FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR October 2014 Subsidiary Rights Guide

Enquiries to: Allen & Unwin Book Publishers 83 Alexander Street, Crows Nest, Sydney NSW 2065 Australia

Email: Wenona Byrne [email protected] Phone +61 2 8425 0100

CONTENTS

FICTION 4 UNTITLED BOOK 5 / Kate Morton 6 THE WONDER LOVER / Malcolm Knox 7 TO NAME THOSE LOST / Rohan Wilson 8 SHAME / Russell Eldridge 9 AFTER DARKNESS / Christine Piper 10 MOTHERS GRIMM / Danielle Wood 11 THE EYE OF THE SHEEP / Sofie Laguna 12 THIS PICTURE OF YOU / Sarah Hopkins 13 MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS / Kylie Ladd 14 WIFE ON THE RUN / Fiona Higgins 15 NANNY CONFIDENTIAL / Philippa Christian 16 GOODBYE SWEETHEART / Marion Halligan 17 HALF THE WORLD IN WINTER / Maggie Joel

NON FICTION 18 SIX CAPITALS / Jane Gleeson-White 19 THE EMPEROR’S SHADOW / Anne Whitehead 20 A SHORT HISTORY OF STUPID / Bernard Keane and Helen Razer 21 RALF / Anne Crawford 22 DOG EAT DOG / Michael Browing 23 A LITTLE HISTORY / Bleddyn Butcher 24 DRESS, MEMORY / Lorelei Vashti 25 CONFESSIONS OF A MILLIONAIRE’S MISTRESS / Ava Reilly 26 WALKING FREE / Munjed Al Muderis 27 A GOOD PLACE TO HIDE / Peter Grose 28 QUIT CANNABIS / Jan Copeland 29 BUDDHISM FOR COUPLES / Sarah Napthali 30 WHY MINDFULNESS IS BETTER THAN CHOCOLATE / David Michie

31 EXCLUSIVE SUBAGENTS

Fiction

Kate Morton

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR

OVER 8 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE

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Rights sold to 24 territories:

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THE SHIFTING FOG (Published in the US and UK as THE HOUSE AT RIVERTON)

Rights sold to 35 territories:

Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (complex), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (UK), English (US), Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish

Fiction The Wonder Lover Malcolm Knox

An imaginative tour de force that ranks alongside the best work of Vladimir Nabokov, Martin Amis and Peter Carey.

Calamity befell our father. He fell in love.

This is the story of John Wonder, a man with three families, each one kept secret from the other, each one containing two children, a boy and a girl, each called Adam and Evie. As he travels from family to family in different cities, he works as an Authenticator, verifying world records, confirming facts, setting things straight, while his own life is a teetering tower of breathtaking lies and betrayals. This stunning novel spectacularly confirms Malcolm Knox as one of our brightest stars. Told in first person plural and written in the style of a fable, but told to adults by children, The Wonder Lover is sophisticated, smart, funny and very moving. 'Knox is one of the best novelists writing in the world today. That's not opinion, that's fact.' Christos Tsiolkas author of The Slap and Barracuda

'If Winton is an aria, Knox is early Rolling Stones' The Guardian Rights to Knox’s previous novels have been sold to UK, USA, Italy, Germany, France, The Netherlands and Argentina.

Malcolm Knox is the author of Summerland, A Private Man (published in the UK as Adult Book), Jamaica and The Life. Jamaica was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Award and won the Colin Roderick Award, and The Life was shortlisted for the 2012 NSW

Premier’s Literary Award. Malcolm is also an award-winning journalist and author of many non-fiction titles including Boom, which won the 2014 Ashurst Business Literature Prize.

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Fiction

To Name Those Lost

Rohan Wilson

From the award-winning author of The Roving Party comes a moving father and son story set amidst the beauty and the violence of the poor and preyed upon of Australia’s colonial past. Summer 1874. After abandoning his wife and child many years ago, the Black War veteran Thomas Toosey must return to the city to search for William, his now motherless twelve-year-old son. He travels through the island's northern districts during a time of impossible hardship – hardship that has left its mark on him too. Arriving in Launceston, however, Toosey discovers a town in chaos. He is desperate to find his son amid the looting and destruction, but at every turn he is confronted by the Irish transportee Fitheal Flynn and his companion, the hooded man, to whom Toosey owes a debt that he must repay. To Name Those Lost is the story of a father's journey. Wilson has an eye for the dirt, the hardness, the sheer dog-eat-doggedness of the lives of the poor. Human nature is revealed in all its horror and beauty as Thomas Toosey struggles with the good and the vile in

himself and learns what he holds important.

Rights sold to The Roving Party: North American (Soho Press), French (Albin Michel).

Rohan Wilson’s first book, The Roving Party, won the 2011 The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award as well as the Margaret Scott Prize, Tasmanian Literary Awards in 2013, the NSW Premier's

Literary Awards 2012, and was shortlisted for the 2011 Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, the 2012 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Fiction Award, and the 2012 Indie Awards for debut fiction. Rohan was chosen as one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Novelists in 2012.

