AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Women and the Girls Laura Bloom
A kind of Monkey Grip meets 'Nine to Five', The Women and The Girls explores the price - and the rewards - of family and friendship in the Age of Aquarius - and at the dawning of the Age of Divorce.
Description 'Laura Bloom has such a unique talent for modern historical fiction and this time it was a joy to be catapulted back to the 1970s. When I turned the last page I was so sad to say goodbye to her beautifully observed characters. A delight from start to finish!' Liane Moriarty It's 1977, and warm, bohemian Libby, a stay-at-home mother, genius entertainer and gifted cook, is lonely. When she meets Carol - recently emigrated from London, adrift and in a controlling marriage - and Anna, who loves her career, but not her marriage, and is craving a life that feels always out of reach, the three women form an unexpected bond.
Their exes aren't happy about it, though, and neither are their children. Soon the women will be forced into a reckoning that will lay their futures - and their friendships - on the line.
With a back drop of inner city grunge, far-out parties and ABBA songs, The Women and The Girls is a funny, questioning and moving novel about love, work, family, friendship and freedom.
About the Author Laura Bloom is the author of eight critically acclaimed novels for adults and children, including The Cleanskin, which was described in The Australian as 'a masterpiece of drama and characterisation.' Her novels have been shortlisted for many awards, including the NSW Premier's Awards. Laura is also an award-winning screenwriter, and many of her novels have been optioned for film and TV.
Laura grew up in Sydney, in the 1970s, where her latest novel, The Women and The Girls, is set. It explores a turning point of the last half century, with a uniquely female gaze - casting new light on old stories and bringing fresh insight to the struggles and conversations we are having today.
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781760528652 'I'm from the Jane Austen/Liane Moriarty school of fiction,' Laura says. 'I want my stories to be entertaining, and an Format: C-Format PB escape. The truth must be there, though - otherwise it's not a good story. Money must be there, and other practical Package Type: PAPERBACK considerations. Love must be there, of course, and suffering. But offered in a narrative that's told with humour and Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 320 pages intimacy, so that my reader feels as if they're in the company of a keenly observant friend.' Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2:
Now based in the Northern Rivers Region of NSW, Laura also teaches writing workshops, and presents at libraries, Author now living: Mullumbimby, NSW festivals and events.Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Women and the Girls 10 copy pack Point of Sale
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Author now living:Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Elizabeth and Elizabeth Sue Williams
The story of how two women, who should have been bitter foes, combined their courage and wisdom to wield extraordinary power and influence behind the scenes of the fledgling colony.
Description There was a moment in Australia's European history when two women wielded extraordinary power and influence behind the scenes of the fledgling colony.
One was Elizabeth Macquarie, the wife of the new governor Lachlan Macquarie, nudging him towards social reform and magnificent buildings and town planning. The other was Elizabeth Macarthur, the wife of John Macarthur, a dangerous enemy of the establishment, who is herself credited with creating Australia's wool industry.
These women should, in normal circumstances, have been bitter foes. But this novel explores what happens when two women of vision and courage are thrown together in impossible times.
About the Author Sue Williams is a bestselling author and award-winning journalist, working in newspapers, magazines and TV in Australia, the UK and New Zealand. Born in England, but settling in Australia in 1989, she's also a travel writer and university lecturer. She lives in Sydney's Kings Cross with her partner, writer Jimmy Thomson.
Her books include Getting There: Journeys of an accidental adventurer; the story of her travels around isolated Australia, Welcome to the Outback; and a series of other books about the outback, Women in the Outback, Outback Spirit and Outback Heroines. She's also written biographies of Father Chris Riley, Mean Streets, Kind Hearts; Father Bob Maguire, Father Bob: The larrikin priest; navy diver Paul de Gelder, No Time For Fear; Fred Brophy, The Last Showman; and Australia's youngest Everest climber Alyssa Azar, The Girl Who Climbed Everest.
Sue's true-crime book And Then The Darkness: The disappearance of Peter Falconio and the trials of Joanne Lees was
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 shortlisted for the international 2006 Gold Dagger Award for the world's best crime non-fiction. Her first children's book ISBN: 9781760631345 was Everest Dreaming. Format: C-Format PB Package Type: PAPERBACK Elizabeth & Elizabeth is her first novel, borne out of a love of early colonial Australian history - pivotal in the development Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 336 pages of the country - and an overriding admiration for women of that era making their own way in life. With both Elizabeth Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Macquarie and Elizabeth Macarthur having a huge impact on the fledgling nation, despite all the odds, Elizabeth & Bic2:
Elizabeth is the result of an enduring fascination with what might have been. Author now living: Kings Cross, SydneyAllen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Elizabeth and Elizabeth 10 copy pack Point of Sale
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Author now living:Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Frenchman Jack Beaumont
A gripping debut thriller based on the real-life experiences of a former French intelligence operative.
Description Alec de Payns is an operative in the secretive Y Division of the DGSE, France's famed foreign intelligence service. He's the agent at the sharp end of clandestine intelligence missions, responsible for thwarting terror plots and disrupting illegal nuclear and biological weapons programs. The element the missions have in common is danger - to de Payns, his team and to those who stand in his way. But increasingly it's not just the enemies of France that are being damaged by de Payns' actions. His own marriage is under strain, and at the back of his mind lurks the fear that haunts every operative with a family - what if they come after my children?
When a routine mission in Palermo to disrupt a terrorist organisation goes fatally wrong, Alec is forced to confront that they may have been betrayed by a fellow operative. And now he's been tasked to investigate a secretive biological weapons plant in Pakistan. Alec must find out how they're producing a weaponised bacteria capable of killing millions, and what they plan to do with it. But with a traitor within their own ranks, it's not just Alec in the firing line. Soon he'll be forced to confront his worst fear - and the potential destruction of Paris itself.
This is fiction, but based on the experiences of a real French spy. The knowledge and tradecraft that lie behind Jack Beaumont's taut plotting and brilliant eye for detail enliven every page, making The Frenchman all the more plausible, and all the more frightening.
About the Author Jack Beaumont is the pseudonym of a former operative in the clandestine operations branch of the French foreign secret service, the DGSE. He joined 'The Firm' after being an air force fighter pilot and a military pilot flying for special operations and intelligence missions. Beaumont's background gives The Frenchman a level of authenticity that few other spy thrillers have been able to achieve.
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Author now living:Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Rich Man's House Andrew McGahan
'A uniquely powerful voice roars out one last time, and then stillness and silence forever. This is Andrew's masterwork. His final gift to us.' - John Birmingham
Description In the freezing Antarctic waters south of Tasmania, a mountain was discovered in 1642 by the seafaring explorer Gerrit Jansz. Not just any mountain but one that Jansz estimated was an unbelievable height of twenty-five thousand metres.
In 2016, at the foot of this unearthly mountain, a controversial and ambitious 'dream home', the Observatory, is painstakingly constructed by an eccentric billionaire - the only man to have ever reached the summit.
Rita Gausse, estranged daughter of the architect who designed the Observatory is surprised, upon her father's death, to be invited to the isolated mansion to meet the famously reclusive owner, Walter Richman. But from the beginning, something doesn't feel right. Why is Richman so insistent that she come? What does he expect of her?
When cataclysmic circumstances intervene to trap Rita and a handful of other guests in the Observatory, cut off from the outside world, she slowly begins to learn the unsettling - and ultimately horrifying - answers.
The Rich Man's House, Andrew McGahan's eleventh and final novel, is a gripping and unique thriller.
About the Author Andrew McGahan was born in Dalby, Queensland, and died in Victoria in 2019 at age fifty-two.
His first novel, Praise (1992), won the 1991 Australian/Vogel's Literary Award and the regional prize for best first book in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. His second novel was the prequel 1988 (1995), and his third novel, Last Drinks (2000), was shortlisted for multiple awards, including The Age Book of the Year and the Courier-Mail Book of the Year Award, and won a Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781760878597 In 2004, The White Earth was published and won the 2005 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Format: B Prize for the South East Asia and South Pacific Region, The Age Book of the Year (Fiction) and the Courier-Mail Book of Package Type: PAPERBACK the Year Award. It was also shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Award. Dimensions: 198h x 128w mm Extent: 608 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) McGahan's fifth novel, Underground, was published in 2006 and was shortlisted in the Queensland Premier's Literary Bic2:
Award for fiction and for the Aurealis Award. In 2009. Wonders of a Godless World was published to acclaim and won the Author now living: Sunshine, VIC Aurealis Award. His final novel, The Rich Man's House, was published in 2019.McGahan's award-winning writing also includes stage plays and the screenplay for the movie version of Praise.
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The White Earth Andrew McGahan
A haunting, powerful novel about the power of the land and the passions of people trying to make it their own.
Description Winner of the 2005 Miles Franklin Literary Award
One spring day in late 1992, when William was halfway between his eighth birthday and his ninth, he looked out from the back verandah of his home and saw, huge in the sky, the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion. He stared at it, wondering. The thunderhead was dirty black, streaked with billows of grey. It rolled and boiled as it climbed into the clear blue day, casting a vast shadow upon the hills beyond. But there was no sound, no rumble of an explosion. William was aware of the smell of burning . . . but it was a good smell, a familiar smell. The smell of grass, of wheat, of the farm itself.
His father dead by fire and his mother plagued by demons of her own, William is cast upon the charity of his unknown uncle - an embittered old man encamped in the ruins of a once great station homestead, Kuran House. It's a baffling and sinister new world for the boy, a place of decay and secret histories. His uncle is obsessed by a long life of decline and by a dark quest for revival, his mother is desperate for a wealth and security she has never known, and all their hopes it seems come to rest upon William's young shoulders. But as the past and present of Kuran Station unravel and merge together, the price of that inheritance may prove to be the downfall of them all. The White Earth is a haunting, disturbing and cautionary tale.
'The novel is beautifully structured, filled with parallels and reverberations which come back to haunt and illuminate the reader as the story unfolds.' - Katharine England, Adelaide Advertiser
'A great Australian story embracing national themes that should engage us all.' - Lucy Clark, The Sunday Telegraph
About the Author Andrew McGahan was born in Dalby, Queensland, and died in Victoria in 2019 at age fifty-two.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $28.99 ISBN: 9781741146127 His first novel, Praise (1992), won the 1991 Australian/Vogel's Literary Award and the regional prize for best first book in Format: B the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. His second novel was the prequel 1988 (1995), and his third novel, Last Drinks (2000), Package Type: PAPERBACK was shortlisted for multiple awards, including The Age Book of the Year and the Courier-Mail Book of the Year Award, Dimensions: 195h x 130w mm Extent: 400 pages and won a Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing. Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2:
In 2004, The White Earth was published and won the 2005 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Author now living: Sunshine, VIC Prize for the South East Asia and South Pacific Region, The Age Book of the Year (Fiction) and the Courier-Mail Book of the Year Award. It was also shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Award.McGahan's fifth novel, Underground, was published in 2006 and was shortlisted in the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for fiction and for the Aurealis Award. In 2009, Wonders of a Godless World was published to acclaim and won the Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Electric Hotel Dominic Smith
From the award-winning author of the acclaimed bestseller The Last Painting of Sara de Vos comes a luminous new novel tracing the intertwined fates of a silent film director and his muse.
Description 'Utterly absorbing, astonishingly inventive, and richly imagined. Dominic Smith is a wizard.' Andrea Barrett, National Book Award Winner and author of Archangel
From the award-winning author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Last Painting of Sara de Vos comes a luminous novel tracing the intertwined fates of a silent-film director and his muse.
Dominic Smith's The Electric Hotel winds through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey - America's first movie town - and on the battlefields of Belgium during World War I. A sweeping work of historical fiction, it shimmers between past and present as it tells the story of the rise and fall of a prodigious film studio and one man's doomed obsession with all that passes in front of the viewfinder.
For nearly half a century, Claude Ballard has been living at the Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel. A French pioneer of silent films, who started out as a concession agent for the Lumiere brothers, the inventors of cinema, Claude now spends his days foraging mushrooms in the hills of Los Angeles and taking photographs of runaways and the striplings along Sunset Boulevard. But when a film-history student comes to interview Claude about The Electric Hotel - the lost masterpiece that bankrupted him and ended the career of his muse, Sabine Montrose - the past comes surging back. In his run-down hotel suite, the ravages of the past are waiting to be excavated: celluloid fragments and reels in desperate need of restoration, and Claude's memories of the woman who inspired and beguiled him.
About the Author Dominic Smith grew up in Sydney and now lives in Seattle. He is the author of five novels, including The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, an acclaimed bestseller in Australia, winning both the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year and the Indie
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 Book of the Year (Fiction) in 2017. In the US, the novel was also a New York Times (NYT) bestseller and named a NYT ISBN: 9781760878634 Book Review Editors' Choice. Dominic has received literature fellowships from the Australia Council for the Arts and the Format: B National Endowment for the Arts. More information can be found on his website: www.dominicsmith.net. Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 128w mm Extent: 464 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2:
Author now living: Seattle, USAAllen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Last Painting of Sara de Vos Dominic Smith
A dazzling and mesmerising story that charts the collision course between a rare landscape by a female Dutch painter of the golden age, an inheritor of the work in 1950s Manhattan, and a celebrated art historian who painted a forgery of it in her youth. A literary novel of breathtaking scope, ambition and achievement.
Description '. . . worthy of comparison to Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring and Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch . . . A masterly, multilayered story that will dazzle readers.' Library Journal (starred review)
In 1631, Sara de Vos is admitted to the Guild of St. Luke in Holland as a master painter, the first woman to be so honoured. Three hundred years later, only one work attributed to de Vos is known to remain - a haunting winter scene, At the Edge of a Wood, which hangs over the Manhattan bed of a wealthy descendant of the original owner. An Australian grad student, Ellie Shipley, struggling to stay afloat in New York, agrees to paint a forgery of the landscape, a decision that will haunt her. Because now, half a century later, she's curating an exhibition of female Dutch painters, and both versions threaten to arrive.
As the three threads intersect with increasing and exquisite suspense, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos mesmerises while it grapples with the demands of the artistic life, showing how the deceits of the past can forge the present.
'Deeply researched, beautifully written, intellectually absorbing novel that also has the qualities of a page-turner . . . tremendous story of art, deception, love, ambition and the place of women in the world, and in history. From the opening pages you know you are in the hands of a writer at the top of his game.' Stephen Romei, The Australian
'This beautiful novel is a gift . . . a seductive, rewarding read.' Kerryn Goldsworthy, The Advertiser
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 'This densely layered, finely wrought book is a delight. The characters are complex and believable, the story compelling, ISBN: 9781760528171 the writing simply beautiful.' Australian Financial Review Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 128w mm About the Author Extent: 408 pages Dominic Smith is the author of three previously published novels from Atria. His awards include a Dobie Paisano Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Fellowship, the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Prize, the Gulf Coast Fiction Prize, and a new works grant from the Literature Bic2:
Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. His debut novel, The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre, was a Barnes & Author now living: Seattle, USA Noble Discover New Writers Book, and received the Turner Prize for First Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters. His second novel, The Beautiful Miscellaneous, was a Booklist Editors' Choice and optioned for film by Southpaw Entertainment. His most recent novel, Bright and Distant Shores, was named by Kirkus as one of the 'Best Books of 2011' and chosen by the ALA for its annual reading list. In Australia, he was shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year and the Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction. His fiction has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including The Atlantic Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Charlotte Pass Lee ChristineA shocking discovery deep in the Snowy Mountains. A killer who will do anything to keep secrets buried.
Description 'Hums with tension and long-held secrets... you won't read better.' Fleur McDonald, bestselling author of Starting From Now
When ski patroller Vanessa Bell discovers human bones high on Mount Stillwell at Charlotte Pass ski resort, Detective Sergeant Pierce Ryder of the Sydney Homicide Squad is called in to lead the investigative team.
Arriving in the isolated, snowed-in village with Winterfest celebrations underway, Ryder soon determines that the bones are those of Celia Delaney, a young woman who disappeared from the ski resort in 1964 during the biggest winter storm in Australian alpine history.
When a second murder takes place, Ryder suspects that the deaths are related, and that the person responsible is still in the village. Amid the escalating tension, Ryder is desperate to make an arrest before the stakes rise even higher.
