SEPTEMBER 2015 the Secret Son Jenny Ackland

SEPTEMBER 2015 The Secret Son Jenny Ackland

An Australian historian determined to find the truth, a stolen inheritance, a wishing tree, a long-lost grandmother, and an unlikely sweetheart come together in a dazzlingly original, audacious and exhilarating novel about love, honour and belonging, and what it means to be a good person.

Description I know that two men are coming up the mountain, at this moment, including the boy from far away. I wonder what my grandson's face will look like ... I know the boy is innocent, that it's his family soul which is guilty.

An old woman, Berna, sits waiting in a village that clings to a Turkish mountainside, where the women weave rugs, make tea and keep secrets. She can see what others cannot, so her secrets are deeper and darker than most. It is time for her to tell her story, even though the man for whom her words are meant won't hear them. It is time for the truth to be told.

Cem is a young man from Melbourne who is travelling to his family's old village in Turkey to see the place his grandfather has always talked about. A lot about life confuses him but mostly he can't understand why his grandfather tried to stop him from going or why the village is nothing like it was in his stories. And why do the villagers keep saying that he has been sent there to pay back what is owed? And who is the old lady who insists she is his grandmother?

Nearly a hundred years before, her father, James, had come to the village on the back of a donkey, close to death, rescued from the abandoned trenches of Gallipoli by a young Turkish boy whose life he had earlier spared. James made his life there, never returning to Australia and never realising that his father was indeed the near-mythical bushranger that the gossips had hinted at when he'd been a boy growing up in Beechworth.

An Australian historian determined to find the truth, a stolen inheritance, a wishing tree, a long-lost grandmother and blood secrets that have been kept for generations are what this extraordinary novel will reveal to Cem, as well as the amazing story behind the dark deeds that link James and his history to Cem.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) The Secret Son is an amazing debut, a dazzlingly original, audacious and exhilarating novel about love, honour and ISBN: 9781925266160 belonging, and what it means to be a good person. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 336 pages

Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FV Historical Fiction About the Author Illustrations: Jenny Ackland spent years living in Turkey. The novel is infused with her love for that country and its people. She is a Previous Titles: Author now living: St. Kilda, VIC. teacher and writer who now lives with her family in East St Kilda. Jenny had short fiction published in RMIT's Visible Ink anthology and in the Big Issue fiction issue (2013). In 2012 she had two stories short-listed in the UK's Bridport Prize, an essay long-listed in the inaugural Voiceless Prize, and her novel was short-listed (subsequently withdrawn) in the HarperCollins Varuna Awards for Manuscript Development. Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2015 The Secret Son 8 copy pack Point of Sale

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2015 The Landing Susan Johnson

Jonathan Lott, recently divorced, is about to find how much love really matters in a funny, delightful and poignant novel that lays out the human condition - looking for love in all of its many forms with secrets, polite lies, desperation, compromise and joy.

Description Jonathan Lott is confused. His wife has left him for a woman and he doesn't like living alone. Is it true that an about-to-be- divorced man in possession of a good fortune is in need of a new wife? Would Penny Collins do, divorced herself, school teacher and frustrated artist? What about beautiful Anna, blown in from who knows where, trailing broken marriages behind her? There's a lot happening at The Landing, where Jonathan has his beach house, and he's about to find out how much love matters.

Susan Johnson's stunning new novel, written with her trademark wit and insight, brilliantly observes what it is to be human and to love: the betrayals, the long and the short alliances, the disappointments and the joys. The Landing celebrates all of it with verve and style.

About the Author Susan Johnson was shortlisted for the 1991 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for her novel Flying Lessons, shortlisted for the 1994 National Book Council's Banjo Award for the novel A Big Life and shortlisted for the National Biography Award 2000 for her memoir A Better Woman. Her other books include Hungry Ghosts, Messages from Chaos, Women Love Sex (editor and contributor) and Life in Seven Mistakes. The Broken Book was shortlisted for the 2005 Nita B Kibble Award; the Best Fiction Book section of the Queensland Premier's Literary Award; the Westfield/Waverley Library Literary Award, and the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal Award for an Outstanding Australian Literary Work. Her last novel, My Hundred Lovers, was published in 2012 to critical acclaim.

In 2010 she returned from ten years in London to live in Brisbane. She is a feature writer at Qweekendmagazine.

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2015 My Hundred Lovers Susan Johnson

A woman on the eve of her fiftieth birthday reflects on her life in the extraordinary, beautiful and shocking new novel from one of Australia's premier novelists.

Description 'Confronting the inevitable desiccation of her ageing body, a woman reflects on her life as an erotic adventurer, and through these vivid stories of the flesh, a mind and a soul emerge in full. Susan Johnson is a writer in her prime, and her most enduring love affair is with language itself. ' Geraldine Brooks

That afternoon in the small bedroom the light was blue. The curtains were cream and blew softly in the wind. There was a cry, far off, almost out of earshot. There was a man in my bed and I did not know how he got there.

A woman, on the eve of her fiftieth birthday, reflects on one hundred moments from a lifetime's sensual adventures. After the love, hatred and despair are done with, the great and trivial acts of her bodily life reveal an imperfect, yet whole self. By turns humorous, sharp, haunting and wise, this is an original and exhilarating novel from one of Australia's premier writers.

Lyrical and exquisite, My Hundred Lovers captures the sheer wonder of life, desire and love.

'My Hundred Lovers is a remarkable achievement, a genuine masterpiece of sensuality and an absorbing and very personal experience.' Chris Flynn, Meanjin

About the Author Susan Johnson was shortlisted for the 1991 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for her novel Flying Lessons, shortlisted for the 1994 National Book Council's Banjo Award for the novel A Big Life and shortlisted for the National Biography Award 2000 for her memoir A Better Woman. Her other books include Hungry Ghosts, Messages from Chaos, Womenlovesex (editor and contributor) and Life in Seven Mistakes. The Broken Book was shortlisted for the 2005 Nita B Kibble Award; the Best Fiction Book section of the Queensland Premier's Literary Award; the Westfield/Waverley Library Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781743315699 Literary Award, and the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal Award for an Outstanding Australian Literary Work. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 276 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FA Popular Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: The Broken Book (A&U, 2004) Author now living: Kangaroo Point Qld

Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2015 Vanishing Acts Jodi Picoult

Picoult's richly layered and suspenseful novel explores the power of love and memory . . . what happens when the past we have been running from catches up to us.

Description 'The compelling story weaves characters and plot so richly that it's impossible to take sides in the questions of what was justified and what wasn't.' - Woman's Day

'A polished and riveting read.' - Australian Women's Weekly

Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiance, and her own Search and Rescue bloodhound which she uses to find missing persons. But as she plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall. What are these memories and what do they mean? In shock and confusion, Delia must search out the truth among these newly discovered recollections even when they threaten to devastate her life, and the lives of those she loves most.

With consummate skill and sensitivity, Jodi Picoult examines what happens when the past we have been running from catches up to us, and questions who we trust to tell us the story of our lives before we are capable of remembering it ourselves. Vanishing Acts is an impressive exploration of the very nature and power of memory.

About the Author JODI PICOULT is the author of twenty novels. Her most recent, Leaving Time, The Storyteller and Lone Wolf, have all been number one on the Australian and New Zealand fiction bestseller lists. Jodi lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children. Read more about Jodi on her website: www.jodipicoult.com.au

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2015 Tenth Circle Jodi Picoult

From small town New England to the wilds of the Alaskan bush, Jodi Picoult probes the unbreakable bond between parent and child - and the dangerous repercussions of trying to play the hero.

Description Comic book artist Daniel Stone never for a moment suspected that the boy his fourteen-year-old daughter, Trixie, loved might inflict upon her the worst possible harm. Could the young man, who once made Trixie's face fill with light, have drugged and then raped her? She says that he did, and that is all it takes to make Daniel, a man with a past he has hidden even from his family, venture to hell and back in order to protect his daughter.

With a story that transports readers from small-town New England to the wilds of the Alaskan bush, interspersed with parallel vision through the striking pen-and-ink pages of Daniel's graphic novel, Jodi Picoult probes the unbreakable bond between parent and child - and the dangerous repercussions of trying to play the hero.

'This story of a flawed family on the brink of destruction grips from start to finish.' - Publishers Weekly

Jodi Picoult has written fifteen bestselling and widely acclaimed novels, including Vanishing Acts, My Sister's Keeper, The Pact and Nineteen Minutes. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children.

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2015 Change of Heart Jodi Picoult

A spellbinding tale of a mother's tragic loss and a criminal's last chance at finding salvation from the bestselling author of Nineteen Minutes.

Description One day June Nealon was happily anticipating a lifetime of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. Waiting for a miracle to happen.

For Shay Bourne, life holds no more surprises. The world has given him nothing, and he has nothing to offer the world. In a heartbeat, though, something happens one day that changes everything for him. Now he has one last chance for salvation, and it lies with June's twelve-year-old daughter, Claire. But between Shay and Claire stretches an ocean of bitter regrets, past crimes and the rage of a mother who has lost her child.

Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate, if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true, if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?

Once again, Jodi Picoult mesmerises and enthralls readers with a story of justice, love and redemption.

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2015 Sing You Home Jodi Picoult

After Zoe and Max's last attempt to conceive fails tragically, their marriage breaks apart. When Zoe falls in love again and considers having a family, she remembers that there are still frozen embryos that were never used. But who do they really belong to? An honest and moving story of contemporary relationships and the consequences when love and desire collide with science and the law.

Description Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to have a baby, and finally it looks as though her dream is about to come true - she is seven months pregnant. But a terrible turn of events takes away her baby and breaks apart her marriage to Max. In the aftermath she throws herself into her career as a music therapist. When Vanessa, a guidance counsellor, asks Zoe to work with a suicidal teen, Vanessa and Zoe's relationship moves from business to friendship and then, to Zoe's surprise, blossoms into love.

When Zoe allows herself to start thinking of having a family again, she remembers that she and Max still have frozen embryos they never used. Max, meanwhile, has found peace at the bottom of a bottle, until he is redeemed by an evangelical church where the pastor has vowed to fight the 'homosexual agenda' that threatens traditional family values. This mission becomes personal for Max when Zoe and her partner want permission to raise his unborn child.

Sing You Home is an honest and moving story of contemporary relationships and the consequences of love and desire colliding with science and the law. From tragedy to self-discovery and joy, Zoe, Vanessa and Max will realise the undeniable truth - that you can't choose who you love.

Songs specially composed for this book by Jodi Picoult and Ellen Wilber, and performed by Ellen Wilber, are available to listen to and download at www.jodipicoult.com.au

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2015 Coolibah Creek Kelsey Neilson

As a prolonged drought takes its toll on their lives, Bec and her husband must battle the bank's attempts to foreclose on their beloved Coolibah Creek in a suspenseful and action-packed new novel from a fresh and authentic voice in rural romance.

Description Bec Roberts and her husband Andy are passionate about their beloved Coolibah Creek station. Hence their devastation as a savage drought ravages their property and stock start to die around them.

Bec is also worried about her best friend and neighbour, Maggie O'Donnell, who is married to a bullying and hard-drinking man. With her husband away for long periods and teenage sons away at school, Maggie succumbs to an affair with a stockman.

When Andy has a terrible accident, Bec is pushed to her very limits. While the life of the husband she adores hangs in the balance she must fight the bank's attempts to foreclose on Coolibah Creek and hold off a mining company with designs on their land.

With drought, droving and desperation this fine novel deals with subjects its grazier author, Kelsey Neilson, knows only too well. Suspenseful and action-packed Coolibah Creek also celebrates the power of love.

About the Author Kelsey Neilson is the deputy mayor of the remote western Queensland Shire of Boulia, where she lives on a huge cattle station and is a prominent figure in the local rodeo club. Kelsey is outspoken when it comes to fair and equal rights for everyone, especially women and indigenous people and has been described as 'a caring, devoted mother, wife and community leader and proof that anything is achievable if you want it enough'.

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2015 The Black Echo: A Harry Bosch Novel Michael Connelly

The first ever Harry Bosch novel - the book that started it all.

Description LAPD detective Harry Bosch is a loner and a nighthawk. One Sunday he gets a call out on his pager. A body has been found in a drainage tunnel off Mulholland Drive, Hollywood. At first sight, it looks like a routine drugs overdose case, but the one new puncture wound amidst the scars of old tracks leaves Bosch unconvinced.

To make matters worse, Harry Bosch recognises the victim. Billy Meadows was a fellow 'tunnel rat' in Vietnam, running against the VC and the fear they all used to call the Black Echo. Bosch believes he let down Billy Meadows once before, so now he is determined to bring the killer to justice.

About the Author A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the author of the Harry Bosch thriller series as well as several stand-alone bestsellers, including the highly acclaimed legal thriller, The Lincoln Lawyer.

Michael Connelly has been President of the Mystery Writers of America. His books have been translated into 31 languages and have won awards all over the world, including the Edgar and Anthony Awards.

He lives in Tampa, Florida, with his family.

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Michael Connelly SEPTEMBER 2015 Echo Park: A Harry Bosch Novel Michael Connelly

Bosch reopens the hunt for a psychotic killer who stalked the streets of Los Angeles years before.

Description In 1993, Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Fearing the worst, the case was elevated by LAPD commanders from the missing persons squad to the Homicide Division, where Harry Bosch was assigned the case. But the 22-year-old woman never turned up - dead or alive - and it was a case Bosch couldn't crack.

Thirteen years later Bosch is in the Open-Unsolved Unit when he gets a call from the DA's office. A man accused of two heinous killings is willing to come clean in regard to several other murders in a deal to avoid the death penalty. One of those murders, he says, is the killing of Marie Gesto. Bosch is now assigned to take Raynard Waits' confession and to make sure the killer is not scamming authorities to avoid a date with death.

In confirming the confession Bosch must get close to the man he has sought for thirteen years. Bosch's whole being as a cop begins to crack when he comes to realise that he and his partner missed a clue back in 1993 that could have led them to Waits and would have stopped the nine murders that followed the killing of Marie Gesto.

He lives in Tampa, Florida, with his family.

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Michael Connelly SEPTEMBER 2015 The Last Coyote: A Harry Bosch Novel Michael Connelly

After being put on involuntary stress leave for attacking his boss, LAPD detective Harry Bosch is drawn to investigate a 30 year old crime - his mother's murder case.

Description Michael Connelly's fourth novel cuts to the very core of Harry Bosch's character, as he is drawn to investigate a thirty- year-old unsolved crime: the murder of his mother.

Harry's life is a mess. His house has been condemned because of earthquake damage. His girlfriend has left him. He's drinking too much. And he's even had to turn in his badge: he attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely pending a psychiatric evaluation.

At first Bosch, resists the LAPD shrink, but finally he recognizes that something is troubling him, a force that may have shaped his entire life. In 1961, when Harry was eleven, his mother was brutally murdered. No one was ever even accused of the crime.

Harry opens up the decades-old file on the case and is irresistibly drawn into a past he has always avoided. It's clear that the case was fumbled. His mother was a prostitute, and even thirty years late the smell of a cover-up is unmistakable. Someone powerful was able to keep the investigating officers away from key suspects. Even as he confronts his own shame about his mother, Harry relentlessly follows up the old evidence, seeking justice or at least understanding. Out of the broken pieces of the case he discerns a trail that leads upward, toward prominent people who lead public lives high in the Hollywood hills. And as he nears his answer, Harry finds that ancient passions don't die. They cause new murders even today.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760290832 Michael Connelly has been President of the Mystery Writers of America. His books have been translated into 31 Format: Paperback - B format languages and have won awards all over the world, including the Edgar and Anthony Awards. Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 400 pages He lives in Tampa, Florida, with his family. Main Category: F Fiction

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Michael Connelly SEPTEMBER 2015 The Reversal Michael Connelly

Mickey Haller and Harry Bosch together take on a seemingly unwinnable case.

Description When Mickey Haller is invited by the Los Angeles County District Attorney to prosecute a case for him, he knows something strange is going on. Mickey's a defence lawyer, one of the best in the business, and to switch sides like this would be akin to asking a fox to guard the hen-house. But the high-profile case of Jason Jessup, a convicted child-killer who spent almost 25 years on death row before DNA evidence freed him, is an intriguing one ...

Eager for the publicity and drawn to the challenge, Mickey takes the case, with Detective Harry Bosch on board as his lead investigator. But as a new trial date is set, it starts to look like he's been set up. Mickey and Harry are going to have to dig deep into the past and find the truth about what really happened to the victim all those years ago.

He lives in Tampa, Florida, with his family.

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Michael Connelly SEPTEMBER 2015 The Assassins Gayle Lynds

Six top international assassins are locked in a battle to the death. Only one will be left standing...

Description Recently retired from US military intelligence, Judd Ryder is walking home one evening when he sees a man wearing his clothes step out of his house. Moments later, the man is killed in a hit-and-run. Was the stranger the intended victim, or was it Judd himself?

Searching the man, Judd finds a phone with only one number dialled - to CIA trainee Eva Blake, Judd's former girlfriend. What Judd and Eva don't know is that they've unwittingly been trapped in a battle to the death against six professional assassins, and only one will be left standing....

About the Author G.H. Lynds is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning author. She worked as a reporter and editor for a top- secret US Government think tank before becoming a full- time novelist. She also co-founded International Thriller Writers with David Morrell. She lives in Southern California.

