AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Honeybee Craig Silvey
The highly anticipated new novel by the bestselling author of Jasper Jones.
Description 'Find out who you are, and live that life.'
Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail and looks down at the road far below.
At the other end of the same bridge, an old man, Vic, smokes his last cigarette.
The two see each other across the void. A fateful connection is made, and an unlikely friendship blooms. Slowly, we learn what led Sam and Vic to the bridge that night. Bonded by their suffering, each privately commits to the impossible task of saving the other.
Honeybee is a heart-breaking, life-affirming novel that throws us headlong into a world of petty thefts, extortion plots, botched bank robberies, daring dog rescues and one spectacular drag show.
At the heart of Honeybee is Sam: a solitary, resilient young person battling to navigate the world as their true self; ensnared by a loyalty to a troubled mother, scarred by the volatility of a domineering step-father, and confounded by the kindness of new alliances.
Honeybee is a tender, profoundly moving novel brimming with vivid characters and luminous words. It's about two lives forever changed by a chance encounter -- one offering hope, the other redemption. It's about when to persevere, and when to be merciful, as Sam learns when to let go, and when to hold on.
About the Author Craig Silvey is an author and screenwriter from Fremantle, Western Australia. Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 ISBN: 9781760877224 Format: C-Format PB His critically acclaimed debut novel, Rhubarb, was published in 2004. His bestselling second novel, Jasper Jones, was Package Type: PAPERBACK released in 2009 and is considered a modern Australian classic. Published in over a dozen territories, Jasper Jones has Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 432 pages won plaudits in three continents, including an International Dublin Literary Award shortlisting, a Michael J. Printz Award Bic1: Honor, and a Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlisting. Jasper Jones was the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of Bic2:
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Trust Chris Hammer
The gripping new Martin Scarsden novel.
Description She breathes deeply, trying to quell the rising sense of panic. A detective came to her home, drugged her and kidnapped her. She tries to make sense of it, to imagine alternatives, but only one conclusion is possible: it's the past, come to claim her.
Martin Scarsden's new life seems perfect, right up until the moment it's shattered by a voicemail: a single scream, abruptly cut off, from his partner Mandalay Blonde.
Racing home, he finds an unconscious man sprawled on the floor and Mandy gone. Someone has abducted her. But who, and why?
So starts a twisting tale of intrigue and danger, as Martin probes the past of the woman he loves, a woman who has buried her former life so deep she has never mentioned it.
And for the first time, Mandy finds denial impossible, now the body of a mystery man has been discovered, a man whose name she doesn't know, a man she was engaged to marry when he died. It's time to face her demons once and for all; it's time she learned how to trust.
Set in a Sydney riven with corruption and nepotism, privilege and power, Trust is the third riveting novel from award- winning and internationally acclaimed writer Chris Hammer.
'The best Australian crime novel since Peter Temple's The Broken Shore.' - The Times on Silver
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 The Left-Handed Booksellers of London Garth Nix
From the bestselling author of Angel Mage, this new fantasy adventure set in 1980s London follows one girl's quest to find her father, leading her to a secret society of magical fighting booksellers who police the mythical Old World when it disastrously intrudes into the modern world.
Description Eighteen-year-old art student Susan Arkshaw arrives in London in search of her father. But before she can question crime boss Frank Thringley he's turned to dust by the prick of a silver hatpin in the hands of the outrageously attractive Merlin. Merlin is one of the youngest members of a secret society of booksellers with magical powers who police the mythic Old World wherever it impinges on the New World - in addition to running several bookshops, of course! Merlin also has a quest of his own: to find the Old World entity who arranged the murder of his mother. Their investigations attract attention from enemies of the Old and New Worlds. Soon they become involved in an even more urgent task to recover the grail that is the source of the left-handed booksellers' power, before it is used to destroy the booksellers and rouse the hordes of the mythic past. As the search for the grail becomes strangely intertwined with both their quests, they start to wonder… Is Susan's long-lost father a bookseller, or something altogether more mysterious?
About the Author Garth Nix has been a full-time writer since 2001, but has also worked as a literary agent, marketing consultant, book editor, book publicist, book sales representative, bookseller, and as a part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve. Garth's books include the Old Kingdom fantasy series: Sabriel; Lirael; Abhorsen; Clariel and Goldenhand; SF novels Shade's Children and A Confusion of Princes; and a Regency romance with magic, Newt's Emerald. His novels for children include The Ragwitch; the six books of The Seventh Tower sequence; The Keys to the Kingdom series; and Frogkisser! which is being developed as a film by Fox/Disney. His short fiction includes more than 60 published stories, some of them collected in Across the Wall and To Hold the Bridge. His most recent novel is Angel Mage. He has co- written several books with Sean Williams, including the Troubletwisters series; Spirit Animals Book Three: Blood Ties; Have Sword, Will Travel; and Let Sleeping Dragons Lie. More than six million copies of Garth's books have been sold around the world, they have appeared on the bestseller lists of The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, The Bookseller Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 and others, and his work has been translated into 42 languages. He has won multiple Aurealis Awards, the Ditmar Award, ISBN: 9781760631246 the Mythopoeic Award, CBCA Honour Book, and has been shortlisted for the Locus Awards, the Shirley Jackson Award Format: C-Format PB and others. Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Bic2:
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A & U Children AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Starting From Now Fleur McDonald
A suspenseful novel of rural life and real country issues from our genuine Voice of the Outback, author of the bestselling Where the River Runs.
Description 'McDonald delivers another top notch novel, her best yet, in Starting From Now. A story of family, duty, rural crime, journalism, activism and advances in farming enterprises, all wrapped up in a shroud of mystery. ' Mrs B's Book Reviews
When twenty-five-year-old journalist, Zara Ellison receives her mother's ominous text message, Call me when you can, Zara knows it's not good news.
Two weeks later, Zara has left her much-loved city life to relocate to Barker, the sleepy country town in which she grew up. For Zara, family comes first.
But she needs to work too, and the town's police force is a rural journalist's best source of information. Meeting Detective Dave Burrows and Dave's second-in-charge, Senior Constable Jack Higgins, is a priority.
Amid her family's troubles, and reporting on farming accidents and violently clashing activists, Zara is shocked to witness Jack Higgins in a role she'd never have believed. How could he possibly justify this? And what was she going to do about it?
Wrapped in the love of family, friendship, crime and mystery, Starting From Now is another compelling novel from the authentic voice of Fleur McDonald.
'Themes of love, loss, grief, family ties and animal activism are explored in this engrossing read focusing on regional Australia…McDonald's characters are meaty and convincing and she has a skill of depicting rural life and the sense of community...' The Weekly Times
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781760878603 'This book packs a mighty punch, cleverly weaving many plot threads together to bring about an informative, insightful Format: B and satisfying read.' Reading, Writing and Riesling Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 128w mm Extent: 376 pages '…engaging and enjoyable…gives readers a true sense of "life on the land" and the fragility of rural Australia and its Bic1: communities.' Debbish Bic2:
Fleur likes to write about strong women overcoming adversity, drawing inspiration from her own experiences in rural Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 The Scarecrow Michael Connelly
A standalone crime thriller featuring Jack McEvoy, hero of The Poet, from the global bestselling author of Dark Sacred Night.
Description Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporter. With cuts being made, he's got 30 days left on the job. His last assignment? Training his young replacement. But Jack has other plans. He is going to go out with a bang - a final story that will win journalism's highest honour: a Pulitzer Prize.
Jack focuses on a 16-year-old drug dealer who has confessed to a brutal murder. But he soon realises that the so-called confession is bogus. The investigation leads him to a killer known as The Scarecrow, who has worked completely below the police radar.
Jack is off and running on the biggest story he's had since The Poet crossed his path twelve years before - but The Scarecrow knows he's coming ...
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Michael Connelly AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 City of Spies Mara Timon
Foyle's War meets The Bletchley Circle in this thriller where no one is who they claim to be...
Description The stunning debut from the new name to watch in espionage thrillers. For fans of Charlotte Philby, The Night Manager and Rory Clements, this is perfect Sunday night (or any night) drama.
LISBON, 1943. After escaping from Nazi-Occupied France, SOE agent Elisabeth de Mornay, codename Cecile, receives new orders: she must infiltrate high society in neutral Lisbon and find out who is leaking key information to the Germans about British troop movements. As Solange Verin, a French widow of independent means, she will be able to meet all the rich Europeans who have gathered in Lisbon to wait out the war. One of them is a traitor and she must find out who before more British servicemen die.
Complications arise when 'Solange' comes to the attention of German Abwehr officer, Major Eduard Graf. As they get to know each other, she struggles to keep her lies close to the truth.
But in a city that is filled with spies, how can she tell who is friend, or foe?
About the Author Raised in New York, Mara Timon moved to the UK almost 20 years ago; and fell in love with London and the way it melds the old and the new. Growing up with one parent fascinated with literature and the other with history, she started writing from an early age, although it wasn't until a programme on the BBC caught her interest, and one 'what if' led to another, and another, that her first book began to take shape. Mara lives in London, and is working on her next novel. When not writing, she enjoys running, Pilates, travelling, and spending time with friends and family.
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Zaffre AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 End of Summer Anders de la Motte
The first in a new standalone series from bestselling and award-winning author Anders de la Motte set in Southern Sweden.
Description 'One of Sweden's most talented crime fiction authors' - Erik Axl Sund
You can always go home. But you can never go back...
Summer 1983: Four-year-old Billy chases a rabbit in the fields behind his house. But when his mother goes to call him in, Billy has disappeared. Never to be seen again.
Today: Veronica is a bereavement counsellor. She's never fully come to terms with her mother's suicide after her brother Billy's disappearance. When a young man walks into her group, he looks familiar and talks about the trauma of his friend's disappearance in 1983. Could Billy still be alive after all this time?
Needing to know the truth, Veronica goes home - to the place where her life started to fall apart.
But is she really prepared for the answers that wait for her there?
About the Author Anders de la Motte is the bestselling author of the 'Seasons Quartet'; the first three books of which - End of Summer, Deeds of Autumn and Dead of Winter - have all been number one bestsellers in Sweden and have been shortlisted for the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year. Anders, a former police officer, has already won a Swedish Academy Crime Award for his debut, Game, in 2010 and his second standalone, The Silenced, in 2015.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 To date, the first three books in the 'Seasons Quartet' have published over half a million copies, with the fourth, Rites of ISBN: 9781785768231 Spring, publishing in Sweden in 2020. Set in southern Sweden, all four books can be read as standalones. Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Zaffre AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Shed No Tears Caz Frear
For fans of Cara Hunter and Lisa Jewell comes the latest gripping suspense from the #1 bestselling author of Sweet Little Lies.
Description Four victims. Killer caught. Case closed...Or is it?
Christopher Masters, known as 'The Roommate Killer', strangled three women over a two-week period in a London house in November 2012. Holly Kemp, his fourth victim, was never found.
Until now.
Her remains have been unearthed in a field in Cambridgeshire and DC Cat Kinsella and the major investigation team are called in, but immediately there are questions surrounding the manner of her death. And with Masters now dead, no one to answer them.
DCI Tessa Dyer, the lead on the 2012 case, lends the team a hand, as does DCI Steele's old boss and mentor, the now retired Detective Chief Superintendent Oliver Cairns.
With Masters dead, Cat and the team have to investigate every lead again. But if you'd got away with murder, what would you do when the case is re-opened?
'A crime fiction force to be reckoned with' - Erin Kelly
'An astonishingly confident and individual voice' - Ann Cleeves
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781785765698 'Caz Frear is such a talent' - Cass Green Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK About the Author Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 496 pages Caz Frear grew up in Coventry and spent her teenage years dreaming of moving to London and writing a novel. After Bic1: fulfilling her first dream, it wasn't until she moved back to Coventry thirteen years later that the writing dream finally came Bic2:
Zaffre AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Every Move You Make Deborah Bee
A dark psychological thriller perfect for fans of Clare Mackintosh and Lisa Jewell.
Description There are two sides to every story. But only one is the truth.
A young woman turns up at a police station. She has been kept prisoner in her own home. Abused and tortured, her every move watched, her every thought controlled. Now she's finally escaped.
That's what she says.
But when the police arrive at the address she's given them, her story doesn't seem to add up. Her husband is missing, but his phone and wallet are still in the house.
She says she's the victim, but what if she's not? What if the stories she's telling aren't her stories at all...
About the Author Deborah Bee studied fashion journalism at Central St Martins in the '80s. She has worked at various magazines and newspapers including Vogue, Cosmopolitan, The Times and the Guardian, as a writer, fashion editor and later as an editor. Currently, she is a director of creative marketing. Her bestselling debut novel was The Last Thing I Remember. Every Move You Make is her second novel.
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Zaffre AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 The Wayward Girls Amanda Mason
A brilliant debut novel of sisterhood, family secrets and a dangerous game that becomes all too real.
Description THEN 1976. Loo and her sister Bee live in a run-down cottage in the middle of nowhere, with their artistic parents and wild siblings. Their mother, Cathy, had hoped to escape to a simpler life; instead the family find themselves isolated and shunned by their neighbours. At the height of the stifling summer, unexplained noises and occurrences in the house begin to disturb the family, until they intrude on every waking moment . . .
NOW Loo, now Lucy, is called back to her childhood home. A group of strangers are looking to discover the truth about the house and the people who lived there.
But is Lucy ready to confront what really happened all those years ago?
'A nearly perfect ghost story' - The Guardian
'A chillingly claustrophobic read in which the secrets of the past seep into the present' - Sunday Express
'Gripping, compelling and beautifully accomplished' - Jess Kidd, author of Things in Jars
'Extraordinary. Amanda Mason is the master of suspense' - Deborah O'Connor
About the Author Amanda Mason was born and brought up in Whitby, North Yorks. She studied Theatre at Dartington College of Arts, where she began writing by devising and directing plays. After a few years of earning a very irregular living in lots of odd jobs, including performing in a comedy street magic act, she became a teacher and has worked in the UK, Italy, Spain, Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781785767067 and Germany. She now lives in York and has given up teaching for writing. Her short stories have been published in Format: B several anthologies. The Wayward Girls, her debut novel, was longlisted for the Deborah Rogers prize. Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 464 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Zaffre AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Earthlings Sayaka Murata
Mind-blowing, dark and wild, the new novel from Sayaka Murata - author of bestseller Convenience Store Woman - asks: how far would you go just to be yourself?
Description Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together with her cousin Yuu, Natsuki spends her summers in the wild mountains of Nagano, dreaming of other worlds. When a terrible sequence of events threatens to part the two children forever, they make a promise: survive, no matter what.
