AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Mothers Genevieve Gannon
What if you gave birth to someone else's child? A gripping family drama inspired by a real-life case of an IVF laboratory mix-up.
Description 'Engagingly and unflinchingly told, Gannon's new novel, The Mothers, is the story of every parent's worst nightmare. It is that novel that makes you muse on the most difficult of questions ... What makes a mother? And can you ever un-become one? Like all my favourite books, The Mothers is both heartbreaking and heartwarming, and it leaves you with a lot to think about after you turn the final page. I sobbed my way through this wonderful book.' - Sally Hepworth, bestselling author of The Mother-in-Law
Two couples. One baby. An unimaginable choice.
Grace and Dan Arden are in their forties and have been on the IVF treadmill since the day they got married. Six attempts have yielded no results and with each failure a little piece of their hope dies.
Indian-Australian Priya Laghari and her husband Nick Archer are being treated at the same fertility clinic and while the younger couple doesn't face the same time pressure as the Ardens, the Archers have their own problems. Priya suspects Nick is cheating and when she discovers a dating app on his phone her worst fears are confirmed.?
Priya leaves Nick and goes through an IVF cycle with donor sperm. On the day of her appointment, Grace and Dan also go in for their final, last-chance embryo transfer. Two weeks later the women both get their results: Grace is pregnant. Priya is not.?
A year later, angry and heart-broken, Priya learns her embryo was implanted in another woman's uterus and must make a choice: live a childless life knowing her son is being raised by strangers or seek custody of a baby that has been nurtured and loved by another couple.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781760875329 About the Author Format: Paperback - C format Genevieve Gannon is a Sydney-based journalist and author of four novels. She is presently the staff writer for nation's Dimensions: 234x153mm biggest women's magazine, The Australian Women's Weekly, where she covers everything from cold-case murders and Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) cults to celebrities and sports stars. Bic2: Illustrations: She has written in-depth political profiles, comedic personal essays and true crime pieces. Her first foray into professional Previous Titles: Author now living: Redfern, NSW writing included dating and relationship columns which she published while writing her Masters' thesis on global terrorism and the media. She then moved to Canberra to start her news career covering local issues and politics.
Before she joined The Weekly, Genevieve was the chief court reporter for Australian Associated Press in Melbourne, covering some of the most notorious crimes of recent years. Her journalism has appeared in most of Australia'sAllen & major Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Mothers 10 copy pack Point of Sale
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Clergyman's Wife Molly Greeley
A moving story of unexpected love featuring Charlotte from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. 'Poignant, pensive and brilliant ...' Laurel Ann Nattress, editor of Jane Austen Made Me Do It.
Description In this Pride and Prejudice-inspired novel, not everyone has the luxury of waiting for love. Charlotte Collins knows this well . . .
Charlotte Collins, nee Lucas, is the respectable wife of Hunsford's vicar, and sees to her duties by rote: keeping house, caring for their adorable daughter, visiting parishioners and patiently tolerating the lectures of her awkward husband and his condescending patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh.
Intelligent, pragmatic and anxious to escape the shame of spinsterhood, Charlotte chose this life: an inevitable one so socially acceptable that its quietness threatens to overwhelm her. Then she makes the acquaintance of Mr Travis, a local farmer and tenant of Lady Catherine.
In Mr Travis' company, Charlotte feels appreciated, heard and seen. For the first time in her life Charlotte begins to understand emotional intimacy and its effect on the heart-and how breakable that heart can be. With her sensible nature confronted and her own future about to take a turn, Charlotte must now question the role of love and passion in a woman's life, and whether they truly matter for a clergyman's wife.
About the Author Molly Greeley earned her bachelor's degree in English, with a creative writing emphasis, from Michigan State University, where she was the recipient of the Louis B. Sudler Prize in the Arts for Creative Writing. Her short stories and essays have been published in Cicada, Carve, and Literary Mama. She works on social media for a local business, is married and the mother of three children but her Sunday afternoons are devoted to weaving stories into books. The Clergyman's Wife is her first novel.
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 A Murder at Malabar Hill Sujata Massey
A legally-minded sleuth takes to the streets of 1920s Bombay in a fascinating new mystery.
Description 2019 American Library Association Reading List for Mystery: Winner and Top Pick Winner of the 2019 Mary Higgins Clark Award Winner of the 2019 Lefty Award for Best Historical Novel Winner of the the 2018 Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel Finalist for the 2019 Shamus Award
'A Murder at Malabar Hill, with its deft prose and well-wrought characters, is a splendid first installment in what promises to be a memorable series.' The Wall Street Journal
'Marvelously plotted, richly detailed . . . This is a first-rate performance inaugurating a most promising series.' The Washington Post
'Perveen Mistry has all the pluck you want in a sleuthing lawyer, as well as a not-so-surprising - but decidedly welcome - proclivity for poking her nose into the business of others. The pages do indeed fly.' The Globe and Mail
Inspired in part by the woman who made history as India's first female attorney, A Murder at Malabar Hill is a richly wrought story of multicultural 1920s Bombay as well as the debut of a sharp and promising new sleuth.
1920s Bombay: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a legal education from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes women's legal rights especially important to her.
Mistry Law has been appointed to execute the will of Mr. Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left three widows behind. But as Perveen examines the paperwork, she notices something strange: all three of the wives have Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781760529406 signed over their full inheritance to a charity. What will they live on? Perveen is suspicious, especially since one of the Format: Paperback - C format widows has signed her form with an X - meaning she probably couldn't even read the document. The Farid widows live in Dimensions: 234x153mm full purdah - in strict seclusion, never leaving the women's quarters or speaking to any men. Are they being taken Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery advantage of by an unscrupulous guardian? Bic2: Historical fiction Illustrations: Perveen tries to investigate, and realizes her instincts were correct when tensions escalate to murder. Now it is her Previous Titles: responsibility to figure out what really happened on Malabar Hill, and to ensure that no innocent women or children are in Author now living: None further danger.
About the Author Sujata Massey was born in England to parents from India and Germany, was raised mostly in St. Paul,Allen Minnesota, & Unwin and AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Cedar Valley Holly Throsby
'This is a masterful novel...readers who loved Goodwood will find even more to love here.' Books + Publishing on Cedar Valley
Description 'This is a masterful novel...readers who loved Goodwood will find even more to love here.' Books + Publishing on Cedar Valley 'So much truth, so much aching and pain by humour. What a wonderful book. I can see the Australian novelist continuum from Patrick White and Thea Astley in her explicit representation of the character of Australians in regional towns. Others have compared Throsby with Tim Winton. I hope she is writing another book.' Lindy Morrison in LoudMouth on Goodwood
'Stunning...a distinctly Australian coming-of-age story...balancing carefully evoked dread with genuine warmth, it's an assured and singular debut.' The Big Issue on Goodwood 'He strolled down Valley Road, only briefly, past the hairdresser and a small cafe. A warm wind stirred, carrying with it the faint smell of pies and horses, and the man paused for just a moment before he sat down. Benny Miller would have driven right past him in her station wagon on that bright and brimming day.' On the first day of summer in 1993, two strangers arrive in the town of Cedar Valley.
One is a calm looking man in a brown suit. He makes his way down the main street and walks directly to Cedar Valley Curios my tip is that it will become a firm book club favourite. Five stars!' - Good Reading Magazine
About the Author Holly Throsby is a songwriter, musician and novelist from Sydney, Australia. She has released five solo albums, a Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781760876203 collection of original children's songs, an album as part of the band Seeker Lover Keeper, and has been nominated for Format: Paperback - B format four ARIAs. Holly's debut novel, Goodwood (2016), was a critically acclaimed bestseller shortlisted for the Indie and ABIA Dimensions: 198x128mm awards as well as the Davitt and Ned Kelly awards. Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Marrickville, NSW
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Goodwood Holly Throsby
A delightful novel of secrets and small town obsessions from Australian musician and songwriter, Holly Throsby.
Description It wasn't just one person who went missing, it was two people. Two very different people. They were there, and then they were gone, as if through a crack in the sky. After that, in a small town like Goodwood, where we had what Nan called 'a high density of acquaintanceship', everything stopped. Or at least it felt that way. The normal feeling of things stopped.
Goodwood is a small town where everyone knows everything about everyone. It's a place where it's impossible to keep a secret.
In 1992, when Jean Brown is seventeen, a terrible thing happens. Two terrible things. Rosie White, the coolest girl in town, vanishes overnight. One week later, Goodwood's most popular resident, Bart McDonald, sets off on a fishing trip and never comes home.
People die in Goodwood, of course, but never like this. They don't just disappear.
As the intensity of speculation about the fates of Rosie and Bart heightens, Jean, who is keeping secrets of her own, and the rest of Goodwood are left reeling.
Rich in character and complexity, its humour both droll and tender, Goodwood is a compelling ride into a small community, torn apart by dark rumours and mystery.
About the Author Holly Throsby is a songwriter, musician and novelist from Sydney, Australia. She has released five solo albums, a collection of original children's songs, an album as part of the band Seeker Lover Keeper, and has been nominated for four ARIAs. Holly's debut novel, Goodwood (2016), was a critically acclaimed bestseller, shortlisted for the Indie and ABIA Price: $14.99 $14.99 ISBN: 9781760633349 awards as well as the Davitt and Ned Kelly awards. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 392 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Marrickville, NSW
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Orchardist's Daughter Karen Viggers
A story of freedom, forgiveness and finding the strength to break free. International bestselling writer Karen Viggers returns to remote Tasmania, the setting of her most popular novel The Lightkeeper's Wife.
Description 'The stories of Miki, Leon and Max intertwine in this beautiful novel about friendship and resilience...Tension builds to a dramatic, satisfying conclusion.' - Good Reading magazine
'...refreshingly real...ultimately an empowering novel' - Style magazine
'A well-crafted novel that also shines a light on the everyday violence that thrives where eyes are averted and silence prevails.' - The Weekend Australian
'...an engaging read for lovers of contemporary Australian fiction.' - SMH, Spectrum
'The Orchardist's Daughter is a novel I would recommend without reservation, it is a remarkable yarn that left a strong mark on my heart.' - Mrs B's Book Reviews
Sixteen-year-old Mikaela has grown up isolated and homeschooled on an apple orchard in southeastern Tasmania, until an unexpected event shatters her family. Eighteen months later, she and her older brother Kurt are running a small business in a timber town. Miki longs to make connections and spend more time in her beloved forest, but she is kept a virtual prisoner by Kurt, who leads a secret life of his own.
When Miki meets Leon, another outsider, things slowly begin to change. But the power to stand up for yourself must come from within. And Miki has to fight to uncover the truth of her past and discover her strength and spirit.
Set in the old-growth eucalypt forests and vast rugged mountains of southern Tasmania, The Orchardist's Daughter is an Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781760877583 uplifting story about friendship, resilience and finding the courage to break free. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm About the Author Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Born in Melbourne and raised in the Dandenong Ranges riding horses and writing stories, Karen went on to study Bic2: veterinary science at Melbourne University before working in practice for several years. She completed a PhD in wildlife Illustrations: health, and since then she has worked on a wide range of Australian native animals, including kangaroos. Karen loves Previous Titles: Author now living: Aranda, ACT landscapes, wild places, people and animals. She is the author of three novels: The Stranding (2008) and the bestselling, The Lightkeeper's Wife (2011) and The Grass Castle. She lives in Canberra with her husband and two children.
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Your House Will Pay Steph Cha
In her blistering and beautifully written UK debut, Steph Cha has crafted an urgent, timely and unforgettable novel about the intertwined fates of two families.
Description ONE CITY. TWO FAMILIES. MANY SECRETS.
In 1991 Shawn, a young African-American teen, his sister Ava, and cousin Ray, set out across LA to a screening of New Jack City. But in the volatile atmosphere of that time, they never make it inside the cinema.
Nearly three decades later, police brutality still afflicts the city, but Grace, a Korean-American twenty-something pharmacist living and working with her parents, has her own problems, as she tries to figure out why her older sister, Miriam, still refuses to speak with their mother.
Across the county, Shawn is trying to ease Ray, fresh out of prison, back into everyday life, but both men are struggling, still haunted by the events of 1991 and their shared loss. When a shocking new crime strikes the city, the lives of Grace and Shawn - two people from different cultures and generations - collide in a way which could change them forever.
About the Author Steph Cha is the author of the Juniper Song crime trilogy, Noir Editor at The Los Angeles Review of Books, a contributing book reviewer for The Los Angeles Times and a regular panelist at crime and literary festivals. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two basset hounds.
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Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Sorry for the Dead Nicola Upson
A compelling murder mystery in which events shift between a world on the brink of a devastating world war and the deadly aftermath of that war.
Description In the summer of 1915, the violent death of a young girl brings grief and notoriety to Charleston Farmhouse on the Sussex Downs.
Years later, Josephine Tey returns to the same house - now much changed - and remembers the two women with whom she once lodged as a young teacher during the Great War. As past and present collide, with murders decades apart, Josephine is forced to face the possibility that the scandal which threatened to destroy those women's lives hid a much darker secret.
Sorry for the Dead is the eighth book in the 'Josephine Tey' series, at once a compelling murder mystery and a moving exploration of love and grief.
About the Author Nicola Upson's debut novel, An Expert in Murder, was the first in a series of crime novels whose main character is Josephine Tey, who - along with Agatha Christie - was one of the masters of Britain's Golden Age of crime writing. The most recent book in the series, Nine Lessons, was shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger in 2018.
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Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Nine Lessons Nicola Upson
In the years before the Great War, M.R. James told ghost stories by candlelight to a handful of friends and scholars. Now, twenty-five years later, those men are dying, killed off one by one...
Description Chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the Best Books of 2017
Josephine Tey is in Cambridge, a town gripped by fear and suspicion as a serial rapist stalks the streets, and in the shadow of King's College Chapel, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose faces some of the most horrific and audacious murders of his career.
The seventh novel in Nicola Upson's highly praised series featuring Josephine Tey takes the reader on a journey from 1930s Cambridge to the bleak and desolate Suffolk coast - a journey which will ultimately leave Archie's and Josephine's lives changed forever.
About the Author Nicola Upson was born in Suffolk and read English at Downing College, Cambridge. She has worked in theatre and as a freelance journalist, and is the author of two non-fiction works and the recipient of an Escalator Award from the Arts Council England.
Her debut novel, An Expert in Murder, was the first in a series of crime novels whose main character is Josephine Tey - one of the leading authors of Britain's Golden Age of crime writing.
She lives with her partner in Cambridge and spends much of her time in Cornwall, which was the setting for her second novel, Angel with Two Faces. Two for Sorrow is the third book in the Josephine Tey series, followed by Fear in the Sunlight.
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Faber Paperback AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Wall: LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 John Lanchester
John Lanchester's Booker-longlisted new novel - a work of fiction that establishes itself as an instant modern classic.
Description 'Masterly...A signal achievement . . . Remarkable.' - Guardian
'A 1984 for our times.' - Daily Express
Kavanagh begins his time patrolling the Wall.
If he's lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has to do two years of this. 729 more nights.
The best thing that can happen is that he survives and gets off the Wall and will never have to spend another day of his life anywhere near it.
But what if something did happen - if the Others came, if he had to fight for his life?
Thrilling and heartbreaking, The Wall is about a troubled world you will recognise as your own - and about what might be found when all is lost.
About the Author John Lanchester has written four novels, The Debt to Pleasure, Mr Phillips, Fragrant Harbour and Capital, and three works of non-fiction: Family Romance, a memoir; Whoops!: Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay, about the global financial crisis; and How to Speak Money, a primer in popular economics. His books have won the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, and the Premi Llibreter, been longlisted for the Booker Prize, and been translated into twenty-five languages. He is a contributing editor to the London Review of Books and a regular contributor to the New Yorker. Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9780571298730 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Motherless Brooklyn film tie-in Jonathan Lethem
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin.
Description Lionel Essrog, a.k.a. the Human Freakshow, is a victim of Tourette's syndrome (an uncontrollable urge to shout out nonsense, touch every surface in reach, rearrange objects). Local tough guy Frank Minna hires the adolescent Lionel and three other orphans from St Vincent's Home for Boys and grooms them to become the Minna Men, a fly-by-night detective-agency-cum-limoservice. Then one terrible day Frank is murdered, and Lionel must become a real detective.
