JANUARY 2018 The Smart Baby Cookbook: Boost your baby's immunity and brain development Lauren Cheney

A doctor-approved and parent-tested cookbook for increasing your infant's immunity and brain development.

Description A blueprint for your child's nutrition and brain health

Doctor-approved and parent-tested, the Smart Baby Cookbook helps you give your young one a head-start for a healthy life, beginning with the best first foods, through to finger foods and family meals.

Including: The science behind 'SMART' foods and their effects on immunity and brain function Meal planners organised by baby's age and stages of development, plus advice for starting solids Easy-to-make family favourite recipes designed for maximum nutrition Budget-friendly recipes with minimal prep and no separate cooking required

When chef Lauren Cheney's baby was born with a rare immunity disorder, she threw herself into researching the best foods that could help him thrive. Drawing on advice from child health experts, she developed recipes for nutrient-packed everyday meals. Now with this empowering guide, her advice and recipes are available for families everywhere, helping to nourish the bodies and brains of the little ones we love.

About the Author Lauren Cheney is a Perth-based chef and caterer. She is mum to a young child who was born with a rare immune disorder which left him fighting for his life in intensive care for weeks and leaves him forever vulnerable to infections. Lauren threw herself into the thing she knew best - food - and in particular, research into the best nutrition for boosting infant immunity and building neural pathways. Gathering advice from the many medical practitioners that were part of her son's daily life for months, she turned her findings into a manual and cookbook for new parents. Lauren is now launching Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) a Smart Baby food range with a national supermarket chain and is always looking for new ways to get the word out about ISBN: 9781760631741 best nutrition for babies. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 230x170mm Extent: 176 pages Main Category: WBQ Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Doubleview

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Murdoch Books JANUARY 2018 Unicorn Food: Simple and playful treats, both naughty and nice Sandra Mahut

The most magical food fad sweeping the world. Try these fun, pretty ideas and add some sparkle to your snacks.

Description Move over mug cakes. A trend that unites the zeitgeist for all things magical, pastel, and unicorn-esque.

Brightly coloured, and not too serious, Unicorn Food is a shared experience - how could you not want to photograph and share such amazing beauty created in your own kitchen. Featuring the most beautifully Instagrammable plant-based snacks and meals as well as DIY instructions for fantastical sweet treats you don't even have to queue for. Recipes and a tool kit that give both inspiration and the skills to go beyond the recipes in the book. Make, post, and enjoy. Enjoy the treat and the likes.

About the Author Sandra Mahut is a photographer, food stylist and author of several cookbooks. Sandra lives in Paris with her family and works out of her kitchen studio in the city's 20th arrondissement.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760631956 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 210x210mm Extent: 72 pages Main Category: WB Food And Drink Sub Category: WBF Quick And Easy Recipes Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: France

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Murdoch Books JANUARY 2018 Vegetarian: 101 recipes celebrating fresh, seasonal ingredients Alice Hart

Easy, healthy vegetarian dishes using fresh and seasonal ingredients, to inspire you in the kitchen.

Description Whether you are strictly vegetarian, trying to eat less meat or just searching for enticing vegetable dishes, this little book has 70 perfectly crafted recipes for breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner. Included are tips for choosing herbs and cooking with legumes, handy basic recipes for sauces, salsas and vegetable sides, and step-by-step recipes for making nut milks, labne and tofu.

About the Author Alice Hart is an accomplished chef, food writer, food stylist and author of several cookbooks. Her recipes draw inspiration from her travels around the world and her commitment to using fresh and seasonal produce.

Price: $14.99 (NZ$16.99) ISBN: 9781760631901 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 190x190mm Extent: 144 pages Main Category: WBN Sub Category: WBJ Vegetarian Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Murdoch Books JANUARY 2018 Vegetarian 6 copy pack Point of Sale

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Murdoch Books JANUARY 2018 Wholefood Baking: Wholesome ingredients for delicious results Jude Blereau

120 tried and true recipes for wholefood baking from Jude Blereau, Australia's most trusted and authoritative wholefood food writer

Description Jude's Blereau's Wholefood Baking includes more than 120 tried and true recipes for cakes, scones, biscuits and pastries as well as delectable creams, icings and jams, many of which are gluten-, nut- and dairy-free and use whole and semi- refined flours and sugars.

Together with advice on how to convert your favourite recipes using whole ingredients, Wholefood Baking is a must for those who want their baked goods to heal, nourish and delight.

About the Author Jude Blereau was living a wholefood life long before 'wholefood' was a buzzword for healthy living and is the most authoritative, long established wholefood writer in Australia today. Jude has been actively involved in the organic and wholefood world for over 25 years. Her focus is on helping people learn about good food and giving them the tools and information they need to make healthy and wholesome eating a delicious part of their everyday lives. Jude has written five books with Murdoch: Wholefood, Coming Home to Eat, Wholefood for Children, Wholefood Baking and Wholefood From the Ground Up.

Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781760523398 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 230x190mm Extent: 296 pages

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Murdoch Books JANUARY 2018 Wholefood from the Ground Up: Nourishing Wisdom - Know How - Recipes Jude Blereau

More than 120 delicious wholefood recipes and packed with advice on how to build your wholefood pantry from scratch, from one of Australia's most authoritative, long-established wholefood advocates.

Description Jude Blereau was living a wholefood life long before 'wholefood' was a buzzword for healthy living, and she knows better than most that one of the greatest obstacles to healthy eating is time, or lack of it. But with just a little preparation you can build a solid food foundation, so being busy doesn't have to mean going hungry ...

Wholefood from the ground up distills Jude's wealth of knowledge into one incredible guide. In addition to more than 120 nourishing recipes there is clear information about what constitutes 'good' food, where to source it and how to use it to its best effect. There is also a guide to building a wholefood pantry from scratch as well as practical tips for planning and preparing food ahead.

Eat well, even on the busiest days.

About the Author Jude Blereau was living a wholefood life long before 'wholefood' was a buzzword for healthy living and is the most authoritative, long established wholefood writer in Australia today. Jude has been actively involved in the organic and wholefood world for over 25 years. Her focus is on helping people learn about good food and giving them the tools and information they need to make healthy and wholesome eating a delicious part of their everyday lives. Jude has written five books with Murdoch: Wholefood, Coming Home to Eat, Wholefood for Children, Wholefood Baking and Wholefood From the Ground Up..

Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781743365373 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 260x210mm Extent: 256 pages

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Murdoch Books JANUARY 2018 A Really Big Lunch Jim Harrison, introduction by Mario Batali

A new collection from 'the Henry Miller of food writing' (Wall Street Journal) - beloved, New York Times bestselling writer Jim Harrison.

Description New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison was one of America's most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. He also wrote some of the best essays on food around, earning praise as 'the poet laureate of appetite' (Dallas Morning News). A Really Big Lunch collects many of his food pieces for the first time - and taps into his larger-than-life appetite with wit and verve.

Jim Harrison's legendary gourmandise is on full display in A Really Big Lunch. From the titular New Yorker piece about a French lunch that went to thirty-seven courses, to pieces from Brick, Playboy, the Kermit Lynch Newsletter and more on the relationship between hunter and prey, or the obscure language of wine reviews, A Really Big Lunch is shot through with Harrison's pointed aperus and keen delight in the pleasures of the senses. And between the lines the pieces give glimpses of Harrison's life over the last fifteen years. A Really Big Lunch is a literary delight that will satisfy every appetite.

About the Author Jim Harrison (1937-2016) was the New York Times-bestselling author of thirty-nine previous books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, including Legends of the Fall, Dalva and Returning to Earth. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and winner of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, his work was published in twenty-seven languages.

Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781611856231 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x156mm Extent: 288 pages Main Category: WB Food And Drink Sub Category: JFCV Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Grove Press JANUARY 2018 White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America Nancy Isenberg

The New York Times bestseller: a ground-breaking history of the class system in America, which challenges popular myths about equality in the land of opportunity.

Description In this landmark book, Nancy Isenberg argues that the voters who boosted Trump all the way to the White House have been a permanent part of the American fabric, and reveals how the wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlements to today's hillbillies.

Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics - a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society; they are now offered up as entertainment in reality TV shows, and the label is applied to celebrities ranging from Dolly Parton to Bill Clinton. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the centre of major political debates over the character of the American identity.

Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America's supposedly class-free society - where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility - and forces a nation to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class.

About the Author Nancy Isenberg is the author of Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr, which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Biography and won the Oklahoma Book Award for best book in non-fiction. She is the co-author, with Andrew Burstein, of Madison and Jefferson. She is the T. Harry Williams Professor of American History at LSU and writes regularly for Salon.com.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781786493002 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 496 pages Main Category: HB History Sub Category: HBTB Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Atlantic PBS JANUARY 2018 Low-Sugar, So Simple: 100 Delicious Low-Sugar, Low-Carb, Gluten- Free Recipes for Eating Clean and Living Healthy Elviira Krebber

Get sugar off your plate for good with 100 recipes free of sugar and sugar pretenders that are sabotaging your diet and your health.

Description Sugar is quickly becoming the next health epidemic. Numerous studies have confirmed that sugar is a highly addictive substance with catastrophic effects on our health. Research has shown that drinking a can of soda a day increases the risk of heart attack nearly as much as smoking.

Avoiding sugar isn't easy. Sugar lurks in everything from condiments to salad dressing to deli meat. Combine that with the fact that many more foods contain things like starches, fillers, and artificial ingredients which act like sugar in the body, and you've got a perfect storm for lifelong sugar addiction and diminished health.

Low-Sugar, So Simple shows you how to get sugar off your plate for good. Popular blogger, Elviira Krebber of Low-Carb, So Simple provides 100 low and no sugar recipes for everything from condiments to main dishes to desserts.

You'll learn healthy substitutions for sugar, how to remove stealth sugars, and get the sugar pretenders like starches, fillers, and additives out of your diet. Done in the authors trademark approachable style, eating low sugar is easy with several recipes that are quick and have few ingredients.

About the Author With her Low-Carb, So Simple blog, Elviira Krebber is one of the most popular low-carb bloggers on the web. She has over 600K following her Facebook page and thousands of people visiting her blog daily. For several years, Elviira has helped her audience by developing and publishing easy and healthy sugar-free, gluten-free, low-carb recipes with 5 ingredients or less. Her most popular recipe 'Chicken in Creamy Onion Sauce' has been shared close to half a million times. Elviira knows time is often tight, however this shouldn't prevent people from being able to prepare healthy food Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) quickly and easily. Thus, she strives for a simple approach in all of her recipes. The Low-Carb, So Simple recipes have ISBN: 9781592337798 been featured in Cosmopolitan, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Low-Sugar Living, and in Red magazine. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 234x190mm Extent: 192 pages Main Category: WB Food And Drink Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Fair Winds Press JANUARY 2018 500 Ketogenic Recipes: Hundreds of Easy and Delicious Recipes for Losing Weight, Improving Your Health, and Staying in the Ketogenic Zone Dana Carpender

A massive collection of 500 easy-to-prepare ketogenic recipes by bestselling low-carb author, Dana Carpender. Get healthy, get muscular, get on a keto diet today!

Description At last, here is a comprehensive cookbook to the hottest eating plan around! The ketogenic diet is an eating plan that emphasises high ratios of healthy fats, moderate protein, and low carbohydrate intake.

While the ketogenic diet isn't new -- there is newly emerging research that the ketogenic lifestyle may help reverse illness, promote longevity, and be the best diet for losing weight. Millions of people are transitioning to a ketogenic diet to look and feel their best.

However, doing the ketogenic lifestyle the right way isn't always easy. How do you get your macronutrients properly balanced? What foods are keto-friendly and which aren't? 500 Ketogenic Recipes is here with the answers.

Low-carb queen and bestselling author Dana Carpender shows how to live the ketogenic lifestyle deliciously with 500 easy-to-prepare recipes for everything from snacks and appetisers, to main dishes, to drinks and dessert.

About the Author Dana Carpender is pioneer of the low-carb movement and bestselling author of over 14 cookbooks, including 1001 Low- Carb Recipes, 500 Paleo Recipes, 15-Minute Low-Carb Recipes, The Low-Carb Diabetes Solution Cookbook, 200 Low- Carb, High-Fat Recipes, The Low-Carb Diabetes Solution, the Insulin Resistance Solution, 500 Ketogenic Recipes and many more. To date her books have sold over a million copies worldwide. She writes about low-carb cooking and nutrition on her Facebook page, Dana Carpender's Hold the Toast Press.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781592338160 Format: Paperback Dimensions: mm Extent: 336 pages Main Category: WB Food And Drink Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Fair Winds Press JANUARY 2018 The Ultimate Guide to Crystal Grids: Transform Your Life Using the Power of Crystals and Layouts Judy Hall

The definitive guide to crystal grids by the world's leading expert in crystals, Judy Hall. Includes over 50 grids from beginning to advanced!

Description The Ultimate Guide to Crystal Grids shows novices and seasoned crystal practitioners alike how to construct crystal grids to create, heal, and manifest goals and intentions.

Written by the worlds leading crystal expert, Judy Hall, this comprehensive guide outlines the specifics of constructing an effective grid, how to harness the power of sacred geometry, and which crystals are most effective for particular grids and purposes.

Perfect for the beginner or advanced grid practitioners, The Ultimate Guide to Crystal Grids features over 50 grids, including beginner and advanced grids based on specific geometric templates so practitioners learn the foundation of grid creation.

You'll learn to use grids on specific topics and purposes, including attracting prosperity, long-distance healing, and protecting the home. Filled with hundreds of photos and illustrations, plus step-by-step shots, this truly is the ultimate guide.

About the Author Judy Hall (Dorset, England) is a successful Mind-Body-Spirit author with over 45 MBS books to her credit including the million copy selling Crystal Bible (volumes 1 and 2), 101 Power Crystals, Crystals and Sacred Sites, Crystal Prescriptions, and The Crystal Wisdom Healing Oracle. A trained healer and counsellor, Judy has been psychic all her life and has a wide experience of many systems of divination and natural healing methods. Judy has a B.Ed in Religious Studies with an extensive knowledge of world religions and mythology and an M.A. in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology at Bath Spa Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) University. Her expertise are past life readings and regression; soul healing, reincarnation, astrology and psychology, ISBN: 9781592337811 divination and crystal lore. Judy has appeared four times in the Watkins list of the 100 most influential spiritual living Format: Paperback Dimensions: mm writers and has recently been voted the 2014 Kindred Spirit MBS personality of the year. She is an internationally known Extent: 192 pages author, psychic, healer. Main Category: VX Mind, Body, Spirit Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Fair Winds Press JANUARY 2018 Love Magic: A Handbook of Spells, Charms & Potions illustrated by Melissa West, Anastasia Greywolf

Love is as easy as knowing the right words with Love Magic. Inside, readers will find timeless incantations, mystical concoctions, and homemade tailsmans to help harness the love power around them.

Description Whether you're hoping to catch that person you've been secretly in love with for the past five months, or perhaps an unrequited crush is not getting your subtle hints, the one true adage is that love has no rules and sometimes needs a little help or gentle nudge. To help readers navigate through their amorous adventures, Love Spells makes love as easy as simply knowing the right words. Inside, readers will find timeless incantations, mystical concoctions, and homemade talismans that will help them harness their inner love powers to: Attract love Find out you who you'll marry Become a better lover (or make your mate one!) Keep your love going strong Bring good fortune to your beloved End and forget about a love

About the Author Anastasia Greywolf is a practising witch and herbalist with many decades (some say centuries) of experience in casting and conjuring. She lives in the Northeastern United States where she is a founding member of the Coven of the Moonbeam Ravine.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781577151661 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: mm Extent: 256 pages Main Category: VX Mind, Body, Spirit Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Wellfleet JANUARY 2018 Foodimentary: Celebrating 365 Food Holidays with Classic Recipes John-Bryan Hopkins

Translating the success of his popular food holiday blog into book format, John-Bryan Hopkins makes Foodimentary a celebration of (mostly) American food, pairing 365 delicious recipes with corresponding food fests.

Description Tired of the sporadic and outdated food holidays that were quietly celebrated each year - most of which were created by food companies to market their products - blogger John-Bryan Hopkins decided to revamp food celebrations and spice them up with his own favourite foods. Creating a food holiday for every day of the year, Hopkins launched Foodimentary. com, which became an immediate overnight success with Google adopting his bespoke calendar. With thousands of fans across multiple platforms, Foodimentary.com is the number-one go-to resource cited by numerous magazines, newspapers, and websites to definitively know which food is being celebrated and when.

