive contents and index listings • Updated annually, it is essential for reference and general knowledge enthusiasts everywhere • A UK reference library in one volume - ideal for leisure, business and study • Ideal for anyone who needs UK facts and figures at their fingertips without the internet • An affordable Christmas gift, from a well-known, trusted and respected brand

Description Whitaker's Concise 2019 is the definitive reference guide to the UK. The concise edition is a UK-centric gold-mine of information with enormous breadth of coverage. At a fraction of the price of the standard edition, the reader with an interest in UK facts and figures is really getting value for money.

The concise edition contains a comprehensive explanation of every aspect of national and local government infrastructure in the UK, astronomical and tidal data for 2019, guides to UK law, education and taxation, overviews of the water, energy and transport industries, essential calendar information, chapters on royalty and peerage, Defence, complete results for each constituency from the last UK General Election and an up-to-date list of MPs, government departments and public bodies - quite simply, the UK in one volume! Our dedicated team of both in-house editors and specialist contributors spend a total of 6,000 hours, updating Whitaker's annually this includes contacting over 5,000 people to update their own organisation's details, researching information from official annual reports, and gathering statistics and facts from the most up-to-date authoritative sources available. Completely revised and continually updated throughout the year at least 60% of the contents are newly compiled specifically for this edition. Around 2,000 hours of editorial time is dedicated to verifying every piece of information to ensure that, unlike collaborative online sources such as Wikipedia, all the material in Whitaker's is neutral and reliable. Price: AU $49.99 NZ $52.99 'If you want to know it... it's here' John Humphrys ISBN: 9781472959096 Format: Paperback About the Author Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 688 pages Whitaker's is the definitive reference guide. Bic1: Yearbooks, annuals, almanacs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Yearbooks JANUARY 2019 RSPB Handbook of British Birds Tim Cleeves, Peter Holden

An updated fourth edition of the bestselling RSPB Handbook of British Birds published to coincide with the RSPB's 125th anniversary - a complete, single source of information on our most familiar birds.

Sales points • Introduction detailing the 125-year history of the RSPB, including a key dates timeline. • Maps, population and distribution information reviewed and updated for this new fourth edition. • Commissioned cover artwork featuring a Redstart.

Description This is a revised and updated fourth edition of the bestselling RSPB Handbook of British Birds. This unique guide provides a 'biography' of each of the 280 commonest British bird species. It covers all aspects of field identification, using illustrations from the highly acclaimed Handbook of Bird Identification to show all common plumage forms. The text also covers behaviour, breeding biology, population, status, longevity and any other interesting facts about the species concerned. A detailed distribution map is provided for each species. The rarities section, featuring 26 additional species, has been updated and features two species new to this edition. Six comparison artwork spreads are included to help identify difficult to identify species - such as ducks, waders, warblers, raptors and gulls - alongside one another. The RSPB Handbook provides a complete, single source of basic information to our most familiar birds.

About the Author Peter Holden has written nine books, including the bestselling RSPB Handbook of British Birds and the acclaimed RSPB Handbook of Garden Wildlife. He worked for the RSPB for more than 40 years. Tim Cleeves also worked for the RSPB, and is the co-author of Birds New to Britain.

Price: AU $24.99 NZ $26.99 ISBN: 9781472965509 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Wildlife: birds & birdwatching Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Natural History JANUARY 2019 RSPB British Birds of Prey Marianne Taylor

This book is a celebration of British raptors (including owls), following their fortunes as British breeding birds from historical times to the present day and illustrated with 200 stunning colour photographs.

Sales points • Beautifully designed, large-format, glossy coffee-table book covering diurnal raptors and owls • Authoritative text from an established author • Stunning photography throughout by acclaimed raptor photographer Stig Frode Olsen • Raptor books are perennially popular and always sell well • Endorsed by the RSPB, and will tie in to the RSPB's birds of prey conservation campaign

Description This book is a celebration of British raptors, with 200 stunning colour photographs. An authoritative text examines the biology and ecology of each species, following their fortunes as British breeding birds from historical times to the present day. This book will serve as a showcase of these fabulous birds and highlight the diverse work of the RSPB in ensuring their survival.

About the Author Marianne Taylor has written and edited a number of books on birds and is a regular contributor to magazines such as Birdwatch.

Price: AU $49.99 NZ $52.99 ISBN: 9781472965806 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Birds (ornithology) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Natural History JANUARY 2019 Field Guide to the Dragonflies of Britain K-D Dijkstra

Field Guide to the Dragonflies of Britain and Europe

Sales points • Almost 1,000 superbly detailed colour artworks, line drawings and photographs of all 160 species of Odonata recorded from Europe, western Turkey and North Africa • Includes field descriptions and keys by some of Europe's leading dragonfly experts, under the general editorship of Klaas-Douwe Dijkstra • Up-to-date, newly researched distribution maps for every resident species • Comprehensive introduction to studying and identifying dragonflies • Country-by-country guide to finding dragonflies, written by a team of regional experts, containing much information not published before • An essential guide for trips to Europe

Description This ground-breaking identification guide to all the dragonflies and damselflies of Britain and Europe brings some of the top field experts in Odonata from across the Continent together with Richard Lewington, widely accepted to be Europe's foremost illustrator of insects.

About the Author Klaas-Douwe KD' B Dijkstra developed an interest in natural history as a child living in Egypt. Here he made his first observations of dragonflies as a 12-year-old, having to invent his own scientific names for them because he had no literature. The discovery of the first Anax ephippiger in The Netherlands in 1995 incited an active involvement in Dutch dragonfly work. KD was a founding member of the Dutch society for odonatology in 1997, as editor of its journal Brachytron, and co-edited and co-authored the handbook of Dutch Odonata published in 2002. He obtained an MSc in biology at Leiden University in 1998, developing a passion for Africa during fieldwork in Uganda in 1995. As a research associate of the National

Price: AU $49.99 NZ $54.99 Museum of Natural History Naturalis in The Netherlands, KD has worked on the systematics and biogeography of tropical ISBN: 9781472965813 African Odonata since 2001. In 2005, he shared the Worldwide Dragonfly Association outstanding achievement award for Format: Paperback - Demy format this work. Dimensions: 0x0mm Over almost forty years, Richard Lewington has built up a reputation as one of Europe's finest wildlife illustrators. He first Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Insects (entomology) became interested in butterflies as a child when he inherited a cabinet Bic2: of insects from his father. He studied graphic design at the Berkshire College of Illustrations: Art, and since leaving in 1971 has specialised in natural-history illustration. His meticulous paintings Previous Titles: Author now living: of insects and other wildlife are the mainstay of many of the modern classics of field-guide art, including Insects of Britain and Western Europe, Collins Butterfly Guide, Field Guide to Dragonflies of Britain and Europe, Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland, Pocket Guide to Butterflies of Britain and Ireland and Guide to Garden Wildlife. He was, for many years, the principal artist on the multi-volume series, The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland. He has also designed and illustrated wildlife stamps for a number of countries, including a set of ten BLMstamps Naturalof British butterflies History JANUARY 2019 Concise Guide to the Moths of Great Britain Martin Townsend, Paul Waring

Concise Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland

Sales points • Nearly all the resident and migrant British and Irish species of macro-moths illustrated • 1,600 superbly detailed colour artworks by Richard Lewington, showing almost 880 species in their natural resting postures, making identification much easier than pinned specimens • Includes brief field descriptions written by leading moth experts • Easy-to-use presentation with the descriptions on the same spread as the artwork plates • Wiro-binding allows spread to lie flat for quick use in the field or at home, with a durable PVC wallet • A perfect companion to the classic Field Guide

Description A great practical solution for every active moth enthusiast - a guide with all the illustrations of the classic Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland' in a portable wiro-bound format which allows spreads to lie flat for ease of use.

