Josephine's Garden Stephanie Parkyn

NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Josephine's Garden Stephanie Parkyn

A captivating story of love, nature and identity in Napoleon's France

Description 'Stephanie Parkyn is one very talented storyteller.' -Mrs B's Book Reviews

France, 1794. In the aftermath of the bloody end to the French Revolution, Rose de Beauharnais stumbles from prison on the day she is to be guillotined. Within a decade, she'll transform into the scandalous socialite who marries Napoleon Bonaparte, become Empress Josephine of France and build a garden of wonders with plants and animals she gathers from across the globe.

But she must give Bonaparte an heir or she risks losing everything.

Two other women from very different spheres are tied to the fate of the Empress Josephine - Marthe Desfriches and Anne Serreaux. Their lives are put at risk as they each face confronting obstacles in their relationships and in their desire to become mothers.

From the author of Into the World comes a richly imagined historical novel about obsession, courage, love and marriage.

'Enthralling novel, rich in historical detail ... Highly recommended.' -Good Reading on Into the World

About the Author Stephanie Parkyn's first novel, Into the World, was published to wide acclaim in 2017. Stephanie always wanted to write fiction, growing up in a book-loving family in Christchurch, New Zealand. She had a rewarding career as an environmental scientist, but is now living her dream of writing stories and travelling to find them. She is fascinated by the human motivations behind the events of history and is particularly drawn to illuminating women's stories. After enjoying ten years living and exploring in Australia, she now writes from her home in a bush-clad valley in Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand. Josephine's Garden is her second novel. Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781760529833 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Historical fiction Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Coromandel, NZ

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Allen & Unwin NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Last Resort Marissa Stapley

'A cult-like couples retreat... secrets, lies and psychoses... a climax of biblical proportions. A rollicking thrill- ride!' - Robyn Harding, bestselling author of The Party.

Description Harmony Resort promises hope for struggling marriages. Run by celebrity power couple Drs. Miles and Grace Markell, the 'last resort' offers a chance for partners to repair their relationships in a luxurious setting on the gorgeous Mayan Riviera.

Johanna and Ben have a marriage that looks perfect on the surface, but in reality they don't know each other at all. Shell and Colin fight constantly: after all, Colin is a workaholic and Shell always comes second to his job as an executive at a powerful mining company. But what has really torn them apart is too devastating to talk about. When both couples begin Harmony's intensive program, it becomes clear that Harmony is not all it seems - and neither are Miles and Grace themselves. What are they hiding, and what price will these couples pay for finding out?

As a deadly tropical storm descends on the coast, trapping the hosts and the guests on the resort, secrets are revealed, loyalties are tested and not one single person - or their marriage - will remain unchanged by what follows.

About the Author Marissa Stapley?is a journalist and the author of the acclaimed novel Things to Do When It's Raining. She writes page- turning, deeply emotional fiction about families, friends and women's lives. Visit her at?marissastapley.com?or follow her on Twitter, @marissastapley. Marissa Stapley is represented by Samantha Haywood.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781760875688 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Thriller / suspense Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Toronto, Canada

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Allen & Unwin NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Return to Stringybark Creek Karly Lane

'Karly Lane has a wonderful way of creating a sense of place - Stringybark Creek comes alive off the page... These are books I know I can fall into and be transported.' - Noveltea Corner.

Description The Callahans of Stringybark Creek - Book 3

When Hadley Callahan returns to Stringybark Creek without her husband, Mitch Samuals, she plans to tell her parents one major piece of news while determinedly hiding another even more explosive secret.

For Oliver Dawson, the Callahans' neighbour, Hadley's celebrity wedding two years ago had killed any hopes he'd nurtured that one day they might end up together.

With Mitch putting pressure on Hadley and the secret she's keeping causing her great anguish, Hadley's developing feelings for Ollie take her by surprise. But with her life thrown into so much chaos at the moment, what future could they possibly have together?

Return to Stringybark Creek concludes the Callahan family trilogy with a delightfully irresistible story of loyalty, hope and the importance of staying true to yourself.

About the Author Karly Lane lives on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. Proud mum to four children and wife of one very patient mechanic, she is lucky enough to spend her day doing the two things she loves most - being a mum and writing stories set in beautiful rural Australia.

Her bestselling novels include North Star, Morgan's Law, Bridie's Choice, Poppy's Dilemma, Gemma's Bluff, Tallowood Bound, Second Chance Town, Third Time Lucky, If Wishes Were Horses, Six Ways to Sunday, Someone Like You, The Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781760529239 Wrong Callahan and Mr Right Now - the first two books Callahans of Stringybark Creek series. Return to Stringybark Format: Paperback - C format Creek is her fourteenth novel. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 328 pages Bic1: Romance Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: North Coast, NSW

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Michael Connelly NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Last Drinks Andrew McGahan

It's closing time in the Queensland underworld. Last Drinks is brilliant, suspenseful and masterfully written.

Description Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year, the Queensland Premier's Literary Award and winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel.

It's a decade since the infamous Inquiry into corruption tore the state of Queensland apart. But for George Verney, disgraced journalist and bit-player in the great scandals of his day, the Inquiry has never quite finished. After ten years of self-imposed exile, drawn by the terrible death of a man who was his friend, he reluctantly returns to Brisbane, the city of his downfall. In a town he no longer recognises and through an underworld that has forgotten him, George must seek out the other hidden survivors of his times, to confront the truth about their common past.

'Last Drinks, fast moving, funny and shocking, is a lament for all that can go wrong not only in the life of one man, but in the life of an entire state.

This is crime fiction that transcends the genre . . . It's a truly compelling and stylish novel, seamlessly written.' - Debra Adelaide, Sydney Morning Herald

About the Author Andrew McGahan was born in Dalby, Queensland, and now lives in Victoria. His first novel Praise (1992) won the 1991 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the regional prize for best first book in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. His second novel was the prequel 1988 (1995), and his third novel Last Drinks (2000) was shortlisted for multiple awards, including The Age Book of the Year and the Courier Mail Book of the Year, and won a Ned Kelly award for crime writing. In 2004, The White Earth was published and won the 2005 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the South East Asia and South Pacific region, The Age Book of the Year (Fiction) and the Courier Mail Book of the Year Award. It was also shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards. McGahan's fifth novel, Underground, was published in 2006 and was shortlisted in the Queensland Premier's Prize for fiction and for the Aurealis Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781741147742 Award. In 2009, Wonders of a Godless World was published to acclaim and won the Aurealis Award. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 195x130mm McGahan's award-winning writing also includes stage plays and the screenplay for the movie version of Praise. Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) In 2011, McGahan launched his children's book series, the Ship Kings. The Coming of the Whirlpool was shortlisted for Illustrations: the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year award - older readers, for the Indie Awards, for the WA Previous Titles: Premier's Book Award, was a finalist in the Aurealis Awards and was longlisted for the Gold Inky for an Australian YA Author now living: Sunshine, VIC book. The second novel in the Ship King series - Voyage of the Unquiet Ice was published in 2012.

His final novel, The Rich Man's House, was published in 2019. Allen & Unwin NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Praise Andrew McGahan

Bestselling Vogel Award-winning novel about sex, drugs and alcohol - and about being young in Australia.

Description Winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 1991.

Praise is an utterly frank and darkly humorous novel about being young in the Australia of the 1990s. A time when the dole was easier to get than a job, when heroin was better known than ecstasy, and when ambition was the dirtiest of words. A time when, for two hopeless souls, sex and dependence were the only lifelines.

'McGahan's book is a bracing slap in the face to conventional platitudes and hypocrisies.' - The Australian

'Praise is one of those books that takes a hefty bite out of a piece of subject matter, chews it to a pulp and then spits it out.' - Peter Craven

'A tour de force. revelation of life in the slow lane of drugs and sex and alcohol.' - The Weekend Australian

Winner of The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in the Pacific Region. Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and the Canada-Australia Literary Award.

About the Author Andrew McGahan was born in Dalby, Queensland, and now lives in Victoria. His first novel Praise (1992) won the 1991 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the regional prize for best first book in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. His second novel was the prequel 1988 (1995), and his third novel Last Drinks (2000) was shortlisted for multiple awards, including The Age Book of the Year and the Courier Mail Book of the Year, and won a Ned Kelly award for crime writing. In 2004, The White Earth was published and won the 2005 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the South East Asia and South Pacific region, The Age Book of the Year (Fiction) and the Courier Mail Book of Price: $22.99 $28.99 ISBN: 9781741147728 the Year Award. It was also shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards. McGahan's fifth novel, Format: Paperback - B format Underground, was published in 2006 and was shortlisted in the Queensland Premier's Prize for fiction and for the Aurealis Dimensions: 198x128mm Award. In 2009, Wonders of a Godless World was published to acclaim and won the Aurealis Award. Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) McGahan's award-winning writing also includes stage plays and the screenplay for the movie version of Praise. Illustrations: Previous Titles: In 2011, McGahan launched his children's book series, the Ship Kings. The Coming of the Whirlpool was shortlisted for Author now living: Sunshine, VIC the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year award - older readers, for the Indie Awards, for the WA Premier's Book Award, was a finalist in the Aurealis Awards and was longlisted for the Gold Inky for an Australian YA book. The second novel in the Ship King series - Voyage of the Unquiet Ice was published in 2012. Allen & Unwin NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The White Earth Andrew McGahan

A haunting, powerful novel about the power of the land and the passions of people trying to make it their own.

Description Winner of the 2005 Miles Franklin Literary Award

One spring day in late 1992, when William was halfway between his eighth birthday and his ninth, he looked out from the back verandah of his home and saw, huge in the sky, the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion. He stared at it, wondering. The thunderhead was dirty black, streaked with billows of grey. It rolled and boiled as it climbed into the clear blue day, casting a vast shadow upon the hills beyond. But there was no sound, no rumble of an explosion. William was aware of the smell of burning . . . but it was a good smell, a familiar smell. The smell of grass, of wheat, of the farm itself.

His father dead by fire and his mother plagued by demons of her own, William is cast upon the charity of his unknown uncle - an embittered old man encamped in the ruins of a once great station homestead, Kuran House. It's a baffling and sinister new world for the boy, a place of decay and secret histories. His uncle is obsessed by a long life of decline and by a dark quest for revival, his mother is desperate for a wealth and security she has never known, and all their hopes it seems come to rest upon William's young shoulders. But as the past and present of Kuran Station unravel and merge together, the price of that inheritance may prove to be the downfall of them all. The White Earth is a haunting, disturbing and cautionary tale.

'The novel is beautifully structured, filled with parallels and reverberations which come back to haunt and illuminate the reader as the story unfolds.' - Katharine England, Adelaide Advertiser

'A great Australian story embracing national themes that should engage us all.' - Lucy Clark, The Sunday Telegraph

In 2011, McGahan launched his children's book series, The Ship Kings. The Coming of the Whirlpool was shortlisted for the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year award - older readers, for the Indie Awards, for the WA Premier's Book Award, was a finalist in the Aurealis Awards and was longlisted for the Gold Inky for anAllen Australian & Unwin YA NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Underground Andrew McGahan

Blistering, brilliant, corrosively sharp and blackly comic - an unforgettable novel from the Miles Franklin Award winner, Andrew McGahan.

Description Underground is the novel that at least half the country has been waiting for.

Think ahead five or so years from now, to an Australia transformed by the never-ending war on terror. Canberra has been wiped out in a nuclear attack. There is a permanent state of emergency. Security checkpoints, citizenship tests, identity cards and detention without trial have all become the norm. Suspect minorities have been locked away into ghettos. And worse - no one wants to play cricket with us anymore.

Enter Leo James - burnt-out property developer and black-sheep twin brother of the all powerful Bernard James, Prime Minister of Australia. In an event all too typical of the times, Leo finds himself abducted by terrorists. But this won't be your average kidnapping. Instead, vast and secret forces are at work here, and Leo and his captors are about to embark on a journey into the underworld of a nation gone mad.

Like some bastard child of Dr Strangelove and George Orwell, Underground is both an adrenalin-pumped thriller and a gleefully barbed satire that takes a chainsaw to political neo-correctness and Australia's new ultra-nationalism. Blistering and blackly comic, this book goes straight to the heart of the country's future - and it isn't pretty.

About the Author Andrew McGahan was born in Dalby, Queensland, and now lives in Victoria. His first novel Praise (1992) won the 1991 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the regional prize for best first book in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. His second novel was the prequel 1988 (1995), and his third novel Last Drinks (2000) was shortlisted for multiple awards, including The Age Book of the Year and the Courier Mail Book of the Year, and won a Ned Kelly award for crime writing. In 2004, The White Earth was published and won the 2005 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the South East Asia and South Pacific region, The Age Book of the Year (Fiction) and the Courier Mail Book of Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781741753301 the Year Award. It was also shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards. McGahan's fifth novel, Format: Paperback - B format Underground, was published in 2006 and was shortlisted in the Queensland Premier's Prize for fiction and for the Aurealis Dimensions: 195x130mm Award. In 2009, Wonders of a Godless World was published to acclaim and won the Aurealis Award. Extent: 324 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) McGahan's award-winning writing also includes stage plays and the screenplay for the movie version of Praise. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Sunshine, VIC In 2011, McGahan launched his children's book series, the Ship Kings. The Coming of the Whirlpool was shortlisted for the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year award - older readers, for the Indie Awards, for the WA Premier's Book Award, was a finalist in the Aurealis Awards and was longlisted for the Gold Inky for an Australian YA book. The second novel in the Ship King series - Voyage of the Unquiet Ice was published in 2012. Allen & Unwin NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Wonders of a Godless World Andrew McGahan

Suspend disbelief and immerse yourself in an electrifying, tumultuous work of the imagination - a powerful and apocalyptic tale of madness and revenge, desire and devastation, you'll be swept from the beginning of time to the end of the earth.

Description On an unnamed island, in a Gothic hospital sitting in the shadow of a volcano, a wordless orphan girl works on the wards housing the insane and the incapable. When a silent, unmoving and unnerving new patient - a foreigner - arrives at the hospital, strange phenomena occur, bizarre murders take place, and the lives of the patients and the island's inhabitants are thrown into turmoil. What happens between them is an extraordinary exploration of consciousness, reality and madness.

Wonders of a Godless World from Miles Franklin-winner Andrew McGahan, is a huge and dramatic beast of a book. It is a thought-provoking investigation into character and consciousness, a powerful cautionary tale, and a head-stretching fable about the earth, nature and the power of the mind. It is utterly unlike anything you've read before - it will take you by the shoulders and hold you in its grip to its nerve-tingling finale.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781742373676 McGahan's award-winning writing also includes stage plays and the screenplay for the movie version of Praise. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm In 2011, McGahan launched his children's book series, the Ship Kings. The Coming of the Whirlpool was shortlisted for Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year award - older readers, for the Indie Awards, for the WA Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Premier's Book Award, was a finalist in the Aurealis Awards and was longlisted for the Gold Inky for an Australian YA Illustrations: book. The second novel in the Ship King series - Voyage of the Unquiet Ice was published in 2012. Previous Titles: Author now living: Sunshine, VIC His final novel, The Rich Man's House, was published in 2019.

Allen & Unwin NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 1988 Andrew McGahan

Prequel to McGahan's bestselling novel Praise. Gordon, failed writer and bottleshop boy, feels his life is going nowhere and heads north with Wayne in search of their rightful place in the culture of a nation.

Description 'A lighthouse. A weather station, thousands of miles away. For six months. I drank steadily. With alcohol it all made sense.'

It's the Bicentennial year and for Gordon - failed writer and bottleshop boy - it seems his life is going nowhere. It's time to escape. From his overcrowded house, from Brisbane, from Expo 88, from everything. He stumbles into Wayne who has connections in Darwin and the promise of work. So the two of them head north toward swamps and crocodiles, in search of inspiration, and of their rightful place in the culture of Australia.

1988, McGahan's second novel, is a prequel to his best-selling debut, Praise.

'A fiendish and eventful psychological novel. hugely satisfying.' - New York Times Book Review

'The pre-eminent Australian road novel.' - The Australian

About the Author Andrew McGahan was born in Dalby, Queensland, and now lives in Victoria. His first novel Praise (1992) won the 1991 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the regional prize for best first book in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. His second novel was the prequel 1988 (1995), and his third novel Last Drinks (2000) was shortlisted for multiple awards, including The Age Book of the Year and the Courier Mail Book of the Year, and won a Ned Kelly award for crime writing. In 2004, The White Earth was published and won the 2005 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the South East Asia and South Pacific region, The Age Book of the Year (Fiction) and the Courier Mail Book of the Year Award. It was also shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards. McGahan's fifth novel, Underground, was published in 2006 and was shortlisted in the Queensland Premier's Prize for fiction and for the Aurealis Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781741147735 Award. In 2009, Wonders of a Godless World was published to acclaim and won the Aurealis Award. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 195x130mm McGahan's award-winning writing also includes stage plays and the screenplay for the movie version of Praise. Extent: 324 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) In 2011, McGahan launched his children's book series, the Ship Kings. The Coming of the Whirlpool was shortlisted for Illustrations: the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year award - older readers, for the Indie Awards, for the WA Previous Titles: Author now living: Sunshine, VIC Premier's Book Award, was a finalist in the Aurealis Awards and was longlisted for the Gold Inky for an Australian YA book. The second novel in the Ship King series - Voyage of the Unquiet Ice was published in 2012.

His final novel, The Rich Man's House, was published in 2019. Allen & Unwin NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Darkness for Light Emma Viskic

The third thrilling instalment in the award-winning Caleb Zelic series.

Description All he trusts is betrayal.

After heartbreak and trauma, Caleb Zelic is beginning to rebuild his life. He has a new home, a new business and the chance of a happy love life. But people in power have other ideas. Caleb's double-crossing business partner, Frankie, has something they want, and they're after Caleb to get it. On the hunt for Frankie and information, Caleb is drawn into a world of high-level corruption and dark political deals.

The secrets he uncovers could endanger him and everything he holds dear.

About the Author Emma Viskic is author of the critically acclaimed Caleb Zelic series. Resurrection Bay won the 2016 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction, as well as an unprecedented three Davitt Awards: Best Adult Novel, Best Debut, and Readers' Choice. It was iBooks Australia's Crime Novel of the Year and was shortlisted for the UK Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger and New Blood awards. Its sequel, And Fire Came Down, won the 2018 Davitt Award for Best Novel. Also a classically trained clarinettist, Emma studied at the Victorian College of the Arts and the Rotterdam Conservatorium. Her musical career ranged from performing with José Carreras and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, to playing at an engagement party that ended in a brawl.

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Echo NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 And Fire Came Down Emma Viskic

The thrilling second novel in the award-winning Caleb Zelic series, and winner of the Best Novel award at the 2018 Davitt Awards.

Description Deaf since early childhood, Caleb Zelic is used to meeting life head-on. Now, he's struggling just to get through the day. His best mate is dead, his ex-wife, Kat, is avoiding him, and nightmares haunt his waking hours.

But when a young woman is killed, after pleading for his help in sign language, Caleb is determined to find out who she was. The trail leads Caleb back to his hometown, Resurrection Bay. The town is on bushfire alert, and simmering with racial tensions. As Caleb delves deeper, he uncovers secrets that could ruin any chance of reuniting with Kat, and even threaten his life. Driven by his own demons, he pushes on. But who is he willing to sacrifice along the way?

About the Author Emma Viskic is an award-winning Australian crime writer. Her critically-acclaimed debut novel, Resurrection Bay, won the 2016 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction, as well as an unprecedented three Davitt Awards: Best Adult Novel, Best Debut and Readers' Choice. Resurrection Bay was iBooks Australia's Crime Novel of 2015. Emma learned Auslan (Australian sign language) in order to write the character of Caleb Zelic.

Also a classically trained clarinettist, Emma's musical career has ranged from performing with Jose Carreras and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, to busking in the London Underground. She lives in Melbourne and divides her time between writing, performing and teaching.

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Echo NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Resurrection Bay Emma Viskic

The multi-award-winning first novel in the Caleb Zelic series.

Description Caleb Zelic, profoundly deaf since early childhood, has always lived on the outside - watching, picking up telltale signs people hide in a smile, a cough, a kiss. When a childhood friend is murdered, a sense of guilt and a determination to prove his own innocence sends Caleb on a hunt for the killer. But he can't do it alone. Caleb and his troubled friend Frankie, an ex-cop, start with one clue: Scott, the last word the murder victim texted to Caleb. But Scott is always one step ahead.

This gripping, original and fast-paced crime thriller is set between a big city and a small coastal town, Resurrection Bay, where Caleb is forced to confront painful memories. Caleb is a memorable protagonist who refuses to let his deafness limit his opportunities, or his participation in the investigation. But does his persistence border on stubbornness? And at what cost? As he delves deeper into the investigation Caleb uncovers unwelcome truths about his murdered friend - and himself.

About the Author Emma Viskic is an award-winning Australian crime writer. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Resurrection Bay, won the 2016 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction, as well as an unprecedented three Davitt Awards: Best Adult Novel, Best Debut and Readers' Choice. Resurrection Bay was iBooks Australia's Crime Novel of 2015. Emma learned Auslan (Australian sign language) in order to write the character of Caleb Zelic.