Mixing Hopkins' online success with fun food facts, forgotten histories, and classic recipes, while folding in scrumptious illustrations and rare photographs, Foodimentary is a festive jubilee of America's culinary roots and inventions, from today's more recent novelties, such as Ranch Dressing Day (celebrated on March 10), to popular dishes of yesteryear such as National Thermidor Day (celebrated on January 24). Whether enjoyed à la carte or consumed in one sitting, get ready to be swept into a twelve-month course created exclusively by Foodimentary.com!

About the Author Created by John-Bryan Hopkins in 2005 as a food blog and then as a website and Twitter account soon after, Foodimentary was named one of Time magazine's 149 Best Twitter Feeds in 2013. Mentioned on countless cooking channels and publications. Foodimentary has become the Internet's leading source for food holidays and celebrations and is considered a pioneer in social-media food communication

Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781577151531 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 203x203mm Extent: 352 pages Main Category: WB Food And Drink Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Wellfleet JANUARY 2018 The Ultimate Tortilla Press Cookbook: Recipes for All Kinds of Make- Your-Own Tortillas--and for Burritos, Enchiladas, Quesadillas, Tacos, and More That Use Them Dotty Griffith, Dotty Griffith

The essential companion for anyone who owns a tortilla press or enjoys making all kinds of tortillas from scratch.

Description The DIY kitchen trend takes a Southwestern and Mexican spin in this creative book that covers how to use, clean, and maintain a tortilla press and serves up 125 recipes for a lifetime of enjoying it. Thirty of the recipes are for every kind of tortilla imaginable - corn, flour, or gluten-free; and plain or flavoured with all sorts of good things, from chile peppers or tomatoes to avocado or lime. The remaining 95 recipes are a feast of things to do with the freshly made tortillas, ranging from burritos and enchiladas to tacos, quesadillas, and beyond.

About the Author Dotty Griffith is a recognised authority on Texas cuisine and barbecue. A former food editor and restaurant critic for The Dallas Morning News, Griffith is a native Texan who has made a career out of observing, analysing, and sharing the elements of her state's myriad food traditions.

Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9780760354889 Format: Paperback Dimensions: mm Extent: 240 pages Main Category: WB Food And Drink Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Harvard Common Press JANUARY 2018 The Health and Beauty Botanical Handbook Pip Waller

Kitchen pharmacy meets natural beauty wisdom in this classic compendium of plant-powered health and beauty recipes.

Description All-natural beauty meets kitchen pharmacy in this compendium of plant-powered health and beauty recipes. From making tinctures and tonics to syrups and creams, world-renowned herablists share over 350 recipes for pure well-being and holistic health. This comprehensive guide includes advice on growing and sourcing herbs, a herb dictionary as well as essential everyday techniques, providing you with all the tools you need to start your own green revolution.

About the Author Pip Waller is a medical herbalist and plant spirit practitioner. She has taught at the Academy of Natural Health in London and was a clinical supervisor for the UK-based National Institute of Medical Herbalists Training Clinic. She is the author of Holistic Anatomy - An Integrative Guide to the Human Body and The Domestic Alchemist and lives in North Wales.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781782405641 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 220x180mm Extent: 192 pages Main Category: VFVC Sub Category: MX Complementary Medicine Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Ivy Press JANUARY 2018 The Orange Balloon Dog: Bubbles, Disruptions and Avarice in the Contemporary Art Market Don Thompson

A follow-up from Don Thompson, author of $12 Million Stuffed Shark, on the contemporary art market and human nature.

Description Within forty-eight hours in the fall of 2014, buyers in the Sotheby's and Christie's New York auction houses spent $1.7 billion on contemporary art. Non-taxed freeport warehouses around the globe are stacked with art held for speculation. One of Jeff Koons' five chromium-plated stainless steel balloon dogs sold for 50 percent more at auction than the previous record for any living artist. A painting by Christopher Wool, featuring four lines from a Francis Ford Coppola movie stencilled in black-on-a-white background, sold for $28 million. In The Orange Balloon Dog, economist and bestselling author Don Thompson cites these and other fascinating examples to explore the sometimes baffling activities of the high-end contemporary art market. He examines what is at play in the exchange of vast amounts of money and what nudges buyers, even on the subconscious level, to imbue a creation with such high commercial value.

Thompson analyses the behaviours of buyers and sellers and delves into the competitions that define and alter the value of art in today's international market, from New York to London, Singapore to Beijing. Take heed if your millions are tied up in stainless steel balloon dogs - Thompson also warns of a looming bust of the contemporary art price balloon.

About the Author Don Thompson is an economist and professor of business who has taught at the LSE and Harvard Business School. He lives in Toronto.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781781317235 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 240 pages Main Category: A The Arts Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Aurum Press JANUARY 2018 $12 Million Stuffed Shark Don Thompson

Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world.

Description Why would a smart New York investment banker pay twelve million dollars for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock' s drip painting No.5 1948 sell for $140 million?

The $12 Million Dollar Stuffed Shark is the first book to look at the economics of the modern art world, and the marketing strategies that power the market to produce such astronomical prices. Don Thompson talks to auction houses, dealers, and collectors to find out the source of Charles Saatchi' s Midas touch, and how far a gallery like White Cube has contributed to Damien Hirst becoming one of the highest-earning artists in the world.

About the Author Don Thompson is an economist and professor of business who has taught at the LSE and Harvard Business School. He lives in Toronto.

Price: $18.99 (NZ$21.99) ISBN: 9781845134075 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 197x129mm Extent: 304 pages Main Category: AC Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Aurum Press JANUARY 2018 Home Robotics: Maker-Inspired Projects For Building Your Own Robots Daniel Knox

Learn to make your own robots with this approachable, illustrated guide for beginners to intermediate robotics enthusiasts.

Description You've seen the sci-fi movies and dreamed of creating your very own robot - a machine built by your own hands that will move and perform tasks at your command! This book is the perfect illustrated guide to creating a unique machine from scratch by following simple step-by-step instructions. Using easily-sourced components you can teach yourself simple electronics and programming to make your robot walk, draw, or even clean up the mess you have made. Begin with a simple cardboard robot and progress to building a remote-controlled metal rover vehicle, or a robot powered by solar energy.

With practice, your electronics know-how will soon enable you to design and build your very own custom-made creations using the technical skills you have learned here - the possibilities are endless.

About the Author Daniel Knox spent much of his childhood in his grandad's workshop, where he learned how to make and build things. Now, Daniel has a BSc in Computer Science (First Class) and for his day-job, he manages the running of 'The Shed', an open access workshop at the University of Kent that provides space and machinery for students to make and build things. In his free time Daniel helps run TinkerSoc, a student society where people build, hack and (sometimes) blow things up. Tinkersoc's antics have included creating a choir of singing Furbies, building 'spud' cannons and engaging in ant-weight robot wars.

Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781781317006 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 230x170mm Extent: 160 pages Main Category: WC Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Aurum Press JANUARY 2018 The Escape Room Ivan Tapia

The first book to be based on the fast growing phenomenon of escape rooms. The Escape Book is filled with challenges and mysteries to solve and escape!

Description Candela Fuertes is 28 years old and works as an investigative journalist specialising in economic and financial crime. She is trapped in a labyrinth and has just 60 minutes to escape and reveal the secret plans of the businessman Anastas Vecla and the Wanstein Club. The reader joins Candela in her trap and will be forced to draw on all their ingenuity to solve puzzles, optical illusions, conundrums and anagrams to make progress and finally escape both the labyrinth and the book. Readers have to take on the challenges, solve mysteries and clues to finish and escape from the book.

Will you manage to escape?

About the Author Ivan Tapia is the founder and designer of enigmas for Cocolisto, an intelligent leisure business. He is the director, scriptwriter and dramaturge of Escape Show, an enigma-based performance at the Teatro Poliorama in Barcelona.

Price: $18.99 (NZ$21.99) ISBN: 9781781317433 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 210x150mm Extent: 176 pages Main Category: WC Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Aurum Press JANUARY 2018 Charles Dowding's Veg Journal: Expert no-dig advice, month by month Charles Dowding

The book uses the seasonal checklists, advice and hard-won experience of the UK' s best-known no-dig gardener to plan a year' s veg growing.

Description Drawing on Charles Dowding's Vegetable Course this month-by-month journal helps you plan bumper harvests the no-dig way. Follow simple steps to: find success with more than 35 vegetables and herbs from tomatoes to basil, carrots to coriander; start a no-dig veg plot on virgin or dug ground, improve the soil and become an expert mulcher and weeder; learn key dates for sowing, staking, harvesting and storing using time-saving monthly checklists; make a raised bed, tackle slugs and snails, and produce the sweetest-smelling compost; understand the techniques for intercropping, companion planting, seed viability and crop succession. NO-DIG is a long-established way to grow healthy, organic crops while preserving the soil's integrity: Charles Dowding is the UK's leading expert.

About the Author Charles Dowding grew up on a dairy farm in Somerset. After graduating from Cambridge he worked for a hotel in the Inner Hebrides before starting to grow organic vegetables commercially on the family farm in the early 1980s. In 1990 he left behind what was by then a large market garden to live in France and Zambia. Returning to Somerset in the mid 1990s, he established a bed and breakfast and vegetable growing business at Lower Farm in Shepton Montague, Somerset. There, Charles's salad bags were the main output from his two-acre garden of permanent raised beds and fruit trees. Charles runs vegetable-growing courses and lectures and writes books on his unique growing techniques. Since 2012 Charles has begun a new garden at Shepton Mallet in Somerset which he has designed using no-dig principles.

Price: $18.99 (NZ$21.99) ISBN: 9780711239289 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 210x150mm Extent: 192 pages Main Category: WMPF Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Frances Lincoln (Adult) JANUARY 2018 The Pallet Book: DIY Projects for the Home, Garden, and Homestead Chris Peterson

The ubiquitous wooden pallet is good for much more than cross-country shipping! The Pallet Book gives it new life in home and garden woodworking projects.

Description The Pallet Book is an inspiring and ingenious project-oriented book for the home DIY enthusiast! Author Chris Peterson presents everything the enterprising handyperson needs to know to reclaim and reuse pallets in innovative, useful ways.

Just some of the projects included are:

A handy vertical planter; Coffee table; Spice rack; Serving tray; Compost bin; Dog house; Bookshelves; Wine bottle rack; Side table; Adirondack chair

Some projects, like the raised bed, showcase the pallet. For others, like the kitchen island, you'd be hard-pressed to guess the wood was free! In addition to dozens of projects, the book includes a variety of pallet-specific knowledge. You'll find a guide with the basic skills and tools needed to rework pallets, information on where to find and source pallets, a guide to decoding pallet markings, and important pallet-related safety.

About the Author Chris Peterson is a veteran home improvement and design author. Among the many books he has written are 5-Gallon Bucket Book, Building with Secondhand Stuff, Manskills, four books in the Ideas You Can Use series, and many Black & Decker Complete Guides. He has also co-authored numerous home design books with noted media celebrities.

Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9780760352748 Format: Paperback Dimensions: mm Extent: 144 pages Main Category: WKR Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Voyageur Press JANUARY 2018 The Mother Earth News Guide to Vegetable Gardening Mother Earth News

More than 270 pages packed with time-tested information, photographs, and Mother Earth News's charming illustrations make this a must-have volume for home gardeners.

Description Mother Earth News knows best how to grow fruits and vegetables.The editors of Mother Earth News have curated their best advice for growing vegetables and fruits into one must-have volume. The book starts with how to plan a garden focused on edibles, including plans for kitchen gardens, strategies for small space gardening, and extensive information on installing and maintaining permanent beds. Vertical gardening and season extension are also covered. Then readers learn how to build the ideal garden foundation with chapters on maintaining soil health and making and using compost. Building fertile soil, soil pH, and crop rotation are fully explained. Readers will learn about homemade liquid fertilizers, making biochar, and vermicompost.The rest of the book ..?? more than half - is devoted to gardening by season, with chapters for late winter/early spring, spring/early summer, summer, and fall/winter. For some of these chapters, vegetable- and fruit-specific guides are the main draw. For example, early spring runs through more than a dozen vegetables, from Asian greens and lettuces to raspberries, strawberries, and even fruit trees. While spring/summer is also filled with growing guides, summer and fall/winter focus more on other seasonal considerations. For example, summer covers wise watering practices, top vegetables to grow in the shade, and how to keep crops cool during hot weather.With more than 270 pages packed of time-tested information, photographs, and Mother Earth News's charming illustrations, gardeners are sure to find everything they want to know about edible gardening in this new masterclass on the topic.

About the Author Mother Earth News is America's leading magazine about sustainable and self-reliant living. Founded by John and Jane Shuttleworth in 1970, it is owned today by Ogden Publications of Topeka, Kansas, and boasts a growing circulation of over half a million. Since the magazine's founding, Mother Earth News has been a pioneer in the promotion of renewable energy, recycling, family farms, sustainable agricultural practices, better eating habits, medical self-care, more meaningful education, and affordable housing. The magazine's mission is extended by five annual Mother Earth News Fairs and a vibrant website.

Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9780760351871 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 254x203mm Extent: 272 pages Main Category: WM Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Voyageur Press JANUARY 2018 Garden Builder: Complete Plans for Creative Outdoor Projects You Can Build JoAnn Moser

Thirty one creative, elegant and highly useful garden building projects made with everyday building materials. Each project includes a complete measured drawing, colour step-by-step photos and clear instructions.

Description Garden Builder is a treasure trove of lovely yard, patio and garden projects you can build yourself!

Perfect for any gardener or outdoor enthusiast with a few basic DIY skills, it is packed with 31 complete project plans, each one featuring finished photos of the project along with cut lists and shopping lists, a construction diagram, and step- by-step instructions (complete with photos) show exactly how to build every project.

Most projects are made from durable exterior-rated wood and can be created with basic carpentry skills. But several of these highly desirable garden accessories are made with materials like concrete, metal, and wire.

Garden Builder is positively loaded with projects, a few you can look forward to building include:

Trellises; raised beds; Harvest boxes; A tiny shed (it is very cute); Garden benches; Planters; A toad house

Simply follow the clear and comprehensive instructions, and you'll have a garden that is rich in design elements, useful aids, and practical furnishings.

About the Author JoAnn Moser, writing as DIY Maven, is a featured contributor to Curbly.com, an on-trend DIY website that receives well in excess of one million visitors per month. Her designs and writing were featured in four books: Make It! Secondhand Chic, Make It! Hardware Store Decor, and Make It! Mid-century Modern, all published by Curbly Publications, as well as I Love Handicraft, published by China Light Industry Press. Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9780760353936 Format: Paperback Dimensions: mm Extent: 192 pages Main Category: WM Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Cool Springs Press JANUARY 2018 Composting for a New Generation: Latest Techniques for the Bin and Beyond Michelle Balz, photographs by Anna Stockton

Covers the modern composting techniques, traditional bin composting, vermicomposting, composting with nature, keyhole gardens, organic composting, and using compost.

Description Composting is no longer only in the realm of environmentalists! It's not just about reducing food waste; most composters get their hands dirty because of the benefits it brings to the soil in their garden. All the extra nutrients make for well-fed gardens with plenty of nutrients and rich moisture.

Composting has ""been under the radar screen until now, and seen as a boutique, West Coast thing,"" says Jared Blumenfeld, who oversees California as well as two other Western states and the Pacific for the Environmental Protection Agency. ""But now everyone from Massachusetts to Minnesota has programs starting up, and pretty soon there will be a critical mass.""

Composting for a New Generation includes tried-and-true composting methods and new, innovative techniques. You'll learn the science of composting, traditional bin composting (including how-to sections on building your own bin), vermicomposting (with worms), composting with nature, keyhole gardens, organic composting, and using your finished compost. Composting for a New Generation is the most complete book to date for your organic soil needs.

About the Author Michelle Balz is a long-time backyard composter with a passion for reducing our impact on the planet. She spends her days writing laid-back advice for home composters in the Confessions of a Composter blog, teaching classes on backyard composting, and learning everything she can about composting, recycling, reusing, and waste reduction. Anna Stockton earned her BFA in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design and is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers. With over fifteen years of experience in professional photography, Stockton has taught as a photography instructor at the college level, and has worked as a photo specialist with Sony Digital Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) Imaging. This is her first book. ISBN: 9781591866923 Format: Paperback Dimensions: mm Extent: 192 pages Main Category: WM Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Cool Springs Press JANUARY 2018 Straw Bale Solutions: Creative Tips for Growing Vegetables in Straw: at home, in community gardens, and around the world Joel Karsten

Half-a-million gardeners have discovered the magic of straw bale gardening in just the past four years: here is what you can learn from them to get started yourself.

