MARCH 2019 Islands Peggy Frew
A stunning literary novel from the author of the Stella Prize shortlisted Hope Farm.
Description There was a house on a hill in the city and it was full of us, our family, but then it began to empty. We fell out. We made a mess. We draped ourselves in blame and disappointment and lurched around, bumping into each other. Some of us wailed and shouted; some of us barely made a sound. None of us was listening, or paying attention. And in the middle of it all you, very quietly, were gone.
Helen and John are too preoccupied with making a mess of their marriage to notice the quiet ways in which their daughters are suffering. Junie grows up brittle and defensive, Anna difficult and rebellious.
When fifteen-year-old Anna fails to come home one night, her mother's not too worried; Anna's taken off before but always returned. Helen waits three days to report her disappearance.
But this time Anna doesn't come back ...
A spellbinding novel in the tradition of Helen Garner, Charlotte Wood and Georgia Blain, Islands is a riveting and brilliant portrait of a family in crisis by the breathtakingly talented author of House of Sticks and Hope Farm.
'Peggy Frew is an amazing writer...Elegant, tender and very wise.' Chris Womersley, author of Bereft on Hope Farm
'Peggy Frew's novel, Hope Farm, tells an original tale, drawing into the body of Australian literary fiction, a world between the cracks. Peggy's voice is contemporary, her observations sharp and sensitive. Hope Farm describes the cycle of loss and damage when there are no boundaries to protect us.' Sofie Laguna, author of The Eye of the Sheep, 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award winner
'Brilliant. Peggy Frew is a superb writer, and this is a remarkably confident debut.' Clare Bowditch on House of Sticks Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781760528744 Format: Paperback - C format About the Author Dimensions: 234x153mm Peggy Frew's first novel, House of Sticks, won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript by Extent: 320 pages an Emerging Victorian Writer, and was shortlisted for the UTS Glenda Adams Prize for New Writing. Hope Farm, her Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: second novel, won the Barbara Jefferis Award, was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award, Illustrations: and longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. She has been published in New Australian Stories 2, Kill Your Previous Titles: Darlings, Meanjin and The Big Issue. Peggy is also a member of the critically acclaimed and award-winning Melbourne Author now living: Brunswick, VIC band Art of Fighting. Islands is her third novel.
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Allen & Unwin MARCH 2019 Hunter Jack Heath
Timothy Blake returns, with an insatiable appetite, in the thrillingly addictive sequel to Hangman.
Description Timothy Blake, ex-consultant for the FBI, now works in body-disposal for a local crime lord. One night he stumbles across a body he wasn't supposed to find. He can't resist taking a bite.
Having marked the body, Blake is forced to hide it. When the FBI calls Blake in to investigate the man's disappearance, Blake is the only one who knows the man is dead and in his freezer.
Then another man goes missing. And another.
There's a serial killer in Houston, Texas, and Blake is the only one who knows it for sure. His investigation takes him to a prestigious university, a sex doll factory, a sprawling landfill on Houston's outskirts and a secret hideaway in the woods.
As they hunt the killer together, FBI agent Reese Thistle starts to warm to Blake - but she also gets closer and closer to discovering his gruesome secret. This is cause for anxiety among the gangsters who employ Blake to dispose of their victims. It would be better for them to murder Blake than to risk exposure.
Can Blake uncover the killer, without giving away his own dark secrets?
A confounding, intriguing and unexpected thriller from the author of Hangman.
About the Author Jack Heath lives in Canberra and is the bestselling author of more than 25 acclaimed fiction titles for middle-grade and YA readers. His books include the real-time series 300, 400 and 500 Minutes of Danger, the choose-your-own-ending Countdown to Danger books (Scholastic), a collaboration with international illusionist Cosentino, and YA novels such as The Fail Safe and The Cut Out, a multi-award-nominated espionage thriller. His books have sold more than 200,000 Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781760527082 copies worldwide and been translated into several languages. First published as a teenager, in the course of his research Format: Paperback - C format Jack has trained with firearms, performed street magic, visited morgues and prisons, travelled through eleven countries Dimensions: 234x153mm and read only books by women for a year. jackheath.com.au Extent: 424 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Thriller / suspense Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Canberra, Australia
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Allen & Unwin MARCH 2019 Fool's Gold Fleur McDonald
Written with Fleur's trademark warmth and outstanding storytelling, newly badged Detective Dave Burrows and his reluctant wife arrive in the West Australian goldfields town of Barrabine where gold stealing is rife and the prospectors live by their own tough rules.
Description 'To Dave, the posting to Barrabine was exactly what he'd wanted - it was a town on the edge, the wild west. There would be excitement, mystery and intrigue here. Everything a detective looked for.'
Detective Dave Burrows' first posting to the far west goldfields town of Barrabine in 1997 holds everything he's looking for, but Melinda, his wife of two weeks, is devastated at leaving behind her family, friends and career. More comfortable in heels than RM Williams, Melinda walked away from her much-loved job in the city as a paediatric nurse to follow Dave into the bush.
Dave settles in easily to the plain-speaking toughness of his new town, determined to do well, knowing that Barrabine could be his stepping stone into the elite stock squad. But will his marriage last the distance? As Dave investigates reports of mysterious late-night trespassing, a missing person, and guns being drawn on strangers, a local prospector phones in with horrific news that could hold the key to everything.
Fleur McDonald's bestselling rural storytelling takes her popular detective, Dave Burrows, back to his compelling and exciting beginnings.
About the Author Fleur McDonald has lived and worked on farms for much of her life. After growing up in the small town of Orroroo in South Australia, she became a jillaroo before spending twenty years farming 8000 acres, east of Esperance, WA.
Fleur likes to write about strong women overcoming adversity, drawing inspiration from her own experiences in rural
Price: $19.99 Australia. She is the best-selling author of Red Dust, Blue Skies, Purple Roads, Silver Clouds and Crimson Dawn, ISBN: 9781760529161 Emerald Springs, Indigo Storm, Sapphire Falls, The Missing Pieces of Us and Suddenly One Summer, as well as the Format: Paperback - B format ebook exclusives If You Were Here and The Farmer's Choice. Fool's Gold begins the story of the popular Detective Dave Dimensions: 198x128mm Burrows. Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Thriller / suspense Fleur currently lives in Esperance with her two children, an energetic kelpie and a Jack Russell terrier. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Esperance, WA
Allen & Unwin MARCH 2019 Swimming Home Mary-Rose MacColl
In London in the mid-1920s, a young Australian and her aunt are each on a journey of self-discovery - one by attempting to swim the English Channel the other to rediscover the woman she used to be. From the bestselling author of In Falling Snow.
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'Beautifully told, this is one of the most satisfying endings I've read for a while.' Love That Book
The lone swimmer, turning over now to switch to a perfectly executed back crawl, wasn't Oxford or Cambridge, wasn't a man. It was a woman, a girl. It was Catherine. Of course it was Catherine.
It's 1925 and fifteen-year-old Catherine Quick longs to feel once more the warm waters of her home, to strike out into the ocean off the Torres Strait Islands and swim, as she's done since she was a tiny child. But with her recent move to London where she lives with her aunt Louisa, Catherine feels that everything she values has been stripped away.
Louisa, a busy, confident London surgeon who fought boldly for equality for women, holds definite views on the behaviour of her young niece. She wants Catherine to pursue an education, just as she did, to ensure her future freedom. Since Catherine arrived, however, Louisa's every step seems to be wrong and she is finding it harder and harder to block painful memories from her past.
It takes the influence of enigmatic American banker Manfred Lear Black to convince Louisa to come to New York where Catherine can test her mettle against the first women in the world to swim the English Channel. And where, unexpectedly, Louisa can finally listen to what her own heart tells her.
Like Mary-Rose MacColl's bestselling novel, In Falling Snow, Swimming Home tells a story of ordinary women who became extraordinary.
Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9781760295028 'A gracious and engaging novel, finely written, poignant and pensive.' Book'd Out Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm About the Author Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Historical fiction Swimming Home is Mary-Rose MacColl's fifth novel. Her first novel, No Safe Place, was runner-up in the 1995 Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Australian/Vogel literary award and her first non-fiction book, The Birth Wars, was a finalist in the 2009 Walkley Awards. Illustrations: Her international bestseller, In Falling Snow, was published to great acclaim in 2012 in Australia and the US. MacColl's Previous Titles: Author now living: Paddington, QLD memoir, For a Girl, was published in 2017 and was shortlisted in the Queensland Literary awards and the Victorian Premier's Literary awards. She lives in Brisbane, Australia with her husband and son and is an ordinary swimmer.
Allen & Unwin MARCH 2019 The Yellow House Emily O'Grady
The winner of the prestigious literary award that has launched over a hundred authors - The Australian/Vogel's Literary award
Description Winner of the 2018 The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award
'A dark, unsettling debut with chilling momentum...' SMH
Even before I knew anything about Granddad Les, Wally and me sometimes dared each other to see how close to the knackery we could get. It was way out in the bottom paddock, and Dad had banned us from going further than the dam. Wally said it was because the whole paddock was haunted. He said he could see ghosts wisping in the grass like sheets blown from the washing line. But even then I knew for sure that was a lie.
Ten-year-old Cub lives with her parents, older brother Cassie, and twin brother Wally on a lonely property bordering an abandoned cattle farm and knackery. Their lives are shadowed by the infamous actions of her Granddad Les in his yellow weatherboard house, just over the fence.
Although Les died twelve years ago, his notoriety has grown in Cub's lifetime and the local community have ostracised the whole family.
When Cub's estranged aunt Helena and cousin Tilly move next door into the yellow house, the secrets the family want to keep buried begin to bubble to the surface. And having been kept in the dark about her grandfather's crimes, Cub is now forced to come to terms with her family's murky history.
The Yellow House is a powerful novel about loyalty and betrayal; about the legacies of violence and the possibilities of redemption.
Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9781760529932 About the Author Format: Paperback - B format Emily O'Grady was born in Brisbane. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Review of Australian Fiction, Westerly, Dimensions: 198x128mm Australian Poetry Journal, The Lifted Brow, Kill Your Darlings, The Big Issue Fiction Edition and Award Winning Extent: 324 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Australian Writing. In 2012 she won the QUT Undergraduate Writing Prize, and in 2013 she won the QUT Postgraduate Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Writing Prize. In 2017 she placed second in the Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction, was shortlisted for the Queensland Illustrations: Premiers Young Publishers and Writers Award, and was longlisted for the Elizabeth Jolley Prize for Fiction. She co-edits Previous Titles: Author now living: Morningside, QLD Stilts Journal, and is currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing at Queensland University of Technology, where she also works as a Sessional Academic.
Allen & Unwin MARCH 2019 Painting in the Shadows: An Alex Clayton Art Mystery Katherine Kovacic
When a gallery becomes a dangerous place, art dealer Alex Clayton must find the hidden meaning.
Description Art dealer Alex Clayton and conservator John Porter are thrilled to be previewing the Melbourne International Museum of Art's (MIMA) newest exhibition, until they witness a museum worker collapse and badly damage a reportedly cursed painting.
Belief in the curse is strengthened when MIMA's senior conservator Meredith Buchanan dies less than twenty-four hours later while repairing the work. But Alex and John are convinced there is a decidedly human element at work in the museum.
The evidence sets them on the trail of a mysterious painting that could hold a key to Meredith's death, and the stakes are raised higher when Alex is offered her dream job at MIMA. Damaging the museum's reputation will jeopardise her professional future.
The friends soon realise they are facing an adversary far more ruthless than they had anticipated, and there is much more at risk than Alex's career.
About the Author Katherine Kovacic has a diverse professional life: she is a director of CK Minerals, dealing in mineral and gold specimens for museums and collectors throughout the world; as an independent art curator, Katherine researches and works on exhibitions in conjunction with host galleries; and she devotes considerable time to her role as a trustee and director of The Copland Foundation, a charitable trust dedicated to assisting museums and historic houses with conservation and interpretation projects. Katherine is also a qualified dog trainer, and when she has time, she loves helping people teach their dogs how to do everything from sit and stay to riding a skateboard - and have fun while they're doing it! Katherine enjoys writing, reading, hanging out with her dogs, dancing Argentine tango (and maybe a bit of mambo) and making voyages of discovery. The Portrait of Molly Dean was her debut novel and the first Alex Clayton art mystery. Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781760685775 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 236 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Crime & mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
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Echo MARCH 2019 The Portrait of Molly Dean Katherine Kovacic
An unsolved murder comes to light after almost seventy years...
Description In 1999, art dealer Alex Clayton stumbles across a lost portrait of Molly Dean, an artist's muse brutally slain in Melbourne in 1930. Alex buys the painting and sets out to uncover more details, but finds there are strange inconsistencies: Molly's mother seemed unconcerned by her daughter's violent death, the main suspect was never brought to trial despite compelling evidence, and vital records are missing. Alex enlists the help of her close friend, art conservator John Porter, and together they sift through the clues and deceptions that swirl around the last days of Molly Dean.
About the Author Katherine Kovacic was a veterinarian but preferred training dogs to taking their temperatures. She seized the chance to return to study and earned an MA, followed by a PhD, in Art History. Katherine spends her spare time writing, dancing and teaching other people's dogs to ride skateboards. She lives in suburban Melbourne with Leonardo the Borzoi, Oberon the Scottish Deerhound and a legion of dog-fur dust bunnies. In 2012 she was long-listed for the Voiceless Writing Prize and she continues to contribute to academic publications. The Portrait of Molly Dean is her debut novel.
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Echo MARCH 2019 After She's Gone Camilla Grebe
She holds the key to the mystery, she just doesn't remember...Winner of the best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year 2017, from the bestselling author of The Ice Beneath Her.
Description For psychological profiler Hanne Lagerlind-Schön, life is good. She and her partner, investigator Peter Lindgren, have just returned from a dream holiday in Greenland and the symptoms of her early onset dementia seem to be under control.
Then they are asked to go to the small, sleepy industrial town of Ormberg to investigate a cold case: ten years earlier a five-year-old girl's remains were found in a cairn near the town. With her dementia creeping back again, Hanne starts to keep a diary noting down everything she is likely to forget. She will go to any lengths to keep up appearances so she doesn't lose her job, or worse: Peter.
Then Hanne is found wandering around the outskirts of Ormberg lost, hurt and confused - and Peter is missing. When the body of a woman is found at the cairn and one of Hanne's shoes is found nearby covered in the victim's blood, can Hanne's diary hold the key to what happened? How does this new murder connect to their old one - and where is Peter?
About the Author Camilla Grebe was born near Stockholm. She co-founded audiobook publisher Storyside. She has written four celebrated crime novels with her sister, Asa Traff, about psychologist Siri Bergman, the first two of which were nominated for Swedish Crime Novel of the Year by the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy. Camilla has also written the popular Moscow Noir trilogy with Paul Leander-Engstrom. The Ice Beneath Her was Camilla's debut novel as a solo author and announced her as a fresh new voice in suspense writing. After She's Gone was published in Sweden in 2017 and won the Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year award.
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Zaffre MARCH 2019 Nemesis Rory Clements
A race against time to unmask a Nazi spy, for fans of Robert Harris and William Boyd.