With crackling dialogue, a dazzling evocation of place, and a plot which mimics Tourette's itself in its freshness and capacity to shock, Motherless Brooklyn is a bravura performance: funny, tense, touching, and extravagant.
About the Author Jonathan Lethem was born in New York and attended Bennington College. He is the author of seven novels including Fortress of Solitude and The Feral Detective.Motherless Brooklyn was named Novel of the Year by Esquire and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Salon Book Award, as well as the Macallan Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger. He has also written two short story collections, a novella and a collection of essays, edited The Vintage Book of Amnesia, guest-edited The Year's Best Music Writing 2002, and was the founding fiction editor of Fence magazine. His writings have appeared in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, McSweeney's and many other periodicals. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Adele Leila Slimani
From the bestselling author of Lullaby, the prizewinning debut novel about all our attempts to discover who we are - deep down - and what we actually want.
Description From the bestselling author of Lullaby
'Riveting.' - Evening Standard
'Explosive.' - Mail on Sunday
'Thrilling.' - Sunday Times
'A must-read.' - Vogue
Her obsessions devour her. She is helpless to stop them...
Adele has a seemingly enviable life. She is a respected journalist, living in a flawless Paris apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But beneath the veneer of 'having it all', Adele is bored. She begins to orchestrate her life around one-night stands and extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's been, until her compulsions threaten to consume her altogether.
About the Author Leila Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France's most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, which she won for Lullaby. A journalist and frequent commentator on women's and human rights, she is French president Emmanuel Macron's personal representative for the promotion of the French language and culture. Born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1981, she lives in Paris with her French husband and their two young children.
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Faber Paperback AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Lullaby Leila Slimani
The number-one bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt - a compulsive, riveting and bravely observed exploration of power, class, race, domesticity and motherhood.
Description The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds.
When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect caretaker for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite and devoted woman who sings to their children, cleans the family's chic apartment in Paris's upscale tenth arrondissement, stays late without complaint and is able to host enviable birthday parties.
The couple and nanny become more dependent on each other. But as jealousy, resentment and suspicions increase, Myriam and Paul's idyllic tableau is shattered...
About the Author Leila Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France's most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt. Her first novel, The Ogre's Garden - forthcoming from Faber & Faber in 2019 - won the Prix La Mamounia. Slimani is a journalist and frequent commentator on women's and human rights. She lives in Paris with her husband and two children.
Sam Taylor is the translator of HHhH by Laurent Binet and You Will Not Have my Hatred by Antoine Leiris.
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Faber Paperback AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Better Sister Alafair Burke
Keep your enemies close and your sister closer...The Better Sister is a sublime novel of suspense, from an emerging master of the form.
Description 'A major talent.' - Harlan Coben
'With Burke you know you're in good hands.' - Gillian Flynn
Keep your enemies close and your sister closer...
For a while, it seemed like both Taylor sisters had found happiness. Chloe landed a publishing job in New York City; Nicky married Adam, and became a mother to their son, Ethan.
But now, fourteen years later, it is Chloe who is married to Adam and raising Ethan. When Adam is murdered at the couple's beach house, Chloe has no choice but to welcome her estranged sister back into her life and confront the truth behind family secrets they both tried to leave behind.
About the Author Alafair Burke is a New York Times bestselling author whose novels include the standalone thrillers The Wife, The Ex and If You Were Here, as well as All Day and a Night and Dead Connection from her Ellie Hatcher series. She is also the co- author of the bestselling Under Suspicion series with Mary Higgins Clark. A former prosecutor, she is now a professor of criminal law and lives in Manhattan.
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Faber Paperback AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Wife Alafair Burke
The Wife is the standalone follow-up to Alafair Burke's brilliant, Edgar nominated The Ex (2016)
Description In our age of accusations, blurred lines, and shifting allegiances, what would you do?
When Angela meets Jason Powell, a brilliant university professor, she assumes their romance to be a fling. But when they marry the following summer and move to Manhattan, Angela feels she's been given the chance to escape her past. Six years later, however, Jason, by now a celebrated liberal figurehead, faces serious allegations made by one of his young college interns, and Angela's seemingly perfect life is under threat ...
About the Author Alafair Burke is a New York Times bestselling author whose novels include the standalone thrillers The Ex, Long Gone and If You Were Here, and the Ellie Hatcher series. She is also the coauthor of the Under Suspicion series with Mary Higgins Clark. A former prosecutor, she is now a professor of criminal law and lives in Manhattan.
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Faber Paperback AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Shadow King Maaza Mengiste
A beautifully written and utterly captivating novel about female strength and the power of belief, set during Mussolini's 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King casts a light on the women soldiers who were written out of history.
Description With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid in Kidane and his wife Aster's household. Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilise his strongest men before the Italians invade. Meanwhile, Mussolini's hundreds of thousands of Italian soldiers march on Ethiopia expecting an easy victory.
As the war begins in earnest, Hirut, Aster, and the other women long to do more than care for the wounded and bury the dead. When Emperor Haile Selassie goes into exile and Ethiopia quickly loses hope, it is Hirut who offers a plan to maintain morale. She helps disguise a gentle peasant as the emperor and soon becomes his guard, inspiring other women to take up arms. But how could she have predicted her own personal war, still to come, as a prisoner of one of Italy's most vicious officers?
The Shadow King is a gorgeously crafted and unputdownable exploration of female power, with Hirut as the fierce, original, and brilliant voice at its heart. In incandescent, lyrical prose, Maaza Mengiste breathes life into complicated characters on both sides of the battle line, shaping a heartrending, indelible exploration of what it means to be a woman at war.
About the Author Maaza Mengiste was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A Fulbright Scholar and professor in the MFA in Creative Writing & Literary Translation program at Queens College, she is the author of The Shadow King and Beneath the Lion's Gaze, named one of the Guardian's Ten Best Contemporary African Books. Her work can be found in the New Yorker, Granta, and the New York Times, among other publications. She lives in New York City.
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Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Flame Leonard Cohen, foreword by Adam Cohen
The New York Times bestselling final collection of poetry from the world's greatest lyricist Leonard Cohen.
Description THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, The Flame offers an intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist.
A reckoning with a life lived deeply and passionately, with wit and panache, this collection is a valedictory work.
About the Author Leonard Cohen began his artistic career in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. He went on to publish 12 more books, including two celebrated novels, and gained worldwide recognition as an iconic singer-songwriter. He released 14 studio albums, including three in the last years of his life when he also became one of the most acclaimed arena-performing artists in the world.
Among his numerous honours, he is the recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 2010, the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature 2011, the inaugural New England PEN Award for Excellence in Lyrics 2012, the 2016 Juno Awards for Song of the Year and Album of the Year, and he has been inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the US Songwriters Hall of Fame. He died in November 2016.
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Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Garden of Evening Mists Tan Twan Eng
Tan Twan Eng's rich, absorbing, internationally bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted epic - now a major motion picture.
Description THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Shortlisted for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE Winner of the MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE Winner of the WALTER SCOTT PRIZE Shortlisted for the INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
In the highlands of Malaya, a woman sets out to build a memorial to her sister, killed at the hands of the Japanese during the brutal Occupation of their country. Yun Ling's quest leads her to The Garden of Evening Mists, and to Aritomo, a man of extraordinary skill and reputation, once the gardener of the Emperor of Japan. When she accepts his offer to become his apprentice, she begins a journey into her past, inextricably linked with the secrets of her troubled country's history.
About the Author Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang, Malaysia. His debut novel The Gift of Rain was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 and has been widely translated. The Garden of Evening Mists won the Man Asian Literary Prize 2012 and the 2013 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 and the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He divides his time between Kuala Lumpur and Cape Town. tantwaneng.com
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Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Godsend John Wray
Inspired by 'American Taliban' John Walker Lindh, this compelling novel from the award-winning author tells the story of a young girl leaving her home, family and country for radical Islam.
Description Aden Grace Sawyer has travelled a long way to begin her new life, and she'll travel further to protect her secret. But once she's in Pakistan, Aden finds herself in more danger than she could have imagined. Faced with violence and loss, she must make choices that will test not only her faith, but her understanding of who she is.
Compelling, unnerving and timely, Godsend is a study of what it means for a person to give themselves to their faith, and how far they will go to find a place to belong.
About the Author John Wray is the author of five novels, including The Lost Time Accidents and Lowboy. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers' Award, and a Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, and has been named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. A citizen of both the United States and Austria, he lives in New York City.
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Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Shorter Scottish Fiction Robert Louis Stevenson
A collection of Stevenson's best-loved stories, including 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde', 'The Merry Men' and 'The Body Snatcher', introduced by Roderick Watson.
Description Ever since its first appearance in 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde has proven itself to be a tale of undiminished power for readers all over the world. But the story of the respectable Dr Jekyll, even in a London setting, has links that stretch back to the narrow wynds of Edinburgh and the bleak moors and shores of the North.
This collection reveals the Scottish origins of Stevenson's great masterpiece of psychological fiction and his stories of possession, doubleness and terror, and uncovers his fascination with the uncanny which brought the creator of Mr Hyde screamingly awake one winter's night over one hundred years ago.
About the Author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) was a Scottish novelist, poet and essayist who achieved worldwide acclaim for Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson's great Scottish novels include Kidnapped, The Master of Ballantrae, and Weir of Hermiston.
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Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Dubliners James Joyce, introduction by Colm Toibin
Joyce's brilliantly vivid portrait of Dublin, introduced by Colm Toibin.
Description In Dubliners, James Joyce takes us on an extraordinary journey with the ordinary men and women from the city of his birth. In 'Araby' a young boy struggles with everyday tasks in the face of a growing infatuation with his neighbour's sister; in 'The Boarding House' a single mother orchestrates a marriage proposal for her daughter; in 'The Dead' the ideas of birth and decay are played out over the course of a dinner.
From short, lyrical stories to the novella-length masterpiece which concludes this collection, Dubliners is as alive with feeling as it was when first published.
About the Author James Joyce, born in 1882, attended University College Dublin, before travelling through Europe in his early twenties. His work includes the semi-autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), the landmark work of modernist fiction Ulysses (1922) and its successor Finnegans Wake (1939). He died in 1941 in Zurich.
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Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 A Rustle of Silk Alys Clare
Introducing Dr Gabriel Taverner in the first of a gripping series of British mysteries set in early 17th century Devon.
Description The First Gabriel Taverner mystery
Devon, 1607. Gabriel Taverner, former ship's surgeon turned country physician, is called to examine a rotting body found impaled on a blade. Identifying the corpse seems a hopeless task and the death is declared a suicide.
But Gabriel is not satisfied and re-examines the body - making the first of a series of shocking discoveries that will lead him deep into the dark underbelly of the lucrative silk trade. As he investigates, Gabriel realises that not only was the death a murder - but even worse, he had a personal connection with the corpse.
About the Author Alys Clare is the pseudonym of Elizabeth Harris, who studied archaeology at the University of Kent. Elizabeth also writes the much-loved Hawkenlye and Aelf Fen series. A Rustle of Silk is the first in her gripping Gabriel Taverner series.
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Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Deadly Dance Hilary Bonner
A fascinating psychological suspense novel - the first in a new series featuring Bristol-based detective DI Vogel.
Description DI David Vogel is first on the scene when Melanie Cooke's bruised and strangled body is discovered in Bristol's red light district. The evidence points to Melanie's father being the killer, but Vogel's on edge. The quick arrest is too easy, too straightforward.
When two new murders are reported, Vogel's team broaden the search: new evidence suggests that there are three different, disturbed criminals. Any one of them could have killed Melanie, but which one did? Vogel's team inch towards the answer, never suspecting that the killer is watching them too, waiting for his moment to strike.
About the Author Hilary Bonner was previously the showbusiness editor of the Mail on Sunday and the Daily Mirror. She lives in Somerset with her partner, the actress, Amanda Barrie.
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Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Festival Murders Mark McCrum
When a celebrated critic is murdered during a literary festival, crime writer Francis Meadowes sets out to discover who killed him in this cosy mystery.
Description Bryce Peabody is ready to give a scandalous talk at the annual literary festival in the pretty English town of Mold-on-Wold. Scathing in his reviews and unseemly in his affairs, Bryce is known to have many enemies. So when he is discovered dead in his hotel room festival-goers are desperate to know what happened. Could one of the numerous writers he insulted have taken revenge? Or perhaps one of his scorned lovers? As more festival-goers meet their ends, Francis Meadowes is drawn into a role he knows only from his own fiction; that of amateur detective.
About the Author Mark McCrum began his career as a travel writer, with well-received books about Southern Africa (Happy Sad Land), Australia (No Worries) and Ireland (The Craic). He is also the author of the UK Top Ten non-fiction bestsellers 1900 House and Castaway 2000, the UK No.1 bestseller Robbie Williams: Somebody Someday, and Walking With The Wounded, which told the story of four wounded soldiers and their successful attempt to reach the North Pole.The Festival Murders is his debut novel.
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Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 A Shameful Murder Cora Harrison
Introducing a new, Irish historical mystery series set in war-torn 1920s Cork, featuring the savvy amateur sleuth Mother Aquinas
Description Ireland, 1923. The country has been torn apart by the War of Independence and is now in the throes of sectarian violence and severe flooding. But Mother Aquinas knows that not all floods cleanse the deeds of humanity . . .
When a body washes up at her convent chapel dressed in evening finery, she immediately suspects foul play. The overstretched police force may be ready to dismiss the case as accidental drowning, but strangulation marks on the girl's throat tell a grimmer story. Mother Aquinas wants justice for the girl - and won't let a murderer slip away unpunished under the cover of war.
About the Author Cora Harrison has written over 50 book for adults and children, including the Burren mysteries. She lives near the Burren in the west of Ireland.
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Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 This is Pleasure Mary Gaitskill
A masterful fictional contribution to the #MeToo debate, set to be the most fiercely debated book of the season.
Description 'The range of Gaitskill's humanity is astonishing' - LA Times
'I don't know why I behaved the way I did, and I kept doing it; he kept doing it. And though I might once have easily brushed it away, suddenly I could not. Nor could I confront him. The conversation moved too quickly.'
Quin and Margot have been friends for more than twenty years.
Quin is an extrovert and a sensualist who thrives on flirtation and ambiguity. He is at his happiest when encouraging intimate confidences from the women he meets. Always clear with him about the boundaries of their own relationship, until now Margot has looked on his behaviour with a mixture of ambivalence and affection. But when Quin's actions are held up against a new light, and his life begins to unravel, Margot tries to work towards a deeper understanding of her friend, the damage he might have caused, and the loyalty he deserves.
This is Pleasure is a masterpiece of fiction that looks unflinchingly at the difficult and necessary debates of our present moment. It rejects moral certainties while honouring the ambiguity and vulnerability at the heart of all human relationships.
About the Author Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To, and Don't Cry, and the novels Veronica, The Mare and Two Girls Fat and Thin. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories, and the O. Henry Prize Stories.
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Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Mare Mary Gaitskill
A heartbreakingly honest and profoundly moving novel about how love and family are shaped by place, race and class, and of the nearly unbridgeable gaps between people.
Description Ginger is in her forties and a recovering alcoholic when she meets and marries Paul. When it becomes clear it's too late for her to have a baby of her own, she tries to persuade him to consider adoption, but he already has a child from a previous marriage and is ten years older than her, so doesn't share her longing to be a parent at any cost. As a compromise, they sign up to an organisation that sends poor inner-city kids to stay with country families for a few weeks in the summer, and so one hot July day eleven year old Velveteen Vargas, a Dominican girl from one of Brooklyn's toughest neighbourhoods, arrives in their lives, and Ginger is instantly besotted.
Bemused by her gentle middle-aged hosts, but deeply intuitive in the way of clever children, Velvet quickly senses the longing behind Ginger's rapturous attention. While Velvet returns her affection, she finds the intensity of it bewildering. Velvet's own passions are more excited by the stables nearby, where she discovers she has a natural talent for riding and a deep affinity with the damaged horses cared for there. But when Ginger begins to entertain fantasies of adopting her, things start to get complicated for everyone involved.
This is a heartbreakingly honest and profoundly moving portrait of the nearly unbridgeable gaps between people, and the way we long for fairytale endings despite knowing that they don't exist.
About the Author Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To and Don't Cry, and the novels Veronica and Two Girls Fat and Thin. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories and the O. Henry Prize Stories.