Description By now, even the most casual gardeners have heard of straw bale gardening, the pioneering method to gardening introduced by Joel Karsten. Since his first book, Straw Bale Gardens, was published in 2013, this method of growing vegetables has exploded in popularity and is now being practised across the world.

By coming along on this guided tour of the Straw Bale Planet, you are sure to find many situations that match yours, and that you can learn from when planning and starting your very own SBG.

Straw Bale Planet doesn't just teach from example, it also traces the evolution of the SBG movement from its inception on a small tree farm in Minnesota. This is more than just a home gardening phenomenon; it's an institution that is being employed to combat world hunger in countries like Cambodia, Argentina, and Costa Rica.

This guidebook is filled with practical information for home gardeners who want to adopt the method. You'll see the countless iterations of the method in a huge variety of climates and situations, giving you the best road map to adapting the method to make their own gardens even more successful.

About the Author Joel Karsten developed the straw bale gardening method more than ten years ago. As interest grew, he became one of the most in-demand garden lecturers in the country. A pioneer and an entrepreneur, he has been featured in the New York Times, national television and radio, and dozens of other major media outlets. He has a degree in horticulture form the University of Minnesota and currently resides in Roseville, Minnesota.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780760357392 Format: Paperback Dimensions: mm Extent: 176 pages Main Category: WM Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Cool Springs Press JANUARY 2018 Camper Rehab: A Guide to Buying, Repairing, and Upgrading Your Travel Trailer Chris Peterson

Your top-to-bottom guide to getting any camper trailer road ready, up to date, and styled to match your dreams.

Description Old campers have an appeal that reaches back in time and can send your imagination soaring. Lets face it: they are cool. Who hasn't seen one parked on a boulevard with a 'for sale' sign and pictured it bouncing along behind the family car, ready for adventure and fun?

Unfortunately, campers are not quite homes, they are not quite cars, and they have their own unique systems and demands that make fixing and upgrading a challenge. Even if you have plenty of DIY experience, a camper speaks a foreign language. Consider Camper Rehab your Rosetta Stone for the language of Shasta, Dutchmen, or Airstream.

This book is a top-to-bottom guide to getting a fifth-wheel, teardrop, or other camper trailer ready for the road and beyond. From basic troubleshooting to electrical and plumbing projects, replacing interior surfaces, and clever (sometimes 'retro') decorating ideas, this book uses detailed illustrations, colour photography, and a wealth of step-by-step, how-to information to get help you get your travel trailer into shape for your next big or little adventure.

And in case you haven't pulled the trigger on that trailer you're eying on GumTree just yet, Camper Rehab also walks you through the process of evaluating a potential purchase, identifying which issues are fixable and which are dealbreakers, as well as how to spot hidden problems. Written by accomplished DIY author Chris Peterson, whose light and approachable tone is coupled with the hardworking DIY information you need, Camper Rehab is a must-have for any camper owner or dreamer.

About the Author Chris Peterson is a veteran home improvement and design author. Among the many books he has written are 5-Gallon Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) Bucket Book, Building with Secondhand Stuff, Manskills, four books in the Ideas You Can Use series, and many Black & ISBN: 9780760353523 Decker Complete Guides. He has also co-authored numerous home design books with noted media celebrities. He lives Format: Paperback Dimensions: mm in Ashland, Oregon. Extent: 256 pages Main Category: W Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Cool Springs Press JANUARY 2018 Create Your Life Book: Mixed-Media Art Projects for Expanding Creativity and Encouraging Personal Growth Tamara Laporte

Celebrate and honour your creative potential with Create Your Life Book!

Description Inspired by Tamara Laporte's art classes, Create Your Life Book presents 18 step-by-step projects that encourage artists at all skill levels to explore and work through issues surrounding creative fulfillment. Based on much-loved mixed-media artist Tamara Laporte's popular, multi-year series of online classes, Create Your Life Book offers mixed-media drawing and painting projects that can raise your awareness of and help you work through personal challenges and other obstacles to creating art and achieving self-fulfillment.

Each themed chapter presents 4 or 5 two-part projects: The first part of each project explores a common issue that hampers creativity and/or positive self-worth, and includes a worksheet or list of questions to be answered; the second part is a step-by-step mixed-media art project that provides a way for artists at all skill levels to contemplate and work through that issue. Also included are projects contributed by some of Tamara's Life Book guest teachers--Roxanne Coble, Andrea Gomoll, Alena Hennessy, Mystele Kirkeeng, Ivy Newport, and Effy Wild--who are noted mixed-media artists in their own right. Along the way, Tamara shares inspirational photos and uplifting and encouraging affirmations. The final chapter presents a simple binding method for creating a keepsake book of your Life Book projects.

About the Author Tamara Laporte is a celebrated mixed-media artist and art teacher who has been running her own creative business, willowing.org, since late 2008. Since then she has become a creative catalyst for thousands of artists. Her work, which can be described as ""mixed-media folk art meets magical realism,"" ranges from whimsical children's illustrations to more stylised fantasy art. Symbolism and layering play a big part in her work, and her paintings often contain healing themes, uplifting messages, and inspirational poetry. Tamara believes that the act of creating art can be a gateway into healing and personal growth. Her art classes often contain an element of self-development as well as learning art techniques. She is deeply devoted to helping people get in touch with their creative fire, and works tirelessly to bring uplifting, Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) nourishing, creative, and empowering content to her amazing tribe of thousands. Her work and articles have been ISBN: 9781631593536 published in several art magazines and books. Format: Paperback Dimensions: mm Extent: 144 pages Main Category: VX Mind, Body, Spirit Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Quarry Books JANUARY 2018 Make Art Every Day: A Weekly Planner for Creative Thinkers--With Art Techniques, Exercises, Reminders, and 500 Stickers Katie Vernon

This 52-week planner is filled with technique lessons, exercises, and encouragement, so you will be excited to create art every day!

Description Visualise your creative goals with To Do: Make Art Every Day life planner, then make them a reality.

This 52-week calendar and sticker set, written and beautifully illustrated by artist Katie Vernon, guides aspiring artists as they learn about, plan for, engage in, and nurture their creative practice.

Your art journey opens with guidance on basic hand lettering and writing techniques, mark-making in pencil, pen, and marker, working with color, and handling watercolour and acrylic paints.

The weekly format makes it easy to start your creative year at any time. Each week offers 2 to 3 mini-exercises, and basic art techniques, like drawing a simple flower or painting a landscape in watercolour.

Plus, this motivational planner includes 500 stickers to encourage you to Take Quiet Time, Make an Art Date, and Explore Something New.

About the Author Katie Vernon is an illustrator who has spent most of her life in the midwest but whose heart belongs in the mountains. She is a trend leader and a master watercolorist, and winner of the 2015 Lilla Rogers Global Talent Search. Her inspiration comes from being a florist, working with alpacas, and living on a bus. Some of her favourite things include rearranging furniture, seltzer water, and two different species of animals becoming friends. Katie is also rather fond of her partner, daughter, and part-dingo dog.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781631593369 Format: Paperback Dimensions: mm Extent: 128 pages Main Category: A The Arts Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Quarry Books JANUARY 2018 DIY Circus Lab for Kids: A Family- Friendly Guide for Juggling, Balancing, Clowning and Show-Making Jackie Leigh Davis

From skills to props, DIY Circus Lab for Kids teaches you and your family everything you need to know to produce your own circus.

Description DIY Circus Lab for Kids gives families everything they need to produce their own circus! Author Jackie Leigh Davis invites the you into the international youth circus community, then dives into the circus skill families: juggling, acrobatics, manipulation, balance, and clowning.

The book opens with a do-it-yourself prop-making class, and provides enough homemade circus equipment to get you started on some fun circus basics. Rising circus stars will then move on to lessons in toss juggling, flower sticks, poi, human pyramids, and how to move on to even more tricks and skills. And best yet, kids will see how to combine skills into an act, and acts into a show.

DIY Circus Lab for Kids also includes the Circademic Corner, which is full of academic and scientific factoids about circus, and Safety Check boxes whenever skill-learning requires adult supervision. Many of the skills in this book are safe enough for kids to do themselves, with a few requiring an adult ""spotter"" so families or classes can enjoy them together.

About the Author Jackie Leigh Davis, EdM., is a circus education pioneer, teacher, and advocate. She was a founding member of the American Youth Circus Organisation (AYCO), the first national youth circus advocacy organisation in the country. Founded in 1999, AYCO hosts biennial national festivals and educator conferences to promote the participation of youth in circus arts.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781631593475 Format: Paperback Dimensions: mm Extent: 152 pages Main Category: WC Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Quarry Books JANUARY 2018 Learn in 15 Minutes: Calligraphy: 15 exercises, 15 letterforms, 15 variations William Paterson

Learn beautiful, modern calligraphy

Description The self-education trend is booming and more adults than ever are teaching themselves core art and design skills. This Learn in 15 book is the perfect companion for these curious souls; breaking each skill down into 45 bite-sized tutorials so that you can hone your abilities without a huge daily investment of time. YouTuber and lettering guru Will Paterson offers instructional content that is clear, concise, and fun to follow. Paired with beautiful inspirational examples of modern calligraphy at its best, this book comes in a handy, dip-in-and-out format, packing more than 12 hours of teaching into simple and succinct 15-minute long tutorials.

About the Author William Paterson is a dynamic and popular blogger, designer and calligrapher. Since starting to upload design and art tutorials onto YouTube two years ago, his following has grown to over 110,000 subscribers. Initially inspired by the desire to help others who wanted to learn more about Photoshop and Illustrator, his accessible and clear tutorials have expanded to include calligraphy and hand lettering tutorials.

Price: $18.99 (NZ$21.99) ISBN: 9782888933496 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 127x178mm Extent: 208 pages Main Category: AKD Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Rotovision JANUARY 2018 The Greatest Blunders...Ever! Ian Whitelaw

History's dumbest mistakes and the people who made them.

Description Take a look at the biggest mishaps and miscalculations ever made.

The Greatest Blunders...Ever! features a wealth of humongous historical bloopers and the people who made them. From the murder of Julius Caesar to Napoleon's sale of Louisiana and Hitler's invasion of Russia, this beautifully illustrated book shines a light on the people and personalities behind some of history's biggest blunders.

If the road to damnation is paved with the best of intentions, then the road to disaster is paved with what, at first sight, appeared to be a smart move. History is a catalogue of blunders, and The Greatest Blunders...Ever! shines a light on fifty of the biggest.

Discover history's greatest and most spectacular fails, including: How Emperor Caligula bankrupted Rome and tried to have his horse elevated to the position of consul; how Philip II of Spain destroyed half his own fleet and accidentally caused the deaths of two thirds of his navy; who caused a small student protest in France to escalate into violent mass demonstrations and a national strike; and why a nuclear power plant was built on the Japanese coast in an earthquake zone where it was known a major tsunami was possible.

About the Author Ian Whitelaw is an editor and writer currently living on Vancouver Island in Canada, where he and his wife run a small farm. Ian's university studies included chemistry, physics,and biology, as well as anthropology,in which he graduated from the University of Durham with an Honors Degree. As an author and editor,he has been involved in numerous books, and his published work includes History Makers: 100 MostInfluential People of the Twentieth Century,A Measure of All Things: The Story ofMan and Measurement, and The Joy ofKnowledge: A Complete Education in 20Easy Lessons.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760523169 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 210x140mm Extent: 144 pages Main Category: HBG Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Vancouver, Canada

Pier 9 JANUARY 2018 The Greatest Mysteries...Ever! Bill Price

History's biggest puzzles and the people who made them.

Description Explore the most baffling puzzles, conundrums and secrets from throughout the ages. The world is full of grey areas, enigmas and unsolved mysteries, which can fascinate, intrigue and occasionally annoy in equal measure. From the gruesome murders committed by Jack the Ripper to the mystery of the missing Nazi gold, this book sheds light on these questions, some of which may never yield definitive answers.

The Greatest Mysteries ... Ever! takes a look at those baffling puzzles, conundrums and secrets that have defied explanation through the ages and attempts to crack history's greatest riddles.

- It tries to establish the truth behind well-known legends, including Atlantis, King Arthur and the abominable snowman. - It looks at questions of identity, such as who sat for the Mona Lisa? Who wrote Shakespeare's plays? And who does the Turin Shroud show? - And it sifts through the evidence if some unexplained disappearances, including Amelia Earhart, the crew of the Mary Celeste and the Zodiac Killer.

Of course, the solution often remains tantalizingly just out of reach. But, in the end, it is exactly this sense of mystery that attracts us to these unfinished stories in the first place.

About the Author Bill Price is a freelance writer and a traveling enthusiast currently working and living in North London. For fifteen years he worked in various areas of the book trade, but more recently he has built a reputation as a specialist in travel and history writing and has become a regular contributor to a large number of international publications as well as popular reference books .His published works include:Charles Darwin: Origins and Arguments,Winston Churchill: War Leader, Landmarksof the World, Great Modern Buildings,Celtic Myths, and The GreatestDecisions...Ever!

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760523176 Format: Dimensions: 210x140mm Extent: 144 pages Main Category: HBG Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Pier 9 JANUARY 2018 The Life McQueen

The Life McQueen explores and celebrates the films, racing, personal style and other elements that made Steve McQueen an icon.

Description Steve McQueen remains the embodiment of cool some three decades after his death. How can that be? Whether on the silver screen, racing a Triumph motorcycle across a California desert, dueling with other racers at Le Mans, or simply hanging with his pals, McQueen exuded an effortless style that belied his rough and tumble past. It's a trick that ensures he continues to appear in advertising and pop culture all the while embraced by cinema, racing, and motorcycle fans as one of their own. He remains the ultimate guy's guy.

The Life McQueen explores and celebrates the memorable aspects of McQueen's life that, taken as a whole, defined the man and cemented his reputation as a Hollywood rebel and risk taker. Peppered with period photos, illustrations, posters, and more, The Life McQueen surveys the movie roles, racing, personal style, art, and pop culture that all combined to crown the King of Cool and ensure his legacy.

About the Author

Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9780760358115 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: mm Extent: 240 pages Main Category: B Biography/autobiography Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Motorbooks JANUARY 2018 Triumph Motorcycles in America Lindsay Brooke, David Gaylin

Offering stellar performance and undeniable cool, Triumph motorcycles are part of North America's motorcycling soul. Learn how America played the key role in Triumph's tremendous success.

Description Triumphs have been part of North America's motorcycling soul since long before World War II. Born in Britain but bred in the US and Canada, Triumph's iconic models - Bonneville, Trophy, Thunderbird, Daytona, Tiger, Speed Twin, Speed Triple, and Rocket III - resonate deeply with enthusiasts who love their style, sound, performance, and undeniable coolness. It's not coincidental that Triumph was Steve McQueen's favourite ride.

Triumph Motorcycles in America is packed with thorough, entertaining text, plus hundreds of historical images, most of them in colour and never before published. Written by award-winning professional journalist and lifelong Triumph fanatic Lindsay Brooke, with a foreword by America's favorite 'Triumph guy,' Peter Egan, Triumph Motorcycles in America is a must-have for every fan of Britain's most legendary bike brand.

About the Author Detroit-based auto writer Lindsay Brooke has been covering automotive and motorcycle technology and history for more than thirty years. He is editor in chief of Automotive Engineering magazine, published by the SAE. A longtime British motorcycle enthusiast, historian, and owner of multiple Triumphs, Brooke has authored two other Triumph titles for Motorbooks. He and David Gaylin are widely acknowledged as experts on Triumph's American story. Growing up in Baltimore near the Triumph Corporation, David Gaylin's first bike was a 1970 Bonneville. After TriCor closed in 1975, he was able to acquire truckloads of internal memoranda, brochures, photos, manuals, and service bulletins. This vast archive became the foundation this book and later Gaylin's popular Triumph Bonneville and TR6 Restoration Guide. His latest book is an illustrated history of the Wall of Death.

Price: $75.00 (NZ$85.00) ISBN: 9780760353288 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: mm Extent: 224 pages Main Category: WSP Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Motorbooks JANUARY 2018 Raised Bed Revolution: Build It, Fill It, Plant It ... Garden Anywhere Tara Nolan

Join the revolution and create a beautiful raised bed garden with inspiration from the ultimate raised bed gardening guidebook!