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Corvus SEPTEMBER 2015 Post Mortem Kate London

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

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

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

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

About the Author Kate graduated from Cambridge University and moved to Paris where she trained in theatre. In 2006 Kate joined the Metropolitan Police Service. Like all police officers she started in uniform, working for two years on a response team, and then moved into the CID. She qualified as a detective constable then went on attachment with the police nationale in France and finished her career working as part of a Major Investigation Team on SC&01 - the Metropolitan Police Service's Homicide Command. She resigned from the MPS in August 2014. Post Mortem is her first novel.

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Corvus SEPTEMBER 2015 A Better Man Leah McLaren

What if the only way to end your marriage was to be the perfect husband?

Description Maya wants Nick to be less of a workaholic, to come home earlier, to spend some time with his children.

Nick wants a divorce.

With his mind made up, Nick is determined to leave quickly and with dignity, but it comes as an unpleasant shock to realise how much it will cost him to walk away. As a stay-at- home mum, Maya is entitled to everything.

Nick is resolute, so when an unlikely solution presents itself he gives it everything he's got. If Nick becomes a better husband and father, if he encourages his wife to rediscover herself, the more self-sufficient Maya will become: and the cheaper Nick's pay-out.

But as Nick pretends to be a better man he becomes one. He remembers his connection with Maya, their ability to be a couple and not just parents who share a house. Everything seems to be back on track. Until Maya finds out exactly what Nick has been planning...

About the Author Leah McLaren is a Globe and Mail columnist and Europe correspondent for Maclean's. In 2013, she won a gold National Magazine Award in the arts feature category for her work in Toronto Life magazine. Her first novel, The Continuity Girl, published by HarperCollins Canada and Warner US, was a national bestseller, spending nine weeks on the Globe and Mail bestseller list. She was born in rural Ontario, grew up in a small town and now splits her time between Toronto and London, where she shares a home with her husband and son.

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Corvus SEPTEMBER 2015 Rembrandt's Mirror Kim Devereux

A stunningly imagined debut novel about the turbulent world of the master painter Rembrandt and the three women who shaped his life, seen through the eyes of his last great love and muse - a lowly housemaid.

Description Hendrickje, a girl from a strict Calvinist family leaves her provincial home to find work as a housemaid. She enters Rembrandt's flourishing workshop five years after the death of the great artist's wife, an event that continues to haunt him. It is a house full of secrets and desires, and Hendrickje soon witnesses a sexual encounter between Rembrandt and Geertje, his implacable housekeeper. She is shocked to the core by their intense carnality and yet, slowly, she is drawn to Rembrandt by the freshness with which he perceives the world and the special freedom he seems to possess. Rembrandt is a man of dark corners, strange passions and a ruthlessness born from his need to put his art first. An involvement with him could be her ruin or her liberty.

Rembrandt's Mirror explores the three women of Rembrandt's life, and the towering passions of the artist, seen through the eyes of his last, great love, Hendrickje.

About the Author Kim Devereux is an award-winning short-film director and producer of documentaries. Kim holds an MA in History of Art and English Literature from the University of Edinburgh and an MA from Bath Spa in Creative Writing. www.kimdevereux. co.uk

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Atlantic SEPTEMBER 2015 Arcadia Iain Pears

An inventive, captivating and richly imagined new novel from bestselling writer Iain Pears. The novel will also be published as an interactive app.

Description Henry Lytten - a spy turned academic and writer - sits at his desk in Oxford in 1962, dreaming of other worlds.

He embarks on the story of Jay, an eleven-year-old boy who has grown up within the embrace of his family in a rural, peaceful world - a kind of Arcadia. But when a supernatural vision causes Jay to question the rules of his world, he is launched on a life-changing journey.

Lytten also imagines a different society, highly regulated and dominated by technology, which is trying to master the science of time travel.

Meanwhile - in the real world - one of Lytten's former intelligence colleagues tracks him down for one last assignment.

As he and his characters struggle with questions of free will, love, duty and the power of the imagination, Lytten discovers he is not sure how he wants his stories to end, nor even who is imaginary...

About the Author Iain Pears was born in Coventry in 1955. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he has worked as a journalist, an art historian and a television consultant. He is the author of An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Dream of Scipio and Stone's Fall. He has also written several highly praised detective novels, a book of art history, and countless articles on artistic, financial and historical subjects.

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Faber Fiction SEPTEMBER 2015 The Jump Doug Johnstone

You can do anything, if you have nothing left to lose...

Description Struggling to come to terms with the suicide of her teenage son, Ellie lives in the shadows of the Forth Road Bridge, lingering on its footpaths and swimming in the waters below. One day she talks down another suicidal teenager, Sam, and sees for herself a shot at redemption, the chance to atone for her son's death.

But even with the best intentions, she can't foresee the situation she's falling headlong into - a troubled family, with some very dark secrets of their own.

From #1 bestselling author of Gone Again, The Jump is a hugely moving contemporary thriller, and a stunning portrait of an unlikely heroine.

About the Author Doug Johnstone is the author of six acclaimed novels, most recently The Dead Beat, described by The Skinny as 'superior crime fiction'. He is also a freelance journalist, a songwriter and musician, and has a PhD in nuclear physics. He lives in Edinburgh.

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Faber Fiction SEPTEMBER 2015 A Complicated Kindness Miriam Toews

A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews is a novel of fierce originality and brilliance from the celebrated Canadian novelist, author of The Flying Troutmans and All My Puny Sorrows.

Description Nomi Nickel lives with her father, Ray, in East Village, a small Mennonite town in Manitoba. She dreams of escaping to the big city, but since her mother and sister left home, it's hard to imagine leaving her father behind. As she begins to piece together the story behind her mother's disappearance, she finds herself on a direct collision course with the town's minister. With fierce originality and brilliance, Miriam Toews takes us straight to the centre of Nomi's world and the complicated kindness at the heart of family life.

About the Author Miriam Toews (pronounced taves) was born in 1964 in the small Mennonite town of Steinbach, Manitoba. She has published four novels and a memoir of her father, and is the recipient of numerous literary awards including the Governor General's Award, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award (twice), and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. In 2007 she made her screen debut in the film Luz silenciosa. She was nominated for Best Actress at Mexico's Ariel Awards for her performance.

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Faber Paperback SEPTEMBER 2015 Undermajordomo Minor Patrick deWitt

Undermajordomo Minor is the raucous, poignant and spectacularly enjoyable new novel by the author of Man Booker Prize shortlisted The Sisters Brothers.

Description Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, he is a compulsive liar and a melancholy weakling. When Lucy accepts employment assisting the majordomo of the remote, forebidding castle of the Baron Von Aux he meets thieves, madmen, aristocrats, and a puppy. He also meets Klara, a delicate beauty who is, unfortunately, already involved with an exceptionally handsome partisan soldier. Thus begins a tale of polite theft, bitter heartbreak, domestic mystery and cold-blooded murder in which every aspect of human behaviour is laid bare for our hero to observe. Lucy must stay safe, and protect his puppy, because someone or something is roaming the corridors of the castle late at night.

Undermajordomo Minor is a triumphant ink-black comedy of manners by the Man Booker shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers. It is an adventure story, and a mystery, and a searing portrayal of rural Alpine bad behaviour with a brandy tart, but above all it is a love story. And Lucy must be careful, for love is a violent thing.

About the Author Patrick deWitt's first novel, Ablutions, was published by Granta Books in 2009. His second novel, The Sisters Brothers, won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Governor General Literary Award and was shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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Granta SEPTEMBER 2015 The Sisters Brothers Patrick deWitt

Shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, deWitt's dazzlingly original second novel is a darkly funny, offbeat western about a reluctant assassin and his murderous brother.

Description Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. Across 1000 miles of Oregon desert his assassins, the notorious Eli and Charlie Sisters, ride - fighting, shooting, and drinking their way to Sacramento. But their prey isn't an easy mark, the road is long and bloody, and somewhere along the path Eli begins to question what he does for a living - and whom he does it for.

The Sisters Brothers pays homage to the classic Western, transforming it into an unforgettable ribald tour de force. Filled with a remarkable cast of losers, cheaters, and ne'er-do-wells from all stripes of life - and told by a complex and compelling narrator, it is a violent, lustful odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier that beautifully captures the humor, melancholy, and grit of the Old West and two brothers bound by blood, violence, and love.

About the Author Patrick deWitt is the author of the critically acclaimed Ablutions and The Sisters Brothers, which won the 2011 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards. Born in British Columbia, he has also lived in California, Washington and Oregon, where he currently resides with his wife and son.

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Granta Paperbacks SEPTEMBER 2015 New American Stories edited by Ben Marcus

A collection of the best short fiction being written in America, selected and introduced by Ben Marcus.

Description The short story is a barometer for the state and shape of literature. New American Stories presents the boldest, most innovative and most resonant fiction coming out of the American literary scene.

Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet and Leaving the Sea, has here curated an anthology that gives the lay of the literary land. From established masters of the form like Don DeLillo and Lydia Davis to neoteric trailblazers such as Rebecca Curtis and Rachel B. Glaser, this collection sees Marcus trying to 'prove that the distinctions we erect between styles and approaches to fiction can be essentially meaningless'. The result will be a must-read, must-own volume for readers of literary fiction.

About the Author Ben Marcus is the author of Notable American Women, The Father Costume, The Age of Wire and String,The Flame Alphabet and Leaving the Sea. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, the New York Times, and McSweeney's. Marcus has received a Whiting Writer's Award, a NEA Fellowship in fiction, and three Pushcart Prizes. He is an associate professor at Columbia University.

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Granta SEPTEMBER 2015 Rowing to Eden: Collected Stories Amy Bloom

Collected here together for the first time, all the dazzling, funny and poignant stories from one of America's finest contemporary writers.

Description Amy Bloom has long been regarded as a master of the short story form. Here, her brilliance shines across two decades and more than twenty-five stories. From the bereaved widow who finds unexpected comfort in 'Sleepwalking', to the matchmaking shrink in 'Psychoanalysis Changed My Life'; from the teenage girl furious at her dying mother in 'Hold Tight' to the transgressive lovers of 'The Gates Are Closing'; from the married friends irresistibly drawn to one another in 'William and Clare' to the brave and heartless girl in 'Permafrost' - these are stories brimming with life and grief, erotically- charged and beautifully crafted.

About the Author Amy Bloom is the author of three novels: Lucky Us, Away and Love Invents Us, and three collections of stories: Come to Me, A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You and Where the God of Love Hangs Out. She has been nominated for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and is the University Writer in Residence at Wesleyan University.

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Granta SEPTEMBER 2015 The New World Chris Adrian and Eli Horowitz

The author of the acclaimed The Great Night returns with a gem of a novel that explores the boundaries and bonds of a marriage, in a world where death is not necessarily the end.

Description What does love feel like beyond death?

Jane's husband Jim has just died - or not quite. For Jim, a mild-mannered chaplain at the hospital where Jane works as a surgeon, has left his body to Polaris, a shadowy cryonics organisation that promises to do away with mortality forever. Stranded in the realm of the living, reeling from the loss of her husband, Jane sets out to confront Polaris and to discover just where, exactly, his body is now. Meanwhile, awake in a strange new world, an afterlife of sorts, his body gone but his consciousness intact, Jim learns that the cost of eternal life is higher than he ever could have imagined.

As the narratives of husband and wife - one alive, one dead; one faithful, one errant intertwine and loop from after-life to pre-death, so an extraordinary portrait of a marriage emerges; its losses, its secrets, its fidelities, its endurance. Beautifully constructed, thought-provoking, emotionally profound and witty, The New World is a pitch-perfect exploration of the power of love and the triumph of human connection over technological tyranny. It is a fantastical, funny and tender response to that most profound of marriage vows: til death to us part.

About the Author Chris Adrian is the author of Gob's Grief, The Children's Hospital, A Better Angel and The Great Night. He was elected by the New Yorker as one of the '20 Under 40'. He is a Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist at Columbia University.

Eli Horowitz was the managing editor and then publisher of McSweeney's for eight years. He is the co- author of The Clock Without a Face, Everything You Know Is Pong, and The Silent History.

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Granta SEPTEMBER 2015 10:04 Ben Lerner

Shortlisted for the Folio Prize and internationally celebrated by critics and readers alike, here is a dazzling and utterly original novel about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire.

Description In the past year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, and been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child. Now, in a New York of increasingly frequent superstorms and political unrest, he must reckon with his biological mortality, the possibility of a literary afterlife, and the prospect of (unconventional) fatherhood in a city that might soon be under water.

In prose that Jonathan Franzen has called 'hilarious... cracklingly intelligent... and original in every sentence', Lerner's new novel charts an exhilarating course through the contemporary landscape of sex, friendship, memory, art and politics, and captures what it is like to be alive right now.

About the Author Born in Kansas in 1979, Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry, The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, and the recipient of a Howard Foundation Fellowship. In 2011 he became the first American to win the Munster State Prize for International Poetry. He teaches in the writing program at Brooklyn College. His first novel was Leaving the Atocha Station.

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Granta Paperbacks SEPTEMBER 2015 Leaving the Atocha Station Ben Lerner

Veering between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a dazzling introduction to one of the smartest, funniest and most audacious writers of a generation.

Description Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his attitude towards art. Fuelled by strong coffee and self-prescribed tranquillizers, Adam's 'research' soon becomes a meditation on the possibility of authenticity, as he finds himself increasingly troubled by the uncrossable distance between himself and the world around him. It's not just his imperfect grasp of Spanish, but the underlying suspicion that his relationships, his reactions, and his entire personality are just as fraudulent as his poetry.

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Granta Paperbacks SEPTEMBER 2015 The Seed Collectors Scarlett Thomas

The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y.

Description "I have no idea why everyone thinks nature is so benign and glorious and wonderful. All nature is trying to do is kill us as efficiently as possible."

Aunt Oleander is dead. In the Garden of England her extended family gather to remember her, to tell stories and to rekindle old memories. To each of her nearest and dearest Oleander has left a precious seed pod. But along with it comes a family secret that could open the hardest of hearts but also break the closest ties . . .

A complex and fiercely contemporary tale of inheritance, enlightenment, life, death, desire and family trees, The Seed Collectors is the most important novel yet from one of the world's most daring and brilliant writers. As Henry James said of George Eliot's Middlemarch, The Seed Collectors is a 'treasurehouse of detail' revealing all that it means to be connected, to be part of a society, to be part of the universe and to be human.

About the Author Scarlett Thomas was born in London in 1972. Her other novels include Bright Young Things, PopCo, The End of Mr.Y which was longlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, and Our Tragic Universe. She teaches creative writing at the University of Kent.

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Canongate Trade SEPTEMBER 2015 The Book of Strange New Things Michel Faber

Author of the bestselling The Crimson Petal and the White returns after twelve years with an all-out masterpiece about love and the search for meaning in an unfathomable universe.

Description 'I am with you always, even unto the end of the world . . .'

Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, Peter sets out on a quest to take the word of God to the farthest corners of the galaxy. His mission will challenge everything - his faith, his endurance and the love that can hold two people together, even when they are worlds apart.

About the Author Michel Faber has written eight other books. In addition to the Whitbread-shortlisted Under the Skin, he is the author of the highly acclaimed The Crimson Petal and the White, The Fire Gospel and The Fahrenheit Twins. He has also written two novellas, The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps and The Courage Consort, and has won several short-story awards, including the Neil Gunn, Ian St James and Macallan. Born in Holland, brought up in Australia, he now lives in the Scottish Highlands.

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Canongate Pbs SEPTEMBER 2015 The First Bad Man Miranda July

A stunning, soon-to-be cult novel from the bestselling and award-winning Miranda July.

Description The Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller

A Guardianliterary highlight for 2015 A Huffington Post 'One to Watch' in 2015

'Astounding' Lena Dunham, creator of Girls and author of Not That Kind of Girl

'The First Bad Man brings together all of July's talents - it's a book that must be read, a book that must be purchased - in duplicate - one for you, one for a friend. Don't think you can loan this book - you'll never get it back' A.M Homes, author of This Book Will Save Your Life and May We Be Forgiven

The first novel by the filmmaker, artist and bestselling author Miranda July confirms her as a spectacularly original, iconic, and important voice today, and a writer for all time. The First Bad Man is dazzling and unforgettable.

About the Author Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist and writer. Her collection of short stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and has been published in twenty-three countries. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper's and The New Yorker; It Chooses You was her first book of non-fiction. She wrote, directed and starred in The Future and Me and You and Everyone We Know - winner of the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Special Jury Prize at Sundance. July's participatory art includes the website Learning to Love You More (with artist Harrell Fletcher), Eleven Heavy Things (a sculpture garden created for the 2009 Venice Biennale), New Society (a performance), and Somebody (a messaging app.) Raised in Berkeley, California, July lives in Los Angeles.

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Canongate Trade SEPTEMBER 2015 Pereira Maintains Antonio Tabucchi, translated by Patrick Creagh introduction by Mohsin Hamid

The much lauded modern classic is now being canonised.

Description The international bestseller introduced by Mohsin Hamid.

'The most impressive novel I've read for years' - Philip Pullman

'Stunning' - Diana Athill

In the sweltering summer of 1938, with Lisbon in the grip of Portugal's fascist dictatorship, out of nowhere a young man arrives on an elderly widower's doorstep. Lonely and overweight, Dr Pereira lives a quiet, monotonous existence. But when the charismatic Monteiro Rossi bursts into his life, everything changes. Seeing in him the son he never had, Pereira strikes up an unlikely alliance that will result in his political awakening and a devastating act of rebellion. This is his testimony.