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Echo NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Oligarchy Scarlett Thomas

The new novel from the bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y, about power, privilege and pressure.

Description When Tash, daughter of a Russian oligarch, is sent to an English boarding school, she is new to the strange rituals of the girls there. Theirs is a world of strict pecking orders, eating disorders and Instagram angst.

While she spends her time with the other girls at the lake and the stables, a hand-picked few are invited to join the Headmaster at his house for extra lessons. Then her friend Bianca mysteriously vanishes, and quickly the routines of her dorm-mates seem darker and more alien than ever before.

Oligarchy is the fierce new novel about power, privilege and peer pressure from the bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y.

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

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Canongate Trade NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 A Tall History of Sugar Curdella Forbes

A haunting epic following an unusual couple's mysterious love affair from childhood to adulthood, across rural Jamaica, Kingston and England.

Description Discovered amidst a tangle of sea grape trees by the childless Rachel Fisher, baby Moshe's provenance is a thing of myth and mystery; his unusual appearance, with blueish, translucent skin and duo-toned hair, only serves to compound his mystique.

Equally feared and ridiculed by peers as he grows up, he finds a surprising kindred soul in the striking and bold Arrienne Christie, but their complex relationship is fraught with obstacles that tear them apart as powerfully as they are drawn together.

Beginning in the late 1950s, four years before Jamaica's independence from colonial rule, and ending in the era of Brexit and Donald Trump, A Tall History of Sugar's epic love story sweeps between a rural Jamaica, scarred by the legacies of colonialism, and an England increasingly riven by race riots and class division.

About the Author Curdella Forbes is a Jamaican writer. She has published four previous works of fiction: Songs of Silence, A Permanent Freedom, Ghosts, and a children's book, Flying with Icarus and Other Stories. She lives in Takoma Park, Maryland, and teaches at Howard University where she is a professor of Caribbean literature. She names among her literary influences the oral traditions of rural Jamaica, the fairy tales of her childhood and the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

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Canongate Trade NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The River Capture Mary Costello

The new novel about love, loyalty and nature, from the author of Academy Street, Irish Book Awards Book of the Year 2014.

Description Luke O'Brien has left Dublin to live a quiet life on his family land on the bend of the River Sullane. Alone in his big house, he longs for a return to his family's heyday and turns to books for solace.

One morning a young woman arrives at his door and enters his life with profound consequences. Her presence presents him and his family with an almost impossible dilemma.

In a novel that pays glorious homage to Joyce, The River Capture tells of one man's descent into near madness, and the possibility of rescue. This is a novel about love, loyalty and the raging forces of nature. More than anything, it is a book about the life of the mind and the redemptive powers of art.

About the Author Mary Costello lives in Galway. Her short story collection, The China Factory (2012), was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award and shortlisted for an Irish Book Award. Her first novel, Academy Street (2014), won the Irish Novel of the Year Award at the Irish Book Awards and was named overall Irish Book of the Year. It was serialised on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, the Costa First Novel Prize, the EU Prize for Literature and the Prix Litteraire des Ambassadeurs de la Francophonie en Irlande, andhas been translated into several languages. The River Capture is her second novel.

Price: $32.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9781782116431 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 220x144mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate Trade NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Pursuit: The Balvenie Stories Collection Edited by Alex Preston

Stories of human endeavour, endurance and resolve with an unexpected twist, published to celebrate a new range of The Balvenie whiskies - The Balvenie Stories. With contributions from Max Porter, Kamila Shamsie, Daisy Johnson and many more.

Description What is it to pursue a goal, to strive for an ideal, to follow a dream?

These are the questions explored by The Balvenie in this unique collection compiled by award-winning novelist Alex Preston. The stories - from some of the brightest and most exciting voices writing today - tell of determination, endeavour and perseverance against the odds. They range across wildly different contexts and cultures, from the epic to the intimate, in fiction and non-fiction, illustrating and illuminating the outer limits of human character and achievement.

With contributions from Max Porter, Kamila Shamsie, Daisy Johnson, Eley Williams, Michael Donkor, David Szalay, Yan Ge and many more.

About the Author Alex Preston is an award-winning author and journalist. He is the author of three novels, most recently the critically- acclaimed In Love and War, as well as the bestselling literary history of birds, As Kingfishers Catch Fire. His short stories have appeared several times in the Best British Short Stories anthology and he writes regularly for the Observer, the Telegraph and Harper's Bazaar. He is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Kent.

The Balvenie Single Malt Scotch Whisky is crafted by William Grant & Sons Ltd, an award-winning family-owned distiller founded by William Grant in 1886 and still independently owned. It is the only distillery that still grows its own barley, uses traditional floor maltings and keeps both coppersmiths and coppers on site - making The Balvenie the most handcrafted of single malts.

Price: $27.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781786899019 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 220x144mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Short stories Bic2: Cookery / food & drink etc Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate Trade NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Man on Ice Humphrey Hawksley

A contemporary political thriller set in the snows of Alaska, where one incident could trigger the outbreak of a global war.

Description Special agent Captain Rake Ozenna watches as a fleet of Russian military helicopters heads straight for his home, a remote Alaskan island with a population of just eighty.

What he doesn't know yet is why.

Russia is playing a dangerous political game. In a daring act of provocation, it reclaims the American island as its own. Caught in the crosshairs of sabre-rattling big powers, Rake is determined to save his people and his island, even if it costs him his life.

About the Author HumphreyHawksley is a foreign correspondent for the BBC, a regular speaker and panellist at Intelligence Squared and the Royal Geographical Society, and many literary festivals. Hawksley's writing has appeared in the Guardian, The Times, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune and Yale Global. Hawksley's television documentaries include The Curse of Gold and Bitter Sweet, Aid Under Scrutiny, Old Man Atom and Danger: Democracy at Work.

@hwhawksley humphreyhawksley.com

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Canongate PBS NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Shivering Turn Sally Spencer

First in a new private investigator mystery series, an Oxford secret society is exposed after the murder of a seventeen-year-old girl.

Description Oxford, 1974. When seventeen-year-old Linda Corbet goes missing, the police dismiss her as an obvious runaway. Only Jennie Redhead, recently driven out of Oxford's police force, is prepared to dig deeper.

She suspects that something truly dark and depraved drove Linda from her beloved home and doting parents. Jennie's investigation leads her to a secret Oxford society and to a clandestine world of violence, excess and desire, hidden behind the city's dreaming spires.

About the Author Sally Spencer is a pen name for a husband and wife writing team, Alan and Lanna Rustage. Sally Spencer is the author of the Sam Blackstone mysteries and the DCI Monika Paniatowski mysteries.

@SallySpencerebk sallyspencer.com

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Canongate PBS NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Mr Campion's Farewell Mike Ripley

Margery Allingham's Albert Campion returns in a sharply written Golden Age mystery.

Description A Margery Allingham Campion mystery

Strange things happen in the picture-postcard English village of Lindsay Carfax. When a young man falls into a quarry, it takes nine days to find the body. When rowdy hippies descend on the village, they're given nine days to leave. When an outspoken schoolmaster is kidnapped for nine days, he stays eerily quiet after his release.

Now Albert Campion has come to town - and he means to investigate all this strangeness. But whoever is behind the unusual goings-on quickly makes it very clear that his nosing around is not welcome. Undeterred by threats, Campion is determined to expose the criminal masterminds hiding in this sleepy village.

About the Author Mike Ripley is the author of the award-winning 'Angel' series of comedy thrillers which have twice won the CWA Last Laugh Award. Described as 'England's funniest crime writer' (The Times), he is also a respected critic of crime fiction, writing for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, The Times and Shots Magazine.

Ripley first learned of the final unfinished Campion novel when he was a guest speaker at the Margery Allingham Society's annual convention. He offered - and received the Margery Allingham Society's blessing - to complete the manuscript on the adventures of Albert Campion, who Ripley describes as 'one of the brightest stars in the rich firmament of British crime writing'.

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Canongate PBS NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Almanack Martine Bailey

A young woman is determined to avenge her mother's death in this intricate historical mystery.

Description Tabitha Hart earns a riotous living in London, doing whatever pleases her with whichever gentleman has enough coin for her body. But in the summer of 1752, her mother urgently summons her home to the village of Netherlea and, with reluctance, she returns. Only to be greeted by the news that her mother has died in disturbing circumstances.

Tabitha is determined to discover the truth, but the superstitious villagers are wary of her and her hoity-toity London ways. Only the enigmatic Nat Starling is prepared to join Tabitha, as she sets out to uncover her mother's killer. But as the summer draws to a close and the snow sets in, cutting off Netherlea from the outside world, Tabitha and Nat are forced to face the darkest hours of their lives. Will they survive long enough to bring the killer to justice?

About the Author Martine Bailey is the author of two previous mysteries: An Appetite for Violets, selected by Booklist as one of the Top Ten crime fiction debuts in the US, and A Penny Heart, one of the The Sunday Times Top Summer Reads in 2015. She lives in Cheshire, England.

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Canongate PBS NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break Steven Sherrill

A wry and lyrical take on what it means to be an outsider through the lens of one of mythology's most monstrous creatures: the Minotaur.

Description Five thousand years after leaving the Cretan labyrinth, and the Minotaur - or M as he is known to his colleagues - is working as a line chef at Grub's Rib in Carolina, keeping his horns down, trying in vain to put his past behind him. He leads an ordered lifestyle in a shabby trailer park where he tinkers with cars, writes and re-writes to-do lists and observes the haphazard goings on around him. Outwardly controlled, M tries to hide his emotional turmoil as he is transported deeper into the human world of deceit, confusion and need.

About the Author Steven Sherrill is the author of five novels and a collection of poetry, and is an Associate Professor of English and Integrative Arts at Penn State Altoona. He earned an MFA in Poetry from Iowa Writers' Workshop and was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Fiction. His work has appeared in Best American Poetry, the Kenyon Review and the Georgia Review. He lives in Pennsylvania.

stevensherrill.com

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Canongate PBS NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Ocean Sea Alessandro Baricco, translated by Alastair McEwen

A haunting tale of love and vengeance, from the internationally bestselling author of Silk.

Description A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable seductress - and a beautiful young girl, fatally ill, brought to the sea by a desperate father's last hope. An intricate web of destinies and associations begins to reveal itself, but it is not until the arrival of a mysterious sailor called Adams that the truth in all its dreamlike beauty and cruelty becomes clear.

Alternately playful and profoundly serious, Baricco's novel surges with the hypnotic power of the ocean sea.

About the Author Alessandro Baricco was born in Turin in 1958. He is the author of thirteen novels, as well as a number of essay and short story collections, a modern rendition of The Iliad and a theatrical monologue. He has won the Prix Medicis Etranger in France and the Selezione Campiello, Viareggio and Palazzo al Bosco prizes in Italy.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781786896438 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate PBS NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Faber 90 Stories 36 copy mixed pack A&U Point of Sale

Includes 6 copies of Mostly Hero, Homeland, Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead and The Cheater's Guide to Love plus two copies of each of My Son the Fanatic, Ghostly Stories, Intruders, Giacomo Joyce, Shanti and Fairy Tales.

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Faber Fiction NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Mostly Hero: Faber Stories Anna Burns

A brilliant genre-bending story from Man Booker Prize winner Anna Burns.

Description Of course, of everybody of whom this particular hero was suspicious, he was most suspicious of femme fatale, of this woman he was in love with. Even before he discovered she had a spell on her he was distrustful of her. He didn't want to be, but that's just how it goes.

Written by Anna Burns before she completed her dazzling Man Booker-winning novel Milkman, 'Mostly Hero' is the hilarious, hell-raising descendant of Quentin Tarantino and the Brothers Grimm. Originally self-published online, it is available here in print for the first time.

About the Author Anna Burns was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is the author of three novels, No Bones, Little Constructions and Milkman. No Bones won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Milkman has won the Man Booker Prize 2018, been shortlisted for the Women's Prize and the Rathbone's Folio Prize, and won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. She lives in East Sussex, England.

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Faber Fiction NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Homeland: Faber Stories Barbara Kingsolver

Faber 90th Stories brings together some of our finest short stories, past, present and future.

Description 'You have to marry outside your clan,' she said. 'That's law. All the people we knew were Bird Clan. All the others were gone.'

When Gloria's great-grandmother, Green Leaf, left her home in the Hiwassee Valley of Tennessee, it was with a man on a stolen horse. She was one of the fugitive bands of Cherokee who'd resisted capture long ago.

Decades later, her family takes Great Mam on a road trip home. But the place that holds the scattered bones of her ancestors is no longer the land she remembers.

About the Author Barbara Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned a devoted readership. Her fourteen books of fiction, poetry and non-fiction include the international bestseller The Poisonwood Bible; The Lacuna, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010; Flight Behaviour in 2012; and most recently Unsheltered, in 2018. 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 Fiction NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead: Faber Stories Milan Kundera

Faber 90th Stories brings together some of our finest short stories, past, present and future.

Description A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality.

Written in 1969, before Milan Kundera was known to English-speaking readers, this story renders male and female characters painful equals, and prompted Philip Roth to admire its 'detached Chekhovian tenderness'.

About the Author The French-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in the Czech Republic and has lived in France since 1975. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed and bestselling novels The Joke, Life is Elsewhere, The Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality, and the short story collection Laughable Loves - all originally in Czech. His more recent novels, Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance,as well as his nonfiction works, The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.

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Faber Fiction NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Cheater's Guide to Love: Faber Stories Junot Diaz

Faber 90th Stories brings together some of our finest short stories, past, present and future.

Description You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda [. . .] You try it all, but one day she will simply sit up in bed and say, No more.

In Yunior, a Dominican-American writer and Harvard professor, Junot Diaz has created an irresistibly erratic protagonist, who sweeps you up in the poetic energy of his speech as he rehearses a broad repertoire of bad behaviour.

Originally the climactic tale in the chain-linked This is How You Lose Her, 'The Cheater's Guide to Love' is a superb standalone song of decadence and experience.

About the Author Junot Diaz is the author of Drown,The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 2007, and This is How You Lose Her. He is the recipient of a PEN/Malamud Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Born in Santo Domingo, Diaz is a professor at MIT.

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Faber Fiction NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 My Son the Fanatic: Faber Stories Hanif Kureishi

Faber 90th Stories brings together some of our finest short stories, past, present and future.

Description I'm going to tell him to pick up his prayer mat and get out of my house.

When Parvez's son Ali starts clearing out his bedroom, Parvez assumes he's taking drugs and selling his possessions to pay for them. His fellow taxi drivers are triumphant: they knew something was wrong. Bettina, the prostitute Parvez regularly drives home, tells him what signs to look out for.

But nothing is physically different about Ali except that he is growing a beard - and praying five times a day. He condemns his father for drinking alcohol and eating bacon, and assures him that the Law of Islam will rule the world.

First published in March 1994, Hanif Kureishi's comedy of assimilation is both uproariously funny and so prescient it's barely funny at all.

About the Author Hanif Kureishi grew up in Kent and studied philosophy at King's College, London. His novels include The Buddha of Suburbia, which won the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel, The Black Album, Intimacy, and The Last Word. His screenplays include My Beautiful Laundrette, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid and Le Week-End. He has also published several collections of short stories. Kureishi has been awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the PEN/Pinter Prize, and is a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. His work has been translated into thirty-six languages. He is a professor of Creative Writing at Kingston University.

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Faber Fiction NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Ghostly Stories: Faber Stories Celia Fremlin

Faber 90th Stories brings together some of our finest short stories, past, present and future.

Description 'Be sure you don't answer the door to anyone you don't know.'

A little Patricia Highsmith, a touch of Shirley Jackson: the long-neglected Celia Fremlin wrote short, sharp stories that threw women's lives into shiver-inducing relief.

In each of these twinned tales, a mother and daughter meet again, and an ordinary home becomes the setting for a return of the repressed.

About the Author Celia Fremlin (1914-2009) was born in Kent. Her first published novel of suspense was The Hours Before Dawn (1958), which went on to win the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1960. Over the next thirty-five years Fremlin published a further eighteen titles.

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Faber Fiction NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Intruders: Faber Stories Adrian Tomine

Faber 90th Stories brings together some of our finest short stories, past, present and future.

Description Between his second and third tours of duty, a soldier returns home.

To his former home, that is, using an old key while the new tenant is at work. Is he re-entering his old life or borrowing someone else's? Where is the line he will not cross? Each day is the same: he exists in a state of suspension, barely knowing how he passes the time - until someone else intrudes on the intruder.

Adrian Tomine, graphic master of alienation and regret, expertly expands the form to express the unsaid and the unbearable in this unforgettable evocation of a post-traumatic life.

About the Author Born in Sacramento in 1974, Adrian Tomine is the author of the acclaimed comic series Optic Nerve. His books include Shortcomings, Summer Blonde, Sleepwalk, Scenes from an Impending Marriage, New York Drawings and, most recently, Killing and Dying, all of which are published by Faber in the UK. Since 1999, his comics and illustrations have appeared regularly in The New Yorker, where he has created more than a dozen iconic covers. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughters.

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Faber Fiction NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Giacomo Joyce: Faber Stories James Joyce

Faber 90th Stories brings together some of our finest short stories, past, present and future.

Description This heart is sore and sad. Crossed in love?

The manuscript of 'Giacomo Joyce', written in James Joyce's best handwriting and folded between the covers of a school notebook, was discovered in Trieste. Most likely written in 1914, some of it served as a rehearsal for passages in Ulysses. Had Joyce meant to pillage it or publish it? Either way, this fragmented evocation of unrequited desire is, in the words of Joyce's biographer Richard Ellmann, a work of 'small, fragile, enduring perfection'.

With a new introduction by Colm Tóibín.

About the Author James Joyce was born in Rathgar, Dublin, in 1882. In 1904 he and Nora Barnacle (whom he married in 1931) left Ireland for Trieste. Abroad, free from the restrictions he felt in Ireland, Joyce felt compelled to write of his native land, producing Dubliners (1914) and A Portrait of the Artist as Young Man (1916). During World War I, he lived in Zurich from 1915 to 1919, and in 1920 moved to Paris, where he spent most of the rest of his life. Towards the end of December 1939 James Joyce and Nora Barnacle left Paris for a small village near Vichy and ultimately settled in Zurich, where he died in January 1941. His major works, pioneering the 'stream of consciousness' style, are the novels Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939).

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Faber Fiction NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Shanti: Faber Stories Vikram Chandra

Faber 90th Stories brings together some of our finest short stories, past, present and future.

Description Who was she? Where was she going? Why did she return?

It is 1945, and twenty-year-old Shiv, grieving his identical twin brother, retreats to a small town in Uttar Pradesh. He is preparing to jump onto the train tracks when he is stopped by the sight of a woman.

Shanti's husband is a fighter pilot missing in Burma. For the past three years she has travelled the country in search of him. In every military hospital she visits she hears a new story, and every time she passes through Leharia she tells one to Shiv. Borrowing a structure from the Mahabharata, through stories within stories Chandra tells a spiralling tale of loss, and of two wounded people becoming something new.

About the Author Born in New Delhi, India, in 1961, Vikram Chandra now divides his time between Bombay and Washington D.C. His debut novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, was awarded the David Higham Prize for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Best First Published Book. His collection of stories, Love and Longing in Bombay, was published in 1997 and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Eurasia region. It was also shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize. His most recent novel, Sacred Games, was published in 2007 and was shortlisted for the Encore Awards.

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Faber Fiction NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Fairy Tales: Faber Stories Marianne Moore

Faber 90th Stories brings together some of our finest short stories, past, present and future.

Description A wily cat, a strange romance, detestable daughters: the great American poet Marianne Moore retells three stories originally written by Charles Perrault to amuse the niece of Louis XIV.

Modern readers may be surprised to find that the prince does not wake Sleeping Beauty with a kiss - the more he cares, the less willing he is to intrude - and that his mother is descended from ogres.

Characterised by vivid imagery, uncluttered prose, inventive alliteration and a sly sceptic's wit, Moore's versions do more than tell a tale: 'Having seen a problem solved,' she writes, each one leaves 'a pattern of order in the mind.'

About the Author Marianne Moore was born in Kirkwood, Missouri, in 1887. She attended Bryn Mawr College, and lived her adult life in New York City, in Manhattan and Brooklyn. She was the author of numerous books of poems, including most notably Observations (1924), Selected Poems (1935), The Pangolin and Other Verse (1936), What Are Years (1941), and Collected Poems (1951). Her lifelong practice of a radically innovative formal verse, committed to moral courage and spiritual clarity, won her most of the major poetry awards available to an American: the Bollingen Award (1952), the National Book Award (1952), the Pulitzer Prize (1952), the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal (1953), the Robert Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America (1967), and the National Medal for Literature (1968). She died on 5 February 1972.

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Faber Fiction NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Sudden Traveller Sarah Hall

The new story collection from one of the most celebrated contemporary masters of the form, Sarah Hall.

Description Sudden Traveller is Sarah Hall's third story collection. Featuring her signature themes of identity, eroticism, and existential quest, these new stories travel far afield in location and ambition.

From Turkish forests to rain-drenched Cumbrian villages, Hall's characters walk, drive, dream, and fly, trying to reconcile themselves with their journeys through life, death, and love. Science fiction meets folktale and philosophy meets mortality.