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Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Veronica Mary Gaitskill
Beloved cult novel repackaged to join the Serpent's Tail Classics series.
Description In this seductive and shattering novel, Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: one is a former modeling sensation, stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other an eccentric middle-aged proofreader with a meticulous eye.
Over the next twenty years their friendship will encompass narcissism and tenderness, exploitation and self-sacrifice, love and mortality. Moving seamlessly between the glamorous and gritty '80s, when beauty and style gave licence to excess, and the broken world of the decade's survivors twenty years later, Gaitskill casts a fierce yet compassionate eye on the two eras and their fixations.
Veronica masterfully evokes the fragility and mystery of human relationships in a world where love is rife with contradictions. Evocative, raw and entirely unique, Veronica was shortlisted for the prestigious 2005 National Book Award in the USA.
About the Author Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award) and Don't Cry, and the novels Veronica (nominated for a National Book Award) and Two Girls, Fat and Thin. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories and the O. Henry Prize Stories.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781781255926 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 200x130mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming Laszlo Krasznahorkai
The defining master-work of the Man Booker International winner's spectacular career.
Description Nearing the end of his life, Baron Bela Wenckheim decides to return to the provincial Hungarian town of his birth. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he wishes to be reunited with his high- school sweetheart Marika. What follows is an endless storm of gossip, con men and local politicians, vividly evoking the small town's alternately drab and absurd existence.
Meanwhile, the Professor - a world-famous natural scientist who studies mosses and inhabits a bizarre Zen-like shack in a desolate area outside of town - offers long rants and disquisitions on his own attempts to immunise himself from thought. Spectacular actions are staged, death and the abyss loom, until finally doom is brought down on the unsuspecting residents of the town.
Hailed internationally as perhaps the most important novel of the young twenty-first century, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming is the culmination of Laszlo Krasznahorkai's remarkable and singular career.
'I've said a thousand times that I always wanted to write just one book. Now, with Baron, I can close this story. With this novel I can prove that I really wrote just one book in my life. This is the book - Satantango, Melancholy, War & War, and Baron. This is my one book.' Laszlo Krasnahorkai
About the Author Laszlo Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954. He has written five novels and won numerous prizes, including the 2013 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction for Satantango, the same prize the following year for Seiobo There Below, and the 1993 Best Book of the Year Award in Germany for The Melancholy of Resistance. He was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017 for The World Goes On, and won the same prize in 2015 in its original guise as a biennial prize rewarding an outstanding body of work. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lives in the hills of Pilisszentlaszlo in Hungary. Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781781258910 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 240x162mm Extent: 576 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Fiction & related items Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Tuskar Rock AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Familiars Stacey Halls
Perfect for fans of Jessie Burton and Sarah Perry, The Familiars is a spellbinding debut.
Description To save her child, she will trust a stranger. To protect a secret, she must risk her life...
Fleetwood Shuttleworth is 17 years old, married, and pregnant for the fourth time. But as the mistress at Gawthorpe Hall, she still has no living child, and her husband Richard is anxious for an heir. When Fleetwood finds a letter she isn't supposed to read from the doctor who delivered her third stillbirth, she is dealt the crushing blow that she will not survive another pregnancy.
Then she crosses paths by chance with Alice Gray, a young midwife. Alice promises to help her give birth to a healthy baby, and to prove the physician wrong.
As Alice is drawn into the witchcraft accusations that are sweeping the North-West, Fleetwood risks everything by trying to help her. But is there more to Alice than meets the eye?
Soon the two women's lives will become inextricably bound together as the legendary trial at Lancaster approaches, and Fleetwood's stomach continues to grow. Time is running out, and both their lives are at stake.
Only they know the truth. Only they can save each other.
'Assured and alluring, this beautiful tale of women and witchcraft and the fight against power was a delight from start to finish' Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist
'The new Hilary Mantel' - Cosmopolitan
'Truly spellbinding' - Good Housekeeping Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781785766145 Format: Paperback - B format About the Author Dimensions: 198x129mm Stacey Halls grew up in Rossendale, Lancashire, as the daughter of market traders. She has always been fascinated by Extent: 448 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) the Pendle witches. She studied journalism at the University of Central Lancashire and moved to London aged 21. She Bic2: Historical fiction was media editor at the Bookseller and books editor at Stylist.co.uk, and has also written for Psychologies, the Illustrations: Independent and Fabulous magazine, where she now works as Deputy Chief Sub Editor. The Familiars is her first novel. Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Nemesis Rory Clements
A gripping thriller set at the outbreak of the Second World War by Sunday Times bestseller and author of Corpus and Nucleus, Rory Clements.
Description For readers of Robert Harris, C J Sansom and William Boyd, this is a thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat - by the Sunday Times bestseller and Crime Writer's Association award-winning author of Corpus and Nucleus, Rory Clements.
Can a ruthless spy ring change the course of war?
In a great English house, a young woman offers herself to one of the most powerful and influential figures in the land - but this is no ordinary seduction. She plans to ensure his death . . .
On holiday in France, Professor Tom Wilde discovers his brilliant student Marcus Marfield, who disappeared two years earlier to join the International Brigades in Spain, in the Le Vernet concentration camp in the foothills of the Pyrenees. Wilde secures his release just as German tanks roll into Poland.
Meanwhile, a U-boat sinks the liner Athenia in the Atlantic with many casualties, including Americans, onboard. Goebbels claims Churchill put a bomb in the ship to blame Germany and to lure America into the war.
As the various strands of an international conspiracy begin to unwind, Tom Wilde will find himself in great personal danger. For just who is Marcus Marfield? And where does his loyalty lie?
For readers of Robert Harris, C J Sansom and William Boyd, this is a thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat - by Sunday Times bestseller and author of Corpus and Nucleus, Rory Clements.
'A masterpiece of spies, intrigue and political shenanigans' Sunday Express Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781785767500 Format: Paperback - B format Praise for RORY CLEMENTS Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 448 pages Bic1: Espionage & spy thriller 'A dramatic, twisty thriller' Daily Mail Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: 'Dramatic . . . pacy and assured' Daily Mail Previous Titles: Author now living: 'Political polarisation, mistrust and simmering violence' The Times
'A standout historical novel and spy thriller' Daily Express Zaffre AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Nucleus Rory Clements
From the award-winning Sunday Times bestselling author of Corpus.
Description The eve of war: a secret so deadly, nothing and no-one is safe.
June 1939. England is partying like there is no tomorrow, gas masks at the ready. In Cambridge the May Balls are played out with a frantic intensity - but the good times won't last... In Europe, the Nazis have invaded Czechoslovakia, and in Germany the persecution of the Jews is now so widespread that desperate Jewish parents send their children to safety in Britain aboard the Kindertransport. Closer to home, the IRA's S-Plan bombing campaign has resulted in more than 100 terrorist outrages around England.
But perhaps the most far-reaching event of all goes largely unreported: in Germany, Otto Hahn has produced the first man-made fission and an atomic device is now a very real possibility. The Nazis set up the Uranverein group of physicists: its task is to build a superbomb. The German High Command is aware that British and US scientists are working on similar line. Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory is where the atom was split in 1932. Might the Cambridge men now win the race for a nuclear bomb? Hitler's generals need to be sure they know all the Cavendish's secrets. Only then will it be safe for Germany to wage war.
When one of the Cavendish's finest brains is murdered, Professor Tom Wilde is once more drawn into an intrigue from which there seems no escape. In a conspiracy that stretches from Cambridge to Berlin and from Washington DC to the west coast of Ireland, he faces deadly forces that threaten the fate of the world.
About the Author Rory Clements is a Sunday Times bestselling author. He won the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award for his second novel, Revenger,and a TV series of the John Shakespeare novels is currently in development. Rory lives in Norfolk with his family. Find out more at www.roryclements.co.uk.
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Zaffre AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 All The Wrong Places Joy Fielding
The new addictive thriller from the author of The Bad Daughter, Joy Fielding.
Description You always know who you're meeting online . . . don't you?
Turning to online dating each with their own reasons, four women download an app, hoping to swipe their way to love and happiness.
But not everyone is who they seem online. Hidden behind a perfect smile and charming humour, he appears to be the perfect date. But the night he has planned is unlike any other.
The clock is ticking, and for one woman, this date might just be her last . . .
PRAISE FOR JOY FIELDING
'Gripped me from the first to the very last page' Tess Gerritsen
'A spiralling tale of paranoia and suspense' Jenny Milchman
'An edge-of-your-seat read . . . she is on top form here' Karen Robards
'A gripping, fast-paced psychological thriller reminiscent of Rear Window' Booklist
'The characters pulsate with life . . . blows everyone else off the page' Publishers Weekly
'A page-turning ride' Kirkus Reviews
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Zaffre AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 17 Church Row James Carol
FROM THE PEN OF THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE JEFFERSON WINTER SERIES AND THE KILLING GAME, COMES A STANDALONE THRILLER THAT WILL TWIST ALL YOUR EXPECTATIONS.
Description For fans of J. P. Delaney's The Girl Before comes a thriller that makes us question our relationship with technology and the lengths we would go to, to keep our family safe.
Three years ago, Nikki and Ethan Rhodes suffered a devastating loss when their four-year-old daughter Grace was tragically killed in a road accident. Ethan, a radio personality, escapes into work, leaving Nikki to care for their remaining child, Bella, who hasn't spoken since that day.
Seeking a fresh start, the family moves into a revolutionary new house designed by renowned architect, Catriona Fisher. The house features a state-of-the-art security system, along with every amenity you could dream of.
For the Rhodes' this is a chance to finally pick up the pieces and get on with their lives in a place where they feel totally safe.
But what if 17 Church Row isn't the safe haven that they think it is?
About the Author J. S. Carol is the author of The Killing Game, which was shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award. As James Carol, he has also written the bestselling Jefferson Winter series. Broken Dolls, the first of these, was published in 2014 to rave reviews and reached #1 on the Amazon fiction and thriller charts. In addition James is writing a series of eBooks set during Winter's FBI days. Presumed Guilty is the first of these.
James lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and two children. When he's not writing he can usually be found in a pair of headphones, recording and producing music. Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781785768408 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Thriller / suspense Bic2: Crime & mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Pact Amy Heydenrych
When your dream job turns into a nightmare, who can you turn to? A gripping and chilling suspense novel about the deadly intentions of office life, for fans of The Rumour and Michelle Frances' The Temp.
Description What if a prank leads to murder?
When Freya arrives at her dream job with the city's hottest start-up, she can't wait to begin a new and exciting life, including dating her new colleague Jay.
However, Nicole, Jay's ex and fellow employee, seems intent on making her life a misery. After a big deadline, where Nicole continually picks on her, Freya snaps and tells Jay about the bullying and together they concoct a revenge prank.
The next morning, Nicole is found dead in her apartment . . .
Is this just a prank gone wrong? Or does Freya know someone who is capable of murder - and could she be next?
About the Author Amy Heydenrych is a writer and book blogger based in South Africa. She has been shortlisted twice for the acclaimed Miles Morland African Writing Scholarship. Her short stories and poems have published in multiple anthologies including Brittle Paper, The Kalahari Review and the Short Sharp Stories anthologies. When she is not writing her own fiction, she ghost-writes books and columns for global tech and financial companies.
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Zaffre AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Lake Like a Mirror Sok Fong Ho, translated by Natascha Bruce
Mysterious, perturbing and strikingly beautiful, this collection of stories explores the lives of Malaysian women: immigrants, rebels, lost souls, pragmatists, dreamers
Description By an author described by critics as 'the most accomplished Malaysian writer, full stop'. Lake Like a Mirror is a scintillating exploration of the lives of women buffeted by powers beyond their control. Squeezing themselves between the gaps of rabid urbanisation, patriarchal structures and a theocratic government, these women find their lives twisted in disturbing ways.
In precise and disquieting prose, Ho Sok Fong draws her readers into a richly atmospheric world of naked sleepwalkers in a rehabilitation centre for wayward Muslims, mysterious wooden boxes, gossip in unlicensed hairdressers, hotels with amnesiac guests, and poetry classes with accidentally charged politics - a world that is peopled with the ghosts of unsaid words, unmanaged desires and uncertain statuses, surreal and utterly true.
About the Author Ho Sok Fong is the author of one other short story collection, Maze Carpet. Her literary awards include the Chiu Ko Fiction Prize (2015), the 25th China Times Short Story Prize, and the 30th United Press Short Story Prize. She has a PhD in Chinese Language & Literature from NTU Singapore, and lives in Malaysia.
Natascha Bruce translates fiction from Chinese. Her work includes short stories by Hong Kong surrealist writer Dorothy Tse, Lonely Face by Singapore's Yeng Pway Ngon and, with Nicky Harman, A Classic Tragedy by Xu Xiaobin.
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Granta AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Don't Look At Me Like That Diana Athill
From the author of Somewhere Towards the End and Stet, the late great Diana Athill's only novel, about love, betrayal and a young woman finding oneself in 1950s London.
Description England, in the mid-fifties. Meg Bailey has always aspired to live a respectable life. With her best friend, Roxane, she moves from secondary school to an un-Bohemian art college in Oxford. Under the watchful eye of Roxanne's mother, Mrs Wheeler, the two girls flourish in Oxfordian society. But Meg constantly longs for more. Not content to stay in Oxford, she finds a job in London. Roxane stays behind and marries Dick, a man of Mrs Wheeler's choosing.
As Meg's independence grows, Dick suddenly appears in London for work. A connection to her past, Meg and Dick's friendship flourishes, blurring the lines of loyalty between what is and what was in a way that changes life for these three friends forever.
As sharp and starling now as when it was written, this unflinching and candid book of love and betrayal encapsulates Diana Athill's gift of storytelling at its finest.
About the Author DIANA ATHILL was born in 1917. She helped Andre Deutsch establish the publishing company that bore his name and worked as an editor for Deutsch for four decades. Athill's distinguished career as an editor is the subject of her acclaimed memoir Stet (Granta Books, 2011), along with five further volumes of memoirs, Instead of a Letter, After a Funeral, Yesterday Morning, Make Believe, Somewhere Towards the End, a novel, Don't Look at Me Like That, and a collection of letters, Instead of a Book. In January 2009, she won the Costa Biography Award for Somewhere Towards the End, and was presented with an OBE. She died in January 2019.
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Granta Paperbacks AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Homeland Walter Kempowski, translated by Charlotte Collins
A sharply evocative novel of one man's journey into his family history and the troubled legacy of World War II, from the author of All for Nothing.
Description It is 1988, the year before the Berlin Wall came down. Jonathan Fabrizius, a journalist living in West Germany, is asked to travel to the contested lands of former East Prussia - where the Nazi legacy lives on in buildings and fortifications - to write about the route for a car rally. It's a plum job, but his interest is piqued by a personal connection. Here, among the refugees fleeing the advancing Russians in 1945, he was born.
Homeland is a nuanced work from one of the great modern European storytellers, in which an everyday German comes face to face with his painful family history, and devastating questions about ordinary Germans' complicity in the war.
About the Author Walter Kempowski (1929-2007) was one of Germany's most important post-war writers, known for his acclaimed collection of first-hand accounts of WWII, including Swansong 1945 (Granta, 2014). His critically applauded final novel, All for Nothing (Granta, 2015) was a bestseller in both Germany and the UK.
Charlotte Collins studied English Literature at Cambridge and worked as an actor and radio journalist before becoming a literary translator. In 2017 she was awarded the Goethe-Institut's Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for her translation of Robert Seethaler's A Whole Life.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781783783533 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Fiction in translation Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta Paperbacks AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Honjin Murders Seishi Yokomizo
One of Japan's greatest murder mysteries.
Description In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a daughter of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid the gossip over the approaching festivities, there is also a worrying rumour - it seems a sinister masked man has been asking questions about the Ichiyanagis around the village.
Then, on the night of the wedding, the Ichiniyagi family are woken by a terrible scream, followed by the sound of eerie music - death has come to Okamura, leaving no trace but a bloody samurai sword, thrust into the pristine snow outside the house. The murder seems impossible, but amateur detective Kosuke Kindaichi is determined to get to the bottom of it.