Description Raised bed gardening is the fastest-growing garden strategy today, and Raised Bed Revolution is its ultimate guidebook. The book includes information about size requirements for constructing raised beds, height suggestions, types of materials you can use, and creative tips for fitting the maximum garden capacity into small spaces--including vertical gardening.

Enhanced with gorgeous photography, this book covers subjects such as growing-medium options, rooftop gardening, cost-effective gardening solutions, planting tips, watering strategies (automatic water drip systems and hand watering), and more. The process of creating and building raised beds is a cinch, too, thanks to the extensive gallery of design ideas and step-by-step projects.

This gardening strategy is taking serious root. Why? Several reasons:

- Raised beds allow gardeners to practice space efficiency as well as accessibility (the beds can be customized to be any height).

- Raised beds permit gardeners to use their own soil, and they can be designed with wheels for easy portability if partial sunlight is a problem.

- Water conservation is easier for gardeners who use raised beds.

- Pest control is assisted because most garden pests can't make the leap up into the raised bed. For yards that struggle with drainage, raised bed gardening offers a no- brainer solution. Raised beds simply create a more interesting yard!Find out more about why everyone is joining the raised bed revolution. You can roll up your sleeves and join it, too! Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781591866503 Format: Hard Cover About the Author Dimensions: 211x262mm Tara Nolan is a freelance writer from the Toronto, Canada, area. Working as an editor and digital consultant, her Extent: 272 pages publishing background is diverse. She's worked everywhere from Yahoo! Canada to Canadian Home Workshop. For over Main Category: WM Sub Category: WM Gardening six years, Tara was the web editor of CanadianGardening.com where she won a Canadian Online Publishing Award for Illustrations: the Seed to Supper newsletter. She is a member of the Garden Writers Association and a co-founder of Savvy Previous Titles: Author now living: Gardening. She loves to write about travel, gardening, decor, and health and fitness for print and online publications. If she's not writing, you'll find Tara in the garden, mountain biking, or handcrafting a new project.

Cool Springs Press JANUARY 2018 The Cut Flower Patch: Grow your own cut flowers all year round Louise Curley

An inspiring guide to transforming a small patch of ground, be it on an allotment or in a garden, into a cut flower patch which produces flowers from early spring to late autumn.

Description Louise Curley looks at what makes a great cut flower, ideal conditions and soil and the tools you'll need. There is advice on what to grow - from favourite hardy annuals, half hardies and biennials to spring and summer bulbs to adding foliage and fillers to balance arrangements - and advice on how and when to sow, how to support your plants and tips on weeding, deadheading, pests and feeding.

Growing your own such means greater choice, working with the seasons and super fresh flowers. Bought flowers can be expensive and the international flower trade often means dangerous chemicals, poor working conditions for growers, demands on water resources and the 'flower miles' of worldwide airfreight.

This book will help you get the most from your patch with guidance on how to cut the flowers so that they keep producing more blooms and how to look after them once they have been picked. The Cut Flower Patch is completed by a selection of flower arranging tips and sample arrangements as well as tips on finding great containers, planting plans and a helpful year planner.

About the Author Trained horticulturist Louise Curley writes for the Guardian newspaper, Grow Your Own, The Simple Things and Gardens Illustrated magazines. She started her Wellywoman blog in 2011 and was a finalist in the 'best blog' category at the Garden Media Guild Awards in 2012. She gardens organically and has kept an allotment for four years on which she grows all her cut flowers.

Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9780711234758 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 235x187mm Extent: 224 pages

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Frances Lincoln (Adult) JANUARY 2018 Small Space Gardening Melinda Myers

Captures the ingenuity and simplicity necessary for gardening in small spaces.

Description Small Space Gardening has the answers to your questions about successful small space gardens! Expert Melinda Myers will teach you how easy it is to turn your small outdoor space into a beautiful, functional, low-maintenance retreat. Everything you need to know to get started, explained in plain and simple language.

About the Author Melinda Myers is a Horticultural Instructor at Milwaukee Area Technical College. Many recognise Myers as the host of 'Great Lakes Gardener,' a public television program that airs throughout the Great Lakes and provides region-specific advice to Midwest gardeners. She hosts the 'Plant Doctor Radio Show' and has been contributing editor and columnist for Birds & Blooms Magazine since 1996.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781591861850 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 204x254mm Extent: 176 pages Main Category: WM Sub Category: WM Gardening Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Cool Springs Press JANUARY 2018 Landscape Ideas You Can Use: How to Choose Structures, Surfaces & Plants That Transform Your Yard Chris Peterson

A beautiful, inspiring book featuring well-chosen examples of landscape designs that succeed.

Description This book goes beyond pretty pictures to include specific information on plant and hardscaping options so you can make an informed decision on which options make sense for your yard. Subjects covered include: Understanding landscape styles, landscape materials, landscape elements, gardens & border plantings, landscape structures, firepits & fireplaces, landscape lighting, and many more.

About the Author Chris Peterson is a professional writer and editor based in Oregon. An expert in home design, repair and renovation and an avid cook, he's the author of Manskills, When Duct Tape Just Isn't Enough: Quick Fixes for Everyday Disasters, A Man's Whirled: Every Guy's Guide to Cooking with the Blender, and several other books.

Price: $21.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781589237018 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 210x275mm Extent: 176 pages Main Category: WM Sub Category: WM Gardening Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Cool Springs Press JANUARY 2018 Grow a Living Wall: Create Vertical Gardens with Purpose: Pollinators - Herbs and Veggies - Aromatherapy - Many More Shawna Coronado

Make a beautiful, practical, environmentally conscious garden, even in a small space - grow UP with a living wall!

Description Make a beautiful, practical, environmentally conscious garden, even in a small space - grow UP with a living wall! A living wall is a vertical structure, usually outside the home, that is built with live plants growing in containers hung in a decorative arrangement. Sometimes called Green Walls and Vertical Gardens, living walls are easier than ever to plan and grow! Grow a Living Wall is the first wall-gardening book to focus exclusively on the needs of home gardeners. Make your vertical garden environmentally friendly and sustainable. It's easy with author Shawna Coronado's help! One of her themed vertical gardens is stocked mostly with flowers to make it a haven for bees and other pollinators. Other gardens are filled with vegetables and herbs so anyone with an outdoor wall can grow their own food - beautifully! Even more gardens promote aromatherapy or medicinal plants. Some are designed to provide a green net of air filtration near a living area, or to protect exterior walls from exposure to direct sunlight, which helps to keep the indoors cool. In addition to the comprehensive, step-by-step information that explains the basics of vertical gardening, each of the 20 featured gardens has its own chapter filled with useful tips, stunning photography, and fascinating background stories that point out how much difference a small garden can make. Like author Shawna herself, the gardens you'll find in Grow a Living Wall are positive, life affirming, and sure to produce a smile or two.

About the Author Shawna Coronado is an author, columnist, blogger, photographer, and spokesperson for organic gardening, green lifestyle living, and culinary preparation who campaigns for social good. Shawna's goal in authoring gardening and green lifestyle books is to promote a world initiative to encourage healthy and sustainable living. Shawna was featured as a Chicago Tribune Remarkable Woman and speaks internationally on building community, simple urban garden living, and Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) green lifestyle tips for the everyday person. ISBN: 9781591866244 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 210x275mm Extent: 160 pages Main Category: WM Sub Category: WM Gardening Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Cool Springs Press JANUARY 2018 Grow More With Less: Sustainable Garden Methods: Less Water - Less Work - Less Money Vincent A. Simeone

Grow More with Less gives readers a specific plan based on practical, field-tested methods to transform their home landscape into one that co-operates with nature, conserves time and resources, and looks beautiful.

Description Horticultural expert Vincent Simeone helps you plan your green garden in this practical, holistic guide. With detailed, strategic timelines for both short-term and long-term gardening techniques, Grow More with Less lets you put your best foot forward in creating an efficient, sustainable home landscape. From composting and mulching to planting trees, author Vincent Simeone covers all the eco-friendly essentials in one straightforward handbook. Simeone makes the what, how, and why of sustainable gardening unmistakably clear: why we should plant for the long-term, how to make the best plant selections possible, how to manage invasive species, how to make the most of your lawn (regardless of its size), the importance of IPM (integrated pest management) in fighting insects and pests, how to conserve water with proper irrigation, installing rain barrels and cisterns, and more. Even when the solution is to do nothing - for instance, leaving some parts of a lawn un-mowed in order to save time and money while attracting local wildlife - Grow More with Less enables you to confidently make the call. With effective, time-proven recommendations like these, field-tested in a large botanical garden and adapted for home use by Vincent Simeone, Grow More with Less is your complete step-by-step personal roadmap for green gardening.

About the Author Vincent Simeone is an experienced lecturer, instructor, horticultural consultant, and author of books and magazine articles. His education and training is in the field of ornamental horticulture. Later, Simeone added to his education by receiving a master's in public administration from C.W. Post Long Island University. In addition to his media appearances, Simeone is director of the Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park, where he hones the art of sustainable gardening by practising what he preaches.

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Cool Springs Press JANUARY 2018 Planting Designs for Cactus & Succulents: Indoor and Outdoor Projects for Unique, Easy-Care Plants--in All Climates Sharon Asakawa, John Bagnasco, photographs by Shaun Buchanan

No green thumb? No problem!

Description Succulents are the ultimate low-care plants, able to withstand erratic rainfall, poor soil, and outright neglect - they almost never need pruning, watering, feeding, or fussing over. That, along with their astounding range of colours and forms, makes them ideal for those who want an attractive yet low-maintenance container planting or landscape view. In Planting Designs for Cactus & Succulents, a book made for the gardener and non-gardener alike, you'll find information and design inspiration for adding these plants to your interior and exterior spaces. Authors Sharon Asakawa and John Bagnasco, with well over half a century of gardening experience between them, offer expert tips for selection, planting, and care, then show you how to beautifully incorporate cacti and succulents into your particular environment. More than twenty step-by-step how-to projects are paired with gorgeous photographic demonstrations, teaching you how to make your own terrariums, dish gardens, living ""paintings,"" xerispheres, bouquets and centrepieces, hair ornaments, natural walkways, birdhouse roofs, picture frames, seasonal arrangements, and more. Just when you'd given up, Planting Designs for Cactus & Succulents comes to the rescue as your comprehensive guide to the plants that can survive in some of the least nurturing environments on Earth - even if that happens to include your house.

About the Author SHARON ASAKAWA and her husband Bruce are, without question, the most highly respected gardening experts in California. JOHN BAGNASCO has been an integral part of the gardening industry for over 45 years, starting with a degree in Horticultural Marketing (Michigan State University) and followed by a decade at Frank's Nursery and Crafts in Detroit. He is also the president of www.GardenTube.com, a YouTube-type site for gardeners. As if that's not enough, he is a partner in SuperNaturals Grafted Vegetables, LLC., has also taught horticulture classes, and is a rose breeder who introduced over a dozen new varieties. He was host of the DVD The Essential Guide to Roses. John's other books include Plants for the Home Vol I. Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) SHAUN BUCHANAN is a professional User Experience designer and has been designing and photographing for the last ISBN: 9781591865612 decade. As an in-house designer at a plant nursery where he currently resides with his wife Kate, he developed a love for Format: Paperback Dimensions: 216x254mm cacti and succulents while photographing and designing ads for marketing material. This is his first book project. Extent: 176 pages ROBYN FOREMAN is a highly skilled and trained floral designer with more than twenty-five years' experience. Nothing is Main Category: WM off limits in her design work; if it's beautiful, alive, and can't run away on its own, it's going in an arrangement! Cacti and Sub Category: WM Gardening Illustrations: succulents are perfect for creating many intriguing, lavish looks. Previous Titles: Author now living:

Cool Springs Press JANUARY 2018 Foodscaping: Practical and Innovative Ways to Create an Edible Landscape Charlie Nardozzi

Keep your lawn and eat it too - Foodscaping will show you how to grow food without giving up your view.

Description Foodscaping is what it sounds like - a combination of landscaping and food. This gardening resource is chock-full of real- world examples, photos, and advice so that even an 'average Joe' homeowner and gardener can grow food without sacrificing either their lawn or their home's appearance to do so.

While 'edible' and 'ornamental' aren't always synonymous, they can be combined, with the right plants, placement, and advice from author and edible gardening expert Charlie Nardozzi. Charlie's ideas allow you to add food plants wherever you like. Incorporating food-bearing plants as hedgerows and barriers or in small spaces, containers, window boxes and many more ideas allow you to expand the types of plants you can use and even extend your growing season!

For example, blueberry bushes provide not just fruit, but also wonderful fall colour. Arbors and pergolas are perfect supports for edible plants and even simplify harvest. Squash and cabbage have attractive, interesting leaf textures, so they can be a part of the ornamental garden.

Foodscaping also goes beyond mere plant selection. The basics of gardening, planting, pruning, dealing with pests, watering, feeding, and harvesting are all covered in detail, ensuring your success in creating a beautiful, edible landscape for your home.

About the Author Charlie Nardozzi is a nationally recognised garden writer, speaker, and radio and television personality. He brings expert gardening information to home gardeners through radio, television, lectures, the Internet, and the printed page. Charlie delights in making gardening information simple, easy, fun, and accessible to everyone. Charlie is the author of Cool Springs Press' Northeast Fruit & Vegetable Gardening (2012), Vegetable Gardener's Journal and Magnet Gift Set (2014), Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) New England Getting Started Garden Guide, and the upcoming Foodscaping (2015). ISBN: 9781591866275 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 210x275mm Extent: 176 pages Main Category: WM

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Cool Springs Press JANUARY 2018 Any Size, Anywhere Edible Gardening: The No Yard, No Time, No Problem Way To Grow Your Own Food William Moss

Grow your own food - no matter where you live!

Description Edibles continue to be popular choices for gardeners, and beginning gardeners are no exception. Author William Moss takes a beginning gardener through all the steps needed to grow vegetables and fruits in any setting, regardless of the available (or desired) size. This book covers container gardening, vertical gardening, raised-bed gardening, and traditional methods to help gardeners everywhere bring a taste of homegrown freshness to their gardening experience.

About the Author William Moss inspires people to Get Out & Grow. As a trusted authority in greening, gardening, and urban agriculture, he connects with audiences and explains how to make healthier choices that improve their lives, their communities, and their environment. Coined the Garden Boss for his in-depth knowledge and sound advice, William uses his landscaping know- how and charming personality to engage, educate, and entertain audiences with relevant, informative content. William is the host of HGTV s Dig In, a greening contributor for The Early Show on CBS, and a QVC gardening guest. www. wemoss.org

Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781591865087 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 178x254mm Extent: 200 pages Main Category: WM Sub Category: WM Gardening Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Cool Springs Press JANUARY 2018 Pruning: An Illustrated Guide: Foolproof Methods for Shaping and Trimming Trees, Shrubs, Vines, and More Judy Lowe

Award-winning gardening writer Judy Lowe imparts over two decades of expertise, focusing on the most common backyard pruning needs for the most commonly grown landscape plants.

Description Lifelong gardener Judy Lowe gives you the knowledge to make the right cut the first time. 'Pruning panic' is an all-too- familiar feeling among even experienced gardeners, but it's especially prevalent among those of us who are new to the practice. In Pruning: An Illustrated Guide, award-winning gardening writer Judy Lowe imparts over two decades of expertise, focusing on the most common backyard pruning needs for the most commonly grown landscape plants. From trees and shrubs to hydrangeas, azaleas, roses, and other perennials, Lowe takes an in-depth approach to all the pruning essentials. Throughout the book, her advice is accompanied by brilliantly detailed step-by-step line drawings that clearly demonstrate where and how to make precise, effective cuts. Lowe removes all intimidation from the pruning process: beyond the craft itself, you'll gain an understanding of the basic science behind plant growth, why plants need pruning, when they'll need it, and how pruning techniques can vary between plant species. So the next time you pick up a pruning saw or a pair of loppers, panic will be the furthest thing from your mind - and from your garden.

About the Author Judy Lowe (Columbia, SC) has loved gardening her whole life and has been writing about it for more than twenty-five years. Lowe's eleven previous books include Herbs!: Creative Herb Garden Themes and Projects (2011) and All About Pruning (Ortho, 2009). Judy has been honoured numerous times by the Garden Writer's Association, the National Garden Bureau, and many other gardening groups.

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Cool Springs Press JANUARY 2018 Backyard Water Gardens: How to Build, Plant & Maintain Ponds, Streams & Fountains Veronica L. Fowler

Backyard Water Gardens is a complete overview of everything you need to know in order to create a backyard water feature, from ideas, to installation, to maintaining, to stocking with plants and fish.