About the Author Martin Townsend has had a life-long interest in natural history, and started specialising in Lepidoptera at the age of ten. He works as a consultant ecologist, concentrating on insects and other invertebrates, with Lepidoptera as his main field of expertise. He graduated with a BSc in Zoology from the University of Aberdeen in 1985, and since then has worked in ecological research and conservation, including work for IACR Rothamsted, Oxford University Department of Zoology and the RSPB. He has published a number of research papers and articles and has been an independent consultant since 1998, carrying out site surveys for conservation bodies and other landowners. He is based in Oxford. Paul Waring was born in the New Forest, Hampshire. A schoolboy interest in caterpillars led ultimately to Honours Zoology at the University of Oxford and a PhD on the impact of woodland management on the moth fauna of Bernwood Forest. Since 1987, Paul has worked full-time on moth conservation in Britain, both within the government conservation agencies and as a freelance, as well as mothing elsewhere throughout the world. He is based in Peterborough, and has authored over 1,000

Price: AU $39.99 NZ $42.99 papers and reports in scientific journals, including a regular report on moths in British Wildlife for the last 20 years. ISBN: 9781472965837 Over almost forty years, Richard Lewington has built up a reputation as one of Europe's finest wildlife illustrators. He first Format: Paperback became interested in butterflies as a child when he inherited a cabinet of insects from his father. He studied graphic Dimensions: 0x0mm design at the Berkshire College of Art, and since leaving in 1971 has specialised in natural-history illustration. His Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Insects (entomology) meticulous paintings of insects and other wildlife are the mainstay of many of the modern classics of field-guide art, Bic2: including Insects of Britain and Western Europe, Collins Butterfly Guide, Field Guide to Dragonflies of Britain and Europe, Illustrations: Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland, Pocket Guide to Butterflies of Britain and Ireland and Guide to Previous Titles: Author now living: Garden Wildlife. He was, for many years, the principal artist on the multi-volume series, The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland. He has also designed and illustrated wildlife stamps for a number of countries, including a set of ten stamps of British butterflies for Royal Mail in 2013.

BLM Natural History JANUARY 2019 Orchids of Britain and Ireland Anne Harrap, Simon Harrap

This richly-illustrated guide covers the identification, biology and conservation of British and Irish orchids. Only recently has it become possible to publish locations for almost all species. This book includes a detailed site guide, covering the best places to see orchids in Britain.

Sales points • Covers every species of British and Irish orchid in breathtaking detail • Species descriptions cover identification, flowering period, habitat, • range, subspecies, variation, biology and history and conservation • Includes over 370 stunning colour photographs • A site guide is provided covering over 330 places to see wild orchids • Every species has a detailed map based on the New Atlas of the British and Irish Flora

Description Orchids have long held a fascination, both for keen botanists and the general public. From the mania of Victorian collectors to the enthusiasm of modern photographers, this family of flowering plants has a strange and exotic appeal. Many orchids are beautiful, and some are rare.

The time is ripe for a new, well illustrated orchid guide, covering the identification, biology and conservation of British and Irish orchids. Until recently, the whereabouts of the rarer species was shrouded in secrecy, making publication of any details ethically Price: AU $90.00 NZ $100.00 impossible. In the last few years, however, these veils have been ISBN: 9781472965844 lifted and it is now possible to publish locations for all but one or Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 0x0mm two species. For the first time, this book includes a detailed site Extent: 480 pages guide, covering the best places to see orchids in Britain. Bic1: Trees, wildflowers & plants Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: 'A model field guide: good, large photographs that are actually Author now living: rather gorgeous; a clear text that tells you how to identify the plant using the English language rather than 'botanicalese'; useful diagrams of those spectacular flower parts; and a really comprehensive section on geographical range and subspecies.' The Daily Telegraph BLM Natural History JANUARY 2019 Transforming Organizations Michael Anderson, Miranda Jefferson

Provides evidence and inspiration for doing business differently through the following 4 Cs: Creativity, Critical reflection, Communication and Collaboration

Sales points • Takes lessons and examples from educational, business and leadership research to show how organizations can best prepare themselves for 21st century challenges and opportunities and the first organizational design book to bring in the use of these four key competencies. • Links to newly-approved courses on the University of Sydney's MBA programme for 2017 and 2018 (Creativity, Innovation and Change in Business; The Culture of Business; and Disruption and Innovation in Business) • Potential to market to a range of MBA and Executive MBA modules in innovation and organizational change

Description In a world where current political climates and management cultures make risk aversion commonplace, Transforming Organizations shows how large and cumbersome organizations can change and transition to suit the needs of our rapidly evolving economies. This new title looks at how organizations and their leaders can adapt to an increasingly volatile and uncertain operating environment through the 4 Cs: Creativity, Critical reflection, Communication and Collaboration. Based on extensive research in both the education and business sectors, the authors show how the 4 Cs can be embedded and enacted in many different types of organizations to make them more effective and responsive to emerging challenges, threats and opportunities. The book makes clear links between leading and learning, because leadership is no longer (if it ever was) just a role for CEOs, CFOs and senior managers. For organizations to be flexible and agile in the 21st century, the majority of the employees must exercise leadership something that can only happen if learning is standard feature of that leadership and incorporates key 21st-century skills (the 4 Cs themselves). However, there is a marked gap between companies knowing what they should do in order to be flexible', be creative' and have clear channels of communication', and how to make that happen in reality. Price: AU $49.99 NZ $52.99 Written for those who have become disillusioned or frustrated with business practices that cannot meet the fast-moving ISBN: 9781472949318 demands of the 21st century, Transforming Organizations provides evidence and inspiration for doing business Format: Hard Cover differently. The strategies and approaches discussed have been taken from the authors' work in real businesses, both Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages large and small, and are supplemented by a number of illustrative case studies. Bic1: Business & management Bic2: About the Author Illustrations: Michael Anderson is Professor of Education at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research interests include school Previous Titles: Author now living: transformation, creativity and technology. Michael is co-founder and academic leader of 4C Transformative Learning and presents internationally to schools and other groups on transformation, creativity and learning. Miranda Jefferson is co-founder and innovative practice leader of 4C Transformative Learning and has been involved in leading innovation in schools for over 20 years. She leads programs, initiatives and research in curriculum reform, Bloomsbury Business JANUARY 2019 Betraying Big Brother Leta Hong Fincher

How the Feminist Five and the rise of China's feminist movement are challenging China's authoritarian government

Sales points • Author is leading commentator on feminism and women's issues in China; has been quoted by BBC, CNN, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, TIME and The Economist; and has written for the New York Times, Ms. Magazine and other outlets. • Author has a strong online presence of 17k Twitter followers (her handle is @LetaHong) • Reviews across the national press. • Extract in national newspaper.

Description On the eve of International Women's Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for 37 days. The Feminist Five became a global cause celebre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf, and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. But the Feminist Five are only symbols of a much larger feminist movement of civil rights lawyers, labor activists, performance artists and online warriors that is prompting an unprecedented awakening among China's urban, educated women. In Betraying Big Brother, journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher argues that the popular, broad-based movement poses the greatest threat to China's authoritarian regime today. Through interviews with the Feminist Five and other leading Chinese activists, Hong Fincher illuminates both the challenges they face and their joy of betraying Big Brother, as Wei Tingting one of the Feminist Five wrote of the defiance she felt during her detention. Tracing the rise of a new feminist consciousness through online campaigns resembling #MeToo, and describing how the Communist regime has suppressed the history of its own feminist struggles, Betraying Big Brother is a story of how the movement against patriarchy could reconfigure China and the world.

About the Author Price: AU $36.99 NZ $38.99 LETA HONG FINCHER is a journalist who has written for New York Times, The Guardian, Ms. Magazine, BBC and CNN, ISBN: 9781786633644 and is the author of Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Feminism & feminist theory Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade JANUARY 2019 Russia Without Putin Tony Wood

How the West's obsession with Vladimir Putin prevents it from understanding Russia

Sales points • Leading expert on post-Soviet Russia rethinks the global role of Putin and the state of the New Cold War. • Reconsiders the origins of Putin's power and why that matters. • Explores the reasons behind Putin's geopolitical actions in Georgia, Ukraine and Syria as signs of weakness rather than strength. • Fully up-to-date to include the March 2018 elections.

Description It is impossible to think of Russia today without thinking of Vladimir Putin. More than any other major national leader, he personifies his country in the eyes of the outside world, and dominates Western media coverage of it to an extraordinary extent. In Russia itself, he is likewise the centre of attention for detractors and supporters alike. But as Tony Wood argues, this overwhelming focus on the president and his personality means that we understand Russia less than we ever did before. Too much attention is paid to the man, and not enough to the country outside the Kremlin's walls.