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Fiction

Shame

Russell Eldridge

A moving coming of age story set against the politically charged backdrop of early apartheid South Africa. It is 1961, and while the world seems to be on the brink of nuclear confrontation, South Africa is entering its own decade of silence under apartheid. Twelve-year old Tom MacGregor lives with his family in a quiet suburban lane where people only see and hear what they choose. Tom’s family call him Wagter, the Watcher; always seeing and hearing more than he should. One night Tom overhears his father, Harry Mac, discussing a plot to assassinate the South African Prime Minister. A newspaper editor and vocal critic of apartheid, Harry is ferocious and unapproachable. Weighed down by this terrible secret, Tom turns to his neighbour

Sol, a psychiatrist and the father of his best friend, Millie. As Tom's political awareness gradually grows, he discovers the quiet lane is thick with secrets, not least Sol’s. Suddenly Millie and Tom’s neighbourhood, with its ‘ghost house’, its enigmatic wounded soldier and its growing rumblings of political dissent, seems anything but safe.

Tom’s struggle to make sense of his place in this quickly changing world forms the basis of this dramatic story.

Russell Eldridge is an award-winning journalist and former

newspaper editor who has worked in Australia and South Africa. He is a founding member of the Byron Bay Writers Festival, and is a highly regarded moderator of author panel discussions at Byron Bay and the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival. Russell has written and performed stand-up comedy. He has also written short stories and poetry, and co-wrote and edited a History of South African Tennis. Shame, his first novel, won the Varuna-Litlink Unpublished

Manuscript Award.

Pub Date September 2015 Extent 288pp ISBN 9781760113209 Rights Held World Format Paperback, C Rights Sold Dimensions 234x153mm

Fiction

After Darkness

Christine Piper

Winner of The 2014 The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award It is early 1942 and Australia is in the midst of war. While working at a Japanese hospital in the pearling port of Broome, Dr Ibaraki is arrested as an enemy alien and sent to Loveday internment camp in a remote corner of South Australia. There, he learns to live among a group of men who are divided by culture and allegiance. As tensions at the isolated camp escalate, the doctor's long-held beliefs are thrown into question and he is forced to confront his dark past: the promise he made in Japan and its devastating consequences. 'After Darkness is about friendships that transcend clichéd notions of mateship. It's also about a man silenced by a promise ... a haunting novel that lingers in a most unsettling way.' Fiona Stager, Vogel's judge

'A brave, profound meditation on identity, trauma, loss and courage ... A novel that demands its place alongside Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North.' Stephen Romei, literary editor, The Australian; Vogel's judge

Christine Piper's short fiction has been published in Seizure, SWAMP and Things That Are Found In Trees and Other Stories. She

was the 2013 Alice Hayes writing fellow at Ragdale in the United States. She has studied creative writing at Macquarie University, the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of Technology, Sydney. Both in South Korea in 1979 to an Australian father and a Japanese mother, she moved to Australia when she was one. She has previously taught English and studied Japanese in Japan, and currently lives in New York with her husband.

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Fiction

Mothers Grimm

Danielle Wood A sly, cheeky and blackly comic collection about mothering,

heartache, heartbreak, desire, love and death. In a fairytale, the only good mother is six feet under. All the others are bad news. A fairytale mother will exchange her first-born child for a handful of leafy greens. And if times get tough, she'll walk her babes into the woods and leave them there. But mothers of today do no such things. Do they? In this collection of heart-breakingly honest stories, the mothers of the Brothers Grimm are brought – with wit, subversiveness and lyrical prose – into the here and now. Danielle Wood turns four fairytales on their heads and makes them exquisitely her own.

‘In this wickedly clever, darkly funny collection Wood cannily captures motherhood as a world of traps and snares… evokes the sly subversion of Angela Carter.’ Weekend Australian

‘The stories are dark and funny and the mothers are instantly recognisable’ Herald Sun

Rights to Rosie Little’s Cautionary Tales for Girls sold to North America (MacAdam Cage), Russia (Ripol), Italy (Alet) and Bulgaria (Vessela Lutzkanova). Danielle Wood was born in Hobart in 1972. Her first novel, The Alphabet of Light and Dark won the 2002 The Australian/Vogel's

Literary Award, was the winner of the 2004 Dobbie Literary Award, commended in 2004 in the FAW Christina Stead Award for Fiction, shortlisted for the 2004 Commonwealth Writer's Prize in the Best First Book category for the SE Asia and South Pacific Region, and longlisted for the 2005 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her latest novel, Rosie Little's Cautionary Tales for Girls, was published in 2006. Danielle is currently teaching creative writing at the

University of Tasmania.