Now Natsuki is grown. She lives a quiet life with her asexual husband, surviving as best she can by pretending to be normal. But the demands of Natsuki's family are increasing, her friends wonder why she's still not pregnant, and dark shadows from Natsuki's childhood are pursuing her. Fleeing the suburbs for the mountains of her childhood, Natsuki prepares herself with a reunion with Yuu. Will he still remember their promise? And will he help her keep it?
About the Author A bestselling literary sensation, Sayaka Murata has won all of Japan's major literary prizes, and been named a Vogue Woman of the Year. Murata spent eighteen years working part-time in convenience stores before the success of Convenience Store Woman afforded her the freedom to leave and write full time. Convenience Store Woman has sold more than a million copies in Japan alone and is being translated into twenty-three languages worldwide.
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Granta AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Convenience Store Woman Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
The surprise smash hit - Japan's answer to Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.
Description Meet Keiko.
Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years.
Keiko's family wishes she'd get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she won't get married.
But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she's not going to let anyone come between her and her convenience store...
About the Author One of the most celebrated of the new generation of Japanese writers, Sayaka Murata has won not only the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, but the Gunzo, Noma, and Mishima Yukio Prizes as well. Her story, 'A Clean Marriage', was featured in Granta 127 Japan. She is 38 years old and works part-time in a convenience store.
Ginny Tapley Takemori has translated Ryu Murakami, Miyabe Miyuki, Akiyuki Nosaka, and Kyotaro Nishimura, among others. Her translation of Tomiko Inui's The Secret of the Blue Glass was shortlisted for the Marsh Award.
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Granta Paperbacks AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 The Topeka School Ben Lerner
The most talked-about novel of the season, from the most celebrated American writer of his generation.
Description Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97. His parents are psychologists, his mom a famous author in the field. A renowned debater and orator, an aspiring poet, and - although it requires a lot of posturing and weight lifting - one of the cool kids, he's also one of the seniors who brings the loner Darren Eberheart into the social scene, with disastrous effects.
Deftly shifting perspectives and time periods, The Topeka School is a riveting story about the challenges of raising a good son in a culture of toxic masculinity. It is also a startling prehistory of the present: the collapse of public speech, the tyranny of trolls and the new right, and the ongoing crisis of identity among white men.
About the Author Ben Lerner was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations, and is the author of two internationally acclaimed novels, Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04. He has published the poetry collections The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw (a finalist for the National Book Award), Mean Free Path and No Art as well as the essay The Hatred of Poetry. Lerner lives and teaches in Brooklyn.
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Granta Paperbacks AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Girl Edna O'Brien
The new novel by the legendary Edna O'Brien, author of The Country Girls.
Description Longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction
A Times, Evening Standard and Financial Times Book of the Year
I was a girl once, but not any more . . .
A young woman, barely more than a girl herself, must learn to survive with a child of her own, in a world which seems entirely consumed by madness.
As she navigates a landscape of terrors and trials, can she find a place of safety within a society blinkered by mistrust and denial?
'Astonishing.' - New Statesman
'Raw and transfixing.' - Observer
'Devastating and moving.' - Daily Telegraph
About the Author Edna O'Brien has written more than twenty works of fiction. She is the recipient of many awards, including the Irish PEN Lifetime Achievement Award, the American National Arts Gold Medal, the Frank O'Connor Prize and the PEN/Nabokov Award For Achievement in International Literature. Born and raised in the west of Ireland, she has lived in London for many years. Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9780571341184 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 The Undoing Jean Hanff Korelitz
Tie-in edition to accompany a major new HBO drama from the creators of Big Little Lies, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant.
Description Get ready for The Undoing, soon to be the most talked about TV of 2020. From the creators of Big Little Lies, The Undoing premieres this year starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant and Donald Sutherland.
'A great psychological thriller ... I couldn't put it down.' - Daisy Goodwin
'A brilliant addition to the Oops-I-Married-a-Sociopath genre, started byGillian Flynn's Gone Girl.' - Metro
A New York Times bestseller
Grace Sachs, a happily married therapist with a young son, thinks she knowseverything about women, men and marriage. She is about to publish a bookbased on her pet theory: women don't value their intuition about men, leadingto serious trouble later on.
But how well does Grace know her own husband? She is about to find out,and in the place of what she thought she knew, there will be a violent death, amissing husband, and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wakeof a very public disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed toheed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another forherself and her child.
About the Author Jean Hanff Korelitz was born and raised in New York City and graduated from Dartmouth College and Clare College, Cambridge. She is the author of the novels A Jury Of Her Peers, The Sabbathday River, The White Rose and Admission, as well as Interference Powder, a novel for middle grade readers, and The Properties of Breath, a collection of poetry. A
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 film version of Admission starring Tina Fey, Paul Rudd and Lily Tomlin was released in 2013. ISBN: 9780571365029 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 448 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Your House Will Pay Steph Cha
In her blistering and beautifully written UK debut, Steph Cha has craftedan urgent, timely and unforgettable novel about the intertwined fates of two families.
Description Two families. One desperate to remember, the other to forget. Will the truth burn them both?
'Masterful.' - Ruth Ware
'A smart, sensitive page-turner.' - Daily Mail
Grace Park and Shawn Mathews share a city, but seemingly little else. Coming from different generations and very different communities, their paths wouldn't normally cross at all. As Grace battles confusion over her elder sister's estrangement from their Korean-immigrant parents, Shawn tries to help his cousin Ray readjust to life on the outside after years spent in prison.
But something in their past links these two families. As the city around them threatens to spark into violence, echoing events from their past, the lives of Grace and Shawn are set to collide in ways which will change them all forever.
Beautifully written, and marked by its aching humanity as much as its growing sense of dread, Your House Will Pay is a powerful and moving family story, perfect for readers of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere and Paul Beatty's The Sellout.
About the Author Steph Cha is the author of the Juniper Song crime trilogy, Noir Editor at The Los Angeles Review of Books, a contributing
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 book reviewer for The Los Angeles Times and a regular panelist at crime and literary festivals. She lives in Los Angeles ISBN: 9780571348220 with her husband and two basset hounds. Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 The Alexandria Quartet Lawrence Durrell
Consisting of Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea - The Alexandria Quartet explores the sexual and political intrigues of a group of expatriates in Egypt before and after the Second World War.
Description Lawrence Durrell was one of the best-selling, most celebrated English novelists of the late 20th century. The Alexandria Quartet is unquestionably his most admired work, at heart a sensuous and brilliant evocation of wartime Alexandria. In this world of corrupt glamour, L. G. Darley attempts to reconcile himself to the end of his affair with the dark, passionate Justine Hosnani - setting alight a beguiling exploration of sexual and political intrigue that the author himself described as 'an investigation of modern love'.
About the Author Lawrence Durrell was born in 1912 in India. He attended the Jesuit College at Darjeeling and St Edmund's School, Canterbury. His first literary work, The Black Book, appeared in Paris in 1958. His first collection of poems, A Private Country, was published in 1943, followed by the three Island books: including Bitter Lemons, his account of life in Cyprus. Durrell's wartime sojourn in Egypt led to his masterpiece The Alexandria Quartet. Between this and The Avignon Quintet he wrote the two-decker Tunc and Nunquam. His oeuvre includes plays, a book of criticism, translations, travel writing, and humorous stories about the diplomatic corps.
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Faber Paperback AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 How to Fly Barbara Kingsolver
A beautifully produced gift-edition of Barbara Kingsolver's luminous poetry - to appeal to her loyal fans and fiction readers more generally.
Description The poems of How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) find breath and lightness in the common business of living. Barbara Kingsolver's generous collection is divided into thematic sections that loop and interweave to form a carefully patterned whole: a series of 'How to' poems that smartly balance tongue-in-cheek pragmatism with revelatory wisdom, a complicated yet affirmative family pilgrimage to Italy, cherished childhood memories, the perils and pleasures of being a [female] writer, elegies to lost loved ones, and elegies to the planet.
Blending resourcefulness and wonder with all the compassionate humanity of her prose, How to Fly will both delight Kingsolver's devoted readership and welcome a host of new readers to her startling verse, while revealing an intimate side to her creative practice as yet unseen.
About the Author Barbara Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned a devoted readership. In 2010 she won the Orange Prize for The Lacuna and her 2012 novel Flight Behaviour was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Before she made her living as a writer, Kingsolver earned degrees in biology and worked as a scientist. She now lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.
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Faber Poetry AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 To Calais, In Ordinary Time James Meek
The new novel about home, belonging, love, courage and identity, set in the fourteenth century, from the Booker-longlisted author of The People's Act of Love.
Description 'Inventive and original' - The Times
'Fans of intelligent historical fiction will be enthralled' - Hilary Mantel
Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction
Three journeys. One road.
England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a proctor sets out for a monastery in Avignon and a young ploughman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to Calais. In the other direction comes the Black Death, the plague that will wipe out half of the population of Northern Europe.
To Calais, In Ordinary Time is an exploration of love, death and power, against the backdrop of catastrophe.
About the Author James Meek is the author of six novels including The People's Act of Love which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and won both the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Scottish Arts Council Award. It has been published in more than thirty countries. Meek has also written two collections of short stories and two books of non-fiction, Private Island, which won the 2015 Orwell Prize, and Dreams of Leaving and Remaining. He is a Contributing Editor to the London Review of Books and writes regularly for the Guardian and New York Times. He lives in London. In 2020, To
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 Calais, In Ordinary Time was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and longlisted for the Orwell Prize ISBN: 9781786896773 for Political Fiction. Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Reconciliation Shiga Naoya, translated by Ted Goossen
An autobiographical novella recounting the move towards reconciliation between a father and son; translated for the first time in English.
Description Shiga Naoya, the master of Japanese 'I fiction', was encouraged by acclaimed novelist Soseki Natsume to serialise an account of Naoya's feud with his father in the Asahi newspaper, but he repeatedly failed to deliver. 'Well then,' Soseki suggested, 'Why not write a novel about being unable to write?'
In Reconciliation, published here for the first time in the English language, Naoya does just that, writing about failed or abortive creative works, while also fictionalising the long-running dispute with his father. The novella is a masterpiece of Naoya's characteristically understated style and a quietly devastating reflection on all kinds of reconciliation: from his own familial reconciliation, to the universal need to reconcile ourselves to the inevitability of ageing, loss and death.
About the Author Shiga Naoya (1883-1971) was Japan's most celebrated practitioner of shishosetsu, or autobiographical fiction, the genre that dominated Japanese literature for much of the twentieth century; during his lifetime he was described as the 'god of prose'.
Ted Goossen has translated or co-translated five works by Haruki Murakami; he is editor of The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories (which includes his translation of Shiga's story 'Takibi') and co-editor of Monkey Business magazine, featuring the best of contemporary Japanese literature.
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Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Laura Laura Richard Francis
Description An elderly academic on his way home from the cinema is accosted by a homeless woman. She tells him her name is Laura. So begins a nightmarish journey for Gerald, a historian forced to confront the mystery of his own past, and to ask himself if he has lived a good life or even a decent one.
In the course of this very funny, sometimes disturbing and often moving novel, suppressed memories return to haunt him. There is the matter of the bag of farthings, stolen when he was just a small boy. And the question of therole he played in a family tragedy. Above all he has to assess the harm he may have done in a long-forgotten love affair.
Even those close to him suddenly appear unfathomable. How well does he really know his friend Terence, an apparently unworldly physics professor who inspired Gerald's course on quantum history, or the vivacious, recently widowed Judith, his sister-in-law? And what about Abby, to whom he has been married the whole of his adult life? He seems to understand her as little as he understands himself.
The problem with exploring the past, Gerald begins to see, is that there are an infinite number of ways to travel through it.
About the Author Richard Francis is a novelist, biographer and historian. He lives in Bath with his wife, Jo.
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Europa Editions AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 My Devotion Julia Kerninon
A subtle, captivating, and insightful exploration of the mysterious connections between love, submission, and creation.
Description Winner of the 2018 Feneon Literary Prize
A subtle, captivating, and insightful exploration of the mysterious connections between love, submission, and creation. Helen and Franck, both born into high-ranking diplomatic families, meet in Rome as high-school students and immediately detect in each other the wounded child hidden beneath their gilded social status. Their relationship becomes a dangerous, explosive mix of love and friendship. Immediately after Helen's graduation, they leave their past and family behind to move in together in her apartment in Amsterdam. While Helen immerses herself in her studies and embarks on a promising academic career, Frank, after a few difficult years, makes a spectacular debut on the Dutch Art scene with his first paintings. Helen remains faithfully by his side during his rise to fame, overseeing the domestic details of his life in apparent total self-abnegation.
Are introverted Helen and flamboyant Franck who they really appear to be? Are they victims or monsters? Kerninon's English language debut, full of masterfully orchestrated twists and turns, leaves simple distinctions behind and progresses on to far more intriguing terrain.
About the Author Born in Nantes in 1987, Julia Kerninon has a doctorate in American Literature. Her first novel, Buvard, has won many awards, including the Prix Francoise Sagan. She was granted a Lagardere young writers scholarship in 2014. Her second novel, Le dernier amour d'Attila Kiss, won the Prix de la Closerie des Lilas in 2016
Alison Anderson's translations for Europa Editions include novels by Selim Nassib, Amelie Nothomb, and Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. She is the translator of The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Europa, 2008) and The Life of the Elves (Europa, 2016)
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Europa Editions AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 A Girl Returned Donatella Di Pietrantonio, translated by Ann Goldstein
Set against the stark, beautiful landscape of Abruzzo in central Italy, this is a compelling story about mothers and daughters, about responsibility, siblings, and caregiving, pitch-perfect in Ann Goldstein's English translation.
Description "I was the Arminuta, the girl returned. I spoke another language, I no longer knew who I belonged to. The word 'mama' stuck in my throat like a toad. And, nowadays, I really have no idea what kind of place mother is. It is not mine in the way one might have good health, a safe place, certainty."
Without warning or a word of explanation, an unnamed 13-year-old girl is sent away from the family she has always thought of as hers to live with her birth family: a large, chaotic assortment of individuals whom she has never met and who seem anything but welcoming. Thus begins a new life, one of struggle, conflict, especially between the young girl and her mother, and deprivation. But in her relationship with Adriana and Vincenzo, two of her newly acquired siblings, she will find the strength to start again and to build anew and enduring sense of self.
Told with an immediacy and a rare expressive intensity that has earned itcountless adoring readers and one of Italy's most prestigious literary prizes, A Girl Returned is a powerful novel rendered with sensitivity and verve by Ann Goldstein, translator of the works of Elena Ferrante.