A woman with a new generation of pacemaker chooses to shut it down in the Lakeland, the site of her strongest memories; a man repatriated in the near east hears the name of an old love called and must unpack history's dark suitcase; from the new world-waves of female anger and resistance, a mythical creature evolves; and in the woods on the border between warring countries, an old well facilitates a dictator's downfall, before he gains power.

In what has become her most powerful form of narration, Hall opens channels in the human mind and spirit and stands with the reader at the very edge of our possible selves.

About the Author Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria in 1974. Twice nominated for the Man Booker prize, she is the award-winning author of five novels and two short-story collections - The Beautiful Indifference, which won the Edge Hill and Portico prizes, and Madame Zero, shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize, and winner of the East Anglian Book Award. She is currently the only author to be three times shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, which she won in 2013 with 'Mrs Fox'.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9780571345045 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Short stories Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Fiction NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Christmas in Austin Benjamin Markovits

This luminous family saga from one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists is a must for fans of Anne Tyler and Jonathan Franzen.

Description When the four Essinger children gather in Austin for Christmas, they all bring their news. Nathan is hoping to become a Federal judge. Susie's husband has taken a job in England. Jean has asked her boyfriend and boss to meet her family. Paul has broken up with Dana, mother of their son Cal. But their parents have plans, too, and invite Dana to stay, hoping to bring the couple back together. As the week unfolds, the Essingers all face conflicts of loyalty and tensions between old families and new.

Rich, intimate, and deeply perceptive, Benjamin Markovits' Christmas in Austin beautifully explores the deep-rooted division between the world we grow up in, and the life we make for ourselves.

About the Author Benjamin Markovits grew up in Texas, London, and Berlin. One of Granta's Best Young British Novelists and the winner of the James Tait Black Award, he is the author of eight novels. He has published essays, stories, poetry, and reviews on subjects ranging from the Romantics to American sports in the Guardian, Granta, The Paris Review, and The New York Times, among other publications. He lives in London and teaches creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Faber Fiction NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Golden Child Claire Adam

A deeply affecting debut novel set in Trinidad, following the lives of a family as they navigate impossible choices about scarcity, loyalty, and love.

Description WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2019

LONGLISTED FOR THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FIRST BOOK AWARD

It's dark now; the bats are out. Insects knock against the light on the patio and the dog sits at the gate. A boy has not returned home and a family anxiously awaits. A father steps out into the night to search for his son.

As the hours turn into days, this man will learn many things. He will learn about being a father to twin boys who are in no way alike. He will learn how dangerous hopes and dreams can be. He will learn truths about Trinidad, about his family, and himself. He will question received wisdom and question his judgement. He will learn about sacrifice and the nature of love - and he will be forced to act.

Claire Adam's electrifying first novel reckons with the secrets of the human heart. It tells a story about wanting more for our children; it casts its spell with uncommon wisdom and grace.

About the Author Claire Adam was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. She was educated in the US and now lives in London with her husband and two children. Golden Child is her first novel.

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Faber Paperback NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 And When She Was Good Laura Lippman

And When She Was Good by Laura Lippman is the gripping new psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Sunburn.

Description Heloise is a single mum, who runs her own business and keeps herself to herself.

But Heloise's business is one that takes place in discreet hotel rooms. For the right money, she can be the woman of your dreams.

But now her accountant is starting to ask questions, her long-time bodyguard is hinting at new dangers, and in the local news, a so-called suburban madam has been found dead in her car.

With nothing as it seems, how will Heloise secure the safety of herself and her son?

About the Author Laura Lippman was a reporter for twenty years, including twelve years at The Baltimore Sun. Her novels have won numerous crime fiction prizes, including the Edgar, Anthony, Nero Wolfe and Agatha awards in the US. As well as featuring in numerous end of year lists, her most recent novel Sunburn (2018) was nominated for the CWA Gold Dagger Award, won the eDunnit Award and was a Waterstones Book of the Month.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9780571354092 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Thriller / suspense Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Shroud for a Nightingale P. D. James

Set in the medical world of hospitals and nursing schools in London, the fourth Adam Dalgliesh mystery Shroud for a Nightingale is a thrilling work of detective fiction from P.D. James, the bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberley and Children of Men.

Description The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills.

About the Author P. D. James was a bestselling and internationally acclaimed crime writer. She was the creator of Adam Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray, and their long and successful series of mysteries. Her works include Cover Her Face (1962), An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972), Innocent Blood (1980), Children of Men (1992), and the Jane Austen-inspired Death Comes to Pemberley (2011).

James was born in Oxford in 1920. She won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award. She received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors, and stood down from this role in 2013.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9780571350803 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Thriller / suspense Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Black Tower P. D. James

Set on the Dorset coast, The Black Tower by P.D. James is the fifth Adam Dalgliesh mystery and a thrilling work of crime fiction from the bestselling author of Death in Holy Orders, Children of Men and Death Comes to Pemberley.

Description Commander Dalgliesh is recuperating from a life-threatening illness when he receives a call for advice from an elderly friend who works as a chaplain in a home for the disabled on the Dorset coast. Dalgliesh arrives to discover that Father Baddeley has recently and mysteriously died, as has one of the patients at Toynton Grange. Evidently the home is not quite the caring community it purports to be. Dalgliesh is determined to discover the truth of his friend's death, but further fatalities follow and his own life is in danger as he unmasks the evil at the heart of Toynton Grange.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9780571350810 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Thriller / suspense Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera

A new edition of the seminal novel by a literary master, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its first publication.

Description 'One is torn between profound pleasure in the novel's execution and wonder at the pain that inspired it.' - Ian McEwan

'A masterpiece.' - Salman Rushdie

This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage, leading into the interior of a theme, the interior of a thought, the interior of a single, unique situation the understanding of which recedes from my sight into the distance. It is a book about laughter and forgetting, about forgetting and about Prague, about Prague and about the angels.

About the Author The French-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in the Czech Republic and has lived in France since 1975. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed and bestselling novels The Joke, Life is Elsewhere, The Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves - all originally in Czech. His more recent novels, Slowness, Identity, Ignorance and The Festival of Insignificance, as well as his non-fiction works, The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9780571357734 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Rabbits for Food Binnie Kirshenbaum

A devastating, darkly comic story of a woman's slide into depression and institutionalisation from a master of razor-edged literary humour.

Description It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Bunny--an acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writer--fully unravels. Her breakdown lands her in the psych ward of a prestigious New York hospital, where she refuses all modes of recommended treatment.

Instead, she passes the time chronicling the lives of her fellow 'lunatics' and writing a novel about what brought her there. Her story is a brilliant and brutally funny dive into the disordered mind of a woman who sees the world all too clearly.

Propelled by razor-sharp comic timing and rife with pinpoint insights, Kirshenbaum examines what it means to be unloved and loved, to succeed and fail, to be at once impervious and raw. Rabbits for Food shows how art can lead us out of-or into-the depths of disconsolate loneliness and piercing grief. A bravura literary performance from one of America's finest writers.

About the Author Binnie Kirshenbaum is the author of the story collection History on a Personal Note and six novels, including On Mermaid Avenue, Hester among the Ruins, An Almost Perfect Moment, and The Scenic Route. Her novels have been chosen as Notable Books of the Year by The Chicago Tribune, NPR, TIME, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Washington Post. Her work has been translated into seven languages.

Price: $27.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781788164658 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Serpents Tail NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 This Little Dark Place A. S. Hatch

A gripping debut psychological thriller: a dark love triangle and an unspeakable act of betrayal.

Description How well do you know your girlfriend?

How well do you know your lover?

How well do you know yourself?

Daniel and Victoria are together. They're trying for a baby. Ruby is in prison, convicted of assault on an abusive partner.

But when Daniel joins a pen pal program for prisoners, he and Ruby make contact. At first the messages are polite, neutral - but soon they find themselves revealing more and more about themselves. Their deepest fears, their darkest desires.

And then, one day, Ruby comes to find Daniel. And now he must decide who to choose - and who to trust.

About the Author A. S. Hatch grew up in Lancashire in the 90s and has lived in Taipei and Melbourne. Now he lives in London and writes fiction in the early hours of the morning before going to work in political communications.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781788162029 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Serpents Tail NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Gunners Rebecca Kauffman

What's the point of friends if you can't share your secrets?

Description What's the point in friends, if you can't share your secrets?

The Gunners used to be inseparable. A gang of latchkey kids, they took their name from the doorbell of the abandoned house they played in as children - and drank in as teenagers. Together they navigated the difficult journey from childhood to adolescence and learnt their first vital lessons about becoming adults; Mikey, Sam, Lynn, Alice, Jimmy and Sally are more like a family than just friends.

One day, Sally suddenly stopped speaking to them and wouldn't explain why. Years later, Sally's suicide forces the Gunners back together for her funeral. All of them have secrets they are reluctant to share, secrets which mean they must reassess their happy memories and finally be honest about the reasons Sally left.

This is a generous and poignant novel about the difficulty - and the joy - of being a true friend.

About the Author Rebecca Kauffman is originally from rural northeastern Ohio. She studied Classical Violin Performance at the Manhattan School of Music before receiving an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU. Her novel Another Place You've Never Been is published by Soft Skull Press. Rebecca has worked both in restaurants and as a teacher. She currently lives in Virginia.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781788161060 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Serpents Tail NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Murder at Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season edited by Cecily Gayford, Various

A rich collection of classic Christmas mysteries.

Description Christmas is a season of overindulgence. For most of us, that means an extra mince pie, a second helping of turkey, or perhaps a third glass of mulled wine. But for some among us, the festive season is a time to settle old scores, dispatch new enemies and indulge...in murder.

Here, ten masters of the genre serve up mystery and mayhem aplenty. From a dowager's missing diamonds to a Christmas party gone horribly wrong, these classic crime stories will delight, puzzle and satisfy long after the last strands of tinsel have been packed away.

About the Author To include work from classic crime authors such as Margery Allingham, Ruth Rendell, Edmund Crispin, John Dickson Carr, John Mortimer, Nicholas Blake and Ellis Peters.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781788163392 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Classic crime Bic2: Crime & mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Murder in Midsummer: Classic Mysteries for the Holidays Various

Murder never takes a holiday...

Description It's the middle of summer. On Cornish sea-fronts, happy children grip melting ice-creams. In the south of France, sunlight filters through leaves as families picnic in the shade. And in the fashionable resorts of the Mediterranean, the beautiful people sun themselves on picture-postcard beaches.

And in those long, hot summer nights...murder walks abroad. Away from familiar surroundings, and as the temperature rises, old grudges come to the surface, new hatreds reach boiling point - and clever minds start to make dangerous plans. These ten classic mysteries, from some of the finest crime writers, prove that no matter where you travel to - there's no rest for the wicked.

About the Author Includes writing from various well-loved authors such as Dorothy L. Sayers, Arthur Conan Doyle, Margery Allingham, Ruth Rendell and many more.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781788161534 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Classic crime Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Stillicide Cynan Jones

An astonishingly realised dystopian world from a master storyteller, first heard on BBC Radio 4.

Description Water is commodified. The Water Train that serves the city increasingly at risk of sabotage.

As news breaks that construction of a gigantic Ice Dock will displace more people than first thought, protestors take to the streets and the lives of several individuals begin to interlock. A nurse on the brink of an affair. A boy who follows a stray dog out of the city. A woman who lies dying. And her husband, a marksman: a man forged by his past and fearful of the future, who weighs in his hands the possibility of death against the possibility of life.

From one of the most celebrated writers of his generation, Stillicide is a moving story of love and loss and the will to survive, and a powerful glimpse of the tangible future.

About the Author Cynan Jones was born in 1975 near Aberaeron, Wales where he now lives and works. He is the author of five short novels, The Long Dry, Everything I Found on the Beach, Bird, Blood, Snow, The Dig, and Cove. He has been longlisted and shortlisted for numerous prizes and won a Society of Authors Betty Trask Award 2007, a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize 2014, the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize 2015 and the BBC National Short Story Award 2017. His short fiction has been widely published in anthologies and publications including Granta Magazine and The New Yorker.

Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781783785612 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Granta NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Divers' Game Jesse Ball

A fresh, shocking work of dystopian fiction with echoes of China Mieville and J.G. Ballard, from a cult American writer.

Description A pair of girls, Lethe and Lois, navigates the perimeters of a segregated city, armed with canisters of killing gas. Another child, Lessen, is at the centre of a bizarre cultural ritual that could be the subject of a Goya painting.

Centring on the garish festivals of an allegorical nation, The Divers' Game moves through worlds in which kindness is no longer meaningful. A scathing indictment of the inequalities of Western society, it makes visible the violence that has threaded its way into every aspect of our lives, and the radical empathy we need to combat it.

About the Author Jesse Ball's many works of absurdity and radicalism have been published in more than a dozen languages. He was selected as one of Granta magazine's Best of Young American Novelists in 2017. His novel Census won the Gordon Burn Prize in 2018. He lives in Chicago.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781783785872 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Science fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Granta Paperbacks NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Moonlight over Mayfair Anton Du Beke

All-round entertainer Anton Du Beke returns with his second novel set in the exclusive Buckingham Hotel. Perfect for fans of Downton Abbey and Mr Selfridge.

Description With a new King on the throne tensions are rising in London and across Europe. Not yet recovered from the Great Depression there's talk of another war coming. Demonstrator dancer Raymond de Guise must hide his own views and put on a show for the rich and powerful guests of the Buckingham. But a lot can happen on the dancefloor - whispered conversations, secret relationships, clandestine messages passed - and Raymond soon finds himself in a position of both power and danger.

Raymond knows that keeping his budding relationship with chambermaid Nancy secret is now more important than ever. Nancy is finally feeling settled and at home in the Buckingham but has dreams of achieving so much more. What is she willing to risk to realise her dreams?

A household name and all-round entertainer, known as Mr Debonair, Anton brings all the wit, charm and style he's famous for to his second novel, the follow up to his Sunday Times bestseller One Enchanted Evening.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781785767821 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Zaffre NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 A House of Ghosts: A gripping murder mystery set in a haunted house W. C. Ryan

A gripping and atmospheric murder mystery set in a haunted house - And Then There Were None meets The Woman in Black.

Description Winter 1917. As the First World War enters its most brutal phase, back home in England, everyone is seeking answers to the darkness that has seeped into their lives.

At Blackwater Abbey, on an island off the Devon coast, Lord Highmount has arranged a spiritualist gathering to contact his two sons who were lost in the conflict. But as his guests begin to arrive, it gradually becomes clear that each has something they would rather keep hidden. Then, when a storm descends on the island, the guests will find themselves trapped. Soon one of their number will die.

For Blackwater Abbey is haunted in more ways than one...

An unrelentingly gripping mystery packed with twists and turns, A House of Ghosts is the perfect chilling read.

About the Author W. C. Ryan is also known as William Ryan, author of The Constant Soldier and the Korolev series of historical crime novels. His books have been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the CWA's Steel, Historical and New Blood Daggers, the Irish Fiction Award and the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year, as well as being published in 18 countries. William lives in London and teaches creative writing at City University.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781785767111 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Horror & ghost stories Bic2: Crime & mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Zaffre NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Boy Who Felt Too Much Lorenz Wagner

The inspiring family story behind the radical new autism theory.

Description Kai is different. Kai, the doctors will eventually realise, is autistic. Of course, like everyone on the spectrum, Kai isn't just autistic - he's so much more than that. Kai is Kai.

Doctors used to find one case of autism among every five thousand people. Today, according to a study by the US Department of Health and Human Services, the ratio is one in fifty-eight. Scientists speak of an epidemic. Kai may be different, but he is not alone.

Henry, Kai's father, is one of the world's most famous neuroscientists, the man behind the billion dollar Blue Brain Project to build a supercomputer model of the human brain. Nevertheless, when his son began withdrawing, Henry was as helpless as all the other parents. He asked himself the same questions they did: What is autism? How can I help my child?

He researched for fifteen years. His findings would upend everything we thought we knew about autism. They would offer us a whole new vantage from which to consider all disorders of the mind.

If Henry had just been a scientist, even a great one, he would have failed. He only succeeded thanks to Kai, the boy who changed everything.

About the Author Lorenz Wagner, born in 1970, is one of the most prominent profile writers and journalists in Europe. His report ""The Son Code"" about Henry and Kai Markram rapidly became one of the most read articles in the Suddeutsche Magazin. Lorenz Wagner has been awarded the prestigious Prix Franco-Allemand du Journalisme (PFAJ), among other prizes. He is bilingual, French and German, lived and studied in France and resides in Germany.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781760529437 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 264 pages Bic1: Neurosciences Bic2: Cognitive science Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Germany

Allen & Unwin NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Remembering Bob Sue Pieters-Hawke

A warm, moving and revealing collection of stories and memories about Bob Hawke from across the nation, edited by his eldest daughter

Description Bob Hawke's death in May 2019 sparked national mourning across the country as we remembered just how important Bob had been in the shaping of modern Australia. In an age when political personas have become increasingly formulaic and predictable, Bob was a man of glorious contradictions. He was a Rhodes Scholar who also had a deep affinity and understanding for mainstream Australia. He was a passionate ACTU officer and president who also knew how to work with big business. He loved his sport, a drink and a bet, yet was also deeply intellectual in his approach to policy. In an age when our respect for politicians has never been lower, we respected Bob. The huge public outpouring of grief after his death showed that we loved him too.

Remembering Bob, instigated and edited by Bob's eldest daughter, Sue Pieters-Hawke, is a collection of stories and memories about Bob by his friends, colleagues, old political foes, and ordinary Australians whose paths crossed that of their everyman Prime Minister.

From reminiscences and rollicking anecdotes by journalists who spent weeks on the campaign trail alongside Bob, to his own personal physician travelling everywhere with him, to the golf coach whose brief was simple: 'make him look good!'

From unionists working with Bob in his earliest trade union days, to senior policy advisors at the pointy end of his Prime Ministership, to politicians from across the political spectrum, including Kim Beazley, John Hewson, Bill Shorten, Tony Blair, Ged Kearney, Penny Wong, Tanya Plibersek and Steve Bracks.

From John Bertrand, the yachtsman who skippered Australia to victory in the 1983 America's Cup, to the future son-in-law whose first encounter was Bob seated at his desk in a towel, which they discovered wasn't on tightly enough when he stood to shake hands...

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781760527396 From those who knew him as a Rhodes Scholar in Oxford in the 1950s to authors and commentators like Tom Keneally Format: Hard Cover and Peter Fitzsimons who've observed the changes Bob wrought in our national life. Dimensions: 208x138mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Memoirs From the neighbourhood kids who dared to be caught playing on his tennis court, to the many staff who spent long hours Bic2: alongside him late into the night. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: And from members of the Australian public who were affected by his policies and his support, both public and private, to people who bumped into him in the bar and ended up spending the most unforgettably entertaining night of their life.

These are the stories that, taken together, offer a true reflection of the extraordinary person he was, and what he meant to us all. Allen & Unwin NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Book of Daniel: From Silverchair to DREAMS Jeff Apter

The highs, lows and incredible life of the enigmatic Daniel Johns, from Silverchair to DREAMS

Description When Silverchair shuddered to a halt in 2011, there was no swan song, no farewell tour, just a brief statement and then they were gone - after more than fifteen years of brilliant music, five hit albums, legions of fans, millions of record sales, scores of awards and the odd controversy. Three teenagers from Newcastle had taken the world by storm within the time it typically takes most bands to record their first single. Over their stratospheric career, Daniel Johns developed into a performer and songwriter with few peers in modern music.

After the end of his marriage to Natalie Imbruglia and the break-up of his band, he became the focus of sordid headlines and whispers of wayward behaviour. People feared what might happen next.

But at the same time a new Daniel Johns emerged. His debut solo album, Talk, appeared to rapturous reviews in 2015 and raced to the top of the Australian charts, and then 2018 saw the advent of DREAMS, his long-awaited collaboration with Luke Steele,. This was a vastly different Daniel Johns to the grungy, guitar-blazing teen of the 1990s. His new sound and image were sophisticated, brilliant and sexy as hell. It was a remarkable creative makeover, perhaps the most ambitious ever undertaken by an Australian rockstar. Former rockstar.

The Book of Daniel documents how the reclusive Johns also battled many personal demons, including life-threatening anorexia and crippling reactive arthritis. Drawing on more than fifteen years of documenting the life and times of Daniel Johns, author Jeff Apter has brought his story to life, revealing the struggles and triumphs of one of Australia's most distinctive and dazzling talents. The book also includes a collection of exclusive photographs of Johns by eminent rock photographer Tony Mott.

About the Author Jeff Apter is the author of more than 20 music biographies, many of them bestsellers. His subjects include Johnny Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781760876241 O'Keefe, Keith Urban, John Farnham, the Bee Gees, the Finn brothers and Angus Young of AC/DC. As a ghostwriter, he Format: Paperback - B format has worked with Kasey Chambers, Mark Evans (of AC/DC) and Richard Clapton. Jeff was on staff at Rolling Stone for Dimensions: 198x128mm several years and has written about legends such as Aretha Franklin, Patti Smith, Robbie Robertson, Bob Dylan, Chrissie Extent: 304 pages Hynde and Lucinda Williams. In 2015, he worked on the Helpmann award-nominated live show A State of Grace: The Bic1: Autobiography: arts & entertainment Bic2: Individual composers & musicians, specific bands Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley. Away from music, Jeff has also worked on books with soldiers and diplomats and sports & groups greats such as Michael Slater and Tim Cahill. He lives in Wollongong, New South Wales, with his wife, two children and a Illustrations: cat that's so damned cool it needs no name. www.jeffapter.com.au Previous Titles: Author now living: Woollongong, NSW

Allen & Unwin NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Race Across the World: The incredible story of the world's greatest road race - the 1968 London to Sydney Marathon John Smailes

The rollicking adventure of the world's greatest car race - the 1968 London to Sydney Marathon.