About the Author Seishi Yokomizo (1902-81) was one of Japan's most famous and best-loved mystery writers. He was born in Kobe and spent his childhood reading detective stories, before beginning to write stories of his own, the first of which was published in 1921. He went on to become an extremely prolific and popular author, best known for his Kosuke Kindaichi series, which ran to 77 books, many of which were adapted for stage and television in Japan. The Honjin Murders is the first Kosuke Kindaichi story, and regarded as one of Japan's great mystery novels. It won the first Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 1948 but has never been translated into English, until now.
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Puskin Vertigo AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Childhood Gerard Reve, translated by Sam Garrett
From the author of the hit The Evenings - two classic novellas that are considered among Gerard Reve's best work
Description Eleven-year-old Elmer inhabits a childhood of superstition, private lore and secret societies that only certain friends can join (and of which he is always president). When a new boy, pale, spindly Werther, arrives in the neighbourhood, a subtle game of fascination and persecution begins. In wartime Amsterdam, a young boy watches as Germans occupy the city. At first his parents' friends, the Boslowits family, think they have little to fear. Then, slowly, terribly, their fate is sealed. In these two haunting novellas from the acclaimed author of The Evenings, the world of childhood, in all its magic and strangeness, darkness and cruelty, is evoked with piercing wit and dreamlike intensity. Here, the things seen through a child's eyes are far from innocent.
About the Author Gerard Reve (1923-2006) is considered one of the greatest post-war Dutch authors, and was also the first openly gay writer in the country's history. A complicated and controversial character, Reve is also hugely popular and critically acclaimed. The first English translation of his masterpiece The Evenings shipped more than 20,000 copies in the UK and was a three-time book of the year in 2016.
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Pushkin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Summer Short Reads 18 copy mixed pack A&U Point of Sale
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Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Shark Arm: A shark, a tattooed arm and two unsolved murders Phillip Roope and Kevin Meagher
Truth can be stranger than fiction. In a Coogee aquarium in 1935 a shark coughed up a man's tattooed arm. The authors of Shark Arm have unravelled an extraordinary tale of high class smuggling around Sydney harbour and police collusion that has eluded many investigations into this famous cold case.
Description It all started with a ruthless murder. An ex-boxer and petty police informer was efficiently disposed of, sending a ghastly warning to others. That would have been the end of it, had not a shark, in a million to one chance, vomited up the victim's arm in an aquarium and shone an unwelcome light into some very dark places.
With so much at stake, the guilty closed ranks and gradually, with intimidation and money, and the murder of a mate who they feared would betray them, they re-imposed their control and the light was turned off again. The memory of those events, and the terrible fear they inspired, kept those who knew the truth silent unto the grave.
Although many people have written about the shark arm murder, Phillip Roope and Kevin Meagher are the first to have access to the original police records. Through careful investigation, they have unravelled an extraordinary tale of high class smuggling around Sydney harbour and police collusion, and the truth behind one of the most infamous cold cases in Australia. Except there were actually two gruesome murders...
'the biggest tabloid shark story in the history of the world' - Peter Fitzsimons
About the Author Phillip Roope and Kevin Meagher are both former high school English and History teachers who ended up in the film industry. Kevin has tutored students on feature film production and making television commercials; Phillip has been location manager on over 45 feature films and TV series, ranging from Blue Murder for TV and Baz Lurmann's The Great Gatsby.
Price: $32.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9781760875985 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: True crime Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: None
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 A Country Nurse: More adventures from the author of the bestselling An Outback Nurse Thea Hayes
More fascinating and inspiring rural adventures from Thea Hayes, author of the bestselling An Outback Nurse.
Description Thea Hayes spent twenty years living and working on Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory. She arrived as a naive nineteen-year-old trainee nurse from Sydney, but when she left in 1979 she was married with four children and eager for her next adventure.
And what twists and turns her new life in rural Queensland had in store. From a stint running a corner shop in the small town of Toogoolawah to dairy and cattle farming and working as a nurse in hospitals and nursing homes, Thea's life was eternally colourful. At the age of sixty-five, after losing her beloved husband Ralph, Thea moved to London to work as a nurse and travel around Europe. Back home in Australia, she found a second chance at love with a country boy from WA, and her new life with Bob began with a caravan, a dangerous farming floodplain and a swag full of laughs.
A Country Nurse charts Thea's rich and inspiring life, from Wave Hill to North Stradbroke Island; London to the Riverina in NSW, and just about everywhere in between. This is the story of an ordinary girl from Sydney who has lived her extraordinary life to the fullest.
About the Author Thea Hayes qualified as a nurse in Sydney in 1959. Her first posting was to a remote station in the Northern Territory called Wave Hill. She now lives in Regional NSW. Her first book, An Outback Nurse was published with A&U in 2014.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781760877156 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Garah, NSW
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 An Outback Nurse Thea Hayes
The charming story of a young city nurse who found love in the outback.
Description Thea Hayes trained as a Nurse in Sydney in 1959. A year later she was catapulted out of the safety of her city life into the unknown world of the Outback.
Thea knew nothing of the place she was soon to call home, Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory, the second largest property in the world under one management. It covered four million acres!
With nervous excitement, Thea accepted the job and flew to the Northern Territory where her life was about to change dramatically.
This is a story of growing up, falling up in love and finding your home.
About the Author Thea Hayes qualified as a nurse in Sydney in 1959. Her first posting was to a remote station in the Northern Territory called Wave Hill. She now lives in Regional NSW. Her first book, An Outback Nurse was published with A&U in 2014.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781760291396 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Garah, NSW
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Michael: My brother, lost boy of INXS Tina Hutchence with Jen Jewel Brown
The life and death of the legendary lead singer of INXS, as remembered by his sister Tina.
Description He died at only 37 but his fans are legion. INXS singer/songwriter Michael Hutchence was the celebrated frontman of a band that was the biggest in the world.
Michael's big sister, Tina, adored him from the start. From a twelve-year-old holding him in her arms as a newborn, to being his teenage nanny, Tina remained Michael's trusted confidant until his sudden death.
Tina's intimate and detailed telling of her brother's story-from faltering teenager with a lisp to raging rock star-blazes with love and adventure, and includes the acquired brain injury that changed everything for Michael; the risky schemes that saw him named in the Paradise Papers expose of 2017; his secret philanthropy in support of East Timor; and his bliss at the birth of his only child, Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily.
'My brother roamed the world with a book in his hand and one in his suitcase,' Tina writes, and throughout Michael a paper trail of the literature he loved gives clues to the man many see as an enigma.
A cry from the heart celebrating the 'lost boy of INXS', Michael Hutchence, this personal and heartfelt biography reveals the incredible, rollercoaster life of Australia's most enduring superstar and shares the private moments of an adored brother, son and father.
'Lost boy Michael, who was my dear friend, and who is very much missed. All respect and thanks to Tina for sharing these stories and keeping the memory alive.' Simon le Bon, songwriter / singer, Duran Duran
About the Author Christina 'Tina' Hutchence was born in Melbourne, Australia and managed to attend school in all three eastern states across six schools in four years. As a teenager she moved to Hong Kong and followed her mother into the motion picture Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781760876968 industry as a makeup artist, a career she continued in after moving to California in her early twenties. Tina currently Format: Paperback - B format teaches the art of makeup and travels the United States lecturing and demonstrating at major beauty shows. She is the Dimensions: 198x128mm mother of two children and the proud grandmother to five. Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Biography: arts & entertainment Bic2: Individual composers & musicians, specific bands Jen Jewel Brown was the first Down Under reporter for Rolling Stone Australia. She first met and interviewed Michael & groups three times from mid-1980, also dueting with him on his first solo single, 'Speed Kills', from the soundtrack of Freedom Illustrations: (1982). When Professional Manager at MCA/Gilbey, Jen helped sign INXS to a worldwide music publishing deal which Previous Titles: Author now living: Northcote, VIC California, USA helped fund their overseas touring. The author, poet and journalist first met Tina when interviewing her for an essay about Max Q for the anthology Rock Country (2013). She's an interviewer for the National Film & Sound Archive of Australia and part of the writing Brains Trust for television/live show RocKwiz. Jen wrote Skyhooks: Million Dollar Riff (1975) and more recently, about Frank Zappa, an essay for the press kit of the documentary Eat That Question: Frank ZappaAllen in & his Unwin own AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Back of Beyond: One woman's remarkable story of love, adventure, disasters and wonderful times in the Gulf Country Jenny Old
This is the extraordinary story of an indomitable Australian woman going to the back of beyond and triumphing over adversity. It is a story about bush people and their generosity, filled with wonderful characters. Most of all, it is the story of a woman's love for her man and the adventure it took her on.
Description 'After falling in love with my husband, Rick, I moved to a property called McAllister in the remote Gulf Country of far north Queensland, where I found myself living in a shed with a 44-gallon drum for my stove and a shower rose and a bucket in a tree for the bathroom!'
When 22-year-old Jenny Old followed her heart to the vastness of the Gulf of Carpentaria, she had no idea of the primitive conditions she'd find herself in. Often her only contact with the outside world was through her two-way radio. Stretched to the limits, she achieved more than she ever thought herself capable of. With every setback and in the toughest of times when the odds seemed insurmountable, she learnt to dust herself off, find a smile and just keep on going.
For eighteen years Jenny and Rick battled flood, drought, cyclones and personal hardship. Yet their world was a big as the landscape in which they lived, filled as it was with generosity, wonderful characters and the joy of life. At McAllister they established an oasis for their family and friends.
Jenny's motto is: life throws many curve balls at us, but it's how we deal with them that counts. This is the extraordinary story of a woman of the bush and her indomitable spirit.
About the Author Brought up on a comfortable farm in the Riverina, at twenty-two, Jenny Bull fell in love with Rick Old and went to live and work with him on his property, McAllister, in the Gulf of Carpentaria. There, she faced incredible hardship, living in a hut Price: $22.99 $26.99 with not even basic necessities. Her only contact with the outside world was a two-way radio. In this vast empty ISBN: 9781760876906 Format: Paperback - B format landscape, she battled drought, flood, fire, and cyclones. For eighteen years she and Rick struggled to stay on in the Gulf, Dimensions: 198x128mm eventually triumphantly turning McAllister into a thriving oasis. Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Rural communities Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Ashmore, QLD
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Almost Everything: Notes on Hope Anne Lamott
This New York Times bestseller teaches us to rediscover hope in a world which seems dark and uncertain
Description Despair and uncertainty surround us: in the news, in our families, and in ourselves. But even when life is at its bleakest, Anne Lamott shows how we can rediscover the hope and wisdom that are buried within us and that can make life sweeter than we ever imagined. Divided into short chapters that explore life's essential truths, Almost Everything pinpoints these moments of insight and, with warmth and humour, offers a path forward.
About the Author Anne Lamott is the New York Times bestselling author of a number of non-fiction books, including Help, Thanks, Wow; Small Victories; Stitches and Bird by Bird. She is also the author of several novels, including Imperfect Birds and Rosie. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California.
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Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Chasing Glory: Twelve Months with the All Blacks Jamie Wall
The story of the All Blacks campaign for the 2019 Rugby World Cup, with insightful analysis and full commentary.
Description The 2019 Rugby World Cup campaign is shaping up to be the most intriguing World Cup campaign ever for the All Blacks, because they're going for their third title in a row. It will cap a decade of dominance for the team, who broke their 24-year drought in 2011 and then breezed through to win the 2015 edition.
This year will be a much tougher challenge, though.
The signs are there that most of the other test playing nations have gained some serious ground on the All Blacks in the last couple of seasons. This was seen in the results against England and Ireland late last year.
Chasing Glory focuses on the lead up and World Cup campaign itself, which very much started in October 2018. The All Blacks went to Japan for a couple of tests and then on to Europe for three more, which was seen as a dry run for what would happen in a year's time. The tour itself was a hard slog, with the team clearly feeling the effects of a long season. Notably, coach Steve Hansen and captain Kieran Read came under considerable scrutiny throughout.
Jamie Wall covers the year leading up to the cup, including Super Rugby and the Six Nations, the test season in New Zealand (and the games that will be played in Buenos Aires and Perth), then the final preparations that lead up to the squad being named. Then, a blow-by-blow account of the All Blacks' games, trainings, press conferences and dramas throughout the World Cup as Jamie follows the team through the campaign in Japan.
All of which will lead to either a triumphant final victory on 2 November. . .or a crushing defeat that will signal a new era in world rugby.
About the Author Price: $32.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9781988547329 Jamie Wall is a freelance sports writer, specialising in rugby and is the author of Brothers in Black. He covers live sporting Format: Paperback - C format events and delves into the deeper socio-political implications that sports, especially rugby, can bring. He has worked for Dimensions: 234x153mm The Spinoff, Radio New Zealand and Maori Television. Over the last two seasons, Jamie has travelled with the All Blacks Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Rugby Union to Buenos Aires, Sydney, Tokyo, London, Dublin and Rome, and he will be attending the 2019 Rugby World Cup. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Herne Bay, Auckland NZ
A&U New Zealand AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Art of Rest: How to Find Respite in the Modern Age Claudia Hammond
Drawing on brand new research, this is an examination of rest and why it matters from Radio 4's voice of psychology.
Description Today busyness has become a badge of honour. We want to say we're busy, yet at the same time we feel exhausted. Instead we should start taking rest seriously as a method of self-care and this book can help us to work out how.
The Art of Rest draws on ground-breaking research Claudia Hammond collaborated on - 'The Rest Test' - the largest global survey into rest ever undertaken, which was completed by 18,000 people across 135 different countries. Much of value has been written about sleep, but rest is different; it is how we unwind, calm our minds and recharge our bodies. And, as the survey revealed, how much rest you get is directly linked to your sense of well-being.
Counting down through the top ten activities which people find most restful, Hammond explains why rest matters, examines the science behind the results to establish what really works and offers a roadmap for a new, more restful and balanced life.
About the Author Claudia Hammond is an award-winning writer and broadcaster and lectures in psychology at Boston University's base in London. As the presenter of All in the Mind she is BBC Radio 4's voice of psychology and mental health. She has been awarded the President's Medal from the British Academy, the British Psychological Society's Public Engagement and Media Award, Mind's Making a Difference Award and the British Neuroscience Association's Public Understanding of Neuroscience Award. She is the author of Emotional Rollercoaster, Mind over Money and Time Warped, winner of the British Psychological Society's Best Popular Science Book Award and the Aeon Transmission Award. claudiahammond. com | @claudiahammond
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Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The London Review of Books: An Incomplete History London Review of Books
The most literary gift of the year: a gorgeous collection of gems from the London Review of Books' archive, published to celebrate the paper's 40th anniversary.
Description Over four decades, the London Review of Bookshas grown into Europe's leading literary magazine, publishing book reviews and essays - interspersed with letters, poems, and stories - every fortnight. However, in the words of its founding editor, Karl Miller, it began life as just 'a small paper', and its evolution has bred countless stories. After all, it takes an awful lot of gossip, scandal, ideas, mistakes, feuding, parties, shamelessness, ingenuity, arguments, courage and ample correspondence - with towering contributors and ever-disappointed subscribers alike - to make a reasonably interesting paper twice a month.
London Review of Books: An Incomplete History invites readers behind the scenes for the first time, reproducing a fascinating selection of literary artefacts from archives and personal collections. Encompassing letters, notebooks, drawings, postcards, fieldnotes and typescripts from the magazine's first four decades, many of them never previously published, this intimate collection brings a unique slice of Bloomsbury's heritage alive. Fragments by legendary authors such as Angela Carter, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Christopher Hitchens, Oliver Sacks, Edward Said, Martha Gellhorn, Jenny Diski, and Kurt Vonnegut - alongside heroic letter-writers and unlikely contributors - are contextualised with captions and backstories by LRB writers and editors, as well as introductory essays by Mary-Kay Wilmers and Andrew O'Hagan.
The result is an idiosyncratic account of forty years of intellectual life, which sheds new light on great careers, famous episodes and some of the history going on in the background: a testament to the power of print in the new information age, and a must-have for literature lovers everywhere.
About the Author Founded in 1979, and published twice a month, the London Review of Booksprovides a space for some of the world's best writers to explore a wide variety of subjects in exhilarating detail - from art and politics to science and technology via Price: $69.99 $79.99 ISBN: 9780571358045 history and philosophy, fiction and poetry. In the age of the long read, the LRB remains the pre-eminent exponent of the Format: Hard Cover intellectual essay, admired around the world by over 75,000 subscribers for its fearlessness, its range and its elegance. Dimensions: 305x240mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Literary essays Bic2: Biography: literary Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Lady from Arezzo: My Musical Life and Other Matters Alfred Brendel
The new essay collection from one of music's most original thinkers.