Description In a great English house, a young woman offers herself to one of the most powerful and influential figures in the land - but this is no ordinary seduction. She plans to ensure his death...
On holiday in France, Professor Tom Wilde discovers his brilliant student Marcus Marfield, who disappeared two years earlier to join the International Brigades in Spain, in the Le Vernet concentration camp in the foothills of the Pyrenees. Wilde secures his release just as German tanks roll into Poland.
Meanwhile, a U-boat sinks the liner Athenia in the Atlantic with many casualties, including Americans, onboard. Goebbels claims Churchill put a bomb in the ship to blame Germany and to lure America into the war.
As the various strands of an international conspiracy begin to unwind, Tom Wilde will find himself in great personal danger. For just who is Marcus Marfield? And where does his loyalty lie?
For readers of Robert Harris, C J Sansom and William Boyd, this is a thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat - by Sunday Times bestseller and author of Corpus and Nucleus, Rory Clements.
About the Author Rory Clements is a Sunday Times bestselling author. He won the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award for his second novel, Revenger,and a TV series of the John Shakespeare novels is currently in development. Rory lives in Norfolk with his family. Find out more at www.roryclements.co.uk.
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Zaffre MARCH 2019 Ultima LS Hilton
If you can't beat them - kill them...The audacious conclusion to the international bestselling phenomenon that began with Maestra.
Description Glamorous international art-dealer Elisabeth Teerlinc knows a thing or two about fakes. After all, she is one herself.
Her real identity, Judith Rashleigh, is buried under a layer of lies. Not to mention the corpses of the men foolish enough to get in her way.
But now, caught in the murderous crossfire between a Russian Mafia boss and a corrupt Italian police detective, Judith is forced to create an even more daring work of art - a fake masterpiece she must take to the world-famous auction house where she used to be a lowly assistant and sell for £150 million.
For Judith the prospect of putting one over her loathsome former employer and the world's art establishment is almost as thrilling as the extreme sex she's addicted to - especially when the price of failure is a bullet in the back of the head.
But exposing her new identity to the glare of the spotlight puts her at risk of an even greater danger. Like a beautiful painting stripped of its layers of varnish, something altogether different could be revealed.
A truth about her past even Judith might find shocking.
About the Author L.S. Hilton is a writer and journalist who presently lives in London.
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Zaffre MARCH 2019 Maestra LS Hilton
A shockingly original thriller
Description THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
GLAMOUR'S WRITER OF THE YEAR.
WHERE DO YOU GO WHEN YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR?
Fatal Attraction meets The Talented Mr Ripley, and soon to be a major Hollywood film - prepare for this year's The Girl on the Train
By day Judith Rashleigh is a put-upon assistant at a London auction house.
By night she's a hostess in one of the capital's unsavoury bars.
Desperate to make something of herself, Judith knows she has to play the game. She's learned to dress, speak and act in the interests of men. She's learned to be a good girl. But after uncovering a dark secret at the heart of the art world, Judith is fired and her dreams of a better life are torn apart.
So she turns to a long-neglected friend.
A friend that kept her chin up and back straight through every past slight.
A friend that a good girl like her shouldn't have: Rage.
The Talented Mr Ripley meets Gone Girl in this darkly decadent and compelling new thriller that asks: Price: $14.99 ISBN: 9781785760013 Format: Paperback - B format Where do you go when you've gone too far? Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Thriller / suspense About the Author Bic2: Thriller / suspense L.S. Hilton is a writer and journalist who presently lives in London. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre MARCH 2019 Domina LS Hilton
Everything you thought you knew about Maestra...You don't. Judith Rashleigh returns in the stunning thriller from the author of the worldwide bestseller, Maestra.
Description Judith Rashleigh has made it. Living in luxury amidst the splendours of Venice, she's finally enjoying the life she killed for.
But someone knows what Judith's done.
Judith can only save herself by finding a priceless painting - unfortunately, one that she's convinced doesn't even exist.
And she's not the only one seeking it.
This time, Judith isn't in control. Outflanked and out-thought, outrun and outgunned, she faces an enemy more ruthless and more powerful than she ever imagined.
And if she doesn't win, she dies.
About the Author L.S. Hilton grew up in England and has lived in Key West, New York City, Paris and Milan. After graduating from Oxford, she studied art history in Paris and Florence. She has worked as a journalist, art critic and broadcaster, and is presently based in London.
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Zaffre MARCH 2019 The Last Hour Harry Sidebottom
For readers of Bernard Cornwell, Ben Kane, Simon Scarrow and Conn Iggulden, this is a thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat; 24 set in Ancient Rome.
Description A lone figure stands silhouetted atop the Mausoleum of Hadrian. Behind him, the sun is setting over the centre of the known world. Far below, the river is in full flood. The City of Rome lies spread out before him on the far bank.
Footsteps pound up the stairs. He's been set up. An enemy is closing in; he is cornered. He jumps.
Bruised and battered, he crawls out of the raging river. He is alone and unarmed, without money or friends, trapped in a deadly conspiracy at the heart of the Empire. The City Watch has orders to take him alive; other, more sinister, forces want him dead. As the day dies, he realises he has only 24 hours to expose the conspirators, and save the leader of the world. If the Emperor dies, chaos and violence will ensue. If the Emperor dies, every single person he loves will die.
He must run, bluff, hide and fight his way across the Seven Hills. He must reach the Colosseum, and the Emperor. He must make it to The Last Hour.
Praise for The Last Hour:
'Grabbed me from the start. I loved it' - Donna Leon
Praise for Harry Sidebottom:
'Harry Sidebottom's epic tale starts with a chilling assassination and goes on, and up, from there' - Mary Beard
'Absorbing, rich in detail and brilliant' - The Times
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Zaffre MARCH 2019 Adele Leila Slimani
From the bestselling author of Lullaby, the prizewinning debut novel about all our attempts to discover who we are - deep down - and what we actually want.
Description Adele appears to have the perfect life. She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a chic apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But beneath the veneer of 'having it all', she is bored - and consumed by an insatiable need for sex, whatever the cost. Struggling to contain the twin forces of compulsion and desire, she begins to orchestrate her life around her one night stands and extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's been, until she becomes ensnared in a trap of her own making.
An erotic and daring story - with electrically clear writing - Adele will captivate readers with its exploration of addiction, sexuality, and one woman's quest to feel alive.
About the Author Leila Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France's most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, which she won for Lullaby. A journalist and frequent commentator on women's and human rights, she is French president Emmanuel Macron's personal representative for the promotion of the French language and culture. Born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1981, she lives in Paris with her French husband and their two young children.
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Faber Fiction MARCH 2019 Death is Hard Work Khaled Khalifa
A tale of three ordinary people embarking on a dogged, absurd quest through the nightmare of Syria's ongoing and catastrophic civil war - with little more than simple determination.
Description Abdel Latif, an old man, dies peacefully in a hospital bed in Damascus. Before he dies, he tells his youngest son Bolbol that his final wish is to be buried in the family plot in their ancestral village of Anabiya in the Aleppo region. Though Abdel Latif was not the ideal father, and though Bolbol is estranged from his siblings, he decides to persuade his older brother Hussein and his sister Fatima to accompany him and their father's body to Anabiya - only a two-hour drive from Damascus.
But the country is a warzone. With the landscape of their childhood now a labyrinth of competing armies, whose actions are at once arbitrary and lethal, the siblings' decision to set aside their differences and honour their father's request quickly escalates from a dutiful commitment into an epic and life-threatening quest. Syria is no longer any place for heroes, and the trials that confront the family along their journey - while they are captured and recaptured, interrogated, imprisoned, and bombed - will prove to have enormous consequences for them all.
A mixture of brutal, front-line reportage and surreal humor evocative of Beckett and Kafka, Death is Hard Work is an unforgettable journey into a contemporary heart of darkness.
About the Author Khaled Khalifa was born in 1964, in a village close to Aleppo, Syria. He is the author of four novels, including In Praise of Hatred, which was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, and No Knives in the Kitchens of this City, which won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2013. He lives in Damascus, a city he has refused to abandon despite the danger posed by the ongoing civil war.
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Faber Fiction MARCH 2019 The Tempest Steve Sem-Sandberg
A mesmerising novel about loss, secrets, and the impact of the past from one of Europe's greatest writers.
Description In this hypnotic, shimmering novel, Le Prix Medicis-winning author Steve Sem-Sandberg reveals the power of secrets to destroy generations of families. After many years away, Andreas returns to his childhood home on a small island off Norway's coast. Searching through the belongings of his late foster father, Andreas uncovers the sinister events of the island's past as a summer colony for deprived children, and learns about the disappearance of his parents.
Rich in echoes from Shakespeare's play, The Tempest is a majestic and deeply compassionate novel, exposing the inherited guilt that haunts an island overgrown with myths.
About the Author Steve Sem-Sandberg was born in 1958. He is the award-winning Swedish author of The Emperor of Lies, an international bestseller which received the August Prize. His most recent novel is The Chosen Ones, which was awarded the Prix Medicis Etranger in 2014. He divides his time between Vienna and Stockholm.
Dr Anna Paterson, an ex-neuroscientist, is now a writer and an award-winning translator from the Germanic languages into English Her most recent translations are The Chosen Ones by Steve Sem-Sandberg, a photo-biography of Olof Palme (a Swedish prime minister), and a biography of Dag Hammarskjold, once UN Secretary General.
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Faber Fiction MARCH 2019 Golden Child Claire Adam
A deeply affecting debut novel set in Trinidad, following the lives of a family as they navigate impossible choices about scarcity, loyalty, and love.
Description Rural Trinidad: a brick house on stilts surrounded by bush; a family, quietly surviving, just trying to live a decent life in a society. Clyde, the father, works long, exhausting shifts at the petroleum plant in southern Trinidad; Joy, his wife, looks after the home. Their two sons, thirteen years old, wake early every morning to travel to the capital, Port of Spain, for school. They are twins but nothing alike: Paul has always been considered odd, while Peter is widely believed to be a genius, destined for greatness.
When Paul goes walking in the bush one afternoon and doesn't come home, Clyde is forced to go looking for him, this child who has caused him endless trouble already, and whom he has never really understood. And as the hours turn to days, and Clyde begins to understand Paul's fate, his world shatters-leaving him faced with a decision no parent should ever have to make.
Claire Adam's devastating first novel compassionately brings to life different ways of experiencing the world. Like the Trinidadian landscape itself, Golden Child is both beautiful and unsettling; a resoundingly human story of aspiration, betrayal, and love.
About the Author Claire Adam was born and raised in Trinidad. She read Physics at Brown University and later took an MA in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she gained a distinction. She lives in London.
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Faber Fiction MARCH 2019 Mercy River: A Van Shaw Novel Glen Erik Hamilton
Shot through with the energy and imagery of its spectacular setting, Mercy River is the latest in Glen Erik Hamilton's prize-winning Van Shaw series.
Description When Van Shaw receives a distress call from his fellow Afghan War veteran, Leo Pak, he has to leave the urban hazards of Seattle to head far south to a town called Broken Ridge, deep in the wild heart of rural Oregon.
Leo faces charges of murdering a local gun dealer, and while Van doesn't doubt his friend's innocence, he knows he faces conviction. As Van starts his own covert investigations, the small town is suddenly awash with Army Ranger veterans, converging for a raucous annual Rally. Was it only this reunion that brought Leo to town? Or is someone at the Rally setting Leo up to cover for their own dark designs?
About the Author A native of Seattle, Glen Erik Hamilton was raised aboard a sailboat and grew up around the marinas and commercial docks and islands of the Pacific North West. His first novel, Past Crimes (2015) won a Strand Critics Circle Award as well as the Anthony and Macavity Awards for Best First Novel, and was nominated for the Edgar, Nero, and Barry Awards. It was followed by further Van Shaw novels, Hard Cold Winter (2016) and Every Day Above Ground (2017).
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Faber Fiction MARCH 2019 The Elegant Lie Sam Eastland
A Cold War thriller similar to Spielberg's Bridge of Spies.
Description The year is 1949. In the bombed-out ruins of Cologne, Hanno Dasch is king. Director of the most successful black market operation in post-war Germany, Dasch has kept his clients supplied with goods so extravagant and rare that they were almost impossible to find even at the height of Germany's conquests. Nobody but Dasch, his enigmatic daughter and the war criminal he keeps as his bodyguard know how he does it. None of this has escaped the attention of Allied Intelligence, who face not only the systemic corruption of a country where everything is in short supply, but the growing threat of Stalin's KGB. Fearing that Dasch will soon expand his business to include dealings with Russia, and invite the further meddling of Russian agents in the west, the CIA sets in motion an undercover operation to infiltrate and, ultimately, destroy Dasch's empire. A disgraced American Army officer, Nathan Carter, is recruited to approach Dasch and to ingratiate himself with promises of stolen army supplies. As Carter moves further and further into the labyrinth of Dasch's world, it soon becomes clear that the black market ring has already been compromised, but by someone even more dangerous than the Russians. Carter stumbles upon a counterfeiting ring, with whom Dasch has unwittingly gone into business, which seems to have been created with the sole purpose of destroying the Soviet economy, something it could easily do with the superlative quality of the forged bills it is producing. With Carter caught in the middle, and facing the danger that his cover might be blown at any moment, a race begins between the Russian and American spy agencies to uncover who is responsible, before the situation escalates to war.
About the Author Paul Watkins, aka Sam Eastland, was educated at Eton and Yale, and now lives in the United States. He is the grandson of a London police detective.
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Faber Fiction MARCH 2019 All the Beautiful Lies Peter Swanson
In a dark and brilliant guessing game of a novel - evoking Patricia Highsmith and Agatha Christie - Peter Swanson once again displays his unique gift for lovingly reprising and refreshing mystery writing's greatest tropes.
Description 'He's the real deal...' Joe Hill
'Another read in one sitting from the best-selling Swanson.' - Metro
'A brilliantly original premise, delivered with panache.' Clare Mackintosh
On the eve of his college graduation, Harry is called home by his step-mother Alice, to their house on the Maine coast, following the unexpected death of his father.
But who really is Alice, his father's much younger second wife? In a brilliant split narrative, Peter Swanson teases out the stories and damage that lie in her past. And as her story entwines with Harry's in the present, things grow increasingly dark and threatening - will Harry be able to see any of it clearly through his own confused feelings?
About the Author Peter Swanson's debut novel, The Girl With a Clock for a Heart (2014), was described by Dennis Lehane as 'a twisty, sexy, electric thrill ride' and was nominated for the LA Times book award. His second novel The Kind Worth Killing (2015), a Richard and Judy pick, was shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and named the iBook stores Thriller of the Year, and was followed by two more critical and commercial hits, Her Every Fear (2017) and All the Beautiful Lies (2018). He lives with his wife and cat in Somerville, Massachusetts.
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Faber Paperback MARCH 2019 The Girl With A Clock For A Heart Peter Swanson
A reissue of Peter Swanson's A Girl with a Clock for a Heart, re-jacketed in keeping with the bestselling, The Kind Worth Killing.