About the Author Antonio Tabucchi was born in Pisa in 1943. Tabucchi authored twenty critically acclaimed novels and short story collections, nine of which have been translated into English, together with numerous essays and plays. Twice shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, he received many prestigious awards, including the Prix Medicis etranger for Indian Nocturne and the Premio Campiello, the Premio Viareggio and the Aristeion Prize for Pereira Maintains. Tabucchi was Emeritus professor at the University of Siena, and also taught at Bard College in New York, the Ecole de Hautes Etudes and the College de France in Paris. He died in 2012.

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Canongate Pbs SEPTEMBER 2015 Seiobo There Below Laszlo Krasznahorkai

A timeless masterpiece from one of the world's most distinguished writers - winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize.

Description Finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize

Beauty, in Laszlo Krasznahorkai's new novel, reflects, however fleeting, the sacred - even if we are mostly unable to bear it.

In Seiobo There Below we see the Japanese goddess Seiobo returning to mortal realms in search of perfection. An ancient Buddha being restored; the Italian renaissance painter Perugino managing his workshop; a Japanese Noh actor rehearsing; a fanatic of Baroque music lecturing to a handful of old villagers; tourists intruding into the rituals of Japan's most sacred shrine; a heron as it gracefully hunts its prey. Told in chapters that sweep us across the world and through time, covering the furthest reaches of human experience, Krasznahorkai demands that we pause and ask ourselves these questions: What is sacred? How do we define beauty? What makes great art endure?

Melancholic and mesmerisingly beautiful, this latest novel by the author of Satantango shows us how to glimpse the divine through extraordinary art and human endeavour.

Winner of Best Translated Book of the Year Award 2014

Translated by Ottilie Mulzet

About the Author Laszlo Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954. He has written five novels and won numerous prizes, including the 2013 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction for Satantango. In 1993, he won the Best Book of the Year Award in Germany for The Melancholy of Resistance and in 2015 was listed as a finalist for the Man Booker International Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781781255100 Prize. For more about Krasznahorkai, visit his extensive website: http://www.krasznahorkai.hu/ Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 222x144mm Extent: 464 pages

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Tuskar Rock SEPTEMBER 2015 A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me David Gates

The master of suburban tragicomedy triumphantly returns with a collection of wry, tragic, hilarious stories of individuals coming up against life's complications.

Description A woman moving calamitously into middle-age; a musician taking in a friend with terminal cancer; a failed actor moving to the country: cynical, unreliable, sinking into middle age or alcoholism, dealing with physical decline or mediocrity, Gates's characters are a dark reflection of our own urban and suburban lives. Terrifyingly self-aware, overcome by the burdens of the human condition, they find their impulses pulling them away from comfort into distraction or catastrophe. But wherever it is they're going - and sometimes it's nowhere fast - they won't go gently.

Relentlessly inventive, by turns comical, caustic and tragic (and often all three together) but always moving, the novella and ten short stories which make up A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me reinforce David Gates as 'a true heir to both Raymond Carver and John Cheever.' (New York Magazine).

About the Author David Gates lives in Missoula, Montana and Granville, New York. He teaches at the University of Montana, and in the Bennington Writing Seminars, and was an editor at Newsweek, where he specialised in music and books. He is the author of two novels, Jernigan and Preston Falls, and the story collection The Wonders of the Invisible World. Jernigan was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award. Gates's short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Paris Review and Granta.

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Serpents Tail SEPTEMBER 2015 Jernigan David Gates, foreword by Stuart Evers

Jernigan is the great lost American masterpiece of suburban despair, a present-day Revolutionary Road or Stoner.

Description Peter Jernigan's life is slipping out of control. His wife's gone, he's lost his job and he's a stranger to his teenage son. Worse, his only relief from all this reality - alcohol - is less effective by the day. And when the medicine doesn't work, you up the dose. And when that doesn't work, what then? (Apart from upping the dose again anyway, because who knows?)

Jernigan's answer is to slowly turn his caustic wit on everyone around him - his wife Judith, his teenage son Danny, his vulnerable new girlfriend Martha and, eventually, himself - until the laughs have turned to mute horror. But while he's busy burning every bridge back to the people who love him, Jernigan's perverse charisma keeps us all in thrall to the bitter end.

Shot through with gin and irony, Jernigan is a funny, scary, mesmerising portrait of a man walking off the edge with his eyes wide open - wisecracking all the way.

About the Author David Gates lives in Missoula, Montana, and Granville, New York. He teaches at the University of Montana, and in the Bennington Writing Seminars, and was an editor at Newsweek, where he specialised in music and books. He is the author of two novels, Jernigan and Preston Falls, and the story collection The Wonders of the Invisible World. Jernigan was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award. Gates's short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Paris Review and Granta.

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Serpents Tail SEPTEMBER 2015 Gun Street Girl: Sean Duffy 4 Adrian McKinty

Duffy's back - and this closed case has just been blown wide open.

Description Belfast, 1985. Gunrunners on the borders, riots in the cities, The Power of Love on the radio. And somehow, hanging on, is Detective Inspector Sean Duffy, a Catholic policeman in the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

The usual rounds of riot duty and sectarian murders are interrupted when a wealthy couple are shot dead while watching TV. Their son jumps to his death, leaving a note claiming responsibility. But something doesn't add up, and people keep dying.

Soon Sean Duffy, Belfast's most roguish detective, is on the trail of a mystery that will pit him against shadowy US national security forces, and take him into the white-hot heart of the biggest political scandal of the decade.

About the Author Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Northern Ireland. He studied law, politics and philosophy at university. In the early 1990's he moved to New York City where he worked in bars, bookstores and building sites. He now lives in Melbourne, Australia. The first Sean Duffy novel The Cold Cold Ground (9781846688232) won the 2013 Spinetingler Award, its sequel I Hear The Sirens In The Street (9781846688188) was shortlisted for the 2013 Ned Kelly Award, and Sean Duffy Thriller #3, In the Morning I'll be Gone (9781846688218), won the 2014 Ned Kelly Award and was picked as one of the top 10 crime novels of 2014 by the American Library Association.

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Serpents Tail SEPTEMBER 2015 Boy on the Wire Alastair Bruce

A beautifully written, stirring exploration of truth, memory and guilt.

Description 'He is a man who lied, who told a story, a wild, fanciful story, about the death of a child, a hard and unyielding story. It is that, he finds, that he hates most. The story that was told.'

In 1983 Paul Hyde, aged ten, dies falling from a ledge in the mountains of the Karoo. His older brother Peter, who falls at the same time, survives but loses all memory of the event. The youngest brother, John, is the only witness.

Many years later, John is living in London. He and his wife Rachel, who knows nothing of the tragedy of his past and nothing of his family, make plans to have children of their own. Their life together is disrupted when Peter arrives in London and claims his memory is returning. Pulled back in spite of himself, John returns to South Africa and the home he grew up in.

His return makes him question his recollection of the tragedy. Can we ever be certain of events that happened that far in the past, certain we have not completely changed their meaning and our part in them?

About the Author Alastair Bruce was born in Port Elizabeth and studied at the University of Cape Town where he embarked upon a science degree course but ended with a Masters in English Literature. He has lived in the United Kingdom for over ten years where he works in electronic publishing, and is the author of Wall of Days [9781846688003]. He is married and has a daughter.

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The Clerkenwell Press SEPTEMBER 2015 The River is The River Jonathan Buckley

A dazzlingly inventive novel that explores the whole nature of storytelling and writing.

Description A woman named Naomi arrives at her sister's house, intending, it seems, to say goodbye. She is abandoning her city life for a remote Scottish retreat, which she will share with a man called Bern.t, whom she considers some kind of visionary. In a sequence of stories filtered through multiple re-tellings, she illuminates the character of this elusive individual. One story seems of special significance: about Afonso, an Amazon boatman, who could be the last speaker of his mother tongue, a language of apparently unique simplicity and precision. Bernat and Naomi are not, however, the only storytellers here. Naomi's sister, Kate, is herself working on a novel that begins as a ghost story, but ends up as something rather different: The river is the river.

About the Author Jonathan Buckley is the highly-praised author of Telescope, So He Takes the Dog and Nostalgia. The river is the river is his ninth novel. He lives in Hove.

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Sort Of SEPTEMBER 2015 The Fighter Paul Warren

The remarkable true story Paul 'Warlord' Warren, the young soldier and former Muay Thai boxing champioin, who lost one of his legs when an IED exploded during a mission in Afghanistan. A story of enormous courage, great determination and deep love.

Description Paul 'Warlord' Warren was an Australian Muay Thai kick-boxing champion who was used to the physically punishing world of martial arts at its highest level. But nothing could prepare him for the torment he would face in the Australian army. One month after he arrived in Afghanistan as a soldier in the ADF, an IED exploded, tearing off his right leg and instantly killing his mate, Private Ben Ranaudo. It was 18 July 2009 and Ben was the campaign's eleventh fatality.

Private Warren's life was saved by the quick work of his battalion, who got him a helicopter within 16 minutes for surgery. Paul was flown to Germany and then back to Australia, where he received treatment for his injuries in Brisbane. Although he had only known his partner, Dearne, for four months before his deployment, she moved to Brisbane to assist his recovery.

There were many dark times as Paul struggled with the shattering effects of PTSD, and guilt and grief over the death of his mate Benny. At his lowest ebb, Paul thought about taking his own life, as so many other soldiers in similar circumstances continue to do. Recovery was a slow and at times desperately painful process, but the discipline and toughness he'd learned from his martial arts background and the fierce love of Dearne helped him mend.

The Fighter is a story of courage, determination and love that will move all who read it.

About the Author A former kick-boxing champion and member of the ADF, Paul Warren now works for Mates4Mates, an organisation dedicated to helping injured soldiers. He and his wife Dearne live in Townsville with their two children.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781743439920 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 300 pages

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2015 Is This My Beautiful Life? Jessica Rowe

The deeply honest, funny, gut-wrenching and touching memoir from journalist, celebrity, wife, mother, television presenter and author, Jessica Rowe.

Description The fairytale I had dreamt up saw me still blazing ahead with my career, sharing the cooking and cleaning duties with my husband and having neat, tidy and well- behaved children who had beautifully brushed hair. But that was not my life.

Journalist, celebrity, television presenter, author, ambassador for beyondblue and patron of its work on post-natal depression, Member of the Order of Australia, risk-taker, social commentator, charity worker, public speaker, passionate mother and wife. Jessica Rowe is all of these things, and more. And in this extraordinary memoir, Jessica reveals herself as a woman who thought it would be easy to have it all, to do it all. But what was supposed to be her beautiful life derailed in the very public collapse of her television career accompanied by astonishingly hurtful public trolling, her long struggle to conceive, finally taking the IVF path, her fears and what she believed to be failings as a mother and in her professional life, and the diagnosis of post-natal depression.

Thankfully, with proper medical help, her beloved husband and family, Jessica ultimately rediscovers her 'sparkle'.

Deeply honest, funny, gut-wrenching and touching this book will be treasured by women who don't feel they fit the mould of that perfect woman. Women who understand that in life, 'having it all' may develop a different meaning. And women suffering from post-natal depression who will be encouraged that it's okay to ask for help.

About the Author JESSICA ROWE is a broadcaster and writer who, in a career spanning over twenty years, has worked at all the major Australian commercial television networks. She is currently a presenter on Channel 10's morning show, Studio 10.

Jessica is co-author of the bestselling book The Best of Times, The Worst of Times with her mother, Penelope Rowe. In her second book, Love, Wisdom, Motherhood, Jessica interviewed prominent women about their lives and shared their Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781743318362 conversations. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Jessica is patron of the Mental Health Council of Australia and patron of beyondblue's work on post-natal depression. In Extent: 336 pages 2015, she was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia for her long commitment to mental health advocacy and her Main Category: B Biography/autobiography Sub Category: BM Memoirs broadcasting career. She lives in Sydney with her husband, journalist Peter Overton, and their two young daughters. Illustrations: Jessica is a graduate of the Faber Academy's Writing Memoir course. Previous Titles: Author now living: A percentage of the purchase price of every book sold will be donated to beyondblue.

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2015 Prick with a Fork Larissa Dubecki

Kitchen Confidential meets He Died With a Felafel in His Hand in this laugh-out-loud hilarious expose of the restaurant industry.

Description A hilarious and horrific dissection of the restaurant industry from the waiter's point of view, Prick with a Fork is a statement rather than an instruction! This gorgeously written treat combines the gritty take-no-prisoners attack of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential with the gross confessions and forensic grunge of John Birmingham's He Died With a Felafel in His Hand.

Dining out will never be the same again! Therapy for former waiters, revelation to diners, pure reading pleasure for anyone interested in what really happens out the back of the restaurant.

About the Author For the past 6 years, Larissa Dubecki has been the chief restaurant critic and food writer for The Age newspaper and The Age Good Food Guide. Also a restaurant critic for Australian Gourmet Traveller. Prior to that, features writer and news reporter since 2000. Appeared on MasterChef a number of times. A judge on Iron Chef Australia. From 1991-2002 a very bad waitress.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781925266054 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 312 pages

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2015 Betsy and the Emperor: The true story of Napoleon, a pretty girl, a Regency rake and an Australian colonial misadventure Anne Whitehead

The little known story of how the exiled Napoleon Bonaparte ingratiated himself with an English family on the South Atlantic island of St Helena, and the devastating effect on them for the rest of their lives in England and Australia.

Description After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, he was sent into exile on Saint Helena. He became an 'eagle in a cage', reduced from the most powerful figure in Europe to a prisoner on a rock in the South Atlantic. But the fallen emperor was charmed by the pretty teenage daughter of a local merchant, Betsy Balcombe.

Anne Whitehead brings to life Napoleon's last years on Saint Helena, revealing the central role of the Balcombe family. She also lays to rest two centuries of speculation about Betsy's relationship with Napoleon.

After Napoleon's death, Betsy travelled to Australia in 1823 with her father, who was appointed the first Colonial Treasurer of New South Wales. When the family lost their fortune, she returned to London and published a memoir which made her a celebrity.

With her extraordinary connections to royalty and high society, Betsy Balcombe led a life worthy of a Regency romance, but she was always fighting for her independence. This new account reveals Napoleon at his most vulnerable, human and reflective, and a woman caught in some of the most dramatic events of her time.

About the Author Anne Whitehead is an author, historian and former TV producer-director with the ABC. She is the author of Bluestocking in Patagonia and her book Paradise Mislaid was winner of the NSW Premier's Award for Australian History.

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781760112936 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 464 pages

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2015 Doujon's Heart Greg Callaghan and Ian Cuthbertson

The extraordinary story of how the gift of a heart gave meaning to a senseless tragedy and inspired a lifelong friendship between two families.

Description When 20-year-old Australian Doujon Zammit was bashed by bouncers on a Greek island in July 2008, his tragic story made headlines in both Australia and Greece. Doujon had sustained terrible head injuries and would not recover. His grief-stricken parents, Oliver and Rosemarie, honoured Doujon's previous wish to be an organ donor, and Oliver became famous overnight in Australia and in Greece when he announced that Doujon's organs would be donated to Greek recipients.

The day Doujon received his fatal injuries was also the day 31-year-old Greek-Australian journalist Kosta Gribilas was admitted to a hospital in Athens, close to death as a result of viral heart failure. Without a transplant, Kosta knew he would soon die. He'd followed Doujon's story on TV, and even as he watched Oliver's emotional announcement, Kosta hadn't thought he might be saved - the doctors didn't want to give him false hope. On August 2, after an emotional farewell to partner Poppy and his family and friends, Kosta drifted asleep for what he thought was going to be the last time. A day later he woke up with Doujon's heart beating in his chest and the life he'd longed for now ahead of him.

Because of the public nature of Doujon's fatal attack, Kosta met Rosemarie and Oliver when they visited Athens. It was to be the beginning of an extraordinary, heartwarming friendship that would sustain both families through their darkest days. As Kosta says, 'How can I ever forget Doujon, when every heartbeat reminds me how blessed I am?'

A beautiful and inspiring story about two families united by tragedy and how a selfless and courageous gift of love keeps on giving to this day.

About the Author Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760110048 GREG CALLAGHAN is a journalist who has written feature and news stories for most of the major newspapers and Format: Paperback - C format magazines in Australia. In seventeen years at News Limited he was a reporter, features editor and deputy editor of The Dimensions: 234x153mm Weekend Australian Magazine, and was an early adopter of video to enhance the art of features presentation. Extent: 288 pages

Main Category: B Biography/autobiography Sub Category: BM Memoirs Greg is currently deputy editor of Good Weekend, Australia's most respected and largest circulation newspaper insert Illustrations: magazine, published every Saturday in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Greg also contributes occasional long- Previous Titles: Author now living: form features to the magazine.

IAN CUTHBERTSON has had three overlapping careers. He was a psychiatric nurse from 1975-1996, initially in large psychiatric institutions and later in senior roles at community psychiatric centres in Bondi and Cremorne. From 1980 until Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2015 Doujon's Heart 10 copy pack Point of Sale

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2015 Riddledom: 101 riddles and their stories David Astle

After his recent hits - Puzzled and Cluetopia - David Astle continues on his brain-bending path into the field of riddles.

Description Why are ladies like arrows?