Set within the stunning Snowy Mountains, this intriguing mystery uncovers deadly, long-buried secrets in the valleys and mountains of this iconic area.
About the Author In 2009, former corporate trainer Lee Christine decided to turn her writing hobby into a serious day job.
Lee is the author of six romantic suspense novels and Charlotte Pass is her first crime novel.
She lives in Newcastle, NSW, with her husband, and her Irish Wheaten Terrier, Honey. To read more about Lee Christine visit http://leechristine.com.au
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Author now living: Bar Beach, Newcastle, NSWAllen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Windsor Knot SJ Bennett
Miss Marple meets The Crown in this exciting new mystery series, Her Majesty The Queen Investigates, in which Queen Elizabeth II is a secret amateur detective.
Description Windsor Castle, 2016.
The morning after her ninetieth birthday celebrations, the Queen is shocked to discover that one of her guests has been found dead in his room. It quickly becomes clear that his death was no accident, but when MI5 begin to suspect her loyal servants, she knows that they are looking in the wrong place.
For the Queen has been living a double life ever since she was a teenager: by day she upholds her royal duties, while secretly solving cases as an amateur detective. With the Crown's reputation on the line, her investigations must be kept under wraps - and she must always ensure that someone else gets the credit.
With the help of her Assistant Private Secretary Rozie Oshodi, it's up to the Queen to find the real killer - before they strike again.
About the Author SJ Bennett holds a PhD in Italian Literature from the University of Cambridge and was a strategy consultant and startup manager before turning to writing. She has published ten books for teenagers, winning The Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition in 2009 and the RoNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 2017. The Windsor Knot is her first novel for adults. She lives in London. You can find her at SJBennettBooks.com and on Twitter @SJBennettbooks.
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Author now living:Zaffre AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Body Language A. K. Turner
Meet Cassie Raven. Goth. Londoner. Mortuary assistant.
Description THE DEAD CAN TALK - WE JUST NEED TO LISTEN . . .
Camden mortuary assistant Cassie Raven has pretty much seen it all. But this is the first time she's come face to face with someone she knows on the slab. Someone she cared about. Her friend and mentor, Mrs E.
Deeply intuitive and convinced that she can pick up the last thoughts of the dead, Cassie senses that there must be more to the ruling of an accidental death. Is her grief making her see things that aren't there, or is her intuition right, and there's something more sinister to her friend's death than the ME thinks? Harbouring an innate distrust of the police, Cassie sets out to investigate and deliver justice to the woman who saved her life.
For fans of Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway series and Kathy Reichs' Temperance Brennan, Cassie Raven is the edgy new forensic sleuth on the block.
About the Author A.K. Turner's first foray into crime fiction was a detective thriller trilogy, written under the pen name Anya Lipska, following the adventures of Janusz Kiszka, a fixer to London's Polish community. All three books won critical acclaim and were twice optioned as a possible TV series. In her other life as a TV producer and writer, A.K. makes documentaries and drama-docs on subjects as diverse as the Mutiny on the Bounty, the sex lives of Neanderthals, and Monty Don's Italian Gardens.
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Author now living:Zaffre AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Stasi Game David Young
The East German Stasi and British MI6 clash as the discovery of a body points to a WW2 war crime, in the new Cold War thriller by the award-winning author of Stasi Child - for fans of Tom Rob Smith and Philip Kerr.
Description Dresden, East Germany, 1980 - A man's body is found buried in concrete at a building site in the new town district. When People's Police homicide captain Karin Muller arrives at the scene, she discovers that all of the body's identifiable features have been removed - including its fingertips.
The deeper Muller digs, the more the Stasi begin to hamper her investigations. She soon realises that this crime is just one part of a clandestine battle between two secret services - the Stasi of East Germany and Britain's MI6 - to control the truth behind one of the deadliest events of World War II.
The Stasi Game brilliantly fictionalises the true story of how Britain's wartime leaders justifed the fire-bombing of German city of Dresden, which many have since condemned as a war crime.
About the Author East Yorkshire-born David Young began his East German-set crime series on a creative writing MA at London's City University when Stasi Child - his debut - won the course prize. The novel went on to win the 2016 CWA Historical Dagger, and both it and the 2017 follow-up, Stasi Wolf, were longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. His novels have been sold in eleven territories round the world. Before becoming a full-time author, David was a senior journalist with the BBC's international radio and TV newsrooms for more than 25 years. He writes in his Twickenham garden shed and in a caravan on the Isle of Wight. The Stasi Game, his sixth novel, is available to pre-order now. You can follow him on Twitter @djy_writer
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Author now living:Zaffre AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Foundling Stacey Halls
From the bestselling author of The Familiars, and set against the vibrant backdrop of Georgian London, The Foundling explores families, secrets, class, equality, power and the meaning of motherhood.
Description From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Familiars
Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything . . .
London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known. Dreading the worst, that Clara has died in care, Bess is astonished to be told she has already claimed her. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has taken her little girl - and why.
Less than a mile from Bess's lodgings in the city, in a quiet, gloomy townhouse on the edge of London, a young widow has not left the house in a decade. When her close friend - an ambitious young doctor at the Foundling Hospital - persuades her to hire a nursemaid for her daughter, she is hesitant to welcome someone new into her home and her life. But her past is threatening to catch up with her and tear her carefully constructed world apart.
From the bestselling author of The Familiars comes this captivating story of mothers and daughters, class and power, and love against the greatest of odds . . .
'The new Hilary Mantel' - Cosmopolitan
Another gripping, immersive, intelligent work of historical fiction from the bestselling author of The Familiars' - Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies
'A gripping and moving read' - Libby Page, bestselling author of The Lido
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781838771409 'Fantastic storytelling that grabbed me from the off' - Good Housekeeping Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK About the Author Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 400 pages Stacey Halls was born in 1989 and grew up in Rossendale, Lancashire. She studied journalism at the University of Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Central Lancashire and has written for publications including the Guardian, Stylist, Psychologies, the Independent, the Bic2:
Sun and Fabulous. Her first book, The Familiars, was the bestselling debut hardback novel of 2019, won a Betty Trask Author now living: Award and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards' Debut Book of the Year. The Foundling is her second novel.Manilla AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Familiars Stacey Halls
Perfect for fans of Jessie Burton and Sarah Perry, The Familiars is a spellbinding debut.
Description To save her child, she will trust a stranger. To protect a secret, she must risk her life...
Fleetwood Shuttleworth is 17 years old, married, and pregnant for the fourth time. But as the mistress at Gawthorpe Hall, she still has no living child, and her husband Richard is anxious for an heir. When Fleetwood finds a letter she isn't supposed to read from the doctor who delivered her third stillbirth, she is dealt the crushing blow that she will not survive another pregnancy.
Then she crosses paths by chance with Alice Gray, a young midwife. Alice promises to help her give birth to a healthy baby, and to prove the physician wrong.
As Alice is drawn into the witchcraft accusations that are sweeping the North-West, Fleetwood risks everything by trying to help her. But is there more to Alice than meets the eye?
Soon the two women's lives will become inextricably bound together as the legendary trial at Lancaster approaches, and Fleetwood's stomach continues to grow. Time is running out, and both their lives are at stake.
Only they know the truth. Only they can save each other.
'Assured and alluring, this beautiful tale of women and witchcraft and the fight against power was a delight from start to finish' Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist
'The new Hilary Mantel' - Cosmopolitan
'Truly spellbinding' - Good Housekeeping Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781785766145 Format: B About the Author Package Type: PAPERBACK Stacey Halls grew up in Rossendale, Lancashire, as the daughter of market traders. She has always been fascinated by Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 448 pages the Pendle witches. She studied journalism at the University of Central Lancashire and moved to London aged 21. She Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) was media editor at the Bookseller and books editor at Stylist.co.uk, and has also written for Psychologies, the Bic2:
Independent and Fabulous magazine, where she now works as Deputy Chief Sub Editor. The Familiars is her first novel. Author now living:Zaffre AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Scar Tissue Ollie Ollerton
The first Alex Abbott thriller from former-Special Forces soldier turned number one bestselling author Ollie Ollerton.
Description Ex-special forces soldier Alex Abbott escaped the Middle East under a cloud and now lives hand-to-mouth in Singapore. Scraping a living as a gun for hire and estranged from his family, Abbott is haunted by ghosts of the past, drinking to dull the pain. Life's tough, but there is one upside - at least he's not in Baghdad.
That's about to change.
When a job goes badly wrong, Abbott's in hot water. Next he learns that his military son, Nathan, is missing in Iraq. Knowing something is wrong, needing to find his son and desperate for redemption, Abbott has no choice but to go back.
Returning to Baghdad, Abbott renews old acquaintances and begins his search for Nathan. The body count rises as old wounds open and he struggles to confront his demons, self-medicating the only way he knows how. But when one of his old crew turns up dead in mysterious circumstances and the link with Nathan is clear, Abbott begins to suspect a trap.
But who is the hunter? And who is the hunted?
About the Author Matthew 'Ollie' Ollerton is a former Special Forces soldier and a member of the Directing Staff on Channel 4's hit show SAS: Who Dares Wins.
Ollie's military career began at the age of 18 when he joined the Royal Marine Commandos and toured operationally in Northern Ireland and in Iraq for Operation Desert Storm. He subsequently spent six years in the Special Boat Service rising to team leader, before working in Iraq as a private security contractor and carrying out charity work in South-East
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Asia. ISBN: 9781788703819 Format: C-Format PB Ollie now spends his time as an entrepreneur running three companies, Break Point, Battle Ready and Double O Global, Package Type: PAPERBACK all designed to improve people's lives. Ollie is an ambassador for the Royal Marines Charity and a director of the mental Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 352 pages health charity StrongMen. Bic1: Thriller / suspense Bic2:
His two books, Break Point and Battle Ready, have both been Sunday Times bestsellers, with Break Point going to Author now living: number one in the chart.Blink AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Gender Swapped Fairy Tales Karrie Fransman, Jonathan Plackett
Imagine a world where kings prick their fingers as they sew, wolves wear heels, and princesses race to rescue sleeping princes...
Description People have been telling fairy tales to their children for hundreds of years. And for almost as long, people have been rewriting those fairy tales - to help their children imagine a world where they are the heroes. Karrie and Jon were reading their child these stories when they hit upon a dilemma, something previous versions of these stories were missing, and so they decided to make one vital change..
They haven't rewritten the stories in this book. They haven't reimagined endings, or reinvented characters. What they have done is switch all the genders.
It might not sound like that much of a change, but you'll be dazzled by the world this swap creates - and amazed by the new characters you're about to discover.
About the Author Jonathan Plackett is a creative technologist, advertiser copywriter and art director who has 10 years worth of experience at single-handedly engaging mass audiences in the millions with his creative websites and apps. He has worked for 14 years as a senior creative advertiser on brands such as Orange, Tesco, Nike, Honda and Innocent. He single-handedly created Face Juggler, the world's first automatic face swap iPhone app, which was downloaded 5 million times. In 2010 he made the website 'Slap Nick Griffin' which registered over 25 million slaps in 4 days. It was followed by 'Slapometer' which allowed voters to register their disdain for the general election candidates by slapping their least favourite. The candidates received 91 million slaps and the site was praised by The Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Telegraph, Channel 4 and ITN. He created the 'Draw and Fold Over' website for The Campaign for Drawing, which allowed friends to play 'exquisite corpse' together online. Over 400,000 visitors have played.
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 Karrie Fransman writes and draws visual stories and comics that have been published in The Guardian, The Times, The ISBN: 9780571360185 BBC, Time Out, The Telegraph, The New Statesman, The Young Vic, PsychologiesMagazine, The Arts Council and The Format: Misc HB Goethe Institute. She published two graphic novels with Penguin Random House, 'The House That Groaned', and the Package Type: HARD BACK award winning 'Death of the Artist'. She developed an award winning comic about a teenage refugee, for The British Red Dimensions: 240h x 194w mm Extent: 208 pages Cross, created a 2 storey installation for Southbank Centre and was commissioned to make a 'Selves Portrait' for an Bic1: Folklore, myths & legends exhibition with Manchester Art Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery. You can see more of her work at karriefransman. Bic2:
com Author now living:Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Dead of Winter Nicola Upson
A snowy Christmas gathering on an island off the Cornish coast goes murderously wrong in this festive Golden Age mystery.
Description December 1938, and storm clouds hover once again over Europe. Josephine Tey and Archie Penrose gather with friends for a Cornish Christmas, but two strange and brutal deaths on St Michael's Mount - and the unexpected arrival of a world famous film star, in need of sanctuary - interrupt the festivities. Cut off by the sea and a relentless blizzard, the hunt for a murderer begins.
Pivoting on a real moment in history, the ninth novel in the 'Josephine Tey' series draws on all the much-loved conventions of the Golden Age Christmas mystery, whilst giving them a thrilling contemporary twist.
About the Author Nicola Upson was born in Suffolk and read English at Downing College, Cambridge. Her debut novel, An Expert in Murder, was the first in a series of crime novels whose main character is Josephine Tey, who - along with Agatha Christie - was one of the masters of Britain's Golden Age of crime writing. There have been eight books in the series, of which Nine Lessons was shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger in 2018. She lives with her partner in Cambridge and spends much of her time in Cornwall.
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9780571353248 Format: Demy Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 216h x 135w mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2:
Author now living:Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Low Jeet Thayil
From the Booker-shortlisted author: one man's whirlwind weekend of self-destructive grief.
Description Ullis went to the bathroom and carefully unfolded the business card and placed it on the sink. Then he rolled up a note and snorted the last of his wife's ashes.
Following the death of his wife, Dominic Ullis escapes to Bombay in search of oblivion and a dangerous new drug, Meow Meow. So begins a glorious weekend of misadventure as he tours the teeming, kaleidoscopic city from its sleek eyries of high-capital to the piss-stained streets, encountering a cast with their own stories to tell, but none of whom Ullis - his faculties ever distorted - is quite sure he can trust.
Heady, heartbroken and heartfelt, Low is a blazing joyride through the darklands of grief towards obliteration - and, perhaps, epiphany.
'Jeet Thayil delights not just in pushing the bounds of possibility, but in smashing them to smithereens.' - John Burnside
About the Author Jeet Thayil is a poet, musician and novelist. He was born in Kerala in 1959 and educated at Jesuit schools in Bombay, Hong Kong and New York. He worked as a journalist for twenty-three years before writing his bestselling debut novel, Narcopolis, which won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Man Asian Literary Prize. His second novel, The Book of Chocolate Saints, was longlisted for the DSC Prize and described as 'easily the most original and formally inventive novel to come out of India in years' by Salman Rushdie. Thayil's five poetry collections include These Errors Are Correct, which won the 2013 Sahitya Akademi Award (India's National Academy of Letters) and he is also the editor of The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9780571356423 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2:
Author now living:Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Heavens Sandra Newman
A mind-expanding story of love complicated by time travel, for fans of David Mitchell and Jennifer Egan.
Description New York, 2000. The United Nations has just planted its flag on Mars, and a Green Party senator is about to become the first female president of the United States. At a party in the almost-Utopian world, Kate and Ben fall in love.
London, 1593. Kate wakes as Emilia, mistress to a nobleman and friend to a lowly court poet called Will. Afflicted by apocalyptic premonitions, she sets out to save the world.
Each decision she makes as Emilia will change Kate's life with Ben forever.
About the Author Sandra Newman is the author of three previous novels; The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done, (shortlisted for The Guardian First Book Award), Cake and The Country of Ice Cream Star (longlisted for the Bailey's Prize for Women's Literature). She co-authored the hugely successful How Not to Write a Novel. She has also written The Western Lit Survival Kit, Read This Next, and a memoir, Changeling. She lives in New York.
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Author now living:Granta Paperbacks AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Verificationist Donald Antrium
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Author now living:Granta AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Mezzanine Nicholson Baker
An electrifying and hilarious novel about the mundanity of office life, reissued for Granta Editions.
Description The Mezzanine is the story of one man's lunch hour. Pondering life's littlest questions - why does one shoelace always wear out before the other? Whatever happened to the paper drinking straw - our narrator interrogates the inner-workings of corporate living as he traipses his way down escalators to the first floor and through the mundaneness of office life.