About the Author Born in Teramo Province, Abruzzo, Donatella Di Pietrantonio completed her studies in the provincial capital, Aquila,and now lives in Penne. Her short fiction has been published by Granta Italy, and her novel, Bella mia, was nominated for the Strega Prize and won the Brancati Prize. A Girl Returned, her third novel, won the Campiello Prize.
Ann Goldstein is one of the most accomplished translators from the Italian working today. Best known for her translations of Elena Ferrante's oeuvre, she has also brought to Anglo-Saxon readers novels by Primo Levi, Pierpaolo Pasolini, Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 Alessandro Baricco and other classic and contemporary literature. ISBN: 9781787702653 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Europa Editions AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 When We Cease to Understand the World Benjamin Labatut, translated by Adrian Nathan West
Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity, unaware that it contains a monster that could destroy his life's work.
Description The great mathematician Alexander Grothendieck tunnels so deeply into abstraction that he tries to cut all ties with the world, terrified of the horror his discoveries might cause.
Erwin Schrodinger and Werner Heisenberg battle over the soul of physics after creating two equivalent yet opposed versions of quantum mechanics. Their fight will tear the very fabric of reality, revealing a world stranger than they could have ever imagined.
Using extraordinary, epoch-defining moments from the history of science, Benjamin Labatut plunges us into exhilarating territory between fact and fiction, progress and destruction, genius and madness.
About the Author Benjamin Labatut was born in Rotterdam in 1980 and grew up in The Hague, Buenos Aires and Lima. He has published two award-winning works of fiction prior to When We Cease to Understand the World, which is his first book to be translated into English. Labatut lives with his family in Santiago, Chile.
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Pushkin AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Learning to Talk to Plants Marta Orriols
An immersive moving novel about complex grief: a woman attempts to rebuild her life after her boyfriend leaves her for another women then dies hours later.
Description In the months after the death of her long-term boyfriend Mauro, Paula Cid - a neonatalist working in a Barcelona hospital - has become caught in a strange limbo of mourning. Only her closest friends know that hours before he was killed in a car accident Mauro had told her that he was leaving her for another woman.
Navigating the unsettled nature of her grief, obsessing over Mauro's infidelity and pursuing fraught affairs with a new colleague and a charismatic stranger, she struggles to make sense of her world anew.
Told in immersive, lucid prose, Learning to Talk to Plants is a moving and tender exploration of the emotional kaleidoscope of grief, and of the awkward, unpredictable process of rebuilding a shattered life.
About the Author Marta Orriols is a Spanish writer living in Barcelona. She studied History of Art at university and later Screenwriting at the Bande a Part Film School in Barcelona and Creative Writing at the Escuela de Escritura del Ateneu Barcelones. Her second novel, Learning to Talk to Plants, won the Omnium Cultural Prize for the best Catalan novel.
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Pushkin AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Will Jeroen Olyslaegers, translated by David Colmer
It is 1941, and Antwerp is in the grip of Nazi occupation. Young policeman Wilfried Wils has no intention of being a hero - but war has a way of catching up with people.
Description When his idealistic best friend draws him into the growing resistance movement, and an SS commander tries to force him into collaborating, Wilfried's loyalties become horribly, fatally torn. As the beatings, destruction and round-ups intensify across the city, he is forced into an act that will have consequences he could never have imagined.
A searing portrayal of a man trying to survive amid the treachery, compromises and moral darkness of occupation, Will asks what any of us would risk to fight evil.
About the Author Jeroen Olyslaegers (b. 1967) is a Flemish author and playwright. Will won four major prizes in the Netherlands and Flanders and is being translated into eight languages. He lives in Antwerp, on the Kruikstraat, where police helped the Nazis round up Jews during the Second World War.
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Pushkin AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Horace McCoy
McCoy's classic novel is a powerful story of ambition, desperation, and determination in 1930s America.
Description The Great Depression led people to take desperate measures to survive. The marathon dance craze, which flourished at that time, seemed a simple way for people to earn extra money, dancing the hours away for cash, for weeks at a time.
But the underside of that craze was a competition and violence unknown to most ballrooms. A lurid tale of dancing and desperation, Horace McCoy's classic American novel captures the dark side of the 1930s.
About the Author Horace McCoy was born near Nashville, Tennessee in 1897. His varied career included reporting and sports editing, acting as bodyguard to a politician, doubling for a wrestler and writing for films and magazines. A founder of the celebrated Dallas Little Theatre, his novels include I Should Have Stayed Home and Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye. He died in 1955.
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Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Max Alex Miller
An astonishing, moving tribute to Alex's friend, Max Blatt, that is at once a meditation on memory itself, on friendship and a reminder to the reader that history belongs to humanity.
Description 'Max tells of Alex Miller's search -- in turns fearful and elated -- for the elusive past of Max Blatt, a man he loves, who loved him and who taught him that he must write with love. Miller discovers that he is also searching for a defining part of himself, formed by his relation to Max Blatt, but whose significance will remain obscure until he finds Max, complete, in his history. With Max, Miller the novelist has written a wonderful work of non-fiction, as fine as the best of his novels. Always a truth-seeker, he has rendered himself vulnerable, unprotected by the liberties permitted to fiction. Max is perhaps his most moving book, a poignant expression of piety, true to his mentor's injunction to write with love.' Raimond Gaita, award-winning author of Romulus, My Father
I began to see that whatever I might write about Max, discover about him, piece together with those old shards of memory, it would be his influence on the friendships of the living that would frame his story in the present.
According to your 1939 Gestapo file you adopted the cover names Landau and Maxim. The name your mother and father gave you was Moses. We knew you as Max. You had worked in secret. From an early age you concealed yourself -- like the Grey Box Beetle in the final country of your exile, maturing on its journey out of sight beneath the bark of the tree.
You risked death every day. And when at last the struggle became hopeless, you escaped the hell and found a haven in China first, and then Australia, where you became one of those refugees who in their final place of exile chose, not death, but silence and obscurity.
Alex Miller followed the faint trail of Max Blatt's early life for five years. Max's story unfolded slowly, at first from the Melbourne Holocaust Centre's records then to Berlin's Federal archives. From Berlin, Miller travelled to Max's old home town of Wroclaw in Poland. And finally in Israel with Max's niece, Liat Shoham, and her brother Yossi Blatt, at Liat's home
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 in the moshav Shadmot Dvora in the Lower Galilee, the circle of friendship was closed and the mystery of Max's ISBN: 9781760878160 legendary silence was unmasked. Format: Cutdown C Package Type: PAPERBACK An astonishing and moving tribute to friendship; a meditation on memory itself and a reminder to the reader that history Dimensions: 208h x 153w mm Extent: 280 pages belongs to humanity. Bic1: Bic2:
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Red Lead Roland Perry
The legendary Australian ship's cat who survived the sinking of HMAS Perth and the Thai-Burma Railway
Description From the author of the bestselling Bill the Bastard and Horrie the War Dog comes a fascinating new story of an Australian animal at war, Red Lead the Australian Navy cat.
Red Lead is a sea cat with attitude and uncanny instincts. She uses up her nine lives and more in escaping a succession of disastrous events in World War II, from the sinking of the HMAS Perth off Java, to Japanese edicts to kill her on the deadly Thai-Burma Railway, where she moves, in secret, with a group of Australian POWs - known as The Big Cats, who protect her. Red Lead, in turn helps them and becomes the spirit of the prisoners, who feel obligated to keep the faithful animal alive as a symbol of hope for their own survival.
About the Author Roland Perry is one of Australia's best known authors. He has written 28 books, many of them going on to become bestsellers, including The Queen, Her Lover and the Most Notorious Spy in History, Horrie the War Dog, Bill the Bastard, Bradman's Invincibles, The Changi Brownlow, The Australian Light Horse and Monash: The Outsider Who Won a War.
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Nothing Much Happens Kathryn Nicolai
Based on the popular podcast, soothing stories to carry you off to deep, restful sleep
Description Busy minds need a place to rest. Whether you find yourself struggling to sleep, awake in the middle of the night, or even just anxious as you move through the day, in Nothing Much Happens, Kathryn Nicolai offers a healthy way to ease the mind before bed: through the timeless appeal of classic bedtime stories.
Already beloved by millions of podcast listeners, the stories in Nothing Much Happens explore and expose small sweet moments of joy and relaxation: Visiting the local cider mill in the autumn. Watching the tree lighting in the park with friends in the winter. Sneaking lilacs from an abandoned farm in the spring. Watching fireflies from the deck in the summer. Closing up the book shop for the night and opening the bakery in the morning. You'll also find sixteen new stories never before featured on the podcast, along with whimsical illustrations that expose sweet little moments of peace and joy.
Using her decades of experience as a meditation and yoga teacher, Kathryn Nicolai creates a world for you to slip into, one rich in sensory experience that quietly teaches mindfulness and self-compassion, soothes frayed nerves, and builds solid habits for nurturing sleep.
About the Author Kathryn Nicolai, the Michigan based writer and creator of the enormously successful podcast NOTHING MUCH HAPPENS, writes soothing, cozy stories that both ease the reader into peaceful sleep and teach the principles of mindfulness so that waking hours likewise become sweet and serene. She leans on her fifteen years of experience as a yoga and meditation teacher to seamlessly blend storytelling with brain training techniques that build better sleep habits over time. She is the owner of Ethos Yoga.
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Lowitja Stuart Rintoul
The profoundly moving biography of a truly great Australian who, against the greatest of odds, became one of Australia's most respected and recognisable Indigenous leaders.
Description 'I am sometimes identified as one of the "success stories" of the policies of removal of Aboriginal children. But for much of my childhood I was deeply unhappy. I feel I had been deprived of love and the ability to love in return. Like Lily, my mother, I felt totally powerless. And I think this is where the seeds of my commitment to human rights and social justice were sown.' Lowitja O'Donoghue
Lowitja O'Donoghue is a truly great Australian. A former Australian of the Year, she is arguably our nation's most recognised Indigenous woman. The inaugural chair of ATSIC, she has also represented Australia's Indigenous people at UN forums in Geneva and New York. Had Australia voted to become a republic in 1999, she was a likely candidate to become the country's first president.
In 2001 a bitter controversy arose over whether Lowitja had been 'stolen' as a child. There has never been any doubt that she had been handed over to missionaries at the United Aborigines Mission in Oodnadatta and was thereafter completely cut off from her mother and her culture, but the circumstances of her arrival at the mission were not precisely known. Stuart Rintoul, who was then a journalist at The Australian, accompanied Lowitja back to Central Australia to search for answers. This compellingly written, long-awaited authorised biography completes the journey into Lowitja's life and the challenging history of her times.
About the Author Stuart Rintoul has been a writer and journalist for more than 30 years, including two decades with The Australian (he is its former Victorian editor) and leading magazines, including Good Weekend. He is the author of Ashes of Vietnam: Australian Voices, the first oral history of Australians in the Vietnam War, and also author of The Wailing: A National Black Oral History, which was recommended by Aboriginal leader Patrick Dodson for inclusion in the Library of Alexandria.
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Untwisted: The Story of My Life Paul Jennings
Honest, insightful, funny - a brilliant memoir about writing and teaching and life from one of Australia's most loved children's authors.
Description Sometimes, rather than making you laugh or cry out in surprise, a story will instead leave you wondering about human fragility ...
In the telling of his own tale, children's author and screenwriter Paul Jennings demonstrates how seemingly small events can combine into a compelling drama. As if assembling the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, he puts together fragments, memories and anecdotes to reveal the portrait of a complex and weathered soul.
Untwisted is revealing, moving and very funny.
About the Author Paul Jennings has written over one hundred stories and has won every Australian children's choice book award. Since the publication of Unreal! in 1985, readers all around the world have loved his books. The top-rating TV series Round the Twist and Driven Crazy were based on a selection of his enormously popular short-story collections such as Unseen! In 1995 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to children's literature and he was awarded the prestigious Dromkeen Medal in 2001.
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781760525828 Format: Demy Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 208h x 138w mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Bic2:
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A & U Children AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Out! Miles McKenna
Miles McKenna is a queer and trans activist. He transitioned online in front of a million people. This is his survival guide.
Description When Miles came out on his YouTube channel in 2015 - then transitioned online in 2017 - his aim was to help other teens navigate their identities and take charge of their own coming-out stories. From that experience comes Out!, the ultimate coming-out survival guide for anyone questioning or queer.
Out! covers questions big and small: How to stay safe when coming out in a toxic environment, what to do if you don't feel comfortable with your birth name, what style haircut best suits your identity and how to find your chosen family. Miles offers readers coming-out conversation starters ('Can I have the bathroom pass? Also, the correct pronouns?'), a recipe for a very gay cake and a guide to mastering the masculine haircut. You'll find resources for finding a gender therapist, pointers for being a queer ally and Miles's Ten Commandments (#5: You are valid in your identity, even if you're the only one who can define it).
If you're a person seeking answers, look no further! This book is for you. And remember: Whoever you are, you are worth fighting for.
About the Author Miles McKenna is an actor and social media icon known for his comedic voice and LGBTQ+ advice and activism. He was recently awarded the Shorty Award for Best LGBTQ+ Account of 2017, headlined two nationwide tours that covered a total of 35 shows, and has creatively collaborated with companies like Google, HBO, ATT, and Lyft. Find out more on his YouTube channel, MilesChronicles, or on Instagram at @themilesmckenna.
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Wild at Heart Miriam Lancewood
Gripping sequel to the international bestseller Woman in the Wilderness, Miriam Lancewood'sstory of the quest for a simple life, unfettered by society's norms.
Description Miriam Lancewood's first book Woman in the Wilderness told how she and her husband, Peter, lived for six years in the wilderness of New Zealand, hunting and gathering, and roaming the mountains like nomads.
A year later they left New Zealand to explore other wild places. They walked 2000 km through the forests of Europe and along the coast of Turkey, mostly camping under trees and cooking by fire.
They lived on the edge, embracing insecurity, and found the unexpected. Sometimes it was pure bliss, sometimes it was terrifying.
But when Miriam and Peter moved on to the Australian desert, they met with disaster.
Wild at Heart tells that story. It's about life and death, courage and the power of love.
About the Author Miriam Lancewood was born in 1983 and grew up in the Netherlands. She was a competitive pole-vaulter and studied Physical Education before travelling in Africa and India. There she met her New Zealand husband, and together they travelled for many years through Asia and Papua New Guinea before arriving in New Zealand. They lived primitively in the remote wilderness of the Southern Alps, and Miriam wrote her first book Woman in the Wilderness about that time.
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Woman in the Wilderness Miriam Lancewood
An inspirational story of adventure and bravery, from a young woman living a primitive, nomadic life in the wilds of the South Island of New Zealand.