When is a bird not a bird?

What do you call a nun with a washing machine on her head?

Welcome to the weird new word adventure from David Astle, plunging into the realm of riddles, chasing down and prising open 101 curious questions from around the planet. A mind-trip across time and place, Riddledom uncovers riddle relics from over 50 cultures, delving into language and deception, sampling Pompeii walls and Twitter feeds. Readers can unravel each mini-chapter, wrestling with riddles from Wonderland or Zanzibar, Oedipus Rex or Harry Potter. French acrobats, lusty dairymaids, ancient monks - you'll meet the lot in Riddledom. Readers will roam Tasmania and Mongolia, seeking out riddles on clay tablets and Popsicle sticks.

As David opens Riddledom: 'If you think riddles are solely the stuff of schoolyards and Christmas crackers, you're about to have your head refurbished...'

About the Author David Astle has written two novels, plus five non-fiction works: Cluetopia, Puzzled, One Down, One Missing, Offbeat Australia and Riddledom. Between books, he drives the world to delight and despair as Friday's crossword setter, DA, appearing in both The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Actor Geoffrey Rush, in fact, describes David as 'the Sergeant Pepper of cryptic crosswords - a complete mind fuck'. Which is possibly a compliment. David was the former dictionary bloke on SBS's Letters and Numbers, while his feature stories have tackled luck, lying, drowning and fridge magnets, to name a few topics. His short stories have won several awards, including a trip to Beijing via Dublin as part of Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760112608 the James Joyce Suspended Sentence Prize in 2001. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2015 Puzzled: Secrets and clues from a life lost in words David Astle

From teenage word-nerd to Australia's pre-eminent (and most fiendish) puzzle-maker, Puzzled is a memoir of a life lost in words as well as a revealing guide to the deepest mysteries of crossword and other word puzzles.

Description 'I used to regret not being born Catholic because it meant I'd been denied the joys of self-flagellation. Then I discovered DA and he solved my problem.' - Bill Leak, cartoonist, and anagram of Killable

'He's the Sergeant Pepper of cryptic crosswords. A complete mindf**k.' - Geoffrey Rush, actor, and anagram of Gruffy Heroes

Many a puzzle solver has battled against the devilish mind of long-time crossword maker and wordaholic David Astle, known to many as DA.

In Puzzled he holds out a helping hand to the lost and perplexed taking us on a personal tour into the secret life of words. Clue by clue, chapter by chapter, we step through a central puzzle, uncovering and unravelling word-secrets as we go. The Steve Irwin Fluke, the Swastika Accident, the Abracadabra Pyramid - hidden meanings, anagrams, reversals - all the Dark Arts are finally revealed.

More than a how-to manual, more than a memoir, Puzzled enlightens us about cryptics and delights in the quirky realm of wordplay. It is a book for word junkies everywhere.

About the Author David Astle has written two novels, Marzipan Plan and Book of Miles, plus two non-fiction works: One Down, One Missing and Offbeat Australia. Between books, he drives the world to delight and despair as Friday's crossword setter, DA, appearing in both The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Actor Geoffrey Rush, in fact, describes David as 'the Sergeant Pepper of cryptic crosswords - a complete mind fuck.' Which is possibly a compliment. As a feature writer, David has investigated luck, lying and fridge magnets, plus a hundred different topics for various magazines. He also Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9781743314296 reviews books for Radio National. David's short plays have been performed in both Sydney and Melbourne, while his Format: Paperback - C format short stories have won awards, including a trip to Beijing via Dublin as part of the James Joyce Suspended Sentence Dimensions: 234x153mm Prize in 2001. He is currently Mr Dictionary on the SBS game show, Letters + Numbers. Extent: 424 pages

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2015 NeuroTribes: The legacy of autism and how to think smarter about people who think differently Steve Silberman

A groundbreaking book that upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently.

Description 'Neurotribes is a sweeping and penetrating history, presented with a rare sympathy and sensitivity...it will change how you think of autism.' From the foreword by Oliver Sacks

What is autism: a devastating developmental condition, a lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more - and the future of our society depends on our understanding it.

Following on from his groundbreaking article 'The Geek Syndrome', Wired reporter Steve Silberman unearths the secret history of autism, long suppressed by the same clinicians who became famous for discovering it, and finds surprising answers to the crucial question of why the number of diagnoses has soared in recent years.

Going back to the earliest autism research and chronicling the brave and lonely journey of autistic people and their families through the decades, Silberman provides long-sought solutions to the autism puzzle, while mapping out a path towards a more humane world in which people with learning differences have access to the resources they need to live happier and more meaningful lives.

Along the way, he reveals the untold story of Hans Asperger, the father of Asperger's syndrome, whose 'little professors' were targeted by the darkest social-engineering experiment in human history; exposes the covert campaign by child psychiatrist Leo Kanner to suppress knowledge of the autism spectrum for fifty years; and casts light on the growing movement of 'neurodiversity' activists seeking respect, technological innovation, accommodations in the workplace and education, and the right to self- determination for those with cognitive differences. Price: $35.00 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781760113629 About the Author Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm STEVE SILBERMAN is an award-winning investigative reporter and has covered science and cultural affairs for Wired Extent: 544 pages and other national magazines for more than twenty years. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, TIME, Nature and Main Category: JFF Current Affairs Salon. Sub Category: JFF Current Affairs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: San Francisco, USA

Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2015 Man of Iron: The extraordinary story of New Zealand WWI hero Lieutenant-Colonel William Malone Jock Vennell

The first biography of one of New Zealand's best known First World War soldiers.

Description Lieutenant-Colonel William Malone is one of New Zealand's best-known First World War soldiers, having held off fierce Turkish counter-attacks for nearly two days before being killed by a shell from a British warship. The defence of Chunuk Bair has been described as one of New Zealand's finest hours. Malone and his men captured and held the heights of Chunuk Bair on the Gallipoli Peninsula in August 1915.

William Malone was not only an outstanding military leader, as commander of the Wellington Infantry Battalion, but also a successful farmer, lawyer and family man. His letters reveal a man unfulfilled by peacetime pursuits, and war offered him a liberation of spirit and a new sense of purpose. Leaving for the front, he wrote, 'I leave a lucrative practice, a happy home, a brave wife and children without any hesitation. I feel I am just beginning to live.'

This is the first biography of William Malone.

About the Author Jock Vennell is a Wellington based writer and historian. He is the author of The Forgotten General.

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781877505263 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 296 pages

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2015 A True Story of the Great Escape: A young Australian POW in the most audacious breakout of WWII Louise Williams

The first book to tell the story of an Australian POW in the famous Great Escape from Stalag Luft III in World War II, this is a moving account of the far too short life of a talented young man and a family hit hard by the Depression and war.

Description Shot down in 1942, young Australian fighter pilot John Williams DFC became a POW in the notorious Stalag Luft III camp in Germany. John had joined the air force shortly before the outbreak of war, and in the larrikin tradition, led his squadron into air combat over the deserts of Libya and Egypt dressed in sandals and shorts.

John and his best mate Rusty Kierath were among the 76 POWs who tunnelled their way out of the supposedly escape- proof camp under the noses of their German guards in what later inspired the Hollywood blockbuster, The Great Escape. Their families never learned what really happened once the pair made it out into the forest.

John's niece Louise Williams has pieced together his life, from his upbringing in a tight-knit family hit hard by the Depression, to his exploits in the air, and the many missing details of the tragic escape. It is a powerful and personal story of one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II.

About the Author Louise Williams is a Sydney writer and editor, and niece of John Williams. She has recreated John’s story from family memories, letters, declassified documents, oral histories and interviews with survivors of the Great Escape.

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2015 A Good Place to Hide: How one French community saved thousands of lives in World War II Peter Grose

They kept their heads down, they kept their mouths shut and they stuck together to offer sanctuary and shelter to over 3500 Jews in their small villages in the isolated upper reaches of the Loire. This is one of the great modern stories of unknown heroism and courage.

Description 'A story resonant in our age ... a grand narrative ... a book to cherish and recommend.' - Thomas Keneally

'Terrific ... an important story deftly told.' - David Williamson

Nobody asked questions, nobody demanded money. Villagers lied, covered up, procrastinated and concealed, but most importantly they welcomed.

This is the story of an isolated community in the upper reaches of the Loire Valley that conspired to save the lives of 3500 Jews under the noses of the Germans and the soldiers of Vichy France. It is the story of a pacifist Protestant pastor who broke laws and defied orders to protect the lives of total strangers. It is the story of an eighteen-year-old Jewish boy from Nice who forged 5000 sets of false identity papers to save other Jews and French Resistance fighters from the Nazi concentration camps. And it is the story of a community of good men and women who offered sanctuary, kindness, solidarity and hospitality to people in desperate need, knowing full well the consequences to themselves.

Powerful and richly told, A Good Place to Hide speaks to the goodness and courage of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.

About the Author Peter Grose is a former journalist, literary agent and publisher. He has published two highly acclaimed books with Allen & Unwin, An Awkward Truth: The bombing of Darwin, February 1942 and A Very Rude Awakening: The night the Japanese Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) midget subs came to Sydney Harbour. ISBN: 9781760290290 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 352 pages

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2015 The Best Years of Our Lives Richard Clapton

A rocking, uproarious memoir that tells the story of OzRock as well as one amazing life in music. Fasten your seatbelts for one wild ride!

Description Welcome to the party that never ends...

When he was 16 he inveigled his way into a Sydney hotel to hang out with the Rolling Stones. From that day on, Richard Clapton knew he was going to be a rock star. It's now almost 50 years since that fateful day -years filled with a lifetime of incredible experiences, outrageous good times and a catalogue of iconic and timeless songs. Through the glory years of rock 'n' roll, in cities as varied as London, Berlin, Sydney, Los Angeles and Paris, Richard forged his own career and built up a significant body of work while living, loving and partying with the biggest names in the Australian and international music world.

By his own frank admission, these were years fuelled by prodigious quantities of alcohol and drugs, set against a backdrop of constant recording and touring, of endless partying and wild times. It was to be a rollercoaster ride of euphoric highs and deep, shattering lows. For 40 years, Richard Clapton has been, above all else, a songwriter-a wry observer of human behaviour and an astute commentator on the Australian condition. His best songs- 'Deep Water', 'The Best Years of Our Lives', 'Goodbye Tiger', 'Glory Road', 'Lucky Country', 'Girls on the Avenue', 'Trust Somebody' and 'Capricorn Dancer'-capture the essence of this country and the meaning of our lives like few others.

In this extraordinary memoir, Richard employs his songwriter's keen powers of observation, portraiture and storytelling to tell the best story of all: the remarkable one of his own life. Outrageous, funny, insightful and poignant, this is the rock memoir to beat them all. In celebration of 40 years of fabulous music and iconic songs, welcome to The Best Years of Our Lives.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760290320 About the Author Format: Paperback - B format Richard Clapton is a much-loved legend of Australian music, the performer and songwriter of many iconic Australian hit Dimensions: 198x128mm songs: Deep Water, Best Years of Our Lives, Goodbye Tiger, Glory Road, Lucky Country, I am An Island, Trust Extent: 344 pages Somebody, Capricorn Dancer and Girls on the Avenue. Main Category: B Biography/autobiography

Sub Category: BGA Autobiography: General Illustrations: As a producer Richard worked on the second INXS album, Underneath the Colours (1981), which saw the beginning of Previous Titles: Author now living: Neutral Bay, NSW their rise to fame in the shape of their first two hit singles. He also joined The Party Boys for a period before resuming his solo career.

Australian rock music historian, Ian McFarlane described Clapton as "one of the most important Australian songwriters ". Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2015 Growing Old Outrageously: A memoir of travel, food and friendship Hilary Linstead and Elisabeth Davies

A bestselling memoir of a later-life friendship and what happens when two ladies of a certain age decide to test the maxim: Leap and the net will appear!

Description Two old school friends reconnect unexpectedly after thirty-five years and discover that they both love travelling - and the more exotic and far-flung the location, the better! Not having a clue whether they will get along, the eccentric pair embark on a trial journey to Morocco. That tentative beginning has turned into a series of wonderfully unusual holidays, and Hil and Liz have been circumnavigating the globe ever since.

Among many other destinations, they have taken in Marrakech, Fez and the Atlas Mountains; Patagonia and the Galapagos Islands; Istanbul and Cappadocia. They've been on safari in Namibia, Botswana and the Serengeti, attended music festivals in Naples and Prague and made a pilgrimage to the western isles of Mull and Iona. Along the way they have encouraged, enraged and entertained each other, while living through countless adventures.

This is a book for thrillseekers and armchair travellers alike, a celebration of friendship and laughter - and an inspiration for anyone who's longed to venture outside their comfort zone and travel to exotic places.

About the Author Hilary and Liz went to school together in the UK before their lives took very different turns. Hilary Linstead left England for Australia at twenty-one, pursuing a bloke and her dream of becoming an actress. Hilary discovered that she couldn't make a full-time living as an actress and went into business with a friend first as a casting director, later becoming the first theatrical agent for directors and designers in Australia, representing many distinguished clients like Neil Armfield, Gillian Armstrong, Baz Luhrmann, Louis Nowra and Wendy Harmer. Elizabeth Davies went to Cambridge University, graduated in Economics and became a civil servant and freelance journalist. Meeting up again much later in life, they discovered their mutual love of travel and embarked on the series of adventures that are the subjects of this book. Both continue to travel to exotic locations and indulge their love of interesting food (there are great recipes in the book), art, theatre and music and rediscovered England and Australia by seeing each country through the other's eyes. Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781743314692 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 326 pages

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2015 Red Hot Chilli Grower: The complete guide to planting, picking and preserving chillies Kay Maguire

The perfect guide to the world of grow-your-own chillies.

Description From 'Hungarian Hot Wax' to 'Red Savina', and 'Scotch Bonnet' to 'Elephant's Trunk', chillies come in dozens of shapes, colours and degrees of spiciness - from sweet and succulent to blow-your-head-off hot.

Red Hot Chilli Grower provides everything you need to grow your own chillies from scratch, with step-by-step instructions for sowing seeds, caring for the plants, harvesting the fruit and troubleshooting common problems. Chilli-lovers will also find plenty of background information, such as a short history of the chilli and a guide to Scoville heat units (the official measurement of spicy heat), as well as tasty tips for enjoying the fruits of your work.

About the Author Kay Maguire is the author of the award-winning RHS How to Grow Your Own Crops in Pots, which was published by Mitchell Beazley in 2013. She is a regular contributor to gardening magazines such as BBC Gardeners' World, The Garden and Amateur Gardening, as well as being the video producer for the RHS website. Kay trained at The Royal Botanic Garden Kew, where she gained the Kew Diploma, and was the Horticultural Editor of BBC Gardener's World for six years. She is now a freelance writer, editor, producer and most importantly, grower.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760113520 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 208x155mm Extent: 144 pages

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Crows Nest SEPTEMBER 2015 Plants from Pips: How to grow a garden from kitchen scraps Holly Farrell

The perfect way to introduce beginners from all ages, from 6 to 60, to the joys of watching things grow.

Description What do avocadoes, apples, mangoes and tomatoes have in common? The answer is that they can all be grown at home, for free, from pips that you would otherwise throw into the recycling bin.

Plants from Pips shows you how to grow a range of fruit and vegetables, indoors and out, with minimum equipment and experience. This compete guide covers everything from the science of how plants grow to how to deal with pests and other problems. Find out what to grow, what to grow it in and when and where to grow it for the best results.

About the Author Holly Farrell spent two years at RHS Gardens Wisley where she gained the Wisley Diploma in Practical Horticulture and the RHS Certificate and Diploma (both with Commendation), and where she won the Nicholson Prize for overall contribution to Wisley gardens as a trainee. After working as Head Gardener on a private estate she now combines designing and improving gardens for private clients with her developing career as a garden writer for publications such as Kitchen Garden and the RHS magazine The Garden. Holly is the author of Planting Plans for Your Kitchen Garden: How to create a Vegetable, Herb and Fruit Garden in Easy Stages. She lives in Oxfordshire.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760113568 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 208x155mm Extent: 144 pages

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Crows Nest SEPTEMBER 2015 Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History Bill Laws

A beautifully crafted book that uncovers the fascinating stories of some of the world's best-known plants.

Description Plants are so ubiquitous, such a common feature of the world around us, that we rarely stop to consider the profound impact they have on our everyday lives. We give flowers on special occasions, spend many dedicated hours nurturing gardens, use them for dyes and construction, and turn them into cosmetics and medicines. We are also entirely dependent on them for sustenance - even when we eat meat, the animals that provide it have been raised on plants. Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History is a beautifully presented guide to the plants that have had the greatest impact on human civilisation. Entries range from crops like rice and wheat that feed whole populations, to herbs and spices that are highly prized for their medicinal qualities. Weaving together strands of economic, political, and industrial history, each entry is a fascinating look at the most influential plants known to mankind.

About the Author Bill Laws is a writer, editor, and journalist, based in Herefordshire, England. He is the author of ten books, including Common Losses: Essays and Interviews on Trees, Woods and the Green Man, which was commissioned by the environmental arts group Common Ground, Spade, Skirret and Parsnip: The Curious History of Vegetables, and Byways, Boots and Blisters: A History of Walkers and Walking. Bill writes on homes, gardens, and landscapes for numerous publications, including the Guardian and Telegraph newspapers, Environment Now, Period House, BBC History magazine, and the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? He has also edited a series of journals and books on rural history for the last twenty years, the latest publication, A Slap of the Hand, being a social history of a country cattle market. Bill is also the author of The Field Guide to Fields: A Guided Tour Through Meadows, Pastures and Praries, soon to be published by National Geographic.