Mixing humour with the existentialism that surrounds all our working lives, The Mezzanine is a classic work of modern American literature.
About the Author NICHOLSON BAKER was born in New York in 1957. He is the author of eight novels, including The Mezzanine, Vox and Room Temperature (all Granta Books), and five non-fiction works, including U & I (also Granta) and Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, for which he won the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Author now living:Granta Paperbacks AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 At Night All Blood Is Black David Diop
The prize-winning story of a Senegalese soldier in the trenches, told in hypnotic, powerful prose.
Description Alfa diaye and Mademba Diop are two of the many Senegalese tirailleurs who fight in the Great War under the French flag. Whenever Captain Armand blows his whistle they climb out of their trenches to attack the blue-eyed enemy. But one day Mademba is mortally wounded, and without his friend, his more-than-brother, Alfa is alone amidst the savagery of the trenches, far from all he knows and holds dear. He throws himself into combat with renewed vigour, but soon he begins to scare even his own comrades in arms.
Here David Diop captures the tragedy of a young man's mind hurtling towards madness and tells the little-heard story of the Senegalese who fought for France on the Western Front.
About the Author David Diop was born in Paris in 1966 and grew up in Senegal. He currently lives in France, where he is head of the Arts, Languages and Literature Research Department at University of Pau. At Night All Blood is Black is his second novel. It was shortlisted for ten major prizes in France and won the Prix Goncourt des Lyc'ens and the Prix Patrimoines. It is currently being translated into 11 languages and has already won the Strega European Prize in Italy.
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Author now living:Pushkin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Murder in the Age of Enlightenment Ryunosuke Akutagawa, translated by Bryan Karetnyk
'One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. Akutagawa was a born short-story writer' - Haruki Murakami
Description The stories in this fantastical, unconventional collection are subtly wrought depictions of the darkness of our desires. From an isolated bamboo grove, to a lantern festival in Tokyo, to the Emperor's court, they offer glimpses into moments of madness, murder, and obsession. Vividly translated by Bryan Karetnyk, they unfold in elegant, sometimes laconic, always gripping prose.
Akutagawa's stories are characterised by their stylish originality; they are stories to be read again and again.
About the Author Ryunosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan's leading literary figures in the Taisho period in Japan. Regarded as the father of the Japanese short story, he produced over 150 in his short lifetime and is renowned as a pre-eminent prose stylist and modernist whose work ranges from the fantastical and supernatural to the psychological and formally unconventional. Haunted by the fear that he would inherit his mother's madness, his mental health deteriorated rapidly towards the end of his life and he committed suicide aged 35 by taking an overdose of barbital.
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Author now living:Pushkin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Enchanted Night Miklos Banffy, translated by Len Rix
Transporting stories of intrigue, superstition and rivalry from a European master, in English for the first time.
Description In this stark, haunting collection, Miklos Banffy narrates with wry wisdom stories of cunning, betrayal and myth ranging from classical antiquity to the Transylvania of his own day. These are communities of sharp rivalries and religious superstition: young Borbalka, about to marry an unsuitable man, receives strange counsel from a suspicious figure in her village; four men seek to exploit the captive Gavrila Lung for money, while mountain wolves howl in the distance; when Old Damaskin betrays his stepson to hold on to his land, his wife extracts bizarre revenge.
Translated into English for the first time by the award-winning Len Rix, this collection further establishes Banffy as one of the foremost European writers of the twentieth century.
About the Author Miklos Banffy was born Count Miklos Banffy de Losoncz in Hungary in 1873. Over the course of his life he studied law, wrote plays, novels and stories, and became a groundbreaking set designer, an accomplished cartoonist, a politician and a diplomat.
A leading figure in the Transylvanian Hungarian community, in 1943 he urged the Romanian government to cut ties with the German side in the Second World War; two years later, a retreating German army looted his estate. He stayed in Transylvania after it was invaded by the Soviet Red Army, and, emaciated and penniless, reunited with his family in Budapest in 1949. He died a year later.
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Author now living:Pushkin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Poems to Night Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Will Stone
A collection of haunting mystical poems of the night by the great Rainer Maria Rilke - most of which have never before been translated into English.
Description One night I held between my hands your face. The moon fell upon it.
In 1916 Rainer Maria Rilke presented the writer Rudolf Kassner with a notebook containing twenty-two poems meticulously copied out in his own hand which bore the title Poems to Night. This cycle of poems which came about in an almost clandestine manner are now thought to represent one of the key stages of this master poet's development.
Never before translated into English this collection brings together all Rilke's significant night poems in one volume.
About the Author Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1 26) is one of the great German writers. A master of both poetry and prose he is best known for Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus and The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
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Author now living:Pushkin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Cutting Edge Edited by Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates pulls out all the stops in this chilling female-led noir anthology featuring brand-new writing from Margaret Atwood, Steph Cha, Edwidge Danticat and more.
Description "You know," she said, "someone else has gone missing." "You mean for a case?" "It's me," she said, too brightly. "Me." "You've gone missing? Aren't you right here?"
The outdated noir narrative gets a radical feminist update in this fresh anthology featuring some of the world's most celebrated female authors. Here, noir queenpin Joyce Carol Oates has curated a wide range of stylistically diverse stories and poems that could not feel more timely. At times wickedly funny, slyly subversive and always gripping, this striking collection places the voices historically consigned to noir's edges front and centre.
Edited by Joyce Carol Oates and including her own work, as well as that of Margaret Atwood, Valerie Martin, Aimee Bender, Edwidge Danticat, Sheila Kohler, S.A. Solomon, S.J. Rozan, Lucy Taylor, Cassandra Khaw, Bernice L. McFadden, Jennifer Morales, Elizabeth McCracken, Livia Llewellyn, Lisa Lim, and Steph Cha.
About the Author Joyce Carol Oates is the author of a number of works of fiction, poetry and nonfiction. She is the editor of New Jersey Noir and Prison Noir and a recipient of the National Book Award, the PEN America Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Humanities Medal, and a World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey, and was recently inducted into the American Philosophical Society.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781782276517 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2:
Author now living:Pushkin Vertigo AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Love and Youth Ivan Turgenev, translated by Nicolas Slater Pasternak and Maya Slater
This collection, in a lyrical new translation by Nicolas Slater, places Turgenev's great novella First Love alongside a selection of his classic stories. From the evocative rural scenes of 'Bezhin Meadow' and 'Rattling Wheels', to the pathos and humanity of 'The District Doctor' and 'Biryuk', these are stories to be lingered over.
Description An icon of Russian literature, Turgenev was able to contain the narrative sweep of a novel in a single short story. His protagonists experience the joy and painful turbulence of first love, the thrilling adventures of youth, and the layered reflections of maturity. His great skill is to make his readers feel alongside these characters, rendering their complex interiorities, whether nobility or serf, in these stories charged with a profound social conscience.
About the Author Ivan Turgenev was born to an aristocratic family in 1818. In 1852, he wrote an obituary for Gogol for the Saint Petersburg Gazette. Banned by the censor in Saint Petersburg, it was nevertheless published in Moscow, leading to Turgenev being briefly imprisoned then exiled for two years on his country estate.
Turgenev lived for much of his life in Western Europe, where he became friends with writers such as Gustave Flaubert. His most famous novel Fathers and Sons was poorly received by many Russian critics. It is now regarded as one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.
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Author now living:Pushkin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Kasebier Takes Berlin Gabriele Tergit, translated by Sophie Duvernoy
Fake news in Weimar Berlin: a blistering classic satire of journalism, lies and celebrity, in English for the first time.
Description In Berlin, 1930, the name Kasebier is on everyone's lips. A literal combination of the German words for "cheese" and "beer," it's an unglamorous name for an unglamorous man - a small-time crooner who performs nightly on a shabby stage for labourers, secretaries, and shopkeepers. Until the press shows up.
In the blink of an eye, this everyman is made a star: one who can sing songs for a troubled time. Margot Weissmann, the arts patron, hosts champagne breakfasts for Kasebier; Muschler the banker builds a theatre in his honour; Willi Frachter, a parvenu writer, makes a killing from Kasebier-themed business ventures and books.
All the while, the journalists who catapulted Kasebier to fame watch the monstrous media machine churn in amazement - and are aghast at the demons they have unleashed.
About the Author Gabriele Tergit (1894-1982), born Elise Hirschmann, was a German novelist and reporter. She began writing newspaper articles in the early 1920s under the psuedonym Tergit and eventually became a court reporter for the Berliner Tageblatt. She rose to fame in 1931 with the success of her first novel, Kasebier Takes Berlin. In 1933 she narrowly evaded arrest by the Nazis, fleeing first to Czechoslovakia and then to Palestine before settling in London with her husband and son. There, she worked on her colossal novel of generations of German-Jewish life, The Effingers (1951), and acted as secretary of the PEN Centre for German-language writers abroad.
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Author now living:Pushkin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Decagon House Murders Yukito Ayatsuji, translated by Ho-Ling Wong
A classic Japanese murder mystery inspired by the golden age of British crimewriting.
Description The members of a university mystery club decide to visit an island which was the site of a grisly, unsolved multiple murder the year before. They're looking forward to investigating the crime, putting their passion for solving mysteries to practical use, but before long there is a fresh murder, and soon the club-members realise they are being picked off one-by-one. The remaining amateur sleuths will have to use all of their murder-mystery expertise to find the killer before they end up dead too.
This is a playful, loving and fiendishly plotted homage to the best of golden age crime. It will delight any mystery fan looking to put their little grey cells to use.
About the Author Yukito Ayatsuji (born 1960) is a Japanese writer of mystery and horror novels. He is one of the founders of the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan, dedicated to the writing of fair play mysteries inspired by the Golden Age greats. In 1992 he won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for his novel The Clock Mansion Murders. The Decagon House Murders was Ayatsuji's debut novel and is the first of his works to be translated into English.
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Author now living:Pushkin Vertigo AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Love in the Days of Rebellion Ahmet Altan, translated by Brendan Freely and Yelda Turedi
With striking clarity and imaginative power, Altan evokes the traumas and upheavals of Ottoman history, showing how-over a hundred years later-the events and wounds of that time still resonate in the tensions and contradictions of today's Turkey.
Description The second instalment in the Ottoman Quartet-the masterful saga of Turkish history by Ahmet Altan-follows the vast and vivid cast of characters introduced in the first volume of the series, Like A Sword Wound. By weaving together tortured love affairs, political intrigue, power struggles, and social upheavals, the novel offers a powerful and vivid tableau of the crisis of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century.
The second instalment opens with the attempted suicide of Hikmet Bey, the son of the sultan's personal physician. The reason for his extreme gesture is, to forget the extremely beautiful and proud Mehpare Hanim, his wife and the cause of all his suffering. While Hikmet recovers in a hospital in Thessaloniki, slowly regaining his strength and will to live, radical changes are afoot in the Ottoman capital. The power of the sultan is eroding, a rebellion is brewing, and violence erupts on the streets of Istanbul. It is the eve of one of the key events that will lead to the collapse of the Empire: the countercoup of 1909.
About the Author Ahmet Altan, one of today's most important Turkish writers and journalists, was arrested in September 2016 and is serving a life sentence on false charges. An advocate for Kurdish and Armenian minorities and a strong voice of dissent in his country, his arrest and conviction received widespread international criticism (51 Nobel laureates signed an open letter to Turkey's president calling for Altan's release). Altan is the author of ten novels--all bestsellers in Turkey--and seven books of essays. In 2009 he received the Freedom and Future of the Media Prize from the Media Foundation of Sparkasse Leipzig, and in 2011 he was awarded the International Hrant Dink Award. The international bestseller Endgame was his English-language debut, and was named one of the fifty notable works of fiction of 2017 by The Washington Post. Like a Sword Wound is the winner of the prestigious Yunus Nadi Novel Prize in Turkey. Price: AU $27.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781787702479 Format: Misc PB Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 210h x 135w mm Extent: 496 pages Bic1: Historical fiction Bic2:
Author now living:Europa Editions AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Like a Sword Wound Ahmet Altan, translated by Brendan Freely and Yelda Turedi
'A deeply compelling and immersive narrative about love, desire, loneliness and landscape.' - Elif Shafak
Description Altan's Ottoman Quartet spans the fifty years between the final decades of the 19th century and the post-WWI rise of Ataturk as both unchallenged leader and visionary reformer of the new Turkey. The four books tell the stories of an unforgettable cast of characters, among them: an Ottoman army officer, the Sultan's personal doctor, a scion of the royal house whose Western education brings him into conflict with his family's legacy, and a beguiling Turkish aristocrat who, while fond of her emancipated life in Paris, finds herself drawn to a conservative Muslim spiritual leader. Intrigue, betrayal, love, war, progress, and tradition provide a colourful backdrop against which their lives play out.
All the while, the society to which they belong is transforming, and the Sublime Empire disintegrates. Here is a Turkish saga reminiscent of War and Peace, that traces not only the social currents of the time but also the erotic and emotional lives of its characters.
About the Author Ahmet Altan, one of today's most important Turkish writers and journalists, was arrested in September 2016 and is serving a life sentence on false charges. An advocate for Kurdish and Armenian minorities and a strong voice of dissent in his country, his arrest and conviction received widespread international criticism (51 Nobel laureates signed an open letter to Turkey's president calling for Altan's release). Altan is the author of ten novels--all bestsellers in Turkey--and seven books of essays. In 2009 he received the Freedom and Future of the Media Prize from the Media Foundation of Sparkasse Leipzig, and in 2011 he was awarded the International Hrant Dink Award. The international bestseller Endgame was his English-language debut, and was named one of the fifty notable works of fiction of 2017 by The Washington Post. Like a Sword Wound is the winner of the prestigious Yunus Nadi Novel Prize in Turkey.
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Author now living:Europa Editions AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Interior Chinatown Charles Yu
A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, and escaping the roles we are forced to play-by the author of the infinitely inventive How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.
Description Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He's merely Generic Asian man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but he is always relegated to a prop. Yet every day he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He's a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy - the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. At least that's what he has been told, time and time again. Except by one person, his mother. Who says to him: Be more.
Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes, Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu's most moving, daring, and masterly novel yet.
About the Author CHARLES YU is the author of three books, including the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (a New York Times Notable Book and a Time magazine best book of the year). He received the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award and was nominated for two Writers Guild of America Awards for his work on the HBO series, Westworld. He has also written for shows on FX, AMC, and HBO. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired, among other publications
Price: AU $27.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781787702578 Format: C-Format PB Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2:
Author now living:Europa Editions AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Devil in a Blue Dress Walter Mosley
30th Anniversary edition of the bestselling, award-winning novel with a timely new introduction by the author.
Description 'I need to find somebody and I might need a little help looking...'
It's the summer of '48 in the city of Angels and there's heat on the streets when Daphne Monet hits the sidewalk. Heat when she disappears with a trunkload of somebody else's cash.
Easy Rawlins is a war veteran just fired from his job. Drinking in a friend's bar, he wonders how to meet his mortgage when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will locate Miss Monet, a blonde with a reputation. It's a simple decision, but for one thing. Nobody warned him - better the devil you know...
In the sleazy, fearful city, Easy must rely on his instincts, not just to solve the case, but to save his own life.
About the Author Walter Mosley is the author of over twenty critically acclaimed books and his work has been translated into twenty-one languages. His popular mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins began with Devil in a Blue Dress in 1990, which was later made into a film starring Denzel Washington. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he now lives in New York.
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Author now living:Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Puzzle Solver Tracie White with Ronald W Davis
Based on a viral article, the gripping medical mystery story of Ron Davis, a world-class Stanford geneticist who has put his career on the line to find the cure for chronic fatigue syndrome, the disease killing his son.
Description For the past six years, Whitney Dafoe has been confined to a bedroom in the back of his parents' home, unable to walk, to eat, to speak. The sound of music causes him pain.
At one point, the formerly healthy, young, freelance photographer, faced starvation as his 6'3? frame withered to 115 pounds. In desperation, Whitney and his parents went from one specialist to another, and still no answers. Then, finally, a diagnosis: the mysterious disease myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).