Description First Love is Deadly.What if your college sweetheart, the girl of your dreams, suddenly disappeared? Twenty years later she's back, she's in trouble and she says you are the only one who can help her . . .'Very hard not to read in one sitting.' Alison Flood, Observer 'A twisty, sexy, electric thrill ride.' Dennis Lehane'Takes your breath away . . . a plot that twists like a corkscrew.' Daily Mail'A well-plotted, enjoyably twisty debut.' Sunday Times
About the Author Peter Swanson has won awards in poetry from The Lyric and Yankee Magazine, and is currently completing a sonnet sequence on all 53 of Alfred Hitchcock's films. He has earned degrees in Creative Writing, Education, and Literature from Trinity College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Emerson College. He lives with his wife and cat in Somerville, Massachusetts.
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Faber Paperback MARCH 2019 The Kind Worth Killing Peter Swanson
The author of The Girl with a Clock for a Heart returns with a compulsive thriller.
Description 'Hello there.' I looked at the pale, freckled hand on the back of the empty bar seat next to me in the business class lounge of Heathrow airport, then up into the stranger's face. 'Do I know you?'
Delayed in London, Ted Severson meets a woman at the airport bar. Over cocktails they tell each other rather more than they should, and a dark plan is hatched - but are either of them being serious, could they actually go through with it and, if they did, what would be their chances of getting away with it?
Back in Boston, Ted's wife Miranda is busy site managing the construction of their dream home, a beautiful house out on the Maine coastline. But what secrets is she carrying and to what lengths might she go to protect the vision she has of her deserved future?
A sublimely plotted novel of trust and betrayal, The Kind Worth Killing will keep you gripped and guessing late into the night.
About the Author Peter Swanson's debut novel, The Girl With a Clock for a Heart (2014), was described by Dennis Lehane as 'a twisty, sexy, electric thrill ride' and in the Observer as 'very hard not to read in one sitting'. He lives with his wife and cat in Somerville, Massachusetts.
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Faber Paperback MARCH 2019 Her Every Fear Peter Swanson
The bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing returns with an electrifying psychological thriller
Description The bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing returns with an electrifying psychological thriller
As tantalizing as Rear Window, Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train and The Talented Mr Ripley
'I loved it! A brilliantly original premise, delivered with panache.' Clare Mackintosh, Sunday Times bestselling author of I See You
Following a brutal attack, Kate Priddy makes the uncharacteristically bold decision of moving from London to Boston - in an apartment swap with her cousin, Corbin Dell.
But soon after her arrival Kate makes a shocking discovery: Corbin's next-door neighbour, Audrey Marshall, may have been murdered.
Far from home and emotionally unstable, her imagination playing out her every fear, who can Kate trust?
About the Author Peter Swanson's debut novel, The Girl With a Clock for a Heart (2014), was described by Dennis Lehane as 'a twisty, sexy, electric thrill ride' and was nominated for the LA Times book award. His follow up The Kind Worth Killing (2015), a Richard and Judy pick, was shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and named the iBook stores Thriller of the Year. He lives with his wife and cat in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9780571327126 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Thriller / suspense Bic2: Thriller / suspense Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback MARCH 2019 Consent Leo Benedictus
The Secret History meets American Psycho in this superbly crafted novel.
Description Frances is bright, young and single, enjoying life and her burgeoning career in the big city.
But after attracting the attentions of a stranger, her life begins to unravel from the inside out.
A seductive novel of power and complicity, Consent shows us just how vulnerable we are to the will of others - people we may not even know ...
About the Author Leo Benedictus is a freelance feature writer for the Guardian, and other publications. His first novel, The Afterparty, was published in 2011 by Jonathan Cape.
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Faber Paperback MARCH 2019 Jellyfish Janice Galloway
The highly acclaimed short story collection by one of the foremost writers of her generation.
Description In this powerful collection, Janice Galloway takes on David Lodge's assertion that 'literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life's the other way round'. Her multi-layered stories not only explore sex and sexuality, but parenthood, relationships, the connections between generations, death, ambition and loss.
Here are sixteen razor-sharp tales about the raw and poignant stuff of life, from one of Scotland's best loved and most acclaimed authors.
About the Author Janice Galloway is a prize-winning author of three novels, The Trick is to Keep Breathing, winner of the MIND Book of the Year Award; Foreign Parts, winner of the McVitie's Prize, and Clara, winner of the E.M. Forster Award, the Creative Scotland Award, and the Saltire Book of the Year Award. She is also the author of two memoirs This is Not About Me, winner of the SMIT Non-Fiction Book of the Year, and All Made Up; and of two previous collections of short stories. She has written and presented three radio series for BBC Scotland and works extensively with musicians and visual artists. She lives and works in Lanarkshire, Scotland.
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Granta MARCH 2019 White Houses Amy Bloom
Hidden love in the White House in 1930s and 1940s America, from a master storyteller at the height of her powers.
Description In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the celebrated journalist Lorena Hickok - Hick to friends - a straight-talking reporter from South Dakota, whose passionate relationship with the idealistic, patrician First Lady would shape the rest of their lives.
Told by the indomitable Hick, White Houses is the story of Eleanor and Hick's hidden love, and of Hick's unlikely journey from her dirt-poor childhood to the centre of privilege and power. Filled with fascinating back-room politics, the secrets and scandals of the era, and exploring the potency of enduring love, it is an imaginative tour-de-force from a writer of extraordinary and exuberant talent.
About the Author Amy Bloom is the author of three collections of short stories, Where the God of Love Hangs Out (Granta, 2010), Come to Me and A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, also published in one volume Rowing to Eden (Granta, 2015), a collection of essays, Normal, and three novels, Lucky Us (Granta, 2014), Away (Granta, 2007),and Love Invents Us. She is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing at Wesleyan University.
Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9781783781744 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: New York
Granta Paperbacks MARCH 2019 Asymmetry Lisa Halliday
'I loved, admired and envied this novel, it's a wonder.' - Zadie Smith: One of the most talked about books of the year, a dazzling, provocative novel from a major new international writer of rare and extraordinary talent.
Description 'A scorchingly intelligent first novel' - New York Times 'Spellbinding' - New Yorker 'Thrilling' - Guardian
In New York, Alice, a young editor, begins an affair with Ezra Blazer, a world-famous, much older writer.
At Heathrow airport, Amar, an Iraqi-American economist en route to Kurdistan, is detained by immigration. Somehow their lives are connected, in this unconventional love story that has things to say about all of contemporary life.
About the Author Lisa Halliday has worked as a freelance editor and translator in Milan, where she lives with her husband. Her short story 'Stump Louie' appeared in The Paris Review in 2005, and she received a Whiting Award for Fiction in 2017. Asymmetry is her first novel.
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Granta Paperbacks MARCH 2019 The Earlie King & the Kid in Yellow Danny Denton
A noir thriller, a lyric romance and a dystopian saga in one fearless debut novel.
Description Ireland is flooded, derelict. It never stops raining. The Kid in Yellow has stolen the babba from the Earlie King. Why? Something to do with the King's daughter, and a talking statue, something godawful. And from every wall the King's Eye watches. And yet the city is full of hearts-defiant-sprayed in yellow, the mark of the Kid.
It cannot end well. Can it? Follow the Kid, hear the tale. Roll up! Roll up!
About the Author Danny Denton is a writer from Cork, Ireland. He has been awarded several bursaries and scholarships for his work, and has published work in various journals. This is his first novel.
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Granta Paperbacks MARCH 2019 Godsend John Wray
Inspired by 'American Taliban' John Walker Lindh, this compelling novel from the award-winning John Wray tells the story of a young girl leaving her home, family and country for radical Islam.
Description In California her name was Aden Grace Sawyer. In Pakistan she must choose a different name - Suleyman - and take on a new identity as a young man. She has travelled a long way to begin her new life, and she'll travel further to protect her secret.
But once she is on the ground, Aden finds herself in more danger than she could have dreamed. Faced with violence and loss, she must make intense and unimaginable choices that will test not only her faith, but her understanding of who she is.
Compelling, unnerving and timely, Godsend is a subtle masterpiece of empathy: a study of what it means for a person to give themselves to their faith, and how far they will go from home to find a place to belong.
About the Author John Wray is the author of five novels, including The Lost Time Accidents and Lowboy. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers' Award, and a Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, and has been named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. A citizen of both the United States and Austria, he lives in New York City.
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Canongate Trade MARCH 2019 The Garden of Evening Mists Tan Twan Eng
Tan Twan Eng's rich, absorbing, internationally bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted epic.
Description THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE
Teoh Yun Ling was seventeen years old when she first heard about Aritomo and the garden. But a war would come to Malaya, and a decade pass before she would travel to see him. A man of extraordinary skill and reputation, Aritomo was once the gardener for the Emperor of Japan, and now Yun Ling needs him. She needs him to help her build a memorial to her beloved sister, killed at the hands of the Japanese. She wants to learn everything Aritomo can teach her, and do her sister proud, but to do so she must also begin a journey into her own past, a past inextricably linked with the secrets of her troubled country.
A story of art, war, love and memory, The Garden of Evening Mists captures a dark moment in history with richness, power and incredible beauty.
About the Author Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang, Malaysia. His debut novel The Gift of Rain was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 and has been widely translated. The Garden of Evening Mists won the Man Asian Literary Prize 2012 and the 2013 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 and the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He divides his time between Kuala Lumpur and Cape Town. tantwaneng.com
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Canongate PBS MARCH 2019 The Gunners Rebecca Kauffman
Reunited by the suicide of their former friend, will a lifetime of secrets draw the Gunners closer together or force them apart for good?
Description From childhood into adolescence, The Gunners were an inseparable gang of friends, taking their name from the previous occupants of the abandoned house they used to play in.
One of their number, Sally, suddenly stops speaking to all of them and never explains why. Years later, her suicide forces the Gunners back together for Sally's funeral. Mikey, the only one who remained in the town where they grew up, is worried they will have very little in common when they finally meet again. He is also unsure how to tell them he is going blind. But the other Gunners have secrets of their own to share, secrets that might shed some light on Sally's tragic decision.
The Gunners is a humorous but poignant look at growing up and what it really means to be a friend.
About the Author Rebecca Kauffman is originally from rural northeastern Ohio. She studied Classical Violin Performance at the Manhattan School of Music before receiving an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU. Her novel Another Place You've Never Been is published by Soft Skull Press. Rebecca has worked both in restaurants and as a teacher. She currently lives in Virginia.
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Serpents Tail MARCH 2019 The Word for Woman is Wilderness Abi Andrews
Funny, frank and tender, The Word for Woman is Wilderness is an adventure novel with a difference.
Description Erin is 19. She's never really left England, but she has watched Bear Grylls and wonders why it's always men who get to go on all the cool wilderness adventures. So Erin sets off on a voyage into the Alaskan wilderness, a one-woman challenge to the archetype of the rugged male explorer.
As Erin's journey takes her through the Arctic Circle, across the entire breadth of the American continent and finally to a lonely cabin in the wilds of Denali, she explores subjects as diverse as the moon landings, the Gaia hypothesis, loneliness, nuclear war, shamanism and the pill.
Filled with a sense of wonder for the natural world and a fierce love for preserving it, The Word for Woman is Wilderness is a funny, frank and tender account of a young woman in uncharted territory.
About the Author Abi Andrews was born in 1991 in the Midlands, and now divides her time between Worcestershire and London. She studied English and creative writing at Goldsmiths, and her work has been published in The Dark Mountain Project, Tender, Five Dials and The Bohemyth, amongst others. The Word for Woman is Wilderness is her debut novel.
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Serpents Tail MARCH 2019 Going Back: How a former refugee and now an internationally acclaimed surgeon returned to Iraq to change the lives of injured soldiers and civilians Munjed Al Muderis and Patrick Weaver
Munjed's new book is once more a journey, but this time in taking him across the world on a quest to save others rather than himself.
Description In Munjed Al Muderis's bestselling memoir Walking Free, he described his experience as a refugee fleeing Saddam Hussein's Iraq, his terrifying sea journey to Australia and the brutal mandatory detention he faced in the remote north of Western Australia. The book also detailed his early work as a pioneering orthopaedic surgeon at the cutting edge of world medicine.
In his new book, Going Back, Munjed shares the extraordinary journey that his life-changing new surgical technique has taken him on. Through osseointegration, he implants titanium rods into the human skeleton and attaches robotic limbs, allowing patients genuine, effective and permanent mobility. Munjed has performed this operation on hundreds of Australian civilians, wounded British soldiers who've lost legs in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a survivor of the Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand. But nothing has been as extraordinary as his return to Iraq after eighteen years at the invitation of the Iraqi government to operate on soldiers, police and civilian amputees wounded in the horrific war against ISIS. These stories are both heartbreaking and full of hope, and are told from the unique perspective of a refugee returning to the place of his birth as a celebrated international surgeon.
About the Author Associate Professor Munjed Al Muderis is a world-leading osseointegration surgeon and Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Sydney. He practises as an orthopaedic surgeon at the Norwest Private Hospital, Sydney Adventist Hospital and Macquarie University Hospital in Sydney's northern suburbs. He lives in Sydney with his partner, Claudia.
Price: $32.99 ISBN: 9781760633165 Patrick Weaver is a highly regarded writer and public relations consultant who worked with Munjed on his previous Format: Paperback - C format bestseller, Walking Free. He lives in Sydney and has two adult children. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bellavista, NSW (Muderis) South Turramurra, NSW (Weaver)
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Allen & Unwin MARCH 2019 Stranger Country Monica Tan
Tracks meets Wild in this account of Chinese Australian journalist Monica Tan's 6 month odyssey though outback Australia.
Description 'Will I ever really belong to this country? As a Chinese Australian? As a non-Indigenous Australian?... I was thirty-two years old and barely knew the country of my birth. It was time to change that.'
What happens when a 32-year-old first generation Australian woman decides to chuck in a dream job, pack a sleeping bag and tent, and hit the long, dusty road for six months?
Thirty-thousand kilometres later, Monica Tan had the answer.
In mid-2016, Monica left Sydney unsure of her place in this country. As a Chinese-Australian city-slicker she couldn't feel more distant from powerful Australian mythologies like the Digger, the Drover's Wife and Clancy of the Overflow. More importantly, she wondered how she could ever truly belong to a land that has been the spiritual domain of Indigenous Australians for 60,000 plus years.
Stranger Country is the blow-by-blow account of the six months Monica drove and camped her way through some of Australia's most beautiful landscapes and shared meals with miners, grey nomads, artists, farmers, community workers and small business owners from across the nation; some Aboriginal, some white, some Asian, and even a few who managed to be all three.
About the Author Monica Tan is the former deputy culture editor of Guardian Australia and co-host of the Token podcast. Stranger Country is her first book.
Price: $32.99 ISBN: 9781760632212 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: True stories: discovery / historical / scientific Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Beecroft, NSW
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Allen & Unwin MARCH 2019 Your Backyard Birds: Understanding the behaviours, habits and needs of our brilliant birds Gráinne Cleary
The remarkable relationships between our often cheeky birds and humans in Australian backyards all over the country are revealed with humour and charm. An ideal gift for any bird lover.
Description A beautiful, inspiring and heartwarming book about our human relationships with the birds who share our backyards.