Price: $35.00 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781742372181 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 227x170mm Extent: 224 pages Main Category: WN Natural History Sub Category: WNP Trees, Wildflowers & Plants Illustrations: Previous Titles: Common Losses: Essays and Interviews on Trees, Woods and the Green Man Spade, Skirret and Parsnip: The Curious History of Vegetables Byways, Boots and Blisters: A History of Walkers and Walking The Field Guide to Fields: A Guided Tour Through Meadows, Pastures and Praries, soon to be published by National Geographic Crows Nest SEPTEMBER 2015 Pop Science Bestsellers Mixed 24 Copy Dumpbin

Includes: 3 copies each of the 8 titles below, plus dumpbin and custom header.

9781408842812 Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets

9781846685187 Nothing

9781848878457 The Joy of X

9781408809594 Alex's Adventures in Numberland

9781861976475 13 Things That Don't Make Sense

9781846685323 Seventeen Equations that Changed the World

9781848313057 Inflight Science

9780571315024 Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2015 Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets Simon Singh

From bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, a must-have for number lovers and Simpsons fans

Description Some have seen philosophy embedded in episodes of The Simpsons; others have detected elements of psychology and religion. Simon Singh, bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book and The Big Bang, instead makes the compelling case that what The Simpsons' writers are most passionate about is mathematics.

He reveals how the writers have drip-fed morsels of number theory into the series over the last twenty-five years; indeed, there are so many mathematical references in The Simpsons, and in its sister program, Futurama, that they could form the basis of an entire university course.

Using specific episodes as jumping off points – from 'Bart the Genius' to 'Treehouse of Horror VI' – Simon Singh brings to life the most intriguing and meaningful mathematical concepts, ranging from pi and the paradox of infinity to the origins of numbers and the most profound outstanding problems that haunt today's generation of mathematicians. In the process, he introduces us to The Simpsons' brilliant writing team – the likes of Ken Keeler, Al Jean, Jeff Westbrook, and Stewart Burns – who are not only comedy geniuses, but who also hold advanced degrees in mathematics. This eye-opening book will give anyone who reads it an entirely new mathematical insight into the most successful show in television history.

About the Author Simon Singh received his PhD in particle physics from the University of Cambridge. A former BBC producer and BAFTA Award-winning documentary director, he is the author of the bestselling Fermat's Last Theorem. His bestseller The Code Book was the basis for the BBC series The Science of Secrecy and his third book, Big Bang, was also a bestseller. He lives in London.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781408842812 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages

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Bloomsbury Pb SEPTEMBER 2015 Nothing: From absolute zero to cosmic oblivion - amazing insights into nothingness New Scientist

Zero, zip, nada, zilch. This fascinating and intriguing book revels in a subject that has tantalised the finest minds for centuries, and shows there's more to nothing than meets the eye. Without nothing we'd be precisely nowhere.

Description Zero, zip, nada, zilch. It's all too easy to ignore the fascinating possibilities of emptiness and non-existence, and we may well wonder what there is to say about nothing. But scientists have known for centuries that nothing is the key to understanding absolutely everything, from why particles have mass to the expansion of the universe - so without nothing we'd be precisely nowhere.

Absolute zero (the coldest cold that can exist) and the astonishing power of placebos, light bulbs, superconductors, vacuums, dark energy, 'bed rest' and the birth of time - all are different aspects of the concept of nothing. The closer we look, the bigger the subject gets. Why do some animals spend all day doing nothing? What happens in our brains when we try to think about nothing?

With chapters by 20 science writers, including top names such as Ian Stewart, Marcus Chown, Nigel Henbest, Michael Brooks, Paul Davies and David Fisher, this fascinating and intriguing book revels in a subject that has tantalised the finest minds for centuries, and shows there's more to nothing than meets the eye.

About the Author New Scientist is the bestselling and fastest-growing science magazine in the world. Jeremy Webb is its editor-in-chief. New Scientist's series of 9 previous titles with Profile, beginning with Does Anything Eat Wasps?, has now sold over 2 million copies.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781846685187 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages Main Category: PDZ Popular Science Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade SEPTEMBER 2015 The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Mathematics, from One to Infinity Steven Strogatz

Award-winning Steven Strogatz, one of the foremost popularisers of maths, has written a witty and fascinating account of maths' most compelling ideas and how, so often, they are an integral part of everyday life.

Description Maths is everywhere, often where we don't even realise. Award-winning professor Steven Strogatz acts as our guide as he takes us on a tour of numbers that - unbeknownst to the unitiated - connect pop culture, literature, art, philosophy, current affairs, business and even every day life. In The Joy of X, Strogatz explains the great ideas of maths - from negative numbers to calculus, fat tails to infinity - with clarity, wit and insight. He is the maths teacher you never had and this book is perfect for the smart and curious, the expert and the beginner.

About the Author Steven Strogatz is the professor of applied mathematics at Cornell University. A renowned teacher, and one of the world's most highly-cited mathematicians, he received MIT's E.M. Baker Award, the only institute-wide teaching prize selected solely by students. He is the author of several textbooks, as well as the bestseller Sync and The Calculus of Friendship. He lives in Ithaca, New York, with his wife Carole and their two daughters.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9781848878457 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198 x129mm Extent: 336 pages

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Atlantic Pbs SEPTEMBER 2015 Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics Alex Bellos

A hugely enjoyable, brilliantly researched explanation of the basic principles of maths.

Description The world of maths can seem mind-boggling, irrelevant and, let's face it, boring. This groundbreaking book reclaims maths from the geeks. Mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives. In search of weird and wonderful mathematical phenomena, Alex Bellos travels across the globe and meets the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany and a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan. Packed with fascinating, eye-opening anecdotes, Alex's Adventures in Numberland is an exhilarating cocktail of history, reportage and mathematical proofs that will leave you awestruck.

'Original and highly entertaining.' - Sunday Times

'A page turner about humanity's strange, never easy and, above all, never dull relationship with numbers.' - New Scientist

'Outstanding ... The style is laced with humour, but at all times, the star of the show is mathematics' - Ian Stewart

About the Author Alex Bellos has a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from Oxford University. He has worked for the Guardian in London and Rio de Janeiro, where he was the paper's unusually numerate foreign correspondent. In 2002 he wrote a critically acclaimed book about Brazilian football and in 2006 ghostwrote Pele's autobiography, which was a number one bestseller.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781408809594 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 196x127mm Extent: 448 pages Main Category: PDZ Popular Science Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Pb SEPTEMBER 2015 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Intriguing Scientific Mysteries of Our Time Michael Brooks

Science starts to get interesting when things don't make sense.

Description Even today there are experimental results that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past, similar anomalies have revolutionised our world: in the sixteenth century, a set of celestial irregularities led Copernicus to realise that the Earth goes around the sun and not the reverse. In 13 Things That Don't Make Sense Michael Brooks meets thirteen modern-day anomalies that may become tomorrow's breakthroughs.

Is ninety six percent of the universe missing? If no study has ever been able to definitively show that the placebo effect works, why has it become a pillar of medical science? Was the 1977 signal from outer space a transmission from an alien civilization? Spanning fields from chemistry to cosmology, psychology to physics, Michael Brooks thrillingly captures the excitement and controversy of the scientific unknown.

About the Author Michael Brooks, who has a PhD in quantum physics, is a consultant for New Scientist. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, Independent, Observer and THES.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9781861976475 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages Main Category: PDZ Popular Science Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade SEPTEMBER 2015 Seventeen Equations that Changed the World Ian Stewart

A unique history of humanity told through its seventeen defining equations; from Pythagoras to Calculus.

Description From Newton's Law of Gravity to the Black-Scholes model used by bankers to predict the markets, equations, are everywhere - and they are fundamental to everyday life.

Seventeen Equations that Changed the World examines seventeen groundbreaking equations that have altered the course of human history. He explores how Pythagoras's Theorem led to GPS and SatNav; how logarithms are applied in architecture; why imaginary numbers were important in the development of the digital camera, and what is really going on with Schrodinger's cat.

Entertaining, surprising and vastly informative, Seventeen Equations that Changed the World is a highly original exploration - and explanation - of life on earth.

About the Author Ian Stewart is a Mathematics Professor at Warwick University. His many books include Mathematics of Life, Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, and The Science of Discworld trilogy with Terry Pratchett. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, appears frequently on radio and television, and does research on pattern formation and network dynamics.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9781846685323 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages

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Profile Trade SEPTEMBER 2015 Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window Brian Clegg

Packed full of amazing insights from physics, chemistry, engineering, geography and more - a voyage of discovery perfect for any journey.

Description There are few times when science is so immediate as when you're in a plane.

Acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg shows how you stay up there - but that's only the beginning. Inflight Science explains the ever-changing view, whether it's crop circles or clouds, mountains or river deltas, and describes easy-to-do experiments to show how a wing provides lift or how to calculate the population of the towns you fly over.

Packed full of amazing insights from physics, chemistry, engineering, geography and more Inflight Science is a voyage of scientific discovery perfect for any journey - even if it's just in your armchair.

'Fitting into that publishing niche somewhere between hard science and Schott's Miscellany that was so successfully exploited by books such as The Cloudspotter's Guide.' The Times

'Catches the current wave of Brian Cox-approved popular science ... for those who are interested in the way things work, and have seen the films on offer on board, it's a pleasant way of riding out the bumps.' Rebecca Nicholson, Sunday Times

About the Author Brian Clegg is a science journalist and author whose numerous books include Inflight Science and The Universe Inside You, both published by Icon. He also runs popularscience.co.uk

Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781848313057 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages Main Category: PDZ Popular Science Sub Category: Illustrations: Occasional b/w photos and illustrations Previous Titles: Before the Big Bang (St Martin's Griffin, 2011)

Armageddon Science (St Martin's Press, 2010)

A Brief History of Infinity (Robinson Publishing, 2003) Author now living: Swindon, Wiltshire Icon SEPTEMBER 2015 Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You: Understanding the Mind-Blowing Building Blocks of the Universe Marcus Chown

The perennial bestseller: Big science explained in a beautifully clear and entertaining way by the popular cosmologist.

Description The two towering achievements of modern physics are quantum theory and Einstein's general theory of relativity. But, almost a century after their advent, most people haven't the slightest clue what either is about. Did you know that there's so much empty space inside matter that the entire human race could be squeezed into the volume of a sugar cube? Or that you grow old more quickly on the top floor of a building than on the ground floor?

Marcus Chown explains all with characteristic, wit, colour and clarity.

About the Author Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he is currently cosmology consultant of the weekly science magazine New Scientist. He is the author of the bestselling Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You, The Never Ending Days of Being Dead and The Magic Furnace. He also wrote The Solar System, the bestselling app for iPad, which won the Future Book Award 2011.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9780571315024 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 224 pages

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Faber Paperback SEPTEMBER 2015 On Writing Charles Bukowski, edited by Abel DeBritto

The never-before-published letters of Charles Bukowski on the art of writing.

Description 'If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him . . . There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laugh as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fire the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter, you will be honored in hell. The luck of the word. Go with it, send it.'

Charles Bukowski was one of our most iconoclastic, raw and riveting writers, one whose stories, poems and novels have left an enduring mark on our culture. On Writing collects Bukowski's reflections and ruminations on the craft he dedicated his life to.

Piercing, unsentimental and often hilarious, On Writing is filled not only with memorable lines but also with the author's trademark toughness, leavened with moments of grace, pathos and intimacy. In the previously unpublished letters to editors, friends and fellow writers collected here, Bukowski is brutally frank about the drudgery of work and uncompromising when it comes to the absurdities of life and of art.

About the Author Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of three. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944 when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781782117223 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 214x135mm Extent: 224 pages

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Canongate Trade SEPTEMBER 2015 Instrumental James Rhodes

'The unforgettable story of an unforgettable and remarkable man' STEPHEN FRY

Description James Rhodes' passion for music has been his absolute lifeline. It has been the thread that has held him together through a life that has encompassed pain, conflict and turmoil. Listening to Rachmaninov on a loop as a traumatised teenager or discovering an Adagio by Bach while in a hospital ward - such exquisite miracles of musical genius have helped him survive his demons, and, along with a chance encounter with a stranger, inspired him to become the renowned concert pianist he is today.

This is a memoir like no other: unapologetically candid, boldly outspoken and surprisingly funny - James' prose is shot through with an unexpectedly mordant wit, even at the darkest of moments. An impassioned tribute to the therapeutic powers of music, Instrumental also weaves in fascinating facts about how classical music actually works and about the extraordinary lives of some of the great composers. It explains why and how music has the potential to transform all of our lives.

About the Author James Rhodes was born in London in 1975. A keen piano player, he was offered a scholarship when he was eighteen at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, but went to Edinburgh University instead. James stopped playing the piano entirely and dropped out after a year. After twelve months working at Burger King in Paris, he went to University College, London to read psychology. He then worked in the City for five years. After a period of personal crisis, he took up the piano again. He is now a professional and acclaimed concert pianist, writer and TV presenter.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781782115342 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 214x153mm Extent: 304 pages Main Category: B Biography/autobiography Sub Category: BM Memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate Trade SEPTEMBER 2015 Humans are Underrated: What High Achievers Know that Brilliant Machines Never Will Geoff Colvin

In the economy of 2020, what will people do better than computers?

Description Technology is rapidly invading fields that it once could not touch, driving cars better than humans do, packing boxes, identifying faces, scurrying around hospitals delivering medications, all faster, more reliably, less expensively than people. In a world like that, how will we and our children achieve a rising standard of living?

Technology is changing more than just work. It's also changing us, mostly in the wrong ways.

However, humans are hardwired for empathy, social sensitivity, storytelling, humour, forming relationships, creativity. Individuals and companies are already discovering that these high-value abilities many of us regard as innate traits- 'he's a real people person', 'she's naturally creative'- can all be developed and are being developed in far-sighted organisations from software firms to the armed forces. To a far greater degree than most of us ever imagined, we already have the qualities that we need to know.

About the Author Geoff Colvin is Fortune's senior editor-at-large and is also the author of Talent is Overrated and The Upside of the Downturn. He has served as moderator of the Fortune Global Forum, where he has interviewed Bill Gates, Jack Welch, Herb Kelleher, Peter Drucker and other business legends. Colvin graduated Harvard cum-laude with a B.A. in Economics, and received his MBA from New York University's Stern School.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781857886382 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x156mm Extent: 256 pages

Main Category: KJ Business/managemnt

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Nicholas Brealey SEPTEMBER 2015 Talent Is Overrated: What really separates world-class performers from everybody else Geoff Colvin

What if everything you know about raw talent, hardwork and great performance is wrong?

Description Few, if any of the people around you are truly great at what they do. But why aren't they? Why don't they manage businesses like Jack Welch or Andy Grove, play golf like Tiger Woods or play the violin like Itzhak Perlman? Many of us believe that exceptional success is the result of natural talent. However, scientific evidence doesn't support the notion that natural talents make great performers. In one of the most popular Fortune articles in years, Geoff Colvin offered new evidence that greatness comes not from DNA but from practice and perseverance honed over decades. The key is how you practice, analyse the results of your progress and learn from you mistakes. Now Colvin has expanded his article with more scientific background and real-life examples. He shows that the skills of business - negotiating deals, evaluating financial statements and all the rest - obey the same principles so that anybody can get better with the right kind of effort and even the hardest decisions and interactions can be improved.

About the Author Geoff Colvin is Fortune's senior editor-at large and one of America's most respected journalists. He lectures widely and is the regular lead moderator for the Fortune Global forum. A frequent television guest, Geoff Colvin appears daily on the CBS Radio Network, reaching seven million listeners every week. He co-anchored Wall Street Week on PBS for three years.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9781857885194 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 230x154mm Extent: 224 pages Main Category: KJ Business/managemnt Sub Category: KJMB Management: Leadership & Motivation Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Nicholas Brealey SEPTEMBER 2015 Plato at the Googleplex Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

What would the ancient Greek philosopher make of the twenty-first-century Google headquarters? A dazzling exploration of the role of ancient philosophy in modern life from the acclaimed writer and thinker.

Description Imagine that Plato came to life in the twenty-first century and embarked on a multi-city speaking tour. How would he mediate a debate between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a 'tiger mum' on how to raise the perfect child? How would he handle the host of a right-wing news program who denies there can be morality without religion? What would Plato make of Google, and of the idea that knowledge can be crowdsourced rather than reasoned out by experts?

Plato at the Googleplex is acclaimed thinker Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's dazzling investigation of these conundra. With a philosopher's depth and erudition and a novelist's imagination and wit, Goldstein probes the deepest issues confronting us by allowing us to eavesdrop on Plato as he takes on the modern world; it is a stunningly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden role in today's debates on religion, morality, politics and science.

About the Author Rebecca Newberger Goldstein received her doctorate in philosophy from Princeton University. Her award-winning books include the novels The Mind-Body Problem, Properties of Light, and 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction and nonfiction studies of Kurt Godel and Baruch Spinoza. She has received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, has been designated a Humanist of the Year and a Freethought Heroine, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She lives in Massachusetts.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781782395591 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 480 pages

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Atlantic Pbs SEPTEMBER 2015 Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society Mario Vargas Llosa

The new essay collection by the Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian novelist and social critic.