Description The title of this collection of essays refers to a tailor's mannequin that Alfred Brendel spotted in a shop window in Arezzo, a small Tuscan town. Who is this strange lady? What is she looking at? And why is she carrying an egg on her head? The mannequin now graces a room in the attic of Brendel's house in Hampstead. Her features convey great artistic seriousness in combination with absurd comedy: the epitome of his own musical and literary preferences. And so, in his delightful new collection, great masters of nonsense meet great masters of music.
About the Author Alfred Brendel was born in 1931 in Wiesenberg, and now lives in London. He is universally acknowledged as one of the world's leading pianists, and although he has bidden farewell to the concert stage he continues to give master-classes and readings. He is also the author of several books, including Alfred Brendel on Music (Robson Books), The Veil of Order and A Pianist's A-Z- both published by Faber.
Price: $27.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9780571353729 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 205x135mm Extent: 136 pages Bic1: Keyboard instruments Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Music AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Out Loud: A Memoir Mark Morris, Wesley Stace
From the most brilliant and audacious choreographer of our time, the exuberant tale of a young dancer's rise to the pinnacle of the performing arts world, and the triumphs and perils of creating work on his own terms-and staying true to himself
Description Before Mark Morris became ""the most successful and influential choreographer alive"" (The New York Times), he was a six year-old in Seattle cramming his feet into Tupperware glasses so that he could practice walking on pointe. Moving to New York at nineteen, he arrived to one of the great booms of dance in America. . Morris was flat broke but found a group of likeminded artists that danced together, travelled together, slept together. This collective, led by Morris's fiercely original vision, became the famed Mark Morris Dance Group.
Suddenly, Morris was making a fast ascent. Celebrated by The New Yorker's critic as one of the great young talents, an androgynous beauty in the vein of Michelangelo's David, he and his company had arrived. Collaborations with the likes of Mikhail Baryshnikov, Yo-Yo Ma, Lou Harrison, and Howard Hodgkin followed. And so did controversy: from the circus of his tenure at La Monnaie in Belgium to his work on the biggest flop in Broadway history. But through the Reagan-Bush era, the worst of the AIDS epidemic, through rehearsal squabbles and backstage intrigues, Morris emerged as one of the great visionaries of modern dance, a force of nature with a dedication to beauty and a love of the body, an artist as joyful as he is provocative.
Out Loud is the bighearted and outspoken story of a man as formidable on the page as he is on the boards. With unusual candour and disarming wit, Morris's memoir captures the life of a performer who broke the mold, a brilliant misfit who found his home in the collective and liberating world of music and dance.
About the Author An acclaimed ballet choreographer and opera director, Mark Morris was born on August 29, 1956, in Seattle, Washington. He formed the Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) in 1980 and has since created close to 150 works for the company.
Price: $39.99 $45.00 From 1988 to 1991, he was Director of Dance at the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. In 1990, he founded the ISBN: 9780571356669 White Oak Dance Project with Mikhail Baryshnikov. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Wesley Stace has published four novels, including the international bestseller Misfortune. He recorded seventeen records Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Contemporary dance under the name John Wesley Harding before reverting to his birth name for Self-Titled in 2013. His show Wesley Stace's Bic2: Cabinet of Wonders has been a fixture in New York City and beyond for ten years Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Music AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil Hamish McKenzie
A THRILLING ACCOUNT OF ONE OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY'S GREATEST BUSINESS STORIES
Description Insane Mode is the astounding story of the most revolutionary car company since Ford, revealing how, under Elon Musk's leadership, it is bringing to an end the era of gasoline-powered transportation.
Hamish McKenzie, journalist and former writer for Tesla, explores how an unlikely West Coast start-up with an audacious dream to create a new successful US car company, went up against not only the might of the government-backed Detroit companies, but also the massive power of Big Oil. Insane Mode is a story of ingenuity and revolution - of how a new world of transportation could change people's lives globally.
About the Author Hamish McKenzie is a journalist and the former lead writer for Tesla. He has been a tech reporter for PandoDaily and has written for many publications, including the Guardian and the Toronto Star.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9780571327676 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Biography: business & industry Bic2: Biography: science, technology & medicine Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Silent Musician: Why Conducting Matters Mark Wigglesworth
A unique insight into a conductor's world
Description A conductor is one of classical music's most recognisable but misunderstood figures, attracting so many questions:
'Surely orchestras can play perfectly well without you? '
'Do you really make any difference to the performance?'
'Are the musicians even watching you?'
The Silent Musician is not a manual for conductors, nor a history of conducting. It is for all who wonder what conductors actually do, and why they matter.
About the Author Mark Wigglesworth has been conducting for thirty years, working with over a hundred orchestras and collaborating with many of the world's finest orchestra musicians, soloists, singers, and directors in venues ranging from Vienna's Musikverein to New York's Carnegie Hall, the Sydney Opera House to the Hollywood Bowl, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden to the Metropolitan Opera, New York. He has written articles for The Guardian and The Independent, made a six-part BBC TV series entitled 'Everything to Play For,' and recorded a highly acclaimed cycle of Shostakovich symphonies. In 2017 he won the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9780571337910 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: 20th century & contemporary classical music Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language Nicola Gardini
The international bestseller that celebrates the beauty, passion and life-lessons to be found in this not-so-dead language
Description Virgil gave us the Aeneid, and Ovid the Metamorphoses; Lucretius analysed the material world and Caesar interrogated how we view reality through the lens of reason - but what does Latin offer us today?
Often seen as the bulky relic of school curricula long forgotten, Latin seems to have lost its punch in the popular conscious. Oxford academic Nicola Gardini, however, argues the case for its lasting importance, offering a personal and passionate defence of the beauty and future of the language. From these ancient writers, we can learn about such vital aspects of life as love, purpose, eloquence, beauty and loss. These lessons from the past can illuminate our present, and Gardini encourages us to dig to the roots of our own language to consider how Latin has influenced the ways in which we communicate, think and live today.
A formidable mix of history, memoir and criticism, this is a beautiful love letter to one language that ultimately celebrates the vital power of all literature.
About the Author Nicola Gardini lives in Oxford and Milan. His novel The Lost Words of Amelia Lynd (Feltrinelli 2012) was awarded the Viareggio prize in 2012. He teaches Italian Literature at the University of Oxford. He also writes poetry and fiction, having published three novels and several collections of verse. He also co-edits the monthly magazine 'Poesia', based in Milan.
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Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Where There's A Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent Emily Chappell
Emily Chappell's story of transformation into a cross-continental bike racer, pushing the limits of her endurance
Description 'Chappell is a gifted storyteller' - Observer
A London cycle courier with a taste for adventure, Emily Chappell entered an extraordinary new race - The Transcontinental - in which riders must find their own way, entirely unassisted, across Europe in the shortest time possible. On her second attempt, she won the women's event, covering nearly 4,000 miles in 13 days and ten hours, sleeping in short bursts wherever exhaustion took her.
In the aftermath of a win that troubled as much as pleased her she worked with Mike Hall, the founder of the race, until his tragic death on the road.
Where There's a Will is a book about a normal person finding the capacity to do something extraordinary; the paradoxes of comradeship, competition, vulnerability and will and the shock of grief, combined in a beautifully written and very human story.
About the Author Emily Chappell worked as a cycle courier in London for many years, telling her story in What Goes Around. Since then she has explored the world on her bike and committed to supporting others to do the same, as a founder of The Adventure Syndicate
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Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity Kwame Anthony Appiah
From the best-selling author of Cosmopolitanism comes this revealing exploration of how the collective identities that shape our polarized world are riddled with contradiction.
Description We often think identity is personal. But the identities that shape the world, our struggles, and our hopes, are social ones, shared with countless others. Our sense of self is shaped by our family, but also by affiliations that spread out from there, like our nationality, culture, class, race and religion.
Taking these broad categories as a starting point, Professor Appiah challenges our assumptions about how identity works. In eloquent and lively chapters, he weaves personal anecdote with historical, cultural and literary example to explore the entanglements within the stories we tell ourselves. We all know there are conflicts among identities; but Professor Appiah explores how identities are created by conflict.
Identities are then crafted from confusions - confusions this book aims to help us sort through. Religion, Appiah shows us, isn't primarily about beliefs. The idea of national self-determination is incoherent. Our everyday racial thinking is an artefact of discarded science. Class is not a matter of upper and lower. And the very idea of Western culture is a misleading myth. We will see our situation more clearly if we start to question these mistaken identities. This is radical new thinking from a master in the subject and will change forever the way we think about ourselves and our communities.
About the Author Kwame Anthony Appiah is Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University and has been President of the PEN American Center. Grandson of a British Chancellor of the Exchequer and nephew of a Ghanaian king, he studied Philosophy at Cambridge University. He is author of seminal works on philosophy and culture, including In My Father's House, The Honor Code and the prize-winning Cosmopolitanism.
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Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Black Like Me John Howard Griffin
The classic account of a white reporter's journey across the racial divide in 1950s America, reissued for the 60th anniversary of the events with a new foreword by Bernardine Evaristo.
Description In the autumn of 1959, a white Texan journalist named John Howard Griffin travelled across the Deep South of the United States disguised as a black man. Black Like Me is Griffin's own account of his journey. Originally commissioned by the African-American general-interest magazine Sepia under the title 'Journey into Shame', it was published in book-form in 1961, revealing to a white audience the day-to-day experience of racism in segregation-era America.
Selling over five million copies, Black Like Me became one of the best-known accounts of race and racism in the 1960s, and helped turn the eyes of white society towards the everyday indignities and injustices of segregation. Today, sixty years after Griffin's extraordinary journey across the racial divide, Black Like Me's unrepeatable act of journalistic intrepidity stands as a fascinating document of its times.
'John Howard Griffin has come closer to understanding what it's like to be black in America than any white man that I know.' Louis Lomax, Saturday Review
'If it was a frightening experience for him as nothing but a make-believe Negro for sixty-six days, then you think about what real Negroes in America have gone through for 400 years.' Malcom X
About the Author John Howard Griffin was born in Texas in 1920. As a student in France in 1939 he was caught up with the outbreak of the Second World War, and worked with the French Resistance before joining the US Army. Hit by shrapnel in an air raid, he lost his sight; a bout of spinal malaria in 1955 led to the paralysis of his lower body, but remarkably he regained both his sight and the use of his legs two years later. After the publication of Black Like Me he worked as a human rights activist, and taught at the University of Peace. He died in 1980.
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Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Dramatic Exchanges: Letters of the National Theatre edited by Daniel Rosenthal, National Theatre Letters and foreword by Helen Mirren
A unique collection of correspondence between the most celebrated actors, directors and playwrights of the past 50 years - now in paperback
Description The perfect gift for any theatre lover
There has been always as much drama offstage as on at the National Theatre, and much of it is to be found in the letters, telegrams, scribbled notes and colourful postcards of its main players.
- What drove Laurence Olivier to confess: 'The foolishness of my position starts to obsess me'? - Why did Maggie Smith write: 'I am absolutely heartbroken by your decision'? - What prompted Judi Dench to ask: 'Can't you write me a musical so that I can sit on a chair in a fur hat & nothing else and sing RUDE songs?'
This book brings together for the first time some of the most inspiring, dramatic and amusing letters from the life of Britain's most beloved theatre: Laurence Olivier's gracious rejection letters, Peter Hall's combative memos, Helen Mirren's impassioned defence of theatrical innovation, fantastical good luck missives and long conspiratorial letters. Together, they reveal the stories behind some of the most lavish, triumphant, daring and disastrous productions in the theatre's history, including Amadeus, Romans in Britain, Laurence Olivier's Othello, Closer, The History Boys and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
A rich collection of correspondence like no other, this book offers a fascinating and celebratory look at the world of theatre and beyond.
About the Author Price: $32.99 $36.99 Daniel Rosenthal is a writer and lecturer. He has written on theatre and film for The Times, Independent and Observer, ISBN: 9781781259368 and his previous books include the award-winning The National Theatre Story, 100 Shakespeare Films and Student Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 235x153mm Editions of David Mamet's Oleanna and Patrick Marber's Closer. He has chaired 30 National Theatre Platforms and is Extent: 416 pages Associate Producer of the BBC 4 Arena documentaries on the NT. Bic1: Diaries, letters & journals Bic2: Theatre studies Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Signs Were There: The clues for investors that a company is heading for a fall Tim Steer
The stories, scandals and crucial insights behind stock market disasters - and how to avoid them
Description When companies suffer a dramatic even catastrophic drop in their share price, it is the investors who lose their shirts and employees their jobs. But often, a company's published accounts offer clues to impending disaster, providing you know where to look.
Through the forensic examination of more than 20 recent stock market disasters, Tim Steer reveals how companies hide or disguise worrying facts about the robustness of their business. In his lively style, he looks at the themes that underlie the ways companies hide the truth and he stresses that in an assessment of a company's accounts, investors should always bear in mind that the only fact is cash; everything else - profit, assets, etc - is a matter of opinion. Full of invaluable lessons for investors, the book concludes with some trenchant observations on what is wrong in the worlds of investment, audit and financial regulation, and what changes should be introduced.
About the Author Tim Steer qualified as an accountant before moving into investment analysis and fund management, becoming one of the most highly rated fund managers in Britain. Since 2000 he has also written regularly for the Times and Sunday Times, as well as contributing to the Financial Times.
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Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Realms of the Human Unconscious: Observations from LSD Research Stanislav Grof
The classic book of a radical new psychology by one of the founding fathers of consciousness research
Description A pioneering and revolutionary book that lays the foundation for a radical new psychology, based on an expanded cartography of the human unconscious. Famous for his lifelong research into psychedelic drugs, Dr. Grof constructs a comprehensive and helpful framework out of the bewildering welter of experiences triggered by LSD in patients and research subjects.
Current research into the brain and ways of expanding consciousness give this seminal book, first published in 1979, new importance for the light it throws on many fundamental, but hitherto mysterious, human potentialities. Grof's theory of the human psyche transcends the personal and opens ways to a greater understanding of our inner selves.
About the Author Stanislav Grof is an internationally acclaimed researcher of the transformative potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness. He is a founder of Transpersonal Psychology, and teaches at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
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Souvenir Press AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Tao: The Watercourse Way Alan Watts, contributions by Al Chung-Liang Huang
The last work by Alan Watts, Tao is the culmination of a lifetime's study and thought
Description Following Alan Watts' acclaimed book on Zen Buddhism The Way of Zen, he tackles the Chinese philosophy of Tao.
The Tao is the way of man's cooperation with the natural course of the natural world. Alan Watts takes the reader through the history of Tao and its interpretations by key thinkers such as Lao-Tzu, author of the Tao Te Ching. Watts goes on to demonstrate how the ancient and timeless Chinese wisdom of Tao promotes the idea of following a life lived according to the natural world and goes against our goal-oriented ideas by allowing time to quiet our minds and observe the world rather than imposing ourselves on it. By taking in some of the lessons of Tao, we can change our attitude to the way we live.
Drawing on ancient and modern sources, Watts treats the Chinese philosophy of Tao in much the same way as he did Zen Buddhism in his classic The Way of Zen. Including an introduction to the Chinese culture that is the foundation of the Tao, this is one of Alan Watts' best-loved works.
About the Author Alan Watts was a philosopher, academic and theologian, who wrote and spoke widely on Asian philosophy and theology. He became a cult figure in the 50s and 60s, lecturing and presenting radio shows in San Francisco and the Bay Area. His ideas especially gained a following in counter-cultural circles, including among the Beat generation. He is best known as an interpreter of Zen Buddhism in particular, and of Indian and Chinese philosophy in general. He was the author of more than twenty books on the philosophy and psychology of religion including Behold the Spirit, The Way of Zen, and Cloud- Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal. He died in 1973.
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Souvenir Press AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence and the Cosmic Game of Hide-and-Seek Alan Watts
Six key lessons drawn from deep study of Zen Buddhism, from the leading interpreter of Eastern philosophy and religion for a Western audience.
Description In order to come to your senses, Alan Watts often said, you sometimes need to go out of your mind. Out of Your Mind brings readers, for the first time, six of this legendary thinker's most engaging teachings on how to break through the limits of the rational mind.
