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September Events BRAM PRESSER IN GRIEF: MARK 19 CONVERSATION 26 BAKER, MELANIE RICHARD CORNISH A #LOVEOZYA WITH LEAH JOOSTEN & 6 IN CONVERSATION 14 TRAIN TRIP KAMINSKY HANNAH ROBERT The Book of Dirt reimagines the lives of Jakub Join us for a discussion about the WITH DANI VALENT Begin, End, Begin contributors – including Rand, a rabbi’s son tasked with curating importance of sharing grief and why final Danielle Binks, Ellie Marney, Lili Wilkinson, Much-loved, award-winning food writer and Eichmann’s infamous Museum of the Extinct hours can define the future. Mark Baker’s Melissa Keil and Amie Kaufman – will be commentator, and author of the humorous Race, and Františka Roubíckova, a converted compelling memoir, Thirty Days: A Journey taking part in a book club discussion on a train! ‘Brain Food’ weekly column in The Age’s Jew who would go on to establish a smuggling to the End of Love, reflects on the life and Hear these much-loved YA authors discuss the Good Food section, Richard Cornish will be network that would stretch as far as Auschwitz. recent death of his wife, Kerryn. Hannah #LoveOzYA movement, writing short stories in conversation with Dani Valent. Richard’s Presser began writing the novel after seeing Robert’s Baby Lost tells the story of a car and just how swell Aussie youth-lit is. Hosted book Brain Food collects his best columns an article in the local community paper that accident that resulted in the loss of her by the incredible Books on the Rail. from 2010–2016. Richard’s mission is to purported to tell a very different version of his baby, when she was eight months pregnant. bring something authentic to the deadly Free, but please book at readings.com.au/events grandfather’s fabled Holocaust story. Presser Melanie Joosten is the author of three serious tone of Australia’s food media. ‘Brain Meet at 6.45pm at Flinders Street Station for subsequently embarked on a seven-year search books, including her latest, Gravity Well. Food’ was born from his desire to have fun a 7:09pm departure on the Glen Waverley across four continents to uncover the truth. Free, but please book at readings.com.au/events with the concepts of food, cooking and line (or join on any stop along the way). We Tuesday 26 September, 6.30pm dining, laughing along the way. will travel to the end of the line and back to Free, but please book at readings.com.au/events Flinders Street Station. Stay tuned for the most Tuesday 19 September, 6.30pm Readings Carlton Free, but please book at readings.com.au/events up-to-date train timetable. Readings Carlton Wednesday 6 September, 6.30pm Thursday 14 September, 6.45–8pm Readings Hawthorn JUSTIN CLEMENS 27 IN CONVERSATION MARK RAPHAEL WITH RUSSELL 14 BAKER GRIGG Mark Raphael Baker’s The Fiftieth Gate: A Russell Grigg is the translator of the recently Journey Through Memory, his seminal book on published Formations of the Unconscious: his parents’ experience during the Holocaust, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book V. Lacan is an Australian classic. Philip Adams said of (1901–1981) was one of the twentieth it: ‘Baker does with memory, what Rembrandt century’s most influential thinkers. Together OSTRO: does with light.’ Twenty years later, he follows it with Justin Clemens, Grigg will discuss with another compelling memoir, Thirty Days: the importance of Lacan’s work to our 7 JULIA BUSUTTIL A Journey to the End of Love, about his long understanding of the human condition. NISHIMURA marriage to wife Kerryn, who he recently lost to cancer. Mark is director of the Australian Centre Free, but please book at readings.com.au/events We are thrilled to host Julia in talking for Jewish Civilisation and associate professor Wednesday 27 September, 6.30pm about cooking, preparing, creating and of Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the Readings Carlton Instagram! Since launching Ostro online in PHILLIP ADAMS IN School at Monash University. He’ll talk about 2014, Julia Busuttil Nishimura has gained a 25 CONVERSATION writing memoir and commemorating loss. strong and loyal following for her generous, Supported by Melbourne Jewish Book Week. WITH BARRY Coming up uncomplicated, seasonal food. As an Australian JONES of Maltese descent and a fluent Italian speaker, Free, but please book at readings.com.au/events Join us as the Honourable Barry Jones THE STATE OF married to a Japanese man, Julia and her Thursday 14 September, 6.30pm turns the tables and interviews Phillip food represent everything that is good about Readings St Kilda 2 BEING EQUAL: Adams about his latest book, Insights Oct. modern Australian eating. She deftly brings ALAN DAVIES IN and Reflections. Adams, the occasionally together a broad range of cuisines and culinary CONVERSATION WITH influences using the very best produce on offer. controversial but undeniably prolific writer CHAT 10 LOOKS 3 CHARLES WOLFE She will be in conversation with Chris Gordon 16 LEIGH SALES & and broadcaster, has collected his favourite about her beautiful new cookbook Ostro. insights and reflections from previous The State of Being Equal is a forum intended to ANNABEL CRABB columns and speeches in this generous make sure we trump Trump politics by exploring Free, but please book at readings.com.au/events Book lovers gather! Annabel Crabb and Leigh volume spanning 2003 to the present day. how society can be more equitable and just, Thursday 7 September, 6.30pm Sales are bringing their cult – we mean, their rather than divisive and bellicose. Each event Entry is $30 per person, includes a copy of Readings Carlton wildly popular – podcast Chat 10 Looks 3 to in the series will examine a new title that is Insights and Reflections. Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre. Unlike Crabb relevant to global and sexual politics. Please book at readings.com.au/events and Sales, this venue knows how to reliably Charles R. Wolfe’s most recent book, Seeing CHARLES Monday 25 September, 6.30pm produce audible sound, so you’ll be able to hear Church of All Nations, 180 Palmerston St, Carlton the Better City, raises understanding of the 9 JENKINS two of Australia’s wittiest and most insightful importance of personal observation. While big Join us for an intimate solo performance minds range across everything from the latest data, digital mapping and simulated cityscapes by Charles Jenkins, who will be playing books and binge-worthy TV, to recipes and are valuable tools for understanding urban stripped-back versions of songs from the new celebrity encounters. Join the Chatters for an space, using them without on-the-ground Charles Jenkins and the Zhivagos album, The evening of hilarity and friendship! human impressions risks creating places that Last Polaroid. do not reflect authentic local context. Wolfe Entry $45, please book at Ticketmaster. will discuss his research and book with The Free, but please book at readings.com.au/events Saturday 16 September, 5pm & 8pm Urbanist’s Alan Davies. Saturday 9 September, 2pm Comedy Theatre, 240 Exhibition St, Melbourne Readings St Kilda WORKSHOP: Free, but please book at readings.com.au/events 25 SUPER MOOPERS Monday 2 October, 6.30pm BENJAMIN LAW IN Readings Carlton MICHAEL CARR- 18 CONVERSATION Join Fiona Harris & Scott Edgar, creators 12 GREGG & ELLY WITH JASON BALL of the brand-new Super Moopers series, ROBINSON for stories and the opportunity to create 5 MR & MRS In 2016, the Safe Schools program became your very own superhero. In each book, Oct. WILKINSON IN Dr Michael Carr-Gregg (author of bestselling the centre of an ideological firestorm. In we’re introduced to a new Mooper: Musical CONVERSATION guide The Princess Bitchface Syndrome) and the latest Quarterly Essay, the much-loved Markus, Nervous Nellie, Dramatic Dom researcher Elly Robinson believe that too Benjamin Law explores how and why this and Giggling Gertie. At first they each seem Mr & Mrs Wilkinson’s How it is at Home is many Australian boys have got it too easy – happened. He weaves a subtle, gripping to have a really silly trait (Nellie is always your opportunity to be part of the creative, and the result is a generation of ‘boofheads’: account of schools today, sexuality, teenagers, nervous, Dom is overly dramatic) but it’s sometimes chaotic home of acclaimed boys with huge egos who think they’re too new ideas of gender fluidity, tabloid media these very traits that eventually transform UK-born chef Matt Wilkinson, his partner, good to stack the dishwasher or turn up scares and mental health. Pioneering LGBT these Moopers to superhero status! Join us. Sharlee Gibb, and their two young boys. to school. Come and hear Carr-Gregg and advocate Jason Ball will talk to Law about it all. Come along for a very special event Robinson discuss their new book, The Prince Entry $15 per person, includes a that brings Mr & Mrs Wilkinson to our Boofhead Syndrome, which serves as both a Entry is $25 per person, includes a copy of Super Moopers book of your choice. Hawthorn shop. warning and a rescue manual for parents. Quarterly Essay 67: Moral Panic 101 – Equality, Suitable for ages 5–10. Acceptance and the Safe Schools Scandal. Limited places available. Entry $5 per person, includes a glass of wine. Free, but please book at readings.com.au/events Please book at readings.com.au/events Please book at readings.com.au/events Please book at readings.com.au/events Tuesday 12 September, 6.30pm Monday 18 September, 6.30pm Monday 25 September, 2–2.45pm Thursday 5 October, 6.30pm Readings Hawthorn Church of All Nations, 180 Palmerston St, Carlton Readings Kids Readings Hawthorn READINGS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER 2017 5