Description Veronica Fowler's comprehensive step-by-step manual shows you not only how to install your water garden, but maintain it entirely on your own. Backyard Water Gardens teaches you how to install liners, pre-formed shapes, containers, and aboveground pools and fountains. From there, it helps you choose plants, add them to your garden, fertilise, prune, divide, and ward off pests and diseases. But Fowler's book goes far beyond the basics, covering all the maintenance and troubleshooting of water feature hardscapes - from a rip in a liner, to a damaged pool, to maintaining equipment and filters (including seasonal maintenance for winter care). Veronica Fowler's Backyard Water Gardens allows you to fully enjoy the convenience and versatility of water gardening, all while maintaining it with ease for years to come. Backyard Water Gardens is truly an all-inclusive manual, encompassing every style, type, and size of water feature imaginable. No matter the 'feel' you wish to convey in your garden - casual, formal, or whimsical - Fowler's book enables you to create it with confidence. Your range of hardscape options is incredibly vast, from small, container-sized fountains that complement any space with added sound and movement, to large in-ground or aboveground ponds and streams. Larger installations not only provide soothing, rejuvenating sights and sounds; they can also house fish and plants and passively attract natural wildlife to your backyard.

About the Author Veronica Fowler is an enthusiastic backyard water gardening expert and professional writer. She was an editor at Meredith Publishing, wrote for the Des Moines Register, and is co-founder and writer of The Iowa Gardener e-newsletter.

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Cool Springs Press JANUARY 2018 Plant This Instead!: Better Plant Choices Troy B. Marden

Plant This Instead! tips you off to 75 lesser-known plant types that will give you a garden that is beautiful - and perhaps far lower-maintenance than one planted with common local selections

Description Beautiful gardens are generally thought to be true labours of love, often demanding hours of tedious routine maintenance. Planting requirements can be daunting, and finding the time to successfully cultivate a home garden is a tall order for most of us - constant watering, debris removal, and tiresome pruning are not at the top of our wish lists. Luckily, it doesn't have to be this way: a carefully selected plant variety can give you all the enjoyment and curb appeal of a gorgeous, painstakingly tended garden with none of the wrist pain. Plant This Instead! tips you off to 75 lesser-known plant types that will thrive naturally in various microclimates, depending on where you live in the United States - featuring native and non-invasive plants, hardy alternatives to less sturdy species, new introductions, repeat bloomers, and other helpful varieties. Renowned garden designer and photographer Troy B. Marden offers clear-cut, side-by-side comparisons of these superior plant choices to the more common, fussier kinds. He incorporates original photography and identifies regionally appropriate selections, demonstrating which climates are friendly to which plants and ensuring that no matter your location, you'll be able to capitalise on his expert advice. Most importantly, Marden alerts you to some of gardening's most harmful misconceptions, explaining why you shouldn't copy professional landscapers and how placing a ten-dollar plant in the wrong place could cost you thousands of dollars. Planting a beautiful garden shouldn't be a chore - and with Plant This Instead!, it won't be.

About the Author Troy B. Marden has co-hosted Volunteer Gardener out of Nashville, TN, for over 10 years. Troy is a popular, lively and in- demand speaker for all kinds of gardening and social groups. He has more than 26 years of experience in the garden industry & garden writing world, as well as strong connections to the country music industry. Marden has written articles for magazines such as Horticulture, Fine Gardening, Garden Design, and Southern Living. He is also an exceptional photographer.

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Cool Springs Press JANUARY 2018 Deck Ideas You Can Use: Creative Deck Designs for Every Home & Yard Chris Peterson

A comprehensive deck design tool that is packed with useful information and stunning, full color photos.

Description A comprehensive deck design tool that is packed with useful information and stunning, full-colour photos. From choosing deck materials to complementing the architecture of your house, this book covers every aspect of the design process to help you create a custom deck that's perfect for your home and yard. Written and researched by noted DIY author and designer Chris Peterson, this is an all-new expansion of backlist favourite Portfolio of Deck Ideas. More than 250 all-new photos, plus all-new text and all-new attitude make this the most satisfying and useful deck ideas book you can find today, and at an attractive price point.

About the Author Chris Peterson is the author of numerous books on home improvement and gardening, including Deck Ideas You Can Use, Black & Decker Complete Guide to Garages, and Square Foot Gardening: Growing Perfect Vegetables.

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Cool Springs Press JANUARY 2018 In Dust and Ashes (Hanne Wilhelmsen 10) Anne Holt, translated by Anne Bruce

Don't miss this tenth and final instalment of Anne Holt's explosive Hanne Wilhelmsen series.

Description In 2001, three year old Dina is killed in a tragic car accident. Not long thereafter Dina's mother dies under mysterious circumstances, and Dina's father Jonas is convicted of her murder.

In 2016, the cold case ends up on the desk of Detective Henrik Holme, who tries to convince his mentor Hanne Wilhelmsen that the father might have been wrongly convicted. Holme and Wilhelmsen discover that the case could be connected to the suicide of an eccentric blogger as well as the kidnapping of the grandson of a EuroJackpot millionaire.

Don't miss this unforgettable, explosive finale to Anne Holt's bestselling Hanne Wilhelmsen series.

About the Author Anne Holt is Norway's bestselling female crime writer. She spent two years working for the Oslo Police Department before founding her own law firm and serving as Norway's Minster for Justice between 1996 and 1997. She is published in 30 languages with over 7 million copies of her books sold.

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Corvus JANUARY 2018 In Dust and Ashes 8 copy pack

Includes 8 copies of In Dust and Ashes plus free reading copy

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Corvus JANUARY 2018 Offline (Hanne Wilhelmsen 9) Anne Holt

The long-awaited sequel to Anne Holt's massive bestseller 1222 and the penultimate novel in the Hanne Wilhelmsen series: when bombs explode at the Islamic Cooperation Council's headquarters in Oslo, detective Hanne Wilhelmsen is on the case.

Description It has been eleven years since Hanne Wilhelmsen's life was forever changed by an assault that left her wheelchair bound. Now, Hanne's self-imposed exile is nearing its end.

When Oslo comes under attack from Islamic extremists in a series of explosions, the city is left reeling. A militant group claim responsibility, but the Norwegian police force doubt on the authenticity of the declaration, and the group's very existence. The unfolding drama is brought to Hanne's door by her former partner Billy T., who is convinced that his son, Linus, is involved in the recent events. He begs Hanne for help. But Hanne soon learns that she cannot protect Linus, Billy T. or the people of Oslo. Those bent of destruction are one step ahead, and many lives will be lost before the truth is revealed...

Don't miss this unforgettable sequel to Anne Holt's biggest bestseller 1222 - and penultimate novel in the Hanne Wilhelmsen series.

About the Author Anne Holt is Norway's bestselling female crime writer. She spent two years working for the Oslo Police Department before founding her own law firm and serving as Norway's Minster for Justice between 1996 and 1997. She is published in 30 languages with over 7 million copies of her books sold.

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Corvus PBS JANUARY 2018 Death Message: A Collins and Griffiths Detective Novel Kate London

An intricate, gritty and believable crime novel about a mother and daughter in peril - and two police officers who set out to save them.

Description October 1987: the morning after the Great Storm. Fifteen-year-old Tania Mills walks out her front door and disappears. Twenty-seven years later her mother still prays for her return. DS Sarah Collins in the Met's Homicide Command is determined to find out what happened, but is soon pulled into a shocking new case and must once again work with a troubled young police officer from her past, Lizzie Griffiths.

PC Lizzie Griffiths, now a training detective, is working in the Domestic Violence Unit, known by cops as the 'murder prevention squad'. Called to an incident of domestic violence, she encounters a vicious, volatile man - and a woman too frightened to ask for help. Soon Lizzie finds herself drawn into the centre of the investigation as she fights to protect a mother and daughter in peril.

As both cases unfold, Sarah and Lizzie must survive the dangerous territory where love and violence meet.

About the Author Kate London graduated from Cambridge University and moved to Paris where she trained in theatre. In 2006 Kate joined the Metropolitan Police Service. She finished her career working as part of a Major Investigation Team on SC&O1 - the Metropolitan Police Service's Homicide Command. She resigned from the MPS in August 2014. Her debut novel Post Mortem was published by Corvus in 2015.

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Corvus PBS JANUARY 2018 Post Mortem: A Collins and Griffiths Detective Novel Kate London

An intricate, gritty and believable crime novel from a serving detective in the Met's murder squad - an explosive debut.

Description She closed her eyes and saw, as if on a loop, a repeating backdrop of square windows, blue sky and concrete spinning and passing, passing, passing. She could not escape the horror of it: falling unstoppably, irretrievably until the hard concrete reaches up. That last glimpse of them at the edge.

A long-serving beat cop in the Met and a teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in London's East End. Left alive on the roof are a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths. Within hours, Lizzie Griffiths has disappeared, and DPS officer Sarah Collins sets out to uncover the truth around the grisly deaths, in an investigation which takes her into the dark heart of policing in London.

Grounded in the terrifying realities of life on the force in city where the affluent middle classes live cheek-by-jowl with the poorest immigrants, this is a complex, intelligent, thrilling crime novel by an author who has walked the beat.

About the Author Kate graduated from Cambridge University and moved to Paris where she trained in theatre. In 2006 Kate joined the Metropolitan Police Service. Like all police officers she started in uniform, working for two years on a response team, and then moved into CID. She qualified as a detective constable then went on attachment with the police nationale in France and finished her career working as part of a Major Investigation Team on SC&O1 - the Metropolitan Police Service's Homicide Command. She resigned from the MPS in August 2014. Post Mortem is her first novel.

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Corvus PBS JANUARY 2018 Everything You Told Me Lucy Dawson

Sally wakes up in the middle of nowhere, with a suicide note in her pocket and no memory of the previous twenty four hours. When she discovers what happened to her, she is shocked to the core...

Description Impossible to put down psychological suspense -

You went to bed at home, just like every other night.

You woke up in the back of a taxi, 300 miles away.

You have no memory of the last ten hours.

You have a suicide note in your coat pocket, in your own writing.

You know you weren't planning to kill yourself.

Your family and friends think you are lying.

Someone knows exactly what happened to you.

But they're not telling...

About the Author Lucy Dawson was a children's magazine editor before she had her first bestselling book, His Other Lover, in 2008. Since then she has published four other novels. She lives in Exeter with her husband and children.

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Corvus PBS JANUARY 2018 You Sent Me a Letter Lucy Dawson

What if your worst enemy found out your darkest secret? What if they wanted to destroy your life?

Description At 2 a.m. on the morning of her fortieth birthday, Sophie wakes to find an intruder in her bedroom. The stranger hands Sophie a letter and issues an threat: open the letter at her party that evening, in front of family and friends, at exactly 8 p. m., or those she loves will be in grave danger.

What can the letter possibly contain?

This will be no ordinary party; Sophie is not the only person keeping a secret about the evening ahead. When the clock strikes eight, the course of several people's lives will be altered for ever.

About the Author Lucy Dawson was a children's magazine editor before she had her first bestselling book, His Other Lover, published in 2008. Since then she has published three other novels and her work has been translated into numerous languages. She lives in Exeter with her husband and children.

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Corvus PBS JANUARY 2018 A Mighty Dawn Theodore Brun

A gripping and brilliantly realized debut epic adventure set in eighth-century Denmark. This is the beginning of an ambitious new series in the vein of George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones.

Description Sworn to honour. Broken by betrayal.

Hakan, son of Haldan, chosen son of the Lord of the Northern Jutes, swears loyalty to his father in fire, in iron, and in blood. But there are always shadows that roam. When a terrible tragedy befalls Hakan's household he is forced to leave his world behind. He must seek to pledge his sword to a new king. Nameless and alone, he embarks on a journey to escape the bonds of his past and fulfil his destiny as a great warrior.

Whispers of sinister forces in the north pull Hakan onwards to a kingdom plagued by mysterious and gruesome deaths. But does he have the strength to do battle with such dark foes? Or is death the only sane thing to seek in this world of blood and broken oaths?

About the Author Theodore Brun studied Dark Age archaeology at Cambridge, where he graduated with a BA in Archaeology and Anthropology and an MPhil in History. He also rowed in the Boat Race for the university. Professionally, Theodore qualified and worked as an arbitration lawyer, in London, Moscow, Paris and finally Hong Kong. In 2010, he quit his job in Hong Kong and cycled 10,000 miles across the whole of Asia and Europe (crossing 20 countries) to his home in Norfolk. Theodore is a third generation Viking immigrant - his Danish grandfather having settled in England in 1932. He is married and divides his time between London and Norfolk. A Mighty Dawn is his first novel.

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Corvus PBS JANUARY 2018 Arminius: The Limits of Empire Robert Fabbri

A stunning stand-alone Roman epic historical from the author of the bestselling Vespasian series.

Description One man's greatest victory. Rome's greatest defeat.

A.D. 9: In the depths of the Teutoburg Wald, in a landscape riven by ravines, darkened by ancient oak and bisected by fast-flowing streams, Arminius of the Cherusci led a confederation of six Germanic tribes in the annihilation of three Roman legions. Deep in the forest almost twenty thousand men were massacred without mercy; fewer than two hundred of them ever made it back across the Rhine. To Rome's shame, three sacred Eagles were lost that day.

But Arminius wasn't brought up in Germania Magna - he had been raised as a Roman. This is the story of how Arminius came to turn his back on the people who raised him and went on to commit a betrayal so great and so deep, it echoed through the ages.

About the Author Robert Fabbri read Drama and Theatre at London University and has worked in film and TV for 25 years as an assistant director. He has worked on productions such as Hornblower, Hellraiser, Patriot Games and Billy Elliot. His life-long passion for ancient history inspired him to write the Vespasian series. He lives in London and Berlin.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781782397014 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 384 pages

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Corvus PBS JANUARY 2018 All of a Winter's Night Phil Rickman

A medieval legend spawns an unhealthy cult... and a terrifying case for Merrily Watkins.

Description When Aidan Lloyd's bleak funeral is followed by a nocturnal ritual in the fog, it becomes all too clear that Aidan, son of a wealthy farmer, will not be resting in peace.

Aidan's hidden history has reignited an old feud, and a rural tradition begins to display its sinister side.

It's already a fraught time for Merrily Watkins, her future threatened by a bishop committed to restricting her role as diocesan exorcist for Hereford. Suddenly there are events she can't talk about as she and her daughter Jane find themselves potentially on the wrong side of the law.

In the city of Hereford, DI Frannie Bliss, investigating a shooting, must confront the apparent growth of organised crime, also contaminating the countryside.

On the Welsh border, the old ways are at war with the modern world. As the days shorten and the fog gives way to ice and snow, a savage killing draws Merrily Watkins into a conflict centred on one of Britain's most famous medieval churches, its walls laden with ancient symbolism.

Midwinter of the Spirit, televised last year to worldwide critical acclaim, was the first novel to reflect the reality of exorcism in modern Britain. All of a Winter's Night is the 15th episode in this electrifying series.

About the Author Phil Rickman lives on the Welsh border where he writes and presents the book programme Phil the Shelf on BBC Radio Wales. He is the hugely popular author of the Merrily Watkins series and the John Dee papers.

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Corvus PBS JANUARY 2018 The Last Night Cesca Major

Two women, separated by years, tied by secrets untold and haunted by tragedies that could not be foreseen.

Description In a quiet coastal village, Irina spends her days restoring furniture, passing the time in peace and hiding away from the world. A family secret, long held and never discussed, casts a dark shadow and Irina chooses to withdraw into her work. When an antique bureau is sent to her workshop, the owner anonymous, Irina senses a history to the object that makes her uneasy. As Irina begins to investigate the origins of the piece, she unearths the secrets it holds within...

Decades earlier in the 1950s, another young woman kept secrets. Her name was Abigail. Over the course of one summer, she fell in love, and dreamed of the future. But Abigail could not know that a catastrophe loomed, and this event would change the course of many lives for ever...

About the Author Cesca Major read history at Bristol University. She went on to work in television before becoming a history teacher. In 2005 she was runner-up in the Daily Mail Writing Competition for the best opening paragraph to a novel and had a short story published in the Sentinel Literary Magazine. She has written regularly for the website www.novelicious.com and films writing videos for www.writersandartists.com. She currently works as a housemistress at a boarding school in Berkshire.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781782395737 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 368 pages

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Corvus PBS JANUARY 2018 Mischling Affinity Konar

Garlanded with feverish quotes from Pulitzer Prize winners to Man Booker nominees, Mischling is an astonishing, bold imagining of Auschwitz and those small moments of hope and beauty that light the dark.