'Do you ever wonder what birds are talking about as they fly by you? The sounds and songs of birds constantly surround us as we go about our lives. But what are they talking about? Or are they even talking or just mindlessly squawking and chirping? Why are so many urban birds so loud? Is there a message in what the birds are telling each other?'
Observing and interacting with all the different birds who visit Australian backyards leads naturally to questions about their behaviours, habits and needs. Why are they visiting? What do they want from us? For a bird, life in Australia means having mates: others who you can trust and work with to locate food and water, which can disappear as suddenly as it appears. As the humans who plant the gardens they live in and visit, what can we learn from Australia's often-cheeky birds?
With a foreword by science journalist and broadcaster Robyn Williams, AM, and chapters dedicated to discovering extraordinary information about Australia's innovative birds, Your Backyard Birds is a delightful and compelling read. With real stories from bird-loving citizen scientists, this fascinating book features new insights about the lives of our avian friends.
Your Backyard Birds provides a fresh and lively perspective on human interaction with birds, written by a wildlife ecologist who is passionate about the vital role of citizen scientists.
About the Author Price: $29.99 Dr Grainne Cleary is a wildlife ecologist from Ireland. Her primary area of interest is working with the public through citizen ISBN: 9781760297350 science to gain the best outcomes for urban wildlife, particularly in how people interact with birds in their backyards. She Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm believes our behaviour can have a huge influence on urban wildlife and how native animals can use our gardens as a Extent: 272 pages sanctuary in otherwise inhospitable environments. Bic1: Wildlife: birds & birdwatching Bic2: Wildlife: birds & birdwatching Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
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Allen & Unwin MARCH 2019 Old Days, Old Ways: Stories from my radio days in the bush Alex Nicol
Former ABC radio presenter Alex Nicol brings back to life the voices and stories of regional Australia from bygone days.
Description It was 1969 when Alex Nicol first opened the microphone at the ABC to announce, 'This is All Ways On Sunday'. Very few people would have heard him. ABC regional audiences on Sunday morning were miniscule.
A year later, the three-and-a-half hour program was essential listening for tens of thousands across the country and its audience continued to grow. Driven by a network of reporters all around Australia and, increasingly by listeners, it had tapped into a rich mine of stories about us.
Alex was just in time to hear the voices of the last of the First World War soldier settlers, and to meet the man who still cut sleepers for the railway by hand in the PIlliga. There was the fourteen-year-old who spent his days at the races, the last Cobb & Co driver, and the silk stockings and chocolates the Cattle King Sir Sidney Kidman provided to telephonists in post offices all over the back country. It was our history being told by the people who made it. And pity help any reporter who phoned when the beloved daily radio drama Blue Hills was on air.
Now, half a century later Alex has captured these stories in a book that reflects the tenacity, wit and adventure of regional Australians.
'Alex Nicol's Old Days, Old Ways evokes and celebrates those unmistakeable national qualities that set us apart and that reside in the common man and woman.' - Ian 'Macca' McNamara, Australia All Over
About the Author Alex Nicol was ABC's first rural radio presenter. He started at the ABC in 1967, and was presenter of the 'All Ways on Sunday' program, and later manager of ABC Orange. He has worked as a jackaroo, as a sheep and wool officer for the NSW Department of Agriculture, as an agriculture college teacher, and on the Australian Wheat Board. Alex is also a Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781760528492 playwright, and his plays have been produced in London, New York, Melbourne and Sydney, with credits including an Format: Paperback - C format award at the Manchester International Writing Competition, the Wal Cherry Award, and The London International Dimensions: 234x153mm Playwriting Award. Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Australasian & Pacific history Bic2: Anthologies (non-poetry) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bega, NSW
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Allen & Unwin MARCH 2019 Choice Words: A collection of writing about abortion Edited by Louise Swinn
Edited by Louise Swinn, Choice Words is a timely Australian collection of stories, essays, rants and raves from high profile women that seeks to demystify abortion and its surrounding stigma.
Description Choice Words: A Collection of Writing About Abortion is a cri de coeur, a passionate appeal, from writers, thinkers, musicians, actors, comedians, activists and political staffers, offering personal stories of abortion alongside historical record and political anecdote.
At a time when abortion is a criminal act and prosecution is a real risk in parts of Australia, this book is needed more than ever. The world watched aghast this July when a Tasmanian woman lost her job at a high-profile sporting agency for tweeting the truth - even in states in which abortion is legal, access can be nearly impossible.
This treasury of stories highlights the sheer commonality of abortion. Women have been dealing with the risks and the fall-out for longer than there is record. It is poignant, wise, funny and true; a salute to those who have been working in the field, a celebration of how far we've come, an electrifying caterwaul at how far we still have to go, and a clarion call to action.
Contributors include Jane Caro, Claudia Karvan, Laura Jean, Melissa Lucashenko, Emily Maguire, Tara June Winch, Michelle Law, Melanie Cheng, Anne Summers, Gideon Haigh, Monica Dux, Bri Lee, Jenny Kee, and a Foreword by Tanya Plibersek. Proceeds from Choice Words will go to the charity Marie Stopes Australia, the only national, independently-accredited, not-for-profit safe abortion provider, that has helped more than 600,000 women in the past twenty years.
Foreword by The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP Angela Williamson Jane Caro Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781760875220 Monica Dux Format: Paperback - C format Rosie Waterland Dimensions: 234x153mm Van Badham Extent: pages Bic1: Anthologies (non-poetry) Eleanor Limprecht Bic2: Gender studies: women Shirley Barrett Illustrations: Claudia Karvan Previous Titles: Author now living: Jenny Kee & Grace Heifetz Jane Gleeson-White Sarah Firth Clem Bastow Melissa Lucashenko Allen & Unwin MARCH 2019 Foundations of Primary Mathematics Education 2nd edition: An introduction to curriculum, pedagogy and content John West and Fiona Budgen
An introductory guide for pre-service primary teachers covering the principles of effective pedagogy and explaining the core content of the primary mathematics curriculum.
Description Many pre-service teachers admit to feeling unsure about the mathematics they will have to teach in primary school. Others comment on the difficulties they have in recognising how the theories of teaching and learning they meet in other parts of their course can be applied when teaching mathematics. This book begins by outlining some of the key considerations of effective mathematics teaching and learning. These include understanding student motivation, overcoming maths anxiety, developing a positive learning environment and classroom management. The authors also introduce the curriculum, assessment and explore the use of ICT in the maths classroom. Part 2 outlines in clear and accessible style, the mathematical content knowledge required of a primary teacher. The content extends beyond the primary level to Year Nine of the Australian Curriculum as, while primary teachers may not have to teach this content, knowing it is a key part of being a strong teacher. In addition, the extended range of mathematical content will assist pre-service teachers in meeting the requirements of the LANTITE (that is, the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education students). Featuring graphics, worked examples and using clear and friendly language throughout, this is the essential introduction for students wanting to embark with confidence and enthusiasm in the teaching of primary mathematics.
'The writing style is clean and uncomplicated; exactly what my maths education students need. The blend of theories, curriculum, planning, assessment and mathematical content knowledge strikes the balance that is missing in many texts.'
Geoff Hilton, University of Queensland
About the Author Dr John West is a Lecturer in Mathematics Education at Edith Cowan University. He has taught mathematics at primary, Price: $54.99 secondary and tertiary levels. Dr Fiona Budgen is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Edith Cowan University. ISBN: 9781760529697 She and John have a strong research interest in primary mathematics education and identifying and supporting numeracy Format: Paperback Dimensions: 230x176mm needs of first year students. Extent: 264 pages Bic1: Educational: Mathematics & numeracy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Allen & Unwin MARCH 2019 Critical Multicultural Practice in Social Work: New perspectives and practices Edited by Sharlene Nipperess and Charlotte Williams
A guide to the theory and practice of effective and sensitive multicultural approaches across a range of settings including aged care, disability services and child protection, suitable for both students and practitioners.
Description Critical multicultural practice, rather than being a specialism, is integral to Australian social work. Drawing on critical race theory, critical multiculturalism, intersectionality and critical reflection as practice theory, this major new edited collection challenges many of the dominant assumptions of cross-cultural social work and provides instead a new model of transformative engagement.
Key concepts are considered, including identity, culture, diversity and superdiversity, how power and privilege shape everyday interactions and what is meant by citizenship in the contemporary context. Part One explores the changing nature of multicultural practice in Australia, including our society's changing demographic profile, the impact of asylum and refugee migrations, race and racism and cultural identity. Indigenous perspectives and the relationship with multicultural practice are examined, together with the ethical and legal basis for multicultural practice. This part concludes with an outline of the editors' framework for critical multicultural practice. Part Two draws on contributions from a range of practitioners and offers new perspectives on diverse fields, including child protection, mental health, disability, ageing, homelessness and rural and regional practice.
Featuring case studies and insights drawn across the spectrum of practice, this book is a vital resource for all social workers practising in Australia today.
'[A] rich and nuanced analysis of what is happening at the interfaces of our work and the lives of Australian citizens, and articulates ways forward that are genuine, bold and empathetic.' From the foreword by Professor Kerry Arabena, The University of Melbourne Price: $49.99 ISBN: 9781760297831 Format: Paperback - C format About the Author Dimensions: 234x153mm Dr Sharlene Nipperess is Program Manager, Social Work at RMIT University and is a co-editor of Allen & Unwin's Doing Extent: 288 pages Critical Social Work. Professor Charlotte Williams, OBE, is Deputy Dean, Social Work at RMIT University. She is the co- Bic1: Social work author of Social Work in a Diverse Society, 2016, and editor of Social Work and the City: Urban themes in 21st century Bic2: Social work Illustrations: social work, 2016. Previous Titles: Author now living: BP: Barwon Heads, VIC; SN: Kensington, VIC; NH: Newtown, VIC; SG: Newtown, VIC.
A&U Academic MARCH 2019 Historical Thinking for History Teachers: A new approach to engaging students and developing historical consciousness Edited by Tim Allender, Anna Clark and Robert Parkes
An edited collection surveying the nature of Australian history teaching today at both the primary and secondary level.
Description Effective Australian history education has never been more important for the development of critically aware and thoughtful young people. Not only does history foster important discipline-specific skills in historical reasoning, consciousness and empathy; an appreciation of history also plays a crucial role in the development of students' understanding of the very nature of our society. This edited collection, comprising contributions from leading historians, educators and practising teachers, provides a much-needed survey of the nature of Australian history teaching today, from the development of the national curriculum, to fostering historical thinking and promoting engaging approaches in the classroom.
The book begins with an analysis of the principles underlying the drafting of the national curriculum and features insights from the writers of the curriculum itself. There is also a focus on considering the curriculum from a primary teaching perspective. Part 2 examines the teaching of historical skills including historical thinking, empathy and values as well as the principles of effective assessment and the important role social history can play in the classroom. In Part 3 the focus is on specific approaches to history teaching including teacher talk, the use of historical fiction and film, the value of digital technology and websites and the role of the museum as a teaching and learning tool. Finally Part 4 analyses key aspects of teaching Australian history including reflecting Indigenous perspectives, teaching citizenship and assisting the pre- service teacher in their transition to becoming a professional.
Rich with insights on the nature of historical skills as well as practical guidance on translating principles into engaging classroom approaches, this is an essential reference for both pre-service and in-service history teachers and educators.
About the Author Price: $59.99 Tim Allender is Professor and Chair of History and Curriculum at the University of Sydney and has taught preparing ISBN: 9781760295516 history teachers for over 20 years. He has published on history curriculum issues and has held an ARC Discovery grant Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm that looked into classroom history practice. Anna Clark is Future Fellow and Associate Professor at the University of Extent: 384 pages Technology, Sydney. She has written extensively in the field of history education and historical consciousness. Robert Bic1: Educational strategies & policy Parkes is Deputy Head of School, Teaching and Learning at the University of Newcastle and convenor of the HERMES Bic2: Educational strategies & policy Illustrations: History Education Research Network. He is founding editor of Historical Encounters: A journal of historical Previous Titles: consciousness, historical cultures and history education. Author now living: Sydney, NSW
A&U Academic MARCH 2019 Smart Mothering: What science says about caring for your baby and yourself Dr Natalie Flynn
Every new mother is given loads of advice on how to look after her baby, but what does the research actually say? This research-based book sorts out the facts from the opinions.
Description Psychologist Dr Natalie Flynn sorts through all the research on key baby topics such as feeding, sleeping and crying, to deliver the facts rather than the bombardment of opinions all new mothers face.
She answers all the dilemmas that parents are wrestling with: What if I can't breastfeed? Is it best to feed on demand? Can I leave my baby to cry? Should I vaccinate my baby? Is co- sleeping a good idea? Plus many, many more questions.
This is revolutionary - most books take one position or another and advocate for one parenting style or another. Natalie is not biased, rather she has looked into all the research available on each topic and presents the facts in an easily accessible format, using boxes, tips, summaries and diagrams. In addition she supplies good solid background information for those who want more detail.
About the Author Natalie is a registered clinical psychologist who has a special interest in transition to parenthood, being herself a mother of three. She currently divides her time between private practice and working in the public system.
Price: $32.99 ISBN: 9781988547084 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 536 pages Bic1: Advice on parenting Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Mt Eden, Auckland NZ
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Allen & Unwin MARCH 2019 No Apologies: Women in Comedy Claiming their Space, Finding their Voices and Telling their Stories Joanne Brookfield
Everyone says the future is female, but that change is happening right now. Across the planet, women's voices are being heard like never before...
Description Joanne Brookfield has spent two decades working in the world of comedy, as both a journalist and a stand-up comedian. Over coffee, wine, laughter and tears, she's talked with the women of comedy about every aspect of their lives, from the butterflies of their first gigs to the hell of their worst. From writing, gigging and touring, to the times they almost gave up, these women share the ways they've lived the feminist war cry of 'nevertheless, she persisted' and the triumphs they've enjoyed as a result.
Representing a multitude of backgrounds, styles and content, the women in comedy cover the full spectrum of human experience and this book celebrates them all, from the trailblazers who paved the way to the talented new stars who are actively transforming the landscape of performance.
A funny and feisty read, at its core No Apologies is about the power of women, their voices and their stories.
About the Author Joanne Brookfield is a journalist and comedy writer. A graduate of RMIT's BA in Journalism, she works as a freelance print journalist, writing mainly for Fairfax (The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and the Canberra Times). She has also contributed to The Guardian UK, The Sunday Herald Sun, The Mercury, The Courier Mail plus a variety of magazines. A lifelong comedy fan, she has always reported on the world of comedy, having covered the three biggest festivals in the world - Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Montreal Just For Laughs - plus other comedy and fringe festivals. She's also been a stand up herself, having performed multiple seasons of her shows around Australia and New Zealand.
Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781760685782 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Biography: arts & entertainment Bic2: Biography: arts & entertainment Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Echo MARCH 2019 Happy As: Why the quest for happiness is making us miserable Lisa Portolan
A fascinating and fresh insight into the idea of happiness in the digital age
Description In a world where data is the new currency, social media is turning us all into walking, talking billboards and brands and we're meant to be mindful, manifesting and present, isn't it a bit rich to be expected to be happy too?