GARETH EVANS IN September Launches 9 CONVERSATION Mark’s News and views from Readings’ Managing Director, Oct. WITH GEORGE Join us for the release of Nikki Greenberg’s Mark Rubbo The Cursed First Term of Zelda Stitch: Bad Say MEGALOGENIS Teacher. Worse Witch. Imagine if you read Gareth Evans’ highly anticipated follow-up your teacher’s diary ... and discovered she Three and a half years ago, a great big, fat, intimidating-looking economics book burst onto to Cabinet Diaries, Incorrigible Optimist is was a witch! With courage, imagination and a the scene and changed the economic discourse. Based on years of research, its findings a sometimes moving, often entertaining, certain amount of recklessness, Zelda Stitch were that, over time, the rate of return on wealth has been greater than the rate of return and always lucid memoir of Evans’ decades begins her first year of teaching primary on economic growth, leading to greater and greater inequality. The book argues that, in the public eye. George Megalogenis will school – as an incompetent (incognito) witch. unless capitalism is reformed, the very democratic order will be threatened. The book, of ask why, despite multiple disappointments, Sunday 3 September, 11am course, is Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, which is finally out as a great big, fat, Evans continues to believe that a safer, saner Readings Hawthorn intimidating-looking paperback, at $39.99. While not without his critics, Piketty’s research and more decent world is achievable, and Free, no booking required. and findings form the intellectual underpinnings for the questioning of free-market why, for all its frustrations, politics remains economics in the politics of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn. In Australia, Bill Shorten an indispensable profession: not only for Cate Kennedy will launch Claire Aman’s and the Labor Party have also embraced the rhetoric. The rise of extremism, most visibly megalomaniacs, but idealists. Bird Country, a debut collection of moving in the US, seems to bear out Piketty’s thesis that this rising inequality threatens democracy Free, but please book at readings.com.au/events and evocative stories about love, loss and and its institutions. When the book was published, I wrote that this was a perfect example Monday 9 October, 6.30pm yearning – and the things we don’t say. of the power of books to reset conversations. For us it was a bestseller: we sold over 1000 Readings Hawthorn Monday 4 September, 6.30pm copies of a dense economic history (one that was hardly cheap). The hardback currently Readings St Kilda retails here for $94. Now, at $39.99, a lot more people will be able to afford it. Free, no booking required. When I read Jonathon Taplin’s Move Fast and Break Things, I felt a similar frisson to reading Piketty. Taplin has had a varied career, working with Bob Dylan and The Band as a manager, as a film producer, and as an expert in communications. Taplin had always We’re excited to host the launch of Mark been interested in technology – and the internet in particular. He’d remained friendly with Smith’s much-anticipated sequel to The Road to Levon Helm, The Band’s drummer and vocalist. Helm had never amassed a fortune and Winter (shortlisted for the inaugural Readings late in life he relied heavily on royalties from album sales. With the rise of music-streaming YA Prize). Wilder Country is an exciting, sites such as Napster and Spotify, the Band’s sales plummeted and Helm’s royalty income action-packed book about friendship and dried up. The response from the streamers was that this was the new world and Helm loyalty, and how far we would go to protect the should ‘get off his bum and do some touring’; but the trouble with this idea was that Helm ones we love when survival is at stake. had contracted cancer and couldn’t tour. He subsequently passed away in 2012. Tuesday 5 September, 6.30pm In the early days of the internet, people thought it would be a liberating agent, Readings Carlton empowering people and creativity, but as Taplin argues, the internet has been hijacked by Free, no booking required. a small group of businessmen, particularly Paypal’s Peter Thiel and Napster founder Sean MICHELLE DE Parker. Both men are inspired by the writings of Ayn Rand, who believed that ‘achievement 9 KRETSER IN of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life’ and that naked, unfettered Oct. Stone Table Books is a new imprint of Morning CONVERSATION Star Publishing, based in Melbourne and capitalism was the best way to achieve it – and governments should get out of their way. WITH SOPHIE specialising in fantasy books for all ages. We The internet is now dominated by three huge corporations – Google, Facebook and Amazon – who often used ruthless and dubious means to build their companies, and then CUNNINGHAM are delighted to celebrate the release of two of their books for young readers: Hidden by Sif maintain their market domination. These organisations are so large and all-pervasive that The Life to Come is the dazzling new Dal and Melissa Gijsber’s Lizzy’s Dragon. they set their own agendas, often bending or even breaking the rules, and having profound novel from Michelle de Kretser, the Miles Thursday 7 September, 6.30pm and pervasive impacts on communities. Google and Facebook have drained away the Franklin award-winning author of Questions Readings Kids advertising revenue that sustained our media, Amazon destroys more jobs than they create, of Travel. We are delighted to host her, in Free, no booking required. and Uber deliberately flouts local regulations. Taplin’s book is provocative and scary: I urge conversation with Sophie Cunningham, you to read it. But perhaps we’ll discover, like the Luddites who tried to stop the Industrial about the art of storytelling. Revolution, that the Tech Revolution is an unstoppable force. RockWiz’s Brian Nankervis will launch the latest Free, but please book at readings.com.au/events novel from Miles Franklin winner Sofie Laguna. Monday 9 October, 6.30pm The Choke is a brilliant, haunting novel about Readings Carlton a child navigating an often dark and uncaring world, in which grown-ups can’t be trusted Dear Alison Huber, and comfort can only be found in nature. This Head Book Buyer compassionate and claustrophobic vision of a Reader child in danger and a society in trouble celebrates the indomitable nature of the human spirit. Friday 8 September, 6.30pm Our Fiction Book of the Month is Chris Womersley’s City of Crows, a fascinating historical Readings Carlton novel set in seventeenth-century France. Our reviewer is full of praise for this book, calling Free, no booking required. it ‘fabulous’, ‘dazzling’ and ‘Hieronymus Bosch in literary form’. That’s quite a persuasive endorsement, you must agree. Considerations of history and the imagined lives of figures from the past offer inspiration for a number of Australian writers this month. Claire G. Coleman’s Humorist Ben Pobjie is back with another wild debut, Terra Nullius, is a powerful retelling of Australia’s history using the devices of speculative ride of a read about what makes Australia great: genre fiction; Coleman won a black&write! Fellowship in 2016, and is a writer to watch. Ali Aussie Aussie Aussie. It’s history, but not as Alizadeh vividly imagines The Last Days of Jeanne D’Arc; Bram Presser explores family stories you know it. Come along, as fellow funny man and Holocaust survival in an accomplished debut, The Book of Dirt; Steven Carroll brings us his Tony Martin launches it, here at Readings. third book fictionalising the life of T.S. Eliot, A New England Affair. Meanwhile, The Choke, the Wednesday 13 September, 6.30pm highly anticipated new work from 2015 Miles Franklin Winner, Sofie Laguna, appears, as does RICHARD FIDLER Readings Carlton Harriet McKnight’s Rain Birds, a first novel about memory loss and climate change. 23 & KÁRI GÍSLASON: Free, but please book on readings.com.au/events This month is big on international releases too: new books from Nicole Krauss, Claire Oct. Messud, Orhan Pamuk, Celeste Ng and Salman Rushdie; the first in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s new SAGAS quartet, Autumn; and a stunner of a US debut from Gabriel Tallent, My Absolute Darling. Our Melanie Joosten will launch Harriet Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author Kári resident Dead Write expert, Fiona Hardy, loved Codename Villanelle so much that she prompted McKnight’s already-acclaimed debut novel, Gíslason are good friends who share a deep us buyers to order extra copies; Stieg Larsson’s fans will be awaiting David Lagercrantz’s next Rain Birds. It’s a powerful and lyrical novel attachment to the sagas of Iceland: the true faithful chapter in the Lisbeth Salander story, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye. about love, grief and loss, one that examines stories of the first Viking families who settled Our Non-fiction Book of the Month is the very special memoir of the late Georgia Blain, personal tragedy as set against global and on that remote island in the Middle Ages. The Museum of Words. This is a remarkable book from a much admired and missed author. A environmental responsibilities, and how we Their four-part podcast series, Saga Land, is celebration of Blain’s life and work will be held during Melbourne Writers Festival. Look out negotiate our often-conflicting ideals. now a beautiful hardback book. We are thrilled mid-month for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s What Happened, her crucial reflection on the 2016 US Thursday 14 September, 6.30pm to host both men, together for one night only, presidential election. Anna Broinowski offers a timely analysis of Pauline Hanson’s resurgence in Readings Carlton presenting tales of blood feuds, dangerous Please Explain, while A.C. Grayling and Nancy MacLean offer books about democracy (Democracy Free, no booking required. women, and people who are compelled to kill and its Crisis and Democracy in Chains respectively). I’m keen to read Windham-Campbell Prize the ones they love most. There will be images, recipient Ashleigh Young’s essay collection, Can You Tolerate This? Surely every Australian is songs and the stories of their travels. Join us to launch Lora Inak’s Unspoken Rules, at least a little bit in love with Tim Rogers: his new memoir is Detours. September brings lots a YA novel about family, first love, walking a of great cookbooks, including Ostro from Melbourne’s Julia Busuttil Nishimura, and Yotam Entry $40 per person, includes a signed first- cultural tightrope and freedom. Ottolenghi’s Sweet excursion, with Helen Goh. Thomas Piketty’s Capital is at last in paperback. edition copy of Saga Land. Thursday 21 September, 6pm And finally, dear reader, congratulations to the six authors shortlisted for the 2017 Readings Please book at readings.com.au/events Readings Doncaster Prize: Sam Carmody, Melanie Cheng, Heather Taylor Johnson, Hannah Kent, Marija Pericˇic´ Monday 23 October, 6.30–8pm Free, no booking required. and Jane Rawson. 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New Fiction The Fiction Book of the Month CITY OF CROWS Chris Womersley Picador. PB. Was $32.99 Readings Prize $27.99 Available 29 August It was during the reign of King Louis XIV that the Affair of the Poisons transpired, scandalising seventeenth-century 2017 Shortlist France. Many members of the aristocracy were implicated, hundreds of people were arrested and more than 30 were executed. During this time, superstition, alchemy, and fortune- The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction telling provided a way of comprehending the world. The plague had taken hold, fears of demons and devils were very real, and recognises exciting and exceptional new contributions women were burnt at the stake for witchcraft. It’s against this backdrop, informed by to local literature. thorough historical research, that Chris Womersley has set his latest novel, City of Crows. This is a departure in style for Womersley – and his take on the historic and gothic milieu by Gabrielle Williams, chair of judges is nothing short of dazzling. The book poses a series of fascinating questions. What lengths will a mother go to, to rescue her child? What might a damned man do to save his soul? Lesage is the damned man … or is he devil-sent? He is certainly a desperate man. When the equally desperate he judges on this year’s panel were Ann Le Lievre, schools and libraries liaison; Charlotte Picot encounters Lesage, while in search of the son stolen from her on the road Marie Matteson, Readings Carlton; Annie Condon, Readings Hawthorn; and to Lyon, she is armed with a black book, newly acquired abilities, and is clueless in the Gabrielle Williams, Readings Malvern. Over the past year, these judges have read ways of the world. Bound to one another by their desperation, fears and superstitions, the their way through over 70 Australian titles to select a shortlist of six terrific books. two head to Paris to find Charlotte’s son. T The historical figure of Lesage, imprisoned during The Affair of the Poisons, has been given new (fictional) life in City of Crows and it is in the shared journey and interactions THE WINDY THE GOOD with Charlotte Picot that the story sparks and resonates. The characters are flawed and SEASON PEOPLE human. Womersley is an astute observer of human nature; his dialogue is sharp; his prose sings. His seventeenth-century Paris is a stinking cesspool of debauchery: Hieronymus Sam Carmody Hannah Kent Bosch in literary form. This book is fabulous. A&U. PB. $29.99 Picador. PB. $19.99 Deborah Crabtree is from Readings Carlton The Windy Season Hannah Kent pulls the reader into a demonstrates landscape which is meticulous research Readers who enjoyed Tim Winton’s violent, treacherous in locating this superb Australian Fiction Cloudstreet, or Georgia Blain’s Between a and unforgiving. The novel in rural Ireland Wolf and a Dog, will be delighted with this language is immersive, in 1825. Here is an novel. This is an extraordinary read. the pace relentless. accomplished THE CHOKE Chris Gordon is events manager at Readings This is a book that storyteller, with true Sofie Laguna roars down and compassion for her A&U. PB. Was $32.99 batters the senses. characters. $27.99 THE BOOK OF DIRT Bram Presser Available now Text. PB. $32.99 Sofie Laguna’s Available 28 August AUSTRALIA THE LOST third novel for adults gave me that The opening DAY PAGES chapter of Bram Melanie Cheng Marija Pericˇic´ sweet reading moment we all pine for – when Presser’s debut novel Text. PB. $29.99 A&U. PB. $29.99 you realise that your about the Holocaust The stories in this An imagined memoir lived world is colliding and how to make collection illuminate of Franz Kafka’s with that of the page. sense of it begins with lives of people living in literary executor Max Reading becomes the some caution. Caution modern Australia who Brod, The Lost Pages sole purpose of the day. You cannot put that could really apply are not typically is a psychological the book down because you are to all literature of represented. Cheng is examination of immersed, completely and utterly, until trauma. ‘This is a talented at both rivalry, madness and the story finishes. Laguna was awarded book of memories, some my own, some creating characters unrequited love. It’s the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award acquired, and some, I suppose imagined. It and writing compelling farcical, surreal, and for her creation of Jimmy Flick in The Eye begins with a warning: almost everyone literature. utterly unique. of the Sheep. It is possible that this novel you care about in this book is dead.’ will give her even more, deserved, Armed with a complex cast who acclaim. fictionalise the gaps in memory that have JEAN HARLEY FROM THE The Choke centres on ten-year-old forever been erased, Presser follows his WAS HERE WRECK Justine. Her voice narrates the affecting and own cautionary edict. The bulk of the Heather Taylor Johnson Jane Rawson demoralising consequences of male violence novel seeks to understand his grandfather, Jakub Rand, a victim of the death march UQP. PB. $29.95 Transit Lounge. PB. $29.95 in blocking her potential pathways. The to Sachenhausen in April 1954. Prior to Heather Taylor A truly original voice title refers to the banks of the Murray River, this, Rand had been forced to work in Johnson explores the in Australian where the river runs narrow, occasionally the Museum of the Extinct Race in Nazi aftermath of a death historical fiction, flooding the surrounds. It is here that the Germany. through the lives of From the Wreck story is staged. Laguna elegantly portrays Told through prose, myths, letters, those left behind. The brings together an the dampness, the dirt, the longing and the emails and photographs, these forgotten author maintains a alien cephalopod and knowledge of those who live so near the lives gain humanity and memory through light touch, infusing a shipwreck survivor Murray River – and so far from helping Presser’s work. Works such as this give us the book with humour, to craft a lyrical and hands. Laguna’s ability to expose isolation the opportunity to grapple with complex soul and, most visceral meditation on and despair is remarkable. The deeper I questions of forgotten history, research importantly, hope. the cost of survival. immersed myself in Justine’s world, the sadder and more choked I became. Witnesses and belonging. It is difficult to convey the to Justine’s life are held up as beacons of breadth and nuance of this extraordinary possibility, but still – as it is with deep-set work. It is a book about how history is Managing director Mark Rubbo and celebrated author Christos Tsiolkas will join the poverty – they’re unable to change the made – and about who is allowed the judging panel to select the winner from the shortlist. The winner will be announced online direction of this young girl’s life. Laguna privilege to remake it. There are echoes in late October, and will be featured in the November issue of Readings Monthly. They will has beautifully captured the bewilderment here of Sebald’s biting honesty and receive prize money of $3000. of childhood and the emergence of Chabon’s long and rewarding vignettes. An absolute pleasure to read. You can find more information about the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction and the 2017 adulthood in her character of Justine. It is so shortlist at readings.com.au/the-readings-prize-for-new-australian-fiction. unquestionably heartbreaking. Dave Little is from Readings St Kilda and SLV READINGS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER 2017 7