Whitney's story is heartbreaking, but it's also one of redemption. It reaches far beyond just one family's harrowing tale. Today, ME/CFS affects between 1 and 2.5 million Americans-and 20 million people around the world. Those afflicted largely suffer in silence because the disease is little known and much misunderstood. The question lingers still whether it even exists outside the patient's mind. Often disbelieved, they're abandoned by family and friends. They lose their jobs, and battle with insurance companies over rising medical costs as the chronic disease continues on year after year.
In one way, Whitney has been lucky. He could reach out to his father, a world renowned, scientist, for answers. This book is the story of one father's desperate hunt for the insidious illness that stole his son away. The Puzzle Solver follows Ron as he unravels the molecular trail within his own son's donated blood and genome, to began to find answers. He confirms this is a biological disease and uncovers new possibilities for treatments and potentially a cure.
At its heart, The Puzzle Solver is about more than just cutting edge research or a race to find the cure for ME/CFS-it's about the unbreakable bond between a father and his son, and the lengths to which a parent will go to save their child's life.
Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781760875695 Tracie White is an award-winning journalist and a science writer for Stanford University. Her work has also appeared in Format: C-Format PB Salon, the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine, and the San Jose Package Type: PAPERBACK Mercury News Magazine. She received her bachelor's degree in literature and public health from the University of Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: pages California, Berkeley, and a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. She lives in Santa Cruz, CA. Ron Bic1: Memoirs Davis is a professor of Biochemistry and Genetics at Stanford University and a member of the Bio-X and the Stanford Bic2:
Cancer Institute. He has won numerous awards for his research, including the Gruber Genetics Prize and the Genetics Author now living: None Society of America's Lifetime Achievement Award. After his son was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in 2011, he dedicated himself to finding a cure for the debilitating disease. He lives in Palo Alto, CA.Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Intimacy and Solitude Stephanie Dowrick
Social distancing under COVID has thrown us more deeply into our intimate relationships, and kept us achingly apart from family, friends and others. Stephanie Dowrick's classic Intimacy and Solitude is the wise guide we need to help us find our personal ground, whatever challenges we face.
Description The quality of our personal relationships has never mattered more.
It isn't enough to have lots of friends on social media. Or to give 'everything' to work hoping that will validate your existence.
When familiar certainties are dissolving, we need to give and receive closeness to feel fully alive. We also need self-trust to do far better than getting by. But how do we stay safe and open to others in a world that can seem harsh, indifferent - and unpredictable in the extreme?
Stephanie Dowrick's Intimacy and Solitude starts with the most fundamental relationship of all: how you understand and care for your own self - knowing this will inevitably mirror all your most needed relationships.
Using her exceptional gifts as a storyteller, as well as decades of work with people of all ages and cultures, Dr Dowrick brings to life the most profound and persuasive insights psychology offers - and much more.
Through timeless wisdom and many moving examples, Dowrick shows that we can leave behind the anguish of insecurity, loss or loneliness. We can claim the self-understanding essential for loving others. We can look at our own lives with fresh appreciation, going forward into a life that's richer, calmer and far more secure.
'Since I was a teenager, Stephanie Dowrick's work has been absolutely central to my understanding of the possibility of happiness. The wisdom in her pages has comforted me in dark times and brought me insights that I fear I may otherwise Price: AU $29.99 NZ $36.99 have missed.' - Clare Bowditch, musician and writer ISBN: 9781760879556 Format: C-Format PB 'Stephanie Dowrick is a godsend. Her gift is the ability to write in a manner that genuinely enriches and changes lives.' - Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Nigel Marsh, entrepreneur and CEO Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Self-help & personal development About the Author Bic2:
Stephanie Dowrick, PhD, is Australia's most successful personal development writer. She has supported many thousands Author now living: Sydney, NSW of people as a therapist, interfaith minister, public speaker and author. Her much-loved international bestsellers include Choosing Happiness, Forgiveness and Other Acts of Love and Seeking the Sacred. Her continuing contributions to media and social media include a decade as 'Inner Life' columnist for Good Weekend.Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Southeast Asia Milton Osborne
A lively and easy-to-read guide to Southeast Asian history written by one of the world's pre-eminent historians of the area.
Description The first edition of Southeast Asia: An introductory history was published in 1979 and immediately filled a need for travellers and students interested in a tantalisingly different part of the world. Subsequent editions (translated into Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Chinese and Thai) have continued to document with great perception the enormous changes and dramatic growth experienced in the region.
Dr Milton Osborne has been a resident, student and fascinated observer of Southeast Asia for many years. This familiarity has resulted in a highly readable and lively chronicle. While giving due regard to the early history of the region, Osborne concentrates on the changes that have taken place since the 18th century: the impact of colonial rule, the economic transformations of the 19th and 20th centuries, the emergence and triumph of the independence movements, the impact of social change and the pivotal roles played by religion, ethnic minorities and immigrant groups. He also provides an introduction to the art of the region and a comprehensive guide to literature about Southeast Asia.
Clearly written and extensively illustrated Southeast Asia: An introductory history remains a classic in the field.
'Still one of the best short introductory histories of the region...' Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University
About the Author Dr Milton Osborne is a writer and consultant on Asian issues and the author of many books, including Sihanouk: Prince of Light, Prince of Darkness, River Road to China, The Mekong: Turbulent past, uncertain future and Exploring Southeast Asia: A traveller's guide to the region. He is a regular visitor to Southeast Asia and for the past decade has been a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney.
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781760877132 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 128w mm Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Asian history Bic2:
Author now living: Double Bay, NSWAllen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Book of Angst Gwendoline Smith
From the author of international bestsellers The Book of Knowing and The Book of Overthinking.
Description Anxiety, in its many forms, explained in simple, clear language; plus more detailed advice on dealing with social anxiety.
The current world situation is causing a great deal of fear, concern, insecurity and uncertainty. This state of angst can be overwhelming.
Gwendoline Smith describes the many manifestations of anxiety, giving you with an understanding of them as well as recommended treatment methods.
She also goes into a lot more detail about Social Anxiety Disorder which is often under diagnosed, but is by far one of the most crippling of the many anxiety disorders.
Based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy this book will help you cope with life.
About the Author Gwendoline Smith B Soc Sci, M Soc Sci (hons), Dip Clin Psych is a clinical psychologist, speaker, blogger and the author of bestselling books The Book of Overthinking, The Book of Knowing and others. She also goes by the name Dr Know.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781988547695 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 128w mm Extent: 344 pages Bic1: Coping with anxiety & phobias Bic2:
Author now living: Freemans Bay, Auckland NZA&U New Zealand AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Book of Angst mix counterpack Point of Sale
Includes bespoke counterpack, 12 copies of The Book of Angst, 2 copies of The of Book of Knowing and 2 copies The of Book of Overthinking.
Description Includes bespoke counterpack, 12 copies of The Book of Angst, 2 copies of The of Book of Knowing and 2 copies The of Book of Overthinking.
About the Author
Price: AU $367.84 NZ $399.84 ISBN: 9324551077658 Format: C'pack filled Package Type: PACK Dimensions: 0h x 0w mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Author now living:Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Book of Knowing Gwendoline Smith
Learn to understand the way you think and you will be able to deal with many of life's difficult moments.
'This book is gold. It uses such clear, easy-to-read language.' Rachel Grunwell New Zealand Herald
'If only I had read this book when I was a teen, I would've saved myself years of confusion and torment.' Ghazaleh Golbakhsh, Villainesse
Description 'This book has given our daughter life's most essential skill: the ability to notice and manage her thoughts. This skill has fundamentally changed her present and her future. We will be forever grateful.' Scarlett's mum
Written in an accessible and humorous style, this book teaches you to know what's going on in your mind and how to get your feelings under control. It'll help you adapt and feel better about your place in the world.
Psychologist Gwendoline Smith uses her broad scientific knowledge and experience to explain in clear and simple language what's happening when you are feeling overwhelmed, anxious and confused.
About the Author Gwendoline Smith B Soc Sci, M Soc Sci (hons), Dip Clin Psych is a clinical psychologist, speaker, blogger and the author of the books Depression Explained and Sharing the Load. She also goes by the name Dr Know.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781988547107 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 128w mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Coping with anxiety & phobias Bic2:
Author now living: Freemans Bay, Auckland NZA&U New Zealand AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Book of Overthinking Gwendoline Smith
Overthinking, ruminating, worrying: bestselling author Gwendoline Smith explains this common form of anxiety and offers helpful advice for overcoming it.
Description Overthinking is also known as worrying or ruminating and it's a form of anxiety that many people suffer from.
Psychologist and bestselling author Gwendoline Smith explains in clear and simple language the concepts of positive and negative overthinking, the truth about worry and how to deal with the 'thought viruses' that are holding you back.
She helps you understand what's going on in your head, using humour, lots of examples and anecdotes, and she offers powerful strategies for addressing your issues.
Based on cognitive behavioural theory, this book will help you in all the key areas of your life: from your personal life to relationships and work.
About the Author Gwendoline Smith B Soc Sci, M Soc Sci (hons), Dip Clin Psych is a clinical psychologist, speaker, blogger and the author of the books The Book of Knowing, Depression Explained and Sharing the Load. She also goes by the name Dr Know.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781988547374 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 128w mm Extent: 264 pages Bic1: Coping with anxiety & phobias Bic2:
Author now living: Freemans Bay, Auckland NZA&U New Zealand AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Schoolgirl Strangler Katherine Kovacic
With all the pace of a thriller, Katherine Kovacic recounts this extraordinary, chilling true story - of failed police enquiries, a killer with a Jekyll and Hyde personality, and the families shattered when four innocent lives were cruelly taken.
Description November, 1930. One sunny Saturday afternoon, 12-year-old Mena Griffiths was playing in the park when she was lured away by an unknown man. Hours later, her strangled body was found, mouth gagged and hands crossed over her chest, in an abandoned house. Only months later, another girl was murdered; the similarities between the cases undeniable. Crime in Melbourne had taken a shocking new turn: this was the work of a serial killer, a homicidal maniac.
Despite their best efforts, police had no experience dealing with this kind of criminal. What followed was years of bungled investigations, falsely accused men - and the tragic deaths of two more girls - before the murderer was finally caught and brought to justice.
About the Author Katherine Kovacic is a Melbourne-based writer, art historian and former veterinarian. Her debut novel, The Portrait of Molly Dean, was shortlisted for an Australian Crime Writers Association Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction, and is the first of three books in the Alex Clayton art mystery series.
Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 ISBN: 9781760686635 Format: C-Format PB Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: True crime Bic2:
Author now living:Echo AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Solo Rebecca Seal
More people are working alone than ever before - whether as entrepreneurs, freelancers, creatives or consultants. Here's how to work alone and like it!
Description The freelance workforce has never been bigger - whether it is for the freedom of being your own boss, the thrill of building a business, or due to cold, hard necessity, more of us are becoming solo workers than ever before. But while there is an abundance of advice on success, happiness, business and productivity, no one addresses a crucial topic: how to cope with working alone.
Looking at what we gain but also lose by shifting from the camaraderie and structure of company work to a company of one, this guide picks up where the freelance bibles stop. Solo is for anyone who works alone, whether as a consultant, a freelancer or an entrepreneur, for a few hours a day, or all day, every day and everywhere, with a laptop and a phone. Drawing on a decade of freelance experience and the latest ideas in psychology, economics, business and social science, Rebecca Seal helps fellow solo workers cope with the demands of solitary work, covering topics from how to best shape your surroundings and build a network to how to deal with feeling stuck, how to mitigate the harmful effects of social media, and whether solitude might actually help solo workers to thrive.
This is the book you will wish you had when you started out, and the book you will gift to those at the start of their freelance journey. Solo will teach everyone how to work alone - and like it.
About the Author Rebecca Seal is a journalist, editor, TV presenter and author based in London. She has written cookbooks, appeared as a regular food expert on Channel 4's Sunday Brunch, and written for the Financial Times, Evening Standard, Guardian, Sunday Times, Times, Sunday Telegraph, Observer, Olive, Glamour, Red, Grazia and Psychologies in the UK, as well as the Globe and Mail and The Australian. She has been freelance for ten years. www.rebeccaseal.co.uk
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781788164856 Format: C-Format PB Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Self-help & personal development Bic2:
Author now living:Souvenir Press AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Drawing on the Dominant Eye Betty Edwards
The long-awaited follow-up to the beloved bestseller Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain - with new insights about creativity and our unique way of seeing the world around us
Description From the author of the world's most popular drawing instruction manual Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, this new book helps you discover a new way of drawing and problem solving.
Betty Edwards reveals the role our dominant eye plays in how we perceive, create, and are seen by those around us. Research shows that much like being right-handed or left-handed, each of us has a dominant eye, corresponding to the dominant side of our brain - either verbal or perceptual. Once you learn the difference and try your hand at the simple drawing exercises, you'll gain fresh insights into how you perceive, think, and create. You'll learn how to not just look but truly see.
Generously illustrated throughout, Drawing on the Dominant Eye offers a remarkable guided tour through art history, psychology, and the creative process; a must-read for anyone looking for a richer understanding of our art, our minds, and ourselves.
About the Author Betty Edwards is an art teacher, lecturer and bestselling author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, which has sold five million copies worldwide. She continues to teach her groundbreaking method at DRSB workshops and lives in California, USA. www.drawright.com
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9781788167932 Format: Misc HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: h x w mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Drawing & drawings Bic2:
Author now living:Souvenir Press AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Betty Edwards
The world's most popular drawing-instruction book from a leading expert.
Description Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used drawing instruction book. Whether you are a professional, a student, or enjoy art as a hobby, Betty Edwards' practical step-by-step guide to drawing will give you greater confidence in your ability, deepen your artistic perception and provide a new way to appreciate the way you perceive the world around you.
Edwards breaks down first steps to ensure the reader has a practical grounding that will help them improve and have fun learning more difficult techniques. Edwards gives her expert advice on what materials to use and the importance of making a record of your starting point, with three key exercises: drawing a person from memory, a self-portrait, and drawing your hand. With great advice on how to look at these first attempts, she provides the reader with a guide to measure their progress and the ability to understand what you are doing and learn from every attempt so that none are wasted. The later sections of the book focus on perceiving edges, spaces and relationships within your drawing before applying these skills in solving problems and ultimately being free to continue on your own. Edwards will help you to shift to the right side of the brain that utilises more intuitive and artistic aspects of thinking.
About the Author Betty Edwards is a retired professor in art at California State University. She continues to lecture extensively, at universities, art schools and businesses and she is a consultant at many leading creative businesses.
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9780285641778 Format: Misc HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 233h x 193w mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Painting & art manuals Bic2:
Author now living:Souvenir Press AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook Betty Edwards
A workbook of 40 exercises to accompany the acclaimed drawing guide.
Description Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook accompanies the world's most widely used drawing instruction book by Betty Edwards. This workbook reinforces the five basic skills of drawing and includes:
- 40 exercises to practice your drawing abilities - A range of subject matters from portrait drawing and still life, to landscapes and imaginative drawing - Advice for a variety of mediums such as pen and ink, charcoal and graphite - A pull-out viewfinder tool
The original Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain helps artists to nurture the creative right side of the brain, dramatically improving your ability to draw, whether you are a professional, an artist in training or someone who draws for a hobby. This workbook will help you practise that knowledge with success at every step.
About the Author Dr Betty Edwards is an American art teacher, lecturer and author of the preeminent book on its subject Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Now retired from her position as Professor Emeritus of Art at California State University in Long Beach, she continues to write, consult and participate in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain workshops. She lives in California.
Price: AU $34.99 NZ $39.99 ISBN: 9781788163668 Format: Misc PB Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 246h x 305w mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Drawing & drawings Bic2:
Author now living:Souvenir Press AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Artist's Way Julia Cameron
A newly designed and repackaged paperback of the multi-million-copy bestseller: discover your innate creativity with The Artist's Way.
Description Since its first publication, The Artist's Way has inspired the genius of Elizabeth Gilbert, Tim Ferriss and millions of readers to embark on a creative journey and find a deeper connection to process and purpose. Julia Cameron guides readers in uncovering problems and pressure points that may be restricting their creative flow and offers techniques to open up opportunities for self-growth and self-discovery.