In this timely and provocative analysis, Wood looks beyond Putin to explore the profound changes Russia has undergone since 1991. In the process, he challenges many of the common assumptions made about contemporary Russia. Though commonly viewed as an ominous return to Soviet authoritarianism, Putin's rule should instead be seen as a direct continuation of Yeltsin's in the 1990s. And though many of Russia's problems today are blamed on legacies of the Soviet past, Wood argues that the core features of Putinism a predatory, authoritarian elite presiding over a vastly unequal society are integral to the system set in place after the fall of Communism.

What kind of country has emerged from Russia's post-Soviet transformations, and where might it go in future' Russia without Putin culminates in an arresting analysis of the country's foreign policy identifying the real power dynamics behind its escalating clashes with the West and with reflections on the paths Russia might take in the 21st century.

Price: AU $39.99 NZ $42.99 ISBN: 9781788731249 About the Author Format: Hard Cover Tony Wood lives in New York and writes on Russia and Latin America. A member of the editorial board of New Left Dimensions: 0x0mm Review, he is previously the author of Chechnya: The Case for Independence (2007), and his writing has appeared in the Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Social & cultural history London Review of Books, the Guardian, n+1 and The Nation, among other places. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade JANUARY 2019 A Massacre in Mexico Anabel Hernandez

The definitive account of the mass disappearance of 43 Mexican students and the government that tried to cover it up

Sales points • Author of the bestselling Narcoland. • Anabel Hernandez is a fearless investigative reporter with an international reputation. • The story of how 43 students disappeared in Mexico in 2014 grabbed headlines across the world - this is the compelling account of what happened to them. • Reviews across the national press and author profiles.

Description On September 26, 2014, 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. According to official reports, the students commandeered several buses to travel to Mexico City to commemorate the anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre. During the journey, local police intercepted the students and a confrontation ensued. By the morning, they had disappeared without a trace. HernAindez reconstructs almost minute-by-minute the events of those nights in late September 2014, giving us what is surely the most complete picture available: her sources are unparalleled, since she has secured access to internal government documents that have not been made public, and to video surveillance footage the government has tried to hide and destroy. HernAindez demolishes the Mexican state's official version, which the Pena Nieto government cynically dubbed the historic truth . State officials at all levels, from police and prosecutors to the upper echelons of the PRI administration, conspired to put together a fake case, concealing or manipulating evidence, and arresting and torturing dozens of suspects who then obliged with full confessions that matched the official lie. In the wake of the students' disappearances, protestors in Mexico took up the slogan Fue el estado It was the state . HernAindez's book is the one that gives most precision and credibility to the claim: by following the role of the various Mexican state agencies through the events in such remarkable detail, she allows to see exactly which parts of the state are responsible for which component of this monumental crime. Price: AU $36.99 NZ $38.99 ISBN: 9781788731485 About the Author Format: Hard Cover Anabel HernAindez is one of Mexico's leading investigative journalists. She has worked on national dailies including Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Reforma, Milenio, El Universal and its investigative supplement La Revista. Her previous books including the award Bic1: winning Narcoland, La familia presidencial, Fin de fiesta en los pinos, and Los complices del presidente. Bic2: In awarding HernAindez the 2012 Golden Pen of Freedom, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers Illustrations: noted, Mexico has become one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists, with violence and impunity Previous Titles: Author now living: remaining major challenges in terms of press freedom. In making this award, we recognize the strong stance Ms. HernAindez has taken, at great personal risk, against drug cartels.

Verso Trade JANUARY 2019 Ask Me to Dance Sylvia Colley

A heartrending yet life-affirming journey from despair to hope

Sales points • For lovers of Max Porter, Rose Tremain and Deborah Moggach • Sylvia Colley writes so movingly about grief. This is a very good book' - Piers Plowright, BBC Radio 4 • Sylvia Colley's extraordinary understanding of a woman's struggle to deal with grief, the denial, the anger, the loneliness, is described without sentimentality. A beautifully written and moving story

Description Rose Gregory has suffered a devastating blow, a double bereavement from which months later she is still reeling. Sanctuary and rest are prescribed by her doctor. But when she arrives at her refuge, a dank and decaying Monastery, she finds it is not the haven promised. Despite the veneer of calm contemplation, the Monastery turns out to be a hotbed of intrigue and disharmony. Rose witnesses bullying and cruelty and ultimately in defence of the vulnerable turns to violence herself.

About the Author Sylvia Colley was born in Romsey, Hampshire. She became a teacher and spent many years as Head of English at the Purcell School in North London. She has published a book of poetry, Its Not What I Wanted Though and a novel, Lights on Dark Water. Her work has been read on BBC Radio 4.

Price: AU $24.99 NZ $26.99 ISBN: 9781999811709 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Muswell Press JANUARY 2019 The Reading Party Fenella Gentleman

A fresh view of Oxford, seen through the eyes of a young woman historian appointed to a male college in 1976, who tells her own story with wit and feeling in this original and charming novel.

Sales points • 'An original and charming novel' - Claire Tomalin • Intelligently written and with a real sense of time and place, the author certainly brings to life the rather cloistered atmosphere of an Oxford college. With skilful writing she takes us back to a time when academia was being pushed, forcibly, into a direction it would rather not travel to, but which, by necessity, had, eventually, to take place. The Reading Party is a fascinating glimpse into a bygone time - Jo Barton, Goodreads (5 star review) • This is a book which doesn't rely on shocking plot twists and is instead an engrossing, more nuanced story which examines how attitudes to gender, race and class influenced and continues to shape society and our changing roles within it. Karen Cole, Goodreads (5 star review) • Redolent of the 70s, the atmosphere in this book sizzles with tension and intrigue. The Reading Party is a fabulous escapist read by Fenella Gentleman. I'm really looking forward to reading her next book. And I'm so excited and thrilled to have been included on this blog tour! Ronnie Turner, Goodreads • For lovers of Linda Grant, Helen Dunmore and David Nicholls • A briliant coming of age novel that resonates as deeply now as it did in the 1970's • Reading Guide available

Description It is the 70s and Oxford's male institutions are finally opening their doors to women. Sarah Addleshaw, young, spirited and keen to prove her worth, begins term as the first female academic at her college. She is in fact, her college's only female Fellow'. Impulsive love affairs with people, places and the ideas in her head beset Sarah throughout her first exhilarating year as a don, but it is the Reading Party, that has the most dramatic impact.

About the Author Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Fenella Gentleman studied PPE at Wadham College, Oxford, when it went mixed. She participated in two reading parties ISBN: 9781999811723 in Cornwall. After graduating she worked in publishing, before moving into marketing and communications in the Format: Paperback professions. She lives in London and North Norfolk. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Muswell Press JANUARY 2019 A Girl Called Flotsam John Tagholm

Wartime Paris and contemporary London feature in this page-turning novel which is at once a compelling mystery and a captivating love story. For fans of William Boyd, Joanne Harris and Sebastian Faulks

Sales points • A very polished and skilful piece of writing -a read page-turner' • The most brilliantly devised and beautifully written of stories • Many-layered, intricate and enchanting'

Description Beatrice Palmentier is 36, an award-winning director and discontent. She is about to embark on a new documentary featuring reknowned restaurateur Jospeh Troumeg, when the discovery of a skull on the Thames riverbank throws her off course.

About the Author John Tagholm is a writer, broadcaster and producer. He is the author of three novels, Parallel Lines, Bad Marriage, No Identifiable Remains and a work of non-fiction, Elsewhere. He lives in London UK.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9780995482203 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Muswell Press JANUARY 2019 The Walk to the Paradise Garden Leon Arden

Leon Arden's book is an entertaining, funny and powerful novel about a dysfunctional New York family forced to grapple with a profound question: do they dare take part in a decision involving the death of a loved one'

Sales points • I was engrossed from start to finish • Leon Arden has written a deeply moving, lyrical yet at times laugh out loud novel. It has resonances for all who have had to deal with ageing relatives, and is pertinent to those who have these experiences yet to come' • 'Highly recommended - anyone with a heart will love this book'

Description This gripping novel deals with all the ramifications of euthanasia and how it impacts on a family, no matter what choices they make. Its theme is increasingly topical and although the book is suffused with comedy, it is both disturbing and uplifting.