THE LAST DAYS OF romance. I guess that depends on whether TERRA NULLIUS cans to beekeeping, to the migration of birds, JEANNE D’ARC you are the one wanting or the one walking Claire G. Coleman to Van Gogh’s difficult relationship to artistry. away. Despite a camaraderie that spanned Once again, Knausgaard slowly builds a Ali Alizadeh Hachette. PB. Was $29.99 decades, Hale’s heart was, ultimately, picture of his life, this time by way of discrete, Giramondo. PB. $26.95 $26.99 broken. elegant glimpses. In a piece that really got me, Available now Available 29 August Carroll has a wonderful knack of we see him wake at 4am, listen to Brahms and Ali Alizadeh describing historical environments. I loved Claire G. Coleman’s then stare at the empty computer screen for blends historical his portrayals of car trips, picnics and Terra Nullius is a hours while, as he puts it, the dark retreats. research and poetic the drollness of Eliot’s and Hale’s shared retelling of Australia’s Suddenly, in the new light, a bird of prey sensibilities to imagine language. Hale was a proper Boston lady colonial settlement, but swoops down in an ‘explosion of movement Jeanne d’Arc’s life, and there is much fun in reading their not in any way you’ve that seems to erase everything else’. It takes moving between her quips to one another. These two friends read it before. Told from him some time to work out what the scene imprisonment and were glib and entertaining, but it was not both native and settler reminds him of – his first shock encounter execution at the hands mutual love. perspectives, and weaving with the paintings of Munch. of the English, her A New England Affair is Carroll’s third past and fantastical This format inevitably favours ideas. He’s heroic exploits and her early life in instalment in the life of Tom Eliot. We futuristic elements, Coleman’s novel was hard surprisingly agile and unconventional when Lorraine. Alizadeh balances two stories: won’t know for some time if Carroll has to put down. teasing out what, say, war means and does that of Jeanne d’Arc the famous female accurately described Hale’s and Eliot’s Meet Jacky: he’s escaped from a to us, but he’s still at his best and most fluent warrior who led the French army into friendship, although I believe he has. homestead where he was sent to work, after when he’s winding narrative around those battle and turned the tide of the Hundred Hale bequeathed her collection of over being educated to serve the settlers. Sick of ideas, which he can’t help but do. Years’ War; and Jeanne the woman who the bad treatment, hunger, and overcome by a thousand of Eliot’s letters to her to Oliver Driscoll is from Readings Doncaster didn’t fit in in her village, resisted her Princeton under the agreement that they a longing to find his home, he starts running family’s expectation that she marry, heard remain sealed until January 1, 2020. Fans with little idea of where home might be. Sister the voices of saints and loved a woman. Bagra hates this place. It is so hot, dry and THE GOLDEN HOUSE of Eliot’s work will enjoy this portrait, as Salman Rushdie The political and the personal are closely will readers of Alex Miller and Michelle de inhospitable. She is tasked with trying to teach Jonathan Cape. PB. Was $32.99 intertwined, as Jeanne’s longing to love Krester. Eliot said: ‘We read many books, the Native children so they can be of use to $27.99 and be loved motivates her ambition to because we cannot know enough people.’ It the settlers. Secretly she hates the Natives but Available 7 September complete her divinely allotted task of was a pleasure to meet Emily Hale. can never let the other nuns know. She is in freeing France from the English occupiers. charge and this is her duty. She too dreams of One of the world’s great Alizadeh tells these stories in a Chris Gordon is events manager at Readings going Home. Johnny Star came here to be a writers chronicles the past chorus of voices; a third-person narration Colonial Trooper, but one too many gruesome, eight years in US politics in runs throughout, allowing Alizadeh RAIN BIRDS murderous raids on Native camps leaves him a poignant, gripping new to comment on Jeanne’s legacy, while Harriet McKnight questioning his purpose and he absconds novel. Invoking literature, Jeanne’s voice also appears and, at times, Black Inc. PB. $29.99 to join forces with a group of Natives and pop culture, and the takes over the narrative. The voices Available 28 August become an outlaw. Sergeant Rohan has been cinema, Rushdie spins the of Jeanne’s saints dart back and forth Pina and Alan tasked with finding the escapee Jacky, to story of the American across the page, broken between lines, have lived in return order to the settlement. Rohan hates zeitgeist over the last eight years, hitting whispering instructions and words of Boney Point, a town in this land and its scorching dry sun, the settlers every beat: the rise of the birther movement; comfort or admonitions. rural East Gippsland, and the Natives. Esperence was born in the the Tea Party; gamergate and identity politics; In short, direct sentences in clear for decades. When Alan camp like so many of her people are now. She the backlash against political correctness; the modern prose, Alizadeh succinctly fills in develops early-onset has learned to be careful and vigilant, to avoid ascendency of the superhero movie; and, of the timeline of the Hundred Years’ War dementia, the fiercely the camp being discovered. Only Grandfather course, the insurgence of a ruthlessly and describes Jeanne’s military successes independent Pina remembers back to before the invasion, before ambitious, narcissistic, media-savvy villain and setbacks with precision – evidence struggles to give up her they left their own Country to try and avoid wearing make-up and with coloured hair. of the author’s extensive scholarship. life to care for the husband she barely capture by the settlers. Alizadeh’s authorial interjections in the recognises anymore. As Alan’s illness These are some of the people you will MY ABSOLUTE DARLING midst of battle scenes (about what future approaches crisis point, a flock of rare meet in this excellent and important novel Gabriel Tallent films will get wrong or debates historians glossy black cockatoos make their home in that has left me deep in thought. It is one I’m Fourth Estate. PB. $29.99 will have) are jarring, in a good way; they the wilderness behind Pina and Alan’s sure I will re-read and will encourage others Available 1 September land. Alan is mesmerised by the birds, and remind the reader that what we know to do the same. Sometimes, it’s a Pina becomes convinced they are of Jeanne d’Arc is the amalgamation of Suzanne Steinbruckner is from Readings St Kilda single character somehow significant to his rapidly stories told and retold over centuries, a that makes a novel changing identity. mix of myth and history, portraying her unforgettable; Nearby, researcher Arianna is also as a witch or a madwoman or a hero, International Fiction sometimes an intense watching the cockatoos. She has bred depending on political expediency. plot puts you in a book’s these birds in captivity, and is both By making explicit these competing grip; other times still, it’s professionally and personally invested in perspectives and breaking the reader AUTUMN the writer’s craft that their successful repopulation of the area. out of the flow of events for a moment, Karl Ove Knausgaard draws you in and keeps When they leave the designated nesting Alizadeh opens up a space for the reader Harvill Secker. PB. Was $35 you there. But when these three elements zone she has spent months preparing, to question their own interpretations of $29.99 are equally accomplished (and I think it’s Arianna’s anxiety spins out of control. She Jeanne’s story. Available 28 August actually rare that they are), then you have tracks the birds obsessively, eventually Freya Howarth is from Readings St Kilda. Karl Ove quite a reading experience on the cards: My discovering they have moved to Pina’s Knausgaard has this Absolute Darling is a very intense one. Some and Alan’s land. Arianna and Pina clash; A NEW ENGLAND way of taking a months down the track, I’m not sure I’ve Arianna insists Pina shoo the cockatoos phenomenon that recovered just yet. AFFAIR away, but Pina can’t see the sense in otherwise seems spent ‘Turtle’ Alveston is the character in Steven Carroll Arianna’s refusal to let nature be. As the – whether it be kinds of question, a 14 year-old survivor of family HarperCollins. PB. $29.99 tension between the two women simmers, interactions or violence, enduring a life of torment with Available 1 September summer grows fiercer, the bush dries out, relationships, or the her abusive father on the edge of the Once upon a time and hot winds whip through Boney Point. human face, or an object wilds of northern California. She’s a tough T.S. Eliot (Tom), Writing landscape is something like a standard 1970s telephone – and turning young woman because she must be, and is considered one of the Australian authors famously do well. it and turning it, until suddenly it’s as though resourceful in a way only the daughter of most influential In her debut novel, Rain Birds, Harriet we’re hearing about it for the first time. He’s an unhinged survivalist could be. Finding playwrights and poets of McKnight has continued in this tradition. successful here in part because you can see solace in nature, she’s understandably most modern times, wrote: ‘I While capturing rural Victoria’s beauty, and feel him trying to present the wonder of comfortable alone, though she still has said to my soul, be still, she intertwines its hostility with the the world to someone who is new to it. In to tolerate the banalities of everyday life and wait without hope/ development of her characters and recent years, Knausgaard, along with the likes with people unaware of her hellish home For hope would be hope narrative. This is one of the reasons I of Jenny Offill, Rachel Cusk and Edouard existence. But something’s got to give: it’s just for the wrong thing.’ According to the loved this book. There is always something Louis, has written innovative novels that feel a matter of exactly what, when and where. brilliant storyteller Steven Carroll, Tom dangerous just under the surface, and almost unnervingly close to life. Be warned that this book has some graphic meant this for his long-time muse and whether it’s fire, ostracisation from other With Autumn, the first book in his and upsetting scenes, and some moments so friend Emily Hale. Hale was charming people, violence, or mental anguish, new Seasons quartet, Knausgaard is again anxiety-inducing and terrifying that it had witty and seemingly longed for Tom all her McKnight treats it with the same touch. seemingly trying to work out what a book me reading with my eyes half closed. This is adult life. Sadly, this is a story of unrequited Rain Birds is the kind of novel you will feel should do. Presented as a series of notes he’s not a book for the fainthearted; but if you’ve love. One could romantically (and kindly) keenly, and think about for weeks after written to his soon-to-be-born third daughter read and loved A Little Life or Preparation for the suggest that the timing was wrong, that you’ve finished reading. McKnight is a (and fourth child), the book most closely Next Life, and you’re up for being challenged friendships, in the end can be so much writer to watch. resembles a collection of, say, short Montaigne by the dark places an author can take their more powerful and indeed significant than Ellen Cregan is from Readings Doncaster essays, or meditations, on everything from tin characters, then there is so much reward in 8 READINGS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER 2017