After a lifetime spent actively searching for happiness as well as studying it, communications executive and yogi Lisa Portolan shares valuable insights into how we made happiness a science and an industry, created products around it and supported it with a whole heap of advertising to ensure that works, but is 'brand me' just a recipe for unhappiness?
'Lisa points the way to an alternative approach where instead of performing or pursuing an artificial construction of happiness, we can discover our authentic, holistic selves, and learn that this is enough.' - Tom Dawkins
'A big call, but coming from a practitioner of the dark arts of advertising and persuasion Lisa's insights are f*cking surprising and enlightening.' - Paul Bongiorno AM
'Lisa Portolan's fascinating exploration of happiness reveals fresh insights into this much-lauded but little-examined condition. Startling in its insight and surprising in its scale, Happy As sheds light into the darker corners of people's search for joy. And, oddly enough, it is an unbridled joy to read.' - Tim Ferguson
About the Author Lisa Portolan is a communications and marketing professional who has worked on many large-scale advertising campaigns and industry rebrands. She is also a freelance journalist whose articles have been widely published in magazines and and blogs, including Huffington Post, Mamamia, Elephant Journal, Yoganonymouse, Rebelle Society and HerCanberra. Lisa has written three novels. She lives in Sydney with her husband and daughter.
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Echo MARCH 2019 Closer: Find happiness in your life and relationships with the 7 principles of connectedness Peter Charleston
Description It's in our nature to relate and connect with others.
But in a world dominated by electronic communications, online identities and constant busyness, we are losing touch, and our relationships are lacking real meaning. Many of the problems we face today are directly related to our inability to connect emotionally with others. Rates of depression and anxiety, isolation and loneliness, relationship conflict and neighbourhood complaints are at an all-time high.
The seven principles of connectedness provide a practical framework for establishing a better relationship with yourself and strong, fulfilling relationships with others, by helping you uncover the emotional needs that underlie all interactions. The framework is easy to learn and can be implemented immediately for positive results. It's a highly effective way of significantly improving personal and professional relationships.
Written in a warm and empathetic style and tone, Closer helps reinforce the power of strong connections and their importance in all facets of life.
About the Author One of two experts on Channel 7's controversial Seven Year Switch relationship series, Peter Charleston has been a psychotherapist for more than 20 years, and an organisational trainer and coaching psychologist for over 10 years. He has postgraduate qualifications in psychology and business and has worked with a variety of organisations including Alfred Health, Vanguard investments, KPMG and La Trobe University.
Peter is regularly invited to speak to organisations on wellness, mental fitness, leadership and teamwork. His expertise includes dealing with work/life issues, stress, anxiety, depression, perfectionism, conflict and addictions and he's known Price: $29.99 for his ability to simplify complex theories and research for the practical benefit of his clients. ISBN: 9781760409890 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 235x165mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Family & relationships Bic2: Popular psychology Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Echo MARCH 2019 On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures Wilbur Smith
Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and here in his first ever memoirs he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction.
Description I've been writing novels for over fifty years. I was lucky enough to miss the big wars and not get shot, but lucky enough to grow up among the heroes who had served in them and learn from their example. I have lucked into things continuously. I have done things which have seemed appalling at the time, disastrous even, but out of them has come another story or a deeper knowledge of human character and the ability to express myself better on paper and write books which people enjoy reading.
Along the way, I have lived a life that I could never have imagined. I have been privileged to meet people from all corners of the globe, I have been wherever my heart has desired and in the process my books have taken readers to many, many places. I always say I've started wars, I've burned down cities and I've killed hundreds of thousands of people - but only in my imagination!
From being attacked by lions to close encounters with deadly reef sharks, from getting lost in the African bush without water to crawling the precarious tunnels of gold mines, from marlin fishing with Lee Marvin to near death from crash- landing a Cessna aeroplane, from brutal school days to redemption through writing and falling in love, Wilbur Smith tells us the intimate stories of his life that have been the raw material for his fiction. Always candid, sometimes hilarious and never less than thrillingly entertaining, On Leopard Rock is testament to a writer whose life is as rich and eventful as his novels are compellingly unputdownable.
About the Author Wilbur Smith is a worldwide phenomenon. His readership has built up over fifty-five years of writing. Born in Central Africa in 1933, Wilbur became a full-time writer in 1964 following the success of When the Lion Feeds, and has since published forty-one global bestsellers, including the Courtney Series, the Ballantyne Series, the Egyptian Series, the Hector Cross Series and many successful standalone novels, all meticulously researched on his numerous expeditions worldwide. The Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781785765353 establishment of the Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation in 2015 cemented Wilbur's passion for empowering writers, Format: Paperback - B format promoting literacy and advancing adventure writing as a genre. The foundation's flagship programme is the Wilbur Smith Dimensions: 198x129mm Adventure Writing Prize. For all the latest information on Wilbur visit www.wilbursmithbooks.com or facebook. Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Historical fiction com/WilburSmith Bic2: Memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre MARCH 2019 There Will Be No Miracles Here Casey Gerald, edited by Peter Straus
The testament of a life in the shadow of the American Dream.
Description Casey Gerald's story begins at the end of the world: on New Year's Eve 1999, Casey gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church to witness the rapture. The journey that follows is a beautiful and moving story of a young man learning to question the dreams of success and prosperity that are the foundation of modern America.
Growing up gay in an ordinary black neighbourhood in Dallas, his parents struggling with mental health problems and addiction, Casey finds himself on a remarkable path to a prestigious Ivy League college, to the inner sanctums of power on Wall Street and in Washington DC. But even as he attains everything the American Dream promised him, Casey comes to see that salvation stories like his own are part of the plan to keep others from rising.
Intense, incantatory, shot through with sly humour and quiet fury, There Will Be No Miracles Here is an extraordinary memoir that forces us to judge our society not on those who rise highest, but on those left behind along the way.
About the Author Casey Gerald grew up in Dallas, Texas, and went to Yale, where he majored in political science and played varsity football. After receiving an MBA from Harvard Business School, he cofounded MBAs Across America. He has been featured on MSNBC, at TED and SXSW, on the cover of Fast Company, and in The New York Times, Financial Times, and The Guardian, among others.
Price: $32.99 ISBN: 9781788161961 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Tuskar Rock MARCH 2019 The Making of You: A Scientific Journey Katharina Vestre
The inside story of the making of you.
Description The Making of You is the inside story of one of nature's greatest marvels: the creation of a new human, from first cell to first breath. This is pop science, not a parenting manual, and it almost certainly contains things you didn't know on almost every page. Did you know that sperm have a sense of smell? That your body has three goes at making kidneys before it gets it right? That the groove on your lip is a seam where the sheets of skin that form your face fused together?
This short book is written in language so simple an intelligent child could read it, but it crams a lot of science into a very small space. It's not only a wonder-inducing account of our own individual origins; it also finds time to tell the story of how we discovered how pregnancy works, from Aristotle's experiments on chicken eggs to molecular biology. And it brings you to the cutting edge of research. No matter who you are, your life is an amazing achievement. Join Katharina Vestre to discover how far you've come.
About the Author Katharina Vestre is an embryologist and Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oslo Department of Biosciences. The Making of You is her first book.
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Profile Trade MARCH 2019 The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for the Future at the New Frontier of Power Shoshana Zuboff
An important book about technology and capitalism - and what our response should be when these two giants collide.
Description Society is at a turning point. The heady optimism that accompanied the advent of the Internet has gone, replaced with a deep unease as technology, capitalism and an unequal society combine to create the perfect storm. Tech companies are gathering our information online and selling it to the highest bidder, whether government or retailer. In this world of surveillance capitalism, profit depends not only on predicting but modifying our online behaviour. How will this fusion of capitalism and the digital shape the values that define our future?
Shoshana Zuboff shows that at this critical juncture we have a choice, the power to decide what kind of world we want to live in. We can choose whether to allow the power of technology to enrich the few and impoverish the many, or harness it for the wider distribution of capitalism's social and economic benefits. What we decide over the next decade will shape the rest of the twenty-first century.
Exploring the social, political, business and technological meaning of the changes taking place in our time, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism tackles the threat of an unprecedented power free from democratic oversight, and shows how we can protect ourselves and our communities. This is a deeply reasoned examination of the contests over the next chapter of capitalism that will decide the meaning of information civilization. The stark issue at hand is whether we will be masters of the digital, or its slaves.
About the Author Shoshana Zuboff has been called 'the true prophet of the information age' by the Financial Times for her ground-breaking book, In the Age of the Smart Machine. She is now the Charles Edward Wilson Professor Emerita at Harvard Business School as well as Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. In 2006, Price: $49.99 strategy+business magazine named her one of the eleven most original business thinkers in the world. ISBN: 9781781256848 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 672 pages Bic1: Technology: general issues Bic2: Economics, finance, business & management Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade MARCH 2019 The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent Richard Wrangham
Professor Richard Wrangham advances a provocative new theory of what makes human civilisation special: the nature of our violence.
Description It may not always seem so, but day-to-day interactions between individual humans are extraordinarily peaceful. That is not to say that we are perfect, just far less violent than most animals, especially our closest relatives, the chimpanzee and their legendarily docile cousins, the Bonobo. Perhaps surprisingly, we rape, maim, and kill many fewer of our neighbours than all other primates and almost all undomesticated animals. But there is one form of violence that humans exceed all other animals in by several degrees: organised proactive violence against other groups of humans. It seems, we are the only animal that goes to war.
In The Goodness Paradox, Richard Wrangham wrestles with this paradox at the heart of human behaviour. Drawing on new research by geneticists, neuroscientists, primatologists, and archaeologists, he shows that what domesticated our species was nothing less than the invention of capital punishment which eliminated the least cooperative and most aggressive among us. But that development is exactly what laid the groundwork for the worst of our atrocities.
About the Author Richard Wrangham has taught biological anthropology at Harvard University since 1989. His major interests are chimpanzee behavioural ecology, the evolution of violence and tolerance, human dietary adaptation, and the conservation of chimpanzees and other apes. He has studied chimpanzees in Kibale National Park, Uganda, since 1987.
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Profile Trade MARCH 2019 Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation David Crystal
The newest volume in David Crystal's pentalogy of the English language, focusing on the subtleties of pronunciation.
Description It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it ...
There have long been debates about 'correct' pronunciation in the English language, and Britain's most distinguished linguistic expert, David Crystal, is here to set the record straight. Sounds Appealing tells us exactly why, and how, we pronounce words as we do.
Pronunciation is integral to communication, and is tailored to meet the demands of the two main forces behind language: intelligibility and identity. Equipping his readers with knowledge of phonetics, linguistics and physiology - with examples ranging from Eliza Doolittle to Winston Churchill - David Crystal explores the origins of regional accents, how they are influenced by class and education, and how their peculiarities have changed over time.
About the Author David Crystal is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. His many books range from clinical linguistics to the liturgy and Shakespeare. He is the author of The Story of English in 100 Words, Spell It Out: The Singular History of English Spelling, and Making a Point: The Pernickety History of English Punctuation, all published by Profile. His Stories of English is a Penguin Classic.
Find him on Twitter @davcr www.davidcrystal.com
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Profile Trade MARCH 2019 Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue Ryan Holiday
A unique account from behind the scenes of the case that rocked the media world - and the billionaire mastermind behind it.
Description Conspiracy theories are legion. Conspiracies are rare. And of the few that do exist, fewer are ever discovered, let alone explained. This story is the exception.
In 2007, a short blog post on Valleywag, the Silicon Valley vertical of Gawker Media, outed the enigmatic Facebook and PayPal billionaire Peter Thiel as gay. In 2016, Gawker was forced to declare bankruptcy after a $140 million dollar judgment in a Florida court over an illegally recorded sex tape of Hulk Hogan with his best friend's wife. These two seemingly unrelated events were in fact the bookends of a nearly decade-long plot masterminded by Thiel, for both obvious and non-obvious reasons. It had been one of the most covered and surreal legal cases in history and no one had suspected a thing.
With his unique perspective and exclusive access to all the key players, Ryan Holiday transforms these events into both a dissection of that controversial word and methodology - conspiracy - and an eye-opening cautionary tale on the use, abuse and consequences of power and secrecy in the modern age.
About the Author Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of Trust Me, I'm Lying; The Obstacle Is the Way; Ego Is the Enemy; and other books about marketing, culture and the human condition. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages and has appeared everywhere from the Columbia Journalism Review to Fast Company. His company, Brass Check, has advised companies such as Google, TASER, and Complex, as well as multiplatinum musicians and some of the biggest authors in the world. He lives in Austin, Texas.
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Profile Trade MARCH 2019 The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump Rob Sears
Does a poet's heart beat under Donald Trump's brash exterior? Experience his best quotes and tweets, rearranged into poems and haikus. It's a new word order. Now with twelve all-new poems as we lurch deeper into the Trump presidency,
Description What if there's a hidden dimension to Donald Trump; a sensitive, poetic side? Driven by this question, Rob Sears began combing Trump's words for signs of poetry.
What he found was a revelation. By simply taking the 45th President of the United States' tweets and transcripts, cutting them up and reordering them, Sears unearthed a trove of beautiful verse that was just waiting to be discovered.
This groundbreaking collection will give readers a glimpse of Trump's innermost thoughts and feelings on everything from the nature of truth, to what he hates about Lord Sugar. And it will reveal a hitherto hidden Donald, who may surprise and delight both students and critics alike.
Now with twelve all-new poems as we lurch deeper into the Trump presidency, this timely publication also includes Sears' scholarly footnotes and introduction, in which he excavates new critical angles and insights into the President's poetry which the casual reader might initially overlook.
About the Author Rob Sears is a creative director at McCann Erickson advertising agency, has written comedy and fiction for McSweeney's and (with his brother) wrote a sitcom for Audible starring Kevin Eldon, Felicity Montagu and Mitch Benn. He lives in Finsbury Park with his wife.
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Canongate Trade MARCH 2019 Making Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side Julia Shaw
How to understand the deviance that lies in ourselves and others - an original and rigorous exploration of the darkest recesses of the human mind.
Description Why do we think and do evil? What can science teach us about why humans do bad things? And what do our reactions to deviance teach us about ourselves?
Drawing together science, psychology and philosophy, Julia Shaw unlocks the intricacies of the world of criminal psychology. Grappling with thorny dilemmas from 'Would I kill baby Hitler?' to 'Why do I want to murder my spouse?', Making Evil will give you a better understanding of the world, yourself, and your Google search history.
Original, fresh and rigorous, Making Evil shines a searching light into the darker corners of the human psyche, illuminating a modern science of evil.
About the Author Julia Shaw is a scientist in the Department of Psychology at University College London (UCL). Her academic work, teaching, and role as an expert witness focus on different ways of understanding criminal behaviour. Dr Shaw consults as an expert on criminal cases, delivers police-training and military workshops, and has evaluated offender diversion programs. Her work has been featured in outlets such as The Times, Telegraph, Daily Mail, New York Magazine, Discovery Channel, the BBC, CNN World, Der Spiegel, Russia Today and NPR.
drjuliashaw.com | @drjuliashaw
Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781786893710 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 214x135mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Psychology Bic2: Popular psychology Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate Trade MARCH 2019 Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia Tracey Thorn
An exploration of suburbia from music icon Tracey Thorn; singer-songwriter and bestselling author of Bedsit Disco Queen.