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Fiction

The Eye of the Sheep

Sofie Laguna

Told from the mesmerising point of view and in the inimitable voice of Jimmy, this is a novel about a poor family who are struggling to cope with a different and difficult child. Meet Jimmy Flick. He's not like other kids – he's both too fast and too slow. He sees too much, and too little. Jimmy's mother Paula is the only one who can manage him. She teaches him how to count sheep so that he can fall asleep. She holds him tight enough to stop his cells spinning. It is only Paula who can keep Jimmy out of his father's way. But when Jimmy's world falls apart, he has to navigate the unfathomable world on his own, and make things right. In the tradition of Room and The Lovely Bones, here is a surprising and brilliant novel from one of our finest writers.

‘The greatest achievement here is making this family’s world not just compelling but utterly entertaining.’ The Weekend Australian

‘Her novel is a mixture of the brutality found in The Lovely Bones

and the pain in The Fault in Our Stars.’ Readings

‘Compelling and arresting’ Geelong Advertiser

Rights to One Foot Wrong were sold to: North America (Other Press), UK (Allison & Busby), The Netherlands (Signatuur), Germany (Pendo), Spain (Espasa), Italy (Gazanti), Russia (Arabesque), Turkey (Maya Kitap) and China (Global).

Sofie Laguna is an author, actor and playwright. Her books for

young people have been named Honour Books and Notable Books in the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards and have been shortlisted in the Queensland Premier's Awards.

Sofie's first novel for adults, One Foot Wrong, was published throughout Europe, the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Fiction

This Picture of You

Sarah Hopkins

Gripping, insightful and moving – a searing story of love and betrayal, and a family coming apart at the seams. A breakthrough novel from one of Australia’s rising stars. Martin and Maggie, a judge and an artist, have forged a life together for thirty-seven years. They have a son who is a successful lawyer and a grandson to dote on. Life is good, comfortable, familiar. But one day Martin leaves a family lunch and drives to a suburb miles away, to a particular house in a particular street, where an accident triggers a chain of events. No one knows why he was there – not even Martin himself – and as his mind starts unravelling, it is left to Maggie to discover what in Martin's past is troubling him, and where it is going to take them.

While Maggie pieces together the events leading up to the accident, Martin takes refuge in a single memory, a night in New York almost forty years ago – the night he and Maggie met. As Martin's mind spirals inward, the fabric that has been holding his

lifetime of secrets at bay begins to fray. In his efforts to protect his family from the mistakes in his past, has Martin damned his son to the fate of repeating them?

‘Thrilling and deceptively breezy, This Picture of You demands attention with its page-turning pace and slow-burning revelations… Hopkins’ characters pulse with full, rich lives at once utterly safe and unbearably perilous.’ Jennifer Levasseur, Sydney Morning Herald

Sarah Hopkins is the author of two previous novels, The Crimes of

Billy Fish, which was highly commended in the inaugural ABC Fiction Awards and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and Speak to Me. Sarah is a criminal lawyer and lives in

Sydney.

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Fiction

Mothers and Daughters

Kylie Ladd

A clear-eyed, insightful and wildly entertaining look at the complicated, emotional world of mothers and their teenage daughters. Four mothers. Four teenage daughters. An isolated tropical paradise with no internet or mobile phone reception. What could possibly go wrong? There's tension, bitchiness, bullying, sex, drunken confessions, bad behaviour and breakdowns – and wait till you see what the teenagers get up to... How can we let our daughters go to forge lives of their own when what we most want to do is hold them close and never let them go? How do we let them grow and keep them protected from the dark things in the world at the same time? And how can mothers and daughters navigate the troubled, stormy waters of adolescence without hurting themselves and each other?

'...a strong, intelligent, subtle and wise new voice... being compared

with Christos Tsiolkas, Malcolm Knox and Helen Garner... ' Booktopia

Kylie Ladd has published four novels: After the Fall, Last Summer, which was highly commended in the FAW Christina Stead Award for fiction, Into My Arms, chosen as one of Get Reading’s ‘50 books you can’t put down’ for 2013, and her latest, Mothers and Daughters.

Kylie holds a PhD in neuropsychology and lives in Melbourne with her husband and two children.

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Fiction

Wife on the Run

Fiona Higgins In the remarkable new novel from the bestselling author of The

Mothers' Group a beleaguered wife and mother escapes it all on a family road trip – without technology – to reclaim her life and rebuild her family. A mother's greatest fear... A wife's worst nightmare... What would you do? When two technology-related disasters hit within days of each other, Paula knows her comfortable suburban life has been irrevocably blown apart. One involves the public shaming of her teenage daughter, the other is a discovery about her husband that shocks her to her core. With her world unravelling around her, Paula does the only thing that makes any sense to her: she runs away from it all. She pulls her children out of school and takes off on a trip across Australia with her elderly father and his caravan. The only rule is No Technology – it’s time to get back to basics and learn how to be a family again.

It all sounds so simple – and for a while, it is. But along the way Paula will meet new, exciting complications, and realise that

running away is only a temporary solution. The past has to be faced before the future can begin. Rights to The Mothers’ Group sold to France (Presses de la Cite), Germany (Droemer), The Netherlands (Artemis) and Spain (Maeva).