Turtle’s story – ultimately one of redemption, for them both, particularly Cassie. Julia is strength and survival – and so much beauty confused and hurt by these changes, and the in Tallent’s writing, that it reminded me of novel goes on to follow the girls’ divergent why I love to read. This book is completely paths, with Cassie’s the more dangerous one. gut-wrenching, utterly compelling, and very, Julia is the kind of narrator I enjoy – wise very good. beyond her years and psychologically astute. Alison Huber is books division manager at Readings Messud’s narrators always pose important philosophical and psychological questions FOREST DARK and in this instance the subject matter is Nicole Krauss storytelling. Julia muses at the start of the Bloomsbury. PB. $24.99 book, ‘It’s a different story depending on Available 1 September where you start: who’s good, who’s bad, what it all means.’ As she attempts to piece together Nicole Krauss’s new Cassie’s path over the next few years, she novel opens with must rely on rumours and hearsay, while the disappearance of dealing with her own grief at their distance. Jules Epstein. A wealthy, In high school, Julia discovers acting and retired New York lawyer, public speaking, and becomes passionate he has vanished in Tel about stories. Telling Cassie’s story becomes Aviv. What’s more imperative for her, enabling her to define concerning is that he herself, and possibly even save Cassie, the seems to have been ‘burning girl’ of the title. vanishing for a while. His apartment in Tel This superb meditation on friendship September’s Must Reads Aviv is humble and crumbling; he has been and storytelling is a must-read for fans of gradually giving his accumulated wealth away. Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet, or of Megan The Golden House Autumn The Inner Life of Animals His children realise they have only been Abbott’s dark novels about adolescence. Salman Rushdie Karl Ove Knausgaard Peter Wohlleben seeing him at the Tel Aviv Hilton. In a dual One of the truly great writers of the The major new project from the We humans tend to assume that Annie Condon is from Readings Hawthorn century at top of his game. Invoking author of My Struggle. Autumn is we are the only living things able narrative, our second protagonist, a writer literature, pop culture, and the the fi rst of the Seasons quartet, a to experience feelings intensely from Brooklyn, is experiencing an out-of-body cinema, Rushdie spins the story of personal encyclopedia about the and consciously. But have you ever episode. She starts to think that most of her LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE the American zeitgeist over the last world, written by a father to his wondered what’s going on in an life may have been an out-of-body episode. Celeste Ng eight years, hitting every beat. unborn child. animal’s head? That instead of living her life, she has in fact Little, Brown. PB. Was $29.99 $26.99 Please Explain Maybe The Prince Boofhead been dreaming it: from the Tel Aviv Hilton. Anna Broinowski Morris Gleitzman Syndrome This is a story of two disappearances, two Available 12 September Please Explain is a compelling, 1946. Europe is in ruins. Millions of Michael Carr-Gregg lands (America and Israel), the competition Celeste Ng’s second intimate look at how an Ipswich people dream of fi nding happiness By the author of the successful of memory and history and two possible novel, Little Fires fi sh and chip shop lady changed somewhere else. The next The Princess Bitchface Syndrome artistic works. In dreamlike, philosophical Everywhere, opens with the the nation – and how she speaks compelling chapter in the life of Felix, comes the highly anticipated and prose, Krauss pulls us along with her dual line: ‘Everyone in Shaker directly to Australian society and hero of the award-winning Once, long-awaited companion volume our multicultural identity today. Then, After, Soon and Now. about parenting teenage boys. protagonists from New York to Israel; from Heights was talking about the modern Tel Aviv to the ancient, storied it that summer: how landscape surrounding it. In a narrative that Isabelle, the last of the keeps trying to slip away, Krauss firmly tethers Richardson children, had us to the transformation taking place in both finally gone around the protagonists. With inserted photographs bend and burned the house down.’ Set in the of the Tel Aviv Hilton, Krauss pulls us mid-1990s, the novel follows two very different back as the writer from Brooklyn becomes families over the course of a year, slowly increasingly unfettered and dreamlike in her building to the aforementioned fire. OSTRO A COLUMN OF FIRE musings. As Kafka enters the story, we are The Richardsons are a wealthy married Julia Busuttil Nishimura Ken Follett given a photograph of the apartment that may couple with four children, a big house, deep This is modern Australian eating with Set during one of the most turbulent hold all his unpublished work. ties to their community, and everything they respect for the past. and revolutionary times in history, The questions Krauss asks are big. could ever need. Mia and Pearl Warren are What is a life lived? What is the difference a mother and daughter who drift from town Julia Busuttil A Column of Fire between history and memory? What is to town, never settling, living on the edge of Nishimura has is one of Follett’s gained a strong most exciting and reality? Her prose is erudite and ephemeral, poverty. When Mia rents an apartment from and loyal following ambitious works but she knows to give us something to hold the Richardsons, unexpected connections for her generous, yet. It will delight onto, whether it is a photo of the Tel Aviv build between the two families. However, uncomplicated, longtime fans of Hilton or the description of a possibly low- relationships are strained by a public custody seasonal food. the Kingsbridge budget film of King David. Forest Dark is an battle around a Chinese–American baby: the Her interpretations series and is of dishes from the perfect unexpectedly funny book, grounded at every Richardsons are friends with the white couple Italy and the introduction for turn by moments of humour and small human trying to adopt the baby and Mia works with Mediterranean feel readers new to interactions. the baby’s birth mother. both timelessly Ken Follett. Ng’s debut novel Everything I Never Told familiar and Marie Matteson is from Readings Carlton You was a critically acclaimed bestseller and altogether fresh In-store 12 and new. September THE BURNING GIRL Little Fires Everywhere is equally compelling. Claire Messud Ng inhabits eight or nine different characters Fleet. PB. $27.99 with ease, each portrayed with authenticity and understanding, and she expertly brings CITY OF CROWS HOW BRIGHT ARE ALL THINGS HERE Available 29 August together a range of plot threads into a Chris Womersley Susan Green Claire Messud is the satisfying, resonant ending. An emotionally accomplished "One of the unrepentantly daring and Life is awfully dull when it’s naked complex, richly detailed drama about author of acclaimed original talents in the landscape of and truthful. motherhood and belonging, Little Fires novels The Woman Upstairs Australian fiction"Sydney Morning Everywhere is not to be missed. Herald Glamorous, and The Emperor’s Children. The Burning Girl, is a Nina Kenwood is marketing manager at Readings From award- charismatic Bliss winning author Henderson has mesmerising history of Chris Womersley led a flawed, the friendship between THE RED-HAIRED WOMAN comes an fascinating life. two teenage girls. Julia Orhan Pamuk Now, in her extraordinary and Cassie have known each other since Hamish Hamilton. PB. Was $32.99 historical novel set last days, she kindergarten. Both only children, they are as $27.99 in seventeenth- is reliving it all. century Paris, its Susan Green close as sisters. Julia, the narrator, comes from Available 28 August streets thronged has created a a middle-class family. Cassie’s father died When a book starts with preachers, charming, lyrical when she was a baby, and her mother, Bev, novel of secrets, with a quote from troubadours and struggles to make ends meet. Nietzsche about Oedipus, rogues. art and love. Julia tells the story of the last summer you know you can expect she and Cassie experienced as true friends. fathers, sons, mothers They work in an animal shelter, swim in the and lovers to become local quarry and play imaginary games in the entangled with www.panmacmillan.com.au abandoned asylum nearby. But seventh grade devastating brings new opportunities and friendships consequences. When the READINGS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER 2017 9 author is a previous winner of the Nobel collective depression devoid of all hope and Prize for Literature, you can feel confident direction. This is an excellent, vital debut. you’re in accomplished hands. Michael Skinner is from Readings St Kilda Orhan Pamuk’s latest book, The Red-Haired “Eyes Too Dry is a time capsule, an intimate Woman, is set in Istanbul in 1985, and follows HE portrait of two friends, and a vitally a master well-digger, Master Mahmut and John Connolly his young apprentice, Cem, as they excavate powerful conversation about what it’s like H&S. PB. $29.99 for water. The rewards will be huge if they to have ‘heavy feelings.’ […]” – Vice.com Available 29 August are successful, but the work is dangerous and In his author’s note requires great skill and concentration. As they to He, a novel based spend weeks digging further and further into on the life of Stan Laurel, the ground, the two men forge a connection, John Connolly explains filling the hole left by Cem’s missing father. But his desire to contemplate as the connection between Master Mahmut the underlying emotions and his young apprentice deepens, resentment behind this half of one of begins to seep into Cem’s admiration of the the greatest comedy duos well-digger, and the conflict and confusion of all time. The result is a he feels about his father starts to come into stunning biographical novel. play. Each night Master Mahmut and Cem Told in short chapters, alternating go into the small village close to where they between the past and present, He follows are digging, to drink tea and talk with the the gradual rise of Stan Laurel from a locals. It’s during one of these visits that young performer at his father’s musical hall to Cem notices a beguiling older woman, the Charlie Chaplin’s understudy, films and then red-haired woman of the title. She too seems finally his famous pairing with ‘Babe’ (Oliver drawn to him, and after an unexpected night Hardy). Running alongside is the never- spent in each other’s arms, Cem’s tiredness ending presence of Laurel’s financial, artistic and distraction results in a terrible accident for and marital struggles. But He is much more Master Mahmut in the well. than a retelling of Laurel’s life. Impeccably Running in fear, Cem tries to get on with researched, it provides a detailed context his life, tamping down his guilty conscience of the performance and film industries, and pretending nothing happened. But the exploring in particular the rise of film from past has a way of catching up with you, and silent shorts to spoken features. No one’s when Cem is confronted years down the influence is felt here more than Chaplin’s: his track with the unexpected consequences of talent and success haunt Laurel throughout. his time spent as an apprentice, the Oedipal The great achievement of He is its masterful myth comes into play once again. use of style and structure. The shifts in time A heartfelt, youthful memoir that Gabrielle Williams is from Readings Malvern highlight what Laurel has lost: both in his articulates life with mental illness beloved comedy partner Babe and in the and the struggle of the person THE CITY ALWAYS WINS craft of comedy itself. Repetition and dry closest to the sufferer Omar Robert Hamilton wit are used with great effect. The growing Faber. PB. $29.99 despair of Laurel’s attorney Ben Shipman is a Available 23 August highlight of the second half. The City Always Laurel and Hardy are set for a renaissance, Wins captures, in with Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly soon form and content, the to appear in the film Stan and Ollie. Fans will frenzied optimism and appreciate what Connolly has accomplished the violent, reactionary – and those with a previously passing interest turn of the Arab Spring as will find themselves hungry for more. it unfolded in Tahrir Amanda Rayner is from Readings Carlton Square, Cairo. We witness the action through the A LEGACY OF SPIES The untold love story eyes of a group of young revolutionaries and John Le Carré behind the greatest poetry citizen journalists known as the Chaos Viking. PB. Was $32.99 Collective. They are on the frontline of the $27.99 of the 20th century. Tahrir uprisings, frantically documenting the Available 28 August victories, the backlash, and the many cycles of The undisputed master of murderous, state-backed violence. Omar the spy novel, John Le Robert Hamilton is uniquely placed to write Carré, is back, with a book what will come to be regarded as the that combines intelligence definitive novel of the Arab Spring; he was and the current political there, active in political struggles from Cairo climate in a gripping plot. to Gaza; and his cousin is currently a political Peter Guillam, staunch prisoner in Egypt. colleague and disciple of Hamilton’s experience on the ground George Smiley of the feeds into the novel in a visceral way; The British Secret Service, is summoned out of City Always Wins crackles with authenticity retirement to London, where his Cold War and has the feel and pace of a grainy live- past has come to claim him. feed video. The City, especially in the first third of the narrative, emphasises the role of social media in the Arab Spring. Part of A COLUMN OF FIRE the optimism of the first uprising against Ken Follett Mubarak was a naive faith that a new kind Pan Mac. HB. Was $44.99 of leaderless resistance, facilitated by social $39.99 media, would disrupt the revolution/reaction/ Available 12 September dictatorship cycle that has been the tragic When Elizabeth Tudor endpoint of so many grassroots revolutions. becomes queen, all of This seemingly predetermined cycle of Europe turns against power was acute, brutal, and unexpected England. The young in Egypt after 2011. For the characters in monarch sets up the Patti Smith meets Hamilton’s debut novel, this revolution was country’s first secret Banjo Paterson by way meant to be different. And so we deeply feel service to give her early Two intrepid siblings the characters’ every moment of despair and warning of assassination of Dylan Thomas; rage as their revolution is co-opted first by plots, rebellions and in a tale of mischief, Tim Rogers’ musings on life, the Muslim Brotherhood and then by the invasion plans. Christmas 1558, and young monocles, mice and mist. love, family and music. military under Sisi. By the time Sisi’s rule is Ned Willard returns home to find Europe in enshrined and legitimated by the majority, turmoil – and himself on the opposite side Hamilton’s characters descend into a from the girl he longs to marry. 10 READINGS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER 2017