Offering answers to generations of spiritual seekers, Alan Watts is the voice for all who search for an understanding of their identity and role in the world.
For those both new and familiar with Watts, this book invites us to delve into his favourite pathways out of the trap of conventional awareness: discover art of the ""controlled accident"" - what happens when you stop taking your life so seriously and start enjoying it with complete sincerity. Embrace chaos to discover your deepest purpose.
How do we come to believe ""the myth of myself"" - that we are skin-encapsulated egos separate from the world around us-and how to transcend that illusion? Find the miracle that occurs when we stop taking life so seriously.
About the Author Alan Watts was one of the best-known writers of the 1960s and 1970s, and the leading interpreter of Eastern religion and philosophy for Western readers. He published over 25 books, including The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, The Way of Zen and Tao: The Watercourse Way. He was a philosopher, academic and theologian, who wrote and spoke widely on Asian philosophy and theology. He is Price: $19.99 $22.99 best known as an interpreter of Zen Buddhism in particular, and of Indian and Chinese philosophy in general. He was the ISBN: 9781788164450 author of more than twenty books on the philosophy and psychology of religion. He died in 1973. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Mind, Body, Spirit Bic2: Popular psychology Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Souvenir Press AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Homage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent Scientist James Lovelock
A new edition of the celebrated thinker James Lovelock's autobiography to celebrate his 100th birthday
Description A new edition in the year of James Lovelock's 100th birthday
With over fifty patents to his name and innumerable awards and accolades, James Lovelock is a distinguished and original thinker who has been widely recognized by the international scientific community.
In this inspiring book, republished in the year of his 100th birthday, Lovelock tells his life story, from his first steps as a scientist to his work with organisations as diverse as NASA, Shell and the Marine Biological Association. Homage to Gaia describes the years of travel and work that led to his crucial scientific breakthroughs in environmental awareness, uncovering how CFCs impact on the ozone layer and creating the concept of Gaia, the theory that the Earth is a self- regulating system.
Written in a sharp and energetic style, James Lovelock's book will entertain and inspire anyone interested in science or the creative spirit.
About the Author James Lovelock, who was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974, is the author of more than 200 scientific papers and the originator of the Gaia Hypothesis (now Gaia Theory). His many books on the subject include Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (1979), The Revenge of Gaia (2006), The Vanishing Face of Gaia (2009) and A Rough Ride to the Future (2014). In 2003 he was made a Companion of Honour by Her Majesty the Queen, in 2005 Prospect magazine named him one of the world's top 100 public intellectuals, and in 2006 he received the Wollaston Medal, the highest Award of the UK Geological Society.
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Souvenir Press AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman Ian Kerner
An indispensable guide for straight men by an expert sex therapist - how to have great sex and make your partner happy!
Description Did you know that the clitoris has 8000 nerve endings, twice as many as the penis? Here is everything you've wondered about the female orgasm and how to make it happen.
A witty, well-researched and revealing guide to giving your lover an orgasm every time. More than just foreplay, Ian Kerner argues that oral sex is the key to a great sex life for both partners. Short sections cover philosophy, technique, step-by-step instructions and detailed anatomical information, essential to both beginners and experienced lovers.
'It's time to close the sex gap and create a level playing field in the exchange of pleasure, and cunnilingus is far more than just a means for achieving this noble end; it's the cornerstone of a new sexual paradigm, one that exuberantly extols a shared experience of pleasure, intimacy, respect and contentment. It's also one of the greatest gifts of love a man can bestow upon a woman.' Ian Kerner
About the Author Ian Kerner is a licensed psychotherapist and nationally recognized sexuality counselor who specializes in sex therapy, couples therapy and working with individuals on a range of relational issues. He holds a doctorate in Clinical Sexology from the American Academy of Clinical Sexologists and contributes regularly to CNN Health.
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Souvenir Press AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Gender: A Graphic Guide Meg-John Barker, illustrated by Julia Scheele
An exciting new exploration of gender from the creators of the groundbreaking Queer: A Graphic History
Description Join the creators of Queer: A Graphic History ('Could totally change the way you think about sex and gender' VICE) on an illustrated journey of gender exploration.
We'll look at how gender has been 'done' differently - from patriarchal societies to trans communities - and how it has been viewed differently - from biological arguments for sex difference to cultural arguments about received gender norms. We'll dive into complex and shifting ideas about masculinity and femininity, look at non-binary, trans and fluid genders, and examine the intersection of experiences of gender with people's race, sexuality, class, disability and more.
Tackling current debates and tensions, which can divide communities and even cost lives, we'll look to the past and the future to ask how might we approach gender differently, in more socially constructive, caring ways.
About the Author Meg-John Barker is the author of a number of popular books on sex, gender and relationships, drawing on their years of academic research and therapeutic practice in these areas.
Julia Scheele is an illustrator, graphic facilitator and comic book artist. Scheele runs One Beat Zines, a feminist zine collective and distributor.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781785784521 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 245x177mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Gender studies, gender groups Bic2: Graphic novels: true stories & non-fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Queer: A Graphic History Dr Meg-John Barker, illustrated by Julia Scheele
Barker and Scheele invite you to question the status quo and to start seeing things more queerly.
Description Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTI action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel. From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do; how these ideas get tangled up with our culture and our understanding of biology, psychology and sexology; and how these views have been disputed and challenged.
Along the way we look at key landmarks which shift our perspective of what's 'normal' - Alfred Kinsey's view of sexuality as a spectrum, Judith Butler's view of gendered behaviour as a performance, the play Wicked, or moments in Casino Royale when we're invited to view James Bond with the kind of desiring gaze usually directed at female bodies in mainstream media.
Presented in a brilliantly engaging and witty style, this is a unique portrait of the universe of queer thinking.
About the Author Dr Meg-John Barker is a writer, therapist, and activist-academic specialising in sex, gender and relationships. Meg-John is a senior lecturer in psychology at the Open University and a UKCP accredited psychotherapist, and has over a decade of experience researching and publishing on these topics including the popular book Rewriting the Rules. @megjohnbarker Julia Scheele is an illustrator, graphic facilitator and comic book artist. She runs One Beat Zines, a feminist zine collective and distributor. @juliascheele
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Icon AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Empress of the East: How a Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire Leslie Peirce
The extraordinary story of a slave-girl who rose from concubine to become the Ottoman Empire's only queen.
Description Abducted by slave traders from her home in Ruthenia - modern-day Ukraine - around 1515, Roxelana was brought to Istanbul and trained in the palace harem as a concubine for Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire and one of the world's most powerful men.
Suleyman became besotted with Roxelana and foreswore all other concubines, freeing and marrying her. The bold and canny Roxelana became a shrewd diplomat and philanthropist, helping Suleyman keep pace with a changing world in which women - Isabella of Hungary, Catherine de Medici - were increasingly close to power.
Until now Roxelana has been seen by historians as a seductress who brought ruin to the empire, but in Empress of the East, acclaimed historian Leslie Peirce reveals with panache the compelling story of an elusive woman who transformed the Ottoman harem into an institution of imperial rule.
About the Author Leslie Peirce was until recently Silver Professor of History, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU. She has also taught at Cornell and UC Berkeley. She earned her BA and MA from Harvard and received a PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University. Peirce's work has won her two Fulbrights, two NEH fellowships, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, and other academic distinctions.
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Icon AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Collector of Leftover Souls: Dispatches from Brazil Eliane Brum, translated by Diane Grosklaus Whitty
From Brazil's answer to Svetlana Alexeivich: a powerful glimpse into the lives of ordinary Brazilians
Description Welcome to the favela, welcome to the rainforest, welcome to the real Brazil.
This is the Brazil where a factory worker is loyal to his company for decades, only to find out that they knew the product he was making would eventually poison him. This is the Brazil where the mothers of the favela expect their sons to die as victims of the drug trade while still in their teens. This is the Brazil where the women initiated into the old Amazonian tradition of 'baby-pulling' deliver babies in their own time, far away from the drugs and scalpels of the modern hospital. In the company of award-winning journalist Eliane Brum, we meet the individuals struggling to stay afloat in a society riven by inequality and violence, and witness the resilience of spirit and commitment to life that makes Brazil one of the most complicated, most exhilarating places on earth.
About the Author Eliane Brum is a Brazilian journalist, writer and documentarist. She writes regularly for El Pais and the Guardian and has won more than 40 international awards for reporting. She is the author of a novel, three non-fiction books and a collection of her newspaper columns. She is also the director/ co-director of three documentaries, including Laerte-Se, about the transgender cartoonist for Netflix.
Diane Grosklaus Whitty is a translator of Brazilian Portuguese, specializing in the social sciences, history, and public health. She has also translated prose and poetry, with her translations appearing in The Guardian, The Lancet, History Today, and Litro.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781846276644 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Reportage & collected journalism Bic2: Travel writing Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 You'll Never See Daylight Again Michaella McCollum
THE GRITTY PRISON MEMOIR OF MICHAELLA McCOLLUM, ONE HALF OF THE INFAMOUS 'PERU TWO', SENTENCED TO 7 YEARS IN A PERUVIAN JAIL FOR ATTEMPTING TO SMUGGLE 11KG OF COCAINE
Description The gritty prison memoir of Michaella McCollum, one half of the infamous 'Peru Two', imprisoned in a Peruvian jail for attempting to smuggle 11kg of cocaine from Peru to Madrid in August 2013.
She was just a regular girl, spending the summer working at a bar in Ibiza, until she was approached by a man who asked her if she'd like to make some quick, easy money...and it would change her life forever. This is the truth of her time in prison, told through her own diaries and letters to her mother, family and friends, recounting tales of vicious guards, psychotic inmates and horrendous prison conditions.
A brilliantly affecting tale of a naive young girl who starts out in the Ibiza party scene and comes of age in the dark heart of Peru, before finally emerging into the sun a stronger, more confident, mature young woman.
About the Author
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John Blake AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 At the Birth of Bowie: Life with the Man Who Became a Legend Phil Lancaster
At the Birth of Bowie is a new, personal look at the genesis of a music legend.
Description It is 1965, and Swinging London is coming into its prime years. The streets are alive with mods and rockers, playboys and good-time girls, all revelling in the blossoming artistic, creative and cultural energies of the decade.
Amid the colour and chaos is a boy sporting drainpipe jeans, an immaculately tailored sports coat and a half-inch wide tie. A devoted fan of The Who, he looks the part in his pristine mod gear. As the lead singer of the Lower Third, his talent is shaping itself into something truly special.
His name is Davie Jones. In ten years, he will be unrecognisable as fresh-faced boy of 1965, and in just over fifty years, his death will be mourned by millions, his legacy the story of the greatest rock star of all time.
And, all through the years of the late sixties, Phil Lancaster was by his side. As the drummer in Bowie's band, the Lower Third, Phil was there as the singer's musical stripes began to show, and was witness to his early recording techniques, his first experimental forays into drug-taking, and the band's discovery of his bisexuality in shocking circumstances.
In this riveting - and often very funny - memoir, Phil tells the story of life alongside the insecure yet blazingly talented boy who became Bowie, at a critical crossroad of time and place in music history. What follows is an intimate, personal and important perspective on the genesis of one of the most iconic musicians of the twentieth century - one that gets under the skin of the man himself, before the personas and alter-egos masked the fascinating figure beneath them.
At the Birth of Bowie is essential reading for anyone who knows what happened on Bowie's journey, but wants to understand how, and why, it ever began.
About the Author Phil Lancaster is a professional drummer across multiple styles. Born in Walthamstow on Boxing Day, 1942 Phil was both Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781789460834 drawn to show business from a young age and took up the drums to form groups with close school friends, cutting his Format: Paperback - B format teeth on the changing musical styles of the day including skiffle, jazz and early rock before finally turning fully professional Dimensions: 200x130mm at the age of 21. Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Autobiography: arts & entertainment Bic2: After returning from live engagements in Europe and in need of a new group Phil followed up a music paper advert and Illustrations: met a 19-year-old singer called David Jones (who had yet to change his name to Bowie) at the famous Gioconda cafe in Previous Titles: Denmark Street, thus becoming a member of Davie Jones and The Lower Third - the band with whom David Jones would Author now living: become David Bowie - all without a formal audition.
Kevin Cann is a Bowie expert who has worked as a designer and writer for the last 35 years. His publications include David Bowie A Chronology for Vermilion, and Kevin's definitive early years account of Bowie's life and careerJohn - Any Blake Day AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Get a F*cking Grip: How to Get Your Life Back on Track Matthew Kimberley
Description - You know the key to having more energy has nothing to do with crystals and chakras... and everything to do with how much sleep you get.
- You know that neglecting your friends will leave you destitute and lonely... but you're still too damn lazy to pick up your phone and get in touch.
- You know you could get through your to-do list in half the time... yet you're still stalking your ex on Facebook.
- You know you just need a kick up the backside... and that's what you'll find within the pages of this book.
Get A F*cking Grip is the self-help book for people who hate self-help, offering simple no-nonsense advice that you can implement into all areas of your life, allowing you to get on with everything you've always wanted to do. Learning how to get a f*cking grip is the key to taking back control of your life.
About the Author Matthew Kimberley is a British businessman and sales consultant. His blog howtogetagrip.com offered no-nonsense lessons for life and provided the foundation for this book. He now runs his own consultancy business, working with clients ranging from one-person service business start-ups to bigger and more mature operations as well as hosting the 'How to Get A Grip' podcast. He is based in Malta.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781789461794 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 210x140mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
John Blake AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Charles: Our Future King Robert Jobson
The intimate study that debunked the myths about 'the man who will be King'.
Description Exploring beyond the banal newspaper headlines that have caricatured our future king over the years, Robert Jobson's biography provides a fresh insight into the extraordinary life of HRH Charles, Prince of Wales as he passes his seventieth birthday at a watershed in the history of the modern British monarchy.
Based on extensive fresh material and resources, the book debunks the myths about the man who will be king, telling his full, true story. The author has met Prince Charles on countless occasions, and draws on the knowledge and memories of a number of sources close to the prince who have never spoken before, as well as members of the Royal Household past and present who have served him during his decades of public service. The book also reveals the truth about the Prince's deeply loving but not always conventional relationship with his second wife and chief supporter, Camilla. The result is an intriguing new portrait of a man on the cusp of kingship.
Charles: Our Future King explores the Prince's complex character, his profoundly held beliefs and deep thinking about religion - including Islam - politics, the armed services, the monarchy and the constitution, providing an illuminating portrait of what kind of king Charles III will be.
About the Author Dubbed 'the Godfather of royal reporting' by the Wall Street Journal, Robert Jobson is Royal Editor of the London Evening Standard, Australia's Channel 7 shows Sunrise and The Morning Show, as well as royal commentator for the ABC network's Good Morning America. In the UK he is a regular on BBC, ITV and Sky News. A bestselling author and award- winning correspondent, he has been at the forefront of royal reporting for well over twenty-five years.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781789461626 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Biography: royalty Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
John Blake AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 How To Be An F1 Driver Jenson Button
Learn how to be the best F1 driver with champion Jenson Button.
Description Why is it best to practice your champagne celebration ahead of the big day? How do you tell a multiple F1 champion they need to check their blind-spot? And how do you face down your boss when you've just stacked his multi-million pound car into a wall during practice?
In his brilliantly-written and revealing new book, expert driver Jenson Button takes the reader behind the wheel, telling us all about what it is like to be a champion F1 driver.
From the couch to the podium, the pit-lane to the racetrack, Jenson reveals what really goes on behind-the-scenes. The people, the places, the weird rituals, the motorhomes, the media, the cars, the perks and the disasters, this is the perfect book for any petrol-head, and what all F1 fans have been waiting for.
About the Author Born in Frome, Somerset, British Racing driver Jenson Button has been in Formula 1 for seventeen years, appearing in 309 grands prix, the second most in history. He won the 2009 Formula One World Championship, driving for Brawn GP. Outside of racing, he set up the Jenson Button Trust for his fundraising activities which includes the Jenson Button Triathlon which has raised money for Help For Heroes, Cancer Research and now Barnardo's.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781788702621 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Automotive technology & trades Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Blink AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Robbie Fowler: My Life in Football Robbie Fowler
Anfield's favourite son, 25 years after first signing as a professional for Liverpool, on goals, glory and the lessons he's learnt.
Description To Liverpool fans, Robbie Fowler was 'God'. He is the sixth-highest goal scorer in the history of the Premier League and notched 183 goals for Liverpool alone.