Fiona Higgins’s memoir, Love in the Age of Drought, was published in 2009 and her first novel, The Mothers' Group, was published by

Allen & Unwin in 2012. She holds tertiary qualifications in the humanities and social sciences, and lives in Bali with her husband and three children.

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Fiction

Nanny Confidential

Philippa Christian

A deliciously gossipy novel about the rich and famous from a real- life nanny to the stars who has seen it all. When Lindsay Starwood moved from a small town to Melbourne, she had no idea that her after-school babysitting job would turn into a career. Her boss was Steven Stavros, the football player more famous for his extramarital activities than his goal-scoring abilities. However, word soon got out about the Australian nanny who was great with kids, cool in a crisis and capable of keeping the secrets of the rich and famous tightly under wraps. It wasn’t long before Hollywood was calling. But being a celebrity nanny isn't the Mary Poppins fantasy you might imagine. When Lindsay finds herself caring for the six (yes, six!) daughters of fame-hungry reality television star Alysha Appleby, her patience is pushed to its limits. With a non-stop schedule, a film crew watching her every move and duties way outside her job description (like putting a seven-year-old on a detox), Lindsay begins to wonder whether she has a future as a

nanny, or whether Hollywood's streets of gold are really a dead end. From affairs to bomb threats and suspicious deaths, Lindsay sees a dark – and lonely – side of Hollywood that you'll never read about in a magazine. Will she have to choose between her dream job and the children she loves, and her own happiness?

Philippa Christian has worked as a nanny for the rich and famous. Born and raised in Melbourne, she has lived and worked in Australia and LA. This is her first novel.

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Fiction

Goodbye Sweetheart

Marion Halligan

A new novel from one of Australia’s most important writers.

William Cecil, a successful Canberra lawyer, has a heart attack and dies suddenly while swimming in the local pool. Apparently happily married at the time of his death, albeit with two divorces behind him and three children to show for his marital trials, William, it seems, was not quite the man the family thought. His penchant for online pornography is discovered when his son Ferdie accesses his laptop. And as the extended family of wives and children gather to mark his passing at least one lover, Barbara, appears to remind them that his philandering had not passed. In the way that death can be messy, we come to understand that William has failed many and continues to wreak havoc after death. Goodbye Sweetheart reminds that we never quite truly know another person, even those closest to us.

‘Cracking with life and mortality ... Halligan's magical word pictures

have that serene intensity that is now her trademark.' Robert Dessaix

Marion Halligan has a long list of literary prizes to her credit. She has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and has been awarded The Age Book

of the Year, the ACT Book of the Year (three times), the Nita B. Kibble Award, the Steele Rudd Award, the Braille Book of the Year, the 3M Talking Book of the Year and the Geraldine Pascall Prize for critical writing. She lives in Canberra and has an AM for services to literature.

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Fiction

Half the World in Winter

Maggie Joel

In 1881 in London, everything changes for the wealthy Jarmyn family. The misfortunes on the railway the family had built echo the shocking death of nine-year-old Sofia Jarmyn. And at the heart of this family, a terrible secret is tearing their lives apart. A captivating drama of family secrets and tragedies. As Lucas Jarmyn struggles to make sense of the death of his beloved youngest daughter, his wife, Aurora, seeks solace in rigid social routines and eighteen-year-old Dinah looks for fulfilment in unusual places. Only the housekeeper, the estimable Mrs Logan, seems able to carry on. A train accident in a provincial town on the railway Lucas owns claims the life of nine-year-old Alice Brinklow and, amid the public outcry, Alice's father, Thomas, journeys to London demanding justice. As he arrives in the capital on a frozen January morning his fate, and that of the entire Jarmyn family, will hinge on such strange things as an ill-fated visit to a spiritualist, an errant chicken bone and a single vote cast at a board room meeting.

Written with charm, humour and rich period detail, Maggie Joel has

created an intriguing novel of a Victorian family adrift in their rapidly changing world.

Maggie Joel has been writing fiction since the mid-1990s. Her previous novels, The Past and Other Lies and The Second Last Woman in England, were published in the UK and North America,

and her short stories have been widely published in Southerly, Westerly, Island, Overland and Canberra Arts Review, and broadcast on ABC radio.

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Current Affairs Six Capitals

The revolution capitalism has to have – or Can accountants save the planet? Jane Gleeson-White

From the acclaimed author of Double Entry comes a timely and fascinating account of the revolution going on in the world of finance – and how accountants really can save the planet.

It is only the second revolution in accounting since double-entry bookkeeping emerged in medieval Italy – and it is of seismic

proportions, driven by the 2008 financial crash and the environmental crisis. The changes it will wreak are profound and far-reaching. They will transform not only the way the world does business but alter the very nature of corporate capitalism.

The accounts of nations and corporations are vital to the 21st century global economy. They translate value into the language of modern times – numbers and money – in the shape of GDP and profit figures. But increasingly the world is coming to realise that the seemingly

endless growth that capital offers us is in fact limited by the earth's resources and comes at a huge price to the planet and our own wellbeing. It simply cannot be sustained.