New Crime Dead Write empire once and for all, but it involves saving a pilot who absolutely did crash a plane into a with Fiona Hardy classified zone, no matter what the Crime Book of the Month authorities want him to say, all while Worse’s friend Edvard Tøssentern is investigating some peculiar hierogylphs. This is a fast- CODENAME VILLANELLE talking novel that’s sure to make you grin. Luke Jennings John Murray. PB. $29.99 YESTERDAY Available 29 August Felicia Yap Call your spouse, tell them you have an important work meeting. Headline. PB. $29.99 Slip on a pair of green contact lenses, slide on a black wig, and get Available 29 August in an unassuming taxi. Find the bar you need – the note is written, There are many crime in code, in a crumpled note in your hand – and slide into a booth. thrillers that love to Make sure you always face the door. Order a drink, something make the most out of smoky and aged. Now you’re ready: reach into your bag, get out this people’s poor memories. book, and read the hell out of it for a few hours. Yap has taken the Codename Villanelle is a glorious, exciting book with all the pace and plot of a superhero fuzzy-memory trope and origin movie: a young girl named Oxana, cold-blooded and fearless, murders the men who flipped it to deliriously killed her father. Just before she is executed for her crime, she is released to the ruthless readable, sci-fi levels, Konstantin, who sees in Oxana’s skills and iciness the perfect assassin – and so, she is put catapulting readers into a through the brutal training regime that makes her so. On the other side of it, she is no world where class division lies only between longer Oxana, but Villanelle; merciless killer, a seducer of all, someone in full control. We Monos and Duos. Duos can remember two follow her breathlessly through a series of political assassinations as she slips under the days in the past. Monos can only remember radar, until she catches the attention of Eve Polastri, whose job is to protect, and whose yesterday. Aided by iDiaries (Steve Jobs still failure to do so sees her career in ruins. exists in this universe, of course), people Sexy, fast and good fun, this is a story that begins as fizzy entertainment, as the read about the past and try to store these calculating yet compelling Villanelle mows down or sleeps with all in her path, before memories as recallable Facts. But when you adding unexpected emotional depth as Eve struggles with the secrets she must keep don’t write it down, how can you remember from her husband, and the pain and guilt that charge through her. It’s still quite light, but it? What happens when you only remember Jennings offers more than enough to sketch a character you care about before sending yesterday, while your husband remembers them to a glittering international locale to shoot someone in the head or prevent the same. the day before too – and a 30-ish-hours- And when you’re done reading, and you’re ready to return to your normal life, just do one dead body has washed up in the river, the more thing – make sure you’re not being followed. police think your husband did it, and if it’s not solved by the end of the day, no one will THE GIRL WHO TAKES Cameron’s father is too close to the bone remember what happened? And what of the for him. This is an addictive dark read. one person who can remember everything, AN EYE FOR AN EYE including the worst things people have done David Lagercrantz to her – can she get her revenge? MacLehose. PB. Was $32.99 THE MITFORD MURDERS Jessica Fellowes $27.99 THE PERFECT STRANGER Sphere. PB. 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A fast-paced fictional Ricky, he’s pulled back into the gambling a storm and a draconian new law that adventure based on real-life. underworld ... and must help settle some endangers them all. old scores. A compelling new novel about family, regret and salvation. THE TWENTIETH MAN A NEW ENGLAND Tony Jones AFFAIR FROM THE WRECK A&U. PB. Was $32.99 Steven Carroll Jane Rawson $27.99 HarperCollins. PB. $29.99 Transit Lounge. PB. $29.95 Q& A’s Tony Jones has been a foreign Steven Carroll has won the Miles correspondent, covered war crimes in Award-winning author Jane Rawson’s Franklin, the Prime Minister’s Literary Bosnia ... and now he’s produced his first third novel builds her reputation as a Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ novel, a compelling thriller taking us from master of the sublimely strange story Prize. This exquisite novel is the third in the savage mountains of Yugoslavia to that tells vital truths about what it is his Eliot Quartet, a poignant series about brutal, covert power struggles in Canberra. to be human now. Shortlisted for the a lost love that never quite finds its right Terrorism, war criminals, journalist-as- 2017 Readings Prize for Fiction, this moment, embodied by revered poet T.S. investigator and international struggles: extraordinary novel combines a historical Eliot and his muse, friend, confidant – this novel has it all. shipwreck, cannibalism, and an alien but never lover – Emily Hale. entity – and has been rave reviewed by everyone from Lian Hearn and Fiona TABOO Wright, to The Age and The Australian. DR. JEKYLL Kim Scott AND MR. SEEK Picador. PB. Was $32.99 WIMMERA Anthony O’Neill $27.99 Mark Brandi Xoum. PB. $24.99 Two-time Miles Franklin winner Hachette. PB. Was $29.99 A darkly imaginative sequel to Robert Kim Scott this year became the first $26.99 Louis Stevenson’s classic, by an Indigenous author to open Melbourne The arrival of an unsettling adult internationally acclaimed storyteller, Writers Festival. In The Guardian, Melissa newcomer changes forever the easy praised by the San Francisco Chronicle for Lucashenko calls Taboo ‘a complex, adolescent friendship between Ben and his ‘rare talent for at once frightening and thoughtful and exceptionally generous Fab, in 1980s rural Victoria. The events of enlightening readers’. This literary Gothic offering by a master storyteller at the one stifling summer will reverberate for horror crackles with driving dialogue, and top of his game’. Set in an Australia of years to come. This literary crime novel simmers with the sulphurous atmosphere uneasy truces and colonial shame, it asks in the vein of Jane Harper’s The Dry and of Victorian London. whether reconciliation is really possible. Dennis Lehane’s Mystic River has been a favourite with Readings customers. THE CHOKE CITY OF CROWS Sofie Laguna Chris Womersley RAIN BIRDS A&U. PB. Was $32.99 Picador. PB. Was $32.99 Harriet McKnight $27.99 $27.99 Black Inc. PB. $29.99 Miles Franklin award-winning novelist Available 29 August Available 28 August Sofie Laguna dives deep back into the Readings favourite Chris Womersely Fans of this affecting debut already territory of family dysfunction, children (Bereft, Cairo) moves into new territory include Ceridwen Dovey and Inga in danger, and a world where adults are with this black-magic literary page- Simpson, who calls it: ‘Heartbreaking not to be trusted. This compassionate turner, set in a seventeenth-century and real, grounded in a stunning natural vision of a society in trouble is told France still ruled by superstition over environment.’ As Alan and Pina deal with through the experience of neglected science. After Charlotte Picot loses the onset of Alan’s Alzheimer’s, a flock ten-year-old Justine, who lives with her husband and children to fever, and of cockatoos migrates to their home on a grandfather traumatised by his her remaining child is abducted, she isolated Boney Point. They’ll soon clash experiences in Burma – with sporadic takes desperate measures to save him. with a conservation biologist, as they visits from her criminal father. A steely Immerse yourself in a world of fortune- struggle to come to terms with loss. celebration of human resilience. telling, strange criminals and the occult. GIFT GUIDE 2017

BALCONY OVER THE MUSEUM OF International Fiction JERUSALEM: A MIDDLE WORDS: A MEMOIR OF EAST MEMOIR LANGUAGE WRITING HOME FIRE John Lyons AND MORTALITY HarperCollins. PB. $34.99 Kamila Shamsie Georgia Blain ABC journalist John Lyons reflects on Scribe. HB. Was $29.99 Bloomsbury. PB. $24.99 his decades as a foreign correspondent Available 1 September $26.99 in the Middle East, combining everyday Available 28 August Home Fire, an ambitious, engrossing life (his son’s school, his wife’s friends) exploration of a UK Muslim family torn with high-level access to the region’s key Georgia Blain’s exquisite final book, apart in the post-9/11 world, is infused figures, from central members of Hamas written while she knew she was dying with dry observation and biting black and Hezbollah to Israel’s prime ministers of brain cancer, is a beautiful meditation humour. Longlisted for the Man Booker, – and a gripping account of being taken on the nature of loss, language and it’s receiving rave reviews, including by Egyptian soldiers, blindfolded and relationships with loved ones. In from Peter Carey (‘left me awestruck’) interrogated. Authoritative and engrossing. spare, hard-won prose she articulates and The New York Times (‘one of the most the complex joys of her life with her memorable final scenes I’ve read in a ON THE WAGON partner, daughter, best friend Rosie novel this century’). Scott and mother Anne Deveson, and the Lennox Nicholson devastation of a lifelong writer losing her Affirm Press. PB. $24.99 words. A very special book. Crime Was Jack Kerouac’s cross-country wandering in On the Road sparked by THE MOUTH THAT restless genius that fed into his writing, ROARED or destructive alcoholism that held him AND FIRE CAME DOWN Les Twentyman with/& Robert back? Lennox Nicholson, a writer and Emma Viskic recovering alcoholic, suspects the latter. Hillman Echo. PB. Was $29.99 In this highly original book, he follows Wild Dingo Press. PB. $29.95 $26.99 in the footsteps of Kerouac’s classic, Home-grown hero Les Twentyman was Resurrection Bay, Emma Viskic’s first attending AA meetings and learning raised in Melbourne’s working-class thrilling crime novel about deaf detective from his conversations with the random west and has worked for decades to Caleb Zelic, won a swag of Australian strangers he meets along the way. find accommodation for the homeless crime writing awards (four, to be exact), and drug-addicted, as well as a more and a devoted fanbase. When a young THE ENIGMATIC MR fulfilling life for those alienated from woman is killed after pleading for his help DEAKIN society. A truly inspiring book, told with in sign language, the trail leads straight bestselling author Robert Hillman (The Judith Brett to Caleb’s hometown, Resurrection Bay – Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif). and he’s forced to face his demons. Text. HB. $49.99 Political scientist and The Monthly regular FATHER FIGURES BAD TO WORSE Judith Brett brings out from behind Paul Connolly (ed.) the image of a worthy, bearded father Affirm Press. PB. $29.99 Robert Edeson of federation the gifted, passionate and We defy your heart to remain unwarmed Fremantle Press. PB. $29.99 intriguing man whose contributions by this gorgeous collection in praise Available 28 August continue to shape the contours of (and defence) of dads, featuring some In the Arizona desert, Walter Reckles Australian politics. ‘A biography of of Australia’s favourite writers. Tony emerges unscathed from an air crash immense power that will restore Deakin Birch remembers his grandfather, Sami in a classified zone, and is pressured to to his proper place in the national Shah shares memories of his fearsome- deny hitting an illicit drone. In a cave imagination: the mystic politician who looking but soft-hearted dad, Tracey in the Ferendes, Edvard Tøssentern gave us Australia.’ – David Marr Spicer celebrates dads who ‘wear gentle has discovered a wall of indecipherable strength with pride’, and William hieroglyphs: deep inside the cave, something THINGS MY FATHER McInnes compares his late father to sinister is stirring. Intelligence analyst TAUGHT ME Chinese New Year. Richard Worse is called to investigate. Claire Halliday MARLBOROUGH MAN Echo. PB. $29.99 THIRTY DAYS: A JOURNEY TO THE END Alan Carter Our fathers have an indelible impact on our lives, whether it’s through their Fremantle Press. PB. $29.99 OF LOVE presence or absence, intimacy or distance. Mark Raphael Baker Nick Chester is a sergeant in the In this heartwarming collection, some Text. PB. $24.99/$32.99 Marlborough Sounds, at the top of of Australia’s best known personalities New Zealand’s South Island: a region share their defining stories about their From the bestselling author of The of remote beauty that can pose its own fathers’ influence with Claire Halliday. Fiftieth Gate, recently reissued by Text, danger. In the space of two weeks, two Includes stories from George Calombaris, comes an exquisite new family memoir. locals have vanished. This is a gripping Rev Tim Costello, Catriona Rowntree, Em In Thirty Days, Mark Raphael Baker novel about what happens when evil Rusciano and Santo Cilauro. reflects on the life and loss of his wife takes hold in a small town. Kerryn, who recently died of cancer, the MIRACLES DO HAPPEN shifting intimacy of marriage, and the THE STUDENT way everyday narratives shape our lives Fela & Felix Rosenbloom and relationships. A beautiful, fiercely Iain Ryan Scribe. PB. $27.99 intelligent book of love and family. Echo. PB. $24.99 The story of childhood sweethearts This hardboiled regional slacker-noir, set Fela and Felix, pre-war neighbours in in 1990s Australia, has been praised as ‘an Lodz, Poland who were separated by the Anthology exciting new voice’ by Adrian McKinty. events of World War II. Felix fled to the Student and weed dealer Nate has a supply Soviet Union in 1939, where he did hard problem – and more than that. His friend labour, while Fela survived Auschwitz. THE WISDOM OF and dealer Jesse is missing, a girl is dead, After the war, miraculously, Fela and OZ: AUSTRALIAN and he’s being hunted for the suitcase he’s Felix found each other. A touching story found, and haunted by its contents. of love and survival. APHORISMS FROM THE PROFOUND TO THE WORKING CLASS BOY PROFANE Biography & Memoir Jimmy Barnes Black Inc HarperCollins. PB. $32.99 Black Inc. HB. $14.99 CHE, MY BROTHER When you’re inspired to write about your Available 28 August childhood after watching Snowtown, it Who doesn’t love a book of witty, Juan Martin Guevara must have been pretty rough. Working wise and perfectly put quotes? This Polity. HB. $39.95 Class Boy is a surprisingly tender, affecting cool little collection brings together The perfect gift for the leftie dad who’s read memoir of a childhood starved of and aphorisms from Australians from all everything just might be this new memoir scrabbling for love, growing up poor walks of life, including politicians, of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara, by in the same ravagingly disadvantaged actors, sportspeople, and businessmen. the brother who lived in his shadow. ‘If Adelaide suburbs where the Snowtown These gems are from notorious straight- you want to delve deeper into how Che the murders unfolded. ‘A stunning talkers, such as Colleen McCullough (‘a man became Che the icon ... add this to the piece of work — relentless, earnest, bluestocking in a family of jockstraps’) rewarding – and, in stupid times, ever more shockingly vivid ... a classic of Australian and Donald Horne (‘Politics is both pressing – collection.’ – The Guardian autobiography.’ – The Australian fraud and vision’). 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WATCHING OUT: Art/Photography REFLECTIONS Environmental ON JUSTICE AND Studies AERIAL AUSTRALIA INJUSTICE Julian Burnside Nick Rains Scribe. PB. Was $29.99 Explore. HB. $39.99 SUNLIGHT AND $26.99 This stunning photographic book reveals SEAWEED: the Australian landscape as seen from a Everyone’s favourite QC, the inestimable AN ARGUMENT FOR whole new vantage point: from above. and famously erudite Julian Burnside, Accomplished photographer Nick Rains is back with another book that HOW TO FEED POWER captures sweeping views of Australia’s backgrounds the evolution of his ethics AND CLEAN UP THE cities, dramatic glimpses of its outback and ideals, and reflects on the often WORLD sand dunes, and a new way of looking gaping chasm between the law and Tim Flannery at our coral reefs, coastal fringes and justice. He reflects on his landmark Text. PB. $19.99 countryside. Aerial Australia gives the gift MUA and Tampa cases, as well as on the of travelling Australia from the comfort Tim Flannery, one of the world’s earliest of your couch – whether it’s vicarious intricacies of our increasingly draconian, authoritative voices on the dangers of living, or dreaming up your next holiday. inherently unjust asylum-seeker laws. climate change, is a herald of positive change (and the science behind it) SEEING SALTWATER COLD WAR GAMES in this welcome new book, which Harry Blutstein explores environmental methods for COUNTRY tackling climate change and cleaning Echo. PB. $32.99 Sally Mayman & Dale Kentwell up the world. These solutions include Melbourne hosted the Olympic Games in Fremantle Press. HB. $45 new technologies to store solar energy, 1956, just as the Cold War was building Available 28 August using kelp to draw carbon out of the momentum. This intriguing book reveals atmosphere, and purifying polluted land. This art collaboration between the proxy propaganda war behind the photographer Sally Mayman, painter Dale facade of the ‘friendly games’, as the Kentwell and the people of the Dampier US and USSR turned athletic fields, Food Peninsula is so much more than a swimming pools and other sporting beautiful book – though it is that. The co- venues into battlefields in which each creators collaborated with locals of the fought for supremacy. Cold War Games & Wine region’s remote Aboriginal communities brilliantly combines two traditional on a series of portraits in landscape that Father’s Day go-tos: politics and sport. celebrate the beauty of a place like no other, in Sally’s sepia photographs and REAL FOOD BY Dale’s colourful paintings. GIMME SHELTER MIKE: SEASONAL Paul Field WHOLEFOOD RECIPES Echo. 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Far from being the it will help you choose one.) localised series of skirmishes we’ve been taught about, this was a deliberate (and Studies SHORT CUTS TO purposely concealed) war of sweeping GLORY: THE EASY campaigns and brutal tactics, designed to drive the Aboriginal inhabitants out. DRAW YOUR BEGINNERS GUIDE WEAPONS FOR AUSTRALIAN AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE Sarah Sentilles COOKS Ben Pobjie Text. PB. $32.99 Matt Okine Affirm Press. PB. $29.99 Often, the best books are hard to Echo. PB. $29.99 Comic writer Ben Pobjie burrows categorise. By combining various forms, Booksellers are often asked for a basic beneath the mythology to discover and ranging across topics, they mirror but comprehensive, delicious but the alternative facts behind some of the thinking process, and invite the fuss-free cookbook to give as a gift Australia’s greatest (and simply well reader into a brilliant brain. Draw Your for the newly motivated, or newly known) figures, from Charles Kingsford Weapons offers an impassioned defence independent, home cook. Short Cuts Smith and Dame Nellie Melba to Rupert of life lived by peace and principle to Glory, a companion to the ABC-TV Murdoch. Loved by everyone from through a dazzling combination of series, gives us all an easy answer to Wil Anderson to Virginia Trioli to Jon memoir, history, reporting, visual that question, collecting favourite Faine, this is a wickedly funny version culture, literature and theology. essential recipes from some of of history, full of fascinating facts ... and ‘Intelligently poetic ... robust and Australia’s best-loved chefs and cooks, you’ll learn something real as you read. necessary.’ – The Australian from Neil Perry to Christine Manfield. GIFT GUIDE 2017