Description In the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of distraction and entertainment. Notes on the Death of Culture is an examination and indictment of this transformation - penned by none other than the Nobel winner Mario Vargas Llosa, who is not only one of our finest novelists but one of the keenest social critics at work today.

Taking his cues from T. S. Eliot - whose treatise Notes Towards the Definition of Culture is a touchstone precisely because the culture Eliot aimed to describe has since vanished - Vargas Llosa traces a decline whose ill effects have only just begun to be felt. He mourns, in particular, the figure of the intellectual: for most of the twentieth century, men and women of letters drove political, aesthetic, and moral conversations; today they have all but disappeared from public debate.

But Vargas Llosa stubbornly refuses to fade into the background. He is not content to merely sign a petition; he will not bite his tongue. A necessary provocateur, here vividly translated by John King, provides an impassioned and essential critique of our time and culture.

About the Author Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Peru in 1936. He is the author of some of the last half-century's most important novels, including The War of the End of the World, The Feast of the Goat, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and Conversation in the Cathedral. In 2010 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Price: $35.00 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9780571300549 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 224 pages

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Faber Non Fiction SEPTEMBER 2015 100 Faber Postcards Various

A selection of classic book covers from the Faber archive.

Description This box of 100 postcards is a selection of notable works from the Faber archive, featuring the landmark typographic designs of Berthold Wolpe, groundbreaking illustration by artists such as Peter Blake and classic designs by eminent figures such as Shirley Tucker. The box features postcards of well known Faber classics like Lord of the Flies and Ariel, alongside some of the quirkier books from past 85 years.

This is a perfect gift for lovers of great literature and classic design.

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Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9780571320240 Format: Dimensions: 162x111mm Extent: pages

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Faber Non Fiction SEPTEMBER 2015 Faber Poetry Diary 2016: Dark Blue Various

The Faber Poetry Diary for 2016 is a week-to-view diary offering poetry lovers a different poem or illustration to enjoy for each week of the year.

Description The Faber poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T. S. Eliot who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Since the sixties, each passing decade has seen the list grow with the addition of poets who were arguably the finest of their generation. In recent years the creation of the Poet to Poet series has further broadened the scope of Faber poetry by including the work of great poets from the past selected and introduced by the contemporary poets they have inspired.

Simon Armitage * W.H. Auden * John Berryman * John Betjeman * Thomas Campion * John Clare * Wendy Cope * Hart Crane * Daljit Nagra * Emily Dickinson * Lawrence Durrell * Dylan Thomas * T.S. Eliot * Mark Ford * Matthew Francis * Lavinia Greenlaw * David Harsent * Seamus Heaney * Robert Herrick * Ted Hughes * John Donne * Emma Jones * John Keats * Nick Laird * Philip Larkin * Dorothy Molloy * Andrew Motion * Edwin Muir * Paul Muldoon * Alice Oswald * Don Paterson * Sylvia Plath * Ezra Pound * Christopher Reid * Jo Shapcott * Percy Bysshe Shelley * Stevie Smith * Edward Thomas * Derek Walcott * W.B. Yeats *

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Faber Poetry SEPTEMBER 2015 Faber Poetry Diary 2016: Pale Blue Various

The Faber Poetry Diary for 2016 is a week-to-view diary offering poetry lovers a different poem or illustration to enjoy for each week of the year.

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Faber Poetry SEPTEMBER 2015 To Reach the Clouds (The Walk Film tie-in) Philippe Petit

Now a major movie The Walk, the amazing story of the daredevil Frenchman's tightrope walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.

Description Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film is a true story based on Philippe Petit's book 'To Reach the Clouds,' starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the young dreamer who dared the impossible: an illegal wire walk between the World Trade Center towers. Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man has ever, or will ever, walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. Guided by his real-life mentor, Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), and aided by an unlikely band of international recruits, Petit and his gang overcome long odds, betrayals, dissension and countless close calls to conceive and execute their mad plan. Robert Zemeckis, the director of such marvels as Forrest Gump, Cast Away, Back to the Future, Polar Express and Flight, again uses cutting edge technology in the service of an emotional, character-driven story. With innovative photorealistic techniques and IMAX 3D wizardry,The Walk is true big-screen cinema, a chance for moviegoers to viscerally experience the feeling of reaching the clouds. The film is a love letter to Paris and New York City in the 1970s, but most of all, to the Towers of the World Trade Center.

About the Author Born into a middle-class French family in 1949, Philippe Petit taught himself magic, juggling and high-wire walking while still a child. At sixteen he began to travel the world as a street juggler. He has performed illegal high-wire walks between the towers of Notre Dame, the twin towers of the World Trade Center, and the northern pylons of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571326907 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 240 pages

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Faber Paperback SEPTEMBER 2015 Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance in the Last Year of WWII Randall Hansen

The extraordinary true story of German resistance during WW2.

Description In the last months of the war, Hitler ordered the poisoning, blocking, and wrecking of all ports across Europe; the destruction of all industries, railroads, bridges, utilities supplies, archives and museums in Europe; and the destruction of the most beautiful city in the world: Paris. Thanks to the determination and bravery of a few, including those who paid with their lives, Hitler's orders were often disobeyed. The result was a profound and lasting effect on the war and its aftermath.

In this fascinating and gripping book, Randall Hansen explores the extraordinary phenomenon of disobedience and its consequences: would Rommel have opened the Western Front to the Allies on July 20, 1944 had he not been shot up a few days earlier? Did Albert Speer single-handedly prevent the destruction of bridges, factories, towns,and all features of civilized life? Did the actions of one Prussian General save Paris from total devastation? And why were some German cities defended to the last man, leading to a great loss of life and the cities' complete destruction, while others surrendered without a fight?

About the Author Randall Hansen is Director of the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and a Chair in Politics at the University of Toronto. His last book, The Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-5 was published in 2008 to great acclaim and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award. He divides his time between Toronto and Berlin.

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Faber Paperback SEPTEMBER 2015 Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and How You Can Make a Difference William MacAskill

A radical reassessment of how we can most effectively help others by a rising star of philosophy and leading social entrepreneur.

Description Almost all of us want to make a difference. So we volunteer, donate to charity, recycle or try to cut down our carbon emissions. But rarely do we know how much of a difference we're really making.

In a remarkable re-examination of the evidence, Doing Good Better reveals why buying sweatshop-produced goods benefits the poor; why cosmetic surgeons can do more good than charity workers; and why giving to a relief fund is generally not the best way to help after a natural disaster. By examining the charities you give to, the volunteering you do, the goods you buy and the career you pursue, this fascinating and often surprising guide shows how through simple actions you can improve thousands of lives - including your own.

About the Author William MacAskill is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and cofounder of non-profits Giving What We Can and 80,000 Hours, which inspire people to use their time and money as effectively as possible to fight the world's most pressing problems. Between them they have raised over $12 million for the most cost-effective charities plus a further $380 million in lifetime pledges, enabled hundreds of people to choose careers with massive social impact and helped to launch the effective altruism movement. He and his organisations have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Today programme, and on Fox News, NPR, TED and many other media outlets globally. He has published in the leading philosophy journal Ethics and writes regularly online for Quartz, The Atlantic and Vox.

Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781783350490 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x153mm Extent: 272 pages

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Guardian Books SEPTEMBER 2015 The Secret Footballer's Guide to the Modern Game: Tips and Tactics from the Ultimate Insider Anon

Everything you need to know about the modern game by the top-ten bestselling football insider.

Description The outspoken anonymous author is back with the ultimate book to challenge conventional footballing wisdom. With his trademark wit, intelligence and candour, the Secret Footballer will guide you through formations, tactics, mind games and everything else you need to know about what it takes to be a pro.

Includes: in-depth analysis of modern tactics; insight into the psychology of players on and off the pitch; tips on nutrition and fitness; how to deal with fans (including what it's like to play in each Premier League ground in England); a guide to modern footballing language; and a remarkable expose of the finances involved in the commercial game. If you want to know how to stop a player like Cristiano Ronaldo, or why exactly Rooney is worth GBP 300,000 a week, or who the greatest player of all time is, you will find it all here.

Fully illustrated with line drawings showing the technical aspects of the game, this will be the perfect gift for aspiring football stars and armchair pundits alike.

About the Author The Secret Footballer is the pseudonym for an English Premier League footballer. Despite much speculation, his identity remains anonymous.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781783350841 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages

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Guardian Books SEPTEMBER 2015 Ten Million Aliens Simon Barnes

Life on Planet Earth is not weirder than we imagine. It's weirder than we are capable of imagining...

Description And we're all in it together: humans, blue whales, rats, birds of paradise, ridiculous numbers of beetles, molluscs the size of a bus, bdelloid rotifers who haven't had sex for millions of years and creatures called water bears: you can boil them, freeze them and fire them off into space without killing them.

In this breathtakingly audacious book, Simon Barnes opens our eyes to the real marvels of the planet we live on.

About the Author Simon Barnes is a multi-award-winning sports and nature writer who wrote for the Times for over 30 years. He is also a novelist, horseman and the author of more than 20 books, including the bestselling How to be a Bad Birdwatcher and The Meaning of Sport (Short Books). He lives in Norfolk with his family and other animals.

Price: $21.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781780722436 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 480 pages

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Faber Short Books SEPTEMBER 2015 The Future of Almost Everything: The global changes that will affect every business and everyone's lives Patrick Dixon

The way the world is changing - the trends everyone is interested in and which businesses must take account of, if they are to survive and prosper in the future.

Description From the man the Wall Street Journal describes as a 'global change guru', more than one hundred of the trends that touch every aspect of our lives.

Patrick Dixon looks at how the future will be Faster and more Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical - a future of boom and bust and great economic change as the emerging markets grow up; a future of great advances in medicine and also greater threats from viral epidemics; a future of political shocks and greater conflicts; a future in which people will strive for more privacy and businesses will change the way they relate to their staff and their customers; a future in which there will be driverless cars and solar power generated in the desert will power cities thousands of miles away.

In short, with great perception and insight, Patrick Dixon highlights what every business needs to be aware of and prepare for if it is to prosper and survive in a world where customers and markets, politics and demographics, technology and skills, and opportunities and choices will be very different.

About the Author Patrick Dixon trained as a physician before in 1979 setting up an IT business involved in artificial intelligence and medical technology. Today he advises the senior teams of many of the worlds largest corporations. More than 500,000 web pages talk about Patrick Dixon and his ideas, with cumulative TV, radio and press audience reach estimated to be more than 450 million. He has been ranked one of the twenty most influential business thinkers alive today. He is the author of fifteen books, including Futurewise published by Profile, (of which 575,000 copies have been sold and which have been translated into thirty-six languages).

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781781254974 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages

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Profile Trade SEPTEMBER 2015 Shifting Sands: The Unravelling of the Old Order in the Middle East edited by Raja Shehadeh

A fresh look at the Middle East today, tomorrow and in the past: fifteen writers, with an introduction by Raja Shehadeh, author of the Orwell Prizewinning Palestinian Walks, and Penny Johnson.

Description At a time when the Middle East dominates media headlines more than ever - and for reasons that become ever more heartbreaking - Shifting Sands brings together fifteen impassioned and informed voices to talk about a region with unlimited potential, and yet which can feel, as one writer puts it, 'as though the world around me is on fire'?

Collecting together the thoughts and insights of writers who live or have deep roots in there, Shifting Sands takes a look at aspects of the Middle East from the catastrophic long-term effects of the carving up of the region by the colonial powers after World War One to the hopes and struggles of the Arab spring in relation to Egypt, Iran and Syria. And it asks questions such as: what is it like to be a writer in the Middle East? What does the future hold? And where do we go from here?

For all those who are wearied by the debates surrounding the Middle East - often at best ill-informed and at worst, defeatist propaganda - this intelligent, reasoned perspective on life in the Middle East is a breath of fresh air.

About the Author List of contributors: James Barr - Avi Shlaim - Salim Tamari - Ramita Navai - Dawn Chatty - Robin Yassin-Kassab - Malu Halasa - Marilyn Booth - Mai Al-Nakib - Selma Dabbagh - Tamim Al Barghouti - Justin Marozzi - Alev Scott-Khaled Fahmy Raja Shehadeh is Palestine's leading writer. He is also a lawyer and the founder of the pioneering Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq. Shehadeh is the author of several acclaimed books including Strangers in the House and Occupation Diaries and winner of the 2008 Orwell Prize for Palestinian Walks (all Profile). He lives in Ramallah in Palestine. Penny Johnson is an academic at Birzeit University in Ramallah and has published articles and edited a number of important books on Palestine.

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Profile Trade SEPTEMBER 2015 Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End Atul Gawande

From the international bestselling author of Better, Complications and The Checklist Manifesto and Reith Lecturer 2014, a revolutionary and emotionally searing account of death, dying and medicine.

Description For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mortal. So here is a book about the modern experience of mortality - about what it's like to get old and die, how medicine has changed this and how it hasn't, where our ideas about death have gone wrong. With his trademark mix of perceptiveness and sensitivity, Atul Gawande outlines a story that crosses the globe, as he examines his experiences as a surgeon and those of his patients and family, and learns to accept the limits of what he can do.

Never before has aging been such an important topic. The systems that we have put in place to manage our mortality are manifestly failing; but, as Gawande reveals, it doesn't have to be this way. The ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death, but a good life - all the way to the very end.

Published in partnership with the Wellcome Collection, a free visitor destination that explores the connections between medicine, life and art.

About the Author Atul Gawande is a surgeon, writer and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He is also Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. He writes regularly for the New Yorker, and is the author of Better (9781861976574), Complications (9781846681325) and The Checklist Manifesto (9781846683145).

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Profile Trade SEPTEMBER 2015 Psy-Q: Test Your Psychological Intelligence Ben Ambridge

A mind-bending miscellany of everyday psychology.

Description Psychology is everywhere. Our emotions and desires, the decisions we make on a daily basis - absolutely every aspect of the way we think and feel has been studied by psychologists. Through dozens of interactive puzzles, IQ tests, quizzes, jokes, puns and visual illusions, Ben Ambridge guides us through this wealth of research, showing us how we can better understand ourselves.

Debunking tabloid speculation, revisiting old favourites such as the Stanford Prison Experiment and unearthing leading edge research unknown to the general reader, renowned psychologist Ben Ambridge blows away the received wisdom to reveal to enthusiasts and novices alike the psychology behind our daily lives.

With wit and humour aplenty, he explains whether your blue eyes make you more or less trustworthy, how analogies can help cure cancer, whether Rorschach's famous inkblot tests really work, what your love for heavy metal (or Mozart) says about you, how psychology could help solve the obesity crisis and countless other revealing, entertaining and downright astonishing tests of your Psy-Q. Visit Ben's accompanying website, http://benambridge.wordpress.com/, and test yourself - and your friends.

About the Author Ben Ambridge is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Liverpool. His article 'Why Can't We Talk to the Animals?' was shortlisted for the 2012 Guardian-Wellcome Science Writing Prize. Psy-Q is his first book for a general audience.

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Profile Trade SEPTEMBER 2015 Sex, Drugs & Rock n Roll: The Science of Hedonism and the Hedonism of Science Guerilla Science and Zoe Cormier

Sex, drugs and rock'n'roll as you've never seen them before - under the microscope.

Description How can wordless collections of sounds send shivers down our spines and tickle ancient parts of our brains we share with reptiles? How did a chemist's quest to create a drug to ease the pain of childbirth result in the creation of LSD? Why do goats partake in oral sex, and how can a horse (or even a table) make us weak in the knees? And how on earth could the revered 'father of anatomy' not know where the clitoris was?

From tortoiseshell condoms to superstar athletes on hallucinogens, these burning questions are explored and dissected, mixed with insights from some of the world's bravest, cleverest and downright weirdest scientist experimenting on the edge - and themselves. It's a sharp shocker, an eye opener, asking the big questions about what it means to be human, about consciousness and happiness. It'll pull you in and gross you out.

Exuberantly curious and shamelessly exuberant, Guerilla Science's Zoe Cormier reinvents popular science for a new generation by breaking all the rules. Let's rock.

About the Author Zoe Cormier is a freelance journalist, science writer and photographer with a background in biology. Zoe is also a founder of communications for UK science outreach organisation Guerilla Science and lives in London.

Price: $21.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781781252703 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages

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Profile Trade SEPTEMBER 2015 The small BIG: Small Changes that Spark Big Influence Steve Martin, Noah Goldstein and Robert Cialdini

Why a small change can make a big difference.

Description At some point today you will have to influence or persuade someone - perhaps ask a colleague a favour, negotiate with a contractor or get your spouse to put out the recycling. In The small BIG, three heavyweights from the world of persuasion science and practice - Steve Martin, Noah Goldstein and Robert Cialdini - describe how, in today's information-overloaded world, it is now the smallest changes that lead to the biggest differences in results.

Offering deceptively simple suggestions and explaining the extensive scientific research behind them, The small BIG presents over fifty small changes - from the little adjustments that make meetings more effective to the costless alteration to correspondence that saved a government millions. The small BIG is full of surprising, powerful - and above all, tiny - changes that could mean the difference between failure and success.