Description In 1968, ninety-eight competitors stormed out of London on the world's greatest automotive adventure, the London to Sydney Marathon, the most ambitious and epic car race ever staged.

Four weeks later they arrived in Sydney-or at least half of them did. The others lay in ruin along its 10,000-mile route. Unimaginable now in either concept or execution, the marathon captured the rapt attention of the countries through which it passed, and of the world, as it created front-page news. It was more than a car race, more than a rally, more than the trials that opened up outback Australia only a decade before: it was the world's most gruelling test of driver and vehicle.

For Australians, the race became a focal point of the rivalry between local car-manufacturing giants Holden and Ford, as the Monaro Coupe and the iconic Falcon GT went head to head. Neither was to win, but the story of their duel is motor- sporting legend.

John Smailes was a young journalist at the time, covering the race for the Sydney Daily Telegraph. Fifty years after this extraordinary race was run, John's dramatic, compelling and utterly fascinating story-drawing on his own first-hand, eyewitness account and enhanced by in-depth interviews over the intervening years with all the race's key participants- brings the marathon vividly to life.

About the Author John Smailes has worked as a motor racing journalist and PR consultant for more than four decades. As a young reporter he covered the London-Sydney Marathon and has a substantial library of photographs as well as contemporary interviews and records. His most recent book is Allan Moffat's autobiography, Climbing the Mountain.

Price: $22.99 $26.99 ISBN: 9781760876951 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 360 pages Bic1: Motor sports Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Balmoral, NSW

Allen & Unwin NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Fair Go, Sport: Inspiring and uplifting tales of the good folks, great sportsmanship and fair play Peter FitzSimons

Fitzy at his passionate best with chest-puffing tales of great sportsmanship and fair play.

Description Sport was never meant to be complicated. No gibberish, no statistics, no talk of green-zones, black-zones, channels and percentage plays, no cheating, no grubbiness and certainly no ball-tampering.

Peter FitzSimons celebrates the good, the generous and the kind in Australian sport, the genuine characters, the national treasures and the special moments when the losers were the true champions and the game, whichever game, was done proud.

Hilarious and heart-warming, this is Fitzy at his passionate best. He reminds us that there really are good men and women in sport, that fair play still exists and that anyone can be a winner.

About the Author Peter FitzSimons is one of Australia's best-loved authors with over twenty bestsellers to his name. As well as writing his weekly 'Fitz Files' for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sun-Herald, Peter is a regular TV commentator, an ambassador for good causes and a former Wallaby. In July of 2015, he became Chair of the Australian Republican Movement.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781760876920 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 232 pages Bic1: History of sport Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Neutral Bay, NSW

Allen & Unwin NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan, now a major motion picture Bob Grandin

An account of the most famous Australian battle of the Vietnam war by the six Australian commanders and one New Zealander commander of the units which made up the Australian fighting force.

Description Now a major motion picture.

This is the first time that those in direct command of Delta Company have shared their memories of the most significant battle fought by Australians in Vietnam, the Battle of Long Tan. They describe the experiences that brought them to Vietnam, and how Company commander Harry Smith drove Delta Company to become one of the most outstanding units in the Australian forces.

Each platoon played a crucial role in Delta Company's survival. The artillery's commitment in providing an unbroken wall of metal through which the enemy had to advance is told from the perspectives of both the forward controller and the gun positions. We fly with the RAAF helicopter pilots whose ammunition resupply was the turning point of the battle, and experience the carnage of the battlefield through the eyes of those in the relieving APCs.

The trauma of the battle did not end with the action, however, as politics began to play its part in the drama. The valour of those directly involved in the battle was never duly recognised. The ongoing efforts of the Long Tan commanders to right the many wrongs perpetrated in the wake of the battle, and their own journeys from the events of August 1966 draw the reader into a compelling dialogue on the aftermath of Vietnam.

Previously published as The Battle of Long Tan: As told by the commanders

About the Author Robert Grandin was a helicopter pilot and in this book describes the key role the helicopters played in supplying the men directly involved in the Battle of Long Tan. The other contributors to this book - Harry Smith, Geoff Kendall, Bob Buick, Dave Sabben, Morrie Stanley, and Adrian Roberts - are commanders actively involved in the battle who tell their account Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781760877262 of it to Robert Grandin. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Battles & campaigns Bic2: Battles & campaigns Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Author deceased None Mountain Creek, QLD Mt Eliza, VIC.

Allen & Unwin NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Principles of Occupational Health and Hygiene: An introduction Edited by Sue Reed, Dino Pisaniello and Geza Benke

The thoroughly updated third edition of the leading introductory textbook on occupational hazards and hazardous environments encountered in a range of industries and organisational settings.

Description Principles of Occupational Health and Hygiene offers a comprehensive overview of occupational health risks and hazardous environments encountered in a range of industries and organisational settings.

Leading industry professionals and educators explain how to identify key workplace hazards including chemical agents such as dusts, metals and gases; physical agents such as noise, radiation and extremes of heat and cold; and microbiological agents. They outline assessment procedures and processes for identifying exposure levels. They also explain how to evaluate risk and follow safety guidelines to control and manage these hazards effectively.

Chapters are heavily illustrated with detailed case studies, diagrams, flowcharts and photos. Practical guidelines are provided for managing each hazard type. This third edition has been extensively revised and updated and reflects current research evidence and the Workplace Health and Safety legislation on workplace hazards.

Principles of Occupational Health and Hygiene is an essential reference for Occupational Hygienists and anyone in an Occupational Health and Safety role.

About the Author Dr Sue Reed FAIOH COH is Associate Professor in Occupational Hygiene and Director Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety at Edith Cowan University.

Dr Dino Pisaniello FAIOH COH is Professor in Occupational and Environmental Hygiene and Director of Adelaide Exposure Science and Health at the University of Adelaide.

Price: $95.00 $110.00 ISBN: 9781760528508 Format: Paperback Dr Geza Benke FAIOH COH is Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health at Dimensions: 245x176mm Monash University. They are all former presidents of the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists. Extent: 576 pages Bic1: Public health & preventive medicine Bic2: Health & safety issues Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Melbourne

A&U Academic NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Arboretum David Byrne

An intimate, enigmatic glimpse into the mind of the legendary musician and internationally bestselling author of How Music Works. With a new introduction by the author.

Description For over thirty years, besides making music, David Byrne has focused his unique genius upon forms as diverse as the archaeology of music as we know it, architectural photography and the uses of PowerPoint. Now he presents his most personal work to date, a collection of drawings exploring the form of the tree diagram.

Arboretum is an eclectic blend of science, automatic writing, self-analysis and satire. A journey through irrational logic - the application of scientific rigour and form to irrational premises, proceeding from careful nonsense to unexpected sense.

The tree diagram is a form that might reveal more about yourself than you dreamed possible.

About the Author David Byrne is a Scottish-born Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and co-founder of Talking Heads. He has been the recipient of many awards, including an Oscar and a Golden Globe. The author of How Music Works, Bicycle Diaries and The New Sins, Byrne lives in New York City.

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Canongate Trade NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 How Music Works David Byrne

New edition of David Byrne's bestselling magnum opus, with new preface and updated with a discography.

Description How Music Works is David Byrne's buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about.

Equal parts historian and anthropologist, raconteur and social scientist, Byrne draws on his own work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and his myriad collaborators - along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses, African villages, and anywhere music exists - to show that music-making is not just the act of a solitary composer in a studio, but rather a logical, populist, and beautiful result of cultural circumstance.

A brainy, irresistible adventure, How Music Works is an impassioned argument about music's liberating, life-affirming power.

About the Author David Byrne is a Scottish-born Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and cofounder of Talking Heads. He has been the recipient of many awards, including an Oscar and a Golden Globe. The author of Bicycle Diaries and The New Sins, Byrne lives in New York City.

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Canongate PBS NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World Ziya Tong

A groundbreaking and wonder-filled look at the hidden things that shape our lives in unexpected and sometimes dangerous ways.

Description Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. We are blind in comparison to the x-rays that peer through skin, the mass spectrometers that detect the dead inside the living, or the high-tech surveillance systems that see with artificial intelligence.

And we are blind compared to the animals that can see in infrared, or ultraviolet, or in 360-degree vision. These animals live in the same world we do, but they see something quite different when they look around.

With all of the curiosity and flair that drives her broadcasting, Ziya Tong illuminates this hidden world, and takes us on a journey to examine ten of humanity's biggest blind spots. What she reveals is not on the things we didn't evolve to see but, more dangerously, the blindness of modern society. This vitally important new book shows how sciences, and the wonder and courage that drive it, can help civilisation flourish by opening our eyes. Fast-paced, utterly fascinating and deeply humane, The Reality Bubble gives voice to the sense we've all had - that there is more to the world than meets the eye.

About the Author Ziya Tong anchored Daily Planet, Dicovery Channel's flagship science programme until its final season in 2018. Tong also hosted the CBC's Emmy-nominated series ZeD, PBS' national prime-time series, Wired Science, and worked as a correspondent for NOVA scienceNOW alongside Neil deGrasse Tyson on PBS. She serves as the Vice Chair of WWF Canada.

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Canongate Trade NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community and the meaning of Generosity Priya Basil

A meditation on the meaning and limits of hospitality today, from the shortlisted author of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

Description The dinner table, among friends, is where the best conversations take place - talk about the world, religion, politics, culture and cooking. In the same way, Be My Guest is a conversation about all those things, mediated through the sharing of food.

We live in a world where some have too much and others not enough, where immigrants and refugees are both welcomed and vilified, and where most of us spend less and less time cooking and eating together. Priya Basil invites us to explore the meaning and limits of hospitality today, and in doing so makes a passionate plea for a kinder, more welcoming realisation that we have more in common than divides us.

About the Author Priya Basil was born in London to a family with Indian roots and grew up in Kenya. She is an author and essay-writer whose work has been nominated for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She is the co-founder of Authors for Peace, a political platform for writers and artists. She lives in Berlin.

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Canongate Trade NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words David Whyte, introduction by Maria Popova

David Whyte explores the underlying meaning of 52 ordinary words, with an introduction by Maria Popova of Brain Pickings .

Description In Consolations David Whyte unpacks aspects of being human that many of us spend our lives trying vainly to avoid - loss, heartbreak, vulnerability, fear - boldly reinterpreting them, fully embracing their complexity, never shying away from paradox in his relentless search for truth.

Beginning with 'Alone' and closing with 'Work', each chapter in this life-affirming book is a meditation on meaning and context, an invitation to shift and broaden our perspectives on life: pain and joy, honesty and anger, confession and vulnerability, the experience of feeling overwhelmed and the desire to run away from it all. Through this lens, procrastination may be a necessary ripening; hiding an act of freedom; and shyness something that accompanies the first stage of revelation.

Consolations invites readers into a poetic and thoughtful consideration of words whose meaning and interpretation influence the paths we choose and the way we traverse them throughout our lives.

About the Author Internationally acclaimed poet David Whyte makes his home in the Pacific Northwest, where rain and changeable skies remind him of the other, more distant homes from which he comes: Yorkshire, Wales and Ireland. He holds a degree in Marine Zoology, honorary degrees from Neumann University in Pennsylvania and Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia, and is an Associate Fellow of the Said Business School at the University of Oxford. He is the author of eight volumes of poetry and four books of prose, as well as a collection of audio recordings.

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Canongate Trade NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 I'll Be Your Mirror: The Collected Lyrics Lou Reed

'The nature of Lou Reed's lyric writing that had been hitherto unknown in rock ... gave us the environment in which to put our more theatrical vision. He supplied us with the stretch and the landscape, and we peopled it.' - David Bowie

Description Out of print for several years, a comprehensive volume of Lou Reed's lyrics, now updated in a new text design to include the lyrics from his final album with Metallica, Lulu.

Through his many incarnations - from proto-punk to glam rocker to elder statesman of the avant garde Lou Reed's work has maintained an undeniable vividness and raw beauty, fuelled by precise character studies and rendered with an admirable shot of moral ambiguity. Beginning with his formative days in the Velvet Underground and continuing through his remarkable solo albums like Transformer, Berlin, and New York, Doin' The Things We Want To is crucial to an appreciation of Lou Reed, not only as a consummate underground musician, but as one of the truly significant visionary lyricists of the rock 'n' roll era.

Containing a body of work that spans more than four decades and facsimile pages from late career lyrics, this is a monument to the literary qualities of an American original whose images and storytelling genius are now embedded in the counter-cultural narrative.

About the Author Born in 1942 in Brooklyn, Lou Reed was the lead guitarist, singer and principal songwriter for the Velvet Underground, before embarking on a legendary solo career that spanned five decades. He released more than sixteen albums, including Coney Island Baby, Berlin and Transformer. He died in 2013.

Price: $49.99 $55.00 ISBN: 9780571345991 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 672 pages Bic1: Musical scores, lyrics & libretti Bic2: Rock & Pop music Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Social NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The House Party Adrian Tinniswood

A gorgeous evocation of the country house party by celebrated social historian Adrian Tinniswood.

Description The House Party explores privilege and leisure from the viewpoint of the guest and the host, showing us what it was really like to spend a weekend with the Jazz Age industrialist, the bibulous belted earl, and the bright young thing. Tinniswood reveals how the great and good partied at mansions such as Knole and Dunham Massey, how Nancy Astor held court at Cliveden, and what a discreet weekend gathering at Winston Churchill's Chartwell might entail. Much like the very best country house party, this glorious book will keep you highly entertained.

About the Author Adrian Tinniswood is the author of fourteen books of social and architectural history. A Senior Research Fellow at University of Buckingham and a Visiting Fellow in Heritage and History at Bath Spa University, he worked for and with the National Trust for more than thirty years. In 2013 he was awarded an OBE for services to heritage. His most recent book is Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the Royal Household. @AdeTinniswood

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Faber Non Fiction NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense Jenny Uglow

A scrupulously forensic literary appreciation of Edward Lear and his 'nonsenses' by one of our most cherished historians - without losing any sense of fun.

Description Edward Lear's poems follow and break the rules. They abide by the logic of syntax, the linking of rhyme and the dance of rhythm, and these 'nonsenses' are full of joy - yet set against darkness. Where do these human-like animals and birds and these odd adventures - some gentle, some violent, some musical, some wild - come from? His many drawings that accompany his verse are almost hyper-real, as if he wants to free the creatures from the page. They exist nowhere else in literature, springing only from Lear's imagination.

Lear lived all his life on the borders of rules and structures, of disciplines and desires. He vowed to ignore politics yet trembled with passionate sympathies. He depended on patrons and moved in establishment circles, yet he never belonged among them and mocked imperial attitudes. He loved men yet dreamed of marriage - but remained, it seems, celibate, wrapped in himself. Even in his family he was marginal, at once accepted and rejected. Surrounded by friends, he was alone.

If we follow him across land and sea - to Italy, Greece and Albania, to The Levant and Egypt and India - and to the borderlands of spirit and self, art and desire, can we see, in the end, if the nonsense makes sense? This is what Jenny Uglow has set sail to find out.

About the Author Jenny Uglow 's books include prize-winning biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth and Sarah Losh. The Lunar Men, published in 2002, was described by Richard Holmes as 'an extraordinarily gripping account', while Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick, won the National Arts Writers Award and A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Her most recent book is In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815. She lives in Canterbury.

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Faber Paperback NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts Chris McGreal

A devastating portrait of America's opioid painkiller epidemic - the deadliest drug crisis in US history.

Description LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019

A devastating portrait of America's opioid painkiller epidemic - the deadliest drug crisis in US history.

One hundred and fifty Americans are killed each day by the opioid epidemic. But, as Chris McGreal reveals, it was an avoidable tragedy driven by bad science, corporate greed and a corrupted medical system. He tells the stories of the families devastated by painkillers they thought would heal, and the physicians and scientists who took on the drug companies behind the epidemic. American Overdose is a powerful account of the terrible human cost of the crisis, and a stark warning of the consequences of running a health care system as a business, not a service.

About the Author Chris McGreal is a senior writer at the Guardian and former journalist for BBC. He has published several articles on the opioid epidemic in America. He has worked in Johannesburg and Jerusalem, as well as Central America, and now lives with his family in Portland, Oregon.

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Faber Paperback NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 So You Think You've Got Problems?: Surprising and rewarding puzzles to sharpen your mind Alex Bellos

Can you beat the Guardian's puzzle-master, Alex Bellos?

Description This is a collection of ingenious and satisfying puzzles drawn from across the ancient and modern world. You will be imprisoned by a sadistic logician; thrown in an arena with a famished lion; and balancing along an ever-expanding elastic band. Implausible scenarios in daily life, perhaps. But in puzzle-land, you get into these scrapes all the time. You'll need to pit your wits against riddles, word problems, visual and logical conundrums. Some solutions will rely on ingenuity, some will challenge you to spot patterns, others call for extreme rationally. All will stretch your brain. Let's get puzzling ...

About the Author 'Think of the best storyteller you know and the coolest teacher you ever had, and now you've got some idea of what Alex Bellos is like.' - Steven Strogatz, Cornell University

Alex Bellos has a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from Oxford. His bestselling, award-winning books Alex's Adventures in Numberland, Alex Through the Looking-Glass, and Can You Solve My Problems? have been translated into more than 20 languages. His YouTube videos have been seen by more than 20 million people, and he writes a popular blog for the Guardian. His latest book is Puzzle Ninja. @alexbellos

Price: $32.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9781783351909 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x153mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Puzzles & quizzes Bic2: Sudoku & number puzzles Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Guardian Books NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Letter To My Younger Self: 100 Inspiring People on the Moments That Shaped Their Lives Jane Graham, The Big Issue

From The Big Issue's popular section, this collection features 100 remarkable people from the worlds of entertainment, politics, food, sport and business writing letters to their younger selves.

Description ALL ROYALTIES FROM SALES OF THIS BOOK GO TO THE BIG ISSUE

If you could write a letter to your younger self, what would it say?

More than 10 years ago, The Big Issue began asking people that and since then, some of the most brilliant and successful people from the worlds of entertainment, politics, food, sport and business have had their letters published in the magazine.

This collection of 100 of the most incredible letters includes Paul McCartney writing on how he found inspiration, Olivia Colman on overcoming confidence problems, Mo Farah on the importance of losing, Arianna Huffington on knowing your motivations, Jamie Oliver on trusting your instinct and many, many more, including Rod Stewart, Margaret Atwood, Buzz Aldrin, Tracey Emin, Michael Palin, Melanie C, Dionne Warwick and Ewan McGregor.

Letter to My Younger Self is a moving, inspiring and powerful insight into the wisdom that age brings and how you can use this knowledge to shape your future.

About the Author Jane Graham is the Books Editor for The Big Issue, has worked as a BBC radio producer on Radios 1, 3 and 4, as well as Radio Ulster. As a journalist, she has written for The Guardian, Uncut, The Sunday Times and The Scotsman.

The Big Issue is an award-winning magazine offering employment opportunities to people in poverty by giving them a Price: $34.99 $39.99 share of the profits from sales. Launched in 1991, the magazine has now sold over 200 million copies. The company also ISBN: 9781788702324 has an investment arm, Big Issue Invest, which finances the growth of sustainable social enterprises and charities across Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm the UK, and an independently funded registered charity, The Big Issue Foundation, which addresses the fundamental Extent: 448 pages issues attached to social and financial exclusion. For over 25 years, The Big Issue Group has strived to dismantle poverty Bic1: Biography: general through creating opportunity, and in the process has become one of the most recognized and trusted brands in the UK. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Blink NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 F2: Ultimate Footballer: The All New F2 Book! (Skills Book 4): How To Build The Perfect Player The F2

Learn how to become the perfect footballer with the F2's new book.

Description The F2 have scoured the planet and analysed what ingredients you need to build the perfect footballer - the left boot of Messi, the passing of de Bruyne, the dribbling of Neymar, the finishing of Kane. Now they want to create the ultimate footballer and show you how to emulate your favourite stars.

If you want to add skills like the Salah swerve, or the Ozil chop, the look no further. And this time, it's not just the skills buyt also the drills. Chasing the pace of Mbappe? Or the engine of Kante, The F2 show you how.

And once you've put it all together you can compare your ultimate player with Billy and Jez's. Who has the best? You decide?

About the Author The F2 are Billy Wingrove and Jeremy Lynch, the world's biggest football social media stars, with over 20 millions followers across YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. As brand ambassadors for Adidas, they travel the world interviewing and playing with the biggest footballers and social media stars. Their first book, F2: World of Football, was the biggest selling sports book of 2016.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781788702584 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 240x170mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Football (Soccer, Association football) Bic2: Autobiography: sport Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Blink NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Last Night a Bidet Drenched My Wife: ...and other misheard lyrics @Trouteyes with Moose Allain

A collection of commonly misheard lyrics and outrageous earworms...