This revolution led by accountants demands that we start accounting for nature and society. It urges us to rethink our idea of capital, insisting that the familiar categories of industrial and financial capital bequeathed by the mercantile and industrial ages be broadened to include four new categories of wealth or capitals: intellectual, human,

social and natural.

Jane Gleeson-White is the author of Double Entry: How the merchants of Venice shaped the modern world – and how their invention could make or break the planet (2011), which won the 2012 Waverly Library Award for Literature and was shortlisted for the 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, The Age Book of the Year Award and the Queensland Literary Awards. Jane is a PhD student in creative writing at the University of New South Wales and has degrees in

economics and literature from the University of Sydney.

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History

The Emperor’s Shadow

Anne Whitehead The true story of the exiled Napoleon Bonaparte's relationship with the English merchant William Balcombe and his teenage daughter Betsy, and his lasting impact on their lives.

After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo, he was sent into exile on St Helena, arriving in October 1815. For the six years until his death, he was an ‘eagle in a cage’, reduced from the most powerful figure in Europe to a prisoner on a rock in the South Atlantic. But the fallen emperor was charmed by the pretty

teenage daughter of a local merchant, Betsy Balcombe.

Anne Whitehead has discovered new evidence that the relationship between Betsy and the Emperor was not just sentimental or romantic, as Betsy claimed. Her father, merchant William Balcombe was well-connected in London, and he smuggled

letters and undertook a clandestine mission to Paris for Napoleon.

Betsy’s relationship with Napoleon cast a shadow over the rest of

her colourful life. She married a Regency cad, who soon left her and their daughter, and she travelled to Australia in 1823 with her father.

With her extraordinary connections both to royalty in London and to Napoleon, the Bonaparte family and his courtiers, Betsy Balcombe led a life worthy of a Regency romance. This new

account draws on the author’s painstaking research in the UK, St Helena, France and Australia, revealing Napoleon at his most vulnerable, human and reflective, and a woman caught in some of the most dramatic events of her time.

Anne Whitehead is an author, historian and former TV producer- director with the ABC. Her Paradise Mislaid: In Search of the Australian Tribe of Paraguay was winner of the 1998 NSW Premier’s Award for Australian History. Her Bluestocking in Patagonia: Mary Gilmore’s Quest for Love and Utopia at the

World’s End was published by Profile Books in 2003 and was a finalist for the 2005 Magarey Australian Biography Medal.

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Humour

A Short History of Stupid The decline of reason and why public debate makes us

want to scream

Bernard Keane and Helen Razer

Alain de Botton meets Russell Brand in this glorious rant about everything that drives you mad about the modern world. Recently, overwhelming mutual despair at the faltering quality of public debate and the apparent death of logic and reason has driven writers Helen Razer and Bernard Keane to the desperate act of befriending each other. Over many long rants against the state of the world and the way people write about it, govern it and behave in it, they decided that Never Have Things Been So Bad. What is Stupid? Stupid is the rejection of the discomfort of intellectual rigour in favour of the mentally comfortable and convenient. Razer and Keane skewer everything that has made them want to shoot the TV lately: climate change denial, vaccination denial, fanaticism, paternalism, moral panic, New Ageism, the War on Terror, conspiracy theories, the internet, the mental health industry, conspicuous compassion, postmodernism and the cult of 'I'. A Short History of Stupid is angry, funny, savage, smart, provocative, infuriating and incendiary. It has echoes of de Botton in that it is conversant with the history of thought, but it is a lot more

disrespectful. It is as rude and as inflammatory as O'Rourke and as penetrating and unforgiving as Hitchens. It is funny, but it is also at once a provocation and a comfort for those with like minds.

Above all, it will inspire debate, reassure the terminally frustrated and outrage the righteously Stupid. It is a book whose time has definitely come.

Helen Razer is a contributor to The Age and The Australian, and is now a columnist on dissent with Crikey and gardening correspondent for The Saturday Paper. Helen has produced four previous books of humorous nonfiction. Bernard Keane has been Crikey's correspondent and politics editor in Canberra since 2008, writing on politics, media and economics. He

is the author of the ebook War on the Internet and an incessant torrent of analysis, reportage and commentary on politics and public policy for Crikey.

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Biography

Ralf How a giant Schnauzer brought hope, happiness and

healing to sick children

Anne Crawford How a rescue dog became a therapy dog and brought happiness, hope and healing to everyone he met. Ralf the giant schnauzer was about to be put down when Caroline Lovick heard about him. He had been ignored as a puppy and developed a serious barking problem. When Ralf arrived at Caroline's house, where four active children lived, he soon stopped barking and found his true calling as a loving dog who loved nothing better than to play gently with children. Soon, Ralf's potential as a therapy dog became obvious. His talent was spotted one day while he was being shown at a dog show. Before long he was starting work at the Royal Children's Hospital. Ralf became an instant hit with the terminally ill children, and over the years he has made worldwide headlines for his extraordinary ability to bring hope to the sick. Ralf's story is heartwarming and inspiring. It is a true tale of how the love of a human owner can change a dog's life and how the love of a dog can bring life back to those who have lost faith.