The program begins with Cameron's most vital tools for creative recovery: The Morning Pages and The Artist Date. From there, she shares hundreds of exercises, activities, and prompts to help readers thoroughly explore each chapter.
A revolutionary programme for personal renewal, The Artist's Way will help get you back on track, rediscover your passions, and take the steps you need to change your life.
About the Author Julia Cameron is credited with starting a movement in 1992 that has brought creativity into the mainstream conversation - in the arts, in business, and in everyday life. She is the bestselling author of more than forty books; a poet, songwriter, filmmaker and playwright. The Artist's Way has been translated into forty languages and sold over five million copies to date.
Price: AU $34.99 NZ $37.99 ISBN: 9781788164290 Format: Misc PB Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 228h x 187w mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Self-help & personal development Bic2:
Author now living:Souvenir Press AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Kremlin School of Negotiation Igor Ryzov, translated by Alex Fleming
A comprehensive guide to negotiating based on the official Kremlin method.
Description Negotiating is something that we all do, whether at work or at home. But what if we come across someone who just won't give in? How can we defend ourselves against manipulation? And how do we say 'no' without compromising a deal?
Legend has it that the Kremlin school of negotiation was born in Russia in the 1920s, under the rule of Joseph Stalin, and it still has its followers and advocates to this day.
Using the official Kremlin method and years of business experience, Igor Ryzov guides us through the most effective techniques in negotiating terms that satisfy both parties. From knowing how to get the most information about a potential deal, to how to read your counterpart, and advice on defusing tension, this comprehensive handbook ensures a mutually acceptable resolution that leaves you walking away successful.
With practical examples, and exercises to hone your negotiating skills, The Kremlin School of Negotiation will offer the tools you need to master any deal.
About the Author Igor Ryzov is a business coach for companies across Russia, and has been a business technology teacher since 2006. He runs open and corporate 'Hard Negotiations' training sessions. The Kremlin School of Negotiation won the 2016 PwC award for best business book in the Russian language.
Alex Fleming is a translator working from Swedish and Russian into English. Her previous translations include works by Maxim Osipov, Therese Soderlind and Cilla Naumann, and in 2015 she was awarded the British Centre for Literary Translation's Emerging Translator Mentorship for Russian. She is based in London.
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9781838852917 Format: Demy Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 214h x 135w mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Business strategy Bic2:
Author now living:Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Art of Rest Claudia Hammond
Drawing on brand new research, this is an examination of rest and why it matters from Radio 4's voice of psychology.
Description Much of value has been written about sleep, but rest is different; it is how we unwind, calm our minds and recharge our bodies. The Art of Rest draws on ground-breaking research Claudia Hammond collaborated on: 'The Rest Test', the largest global survey into rest ever undertaken, completed by 18,000 people across 135 different countries. The survey revealed how people get rest and how it is directly linked to your sense of wellbeing.
Counting down through the top ten activities which people find most restful, Hammond explains why rest matters, examines the science behind the results to establish what really works and offers a roadmap for a new, more restful and balanced life.
'At a time when our waking lives appear to be more frantic and distracted than ever before, switching off has never been more of a challenge. The Art of Rest equips us with fresh research and information on how to rest more, and rest better, to get the most out of life. Reading it is a rest itself' - MATT HAIG
About the Author Claudia Hammond is an award-winning writer and broadcaster and Visiting Professor in the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Sussex. As the presenter of All in the Mind she is BBC Radio 4's voice of psychology and mental health. She has been awarded the President's Medal from the British Academy, the British Psychological Society's Public Engagement & Media Award, Mind's Making a Difference Award and the British Neuroscience Association's Public Understanding of Neuroscience Award. She is the author of Emotional Rollercoaster, Mind over Money and Time Warped, winner of the British Psychological Society's Best Popular Science Book Award and the Aeon Transmission Award. @claudiahammond | claudiahammond.com
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781786892829 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Popular psychology Bic2:
Author now living:Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Rootbound Alice Vincent
From the founder of Noughticulture, Rootbound explores how a whole new generation are discovering the power of plants.
Description 'Breathtakingly beautiful' - i 'Tender and wholehearted' - Helen Jukes
LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR IN FINANCIAL TIMES AND I
When she suddenly finds herself uprooted, heartbroken, grieving and living out of a suitcase in her late twenties, Alice Vincent begins planting seeds. She nurtures pot plants and vines on windowsills and draining boards, filling her many temporary London homes with green. As the months pass, and with each unfurling petal and budding leaf, she begins to come back to life.
Mixing memoir, botanical history and biography, Rootbound examines how bringing a little bit of the outside in can help us find our feet in a world spinning far too fast.
About the Author Alice Vincent is Features Editor at Penguin Books, having previously worked as a writer and editor on the arts desk of the Telegraph. After teaching herself to garden in 2014, Alice started to share her adventures in urban gardening through Noughticulture, a newsletter and Instagram account, as well as in a column for the Telegraph. She has since written for Gardener's World and Gardens Illustrated, appeared on Gardeners' Question Time, collaborated with Hunter, Finery, Monsoon and Seedlip, among others, and hosts workshops and a YouTube channel for Patch Plants. Her first book, How To Grow Stuff, was published in 2017. Rootbound was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize. She lives in South London.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 @noughticulture | @alice_emily ISBN: 9781786897725 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2:
Author now living:Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Language Lover's Puzzle Book Alex Bellos
From thebestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Can You Solve My Problems? comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining collection of puzzles for crossword addicts and language-lovers of all stripes.
Description 'Alex Bellos is a wizard.' - Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist
The Language Lover's Puzzle Book is a book of more than 100 surprising and entertaining puzzles that celebrate the amazing diversity of the world of words and language.
Featuring a huge variety of ancient, modern and even invented languages, this collection of problems will introduce you to unusual alphabets and scripts, curious vocabularies and phonologies, and global variations in simple behaviours like counting, telling the time, and naming children.
Whether you are a crossword solver, a code-breaker or a Scrabble addict, these puzzles are guaranteed to twist your tongue and sharpen your mind.
About the Author Alex Bellos is brilliant on all things mathematical. His bestselling, award-winning books include Alex's Adventures in Numberland, Alex Through the Looking-Glass and Can You Solve My Problems?, and have been translated into more than twenty languages. He is also the co-author of two mathematical colouring books and the children's series Football School. His YouTube videos have been seen by more than twenty million people, and he writes a popular maths and puzzle blog for The Guardian. @alexbellos
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781783352180 Format: C-Format PB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Puzzles & quizzes Bic2:
Author now living:Guardian Books AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 So You Think You've Got Problems? Alex Bellos
Can you beat the Guardian's puzzle-master, Alex Bellos?
Description Thought you had it bad? In this book, you will be:
Imprisoned by a sadistic logician. Challenged to raise dogs from the dead. Trapped on a burning island. And much more besides . . .
Everything is at stake in this compendium of more than 150 ingenious puzzles, selected to reveal the wonderful diversity of brainteasers that have confounded and intrigued solvers for the last thousand years. You'll need to pit your wits against probability problems, wrestle with wordplay, grapple with geometry and scrabble for survival.
Along the way you will discover stories of whip-smart thinkers, eccentric novelists and a poodle with allegedly supernatural powers. You will absorb fascinating and important mathematical ideas. Some solutions will rely on ingenuity, some will challenge you to spot hidden patterns, others call for extreme rationality. All will surprise, entertain and stretch your brain.
Will you make it out with your puzzling pride intact?
About the Author 'Think of the best storyteller you know and the coolest teacher you ever had, and now you've got some idea of what Alex Bellos is like.' - Steven Strogatz, Cornell University
Alex Bellos has a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from Oxford. His bestselling, award-winning books Alex's Adventures in Numberland, Alex Through the Looking-Glass, and Can You Solve My Problems? have been translated Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781783351916 into more than 20 languages. His YouTube videos have been seen by more than 20 million people, and he writes a Format: B popular blog for the Guardian. His latest book is Puzzle Ninja. @alexbellos Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Puzzles & quizzes Bic2:
Author now living:Guardian Books AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Can You Solve My Problems? Alex Bellos
The bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland tells the story of the puzzle through 125 of the world's best brainteasers. Packed with eye-opening anecdotes, brain-stretching ideas and thoroughly addictive puzzles Can You Solve My Problems? will leave you wonderstruck
Description Are you smarter than a Singaporean ten-year-old? Can you beat Sherlock Holmes? If you think the answer is yes - I challenge you to solve my problems.
Here is the story of the puzzle, one of mankind's oldest and greatest forms of entertainment and enlightenment, told through 125 of the world's best brainteasers from the last two millennia. It takes us from ancient China to medieval Europe, Victorian England to modern-day Japan, with stories of espionage, mathematical breakthroughs and puzzling rivalries along the way. You'll pit your wits against logic puzzles and kinship riddles, pangrams and river-crossing conundrums. Some solutions rely on a touch of cunning, others call for creativity, others need mercilessly logical thought. Some can only be solved by 2% of the population. All are guaranteed to sharpen your mind. Let's get puzzling...
About the Author Alex Bellos is brilliant on all things mathematical. He has a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from Oxford University. His bestselling books Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Alex Through the Looking-Glass have been translated into more than 20 languages. He is the co-author of a mathematical colouring book, Snowflake, Seashell, Star, and he has launched an elliptical pool table, LOOP. He writes a popular maths blog and a puzzle blog for the Guardian.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781783351152 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Gift books Bic2:
Author now living:Faber Paperback AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Figuring Out The Past Peter Turchin, Daniel Hoyer
The numbers that tell the story of humanity.
Description What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? The average wage in Old Kingdom Egypt? Where did scientific writing first emerge? What was the bloodiest ritual human sacrifice ever?
We are used to thinking about history in terms of stories. Yet we understand our own world through data: vast arrays of statistics that reveal the workings of our societies. So, join the radical historians Peter Turchin and Dan Hoyer for a dive into the numbers that reveal the true shape of the past. Drawing on their own Seshat project, a staggeringly ambitious attempt to log each piece of demographic and econometric information that can be reliably estimated for every society that has ever existed, Figuring Out The Past does more than tell the story of the past: it shows you the large-scale patterns.
About the Author Professor Peter Turchin is the founder of a new transdisciplinary field of Cliodynamics. He has authored seven books and has published 200 articles, including a dozen in such top journals as Nature, Science, and PNAS.
Dr Dan Hoyer works with Peter Turchin on the Deep Roots of the Modern World, part of the Seshat: Global History Databank Project.
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Author now living:Profile Business AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Strongmen Ruth Ben-Ghiat
A leading academic exposes the historical and cultural contexts which allow political strongmen to thrive.
Description Ours is the age of the strongman. Russia, India, Turkey and America are ruled by men who, as they have risen to the top, have reshaped their countries around them, creating cults of personality which earn the loyalty of millions. And as they do so, they draw on a playbook of behaviour established by figures such as Benito Mussolini, Muammar Gaddafi and Adolf Hitler.
Here, political historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat draws on analysis of everything from gender and sexuality to diplomatic strategy to explain who these political figures are - and how they manipulate our own history, fears and desires in search of power at any cost.
About the Author Ruth Ben-Ghiat is Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University and a political commentator and cultural critic who has received Guggenheim, Fulbright, and other fellowships. An expert on fascism and its memory, authoritarian rulers, Donald Trump, and propaganda, she's written for or appeared on BBC World News, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Sky News, New Yorker and other media outlets.
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Author now living:Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Aeneid Shadi Bartsch, ergil
A fresh new translation of Vergil's Aeneid by a renowned classicist and scholar of Latin literature.
Description On his deathbed in 19 BCE, Vergil asked that his epic, The Aeneid, be burned and not published. If his wishes had been obeyed, western literature - and maybe even western civilisation - might have taken a different course.
The Aeneid has remained a key text of university courses since the rise of universities, and has been invoked at key points of human history - whether by Saint Augustine to illustrate the fallen nature of the soul, by settlers to justify manifest destiny in North America, or by Mussolini in support of his Fascist regime.
In this fresh and fast-paced translation of the Aeneid, Shadi Bartsch brings the poem to the modern reader. Along with the translation, her introduction will guide the reader to a deeper understanding of the epic's enduring influence.
About the Author Shadi Bartsch is the Regenstein Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. She is the author or editor of fourteen books on the ancient world and imperial roman literature, the most recent of which is Persius: A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Figural, which won the 2016 Goodwin Award of Merit
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Author now living:Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Unconventional Wisdom Tom Standage
Another bestselling collection of astonishing explainers from The Economist.
Description The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask:
How much does a ghost reduce a house's value? How are winemakers responding to climate change? How much should you tip your Uber driver? Should your dog fear Easter more than fireworks?
The keen minds of The Economist love to look beyond everyday appearances to find out what really makes things tick. In this latest collection of The Economist Explains, they have gathered the weirdest and most counter-intuitive answers they've found in their endless quest to explain our bizarre world. Take a peek at some Unconventional Wisdom - and pass it on! The world only gets more amazing when discoveries are shared.
About the Author Tom Standage is Deputy Editor of The Economist. He is the author of several books, including Uncommon Knowledge, Seriously Curious, Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years and The Victorian Internet. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian and Wired.
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Author now living:Profile Business AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Uncommon Knowledge Tom Standage
Following up 2016's hit Go Figure and 2018's Sunday Times bestseller Seriously Curious, another collection of astonishing bite-sized explainers from the Economist.
Description The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask:
How did carrots become orange? What's stopping us from having a four-day week? How can we remove all the broken bits of satellite from orbit? If everything is so terrible, why is the global suicide rate falling?
The keen minds of the Economist love to look beyond everyday appearances to find out what really makes things tick. In this latest collection of The Economist Explains, they have gathered together the juiciest fruits of their never-ending quest for answers. For an uncommonly interesting read, take a peek at some Uncommon Knowledge - and pass it on! The world only gets more amazing when discoveries are shared.
About the Author Tom Standage is Deputy Editor of The Economist. He is author of several books, including Seriously Curious, Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years and The Victorian Internet. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian and Wired.
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Author now living:Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Economist Guide To Change And Project Management Paul Roberts
How to make sure that projects run to budget and schedule - and deliver the intended results.
Description From the Hubble space telescope that was launched with a malfunctioning device that resulted in all the pictures it took being blurred, to the extremely late completion of England's new national soccer stadium at Wembley, history is full of example of projects that damaged organisations because they were late, over budget, failed to deliver what they were meant to, or were complete disasters.
This guide explains the principles and techniques of project management and how they are interconnected with the day- to-day management of a business. It is an invaluable handbook for helping firms deliver successful project outcomes and achieve lasting benefit through effective change.
About the Author Paul Roberts has been a managing projects for over twenty years and is a founding director of Fifthday Longview Limited, a provider of project management resources, education and expertise. He has acted as a consultant to organisations such as British Airways and Pfizer as well as public sector bodies in the UK such as the Ministry of Defence, the Inland Revenue and Royal Mail.
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Author now living:Profile Business AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Where There's A Will Emily Chappell
Emily Chappell's story of transformation into a cross-continental bike racer, pushing the limits of her endurance.
Description Shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year Non-Fiction Award 2020
'Chappell is a gifted storyteller' - Observer
In 2015 Emily Chappell embarked on a formidable new bike race: The Transcontinental. 4,000km across Europe, unassisted, in the shortest time possible. On her first attempt she made it only halfway, waking up suddenly on her back in a field, floored by the physical and mental exertion.
A year later she entered the race again - and won.
Where There's a Will takes us into Emily Chappell's race, grinding up mountain passes and charging down the other side; snatching twenty minutes' sleep on the outskirts of a village before jumping back on the bike to surge ahead for another day; feeding in bursts and navigating on the go. We experience the crippling self-doubt of the ultra distance racer, the confusing intensity of winning and the desperation of losing a dear friend who understood all of this.
About the Author Emily Chappell worked as a cycle courier in London for many years, telling her story in What Goes Around. Since then she has explored the world on her bike and committed to supporting others to do the same, as a founder of The Adventure Syndicate
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Author now living:Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Hundred Years' War on Palestine Rashid I. Khalidi
This is the story of Palestine told from the inside.