Description 'Woman in the Wilderness is an intriguing and mesmerizing book.' Ben Fogle
This book tells how one woman learned to dig deep and push the boundaries in order to discover what really matters in life.
Miriam is a young Dutch woman living in the heart of the mountains with her New Zealand husband. She lives simply in a tent or hut, and survives by hunting wild animals and foraging edible plants, relying on only minimal supplies. For more than six years she has lived this way, through all seasons, often cold, hungry and isolated in the bush. She loves her life and feels free, connected to the land, and happy.
There's a lot of drama out there in the wild, and Miriam knows how to spin a good yarn. This is a gripping and engaging read reminiscent of both adventure writing like Wild and nature writing like H is for Hawk, and is perfect for anyone exploring the idea of living a more authentic, real life.
'My life is free, random and spontaneous. This in itself creates enormous energy and clarity in body and mind.' Miriam Lancewood
About the Author Miriam Lancewood was born in 1983 and grew up in the Netherlands. She was a competitive pole-vaulter and studied Physical Education before travelling in Africa and India. There she met her New Zealand husband, and together they travelled for many years through Asia and Papua New Guinea before arriving in New Zealand. They have been living in the most primitive manner, in the remotest parts of the country: the wilderness of the Southern Alps.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781760633523 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 128w mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Bic2:
A&U New Zealand AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Bella Annabel Langbein
Bursting with tender and funny anecdotes and gorgeous recipes, Bella is Annabel Langbein's must-read memoir.
Description For the first time, Annabel Langbein, New Zealand's most popular cookbook author, writes about her remarkable life and how food has shaped it, highlighting some of the recipes that have resonated most strongly with her over the years.
From her childhood fascination with cooking to a teenage flirtation as a Maoist hippie, to possum trapping and living off the land as a hunter and forager, to travelling and starting her own croissant business in Brazil, Annabel's life has always been centred on food and nature. Out of this came an obsession with creating cookbooks, introducing a generation of cooks to her simple recipes for delicious, stylish meals.
Annabel has lived a huge and varied life, and she writes vividly about her many adventures. From throughout this rich life in food she has chosen 60 key recipes, created with her signature style and flair that make cooking easy for everyone, sharing them in this beautifully photographed book.
About the Author Annabel Langbein has published more than 30 cookbooks, including the phenomenal bestseller, Annabel Langbein: The Free Range Cook, published in 2010 and which has sold more than 160,000 copies.
She currently writes a hugely popular column and recipes for Canvas magazine in the Weekend Herald every Saturday.
Annabel and her husband Ted live in Wanaka, in a property they have developed over many years, with extensive gardens and orchards.
Price: AU $44.99 NZ $49.99 ISBN: 9781988547619 Format: Hardcover Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 240h x 165w mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Bic2:
A&U New Zealand AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Boys Will Be Boys Clementine Ford
The incendiary new book about toxic masculinity and misogyny from Clementine Ford, author of the best- selling feminist manifesto, Fight Like A Girl.
Description 'Everyone's afraid that their daughters might be hurt. No one seems to be scared that their sons might be the ones to do it ... This book ... is the culmination of many years of writing about power, abuse, privilege, male entitlement and rape culture. After all that, here's what I've learned: we should be f*cking terrified.' Clementine Ford, from the introduction
Fearless feminist heroine Clementine Ford is a beacon of hope and inspiration to hundreds of thousands of Australian women and girls. Her incendiary first book, Fight Like A Girl, is taking the world by storm, galvanising women to demand and fight for real equality and not merely the illusion of it.
Now Boys Will Be Boys examines what needs to change for that equality to become a reality. It answers the question most asked of Clementine: 'How do I raise my son to respect women and give them equal space in the world? How do I make sure he's a supporter and not a perpetrator?'
All boys start out innocent and tender, but by the time they are adolescents many of them will subscribe to a view of masculinity that is openly contemptuous of women and girls. Our world conditions boys into entitlement, privilege and power at the expense not just of girls' humanity but also of their own.
Ford demolishes the age-old assumption that superiority and aggression are natural realms for boys, and demonstrates how toxic masculinity creates a disturbingly limited and potentially dangerous idea of what it is to be a man. Crucially, Boys Will Be Boys reveals how the patriarchy we live in is as harmful to boys and men as it is to women and girls, and asks what we have to do to reverse that damage. The world needs to change and this book shows the way.
About the Author
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 Clementine Ford is a freelance writer, broadcaster and public speaker based in Melbourne. She is the bestselling author ISBN: 9781760878627 of the feminist manifesto Fight Like A Girl. Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 128w mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Fight Like A Girl Clementine Ford
Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our most outspoken feminist writers.
Description 'With wit, insight and glorious, righteous rage, Clementine Ford lays out all the ways in which girls and women are hurt and held back, and unapologetically demands that the world do better. A passionate and urgently needed call to arms, Fight Like A Girl insists on our right to be angry, to be heard and to fight. It'll change lives.' Emily Maguire, author of An Isolated Incident
A friend recently told me that the things I write are powerful for her because they have the effect of making her feel angry instead of just empty. I want to do this for all women and young girls - to take the emptiness and numbness they feel about being a girl in this world and turn it into rage and power. I want to teach all of them how to FIGHT LIKE A GIRL. Clementine Ford
Online sensation, fearless feminist heroine and scourge of trolls and misogynists everywhere, Clementine Ford is a beacon of hope and inspiration to thousands of Australian women and girls. Her incendiary debut Fight Like A Girl is an essential manifesto for feminists new, old and soon-to-be, and exposes just how unequal the world continues to be for women. Crucially, it is a call to arms for all women to rediscover the fury that has been suppressed by a society that still considers feminism a threat.
Fight Like A Girl will make you laugh, cry and scream. But above all it will make you demand and fight for a world in which women have real equality and not merely the illusion of it.
About the Author Clementine Ford is a freelance writer, broadcaster and public speaker based in Melbourne.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781760633400 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 128w mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies Kitty Flanagan
One of Australia's favourite and most multi-talented entertainers, Kitty Flanagan, provides hilarious and honest life advice in this candid collection of cautionary tales.
Description Kitty Flanagan has been locked in an industrial freezer in Western Australia, insulted about the size of her lady parts in Singapore and borne witness to the world's most successful wife swap in suburban Sydney. It's these valuable lessons from The University of Life that have taught her so many things, including the fact that cliches like 'The University of Life' are reeeally annoying.
In these funny, true stories, Kitty provides advice you didn't even know you needed. Useful tips on how not to get murdered while hitch-hiking, how to break up with someone the wrong way, and the right way, why it's important to keep your top on while waitressing, and why women between the ages of thirty-seven and forty-two should be banned from internet dating.
Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies is a collection of laugh-out-loud, cautionary tales from one of Australia's favourite comedians.
'Finally, a book that doesn't tell you to stop eating sugar.' KITTY - CAKE ENTHUSIAST
'Shut your mouth Flanagan or you'll do fifteen in the freezer.' GARY - FACTORY FOREMAN
'I was hoping there'd be more about arson.' BERNIE - LOCAL FIRESTARTER
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781760877477 Kitty Flanagan is one of Australia's best known comedians. Before that she was one of Australia's least known waitresses Format: B at the Pizza Hut. Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 128w mm Extent: 272 pages Kitty is a writer and performer and can be seen as herself on The Weekly with Charlie Pickering and not as herself in the Bic1: Working Dog series Utopia. Previously she appeared in her own segment on The Project every Tuesday night. She also Bic2:
Her favourite food is soup, closely followed by fried potatoes of any kind. She lives in Sydney with her dog Henry, her cat Sarge and a lovely Magnolia tree called Mary. Kitty hopes to one day develop some skills, get an education and find a real job. Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life Kitty Flanagan
488 Rules for Life is Kitty Flanagan's way of making the world a more pleasant place to live. Providing you with the antidote to every annoying little thing, these rules are not made to be broken.
Description 488 Rules for Life is not a self-help book, because it's not you who needs help, it's other people. Whether they're walking and texting, asphyxiating you on public transport with their noxious perfume cloud, or leaving one useless square of toilet paper on the roll, a lot of people just don't know the rules.
But thanks to Kitty Flanagan's comprehensive guide to modern behaviour, our world will soon be a much better place. A place where people don't ruin the fruit salad by putting banana in it … where your co-workers respect your olfactory system and don't reheat their fish curry in the office microwave ... where middle aged men don't have ponytails …
What started as a joke on Kitty Flanagan's popular segment on ABC TV's The Weekly, is now a quintessential reference book with the power to change society. (Or, at least, make it a bit less irritating.)
What people are (Kitty Flanagan is) saying about this book:
'You're welcome everyone.'
'Thank god for me.'
'I'd rather be sad and lonely, but right.'
'There's not actually 488 rules in here but it sure feels like it'.
About the Author
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 At school Kitty was a small, stick-like child with very large front teeth and fuzzy hair. Nothing much has changed. After ISBN: 9781760875305 several attempts at university, studying things as diverse as Spanish, poetry and PE teaching, the government introduced Format: C-Format PB HECS and the free ride was over. No more enrolling for a semester of tertiary good times then dropping out. Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 320 pages Advertising beckoned because it seemed like the job that paid the most money for the least amount of qualifications. And Bic1: for five years she masqueraded as a copywriter. Eventually she was fired. She doesn't know why and, more importantly, Bic2:
There was another sketch show, an English one this time, cryptically titled The Sketch Show. And there was a short film that won a few awards. After that, she wrote stuff for the BBC and Channel Four with writing partner Julia Davis of Nighty Night fame. Then Kitty moved back to Australia where she is now probably best known for her regular Tuesday Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Stories of Hope Heather Morris
'Stories are what connect us, and remind us that hope is always possible.' - Heather Morris, author of the Number 1 International Bestseller, The Tattooistof Auschwitz.
Description Heather Morris, author of the internationally bestselling novels The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey, grew up on a farm in rural New Zealand. On her way back across the paddocks from school, Heather would visit her great- grandfather and listen to his experiences of war - stories he told only Heather. From a young age Heather discovered that people would tell her their stories if she stopped and listened.
In Stories of Hope, Heather Morris will explore the art of listening - a skill she employed when she met Lale Sokolov, the Tattooist of Auschwitz. It was her ability to listen that led him to entrust her with his story. Stories of Hope will examine Heather's extraordinary journey, in the form of a series of beautifully rendered tales of the people she has met, the remarkable stories they have shared with her, and the lessons they hold for us all.
About the Author Born in New Zealand, Heather Morris is an international number one bestselling author, who is passionate about stories of survival, resilience and hope. In 2003, while working in a large public hospital in Melbourne, Heather was introduced to an elderly gentleman who 'might just have a story worth telling'. The day she met Lale Sokolov changed both their lives. Their friendship grew and Lale embarked on a journey of self-scrutiny, entrusting the innermost details of his life during the Holocaust to her. Heather originally wrote Lale's story as a screenplay - which ranked high in international competitions - before reshaping it into her debut novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Her second novel, Cilka's Journey, is the sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781786580481 Format: Demy Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 216h x 135w mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Echo AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Stories of Hope 24 copy dumpbin
Includes 24 copies of Stories of Hope, dumpbin and header, plus a free reading copy.
Description Includes 24 copies of Stories of Hope, dumpbin and header, plus a free reading copy.
About the Author
Price: AU $719.76 NZ $791.76 ISBN: 9324551076712 Format: Dumpbin - Filled Package Type: PACK Dimensions: h x w mm Extent: pages Bic1: Bic2:
Echo AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Stories of Hope 24 copy pack
Includes 24 copies of Stories of Hope plus a bonus reading copy.
Description Includes 24 copies of Stories of Hope plus a bonus reading copy.
About the Author
Price: AU $719.76 NZ $791.76 ISBN: 9324551076705 Format: Pack Package Type: PACK Dimensions: h x w mm Extent: pages Bic1: Bic2:
Echo AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Livewired David Eagleman
A remarkable account of the brain's plasticity, from the internationally bestselling author.
Description How can a blind person learn to see with her tongue or a deaf person learn to hear with his skin? What does a baby born without a nose tell us about our sensory machinery? Might we someday control a robot with our thoughts? And what does any of this have to do with why we dream?
The answers to these questions are not right in front of our eyes; they're right behind our eyes.
This book is not simply about what the brain is, but what it does. Covering decades of research to the present day, Livewired also presents new findings from Eagleman's own research, including new discoveries in synaesthesia, dreaming and wearable neurotech devices that revolutionise how we think about the senses.
About the Author Dr David Eagleman is a neuroscientist and internationally bestselling author. He teaches Brain Plasticity at Stanford University, is creator and host of the Emmy-nominated BBC television series The Brain, and is the Chief Executive Officer of NeoSensory, a company that builds the next generation of neuroscience hardware. The author of seven other books, he lives in Palo Alto, California.
@davideagleman | eagleman.com
Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 ISBN: 9781838850999 Format: C-Format PB Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 The Brain David Eagleman
Bestselling author and 'the hottest thing in neuroscience' (The Times), David Eagleman, takes readers on a fascinating and eye-opening journey into the world of the brain.
Description 'This is the story of how your life shapes your brain, and how your brain shapes your life.' Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman on a whistle-stop tour of the inner cosmos. It's a journey that will take you into the world of extreme sports, criminal justice, genocide, brain surgery, robotics, and the search for immortality. On the way, amidst the infinitely dense tangle of brain cells and their trillions of connections, something emerges that you might not have expected to see: you.
About the Author David Eagleman is an assistant professor of neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, where he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action as well as the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law. His scientific research is published in journals from Science to Nature, and he is also the author of the international fiction bestseller, Sum, and Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. He is the writer and presenter of the companion BBC television series The Brain.
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781782116615 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 The Human Cosmos Jo Marchant
A journey through the history of science and man's relationship with the night sky and the cosmos beyond, from the author of Royal Society Prize-shortlisted Cure.
Description For most of human history, we have led not just an earthly existence but a cosmic one. Celestial cycles drove every aspect of our daily lives. Our innate relationship with the stars shaped who we are - our religious beliefs, power structures, scientific advances and even our biology. But over the last few centuries we have separated ourselves from the universe that surrounds us. And that disconnect comes at a cost.
In The Human Cosmos Jo Marchant takes us on a tour through the history of humanity's relationship with the heavens. We travel to the Hall of the Bulls in Lascaux and witness the summer solstice at a 5,000-year-old tomb at Newgrange. We visit Medieval monks grappling with the nature of time and Tahitian sailors navigating by the stars. We discover how light reveals the chemical composition of the sun, and we are with Einstein as he works out that space and time are one and the same. A four-billion-year-old meteor inspires a search for extra-terrestrial life. And we discover why star-gazing can be really, really good for us.