Ralf was born in Tasmania but found his way to Melbourne when Caroline Lovick saved him. He now works as a therapy dog at the Royal Children's Hospital. Anne Crawford was a feature writer for The Age and The Sunday Age for more than 10 years and is co- author of Doctor Hugh: My Life with Animals, Forged with Flames: A True Story of Courage and Survival, and Shadow of a Girl. Great Australian Horse Stories was published in 2013. Her most recent

book, Women of Spirit, was released in May 2014. A horse-owner and horse- lover, Anne lives in country Victoria where she rides a small mare with a lot of attitude called Poppy.

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Autobiography

Dog Eat Dog A story of survival, struggle and triumph by the man who

put AC/DC on the world stage

Michael Browning A fascinating insider's account of the formation and early success of two of the world's greatest bands, AC/DC and INXS, from the man who helped them on the road to international stardom. Bon turned up with two bottles of bourbon, some dope and some speed. When Angus saw this stash, he said to Malcolm, 'If this guy can walk, let alone sing, it's going to be something.' Michael Browning first spotted AC/DC in September 1974. They were raw and rough, and much of the crowd, Michael included, was bewildered by the flashy guitarist dressed as a school kid. But Michael knew they had something – a blistering sound, killer songs and a wildly charismatic stage presence. Within a week he'd signed them to a management contract.

A young street kid with an uncanny ear for music, Michael had kicked off his career in the swinging clubs that made Melbourne the most happening place in Australia in the '60s. And then AC/DC swept all before them. Here is the only insider account of those amazing years by the man who helped guide AC/DC to the top.

In the '80s Michael did it again, signing an up-and-coming band

called INXS to his label Deluxe Records and setting them on the course to superstardom. Dog Eat Dog is the story of one of the true believers of the music industry, the man who helped Australia’s two biggest bands achieve world domination...and lived to tell the tale.

Michael Browning has managed some of the world’s biggest bands

including Billy Thorpe, AC/DC, INXS and Noiseworks. Michael and his family live in Sydney. Dog Eat Dog is his first book.

Pub Date October 2014 Extent 352pp 32pp insert ISBN 9781760111915 Rights Held World Format Paperback, C Rights Sold Dimensions 234x153mm

Music

A Little History Nick Cave & cohorts, 1981-2013

Bleddyn Butcher

A stunning visual record of the amazing career of Nick Cave, one of the world's coolest musicians, by one of the rock world's most brilliant photographers and writers. When Bleddyn Butcher first saw The Birthday Party play, back in 1981, he was astonished. And then enthralled. He set about trying to catch their lightning in his Nikon F2AS. That quixotic impulse became a lifelong quest. A little history got made on the way. Collected here for the first time are the fruits of his labour. A Little History is an extraordinary document, tracking Nick Cave's creative career from the apoplectic extravagance of The Birthday Party to the calmer disquiet of 2013's Push The Sky Away via snapshots, spotlit visions and sumptuous, theatrical portraits. It mixes the candid and uncanny, the spontaneous and the patiently staged, and includes eyeball encounters with Cave's baddest lieutenants, men who for the most part long since burned their own bridges down. Butcher's Nikonic eye defines moment after arresting moment in Cave's glorious, sprawling story: it's a splendid testament to two brilliant careers.

Bleddyn Butcher was born in England and scathed in Western Australia. He worked for NME in the 1980s, photographing musicians and authors. His photographs have since appeared in

many leading music journals and are included in the permanent collection at Australia's National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. In 2011, he published Save What You Can: The Day of The Triffids, a biography of that band's prime mover David McComb. He lives in Sydney.

Pub Date October 2014 Extent 160pp ISBN 9781760110680 Rights Held World Format Hardback, Misc HB Rights Sold UK (Allen & Unwin) Dimensions 280x210mm

Autobiography

Dress, Memory A memoir of my twenties in dresses

Lorelei Vashti

A charming coming-of-age memoir in which every dress tells a story. As we grow older, how do we know what to let go of and what to keep? Lorelei started collecting dresses in her twenties and found that every time she wore one it became more significant to her. From falling in love for the first time to playing in a band, from starting a career to moving overseas, every dress soon had a memory stitched into it, and she became as attached to each one as if they were the events and people themselves. But what happens when the wardrobe gets full? Should you let go of the dresses you've outgrown, or try to hold on to them forever? Dress, Memory is about a decade in dresses. Perceptive and poignant, humorous and heartwarming, it's the story of growing up and growing into yourself. It's about trying things on until you find the perfect fit.