Description 'Six o'clock already I was just in the middle of a dream. I was kissing Danny DeVito by a crystal blue Italian stream.'

'I was loooking for some action and all I found were cygnets and a waterfall.'

'When I get that feeling I need saxophone cleaning.'

Funny, surreal, absurd and occasionally embarrassing, everyone has a misheard lyric moment. From simple mistakes like 'If you don't Naomi by now. You will never never Naomi', to something completely off the wall 'Specs and rugs and sausage rolls, are all my mind and body needs' - these linguistic gaffes have been the source of fun ever since the dawn of popular music.

Now everyone's favourite online goon - the one and only @trouteyes has amassed a heap of his own wonky earworms for our reading pleasure in this wonderful hashtag fire emoji humour book.

About the Author An artist, visionary, and very successful none of your businessman @trouteyes has been 'entertaining' his followers with absurd sword word play and odd visual gags for years, and counts Matt Lucas, Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, Sue Perkins, Dara O'Briain, Adam Kay, Rob Delaney, David Schneider and Russell Brand amongst his many followers.

Illustrated by bestselling cartoonist and Twitter personality Moose Allain. Moose is an artist, illustrator, cartoonist and prolific tweeter with 100k Twitter followers. He lives and works in Devon. As well as creating his original artworks and prints, Moose's cartoons feature regularly in Private Eye and The Literary Review magazines. He published his own drawing activity book Fill-me-in and has provided illustrations for several books including the Pointless Quiz book.

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Blink NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Crown Robert Lacey

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Blink NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Reef Life: An underwater memoir Callum Roberts

A life working on coral reefs by one of the world's pre-eminent marine scientists.

Description Reef Life is a marine science memoir - the story of how Britain's pre-eminent marine conservation scientist, fell in love with coral reefs. Callum Roberts begins as a young university student who had never been abroad, spending a summer helping to map the unknown reefs of Saudi Arabia. From the moment he first cleared his goggles, he's never looked back, moving on to survey Sharm al-Sheikh, and from there diving and researching all over the world, including Australia's imperilled Great Barrier Reef and the more resilient reefs of the Caribbean, in a thirty-year career. His stories are astonishing, lyrical and laced with a wonderful wry humour - and they allow us privileged access to, and understanding of, the science of our oceans and reefs. Reading this book will also commit readers to support of Callum's goal to get marine reserve status for ten percent of the world's ocean.

About the Author Professor of Marine Conservation at York University, Callum Roberts is one of the world's leading oceanographers. He was the Chief Scientific Advisor on Blue Planet 2 and writes regularly on marine issues for the Guardian. He is the author of two award-winning books, The Unnatural History of the Sea (Rachel Carson Award, 2007) and Ocean of Life (Mountbatten Award, 2013).

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Profile Trade NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Best Left on the Drawing Board Vince Houghton

Agent Zigzag meets The Book of Heroic Failures and The GCHQ Quiz Book.

Description Bomb-carrying bats. Poisoned flower arrangements. Cigars laced with mind-altering drugs. Listening devices implanted into specially-trained cats. A torpedo-proof aircraft carrier made out of ice and sawdust. And a CIA plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon ... just because.

In Nuking the Moon, Vince Houghton, Historian and Curator at the International Spy Museum, collects the most inspired, implausible and downright bizarre military intelligence schemes that never quite made it off the drawing board. From the grandly ambitious to the truly devious, they illuminate a new side of warfare, revealing how a combination of desperation and innovation led not only to daring missions and brilliant technological advances, but to countless plans and experiments that failed spectacularly.

Alternatively terrifying and hilarious, and combining archival research with newly-conducted interviews, these twenty-six chapters reveal not only what might have happened, but also what each one tells us about the history and people around it. If 'military intelligence' makes you think of James Bond and ingenious exploding gadgets ... get ready for the true story.

About the Author Dr. Vincent Houghton is the Historian and Curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. He is also the host and creative director of the Museum's podcast, SpyCast, which reaches a national and international audience of over 3.5 million listeners each year. He is a veteran of the US army and served in the Balkans before receiving his Masters and PhD in Diplomatic and Military History from the University of Maryland. He has appeared on CNN, NBC News, Fox News, NPR and other major outlets as an expert in intelligence history.

Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781788163309 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Farm & working animals Bic2: Espionage & secret services Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Uncommon Knowledge: Extraordinary Things That Few People Know Tom Standage

Following up 2016's hit Go Figure and 2018's Sunday Times bestseller Seriously Curious, another collection of astonishing bite-sized explainers from the Economist.

Description The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask:

How did carrots become orange? What's stopping us from having a four-day week? How can we remove all the broken bits of satellite from orbit? If everything is so terrible, why is the global suicide rate falling?

The keen minds of the Economist love to look beyond everyday appearances to find out what really makes things tick. In this latest collection of The Economist Explains, they have gathered together the juiciest fruits of their never-ending quest for answers. For an uncommonly interesting read, take a peek at some Uncommon Knowledge - and pass it on! The world only gets more amazing when discoveries are shared.

About the Author Tom Standage is Deputy Editor of The Economist. He is author of several books, including Seriously Curious, Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years and The Victorian Internet. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian and Wired.

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Profile Trade NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Gravediggers: The Last Winter of the Weimar Republic Hauke Friederichs, Rudiger Barth

A thrilling day-by-day account of the final months of the Weimar Republic, documenting the collapse of democracy in Germany and Hitler's frightening rise to power.

Description November 1932. The Weimar Republic is teetering. The economy is in ruins, the political climate is becoming increasingly brutal and street battles rage between Communists and National Socialists. In the Reichstag and the Chancellery, fixers, adventurers, extremists and demagogues are engaged in a ruthless power struggle, rife with feints, lies, fighting and deception.

Over these few weeks, five men decide the fate of Germany. Along with the National Socialists Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, Chancellors Franz von Papen and Kurt von Schleicher spin a web of intrigue around the elderly President Paul von Hindenburg in a dramatic House of Cards-like scramble for power. The historians Rudiger Barth and Hauke Friedrichs have drawn on diaries, letters, little-known files and personal notes by a number of actors and observers to produce a thrilling day-by-day account of the final ten weeks of the Weimar Republic. The result is a colourful, multi- layered portrait of a period that was by no means predestined to plunge into the abyss...but now seems uncannily familiar.

About the Author Born in 1972 in Saarbrucken, Rudiger Barth studied Contemporary History and General Rhetoric in Tubingen. After 15 years as a journalist for the German weekly Stern, he now works as a freelance author.

Born in 1980 in Hamburg, Hauke Friedrichs studied Social and Economic History and wrote his PhD thesis on piracy in the Mediterranean. He has worked for publications including Die Zeit, Stern, Geo, Epoche and P.M. History.

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Profile Trade NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Imperial Tragedy: From Constantine's Empire to the Destruction of Roman Italy AD 363-568 Michael Kulikowski

Two hundred years of Roman imperial politics and power brought to life in an action-packed narrative.

Description For centuries, Rome was one of the world's largest imperial powers, its influence spread across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle-East, its military force successfully fighting off attacks by the Parthians, Germans, Persians and Goths. Then came the definitive split, the Vandal sack of Rome, and the crumbling of the West from Empire into kingdoms first nominally under Imperial rule and then, one by one, beyond it.

Imperial Tragedy tells the story of Rome's gradual collapse. Full of palace intrigue, religious conflicts and military history, as well as details of the shifts in social, religious and political structures, Imperial Tragedy contests the idea that Rome fell due to external invasions. Instead, it focuses on how the choices and conditions of those living within the empire led to its fall. For it was not a single catastrophic moment that broke the Empire but a creeping process; by the time people understood that Rome had fallen, the west of the Empire had long since broken the Imperial yoke.

About the Author Michael Kulikowski is Professor of History and Classics at Penn State University, where his research and writing ranges widely across ancient and early medieval history. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. His books include Rome's Gothic Wars, described by Bryn Mawr Classical Review as 'exceptional' and by Military History Review as 'breezy and animated, yet authoritative', and Imperial Triumph (Profile, 2016).

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Profile Trade NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Windows of Opportunity: How Nations Create Wealth David Sainsbury

A new theory of economic growth, putting individual firms' investment decisions in the central role.

Description Is neoclassical economics dead? Why have the biggest industrial economies stagnated since the financial crisis? Is the competitive threat from China a tired metaphor or a genuine danger to our standard of living?

Lord David Sainsbury draws on his experience in business and government to assemble the evidence and comes to some startling conclusions. In Windows of Opportunity, he argues that economic growth comes not as a steady process, but as a series of jumps, based on investment in high value-added firms. Because these firms are engaged in winner- takes-all competition, rapid growth in one country can indeed come at the expense of growth in another, contrary to the standard models. He suggests a new theory of growth and development, with a role for government in 'picking winners' at the level of technologies and industries rather than individual firms. With the role of industrial policy at the centre of the Brexit debate, but a significant intellectual gap in setting out what that policy should be, this book could not be more timely.

About the Author David Sainsbury (Lord Sainsbury of Turville) was Finance Director of J. Sainsbury plc 1973-90 and Chairman 1992-8. He was Minister of Science and Innovation in Tony Blair's Labour Government from July 1998 until November 2006. He founded the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, and founded and chairs the Institute for Government. In 2007 he produced a review of the Government's science and innovation policies, The Race to the Top, and in 2013 published Progressive Capitalism: How to Achieve Economic Growth, Liberty and Social Justice. He has been Chancellor of the University of Cambridge since October 2011.

Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781788163842 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Welfare economics Bic2: Political economy Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century John Burnside

A major new account of poetry in the twentieth century.

Description Though we might not realise it, our collective memory of the twentieth century was defined by the poets who lived and wrote in it. At every significant turning point we find them, pen in hand, fingers poised at the typewriter, ready to distil the essence of the moment, from the muddy wastes of the Western front to the vast reckoning that came with the end of empire.

This is the first and only history of twentieth century poetry, by the acclaimed poet, author and academic John Burnside. Bringing together poets from times and places as diverse as Tsarist Russia, 1960's America and Ireland at the height of the Troubles, The Music of Time reveals how poets engaged with and shaped the most important issues of their times - and were in their turn affected by their context and dialogue with each other. This is a major work of scholarship, that on every page bears witness to the transformative beauty and power of poetry.

About the Author After working in computer systems analysis for a decade, John Burnside became a full-time writer in 1994. John has published 14 books of poetry, and has won the Geoffrey Faber Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Petrarca Preis and, most recently, the Forward and T.S. Eliot Prizes for his poetry. He has also published eight novels and a memoir. He is Professor of English at the University of St Andrews.

Price: $55.00 $59.99 ISBN: 9781781255612 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 496 pages Bic1: Social & cultural history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 A Cheesemonger's History of The British Isles Ned Palmer

A celebration of cheese to go perfectly with your Christmas Stilton

Description Every cheese tells a story. Whether it's a fresh young goat's cheese or a big, beefy eighteen-month-old Cheddar, each variety holds the history of the people who first made it, from the builders of Stonehenge to medieval monks, from the Stilton-makers of the eighteenth-century to the factory cheesemakers of the Second World War.

Cheesemonger Ned Palmer takes us on a delicious journey across Britain and Ireland and through time to uncover the histories of beloved old favourites like Cheddar and Wensleydale and fresh innovations like the Irish Cashel Blue or the rambunctious Renegade Monk. Along the way we learn the craft and culture of cheesemaking from the eccentric and engaging characters who have revived and reinvented farmhouse and artisan traditions. And we get to know the major cheese styles - the blues, washed rinds, semi-softs and, unique to the British Isles, the territorials - and discover how best to enjoy them, on a cheeseboard with a glass of Reisling, or as a Welsh rarebit alongside a pint of Pale Ale.

This is a cheesemonger's odyssey, a celebration of history, innovation and taste - and the book all cheese and history lovers will want to devour this Christmas.

About the Author Ned Palmer runs the Cheese Tasting Company, whose unique events pair cheese with wines, beers, whiskies and history. After studying philosophy, theatre and experimental psychology, he worked as a jazz pianist and hospital porter, before helping out on a stall at Borough Market led him into a life of cheesemongering.

Price: $35.00 $39.99 ISBN: 9781788161183 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Cookery / food & drink etc Bic2: Food & society Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Chasing the Sun: The New Science of Sunlight and How it Shapes Our Bodies and Minds Linda Geddes

The full story of how our relationship with light shapes our health, productivity and mood.

Description The full story of how our relationship with light shapes our health, productivity and mood.

'A sparkling and illuminating study, one of those rare books that could genuinely improve your life' - Sunday Times

Since the dawn of time, humans have worshipped the sun. And with good reason. Our biology is set up to work in partnership with it. From our sleep cycles to our immune systems and our mental health, access to sunlight is crucial for living a happy and fulfilling life. New research suggests that our sun exposure over a lifetime - even before we were born - may shape our risk of developing a range of different illnesses, from depression to diabetes.

Bursting with cutting-edge science and eye-opening advice, Chasing the Sun explores the extraordinary significance of sunlight, from ancient solstice celebrations to modern sleep labs, and from the unexpected health benefits of sun exposure to what the Amish know about sleep that the rest of us don't.

As more of us move into light-polluted cities, spending our days in dim offices and our evenings watching brightly lit screens, we are in danger of losing something vital: our connection to the star that gave us life. It's a loss that could have far-reaching consequences that we're only just beginning to grasp.

About the Author Linda Geddes is a science journalist who specialises in biology, medicine and technology. She has worked as both an editor and reporter for New Scientist magazine, and has received numerous awards for her journalism, including the Association of British Science Writers' award for Best Investigative Journalism. She is also the author of Bumpology: The Myth-Busting Pregnancy Book for Curious Parents-To-Be. Price: $22.99 $24.99 www.lindageddes.com ISBN: 9781781258330 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we think and feel about health. Inspired by Extent: 256 pages the medical objects and curiosities collected by Henry Wellcome, it connects science, medicine, life and art. Wellcome Bic1: Popular science Collection exhibitions, events and books explore a diverse range of subjects, including consciousness, forensic medicine, Bic2: Biology, life sciences Illustrations: emotions, sexology, identity and death. wellcomecollection.org Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics Diarmaid Ferriter

The history and possible future of the border between the Republic and Northern Ireland.

Description 'Anyone who wishes to understand why Brexit is so intractable should read this book. I can think of several MPs who ought to.' - The Times

For the past two decades, you could cross the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic half a dozen times without noticing or, indeed, turning off the road you were travelling. It cuts through fields, winds back-and-forth across roads, and wends from Carlingford Lough to Lough Foyle. It is frictionless - a feat sealed by the Good Friday Agreement. Before that, watchtowers loomed over border communities, military checkpoints dotted the roads, and smugglers slipped between jurisdictions. This is a past that most are happy to have left behind but might it also be the future?

The border has been a topic of dispute for over a century, first in Dublin, Belfast and Westminster and, post Brexit referendum, in Brussels. Yet, despite the passions of Nationalists and Unionists in the North, neither found deep wells of support in the countries they identified with politically. British political leaders were often ignorant of the conflict's complexities, rarely visited the border, and privately disliked their erstwhile unionist allies. Southern leaders' anti-partition statements masked relative indifference and unofficial cooperation with British security services.

From the 1920 Government of Ireland Act that created the border, the Treaty and its aftermath, through the Civil Rights Movement, Thatcher, the Troubles and the Good Friday Agreement up to the Brexit negotiations, Ferriter reveals the political, economic, social and cultural consequences of the border in Ireland. With the fate of the border uncertain, The Border is a timely intervention by a renowned historian into one of the most contentious and misunderstood political issues of our time.

About the Author Diarmaid Ferriter is one of Ireland's best-known historians and is Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD. He is a regular broadcaster on television and radio and a weekly columnist with the Irish Times. In 2010 he presented a three- Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781788161794 part history of twentieth century Ireland, The Limits of Liberty, on RTE television. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: British & Irish history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Create Your Own Midlife Crisis Marie Phillips

We all ask ourselves 'how did I get here?' So try running away or sexting without ruining your life, and create your own midlife crisis with Marie Phillips' hilarious book.

Description HAVE YOU EVER ... wanted to run away to Brazil? In Create Your Own Midlife Crisis you can, but beware the little old lady on the plane who needs a bit of help carrying a heavy bag through customs. Or maybe it seemed like the right time to tell your husband that your sex life needs an overhaul, but you're only a few steps away from trying polyamory in a suburban swingers' club with a fast-emerging latex allergy.

We're grown ups. We've all had desperate moments. A couple of decades into adulthood, it's hard to know how you went from being a mostly-drunk-in-a-good-way twenty-something to considering divorce because your husband has come back from a meditation retreat only eating raw food. The decision chain is there, if only you could remember what it was. But until now, you couldn't go back to the start and try for a better result.

So here's your chance to try out the paths not taken: with bad behaviour from the office to the home, you can create the midlife crisis you never had or hope you can still avoid. Yelpingly funny, horribly relatable, here are the predicaments of modern midlife, transporting you to places that you'll - hopefully - be able to skip over in the real world.

About the Author Marie Phillips was born in London. After working in television documentaries and as an independent bookseller, she published her first novel, Gods Behaving Badly, in 2007. It became an international bestseller, was translated into over twenty languages, and was made into a film starring Sharon Stone and Christopher Walken. Her second novel, The Table of Less Valued Knights, was longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Prize for Fiction. Her third, Oh, I Do Like To Be..., was published in January 2019. With Robert Hudson, she wrote the BBC Radio 4 series Warhorses of Letters, which starred Stephen Fry and Daniel Rigby, and Some Hay in a Manger, starring Tamsin Greig and Joel Fry. As part of a shadowy cabal of like-minded women, she published the erotic spoof Fifty Shelves of Grey, under the name Vanessa Parody. She is currently studying storytelling at the Mezrab Storytelling School in Amsterdam. Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781788163927 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Gift books Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Souvenir Press NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism Barry M. Prizant, Tom Fields-Meyer

Essential reading for parents, teachers, therapists and anyone who cares for people on the autism spectrum.

Description Winner of the Autism Society of America's Dr. Temple Grandin Award

Autism is a different way of being human: it offers possibilities and opportunities, not disabilities. By understanding autistic behaviours as responses based on an individual's experiences and as strategies to cope with a chaotic world, Barry Prizant seeks to enhance a child's abilities, to teach new skills, help individuals build on their strengths and develop coping strategies that could aid the fulfilment of every child's promise.

Uniquely Human debunks many of the false and outdated stereotypes that surround autism. It is a first step towards a greater understanding of people with autism and an essential part of their successful participation in and contribution to society.

With a wealth of inspiring stories and practical advice from thousands of children and older people with autism and their families, Uniquely Human conveys a deep respect for the qualities in people on the autism spectrum that make them special. It offers a compassionate and insightful perspective that could be life-changing as well as uplifting.

About the Author Barry M. Prizant, PhD, CCC-SLP, is among the world's leading authorities on autism, with more than forty years of experience as a scholar, researcher, and international consultant. He is an adjunct professor at Brown University and coauthor of The SCERTS Model: A Comprehensive Educational Approach, now being implemented in more than a dozen countries. Dr. Prizant has published more than 120 articles and chapters and has received many awards for his career in supporting autistic persons and related disabilities and their families. Dr. Prizant lives in Cranston, Rhode Island, with his wife, Dr. Elaine Meyer.

Tom Fields-Meyer is the author of Following Ezra, an account of what he has learned from his autistic son. He teaches at Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781788164023 the Extension Writers' Program of UCLA. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Coping with illness & specific conditions Bic2: Autism & Asperger's Syndrome Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Souvenir Press NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea Charles Seife

This informative and easy-to-read book is the story of the people who battled over the meaning of the mysterious number - the scholars and mystics, the scientists and clergymen - who each tried to understand zero.

Description Within the concept of zero lies a philosophical and scientific history of Mankind. The Babylonians invented zero, it was banned by the Greeks while on the eve of the Millennium zero was feared to be a timebomb within the world s computer systems. There was a time when zero did not exist, the concept of zero is a relatively recent Eastern concept and for centuries there was a struggle over its very existence. For many cultures zero represented the void and it could prove to undo the framework of logic. It was seen as an alien concept that could shatter the framework of Christianity and science yet European acceptance of zero as a philosophical concept was at the centre of the Renaissance.

Over three thousand years the concept of zero has been at the heart of the intellectual debates that have created our culture. In the first millennium zero lay at the heart of the debate between Eastern and Western religion, while after the Renaissance zero was at the centre of the struggle between religion and science. Zero's power comes from its ability to disrupt the laws of physics and it may hold the secret of the cosmos. From the nothingness of a vacuum came our universe, if our universe was born in zero so zero could hold the existence of an infinite number of other universes

About the Author Charles Seife, a professor of journalism at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, has been writing about physics and mathematics for two decades. He is the author of six books, Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, which won a PEN/Martha Albrand Award; Alpha & Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe; Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, From Our Brains to Black Holes; Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking, which won the 2009 Davis Prize from the History of Science Society; Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception; and Virtual Unreality: Just Because the Internet Told You So, How Do You Know It's True? Seife holds an A.B. in mathematics from Princeton University, an

Price: $24.99 $27.99 M.S. in mathematics from Yale University, and an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University. He lives in New York City ISBN: 9780285635944 with his wife, Meridith, and his children, Eliza and Daniel. Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 217x138mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Popular mathematics Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Souvenir Press NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Operation Swallow: American Soldiers' Remarkable Escape From Berga Concentration Camp Mark Felton

How an American soldier saved his comrades from being enslaved by the Nazis in the dying days of World War Two.