THE ROAD TO RUIN Gardening Music Niki Savva Scribe. Pb. $24.99 Laurie Oakes called The Road to Ruin GROWING FOOD THE DETOURS ‘an instant classic’. Now, Niki Savva’s ITALIAN WAY Tim Rogers devastating, media-dominating expose Fabian Capomolla HarperCollins. HB. Was $35 of the ruinous behaviour of Tony Abbott Plum. PB. $44.99 29.99 and his chief-of-staff Peta Credlin has been updated, with a new, 13,500-word How do you garden like an Italian? You Am I frontman Tim Rogers final chapter, in which Savva reveals the Simply, without overcomplicating it. is one of Australia’s most beloved inner state of the Turnbull government Passionate grower and gardening writer music figures. He’s also a study in — and the behind-the-scenes jockeying Fabian Capomiolla shares the tips he contradictions – a hard-drinking of friends and foes alike. gathered from a year living in Italy – musician with the soul of a poet. Lovers and from watching his nonno as a child. of fine music writing and immersive Discover how to set up and maintain a Australian memoir will be drawn to veggie patch, browse a handy A-Z guide this much-anticipated book, already Science to help decide what to grow in it, and being described as Patti Smith meets find easy but delicious recipes that will Dylan Thomas ... and admired by Don help you cook (and eat) the Italian way! Walker and Robert Forster. ASTROPHYSICS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY MEMORY OF MUSIC Neil Degrasse Tyson History Andrew Ford W.W. Norton. PB. $26.95 Black Inc. PB. Was $32.99 What is the nature of space and time? $29.99 How do we fit within the universe? INGLORIOUS EMPIRE: In this evocative and moving memoir, How does the universe fit within WHAT THE BRITISH composer, broadcaster and general us? 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This coruscating it shapes us all. history is just right for the dad who likes to have his finger on the pulse, to bury Sport himself in found knowledge – or just to Personal read a fascinating untold true story. Development THE DEATH & LIFE OF PAPER: PAGING AUSTRALIAN SOCCER THROUGH HISTORY Joe Gorman Mark Kurlansky TAMING TOXIC UQP. PB. $32.95 W.W. Norton. PB. $23.95 PEOPLE: THE SCIENCE Available now Mark Kurlansky was among the pioneers OF IDENTIFYING Soccer (or, to the purist, ‘football’) has of the single-subject narrative history, grown in popularity here in Australia in with his bestselling books Cod and Salt. AND DEALING WITH tandem with our multicultural community. In Paper, he traces not just a material or PSYCHOPATHS AT This timely and fascinating book a commodity, but the evolution of how WORK & AT HOME chronicles the rise and fall of Australia’s we record knowledge. 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HISTORY OF THE Also examines current controversy and Humour debates over racism, sexism and drugs. RADICAL RIGHT’S STEALTH PLAN FOR STRANGER THINGIES: AMERICA FROM FELAFEL TO NOW Nancy MacLean John Birmingham Scribe. PB. $35 NewSouth. PB. $24.99 Available 28 August John Birmingham’s cult-classic In The Guardian, George Monbiot sharehouse memoir He Died with a Felafel called this explosive book ‘the missing in his Hand bridged the gap between chapter: a key to understanding the teen and adult reading for a generation, politics of the past half century’. The proving that books could be about – Atlantic called it a ‘vibrant intellectual and by – ordinary Australians who like history of the radical right’. Nancy a beer, a bong, a laugh and a tall tale. MacLean explains how the US radical Many are now (like Birmingham) dads. right have been working to alter the This timely collection of his humourous rules of democratic governance – writing is a genius gift for the Gen-X dad under the influence of Nobel-winning who hasn’t read a book in years. economist James McGill Buchanan. READINGS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER 2017 15

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THE MUSEUM OF WORDS: A MEMOIR OF LANGUAGE, WRITING & MORTALITY Georgia Blain Scribe. HB. Was $29.99 $26.99 Available 28 August I hadn’t read Georgia Blain until her last novel, Between a Wolf and a Dog, published early last year. Immediately I regretted not having read her work sooner, as it was clear from the first page that here was a writer capable of wrangling the messiness and magic of ordinary lives with masterful insight, intelligence and wit. When Blain passed away late last year after living with brain cancer for 13 months, I turned to her remarkable personal essay collection, Births, Deaths and Marriages, taking comfort in her signature spare prose, which is unsentimental yet deeply affecting. ‘If laughter is the best medicine, I’m ‘A fully realised work by one of Australia’s very claiming this book on Medicare.’ – Wil Anderson

best writers. We are so lucky to read it.’ ohn Birmingham is a master of good writing and funny lines. The Museum of Words, published posthumously, is an incredible gift for those who J He has written a thousand stories, loved Blain, those who valued her writing and those who are still to discover this great some true, some not so much. These writer. Blain wrote it knowing she was dying, yet it’s not about that exactly; she uses her are the best ones. They run the illness reflexively. Her primary focus is language – specifically the experience of a writer beginning to lose one’s words. Most of all The Museum of Words is a celebration of what is gamut from the early felafel days most important to Blain: her family. It’s about Anne Deveson, and growing up with a writer to the shiny age we live in where as a mother; Anne passed away a few days after Blain. It’s about Rosie Scott, who Georgia Donald Trump is the President of met through Anne, and her importance to their family. Rosie also died from brain cancer the USA. And JB does not shy away earlier this year. And it’s about Georgia’s husband, the photographer and film-maker from the greatest controversy of our Andrew Taylor, and their daughter Odessa. age: potato cake vs potato scallop. Blain’s intention was take the messiness of both illness and treatment and process No topic is safe from Birmingham’s it in the way she knew best – with remarkable warmth, clarity and honesty. Thanks to satire. the immense skill of Blain’s editor at Scribe, Marika Webb-Pullman, and Blain’s partner Andrew, The Museum of Words reads like a fully realised work by one of Australia’s very best writers. We are so lucky to be able to read it. www.newsouthpublishing.com Stella Charls is marketing and events coordinator at Readings

PLEASE EXPLAIN: THE only to be jailed for eleven weeks for electoral RISE, FALL & RISE AGAIN fraud and lose eight election campaigns. That Your dad has enough socks.Treat him instead to OF PAULINE HANSON these experiences have not led to a more compassionate and open-minded person is some of the world’s best nonfiction this Father’s Day. Anna Broinowski a fascinating aspect of this book, made even Viking. PB. $34.99 more compelling by the fact the Broinowski Available 28 August genuinely likes Hanson despite being Author and appalled by the many of things she says. filmmaker Anna This is an important book for Broinowski first understanding Australian politics today introduced herself to and a sobering look at how desensitised Pauline Hanson as a we have become to public racism over ‘pro-refugee, pro- only a few short years. Hanson was once environment, pro- Australia’s most heavily guarded politician reconciliation leftie’. She due to the number of protestors that would had approached the notorious politician in rally at her speeches. Now, there’s barely a 2009 with the idea of making a feature film dissenter in sight. about her extraordinary life story and Kara Nicholson is from Readings Carlton Hanson, impressed by her honesty, agreed to be involved. Despite knowing they would disagree on almost every issue, Broinowski ASYLUM BY BOAT: and Hanson spent years together traipsing ORIGINS OF AUSTRALIA’S around Queensland on various campaign REFUGEE POLICY Credit Code Red tours and visiting old haunts where the Claire Higgins how financial deregulation and world instability are now-senator spent her most formative UNSW Press. PB. $29.99 exposing Australia to economic catastrophe years. The feature film was never made, but Available 1 September

Broinowski turned this research and her This important book looks Peter Brain & Ian Manning unprecedented access to Hanson into a at the Fraser government documentary and then this book. Hanson’s response to (postcolonial) election to the Senate in 2016 (in the same Australia’s first wave of year as Trump and Brexit) provoked much boat arrivals fleeing soul-searching from the progressive media, persecution, in the late but this book is absolutely unique in its 1970s: turnbacks and genuine will to try to understand the detention were proposed, person behind the persona. and rejected in favour of resettlement. It is Broinowski traces Hanson’s life from driven by the question of how we moved 1950s Australia, as one of seven kids whose from a humanitarian approach to policies parents worked long hours running a cafe, of mandatory detention − including on to becoming a very young single mother, to remote islands − and boat turn-backs. entering an abusive second marriage, to being Strikingly, it also shows the extent to which alone again with four children and a fish- the attitudes and statements of politicians and-chip shop to run. Hanson then went on and policymakers can shape the mood of to win a seat in the House of Representatives, the country, for better and worse. 16 READINGS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER 2017