About the Author Leon Arden, a New Yorker settled in England, spent five years working as a free-lance photographer in the US, Mexico and Europe. He subsequently turned to writing and his first four novels were published in the USA.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9780956557599 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 298 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Muswell Press JANUARY 2019 Beckett's Last Act Mora Grey

A gripping, psychological account of the making of drama

Sales points • 'Great thought-provoking theatre which you feel will inform your next viewing of a Beckett play. • A superb study of idealised and tragic love.

Description During the course of a final rehearsal of Samuel Beckett's two most enigmatic plays, Krapps' Last Tape and Not I, Mora Grey burrows into the psyches of the production team and of the playwright himself as he watches, pontificates and finally demonstrates how one of his most famous characters should be played. Members of the team reflect and, in one tragic case, lose themselves in the texts

About the Author Mora Grey is an expert on Samuel Beckett and had worked with him on many occasions. She lives in the UK and this is her first book

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9780992817107 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 168 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Muswell Press JANUARY 2019 The Revenger's Tragedy Edited by Gretchen Minton

A major new edition of a canonical play with detailed on-page notes and a lengthy introduction covering its historical, performance and critical contexts

Sales points • Part of the prestigious Arden Early Modern Drama series • On-page notes and comprehensive introduction make this the ideal text for study • A major edition of a much studied play

Description The Revenger's Tragedy treads a line between macabre humour and moral commentary. Thomas Middleton's aptly named play begins with a man called Vindice holding the skull of his dead fiancee and vowing to avenge her death. The tragedy that unfolds features complicated plot twists in which the licentious Duke and his corrupt family, who are guilty of rape, poisoning, and much more, become the victims of torture and murder. This edition offers a comprehensive analysis of diverse critical attitudes towards the play, with special attention to its authorship and its ambiguous theological orientation. A thorough discussion of The Revenger's Tragedy's rich performance history shows how it has consistently reflected cultural preoccupations with violence and vigilante justice.

About the Author Gretchen Minton is Professor of English at Montana State University, USA.

Price: AU $160.00 NZ $176.00 ISBN: 9781472520463 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Theatre studies Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Arden Shakespeare JANUARY 2019 Directing Professionally Kent Thompson

Offers a practical yet sophisticated overview for aspirant and professional theatre directors of the fundamentals of stage direction, education and experience opportunities, developing an aesthetic as a director, pathways to directing professionally, and advancing one's professional career beyond freelance directing.

Sales points • The book meets the needs of undergraduate students through to young theatre professionals, covering both the fundamentals of directing and guidance on how to progress and establish a career as a director • Filled with practical guidance for freelance directors on advancing their careers from someone who hires them and knows what they need to succeed • Uniquely considers the role and qualities of an artistic director, and how to become one

Description How do you develop both the craft of directing as well as a professional career in freelance directing in today's theatre industry' Drawing on his own extensive experience and that of other theatre professionals from the US and UK, Kent Thompson illuminates a pathway from training, apprenticeship and assistant directing to an established career as a director. Directing Professionally first lays out paths for aspirant directors to train, grow and succeed as directors, then advises freelance directors on how to establish and accelerate their professional careers. It also reveals the most significant ways those directors become artistic directors today. With a frank, thoughtful and often humorous examination of the job of professional direction and artistic direction, Thompson writes about the passion, commitment, artistic vision, directorial experience, leadership skills, and powerful persuasive gifts needed to succeed in this extraordinary field. Featuring case studies and brief interviews with professional theatre directors, artistic directors, producers, critics, managing/executive directors, and theatre leaders currently working in the field in the UK and the US, this volume will equip you to develop your career as a professional director in today's theatre.

About the Author Kent Thompson has been Producing Artistic Director of the Theatre Company at the Denver Center for the Performing Price: AU $120.00 NZ $132.00 Arts (DCPA), USA, since 2005. For 16 years, Thompson served as Producing Artistic Director of the Alabama ISBN: 9781474288774 Shakespeare Festival (ASF). In addition to an active career as a freelance director, he has directed and/or taught in major Format: Hard Cover conservatory programs, including The Juilliard School, North Carolina School of the Arts, Washington University, Boston Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages University, Temple University, DePaul Theatre School, among others. In addition, he has led two major Master of Fine Bic1: Theatre direction & production Arts Programs in Professional Theatre: the University of Alabama/ASF program and the National Theatre Conservatory at Bic2: the Denver Center. Thompson served for eight years on the Board of Directors for Theatre Communications Group and Illustrations: Previous Titles: as its president for three years. Author now living:

Methuen Drama JANUARY 2019 Michael Chekhov's Acting Technique Sinead Rushe

Provides a complete overview of the Michael Chekhov method, offering clear explanations of the principles, practical exercises and application of the exercises to dramatic texts.

Sales points • Complete with exercises and explanations, blending the theories of Chekhov with their practical application • The Chekhov technique is widely taught in acting schools from undergraduate level onwards and this book provides all that's necessary for the newcomer, or those students already familiar with the method • Sinead Rushe, a member of the Michael Chekhov community in the US (MICHA), is a lecturer in acting who teaches the technique to her students at London's Central School of Speech and Drama

Description Intended for actors, directors, teachers and researchers, this book offers an exceptionally clear and thorough introduction to the renowned acting technique developed by Michael Chekhov. Sinead Rushe's book provides a complete overview of the whole method, and includes illuminating explanations of its principles, as well as a wide range of practical exercises that illustrate, step by step, how they can be applied to dramatic texts. Part One provides an outline of the ideas that underpin the work, which help to prepare practitioners to become responsive and receptive, and to awaken their imagination. Part Two charts a journey through the foundational psychophysical exercises that can both orient an actor's training routine and be applied directly to the development of a role. Part Three focuses on more specific and elaborate methods of scene work, characterisation and the art of transformation. Drawing on the full range of Chekhov's writing in English and French, this book also examines unpublished material from the Dartington Hall archives and features interviews with actors who have worked with the technique, including Simon Callow and Joanna Merlin. It illustrates Chekhov's approach by referring to Rushe's own productions of Nikolai Gogol's short story Diary of a Madman and Shakespeare's Othello, as well as characters and scenes in Sarah Kane's Blasted and the contemporary American television series Breaking Bad. Michael Chekhov's Acting Technique is an accessible, comprehensive and contemporary point of reference for those Price: AU $140.00 NZ $154.00 already trained in the method, as well as an initiation and toolkit for practitioners who are just beginning to discover it. ISBN: 9781350090033 Format: Hard Cover About the Author Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages Sinead Rushe is a lecturer in Acting and Movement on the BA (Hons) in Acting at Central School of Speech and Drama, Bic1: Acting techniques London (CSSD) and teaches the Michael Chekhov Technique for acting teachers and for professional actors and Bic2: directors (through Living Pictures and The Actor's Centre). She studied the Michael Chekhov technique intensively at the Illustrations: Michael Chekhov Studio in New York and London as well as in Paris. A director, performer and acting teacher, one of her Previous Titles: Author now living: recent works, Out of Time, was nominated for a 2010 Olivier Award and 2009 Dance Critic's Circle Award for its London run. Sinead is the co-translator into French, with Sarah Hirschmuller, of several works by English playwright Howard Barker.

Methuen Drama JANUARY 2019 Contemporary Plays by African Women Edited by Yvette Hutchison and Amy Jephta

A volume that brings together contemporary work by 21st century women playwrights and play-makers in Africa and offers a contextual and critical framework

Sales points • Access to previously unpublished, new work by African women in one place, with critical notes • Offers insight into a field of African theatre under-represented in mainstream theatre criticism, as well as a chance to have access to these new plays for international programming • Introduces new writers from the continent for the purposes of literary and/or academic studies

Description This volume uniquely draws together seven contemporary plays by a selection of the finest African women writers and practitioners from across the continent, offering a rich and diverse portrait of identity, politics, culture, gender issues and society in contemporary Africa.