It is time for us to rediscover the full potential of the universe we inhabit, its wonder, its effect on our health, and its potential for inspiration and revelation.
About the Author Dr Jo Marchant is an award-winning science journalist. She has a PhD in genetics and medical microbiology from St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, London, and an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College. She has worked as an editor at New Scientist and Nature, and her articles have appeared in the Guardian, Wired, Observer, New Scientist and Nature. She is the author of Decoding the Heavens, shortlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, and Cure, shortlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books and longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize.
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 @JoMarchant | jomarchant.com ISBN: 9781786894038 Format: Demy Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 214h x 135w mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 The Great Pretender Susannah Cahalan
From 'one of America's most courageous young journalists' (NPR) comes a propulsive narrative history investigating the fifty-year-old mystery behind a dramatic experiment that changed the course of modern medicine.
Description In the early 1970s, Stanford professor Dr Rosenhan conducted an experiment, sending sane patients into psychiatric wards; the result of which was a damning paper about psychiatric practises. The ripple effects of this paper helped bring the field of psychiatry to its knees, closing down institutions and changing mental health diagnosis forever.
But what if that ground-breaking and now-famous experiment was itself deeply flawed? And what does that mean for our understanding of mental illness today? These are the questions Susannah Cahalan asks in her completely engrossing investigation into this staggering case, where nothing is quite as it seems.
About the Author Susannah Cahalan is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, a memoir about her struggle with a rare autoimmune disease of the brain. She lives in Brooklyn.
@scahalan | susannahcahalan.com
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781838851446 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 News Alan Rusbridger
An A-Z guide on how we stay informed in the era of fake news, from former Guardian Editor-in-Chief Alan Rusbridger.
Description Nothing in life works without facts.
A society that isn't sure what's true can't function. Without facts there can be no government or law. Science is ignored. Trust evaporates.
People everywhere feel ever more alienated from - and mistrustful of - news and those who make it. We no longer seem to know who or what to believe. We are living through a crisis of 'information chaos'.
News: And How to Use It is a glossary for this bewildering age. From AI to Bots, from Climate Crisis to Fake News, from Clickbait to Trolls (and more), here is the definitive user's guide for how to stay informed, tell truth from fiction and hold those in power accountable in the modern age.
About the Author Alan Rusbridger was Editor-in-Chief of Guardian News & Media from 1995 to 2015. He launched the Guardian in the US and Australia as well as building a website which today attracts more than 100 million unique browsers a month. The paper's coverage of phone-hacking led to the Leveson Inquiry into press standards and ethics. Guardian US won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service for its leading global coverage of the Snowden revelations. He is the author of Play It Again and Breaking News. He lives in London and Oxford, where he is Principal of Lady Margaret Hall and chairs the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. @arusbridger | arusbridger.com
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9781838851613 Format: Misc HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 240h x 162w mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 On Connection Kate Tempest
Staggering talent Kate Tempest's first work of non-fiction: a hopeful theory of creativity - the power of creative connection to act as the antidote to numbness.
Description FROM THE TED HUGHES AWARD WINNER AND SUNDAY TIMES-BESTSELLING AUTHOR
The increasingly hyper-individualistic, competitive and exploitative society that we live in has caused a global crisis at the turn of the new decade; in order to survive, numbness has pervaded us all.
In this urgent and incisive pamphlet, Kate Tempest leads the reckoning against this system, placing our legacy in our own hands. Creativity holds the key: the ability to provide us with internal and external connection, to move us beyond consumption, to allow us to discover authenticity and closeness to all others, to deliver us an antidote for our numbness. This is beyond 'art'. Creative connection is anything that brings us closer to ourselves and fellow human beings, and it has the potential to offer insights into mental health, politics and beyond.
Powerful, hopeful and full of humanity, On Connection confirms Tempest as one of the most important voices of her generation.
About the Author Kate Tempest is an award-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author, poet and recording artist. She won the 2013 Ted Hughes Award, was nominated for a Costa Book Award and a BRIT Award, and has been shortlisted for the Mercury Prize twice. She was also named a Next Generation Poet by the Poetry Book Society, a decennial accolade. She released her fourth studio album, The Book of Traps and Lessons, in 2019, produced by Rick Rubin. Tempest grew up in South-East London, where she still lives today. @katetempest
Price: AU $14.99 NZ $16.99 ISBN: 9780571354023 Format: A Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 178h x 111w mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Faber Social AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Ten Days in Harlem Simon Hall
Rising star historian Simon Hall encapsulates the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York.
Description New York City, September 1960. Fidel Castro has just arrived for the opening of the UN General Assembly.
Wild rumours are circulating that the Cubans 'killed, plucked, and cooked chickens in their rooms...extinguishing cigars on expensive carpets'; Castro - in his trademark olive fatigues - receives a rapturous reception from the local African American community, and holds court with political and cultural luminaries including Malcolm X, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Nikita Khrushchev ('about as welcome to the US as the Black Plague' - Time), Amiri Baraka, and Allen Ginsberg. His fervour in promising the politics of anti-imperialism, racial equality, and leftist revolution makes him an icon of the 1960s.
In this brilliant slice of modern history, Simon Hall reveals how these ten days were a crucial hinge point in the trajectory of the Cold War. Encompassing international geopolitics, decolonisation, the nascent Civil Rights and Black Power movements, and radical student counterculture, Ten Days in Harlem revolutionises our understanding of the unique melting pot that was the Sixties - and beyond.
About the Author Simon Hall studied history at Sheffield and Cambridge, and held a Fox International Fellowship at Yale, before moving to the University of Leeds in 2003 to teach American history. His most recent book is 1956: The World in Revolt (Faber).
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9780571353071 Format: C-Format PB Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 God's Shadow Alan Mikhail
An explosive global history of Sultan Selim I and how he changed the course of global history.
Description The Ottoman Empire was a hub of flourishing intellectual fervor, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. At the helm of its ascent was the omnipotent Sultan Selim I (1470-1520), who, with the aid of his extraordinarily gifted mother, Gulbahar, hugely expanded the empire, propelling it onto the world stage.
Aware of centuries of European suppression of Islamic history, Alan Mikhail centers Selim's Ottoman Empire and Islam as the very pivots of global history, redefining such world-changing events as Christopher Columbus's voyages - which originated, in fact, as a Catholic jihad that would come to view Native Americans as somehow "Moorish" - the Protestant Reformation, the transatlantic slave trade, and the dramatic Ottoman seizure of the Middle East and North Africa.
Drawing on previously unexamined sources and written in gripping detail, Mikhail's groundbreaking account vividly recaptures Selim's life and world. An historical masterwork, God's Shadow radically reshapes our understanding of a world we thought we knew.
About the Author A leading historian of his generation, Alan Mikhail, professor of history and chair of the Department of History at Yale University, has reforged our understandings of the past through his previous three prize-winning books on the history of Middle East. In writing God's Shadow, he has drawn on Ottoman Turkish, modern Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, Italian, and French sources.
Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 ISBN: 9780571331932 Format: C-Format PB Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 496 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Remain in Love Christ Frantz
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About the Author
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9780571355303 Format: C-Format PB Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: pages Bic1: Bic2:
Faber Social AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Coventry
A series of essays from Rachel Cusk - about choices, womanhood and art.
Description After the publication of Outline, Transit and Kudos - in which Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction - this writer of uncommon brilliance returns with a series of essays that offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her life's work. Encompassing memoir and cultural and literary criticism, with pieces on gender, politics and writers such as D. H. Lawrence, Olivia Manning and Natalia Ginzburg, this collection is essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, both startling and rewarding to behold.
The result is a cumulative sense of how the frank, deeply intelligent sensibility - so evident in her stories and novels - reverberates in the wider context of Cusk's literary process. Coventry grants its readers a rare opportunity to see a mind at work that will influence literature for time to come.
About the Author Rachel Cusk is the author of the trilogy Outline, Transit, Kudos; the memoirs A Life's Work, The Last Supper and Aftermath; and several other novels: Saving Agnes (winner of the Whitbread Award), The Temporary, The Country Life (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), The Lucky Ones, In the Fold, Arlington Park and The Bradshaw Variations. She was chosen as one of Granta's 2003 Best Young British Novelists. She has been shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize three times, most recently for Kudos.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9780571350452 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy David Mitchell
From UKIP surge to Brexit shambles, horsemeat lasagne to Trump in the White House: bestselling comedian David Mitchell brilliantly tackles the dumbfounding times we live in.
Description 'Mitchell is an exceptionally clever, eloquent and spot-on commentator. We should be grateful for him.' - Daily Mail
David Mitchell's 2014 bestseller Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse must really have made people think - because everything's got worse. We've gone from UKIP surge to Brexit shambles, from horsemeat in lasagne to Donald Trump in the White House, from Woolworths going under to all the other shops going under. It's probably socially irresponsible even to try to cheer up.
But if you're determined to give it a go, you might enjoy this eclectic collection (or eclection) of David Mitchell's attempts to make light of all that darkness. Scampi, politics, the Olympics, terrorism, exercise, rude street names, inheritance tax, salad cream, proportional representation and farts are all touched upon by Mitchell's unremitting laser of chit-chat, as he negotiates a path between the commercialisation of Christmas and the true spirit of Halloween. Read this book and slightly change your life!
'Mitchell combines breathtaking general knowledge with withering wit.' - Guardian
About the Author David Mitchell is a comedian, actor, writer and the polysyllabic member of Mitchell and Webb. He won BAFTAs for Peep Show and That Mitchell and Webb Look, and has also starred in Jam and Jerusalem, Ambassadors, Back and as Will Shakespeare in Ben Elton's Upstart Crow. He writes for the Observer, chairs The Unbelievable Truth, is a team captain on Would I Lie To You? and can't drive.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781783351985 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Guardian Books AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Lives of the Stoics Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
From the bestselling authors of The Daily Stoic comes an inspiring guide to the lives of Stoicism's greatest practitioners.
Description For millennia, Stoicism has been the ancient philosophy that attracts those who seek greatness, from athletes to politicians and everyone in between. And no wonder: its embrace of self-mastery, virtue and indifference to that which we cannot control has much to offer those grappling with today's chaotic world. But who were the Stoics?
In this book, Ryan Holiday and Steohen Hanselman offer a fresh approach to understanding Stoicism through the lives of the people who practiced it. Through short biographies of all the famous, and lesser-known, Stoics, this book will show what it means to live stoically, and reveal the lessons to be learned from their struggles and successes. The result is a treasure trove of insights for anyone in search of living a good life.
About the Author Ryan Holiday is one of the world's foremost thinkers and writers on ancient philosophy and its place in everyday life. He is the author of many bestselling books including The Obstacle is the Way; Ego is the Enemy; Stillness is the Key and The Daily Stoic.
Stephen Hanselman has worked in publishing for over three decades. He received a Master's degree at Harvard Divinity School, while also studying at Harvard's philosophy department.
Price: AU $34.99 NZ $39.99 ISBN: 9781788162609 Format: Demy Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 216h x 135w mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 The Daily Stoic Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
Beautifully packaged daily doses of Stoic wisdom, from the author of The Obstacle is the Way.
Description 'No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.' - Marcus Aurelius
The Stoics' unique blend of practicality and wisdom has been inspiring the most successful among us for centuries, from Roman Emperors to Barack Obama, and most recently via Ryan Holiday's bestselling The Obstacle is the Way. If that book introduced readers to the idea that what is in the way is the way, The Daily Stoic widens our view on the Stoic philosophy and shows that it can be applied to any problem.
From how to manage failure to getting what you want, the ideas of Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius and others continue to be vitally relevant to today's doers and thinkers. Here, in bold new translations of the ancient classics, language is stripped down to reveal powerful aphorisms that cut straight to the heart of our day-to-day challenges.
Presented in a page-per-day format, this daily resource of Stoic inspiration combines quotations with calls to further reflection - and action. Arranged topically, this guide features twelve principles for overcoming obstacles and achieving greater satisfaction. It introduces readers to a new daily ritual and new orientation that will bring them balanced action, insight, effectiveness, and serenity.
About the Author Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of Growth Hacker Marketing, The Obstacle is the Way and Ego is the Enemy. His books have been translated into 17 languages and his writing has appeared everywhere from the Columbia Journalism Review to Fast Company.
Stephen Hanselman has worked for over three decades in publishing as a bookseller, publisher and literary agent. He received a Master's degree at Harvard Divinity School, while also studying at Harvard's philosophy department.
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Profile Trade AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Dancing with the Octopus Debora Harding
A fierce, strikingly redemptive exploration of the impact of traumatic violence on victim, perpetrator and society.
Description One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knife-point, thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and left to die.
But what if this wasn't the most traumatic, defining event in her childhood?
Undertaking a radical project, Debora Harding dexterously shifts between the past and present to unravel her story. From the immediate aftermath to the possibility of restorative justice twenty years later, Dancing with the Octopus lays bare the social and political forces that act upon us after the experience of serious crime. A vivid, sly and intimate portrait of one family's disintegration, this is a darkly humorous and ground-breaking narrative of reckoning and recovery.
About the Author Debora Harding wrote the final version of this story after watching Christine Blasey Ford's testimony against Trump nominee Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, in 2018. A writer whose work has appeared in the Guardian, Daily Mail and elsewhere, she has trained as a mediator in restorative justice and worked in US politics, amongst other things. The mother of two children, she spent her childhood in Nebraska and Iowa and now lives in England with her British husband.
Price: AU $34.99 NZ $39.99 ISBN: 9781788165167 Format: Demy Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 216h x 135w mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Britain at Bay Alan Allport
Power. Glory. Death. Courage. How well do we know the story of the Second World War?
Description In the bleak first half of the Second World War, Britain stood alone against the Axis forces. Isolated and outmanoeuvred, it seemed as though she might fall at any moment. Only an extraordinary effort of courage - by ordinary men and women - held the line.
The Second World War is the defining experience of modern British history, a new Iliad for our own times. But, as Alan Allport reveals in this, the first part of a major new two-volume history, the real story was often very different from the myth that followed it. From the subtle moral calculus of appeasement to the febrile dusts of the Western Desert, Allport interrogates every aspect of the conflict - and exposes its echoes in our own age.
Challenging orthodoxy and casting fresh light on famous events from Dunkirk to the Blitz, this is the real story of a clash between civilisations that remade the world in its image.