QUARTERLY ESSAY 67: survive. A teenage yearning to escape that saveloys that our grandmother ladled onto Music MORAL PANIC 101 nearly ended in disaster. A terrifying our plates in amaru’. Some pieces are only encounter on a remote path. A a couple of pages long, but no less evocative Benjamin Law mismanaged labour in an understaffed for their brevity. One such essay investigates Black Inc. PB. $22.99 DETOURS hospital. Seventeen encounters with Young’s decision to ‘begin breathing noisily Available 11 September Tim Rogers Maggie at different ages, in different again’, and is a wry reflection on the ways HarperCollins. HB. Was $35 In 2016 the Safe Schools locations, reveal to us a whole life in a we unconsciously try to make ourselves Coalition Australia series of tense, visceral snapshots. Will invisible, to not open ourselves to the $29.99 program became the appeal to fans of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild. judgement of others. Young’s ability to draw Available 1 September centre of an ideological connections between the personal and A charming, honest, funny, firestorm. In QE67 RIOT DAYS universal is undeniable. sad, tender and beautiful Benjamin Law explores Maria Alyokhina ‘If this were fiction what would happen literary memoir. Think how and why this Patti Smith meets Dylan Allen Lane. HB. $39.99 is ...’ Young writes at one point, before happened. He weaves a Thomas, by way of Banjo Available 18 September detailing the difference between what subtle, gripping account of schools today, Paterson. Tim Rogers of This hallucinatory account can be imagined and what actually is. The sexuality, teenagers, new ideas of gender You Am I has always been of time inside Russia’s tension between these two states is ever- fluidity, tabloid media scares and mental complicated: a hard- ‘justice’ system from a present within these essays, and reading health. Looking at the perils for those of drinking musician with the soul of a poet; a member of Pussy Riot is this book, I was most strongly reminded uncertain or shamed sexual identity, and flamboyant flâneur; a raconteur, a romantic about fighting for freedom of the adult fiction of Finnish author Tove bullying of the vulnerable young, he brings and a raffish ne’er-do-well. In this offbeat, every day. ‘We hit upon Jansson. Young’s voice is similarly gentle to light hidden worlds, in an essay notable endearing memoir, Tim walks us through the idea of making a movie yet mocking, dreamlike yet embedded in for its humane clarity. years jam-packed with love, shame, joy, about the Revolution. A domestic reality. Highly recommended. enthusiasms, regrets, fights, family – and feature film that would be shown in all the Bronte Coates is Readings prize manager and music, always music. Biography & Memoir movie theatres ... We visited at least digital content coordinator twenty studios over the course of a week: identical offices; blinding, snow-white LATE ESSAYS: 2006-2017 Politics WHAT HAPPENED smiles. We had no problem getting J.M. Coetzee Hillary Rodham Clinton appointments, because they were writing Knopf. HB. $29.99 S&S. HB. Was $45 about us in all the newspapers.’ Available 28 August CAPITAL IN THE $39.99 This stunning collection TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY of essays from the Thomas Piketty Available 12 September Cultural Studies For the first time, Hillary two-time Booker winner Belknap Press. PB. $39.99 Rodham Clinton reveals ranges across his literary Available now what she was thinking and BITCH DOCTRINE: ESSAYS interests, from Gerald Intellectual bestseller feeling during one of the FOR DISSENTING ADULTS Murnane and Patrick Capital is finally available White to Beckett (who most controversial and Laurie Penny in paperback – and in the gets four essays), Defoe current political climate, unpredictable presidential Bloomsbury. PB. $24.99 and Roth. There are essays too on it’s more relevant than elections in history. Now Available 1 September free from the constraints Tolstoy’s great novella The Death of Ivan ever. Piketty analyses a Smart and provocative, of running, she takes you inside the intense Ilyich, on Flaubert’s masterpiece Madame unique collection of data witty and personal experience of becoming the first Bovary, and on the Argentine modernist from 20 countries, ranging uncompromising, this woman nominated for president by a major Antonio Di Benedetto. as far back as the eighteenth century, to collection of Laurie party in an election marked by rage, sexism, uncover key economic and social patterns. Penny’s writing exhilarating highs and infuriating lows, THE LIBRARY: A His findings will transform debate and set establishes her as one of stranger-than-fiction twists, Russian CATALOGUE OF WONDERS the agenda for the next generation of the most urgent and interference, and an opponent who broke all thought about wealth and inequality. vibrant feminist voices of Stuart Kells the rules. Her most personal memoir yet. Text. PB. $32.99 our time. From the shock of Donald DEMOCRACY AND ITS Trump’s election and the victories of the Available 28 August GORBACHEV: HIS LIFE far right, to the transgender rights This is a fascinating and CRISIS AND TIMES movement and online harassment, these engaging exploration of A.C. Grayling William Taubman darkly humorous articles provoke libraries as places of Oneworld. HB. $34.99 S&S. HB. $49.99 challenging conversations about the beauty and wonder. From Available 1 September $44.99 definitive social issues of today. the Bodleian, the Folger Prompted by events in Available 1 September and the Smithsonian to recent years in the UK and the fabled libraries of This definitive biography CAN YOU TOLERATE THIS? the US, in Latin America, middle earth, Umberto draws on transcripts and Ashleigh Young Russia and the Middle Eco’s mediaeval library labyrinth and documents from the Giramondo. PB. $24.95 East, A.C. Grayling libraries dreamed up by John Donne, Russian archives, and Available 1 September investigates why the Jorge Luis Borges and Carlos Ruiz Zafón, institutions of interviews with Kremlin Ashleigh Young is a Stuart Kells explores the bookish places, representative democracy aides and adversaries. voice to fall in love real and fictitious, that continue to capture seem unable to sustain themselves against When Mikhail Gorbachev with. Her debut essay our imaginations. forces they were designed to manage, and became its leader in March collection was recently why it matters. 1985, the USSR was still one of the world’s named a winner of the two superpowers. By the end of his tenure prestigious Windham– History six years later, the Communist system was Campbell Prize, and has DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS dismantled, the Cold War was over and, on just now become available Nancy MacLean 25 December 1991, the Soviet Union itself in Australia thanks to independent RED FAMINE: Scribe. PB. $35 ceased to exist. In the West, he is regarded publisher Giramondo. If you’re a fan of STALIN’S WAR ON Available 28 August as a hero. In Russia, he is hated by those who beautiful, wistful writing then you won’t UKRAINE, 1921-33 Behind today’s headlines blame him for the collapse of the USSR. be disappointed by this young NZ writer. of billionaires taking over There is a clarity and freshness to Anne Applebaum US government is a I AM, I AM, I AM: Young’s prose that makes reading this Allen Lane. HB. $55 secretive political SEVENTEEN BRUSHES book feel like slipping into cool water on a Available 18 September establishment with deep WITH DEATH humid day: it produces that same ease and Anne Applebaum’s books and troubling roots. The comfort. Moving into the depths of these have explained the capitalist radical right’s Maggie O’Farrell essays, you’ll discover sudden drops and history of Russia and agenda has been to Tinder Press. PB. $29.99 strange textures, as unexpected details Eastern Europe as fundamentally alter democratic Available 29 August are revealed. Young depicts the fleeting compellingly as any other governance. But billionaires did not In this intimate, intense moments of her life in Te Kuiti. Her subjects historian. Based on a mass launch this movement; a white intellectual memoir, award-winning range from body hair and Bikram yoga, to of previous untranslated in the embattled Jim Crow South did. This novelist Maggie O’Farrell rare diseases and hikikomori. In one essay, documents and hundreds book dissects the operation Nobel Prize– shares the near-death she takes us inside the childhood home of of testimonies, Red Famine tells the story of winning political economist James McGill experiences that have renowned modernist Katherine Mansfield. the Bolshevik war on Ukraine, from the Buchanan and his colleagues designed to punctuated her life. A In another she unpacks the mythology brief moment of Ukrainian independence alter every branch of government. A childhood illness she of a jacket that is a ‘Postman Pat red, an in 1917 to Stalin’s deliberately engineered chilling story of right-wing academics and wasn’t expected to American sunset red, almost the red of the famine in 1932-33. big money run amok. READINGS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER 2017 17

Food & Gardening Art & Design

with Chris Gordon with Margaret Snowdon OSTRO FEATHERSTONE Julia Busuttil Nishimura Geoff Issac Plum. PB. Was $44.99 T&H. HB. $70 $39.99 Available 1 September Available 29 August This is the first book to Julia Busuttil Nishimura celebrate the life and work of is a Melbourne-based Grant Featherston (1922– Italian food writer, and 1995), the Melbourne-based the creator of Ostro – an industrial designer best known online space where she for his Contour chairs. This collection was shares her recipes, and designed and developed in the early 1950s and the most endearing home remains highly sought after by mid-century images ever! Her book includes modern collectors in Australia and overseas – interpretations of dishes from Italy and often fetching $10,000 or more at auction. The the Mediterranean that are both astonishing Australian industrial design recognisable and innovative. As she shows partnership of Featherston and second wife us, some of the best recipes are those that Mary has gone largely uncelebrated until now. have been passed down through the generations and streamlined to perfection BEG, STEAL & BORROW along the way, such as the perfect lemon Robert Shore olive oil cake. Busuttil Nishimura guides Laurence King. PB. $24.95 us through the experience of making pasta Available 1 September or pizza dough from scratch, with recipes ‘Art is theft,’ Picasso is credited such as ricotta tortellini with butter, sage with saying. Much of the best and hazelnuts, or taleggio and potato and most ‘original’ new art pizza. It seems to me that this beautifully involves an act or two of presented cookbook screams ‘I’m from unequivocal, overt Melbourne’ all the way through. It’s classy, theft. Paradoxically, the law quirky and perfect for any one of us relating to artistic borrowing has grown more wanting to remember that life is about restrictive. Beg, Steal & Borrow offers a friendships and family. This is my pick for comprehensive and provocative survey of a cookbook of the month. complex subject that is destined to grow in relevance and importance. It traces an artistic SWEET lineage of appropriation from Michelangelo to Yotam Ottolenghi & Helen Goh Jeff Koons, and examines the history of its Ebury. HB. Was $55 legality from the sixteenth century to now. hardiegrantbooks.com $44.99 Available 7 September GIORGIO MORANDI: With my hand on my LATE PAINTINGS heart, I can say that there Laura Mattioli is something in this David Zwirner. HB. $70 wonderful book for every Available 1 September single taste. Even if you This gorgeously produced are not a fan of baked monograph focuses on the goods, or sweet-afters, period during which Giorgio there is still a dish here filled with vibrant Morandi (1890–1964) colours and flavours that will make you developed and refined his swoon. This collection is reminiscent of investigations of serial, Ottolenghi’s salad dishes, with its exotic reductive and permutational forms and spices and complex flavourings: including compositions, a body of work that has had a fig, rose petal, saffron, aniseed, orange profound influence on 20th-century blossom, pistachio and cardamom. There contemporary art and painting. Lavishly is even a nod towards hummus, with reproduced, these immersive plates draw Tahini and Halva Brownies. I’m incredibly attention to the idiosyncratic perspective impressed by the array of possibilities. and colour that give the work its abstract This book will become essential for every power. The book includes a fantastic array of home cook and chef. contributions by contemporary artists, including John Baldessari, Liu Ye, Alexi 5 INGREDIENTS: Worth and Zeng Fanzhi. Each of the artists QUICK & EASY FOOD offers a personal response to Morandi’s Jamie Oliver work; this is a testament to the reach of Michael Joseph. HB. Was $49.99 Morandi’s paintings and their influence on $44.99 contemporary art. Available 24 August FIRECRACKERS: FEMALE Honestly, how does Jamie Oliver find time to sleep? PHOTOGRAPHERS NOW He’s got his television Fiona Rogers & Max Houghton show, his campaigning T&H. HB. $60 across the world, his Available 1 September restaurants, charities, his This new book is a survey of family and his cookbooks. the best from fire-cracker. I mean, when is enough enough? Clearly he org, an online platform is not done with showing us all how easy dedicated to supporting cooking is. This recipe book is all about women photographers. guiding you to simple fast, friendly and tasty Building on Firecracker’s foundations, this meals. Again, here is Oliver showing you book brings together the work of more than 30 that delicious can be easy. There are over of the most talented contemporary female 130 recipes, each with a visual ingredient photographers from around the world. Each guide, serving size, a short, easy-to-follow profile explores the photographer’s creative method, and quick-reference nutritional practice, illustrated by photographs that information. This book is probably his best. showcase a key project in her career, and a The concept is simply genius. selection that offers a wider view of her work. 18 READINGS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER 2017