Niqabi Ninja by Sara Shaarawi (Egypt) is set in Cairo during the chaotic time of the Egyptian uprising. Bonganyi by Sophia Kwachuh Mempuh (Cameroon) depicts the effects of colonialism as told through the story of a slave girl: a singer and dancer, who wants to win a competition to free her family. Unsettled by JC Niala (Kenya) deals with gender violence, land issues and relations of both black and white Kenyans living in, and returning to, the country. Silent Voices by Adong Judith (Uganda) is a one-act play based on interviews with people involved in the LRA and the effects of the civil war in Uganda. It critiques this, and by implication, other truth commissions. I Want To Fly by Thembelihle Moyo (Zimbabwe) tells the story of an African girl who wants to be a pilot. It looks at how patriarchal society shapes the thinking of men regarding lobola (bride price), how women endure abusive men and the role society at large plays in these issues. Mbuzeni by Koleka Putuma (South Africa) is a story of four female orphans, aged eight to twelve, their sisterhood and their fixation with death and burials. It explores the unseen force that governs and dictates the laws that the villagers live Price: AU $160.00 NZ $176.00 by. ISBN: 9781350034525 Not That Woman byTosin Jobi-Tume (Nigeria) addresses issues of violence against women in Nigeria and its attendant Format: Hard Cover conspiracy of silence. The play advocates zero-tolerance for violence against women and urges women to bury shame Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 352 pages and speak out rather than suffer in silence. Bic1: Bic2: Each play also includes a biography of the playwright, the writer's own artistic statement, a production history of the play Illustrations: and a critical contextualisation of the theatrical landscape from which each woman is writing. Previous Titles: Author now living: About the Author Yvette Hutchison is a Reader in the Department of Theatre Performance Studies at the University of Warwick. Amy Jephta is a bilingual Cape Town-based playwright and director. Methuen Drama JANUARY 2019 Brecht and the Writer's Workshop Bertolt Brecht, Edited by Tom Kuhn

A collection of previously unpublished texts from major unfinished dramatic projects dating from all periods of Brecht's creative life.

Sales points • The volume contains important Brecht texts which have never before been available in English. Some of this material, particularly the Fatzer fragment, is considered by a number of experts to be among Brecht's most important and challenging work • The contents offer a fascinating insight into this important writer's working methods and practices • Now available in English for the first time, making this material accessible to a wider theatre practitioner audience • Brecht is widely studied at school and university level • The publication of this volume marks 120 years since Bertolt Brecht's birth • This material will be attractive to theatre groups, as well as to academics and students, as it offers up newly available material to perform from one of the most important theatre-makers of the twentieth century • Fatzer is the big draw, but the others are either the better-known ones - for example, Jae Fleischhacker, The Breadshop - or fascinating in their own right including Geherda, Bosching

Description Brecht was never inclined to see any of his plays as completely finished, and this volume collects some of the most important theatrical projects and fragments that were always to remain works in progress'. Offering an invaluable insight into the writer's working methods and practices, the collection features the famous Fatzer as well as The Bread Store and Judith of Shimoda, along with other texts that have never before been available in English. Alongside the familiar, completed' plays, Brecht worked on many ideas and plans which he never managed to work up even once for print or stage. In pieces like Fleischhacker, Bosching and Jacob Trotalong we see how such projects were abandoned or interrupted or became proving grounds for ideas and techniques. The works collated here span over thirty years and allow the reader to follow Brecht's creative process as he constantly revised his work to engage with new contexts. This treasure-trove of new discoveries is also annotated with dramaturgical notes to present readable and Price: AU $160.00 NZ $176.00 useable texts for the theatre. ISBN: 9781474273329 The volume is edited by Tom Kuhn and Charlotte Ryland, with the translation and dramaturgical edition of each play Format: Hard Cover provided by a team of experienced writers, scholars and translators. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: About the Author Bic2: Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble Illustrations: and critical writings have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera, Previous Titles: Author now living: Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.Tom Kuhn is a Fellow of St Hugh 's College, University of Oxford.

Methuen Drama JANUARY 2019 The Selected Works of Yussef El Guindi Yussef El Guindi, edited by Michael Malek Najjar

The first collected works anthology of the plays of the prolific contemporary Arab American playwright, Yussef El Guindi.

Sales points • Brings together for the first time five of Yussef El Guindi's major plays including Back of the Throat, which premiered in 2005 • Includes details of the performances and the dramatic contribution of the works in the context of the wider American theatre • Features El Guindi's essay, 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Meet Abdallah and Ahmed: Musings about Arabs and Muslims in American Theatre', and a timeline of his work • Highlights El Guindi's work as an Arab American, Muslim American, political playwright and immigrant whose voice consistently speaks for Arabs and Muslims in the US

Description Contemporary Arab American playwright Yussef El Guindi's works focus on the Arab/Muslim experience in the United States. In particular, his plays deal with the complex issues of Arabophobia, Islamophobia, media orientalism and bi- cultural issues faced by both immigrants and second-generation Arab Americans.The plays featured in this collection are: Back of the Throat; Our Enemies: Lively Scenes of Love and Combat; Language Rooms; Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World; ThreesomeThe anthology also includes a range of supplementary material, designed to contextualise the work of El Guindi and support its use by students:- a foreword by Silk Road Rising Artistic Director Jamil Khoury and Torange Yeghiazarian, Artistic Director, Golden Thread Productions- an introduction by Professor Michael Malek Najjar- production stills of productions of El Guindi's plays- a bonus essay by El Guindi titled 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Meet Abdallah and Ahmed: Musings about Arabs and Muslims in American Theatre'- an annotated timeline of the work of Yussef El Guindi.

About the Author Price: AU $170.00 NZ $187.00 Michael Malek Najjar is an associate professor of Theatre Arts at the University of Oregon, USA.Yussef El Guindi is a ISBN: 9781350093782 prolific Arab-American playwright of Egyptian descent whose works have been produced across the USA. He writes full- Format: Hard Cover length, one-act, and adapted plays that focus on the Arab/Muslim experience in the United States. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Methuen Drama JANUARY 2019 Shakespeare in Action Jaq Bessell

A unique book about how theatre practice impacts and informs productions of Shakespeare which will give students a critical toolkit with which to study the plays as performance.

Sales points • A unique study of theatre practice and its impact on how Shakespeare is performed • Gives students a critical toolkit for understanding and assessing Shakespeare in performance

Description - How do actors prepare a script of a Shakespeare play for performance' - Where do directors begin' - What do Shakespeare's plays offer a designer or choreographer' - How do the cast and creative team work together in rehearsals' With Shakespeare in Action, Jaq Bessell presents thirty interviews with theatre practitioners from some of the larger producing theatres in the UK and the US, exploring the various processes which bring Shakespeare's plays to the stage. Actors, designers, directors and choreographers, including Eve Best, Bunny Christie, Gregory Doran and Lindsay Kemp, share their collective wisdom and experience, and reveal how training and practice informs productions of Shakespeare plays. These first-hand accounts provide students of Shakespeare in performance and practitioners with a critical toolkit with which to study the plays in performance.

About the Author Jaq Bessell is the Director of Postgraduate Studies and Programme Leader for MA/MFA Acting at the Guildford School of Acting, University of Surrey, UK. After gaining her PhD, she spent the six years working in the professional theatre, first at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and later as Head of Research at Shakespeare's Globe in London. Later, she taught acting at the Actor Training Program at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City before joining the faculty in the M.Litt/M.F. A. programme in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in Performance at Mary Baldwin College in partnership with the American Shakespeare Center. She then became a lecturer and fellow at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon- Price: AU $130.00 NZ $143.00 Avon. Her work with actors is the source, form, and outlet for her ongoing research in Early Modern drama, particularly ISBN: 9781350033504 the plays of Shakespeare. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Literature: history & criticism Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Arden Shakespeare JANUARY 2019 Mid-Century Modern Interiors Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand

Examining the key interior designers of the American mid-Century.