'Looking through Lorelei's wardrobe is a bit like looking into her soul. I enjoyed the view.' Jo Walker, editor of frankie magazine

'A lovely portrait of both the strength and fragility of a young

woman. I felt like I was in my twenties again.' Kirstie Clements

'A brilliant vision of what it means to be a young woman.' Romy Ash

Lorelei Vashti is a Melbourne-based writer and editor. She is a contributor to the popular 'Women of Letters' series, has written for and been profiled in many magazines, and used to write a

television column for the Fairfax press. Her blog is called 'Dress, Memory'.

Pub Date September 2014 Extent 272pp 12pp insert ISBN 9781743311011 Rights Held World Format Paperback, Demy Rights Sold Dimensions 208x138mm

Autobiography

Confessions of a Millionaire's Mistress The true story of a young woman, an illicit affair and a

world of wealth and glamour

Ava Reilly 50 Shades of Grey meets Sex in the City. Ava Reilly is a young woman who by day works in media, PR and marketing and by night writes her much loved 'Confessions of a Millionaire's Mistress' blog and keeps her 130,000 social media followers around the world up to date and eager for another chapter of the story. Confessions of a Millionaire's Mistress is the story of how Ava, the young PR professional, just starting out, meets Hugh, a successful industry leader with charm, connections, money and… a wife. This is Ava’s tell-all diary of her dual life as a career woman and mistress, a role she never thought she would play. A fast-paced romp that will take you inside a glamorous world of wealth, excess and irresistible seduction.

http://confessionsofamillionairesmistress.blogspot.com.au/

Ava Reilly has no plans to reveal her identity now or in the future.

Pub Date January 2015 Extent 320pp ISBN 9781760112035 Rights Held World Format Paperback, C Rights Sold Dimensions 234x153mm

Biography

Walking Free The extraordinary true story of a young man who fled

war-torn Iraq, came to Australia as a refugee by boat, spent months in a detention centre and went on to become a pioneering surgeon Munjed Al Muderis and Patrick Weaver

Walking Free is Munjed's account of his journey from Saddam Hussein's Iraq to a new life and a remarkable career at the forefront of international medicine.

In 1999, Munjed Al Muderis was a young surgical resident working in Baghdad when a squad of military police marched into the operating theatre and ordered the surgical team to mutilate the ears of three busloads of army deserters. When the head of surgery refused, he was executed in front of his staff. Munjed's choices were stark – comply and breach the medical oath 'do no harm', refuse and face certain death, or flee.

That day, Munjed's life changed forever. He escaped to Indonesia, where he boarded a filthy, overcrowded refugee boat, bound for Australia.

For ten months he was incarcerated in what became known as the worst of the refugee camps in Western Australia. There he was known only by a

number, locked in solitary confinement and repeatedly told to go back to Iraq.

On 26 August 2000, Munjed was finally freed. Now, fourteen years later, he is one of the world's leading osseointegration surgeons, travelling the

globe transforming the lives of amputees with a pioneering technique that allows them to walk again.

Associate Professor Munjed Al Muderis is a world leading osseointegration surgeon and Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Sydney. He practises as an orthopaedic surgeon at four hospitals in Sydney where he lives with his wife Irina, a GP, and their daughter Sophia.

Patrick Weaver is a highly regarded writer and public relations consultant who runs his own public relations and creative writing business in Sydney. He lives in Sydney and has two adult children.

Pub Date October 2014 Extent 336pp 32pp insert ISBN 9781760110727 Rights Held World Format Paperback, C Rights Sold Dimensions 234x153mm

History

A Good Place to Hide How one French community saved thousands of lives in

World War II

Peter Grose They kept their heads down, they kept their mouths shut and they stuck together to offer sanctuary and shelter to over 3500 Jews in their small villages in the isolated upper reaches of the Loire. This is one of the great modern stories of unknown heroism and courage. Nobody asked questions, nobody demanded money. Villagers lied, covered up, procrastinated and concealed, but most importantly they welcomed. This is the story of an isolated community in the upper reaches of the Loire Valley that conspired to save the lives of 3500 Jews under the noses of the Germans and the soldiers of Vichy France. It is the story of a pacifist Protestant pastor who broke laws and defied orders to protect the lives of total strangers. It is the story of an

eighteen-year-old Jewish boy from Nice who forged 5000 sets of false identity papers to save other Jews and French Resistance fighters from the Nazi concentration camps. And it is the story of a community of good men and women who offered sanctuary, kindness, solidarity and hospitality to people in desperate need,

knowing full well the consequences to themselves.

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

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

Peter Grose is a former journalist, literary agent and publisher. He

has published two highly acclaimed books with Allen & Unwin, An Awkward Truth: The bombing of Darwin, February 1942 and A Very Rude Awakening: The night the Japanese midget subs came to Sydney Harbour.