About the Author Martin, Goldstein and Cialdini are renowned practitioners of the science of persuasion. In the field of influence and persuasion, Robert Cialdini is the world's most cited living social psychologist and author of the seminal book Influence [9781846686146]. Together, they are the authors of the Royal Society Prize-listed international bestseller Yes! 50 Secrets from the Science of Persuasion [9781846680168]. Collectively the authors' books have sold three million copies and translated into twenty-seven languages.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781781252758 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages

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Profile Trade SEPTEMBER 2015 Different Every Time: The Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt Marcus O'Dair, introduction by Jonathan Coe

The first and definitive biography of Robert Wyatt, Britain's greatest cult musician, with an introduction by Jonathan Coe.

Description Robert Wyatt started out as the drummer and singer for Soft Machine, who shared a residency at Middle Earth with Pink Floyd and toured America with Jimi Hendrix. He brought a Bohemian and jazz outlook to the 60s rock scene, having honed his drumming skills in a shed at the end of Robert Graves' garden in Mallorca.

His life took an abrupt turn after he fell from a fourth-floor window at a party and was paralysed from the waist down. He reinvented himself as a singer and composer with the extraordinary album Rock Bottom, and in the early eighties his solo work was increasingly political.

Today, Wyatt remains perennially hip, guesting with artists such as Bjork, Brian Eno, Scritti Politti, David Gilmour and Hot Chip. Marcus O'Dair has talked to all of them, indeed to just about everyone who has shaped, or been shaped by, Wyatt over five decades of music history.

About the Author Marcus O'Dair is a writer, lecturer and musician. He writes on music for the Guardian, Independent and FT. He is also a frequent contributor to BBC Radio 3 and BBC 6 Music. He is also one half of the Ninja Tune act Grasscut, who have performed at the Pompidou Centre and across Europe.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781846687600 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 464 pages

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Serpents Tail SEPTEMBER 2015 Dublin: The Making of a Capital City Dr David Dickson

How Dublin grew from Viking settlement to capital city of Ireland: a one-of-its kind comprehensive history of one of the most popular cities in the world.

Description Dublin has many histories: for a thousand years a modest urban settlement on the quiet waters of the Irish Sea, for the last four hundred it has experienced great - and often astonishing - change. Once a fulcrum of English power in Ireland, it was also the location for the 1916 insurrection that began the rapid imperial retreat. That moment provided Joyce with the setting for the greatest modernist novel of the age, Ulysses, capping a cultural heritage which became an economic resource for the brash 'Tiger Town' of the 1990s.

David Dickson's magisterial survey of the city's history brings Dublin to life from its medieval incarnation through the glamorous eighteenth century, when it reigned as the 'Naples of the North', through to the millennium. He reassesses 120 years of Anglo-Irish Union, in which Dublin - while economic capital of Ireland - remained, as it does today, a place in which rival creeds and politics struggled for supremacy. Dublin reveals the rich and intriguing story behind the making of a capital city.

About the Author David Dickson is Associate Professor of History at Trinity College, Dublin and has published extensively on the social, economic and cultural history of Ireland. He was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2006.

Price: $35.00 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781861975867 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 736 pages

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Profile Trade SEPTEMBER 2015 Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution Wendell Steavenson

From the acclaimed New Yorker writer, here is a compelling chronicle of the Egyptian Revolution, from Mubarak's downfall to Morsi's, told through the stories of Egyptians, the activists and those who were indifferent, thugs and elites, liberals and Islamists.

Description In January 2011, as the crowds gathered to protest Mubarak's three decades of rule in Egypt, Wendell Steavenson went to Cairo to cover the story. But the revolution defied historical precedent, and it defied the templates of storytelling. There was no single villain, no lone hero, no neat conclusion that wouldn't be overturned the next day. Tahrir Square changed its moods like the weather; fickle, violent, hopeful, carnival.

As she walks among the tents and the tanks, falling into conversation, sharing cigarettes and cold soda, Steavenson tells the story of a seismic historical moment as it is experienced by ordinary citizens. Here, we meet a young man from the slums with his homemade pistol; a seasoned observer who gives up on analysis; a leader who doesn't want to lead thrust uncomfortably into the spotlight; a Muslim Brotherhood politician trying to smooth over a restless parliament; and a military intelligence officer convinced that only the army can save Egypt.

Steavenson captures the cacophony of dizzying events as protests and elections ebbed and flowed around the revolution, tipping it towards democracy and then back into the military's hands. Mixing reportage and travelogue, Circling the Square shows how the particular and the personal can illuminate more universal questions: what does democracy mean? What happens when a revolution throws everything up in the air?

About the Author Wendell Steavenson has lived in and reported from post-Soviet Georgia, Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon. She is the author of the acclaimed memoir, Stories I Stole, about post-Soviet Georgia, and The Weight of a Mustard Seed, about life in Saddam's Iraq and the aftermath of the American invasion. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Telegraph, Granta, Slate.com, Time, New Yorker, and other publications. She lives in Paris.

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781783782345 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 384 pages

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Portobello Trade SEPTEMBER 2015 Everything is Happening: Journey into a Painting Michael Jacobs

A gripping and beguiling blend of art history, memoir and travel writing which delves into the mysteries and meanings of 'Las Meninas', Velazquez's iconic masterpiece.

Description Michael Jacobs had been haunted by Velazquez's enigmatic masterwork for most of his adult life. In this fascinating book, Jacobs searches for the ultimate significance of the painting by following the trails of associations and memories from each individual character in the picture. From the Italian roots of the mysterious dwarf, to Mastiff breeders and the complex politics of Golden-Age Madrid, from the theatrical youth of Velazquez in Seville to the seedy bars of turbulent contemporary Spain, Jacobs dissolves the barriers between the past and the present, the real and the illusory.

This is the last book by a versatile and highly revered writer. Tragically, Michael Jacobs died in January 2014.

About the Author Michael Jacobs was born in Italy and studied Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art. He was the author of Andes (Granta 2010) and The Robber of Memories (Granta 2012). He divided his time between London and a remote Spanish village. He died in January 2014.

Price: $35.00 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781847088079 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x138mm Extent: 240 pages

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Granta SEPTEMBER 2015 Unlearning with Hannah Arendt Marie Luise Knott, translated by David Dollenmayer

A fascinating and intensely readable examination of Hannah Arendt's life and philosophy, focusing in particular on the controversy caused by her book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Description After observing the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt formulated her controversial concept of the 'banality of evil' and asked the question: how can seemingly normal people carry out genocidal acts? She found her answer by focusing on the machinery of Nazi genocide and the organizational capacity of the victims: the Jewish Councils drawing up lists for deportation. The latter proved hugely controversial when the book was first published in serial form in the New Yorker. Anchoring its discussion in the themes of laughter, translation, forgiveness, and dramatization, this book explores how the iconic political theorist 'unlearned' trends and patterns to establish her own theoretical praxis.

About the Author Marie Luise Knott is a journalist, translator, and author living in Berlin. She is the founder of the German edition of Le Monde diplomatique and was its editor-in-chief for eleven years. She has written numerous essays on art and literature, as well as two important studies of Hannah Arendt. David Dollenmayer is an emeritus professor of German at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His translations include works by Bertolt Brecht, Elias and Veza Canetti, Michael Kleeberg, and Hansjorg Schertenleib. He is the recipient of the 2008 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize (for Moses Rosenkranz's Childhood) and the 2010 Translation Prize of the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York (for Michael Kohlmeier's Idyll with Drowning Dog).

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781783781133 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 192 pages

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Granta Paperbacks SEPTEMBER 2015 33 Artists in 3 Acts Sarah Thornton

A generational touchstone by the leading authority on the art world, a captivating book in three parts which seeks to answer the contentious question 'What is an Artist?'

Description Is being an artist a radical form of entrepreneurship or a vocational calling like the priesthood? Is it an extension of philosophy or an offshoot of entertainment? In three richly interlinked but distinct 'acts' - Politics, Kinship and Craft - Sarah Thornton compares and contrasts answers to the simple but profound question: what is an artist?

33 Artists in 3 Acts draws on hundreds of personal encounters with the world's most important artists, to ask what it means to be making artworks in different parts of the world today. With Thornton as expert guide and trusted insider, we have unprecedented access to the lives of the artists, from late-night Skype chats with Ai Weiwei to taxi rides with Maurizio Cattelan on the way to and from the show that announces his death. We join Thornton as she rummages through artists' studios, homes and solo shows, inquiring about everything from their bank accounts to their bedrooms. The result is a series of cinematic experiences, which juxtapose artists in thought-provoking ways, and build up narratives that end with epiphanies.

33 Artists in 3 Acts is a generational touchstone, a powerful triptych and gripping anti-monograph about truth, integrity, credibility and recognition. Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary art, this masterful act of storytelling will also delight any reader seeking to understand creative lives.

About the Author Sarah Thornton is the author of the international hit Seven Days in the Art World (Granta, 2008). She has been the chief writer on contemporary art for the Economist and a contributor to publications such as the Guardian, The Art Newspaper and the New Yorker. She has a BA in Art History and a PhD in Sociology. She lives in London.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781847089076 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 416 pages

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Granta Paperbacks SEPTEMBER 2015 Seven Days in the Art World Sarah Thornton

A riveting tour through the international art market, conducted by a smart, funny industry insider.

Description From London to Beijing to New York, art sales are booming, and the art world receives the sort of breathless media attention once reserved for celebrities and royals. In Seven Days in the Art World, Sarah Thornton, a brilliant young sociologist, looks at all aspects of buying, selling, and creating serious art. Thornton has exceptional access, and brings a keen critical eye to her coverage of this glamorous milieu, offering the first authoritative account of what is now a multi- billion dollar global marketplace-cum-playground for an ever-expanding number of collectors, investors, and enthusiasts.

About the Author Sarah Thornton contributes regularly to Artforum and ArtReview and is the author of Club Cultures and co-author of The Subcultures Reader. She lives in London. She made her first TV appearance in Alan Yentob's programme on the Frieze arts fair, and several others are in the pipeline.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9781847080844 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 179x112mm Extent: 304 pages Main Category: A The Arts Sub Category: AB Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Granta Paperbacks SEPTEMBER 2015 Zero Night: The Untold Story of the Second World War's Most Daring Great Escape Mark Felton

A remarkable story told in full for the first time: a rip-roaring adventure story of WWII derring-do, all the more thrilling for being true.

Description Oflag VI-B, Warburg, Germany: On the night of 30 August 1942 - 'Zero Night' - 40 officers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa staged the most audacious mass escape of the Second World War.

It was the first 'Great Escape' - but instead of tunnelling, the escapers boldly went over the huge perimeter fences using wooden scaling contraptions. This was the notorious 'Warburg Wire Job', described by fellow prisoner and fighter ace Douglas Bader as 'the most brilliant escape conception of this war'.

Months of meticulous planning and secret training hung in the balance during three minutes of mayhem as prisoners charged the camp's double perimeter fences.

Telling this remarkable story in full for the first time, historian Mark Felton brilliantly evokes the suspense of the escape itself and the adventures of those who eluded the Germans, as well as the courage of the civilians who risked their lives to help them in enemy territory. Fantastically intimate and told with a novelist's eye for drama and detail, this is a rip- roaring adventure story, all the more thrilling for being true.

About the Author Mark Felton has written over a dozen books on prisoners of war, Japanese war crimes and Nazi war criminals, and writes regularly for magazines such as Military History Monthly and World War II. He is the author of Today is a Good Day to Fight, an acclaimed history of the American west, and Japan's Gestapo (named 'Best Book of 2009' by The Japan Times). His most recent book is China Station: The British Military in the Middle Kingdom, 1839-1997. Originally from Colchester, Dr Felton has returned to the UK after living for almost a decade in Shanghai, China. He is married with one Price: $21.99 (NZ$24.99) son. Visit www.markfelton.co.uk. ISBN: 9781848318472 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages

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Icon SEPTEMBER 2015 Balotelli: The Remarkable Story Behind the Sensational Headlines Luca Caioli

Bestselling football biographer Luca Caioli tackles his latest subject, controversial Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli.

Description Mario Balotelli has a reputation like no other in football. Since exploding onto the scene at Inter Milan in 2007, he has won league titles in both Italy and England, moving between Europe's elite clubs with Liverpool his latest stop.

Yet for all his undoubted talent, he is better known for his off-field antics - not least his infamous run-ins with both the police and fire brigade. Once described by Jose Mourinho as 'unmanageable', match-winning performances at the highest level have continued to convince clubs to enlist his mercurial services.

With exclusive access to friends, family, teammates and coaches, acclaimed football biographer Luca Caioli talks to the people best-placed to explain the mystery that is Mario Balotelli.

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.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781848319134 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 208 pages

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Icon SEPTEMBER 2015 Messi: More Than a Superstar - 2016 Updated Edition Luca Caioli

Luca Caioli's latest biography of Lionel Messi updated to include the 2014/15 season.

Description Lionel Messi is a mesmerising talent who has continued to astound the world of football ever since assuming his role at the heart of a star-studded Barcelona side in 2004. Overcoming a career-threatening growth hormone deficiency, he has won almost everything there is to win, including an unprecedented four FIFA Ballons d'Or.

Luca Caioli draws on numerous exclusive testimonies to tell Messi's story, including his parents and extended family, his coaches, those who have played alongside him and even Messi himself.

Messi is a revealing portrait of football's most unassuming superstar. Updated to include the 2014/15 season as he and his Barcelona teammates sought to fight their way back to the forefront of Spanish football following the successes of Madrid's two biggest sides, Atletico and Real, the season before.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781906850913 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages

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Icon SEPTEMBER 2015 Ronaldo: The Obsession For Perfection - 2016 Updated Edition Luca Caioli

Luca Caioli's latest biography of Cristiano Ronaldo, updated to include the 2014/15 season.

Description Cristiano Ronaldo is known throughout the world for his devastating ability and his carefully crafted image. A three-time Ballon d'Or winner with his own fashion label, he is every inch the modern superstar, but behind the glamour lies one of the most dedicated athletes the sport has ever known.

Luca Caioli, author of the bestselling Messi, tells the inside story of the Real Madrid star whose determination has driven him to the very top of his game, featuring insights from those who know him best: coaches, teammates, girlfriends and even the man himself.

Updated to include all the action from his hugely successful 2014/15 campaign, Ronaldo offers a unique behind-the- scenes look at one of football's all-time greats.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781906850937 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 316 pages

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Icon SEPTEMBER 2015 Neymar: The Unstoppable Rise of Barcelona's Brazilian Superstar - Updated 2016 Edition Luca Caioli

Luca Caioli's latest biography of Neymar, updated to include the 2014/15 season.

Description Neymar da Silva Santos Junior is the new global football superstar, already acclaimed as 'the next Pele'.

With Santos, the team where Pele played, he reached three national Championships and was twice elected the best player in South America. With Barcelona, who signed him for 57 million euros, he has flourished alongside Leo Messi and Luis Suarez to form one of the most lethal strike forces in football's history.

Neymar is a revealing portrait of football's newest superstar. Updated to include the 2014/15 season as he and his Barcelona teammates sought to fight their way back to the forefront of Spanish football following the successes of Madrid's two biggest sides, Atletico and Real, the season before.

Luca Caioli, author of bestselling biographies of Messi and Ronaldo, reconstructs Neymar's life and career through exclusive private access to his friends, his family, his coaches, his teammates, his advisors, his fans.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781906850951 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages

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Icon SEPTEMBER 2015 Suarez: The Remarkable Story Behind Football's Most Explosive Talent - 2016 Updated Edition Luca Caioli

Luca Caioli's latest biography of Luis Suarez, updated to include the 2014/15 season.

Description The latest edition of this bestselling biography as Luca Caioli continues to follow his most controversial subject yet - Barcelona, Uruguay and former Liverpool forward Luis Suarez.

Appearing to be an almost entirely reformed character, having scored an astonishing 31 times in 2013/14 as Liverpool narrowly missed out on their first league title in decades, Suarez dramatically regressed in the World Cup of 2014. One moment of madness, biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini, saw these favourable comparisons to Messi and Ronaldo once again overshadowed by those with Jekyll and Hyde.

Acclaimed football biographer Luca Caioli provides an in-depth look at one of football's most enigmatic characters, as he attempted to shift the focus back towards his football with Barcelona in the 2014/15 season.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781906850975 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 208 pages

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Icon SEPTEMBER 2015 Come On In! New Poems Charles Bukowski

A sequence of poems you'll want to read from beginning to end, Come On In! is Charles Bukowski at his sad, hilarious, renegade best.

Description Bukowski's unmistakable charisma - an ex-down-and-outer who wrote of booze and loneliness in maverick, confident free verse - made him one of the world's most popular poets long before he died in 1994. More than a decade later, death has not slowed his production.

This collection is selected from an archive of verse that the author left to be published after his death. It includes poems of love and sex, advice to so-called losers (as he once was) to have confidence in themselves (as he did), gambling laments and humbling poems accepting his own imminent ultimate full stop.

About the Author Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp (1994).

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781847670403 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 231x155mm Extent: 304 pages Main Category: DC Poetry Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate Trade SEPTEMBER 2015 Ham on Rye Charles Bukowski

'The largely autobiographical Ham On Rye is also suprisingly reflective, humane, tremendously evocative and absorbingly readable.' The Times

Description Legendary barfly Charles Bukowski's fourth novel, first published in 1982, is probably the most autobiographical and moving of all his books, dealing in particular with his difficult relationship with his father and his early childhood in LA.