Description It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of the personalities they once shared, their identities altered by the burdens of guilt and pain.

That winter, at a concert orchestrated by Mengele, Pearl disappears. Stasha grieves for her twin, but clings to the possibility that Pearl remains alive. When the camp is liberated by the Red Army, she and her companion Feliks - a boy bent on vengeance for his own lost twin - travel through Poland's devastation. Undeterred by injury, starvation, or the chaos around them, motivated by equal parts danger and hope, they encounter hostile villagers, Jewish resistance fighters, and fellow refugees, their quest enabled by the notion that Mengele may be captured and brought to justice within the ruins of the Warsaw Zoo. As the young survivors discover what has become of the world, they must try to imagine a future within it.

About the Author Affinity Konar was raised in California. She is a graduate of Columbia University's MFA program.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781786494030 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 352 pages Main Category: FJH Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Atlantic PBS JANUARY 2018 Classics Reimagined, Frankenstein Mary Shelley, illustrated by David Plunkert

An unabridged version of a classic tale, now with dazzling modern illustration, and in a special bicentennial edition.

Description With his detailed and evocative imagery, renowned artist David Plunkert takes readers on a dark journey into the greatest novel in the monster genre, Frankenstein.

The suspense and horror of Dr. Frankenstein reanimating assembled body parts, the monster spying on an unknowing family, and the creatures revenge on his maker take on whole new meaning when accompanied by Plunkerts mystical, layered interpretations.

The Classics Reimagined series is a library of stunning collectors editions of unabridged classic novels illustrated by contemporary artists from around the world. Each artist offers his or her own unique, visual interpretation of the most well- loved, widely read, and avidly collected literature from renowned authors.

About the Author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797 - 1 February 1851) was an English romantic/gothic novelist and the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. She was married to the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in Somers Town, in London, in 1797. She was the second daughter of famed feminist, philosopher, educator, and writer Mary Wollstonecraft. Her father was the equally famous anarchist philosopher, novelist, journalist, and atheist dissenter William Godwin. Her mother died of puerperal fever ten days after Mary was born. David Plunkert is the principal and primary illustrator at Spur Design in Baltimore, Maryland.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781631593970 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: mm Extent: 256 pages Main Category: FC Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Rockport Publishers JANUARY 2018 Amok Stefan Zweig

A new edition of this Conradian tale of maddening desire, from the master, Stefan Zweig.

Description On a sweltering ocean-liner travelling from India to Europe a passenger tells his story: the tale of a doctor in the Dutch East Indies torn between his duty and the pull of his emotions; a tale of power and desire, pride and shame and a headlong flight into folly. This is one the most intense and incisive of the novellas which brought Stefan Zweig to worldwide fame.

About the Author Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Between the wars, Zweig was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he left Austria, and lived in London, Bath and New York-a period during which he produced his most celebrated works: his only novel, Beware of Pity and his memoir, The World of Yesterday. He eventually settled in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.

Price: $8.99 (NZ$10.99) ISBN: 9781782274513 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 180x129mm Extent: 160 pages Main Category: FC Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Pushkin JANUARY 2018 Confusion Stefan Zweig

A new pocket edition of this tale of intense friendship and suppressed passion from the master of the novella

Description Roland, a young student at a new university, meets an inspirational teacher who sweeps him into his world of literature and learning. When the boy moves into the same building as the teacher and his wife, he becomes ever closer to this remarkable man, though he also senses his mentor pulling away from him - sometimes even seeming to hate him. But the truth about these feelings is something that will shape both men for the rest of their lives.

About the Author Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Between the wars, Zweig was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he left Austria, and lived in London, Bath and New York-a period during which he produced his most celebrated works: his only novel, Beware of Pity, and his memoir, The World of Yesterday. He eventually settled in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.

Price: $8.99 (NZ$10.99) ISBN: 9781782274506 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 180x129mm Extent: 160 pages Main Category: FC Sub Category: FYT Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Pushkin JANUARY 2018 Burning Secret Stefan Zweig

A new pocket edition of this darkly compelling tale of seduction, jealousy and betrayal from the master of the novella.

Description The Baron, bored on holiday, begins a flirtation with a beautiful woman via her twelve-year-old son. He befriends the child and charms him, all the while attempting to seduce the mother - but he cannot begin to imagine the effect he is having on the boy's life... Burning Secret is a witty, potent look at innocence, adult attraction and childhood passion.

About the Author Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Between the wars, Zweig was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he left Austria, and lived in London, Bath and New York-a period during which he produced his most celebrated works: his only novel, Beware of Pity, and his memoir, The World of Yesterday. He eventually settled in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.

Price: $8.99 (NZ$10.99) ISBN: 9781782274520 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 180x129mm Extent: 160 pages Main Category: FC Sub Category: FYT Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Pushkin JANUARY 2018 Twenty-Four Hours In The Life Of A Woman Stefan Zweig

Passion, addiction and death on the French Riviera - one of Zweig's most breathless and popular novellas

Description A fateful encounter in a Montecarlo casino sees an English widow mesmerised by a young Polish artistocrat. A frenzied twenty-four hours ensue, as both struggle in the grip of irresistible obsessions that drive them to defy the conventions of society and risk everything they possess. This is one of the best-loved novellas by Stefan Zweig, a renowned master of the form - its frenetic pace, sparkling prose and acute psychological insight have made this unforgettable story a classic.

About the Author Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Between the wars, Zweig was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman, Amok and Fear. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he left Austria, and lived in London, Bath and New York-a period during which he produced his most celebrated works: his only novel, Beware of Pity, and his memoir, The World of Yesterday. He eventually settled in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.

Price: $8.99 (NZ$10.99) ISBN: 9781782272151 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 180x129mm Extent: 96 pages

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Pushkin JANUARY 2018 The Gravediggers' Bread Frederic Dard

A claustrophobic thriller from the French master of noir

Description Blaise should never have hung around in that charmless little provincial town. The job offer that attracted him the first place had failed to materialize. He should have got on the first train back to Paris, but Fate decided otherwise. A chance encounter with a beautiful blonde in the town post-office and Blaise is hooked - he realizes he'll do anything to stay by her side, and soon finds himself working for her husband, a funeral director. But the tension in this strange love triangle begins to mount, and eventually results in a highly unorthodox burial...

About the Author Frederic Dard (1921-2000) was one of the best known and loved French crime writers of the twentieth century. Enormously prolific, he wrote more than three hundred thrillers, suspense stories, plays and screenplays, under a variety of noms de plume. Dard's Bird in a Cage, The Wicked Go to Hell, Crush, The Executioner Weeps and The King of Fools are also available or forthcoming from Pushkin Vertigo.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781782272014 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 160 pages Main Category: FFC Sub Category: FFC Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Puskin Vertigo JANUARY 2018 We Were the Lucky Ones Georgia Hunter

An extraordinary debut novel, drawn from author's family history of survival in the Nazi Holocaust. Hunter's grandfather, Addy, fled France for Brazil thanks to a visa from Souza Dantas, ambassador to France.

Description The Kurc family shouldn't have survived the Holocaust. In the spring of 1939 three generations are living relatively normal lives in Poland, despite the hardships Jews face. When war breaks out and the family is cast to the wind, the five Kurc siblings do everything they can to find their way through a devastated continent to freedom. Addy, a musician, charms his way into possession of a Brazilian visa and into the first class piano lounge on a ship full of refugees bound for Rio; Jakob marries the love of his life in an abandoned house to a soundtrack of air sirens; Mila hides her daughter in a Catholic convent outside of Warsaw, only to return weeks later to find the convent in ruins; Genek endures a brutal winter in a Siberian gulag before embarking with his wife and newborn son on a year-long exodus through Persia to fight for the Allies; and Halina attempts to flee over the Austrian Alps on foot - while pregnant. All this, across continents and often in ignorance as to the fate of the rest of their family, while the wheels of war turn. We Were the Lucky Ones is a profoundly moving and memorable novel based on the author's family experiences.

About the Author When Georgia Hunter was fifteen years old, she learned that she came from a family of Holocaust survivors. We Were the Lucky Ones was born of her quest to uncover her family's staggering history. She lives in Connecticut, USA.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780749021986 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 448 pages Main Category: FJH Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Allison & Busby JANUARY 2018 The Midnight Queen Sylvia Hunter

First in a trilogy of genre-busting alternative historical adventure with magic and a dash of romance!

Description Gray Marshall's Britain is a fragmented kingdom of many tongues, many gods and many magics. But all that concerns Gray is returning as soon as possible to his studies at Merlin College, Oxford and setting right the nightmare that has seen him disgraced and banished to his tutor's home.

Sophie Callender may not have magic herself and a father who forbids his daughters a magical education, but her bookish rebellion and growing friendship with Gray are the first steps of a journey. A journey that will involve them in a conspiracy at the heart of the kingdom and into the legend of a young queen who vanished without a trace years before.

Sylvia Hunter has created a world that is both only slightly different and a far cry from the England we know of the 1800s, teeming with depth in language, myth and religion that defies easy categorisation.

About the Author Syylvia Hunter lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter and their slightly out-of-control collections of books, comics and DVDs. When not writing, she works in Scholarly journal publishing, sings in two choirs and reads as much as possible.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780749020460 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 416 pages Main Category: FA Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Allison & Busby JANUARY 2018 Lady Of Magick Sylvia Hunter

Second in a trilogy of genre-busting alternative historical adventure with magic and a dash of romance!

Description In her second year of studies at Merlin College, Sophie Marshall struggles with being the only female undergraduate. While this is helped by her husband, Gray's, invitation to lecture at the University in Din Edin, all is thrown into turmoil when he does not return from a journey to his childhood home in London. Can Sophie, Joanna and their friend Gwendolen Pryce rescue him? Or will Sophie find herself in a far greater crisis than anyone expected that threatens not just Gray, but the entire kingdom?

About the Author Sylvia Hunter lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter and their slightly out-of-control collections of books, comics and DVDs. When not writing, she works in scholarly journal publishing, sings in two choirs and reads as much as possible.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780749020071 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 480 pages Main Category: FA Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Allison & Busby JANUARY 2018 A Season Of Spells Sylvia Hunter

Third in a trilogy of genre-busting alternative historical adventure with magic and a dash of romance!

Description In the latest novel from the author of Lady of Magick, Sophie and Gray Marshall must save the Kingdom of Britain from a tide of dark magic!

Sophie and Gray return to London, escorting the heiress of Alba to meet the British prince to whom she is betrothed. Sparks fail to fly between the pair and the marriage alliance is cast into further doubt when the men who tried to poison King Henry are discovered to have escaped from prison. Gray sets off to track the fugitives, while Sophie tries to spark a connection between the bride and groom by enlisting them in her scheme to reopen a long-shuttered women's college at Oxford. Many may believe that educating women spells ruin, but in the decaying college library lies the key to protecting everything they hold dear â€"" as well as a dark secret that could destroy it all.

About the Author Sylvia Hunter lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter and their slightly out-of-control collections of books, comics and DVDs. When not writing, she works in scholarly journal publishing, sings in two choirs and reads as much as possible.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780749020491 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 480 pages Main Category: FA Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Allison & Busby JANUARY 2018 Coming Home to Eat: Wholefood for the family Jude Blereau

Coming Home to Eat builds on the success of Wholefood by offering nutritious, delicious everyday recipes plus lots of helpful information on how to cook and eat healthily at home.

Description With this new, easy-to-use cookbook, learn how to incorporate organic, wholesome and nutrient rich food simply and easily into your everyday life. With a range of delicious recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner meals, snacks and accompaniments such as jams and chutneys, great tips to help save time and money while eating in a healthy, sustainable way, and simple strategies for shopping, food preparation and storage, this will make a wonderful addition to your cookbook collection.

About the Author Jude Blereau was living a wholefood life long before 'wholefood' was a buzzword for healthy living and is the most authoritative, long established wholefood writer in Australia today. Jude has been actively involved in the organic and wholefood world for over 25 years. Her focus is on helping people learn about good food and giving them the tools and information they need to make healthy and wholesome eating a delicious part of their everyday lives. Jude has written five books with Murdoch: Wholefood, Coming Home to Eat, Wholefood for Children, Wholefood Baking and Wholefood From the Ground Up..

Price: $39.95 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781921259906 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 230x190mm Extent: 280 pages

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Murdoch Books JANUARY 2018 Wholefood Jude Blereau

A wonderful resource full of information and delicious recipes using wholefood ingredients and techniques.

Description Wholefood invites readers into the world of real food, with an emphasis on the goodness of fresh natural produce and how to adapt your cooking and eating habits to encompass it. The book takes a holistic approach, focusing on the benefits to both the mind and body that whole foods have to offer. Written in an easy and unintimidatingstyle, it offers a realistic, practical 'one step at a time' approach to embracing the world of organic and macrobiotic cooking.

About the Author Jude Blereau is a natural foods expert who has been involved with the organic and whole foods industry for approximately 15 years, teaching and food coaching. In 2001, Jude founded the Whole Food Cooking School in Perth. Her focus is on helping people learn about good food - what it really is, where to get it and how to use it - and to provide the tools and information needed to make healthy eating a part of everyday life.

Price: $49.99 (NZ$59.99) ISBN: 9781740457477 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 230x190mm Extent: 336 pages

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Murdoch Books JANUARY 2018 Wholefood for Children: Nourishing young children with whole and organic foods Jude Blereau

Wholefood for Children details the importance of feeding young growing children whole food to build every part of their body and ability to grow and learn.

Description The underlying philosophy behind Wholefood for Children is the importance of feeding young, growing children, whole and real food, preferably organic. Not only does a child require fuel to play, they also require it to build every part of their body and future pathways, and to learn. Wholefood for Children is written and presented in two parts, a very insightful and informative introduction and a recipe section, which will cater for ages 6 months to 7 years, starting with introducing solid foods to babies. The recipes range from breakfasts through to lunch and dinners, as well as ultra-convenient portable snacks for lunch boxes.

About the Author Jude Blereau was living a wholefood life long before 'wholefood' was a buzzword for healthy living and is the most authoritative, long established wholefood writer in Australia today. Jude has been actively involved in the organic and wholefood world for over 25 years. Her focus is on helping people learn about good food and giving them the tools and information they need to make healthy and wholesome eating a delicious part of their everyday lives. Jude has written five books with Murdoch: Wholefood, Coming Home to Eat, Wholefood for Children, Wholefood Baking and Wholefood From the Ground Up..

Price: $45.00 (NZ$49.99) ISBN: 9781741966787 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 230x190mm Extent: 336 pages

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Murdoch Books JANUARY 2018 Bond vs. Bond: The Girls, the Guns, the Gadgets, and the Guys in Bond History Paul Simpson

The first book to explore the artistic legacy left by the James Bond franchise. Comics, television shows, radio serials, novels, and of course, the record-breaking sequence of films starring a multitude of actors who stepped into the role of 007.

Description Who is your favorite Bond? Whether you love Sean Connery, Roger Moore, or even Timothy Dalton, you are going to love Bond vs. Bond. A fully comprehensive guide, Bond vs. Bond compares and contrasts all of the various ways Ian Fleming's iconic British Secret Service agent, code name 007, has been interpreted through the years, from the books and movies to the guns and gadgets.

Spanning from Fleming's 1953 book Casino Royale to Sam Mendes' 2012 film Skyfall, Bond vs. Bond features every incarnation of 007. Paul Simpson, co-author of Middle-earth Envisioned and That's What They Want You to Think, adds side-by-side comparisons of the weapons and gadgets, the heroines and femme fatales, and more! You'll be riveted with the expanse of Bond knowledge, facts and lore in these pages. This is definitely a book that no Bond fan should be without!

About the Author PAUL SIMPSON has written official guides to the TV series Farscape and Smallville and the movies The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, as well as unofficial books on subjects as diverse as James Bond, Nicole Kidman, and the TV series The O.C. He wrote an unofficial guide to CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. A regular visitor to film and TV sets, he has reported for many newspapers and magazines, including TV Guide. For five years, he was the editor of the official licensed Star Trek Magazine. He wrote That's What They Want You to Think for Zenith Press and co-authored Middle-earth Envisioned for Race Point Publishing.

Price: $35.00 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781631060007 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 261x210mm Extent: 208 pages

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Race Point Publishing JANUARY 2018 Tarot de Marseille Mary Packard

A must-have Tarot card deck and book that features gorgeous art from the oldest version of divination cards.