Description In a 1970s commuter town, Tracey Thorn's teenage life was forged from what failed to happen. Her diaries were packed with entries about not buying things, not going to the disco, the school coach not arriving.
Before she was a bestselling musician and writer, Tracey Thorn was a typical teenager: bored and cynical, despairing of her aspirational parents. Her only comfort came from house parties, Meaningful Conversations and the female pop icons who hinted at a new kind of living.
Returning more than three decades later to Brookmans Park, scene of her childhood, Thorn takes us beyond the bus shelters and pub car parks, the utopian cul-de-sacs, the train to Potters Bar and the weekly discos, to the parents who wanted so much for their children, the children who wanted none of it. With her trademark wit and insight, Thorn reconsiders the Green Belt post-war dream so many artists have mocked, and so many artists have come from.
About the Author Tracey Thorn is a singer-songwriter and writer, best known for her seventeen years in bestselling duo Everything But The Girl. She was born and grew up as the youngest of three children in Brookmans Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, where she learned the piano, enjoyed underaged drinking, and started her first band while still at school. Since then, she has released four solo albums, one movie soundtrack, a large handful of singles and two books, including the Sunday Times bestselling memoir, Bedsit Disco Queen, and currently writes a column for the New Statesman. She lives in London, with her husband Ben Watt and their three children. @tracey_thorn | traceythorn.com
Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781786892553 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 220x144mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Prose: non-fiction Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate Trade MARCH 2019 Quicksand Tales: The Misadventures of Keggie Carew Keggie Carew
An embarrassing, hilarious collection of misadventures from the Costa-winning author of Dadland.
Description Ever been talked into buying a camel? Or become a burglar by mistake? Or accidentally drugged a friend on a blind date?
Keggie Carew has an unerring instinct for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, of putting her foot in it, and making a hash of things. From the repercussions of a missing purse, to boiling a frog, or the holiday when the last thing you could possibly imagine happens, Keggie has been there. She also has an enviable talent for recycling awfulness and turning embarrassment into gold. In prose that will make you laugh, wince and curl your toes, Keggie Carew shares her most embarrassing, awkward, uncomfortable, funny, true, terrible and all-too-relatable moments.
You will be glad none of it happened to you.
About the Author Keggie Carew has lived in West Cork, Barcelona, Texas, Auckland, and London. Before writing, her career was in contemporary art. Keggie lives in Wiltshire with her husband Jonathan. She is the author of Dadland, which won the 2016 COSTA biography award.
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Price: $32.99 ISBN: 9781786894076 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 220x144mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Autobiography: general Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate Trade MARCH 2019 When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha bandele and foreword by Angela Davis
The powerful memoir of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter which explores how the movement was born.
Description Following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, three women - Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Khan-Cullors - came together to form an active response to the systemic racism causing the deaths of so many African-Americans. They simply said: Black Lives Matter; and for that, they were labelled terrorists.
In this empowering account of survival, strength and resilience, Patrisse Khan-Cullors and award-winning author and journalist asha bandele recount the personal story that led Patrisse to become a founder of Black Lives Matter, seeking to end the culture that declares Black life expendable. Like the era-defining movement she helped create, this rallying cry demands you do not look away.
With foreword by Angela Davis.
About the Author Patrisse Khan-Cullors is an artist, organizer, and freedom fighter from Los Angeles, CA. Co-founder of Black Lives Matter, she is also a performance artist, Fulbright scholar, popular public speaker, and an NAACP History Maker.
asha bandele, author of the bestselling memoir, The Prisoner's Wife, has been honoured for her work in journalism, fiction, poetry, and activism. A mother and a former senior editor at Essence magazine, asha serves as a senior director at the Drug Policy Alliance.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781786893055 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS MARCH 2019 The Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat Eric Haseltine, foreword by Michael V. Hayden
A gripping, real life cold war story.
Description Moscow in the late 1970s: one by one, CIA assets are disappearing. The perils of American arrogance, mixed with bureaucratic infighting, had left the country unspeakably vulnerable to ultra-sophisticated Russian electronic surveillance. The Spy In Moscow Station tells of a time when - much like today - Russian spycraft was proving itself far ahead of the best technology the U.S. had to offer.
This is the true story of unorthodox, underdog intelligence officers who fought an uphill battle against their government to prove that the KGB had pulled off the most devastating and breathtakingly thorough penetration of U.S. national security in history.
Incorporating declassified internal CIA memos and diplomatic cables, this suspenseful narrative reads like a thriller - but real lives were at stake, and every twist is true as the US and USSR attempt to wrongfoot each other in eavesdropping technology and tradecraft. The book also carries a chilling warning for the present: like the State and CIA officers who were certain their 'sweeps' could detect any threat in Moscow, we don't know what we don't know.
About the Author Eric Haseltine was Director of Research at the NSA and Associate Director of National Intelligence in charge of Science and Technology for the U.S. Intelligence community. Before joining the NSA, he was Executive Vice President of Disney Imagineering. A PhD neuroscientist, he has given several popular TED talks on the future of science and is an inventor with over 70 patents and pending patents. He lives in California with his wife, Dr. Chris Gilbert.
Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781785784927 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Espionage & secret services Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon MARCH 2019 Je t'aime: The legendary love story of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg Veronique Mortaigne
The lyrical retelling of a relationship that defined an age.
Description Timed to coincide with both Valentine's Day and the 50-year anniversary of the legendary banned song Je t'aime... moi non plus, Veronique Mortaigne's brilliantly-written book skilfully identifies the pairing of Gainsbourg and Birkin as an expression of the spirit of the age.
Synonymous with love, eroticism, glamour, music, provocation, their affair would set France aflame as the sixties ebbed, and set in motion many of the ideas we have by now come to think of as specifically 'French'.
Skipping back and forth in time, Je t'aime takes the reader from the foggy Normandy landscapes where Serge and Jane retreated, to their carefree summers on the coast. En route to their superstardom in films and music, we experience their intrigues, triangular relationships, and jealous rages, the genius and the self-torture.
Tenderly told, via new interviews with key players in their story, Je t'aime details the coming together of two massive personalities, who together created a model of the rebel couple for the ages.
About the Author Veronique Mortaigne is a journalist and broadcaster. She has been head of music and arts at Le Monde and is the author of a dozen books, including biographies of Cesaria Evora, Manu Chao, and Johnny Halliday.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781785784842 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Autobiography: arts & entertainment Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon MARCH 2019 Salah Luca Caioli, Cyril Collot
An accessible and aspirational biography of the recording-breaking forward, perfect for readers of all ages.
Description Mohamed Salah needed little time to settle in to life at Liverpool.
Since signing for the Anfield club in 2017 for a then-club record fee, he has broken the club's scoring record for a debut season, as well as becoming the leading goalscorer in Europe's top five leagues, overtaking Lionel Messi and Harry Kane.
He was the first player to ever win three Premier League Player of the Month awards in the same season and was the winner of the PFA Player's Player of the Year for 2017-18, scoring 32 goals in 36 league games.
In this biography of the Egypt and Liverpool star, bestselling authors Luca Caioli and Cyril Collot examine his rise to success. Up to date with Russia World Cup 2018 analysis and featuring exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes details.
About the Author Luca Caioli is the bestselling author of Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar and Suarez. A renowned Italian sports journalist, he lives in Spain corresponding for SKY Italia and Corriere della Sera.
Cyril Collot is a French journalist and the author of a number of books about French football. He works for the OLTV channel where he has directed several documentaries about football.
Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9781785784637 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Football / soccer (Children's / Teenage) Bic2: Football (Soccer, Association football) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon MARCH 2019 Pogba, Mbappe, Griezmann Luca Caioli, Cyril Collot
The three stars of a golden generation of French football.
Description Paul Pogba, Kylian Mbappe and Antoine Griezmann were the stand-out stars of France's World Cup-winning team, drawing comparisons to the great class of '98.
Be it Pogba's high-profile apprenticeships in the Premier League and Italy's Serie A, Griezmann's seizing his opportunity in Real Sociedad's youth academy or Mbappe's dazzling performances for AS Monaco in the UEFA Champions League, all three have forged their own distinct routes to the very top. The result is an unstoppable blend of pace, determination and creativity that cuts through opposition defences with devastating efficiency.
Through exclusive testimonies from friends, families, managers and teammates, acclaimed football writers Luca Caioli and Cyril Collot document the trio's individual journeys and examine the phenomenal success of France's footballing superstars, including their success at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
About the Author Luca Caioli is the bestselling author of Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar and Suarez. A renowned Italian sports journalist, he lives in Spain corresponding for SKY Italia and Corriere della Sera.
Cyril Collot is a French journalist and the author of a number of books about French football. He works for the OLTV channel where he has directed several documentaries about football.
Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9781785785184 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Football / soccer (Children's / Teenage) Bic2: Football (Soccer, Association football) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon MARCH 2019 Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon: How James Clerk Maxwell unravelled the mysteries of electromagnetism and matter Brian Clegg
The great conundrum that has taxed the finest minds in physics.
Description Asked to name a great physicist, most people would mention Newton or Einstein, Feynman or Hawking. But ask a physicist and there's no doubt that James Clerk Maxwell will be near the top of the list.
Maxwell, an unassuming Victorian Scotsman, explained how we perceive colour. He uncovered the way gases behave. And, most significantly, he transformed the way physics was undertaken in his explanation of the interaction of electricity and magnetism, revealing the nature of light and laying the groundwork for everything from Einstein's special relativity to modern electronics.
Along the way, he set up one of the most enduring challenges in physics, one that has taxed the best minds ever since. 'Maxwell's demon' is a tiny but thoroughly disruptive thought experiment that suggests the second law of thermodynamics, the law that governs the flow of time itself, can be broken. This is the story of a groundbreaking scientist, a great contributor to our understanding of the way the world works, and his duplicitous demon.
About the Author Brian Clegg's most recent books are The Reality Frame (Icon, 2017) and Enigma (Icon, 2018). His Dice World and A Brief History of Infinity were both longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. He has written for Nature, BBC Focus, Physics World, The Times and The Observer.
Price: $32.99 ISBN: 9781785784958 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Electricity, electromagnetism & magnetism Bic2: Physics Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon MARCH 2019 Cosmic Impact: Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets Andrew May
Is Earth really doomed to be destroyed by a cosmic catastrophe?
Description As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an asteroid or comet is the new kid on the block, gaining respectability only in the last decade of the 20th century with the realisation that the dinosaurs had been wiped out by just such an impact.
Now the science community is making up for lost time, with worldwide efforts to track the thousands of potentially hazardous near-Earth objects, and plans for high-tech hardware that could deflect an incoming object from a collision course - a procedure depicted, with little regard for scientific accuracy, in several Hollywood movies.
Astrophysicist and science writer Andrew May disentangles fact from fiction in this fast-moving and entertaining account, covering the nature and history of comets and asteroids, the reason why some orbits are more hazardous than others, the devastating local and global effects that an impact event would produce, and - more optimistically - the way future space missions could avert a catastrophe.
About the Author Andrew May is a freelance writer and science consultant. He has written on subjects as diverse as the physical sciences, military technology, British history and the paranormal. His recent books include pocket-sized biographies of Newton and Einstein, an eye-opening study of the relationship between pseudoscience and science fiction, and Destination Mars, in the Hot Science series. He lives in Somerset.
Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9781785784934 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Popular science Bic2: Cosmology & the universe Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon MARCH 2019 Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia Patrick Winn
An expose of Southeast Asia's criminal underworld in the 21st century and its surprising links to the West.
Description Essential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlands reveals a booming underworld of organised crime across a region in flux - a $100 billion trade that deals in narcotics, animals and people -and the staggering human toll that is being steadily ignored by the West.
From Myanmar's anarchic hills to the swamplands of Vietnam, jihadis are being pitted against brothel workers, pet thieves against vigilantes and meth barons against Christian vice squads.
Hello, Shadowlands takes a deep plunge into crime rings both large and small. It also examines how China's rise and America's decline is creating new opportunities for transnational syndicates to thrive.
Focusing on human stories on both sides of this crime wave, the acclaimed Bangkok-based broadcaster and journalist Patrick Winn intimately profiles the men and women of the region who are forced to make agonising choices in the absence of law.
About the Author Patrick Winn is an award-winning American journalist who covers crime in Southeast Asia. His work has appeared on NBC News, The Atlantic, the BBC and other outlets. Currently the Asia correspondent for Public Radio International, each week Winn's voice is heard by millions on NPR stations. Since 2008, he has lived in Bangkok and reported almost exclusively on Southeast Asia.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781785784798 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 348 pages Bic1: Politics & government Bic2: Travel writing Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon MARCH 2019 Dear Fahrenheit 451: A Librarian's Love Letters and Break-Up Notes to Her Books Annie Spence
A librarian's laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving collection of love letters and break-up notes to the books in her life.
Description Have you ever wished you could tell your favourite books just what they mean to you? Or wanted to give a piece of your mind to the 'must-read' book that you wish you hadn't? Librarian Annie Spence has done just that, writing letters to the books under her care, from love letters to Matilda and The Goldfinch, to snarky break-up notes to Fifty Shades of Grey and The Hobbit. Annie's letters will make you laugh, remind you why you love your favourite books, and give you lots of new entries for your reading list. She's also on-hand to help out with your bookish dilemmas: recommendations for lazy readers; excuses to tell your friends when you'd rather stay home reading; and how to turn your lover into a reader. Hilarious, compassionate and smart, Dear Fahrenheit 451 is the consummate book-lover's book.
About the Author Annie Spence has spent the last decade as a librarian at public libraries in the Midwest. She lives in Detroit with her husband and son. Dear Fahrenheit 451 is her first book.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781785784477 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Literary reference works Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon MARCH 2019 When the Rivers Run Dry: The Global Water Crisis and How to Solve It Fred Pearce
The world is running out of water. Fred Pearce, environmental consultant to the New Scientist, explains why, and what we can do to stop our rivers drying up - before it's too late.
Description We cannot live without water. But with 7.5 billion people competing for this single unevenly-distributed resource, the planet is drying up.
In When the Rivers Run Dry, Fred Pearce explores the growing world water crisis, from Kent to Kenya. His powerful reportage takes us to places where waterways are turning to sand before they reach the ocean; where fields are parched and crops no longer grow; where once fertile ground has turned to desert; where wars are fought over access to water and cultures are dying out. But he offers us hope for the future - if we can radically revolutionise the way we treat water, and take personal responsibility for the water we use.
This landmark work, from a respected and accomplished scientist, will transform the way we view the water in our reservoirs and rivers, and change the way we treat the water in our taps.
About the Author Fred Pearce is an award-winning journalist and author, reporting from 87 countries. He has been the environmental consultant of New Scientist magazine since 1992, a regular broadcaster and contributor to the Guardian, Washington Post and others. He has written fourteen books on environmental and development issues, translated into 24 languages.
Price: $24.99 ISBN: 9781846276484 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Popular science Bic2: Social impact of environmental issues Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Portobello PBS MARCH 2019 Childless Voices: Stories of Longing, Loss, Resistance and Choice Lorna Gibb
Riveting memoir and first-of-its-kind, global investigation into an issue that affects millions of people.