Ham on Rye follows the path of Bukowski's alter-ego Henry Chinaski through the high school years of acne and rejection and into the beginning of a long and successful career in alcoholism. The novel begins against the backdrop of an America devastated by the Depression and takes the Chinaski legend up to the bombing of Pearl Harbour. Arguably Bukowski's finest novel.

About the Author Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp (1994).

Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781841951638 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 424 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FA Popular Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate Trade SEPTEMBER 2015 Hollywood Charles Bukowski Howar Sounes (intro)

There are many scandalous books about life in Hollywood, but none as poetic and dangerous as this.

Description Bukowski's alter ego, Henry Chinaski, returns, revelling in his eternal penchant for booze, women and horse-racing as he makes the precarious journey from poet to screenwriter. Based on Bukowski's experiences when working on the film Barfly, the absurdity and egotism of the film industry are laid bare in this deadpan, touching and funny glimpse into the endless negotiations and back-stabbings of La La land. Hollywood is an irreverent roman a clef that serves up the beating heart of Hollywood with razor-sharp humour.

About the Author Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp (1994).

Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781841959962 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 196x129mm Extent: 288 pages

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Canongate Trade SEPTEMBER 2015 Pleasures of the Damned: Poems 1951-93 Charles Bukowski John Martin (ed)

A selection of the best poetry from America's most iconic and imitated poet, Charles Bukowski.

Description The Pleasures of the Damned is a selection of the best poetry from America's most iconic and imitated poet, Charles Bukowski. Celebrating the full range of the poet's extraordinary sensibility and his uncompromising linguistic brilliance, these poems cover a lifetime of experience, from his renegade early work to never-before-collected poems penned during the final days before his death.

Selected by John Martin, Bukowski's long-time editor and the publisher of the legendary Black Sparrow Press, this stands as what Martin calls 'the best of the best of Bukowski'.

The Pleasures of the Damned is an astonishing poetic treasure trove, essential reading for both long- time fans and those just discovering this unique and important American voice.

About the Author Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp (1994).

Price: $35.00 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781847675491 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x155mm Extent: 528 pages Main Category: DC Poetry Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate Trade SEPTEMBER 2015 Satantango Laszlo Krasznahorkai

Satantango is a visionary masterpiece of post-war Hungarian literature: bleak, brutal and brilliant.

Description In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips and animals root desultorily in the barnyard of a collective farm. But when the charismatic Irimias -long-thought dead -returns to the commune, the villagers fall under his spell. The Devil has arrived in their midst.

Irimias will divide and rule: his arrival heralds the beginning of a period of violence and greed for the villagers as he sets about swindling them out of a fortune that might allow them to escape the emptiness and futility of their existence. He soon attains a messianic aura as he plays on the fears of the townsfolk and a series of increasingly brutal events unfold.

Satantango follows the villagers as they are exploited and taken in by Irimias; as they drink and stumble their way toward the gradual realization of their mistake and ultimate demise. In its measured prose and long, Tolstoyan sentences, Satantango is nothing short of a literary masterpiece; a formal meditation on death and avarice, human fallibility and faith.

About the Author Laszlo Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian writer born in 1954. Krasznahorkai has been honoured with numerous literary prizes, among them the highest award of the Hungarian state, the Kossuth Prize and, in 1993, the German Bestenliste Prize for the best literary work of the year.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781848877658 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages

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Atlantic Pbs SEPTEMBER 2015 Ablutions Patrick deWitt

From the author of the Booker shortlisted Sisters Brothers - a dark, boozy and hilarious tale from the LA underworld.

Description A nameless barman tends a decaying bar in Hollywood and takes notes for a book about his clientele. Initially, he is morbidly amused by watching the regulars roll in and fall into their nightly oblivion, pitying them and their loneliness. In hopes of uncovering their secrets and motives, he establishes tentative friendships with them. He also knocks back pills indiscriminately and treats himself to gallons of Jameson's. But as his tenure at the bar continues, he begins to lose himself, trapped by addiction and indecision. When his wife leaves him, he embarks on a series of squalidly random sexual encounters and a downward spiral of self-damage and irrational violence. To cleanse himself and save his soul, he attempts to escape ...

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Granta Paperbacks SEPTEMBER 2015 The Flame Alphabet Ben Marcus

In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a work of heartbreak and horror, a novel about how far we will go, and the sorrows we will endure, in order to protect our families

Description A terrible epidemic has struck the country and the sound of children's speech has become lethal. Radio transmissions from strange sources indicate that people are going into hiding. All Sam and Claire need to do is look around the neighbourhood: in the park, parents wither beneath the powerful screams of their children. At night, suburban side streets become routes of shameful escape for fathers trying to get outside the radio of affliction.

With Claire nearing collapse, it seems their only means of survival is to flee from their daughter, Esther, who laughs at her parents sickness, unaware that in just a few years, she too, will be susceptible to the language toxicity. But Sam and Claire find it isn't so easy to leave the daughter they still love, even as they waste away from her malevolent speech. On the eve of their departure, Claire mysteriously disappears, and Sam, determined to find a cure for this new toxic language, presses on alone into a world beyond recognition.

The Flame Alphabet invites the question: what is left of civilisation when we lose the ability to communicate with those we love? Both morally engaged and wickedly entertaining, a gripping page turner as strange as it is moving this intellectual horror story ensures Ben Marcus's position in the first rank of American novelists.

About the Author Ben Marcus is the author of three previous books; Notable American Women, The Father Costume, and the legendary The Age of Wire and String. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Paris Review, Believer, New York Times, and McSweeney's. He has received a Whiting Writers Award, a NEA Fellowship in fiction, and three Pushcart Prizes. He is an associate professor at Columbia University.

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Granta Paperbacks SEPTEMBER 2015 Leaving the Sea Ben Marcus

Ben Marcus's highly anticipated new short story collection - his first since his extraordinary debut The Age of Wire and String.

Description A bold new short story collection from one of the most exhilarating and innovative writers of our time. The stories in Leaving the Sea take place in a world which is a distortion of our own, where strange illnesses strike at random and where people disappear without a trace. Ben Marcus has created a labyrinth populated by disturbed, weary men; from the frustrated creative writing teacher to the advocate of self-inhumation; from Paul, whose return home leads him further into his isolation, or Mather, whose child is sick, to an unnamed narrator who spends his lonely evenings calculating the probabilities of his mother's imminent demise. Dark, funny and utterly unique, Leaving the Sea showcases a writer at the height of his powers.

About the Author BEN MARCUS was born in Chicago in 1967. The son of a mathematician and a literary scholar, he was raised in the Midwest, Austin, London, Aarhus, and New York. He holds degrees from New York University and Brown University, and is on the faculty at Columbia University in New York. His writing has been published in Granta, the New Yorker, Harper's, the Paris Review, and the New York Times. He is the author of Notable American Women, The Age of Wire and String and The Flame Alphabet.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781847086365 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages

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Granta Paperbacks SEPTEMBER 2015 The Age of Wire and String Ben Marcus

Hailed by Robert Coover as "the most audacious literary debut in decades", The Age of Wire and String is unlike anything you've read before --now appearing for the first time heightened by an artist's visual interpretation of this legendary work.

Description In The Age of Wire and String Ben Marcus welds together a new reality from the scrapheap of the past. Dogs, birds, horses, automobiles and the weather are some of the recycled elements in Marcus's first collection -part fiction, part handbook -as familiar objects take on markedly unfamiliar meanings. Gradually, this makeshift world, in its defiance of the laws of physics and language, finds a foundation in its own implausibility, as Marcus produces new feelings and sensations -both comic and disturbing -in the definitive guide to an unpredictable yet exhilarating plane of existence.

About the Author Ben Marcus is the author of Notable American Women, The Father Costume, The Age of Wire and String and The Flame Alphabet. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, the New York Times, and McSweeney's. Marcus has received a Whiting Writer's Award, a NEA Fellowship in fiction, and three Pushcart Prizes. He is an associate professor at Columbia University.

Catrin Morgan studied illustration at the Royal College of Art. Since graduating she has exhibited her work internationally and is one of the author illustrators of Phantom Settlements. She teaches on the MA Illustration Authorial Practice at Falmouth University and BA Illustration at Norwich University College of the Arts.

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Granta SEPTEMBER 2015 Super Sad True Love Story Gary Shteyngart

The brilliantly inventive, wildly funny and humane new novel, set in an economically and politically collapsed America, by the author of the best-selling Absurdistan.

Description In a very near future, a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don't tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, proud author of what may well be the world's last diary. Despite his job at an outfit called 'Post-Human Services', which attempts to provide immortality for its super-rich clientele, death is clearly stalking this cholesterol-rich morsel of a man. And why shouldn't it? Lenny's from a different century. He TOTALLY loves books (or 'printed, bound media artifacts' as they're now known), even though most of his peers find them smelly and annoying. But even more than books, Lenny loves Eunice Park, an impossibly cute and impossibly cruel twenty-four-year-old Korean-American woman who just graduated from Elderbird College with a major in 'Images' and a minor in 'Assertiveness'.

When riots break out in New York's Central Park, the city's streets are lined with National Guard tanks and patient Chinese creditors look ready to foreclose on the whole mess, Lenny vows to convince his fickle new love that in a time without standards or stability, there is still value in being a real human being.

About the Author Gary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad in 1972 and moved to the United States with his family seven years later. He is the author of two previous novels: The Russian Debutante's Handbook, named one of the best debuts of the year by the Guardian, and the bestselling Absurdistan. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Esquire and GQ, and his books have been translated into over twenty languages.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781847082497 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x130mm Extent: 336 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: The Russian Debutante's Handbook, Absurdistan Author now living:

Granta Paperbacks SEPTEMBER 2015 Train Dreams Denis Johnson

An epic in miniature: a gripping tale of a man's disintegration and his country's transformation, from the National Book Award-winning author of Tree of Smoke.

Description Robert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainier struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime.

Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West - its otherworldly flora and fauna, its rugged loggers and bridge-builders - Train Dreams captures the disappearance of a distinctly American way of life.

About the Author Denis Johnson is the author of six novels, three collections of poetry, and one book of reportage. His novel Tree of Smoke was the 2007 winner of the National Book Award.

Price: $17.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781847086624 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129 mm Extent: 128 pages

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Granta Paperbacks SEPTEMBER 2015 Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned Wells Tower

'Wells Tower's stories are written, thrillingly, in authentic American vernacular - violent, funny, bleak and beautiful. You need to read them, now.' - Michael Chabon

Description A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen doesn't match her own. Teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods. A boy runs off to the carnival after his stepfather bites him in a brawl. In the stories of Wells Tower, families fall apart and messily, hilariously try to reassemble themselves. His characters - marauding Vikings, washed-up entrepreneurs, and jobbing hacks on local papers - are adrift from the mainstream, confused by contemporary masculinity, angry and aimless. Combining electric prose with compassion and dark wit, this is a major debut.

About the Author Tower was born in Vancouver in 1973. He has been the recipient of the Paris Review Discovery Prize, two Pushcart Prizes and a Henfield Foundation award. He lives in New York.

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Granta Paperbacks SEPTEMBER 2015 Rembrandt's Mirror Kim Devereux

Rembrandt's Mirror explores the three women of Rembrandt's life, and the towering passions of the artist, seen through the eyes of his last, great love, Hendrickje.

Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781782396741 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 210x148mm Extent: 400 pages

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Atlantic SEPTEMBER 2015 The Seed Collectors Scarlett Thomas

The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y.

Description "I have no idea why everyone thinks nature is so benign and glorious and wonderful. All nature is trying to do is kill us as efficiently as possible."

Great Aunt Oleander is dead. To each of her nearest and dearest she has left a seed pod. The seed pods might be deadly, but then again they might also contain the secret of enlightenment. Not that anyone has much time for enlightenment. Fleur, left behind at the crumbling Namaste House, must step into Oleander's role as guru to lost and lonely celebrities. Bryony wants to lose the weight she put on after her botanist parents disappeared, but can't stop drinking. And Charlie struggles to make sense of his life after losing the one woman he could truly love.

A complex and fiercely contemporary tale of inheritance, enlightenment, life, death, desire and family trees, The Seed Collectors is the most important novel yet from one of the world's most daring and brilliant writers. As Henry James said of George Elliot's Middlemarch, The Seed Collectors is a 'treasurehouse of detail' revealing all that it means to be connected, to be part of a society, to be part of the universe and to be human.

Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781847679208 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 214x153mm Extent: 384 pages

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Canongate Trade SEPTEMBER 2015 The Incomplete Tim Key: About 300 of his poetical gems and what- nots Tim Key

A wildly original collection of poetry and prose from one of the UK's most exciting comics

Description This is a PAPERBACK BOOK. And it is ram-jammed full of poems by KEY. Originally it was conceived and sold as a hardback book. Increasingly KEY has agitated for that brute to be superseded by something more chic; a slimmer, more athletic version that one can slide into a pocket or down a rugby sock. And now here it is.

Within its featherweight pages you will find the vast majority of the same poems as you'll find in its unwieldy predecessor. Poems skewering such thorny issues as sex, pancakes, Serbs and vodka. But, in order to drum up renewed interest, KEY has also added a new poem. And there are also seven new introductions. And KEY has also been allowed to waddle round the text with his Lamy fountain pen, altering and updating. Improving. Making everything just so. For this: THE PAPERBACK.

About the Author Key is now 38 (old) and wears dark, lager stained suits and ties for his poetry. He came through Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe and Newswipe and now has a Late Night Poetry Programme on the radio, which he is paid for. In 2009 he won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for his poetical recital The Slutcracker and has filmed some of his verse in black and white to overwhelming critical approval. In 2014 he took the role of Sidekick Simon in Alpha Papa and sometimes does bits of telly and/or writes a column for the Independent. Most importantly, his Instagram account - timkeypoet - is starting to gather momentum.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781782116790 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages

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Canongate Trade SEPTEMBER 2015 Arcadia Iain Pears

An inventive, captivating and richly imagined new novel from bestselling writer Iain Pears. The novel will also be published as an interactive app.

Description Henry Lytten - a spy turned academic and writer - sits at his desk in Oxford in 1962, dreaming of other worlds.

Lytten also imagines a different society, highly regulated and dominated by technology, which is trying to master the science of time travel.

Meanwhile - in the real world - one of Lytten's former intelligence colleagues tracks him down for one last assignment.

Price: $45.00 (NZ$49.99) ISBN: 9780571301553 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 360 pages

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Faber Fiction SEPTEMBER 2015 Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will Geoff Colvin

In the economy of 2020, what will people do better than computers?

Technology is changing more than just work. It's also changing us, mostly in the wrong ways.

Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781857886375 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x156mm Extent: 256 pages

Main Category: KJ Business/managemnt

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Nicholas Brealey SEPTEMBER 2015 Welcome to Just a Minute!: A Celebration of Britain's Best-Loved Radio Comedy Nicholas Parsons, contributions by Gyles Brandreth, contributions by Graham Norton, contributions by Sue Perkins contributions by Jenny Eclair

The paperback outing of the very first Just a Minute book, written by the show's long-standing and much adored chairman.

Description 'A joyous compendium of facts, fun and stories. This hilarious and informative guide is destined to become the companion to radio's most enduring panel game' - Paul Merton

In this first ever official companion, chairman Nicholas Parsons tells the fascinating story of the much- loved panel game and Graham Norton, Sue Perkins, Jenny Eclair and Gyles Brandreth share their memories of the show.

Over the decades, the greats of British comedy have entertained Just a Minute listeners with performances that have come to define our comic heritage - from Kenneth Williams' outrageously funny 'battles' with Sheila Hancock, Clement Freud's acerbic wit and Derek Nimmo's tall tales to Paul Merton's imaginative flights of fancy, Julian Clary's flagrant innuendos and Pam Ayres' poetic humour. Welcome to Just a Minute! is an entertaining journey through British comedy history and a master class in comic timing, verbal dexterity and sharp one-liners.

About the Author Nicholas Parsons was born in Grantham in 1923. He first came to prominence in the late 50s in the comedy partnership with Arthur Haynes. As well as presenting Just a Minute, he is known for hosting Sale of the Century and for his chat show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which has run for the past thirteen years. He was awarded an OBE for his services to Drama and Broadcasting in 2003 and a CBE for his charitable work in 2014.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781782112495 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 464 pages

Main Category: WH Humour

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Canongate Pbs SEPTEMBER 2015 Platform Souls: The Trainspotter as 21st-Century Hero Nicholas Whittaker

A very special 20th anniversary edition of the acclaimed cult trainspotting classic.

Description Nicholas Whittaker's much-loved cult classic, first published in 1995, recollects the long sunny days of his childhood when, notepad in hand, jam sandwiches in the rucksack, he happily spent his time jotting down train numbers during the Indian summer of steam and the heyday of diesel.

Twenty years on, Whittaker returns to his roots in this updated, commemorative edition. He casts a sceptical eye over the new glass-roofed Birmingham New Street, catches up with old acquaintances at Clapham Junction, and considers the toll that half a century of ridicule and a couple of decades of privatisation have wrought upon his beloved pastime.

About the Author Nicholas Whittaker is the author of well-received histories of confectionery (Sweet Talk) and toys (Toys Were Us), as well as an account of life in the offices of Fiesta and Razzle magazines in the 1980s (Blue Period). He has written for the Telegraph, Guardian, Daily Mail and the Sunday Times. He lives in London.

Price: $35.00 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781848319899 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages

Main Category: HB History

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