Description A beautiful tarot card set containing everything needed for to gain insights into life's mysteries.The Tarot de Marseille combines 78 beautifully replicated tarot cards with a book describing the history of the deck, the meanings associated with the different cards, and explanations of the different ways the cards can be used for divination.

While tarot decks older than the Tarot de Marseilles exist (such as the Visconti-Sforza deck dating back to the fifteenth century), this was the first deck created for the purpose of divination occultists adapted tarot cards for this purpose in the eighteenth century. The earliest manuscripts that describe divinatory meanings for the cards with a system for laying them out in specific configurations date to 1735 and 1790. The Madenie version, included in this kit, is considered to be the standard model when referring to the Tarot de Marseilles. It is also commonly thought to be the most beautiful. The original deck is preserved in the Swiss National Museum of Zurich and is the only complete copy known to exist. The woodcut-style of the images on the cards have been faithfully re-created and the borders of these elegant cards are adorned with gold metallic ink. The cards and the book are housed in a beautiful gift box.

About the Author Mary Packard has written over 250 books for children and adults. She began her love affair with books at a young age, and today she writes books that she herself would enjoy reading. For her, writing is a fun way to explore new subjects, such as the mystical world of tarot. She is the author of The Golden Tarot (Race Point Publishing, 2013).

Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781631061622 Format: Dimensions: 191x229mm Extent: 144 pages

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Race Point Publishing JANUARY 2018 Bucket List Journal: Create a Lifetime of Inspiration and Purpose Alex Wagman

My Bucket List is an inspirational journal with sections to guide you through listing out and accomplishing your life's journey.

Description Whether you want to skydive, ride a bull, or climb Mt. Everest, you'll definitely want a special place to chronicle your adventures.Bucket List Journal is an inspirational journal with sections to guide you through listing out and accomplishing your life's journey. Things to Give: Help a complete stranger, sponsor a little league team Creativity: Write a poem, learn to paint with watercolors Education : Learn another language, read a book a month and keep a list, bird watch Entertainment: Celebrate a birthday in Vegas, swim with dolphins, go to a drive in movie Transportation: Ride a moped in Rome, drive a convertible Mustang in the summer Sports: Run a marathon for charity Movies to See: Citizen Kane, a Godfather marathon, watch all Audrey Hepburn's movies Places to Travel: See the Grand Canyon from a helicopter, visit the Taj Mahal, see the Northern Lights, ride a gondola in Venice Spirituality: Learn to meditate, find God in your life This 128-page notebook is travel-sized with spot art inside. There is also a section for you to fill in with your thoughts, notes, and ideas. What will you do in your lifetime?

About the Author Alex Wagman was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas and attended the University of Texas. Grew up a pretty straight- laced, white bread kid. Very average, very ordinary. Nothing much has changed since then, except now has a burning passion to ask people the question: What Do You Want To Do Before You Die? The comprehensive goal is to live a life of adventure . What stories will you have to tell when it is all said and done? After all, we are the writers of our own story. Make yours one worth telling. Alex Wagman writes a blog called www.thebucketlistblog.org to motivate and help every reader take a step closer towards fulfilling a bucket list and a step closer towards enriching lives with new challenges and Price: $17.99 (NZ$19.99) ISBN: 9781631060571 adventures. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 147x223mm Extent: 128 pages

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Rock Point Gift & Stationery JANUARY 2018 Nina Simone David Brun-Lambert

David Brun-Lambert tells the full story of Nina Simone's genuinely tragic life.

Description 'The greatest female artist of the 20th century.' - Elton John

This first-ever biography of Nina Simone caused quite a stir among reviewers. 'A chastening read', said the Sunday Times. No-one was quite prepared for the life story of the singer of such enduringly uplifting classics as 'My Baby Just Cares for Me' turning out to be such a chilling litany of mental disorder, vile temper, terrible abuse at the hands of bad men, and a self-destructively hostile attitude all too often to the acolytes who came to see her perform.

Brun-Lambert shows how Simone saw herself as a lifelong victim of racism, right from being turned down by the prestigious music school that would have enabled her to become a classical musician. Undiagnosed bipolar disorder, he argues, added to her torment. But it was her unforgettable voice, and, at best, her utterly magnetic performances, that kept people coming to a sold-out Ronnie Scott's every time she was in residency, and the way she sang her hardest songs like 'Mississippi Goddam' with such fire and fury that they became anthems of political change, and means so many people can only be curious about the real life of the mecurial woman behind the piano.

About the Author David Brun-Lambert is a highly regarded French writer, journalist and radio producer. He is author of Nina Simone: The Biography, and co-author with Laurent Garnier of Electrochoc, a history of electronic music.

Price: $18.99 (NZ$21.99) ISBN: 9781845135102 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 197x129mm Extent: 368 pages Main Category: BGF Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Aurum Press JANUARY 2018 Baby Play: 100 Fun-Filled Activities to Maximize Your Baby's Potential Wendy Masi and Roni Cohen Leiderman

Sharing play time with infants is one of the best ways to give them a great start in life - and Baby Play can help.

Description All new parents are eager to help their baby discover the world around them, and BABY PLAY was designed to help parents engage their infant in activities that will encourage developmental skills. From the first month home through the twelfth, BABY PLAY offers doctor-approved, age-appropriate activities that stimulate discovery, begin communication, and nurture parental bonding.

Developed in close consultation with the play experts at Gymboree Play & Music, the book contains an introduction that explains the value of ""play with a purpose,"" information on how babies learn, and tips outlining what a parent can do to help their little on get off to a good start.

The book also includes a glossary of key terms in child development, beneficial to any new parent, as well as detailed information on how parents can identify development skills as they emerge in their baby. From stretching exercises to puppet games, BABY PLAY encourages learning during that first critical year of life.

About the Author Dr. Wendy S. Masi is a developmental psychologist specialising in early childhood. She has designed and implemented programs for preschools, families with young children, and early childhood professionals for more than 20 years. Dr. Masi is the dean of the Family Centre at Nova Southeastern University in Florida. She is the mother of four children.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780865734340 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 237x235mm Extent: 192 pages Main Category: VFXB Sub Category: WM Gardening Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Creative Publishing JANUARY 2018 The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Magical Plants, Revised Susan Gregg

The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Magical Plants, Revised and Expanded is the ultimate guide to using nature all around you to enhance your life and provide better health, prosperity, and inner peace.

Description The ultimate guide to magical plants gets even better in this new edition of The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Magical Plants!

Learn how to improve your life using the spiritual properties all around you in nature. This revised and expanded guide includes the magical properties and uses for nearly 300 plants. Entries describe how to use spells or rituals and potions that solve everything from shooing evil spirits out of a reader's house to finding the perfect mate to using herbs, flowers, and plants in Wiccan and earth magic festivals. New entries are woven throughout the book to reflect the newest popular healing plants and herbs. Expert Susan Gregg shows you how to concoct tinctures, oils, and bath salts, work with dried leaves, and use fresh plants and flowers to call in fairies and plant divas that will enhance your life.

The smaller size of this bestselling encyclopedia makes it a perfect gift for a friend, a family member, or yourself!

About the Author Susan Gregg is the author of six books including The Toltec Way and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Short Meditations. Her podcast, Food for the Soul, have earned a loyal following of thousands of listeners. She teaches Internet-based classes, as well as teleclasses, and was a speaker at The Whole Life Expos in LA and Boston. She also teaches classes at The Learning Annex, First Class in Washington, D.C., The Boston Learning Society, and the Discovery Center in Chicago.

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Fair Winds Press JANUARY 2018 Be a Better Runner: Real World, Scientifically-proven Training Techniques Sally Edwards, Carl Foster and Roy Wallack

Be A Better Runner addresses every possible concern from posture and form to nutrition, footwear and race strategy.

Description Written by marathoner and Triathlon Hall of Fame inductee, Sally Edwards, Be A Better Runner addresses every possible concern from posture and form to nutrition, footwear and race strategy. You'll learn how to adapt running mechanics such as stride and pacing to your body type and fitness level while specific training regimens prepare you for any type of running event including sprints, distance runs, and marathons.

Co-authored with Carl Foster, the former President of the American College of Sports Medicine, Be A Better Runner features the latest research in the science of running. You'll learn the latest strategies to boost your performance, train more effectively, and aid post-workout recovery. The latest research on special concerns such as running after age 40, during pregnancy, overtraining in younger runners and preventing amenorrhoea in female distance runners is also highlighted.

About the Author Sally Edwards is a former Master's World Record holder in the Ironman Triathlon. She has competed in some of the hardest races on the planet, including the Western States 100-Mile Run which she won. A leader in the field of fitness training, Sally holds a master's in Exercise Physiology and is the creator and CEO of the Heart Zones Training System which uses heart rate data and cardiac training ranges to enhance athletic performance. A founder of the sport of triathlon (and a Triathlon Hall of Fame inductee), most of Sally's recent races have been performed in her role as the National Spokeswoman for the Danskin Triathlon Series. Carl Foster Ph.D., FACSM is the former president of the American College of Sports Medicine. He is a professor of exercise and sport science at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and director of the Human Performance Laboratory at UW-L. Foster is a former associate editor-in-chief of Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. His distinguished professional career and accomplishments have produced over 250 Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) scientific papers, book chapters, and longer works. ISBN: 9781592334247 Roy M. Wallack is a Los Angeles Times health and fitness columnist and former editor of Triathlete and Bicycle Guide Format: Paperback Dimensions: 204x254mm magazines. A participant some of the world's toughest running, cycling, and multisport events, including the Boston Extent: 230 pages Marathon, Badwater UltraMarathon, Eco-Challenge, La Ruta de los Conquistadores, and TransRockies Run, he finished Main Category: VFM second in the World Fitness Championship in 2004. Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Fair Winds Press JANUARY 2018 Bitters and Shrub Syrup Cocktails: Restorative Vintage Cocktails, Mocktails, and Elixirs Warren Bobrow

Bitters and Shrub Syrup Cocktails will send your taste buds back in time with 75 traditional and newly-created recipes for drinks.

Description So simple to create at home, Bitters and Shrub Syrups will add incredible health benefits to any beverage. Historically, cocktail bitters, drinking vinegars, and even infused syrups were originally used for curing sickness with high concentrations of beneficial (healing) herbs and flowers. The slight alcohol base of bitters kept the often-fragile ingredients from rotting in the age before refrigeration. Bitters in the modern cocktail bar are embraced as concentrated flavor agents, although they are still used in holistic healing by herbalists. Shrubs add both tart and sweet notes to a craft cocktail or mocktail. They sate your hunger and quench your thirst, while stimulating digestion and good health of the gut. The Cocktail Whisperer, Warren Bobrow, has been using bitters and shrubs in his quest for added zest in many of his craft cocktails, adding depth and mystery to a generic mixed drink. Bitters and Shrub Syrups will send your taste buds back in time with 75 traditional and newly-created recipes for medicinally-themed drinks. Learn the fascinating history of apothecary bitters, healing herbs, flowers, fruits, vegetables, and vinegars that are making a comeback in cocktail and non-alcoholic recipes. If you love vintage cocktails, you'll surely enjoy this guide to creating delicious digestive elixirs.

About the Author Warren Bobrow, author of Apothecary Cocktails and Whiskey Cocktails, and over three hundred articles on food, wine, and cocktail mixology, is hugely knowledgeable in the world of cocktails. In addition to his popular blog, The Cocktail Whisperer, he writes for the Williams-Sonoma blog, Foodista.com, Voda magazine, Saveur, Serious Eats, The Beverage Journal and Beverage News and Edible New Jersey. Warren has taught social media and food writing at the New School in NY as well as the Institute for Culinary Education. He is a Ministry of Rum judge and was the only journalist from the USA asked to participate in Fete de la Gastronomie 2012 in Paris. www.cocktailwhisperer.com

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Fair Winds Press JANUARY 2018 How to Talk to Children About Art Francoise Barbe-Gall

For all who want to share their love of art with children.

Description A must have for everyone who wants their children to understand and love art, this guide anticipates how children will react to paintings by artists as diverse as Botticelli, Vermeer, Degas, Chagall and Pollock. Questions and answers about 30 famous paintings provide historical backgroun, explains genres and demystify religious and mythological themes.

About the Author Françoise Barbe-Gall studied history of art at the Sorbonne and also at the Ecole du Louvre, where she now teaches. She also directs an association called CORETA (Comment Regarder un Tableau), for whom she gives many lectures. She is regularly called upon to participate in management workshops, where her experience of analysing images in relation to publicity and marketing is called upon. Editions de l'Agenda de L'Empresa have published a collection of her articles, and she is the author of several articles on the work of the sculptor Tom Carr. She is the author of How to Talk to Children about Art and How to Understand a Painting, both published in English by Frances Lincoln.

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Frances Lincoln (Adult) JANUARY 2018 The Urban Sketching Handbook: Architecture and Cityscapes: Tips and Techniques for Drawing on Location Gabriel Campanario

Provides keys to help make the experience of drawing architecture and cityscapes fun and rewarding, using composition, depth, scale, contrast, line and creativity.

Description Award-winning illustrator Gabriel Campanario first introduced his approach to drawing in The Art of Urban Sketching, a showcase of more than 500 sketches and drawing tips shared by more than 100 urban sketchers around the world. Now, he drills down into specific challenges of making sketches on location, rain or shine, quickly or slowly, and the most suitable techniques for every situation, in The Urban Sketching Handbook series. It's easy to overlook that ample variety of buildings and spaces and the differences from city to city, country to country. From houses, apartments and shopping malls to public buildings and places of worship, the structures humans have created over the centuries, for shelter, commerce, industry, transportation or recreation, are fascinating subjects to study and sketch.In The Urban Sketching Handbook: Architecture and Cityscapes, Gabriel lays out keys to help make the experience of drawing architecture and cityscapes fun and rewarding. Using composition, depth, scale, contrast, line and creativity, sketching out buildings and structure has never been more inspirational. This guide will help you to develop your own creative approach, no matter what your skill level may be today. As much as The Urban Sketching Handbook: Architecture and Cityscapes may inspire you to draw more urban spaces, it can also help to increase your appreciation of the built environment. Drawing the places where we live, work and play, is a great way to show appreciation and creativity.

About the Author Gabriel Campanario is the founder of Urban Sketchers (www.urbansketchers.org), a nonprofit organisation dedicated to fostering the art of on-location drawing. A native Spaniard, Campanario moved to the U.S. in 1998 and has lived near Seattle with his wife and two children since 2006. His journalism career spans two decades, working for newspapers in Barcelona, Lisbon, California, and Virginia. Campanario has a master's degree in journalism from the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain.

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Quarry Books JANUARY 2018 The Urban Sketching Handbook: People and Motion: Tips and Techniques for Drawing on Location Gabriel Campanario

Provides the keys to help make the experience of drawing human forms and their movements fun and rewarding, using composition, depth, scale, contrast, line and creativity.

Description Award-winning illustrator Gabriel Campanario first introduced his approach to drawing in The Art of Urban Sketching, a showcase of more than 500 sketches and drawing tips shared by more than 100 urban sketchers around the world. Now, he drills down into specific challenges of making sketches on location, rain or shine, quickly or slowly, and the most suitable techniques for every situation, in The Urban Sketching Handbook series. It's easy to overlook that ample variety of characters that walk the streets everyday. From neighbours, dog walkers and shoppers to dancers and joggers, the people that move through the cities and towns are fascinating subjects to study and sketch. In The Urban Sketching Handbook: People and Motion Gabriel lays out keys to help make the experience of drawing humans and movements fun and rewarding. Using composition, depth, scale, contrast, line and creativity, sketching out citizens and the way they move has never been more inspirational and entertaining. This guide will help you to develop your own creative approach, no matter what your skill level may be today. As much as The Urban Sketching Handbook: People and Motion may inspire you to draw more individuals, it can also help to increase your appreciation of the folks around you. Drawing our postal workers, shopkeeps and neighbours, is a great way to show your appreciation and creativity.

About the Author Gabriel Campanario is the founder of Urban Sketchers (www.urbansketchers.org), a nonprofit organisation dedicated to fostering the art of on-location drawing. A native Spaniard, Campanario moved to the U.S. in 1998 and has lived near Seattle with his wife and two children since 2006. His journalism career spans two decades, working for newspapers in Barcelona, Lisbon, California, and Virginia. Campanario has a master's degree in journalism from the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781592539628 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 127x204mm Extent: 112 pages

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Quarry Books JANUARY 2018 The Urban Sketching Handbook: Reportage and Documentary Drawing: Tips and Techniques for Drawing on Location Veronica Lawlor

The Urban Sketching Handbook: Reportage and Documentary Drawing provides keys to help make the experience of drawing journalistic art and events fun and rewarding, using composition, depth, scale, contrast, line and creativity.