About the Author Alan Allport is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Syracuse University. Born in Liverpool, he grew up listening to family stories of the Merseyside Blitz and the Battle of the Atlantic while building Airfix kits and reading comics. He attended Liverpool Polytechnic where he received an undergraduate degree in physics; afterwards he emigrated to the United States, where he began a second life as a historian. He is the author of two previous volumes of history, Browned OffandBloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945, described by the historian Andrew Roberts as 'Second World War history at its best', and Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War, which won the 2010 Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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Profile Trade AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division Elif Shafak
The Booker Prize-shortlisted author on how staying optimistic can make our world better.
Description The must-read, pocket-sized Big Think book of 2020.
It feels like the world is falling apart. So how do we keep hold of our optimism? How do we nurture the parts of ourselves that hope, trust and believe in something better? And how can we stay sane in this world of division?
In this beautifully written and illuminating polemic, Booker Prize nominee Elif Shafak reflects on our age of pessimism, when emotions guide and misguide our politics, and misinformation and fear are the norm.
A tender, uplifting plea for optimism, Shafak draws on her own memories and delves into the power of stories to reveal how writing can nurture democracy, tolerance and progress. And in the process, she answers one of the most urgent questions of our time.
About the Author Elif Shafak is an award-winning novelist and the most widely read female writer in Turkey. Her novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019, and her work has been translated into more than fifty languages. Shafak holds a PhD in political science, is an inspiring public speaker and twice a TED global speaker. In 2019, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Profile Trade AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Breaking Bread with the Dead Alan Jacobs
The past isn't cancelled: it's not even past. How to cherish authors from Aristotle to Edith Wharton without succumbing to their most regrettable parts.
Description Should we still bother with the supposedly great works of past ages? Aristotle believed that men were naturally superior to women. Kant wrote that 'Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.' The Founding Fathers declared it 'self-evident' that all men are created equal, but nevertheless owned slaves. Small wonder that many readers prefer to close the book on the past. Rather than dwell amid the squalor of history, shouldn't we focus our attention on hopes for a better world?
The literary scholar Alan Jacobs hears you. He gets it. But you're wrong.
In a scintillating work that weaves together the Book of Genesis and Thomas Pynchon, the Roman poet Horace and Simone Weil, Jacobs shows how our encounters with the past in all its disturbing strangeness may be our best chance at winning a measure of mental freedom.
About the Author Alan Jacobs is the Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Baylor University. He has written for the Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, and Harper's and is the author of several books, including a biography of C. S. Lewis, an essay on the pleasures of reading, and How To Think.
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9781788162999 Format: B Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Pocket World in Figures 2021 The Economist
The new edition of this annual bestseller, packed with amazing data about the world in 2021.
Description For nearly thirty years, Pocket World in Figures has been the indispensable handbook on the state of the world. Where else would you find out, in a single volume, that Zambia is the most entrepreneurial country on earth, that Qatar uses the most energy per head of population and that the Virgin Islands has the fourth highest murder rate of any region in the world?
The new edition includes data from over 180 countries, presented in a series of rankings and country profiles. Updated, revised and expanded each year to include new rankings and features, it also includes detailed statistical profiles of more than sixty-five of the world's major economies, the euro area and the world itself.
The 2021 edition showcases the Economist's strength in data journalism with charts and graphs, and invites readers to test their knowledge with a fiendishly difficult quiz.
About the Author
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Profile Business AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Confessions of a Bookseller Shaun Bythell
Tricky customers, rude staff and everyone's favourite misanthropic bookseller: it's the second volume of the Sunday Times bestselling bookshop diaries, now available in paperback.
Description A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Irreverently funny ... kept me giggling all week.' - Scotland on Sunday
"Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?"
Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. With more than a mile of shelving, real log fires in the shop and the sea lapping nearby, the shop should be an idyll for bookworms.
Unfortunately, Shaun also has to contend with bizarre requests from people who don't understand what a shop is, home invasions during the Wigtown Book Festival and Granny, his neurotic Italian assistant who likes digging for river mud to make poultices.
About the Author Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, and also one of the organisers of the Wigtown Festival. He is the author of two bestselling volumes of diaries: The Diary of a Bookseller and follow-up, Confessions of a Bookseller. His books have been translated into Russia, Italian, Icelandic and Korean, among many other languages.
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Profile Trade AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 The Artist's Way Workbook Julia Cameron
A new, gorgeously repackaged edition of the classic companion to The Artist's Way.
Description For the millions of people who have uncovered their creative selves through The Artist's Way: a workbook and companion to the international bestseller.
In this elegantly redesigned and user-friendly volume you'll find:
- More than 110 Artist's Way tasks - More than 50 Artist's Way check-ins - Insights into the creative process - New ideas for Morning Pages and Artist's Dates
The Artist's Way Workbook is an indispensable book for anyone following the path to creativity laid out in The Artist's Way.
About the Author Julia Cameron is credited with starting a movement in 1992 that has brought creativity into the mainstream conversation - in the arts, in business, and in everyday life. She is the bestselling author of more than forty books, fiction and non-fiction, as well as poet, songwriter, filmmaker and playwright. The Artist's Way has been translated into forty languages and sold over five million copies to date.
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Souvenir Press AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 HypnoBirthing Marie Mongan
The original guide by Marie Mongan, the creator of HypnoBirthing and founder of the global HypnoBirthing Institute.
Description A new edition of the original book on HypnoBirthing.
No one can truly understand what it's like to give birth until you experience it but HypnoBirthing gives you the tools and knowledge to approach labour with confidence.
Pioneered by Marie Mongan, HypnoBirthing is about understanding the birthing body - what happens, why and when - and learning how to progress your labour using movement, breath and powerful visualisation techniques to manage pain. Based on decades of practice within The HypnoBirthing Institute, this complete guide:
- Takes you through labour, step by step - Prepares you physically and mentally with exercises and birthing positions - Teaches hypnotism and visualisation techniques to manage pain and banish fear - Explains the medical jargon so you can understand and work with medical assistance if needed
Whether you are having a natural, assisted or caesarean birth, HypnoBirthing will help every woman take control of their labour for a positive birth.
About the Author Marie Mongan was a clinical hypnotherapist and recipient of the 1995 National Guild of Hypnotists President's Award. She founded the HypnoBirthing Institute in the US in 1989 and it now operates globally. She was the mother of four children, all born using the techniques upon which HypnoBirthing is based. Marie Mongan passed away in June 2019.
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Souvenir Press AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Travel Light, Move Fast Alexandra Fuller
'You can survive more than you'd believe; Dad had told me that. He'd also told me you can survive more than you want; but it's not always up to you, not the enormous things, those are beyond all control...'
Description When her father becomes gravely ill on holiday in Budapest, Alexandra Fuller rushes to join her mother at his bedside, where they see out his last days together and then carry his ashes back to their farm in Zambia.
A master of time and memory, Fuller moves seamlessly between the days and months following her father's death. She contends with his overwhelming absence, and her memories of a childhood spent running after him in southern and central Africa. She then faces seemingly irreparable family fallout, new love found and lost, and, eventually, further unimaginable bereavement.
Bursting with pandemonium and tragedy, here is a story of joy, resilience and vitality, from a writer at the very height of her powers.
About the Author Alexandra Fuller was born in England in 1969. In 1972, she moved with her family to a farm in southern Africa. She lived in Africa until her midtwenties. In 1994, she moved to Wyoming. She is the author of several memoirs, including Leaving Before the Rains Come, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, and Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight.
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Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Improvise! Max Dickins
Become fearless using the skills of improvisation.
Description 'Improv' performers look like creative geniuses, coming up with brilliant comedy on the spur of the moment. But they rely on some simple rules and techniques - ones which anyone can learn. Improvise! takes the ideas and skills from improvisation offstage to help you communicate more clearly, act more confidently and think on your feet.
In a world of constant change and unrelenting speed, we can sometimes feel like we're struggling to keep up. Improv shows you how to handle whatever comes your way - from adapting to change at work, to speaking confidently, negotiating like a pro and overcoming your fear of failure. Plus you'll have fun while you do it!
Using proven methods, real-world examples and a light-hearted approach, comedian and coach Max Dickins teaches you the secrets of improv to achieve extraordinary results with what you've already got.
About the Author Max Dickins is the director of Hoopla, the UK's biggest improv school and theatre, where he trains both performers and corporate clients. A comedian and playwright, he has taken three critically acclaimed shows to Edinburgh Festival and Fringe; he is also the author of My Groupon Adventure (Unbound, 2016).
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Icon AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Sealand Dylan Taylor-Lehman
The raucous, stranger-than-fiction tale of Sealand - the tiny island nation off the Suffolk coast.
Description In 1967, retired army major and self-made millionaire Paddy Roy Bates inaugurated himself ruler of the Principality of Sealand on a World War II Maunsell Sea Fort near Felixstowe - and began the peculiar story of the world's most stubborn micronation.
Having fought off attacks from UK government officials and armed mercenaries for half a century - and thwarted an attempted coup that saw the Prince Regent taken hostage - the self-proclaimed independent nation still stands. It has its own constitution, national flag and anthem, currency, and passports - and offers the esteemed titles of 'Lord' or 'Lady' to its loyal patrons.
Incorporating original interviews with surviving members of the principality's royal family, and many rare, vintage photographs, Dylan Taylor-Lehman recounts the outrageous attempt to build a sovereign kingdom by a family of rogue, larger-than-life adventurers on an isolated platform in the freezing waters of the North Sea.
About the Author Dylan Taylor-Lehman is an award-winning writer and journalist. He has written for a variety of publications about landfill ecosystems, strange crimes, modern Kafkology, and the history of the Spanish tortilla. He lives in Ohio.
Price: AU $34.99 NZ $37.99 ISBN: 9781785786662 Format: Demy Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 216h x 135w mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Icon AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 The Gran Tour Ben Aitken
One millennial, six coach trips, one big generation gap.
Description When Ben Aitken learnt that his gran had enjoyed a four-night holiday including four three-course dinners, four cooked breakfasts, four games of bingo, a pair of excursions, sixteen pints of lager and luxury return coach travel, all for a hundred pounds, he thought, that's the life, and signed himself up. Six times over.
Good value aside, what Ben was really after was the company of his elders - those with more chapters under their belt, with the wisdom granted by experience, the candour gifted by time, and the hard-earned ability to live each day like it's nearly their last.
A series of coach holidays ensued - from Scarborough to St Ives, Killarney to Lake Como - during which Ben attempts to shake off his thirty-something blues by getting old as soon as possible.
About the Author Ben Aitken was born under Thatcher, grew to six foot then stopped, and is an Aquarius. He is the author of Dear Bill Bryson: Footnotes from a Small Island (2015) and A Chip Shop in Poznan: My Unlikely Year in Poland (2019), 'one of the funniest books of the year' (Paul Ross, talkRadio).
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Icon AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Corrupt Bodies Peter Everett, Kris Hollington
Must-read memoir of managing a morgue, dealing with everything from death and murder to chaos, corruption and organised crime.
Description 'A seriously eye-opening memoir' - Sunday Sport
In 1985, Peter Everett landed the job as Superintendent of Southwark Mortuary. In just six years he'd gone from lowly assistant to running the UK's busiest murder morgue. He couldn't believe his luck.
What he didn't know was that Southwark, operating in near-Victorian conditions, was a hotbed of corruption. Attendants stole from the dead, funeral homes paid bribes, and there was a lively trade in stolen body parts and recycled coffins.
Set in the fascinating pre-DNA and psychological profiling years of 1985-87, this memoir tells a gripping and gruesome tale, with a unique insight into a world of death most of us don't ever see. Peter managed pathologists, oversaw post mortems and worked alongside Scotland Yard's Murder Squad - including on the case of the serial killer, the Stockwell Strangler.
This is a thrilling tale of murder and corruption in the mid-1980s, told with insight and compassion.
About the Author Peter Everett is the former mortuary superintendent of Southwark Mortuary; he has dealt with over 12,000 deaths, 400 of which were cases of murder. Everett since became a journalist and now runs a TV production company.
Kris Hollington is a bestselling author and ghostwriter; several of his books have been adapted for TV.
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Icon AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Origins of the Universe Keith Cooper
The quest to find a theory of quantum gravity that could potentially explain everything.
Description Nearly 60 years ago, Nobel Prize-winners Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson stumbled across a mysterious hiss of faint radio static that was interfering with their observations. They had found the key to unravelling the story of the Big Bang and the origin of our universe.
That signal was the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the earliest light in the universe, released 379,000 years after the Big Bang. It contains secrets about what happened during the very first tiny increments of time, which had consequences that have rippled throughout cosmic history, leading to the universe of stars and galaxies that we live in today.
This is the enthralling story of the quest to understand the CMB radiation and what it can tell us of the origins of time and space, from bubble universes to a cyclical cosmos - and possibly leading to the elusive theory of quantum gravity itself.
About the Author Keith Cooper is a freelance science journalist and editor, and author of The Contact Paradox: Challenging Assumptions in Our Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Bloomsbury Sigma). He is the Editor of Astronomy Now, and has edited the website Astrobiology Magazine.
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Icon AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 The Ice at the End of the World Jon Gertner
A riveting account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand Greenland's rapidly melting ice: a dramatic harbinger of climate change.
Description Greenland: a remote, mysterious, ice-covered rock with a population of just 56,000, has evolved from one of earth's last physical frontiers to its largest scientific laboratory.
Locked within that vast 'white desert' are some of our planet's most profound secrets. As the Arctic climate warms, and Greenland's ice melts at an accelerating rate, the island is evolving into an economic and climatological hub, on which the future of the world turns.
Journalist and historian Jon Gertner reconstructs in vivid, thrilling detail the heroic efforts of the scientists and explorers who have visited Greenland over the past 150 years - on skis, sleds, and now with planes and satellites, utilising every tool available to uncover the pressing secrets revealed by the ice before, thanks to climate change, it's too late.
This is a story of epic adventures, populated by a colourful cast of scientists racing to get a handle on what will become of Greenland's ice and, ultimately, the world.
About the Author Jon Gertner is a journalist, historian and feature writer for The New York Times Magazine. His first book, The Idea Factory (Penguin, 2012) was a New York Times bestseller and described as 'riveting' by the New York Times, 'fascinating' by Slate, and 'compelling' by the Wall Street Journal.
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Icon AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Between Light and Storm Esther Woolfson
A landmark new book about the fraught relationship between humans and animals that takes us from Genesis to climate change.
Description Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers pre-historic human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions of the soul and conscience in relation to the animal kingdom, and the consequences of our belief in human superiority. She explores our representation of animals in art, our consumption of them for food, our experiments on them for science, and our willingness to slaughter them for sport and fashion, as well as examining concepts of love and ownership.