But before all of that, he was a Liverpool lad who loved the game, the Kop and everything that came with it. A Footballer's Life is the story of a fan who became a legend.
Born in Liverpool in 1975, Robbie Fowler became a club icon by the time he was 18. No, he takes us through the games that have shaped his life and football philosophy, over 25 years after he first signed as a professional for Liverpool.
Engaging, personal and revealing, Robbie opens up about his astounding achievements, the price of fame and the regrets and struggles of being a professional footballer. From Hillsborough to Madrid, via the cup treble, that goal line celebration, hundreds of goals, Houllier, Benitez, Klopp and more, Robbie explains his thinking about the modern game. Inviting readers inside the dressing room, he shares stories of legendary teammates like Rush, Owen and Gerrard, as well as his rise to football's top table. How did he get back up so many times after the injuries that blighted his career? What gave him the drive to keep going and pursue his dreams?
A Footballer's Life harks back to a simpler time when fans and players shared the same story, and when the local boy really could dream of scoring a hat-trick for his home club when Saturday came.
About the Author Robbie Fowler w as born in Liverpool in 1975, and is one of the most revered football players in Liverpool history.
Known to all as 'God', Fowler was a gifted and natural scorer, with an instinctive goal-poaching ability. He is best Price: $34.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9781788701112 remembered for his time at Liverpool and is the sixth-highest goal scorer in the history of the Premier League. He scored Format: Paperback - C format 183 goals in total for Liverpool, becoming a club legend. He subsequently played for Leeds United and Manchester City, Dimensions: 234x153mm before returning to Liverpool in January 2006. He was capped for England 26 times and was included in England's Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Football (Soccer, Association football) squads for Euro 1996 and 2000, and the 2002 World Cup. He later played for Cardiff City and Blackburn Rovers, as well Bic2: as Australian teams North Queensland Fury and Perth Glory. He retired in 2012, after time as a player-manager for Thai Illustrations: side Muangthong United. Previous Titles: Author now living:
Blink AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The 80/20 Lifestyle Plan: Stop dieting, start living Dan Wheeler
Dan Wheeler's life-changing lifestyle plan that puts you back in control of your health and fitness.
Description YOU DID IT!!!You've just taken the first step to change your life, to finally get off the dieting wagon and free yourself from all the misery that comes with it.
Before we go any further, give yourself a pat on the back. I'm serious.
This book is not only going to change your life for the better, it is going to make you healthier and, just as importantly, happier.
Bold words, I know. Words you've heard from every diet book you've ever tried, I'm sure.
I've done them all too. I was 22 stone and severely obese. I was unhappy, under-motivated and unfit. So how did I turn this around and not only lose weight but end up a Men's Fitness cover star?
Step forward the 80/20 lifestyle plan. A plan I devised on my own, for myself - and now for you. I'm living proof that it works - you won't find a bigger (literally) body transformation than mine.
If you're anything like me, then you're sick to death of diets and dieting. But this is about to change, forever!
After reading this book, you'll be armed with all the tools you need to never have to diet again. My goal is to educate and empower you, as well as explaining the life-changing pillars of the 80/20 plan:
Nutrition
Movement Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781788701372 Format: Paperback Mindset Dimensions: 246x189mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: General cookery & recipes By the time you have finished 80/20, you will know more about nutrition and mindset than most personal trainers and Bic2: Men's health therapists. Illustrations: Previous Titles: No, I'm not kidding. The 80/20 Lifestyle Plan will take you on a journey that will change the way you think about fat loss, Author now living: change the way you think about exercise, and change the way you think in general.
Sit back. Buckle in. You're going to enjoy this Lagom AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Hungover: A History of the Morning After and One Man's Quest for a Cure Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall
One intrepid reporter's quest to learn everything there is to know about hangovers, trying all of the cures he can find and explaining how (and if) they work, all so rest of us don't have to...
Description We've all been there. One minute you're fast asleep, and in the next you're tumbling from dreams of deserts and demons, into semi-consciousness, mouth full of sand, head throbbing. You're hungover. Courageous journalist Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall has gone to the front lines of humanity's age-old fight against hangovers to settle once and for all the best way to get rid of the aftereffects of a night of indulgence (short of not drinking in the first place).
Hangovers have plagued human beings for about as long as civilization has existed (and arguably longer), so there has been plenty of time for cures to be concocted. But even in 2018, little is actually known about hangovers, and less still about how to cure them. Cutting through the rumour and the myth, Hungover explores everything from polar bear swims, to saline IV drips, to the age-old hair of the dog, to let us all know which ones actually work. And along the way, Bishop- Stall regales readers with stories from humanity's long and fraught relationship with booze, and shares the advice of everyone from Kingsley Amis to a man in a pub.
About the Author Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall's first book was an account of the year he spent in deep cover, living with the homeless in Toronto's infamous Tent City. Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown was nominated for the 2005 Pearson Writers' Trust of Canada Non-Fiction Prize, the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, the Trillium Award, and the City of Toronto Book Award. The following year, he was awarded the Knowlton Nash Journalism Fellowship at Massey College and also played the role of Jason - a bad-mannered, well-dressed journalist - on CBC-TV's The Newsroom. He currently teaches writing at the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies. He has also written a novel, Ghosted, that was published in Canada, the US, and France.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781788701808 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Cookery / food & drink etc Bic2: Social & cultural history Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
535 AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Shadow King Maaza Mengiste
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Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781838851163 Format: Dimensions: 240x162mm Extent: 448 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Rebellion's Message Michael Jecks
Introducing Tudor cutpurse and adventurer Jack Blackjack in the first of a historical mystery series set in 1550s London
Description London, 1554. Light-fingered Jack Blackjack wakes in a tavern's yard with a sore head, his knife smeared with blood and a dead stranger lying beside him. Jack may have robbed the man but he's certain that he didn't kill him.
Unfortunately, the man's purse contains something much more valuable than money and, as the prime suspect for the murder, everyone is on Jack's tail. He needs to get out of the city, and fast, but a rebel army is marching on London: the bridge is blocked and every gate manned. Trapped in the city, Jack must avoid being caught long enough to find the real murderer.
About the Author Michael Jecks' books have won wide acclaim in the UK and abroad, and been shortlisted for prizes such as the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. His Medieval West Country mysteries have sold over 185,000 copies. Jecks has been the organiser of the Crime Writers' Association's Debut Dagger and a judge for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. In 2016 he was honoured to be elected as Hon. Secretary of the prestigious Detection Club.
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Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781786894977 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Historical mysteries Bic2: Crime & mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Salt Water Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion's 1997 ambitious and accessible collection - reissued in Faber Poetry typographic series
Description Salt Water is Andrew Motion's most ambitious collection, yet also his most accessible. The first part refines the narrative and lyric skills for which he is well-known, combining intense personal concerns with themes which are more expansive and social. Family and loved ones appear in the company of historical and legendary figures; private dramas raise large general issues. But there is concentration as well as diversity. From the Orford Merman of the title poem, to an elegy written for a friend who died on the Marchioness, to the vivid prose meditation of the second part, written when Andrew Motion retraced the voyage that John Keats made by sea from London to Naples in the autumn of 1820, the book insistently and brilliantly elaborates images of water. It is the element which facilitates a rich interweaving of past and present, of re-enacted experience and the poignant suspension of the lived-in moment.
About the Author Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009 and is co-founder of the online Poetry Archive; in 2015 he was appointed a Homewood Professor in the Arts at Johns Hopkins University. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, including most recently the Ted Hughes Award (2015), and has published four celebrated biographies, a novella, The Invention of Dr Cake (2003) and a memoir, In the Blood (2006). Andrew Motion was knighted for his services to poetry in 2009. He lives in Baltimore.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9780571356010 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Poetry by individual poets Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Poetry AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Six Zaffar Kunial
A pamphlet of cricket poems to coincide with Zaffar's poetry residency at the Oval this September - in the PEN/Pinter prize series spec.
Description I knew it was the beginning of something. My first match. History in the making - the way history turns in the air like a coin -
Cricket was a major part of the poet Zaffar Kunial's childhood when growing up near the Edgbaston cricket ground in Birmingham. This pamphlet gathers six of his new poems on the subject, along with a series of previously published 'Extras'. Whether capturing legends of the sport, such as Imran Khan captaining his first Test match, or a shy encounter with Brian Johnston; the poet's boyish ambitions of becoming a professional player; experimenting with time in an elliptical sequence on hours at the Oval; or the timeless still point of a hit ball - Six is a collection for lovers of poetry and cricket alike.
About the Author Zaffar Kunial was born in Birmingham and lives in Hebden Bridge. He published a pamphlet in the Faber New Poets series in 2014 and spent that year as the Wordsworth Trust Poet-in-Residence. Since his first public reading, of 'Hill Speak' at the 2011 National Poetry Competition awards, he has spoken at various literature festivals and in programmes for BBC radio, and won the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize for his poem 'The Word'. His debut collection, Us, was published in 2019.
Price: $12.99 $14.99 ISBN: 9780571358823 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 24 pages Bic1: Poetry by individual poets Bic2: Cricket Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Poetry AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Hard Problem Tom Stoppard
A powerful interrogation of consciousness and psychology from the highly-acclaimed playwright behind Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Arcadia.
Description Above all don't use the word good as though it meant something in evolutionary science.
Hilary, a young psychology researcher at a brain-science institute, is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling question at work, where psychology and biology meet. If there is nothing but matter, what is consciousness?
This is 'the hard problem' which puts Hilary at odds with her colleagues who include her first mentor Spike, her boss Leo and the billionaire founder of the institute, Jerry.
Is the day coming when the computer and the fMRI scanner will answer all the questions psychology can ask? Meanwhile Hilary needs a miracle, and she is prepared to pray for one.
The Hard Problem by Tom Stoppard premiered at the National Theatre, London, in January 2015.
About the Author Tom Stoppard's work includes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, After Magritte, Dirty Linen, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink, The Invention of Love, the trilogy The Coast of Utopia and Rock 'n' Roll. His radio plays include If You're Glad I'll Be Frank, Albert's Bridge, Where Are They Now?, Artists Descending a Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died, In the Native State and Darkside (incorporating Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon). Television work includes Professional Foul, Squaring the Circle and Parade's End. His film credits include Empire of the Sun, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which he also directed, Shakespeare in Love, Enigma and Anna Karenina.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9780571355501 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 200x130mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Plays AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Duchess (of Malfi) Zinnie Harris
A vivid reimagining of Webster's The Duchess of Malfi for the #MeToo age from Zinnie Harris
Description You should know: I sing at parties, I wear colourful dresses, I am headstrong, I won't wear my hair up because you say I should, or do this because you prefer it, in fact I might do the other just to be contrary, but I am utterly and always myself.
The Duchess is a young widow. And with money, sexual freedom and youth, she's a threat to the status quo; she could get to determine her own life.
Terrified by her sudden power and its implications, her brothers Ferdinand and The Cardinal seek to block The Duchess's desires and to dismantle her authority and spirit by any means at their disposal. The results are horrifying, with bloody vengeance from the most unexpected of sources.
The Duchess (of Malfi), Zinnie Harris's radical take on Webster's great revenge tragedy, premiered at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in May 2019.
About the Author Zinnie Harris's plays include the multi-award-winning Further than the Furthest Thing (National Theatre/Tron Theatre; winner of the 1999 Peggy Ramsay Award, 2001 John Whiting Award, Edinburgh Fringe First Award), How to Hold Your Breath (Royal Court Theatre; joint winner of the Berwin Lee Award), The Wheel (National Theatre of Scotland; joint winner of the 2011 Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award), Nightingale and Chase (Royal Court Theatre), Midwinter, Solstice (both RSC), Fall (Traverse Theatre/RSC), By Many Wounds (Hampstead Theatre) and the trilogy This Restless House (Citizens Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland), based on Aeschylus' Oresteia. Also, Ibsen's A Doll's House for the Donmar Warehouse, Strindberg's Miss Julie for the National Theatre of Scotland and Webster's The Duchess (of Malfi) (Royal Lyceum Theatre). Zinnie received an Arts Foundation Fellowship for playwriting, and was Writer in Residence at the RSC, 2000-2001. She is Professor of Playwriting and Screenwriting at St Andrews University, and was the Associate Director at the Traverse Theatre from 2015-2018. Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9780571355389 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Plays AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Tartuffe, the Imposter John Donnelly
Description Orgon is the man who has everything. Money, power, a beautiful family. But lately he's been questioning the point of it all. When he invites Tartuffe into his perfect household, he unleashes a whirlwind of deception and seduction that threatens everything.
With Orgon under Tartuffe's spell, can his family outwit this charismatic trickster? Are Tartuffe's wild claims truth or fiction? This mysterious stranger may not be quite the villain he appears.
John Donnelly's ferocious new version of Moliere's comic masterpiece looks at the lengths we go to find meaning - and what happens when we find chaos instead. Tartuffe, the Imposter opened at the National Theatre, London, in February 2019.
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Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9780571354351 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 197x126mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Plays AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 In Lipstick Annie Jenkins
Description Things don't change no matter how much you want them to. You try, you run away, you make things new but they're not. It's just the same old shit covered in lipstick.
Maud, a woman on the run from her damaged past, has sheltered Cynthia from the outside world for the last few years. But while Cynthia is a recluse, living for their dressing-up box, their fairy tales and Shirley Bassey on YouTube, Maud meets Dennis, a security guard at her office. As Cynthia clings, Maud begins to dream of escaping their isolated and claustrophobic world.
Annie Jenkins' debut play In Lipstick gives savage, funny and heartfelt voice to two women trapped in a fractured city, not quite knowing how to love each other.
About the Author Annie Jenkins has written two full-length plays, In Lipstick and Staying at Stacey's. In 2016 In Lipstick received two rehearsed readings; as part of PlayWROUGHT at the Arcola and Druid Theatre's 'Druid Debuts' season for the Galway International Arts Festival. It was also shortlisted for the Theatre503 Award. In 2018 she wrote one half of VOID at VAULT Festival, winning a VAULT Innovation Award as well as writing and producing A Tinder Trilogy at The Hen & Chickens Theatre as part of the Camden Fringe. She wrote and co-directed Funemployed which was screened at various festivals including the London Short Film Festival in 2017. Short plays include: Sing a Song of Silence (Arcola Youth Theatre), What About England? (Islington Mill), Lunch in My Car (Theatre N16), 50% Lesbian, 100% Scared (Park Theatre/Bunker Theatre) and Annie's 1000 plays (Shakespeare in Shoreditch). She took part in the first HighTide Writers' Group.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9780571354566 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 197x125mm Extent: 112 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Plays AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Son Florian Zeller, translated by Christopher Hampton
Description He's not like he was before. Believe me. I don't know what's happened, but something has. He's changed. He . . . And I'm wondering if . . . To be absolutely honest with you . . . I'm even wondering if . . .
Nicolas, just two years ago a smiling boy, is going through a difficult phase after his parents' divorce. He's listless, skipping classes, lying. He believes moving in with his father and his new family may help. And a different school, a fresh start. When he doesn't feel comfortable there, when he senses he isn't wanted, he decides that going back to his mother's may be the answer. But at some point, options are going to dry up. And then what?
I'm telling you. I don't understand what's happening to me.
Florian Zeller's The Son forms the final part in a trilogy with The Mother and The Father, all of which are translated by Christopher Hampton. The Son premieres at the Kiln Theatre, London, in February 2019.
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Faber Plays AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 One Under Winsome Pinnock
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Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9780571358113 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 112 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Plays AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Pavilion Emily White
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Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9780571359349 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Plays AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 A Winter Hope: A heartwarming festive saga Sheila Newberry
A festive World War two saga by Sheila Newberry, author of The Winter Baby and The Nursemaid's Secret.
Description For fans of Katie Flynn and Sheila Jeffries, A Winter Hope is a heart-warming festive novel from the Queen of family saga, and author of The Winter Baby and The Nursemaid's Secret, Sheila Newberry.
All they want for Christmas is a new home.
Number five Kitchener Avenue heralds the start of a new life for the Hope family. For pregnant Miriam it is a warm, safe environment to bring up her child. For her sister, fourteen-year-old Barbara, it means independence . . . and boys. And for Fred it means the security he craves for his young family.