Sales points • There is great interest (academic and non-academic) in American mid-century modern design its interiors, furniture, fabrics etc • This work is the first scholarly study to focus on the interior design of this seminal period • The focus on the designers' conceptual approach to the designs rather than on the descriptive appearance of their designs is a new approach for interior design history • The Council for Interior Design Accreditation which accredits interior design courses in the USA has, since 2014, included a stipulation that ID courses must include a historical component. We could reasonably expect to see this book on recommended reading lists for such courses

Description Mid-Century Modern Interiors explores the history of interior design during arguably its most iconic and influential period. The 1930s to the 1960s in the United States was a key moment for interior design. It not only saw the emergence of some of interior design's most globally-important designers, it also saw the field of interior design emerge at last as a profession in its own right. Through a series of detailed case studies this book introduces the key practitioners of the period world- renowned designers including Ray and Charles Eames, Richard Neutra, and George Nelson and examines how they developed new approaches by applying systematic and rational principles to the creation of interior spaces. It takes us into the mind of the designer to show how they each used interior design to express their varied theoretical interests, and reveals how the principles they developed have become embodied in the way interior design is practiced today. This focus on unearthing the underlying ideas and concepts behind their designs rather than on the finished results creates a richer, more conceptual understanding of this pivotal period in modernist design history. With an extended introduction setting the case studies within the broader context of twentieth-century design and architectural history, this book provides both an introduction and an in-depth analysis for students and scholars of interior design, architecture and design history.

Price: AU $140.00 NZ $154.00 ISBN: 9781350045705 About the Author Format: Hard Cover Dr. Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand teaches design history, theory and studio at Syracuse University where she is a Dimensions: 0x0mm Professor in the School of Design. Extent: 208 pages Bic1: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 - Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Visual Arts JANUARY 2019 Fashion Film Nick Rees-Roberts

Through global case studies this book explores the emergence of the moving image as a core marketing tool for luxury fashion brands.

Sales points • Interdisciplinary in approach, spanning advertising, design, moving-image, lens-based art, music video, documentary film and narrative cinema • Includes a wide range of global case studies • A comprehensive, wide-ranging and up-to-date analysis of fashion film and digital advertising

Description The moving image has become a key marketing tool for luxury fashion, central in enabling brands to shape their visual codes and extend their brand awareness. Fashion Film is the first detailed study of the shifting shape of fashion imagery in the digital age, investigating the role of the moving image in the promotion, communication and spectacle of contemporary fashion. Combining interdisciplinary analysis of cinema and digital culture, this ground-breaking book traces the emergence of fashion film in the 21st century through its historical roots in pre-digital forms of photography, experimental cinema, mass-media advertising and documentary film-making, right up to today's visual spread of contemporary fashion on video blogs, online magazines and live-streamed catwalk shows. Examining collaborations between fashion designers and pioneering image-makers such as Guy Bourdin, Jean-Paul Goode, William Klein and Nick Knight, the book highlights the critical tension between the fashion film conceived as a creative endeavour and as commercial enterprise. Fashion Film also includes a parallel focus on factual representations of fashion through the recent rise of documentary fashion film that goes behind the scenes to follow the processes and personalities involved in making fashion. Accessible and well-illustrated, Fashion Film will appeal to students and scholars of fashion, film, media, photography, celebrity, sociology and cultural studies.

About the Author Price: AU $150.00 NZ $165.00 Nick Rees-Roberts is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris, France. ISBN: 9780857856661 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Visual Arts JANUARY 2019 Directing Screen Performances Robert Klenner

Featuring practical exercises and insightful interviews with successful actors and directors, this is a must-have guide to getting a memorable performance on screen.

Sales points • Examines all the steps the director undertakes in pre-production, production and post-production, from script analysis, pre-visualization, casting and rehearsals, to shooting and editing • Features insightful interviews with successful filmmakers and includes practical exercises which cover topics such as analyzing a script, preparing a brief for the casting director and developing a rehearsal strategy • Features full-color images, step-by-step diagrams and development material, such as storyboards and script extracts, from international filmmakers

Description The core goal of Directing Screen Performances is to teach aspiring directors how to prepare and work with actors. Through a practical exploration of the major approaches to contemporary screen acting, you will learn how to formulate your own effective modes of communication to craft compelling performances. Directing performances for the screen starts well before the actor is cast and finishes well after the last slate is shot. In this book you will learn how to analyze a script, brief the casting director, rehearse the actors, decide on the visual treatment that enriches their performances, direct effectively on set and finesse the character in the edit. The director's process is clearly defined and augmented with illustrations, photographs and graphics, and each chapter concludes with practical exercises to consolidate the new knowledge.

About the Author Robert Klenner is the Acting Head of Directing at The Australian Film, Television and Radio School.

Price: AU $160.00 NZ $176.00 ISBN: 9781350096363 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Acting techniques Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Acad US JANUARY 2019 Sounds, Screens, Speakers Charles Fairchild

An introduction to popular music through the lens of media technology and the social changes brought about by these tools.

Sales points • Historical/chronological approach helps maintain the relevance of the technology discussed, and sets it up to be more easily updated in future editions • The only popular music textbook available that speaks directly to the intersection of popular music and media • Ties popular music and its associated forms of media directly to the ways in which they have affected society and instigated social change • Includes key readings, as well as suggested readings on relevant websites and in newspapers and magazines to supplement and enhance understanding of the main ideas in each chapter • Each chapter includes 'Focus' sections that require students go through the learning process from start to finish, including 1) undertaking original research (discovery), 2) linking this research to other disciplines and methods (integration), 3) enacting the dynamic relationship between theory and practice (application), and 4) making the results of scholarship understood to others (teaching and learning)

Description Sounds, Screens, and Speakers provides a broadly comprehensive survey of the emerging field of music and media. Music has been present at the advent of nearly every new media form since the turn of the 20th century. Whether we look at the start of sound recording, film, television or the Internet, music has been a crucial participant in the social changes brought about by these new tools for making and listening to music. This book examines such changes starting in the late 19th century to the present. From the introduction of the microphone all the way through to music in reality television, the purpose of each section is not simply to move chronologically towards the present, but to focus especially on the tangible social relationships created through specific forms of mediation. With readings at the end of most chapters, key questions to facilitate additional discovery and research, and direction to additional readings and resources on popular websites and news sources, this text serves as the ideal introduction to popular music and media. Price: AU $180.00 NZ $198.00 ISBN: 9781501336249 About the Author Format: Hard Cover Charles Fairchild is Associate Professor of Popular Music at the University of Sydney, Australia, and the author of Danger Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages Mouse's The Grey Album (Bloomsbury, 2014), Music, Radio and the Public Sphere (2012) and Pop Idols and Pirates Bic1: Music (2008). Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Acad US JANUARY 2019 Explaining Evil Edited by W. Paul Franks

Four leading philosophers present, and defend, their explanations as to why there is evil and how their worldview best accounts for the amount and types of evil that is found in this world.

Sales points • The problem of evil is a core topic in philosophy of religion, taught, researched, and debated at all levels • The dialogue format each philosopher explains why his view of evil is soundest before engaging in a dialogue with the other three (disagreeing) philosophers allows readers to quickly and easily determine the strengths and weaknesses of each account of evil's existence • The four authors (two theists and two non-theists) represent nearly as broad of a range of views as is possible in a book of this format, so that readers can go to a single book and find all the major starting points (e.g., theism, non- theism, realism, non-realism, compatibilism, libertarianism) for explaining evil presented by highly regarded philosophers

Description In Explaining Evil four prominent philosophers, two theists and two non-theists, present their arguments for why evil exists. Taking a 'position and response' format, in which one philosopher offers an account of evil and three others respond, this book guides readers through the advantages and limitations of various philosophical positions on evil, making it ideal for classroom use as well as individual study. Divided into four chapters, Explaining Evil covers Theistic Libertarianism, Theistic Compatibilism, Atheistic Moral Realism and Atheistic Moral Non-realism. It features topics including free will, theism, atheism, goodness, Calvinism, evolutionary ethics, and pain, and demonstrates some of the dominant models of thinking within contemporary philosophy of religion and ethics. Written in accessible prose and with an approachable structure, this book provides a clear and useful overview of the central issues of the philosophy of evil.