Drawing on philosophy and theology, art and history, as well as her own experience of living with animals and coming to know, love and respect them as individuals, Woolfson examines some of the most complex ethical issues surrounding our treatment of animals and argues passionately and persuasively for a more humble, more humane, relationship with the creatures who share our world.
About the Author Esther Woolfson grew up in Glasgow and studied Chinese at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Edinburgh University. She has been the recipient of a Scottish Arts Council Travel Grant and a Writer's Bursary. Her first book was Corvus: A Life with Birds, and her second, Field Notes from a Hidden City, was shortlisted for the 2014 Thwaites Wainwright Prize for Nature and Travel Writing. She lives in Aberdeen.
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Granta AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Encounters and Destinies Stefan Zweig, translated by Will Stone
A fascinating new collection of essays by Stefan Zweig: tributes to the great artists and thinkers of the Europe he knew.
Description Stefan Zweig was one of the twentieth century's greatest authors and a tireless champion of freedom, tolerance and friendship across borders. Encounters and Destinies collects his most impassioned and moving tributes to his many illustrious friends and peers: literary, philosophical and artistic luminaries from across the Old Europe that Zweig loved so much, and which he grieved to see so cruelly destroyed by two world wars.
Including pieces on Rainer Maria Rilke, Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud, Maxim Gorky and Arturo Toscanini, this essential collection is also Zweig's tribute to the ideal of friendship: an ideal he clung to as the world he knew was torn apart.
About the Author Stefan Zweig was one of the most popular and widely translated writers of the early twentieth century. Born into an Austrian-Jewish family in 1881, he became a leading figure in Vienna's cosmopolitan cultural world and was famed for his gripping novellas and vivid psychological biographies.
In 1934, following the Nazis' rise to power, Zweig fled Austria, first for England, where he wrote his famous novel Beware of Pity, then the United States and finally Brazil. It was here that he completed his acclaimed autobiography The World of Yesterday, a lament for the golden age of a Europe destroyed by two world wars. The articles and speeches in Messages from a Lost World were written as Zweig, a pacifist and internationalist, witnessed this destruction and warned of the threat to his beloved Europe. On 23 February 1942, Zweig and his second wife Lotte were found dead, following an apparent double suicide.
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Pushkin AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Machiavelli translated by Willard Wood, Patrick Boucheron
A sharp, witty biography that explores how Machiavelli's thought is key to understanding the political crisis of his time - and that of our own.
Description We turn to Machiavelli at every tumultuous period in history - he is the one who knows how to philsophise in dark times. In fact, since his death in 1527, we have never stopped reading him, always to pull ourselves out of a torpor. But what do we really know about this man? Is there more to his work than that term for political evil, Machiavellianism?
It was Machiavelli's luck to be disappointed by every statesman he encountered - that was why he had to create his paper Prince. Today, the question that remains is not why he wrote, but for whom - for princes or for those who want to resist them? What is the art of governing? Is it to take power, or to keep it?
In this timely book, Patrick Boucheron undoes many of our assumptions about Machiavelli, showing how his rich, complex thought is key to understanding his time, and may be crucial to interrogating our own.
About the Author Patrick Boucheron, born in 1965, is a French historian. He previously taught medieval history at the Ecole normale superieure and the University of Paris, and is currently a professor of history at the College de France. He is the author of twelve books and the editor of five, including France in the World, which became a bestseller in France.
Price: AU $27.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781782276678 Format: B Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Pushkin AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Easy Peasy Doggy Squeezy Steve Mann
Hundreds of your biggest dog-training questions answered by the UK's no.1 dog trainer.
Description What should I expect when I adopt a rescue dog? How can I stop my dog from barking at strangers? How do I teach an older dog, new tricks?
Steve Mann knows dogs. His incredible ability to understand dogs quickly has earned Steve the gratitude of dog owners everywhere, including a host of celebrities.
Easy Peasy Doggy Squeezy provides solutions to hundreds of dog training problems, including socialising, excessive barking and recall. Steve passes on his wisdom gained from working with thousands of dogs throughout his career. He teaches owners how to work out what kind of pet carer they are, and what techniques will work best with their pup. Believing that dogs need to be treated ethically, with good habits rewarded, Steve has developed a fun and practical programme that works with dogs however old they are and whatever their breed and personality.
About the Author Steve Mann has been a professional dog trainer and behaviourist for over 30 years. He has trained over 100,000 dogs and thousands of professional dog trainers. He is founder and chairman of the Institute of Modern Dog Trainers and presents seminars, courses and workshops for dog trainers and behaviourists worldwide.
A regular on TV, Steve has starred in several shows including The Underdog Show and Who Let The Dogs Out?, as well as appearing on BBC Breakfast and Lorraine. He has also trained some high-profile pups, including those of Graham Norton, Lorraine Kelly and Theo Walcott.
Steve would love to hear from you, and you can find him at www.stevemanndogtraining.com.
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Blink AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Easy Peasy Puppy Squeezy Steve Mann
The puppy training guide you've been waiting for!
Description My name's Steve Mann and I've been a professional dog trainer and behaviourist for over 30 years. As founder of the Institute of Modern Dog Trainers, I've helped transform the lives of over 100,000 dogs and their families - and now I want to help you, too!
Whether you're living with a brand-new puppy, an adult dog or rescue dog, my methods will give you everything you need to know. Using simple, proven, science-based and ethical techniques, I'll show you how to have the best relationship with your pup, as well as teaching you how to get super-fast recalls, great loose lead walking, perfect manners and much, MUCH more...
I promise, it really is easy peasy and every tip, trick and lesson will bring you and your puppy closer together.
I'll see you on the other side,
Enjoy! Steve Mann
About the Author Steve Mann has been a professional dog trainer and behaviourist for over 30 years. He has trained over 100,000 dogs and thousands of professional dog trainers. He is founder and chairman of the Institute of Modern Dog Trainers and presents seminars, courses and workshops for dog trainers and behaviourists worldwide.
A regular on TV, Steve has starred in several shows including The Underdog Show and Who Let The Dogs Out?, as well as appearing on BBC Breakfast and Lorraine. He has also trained some high-profile pups, including those of Graham Norton, Lorraine Kelly and Theo Walcott. Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781788701600 Format: C-Format PB Steve would love to hear from you, and you can find him at www.stevemanndogtraining.com. Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Heading Bic2:
Blink AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 MumLife Louise Pentland
The new book from Sunday Times bestselling author Louise Pentland.
Description Mum Life; noun: the inescapable swirling vortex of love, guilt, joy, annoyance, laughter and boredom that makes up the life of a mum.
Louise Pentland has been through a lot. From a traumatic birth with her first daughter, to single motherhood, to finding love again and having a second child, Louise's parenting journey has been full of surprises.
Discussing the realities most working mums face, plus the impact of maternal mental health, Louise is on a mission to make other mums feel less alone, and very much heard. She beautifully reveals her own imperfect but perfect route to motherhood, as well as the loss of her mum so early in her life, how it shaped her and the mother she became.
Reflective, uplifting and with her signature hilarious wit, MumLife will share Louise's ups and downs, reflecting on her route to motherhood and what she has learnt along the way. This is the honest truth, from someone who's been there and experienced it all.
About the Author Louise Pentland is the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Wilde novels trilogy. She's the number one parenting vlogger in the UK, with 8 million combined followers across her social platforms. Louise is the creator and host of the podcast Mothers' Meeting, where she interviews fellow mums and discusses all things motherhood.
Louise featured on the 2019 'Sunday Times Top 100 Influencers' list and writes amonthly column for Mother & Baby magazine, who crowned her as the number one 'mumfluencer' of 2019. She was also a UN Global Ambassador for Gender Equality. Louise has filmed with an array of people, from Kim Kardashian to the Pope at the Vatican. She is also involved in the support and encouragement of childhood literacy with charity Bookstart, alongside Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall. Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781788702928 Format: C-Format HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: pages Bic1: Bic2:
Blink AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Milk It: Everything You Need to Know About Breastfeeding Chantelle Champs
A modern, up-to-date, friendly and non-judgemental breastfeeding guide for new parents, with personal stories and expert advice.
Description In her down-to-earth style, Chantelle will act as your guide and support system as you prepare to Milk It, including:
Preparing before birth What to expect in the early days Milestones to reach Breastfeeding in public and going back to work Problems to look out for with tried and tested solutions ...and much more
Chantelle believes that every parent should feed their baby in whichever way they think is best, and it is her mission in life to make sure mums have as much information as possible when thinking about breastfeeding. Milk It is her way of doing just that, and is written with the support and know-how of a certified lactation consultant to make sure it is as useful and up-to-date as possible.
In personal notes, Chantelle tells her own story of motherhood and breastfeeding, including the issues she experienced and how she ended up tandem feeding her twins after their premature births. Milk It shares other real mums' stories of breastfeeding, mental health and body image, so that you know whatever you choose and are going through, you are not alone.
Milk It is everything you need to know about breastfeeding - from a mum who knows.
About the Author
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 Chantelle is originally from Canvey Island in Essex, and is a mother to three daughters; Dakota (5), and twins Tatum and ISBN: 9781788702744 Blakely (18 months). She started an Instagram account to document her pregnancy with twins, and having breastfed all of Format: Demy her children, wants to share years' worth of accumulated knowledge with the thousands of parents who have messaged Package Type: PAPERBACK her for advice. Dimensions: 216h x 135w mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Chantelle is a staunch supporter of mums feeding their baby however they feel is best. She is also an ambassador for the Bic2:
You can find her at Intagram/chantellechamps, where she'd love to hear from you.
Lagom AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 The Dirty Dozen Noel 'Razor' Smith
The true story of London's most prolific armed robbery gang.
Description The average bank robbery takes around four minutes. The essential ingredients are ruthlessness, cunning and plenty of bottle. You'll also need a weapon, a disguise and a getaway car. If you have all those things, then you could go to work right now. The Bradish boys had all these things and, boy, did they go to work.
The 'Dirty Dozen' were a ruthless federation of criminals who ran the armed robbery game in London for over a decade.
When charismatic leader 'Gentleman' Jim Doyle was jailed, the innovative but violent Bradish twins, Sean and Vincent, stepped up to take the throne. Hardened by a life in London's most lawless corners, they recruited a tight-knit crew to forge a reputation as the brutal kings of their underworld trade.
Banks, security vans, post offices, travel agents - anywhere was fair game and nowhere was safe. With endless money at their disposal, the gang spent freely on cars, drugs and decadence. Life was good.
But with the Met's tough-as-nails Flying Squad hot on their heels, a member of the inner circle cracked under the pressure and turned grass - and so began the thrilling chase-down of the Bradish boys and their illicit empire. The Dirty Dozen is the real story of the rise and fall of London's most feared crime syndicate.
About the Author Noel 'Razor' Smith is a former professional armed robber who has spent thirty-three years of his life serving sentence after sentence in prisons around Britain. He taught himself to read and write in prison, gained an Honours Diploma from The London School of Journalism and an A-Level in Law, and has penned several books including bestselling memoir A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781789462265 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Bic2:
John Blake AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 The Day The War Ended Jacky Hyams
Snapshots of Britain during the momentous events which brought the Second World War to a close.
Description Tuesday, 8 May 1945: Victory in Europe Day.
A day of joyous celebration, as the end of a conflict which had engulfed the world came within touching distance. Millions of people celebrated in the streets throughout Britain.
Yet not all was right in the world. Struggles remained ahead - war still raged on between the Allies and Japan. Agreements and treaties were yet to be forged. Lives continued to be lost around the world.
Meanwhile in Britain, although the pressure of supporting active military campaigns was reduced, lives were irrevocably changed in other ways. Bonds forged by the momentum of struggle, by hardship, unity and common purpose would begin to fade, and give way to the wounds of sorrow, upheaval and trauma that six years of conflict had riven.
What was it really like to be living in Britain as the war drew to a close, giving way to a new era of hope, but also of deep uncertainty? In The Day the War Ended, bestselling author Jacky Hyams delivers a sweeping story, weaving together illuminating untold stories with contemporary records and photographs. The result is a moving, personal insight into hearts and minds across the home front right through the momentous year of 1945, as war ended and 'everything after' took root, shaping the world we know today.
About the Author Jacky Hyams is a Brighton-based journalist and Sunday Times bestselling non-fiction author. She has written over ten non-fiction books, including three personal memoirs about post-war London in the 50s and 60s and several historical titles, The Female Few, exploring the unique role of Britain's female Spitfire pilots in WWII, Bomb Girls: Britain's Secret Army, the hidden WWII history of Britain's female munitions workers, and Spitfire Stories, published in 2017.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781789463392 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Bic2:
John Blake AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Earthlings Sayaka Murata
Mind blowing, dark and wild, the new novel from Sayaka Murata - author of bestseller Convenience Store Woman - asks: how far would you go just to be yourself?
Description Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together with her cousin Yuu, Natsuki spends her summers in the wild mountains of Nagano, dreaming of other worlds. When a terrible sequence of events threatens to part the two children forever, they make a promise: survive, no matter what.
Now Natsuki is grown. She lives a quiet life with her asexual husband, surviving as best she can by pretending to be normal. But the demands of Natsuki's family are increasing, her friends wonder why she's still not pregnant, and dark shadows from Natsuki's childhood are pursuing her. Fleeing the suburbs for the mountains of her childhood, Natsuki prepares herself with a reunion with Yuu. Will he still remember their promise? And will he help her keep it?
About the Author A bestselling literary sensation, Sayaka Murata has won all of Japan's major literary prizes, and been named a Vogue Woman of the Year. Murata spent eighteen years working part-time in convenience stores before the success of Convenience Store Woman afforded her the freedom to leave and write full time. Convenience Store Woman has sold more than a million copies in Japan alone and is being translated into twenty-three languages worldwide.
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9781783785674 Format: Demy Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 216h x 135w mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Granta AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Mayflies Andrew O'Hagan
A heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong friendship.
Description 'An immensely engaging writer: wry and witty, and insightful.' - Sunday Times
'A vivid and meticulous writer.' - Observer
From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hagan, a heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong friendship.
Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life.
In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the climax of their youth: a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicentre of everything that inspires them in working-class Britain. There, against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded, a vow is made: to go at life differently.
Thirty years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has news.
Mayflies is a memorial to youth's euphorias and to everyday tragedy. A tender goodbye to an old union, it discovers the joy and the costs of love.
About the Author Andrew O'Hagan is Editor-at-Large of the London Review of Books. He has been nominated for the Booker Prize and was voted one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003. O'Hagan has won the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9780571273683 Format: Demy Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 216h x 135w mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 The Death of Vivek Oji Akwaeke Emezi
The astonishing new novel from the author of Freshwater - longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Wellcome Book Prize.