Description Develop your own creative approach, no matter what your skill level with The Urban Sketching Handbook: Reportage and Documentary Drawing.

The third volume in The Urban Sketching Handbook series, Reportage and Documentary Drawing, is about drawing as a form of journalism or documenting life. This includes drawings events such as parades, music performances, sporting events, speeches, and can include everything from newsworthy political events to simply documenting a day's adventures. It's about being attentive to your surroundings, and telling that story through your sketches.

Artist Veronica Lawlor explains how to use art to find and tell the stories around you. From visual journalism to simply sharing your emotional experience of a place, a reportage illustrator has something to say to their audience. Just as there are all types of written stories to be told, mystery, horror, romance - this volume of The Urban Sketching Handbook series reminds artists, sketchers, doodlers, and illustrators that there are all types of visual stories waiting to be told. And the next step is to go out and tell them!

About the Author Veronica Lawlor is the author of One Drawing A Day: A 6-Week Course Exploring Creativity with Illustration and Mixed Media, published by Quarry in October 2011, and One Watercolor A Day: A 6-Week Course Exploring Creativity Using Watercolor, Pattern, and Design, published by Quarry in December 2013. Other books by Ms. Lawlor include I Was Dreaming to Come to America: Memories of the Ellis Island Oral History Project and September 11, 2001: Words and Pictures. Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781631590689 Format: Paperback - flexibound Dimensions: 210x134mm Extent: 112 pages

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Quarry Books JANUARY 2018 The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective Stephanie Bower

Learn how to put the 3D world on the 2D page with The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective. Learn about depth, scale, contrast, composition, and more.

Description A good sketch starts with good bones.

Often challenging and overwhelming to sketchers, the fourth book in the Urban Sketching Handbook series uses drawings and simple steps to explain the concepts of perspective in practical and useful ways for on-site sketching. Most books are either too abstract or don't provide enough information that relates to what you actually do when you're out in the busy, wide world about to start a drawing. Where do you start? How do you edit what you see to flatten and shrink it onto your paper? How does perspective work?

The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective helps you learn to think like an architect, to draw buildings and spaces by reducing what you see to simple, basic shapes, then adding layers in simple steps, and finally finishing your sketch with detail, tone, and colour - in accurate perspective. Full of helpful tips, architect and illustrator, Stephanie Bower even de-constructs sketches to show you how to create them! Once you understand perspective, it will change the way you see the world - you'll see perspective everywhere.

Some of the key concepts explored in this volume are:

Basic Terms Basic Spatial Principles Types of Perspective Building a Sketch in Layers Special Conditions

About the Author Price: $21.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781631591280 Stephanie Bower is a Seattle-based architectural illustrator, teacher, watercolorist, and travelling Urban Sketcher. Format: Paperback Stephanie worked as a licensed Architect in New York City before gravitating to professional architectural illustration and Dimensions: 135x211mm concept design. In Seattle, she produces pencil and watercolour images for many renowned architecture and design Extent: 112 pages firms. For over twenty-five years, Stephanie has taught the how-to's of architectural sketching. People around the world Main Category: AFF Sub Category: AFF Drawing & Drawings follow her sketches online via Flickr, her blog 'Drawing Perspectives', and as blog correspondent for Urban Sketchers. Illustrations: She is also a signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. Stephanie continues to learn about architecture Previous Titles: Author now living: through her sketches, pursuing her lifelong dream of seeing the world, sketching, teaching and encouraging others to see their world through the magic of drawing.

Quarry Books JANUARY 2018 101 Magic Tricks: Step by step instructions to engage, challenge, and entertain Bryan Miles

Now is your chance to learn 101 magic tricks, specially selected for the amateur, which don't require any equipment, and are easily explained.

Description Learn 101 simple magic tricks to astonish and amaze!

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Step right up and try not one, not two, not three, but 101 Magic Tricks! Astonish and amaze everyone you know with easy-to-master tricks and illusions. Learn classic sleight of hand techniques that are simple enough for any apprentice to grasp. Conquer magical ruses that require no special equipment, and are explained with simple step-by-step instructions. Bryan Miles will guide you through astonishing feats such as:

The Foundations of Magic including: The Hand, The Deck of Cards, Mechanic's Grip and Biddle Grip, Classic Two- Handed Spread, Cutting the Cards Magic at School or College Birthday Magic Restaurant Magic Office Magic Magic at the Bar Street Magic Holiday Magic Anytime Magic Magic for the Stage And More!

About the Author Bryan Miles is an award-winning and internationally-acclaimed magician. His mind-blowing shows have taken him from Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) London to New York. He has performed at the prestigious Magic Castle in Hollywood, California. Bryan has studied the ISBN: 9781631590726 mysteries of the human mind through illusion, mentalism, magic and hypnosis. His YouTube channel BryanMilesTV Format: Paperback Dimensions: 185x236mm showcases his latest clips in which he demonstrates the incredible power of the human mind. He loves to drink Dr Extent: 208 pages Pepper. Main Category: WD Hobbies, Quizzes & Games

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Quarry Books JANUARY 2018 London Perceived V.S. Pritchett

In unfailingly elegant prose, V. S. Pritchett provides a timeless distillation of the city of London and the London experience.

Description Pritchett shows us the capital through the centuries a panorama of history, art, and literature; a paradox of grandeur and grime, the bustling markets and tranquil parks, the palaces and pubs.

At the heart of the book is an astute and affectionate portrait of the Londoner enigmatic and enduring, with a remote but insistent respect for law, royalty, and ritual, a love of argument, a tolerance of eccentrics. Pritchett gives us famous Londoners Wren, Pepys, Dickens and the ordinary folk milkmen and shopkeepers, Chelsea pensioners, and the London bobby.

London Perceived tells the eloquent and surprising story of this great and historic city Londoners will see their home anew, and visitors appreciate its small wonders. A loving tribute to London past and present.

About the Author V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997) lived in London for more than eighty years. He was literary editor of the New Statesman and Nation, frequently contributed to the New York Times Book Review, and his fiction often appeared in the New Yorker. He received numerous awards including the 1969 Heinemann Award, the 1974 PEN Award, and the 1993 Golden Pen Award.

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Daunt Books JANUARY 2018 Blind Goddess (Hanne Wilhelmsen 1) Anne Holt, translated by Tom Geddes translated by Tom Geddes

In the first instalment of the Hanne Wilhelmsen series, Anne Holt delivers a superbly chilling story of corruption in the corridors of power.

Description A drug dealer is battered to death in the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutch student, covered in blood, walks aimlessly through the streets of the city. He is taken into custody, but refuses to speak.

Five days later a shady criminal lawyer called Hans Olsen is murdered. The two deaths don't seem related, but Detective Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is unconvinced. Soon, she uncovers a link between the bodies: Olsen defended the drug dealer.

But there are powerful forces working against Hanne; a conspiracy that reaches far beyond a crooked lawyer and a small- time dealer. The investigation will take her into the offices of the most powerful men in Norway - and even put her own life at risk.

About the Author Anne Holt is one of Scandinavia's most successful crime writers. Her two crime series - featuring Johanne Vik and Hanne Wilhelmsen - have sold more than 7 million copies and are translated into 30 languages. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Riverton Prize (Rivertonprisen) and the Booksellers' Prize (Bokhandlerprisen). She is the former Minister of Justice for Norway, and has worked as a police attorney, lawyer, TV news editor and anchor, media consultant and journalist.

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Corvus JANUARY 2018 Blessed Are Those Who Thirst (Hanne Wilhelmsen 2) Anne Holt, translated by Anne Bruce

The second instalment in the Hanne Wilhelmsen crime series.

Description The Oslo police are baffled. Crime scenes are being found covered with blood, but there is no victim. Only an odd series of numbers is left behind. When a girl is brutally raped in her apartment, Detective Hanne Wilhelmsen is charged with solving the case. Hanne quickly notices strange similarities with the blood-stained crime scenes. But the victim's father has started an independent hunt for the rapist and Hanne will have to race against time to prevent a victim becoming a vigilante.

About the Author Anne Holt is Norway's bestselling female crime writer. She spent two years working for the Oslo Police Department before founding her own law firm and serving as Norway's Minster for Justice between 1996 and 1997. She is published in 30 languages with over 7 million copies of her books sold.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780857892263 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages

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Corvus PBS JANUARY 2018 Death of the Demon (Hanne Wilhelmsen 3) Anne Holt, translated by Anne Bruce

Anne Holt's brilliant detective Hanne Wilhelmsen investigates her third case: the manager of a children's home is dead and a twelve-year-old tearaway is on the run.

Description In an orphanage outside Oslo, a twelve-year-old boy is causing havoc. The institution's ageing director, Agnes Vestavik, sees something chilling in Olav's eyes: sheer hatred. When Vestavik is found murdered at her desk late at night, stabbed in the neck with a kitchen knife - with Olav nowhere to be found - the case goes to Hanne Wilhelmsen, recently promoted to superintendent in the Oslo police.

Hanne suspects that Olav witnessed the murder and fled, and she orders an investigation of the orphanage staff. But this, however, is one case where her instincts are leading her astray.

Meanwhile, Olav makes his way to his mother's apartment in central Oslo. When police finally catch up to him, Olav will lead them on a chase that will upend all of their assumptions.

The third instalment in the sensationally gripping Hanne Wilhelmsen series.

About the Author Anne Holt is one of Scandinavia's most successful crime writers. Her two crime series - featuring Johanne Vik and Hanne Wilhelmsen - have sold more than 7 million copies and are translated into 30 languages. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Riverton Prize (Rivertonprisen) and the Booksellers' Prize (Bokhandlerprisen). She is the former Minister of Justice for Norway, and has worked as a police attorney, lawyer, TV news editor and anchor, media consultant and journalist.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780857892270 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages

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Corvus PBS JANUARY 2018 The Lion's Mouth (Hanne Wilhelmsen 4) Anne Holt, translated by Anne Bruce

This is a story of lies, intrigue and politics. The Lion's Mouth questions who holds the power in Norway, and how far they will go to use it.

Description Less than six months after taking office, the Norwegian Prime Minister is found dead. She has been shot in the head. But was it a politically motivated assassination or personal revenge?

The death shakes the country to its core. The hunt for her killer is complicated, intense and gruelling. Hanne Wilhelmsen must contain the scandal before a private tragedy becomes a public outrage, in what will become the most sensitive case of her career

About the Author Anne Holt is Norway's bestselling female crime writer. She spent two years working for the Oslo Police Department before founding her own law firm and serving as Norway's Minster for Justice between 1996 and 1997. She is published in 30 languages with over 7 million copies of her books sold.

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Corvus PBS JANUARY 2018 Dead Joker (Hanne Wilhelmsen 5) Anne Holt

The gripping fifth instalment of Anne Holt's bestselling Hanne Wilhelmsen series: the edgy detective investigates a brutal series of murders while dealing with tragedy closer to home.

Description Chief Prosecutor Sigurd Halvorsrud's wife is found dead in front of the fireplace in the family living room. The cause of death is instantly apparent - she has been brutally decapitated. Halvorsrud immediately falls under suspicion. Then a journalist at one of Oslo's largest newspapers is found beheaded. What links these two horrifically violent crimes?

Detective Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is called in to lead the investigation with her old colleague Billy T. But the most demanding task that Hanne Wilhelmsen has ever faced in her career clashes with the worst crisis in her personal life. Cecilie, the woman she lived with for almost twenty years, is seriously ill.

Wilhelmsen must ask herself: is the truth worth chasing at all costs?

The fifth instalment in the sensationally gripping Hanne Wilhelmsen series.

About the Author Anne Holt is Norway's bestselling female crime writer. She spent two years working for the Oslo Police Department before founding her own law firm and serving as Norway's Minster for Justice between 1996 and 1997. She is published in 30 languages with over 7 million copies of her books sold.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780857892294 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 464 pages

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Corvus PBS JANUARY 2018 No Echo (Hanne Wilhelmsen 6) Anne Holt

The gripping sixth instalment of Anne Holt's bestselling Hanne Wilhelmsen series: a high-profile murder brings Hanne back to the city she fled in the wake of heartbreak.

Description When celebrity chef Brede Ziegler is discovered stabbed to death on the steps of the Olso police headquarters it sends a shockwave through the city's in-crowd. Ziegler had lots of famous friends, is there a culprit among them - or was this a random act of violence?

Police investigator Billy T. takes on the case, but is met with conflicting information about what kind of man Ziegler was. It seems nobody really knew the dead man - including his glamorous wife, the restaurant co-owner and the editor of his memoir. While Billy T. struggles to break the case, Hanne Wilhelmsen returns to Oslo after a six-month absence. Since the death of her partner Cecilie, Hanne has been in self-imposed exile. Hanne discovers that not only had Ziegler been stabbed, but he had also ingested a lethal dose of painkillers. As the plot thickens, Hanne and Billy T. are pulled deeper into the nefarious world in which Ziegler lived. Was he who he said he was? And can those who claim to have known him best be trusted?

The sixth instalment in the sensationally gripping Hanne Wilhelmsen series.

About the Author Anne Holt is Norway's bestselling female crime writer. She spent two years working for the Oslo Police Department before founding her own law firm and serving as Norway's Minster for Justice between 1996 and 1997. She is published in 30 languages with over 7 million copies of her books sold.

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Corvus PBS JANUARY 2018 Beyond the Truth (Hanne Wilhelmsen 7) Anne Holt, translated by Anne Bruce

The gripping seventh instalment of Anne Holt's bestselling Hanne Wilhelmsen series: a wealthy Oslo family is murdered and the surviving family members are all acting guilty, because they all have something to hide. How will Hanne Wilhelmsen get to the truth in an endless web of deceit?

Description Four people are found shot dead at the luxury home of the Stahlbergs, one of Oslo's wealthiest dynasties and notorious for highly publicised infighting. Three of the dead are members of the family and the fourth victim is a seeming nobody. With so many years of bad blood, it's hard to narrow down a shortlist of suspects. Hanne Wilhelmsen is drafted in to untangle the family's complex, bitter history and find the killer.

Working with her longtime police partner Billy T., the pair unearth numerous motives for the murders; each surviving member of the Stahlberg family had good reason to want the victims dead. But as Hanne digs deeper she comes to believe there is a bigger secret concealed by the lies. As she draws closer to the truth, Hanne will once again risk everything for justice.

The seventh instalment in the sensationally gripping Hanne Wilhelmsen series.

About the Author Anne Holt is Norway's bestselling female crime writer. She spent two years working for the Oslo Police Department before founding her own law firm and serving as Norway's Minster for Justice between 1996 and 1997. She is published in 30 languages with over 7 million copies of her books sold.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780857892317 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 368 pages

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Corvus PBS JANUARY 2018 1222 (Hanne Wilhelmsen 8) Anne Holt, translated by Marlaine Delargy

A mountain pass, a derailed train, a locked carriage, an ancient hotel, old betrayals, murder and state secrets.

Description 1222 metres above sea level, train 601 from Oslo to Bergen careens off iced rails as the worst snowstorm in Norwegian history gathers force around it. Marooned in the high mountains with night falling and the temperature plummeting, its 269 passengers are forced to abandon their snowbound train and decamp to a centuries-old mountain hotel. They ought to be safe from the storm here, but as dawn breaks one of them will be found dead, murdered.

With the storm showing no sign of abating, retired police inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is asked to investigate. But Hanne has no wish to get involved. She has learned the hard way that truth comes at a price and sometimes that price just isn't worth paying. Her pursuit of truth and justice has cost her the love of her life, her career in the Oslo Police Department and her mobility: she is paralysed from the waist down by a bullet lodged in her spine.

Trapped in a wheelchair, trapped by the killer within, trapped by the deadly storm outside, Hanne's growing unease is shared by everyone in the hotel. Should she investigate, or should she just wait for help to arrive? And all the time rumours swirl about a secret cargo carried by train 601. Why was the last carriage sealed? Why is the top floor of the hotel locked down? Who or what is being concealed? And, of course, what if the killer strikes again?

About the Author Anne Holt spent two years working for the Oslo Police Department before founding her own law firm and serving as Norway's Minister for Justice in 1996/97. Her first book was published in 1993 and she has subsequently developed two series: the Hanne Wilhelmsen series and the Vik/Stubo series. Both series will be published by Corvus.

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