About the Author Price: AU $145.00 NZ $160.00 W. Paul Franks is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Tyndale University College, Canada. He has published in the ISBN: 9781501331145 Heythrop Journal, Philosophia Christi, Religious Studies and Sophia. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Ethics & moral philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK JANUARY 2019 Plural Maghreb Abdelkebir Khatibi, translated by P. Burcu Yalim

The first English translation of Abdelkebir Khatibi's major work.

Sales points • Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938-2009) is considered one of the most prominent writers of postcolonial Francophone literature from North Africa • Khatibi's work is undergoing a resurgence of interest with a book of poetry released in 2016 and a novel in 2017. There has been an accompanying interest in his non-fiction output • Maghreb Plural is widely considered to be Khatibi's nonfiction masterpiece. Knowledge of this text will be crucial to students and researchers studying his oeuvre • The first ever English translation of classic post-colonial text Maghreb Plural

Description Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938-2009) was among the most renowned North African literary critics and authors of the past century whose unique treatments of subjects as vast as orientalism, otherness, coloniality, aesthetics, linguistics, sexuality, and the nature of contemporary critique have inspired major figures in postcolonial theory, deconstruction, and beyond. At once a philosophical visionary and provocative writer, Khatibi's impressive contributions have been well- established throughout French and continental literary circles for several decades. As such, this English translation of one of his masterworks, Maghreb Pluriel (1983), marks a pivotal turn in the opportunity to wrest some of Khatibi's most profound meditations to the forefront of a more global audience. Including such highly significant pieces as 'Other-Thought,' 'Double Critique,' 'Bilingualism and Literature,' and 'Disoriented Orientalism,' the ambition behind this volume is to showcase the true experimental complexity and conceptual depth of Khatibi's thinking. Engaging the cultural-intellectual urgencies of a colonial frontier (in this case, the so-called Middle East/North Africa) this book expands our contemplative boundaries to render a globally-dynamic commentary that traverses the East-West divide.

About the Author

Price: AU $160.00 NZ $176.00 Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938-2009) is considered one of the most prominent writers of postcolonial Francophone literature ISBN: 9781350053946 from North Africa. During his lifetime he won literary and intellectual prizes in Morocco and France. After earning his PhD Format: Hard Cover in sociology at the Sorbonne, he returned to live and work in Morocco. He is the author of Class Warrior (2017), Tatooed Dimensions: 0x0mm Memory (2016), Love in Two Languages (1990) and The Splendour of Islamic Calligraphy (2008). His writings challenge Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Islamic & Arabic philosophy the social and political norms upon which the countries of the Maghreb region were constructed. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK JANUARY 2019 Art as Human Practice Georg W. Bertram, translated by Nathan Ross

The first English translation of a new aesthetic theory and introduction to contemporary aesthetics by one of Germany's up and coming philosophers of art and human experience.

Sales points • Georg Bertram is one of Germany's up-and-coming philosophers who is building a real international presence that few other contemporary German philosophers attain • Aesthetics and art theory are thriving areas within contemporary philosophy, and Georg Bertram is at the forefront of this field • This book has an incredibly wide scope including history of art theory, contemporary practices and spanning both the analytic and continental traditions within philosophy. If could be used as an introduction to contemporary aesthetics

Description How is art both distinct and different from the rest of human life, while also mattering in and for it' This central yet overlooked question in contemporary philosophy of art is at the heart of Georg Bertram's new aesthetic. Drawing on the resources of diverse philosophical traditions analytic philosophy, French philosophy, and German post-Kantian philosophy his book offers a systematic account of art as a human practice. One that remains connected to the whole of life.

About the Author Georg W. Bertram is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany. Nathan Ross is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma State University, USA.

Price: AU $140.00 NZ $154.00 ISBN: 9781350063143 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Theory of art Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK JANUARY 2019 Reflective Teaching in Schools, 5th Edition Andrew Pollard et al.

Excellent support for trainee and practising teachers, combining evidence-based principles with practical advice and examples to help you get to grips with the realities of the classroom

Sales points • Designed to support initial teacher training, whether in universities or schools as well as professional development throughout the teacher's career • Has the unified voice of an experienced author team • Plenty of examples of real practice such as the new Lesson Study Cases and Toolkit Evidence Summaries, as well as a rich supporting website

Description The book you can trust to guide you through your teaching career, as the expert authors share tried and tested techniques in both primary and secondary settings. For this new edition Andrew Pollard has worked with the same core author team to bring you expert guidance from top practitioners, in the form of a text that is both cohesive and that continues to evolve to meet the needs of today's teachers. It is designed for trainees whether in universities or schools (such as School Direct, SCITT). Reflective Teaching in Schools uniquely provides two levels of support: - practical, evidence-based guidance on key classroom issues including relationships, behaviour, curriculum planning, teaching strategies and assessment - evidence-informed principles' and 'concepts' to help you continue developing your skills. New to this edition: - 10 Lesson Study Cases illustrate the impact this approach can have on classroom teaching, whether in a city Primary School or rural Secondary Academy - 10 Toolkit Evidence Summaries based on the Sutton Trust-EEF Teaching and Learning Toolkit cover topics like collaborative learning - New Reflective Activities and guidance on Key Readings at the end of each chapter Price: AU $180.00 NZ $198.00 - Updates to reflect recent changes in curriculum and assessment across the UK ISBN: 9781350032927 Format: Hard Cover reflectiveteaching.co.uk provides a treasure trove of additional support. It now includes talking heads' videos on What Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 592 pages is reflective teaching', a new chapter on mentoring, a glossary to help decipher the difference between IEP and LAP, and Bic1: Primary & middle schools much more. Bic2: Illustrations: About the Author Previous Titles: Author now living: Andrew Pollard is Professor of Education and supports educational research at the UCL Institute of Education, UK, and the University of Bristol, UK. He was Director of the UK-wide Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) and advised the government on the National Curriculum Review.

BLM Academic UK JANUARY 2019 Food Studies Willa Zhen

The first book to provide a practical introduction to food studies, using hands-on activities to help students to engage with the multidimensional nature of food without the need for a student kitchen.

Sales points • The first book to provide a hands-on introduction to food studies, combining practical activities with key theories and concepts • Contains pedagogical features such as learning objectives, discussion questions, suggested readings, a glossary, and a companion website • Suitable for traditional classrooms, without the need for a student kitchen

Description Traditional food studies textbooks tend to emphasize theoretical concepts and text-based approaches. Yet food is sensory, tactile, and experiential: reading about food is not enough to gain a full understanding of its many dimensions.

Food Studies: A Hands-on Guide is the first book to provide a practical introduction to food studies. Offering a unique, innovative approach to learning and teaching, Willa Zhen presents creative hands-on activities which can easily be done in a traditional classroom without the need for a student kitchen. Major theories and key concepts in food studies are covered in an engaging, tangible way, alongside topics such as food production, consumption, technology, identity and culture, and globalization.

A fantastic resource for supporting student engagement and learning, the book features: - Numerous practical activities, such as grinding grains to learn about the importance of food technology; working with restaurant menus to understand changes in food trends, tastes, and ingredients; writing food poetry; and many more. - Pedagogical features such as learning objectives, discussion questions, suggested readings, and a glossary. - A companion website offering lesson plans, worksheets, and links to additional resources.

Price: AU $130.00 NZ $143.00 The perfect introduction for students in food studies, anthropology of food, sociology of food, gastronomy, and related ISBN: 9781474298674 courses. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 208 pages About the Author Bic1: Food & society Willa Zhen is Associate Professor at the Culinary Institute of America, USA. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK JANUARY 2019 What Is Public History Globally? Edited by Paul Ashton and Alex Trapeznik

An examination of the theory and practice of public history, as well as its evolution, in a global context.

Sales points • It provides concise and accessible overviews of the rise and current state of public history globally • It shows how citizens are active participants in the creation of public history • It challenges traditional notions of what history is by charting the democratisation of historical practices

Description Across the globe, history has gone public. With the rise of the internet, family historians are now delving into archives continents apart. Activists look into and recreate the past to promote social justice or environmental causes. Dark and difficult pasts are confronted at sites of commemoration. Artists draw on memory and the past to study the human condition and make meaning in the present. As a result of this democratisation of history, public history movements have now risen to prominence. This groundbreaking edited collection takes a comprehensive look at public history throughout the world. Divided into three sections - Background, Definitions and Issues; Approaches and Methods; and Sites of Public History - it contextualises public history in eleven different countries, explores the main research skills and methods of the discipline and illustrates public history research with a variety of global case studies.