Description They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died.
This is the tale of Vivek Oji: it begins with his end, his naked body shrouded on his mother's doorstep, and moves backwards through time to unpick the story of his life and the mystery surrounding his death.
The Death of Vivek Oji is the story of a Nigerian childhood quite different from those we have been told before. Teeming with unforgettable characters, it is as compulsively readable as it is tender and potent. This novel of family and friendship challenges expectations - it is a story of the innocence of youth that will move every reader.
'Emezi's surreal prose shines...extraordinary.' - Ayobami Adebayo, on Freshwater
About the Author Akwaeke Emezi is an Igbo and Tamil writer and video artist based in liminal spaces. They are a recipient of the National Book Foundation's '5 Under 35' award for 2018, selected by Carmen Maria Machado. Born in Umuahia and raised in Aba, Nigeria, Emezi holds two degrees, including an MPA from New York University. In 2017, Emezi was awarded a Global Arts Fund grant and a Sozopol Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction. They won the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa, and their writing has been published by Dazed Magazine, The Cut, Buzzfeed, Granta Online, Vogue.com, and Commonwealth Writers, among others. Freshwater, their debut novel, was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in fiction by the American Library Association, and longlisted for both the Wellcome Book Prize and Women's Prize for Fiction in 2019.
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9780571350988 Format: Demy Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 216h x 135w mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Postcolonial Love Poem Natalie Diaz
A transformative collection of poetry that is an anthem of desire against erasure.
Description Postcolonial Love Poem is a thunderous river of a book. It demands that every body carried in its pages - bodies of language, land, suffering brothers, enemies and lovers - be touched and held. Where the bodies of indigenous, Latinx, black and brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic. In claiming this autonomy of desire, language is pushed to its dark edges, the astonishing dune fields and forests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy, violence and sensuality.
Diaz defies the conditions from which she writes, a nation whose creation predicated the diminishment and ultimate erasure of bodies like hers and the people she loves. Her poetry questions what kind of future we might create, built from the choices we make now.
About the Author Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, won an American Book Award. She is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow, as well as a Lannan Literary Fellow and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. She was awarded the Holmes National Poetry Prize and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. She is a member of the Board of Trustees for the United States Artists, where she is an alumnus of the Ford Fellowship. Diaz is the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University.
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9780571359868 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Faber Poetry AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 A Ruined Girl Kate Simants
Winner of the Bath Novel Award, this is an immersive and heartrending thriller, set in the world of the foster system and forgotten children.
Description 'A tense, unsettling and emotionally engaging whydunnit that grips from the first page' - Sophie Hannah
'Gritty, tense, and superbly plotted... left me breathless' - Harriet Tyce
'Superb. A rare combination of stunning twists and exceptional prose' - David Jackson
Two boys loved her. But which one killed her?
On a dark night two years ago, teenagers Rob and Paige broke into a house. They beat and traumatised the occupants, then left, taking only a bracelet. No one knows why, not even Luke, Rob's younger brother and Paige's confidant. Paige disappeared after that night. And having spent her life in children's homes and the foster system, no one cared enough to look for her.
Now Rob is out of prison, and probation officer Wren Reynolds has been tasked with his rehabilitation. But Wren has her own reasons for taking on Rob as a client. Convinced that Rob knows what happened to Paige, and hiding a lifetime of secrets from her heavily pregnant wife, Wren's obsession with finding a missing girl may tear her family apart...
For readers of Harriet Tyce and Sophie Hannah, A Ruined Girl is a beautiful and compulsive thriller.
About the Author Kate Simants spent several years as an investigative undercover journalist for Channel 4 and the BBC; her investigations
Price: AU $34.99 NZ $39.99 into children's homes were the inspiration for A Ruined Girl. She was shortlisted for a CWA Debut Dagger for her first ISBN: 9781788165976 novel Lock Me In and won the UEA Literary Festival scholarship to study for an MA in Crime Fiction. She graduated with Format: Demy distinction. She lives near Bristol with her family. Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 216h x 135w mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Time to Say Goodbye Rosie Goodwin
The finale of Rosie Goodwin's bestselling Days of the Week collection.
Description Nuneaton, 1935.
Kathy has grown up at Treetops home for children, where Sunday and Tom Branning have always cared for her as one of their own. She enjoys her life at Treetops Manor, surrounded by her beloved horses, and with a future as a nurse ahead of her, she could wish for nothing more.
But when Tom dies suddenly in a riding accident, life at Treetops will never be the same again. Kathy is distraught, and Sunday, overwhelmed by grief, leaves the running of the estate to her stepson.
In an effort to raise all their spirits, Sunday invites the former residents of Treetops to return to the house for one final celebration before its inevitable closure. But as their financial difficulties mount, will Kathy and Sunday be forced to leave their home?
About the Author Rosie Goodwin is the million copy bestselling author of more than thirty novels. She is the first author in the world to be allowed to follow three of Catherine Cookson's trilogies with her own sequels. Having worked in the social services sector for many years, then fostered a number of children, she is now a full-time novelist. She is one of the top 50 most borrowed authors from UK libraries. Rosie lives in Nuneaton, the setting for many of her books, with her husband and their beloved dogs.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781838770235 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 464 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Zaffre AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Livewired David Eagleman
A remarkable account of the brain's plasticity, from the internationally bestselling author.
Description How can a blind person learn to see with her tongue or a deaf person learn to hear with his skin? What does a baby born without a nose tell us about our sensory machinery? Might we someday control a robot with our thoughts? And what does any of this have to do with why we dream?
The answers to these questions are not right in front of our eyes; they're right behind our eyes.
This book is not simply about what the brain is, but what it does. Covering decades of research to the present day, Livewired also presents new findings from Eagleman's own research, including new discoveries in synaesthesia, dreaming and wearable neurotech devices that revolutionise how we think about the senses.
About the Author Dr David Eagleman is a neuroscientist and internationally bestselling author. He teaches Brain Plasticity at Stanford University, is creator and host of the Emmy-nominated BBC television series The Brain, and is the Chief Executive Officer of NeoSensory, a company that builds the next generation of neuroscience hardware. The author of seven other books, he lives in Palo Alto, California.
@davideagleman | eagleman.com
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9781838850968 Format: Misc HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 240h x 162w mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 The Human Cosmos Jo Marchant
A journey through the history of science and man's relationship with the night sky and the cosmos beyond, from the author of Royal Society Prize-shortlisted Cure.
Description For most of human history, we have led not just an earthly existence but a cosmic one. Celestial cycles drove every aspect of our daily lives. Our innate relationship with the stars shaped who we are - our religious beliefs, power structures, scientific advances and even our biology. But over the last few centuries we have separated ourselves from the universe that surrounds us. And that disconnect comes at a cost.
In The Human Cosmos Jo Marchant takes us on a tour through the history of humanity's relationship with the heavens. We travel to the Hall of the Bulls in Lascaux and witness the summer solstice at a 5,000-year-old tomb at Newgrange. We visit Medieval monks grappling with the nature of time and Tahitian sailors navigating by the stars. We discover how light reveals the chemical composition of the sun, and we are with Einstein as he works out that space and time are one and the same. A four-billion-year-old meteor inspires a search for extra-terrestrial life. And we discover why star-gazing can be really, really good for us.
It is time for us to rediscover the full potential of the universe we inhabit, its wonder, its effect on our health, and its potential for inspiration and revelation.
About the Author Dr Jo Marchant is an award-winning science journalist. She has a PhD in genetics and medical microbiology from St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, London, and an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College. She has worked as an editor at New Scientist and Nature, and her articles have appeared in the Guardian, Wired, Observer, New Scientist and Nature. She is the author of Decoding the Heavens, shortlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, and Cure, shortlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books and longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize.
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 @JoMarchant | jomarchant.com ISBN: 9781786894021 Format: Misc HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 220h x 144w mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Ten Days in Harlem Simon Hall
Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York.
Description New York City, September 1960. Fidel Castro has just arrived for the opening of the UN General Assembly.
Wild rumours are circulating that the Cubans 'killed, plucked, and cooked chickens in their rooms . extinguishing cigars on expensive carpets'; Castro - in his trademark olive fatigues - receives a rapturous reception from the local African American community, and holds court with political and cultural luminaries including Malcolm X, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Nikita Khrushchev ('about as welcome to the US as the Black Plague' - Time), Amiri Baraka, and Allen Ginsberg. His fervour in promising the politics of anti-imperialism, racial equality, and leftist revolution makes him an icon of the 1960s.
In this brilliant slice of modern history, Simon Hall reveals how these ten days were a crucial hinge point in the trajectory of the Cold War. Encompassing international geopolitics, decolonisation, the nascent Civil Rights and Black Power movements, and radical student counterculture, Ten Days in Harlem revolutionises our understanding of the unique melting pot that was the Sixties - and beyond.
About the Author Simon Hall studied history at Sheffield and Cambridge, and held a Fox International Fellowship at Yale, before moving to the University of Leeds, where he is currently Professor of Modern History. His previous books include 1956: The World in Revolt (Faber).
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Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 God's Shadow Alan Mikhail
An explosive global history of Sultan Selim I and how he changed the course of global history.
Description Long neglected in world history, the Ottoman Empire was a hub of flourishing intellectual fervor, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. At the helm of its ascent was the omnipotent Sultan Selim I (1470-1520), who, with the aid of his extraordinarily gifted mother, Gulbahar, hugely expanded the empire, propelling it onto the world stage.
Aware of centuries of European suppression of Islamic history, Alan Mikhail centers Selim's Ottoman Empire and Islam as the very pivots of global history, redefining such world-changing events as Christopher Columbus's voyages - which originated, in fact, as a Catholic jihad that would come to view Native Americans as somehow "Moorish" - the Protestant Reformation, and the transatlantic slave trade.
Drawing on previously unexamined sources and written in gripping detail, Mikhail's groundbreaking account vividly recaptures Selim's life and world. An historical masterwork, God's Shadow radically reshapes our understanding of a world we thought we knew.
A leading historian of his generation, Alan Mikhail, Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Yale University, has reforged our understandings of the past through his previous three prize-winning books on the history of Middle East.
About the Author A leading historian of his generation, ALAN MIKHAIL, professor of history and chair of the Department of History at Yale University, has reforged our understandings of the past through his previous three prize-winning books on the history of Middle East. In writing God's Shadow, he has drawn on Ottoman Turkish, modern Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, Italian, and French sources.
Price: AU $49.99 NZ $55.00 ISBN: 9780571331918 Format: C-Format HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 496 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Paris Match John von Sothen
How to become Parisian - a genuine, laugh-out-loud tale of French life.
Description In Brooklyn, John von Sothen fell in love with Anais, a French waitress. And then, one night in Paris, on the Pont Neuf, she agreed to marry him ("Bah, we can always get divorced!"). A couple of decades in, the two have become quatre, living in their beloved 10th arondissement with teenage kids who chat to their African neighbours in fluent Parisian slang, and John has even become kind of French himself. Well, he likes to think he has. The family still see him as an American innocent abroad.
Paris Match is one of those rare books that makes you laugh out loud, as von Sothen attempts to understand what makes the French tick. Why do they take such long holidays with friends who ration snacks and mock you for sleeping in; why do French men turn to him (an American!) for fashion tips; what really is the correct way to cut brie, and how do you tell if you're being invited to a super-exclusive secret society of intellectuals or a weird sex club? John von Sothen has found most of the answers and in this delightful, witty book shares his experience, insights and humour into the fine art of becoming everyday French.
About the Author John von Sothen is an American writer living in Paris, where he works for Vanity Fair, Esquire and other magazines, does voice-overs for French luxury brands, and occasionally performs stand-up comedy (in French and English!). He lives with his actress wife Anais, their children Bibi and Otho, and their dog Bogart, who has recently become a rom-com film star.
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9781788164597 Format: Misc HB Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 204h x 138w mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 People Like Us Hashi Mohamed
One man's story of social mobility and inequality - and a searching analysis of what needs to change.
Description 'Hashi Mohamed powerfully exposes the alienating and segregating effect of social immobility in this country. Beautifully written, People Like Us makes a deeply personal case for a world in which anybody can reach success, but doesn't have to leave a part of themselves behind to achieve it.' - David Lammy MP
What does it take to make it in modern Britain?
Ask a politician, and they'll tell you it's hard work. Ask a millionaire, and they'll tell you it's talent. Ask a CEO and they'll tell you it's dedication. But what if none of those things is enough?
Raised on benefits and having attended some of the lowest-performing schools in the country, barrister Hashi Mohamed knows something about social mobility. In People Like Us, he shares what he has learned: from the stark statistics that reveal the depth of the problem to the failures of imagination, education and confidence that compound it.
We live in a society where the single greatest indicator of what your job will be is the job of your parents. Where power and privilege are concentrated among the 7 per cent of the population who were privately educated. Where, if your name sounds black or Asian, you'll need to send out twice as many job applications as your white neighbour.
Wherever you are on the social spectrum, this is an essential investigation into our society's most intractable problem. We have more power than we realise to change things for the better.
About the Author Hashi Mohamed arrived in Britain as a child refugee, and is now a Barrister at No5 Chambers in London. A contributor to the Guardian, The Times and Prospect, he has explored class and mobility for the BBC. He presented Adventures in Social Mobility (April 2017) and Macpherson: What Happened Next (2019). Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9781788161138 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2020 Not The Type Camilla Thurlow
This is a book about courage - not just the courage to go out and deal with a lethal threat in some of the world's most dangerous places, but the courage to confront one's own fears and anxieties, and to be oneself in what too often seems an inhospitable world.
Description Camilla Thurlow came second on Love Island in 2017. More recently, she has impressed viewers in the latest series of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins. But that's not the most interesting part...
Camilla can do something that none of her fellow contestants, and not even the ex-Special Forces directing staff on Celebrity SAS can do: find, neutralise and destroy the landmines that threaten the lives and livelihoods of so many people in the world's former war zones, and make their land unworkable.
This is at once a memoir of an extraordinary life, by a very remarkable young woman, and a script for living one's life to the full. Camilla Thurlow is a highly independent spirit whose thoughts and experience will resonate with anyone seeking meaning in a world where women are too often discounted, or who frequently feel alienated amid the frenzy of contemporary life.
Not The Type will inspire a whole generation to dare the seemingly impossible. This is a book based in part on Camilla's meetings with inspiring women who have helped shape her and taught her invaluable lessons. It is also a book about learning to confront one's own anxieties in a world frequently dominated by celebrity culture, and about being a woman in what is, still, all too often a man's world.
About the Author
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John Blake