In the lead up to Christmas, the Hopes settle in, and start to make happy memories in their new home. But World War II is round the corner, and this carefree life can't last.
Soon the family are split up. Bar, wanting to do her bit for the war effort, joins the ATS, while Miriam and her children are evacuated to the countryside and away from her husband.
As the country is thrown into turmoil, can the Hope family come back together and find the happiness they crave?
'I have long been a fan of Sheila Newberry's novels. I love their wonderful warmth and charm.' Maureen Lee, bestselling author of The Seven Streets of Liverpool
'Reading a Sheila Newberry book is like having dinner with your mother in her warm and cosy kitchen. You can feel the love and care put into every juicy morsel' - Diane Allen, bestselling author of For the Sake of Her Family
About the Author Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781785761898 Sheila Newberry was born in Suffolk and spent a lot of time there both before and during the war. She wrote her first Format: Paperback 'book' before she was ten - all sixty pages of it - in purple ink. Her family has certainly been her inspiration and she has Dimensions: mm been published most of her adult life. She spent forty years living in Kent with her husband John on a smallholding, and Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Sagas has nine children and twenty-two lively grandchildren. They retired back to Suffolk where Sheila still lives today. Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Blood's Campaign Angus Donald
ANGUS DONALD MIXES HISTORICAL FACT WITH FICTION IN THIS EXCITING NEW SERIES. PERFECT FOR FANS OF CONN IGGULDEN, JAMES FORRESTER, S. J. PARRIS AND S. G. MCCLEAN.
Description In the theatre of war there can only be one victor . . .
August 25, 1689
The English army has surrounded Carrickfergus in Ireland. The brilliant strategist and gunner Captain Holcroft Blood of the Royal Artillery is ready to train his powerful cannon on the rebellious Catholics. But this is more than war for Blood, there is a terrible vengeance that burns in his heart.
July 1, 1690
The Battle of the Boyne must be decisive for King William's English forces if he is to prevail over deposed King James's rebel Irish and French army. And Holcroft Blood is determined to destroy the man who obsesses him: the ruthless French spymaster who murdered an innocent woman he loved dearly.
As battle commences and the wild Irish brigand Michael 'Galloping' Hogan wreaks havoc on the English, Blood's military tactics prove highly effective, until ambush leaves him staring at a hangman's noose.
Will Blood escape to seek retribution or will his personal vendetta during a war between nations commit him to make the ultimate sacrifice?
About the Author Angus Donald was born in China in 1965 and educated at Marlborough College and Edinburgh University. For over twenty years he was a journalist in Hong Kong, India, Afghanistan and London. He now works and lives in Kent with his Price: $45.00 $49.99 ISBN: 9781785767456 wife and two children. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Historical fiction Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Blood's Revolution Angus Donald
For fans of Bernard Cornwell, S. G. McClean. S. J. Parris and Conn Iggulden comes the second exciting instalment in Angus Donald's thrilling new series.
Description Mixing the fascinating and bloody events of the Stuart reign with thrilling historical fiction, the new series from bestselling author of the Outlaw Chronicles, Angus Donald, is perfect for fans of Conn Iggulden, James Forrester, S. J. Parris and The Favourite.
In an age of treachery everyone must pick a side . . .
It's 1685 and after the victory of Sedgemoor by King James II's men and the Bloody Assizes that followed, the British Isles faces an uneasy time. Many powerful men have grown tired of Catholic James's brutal, autocratic rule and seek to invite William, the Protestant Prince of Orange, to seize the thrones of the Three Kingdoms.
When Lieutenant Holcroft Blood, a brilliant but unusual gunnery officer in His Majesty's Ordnance, discovers that a sinister French agent, known only by his code name Narrey, has landed on English soil, he discovers a plan that could threaten the stability of the nation even further.
While revolution brews in the gentlemen's clubs of London, Holcroft faces a deadly choice - fight for his king, or fight for his friends.
Every decision has a consequence - would you be willing to pay the price?
'Splendid' The Times
'Exhilarating adventure' Sunday Express
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781785764059 'Thrilling, all-action . . . gripping adventure and fun here aplenty' Lancashire Evening Post Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm About the Author Extent: 448 pages Bic1: Historical fiction Angus Donald was born in China in 1965 and educated at Marlborough College and Edinburgh University. For over Bic2: twenty years he was a journalist in Hong Kong, India, Afghanistan and London. He now works and lives in Kent with his Illustrations: wife and two children. Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Beekeeper of Aleppo Christy Lefteri, Art Malik and Art Malik
For readers of THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ, THE KITE RUNNER and THE OTHER HAND - a testament to the human powers of survival.
Description A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB CHOICE 2019
Narrated by Art Malik, The Beekeeper of Aleppo is a moving, powerful, compassionate and beautifully written testament to the triumph of the human spirit. Told with deceptive simplicity, it is the kind of book that reminds us of the power of storytelling.
In the midst of war, he found love In the midst of darkness, he found courage In the midst of tragedy, he found hope
Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo - until the unthinkable happens. When all they care for is destroyed by war, they are forced to escape.
As Nuri and Afra travel through a broken world, they must confront not only the pain of their own unspeakable loss, but dangers that would overwhelm the bravest of souls. Above all - and perhaps this is the hardest thing they face - they must journey to find each other again.
This audio edition is an MP3-CD
Art Malik is a Pakistani-born British actor who achieved international fame in his first film role in Sir David Lean's epic A Passage To India. He has since starred in over 100 films and TV shows, including roles in The Jewel in the Crown, The Living Daylights and True Lies.
Price: $49.99 $55.00 ISBN: 9781838770402 'This is a novel of international significance. Courageous, provocative, haunting, it will open our eyes.' Heather Morris, Format: CD author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz Dimensions: 126x142mm Extent: pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) 'This book dips below the deafening headlines, and tells a true story with subtlety and power' Esther Freud Bic2: Illustrations: 'This compelling tale had me gripped with its compassion, its sensual style and its onward and lively urge for resolution' Previous Titles: Author now living: Daljit Nagra
'Christy Lefteri has crafted a beautiful novel, intelligent, thoughtful; and relevant. I'm recommending this book to everyone I care about. So I'm recommending this book to you' Benjamin Zephaniah Zaffre AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Familiars Stacey Halls, Katy Sobey and Katy Sobey
The biggest debut fiction launch of 2019
Description The most spellbinding debut novel of 2019.
To save her child, she will trust a stranger. To protect a secret, she must risk her life...
Fleetwood Shuttleworth is 17 years old, married, and pregnant for the fourth time. But as the mistress at Gawthorpe Hall, she still has no living child, and her husband Richard is anxious for an heir. When Fleetwood finds a letter she isn't supposed to read from the doctor who delivered her third stillbirth, she is dealt the crushing blow that she will not survive another pregnancy.
Then she crosses paths by chance with Alice Gray, a young midwife. Alice promises to help her give birth to a healthy baby, and to prove the physician wrong.
As Alice is drawn into the witchcraft accusations that are sweeping the North-West, Fleetwood risks everything by trying to help her. But is there more to Alice than meets the eye?
Soon the two women's lives will become inextricably bound together as the legendary trial at Lancaster approaches, and Fleetwood's stomach continues to grow. Time is running out, and both their lives are at stake.
Only they know the truth. Only they can save each other.
'Assured and alluring, this beautiful tale of women and witchcraft and the fight against power was a delight from start to finish' Jessie Burton, bestselling author of THE MINIATURIST
This audio edition is an MP3 CD. Price: $49.99 $55.00 ISBN: 9781785769610 Format: CD About the Author Dimensions: 125x140mm Stacey Halls grew up in Rossendale, Lancashire, as the daughter of market traders. She has always been fascinated by Extent: pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) the Pendle witches. She studied journalism at the University of Central Lancashire and moved to London aged 21. She Bic2: Historical fiction was media editor at the Bookseller and books editor at Stylist.co.uk, and has also written for Psychologies, the Illustrations: Independent and Fabulous magazine, where she now works as Deputy Chief Sub Editor. The Familiars is her first novel. Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 The Art of Rest: How to Find Respite in the Modern Age Claudia Hammond
Drawing on brand new research, this is an examination of rest and why it matters from Radio 4's voice of psychology
Description Today busyness has become a badge of honour. We want to say we're busy, yet at the same time we feel exhausted. Instead we should start taking rest seriously as a method of self-care and this book can help us to work out how.
The Art of Rest draws on ground-breaking research Claudia Hammond collaborated on - 'The Rest Test' - the largest global survey into rest ever undertaken, which was completed by 18,000 people across 135 different countries. Much of value has been written about sleep, but rest is different; it is how we unwind, calm our minds and recharge our bodies. And, as the survey revealed, how much rest you get is directly linked to your sense of well-being.
Counting down through the top ten activities which people find most restful, Hammond explains why rest matters, examines the science behind the results to establish what really works and offers a roadmap for a new, more restful and balanced life.
About the Author Claudia Hammond is an award-winning writer and broadcaster and lectures in psychology at Boston University's base in London. As the presenter of All in the Mind she is BBC Radio 4's voice of psychology and mental health. She has been awarded the President's Medal from the British Academy, the British Psychological Society's Public Engagement & Media Award, Mind's Making a Difference Award and the British Neuroscience Association's Public Understanding of Neuroscience Award. She is the author of Emotional Rollercoaster, Mind over Money and Time Warped, winner of the British Psychological Society's Best Popular Science Book Award and the Aeon Transmission Award. @claudiahammond | claudiahammond.com
Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781786892805 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 220x144mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Popular psychology Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Decline and Fail: Read in Case of Political Apocalypse John Crace
An unremittinglyhilarious skewering of three years of Brexit f*ckwittery, from the bestselling author of I, Maybot.
Description 'Optimism, mojo, complete bollocks. That's what the country is crying out for.'
There is now only one certainty in life. When things can't possibly get worse, they absolutely will. And so, after three years of Maybot malfunctioning and Brexit bungling, welcome to BoJo the clown's national circus - where fun for none of the family is guaranteed.
Fear not, however: Decline and Fail is your personal survival guide to the ongoing political apocalypse. This unremittingly entertaining collection of John Crace's lifegiving political sketches will get you through the darkest of days - or failing that, will at least help you see the funny side. Miss it at your peril...
About the Author John Crace is the Guardian's parliamentary sketch writer and author of I, Maybot. He writes the Digested Read for G2.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781783351930 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Humour collections & anthologies Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Guardian Books AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Chamber Music: About the Wu-Tang (in 36 Pieces) Will Ashon
A book about one of the most important albums of all time, which reinvents music writing in the awesome scope of its exploration
Description 'One of the most rewarding pieces of hip-hop criticism ever written' Jeff Chang 'Brilliant' Giles Peterson 'Will Ashon's dazzling study gets to the heart of hip hop, pop culture and the history of contemporary America. Essential' Matt Thorne 'Each of these chambers contains wonders of history, destiny and mythology' Margo Jefferson
Will Ashon tells, in 36 interlinked 'chambers', the story of Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) and how it changed the world. As unexpected and complex as the album itself, Chamber Music ranges from provocative essays to semi-comic skits, from deep scholarly analysis to satirical celebration, seeking to contextualise, reveal and honour this singularly composite work of art.
From the FBI's war on drugs to the porn theatres of 42nd street, from the history of jazz to the future of politics, Chamber Music is an explosive and revelatory new way of writing about music and culture.
About the Author Will Ashon is the author of Strange Labyrinth (Granta, 2017) and two novels. He previously ran BIG DADA records where his artists included Roots Manuva, MF DOOM, Kate Tempest and Diplo.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781783784042 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups Bic2: Rap & Hip-Hop Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta Paperbacks AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Lifers Kate Kray
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Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781789461640 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: True crime Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
John Blake AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 How To Be An F1 Driver Jenson Button
Learn how to be the best F1 driver with champion Jenson Button.
Description Why is it best to practice your champagne celebration ahead of the big day? How do you tell a multiple F1 champion they need to check their blind-spot? And how do you face down your boss when you've just stacked his multi-million pound car into a wall during practice?
In his brilliantly-written and revealing new book, expert driver Jenson Button takes the reader behind the wheel, telling us all about what it is like to be a champion F1 driver.
From the couch to the podium, the pit-lane to the racetrack, Jenson reveals what really goes on behind-the-scenes. The people, the places, the weird rituals, the motorhomes, the media, the cars, the perks and the disasters, this is the perfect book for any petrol-head, and what all F1 fans have been waiting for.
About the Author Born in Frome, Somerset, British Racing driver Jenson Button has been in Formula 1 for seventeen years, appearing in 309 grands prix, the second most in history. He won the 2009 Formula One World Championship, driving for Brawn GP. Outside of racing, he set up the Jenson Button Trust for his fundraising activities which includes the Jenson Button Triathlon which has raised money for Help For Heroes, Cancer Research and now Barnardo's.
Price: $44.99 $49.99 ISBN: 9781788702614 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Automotive technology & trades Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Blink AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Heart of Dart-ness: Bullseyes, Boozers and Modern Britain Ned Boulting
A funny and heartfelt, sideways look at modern Britain, through the story of darts.
Description In Heart of Dart-ness, TV's Ned Boulting sets out to answer the forty-something year old question: What exactly is darts? Is it a sport, a freak show, a side-show, a pantomime, a riot or a party?
From Purfleet to Minehead, Milton Keynes to Frankfurt, Ned embarks on a journey back to the beginning of the modern game. He tracks down some of the household names who graced childhood television screens and are still among us; names such as Andy Fordham, whose fifty bottles of Pils a day habit led to his near death on the oche, Cliff Lazarenko, whose prodigious drinking was the stuff of legend even among his not exactly abstemious peer-group, Phil Taylor, the greatest of all time, as well as the Europeans, Michael van Gerwen, and Raymond van Barneveld.
Is it entertainment, or exploitation? To answer that question, as well as every other, he learns that all roads lead to the Heart of Dart-ness, and the biggest character the game has ever produced, Eric Bristow.
Perhaps darts is after all, just exactly what it sets out to be; an anti-sport sport, a two-fingered salute to the establishment, a piss-up in a brewery, the ultimate escape. The best night out.
About the Author Ned Boulting started his broadcasting career at Sky in 1997, working as a reporter alongside Jeff Stelling on the now legendary show Soccer Saturday. In 2006 he was given the Royal Television Society's Sports Reporter of the Year Award. In addition to his work as a football reporter for ITV, he is now the 'voice of cycling', commentating on all the major (and some minor) bike races. He also contributes features and live reports on the darts for ITV. He is the author of four previous books including, the bestselling How I Won the Yellow Jumper.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781788702119 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Biography: sport Bic2: Hobbies, quizzes & games Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Blink AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2020 Looking at the Stars: How incurable illness taught one boy everything Lewis Hine
The incredible and inspirational story of Lewis Hine, the boy who was diagnosed with a brain tumour as a baby and became an internet sensation at 16 years old.
Description My illness may define the length of my life, but it won't define how I live it. My disability gave me the ability to understand and help others. And now I finally feel like I am living.
17-year-old Lewis Hine is a global phenomenon. Diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumour and water on the brain at 17 months, he wasn't expected to survive. But Lewis proved everyone wrong; he's not only surviving but thriving. In one Facebook post on his 16th birthday Lewis invited everyone to see how he faces head on the challenges from his ongoing illness, and he went viral. 30 million views later, Lewis now spearheads a campaign, Friend Finder, to make sure no one ever faces childhood illness alone.
In his memoir, Lewis reaches out to anyone who may feel isolated in their lives. After 13 brain surgeries and continual health problems, life for Lewis is a daily challenge. From the sheer physical challenges - he is at high risk of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) and has a pump in his brain just to keep him alive - to the horrendous bullying he's endured, he shares how he finds the strength to overcome all this and still lead a fun and fulfilling life. With a host of admirers around the world from Elton John to Kid Ink, Lewis is living his dream - even becoming Radio 1's Teen Hero of the Year. His story will make you laugh, cry and above all, feel inspired by life's endless possibilities, looking at the stars.
About the Author Lewis Hine is a social media phenomenon, racking up millions of views as he bravely invites the world to see life through his eyes. He is a 16-year-old disability campaigner, and in 2016 won the BBC Radio 1 'Teen Hero of the Year' award. He also gave a talk to 10,000 enraptured children at Wembley Stadium, and has a CBBC documentary about his organization, Friend Finder, which brings potentially isolated disabled and ill children together.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781788702959 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
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