New Young Adult Fiction books that feature a cast of characters and focus on female friendship – such as Jaclyn See books for kids, junior and middle readers on page 19 Moriarty’s Finding Cassie Crazy or Siobhan Curham’s The Moonlight Dreamers – will find Young Adult Book of the Month much to love here. Crowley, Wood and Howell have created an utterly authentic high school BEAUTIFUL MESS in St. Hilda’s, from the coded language Claire Christian used by the students, to the ways that Text. PB. $19.99 invisible social structures impose on their Available 28 August interactions with one another. The three Claire Christian’s Beautiful Mess won the 2016 Text Prize for narrators are also linked in part due to the Young Adult and Children’s Writing, an unpublished existence of a website that shares gossip, manuscript award that regularly discovers new talent. This is an true and not, about the students at a select engrossing read that brings together Ava and Gideon, two group of private schools – including St. emotionally flawed and troubled characters not unlike Libby and Hilda’s. Each of our three girls is targeted Jack in Jennifer Niven’s Holding Up the Universe or Eleanor and Park by PSST (or Private Schools Secrets of Rainbow Rowell’s book of the same title. Tracker) in turn, and eventually they unite to bring it down. That this disgusting ‘The relationship that develops between Ava website feels so true-to-life is both a credit to the authors, and deeply depressing. and Gideon is full of hope, pain and complexity. Seeing Kate, Clem and Ady work to destroy Together they make a beautiful mess.’ it was a true joy. Bronte Coates is digital content coordinator and the Readings Prizes manager It’s been six months since Ava’s best friend Kelly took her own life and Ava feels hopelessly trapped by unrelenting and all-consuming grief. Normal life, for Ava, feels THE FIFTH ROOM superfluous and unimportant and she acts out in self-destructive ways, such as ranting A.J. Rushby at the school principal at a public assembly and finding herself expelled, banished to the Omnibus. PB. $16.99 local community school. Her casual work at Magic Kebab takeaway brings her welcome Available 1 September distraction and she feels emboldened by her manager’s way of handling obnoxious A brilliant high-school customers: over-seasoning their meals with excessive amounts of chilli. It’s here, too, where student is invited to join Ava meets shy and introverted Gideon: a sensitive type with complexes of his own (not an international secret withstanding his aversion to social media and refusal to own a mobile phone). Curiously, it society, where students is Gideon who introduces Ava to new social experiences – like attending stand-up poetry are pitted against each performances – bringing her into his social group, an eclectic mix of likable misfits. other to push the The relationship that develops between Ava and Gideon is full of hope, pain and boundaries of medicine complexity. Together they make ‘a beautiful mess’, much like repaired porcelain in the using illegal self- Japanese tradition of Kintsukori, where gold is used to seal the cracks. Gold, for Ava and experimentation. Miri’s Gideon, is the language of poetry, as it provides a cathartic means of coming to terms with experiment involves a new combination of their struggles and vulnerabilities and holds the transformative power of turning a broken specially timed drugs that could mean mess into a thing of beauty. You can meet the author at the Melbourne Writers Festival never needing to sleep again. As her Schools Program in late August. experiment progresses, and she spends Natalie Platten is from Readings Doncaster more and more hours awake, she finds that all is not as it seems. When the group realises that there is a secret fifth student GENUINE FRAUD and surprise you. With a significant nod to experimenting alongside them, the stakes E. Lockhart The Talented Mr Ripley, this is a book that are raised dramatically. Now they must everyone will be reading and talking about. A&U. PB. $19.99 decide how far they will go to with their It is suitable for readers aged 12+, but it will Available 6 September research ... and some, it seems, are willing be devoured by adult readers too. Read it It is very exciting to go much farther than others. first before everyone else! to have a new fast-paced psychological Angela Crocombe is from Readings Kids thriller from the author Middle Fiction of We Were Liars – and TAKE THREE GIRLS this story does not Cath Crowley, Simmone Howell THE EXPLORER disappoint. Told in & Fiona Wood Katherine Rundell reverse chronology by Pan Mac. PB. $18.99 Bloomsbury. PB. $16.99 Jule, who we quickly Available 29 August Available 1 September realise is a very unreliable narrator, this This raw and Following a plane story will keep you turning the pages late funny novel is the crash, four into the night, desperate to discover what much-anticipated children are left to fend Jule has actually done and how. collaboration between for themselves alone in Jule and Imogen are friends from three beloved Australian the Amazon. They college, both orphans, but Imogen has YA authors: Cath forage for fruit and just inherited money and is significantly Crowley, Fiona Wood bugs to eat, find shelter more wealthy than Jule. Set in Martha’s and Simmone Howell. and build a raft as they Vineyard, London and Mexico, we know The story follows three try to look after each only that Jule is on the run and that Imogen girls as they struggle to claim their own other in a frightening and completely has disappeared and is presumed dead. identities amid high school politics, unfamiliar environment. I should also Jule is only 18 and may look small, cute and romantic feelings and looming decisions mention that they rescue an adorable baby harmless, but she’s extremely fit, trained about The Future. When they are grouped sloth. In an attempt to find a way home, the in martial arts and, by her own admission, together for a wellness class at their elite group follows a map found in an old cigar emotionally dead on the inside. As we trace high school, these outwardly different girls tin to a place where they encounter a man her life backwards from the moment she discover they have more in common than of mystery and a magnificent secret of the escapes from a policewoman at a high- appears and form a meaningful bond. jungle. Readers will feel completely end Mexican coastal resort, we come to Quiet, sensible Kate is tempted to immersed in the magnificent jungle and realise that not everything is as it seems, throw her life plan out the window in order will learn plenty of fascinating titbits about or as Jules tells us. We learn about the to pursue a career making experimental the Amazon wildlife and environment. The friendship between Jule and Imogen, and music. Passionate, fiery Clem feels book is extremely thoughtful, yet their boyfriends: Forrest, the boyfriend Jule consumed by her swim-team persona and completely addictive and exhilarating. It always wants to drag Imogen away from, longs for romance. And cool, cashed-up has a classic feel and is absolutely perfect and Paolo, the backpacking boy who Jule Ady wants to be more creative than her for readers of Michael Morpurgo’s books or fell for, but who confuses her for Imogen, A-level status and current group of friends those of us who adored Eva Ibbotson’s the wealthy heiress. allow. I enjoyed how distinct these three Journey To The River Sea. A great read for all This captivating backwards tale has an voices were: we moved between their readers aged 9+. incredible twist at its heart that will shock stories and perspectives. Readers who love Kim Gruschow is from Readings St Kilda READINGS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER 2017 19

Book of the Month WHIMSY & WOE Rebecca McRitchie & Sonia Kretschmar (illus.) HarperCollins. HB. $24.99 Available 1 September Reading this book, I felt like a child immersed in a good old-fashioned stage melodrama, barracking for the dauntless Wimpsy and Woe and heckling the fiendish villains; through the magic of this story I relived the rapture of childhood. Wimpsy and Woe has it all: incredibly courageous children (hooray!), an evil calculating aunt, the ignominious Ignatius Solt (boo!) and a despicable one-legged pirate (hiss!), captivity and misery in a boarding house populated by an outlandish clientele (gasp!) and a heroic escape from a treacherous storm, imprisonment in a swamp and a wolf with razor-sharp teeth … all told with vivid thespian style and flair. Fiercely determined to rescue their kidnapped parents, the heroic sister-and-brother team of Wimpsy and Woe refuse to wallow in self-pity, harnessing their wits to perfect the art of the bluff and decision-making on the run, while THE GOLDFISH BOY narrowly escaping the clutches of their persecutors. Lisa Thompson If A Series of Unfortunate Events and Withering by Sea produced a love child – this would be Scholastic. PB. $15.99 it! This very handsomely illustrated hardback book is the first of two books and I can’t Available 1 September wait to find out what happens in the sequel! It’s perfect for independent readers nine years and up who love mystery Matthew hasn’t left the house for adventures and an ideal read-aloud story for the whole family. quite some time. Instead he sits in his bedroom (very clean and disinfected) or the study (within the acceptable limits Athina Clarke is from Readings Malvern of cleanliness, if he’s careful about what he touches) and makes notes about his neighbours’ movements and habits. This comes in handy when Teddy, the grandchild of his next-door neighbour, goes missing – Matthew may be the last person who saw him. The Goldfish Boy is both a compassionate story about a boy struggling with obsessive compulsive disorder, and a proper Junior Fiction THEY CAME FROM PLANET whodunnit mystery. Matthew’s matter-of-fact voice and ZABALOOLOO! 12-year-old perspective comes through strong and clear, and THE MYSTERIOUS WORLD OF Sean Taylor & Kate Hindley I must say that I took his side against adults whose behaviour COSENTINO: THE MISSING ACE + 3 Walker. HB. $24.99 was baffling and insensitive on many occasions. In order to Available 1 September solve the mystery, Matthew must find a way to accept the BONUS TRICK CARDS friendship of eager Melody and repair his broken friendship Cosentino with Jack Heath & James Hart (illus.) I adore They Came From Planet with bully Jake. He must attend his first appointment with a Scholastic. PB. $9.99 Zabalooloo. This is probably one of child psychologist, challenge himself to leave the house, and Available 1 September my favourite books ever. It follows realise when his judgements have been hasty. Cosentino, the Grand Illusionist, is three very giggly, dancey and excited aliens This closed circle mystery, which takes place entirely on working on his latest illusion – – Zoron, Bazoo and Zob – on an one suburban street, is full of clues, suspects, red herrings escaping from a pit of deadly snakes while important mission to planet Earth to and real evidence. Teddy’s disappearance is eventually in a sack padlocked in chains – when Ace, bring back something BIG! They arrive in their spaceship, solved (happily) and the true villains of the piece come as a an anthropomorphic playing card and which has a steering wheel, space biscuits and a party area. surprise. The other mystery – the development of Matthew’s escaped soldier from the king’s army, runs But Zoron, Bazoo and Zob are just too excited when they see OCD and why he blames himself for his baby brother’s death in begging for help. Cos obliges, but he is an enormous elephant, and Bazoo is a COMPLETE – is sensitively explored in an optimistic and realistic way. captured by the evil king’s henchman, NINCOMPOOP and wants a funny photo with the elephant. Matthew’s parents are flawed, but loving, and his path to Hollow! Cos does some sleight-of hand-illusions to impress Unfortunately this delay has consequences and the trio are recovery is bumpy but paved with hope. For ages 9+. the king, but is still thrown in the magical dungeon, where forced to find a medium-size thing from planet Earth instead – a lion! This time it is Zob who is the COMPLETE Leanne Hall is from Readings Kids time moves much slower. With the help of his friends, Cos has to trick the Puzzler, the Dungeon Master and Game Show OVEREXCITED NINCOMPOOP! He does a crazy wiggle- Host to escape. The first book in The Mysterious World of woggle dance and wakes the lion! Oh no! This book is such a Classic of the Month Cosentino series is great fun. Reminiscent of The Bad Guys in happy book, you will find yourself doing crazy wiggle-woggle its look, kids are sure to love reading about the secrets behind dances and shouting OOH LA LA and WOW-WEE! with your HOLES Cosentino’s grand illusions –and they’ll have even more fun kids long after the last page has been turned. DS Louis Sachar learning how to do the magic tricks at the end! For ages 6+. Bloomsbury. PB. $15.99 Dani Solomon is from Readings Kids ONCE UPON A SMALL Available now RHINOCEROS In the 20 years since its Meg McKinlay & Leila Rudge (illus.) first publication, Louis Sachar’s Picture Books Walker. HB. $24.99 Holes has won innumerable awards and Available 1 September became a set text in schools. It tells the ON A MAGICAL DO-NOTHING DAY There are those who are happy story of Stanley Yelnats, a boy who has Beatrice Alemagna with their place in the world and loads of luck – all of it terrible – and his T&H. HB. $24.99 how they are in it, and there are others unjust incarceration at Camp Greenlake, Available 1 September who yearn for more. Small rhinoceros a place with no green and no lake, and a Dropping their electronic game into pines for the beyond – unlike his fellow warden so mean she uses rattlesnake a pond wasn’t part of the plan for the rhinos. Watching boats up and down the venom for nail polish. When he arrives, Stanley gets two child sent outside to play in this book. Sad river, he decides to build one and sets sets of orange overalls, a shovel and a nickname. By the end for them, but this little mishap unlocks a sail, farewelled by his perplexed family. of his second day he’ll have dug his first ‘character building’ day lined with adventure and gentle He sees spectacular sights and meets interesting people and hole. While he’s there, he’ll dig 45 more, make the best surrealism, as they explore the natural creatures, finally returning with many tales for his kinfolk, friend he’s ever had, solve the mystery of his wrongful world and embrace an older form of play. who are interested but uninspired by such travels; their arrest, and fulfil his family destiny. He’ll smell pretty bad, When artist-author Beatrice Alemagna close-knit community is enough for their needs and desires. but he’ll be happy. 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