Description Operation Swallow is the true story of how a small group of American soldiers, inspired by a charismatic but reluctant leader named Hans Kasten, worked to save hundreds of fellow servicemen from a Nazi plan to turn Jewish prisoners of war into concentration camp slaves.

It begins in the snowy forests of the Ardennes during Christmas 1944 and ends at the charnel house of Buchenwald concentration camp in spring 1945. It is a remarkable battle of wills between a young GI thrust into a leadership position he didn't want and an SS officer who will stop at nothing to complete his orders.

Written from personal testimonies and official documents, it is an escape story replete with courage, sacrifice, torture, despair and salvation. Even more remarkably, it is a story that has barely been told before, a chapter of US military history that the American government tried to suppress for decades - and an uplifting story that deserves to be widely known.

About the Author Mark Felton is the author of numerous books on military history, including Castle of the Eagles ('an extraordinary and largely forgotten wartime story, brought back to life in this Boys' Own account' - Daily Mail) and Zero Night ('a thundering good read' - History of War), both of which are in development as Hollywood movies.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781785785993 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Second World War Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 101 Tiny Changes to Brighten Your World Ailbhe Malone

Follow-up to the successful 101 Tiny Changes to Brighten Your Day focuses on improving your personal, work and wider worlds.

Description 101 Tiny Changes to Brighten Your World is a book of uplifting tips on how to look after yourself and your world, from your personal relationships, to your working space and relationships, to society and the environment at large.

In the hustle and bustle of daily life, it can be all too easy to lose sight of what really matters to us, and to take others and our world for granted. Focusing on tiny changes, Ailbhe Malone encourages us to take it step by step - with ideas to nurture our friendships, reduce plastic waste and make ethical choices, and improve our online spaces and our broader social environment.

Simple practical tips combine with fun illustrations to create a treasure trove of inspiration, positive encouragement and optimism.

About the Author Ailbhe Malone is a freelance journalist, a former founding member of BuzzFeed UK and its Lifestyle Editor. She has consulted on Lifestyle for BuzzFeed internationally and has featured as an industry expert on BBC's The Apprentice and for Phaidon's Where to Eat Pizza (2016). She has worked for Nylon (US), the Guardian (UK), Heat and Wired.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781785785726 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 160x118mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Self-help & personal development Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 101 Tiny Changes to Brighten Your Day Ailbhe Malone

From Buzzfeed's Lifestyle editor, practical self-care tips in a beautifully packaged book, for when you need a simple pick-me-up.

Description 101 Tiny Changes to Brighten Your Day is a friendly book of tips on how to look after yourself and your mental health, in an age where we too often forget to pause and take a breath.

For anyone with anxiety issues, those who struggle to prioritise their own mental health over catching up on emails and social media, or those looking for a bit of encouragement, these small tips will help you shine again.

With small actions, you can make a big improvement to your well-being - whether it's making your phone a source of positivity instead of stress, engaging in habits that make you feel healthier and more positive, or preparing for darker days. Ailbhe Malone's simple tips combine with witty illustrations from Naoise Dolan to create a resource you'll dip into whenever you need a helping hand.

A totem for your bedside table, backpack, or to give to a friend in need, this book believes that you're worth looking after, even when you don't.

About the Author Ailbhe Malone is Lifestyle Editor at BuzzFeed UK and a founding member of the UK team. Her weekly self-care column for Buzzfeed ran from 2016-17, and was read in the UK, Germany, America, Brazil and France. She consults on Lifestyle for BuzzFeed internationally and has featured as an industry expert on BBC's The Apprentice, and for Phaidon's Where to Eat Pizza (2016). Prior to BuzzFeed, she worked for Nylon (US), the Guardian (UK), Heat and Wired.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781785783944 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 160x118mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Self-help & personal development Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Mbappe: 2020 Updated Edition Luca Caioli, Cyril Collot

Accessible, aspirational and packed with interviews - the only biography of the World Cup star with all the exclusive details.

Description The youngest player to score in the World Cup final since Pele, for the tournament-winning team, in his brief career to date Kylian Mbappe is breaking records at a rate matched by only the likes of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, and is fast becoming one of the biggest names in football.

But did you know that even at three years old, he would sit listening to the manager's talk before an AS Bondy match?

Or where his signature crossed-arm goal celebration came from and where he first performed it?

Or how he got his dressing room nickname 'Thirty-seven'?

Find out about all this and more in Luca Caioli and Cyril Collot's tirelessly researched biography of the game's latest superstar, featuring exclusive interviews with those who know him best.

Includes the 2018/19 season.

About the Author Luca Caioli is the bestselling author of Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar and Suarez. A renowned Italian sports journalist, he lives in Spain corresponding for SKY Italia and Corriere della Sera.

Cyril Collot is a French journalist and the author of a number of books about French football. He works for the OLTV channel where he has directed several documentaries about football.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781785785849 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Football / soccer (Children's / Teenage) Bic2: Biography: sport Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Messi: 2020 Updated Edition Luca Caioli

The updated edition of Luca Caioli's brilliant biography of Barcelona star Lionel Messi, now covering the 2018/2019 season.

Description From the bestselling author of Ronaldo and Neymar

Prolific, cool-headed and unerringly consistent, Lionel Messi is one of the most revered footballers in history.

But did you know that his transfer to Barcelona was first agreed on a paper napkin?

Or that an x-ray of his hand was to thank for identifying his growth hormone deficiency?

And do you know why he refused to collect his first ever Champions League winner's medal?

Find out all this and more in Luca Caioli's classic portrait of a footballing icon, featuring exclusive interviews with those who know him best and even Messi himself.

About the Author Luca Caioli is the bestselling author of Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar and Mbappe. A renowned Italian sports journalist, he lives in Spain corresponding for SKY Italia and Corriere della Sera.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781785785818 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Football / soccer (Children's / Teenage) Bic2: Biography: sport Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Astrobiology: The Search for Life Elsewhere in the Universe Andrew May

Are we alone in the Universe, or are there as many planets supporting life as there are stars in the sky?

Description It's one of the most important and fascinating questions human beings can ponder, and astrobiology is the emerging field of science that tries to answer it.

Astronomer Rhodri Evans gives an expert overview of our current state of knowledge, looking at how life started on Earth, considering other places in the Solar System that might harbour life, then discussing possible Earth-like 'exoplanets' orbiting stars further out into our galaxy - and what future missions and studies will tell us about extraterrestrial life there.

Along the way the book answers some key questions: How can we answer Fermi's paradox ('Where is everybody?')? Is water essential for life, or just a best bet for finding it? And how will we know when we find alien life, if it doesn't follow the same principles as Earth life?

About the Author Dr Rhodri Evans' main area of research is extra-galactic astronomy. For the past sixteen years he has been involved in airborne astronomy, and is part of the team building the facility far-infrared camera for SOFIA. He also does research in star-formation and cosmology and is a regular contributor to TV, radio and public lectures.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781785783425 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Cosmology & the universe Bic2: Developmental biology Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 My Brother, Muhammad Ali: The Definitive Biography Rahaman Ali

From Muhammad Ali's brother comes the most intimate biography ever written on the legendary sportsman.

Description More words have been written about about Muhammad Ali than almost anyone else. And yet, until now, the one voice missing has been the one belonging to the man who knew him best.

Muhammad Ali was, without doubt, the world's most-loved sportsman. At the height of his celebrity he was the most famous person in the world. And no-one was closer to him than Rahaman Ali, his only sibling and best friend.

Born Cassius and Rudulph Valentino Clay, the two brothers grew up together, lived together, trained together, travelled together, and fought together, in the street and in the ring.

A near-constant fixture in his famous sibling's company, Rahaman saw Ali at both his best and his worst: the relentless prankster and the jealous older brother, the outspoken advocate and the devoted family man. From time spent relaxing together behind closed doors, to encounters with kings, presidents and celebrities, he is able to offer an insider's perspective on all the well-known stories as well as never-before-told tales.

In My Brother, Muhammad Ali, Rahaman paints an evocative, rich and intimate portrait of Muhammad Ali - of both the legend and the man. Full of poignant, moving and surprising memories, it will show readers the icon through a different and more honest lens, painting a portrait of an affable, sweet, proud and yet relentlessly polarizing man.

Many books have been written about Ali, but most have focused on a particular period of his life or a key fight. In this extraordinary, unrivalled memoir on life with the great man, Rahaman tells a much bigger and more personal story - that of two brothers, almost inseparable from birth to death. It is the final and most important perspective on one of the most iconic figures of the last century.

About the Author Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781789461718 No one was closer to Muhammad Ali than Rahaman, his only sibling and best friend. The brothers lived together, trained Format: Hard Cover together and shared pivotal experiences, from Ali's time in the Nation of Islam to the 'Rumble in the Jungle' fight against Dimensions: 234x153mm George Foreman. Rahman became Ali's best sparring partner and part of his inner circle, also acting as a personal Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Boxing bodyguard throughout his brother's career. Rahman retired from competing as a heavyweight himself in 1972, with a Bic2: Memoirs record of 14 wins, three losses and one draw. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

John Blake NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 No Handcuffs: The Final Word on My War with The Krays Eddie Richardson

'We couldn't, we wouldn't, let anyone take a liberty. That was never an option at that time' - Eddie Richardson

Description Eddie Richardson is the last brand-name gangster. Say the name and the world of violent criminality grabs you by the throat.

The Richardson brothers, Eddie and Charlie, and their infamous 'Torture Gang', made money while their rivals Ronnie and Reggie Kray made fatal mischief. They fought each other, but now, in 2018, Eddie Richardson says: 'They tell me blood is thicker than water, but with Charlie it wasn't so. He was evil.'

With his brother dead, Eddie Richardson feels free to detail the story of a vicious family feud that provoked extravagant acrimony. No Handcuffs unravels the mysteries of decades of crime and political incident. The story of a turbulent era, it rivals the most imaginative fiction in its portrayal of gangland life with all its chanciness and rawness and careless disregard for any obstacle on the way to its target, the big money.

In an inspired collaboration with bestselling author Douglas Thompson, the mature Eddie Richardson is given a voice to reflect on his journey from the scrapyards of South London to the glitz and glamour of the West End nightclubs, to the flesh and tease of Soho, down Downing Street and through the door of Number 10 to the perils of espionage and international intrigue, and his elevation to demigod status in hard-men territory - and finally as a high-security inmate at Her Majesty's pleasure, but with a personal fridge kept well stocked with gourmet food.

No Handcuffs resonates today for, if anything, greed and corruption are more perverse, more rampant. As Eddie Richardson points out: 'We wrote the handbook for them.'

About the Author Eddie Richardson: former gangster and enforcer, convicted felon, successful artist and, now, motivational speaker - and the man who knows where the bodies are buried. Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781789461596 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: True crime Bic2: Organized crime Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

John Blake NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell?: A powerful story of love and survival Horace Greasley

The incredible true story of how of one British soldier escaped a prisoner war camp 200 times to see the girl he loved.

Description Horace 'Jim' Greasley was twenty years of age in the spring of 1939 when Adolf Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and latterly Poland. There had been whispers and murmurs of discontent from certain quarters and the British government began to prepare for the inevitable war. After seven weeks training with the 2nd/5th Battalion Leicester, he found himself facing the might of the German army in a muddy field south of Cherbourg, in Northern France, with just thirty rounds of ammunition in his weapon pouch. Horace's war didn't last long. He was taken prisoner on 25th May 1940 and forced to endure a ten week march across France and Belgium en-route to Holland.

Horace survived...barely...food was scarce; he took nourishment from dandelion leaves, small insects and occasionally a secret food package from a sympathetic villager, and drank rain water from ditches. Many of his fellow comrades were not so fortunate. Falling by the side of the road through sheer exhaustion and malnourishment meant a bullet through the back of the head and the corpse left to rot. After a three day train journey without food and water, Horace found himself incarcerated in a prison camp in Poland. It was there he embarked on an incredible love affair with a German girl interpreting for his captors.

He experienced the sweet taste of freedom each time he escaped to see her, yet incredibly he made his way back into the camp each time, sometimes two, three times every week. Horace broke out of the camp then crept back in again under the cover of darkness after his natural urges were fulfilled. He brought food back to his fellow prisoners to supplement their meagre rations. He broke out of the camp over two hundred times and towards the end of the war even managed to bring radio parts back in. The BBC news would be delivered daily to over 3,000 prisoners. This is an incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance of the German nation.

About the Author Horace Greasley (1918-2010) was a British soldier in the Second World War who was captured by the German Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781789461619 Wehrmacht and became famous for escaping from his camp over 200 times while conducting a clandestine love affair, Format: Paperback - B format returning to captivity each time. He was born in Ibstock, Leicestershire and died aged 91. He was survived by his wife Dimensions: 196x130mm Brenda and their son and daughter. Extent: 336 pages Bic1: True stories of heroism, endurance & survival Bic2: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

John Blake NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Royal Geographical Society Puzzle Book The Royal Geographical Society Enterprises Ltd, Nathan Joyce

Pit your wits against the world's greatest explorers.

Description The Royal Geographical Society Puzzle Book will bring the rich and colourful history and content of this great institution to the printed page in the form of a challenging, informative and entertaining quiz book. Explore hidden routes, decipher geographical details and discover amazing facts as you work through over a century's worth of geographical wonder - from Shackleton to Livingstone, Darwin to MacArthur, Aston to Wood.

Comprising 50 unforgettable explorer profiles and expeditions retold through a set of increasingly difficult questions, the Society puzzle book is perfect for the budding geographer to the most veteran explorers and travellers. Throughout the book readers will be challenged to pit their wits against some of the world's most legendary explorers and answer questions on the complex nature of exploring and understanding our world. From Shackleton's three Antarctic expeditions to Ellen MacArthur's Vendee Globe solo race - readers are invited to test their geographical skills against some of the most experienced cartographers, geographers and explorers of all time.

Wonderfully designed and packaged, the book will also include a brief history of the world's most prestigious geographical society and include references to the institution's ongoing support and contribution to modern scientific exploration and global expeditions, as well as a selection of images from the Society's collection of over two million items. With a Foreword by a well-known past President the book will be a wonderful celebration of the history of exploration and the perfect gift for map lovers, history buffs and geographers everywhere.

About the Author The world-renowned Royal Geographical Society(with the Institute of British Geographers) is the UK's learned society and professional body for geography, founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical science.

Nathan Joyce is a former editor of wildlife books and is now a freelance writer based in Brighton, UK. He has written several books including The History of Insults (Ryland Peters & Small, 2017), A Celebration of David Attenborough: The Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781788702966 Activity Book (Pavilion Books, 2018) and The Big Book of Trump (Blink, 2018) and contributed to many others, including Format: Paperback - C format Chronologica: The Incredible Years that Defined History (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards Dimensions: 234x153mm (Blink, 2017). Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Trivia & quiz question books Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

535 NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards Vol. 3 Paul Joynson-Hicks & Tom Sullam

The perfect gift for animal lovers is back featuring the funniest photographs of wildlife from around the world!

Description It's time to dust off your camera, pick up your binoculars and head back to the great outdoors as the much-loved Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards return once again with the best, as well as never-before-seen, photographs of wildlife; a waving polar bear; a squirrel photographer and even a pair of gracefully ice-skating penguins. This is a must-have book that is perfect for animal lovers and a wonderful celebration of natural habitats all over the world!

The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards is one of the most popular celebrations of animal welfare and receives thousands of entries every year. It celebrates animals in their natural habitats being themselves. Backed by the global conservation charity Born Free Foundation, the awards applaud the tireless efforts made by some of the most talented wildlife photographers on the planet.

About the Author Paul Joynson-Hicks is a wildlife photographer who lives in Arusha, Tanzania. He was awarded an MBE for charitable work in Tanzania over the years. Having spent the first part of his professional life working in the financial services in London, Tom Sullam realised the error of his ways to quit everything in order to pursue a career in photography. He won the prestigious Fuji Photographer of the Year award, along with the One Vision prize.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781788702423 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 170x170mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

535 NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 What Does Rain Smell Like?: 100 fascinating questions on the wild ways of the weather Simon King, Clare Nasir

Discover the fascinating answers to the most curious weather questions from two expert meteorologists.

Description Why doesn't rain fall all at once? Can technology change the track of a hurricane? What's the weather like on other planets?

Meteorologists Simon King and Clare Nasir reveal the captivating ways the weather works, from exploring incredible weather phenomenon (how are rainbows formed?), expertly breaking down our knowledge of the elements (could we harness the power of lightning?) to explaining the significance of weather in history (has the weather ever started a war?) and importantly discussing the future of weather (could climate modification save the planet?)

In What Does Rain Smell Like? Simon and Clare uncover the thrilling science behind a subject that affects us all. They unearth and analyse all aspects of the weather and how it changes our lives through answering all of our most burning questions about the world around us.

About the Author Simon King is a meteorologist and currently presents the weather on BBC TV news, radio and online. He created, produced and co-presented the BBC podcast Under the Weather with Clare Nasir. Simon was previously an operational meteorologist for the Met Office and part of a specialist forecasting unit with the Royal Air Force. Having trained as an RAF reserve officer, he was deployed with the military on operations to the Middle East where he provided crucial weather data and forecasts. He has a postgraduate and undergraduate degree in Meteorology from the University of Reading and is a self-confessed weather nut!

Clare Nasir is a Meteorologist with a BSc in Maths and Oceanography. She currently presents the weather for Channel 5 Price: $27.99 $32.99 and has over 20 years of weather forecast experience - previously presented on ITV, BBC and GMTV. Clare has co- ISBN: 9781788702096 presented the acclaimed documentary series Fierce Earth for CBBC, written a regular weather-related column for The Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Huffington Post and co-presented with Simon King the BBC podcast Under the Weather. She has written 5 children's Extent: 352 pages books and lives in Cheshire with her husband, BBC Radio 6 Music DJ, Chris Hawkins and daughter Sienna. Bic1: Weather Bic2: Earth sciences Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

535 NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 William Shakespeare's Brexit Boris Starling

A political sh*tstorm in five acts.

Description 'Two parties, both alike in dishonour, in fair Westminster, where we lay our scene...'

Written by the Bard himself, with a little help from parody writer and novelist Boris Starling, this wonderful 'comedy of errors' will retell the tragic story of the UK's acrimonious break from the EU, with our most prominent politicians the key characters in this Shakespearean pastiche: Michael Gove in the plotting 'Iago' role, the doomed David Cameron as 'Macbeth', Theresa May as 'Julia Caesar', Jeremy Corbyn unable to decide on anything as 'Hamlet', and, of course, Boris Johnson as the feckless old rogue 'Sir John Falstaff'.

A most original take of the defining political era of our time - this will be the perfect satire for anyone interested in politics, humour, or even a little bit of Am-Dram.

About the Author Boris Starling is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter and journalist. The writer of the bestselling series Haynes Explains which has sold over 500,000 copies. Boris has also written Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling novels and created the BBC1 series Messiah which ran for five seasons. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked for an international consultancy specialising in political risk assessment, confidential investigations and kidnap negotiation. He lives in Dorset with his wife, children, dogs and a constantly fluctuating number of chickens and ducks.

William Shakespeare is a world-renowned poet and playwright and has written over 35 plays which are performed all around the world. He's considered to be one of the most important literary figures in the English language and William Shakespeare's Brexit will no doubt be named as one of his greatest works.

Price: $27.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781788702546 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

535 NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Poet Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly's breakout thriller: A cunning, poet-quoting serial killer of unprecedented savagery executes one homicide cop after another.

Description Jack McEvoy specializes in death. As a crime reporter for the Rocky Mountain News, he has seen every kind of murder. But his professional bravado doesn't lessen the brutal shock of learning that his only brother is dead, a suicide.

Jack's brother was a homicide detective, and he had been depressed about a recent murder case, a hideously grisly one, that he'd been unable to solve.

McEvoy decides that the best way to exorcise his grief is by writing a feature on police suicides. But when he begins his research, he quickly arrives at a stunning revelation. Following his leads, protecting his sources, muscling his way inside a federal investigation, Jack grabs hold of what is clearly the story of a lifetime. He also knows that in taking on the story, he's making himself the most visible target for a murderer who has eluded the greatest investigators alive.

Connelly is the executive producer of the successful TV series, Bosch, starring Titus Welliver. Bosch Season 4 is now available on SBS in Australia, with Season 5 to screen in 2019 and Season 6 also going into production. Price: $19.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781760113247 Format: Paperback - B format Michael Connelly's new true crime podcast, Murder Book, will premiere on 28 January, 2019. Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 512 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Michael Connelly spends his time in California and Florida. Bic2: Crime & mystery Illustrations: To find out more, head to: Previous Titles: Author now living: Website: www.michaelconnelly.com.au Facebook: www.facebook.com/MichaelConnellyBooks Twitter: @Connellybooks

Michael Connelly NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Black Echo: A Harry Bosch Novel Michael Connelly

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

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

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

Michael Connelly's new true crime podcast, Murder Book, will premiere on 28 January, 2019.