Pub Date June 2014 Extent 352pp 16pp insert ISBN 9781742376141 Rights Held World Format Paperback, C Rights Sold UK rights to Nicholas Dimensions 234x153mm Brealey Publishing; North American rights to Pegasus

Health

Quit Cannabis An expert's guide to coping with cravings and withdrawal,

unscrambling your brain and kicking the habit for good Jan Copeland with Sally Rooke and Etty Matalon

An authoritative guide to the health risks of using cannabis and practical, step-by-step information on coping with withdrawal symptoms and quitting marijuana for good. Do you feel you’re losing focus and concentration? Is weed taking a toll on your relationships? Is it taking over your life? The longer you have used marijuana, the harder it is to quit. Maybe, like many others, you have experienced anxiety, sleeplessness and strong cravings when you’ve tried coming off it. This ground-breaking guide is based on the experience of hundreds of users. It cuts through the folklore surrounding marijuana to reveal the truth about its impact on your health and how to quit for good. The expert author team, based at a specialist cannabis management clinic, provides practical tools on getting free from

pot for the long term. You will find real-life case studies of former users who’ve regained control of their life, together with proven strategies for managing withdrawal symptoms. The team also shows how to help a relative or friend come off the drug. If you are serious about quitting cannabis, this is the one book you must read.

‘A compassionate and practical road map to help navigate and avoid the pitfalls and consequences of marijuana use. Highly recommended.’ Bob Hopkins, Founder of the Nimbin HEMP

Embassy

Jan Copeland is a Professor and Director of the National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre (NCPIC). She is a respected clinician and world expert on the topic, and has published some of the seminal papers in the area of treatment of cannabis misuse. Dr

Sally Rooke is a Senior Research Officer for the NCPIC. Etty Matalon is a Clinical Psychologist and the National Clinical Training Manager for the NCPIC.

Pub Date February 2015 Extent 208pp ISBN 9781743319925 Rights Held World Format Paperback, B Rights Sold Dimensions 198x128mm

Self-help/personal development

Buddhism for Couples

A calm approach to being in a relationship

Sarah Napthali A practical self-help guide for couples from the author of the bestselling, internationally acclaimed Buddhism for Mothers series. Every now and then we meet a woman who has mastered the art of being in a couple, who has managed to keep the flame alive long after the honeymoon period. Sarah Napthali is not one of these women but is happy for readers to learn from her mistakes. With her trademark emphasis on self-compassion, she explains how she has applied Buddhist teachings to patch things up, hold things together and even, on good days, scale the heights of relationship happiness. Written for both men and women, Buddhism for Couples tackles the loaded subjects of housework, anger, sex, conflict and infidelity, before introducing Buddhist strategies that can enrich a relationship.

Applying Buddhist teachings can improve our relationship by guiding us to delve more deeply into our psyches. Through mindfulness and ever-growing self-awareness, the teachings help us to become more familiar with the workings of our minds and bodies, more aware of our thoughts and beliefs, so that we can see our behaviours with more clarity. Alongside Buddhist teachings, Sarah explores the latest psychological research on relationships

and discovers numerous overlaps.

International English language sales of Buddhism for Mothers number over 60,000 copies. Buddhism for Mothers has been translated into the following languages: Chinese Simplified, Chinese Complex, Croatian, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Polish, Slovenian and Thai.

In a relationship for almost twenty years, Sarah Napthali is the mother of two teenage boys and a long-term practitioner of Buddhist teachings. She is the author of several parenting titles,

including the bestselling Buddhism for Mothers.

Pub Date September 2014 Extent 256pp ISBN 9781743318102 Rights Held World Format Paperback, Demy Rights Sold North American (Tarcher) Dimensions 208x138mm

Self-help/personal development

Why Mindfulness is Better than Chocolate Your guide to inner peace, enhanced focus and deep happiness David Michie

A beginner's guide to the powerful practice of mindfulness. By reclaiming the present moment with mindfulness practice, you can improve performance and increase wellbeing – and improve the taste of chocolate too! Mindfulness practice can help you reduce stress, improve performance, manage pain and increase wellbeing. These are the reasons why elite athletes, performing artists and business leaders are taking up the practice, and why it is being introduced into the world's most successful companies, banks, business schools – even the US Army. David Michie introduces mindfulness practice and offers innovative solutions to common obstacles. Drawing on ancient Buddhist teachings and contemporary science, he also takes us beyond 'mindfulness lite', offering lucid instructions on how to experience the pristine nature of one's own consciousness directly – an encounter that is truly life-changing.

Written with warmth and good humour, Why Mindfulness is Better than Chocolate is the ultimate guide to self-discovery.

'David Michie demonstrates a fine knack for capturing the essence

of this important topic and presenting it in a fun and accessible way.' Dr Timothy Sharp, The Happiness Institute

David Michie is an internationally published writer and meditation coach. He is author of the bestselling Hurry Up and Meditate, Buddhism for Busy People, Enlightenment to Go and The Dalai

Lama's Cat series. He brings to this book his expertise in mind training as a practising Buddhist, and his professional experience of the corporate world.

Pub Date June 2014 Extent 320pp ISBN 9781743319130 Rights Held World Format Paperback, Demy Rights Sold North American (The Dimensions 208x138mm Experiment Publishing) Spanish (Suma/Santillana)

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