Description From the playgrounds of Glasgow to the villages of Bangladesh; from religious rites to ancient superstitions; from the world's richest people to its powerless and enslaved, Lorna Gibb's masterful Childless Voices paints a global portrait of people without children. Brilliantly grouped by thematic commonality (Those who long, Those who were denied, Those who choose, etc) the book is a testament to the power of listening, and the power of sharing stories. It is an essential, moving and surprising book on a subject which touches everyone.
About the Author Dr Lorna Gibb is the author of biographies of Rebecca West and Lady Hester Stanhope as well as the author of the novel A Ghost's Story. She is a senior lecturer at Middlesex University.
Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781783782628 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Women's health Bic2: Memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta MARCH 2019 The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath Leslie Jamison
A magisterial account of addiction, recovery and creative lives.
Description Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible to describe, but hard to explore. Yet in The Recovering, Leslie Jamison draws on her own life and the lives of addicts of extraordinary talent - John Cheever, John Berryman, Jean Rhys and Amy Winehouse among them - to take us inside the experience of addiction, exposing the contours, edges and wholes of an intoxicated life.
Part memoir, part group biography, part literary history and part definitive analysis of cultural and social considerations of addiction, The Recovering is a significant moment in the history of post-war narrative non-fiction.
About the Author Leslie Jamison grew up in Los Angeles. Educated at Harvard College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she has also worked as an innkeeper in California, a schoolteacher in Nicaragua, and an office temp in Manhattan. She is the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams, as well as a novel, The Gin Closet. Her work has appeared in Harper's, The Atlantic,Oxford American, Virginia Quarterly Review, and the New York Times Magazine, where she is a contributing writer. She directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781783781539 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Literary essays Bic2: Coping with drug & alcohol abuse Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta Paperbacks MARCH 2019 Fallout: A Journey Through the Nuclear Age, From the Atom Bomb to Radioactive Waste Fred Pearce
An eye-opening journey through the disasters and triumphs of the nuclear age - and a critical assessment of the nuclear future.
Description At a moment when a new generation of power stations and weapons are being developed, Fallout is a measured and fascinating exploration of our most misunderstood energy source and asks: what can we learn from our past mistakes, and what role should nuclear play in our future?
Hiroshima. Bikini Atoll. Windscale. Chernobyl. Fukushima. These names no longer denote a place, but a disaster. In a few syllables, they evoke the heights of human ingenuity clashing with the worst of human error. Individually, each place has its own sobering story to tell; together, they form a timeline of the nuclear age. In this compelling and deeply researched book, Fred Pearce investigates the greatest nuclear incidents and accidents of the past 80 years by visiting their now iconic landscapes. He tours former power stations and abandoned testing sites in the company of scientists and engineers, and in previously toxic wastelands, where radioactive wolves now stalk the streets and genetically-malformed flora blooms, he witnesses the surprising resilience of nature.
As well as the physical legacy, Pearce also considers the psychological impact of these disasters. Amid rumours of state cover-ups, corporate deception, and hushed-up medical epidemics, Pearce weighs the evidence on either side of the argument to disentangle the facts from the fear.
About the Author Fred Pearce is an award-winning journalist and author, reporting from 87 countries. He is the environment consultant of New Scientist magazine, a regular broadcaster and contributor to the Guardian, Washington Post and others. He has written fourteen books on environmental and development issues, translated into 24 languages.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781846276262 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 268 pages Bic1: General & world history Bic2: Nuclear issues Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Portobello PBS MARCH 2019 Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. Viv Albertine
A new edition as part of the Faber Social Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.
Description SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR MOJO BOOK OF THE YEAR
In 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could be in a band as she couldn't play an instrument and she'd never seen a girl play electric guitar.
A year later, she was the guitarist in the hugely influential all-girl band the Slits, who fearlessly took on the male- dominated music scene and became part of a movement that changed music.
A raw, thrilling story of life on the frontiers and a candid account of Viv's life post-punk - taking in a career in film, the pain of IVF, illness and divorce and the triumph of making music again - Clothes Music Boys is a remarkable memoir.
About the Author Songwriter and musician Viv Albertine was the guitarist in the hugely influential female punk band The Slits. A confidante of the Sex Pistols and the Clash, Viv was a key player in British punk culture. Alongside The Slits, she collaborated with numerous musicians, including Adrian Sherwood, before marking out a career in television and film production. After a hiatus of twenty-five years, Viv's first solo album, The Vermillion Border, was released in 2012 to great critical acclaim.
Price: $16.99 ISBN: 9780571351343 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Autobiography: arts & entertainment Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Social MARCH 2019 Girl in a Band Kim Gordon
A new edition, part of the Faber Social's Greatest Hits series -- books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.
Description In Girl in a Band Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of women, tells her story. She writes frankly about her route from girl to woman and pioneering icon within the music and art scene of New York City in the 1980s and 90s as well as marriage, motherhood, and independence.
Filled with the sights and sounds of a changing world and a remarkable life, Girl in a Band is a moving, evocative chronicle of an extraordinary artist.
About the Author Kim Gordon is a musician, vocalist, visual artist, record producer, video director,fashion designer, and actress. She rose to prominence as the bassist, guitarist, and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth, which she formed with Thurston Moore in 1981. In 2012, after the breakup of Sonic Youth, Gordon formed Body/Head with friend Bill Nace. She has appeared in several films, as well as episodes of Gossip Girl and Girls. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, New York, and Los Angeles.
Price: $16.99 ISBN: 9780571349661 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Autobiography: arts & entertainment Bic2: Rock & Pop music Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Social MARCH 2019 Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits Barney Hoskyns
A new edition as part of the Faber Social Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.
Description Spanning Tom Waits' extraordinary 40-year career, from Closing Time to Orphans, Lowside of the Road is Barney Hoskyns' unique take on one of rock's great enigmas. Like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, Waits is a chameleonic survivor who's achieved long-term success while retaining cult credibility and outsider mystique. From his perilous 'jazzbo' years in '70s Los Angeles to the multiple-Grammy winner of recent years - by way of such shape-shifting '80s albums as Swordfishtrombones - this exhaustive biography charts Waits' life step-by-step and album-by-album.
Affectionate and penetrating, and based on a combination of assiduous research and deep critical insight, this is a outstanding investigation of a notoriously private artist and performer - the definitive account to date of Tom Waits' life and work.
About the Author Barney Hoskyns is the co-founder of online rock-journalism library Rock's Backpages, journalist for Uncut, The Observer Music Monthly and other UK publications, and author of several books including Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes, & the Sound of Los Angeles (1996), and Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters & Cocaine Cowboys in the LA Canyons (2005). He lives in London.
Price: $16.99 ISBN: 9780571351336 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 640 pages Bic1: Biography: arts & entertainment Bic2: Rock & Pop music Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Social MARCH 2019 The Dark Stuff Nick Kent
A new edition as part of the Faber Social Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.
Description In The Dark Stuff Nick Kent profiles twenty-two of the most gifted and self-destructive talents in rock history. From Brian Wilson to Syd Barrett, the Rolling Stones to Neil Young, Iggy Pop to Lou Reed, he offers intimate portraits that are unimaginable in the world of today's market driven music business.
About the Author In 2002 Nick Kent was presented with the NME 'God Like Genius' award for his 30-year career as a rock writer. He is a contributor to the Guardian, The Times, Liberation, Mojo and GQ.
Price: $16.99 ISBN: 9780571349647 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 496 pages Bic1: Punk, New Wave & Indie Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Social MARCH 2019 Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 Simon Reynolds
A new edition as part of the Faber Social Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.
Description In this, the first book to take a big-picture view of the entire post punk period, acclaimed author and music journalist Simon Reynolds recreates a time of tremendous urgency and idealism in pop music.
Full of anecdote and insight, and featuring the likes of Joy Division, The Fall, Pere Ubu, PiL and Talking Heads, Rip It Up And Start Again stands as one of the most inspired and inspiring books on popular music ever written.
About the Author Simon Reynolds is the author of Energy Flash: A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture, Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellions and Rock and Roll (co-written with Joy Press), Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978 - 1984, Bring the Noise: Twenty Years of Hip Hop and Hip Rock, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past, and most recently, Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and its Legacy from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century.
Price: $16.99 ISBN: 9780571349678 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 608 pages Bic1: Rock & Pop music Bic2: Music: styles & genres Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Social MARCH 2019 Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music Rob Young
A new edition as part of the Faber Social Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.
Description Rob Young investigates how the idea of folk has been handed down and transformed by successive generations - song collectors, composers, Marxist revivalists, folk-rockers, psychedelic voyagers, free festival-goers, experimental pop stars and electronic innovators.
In a sweeping panorama of Albion's soundscape that takes in the pioneer spirit of Cecil Sharp; the pastoral classicism of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Peter Warlock; the industrial folk revival of Ewan MacColl and A. L. Lloyd; the folk-rock of Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny, Nick Drake, Shirley Collins, John Martyn and Pentangle; the bucolic psychedelia of The Incredible String Band, The Beatles and Pink Floyd; the acid folk of Comus, Forest, Mr Fox and Trees; The Wicker Man and occult folklore; the early Glastonbury and Stonehenge festivals; and the visionary pop of Kate Bush, Julian Cope and Talk Talk, Electric Eden maps out a native British musical voice that reflects the complex relationships between town and country, progress and nostalgia, radicalism and conservatism.
An attempt to isolate the 'Britishness' of British music - a wild combination of pagan echoes, spiritual quest, imaginative time-travel, pastoral innocence and electrified creativity - Electric Eden will be treasured by anyone interested in the tangled story of Britain's folk music and Arcadian dreams.
About the Author Rob Young graduated in 1989 and was the editor of The Wire for 4 years up to 2004. He has recently been series editor of Black Dog's stylish monographs of influential record labels - including books on Warp Records and Rough Trade. He is currently in the middle of a novel based on the life of 17th century Jesuit polymath, Athanasius Kircher.
Price: $16.99 ISBN: 9780571349654 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 672 pages Bic1: Rock & Pop music Bic2: Folk & traditional music Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Social MARCH 2019 Messi: Lessons in Style Jordi Punti
A delightful series of essays, or 'exercises in style', designed to grasp the feeling of watching a player at the very pinnacle of the beautiful game.
Description Since arriving in the FC Barcelona youth academy at the age of thirteen, Lionel Messi has demonstrated an innate and awe-inspiring talent for football - in the process creating a sort of poetry in the game. He has steadily grown in stature to become the greatest player in the world, and arguably the greatest of all time.
All the young fans want to be Messi, his replica shirts are the best-selling in every continent, and videos of his goals are some of the most-viewed on YouTube. And, for so many fans around the globe, watching Messi play has brought great happiness - to nobody more than Catalan writer and pundit Jordi Punti.
In this book, Punti captures the enjoyment of watching Lionel Messi. In 22 short essays, he explores the beauty, the hunger, the genius and the obsession of the man - he takes us from the near-mythical scenery of a South American footballing youth, where the world is ""an infinite football pitch"", to the goals, the plaudits and the trophies of a glittering professional career. There is rivalry - with Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo - and there is passion - Messi's desire to win every ball, beat every record - all played out on a global stage.
Punti writes with a playful, sentimental and analytical style, creating a breathless portrait of an artist for the 21st Century.
About the Author Jordi Punti was born in Manlleu, near Barcelona, and is a writer, translator and a regular contributor to the Spanish and Catalan press. He has won numerous literary awards and his works have been translated into more than 15 languages. He published his first book of short stories, Pell d'armadillo, in 1998, and his first novel, Lost Luggage (Short Books) was released in English in 2013.
Price: $24.99 ISBN: 9781780723730 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Football (Soccer, Association football) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Short Books MARCH 2019 After She's Gone Camilla Grebe
She holds the key to the mystery, she just doesn't remember...Winner of the best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year 2017, from the bestselling author of The Ice Beneath Her.
Description For psychological profiler Hanne Lagerlind-Schön, life is good. She and her partner, investigator Peter Lindgren, have just returned from a dream holiday in Greenland and the symptoms of her early onset dementia seem to be under control.
Then they are asked to go to the small, sleepy industrial town of Ormberg to investigate a cold case: ten years earlier a five-year-old girl's remains were found in a cairn near the town. With her dementia creeping back again, Hanne starts to keep a diary noting down everything she is likely to forget. She will go to any lengths to keep up appearances so she doesn't lose her job, or worse: Peter.
Then Hanne is found wandering around the outskirts of Ormberg lost, hurt and confused - and Peter is missing. When the body of a woman is found at the cairn and one of Hanne's shoes is found nearby covered in the victim's blood, can Hanne's diary hold the key to what happened? How does this new murder connect to their old one - and where is Peter?
About the Author Camilla Grebe was born near Stockholm. She co-founded audiobook publisher Storyside. She has written four celebrated crime novels with her sister, Asa Traff, about psychologist Siri Bergman, the first two of which were nominated for Swedish Crime Novel of the Year by the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy. Camilla has also written the popular Moscow Noir trilogy with Paul Leander-Engstrom. The Ice Beneath Her was Camilla's debut novel as a solo author and announced her as a fresh new voice in suspense writing. After She's Gone was published in Sweden in 2017 and won the Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year award.
Price: $39.99 ISBN: 9781785764707 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Thriller / suspense Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre MARCH 2019 Nemesis Rory Clements
A race against time to unmask a Nazi spy, for fans of Robert Harris and William Boyd.
Description In a great English house, a young woman offers herself to one of the most powerful and influential figures in the land - but this is no ordinary seduction. She plans to ensure his death...
On holiday in France, Professor Tom Wilde discovers his brilliant student Marcus Marfield, who disappeared two years earlier to join the International Brigades in Spain, in the Le Vernet concentration camp in the foothills of the Pyrenees. Wilde secures his release just as German tanks roll into Poland.
Meanwhile, a U-boat sinks the liner Athenia in the Atlantic with many casualties, including Americans, onboard. Goebbels claims Churchill put a bomb in the ship to blame Germany and to lure America into the war.
As the various strands of an international conspiracy begin to unwind, Tom Wilde will find himself in great personal danger. For just who is Marcus Marfield? And where does his loyalty lie?
For readers of Robert Harris, C J Sansom and William Boyd, this is a thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat - by Sunday Times bestseller and author of Corpus and Nucleus, Rory Clements.
About the Author Rory Clements is a Sunday Times bestselling author. He won the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award for his second novel, Revenger,and a TV series of the John Shakespeare novels is currently in development. Rory lives in Norfolk with his family. Find out more at www.roryclements.co.uk.
Price: $39.99 ISBN: 9781785767487 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Espionage & spy thriller Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre MARCH 2019 Golden Child Claire Adam
A deeply affecting debut novel set in Trinidad, following the lives of a family as they navigate impossible choices about scarcity, loyalty, and love.
Description Rural Trinidad: a brick house on stilts surrounded by bush; a family, quietly surviving, just trying to live a decent life in a society. Clyde, the father, works long, exhausting shifts at the petroleum plant in southern Trinidad; Joy, his wife, looks after the home. Their two sons, thirteen years old, wake early every morning to travel to the capital, Port of Spain, for school. They are twins but nothing alike: Paul has always been considered odd, while Peter is widely believed to be a genius, destined for greatness.