Description 'Riveting and original ... a work enriched by solid scholarship, vivid personal experience, and acute appreciation of the concerns and aspirations of the contending parties in this deeply unequal conflict ' - Noam Chomsky
The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denial: denial of statehood, denial of nationhood and denial of history. The Hundred Years War on Palestine is Rashid Khalidi's powerful response. Drawing on his family archives, he reclaims the fundamental right of any people: to narrate their history on their own terms.
Beginning in the final days of the Ottoman Empire, Khalidi reveals nascent Palestinian nationalism and the broad recognition by the early Zionists of the colonial nature of their project. These ideas and their echoes defend Nakba - the Palestinian term for the establishment of the state of Israel - the cession of the West Bank and Gaza to Jordan and Egypt, the Six Day War and the occupation. Moving through these critical moments, Khalidi interweaves the voices of journalists, poets and resistance leaders with his own accounts as a child of a UN official and a resident of Beirut during the 1982 seige. The result is a profoundly moving account of a hundred-year-long war of occupation, dispossession and colonialisation.
About the Author Professor Rashid I. Khalidi is a Palestinian-American historian and the Edward Said professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the co-editor of the Journal of Palestine. His previous books include Palestinian Identity, the Iron Cage, and Brokers of Deceit.
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Author now living:Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Stubborn Light of Things Melissa Harrison
A nature diary by award-winning novelist and nature writer Melissa Harrison, following her journey from urban south London to the rural Suffolk countryside.
Description When I lived in London I barely noticed the winter solstice. Nothing slowed, contracted or dimmed to mark the shortest day of the year, for, like all cities, London has all but left such trifling considerations behind. But now I am in Suffolk, and the difference could not be more marked. I wake in dim half-light, the yellow windows of nearby farmhouses glimmering across frost-white fields. At three the rooks begin to gather in the leafless trees, and flocks of starlings start to move from place to place. When darkness falls, the nights are blacker than I've ever seen, the starfield so breathtaking that Orion and the Plough are lost amid a million other points of light.
The Stubborn Light of Things will transform the way you see the world.
A Londoner for over twenty years, moving from flat to Tube to air-conditioned office, Melissa Harrison knew what it was to be insulated from the seasons. Adopting a dog and going on daily walks helped reconnect her with the cycle of the year and the quiet richness of nature all around her: swifts nesting in a nearby church; ivy-leaved toadflax growing out of brick walls; the first blackbird's song; an exhilarating glimpse of a hobby over Tooting Common.
Moving from scrappy city verges to ancient, rural Suffolk, where Harrison eventually relocates, this diary - compiled from her beloved Nature Notebook column in The Times - maps her joyful engagement with the natural world and demonstrates how we must first learn to see, and then act to preserve, the beauty we have on our doorsteps - no matter where we live.
A perceptive and powerful call-to-arms written in mesmerising prose, The Stubborn Light of Things confirms Harrison as a central voice in British nature writing.
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 About the Author ISBN: 9780571363506 Melissa Harrison is a novelist and nature writer. She contributes a monthly Nature Notebook column to The Times and Format: Demy writes for the FT Weekend, the Guardian and the New Statesman. Her most recent novel, All Among the Barley, was the Package Type: HARD BACK UK winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. It was a Waterstones Paperback of the Year and a Book of the Dimensions: 216h x 135w mm Extent: 224 pages Year in the Observer, the New Statesman and the Irish Times. Her previous books have been shortlisted for the Costa Bic1: The countryside, country life Novel Award and longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction (At Hawthorn Time) and the Wainwright Prize (Rain). She Bic2:
lives in rural Suffolk, the setting for the hit podcast which accompanies this book, also called The Stubborn Light of Author now living: Things. @M_Z_Harrison.Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 A Year with Swollen Appendices Brian Eno
The diary and essays of Brian Eno republished twenty-five years on with a new introduction by the artist in a beautiful hardback edition.
Description At the end of 1994, musician, producer and artist Brian Eno resolved to keep a diary. His plans to go to the cinema, theatre and galleries fell through quickly. What he did do - and write - however, was astonishing: ruminations on his collaborative work with artists including David Bowie, U2, James and Jah Wobble, interspersed with correspondence and essays dating back to 1978. These 'appendices' covered topics from the generative and ambient music Eno pioneered to what he believed the role of an artist and their art to truly be, alongside razor-sharp commentary on his day-to-day tribulations and happenings around the world.
A fascinating, candid and intimate insight into one of the most influential creative artists of our time, A Year with Swollen Appendices is an essential classic, reissued for a new generation of readers.
This beautiful 25th anniversary hardback edition has been re-designed in A5, the same size as the diary that eventually became this book. It features two ribbons, pink paper delineating the appendices (matching the original hardback edition) and a two-tone cover on boards that pays homage to the original design.
About the Author Brian Eno, musician, producer, visual artist and activist, first came to international prominence in the early seventies as a founding member of British band Roxy Music. His visionary production includes albums with Talking Heads, Devo, U2, Laurie Anderson and Coldplay, while his long list of collaborations include recordings with David Bowie, David Byrne, Grace Jones, Karl Hyde and James Blake, among many others. His visual experiments with light and video continue to parallel his musical career, with exhibitions all over the globe.
To date he has released over thirty albums of his own music and exhibited extensively, as far afield as the Venice
Price: AU $34.99 NZ $37.99 Biennale and the sails of the Sydney Opera House. He is a founding member of the Long Now Foundation, a trustee of ISBN: 9780571364619 ClientEarth and patron of Videre est Credere. His latest album with brother Roger, Mixing Colours was released on Format: Misc HB Deutsche Grammophon earlier this year. Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 210h x 148w mm Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Biography: arts & entertainment Bic2:
Author now living:Faber Social AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Mozart Jan Swafford
A vivid new biography, toppling the many myths surrounding Mozart, which will undoubtedly be the standard biography for years to come.
Description From his celebrated early childhood, Mozart has been caught up in myths: the superhuman prodigy, the adult who was still a child, the neglect, the pauper's grave. None of these myths are true, at least not at face value. Wolfgang Amade Mozart is not primarily a myth-busting book, but in the process of bringing to vivid life the man and composer absorbed in writing for his public rather than for posterity, the myths topple en route.
Swafford portrays a man who had his sorrows like everybody else, but who was a high-spirited, high-living bon vivant fond of games of skill, well-read and thoughtful if also at times playing the clown: in the end fundamentally a happy and happily married man who had a wide circle of friends.
About the Author Jan Swafford is a composer and writer whose music has been played by orchestras and chamber ensembles including the Symphonies of Indianapolis, St. Louis, and the Dutch Radio Orchestra. His award-winning books include biographies of Brahms, Charles Ives, and the NY Times best-seller Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph. He studied at Harvard and the Yale School of Music.
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Author now living:Faber Music AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Nolan Variations Tom Shone
The Nolan Variations is a rare, intimate portrait of Christopher Nolan, one of the most profound and commercially successful directors at work today.
Description The Nolan Variations is a rare, intimate portrait of Christopher Nolan, one of the most profound and commercially successful directors at work today. In this in-depth exploration of his work - including The Dark Knight (2008), Inception (2010) and Dunkirk (2017) - Nolan discusses the evolution of his pictures; his thoughts on time, identity, perception, chaos, and daydreams.
The book has been done with the full cooperation of Nolan, who has opened himself up more fully than ever before in his talks with Tom Shone.
About the Author TOM SHONE was the film critic of the Sunday Times from 1994 until he moved to New York in 1999. He is the author of five books, including Tarantino: A Retrospective and Martin Scorsese: A Retrospective. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, Intelligent Life, and Vogue. He currently teaches film history and criticism at New York University
Price: AU $59.99 NZ $69.99 ISBN: 9780571347988 Format: Misc HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 232h x 184w mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Films, cinema Bic2:
Author now living:Faber Film AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Sex Power Money Sara Pascoe
Award-winning comedian Sara Pascoe turns her attention to the things that really matter to humans - sex, power and money.
Description THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER
'I've never read a book so fast and laughed so loudly while learning so much. Pascoe is a sage for our times.' - Deborah Frances-White, The Guilty Feminist
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Why do some women still expect men to buy their dinner?
Why do some men feel depressed after masturbating?
What the hell is going on with porn?
Comedian Sara Pascoe explores the complex connections between sex, power and money. This book is a thoughtful and entertaining journey through anatomy and arousal, dating and sex work, animals and technology and Pascoe makes our most baffling human behaviours less mysterious.
'An insightful, sensitive study of modern masculinity and sexual economics.' - Observer
'Thought-provoking' - Daily Mail
'Inclusive and of course, funny' - i newspaper
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9780571336005 **SUBSCRIBE TO THE AWARD-WINNING SEX POWER MONEY PODCAST** Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK About the Author Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 352 pages Sara Pascoe is a highly acclaimed comedian, writer and actor. Her extensive TV credits include the BBC solo stand-up Bic1: Humour special LadsLadsLads; BBC2's Frankie Boyle's New World Order, on which she is a weekly guest contributor; and Bic2:
Comedians Giving Lectures on Dave, which she hosts. She wrote and performed the BBC Radio 4 series Modern Author now living: Monkey and the BBC2 short Sara Pascoe vs Monogamy, which was inspired by her first book Animal.@sarapascoe sarapascoe.com Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Then It Fell Apart Moby
The hotly-anticipated second volume of Moby's memoirs after Porcelain: a celebrity car crash of epic proportions after the release of PLAY.
Description *Featured in The Times' 'Best Books of the Year So Far'*
What do you do when you realise you have everything you think you've ever wanted but still feel completely empty? What do you do when it all starts to fall apart? The second volume of Moby's extraordinary life story is a journey into the dark heart of fame and the demons that lurk just beneath the bling and bluster of the celebrity lifestyle.
In summer 1999, Moby released the album that defined the millennium, PLAY. Like generation-defining albums before it, PLAY was ubiquitous, and catapulted Moby to superstardom. Suddenly he was hanging out with David Bowie and Lou Reed, Christina Ricci and Madonna, taking esctasy for breakfast (most days), drinking litres of vodka (every day), and sleeping with super models (infrequently). It was a diet that couldn't last. And then it fell apart.
The second volume of Moby's memoir is a classic about the banality of fame. It is shocking, riotously entertaining, extreme, and unforgiving. It is unedifying, but you can never tear your eyes away from the page.
About the Author Moby was born in Harlem in 1965. He is a singer-songwriter, musician, DJ and photographer. The first volume of his memoirs, Porcelain, was published by Faber in 2016.
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Author now living:Faber Social AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Granta 153: Second Nature Isabella Tree
Guest-edited by Isabella Tree, author of Wilding, this nature issue touches on every continent in the world and features award-winning writers, expert scientists and activists from the frontlines of the climate crisis.
Description This issue encapsulates the state of nature and our different cultural relationships with it worldwide. It features interviews with Amazonian shaman Manari Ushigua, Inuit activist Siila Watt-Cloutier and Indigenous elder Rod Mason; fiction by Caoilinn Hughes and Amy Leach; poetry by John Kinsella and Daisy Lafarge; and photography by Xavi Bou and Merlin Sheldrake. Plus, reportage and memoir by:
Patrick Barkham Robert Becker Ellen Coon Tim Flannery Cal Flyn Derek Gow Trevor Goward Barry Lopez Dino Martens Charles Massy Rebecca Priestley Callum Roberts Judith D. Schwartz Sue Stuart-Smith Samanth Subramanian Ken Thompson Adam Weymouth
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9781909889361 About the Author Format: Misc PB Isabella Tree is the award-winning author of five books, most recently Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm, Package Type: PAPERBACK which charts the story of the pioneering rewilding project in Sussex where she lives. Dimensions: 210h x 145w mm Extent: pages Bic1: Anthologies (non-poetry) Bic2:
Author now living:Granta AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Cynical Theories Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
Description 'Exposes the surprisingly shallow intellectual roots of the movements that appear to be engulfing our culture' - Steven Pinker
Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't practise yoga or cook Chinese food? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only white people can be racist?
In Cynical Theories, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay document the evolution and the dogma behind these ideas. While acknowledging the need to challenge the complacency of those who think a just society has been fully achieved, Pluckrose and Lindsay break down how this often-radical activist scholarship does far more harm than good, not least to those marginalised communities it claims to champion. They also detail its alarmingly inconsistent and illiberal ethics. Only through a proper understanding of the evolution of these ideas, they conclude, can those who value science, reason and consistently liberal ethics successfully challenge this harmful and authoritarian orthodoxy - in the academy, in culture and beyond.
About the Author Helen Pluckrose is a liberal political and cultural writer and speaker. She is the editor of Areo Magazine and the author of many popular essays on postmodernism critical theory, liberalism, secularism and feminism. Today an exile from the humanities, she researched late medieval and early modern religious writing by and for women. She lives in England and can be found on Twitter @HPluckrose.
James Lindsay is a mathematician with a background in physics and founder of New Discourses (newdiscourses.com). His essays have appeared in numerous outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Time. He lives in Tennessee and can be found on Twitter @ConceptualJames.
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Author now living:Swift Press AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 You're About to Make a Terrible Mistake! Olivier Sibony
You're About to Make a Terrible Mistake! distils the latest developments in behavioural economics and cognitive psychology into actionable tools for making smart, effective decisions in business and beyond.
Description 'A masterful introduction to the state of the art in managerial decision making. Surprisingly, it is also a pleasure to read.' - Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking Fast and Slow
We all make decisions all the time. It's so natural that we hardly stop to think about it. Yet even the smartest and most experienced among us make frequent and predictable errors. So, what makes a good decision? Should we trust our intuitions and if so, when? How can we avoid being tripped up by cognitive biases when we are not even aware of them?
In You're About to Make a Terrible Mistake!, strategy professor and management consultant Olivier Sibony draws on dozens of fascinating and engaging case studies to show how cognitive biases routinely lead all of us - including even the most renowned business titans - into nine common decision=making traps.
Distinctive in the clarity and practicality of is message, You're About to Make a Terrible Mistake! distils the latest developments in behavioural economics and cognitive psychology into actionable tools for making smart, effective decisions in business and beyond.
About the Author Olivier Sibony is an Affiliate Professor of Strategy at HEC Paris and an Associate Fellow at Said Business School, Oxford University. Previously, he spent 25 years in the Paris and New York offices of McKinsey & Company, where he was a senior partner. Sibony's research on improving the quality of strategic decision making has been featured in many publications, included Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. He is a graduate of HEC Paris and holds a PhD from Paris Sciences et Lettres University. He is a co-author, with Daniel Kahneman, of the forthcoming Noise.
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Author now living:Swift Press AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Upswing Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett
An eminent political scientist's brilliant analysis of economic, social, and political trends over the past century demonstrating how we have gone from an individualistic 'I' society to a more communitarian 'We' society and then back again and how we can learn from that experience.
Description Deep and accelerating inequality; unprecedented political polarisation, vitriolic public discourse; a fraying social fabric' public and private narcissism - today we seem to agree on only one thing: this is the worst of times.
But we've been here before - a century ago.
In a sweeping overview of more than a century of history, drawing on his inimitable combination of statistical analysis and storytelling, Robert Putnam analyses a remarkable confluence of trends that bought us from an 'I' society to a 'We' society and then back again. He draws inspiring lessons from our time from an earlier era, when a dedicated group of reformers righted the ship, putting us on a path to becoming a society one again based on community. Engaging, revelatory, and timely, this is Putnam's most ambitious work yet, and an unmissable contribution to the debate over where we want our society to go.
About the Author Robert D. Putnam is the Malkin Research Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University and a former Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has written fourteen books, including the bestselling Our Kids and Bowling Alone, and has consulted for the last four US Presidents. In 2021, President Obama awarded him the National Humanities Medal. His research program, the Saguaro Seminar, is dedicated to fostering civic engagement in America. Visit RobertDPutnam.com
Shaylyn Romney Garrett is a writer and award-winning social entrepreneur. She is a founding contributor to 'Weave: The Social Fabric Project', an Aspen Institute initiative. She also contributed to Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell's Price: AU $49.99 NZ $55.00 American Grace. Shaylyn holds a degree in Government from Harvard University and is a returned Peace Corps ISBN: 9781800750029 volunteer. Visit ShaylynRomneyGarrett.com Format: C-Format HB Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 448 pages Bic1: Social issues & processes Bic2:
Author now living:Swift Press AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Lost Cat Mary Gaitskill
'Last year I lost my cat Gattino. He was very young, at seven months barely an adolescent. He is probably dead but I don't know for certain.'