Michael Connelly spends his time in California and Florida. Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781760290818 Format: Paperback - B format To find out more, head to: Dimensions: 198x129mm Website: www.michaelconnelly.com.au Extent: 496 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Facebook: www.facebook.com/MichaelConnellyBooks Bic2: Crime & mystery Twitter: @Connellybooks Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Michael Connelly NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Wrong Side of Goodbye Michael Connelly

Only Harry Bosch can uncover LA's darkest secrets in this new gripping thriller from global bestseller Michael Connelly.

Description 'What do you want me to do?' Bosch asked. 'I want you to find someone for me,' Vance said. 'Someone who might never have existed'.

Harry Bosch is LA's newest private investigator. He doesn't advertise, he doesn't have an office and he only has himself to answer to.

Soon he is hired by Whitney Vance, an ageing reclusive billionaire who is haunted by one regret. When he was young, he met his great love - but she disappeared just after revealing she was pregnant. Did she have the baby? And if so, what happened to it?

Vance wants to know the truth, and Bosch is the only person he trusts. But Bosch's instincts tell him this will be a dangerous job - not just for himself, but for the person he's looking for ...

Michael Connelly's books have sold more than seventy-four million copies worldwide. They have been translated into 40 languages and have won awards all over the world, including the Edgar and Anthony Awards. Michael Connelly has also Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781760630874 been awarded the 2018 CWA Diamond Dagger, the highest honour in British crime writing. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Connelly is the executive producer of the successful TV series, Bosch, starring Titus Welliver. Bosch Season 4 is now Extent: 448 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery available on SBS in Australia, with Season 5 to screen in 2019 and Season 6 also going into production. Bic2: Illustrations: Michael Connelly's new true crime podcast, Murder Book, will premiere on 28 January, 2019. Previous Titles: Author now living: Michael Connelly spends his time in California and Florida.

To find out more, head to: Website: www.michaelconnelly.com.au Michael Connelly NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Late Show Michael Connelly

'Connelly has created wonderful characters with Bosch and Haller, and Ballard will easily be as beloved. Connelly is a master of crime fiction.' - Associated Press

Description 'The Late Show introduces a terrific female character: Detective Renée Ballard ... this new star is a beauty ... Ballard is complicated and driven enough to sustain the series Connelly doubtless has in mind for her. Connelly writes passionately about, and captures especially well here, the detective's high when the pieces of a puzzle fall into place.' - Janet Maslin, New York Times

Los Angeles can be a dangerous city - never more so than in the dead of night.

Renee Ballard works the night shift at the LAPD in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor.

But one night she catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute left for dead in a parking lot and the killing of a young woman in a nightclub shooting. Ballard is determined not to give up at dawn. Against orders and her own partner's wishes, she works both cases by day while maintaining her shift by night.

As the cases entwine, they pull her closer to her own demons and the reason she won't give up her job - no matter what the department throws at her.

About the Author A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the international bestselling author of the Harry Bosch thriller series and the legal thriller series featuring Mickey Haller, as well as several stand-alone bestsellers. His most recent #1 bestseller is Dark Sacred Night, in which the legendary Harry Bosch joins forces with Connelly's newest LAPD protagonist, Detective Renee Ballard. Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781760633462 Format: Paperback - B format Michael Connelly's books have sold more than seventy-four million copies worldwide. They have been translated into 40 Dimensions: 198x129mm languages and have won awards all over the world, including the Edgar and Anthony Awards. Michael Connelly has also Extent: 472 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery been awarded the 2018 CWA Diamond Dagger, the highest honour in British crime writing. Bic2: Illustrations: Connelly is the executive producer of the successful TV series, Bosch, starring Titus Welliver. Bosch Season 4 is now Previous Titles: available on SBS in Australia, with Season 5 to screen in 2019 and Season 6 also going into production. Author now living:

Michael Connelly's new true crime podcast, Murder Book, will premiere on 28 January, 2019.

Michael Connelly spends his time in California and Florida. Michael Connelly NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Two Kinds of Truth Michael Connelly

'Superb crime writing from a master . . . a triumph, underpinned by an incandescent sense of justice in a world all too often dominated by the indifference of injustice.' - Stephen Loosley, The Australian

Description If the truth doesn't get him ... the lies will.

Harry Bosch volunteers on cold cases for a small police department outside LA. When a rare double murder shakes the town, the local detectives look to Bosch. Their investigation will expose a sinister network hiding in plain sight, leaving a trail of broken lives in its wake.

But before Bosch can find justice for the victims, he must find it for himself. Because a death row prisoner is claiming Bosch framed him -- and that new DNA evidence proves it. The case seems watertight, leaving Bosch out in the wilderness with only one person to help clear his name: Mickey Haller, The Lincoln Lawyer.

As past and present tangle around him, Bosch faces two kinds of truth: the kind that won't die and the kind that kills.

Connelly is the executive producer of the successful TV series, Bosch, starring Titus Welliver. Bosch Season 4 is now Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781760633479 available on SBS in Australia, with Season 5 to screen in 2019 and Season 6 also going into production. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Michael Connelly's new true crime podcast, Murder Book, will premiere on 28 January, 2019. Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Crime & mystery Michael Connelly spends his time in California and Florida. Illustrations: Previous Titles: To find out more, head to: Author now living: Website: www.michaelconnelly.com.au Facebook: www.facebook.com/MichaelConnellyBooks Twitter: @Connellybooks Michael Connelly NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Burning Room: A Harry Bosch Novel Michael Connelly

A bullet takes ten years to find its mark. Now Bosch must find the killer.

Description Detective Harry Bosch and his new partner investigate a recent murder where the trigger was pulled years earlier.

In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die a decade after the crime. So when Orlando Merced finally succumbs to complications from being shot ten years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other evidence is virtually nonexistent.

Partnered with Lucia Soto, a rookie detective who made her name in a violent liquor store shoot-out, Bosch begins to see political dimensions to the case - a case where, despite the seemingly impossible odds, failure to find the killer is simply not an option.

But not only does Soto soon reveal a burning obsession that could make her a loose cannon, the one piece of evidence they have on the Merced shooting also points in a shocking and unexpected direction that could unsettle the very people who want Bosch to close out the case.

It's looking like Orlando Merced may not be the investigation's only victim - and that includes Bosch himself.

'A modern-day master of crime writing . . . arguably the best detective series of our era.' Good Reading

'The finest crime writer working today' - Neil Cross, lead scriptwriter of Spooks and creator of Luther

About the Author A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the international bestselling author of the Harry Bosch thriller series and the legal thriller series featuring Mickey Haller, as well as several stand-alone bestsellers. His most recent #1 bestseller is Dark Sacred Night, in which the legendary Harry Bosch joins forces with Connelly's newest Price: $19.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781925267235 LAPD protagonist, Detective Renee Ballard. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Michael Connelly's books have sold more than seventy-four million copies worldwide. They have been translated into 40 Extent: 448 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery languages and have won awards all over the world, including the Edgar and Anthony Awards. Michael Connelly has also Bic2: Crime & mystery been awarded the 2018 CWA Diamond Dagger, the highest honour in British crime writing. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Connelly is the executive producer of the successful TV series, Bosch, starring Titus Welliver. Bosch Season 4 is now Author now living: available on SBS in Australia, with Season 5 to screen in 2019 and Season 6 also going into production.

Michael Connelly's new true crime podcast, Murder Book, will premiere on 28 January, 2019. Michael Connelly NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 2,024 QI Facts To Stop You In Your Tracks James Harkin, John Lloyd and Anne Anne Miller

A bumper final edition of the most surprising, amazing, and hilarious facts on the planet from the clever-clogs at QI.

Description The mind-boggling, sock-popping, rib-tickling phenomenon that is QI have outdone themselves with this especially huge collection of facts, including:

Humans glow in the dark. 'Clinomania' is the overwhelming desire to stay in bed. In 17th Century Japan people warmed their feet by putting chilli peppers in their socks. Mrs Beeton published a recipe for a toast sandwich. Wheat has over five times as much DNA as humans. Less than 5% of the world's population lives in a genuine democracy. The word 'school' comes from a Greek word meaning 'free time'. Ten out of the 12 water companies in the UK still make use of divining rods. Coral can drown.

About the Author John Lloyd CBE is the creator of QI and founding producer of The News Quiz, Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, Blackadder and No Such Thing As The News.

James Harkin, QI's Head Elf, presents the QI Elves' podcast No Such Thing As A Fish and BBC 2's No Such Thing As The News. He also produces The Museum of Curiosity. @JamesHarkin

Anne Miller is a scriptwriter and researcher for QI. She is Head Researcher for BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity and writes a literary column for Standard Issue magazine. @miller_anne

Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9780571348961 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 178x111mm Extent: 576 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Trivia & quiz question books Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Non Fiction NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 1,423 QI Facts to Bowl You Over John Lloyd, James Harkin and Anne Miller

The eye-popping, gob-smacking, rib-tickling phenomenon that is QI serves up a selection of 1,423 facts to bowl you over.

Description The eye-popping, gob-smacking, rib-tickling phenomenon that is QI serves up a brand new selection of 1,423 facts to bowl you over. Bees can play football. Cholesterol is good for you. Camels gave humans the common cold. English has 3,000 words relating to drunkenness. In 1851 all the 436,800 sandwiches sold in London were ham. Books used to be put on shelves with their spines facing inwards. A German airline allows an extra kilo of hand luggage, provided it's books. There are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way. Iceland has more volcanoes than footballers.

About the Author John Lloyd CBE is the creator of QI and founding producer of The News Quiz, Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, Blackadder and No Such Thing As The News.

James Harkin, QI's Head Elf, presents the QI Elves' podcast No Such Thing As A Fish and BBC 2's No Such Thing As The News. He also produces The Museum of Curiosity.

Anne Miller is a scriptwriter and researcher for QI. She is Head Researcher for BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity and writes a literary column for Standard Issue magazine.

Price: $17.99 $19.99 ISBN: 9780571341689 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 178x111mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Trivia & quiz question books Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 'Twas the Nightcap Before Christmas Katie Blackburn

A favourite festive poem is given a brilliant tipsy twist. This is the perfect Christmas gift for harassed parents everywhere.

Description It is Christmas Eve and as usual mum and dad are knee-deep in presents that need to be wrapped. Dad suggests a sherry 'to keep us both going.' Then out comes the Baileys. And mum hits the rum. Hours of merriment and a stocking- clad tango later, they drift off to sleep - the living room in disarray, the presents unwrapped and their careful Christmas preparations in ruins. But come morning it seems a mysterious visitor has saved the day.

About the Author Katie Blackburn lives in London with her husband and young child. She is the author of Where the Wild Mums Are, Where the Wild Dads Went and Dozy Bear and the Secret of Sleep.

Sholto Walker trained and graduated as a painter in 1988 and since 1995 he has worked professionally as a full-time artist and illustrator.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9780571336852 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 195x215mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Gift books Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Non Fiction NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 101 Things to do to Take the Stress Out of Christmas Robin Snow

The perfect Christmas gift: a handbook to improve that most joyous but often most frustrating occasion - Christmas itself.

Description Christmas can be a real whirlwind - buying presents, cooking the dinner, hosting the family. Surely there is a way to make it all a little more relaxing, and a bit more fun?

This book offers an imaginative mix of games and tips to remind you of why we celebrate Christmas in the first place.

Whether you are hoping to recapture that festive childhood magic or looking for a way to remain calm amid the mayhem, these activities will help you get the most out of the 'Most Wonderful time of the Year'.

About the Author

Price: $12.99 $14.99 ISBN: 9781780723297 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 145x111mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Gift books Bic2: Humour Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Short Books NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Oligarchy Scarlett Thomas

The new adult novel from the bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y, about power, privilege and peer pressure.

Oligarchy is the fierce new novel about power, privilege and peer pressure from the bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y.

Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781786897794 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 240x147mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate Trade NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 A Tall History of Sugar Curdella Forbes

A haunting epic following an unusual couple's mysterious love affair from childhood to adulthood, across rural Jamaica, Kingston and England.

Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781786898579 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 220x144mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate Trade NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Kitty Peck and the Parliament of Shadows Kate Griffin

The fourth instalment in the fast-paced historical mystery series.

Description Even though Paradise was riddled with rot, I reckoned I could make it a cleaner place for the poor types who came with the dirty trades. I could make them all love me, I thought.

I was wrong about that. I've been wrong about so much.

When she took over her grandmother's criminal empire, Paradise, Kitty Peck believed she would be able to run it her own way. She didn't fully grasp the reach of her inheritance, nor how much danger it would put her in: her grandmother has left her violently entwined with the Barons of London. With a penchant for gruesome ritual, and already having robbed Kitty of so much that she held dear, these fiends will stop at nothing to gain power.

What Kitty needs to do now is to break the Barons' hold on her. She is determined to do away with the dark underbelly of Paradise and build her music halls into the jewels of the East End. But as she begins her final assault on the Barons, a new threat appears in the form of an eerily charismatic preacher on a crusade against 'wickedness and vice'. Can Kitty save Paradise from destruction, without losing any more of the people she loves?

About the Author Kate Griffin was born within the sound of Bow bells, making her a true-born cockney. She has worked as an assistant to an antiques dealer, a journalist for local newspapers and most recently for The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.

Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders, Kate's first book, won the Stylist / Faber crime writing competition. Kate's maternal family lived in Victorian Limehouse. One of the inspirations for this series came from tales of life round the London docks told by her grandmother. Kate lives in St Albans.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9780571325603 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 204 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Fiction NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Happy Like Murderers Gordon Burn

Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burn is a true crime classic, republished to coincide with the 2019 Gordon Burn Prize.

Description In this controversial and seminal work of reportage, Gordon Burn reveals the strange inner dynamic of Fred and Rosemary West's relationship. Based on meticulous research, this dark history is told in a powerful, compelling narrative.

With a new introduction by Benjamin Myers.

About the Author Gordon Burn was the author of four novels, Alma Cogan (winner of the Whitbread First Novel Prize), Fullalove, The North of England Home Service and Born Yesterday. He was also the author of the non-fiction titles Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son, Pocket Money, Happy Like Murderers, On The Way to Work (with Damien Hirst) and Best and Edwards. His last book, Sex & Violence, Death and Silence, was a collection of his essays on art.

Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9780571353651 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel Gordon Burn

Gordon Burn takes on real news stories in an ambitious and innovative novel.

Description Born Yesterday does what the media do every day: blurring the boundaries between what is real and what has been invented. In 2007, Gordon Burn took the extraordinary news headlines from that year, and wove the strands together into an essential story for our time. The characters of these long-running reality soaps - the McCanns, Blair, Brown, Kate Middleton - are presented here in three dimensions, their stories told through revealing glimpses and startling insights.

With a new introduction by Gordon Burn's editor, Lee Brackstone.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9780571353637 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Shrouded Path Sarah Ward

An irresistible autumnal mystery helmed by a complex heroine, perfect for fans of Val McDermid.

Description November, 1957. Six teenage girls walk in the Derbyshire mists, the first chills of winter in the air. They follow the old train tracks into the dark tunnel of the Cutting. Only five reappear on the other side.

October, 2017. Feverishly fixated on a childhood friend, Mina's dying mother makes a plea: 'Find Valerie'.

Following up on what seems like a routine death by natural causes, DC Connie Childs' old instincts kick in, pointing her back to one cold evening in 1957. But as Connie broadens her enquiries, the investigation begins to move increasingly close to home.

About the Author Sarah Ward is the author of In Bitter Chill, which was published in 2015 to critical acclaim. On her blog, Crimepieces (www.crimepieces.com), she reviews the best of current crime fiction published around the world, and she has also reviewed for Euro Crime and CrimeSquad. She is a judge for the Petrona Award for Scandinavian translated crime novels. She lives in Derbyshire.

Follow Sarah on Twitter @sarahrward1

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9780571332427 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Selected Poetry and Prose Charlotte Mew, edited by Julia Copus

The best of Charlotte Mew's poetry and prose selected by Julia Copus, in the 150th anniversary of Mew's birth.

Description The British poet Charlotte Mew - whose 150th anniversary falls in 2019 - was regarded as one of the best poets of her age by fellow writers. She has since been neglected, but her star is beginning to rise again. Two new books on this important writer are being prepared by Faber poet Julia Copus, who recently unveiled a blue plaque on Mew's childhood house in Doughty Street.

Mew was a curious mix of New Woman and stalwart Victorian. Her poems speak to us strongly today, in these strangely mixed times of exposure and seclusion: they reveal the private agony of an isolated being who was forced to keep secret the tragedies of her personal life while being at the same time propelled by her work into the public arena. Her poetry transfigures that very private suffering into art that has a universal resonance.

About the Author Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) was an English writer notable for her short well-crafted, highly original poetry. She published short stories and essays in several periodicals before publishing the lyric poetry that secured her reputation. Her first book of poems, The Farmer's Bride (1916) was praised for its natural, direct language, including Wessex country dialect. The Rambling Sailor (1929) was a posthumous collection of 32 previously uncollected poems.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9780571316182 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Poetry Bic2: Poetry by individual poets Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Poetry NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Poems of Dorothy Molloy Dorothy Molloy

Collected edition gathers deftly crafted, dark, erotic poems of author of Hare Soup and Gethsemane Day with new unpublished material.

Description Dorothy Molloy was a star in the making when Faber prepared her debut Hare Soup (2004) for publication, before tragedy struck, and she died four days before advance copies arrived. With its distinctive and unsettling mix of comedy and complicity, dark humour and disturbance (a feminist burlesque that has seen her work christened as 'gurlesque'), Hare Soup stripped the veneer from the niceties of relations in family life and the Catholic church, turning its inventive and sexually charged gaze to corruption and abuse in our most private spaces. The book rightly won accolades and admirers, and was followed by a further, posthumous collection, Gethsemane Day (2006) that was prepared from typescript. The Poems of Dorothy Molloy gathers these two collections alongside her manuscript work, which appeared as Long- Distance Swimmer (Salmon, 2009), and the remaining body of unpublished material to present a complete edition of poems to meet the growing readership of this startling talent.

About the Author Dorothy Molloy was born in Ballina, County Mayo, and grew up in County Dublin. She studied languages at University College, Dublin, before going to Barcelona where she worked as a historical researcher and painter. She lived in County Dublin with her husband, and died in 2004.

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Faber Poetry NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Love in a Life Andrew Motion

Motion's sixth poetry collection - a profound and tender exploration of 'marriage' - reissued as part of the poetry typographic series.

Description Love in a Life, Andrew Motion's sixth volume of poetry, marks a conspicuous development in the work of the founder of the modern Narrative School. Directness and a new colloquialism are wedded to Motion's distinctive obliquities in a volume where the idea of marriage governs the architecture of each poem and the book as a whole. The stories of two marriages gradually emerge, like chapters in a narrative, and are themselves bound to more public material, so that each lends profound resonances to the other.

About the Author Andrew Motion was UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009 and is co-founder of the online Poetry Archive. In 2015 he was appointed Homewood Professor in the Arts at Johns Hopkins University; he lives in Baltimore. Andrew Motion was knighted for his services to poetry in 2009.

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Faber Poetry NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Hansard Simon Woods

A witty and devastating new play by actor Simon Woods.

Description Hansard; noun The official report of all parliamentary debates.

It's a summer's morning in 1988 and Tory politician Robin Hesketh has returned home to the idyllic Cotswold house he shares with his wife of 30 years, Diana. But all is not as blissful as it seems. Diana has a stinking hangover, a fox is destroying the garden, and secrets are being dug up all over the place. As the day draws on, what starts as gentle ribbing and the familiar rhythms of marital sparring quickly turns to blood-sport.

A witty and devastating new play.

Hansard premiered at the National Theatre, London, in August 2019.

About the Author Simon Woods studied English Literature at Oxford University. Hansard is his first play. As an actor his work in TV includes Rome, Cranford, Spooks. Film includes Pride and Prejudice, Penelope and Starter for 10.

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Faber Plays NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Uncle Vanya translated by David Hare, Anton Chekhov

David Hare's version of one of Chekhov's most famous plays.

Description Russia, late summer at the close of the nineteenth century. Vanya and his niece Sonya have worked for years to manage the country estate. Into this ordered and regular household come two new visitors, Sonya's father, an irritable professor, and his young wife Elena who, in the space of a few months, cause chaos, one by their selfishness, and the other by their sexual allure. Between them, they manage to have most of the inhabitants questioning their purpose in life, their happiness and, at times, their sanity.

David Hare's version of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya opens at Theatre Royal Bath in July 2019.

About the Author David Hare's first full-length play was produced in 1970. Since then he has written over thirty stage plays and twenty-five screenplays for film and television. The plays include Plenty, Pravda (with Howard Brenton), The Secret Rapture, Racing Demon, Skylight, Amy's View, The Blue Room, Via Dolorosa, Stuff Happens, The Absence of War, The Judas Kiss, The Red Barn and The Moderate Soprano. For cinema, he has written The Hours, The Reader, Damage, Denial, Wetherby and The White Crow among others, while his television films include Licking Hitler, the Worricker Trilogy (Page Eight, Turks & Caicos, and Salting the Battlefield) and Collateral. In a millennial poll of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, five of the top hundred were his.