When Paul goes walking in the bush one afternoon and doesn't come home, Clyde is forced to go looking for him, this child who has caused him endless trouble already, and whom he has never really understood. And as the hours turn to days, and Clyde begins to understand Paul's fate, his world shatters - leaving him faced with a decision no parent should ever have to make.
Claire Adam's devastating first novel compassionately brings to life different ways of experiencing the world. Like the Trinidadian landscape itself, Golden Child is both beautiful and unsettling; a resoundingly human story of aspiration, betrayal, and love.
About the Author Claire Adam was born and raised in Trinidad. She read Physics at Brown University and later took an MA in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she gained a distinction. She lives in London.
Price: $39.99 ISBN: 9780571339808 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Fiction MARCH 2019 Concrete Thomas Bernhard
Reissued with stunning artwork by Leanne Shapton and a new afterword by Michael Hofmann, Thomas Bernhard's Concrete is a masterpiece of bitter humour.
Description 'Probably nothing exists that would prepare one for Bernhard's machined vehemence, though once you've read one, you perhaps start to crave the bitter taste and the savage not-quite-humour ... Genius.' - Michael Hofmann
Instead of the book he is meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this dark and grotesquely funny account of small woes writ large, of profound horrors detailed and rehearsed to the point of distraction. We learn of Rudolph's sister, whose help he invites then reviles; his 'really marvellous' house which he hates; the suspicious illness he carefully nurses; his ten-year-long attempt to write the perfect opening sentence; and his escape to the island of Majorca, which turns out to be the site of someone else's very real horror story, and ultimately brings him no release from himself.
Concrete is Thomas Bernhard at his very finest: a bleakly hilarious insight into procrastination and failure that scratches the murky depths of our souls.
About the Author Thomas Bernhard was born in Holland in 1931 and grew up in Austria. He studied music at the Akademie Mozarteum in Salzburg, but was plagued by ill-health, and in 1957 began a second career as a playwright, poet, and novelist. The winner of the three most distinguished and coveted literary prizes awarded in Germany, Bernhard became one of the most widely translated and admired European writers of his generation, famed for his torrential prose and bleak comedy. He published nine novels, an autobiography, one volume of poetry, four collections of short stories, and six volumes of plays. Thomas Bernhard died in Austria in 1989. Faber & Faber are reissuing five of Bernhard's novels in 2019 to coincide with the 30th anniversary of his death.
Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9780571349951 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback MARCH 2019 Extinction Thomas Bernhard
Reissued with stunning artwork by Leanne Shapton and a new afterword by Geoff Dyer, Thomas Bernhard's last novel, Extinction, is his magnum opus.
Description 'Extinction features, without doubt, the funniest passage in the whole of literature. The dreadful becomes hilarious, joyful - and it makes one thirst for more of the similar.' - Geoff Dyer
Franz-Josef Murau is the intellectual black sheep of a powerful Austrian land-owning family. He now lives in Rome in self- imposed exile, surrounded by a coterie of artistic and intellectual friends. On returning from his sister's wedding on the family estate of Wolfsegg, having resolved never to go home again, Murau receives a telegram informing him of the death of his parents and brother in a car crash. Not only must he now go back, he must do so as the master of Wolfsegg: and he must decide its fate.
The summit of Thomas Bernhard's artistic genius - mesmerising, addictive, explosively tragicomic - Extinction is a landmark of post-war literature.
About the Author Thomas Bernhard was born in Holland in 1931 and grew up in Austria. He studied music at the Akademie Mozarteum in Salzburg, but was plagued by ill-health, and in 1957 began a second career as a playwright, poet, and novelist. The winner of the three most distinguished and coveted literary prizes awarded in Germany, Bernhard became one of the most widely translated and admired European writers of his generation, famed for his torrential prose and bleak comedy. He published nine novels, an autobiography, one volume of poetry, four collections of short stories, and six volumes of plays. Thomas Bernhard died in Austria in 1989. Faber & Faber are reissuing five of Bernhard's novels in 2019 to coincide with the 30th anniversary of his death.
Price: $24.99 ISBN: 9780571349968 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback MARCH 2019 I'm Not Running David Hare
David Hare's explosive new play portrays the history of a twenty year intimate friendship and its public repercussions.
Description Should I run? This is the question Pauline Gibson is asking herself. She has spent her adult life as a doctor, the inspiring leader of a campaign for local health provision. When she crosses paths with her old boyfriend, Jack Gould, who has made his way in Labour party politics, she's faced with an agonising decision.
What's involved in sacrificing your private life and your peace of mind for something more than a single issue? Does she dare?
David Hare was recently described by the Washington Post as 'the premiere political dramatist writing in English.' His explosive new play portrays the history of a twenty year intimate friendship and its public repercussions.
David Hare's new play I'm not Running, premieres at the National Theatre, London, in October 2018.
About the Author David Hare is a playwright and filmmaker. His stage plays include Plenty, Pravda (with Howard Brenton) Racing Demon, Skylight, Amy's View, Via Dolorosa, Stuff Happens, South Downs, The Absence of War and The Judas Kiss. His films for cinema and television include Wetherby, The Hours, Damage, The Reader and the Worricker trilogy: Page Eight, Turks & Caicos and Salting the Battlefield. He has written English adaptations of plays by Pirandello, Chekhov, Brecht, Schnitzler, Lorca, Gorky and Ibsen. For fifteen years he was an Associate Director of the National Theatre.
Price: $24.99 ISBN: 9780571345809 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Plays MARCH 2019 Girlhood Julia Copus
Deft and seductive new collection of poems from T. S. Eliot Prize and Costa Poetry Award shortlisted poet.
Description In her fourth collection, Julia Copus explores the shifting balance of power between dangerous and destructive forces and things on the verge of becoming. Her deft and seductive poems reanimate lost figures and places from private moments and recast them in the open arena of the page.
Reading this collection, one has the sense of encountering a series of filmic installations arranged by episode in a gallery. Censored or disparaged voices speak out from the secluded spaces of a professor's office, a deserted department store; from kitchens, bedrooms, hallways and upstairs windows; the witching hour and the psychiatric ward.
The book concludes with a series of meetings between a female patient, Marguerite, and her bullying psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. But Lacan's domination of his patient is illusory: like other victims in this exciting new collection, she may appear vanquished but a closer look reveals how little of herself she has really surrendered.
About the Author Julia Copus was born in London in 1969, read Latin at Durham, and now lives in Somerset. Her most recent poetry collection, The World's Two Smallest Humans, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Costa Poetry Award. She has won First Prize in the National Poetry Competition and the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. She works as a freelance podcast producer and in 2018 was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Price: $32.99 ISBN: 9780571351060 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 80 pages Bic1: Poetry by individual poets Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Poetry MARCH 2019 British Museum Daljit Nagra
The third collection from one of the most distinctive voices in British poetry - now in paperback.
Description Daljit Nagra possesses one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary English poetry. British Museum is his third collection, following his electrifying version of the epic Ramayana, and marks a significant departure of style to something quieter, more contemplative and inquisitive, at times valedictory. His political edge has been honed in a series of meditations and reflections upon our heritage, our legacy, and the institutions that define them: the BBC, Hadrian's Wall, the Sikh gurdwaras of our towns, the British Museum of the title poem. With compassion and charisma, Nagra explores the impact of the first wave of mass migration to our shores, the Arab Spring, the allure of extremism along with a series of personal poems about the pressures of growing up in a traditional community.
British Museum is a book that asks profound questions of our ethics and responsibilities at a time of great challenge to our sense of national identity.
About the Author Daljit Nagra was born and raised in West London, then Sheffield. He currently lives in Harrow with his wife and daughters. In 2004 his poem 'Look We Have Coming to Dover!' won the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem, and his debut of the same name won the 2007 Forward Prize for Best First Collection, was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and won the 2008 South Bank Show/Arts Council Decibel Award. Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!! (2011) and the Ramayana (2013) were both shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. He teaches at Brunel University London and is currently Poet in Residence at BBC Radio 4 and 4 Extra.
Price: $24.99 ISBN: 9780571333745 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 64 pages Bic1: Poetry Bic2: Poetry by individual poets Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Poetry MARCH 2019 Salt David Harsent
Vivid, fragment-like poems from the major award-winning poet - now in paperback.
Description Salt is a distinctive assembly of poems by the multi-award winning David Harsent. Resting somewhere between fragment and exposition, these intense and primal pieces stretch out across the measure of the page in the form of brief utterances. One extends to sonnet-length, one consists of a single line; but each piece uniquely completes its own world, and at the same time shades on to the next as a succession of frames and stills and imaginings that lends light and colour in the round. 'The poems in this book are a series, not a sequence,' the author explains. 'They belong to each other in mood, in tone and by way of certain images and words that form a ricochet of echoes - not least the word ""salt"".'
Mineral, eerie, sensory, the poems in the collection are experienced as encounters - some with the surety of daylight, others in dream-life - that refresh with the turning of each page. Like a set of shared notes or little fictions passed through space from hand to hand, the writings build powerfully to make Salt an unforgettable volume from this most visionary of writers.
About the Author David Harsent has published eleven collections of poetry. Night (2011), a Poetry Book Society Choice, was shortlisted for the Costa, Forward and T. S. Eliot poetry prizes and won the Griffin International Poetry Prize. The most recent, Fire Songs, was published in 2014 and won the T. S. Eliot Prize.
Price: $24.99 ISBN: 9780571337866 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Poetry by individual poets Bic2: Poetry Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Poetry MARCH 2019 Bad Blood E.O. Chirovici
Internationally bestselling crime writer E.O. Chirovici returns with a dark and compelling story of murder, memory and how we never know who we truly are.
Description From the internationally bestselling author of The Book Of Mirrors.
You can't trust your own memories. You can't trust other people's. So how do you know what really happened that night?
One rainy night in New York, psychologist James Cobb gives a talk on the art of recovering lost memories. Afterwards, he's approached by a stranger: a dying man who, forty years ago, woke up in a hotel room with a murdered woman, and no memory at all of what happened. Now, he needs to know whether he was an innocent bystander - or a killer.
Intrigued, James begins to unpick the tangled threads of this decades-old mystery. But everyone involved has a different story to tell, and every fact he uncovers has another interpretation. As his interest becomes an obsession, and secrets from his own past start to surface, he begins to suspect that someone has buried the truth deep enough to hide it forever.
For fans of Joel Dicker, Peter Swanson and SJ Watson, Bad Bloodtells a gripping story of memory, motives, and how little we really know about ourselves.
About the Author E.O. Chirovici has had a prestigious and varied career in the Romanian media and has also published novels and short stories in his native language. His first book in the English language, The Book of Mirrors, was published in January 2017. He lives in Brussels with his wife.
Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9781788160643 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Crime & mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Serpents Tail MARCH 2019 1982, Janine Alasdair Gray, introduction by Will Self
The unforgettable, challenging and experimental second novel from the author of Lanark. Introduced by Will Self.
Description Jock McLeish, failed husband, lover and businessman is alone in a hotel room, drinking whisky, fantasising about sex and contemplating suicide. As he tries to distance himself from reality, his lonely, alcohol-fuelled fantasies are interrupted by a flood of memories, reminding him of his own shortcomings.
An unforgettably imaginative book, deeply experimental in its form and charged with a dark humour, 1982, Janine is a searing portrait of male need and inadequacy. Gray's exploration of politics, religion, powerlessness and pornography has lost none of its power to shock and entertain.
About the Author Born in 1934, Alasdair Gray graduated in design and mural painting from the Glasgow School of Art. Since 1981, when Lanark was published by Canongate, he has written, designed and illustrated seven novels, several books of short stories, a collection of his stage, radio and TV plays and a book of his visual art, A Life in Pictures.
In his own words, 'Alasdair Gray is a fat, spectacled, balding, old Glaswegian pedestrian who has mainly lived by writing and designing books, most of them fiction.'
Price: $24.99 ISBN: 9781786893963 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS MARCH 2019 Making Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side Julia Shaw
How to understand the deviance that lies in ourselves and others - an original and rigorous exploration of the darkest recesses of the human mind.
Description Why do we think and do evil? What can science teach us about why humans do bad things? And what do our reactions to deviance teach us about ourselves?
Drawing together science, psychology and philosophy, Julia Shaw unlocks the intricacies of the world of criminal psychology. Grappling with thorny dilemmas from 'Would I kill baby Hitler?' to 'Why do I want to murder my spouse?', Making Evil will give you a better understanding of the world, yourself, and your Google search history.
Original, fresh and rigorous, Making Evil shines a searching light into the darker corners of the human psyche, illuminating a modern science of evil.
About the Author Julia Shaw is a scientist in the Department of Psychology at University College London (UCL). Her academic work, teaching, and role as an expert witness focus on different ways of understanding criminal behaviour. Dr Shaw consults as an expert on criminal cases, delivers police-training and military workshops, and has evaluated offender diversion programs. Her work has been featured in outlets such as The Times, Telegraph, Daily Mail, New York Magazine, Discovery Channel, the BBC, CNN World, Der Spiegel, Russia Today and NPR.
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Price: $45.00 ISBN: 9781786891303 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 220x144mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Psychology Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate Trade MARCH 2019 Of Me and Others: 1952-2019 Alasdair Gray
The essential essay collection by one of Britain's most fascinating and acclaimed writers and artists, Alasdair Gray.
Description In this frank, playful and typically unorthodox collection of essays, Alasdair Gray tells of how his early life experiences influenced his writing, including the creation of those landmarks of literature, Lanark and 1982, Janine. He details the inspirations behind his many acclaimed artworks and murals, and makes clear how his moral, social and political beliefs and his work are inextricably linked.
Incisive, funny and fired with passion, Of Me and Others is as much about people, place and politics as it is about Gray's own life in art.
About the Author Born in 1934, Alasdair Gray graduated in design and mural painting from Glasgow School of Art. Since 1981, when Lanark was published by Canongate, he has written, designed and illustrated seven novels, several books of short stories, a collection of his stage, radio and TV plays and a book of his visual art, A Life in Pictures.
In his own words, 'Alasdair Gray is a fat, spectacled, balding, increasingly old Glaswegian pedestrian who has mainly lived by writing and designing books, most of them fiction.'
Price: $39.99 ISBN: 9781786895202 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 214x135mm Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Autobiography: arts & entertainment Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate Trade MARCH 2019 The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics Diarmaid Ferriter
The history and possible future of the border between the Republic and Northern Ireland.
Description Over the past 100 years, the border between what became the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland has been a political challenge for governments north, south, in Westminster and now in Europe.
In this timely history of the tragedy that is the border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland, leading historian Diarmaid Ferriter charts the realities of the border from the divisive repercussions of the Treaty through checkpoints, devolution, entry into the EU, the Good Friday Agreement, up to present day. This book promises to shed light on one of the most contentious and misunderstood political issues of our time.
About the Author Diarmaid Ferriter is one of Ireland's best-known historians and is Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD. He is a regular broadcaster on television and radio and a weekly columnist with the Irish Times. In 2010 he presented a three- part history of twentieth century Ireland, The Limits of Liberty, on RTE television.
Price: $32.99 ISBN: 9781788161787 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: British & Irish history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
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