Description So begins Mary Gaitskill's stunning long essay, the closest thing she has written to a memoir, about a lost cat and a pair of adopted children. In this searing piece about loss, love, safety and fear, Gaitskill applies her razor-sharp writing to her most personal subjects yet.
About the Author Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To (nominated for the PEN/ Faulkner Award), and Don't Cry, the novels The Mare, Veronica (nominated for the National Book Award), and Two Girls, Fat and Thin, and a collection of essays, Somebody With A Little Hammer. Her stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Artforum, and Granta, among many other journals, as well as in The Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781911547808 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 128w mm Extent: pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2:
Author now living:Daunt Books AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Valentino Rossi Stuart Barker
This is a story of speed, love and loss - the definitive biography of the most world's most legendary motorsports racer.
Description 'At high speed everything becomes more difficult and more beautiful. When you're racing at 180mph, the semi-bends become bends, the little holes become big holes, everything becomes extreme and bigger. And then it becomes beautiful.'
Valentino Rossi is an icon: the most successful and most loved motorcycle racer of all time, he has transcended MotoGP to become a symbol of courage, risk and daring. To race for twenty-three years at the very highest level of the world's most dangerous sport is unprecedented. But then, there has never been a motorcycle racer like Valentino Rossi. He is a modern-day gladiator, a man who still risks his life every time he throws a leg over a motorcycle.
Yet for all his two-wheel talents, it is Rossi's endearing character that has seen him transcend the sport. His popularity is phenomenal. For Rossi, every race is a home race. He turns MotoGP grandstands across the world a sea of yellow - his traditional lucky colour.
In more than two decades of Grand Prix racing, Rossi has seen it all. The deaths of rivals and friends, the glory of his unprecedented success, serious injuries, fabulous wealth, the greatest battles ever seen on two wheels, the infamous on and off-track clashes with his fiercest rivals . . .
Using exclusive new interviews with those who have been part of Rossi's story from start to finish, critically-acclaimed and bestselling motorsport author Stuart Barker has produced the most in-depth book ever written about the Italian superstar - a tale of speed, love and loss, told in full for the very first time, in all its adrenalin-charged, high-octane glory.
About the Author
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 Stuart Barker, born in Galloway, Scotland, graduated from Strathclyde University in 1996 and began working as a ISBN: 9781789462951 motorcycle journalist for Motor Cycle News. Freelance since 2001, he has written for most of the major motorcycling titles Format: C-Format HB and was editor of the Isle of Man TT programme for eight years. He has written eight books including a bestselling Package Type: HARD BACK biography of Barry Sheene and a biography of Evel Knievel which is set to be made into a major Hollywood movie. Other Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 320 pages works include biographies of Niall Mackenzie, Steve Hislop and David Jefferies and a history of the TT races. He lives in Bic1: Biography: sport Kettering, Northamptonshire. Bic2:
Author now living:John Blake AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Federer Chris Bowers
Roger Federer is not only one of the greatest tennis players ever to pick up a racket - if not the greatest - but he is one of the global icons of our time. Characterised by a mixture of passion and calmness, a fierce competitor with a regal bearing, he is both an athlete and an ambassador, a street fighter and a statesman. But who is he really? And what are the experiences and influences that have shaped him into the world figure he is today?
Description This acclaimed biography, first published in 2006 and now fully updated in its ninth edition, traces Federer's life and career, from his first tentative swings with a racket to legendary status. The vastly experienced writer, broadcaster and tennis historian Chris Bowers talked exclusively to many of the people who helped shape the young Roger Federer, and together with his own experiences following Federer's career from his junior title at Wimbledon at age sixteen to his twentieth major title nineteen years later, he presents an affectionate and analytical portrait of one of the great names of modern-day sport. His book has enough information to satisfy the most voracious Federer fan, and enough talking points to keep an argument going until the small hours.
In its portrait of Roger Federer - the man, the player, the icon - this masterly biography brings the player's story up to date, while also examining his place in tennis and sporting history.
About the Author Chris Bowers is a freelance writer and broadcaster who has covered the global tennis scene for more than 20 years. He is best known as a commentator for European sports television channel Eurosport but also appears on the American sports channel ESPN and various radio stations around the world. He has written several books on tennis, including the biography of Roger Federer, but also The Book of Tennis, the International Tennis Federation's centenary commemorative book, and four Davis Cup yearbooks. He is also active in the environmental and political fields, and in 2011 wrote the biography of Nick Clegg, the leader of the British Liberal Democrats and deputy prime minister. He is the Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 son of a refugee, and lives with his daughter in East Sussex, England. ISBN: 9781789463668 Format: C-Format HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Biography: sport Bic2:
Author now living:John Blake AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Daniel Craig - The Biography Sarah Marshall
The biography of James Bond icon Daniel Craig.
Description The most successful Bond of all time. One of the most stylish men in Britain. A United Nations ambassador. Skydiving with the Queen herself. Is there anything Daniel Craig can't do? With the release of No Time to Die, Craig will appear for the fifth time as James Bond. The public and the critics have been united in their praise for Craig in the most-pressurised role there is in global film.
However, there has been much more to Craig over the years than just Bond. Roles in Layer Cake, Knives Out and the movie adaptation of Stieg Larssons's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo have met with acclaim, and shown breadth and charisma beyond being 007. In this biography, author Sarah Marshall explores the road to success for one of Britain's finest actors - from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama his status as a global icon. A must for any fan, this biography examines not just the star gracing billboards and magazines covers, but also the character of the man behind the famous blue eyes.
About the Author Sarah Marshall is a writer and journalist who has worked across a variety of celebrity and entertainment magazines including Mizz, Cosmogirl, Bliss, CD-UK and It's Hot! She was the editor of a pre-teen title before moving to the BBC magazines Star and Top of the Pops, for which she interviewed many high-profile stars. Sarah also works for a number of specialised music publications. Her recent publications include the biography of Sienna Miller.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781789463859 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Biography: arts & entertainment Bic2:
Author now living:John Blake AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Live More Think Less Pia Callesen
Stop depression in its tracks with the revolutionary Number 1 Danish bestseller.
Description The Danish bestseller now available in English
Dr Pia Callesen presents the first practical book on metacognitive therapy, a groundbreaking new treatment proven to stop depression in its tracks.
Many of us struggle with overthinking. We endlessly analyse what we've said and done or the decisions we have to make. Rarely does this treat the stresses of our lives. Often we become overwhelmed; we end up feeling powerless, spiralling into sadness and even depression.
Live More Think Less presents a radical strategy to take back control of our thinking processes. From training our attention to leaving our negative trigger-thoughts on the conveyor belt, the book guides us towards living better through mastering the attention we pay to our thoughts and how we act upon them.
Depression and sadness are something we all have the power to overcome.
About the Author Dr Pia Callesen is a therapist and metacognitive specialist, managing a clinic in Denmark. She has a PhD from Manchester University and trained with the founder of metacognitive therapy at the MCT Institute. Her study into the effectiveness of metacognitive therapy for depression, published in Scientific Reports in 2020, suggests that MCT has considerable benefits which may exceed those of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781785786686 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 174 pages Bic1: Popular psychology Bic2:
Author now living:Icon AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Operation Swallow Mark Felton
How an American soldier saved his comrades from being enslaved by the Nazis in the dying days of World War Two.
Description Operation Swallow is the true story of how a small group of American soldiers, inspired by a charismatic but reluctant leader named Hans Kasten, worked to save hundreds of fellow servicemen from a Nazi plan to turn Jewish prisoners of war into concentration camp slaves.
It begins in the snowy forests of the Ardennes during Christmas 1944 and ends at the charnel house of Buchenwald concentration camp in spring 1945. It is a remarkable battle of wills between a young GI thrust into a leadership position he didn't want and an SS officer who will stop at nothing to complete his orders.
Written from personal testimonies and official documents, it is an escape story replete with courage, sacrifice, torture, despair and salvation. Even more remarkably, it is a story that has barely been told before, a chapter of US military history that the American government tried to suppress for decades - and an uplifting story that deserves to be widely known.
About the Author Mark Felton is the author of numerous books on military history, including Castle of the Eagles ('an extraordinary and largely forgotten wartime story, brought back to life in this Boys' Own account' - Daily Mail) and Zero Night ('a thundering good read' - History of War), both of which are in development as Hollywood movies.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781785786587 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Second World War Bic2:
Author now living:Icon AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Art is a Tyrant Catherine Hewitt
A new biography of the wildly unconventional 19th-century animal painter and gender equality pioneer Rosa Bonheur.
Description '[A] diligently researched, beautifully produced and insistently sympathetic biography.' - Guardian
A new biography of the wildly unconventional 19th-century animal painter and gender equality pioneer Rosa Bonheur, from the author of the acclaimed Mistress of Paris and Renoir's Dancer.
Rosa Bonheur was the very antithesis of the feminine ideal of 19th-century society. She was educated, she shunned traditional 'womanly' pursuits, she rejected marriage - and she wore trousers. But the society whose rules she spurned accepted her as one of their own, because of her genius for painting animals.
She shared an intimate relationship with the eccentric, self-styled inventor Nathalie Micas, who nurtured the artist like a wife. Together Rosa, Nathalie and Nathalie's mother bought a chateau and with Rosa's menagerie of animals the trio became one of the most extraordinary households of the day.
Catherine Hewitt's compelling new biography is an inspiring evocation of a life lived against the rules.
About the Author Catherine Hewitt studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her previous books with Icon are The Mistress of Paris (2015), 'an enthralling story, told with both conviction and sympathy' (Observer), and Renoir's Dancer (2017), described as 'fascinating' by France magazine.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781785786594 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 484 pages Bic1: Biography: arts & entertainment Bic2:
Author now living:Icon AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Easy Peasy Doggy Diary Steve Mann
Track your dog's training progress with the help of the UK's No.1 dog-trainer.
Description From the author of the no.1 bestselling dog training book, comes this 52 week journal containing everything you need to train your dog, chart their progress and record key milestones.
Easy Peasy Doggy Diary is the perfect tool to help you and your dog stay on track with weekly targets and progress checks and over 25 techniques and tips including RECALL, STOP, SEEK BACK, GROOMING and FIRST AID. All presented in a fun step-by-step guide to help you and your dog enjoy the journey to domesticated bliss.
Steve Mann is the founder of the Institute of Modern Dog Trainers and has over 30 years of know ledge by training over 100,000 dogs and owners worldwide. Whether you w ant to keep track of diet, jot down your favourite local walks or celebrate key achievements, this diary is the perfect way to record those special moments and see how far you've come.
About the Author Steve Mann has been a professional dog trainer and behaviourist for over 30 years. He has trained over 100,000 dogs and thousands of professional dog trainers. He is founder and chairman of the Institute of Modern Dog Trainers and presents seminars, courses and workshops for dog trainers and behaviourists worldwide.
A regular on TV, Steve has starred in several show s including The Underdog Show and Who Let The Dogs Out?, as well as appearing on BBC Breakfast and Lorraine. He has also trained some high-profile pups, including those of Graham Norton, Lorraine Kelly and Theo Walcott.
Steve would love to hear from you, and you can find him at www.stevemanndogtraining.com.
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9781788703543 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Dog obedience & training Bic2:
Author now living:Blink AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Crown Robert Lacey
The fascinating royal and social history that inspired the second and third seasons of The Crown, from the show's historical consultant.
Description The fascinating royal and social history that inspired Seasons 2 and 3 of The Crown, written by the show's historical consultant.
In this incredible companion to the second and third seasons of Netflix's acclaimed series The Crown, renowned biographer and the show's historical consultant Robert Lacey takes us through the real history that inspired the drama. Covering two tumultuous decades in the reign of Elizabeth II, Lacey looks at the key social, political and personal moments and the effect they had not only on the royal family, but also on the world around them. From the Suez Canal Crisis and the US/Russia space race to the Duke of Windsor's collaboration with Hitler and the rumoured issues with the royal marriage, the book will provide a fascinating insight into the two decades that the show covers, revealing the truth behind the fiction on-screen.
Extensively researched and complete with beautifully reproduced photographs, this is a unique look behind the history that inspired the show and the years that would prove to be the making of The Queen.
About the Author Robert Lacey is a renowned British historian. He is the author of numerous international bestsellers, including Majesty, his pioneering biography of Queen Elizabeth II, The Kingdom and Great Takes from English History. For nearly 40 years Robert has been writing about the Queen and her extraordinary life, making him an expert of her long reign.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781788701822 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Biography: royalty Bic2:
Author now living: UKBlink AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Hell Is Round the Corner Tricky
'I was never interested in being the richest guy on the planet. My attitude was, I'm gonna turn music upside down. I'm gonna make a sound that nobody's heard before.'
Description 'Bookended by tragedy, shot through with violence, ultimately uplifting' - Guardian
'An insight into a singular artist' - New Statesman
'Fierce, funny and indomitable' - Observer
'My tears were relentlessly pricked by Tricky's memoir' - Daily Telegraph
Tricky is one of the most original music artists to emerge from the UK in the past 30 years. His signature sound, coupled with deep, questioning lyrics, took the UK by storm in the early 1990s and was part of the soundtrack that defined the post-rave generation.
This unique, no-holds barred autobiography is not only a portrait of an incredible artist - it is also a gripping slice of social history packed with extraordinary anecdotes and voices from the margins of society.
Tricky examines how his creativity has helped him find a different path to that of his relatives, some of whom were bare- knuckle fighters and gangsters, and how his mother's suicide has had a lifelong effect on him, both creatively and psychologically. With his unique heritage and experience, his story will be one of the most talked-about music autobiographies of the decade.
About the Author Born in 1968, into the 'white ghetto' Knowle West area of Bristol, to an Anglo-Guyanese mother and Jamaican father,
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 Adrian Thaws had what one might term a troubled start to life. Certain shocking events, particularly his mother's suicide, ISBN: 9781788702300 made a deep imprint on the boy who would grow up to become the artist and performer known as Tricky. Over the course Format: B of his career as a solo artist, he has released 13 studio albums, selling over 2 million copies worldwide. His debut album Package Type: PAPERBACK Maxinquaye (1995) was nominated for the Mercury Prize and sold over a million copies worldwide. He is admired Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 352 pages internationally by some of the biggest names in music, including the late David Bowie. He currently lives and records in Bic1: Autobiography: arts & entertainment Berlin. Bic2:
Author now living:Blink AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Happy Broadcast Mauro Gatti, illustrated by Mauro Gatti
An illustrated collection of good news from around the world.
Description Mauro's positive illustrations of the best news of recent times became viral in 2018, providing relief for those who have become disillusioned and anxious from bad news. The Happy Broadcast features a collection of some of Mauro's best work, including good news bites from around the world, from science development and the environment, to random acts of kindness. The Happy Broadcast is not only a celebration of what's good about the world, but also a call to action to make even more of it.
About the Author
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781787417700 Format: Misc HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 140h x 140w mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Gift books Bic2:
Author now living:Studio AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Windsor Knot SJ Bennett
The first book in a highly original and delightfully clever crime series in which Queen Elizabeth II secretly solves crimes while carrying out her royal duties.
Description The morning after a dinner party at Windsor Castle, eighty-nine-year-old Queen Elizabeth is shocked to discover that one of her guests has been found murdered in his room, with a rope around his neck.
When the police begin to suspect her loyal servants, Her Majesty knows they are looking in the wrong place.
For the Queen has been living an extraordinary double life ever since her coronation. Away from the public eye, she has a brilliant knack for solving crimes.
With her household's happiness on the line, her secret must not get out. Can the Queen and her trusted secretary Rozie catch the killer, without getting caught themselves?