Anton Chekhov, Russian dramatist and short-story writer, was born in 1860, the son of a grocer and the grandson of a serf. After graduating in medicine from Moscow University in 1884, he began to make his name in the theatre with the one-act comedies The Bear, The Proposal and The Wedding. His earliest full-length plays, Ivanov (1887) and The Wood Demon (1889), were not successful, and The Seagull, produced in 1896, was a failure until a triumphant revival by the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898. This was followed by Uncle Vanya (1899), Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry Orchard (1904), shortly after the production of which Chekhov died. The first English translations of his plays were performed within five years of his death. Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9780571356706 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x127mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Plays NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Polly Stenham: Plays 1: That Face; Tusk Tusk; No Quarter; Hotel; Julie Polly Stenham

Description That Face 'Stenham's god-given gift . . . is an ability to communicate pain and longing.' Guardian 'One of the most astonishing debuts I have seen in more than 30 years of theatre reviewing . . . In every respect this is a remarkable and unforgettable piece of theatre.' Telegraph 'Never has a play had an apter name: That Face is gob-smacking' Observer

Tusk Tusk 'Confirms a startling theatrical promise' Evening Standard 'Another coruscating, highly skilled piece of work.' Independent 'It's so good. As a talent, Stenham is most definitely here to stay.' Sunday Times '[A] cracking confirmation of Stenham's talent' Financial Times

No Quarter 'A truly exciting writer . . . It is hard to envisage anything providing this kind of mainlining thrill.' Independent 'Polly Stenham is our theatre's expert on dysfunctional families . . . sharp and fizzy.' Guardian

Hotel 'That unusual theatrical thing, a thriller - and a thriller that really scares.' Observer 'Stenham achieves the dramatic gearshift between nervous laughter to jolting horror with great panache, and her play keeps springing surprises to the bitter end . . . An astonishingly raw, powerful and terrifying play.' Daily Telegraph 'At its core, Hotel is about civilisation peeled down to savagery. And that is where Stenham is at her brutal, universal best.' Independent

Price: $39.99 $45.00 About the Author ISBN: 9780571357222 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Plays NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Zinnie Harris: Plays 1: Further than the Furthest Thing; Midwinter; How to Hold Your Breath; Meet Me at Dawn Zinnie Harris

Description In this first collection by Zinnie Harris, Further than the Furthest Thing evokes the fragility of an island community as their way of life is threatened and they must determine their future, while Midwinter opens as a woman steals a dead horse to feed to a child. How To Hold Your Breath tells the story of a woman who sleeps with the devil and defends her belief in love, even as her world collapses around her, and Meet Me at Dawn offers a compelling, allegorical love story that explores the desolating effects of grief. With an introduction by director Dominic Hill.

Further than the Furthest Thing 'Already has the status of a modern classic.' - Lyn Gardner, Guardian 'Arguably the greatest tragedy in the Scottish theatrical canon' - Mark Brown, Telegraph

Midwinter 'There is no mistaking her talent' - Observer 'A stunning metaphor for our time' - Herald

How to Hold Your Breath 'Harris's writing is not only wonderfully imaginative, but also beautifully light.' - Tribune 'Dizzyingly bold . . . pressingly topical and admirably ambitious' - Financial Times

Meet Me at Dawn 'A twenty-first-century classic' - Scotsman 'Lyrical, raw and hazy' - Sunday Times

Price: $45.00 $49.99 About the Author ISBN: 9780571356720 Zinnie Harris's plays include the multi-award-winning Further than the Furthest Thing (National Theatre/Tron Theatre; Format: Paperback - B format winner of the 1999 Peggy Ramsay Award, 2001 John Whiting Award, Edinburgh Fringe First Award), How to Hold Your Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 496 pages Breath (Royal Court Theatre; joint winner of the Berwin Lee Award), The Wheel (National Theatre of Scotland; joint Bic1: Plays, playscripts winner of the 2011 Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award), Nightingale and Chase (Royal Court Theatre), Bic2: Midwinter, Solstice (both RSC), Fall (Traverse Theatre/RSC), By Many Wounds (Hampstead Theatre) and the trilogy This Illustrations: Previous Titles: Restless House (Citizens Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland), based on Aeschylus' Oresteia. Also, Ibsen's A Doll's Author now living: House for the Donmar Warehouse, Strindberg's Miss Julie for the National Theatre of Scotland and Webster's The Duchess (of Malfi) (Royal Lyceum Theatre). Zinnie received an Arts Foundation Fellowship for playwriting, and was Writer in Residence at the RSC, 2000-2001. She is Professor of Playwriting and Screenwriting at St Andrews University, and was the Associate Director at the Traverse Theatre from 2015-2018. Faber Plays NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Anna Bella Eema Lisa D'Amour

Description On the day my little girl made a girl, the temperature was 91 degrees at sunrise. The trailer home felt like the inside of a wolf's mouth. My girl skipped her bed-jumping, brushed her white teeth and started talking something like this...

Ten-year-old Anna Bella and her hermetic mother Irene live in a decaying trailer on the edge of town. When interstate highway development threatens their home, Anna Bella brings to life a new girl from the mud in the trailer park. Together, they navigate mythology, Frankenstein and police chases in a fiercely hypnotic tale about survival and the mother/daughter bond.

A haunting, rhythmic 'ghost story' from Pulitzer Prize finalist Lisa D'Amour. Anna Bella Eema opened at the Arcola Theatre, London, in September 2019.

About the Author Lisa D'Amour is an Obie Award-winning playwright and one half of PearlDamour, an interdisciplinary performance company she runs with Katie Pearl. Her work has been produced by theaters such as Steppenwolf Theatre, Children's Theater Company, Clubbed Thumb, the Walker Arts Center, and the Kitchen. D'Amour received her MFA in playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin and currently splits her time between Brooklyn and New Orleans.

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Faber Plays NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Youth Without God: Based on the Novel Christopher Hampton, Odon von Horvath

Description The old man started to talk about the trial. He blamed everyone involved, including the teacher, i.e. me. In his view the root cause of the problem was that everybody involved - teachers, parents, boys - behaved as if God no longer existed.

A schoolteacher is denounced and accused of 'sabotage of the Fatherland' when he reprimands a student for making a racist remark. The class petition against him. A murder follows. During the trial, the teacher decides to risk everything by telling the truth.

Published in 1937, Jugend Ohne Gott is the penultimate novel by Ödön von Horváth. It was judged by Thomas Mann to be the best novel of recent years. This powerful evocation of everyday life in the shadow of fascism also garnered praise from Hermann Hesse, Franz Werfel and Joseph Roth, who called Horváth 'the most clear-sighted chronicler of his age'.

Christopher Hampton's adaptation of Youth Without God was commissioned by and performed in Vienna at the Theater in der Josefstadt in 2009. On its tenth anniversary, the play receives its UK premiere at The Coronet Theatre, London.

About the Author Christopher Hampton was born in the Azores in 1946. He wrote his first play, When Did You Last See My Mother? at the age of eighteen. Since then, his plays have included The Philanthropist, Savages, Tales from Hollywood, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, White Chameleon, The Talking Cure and Appomattox. He has translated plays by Ibsen, Molière, von Horváth, Chekhov, Florian Zeller (including The Father), Daniel Kehlman and Yasmina Reza (including Art and Life x 3). Musicals include Sunset Boulevard and Stephen Ward, both with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black. His television work includes adaptations of The History Man and Hotel du Lac. His screenplays include The Honorary Consul, The Good Father, Dangerous Liaisons, Mary Reilly, Total Eclipse, The Quiet American, Carrington, The Secret Agent and Imagining Argentina, the last three of which he also directed, and A Dangerous Method, based on his play The Talking Cure. Appomattox was first presented on the McGuire Proscenium Stage of the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, USA, in September 2012 as the centrepiece of a major retrospective of his plays and films. It was subsequently turned into an Price: $24.99 $27.99 opera by Philip Glass and premiered at the Kennedy Center, Washington in November 2014. ISBN: 9780571358229 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Plays NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett: Endgame Samuel Beckett, edited by Stanley Gontarski

Vol II of the four-volume series reproducing Beckett's theatrical notebooks in facsimile - now in affordable paperback edition.

Description 'Pattern is as crucial to Beckett's eye as to his ear', writes Gontarski, 'and that patterning dominates his theatrical notes: motion is repeated to echo other motion, posture to echo other posture, gestures to echo other gestures, sounds to echo other sounds. The principle of analogy is fundamental.'

Samuel Beckett directed two separate productions of Endgame, once with the Schiller Theater Company in Berlin in 1967, and again with the San Quentin Drama Workshop in 1980. For both productions he prepared detailed notes that are reproduced here in facsimile for the first time.

Beckett's revisions for both his productions maintain a consistency - with minor variations to allow for strengths or weaknesses of particular actors - that make a 'corrected' (Beckett's word) text not only possible but desirable, a reflection of the substantial amount of thinking and theatrical testing the work has undergone since its publication. No previous edition - English, French or German - includes the complete production-generated changes. This text was approved by Samuel Beckett.

About the Author Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906 and graduated from Trinity College. He settled in Paris in 1937, after travels in Germany and periods of residence in London and Dublin. He remained in France during the Second World War and was active in the French Resistance. From the spring of 1946 his plays, novels, short fiction, poetry and criticism were largely written in French. With the production of En attendant Godot in Paris in 1953, Beckett's work began to achieve widespread recognition. During his subsequent career as a playwright and novelist in both French and English he redefined the possibilities of prose fiction and writing for the theatre. Samuel Beckett won the Prix Formentor in 1961 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969. He died in Paris in December 1989.

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Faber Plays NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett, edited by James Knowlson

Description Waiting for Godot follows Endgame and Krapp's Last Tape in this highly praised series of Beckett's notebooks, which show for the first time the extensive revisions made by Beckett during revivals of the play.

This volume is in part a facsimile, with transcription and commentary, of the notebook kept by Beckett for Berlin's Schiller- Theater production in 1975. It contains a full set of directorial notes, and discloses, section by section, a total system that works by repetition and analogy, musical rhythm and echo, establishing subtle patterns of sound, movement and gestures.

Price: $85.00 $100.00 ISBN: 9780571348701 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 512 pages Bic1: Theatre studies Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Plays NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Eleutheria Samuel Beckett, translated by Barbara Wright

Description Written in French in the late forties before Waiting for Godot, Eleutheria is about a young man at odds with his middle- class family, living alone in a bedsit and refusing to take part in 'normal' life while accepting handouts from his mother. Often richly comic, it contains elements of high farce and draws on the traditions of French boulevard comedy and melodrama.

This new edition includes the notice by Jérôme Lindon, in its original French, which accompanied the first edition in 1995, explaining the circumstances under which the play was first published.

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Faber Plays NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Moonlight over Mayfair Anton Du Beke

All-round entertainer Anton Du Beke returns with his second novel set in the exclusive Buckingham Hotel. Perfect for fans of Downton Abbey and Mr Selfridge.

About the Author Anton Du Beke is one of the most instantly recognisable dancers today, best known for his role on the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, which he has featured on since its conception in 2004. His debut album reached the Top 20, and his sell- out Dance Tour is in its eleventh year. A household name and all-round entertainer, known as Mr Debonair, Anton brings all the wit, charm and style he's famous for to his second novel, the follow up to his Sunday Times bestseller One Enchanted Evening.

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Zaffre NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 A Precious Gift Rosie Goodwin

Description 'A vibrant page-turner with entrancing characters' - Margaret Dickinson

'Rosie writes such heartwarming sagas' - Lyn Andrews

Nuneaton, 1911

When Holly Farthing's overbearing grandfather tries to force her to marry a dowdy widower twice her age she finally says no. Refusing to support her any longer, Holly flees to London, bringing her best friend and maid, Ivy, with her.

In the big smoke, Holly searches for the father she's never met and begins nurse training in the local hospital where she meets the dashing Doctor Parkin. Kind and compassionate, he is everything that Holly has ever dreamt of.

When Doctor Parkin proposes Holly finally feels like she'll have the family she so longs for. But when she discovers some shocking news that means they can never be together, Holly's life is suddenly in turmoil. Supporting the war effort, she heads to France and throws herself into volunteering on the front line.

Are the rumours about Doctor Parkin really true?

And can Holly ever find the happiness she so truly deserves?

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 Price: $39.99 $45.00 their beloved dogs. ISBN: 9781785767616 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 448 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Zaffre NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 A Woman's War S. Block

In the depths of war, the women of Great Paxford will need all their strength...

Description As enemy planes continue to bombard the North West of England, the members of Great Paxford's WI fight harder than ever to persevere.

Teresa Lucas has reshaped her life to become the perfect wife - but will the arrival of a new guest throw her world off kilter?

Laura Campbell is grieving for her father, but in the midst of tragedy, a new future beckons.

Pat Simms plans to escape her difficult life at the end of the war, but when things change at home, she finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew.

And for Steph Farrow, it's not the threat of what's to come she fears, but whether she can live with what she has done...

About the Author S. Block, the creator and writer behind the Home Fires TV series watched by over six million viewers, is a BAFTA award- winning writer who's been nominated for the Royal Television Society Awards and the British Comedy Awards. He's worked on TV shows such as New Tricks, Lewis, Wire in the Blood,Hotel Babylon and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, as well as shows for NBC and ABC.

Among other jobs he was an elephant keeper at London Zoo, a London bus driver and is the current director of the North London branch of The Samaritans. Simon was born in London and lives there with his wife and sons.

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Zaffre NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Girls from Greenway: A nostalgia saga perfect for fans of Daisy Styles and Rosie Clark Elizabeth Woodcraft

Will their choices force them apart?

Description 1960s Chelmsford.

Angie Smith lives in Greenway, Chelmsford, with her elder sister Doreen, their struggling mother and their drunk, violent father. Bored of her job, and of her dull, ordinary boyfriend, Angie dreams of bigger and better things.

But then she meets boutique-owner Gene Battini. He is older, handsome, charming - and married. She is completely swept off her feet. But little does she know that Doreen too is falling for Gene, and that their affair will have disastrous consequences.

As things at home go from bad to worse, Angie and Doreen must struggle to fight for what they want.

Can the girls from Greenway ever achieve their dreams?

Praise for Elizabeth Woodcraft:

'A book to read in great gulps' - Sheila Newberry

'Beautifully written...she has a real talent' - Mary Gibson

About the Author Elizabeth Woodcraft grew up on a working class housing estate in Essex. She was a mod and worked in the local milk bar. After attending Birmingham University she taught English in Leicestershire and the Loire Valley. Then she worked for Price: $19.99 $22.99 the National Women's Aid Federation in London and subsequently read for the Bar. During her time at the Bar, she ISBN: 9781785767852 represented Greenham Common Peace Protesters, Anti-Apartheid demonstrators, striking miners and Clause 28 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm activists. Now she is a full-time writer. Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Sagas Her most recent books are set in the 1960s - mods and rockers, the music of Motown, milk bars and ban-the-bomb Bic2: Illustrations: marches. With memories of the war and the effects of rationing still being felt, young people are just starting to taste the Previous Titles: freedom a little money can bring. Author now living:

Zaffre NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 March of the Lemmings: Brexit in Print and Performance 2016-2019 Stewart Lee

Following after the huge success of the bestselling How I Escaped My Certain Fate and Content Provider, a new book from award-winning comedian and writer Stewart Lee to coincide with a live tour, Snowflake/Tornado.

Description As a Metropolitan Elitist Snowflake, Stewart Lee was disappointed by the Brexit referendum result of 2016. But he knew how to weaponise his inconvenience.

He would treat all his subsequent writing, until we left the EU, as interrelated episodes of a complete work. The cast of characters include Lemming-obsessed Michael Gove, violent tanning-salon entrepreneur Tommy Robinson and Boris Piccaninny Watermelon Bumboys Letterbox Cake Disaster Weightloss Haircut Bullshit Johnson. A dramatic chorus is made up of online commenters and Kremlin bots. And Lee himself would play the defeated, unreliable narrator-hero, whose resolve and tolerance would gradually unravel as the horror show dragged on. Until the 29 March, 2019, when it would all definitely be over.

Drawing on three years of newspaper columns, a complete transcript of the Content Provider stand-up show, and Lee's caustic footnote commentary, March of the Lemmings is the scathing, riotous record the Brexit era deserves.

About the Author Stewart Lee began stand-up in 1988 at the age of 20, and won the Hackney Empire new act of the year award in 1990. In 2001 he co-wrote the libretto for Richard Thomas's Jerry Springer: The Opera, which went on to win four Olivier awards. His most recent live shows have been Carpet Remnant World (2011), Much A Stew About Nothing (2013), Room With A Stew (2015) and Content Provider (2017). In December 2011 he won Best Male TV Comic and Best Comedy Entertainment Performance at the British Comedy Awards and his BBC show Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle won a BAFTA in 2012. In 2018 he was described by The Times as the word's greatest living stand-up comedian.

Price: $32.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9780571357024 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Humour collections & anthologies Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Non Fiction NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Bedtime Stories for Worried Liberals Stuart Heritage

Funny and soothing: let Stuart Heritage tuck you in and read you a story about how everything is fine again.

Description Anxious? Angry? Waking up in the middle of the night to worry about plastic pollution, Brexit and why everything seems to be so horrible all the time? Thumb sore from scrolling through the Guardian news app, even though it makes you want to cry?

Us too.

But help is here, in the shape of Stuart Heritage's hilarious Bedtime Stories for Worried Liberals. Put down your phone, log off Twitter, and let yourself be lulled to sleep by stories from a world where Brexit disappears in a puff of smoke, Waitrose is free, and Fairy Godmothers look a lot like Barack Obama.

Including: The Three Liberal Pigs; Jack and the Sustainably Produced Meat Substitute Stalk; and The Night Before Brexmas; The Very Trendy Caterpillar; Trumplestiltskin; Camerella.

About the Author Stuart Heritage is a writer and columnist for Guardian, The Times, i and Esquire, and the author of Don't be a Dick, Pete. In addition to this, he has written for a range of publications and television programmes, founded and edited award- winning blogs. For two years running he was named as one of the 50 most influential emerging figures in the British media by Independent, an honour that has singularly failed to manifest itself into anything even slightly meaningful. He is going bald.

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Profile Trade NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Operation Swallow: American Soldiers' Remarkable Escape From Berga Concentration Camp Mark Felton

How an American soldier saved his comrades from being enslaved by the Nazis in the dying days of World War Two.

Price: $49.99 $55.00 ISBN: 9781785785771 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Second World War Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination Philip Marsden

One of Britain's foremost writers of place takes an evocative journey along the western coast of Ireland and Scotland to chart the perennial allure of this perilous and myth-rich stretch of sea

Description From the acclaimed author of Rising Ground, this is the story of a sea voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, periodically inhabited archipelago off the Scottish Highlands. To reach them, Marsden must head north, sailing a course along the exposed and exhilarating western coasts of Ireland and Scotland. It is a course that has been followed for centuries by explorers and adventurers, fishermen and monks, all drawn to the western seas and their distant horizons. But as much as the journey of men, this book is about the journey of ideas: of nostalgia and a very particular kind of geographical yearning; of a culture and language that has been shaped by its dramatic topography; of the local legend and lore that live on to this day. Combining travel writing, memoir and cultural history, The Summer Isles is a book about the search for real places, for imagined places, and for places that might always exist somewhere in between.

About the Author Philip Marsden is a writer and journalist. He is the author of several works of travel writing and non-fiction, including most recently Rising Ground (published by Granta in 2014), The Levelling Sea and The Barefoot Emperor, and a novel, The Main Cages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in Cornwall with his wife and children.

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Granta NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 2019 Upstairs & Downstairs: My Life In Service as a Lady's Maid

The incredible true story told by former lady's maid, Hilda Newman, of what life was really like living and working amongst England's nobility... Just like Downton Abbey, Croome Court had its dramas both above and below stairs.

Description The year was 1935: the twilight of the English aristocracy. It was a time of wealth and glamour; of lavish balls and evening gowns; of tiaras and a coronation. As personal maid to Lady Coventry, Hilda Newman had a unique insight into the leisured life of one of Britain's most noble families. In her fascinating memoir of life upstairs and down, Hilda takes us back to this period between the wars; a gilded era which would soon be dramatically changed by the Second World War.

Transplanted from a tiny house with no bath or hot water to an eighteenth-century Neo-Palladian mansion, Hilda's life changed beyond recognition. But in a time when the very foundations of British society were being shaken to their core, the luxurious life of the country nobility couldn't last. The Second World War brought more turbulence with it, and Croome Court, where Hilda had lived and worked, became a haven for the Dutch Royal Family fleeing Nazi occupation, whilst also home to a top-secret RAF base. The lavish banquets and decadent parties had become a thing of the past.

Hilda's story takes us back to a bygone era, showing us what life was really like in England's classic country manors of old - and uncovers the real lives of the people who occupied them, from wealthy lord to lowly servant.

About the Author Tim Tate is an award-winning documentary film maker and an author. He has produced and directed films for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Al Jazeera International, and the Discovery Channel. His work has won awards from Amnesty International, the Royal Television Society, UNESCO, The New York Festivals, the Association for International Broadcasting, and the US Cable Academy. He is the author of eight previous nonfiction books, including Slave Girl.

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