What is Public History Globally' provides an in-depth examination of the ways in which ordinary people become active participants in historical processes and it will be an invaluable resource for advance undergraduates and postgraduates studying public history, museology and heritage studies.

About the Author Paul Ashton is an Adjunct at the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, which he co-founded, the Centre for Applied History at Macquarie University and the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra. His publications include Once Upon a Time: Australian Writers on Using the Past

Price: AU $140.00 NZ $154.00 (2016) and Australian History Now (2013). He is also founding co-editor of the journal Public History Review. ISBN: 9781350033283 Alex Trapeznik is Associate Professor of History at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research focuses on Format: Hard Cover historical and cultural heritage management issues in New Zealand and globally. He is the author of Common Ground' Dimensions: 0x0mm Heritage and Public Places in New Zealand (2000), a key text that helped establish public history as a discipline in New Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Museology & heritage studies Zealand. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK JANUARY 2019 Podcasting Martin Spinelli and Lance Dann

This volume offers the first comprehensive framework for understanding the new modes of digital listening, constructions of fandom and community, cultures of storytelling, and intimacy of this dynamic audio form.

Sales points • Includes an audio podcast series, featuring conversations with leading producers about their work and larger issues in podcasting, social media, drama, narrative and journalism • Studies the current transition in the production, distribution and consumption of audio that is both a valuable historical document and a model for understanding similar transitions in other emergent media • Authors are noted experts and well-connected in the field

Description Grounded in interviews with the producers of some of the most popular and culturally significant podcasts to date (Welcome to Night Vale, Radiolab, Serial, The Black Tapes, We're Alive, The Heart, The Truth, Lore, Love + Radio, My Dad Wrote a Porno, and others) as well as interviews with executives at some of the most important podcasting institutions and entities (the BBC, Radiotopia, Gimlet Media, Audible.com, Edison Research, Libsyn and others), Podcasting documents a moment of revolutionary change in audio media. The fall of 2014 saw a new iOS from Apple with the first built-in Podcasts app, the runaway success of Serial, and podcasting moving out of its geeky ghetto into the cultural mainstream. The creative and cultural dynamism of this moment, which reverberates to this day, is the focus of Podcasting. Using case studies, close analytical listening, quantitative and qualitative analysis, production analysis, as well as audience research, it suggests what podcasting has to contribute to a host of larger media-and-society debates in such fields as: fandom, social media and audience construction; new media and journalistic ethics; intimacy, empathy and media relationships; cultural commitments to narrative and storytelling; the future of new media drama; youth media and the charge of narcissism; and more. Beyond describing what is unique about podcasting among other audio media, this book offers an entry into the new and evolving field of podcasting studies.

Price: AU $150.00 NZ $165.00 About the Author ISBN: 9781501328695 Martin Spinelli is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Media, Film and Music at the University of Sussex, UK. His articles on Format: Hard Cover media editing, history, aesthetics, law and culture have been widely published and his radio work has been heard on the Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages BBC, NPR and the ABC. He was also the founder of the academic radio program at CUNY, Brooklyn College, USA, Bic1: Radio where he produced an AIDS-educational soap opera with his students broadcast on Radio Africa International. Bic2: Illustrations: Lance Dann is a Senior Lecturer in Audio and Digital Media at the University of Brighton, UK. He has worked as a Previous Titles: Author now living: producer, presenter and writer in radio, podcasting, theatre and digital media. He has written and produced audio dramas for the BBC, produced documentary and podcast series, and worked for several years at the acclaimed theatre company The Wooster Group. In 2017 he created the multi-award winning podcast drama Blood Culture.

BLM Acad US JANUARY 2019 Adaptations in the Franchise Era Kyle Meikle

Adaptation and Convergence Culture situates adaptations within the wider contexts of popular culture in the first decade of the 21st century, including film and television franchises, fan fiction and remixes, board and video games, and theaters and theme parks.

Sales points • Provides the first comprehensive account of adaptation in relation to other 21st century media practices (franchising, transmedia storytelling, world-building), inviting greater dialogue between adaptation scholars and media scholars • Synthesizes different strands of adaptation studies (fan studies, game studies, new media studies) that often remain distinct from one another • Offers readers a better perspective of adaptation as both a product (comic books, films, video games) and a process (fan fiction, modding, remixing) in convergence culture

Description Adaptations in the Franchise Era re-evaluates adaptation's place in a popular culture marked by the movement of content and audiences across more media borders than ever before. While adaptation has historically been understood as the transfer of stories from one medium to another more often than not, from novel to film the growing interconnectedness of media and media industries in the early twenty-first century raises new questions about the form and function of adaptation as both a product and a process. Where does adaptation fit within massive franchises that span pages, stages, screens, and theme parks' Rising scholar Kyle Meikle illuminates adaptation's enduring and essential role in the rise of franchises in the 2000s and 2010s. During that decade-and-a-half, adaptations set the foundation for multiplexed, multiplied film series, piloted streaming television's forays into original programming, found their way into audiences' hands in apps and video games, and went live in theatrical experiences on Broadway and beyond. The proliferation of adaptations was matched only by a proliferation of adaptation, as fans remixed and remade their favourite franchises online and off-. This volume considers how producers and consumers defined adaptations and how adaptations defined themselves through the endless intertextual play of the franchise era. Price: AU $125.00 NZ $138.00 ISBN: 9781501318719 About the Author Format: Hard Cover Kyle Meikle is Assistant Professor of Communication and English at the University of Baltimore, USA, and Film Reviews Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Editor for Adaptation. Bic1: Film theory & criticism Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Acad US JANUARY 2019 The Wallace Effect Marshall Boswell

The Wallace Effect traces the presence of David Foster Wallace and his fiction in the contemporary literary imagination.

Sales points • Pioneering Wallace scholar provides new insight into how Wallace's work and his persona have infiltrated contemporary American fiction and sparked new questions about literary influence, literary envy, and the utility of genius • Covers Wallace's entire writing career and also traces his reception, legacy, and continuing influence for contemporary writers • Writers and novels discussed include John Barth's The Tidewater Tales, Richard Powers' Prisoner's Dilemma, Jeffrey Eugenides' The Marriage Plot, Jonathan Franzen's Freedom, as well as writers such as Amy Hungerford and Lauren Groff who have written against Wallace and his influence • Bloomsbury is the leading publisher in Wallace studies, and although we have worked with Marshall Boswell before (as a volume editor), this is his first single-authored book with us

Description The Wallace Effect explores David Foster Wallace's contested space at the forefront of 21st-century American fiction. Pioneering Wallace scholar Marshall Boswell does this by illuminating The Wallace Effect the aura of literary competition that Wallace routinely summoned in his fiction and non-fiction and that continues to inform the reception of his work by his contemporaries. A frankly combative writer, Wallace openly challenged his artistic predecessors as he sought to establish himself as the leading literary figure of the post-postmodern turn. Boswell challenges this portrait in two ways. First, he examines novels by Wallace's literary patriarchs and contemporaries that introduce innovations on traditional metafiction that Wallace would later claim as his own. Second, he explores four novels published after Wallace's ascendency that attempt to demythologize Wallace's persona and his literary preeminence. By re-situating Wallace's work in a broader and more contentious literary arena, The Wallace Effect traces both the reach Price: AU $130.00 NZ $143.00 and the limits of Wallace's legacy. ISBN: 9781501344947 Format: Hard Cover About the Author Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages Marshall Boswell is Professor and Chair of English at Rhodes College, USA. He is the author of four books, including Bic1: Literary studies: from c 1900 - Understanding David Foster Wallace (2004) and John Updike's Rabbit Tetralogy: Mastered Irony in Motion (2001), and Bic2: the editor of three books, including David Foster Wallace and 'The Long Thing' (Bloomsbury, 2014) and A Companion to Illustrations: David Foster Wallace Studies (co-editor, 2013). He served as Guest Editor for a two-part special issue of Studies in the Previous Titles: Author now living: Novel devoted to David Foster Wallace's novels.

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