About the Author SJ Bennett holds a PhD in Italian Literature from the University of Cambridge and was a strategy consultant and startup manager before turning to writing. She has published ten books for teenagers, winning The Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition in 2009 and the RoNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 2017. The Windsor Knot is her first novel for adults. She lives in London. You can find her at SJBennettBooks.com and on Twitter @SJBennettbooks.
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9781838773168 Format: Demy Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 216h x 135w mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2:
Author now living:Zaffre AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Mother and Baby Home Sheila Newberry
A heartwarming new novel from the Queen of family saga, Sheila Newberry.
Description A warm and charming new saga by Sheila Newberry, author of The Nursemaid's Secret and The Winter Baby. Perfect for fans of Call the Midwife.
Sunny grew in the Mother and Baby Home on Grove Lane, London.The daughter of a wartime nurse and a pilot, she was abandoned by her mother shortly after her birth and taken in by Nan, the warm and gentle proprietor of the Mother and Baby Home in which she was born.
Never having known her parents, Sunny has always felt like she doesn't quite fit in, but now at sixteen-years-old, she is ready to find her place in the world. Heading out to start her first job, she finally feels she has some idea of who she wants to be.
As 1950s post-war London is changing at a rapid pace, so is Sunny. And when someone from her past returns, Sunny has some tough decisions to make. Decisions that could affect the rest of her life . . .
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Praise for Sheila Newberry
'The Forget-Me-Not Girl is a drama-packed and emotional saga full of nostalgia, warmth and charm.' - The Lancashire Post
'So gloriously nostalgic . . . a perfect example of her talent.' - Maureen Lee, bestselling author of The Seven Streets of Liverpool
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781838771454 'Like having dinner with your mother in her warm and cosy kitchen.' - Diane Allen, bestselling author of For the Sake of Format: B Her Family Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 416 pages About the Author Bic1: Sagas Sheila Newberry was born in Suffolk and spent a lot of time there both before and during the war. She wrote her first Bic2:
'book' before she was ten - all sixty pages of it - in purple ink. Her family was certainly her inspiration and she was Author now living: published for most of her adult life. She spent forty years living in Kent with her husband John on a smallholding. She had nine children, twenty-two grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Sheila retired back to Suffolk where she lived until her death in 2020.Zaffre AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Glasgow Girl at War Eileen Ramsay
Description 1930s Scotland.
Ferelith Gallagher has been brought up in a convent in Glasgow, but dreams of bigger and better things. With no money behind her, and no family to speak of, she travels to Edinburgh to study to be a lawyer - a brave choice for a woman in the 1930s. But then she meets a young man who sweeps her off her feet.
After a brief and disastrous marriage, Ferelith swears she is done with love, and buries herself in her studies, working hard to become the first female senior advocate in Scottish history. But when she falls in love a second time, she finds herself torn between love and her career.
And then war breaks out, and life will never be the same again . . .
About the Author Eileen Ramsay grew up in Dumfriesshire. After graduation she went to Washington DC, where she taught in private schools for some years, before moving to California with her Scottish husband. There, she raised two sons, finished her Masters Degree, fell in love with Mexico, and published her first short stories and a Regency novel. The family returned to Scotland where Eileen continued to teach and write and to serve - at different times - on the committees of The Society of Authors in Scotland, The Scottish Association of Writers and The Romantic Novelists Association. In 2004, her novel SOMEDAY, SOMEWHERE was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year award. Eileen is currently Chair of the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781785762192 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2:
Author now living:Zaffre AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Scar Tissue Ollie Ollerton
The first Alex Abbott thriller from former-Special Forces soldier turned number one bestselling author Ollie Ollerton.
Description Ex-special forces soldier Alex Abbott escaped the Middle East under a cloud and now lives hand-to-mouth in Singapore. Scraping a living as a gun for hire and estranged from his family, Abbott is haunted by ghosts of the past, drinking to dull the pain. Life's tough, but there is one upside - at least he's not in Baghdad.
That's about to change.
When a job goes badly wrong, Abbott's in hot water. Next he learns that his military son, Nathan, is missing in Iraq. Knowing something is wrong, needing to find his son and desperate for redemption, Abbott has no choice but to go back.
Returning to Baghdad, Abbott renews old acquaintances and begins his search for Nathan. The body count rises as old wounds open and he struggles to confront his demons, self-medicating the only way he knows how. But when one of his old crew turns up dead in mysterious circumstances and the link with Nathan is clear, Abbott begins to suspect a trap.
But who is the hunter? And who is the hunted?
About the Author Biog: Matthew 'Ollie' Ollerton is a former Special Forces soldier and a member of the Directing Staff on Channel 4's hit show SAS: Who Dares Wins.
Ollie's military career began at the age of 18 when he joined the Royal Marine Commandos and toured operationally in Northern Ireland and in Iraq for Operation Desert Storm. He subsequently spent six years in the Special Boat Service rising to team leader, before working in Iraq as a private security contractor and carrying out charity work in South-East
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 Asia. ISBN: 9781788703802 Format: C-Format HB Ollie now spends his time as an entrepreneur running three companies, Break Point, Battle Ready and Double O Global, Package Type: HARD BACK all designed to improve people's lives. Ollie is an ambassador for the Royal Marines Charity and a director of the mental Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 336 pages health charity StrongMen. Bic1: Thriller / suspense Bic2:
His two books, Break Point and Battle Ready, have both been Sunday Times bestsellers, with Break Point going to Author now living: number one in the chart.Blink AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Beat the Devil David Hare
A searing account of seventeen days during the pandemic.
Description Covid-19 seems to be a sort of dirty bomb, thrown into the body to cause havoc.
On the same day that the UK government finally made the first of two decisive interventions that led to a conspicuously late lockdown, David Hare contracted Covid-19. Nobody seemed to know much about it then, and many doctors are not altogether sure they know much more today. Suffering a pageant of apparently random symptoms, Hare recalls the delirium of his illness, which mixed with fear, dream, honest medicine and dishonest politics to create a monologue of furious urgency and power.
About the Author David Hare's first full-length play was produced in 1970. Since then he has written over thirty stage plays and thirty screenplays for film and television. In a millennial poll of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, five of the top hundred were his.
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9780571366088 Format: Demy Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 216h x 134w mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2:
Author now living:Faber Plays AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Late Sun Christopher Reid
A new poetry collection from the Costa Book Award-winner offers a lifetime's lessons in 'light and being alive'.
Description The new collection of poems from Christopher Reid.
About the Author Christopher Reid is the author of many books of poems, including A Scattering (2009), winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award, The Song of Lunch (2009) and Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs (2018). For most of the 1990s he worked at Faber & Faber, as poetry editor. He is currently editing a volume of Seamus Heaney's letters, to be published in 2022.
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9780571360246 Format: Demy Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 216h x 135w mm Extent: 88 pages Bic1: Poetry by individual poets Bic2:
Author now living:Faber Poetry AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 March of the Lemmings Stewart Lee
Following the huge success of the bestselling How I Escaped My Certain Fate and Content Provider, this is the new paperback from award-winning comedian and writer Stewart Lee.
Description 'A true genius of comedy' - Grayson Perry
As a Metropolitan Elitist Snowflake, Stewart Lee was disappointed by the EU referendum result of 2016. But he knew how to weaponise his inconvenience - and the result is March of the Lemmings. Drawing on three years of newspaper columns, a complete transcript of the Content Provider stand-up show, and Lee's caustic footnote commentary, this is the scathing record the Brexit era deserves. With a riotous cast of characters (including a Lemming-obsessed Michael Gove), a dramatic chorus of online commenters and Kremlin bots, and Lee himself as our unreliable narrator-hero, this is the ultimate companion to the Brexit horror show.
About the Author Stewart Lee began stand-up in 1988 at the age of 20, and won the Hackney Empire new act of the year award in 1990. In 2001 he co-wrote the libretto for Richard Thomas's Jerry Springer: The Opera, which went on to win four Olivier awards. His most recent live shows have been Carpet Remnant World (2011), Much A Stew About Nothing (2013), Room With A Stew (2015) and Content Provider (2017). In December 2011 he won Best Male TV Comic and Best Comedy Entertainment Performance at the British Comedy Awards and his BBC show Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle won a BAFTA in 2012. In 2018 he was described by The Times as the word's greatest living stand-up comedian.
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9780571357031 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2:
Author now living:Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Windrush Betrayal Amelia Gentleman
A searing portrait of Britain's hostile environment by the celebrated journalist, longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2019.
Description *LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2019* *SHORTISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2020*
'[Gentleman's] reporting proves why an independent press is so vital.' - Reni Eddo-Lodge
'A timely reminder of what truly great journalists can achieve.' - David Olusoga
'It is impossible to overstate the importance of this heartbreaking book.' - James O'Brien
Amelia Gentleman's expose of the Windrush scandal shocked the nation, and led to the resignation of Amber Rudd as Home Secretary. Her tenacious reporting revealed how the government's 'hostile environment' immigration policy had led to thousands of law-abiding people being wrongly classified as illegal immigrants, with many being removed from the country, and many more losing their homes and their jobs.
In The Windrush Betrayal, Gentleman tells the full story of her investigation for the first time. Her writing shines a light on the people directly affected by the scandal and illustrates the devastating effect of politicians becoming so disconnected from the world outside Westminster that they become oblivious to the impact of their policy decisions. This is a vitally important account that exposes deeply disturbing truths about modern Britain.
'Gentleman boldly chronicles the devastating reality of a scandal that illegalised, imbruted and abandoned British citizens [w]ith the same tenacity that she used to expose the truth of Windrush in the first place'. - David Lammy MP
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781783351855 Amelia Gentleman is a reporter for the Guardian. She was named Journalist of the Year at the 2019 British Journalism Format: B Awards and won the 2018 Paul Foot journalism award for her reportage on the Windrush scandal. She has also won the Package Type: PAPERBACK Orwell Prize and Feature Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards. Previously, she was Delhi correspondent for the Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 352 pages International Herald Tribune, and Paris and Moscow correspondent for the Guardian.Her first book, The Windrush Bic1: Refugees & political asylum Betrayal, has been longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2019. She tweets at @ameliagentleman. Bic2:
Author now living:Guardian Books AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Cynical Theories Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
Description 'Exposes the surprisingly shallow intellectual roots of the movements that appear to be engulfing our culture' - Steven Pinker
Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't practise yoga or cook Chinese food? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only white people can be racist?
In Cynical Theories, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay document the evolution and the dogma behind these ideas. While acknowledging the need to challenge the complacency of those who think a just society has been fully achieved, Pluckrose and Lindsay break down how this often-radical activist scholarship does far more harm than good, not least to those marginalised communities it claims to champion. They also detail its alarmingly inconsistent and illiberal ethics. Only through a proper understanding of the evolution of these ideas, they conclude, can those who value science, reason and consistently liberal ethics successfully challenge this harmful and authoritarian orthodoxy - in the academy, in culture and beyond.
About the Author Helen Pluckrose is a liberal political and cultural writer and speaker. She is the editor of Areo Magazine and the author of many popular essays on postmodernism critical theory, liberalism, secularism and feminism. Today an exile from the humanities, she researched late medieval and early modern religious writing by and for women. She lives in England and can be found on Twitter @HPluckrose.
James Lindsay is a mathematician with a background in physics and founder of New Discourses (newdiscourses.com). His essays have appeared in numerous outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Time. He lives in Tennessee and can be found on Twitter @ConceptualJames.
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9781800750043 Format: C-Format HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Society & culture: general Bic2:
Author now living:Swift Press AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Bedtime Stories for Worried Liberals Stuart Heritage
Updated with new stories for 2020: the perfect humorous gift for the snowflake in your life.
Description Anxious? Angry? Waking up in the middle of the night to worry about plastic pollution, Brexit and why everything seems to be so horrible all the time? Thumb sore from scrolling through the Guardian news app, even though it makes you want to cry?
Us too.
But help is here, in the shape of Stuart Heritage's hilarious Bedtime Stories for Worried Liberals. Put down your phone, log off Twitter, and let yourself be lulled to sleep by stories from a world where Brexit disappears in a puff of smoke, Waitrose is free, and Fairy Godmothers look a lot like Barack Obama.
Including: The Three Liberal Pigs; Jack and the Sustainably Produced Meat Substitute Stalk; and The Night Before Brexmas; The Very Trendy Caterpillar; Trumplestiltskin; Camerella.
About the Author Stuart Heritage is a writer and columnist for Guardian, The Times, i and Esquire, and the author of Don't be a Dick, Pete. In addition to this, he has written for a range of publications and television programmes, founded and edited award- winning blogs. For two years running he was named as one of the 50 most influential emerging figures in the British media by Independent, an honour that has singularly failed to manifest itself into anything even slightly meaningful. He is going bald.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781788163385 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2:
Author now living:Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 The Only Fools & Horses Quiz Book John White
He Who Dares...Quizzes
Description Who wrote Only Fools and Horses? What is Rodney Trotter's middle name? What is the name of the actor who played Uncle Albert?
When the first episode of Only Fools and Horses hit our screens in September 1981, the show became an instant classic. Over the years it has gone from strength to strength and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest British comedies of all time.
Whether you are looking to spice up your pub quiz or really test your in-depth knowledge of the Trotters, The Only Fools and Horses Quiz Book is a welcome, quirky addition to the bookshelf of any fan that will keep you quizzing - and laughing - for hours on end.
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Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781789463934 Format: B Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: TV tie-in humour Bic2:
Author now living:John Blake AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Great British Spirit Charlotte Browne
Ordinary people, extraordinary circumstances, incredible stories.
Description "The pride in who we are is not part of our past, it defines our present and our future". - The Queen
We're living in some incredibly dark and strange times but whatever coronavirus throws at us, it's failed to dent the great British spirit. Every day, we're heartened by incredible stories of rare and wonderful people going above and beyond - and some sadly losing their lives in the process. With celebrities turning their hands to educating our children with daily sports and music lessons, and weekly community doorstep celebrations for our incredible NHS and service industries who are stalwartly keeping us fed and nurtured, our get up and go attitude is in full swing!
In Great British Spirit, we celebrate the incredible British national spirit and sense of community and the superhuman efforts of ordinary people across the country, providing the perfect antidote to what we're living through right now. This will champion our nation and its incredible people, while remembering other incredible struggles we as a nation have overcome in the last century.
About the Author Charlotte has worked as a journalist for a number of publications from Independent to Prima. She has also written for a variety of organisations within the non-profit and charity sector. In 2017 she co-wrote the childhood memoirs Free Boots and Back-to-Backs. She is the author of four children's books, in the Ultimate Football Heroes series, which tell the biographical stories of professional female footballers. In 2019 she co-wrote an anthology, Breast Cancer and Me: Inspirational Stories of Living With and Beyond Breast Cancer for Asda's Tickled Pink campaign. She probably couldn't write or live without music and loves playing her favourite songs on piano.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781789463873 Format: B Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: General & world history Bic2:
Author now living:John Blake AUSTRALIA JANUARY 2021 Ink Tales: Bedtime Stories for the End of the World Various Various, illustrated by Amandeep Singh
Five powerful retellings of classic fairy tales, myths and folklore, written by some of the most ground-breaking UK poets and illustrated by Amandeep Singh, AKA Inkquisitive.
Description Ink Tales reinvigorates fairy tales and myths from around the world, breaking barriers and challenging stereotypes throughout. Illustrated by Amandeep Singh, in his vibrant signature Indian inks, each story is accessible and visually inspiring.
Bedtime Stories for the End of the World is produced in partnership with the ground-breaking poetry podcast of the same name. The five featured poets draw on their own experience, adding a new dimension to an existing tale. 'Bedtime Stories for the End of the World' is a spoken word and poetry podcast about the power of myth and the politics of storytelling. The podcast asks some of the UK's top poets to re-imagine their favourite myths, fairy tales and legends - the stories they want to keep and protect for the future. It also involves an annual live event, creating a tangible and accessible experience for existing and new audiences. Bonnier Books UK and the podcast's creative team are working together to produce modern re-imaginings of traditional fairy stories aimed at children 12+.
Reimagined tales include East of the Sun West of the Moon, Bluebeard, Philoctetes and the Trinidadian folklore figure 'douen'.
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Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9781787417724 Format: Misc HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 280h x 200w mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Traditional stories (Children's / Teenage) Bic2:
