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MAY 2016 The Last Painting of Sara de Vos Dominic Smith

A dazzling and mesmerising story that charts the collision course between a rare landscape by a female Dutch painter of the golden age, an inheritor of the work in 1950s Manhattan, and a celebrated art historian who painted a forgery of it in her youth. A literary novel of breathtaking scope, ambition and achievement.

Description 'Highly evocative of time and place, this stunning novel explores a triumvirate of fate, choice and consequence, and is worthy of comparison to Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring and Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch . . . A masterly, multilayered story that will dazzle readers.' Library Journal

This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the reading's done. In this extraordinary novel, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, US-based Australian writer Dominic Smith brilliantly bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape by a female Dutch painter of the Golden Age, an inheritor of the work in 1950s Manhattan, and a celebrated Australian art historian who painted a forgery of it in her youth.

In 1631, Sara de Vos is admitted as a master painter to the Guild of St. Luke in Holland, the first woman to be so honoured. Three hundred years later, only one work attributed to de Vos is known to remain-a haunting winter scene, At the Edge of a Wood, which hangs over the Manhattan bed of a wealthy descendant of the original owner. An Australian grad student, Ellie Shipley, struggling to stay afloat in New York, agrees to paint a forgery of the landscape, a decision that will haunt her. Because now, half a century later, she's curating an exhibit of female Dutch painters, and both versions threaten to arrive. As the three threads intersect with increasing and exquisite suspense, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos mesmerises while it grapples with the demands of the artistic life, showing how the deceits of the past can forge the present.

About the Author Dominic Smith is the author of three previously published novels from Atria. His awards include a Dobie Paisano Fellowship, the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Prize, the Gulf Coast Fiction Prize, and a new works grant from the Literature Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781743439951 Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. His debut novel, The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre, was a Barnes & Format: Paperback - C format Noble Discover New Writers Book, and received the Turner Prize for First Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters. His Dimensions: 234x153mm second novel, The Beautiful Miscellaneous, was a Booklist Editors' Choice and optioned for film by Southpaw Extent: 384 pages Entertainment. His most recent novel, Bright and Distant Shores, was named by Kirkus as one of the 'Best Books of 2011' Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction and chosen by the ALA for its annual reading list. In Australia, he was shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year and the Illustrations: Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction. His fiction has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including The Atlantic Previous Titles: Author now living: Texas, USA Monthly.

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Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 Vogel Winner 2016

Winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2016

Description The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award is Australia's richest and most prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript and has launched the careers of some of its most successful writers, including Tim Winton, Kate Grenville, Gillian Mears, Brian Castro, Mandy Sayer, Andrew McGahan and Rohan Wilson. Vogel-winning authors have gone on to win or to be shortlisted for other major awards, such as the Miles Franklin Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Booker Prize.

The announcement of the winner of the 2016 Australian/Vogel's Literary Award will be made on the evening of Tuesday 26 April.

'This is a poignant and beautifully written novel.' Jenny Barry

'The characters are deep and rich ... keeps you reading just through the sheer quality of it all.' Rohan Wilson

About the Author The winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award of 2016.

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Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 After Darkness Christine Piper

Winner of The 2014 Australian/Vogel's Literary Award.

Description The winner of The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2014

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.

'Piper draws us deeper and deeper into the compelling story of Tomakazu Ibaraki, a man whose strengths - discretion, honour and loyalty - also lie at the heart of his personal tragedy.' - Danielle Wood, winner of the The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award in 2002; Vogel's judge

'After Darkness is about friendships that transcend cliched 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, bookseller, Avid Reader; 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 and Mark Dapin's Spirit House.' - Stephen Romei, literary editor, The Australian; Vogel's judge

About the Author 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. Christine has studied creative writing at Macquarie University, the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of Technology, Sydney, where she wrote a Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760113117 version of this novel as part of her doctoral degree. She has also worked as a magazine editor and writer for more than a Format: Paperback - B format decade. Both in South Korea in 1979 to an Australian father and a Japanese mother, Christine moved to Australia when Dimensions: 198x128mm she was one. She has previously taught English and studied Japanese in Japan, and currently lives in New York with her Extent: 304 pages husband. Christine is also the 2014 recipient of the ABR Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay. The winner of The Main Category: F Fiction

Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction Australian/Vogel's Literary Prize 2014. After Darkness is Christine Piper's first novel. She was also shortlisted for the Illustrations: Readings New Australian Writing Award 2014. Previous Titles: Author now living: New York, USA

Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 Lilian's Story Kate Grenville

The heartwarming story of Lilian Singer, who starts life at the beginning of the twentieth century as the daughter of a prosperous middle-class Australian family and ends it as a cheerfully eccentric bag-lady living on the streets, quoting Shakespeare for a living. From Booker-shortlisted author Kate Grenville.

Description 'Dazzling fiction of universal appeal' Patrick White

'A work of considerable beauty and power.told with great honesty and virtuosity.' - New York Times Book Review

This is the story of Lilian Singer, born on 'a wild night in the year of Federation' into a stifling household which totally fails to subdue her.

Madness, cruelty and sexuality permeate the household but Lilian's sights are set on education, love and - finally - her own transcendent forms of independence.

Lilian Singer is, or becomes, that rare being: an eccentric true to her own self whose story reaches out to touch and delight the most discerning reader. She radiates energy and vitality through every page of this striking work. Lilian's Story is the most loved and enduring of Kate Grenville's fictional creations.

About the Author Kate Grenville was born in Sydney and holds degrees from Sydney University and the University of Colorado. In 1984 her first book, a collection of stories - Bearded Ladies - was published. Since then she has published six novels and four books about the writing process. Her works of fiction have been published to acclaim in Australia and overseas and have won state and national awards and her books about the writing process are used in many writing courses in schools and universities. Much-loved novels such as Lilian's Story (1985), Dark Places (1995) and Joan Makes History (1988) have become classics, admired by critics and general readers alike. The Secret River (2005) has won many prizes, including

Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) the Commonwealth Prize for Literature and the Christina Stead Prize, and has been an international best-seller. The Idea ISBN: 9781741754902 of Perfection (2000) won the Orange Prize. Kate Grenville lives in Sydney with her family. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 195x130mm Extent: 336 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Joan Makes History (UQP, 1988); Dreamhouse (UQP, 1989); Bearded Ladies (UQP 1993); The Writing Book (A+U, 1990) Author now living: Balmain, NSW

Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 Night Street Kristel Thornell

An intensely satisfying novel that celebrates the short richly lived life of Australian artist, Clarice Beckett. Co- winner of the 2009 Australian/Vogel Literary Award.

Description Night Street is the passionate story of a young painter, Clarice Beckett, who defies society's strict conventions and indifferent art critics alike and leads an intense private and professional life. With her extraordinary talent for making simple city and seascapes haunting and mysteriously revelatory, Clarice paints prolifically and lives largely, overcoming the seemingly confined existence as the spinster daughter in the parental home.

Night Street began with Thornell's first encounter with the paintings of Melbourne artist Clarice Beckett (1887-1935) at the Art Gallery of South Australia. The subtle power of Clarice's highly atmospheric, enigmatic landscapes enabled her to imagine Clarice's inner life and shape an extraordinary novel.

About the Author Kristel Thornell was born in Sydney, and has lived in Italy, Mexico, Canada, Finland and the US, where she is now based in upstate New York. She has degrees in Italian Studies and English, and a PhD from the Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney. She has published short fiction, poetry, reviews, essays, and the novel, Night Street, for which she co-won the Australian / Vogel Literary Award, and won the Dobbie Literary Award for a first book, and the Barbara Ramsden Award for book of the year. She was shortlisted for the Glenda Adams Award and the Christina Stead Prize for fiction in the NSW Premier's Awards, and was named one of The Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelists in 2011.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9781742373362 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 256 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Rochester, USA.

Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 Praise Andrew McGahan

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

Description 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 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 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 Award. In 2009, Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9781741147728 Wonders of a Godless World was published to acclaim and won the Aurealis Award. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm McGahan's award-winning writing also includes stage plays and the screenplay for the movie version of Praise. Extent: 288 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction 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: 1988 (1995); Last Drinks (2000); The White Earth Premier's Book Award, was a finalist in the Aurealis Awards and was longlisted for the Gold Inky for an Australian YA (2004) Author now living: Yarraville, VIC book. The second novel in the Ship King series - Voyage of the Unquiet Ice was published in 2012.

Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 The Roving Party Rohan Wilson

A surprisingly beautiful evocation of horror and brutality - a meditation on the intricacies of human nature at its most raw. Winner of the 2011 The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award.

Description '. grim and astonishing.' - Australian Book Review

1829, Tasmania

John Batman, ruthless, singleminded; four convicts, the youngest still only a stripling; Gould, a downtrodden farmhand; two free black trackers; and powerful, educated Black Bill, brought up from childhood as a white man. This is the roving party and their purpose is massacre.

With promises of freedom, land grants and money, each is willing to risk his life for the prize.

Passing over many miles of tortured country, the roving party searches for Aborigines, taking few prisoners and killing freely, Batman never abandoning the visceral intensity of his hunt. And all the while, Black Bill pursues his personal quarry, the much-feared warrior, Manalargena.

About the Author Rohan Wilson lived a long, mostly lonely, life until a lucky turn of events led him to take up a teaching position in Japan where he met his wife. They have a son who loves books, as all children should. They live in Launceston but don't know why. Rohan holds degrees and diplomas from the universities of Tasmania, Southern Queensland and Melbourne. This is his first book. He can be found on Twitter: @rohan_wilson.

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Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 Utopian Man Lisa Lang

An exquisite historical novel about a remarkable man who chose his own path, charming and scandalising others in equal measure. Co-winner of the 2009 Australian/Vogel Literary Award.

Description 'Really impressive, vivid and enjoyable.' Cate Kennedy

It's the 1880s and Marvellous Melbourne is a lavish and raucous city where anything could happen. Eccentric entrepreneur Edward William Cole is building the sprawling Cole's Book Arcade and filling it with whatever amuses him, or supports his favourite causes: a giant squid, a brass band, monkeys, a black man whose skin has turned white, a Chinese tea salon, and of course, hundreds of thousands of books.

When Edward decides to marry he advertises for a wife in the newspaper, shocking and titillating the whole town. To everyone's surprise he marries his broadsheet bride and the Arcade grows into a monumental success.

But the 1890s depression hits Melbourne - and Edward - hard, and the death of one of his children leaves him reeling. Grief, corruption and a beautiful, unscrupulous widow all threaten to derail his singular vision. But it's not until he visits Chinatown one night - and his own deeply suppressed past - that the idealist faces his toughest challenge.

Utopian Man is the story of a man who lives life on his own terms, and leaves behind a remarkable legacy.

About the Author Lisa Lang is a Melbourne writer. She is the author of the non-fiction title E W Cole: Chasing the Rainbow, and was selected in 2007 for the Australian Society of Authors' mentorship program. Her novel, Utopian Man, was the co-winner of The Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 2009.

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Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 Merciless Gods Christos Tsiolkas

A collection of thrilling, original and imaginative stories from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Slap and Barracuda - a showcase all of his immense and unique story-telling talents.

Description Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, brutality, sacrifice and revelation.

This incendiary collection of stories from acclaimed writer Christos Tsiolkas, bestselling author of The Slap and Barracuda, takes you deep into worlds both strange and familiar, and introduces you to characters who will never let you go and situations that will haunt you forever.

'. one of the most significant contemporary storytellers at work today.' Colm Toibin, author of Brooklyn

'. there is not a more important writer working in Australia today.' Australian Bookseller & Publisher

'. one of our most important novelists.' Age

'Tsiolkas has become that rarest kind of writer in Australia, a serious literary writer who is also unputdownable, a mesmerising master of how to tell a story. He has this ability more than any other writer in the country .' Peter Craven, Sun-Herald

'One of the most astute chroniclers and critics of our age and culture, Tsiolkas is a passionate, poetic, political polemicist, but his critiques take the form of enthralling stories that are peopled with characters that bounce off the page.' Adelaide Advertiser

'Tsiolkas is a hard-edged, powerful writer ... leaves us exhausted but gasping with admiration.' Washington Post

'The sheer energy of Tsiolkas' writing-its urgency and passion and sudden jags of tenderness-is often an end in itself: a Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760291365 thrilling, galvanising reminder of the capacity of fiction to speak to the world it inhabits.' James Bradley, Monthly Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm About the Author Extent: 336 pages Christos Tsiolkas is the author of five novels: Loaded, which was made into the feature film Head-On, The Jesus Man and Main Category: F Fiction

Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction Dead Europe, which won the 2006 Age Fiction Prize and the 2006 Melbourne Best Writing Award. He won Overall Best Illustrations: Book in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2009, was shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award, longlisted for Previous Titles: Barracuda (2013, A&U); The Slap (2008, A&U); the 2010 Man Booker Prize and won the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal for his novel, The Slap, which was also Dead Europe (2005, Random House); The Jesus Man (1999, Random House); Loaded announced as the 2009 Australian Booksellers Association and Australian Book Industry Awards Books of the Year. He is (1995, Random House) also a playwright, essayist and screen writer. He lives in Melbourne. Christos' latest novel is Barracuda, which was Author now living: Preston, VIC published here and in the UK to rave reviews in late 2013 and became an instant bestseller. Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 At the Water's Edge Sara Gruen

A gripping and poignant love story about a privileged young woman's personal awakening as she experiences the devastations of World War II in a Scottish Highlands village.

Description After disgracing themselves at a high society New Year's Eve party in Philadelphia in 1944, Madeline Hyde and her husband, Ellis, are cut off financially by his father, a former army colonel who is already ashamed of his son's inability to serve in the war. When Ellis and his best friend Hank decide that the only way to regain the Colonel's favour is to succeed where the Colonel very publicly failed - by hunting down the famous Loch Ness monster - Maddie reluctantly follows them across the Atlantic, leaving her sheltered world behind.

The trio find themselves amid the devastation of World War II, in a remote village in the Scottish Highlands, where the locals have nothing but contempt for the privileged interlopers. As the men go out looking for the monster, Maddie is left on her own at the isolated inn, where food is rationed, fuel is scarce, and a knock from the postman can bring tragic news. Gradually the friendships she forms open her up to a larger world than she knew existed. As she embraces a fuller sense of who she might be, Maddie becomes aware not only of the dark forces around her, but to the beauty and surprising possibilities of life.

'If I needed a reminder why I am such a fan of Sara Gruen's books, her latest novel provides plenty. Unique in its setting and scope, this impeccably researched historical fiction is full of the gorgeous prose I've come to expect from this author. And even after the final page, its message still resonates with me: The monsters we seek may be right in front of us. In fact, the only fault I can find with this book is that I've already finished it.' - Jodi Picoult, New York Timesbestselling author of Leaving Time

'I devoured this book. Once again Sara Gruen has proven herself to be one of America's most compelling storytellers. You might be tempted to rush to get to the answers at the end -but don't, or you'll miss the delectable journey that is Gruen's prose.' - Kathryn Stockett, New York Times bestselling author of The Help

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760292553 About the Author Format: Paperback - B format Sara Gruen is the international bestselling author of Water for Elephants, Ape House, Riding Lessons, and Flying Dimensions: 198x128mm Changes. Her works have been translated into forty-three languages and have sold more than ten million copies Extent: 368 pages worldwide. She lives in western North Carolina with her husband and three sons, along with their dogs, cats, horses, Main Category: F Fiction

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Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 Water for Elephants Sara Gruen

Set in a travelling circus touring the backblocks of America during the Great Depression of the early 1930s this is a story of love and hate, trains and circuses, dwarves and fat ladies, horses and elephants - or to be more specific, one elephant, Rosie, star of Benzini Bros Most Spectacular Show on Earth . . . Now a major motion picture.

Description When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, swindlers and misfits in a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression.

A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there that Jacob meets Marlena, the beautiful equestrienne who is married to August, a charismatic but violently unpredictable animal trainer. Jacob also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems unmanageable until he discovers an unusual way to reach her.

Water for Elephants is a story that has it all - warmth, humour, poignancy and passion. It has an energy and spirit like the feeling under a big top when the show is about to begin. It is a novel that will win your heart.

About the Author Sara Gruen is a transplanted Canadian who moved to the States in 1999 for a technical writing job. Two years later she got laid off, and instead of looking for another job, she decided to take a gamble on writing fiction full time. Fortunately, the gamble paid off. She made her fiction debut in 2004 with Riding Lessons, followed by Flying Changes . Water for Elephants is her third novel, and her fourth, Ape House, was released across the world toward the end of 2010. Sara lives with her husband, three children, two dogs, four cats, two goats, and a horse in an environmentalist community in North Illinois. Her dream is to spend her life facedown in the ocean, coming up just long enough to eat a piece of fish, write a chapter, and go back in the water.

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Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 China Rich Girlfriend Kevin Kwan

A wickedly funny new novel of social climbing, secret emails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers her birthfather. From the bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians.

Description Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a wickedly funny new novel of social climbing, secret emails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers her birth father.

On the eve of her wedding to Nicholas Young, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Asia, Rachel should be over the moon. She has a flawless Asscher-cut diamond from JAR, a wedding dress she loves more than anything found in the salons of Paris and a fiance willing to sacrifice his entire inheritance in order to marry her. But Rachel still mourns the fact that her birth father, a man she never knew, won't be able to walk her down the aisle. Until: a shocking revelation draws Rachel into a world of Shanghai splendour beyond anything she has ever imagined.

Here we meet Carlton, a Ferrari-crashing bad boy known for Prince Harry-like antics; Colette, a celebrity girlfriend chased by fevered paparazzi; and the man Rachel has spent her entire life waiting to meet: her father. Meanwhile, Singapore's It Girl, Astrid Leong, is shocked to discover that there is a downside to having a newly minted tech billionaire husband. A romp through Asia's most exclusive clubs, auction houses and estates, China Rich Girlfriend brings us into the elite circles of Mainland China, introducing a captivating cast of characters and offering an inside glimpse at what it's like to be gloriously, crazily, China-rich.

About the Author Writer Kevin Kwan was born and raised in Singapore and lives in New York City. He has worked in magazine publishing and as a creative consultant to publishers and authors. China Rich Girlfriend is the follow-up to Kwan's best-selling Crazy Rich Asians.

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Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 Crazy Rich Asians Kevin Kwan

Thwarted love, scheming snobs, obscene wealth and haute couture - it's all here in a fabulous novel about what it means to be young, in love, and gloriously, crazily rich. An absolutely wicked treat!

Description Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season.

When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home, long drives to explore the island, and quality time with the man she might one day marry. What she doesn't know is that Nick's family home happens to look like a palace, that she'll ride in more private planes than cars, and that with one of Asia's most eligible bachelors on her arm, Rachel might as well have a target on her back. Initiated into a world of dynastic splendor beyond imagination, Rachel meets Astrid, the It Girl of Singapore society; Eddie, whose family practically lives in the pages of the Hong Kong socialite magazines; and Eleanor, Nick's formidable mother, a woman who has very strong feelings about who her son should - and should not - marry.

Uproarious, addictive, and filled with jaw-dropping opulence, Crazy Rich Asians is an insider's look at the Asian jetset; a perfect depiction of the clash between old money and new money; between Overseas Chinese and Mainland Chinese; and a fabulous novel about what it means to be young, in love, and gloriously, crazily rich.

'Crazy Rich Asians is an unputdownably funny, original, modern novel. An outrageous satire of the Asian squillionaire set, this book is like a Chinese Dallas meets Pride and Prejudice. The combination of gold homewares, couture, private jets, absurd social rules and snobbery is utterly hilarious. I actually couldn't put this book down to eat or to watch Downton Abbey.' - Plum Sykes, bestselling author of Bergdorf Blondes

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Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 Castle of Dreams Elise McCune

A ruined castle deep in the rainforest holds a secret that unites three generations of women: two sisters who find themselves in love with the same man as the Second World War rages and, decades later, a young woman determined to uncover the secrets in her grandmother's hidden past.

Description Castle of Dreams tells the story of three generations of women and their secrets and loves.

Rose and Vivien are sisters who were brought up in a mysterious castle in northern Queensland. During the Second World War, they find themselves in love with the same dashing American soldier.

Linda, Rose's daughter, has long sensed a secret in her mother's past. Happily married, and busy with her own life, Linda prefers to focus on the present.

On a visit home to her parents, Stella becomes fascinated by the shroud of secrecy surrounding her grandmother's past. Intent on learning the truth, Stella goes back to the now-ruined castle Rose and Vivien grew up in.

Captivating and compelling, Castle of Dreams is an historical romance dealing with love, lies and the perils of delving into the past.

About the Author Elise McCune writes the popular Wordpress blog: What Elise Wrote, where she provides literary tips, shares recipes, and writes about the beautiful and the unusual. Born in New South Wales, after she married she moved to Perth, where she brought up her two children (one of whom is the actor, Lisa McCune). Now based in Victoria, she travels extensively. Elise has self-published three other novels - Rose under Capricorn, The Mirror in the Garden and The Perfect Interval - as ebooks.

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Arena MAY 2016 Castle of Dreams 8 copy pack

Includes: 8 copies Castle of Dreams plus free reading copy

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Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 Second Chance Town Karly Lane

Lucy Parker is a single mum doing her best to realise her daughter Belle's dream of university. That is, until Belle starts hanging with the wrong crowd ... Have the newly arrived city kids brought trouble with them? With all this going on, the very last thing Lucy needs is the distraction of a man. But Fate doesn't seem to agree.

Description The town of Bundah is dying, with many of its young people fleeing for jobs in the city. A desperate plan to revive Bundah's fortunes - with generous incentives to attract new businesses - results in a flood of people coming to the town to set up shop.

As Bundah begins to come to life with the new arrivals, a spate of teenage drug overdoses starts to divide the locals. Many are convinced the narcotics trade has been brought to town by one of the newcomers. It doesn't help that the mysterious new owner of one of the local pubs has a dark past.

Lucy Parker is a single mother doing her best to support her teenage daughter, Belle, through her last year of high school. It's long been Belle's dream to go to university, so when she starts to stray, hanging out with the wrong kids and experimenting with alcohol and possibly drugs, her mother is deeply troubled.

The very last thing Lucy needs is for a man like Hugh Thompson to mess with her heart and disrupt her life. However it seems fate has other ideas.

Suspenseful, pacy and packed with romance, Second Chance Town is a scintillating novel that is sure to grow the fan base Karly Lane has established with her bestselling novels Poppy's Dilemma and Gemma's Bluff.

About the Author Karly Lane lives with her partner and four children in a small town on the mid north coast of NSW. She writes whenever Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760291815 she can fit it in around her part-time job and children. Karly is the author of North Star, Morgan's Law, Bridie's Choice, Format: Paperback - C format Poppy's Dilemma, Gemma's Bluff and Tallowood Bound. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 368 pages

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Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 The Truth About Julia Anna Schaffner

A taut psychological novel exploring the power of other people's convictions.

Description In June 2014, Julia White - a beautiful and intelligent young woman - blows up a coffee shop in central London, killing twenty-four people before turning herself in to the police. Apart from publishing a potentially ironic manifesto, she refuses to explain the reasons for her actions.

Clare Hardenberg, an investigative journalist, has been commissioned to write a biography of Julia but at the start of the novel she is on her way to prison herself. What has brought her to this point?

About the Author Anna Schaffner is a Reader in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent. She has recently completed a Faber Academy writing course and this is her first novel.

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A&U UK MAY 2016 Trunk Music (BOSCH TV tie-in) Michael Connelly

The fifth Harry Bosch novel from the award-winning No. 1 bestselling author. The murder of a Hollywood producer has all the signs of a Mafia hit but something doesn't add up for Harry Bosch. Featured in Series 2 of BOSCH, screening on SBS in April.

Description Harry Bosch is back in Homicide after disciplinary leave. In the wooded hills overlooking the Hollywood Bowl, he opens the trunk of a white Rolls Royce and finds a corpse. It looks like a simple case of Trunk Music - a Mafia hit, the victim shot in his own vehicle - but the LAPD's Organized Crime Unit is curiously uninterested.

When Harry starts to glimpse a shocking triangle of corruption and collusion, he's yanked off the case - and suddenly finds he's the one being investigated. But only a bullet can stop Harry when he's searching for the truth . . .

About the Author Michael Connelly, a former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, is the author of 20 acclaimed LAPD Detective Harry Bosch thrillers and several courtroom thrillers featuring 'The Lincoln Lawyer', defence attorney Mickey Haller, as well as stand-alone bestsellers such as The Poet. His first Bosch novel, The Black Echo, based in part on a true crime that had occurred in Los Angeles, was published in 1992 and won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel by the Mystery Writers of America. Connelly has followed that up with 27 more novels. His books have been translated into 39 languages and have won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Shamus, Dilys, Nero, Barry, Audie, Ridley, Maltese Falcon (Japan), .38 Caliber (France), Grand Prix (France), and Premio Bancarella (Italy) awards. Michael lives with his family in Tampa, Florida.

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Michael Connelly MAY 2016 City of Bones (BOSCH TV tie-in) Michael Connelly

Tie-in to Series One of the television series BOSCH: When the bones of a young boy are found, Harry is drawn into a case that brings up dark memories.

Description Season One of the ten-part television series BOSCH, starring Titus Welliver as Detective Harry Bosch, is based on three Harry Bosch thrillers: The Concrete Blonde, City of Bones and Echo Park.

When the bones of a boy are found scattered in the Hollywood Hills, Harry Bosch is drawn into a case that brings up dark memories from his past.

Unearthing hidden stories, he finds the child's identity and reconstructs his fractured life, determined that he won't be forgotten. At the same time, a new love affair with a female cop begins to blossom - until a stunningly blown mission leaves him in more trouble than ever before. The investigation races to a shocking conclusion and leaves Bosch on the brink of an unimaginable decision.

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

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Michael Connelly MAY 2016 The Concrete Blonde (BOSCH TV tie-in) Michael Connelly

Tie-in to Series One of the television series BOSCH: Four years ago, Harry Bosch shot notorious serial killer 'The Dollmaker'. Now the case has come back to haunt him.

When LAPD detective Harry Bosch shot and killed Norman Church - the 'Dollmaker' - the police were convinced it marked the end of the search for one of the city's most bizarre serial killers.

But four years later, Norman Church's widow is taking Bosch to court, accusing him of killing the wrong man. To make matters worse, Bosch has just received a note, eerily reminiscent of the ones the Dollmaker used to taunt him with, giving him a location where a body can be found.

Is the Dollmaker still alive? Or is this the work of a vicious copycat killer, determined to repeat the Dollmaker's grisly feats and destroy Bosch's career in the process?

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

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Michael Connelly MAY 2016 Echo Park (BOSCH TV tie-in) Michael Connelly

Tie-in to Series One of the television series BOSCH: Bosch reopens the hunt for a psychotic killer who stalked the streets of Los Angeles years before.

In 1993 Harry Bosch was assigned the case of a missing person, Marie Gesto. The young woman was never found - dead or alive - and the case has haunted Bosch ever since.

Thirteen years later, Bosch is in the Open Unsolved Unit when he gets a call from the DA's office. A man accused of two killings is willing to confess to several other murders in a deal to avoid the death penalty. One of his victims, he says, is Marie Gesto.

Bosch begins to crack when he realises that he and his partner missed a clue back in 1993 which could have prevented the nine murders that followed the killing of Marie Gesto.

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

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Michael Connelly MAY 2016 Little Warrior Giuseppe Catozzella

Incredible true story retold as a beautifully moving novel: a timely, inspiring and moving story about war, family and hope.

Description A heartbreaking novel, inspired by a true story, about a Somali girl who is willing to sacrifice everything to fulfill her dream of becoming a champion runner. Little Warrior is based on the life of Samia Omar, a girl who grows up in war-torn Somalia determined to be a world-class sprinter. She sleeps with a photo of Mo Farah by her bed, trains hard despite the violence and prejudice around her, and makes the national team. But with the war encroaching on their family, her sister is forced to make the treacherous journey to Europe by boat. Samia, scared for her life and for her dreams, decides to join her, which means putting her life in the hands of traffickers.

Winner of the Premio Strega Giovani Prize in Italy and sold in over a dozen languages around the world, Little Warrior is a timely, inspiring and moving story about war, family and hope, for readers of The Kite Runner, Persepolis and The Other Hand.

About the Author Giuseppe Catozzella was born in 1976 in Milan, and returned there after living for some time in Australia. He has published a book of poetry, La scimmia scrive (Cepollaro Edizioni, 2007), and two non-fiction books Espianti (Transeuropea, 2008) and Alveare (Rizzoli, 2011); film rights in the latter have been optioned by Wildside and a theatrical adaptation is being made with the participation of Paolo Rossi. Little Warrior won the Premio Strega Giovani 2014, was shortlisted for the Premio Strega 2014, and is being published in over a dozen languages.

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Faber Fiction MAY 2016 Hard Cold Winter Glen Erik Hamilton

Former Army Ranger and thief Van Shaw is thrust into a maelstrom of danger as lethal and unpredictable as the war he left behind in this emotionally powerful and gritty follow up to the acclaimed debut Past Crimes.

Description When an old crony of Van Shaw's late grandfather calls in a favor, he embarks on a journey deep into the remote forest of the Olympic Mountains in search of a missing girl tied to his own criminal past. Discovering a brutal murder scene, Van finds himself caught between a billionaire businessman on the one side and vicious gangsters on the other. In an attempt to survive Van will have to face some of the toughest questions of his life, not least over his relationship with his iron willed girlfriend, Luce. But with the clock ticking, a desperate Van may just need every ally he can get, especially as someone prepares to unleash a firestorm on Seattle that could burn them all to ashes.

About the Author Glen Erik Hamilton is a Seattle native. His novels feature a former Army Ranger Van Shaw and Seattle's criminal underworld.

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Faber Fiction MAY 2016 Past Crimes Glen Erik Hamilton

For fans of Lee Child and Dennis Lehane, an unputdownable series debut, from a thrilling new voice in American crime writing.

Description If my grandfather's letter had stopped at the comma, I would have tossed it in the trash... I would have mentally told the old man to stick it, if it hadn't been for the last three words. If you can...Van Shaw was raised to be a thief, but at the age of eighteen he abruptly abandoned the illicit life and joined the US Army, leaving behind Seattle and the grandfather who taught him the trade. But after ten years of estrangement, Van's grandfather has suddenly asked him to come home. He does so, only to find his grandfather shot in the head and bleeding out on the kitchen floor.

While the police focus on Van as the prime suspect, he plunges back into an underworld he had vowed never return to, putting his criminal sensibilities back to work to ferret out the attacker and unearth the shocking secret of why his grandfather called him home after so many years. But in a violent, high-stakes world where the lines between right and wrong are easily blurred, Van finds that the secrets held by those closest to him are the deadliest of all.

About the Author Glen Erik Hamilton is a Seattle native and is currently working on a second novel featuring Van Shaw and Seattle's criminal underworld.

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Faber Paperback MAY 2016 I Saw A Man Owen Sheers

A gorgeously written contemporary thriller for Ian McEwan fans about responsibility and redemption

Description The event that changed all of their lives happened on a Saturday afternoon in June, just minutes after Michael Turner - thinking the Nelsons' house was empty - stepped through their back door. After the sudden loss of his wife, Michael Turner moves to London and quickly develops a close friendship with the Nelson family next door. Josh, Samantha and their two young daughters seem to represent everything Michael fears he may now never have: intimacy, children, stability and a family home. Despite this, the new friendship at first seems to offer the prospect of healing, but then a catastrophic event changes everything. Michael is left bearing a burden of grief and a secret he must keep, but the truth can only be kept at bay for so long.

Moving from London and New York to the deserts of Nevada, I Saw a Man is a brilliant exploration of violence, guilt and attempted redemption, written with the pace and grip of a thriller. Owen Sheers takes the reader from close observation of the domestic sphere to some of the most important questions and dilemmas of the contemporary world.

About the Author Owen Sheers has written two collections of poetry, The Blue Book and Skirrid Hill. His non-fiction includes The Dust Diaries and Calon: A Journey to the Heart of Welsh Rugby. His novel Resistance has been translated into ten languages and was made into a film in 2011. His plays include The Passion and The Two Worlds of Charlie F. He has been a NYPL Cullman Fellow, Writer in Residence for the Wordsworth Trust and Artist in Residence for the Welsh Rugby Union.

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Faber Paperback MAY 2016 In Bitter Chill Sarah Ward

A tense, page-turning story about loss and family secrets ... You can't bury the truth forever.

Description Bampton, Derbyshire, January 1978. Two girls go missing: Rachel Jones returns, Sophie Jenkins is never found.

Thirty years later: Sophie Jenkins's mother commits suicide. Rachel Jones has tried to put the past behind her and move on with her life. But news of the suicide re-opens old wounds and Rachel realises that the only way she can have a future is to finally discover what really happened all those years ago.

This is a story about loss and family secrets, and how often the very darkest secrets are those that are closest to you.

About the Author Sarah Ward is an online book reviewer whose blog, Crimepieces (www.crimepieces.com), reviews the best of current crime fiction published around the world. She has also reviewed for Eurocrime and Crimesquad and is a judge for the Petrona Award for Scandinavian translated crime novels. She lives in Derbyshire. Follow Sarah on Twitter @sarahrward1

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Faber Paperback MAY 2016 Waiting for Godot / En Attendant Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts Samuel Beckett

The wonderfully surreal and thought provoking black comedy - in French with the English version on the opposite page.

Description Written in French and first performed at the Theatre de Babylon in Paris in 1953, En attendant Godot was subsequently translated by Samuel Beckett into English as Waiting for Godot. It was performed at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955, and first published by Faber in 1956.

To mark the centenary of Beckett's birth and the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication, Faber published for the first time a bilingual edition of this great masterpiece. Subtitles 'a tragicomedy in two acts', and once famously described by the Irish critic Vivian Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', Waiting for Godot is also a play that was written twice. Here, on facing pages, the reader can watch it unfold simultaneously in two languages.

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 MAY 2016 The Last Days of Troy Simon Armitage

The Last Days of Troy tells the tale of the Trojan War in a vivid new dramatic adaptation.

Description Simon Armitage is rightly celebrated as one of the country's most original and engaging poets; but he is also an adaptor and translator of some of our most important epics, such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Death of King Arthur and Homer's Odyssey. The latter, originally a commission for BBC Radio, rendered the classical tale with all the flare, wit and engagement that we have come to expect from this most distinctive of contemporary authors, and in so doing brought Odysseus's return from the Trojan War memorably to life.

About the Author Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield. A recipient of numerous prizes, he has published ten collections of poetry, including Selected Poems (2001), Seeing Stars (2010) and his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007). A broadcaster and presenter, he also writes extensively for television and radio, is the author Walking Home (2012), his poetic journey along the Pennine Way and Walking Away (2015). In 2010 he received the CBE for services to poetry.

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Faber Poetry MAY 2016 The Exclusives Rebecca Thornton

A heartbreaking story of friendship and betrayal - can we ever forgive the ones we love the most?

Description 1996. Freya Seymour and Josephine Grey are invincible - beautiful and brilliant, the two best friends are on the cusp of Oxbridge, and the success they always dreamed they'd share.

2014. Freya gets in touch, looking for a conversation Josephine has run away from for eighteen long and tortured years. Beginning with one ill-fated night, The Exclusives charts the agonising spiral of friendship gone wrong, the heartache and betrayal of letting down those closest to you and the poisonous possibilities of what we wouldn't do when everything we prize is placed under threat. And in the end, as she realises she cannot run forever, Josephine must answer one question: is it Freya she cannot face, or is it her own darkest secret?

The Exclusives is Rebecca Thornton's powerful debut novel about friendship and tragedy at an exclusive boarding school.

About the Author Rebecca Thornton is a journalist and runs an online advertising business. Her work has been published in Prospect Magazine, Daily Mail, The Jewish News and The Sunday People. She was Acting Editor of an arts and culture magazine based in Jordan, and she's reported from Kosovo, London, and the Middle East. Rebecca is an alumna of the Faber Academy writing-a-novel course, where she was tutored by Esther Freud and Tim Lott.

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Twenty7 MAY 2016 The Spy of Venice Benet Brandreth

Swords and seduction, treachery and murder: introducing an inimitable new hero - William Shakespeare.

Description When he's caught out by one ill-advised seduction too many, young William Shakespeare flees Stratford to seek his fortune.

Cast adrift in London, Will falls in with a band of players - but greater men have their eye on this talented young wordsmith. England's very survival hangs in the balance, and Will finds himself dispatched to Venice on a crucial embassy.

Dazzled by the city's masques - and its beauties - Will little realises the peril in which he finds himself. Catholic assassins would stop at nothing to end his mission on the point of their sharpened knives, and lurking in the shadows is a killer as clever as he is cruel.

Suspenseful, seductive and as sharp as an assassin's blade, The Spy of Venice introduces a major new literary talent.

About the Author Benet Brandreth is a leading IP lawyer, a lecturer on Shakespeare for the RSC, a rhetoric coach and has taken a one- man show to the Edinburgh Festival. The Spy of Venice is his debut novel.

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Twenty7 MAY 2016 A Tapping at My Door David Jackson

From the bestselling author of Cry Baby, the beginning of a brilliant and gripping police procedural series set in Liverpool, perfect for fans of Peter James and Mark Billingham.

Description A woman at home in Liverpool is disturbed by a persistent tapping at her back door. She's disturbed to discover the culprit is a raven, and tries to shoe it away. Which is when the killer strikes.

DS Nathan Cody, just back to work after an undercover mission that went horrifyingly wrong, is put on the case. But the police have no leads, except the body of the bird - and the victim's missing eyes. As flashbacks from his past begin to intrude, Cody realises he is battling not just a murderer, but his own inner demons too. And then the killer strikes again, and Cody realises the threat isn't to the people of Liverpool after all - it's to the police.

Following the success and acclaim of the Callum Doyle novels, A Tapping at My Door is the first instalment of David Jackson's new Nathan Cody series.

About the Author David Jackson is the author of a series of crime thrillers featuring New York Detective Callum Doyle. His debut novel, Pariah, was Highly Commended in the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger Awards. When not writing fiction, David spends his time as a lecturer in a university science department. He also gives occasional workshops on creative writing. He lives on the Wirral peninsula with his wife and two daughters. David can be followed on Twitter, where he goes under the name @Author_Dave.

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Zaffre MAY 2016 Bind Sierra Cartwright

First in the new contemporary, romantica series The Donovan Dynastyby Sierra Cartwright, international bestselling author in the digital market.

Description Only one man can help her. Is she willing to pay his price?

Faced with the potentially overwhelming loss of her family's fortune, Lara Bertrand turns to the one man who can help her, the gorgeous and powerful Connor Donovan. She knows he's dangerous to her on every level. Only desperation would drive her to make such a risky proposition. After all, she knows all about his ruthless nature and relentless determination to succeed.

When the classy, elegant Lara walks into his office with an outrageous proposal, Connor is stunned and more than a little intrigued. Ever since he first met her, he's been attracted to the cool beauty, but she's more than kept her distance. Connor is absolutely willing to help her out. For a price. He not only wants her hand in marriage, but also her total submissive surrender.

About the Author Born in Manchester, England and raised in the US, Sierra Cartwright is the acclaimed author of more than twenty erotic romances. She was previously published with Harlequin/Silhouette under a different pseudonym, and won numerous awards as well as a coveted spot on the USA Today bestseller list. Cartwright has been interviewed by USA Today, featured on the Mail Online and is a multiple CAPA nominated author. Her ebook With This Collar (2013) reached No.1 on the Amazon UK chart and No.3 in the Amazon US chart. More recently, the ebook of Bind, the first in a three-book series, has also reached No.1 on the Amazon US chart.

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Totally Bound MAY 2016 The Story of My Teeth Valeria Luiselli, translated by Christina MacSweeney

Join Gustavo 'Highway' Sanchez - a man with a mouth full of bad teeth and a life full of stories - on his quest for a perfect set of pearly whites.

Description Gustavo 'Highway' Sanchez is a man with a mission: he is planning to replace every last one of his unsightly teeth. He has a few skills that might help him on his way: he can imitate Janis Joplin after two rums, he can interpret Chinese fortune cookies, he can stand an egg upright on a table, and he can float on his back. And, of course, he is the world's best auction caller - although other people might not realise this, because he is, by nature, very discreet.

Studying auctioneering under Grandmaster Oklahoma and the famous country singer Leroy Van Dyke, Highway travels the world, amassing his collection of 'Collectibles' and perfecting his own specialty: the allegoric auction. In his quest for a perfect set of pearly whites, he finds unusual ways to raise the funds, culminating in the sale of the jewels of his collection: the teeth of the 'notorious infamous' - Plato, Petrarch, Chesterton, Virginia Woolf et al.

Written with elegance, wit and exhilarating boldness, Valeria Luiselli takes us on an idiosyncratic and hugely enjoyable journey that offers an insightful meditation on value, worth and creation, and the points at which they overlap.

About the Author Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983 and is currently studying for a PhD at Columbia University. Her work has been published in the New York Times, McSweeney's and Dazed & Confused, and has been translated into many languages. Her debut novel was Faces in the Crowd and she is also the author of a collection of essays, Sidewalks.

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Granta Paperbacks MAY 2016 Faces in the Crowd Valeria Luiselli

A stunningly imaginative and witty debut novel about passion, identity and ghostly existences from an exciting new voice in Latin American literature.

Description In Mexico City, she is a mother and wife who no longer leaves the house. In New York City, she was a young editor who rarely slept in her own bed. As her new existence begins to disintegrate around her, she thinks back to her life on the fringes of the literary scene, the strangers who became lovers, the poets who became ghosts. And, increasingly now, she is haunted by one of the obsessions of her youth: the obscure Mexican poet, Gilberto Owen -a marginal figure of the Harlem Renaissance, a friend and an enemy of Federico Garcia Lorca, a busker on the Manhattan subway platform who was himself haunted by the ghostly image of a young woman on a passing train. By turns lyrical, smart and disarmingly funny, Faces in the Crowd explores the smudged borders between past and present, fake and real, there and not.

About the Author Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983. Her work has been published in Letras Libres and The New York Times. She is currently studying for a PhD at Columbia University. Sidewalks, her collection of essays, is also published by Granta Books.

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Granta Paperbacks MAY 2016 Sidewalks Valeria Luiselli

A dazzling follow-up to the novel Faces in the Crowd, this collection of literary peregrinations around the margins of metropolitan life demonstrates Valeria Luiselli's equal virtuosity as a writer of non-fiction.

Description Evocative, erudite and consistently surprising, these narrative essays explore the places - real and imagined - that shape our lives. Whether wandering the familiar streets of her neighbourhood, revisiting the landmarks of her past, or getting lost in a foreign city, Valeria Luiselli plots a unique and exhilarating course that traces unexpected pathways between diverse ideas and reveals the world from a fresh perspective.

Here, we follow Luiselli as she cycles around Mexico City, shares a cigarette with the night porter in her Harlem apartment, and hunts down a poet's tomb in Venice. Each location sparks Luiselli's nimble curiosity and prompts imaginative reflections on topics as varied as the fluidity of identity, the elusiveness of words that can't be translated, the competing methods of arranging a bookcase, and the way that city-dwellers evade eye-contact with their neighbours while spying on their lives. Sidewalks cements Luiselli's reputation as one of Latin America's most original, smart and exciting new literary voices.

About the Author Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983. Her work has been published in Letras Libres, New York Times and Dazed + Confused and translated into many languages. She is currently studying for a PhD at Columbia University. Her first novel was Faces in the Crowd.

Price: $27.99 (NZ$35.00) ISBN: 9781847085191 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 208 pages

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Granta MAY 2016 Prodigals: Stories Greg Jackson

A dazzling debut story collection about the disaffection and spiritual longing in contemporary America, from a remarkable new talent.

Description Adrift in lives of possibility and limitation, the flawed, struggling and sympathetic characters of these desperate, eerie stories seek refuge from meaninglessness and boredom in love, art, friendship, drugs, and sex. A journalist is either the guest or captive of a reclusive former tennis star at his mansion in the French hills; a terrible storm forces a man and a woman, who may be his therapist, to flee New York together; the artistic ambitions of a banker are laid bare when he comes under the influence of two strange sisters.

Unflinching, funny and profound, Prodigals maps the degradations of contemporary life - from the deification of celebrity, to the impotence of violence, to the psychological debts of privilege, to the loss of grand narratives - with unusual insight, sincerity, and passion. It is a fiercely honest and heartfelt look at what we have become, the comedy of our foibles, and our longing for home.

About the Author Greg Jackson has been a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, MacDowell Colony, and the University of Virginia's MFA program. A winner of the Balch and Henfield Prizes and a finalist for the 2014 National Magazine Award in Fiction, his short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, and VQR.

Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781783781997 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 240 pages

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Granta MAY 2016 She Died Young Elizabeth Wilson

The Cold War is in full swing but DCI Jack McGovern has more domestic concerns.

Description London, 1956. A young woman has been found dead a hotel in King's Cross. Broke her neck falling down stairs, the death certificate says. But Fleet Street journalist Gerry Blackstone thinks there's more to it than meets the eye. Scotland Yard's not interested in accidental deaths - if that's what this is. But maybe he can convince Special Branch's DCI Jack McGovern to investigate. Fortunately for Blackstone, McGovern needs his help. The new Superintendent wants to sweep out corrupt officers, and McGovern's his broom. If Blackstone can keep news of the investigation out of the press, McGovern stands a chance of finding the bent cop.

Meanwhile, Oxford is filling with Hungarian emigres fleeing the failed revolution. With the memories of Burgess and Maclean's defection still raw, Special Branch is concerned that there could be Soviet spies among the genuine refugees and wants McGovern on-hand to keep an eye out.

As McGovern carries out his casework in Oxford and Blackstone investigates behind the scenes in London, clues start to emerge that, somehow, this might all be linked. The deeper they look, the more unrelated characters with shady pasts start to complicate the picture: the well-to-do madam, the Classics Professor, the East London crime boss, the Oxford doctoral student, the fiery Hungarian immigrant, the government minister ... does it all lead back to the dead girl in King's Cross?

Or is there something even more sinister going on?

About the Author An independent researcher and writer best known for her commentaries on feminism and popular culture, Elizabeth Wilson is currently Visiting Professor at the London College of Fashion. She is the author of several non-fiction books, including tennis history Love Game for Serpent's Tail. Her previous novels The Twilight Hour (9781852424770), War Damage (9781846686504) and The Girl in Berlin (9781846688270) are all published by Serpent's Tail. Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781781254844 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 240 pages

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Serpents Tail MAY 2016 Saint Mazie Jami Attenberg

An ingenious novel that imagines the life and times of Mazie Philips, a real-life saint from New York City, by the highly acclaimed author of The Middlesteins.

Description From the bestselling author of The Middlesteins comes comes this unique novel about a forgotten heroine of the 1930s.

Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and feisty, she runs The Venice, the famed movie theatre in the rundown Bowery district of New York City. She spends her days taking tickets, chatting with drunks and eccentrics, and chasing out the troublemakers. After closing up, the nights are her own, and she fills them with romance and booze aplenty-even during Prohibition.

When the Great Depression hits, and homelessness soars, Mazie opens The Venice to those in need, giving them shelter and dimes for food and booze, and earning the nickname 'Saint Mazie'. Inspired by Joseph Mitchell's essay about Mazie in Up in the Old Hotel, acclaimed author Jami Attenberg's novel honours an extraordinary life and heralds a completely original approach to writing historical fiction.

Weaving together fictionalised diaries, writings and interviews, Attenberg has constructed an utterly convincing portrait of Mazie Philips, which is also a deeply moving portrait of New York as it passed through the First World War, Prohibition, the boom of the '20s, and then the terrible depression of the '30s.

About the Author Jami Attenberg is the author of The Middlesteins, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and was published in nine countries; a story collection, Instant Love; and the novels The Kept Man and The Melting Season. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her at www.jamiattenberg.com and follow her @jamiattenberg.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781846689925 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages

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Serpents Tail MAY 2016 The Middlesteins Jami Attenberg

A moving, hilarious, and deeply perceptive novel of universal themes: family, love and greed.

Description Edie and Richard have been married for over thirty years, living in the Chicago suburbs. Everyone who knew them -even their own children Robin and Benny agreed that Edie was a tough woman to love, but no one expected Richard to walk out on her, especially not in her condition. Edie is fifty-nine years old, she weighs 300 pounds, and her doctors have told her she'll die if she doesn't stop eating.

As Richard is shut out by the family and seeks solace in the world of internet dating, Robin is dragged back from the city and forced to rebuild a relationship with her mother. Meanwhile Benny and his neurotic wife Rachelle try to take control of the situation. But have any of them stopped to think about whether Edie really wants to be saved?

Written with sly humour, warmth and great insight, The Middlesteins is a novel about what it means to be part of a family.

About the Author Jami Attenberg is the author of two previous novels and a collection of short stories. She has written for The New York Times, The Rumpus, Salon, and numerous other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her online at jamiattenberg.com or follow her @jamiattenberg

Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781846689352 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages

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Serpents Tail MAY 2016 Pleasantville Attica Locke

Politics is a matter of life and death in this thrilling third novel from Orange Prize shortlisted author of Black Water Rising.

Description It's 1996, Bill Clinton has just been re-elected and in Houston a mayoral election is looming. As usual the campaign focuses on Pleasantville - the African-American neighbourhood of the city that has swung almost every race since it was founded to house a growing black middle class in 1949.

Axel Hathorne, former chief of police and the son of Pleasantville's founding father Sam Hathorne, was the clear favourite, all set to become Houston's first black mayor. But his lead is slipping thanks to a late entrant into the race - Sandy Wolcott, a defence attorney riding high on the success of a high-profile murder trial.

And then, just as the competition intensifies, a girl goes missing, apparently while canvassing for Axel. And when her body is found, Axel's nephew is charged with her murder.

Sam is determined that Jay Porter defends his grandson. And even though Jay is tired of wading through other people's problems, he suddenly finds himself trying his first murder case, a trial that threatens to blow the entire community wide open, and reveal the lengths that those with power are willing to go to hold onto it.

About the Author Attica Locke is a screenwriter who has written for Paramount, Warner Bros, Twentieth Century Fox, HBO and Dreamworks; she currently contributes to the hit show Empire.

Locke's first novel Black Water Rising was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, nominated for an Edgar Award, an NAACP Image Award and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her most recent book, The Cutting Season, was published in 2013. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, with her husband and daughter.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781846689499 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 432 pages

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Serpents Tail MAY 2016 In the Night of Time Antonio Munoz Molina, translated by Edith Grossman

The internationally bestselling tour de force of love and tragedy in the Spanish Civil War.

Description October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to uncertainty. Crossing the fragile borders of Europe, he reflects on months of fratricidal conflict in his embattled country, his own transformation from a bricklayer's son to a respected bourgeois husband and professional, and the all-consuming love affair with an American woman that forever alters his life.

A rich, panoramic portrait of Spain on the brink of civil war, In the Night of Time details the passions and tragedies of a country tearing itself apart. Compared in scope and importance to War and Peace, Munoz Molina's masterpiece is the great epic of the Spanish Civil War written by one of Spain's most important contemporary novelists.

About the Author Antonio Munoz Molina was born in Spain in 1956. After studying at the University of Granada, he began writing for newspapers and published his first novel Beatus Ille in 1986. Now the author of more than a dozen novels, amongst which are Sepharad, A Manuscript of Ashes and In Her Absence, Munoz Molina has also written for the Spanish newspapers ABC and El Pais. He has taught at the University of Virginia and CUNY and, at the invitation of Norman Mailer, at Bard College, where In the Night of Time first began to take shape. He has served as Director of the Instituto Cervantes in New York, and is the recipient of the Jerusalem Prize, the Planeta Prize and many others. He lives in Madrid and New York.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781781255094 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: pages

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Serpents Tail MAY 2016 The Finishing School Muriel Spark

Now available as a stunning Canon edition: 'A work of glittering Sparkian ice, whose thinly frozen surface tempts you to jump up and down jovially above something deeper and darker' - Ali Smith

Description 'One of her funniest novels . . . Spark at her sharpest, her purest and her most merciful' Ali Smith

In The Finishing School Muriel Spark is once again at her biting, satirical best. On the edge of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, a struggling would-be novelist and his wife run a finishing school of questionable reputation to keep the funds flowing. When a seventeen-year-old student's writing career begins to show great promise, tensions begin to run high.

A keen portrait of devouring regret, psychological unravelling and the glittering promise of youth, The Finishing School is the perfect natural partner to Muriel Spark's most famous novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

About the Author Muriel Spark, DBE, C.Litt., was born in Edinburgh in 1918 and educated in Scotland. A poet and novelist, she is most well known for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. She also wrote children's books, radio plays, the comedy Doctors of Philosophy and biographies of nineteenth-century literary figures, including Mary Shelley and Emily Bronte. Muriel Spark has garnered international praise and many awards, including the David Cohen Prize for Literature, the Ingersoll T.S. Eliot Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Boccaccio Prize for European Literature, the Gold Pen Award, the first Enlightenment Award and the Italia Prize for dramatic radio. She died in 2006.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781782117575 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 128 pages

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Canongate Pbs MAY 2016 How (NOT) to start an orphanage... by a woman who did: An inspiring story of determination, hope and passion - and some hard lessons learnt along the way. Tara Winkler

The subject of two extremely popular Australian Stories, the 2011 NSW Young Australian of the Year, Khmer speaker and co-director of the Cambodian Children's Trust, Tara Winkler is inspirational. With rich and raw emotion, Tara tells her personal story and the incredible highs and lows of her life in Cambodia.

Description Tara Winkler first arrived in Cambodia in 2005 and was taken to visit a small orphanage in Battambang. The children were living in extreme poverty, which had a huge impact on Tara. She was determined to come home to Australia and raise money for the welfare of those children.

Tara returned to Battambang in 2007 with the money, only to discover that the same children she'd grown to love were in deep trouble - they were being subjected to physical, emotional and sexual abuse. In response, Tara worked with a team of caring locals and established the Cambodian Children's Trust (CCT) to provide these children with a new safe home.

Since then, Tara has learned a lot - most importantly, she's learned that establishing orphanages is not in the children's best interests, and keeps vulnerable families trapped in the cycle of poverty. CCT now helps many more children stay with their families and be cared for within their communities. In How (Not) To Start an Orphanage, she shares the many joys and the terrible lows of her journey thus far with humour and passion.

About the Author Tara Winkler is the Managing Director of the Cambodian Children's Trust (CCT) which she established with Jedtha Pon in 2007. Tara has led CCT through a number of significant organisational changes, including the closure of the initial CCT orphanage in favour of a family-based model of care, as well as establishing CCT's first social enterprises and holistic education programs. Tara now speaks out against the spread of orphanages in developing countries, caused by the good

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) intentions of foreign donors, and of harm that comes to children when they are separated from family and left to grow up ISBN: 9781742376288 in institutions. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm In 2011 Tara was awarded NSW Young Australian of the Year in recognition of her work with CCT and she has been Extent: 320 pages

Main Category: B Biography/autobiography featured twice on Australian Story.

Sub Category: BM Memoirs Illustrations: 32 colour photos Over the nine years Tara has lived and worked in Cambodia, her vision for CCT has grown. She is focused on helping the Previous Titles: Author now living: Battambang, CAMBODIA children in CCT's programs realise their potential and become leaders in their communities. Tara leads a passionate team that shares this vision.

How (Not) to Start an Orphanage is her first book. Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 How (not) to Start an Orphanage 10 copy pack

Includes: 10 copies How (not) to Start an Orphanage plus free reading copy

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Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 The Convict's Daughter: The scandal that shocked a colony Kiera Lindsey

A dramatic and fast-paced biography of a currency lass born to parents who were emancipated convicts. When 15-year-old Mary Ann Gill attempted to elope with gentleman settler John Kinchela in 1848, they became the focus of a national scandal which was nearly their undoing.

Description One wet autumn evening in 1848, 15-year-old Mary Ann Gill stole out of her bedroom window in her father's Sydney hotel and took a coach to the local racecourse. There she was to elope with James Butler Kinchela, wayward son of the Attorney-General. Her enraged father pursued them on horseback and fired two pistols at his daughter's suitor, narrowly avoiding killing him.

What followed was Australia's most scandalous abduction trial of the era, as well as an extraordinary story of adventure and misadventure both in Australia and abroad. Through thick and thin, Mary Ann hung onto James' promise to marry her.

This is a compelling biography of a currency lass born when convicts were still working in the streets of Sydney. Starting with just a newspaper clipping, historian Kiera Lindsey has uncovered the world of her feisty great, great, great-aunt, who lived and loved during a period of dramatic social and political change.

About the Author Kiera Lindsey has a passion for Australian history. She has worked in the Australian film and television industries and hosted her own program on ABC Radio. She has also published a regular column in the Adelaide Review. She lectures in Australian history at the University of South Australia, and has also lectured at the University of Melbourne. She was the winner of the inaugural Greg Dening History Prize.

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781760112585 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 340 pages

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Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 The Convict's Daughter 8 copy pack

Includes: 8 copies of The Convict's Daughter plus free reading copy

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Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 Code of Silence: How one honest police officer took on Australia's most corrupt police force Colin Dillon

The powerful true story of the first police officer to lift the lid on police corruption in Queensland and what then happened to him.

Description Colin Dillon is an extraordinary man. He was the first Indigenous policeman in Australia. But that is actually a very small part of his story.

Colin was the first serving police officer to voluntarily appear before the Fitzgerald Commission of Inquiry in 1987 and give first-hand evidence of police corruption. He did this at a time when the Fitzgerald Inquiry was beginning and struggling for traction. His evidence at the Inquiry was instrumental in eventually sending some police, including Police Commissioner Terry Lewis, and politicians to prison.

He shares his observations, detailed accounts and personal experiences over many years. These include attempts to bribe him by fellow police officers caught up in the web of corruption during these decades of greed within the Queensland Police Force.

About the Author Colin Dillon joined the Queensland police force in 1965 (before the 1967 referendum, which supposedly offered Aboriginal Australians full and equal citizenship). He worked within that system for almost four decades and became the first commissioned Indigenous Police Inspector in Australia. He still lives in Queensland.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760290580 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages

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Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 The First Six Weeks Cathryn Curtin

Everything you need to know about caring for your new baby, from feeding to sleeping and everything in between - every parent's new best friend.

Description 'Cath Curtin is the newborn baby guru! A calming voice, a gentle hand and a wealth of knowledge during one of the most incredible but terrifying times of your life - new parenthood. To have Cath's support after the birth of my first son was invaluable and I don't know how I would have done it without her!' Rebecca Judd

Highly experienced midwife Cathryn Curtin has delivered and looked after babies for 40 years. Over those four decades she's come to understand how the first six weeks after birth are vital in setting up habits that create long-term, lifelong benefits and get both baby and parents off to the best possible start.

In this essential and easy-to-follow book, Midwife Cath brings you all of her knowledge and experience. From teaching your baby how to sleep and eat, to advice on how you can cope with the sudden changes your baby will bring to your life, The First Six Weeks addresses the major concerns of newborn parents and helps them with all the key aspects of their baby's life.

About the Author Cathryn Curtin, known as 'Midwife Cath' has delivered over 10,000 babies throughout her 40 year career. Cath was instrumental in the 1980's in setting up Birth Centres within Melbourne in order to promote active hospital birth within a home like environment, as an alternative to traditional hospital labour wards. She now presents a series of talks all around Australia helping parents solve their parenting issues.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781743439968 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 288 pages

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Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 Raising the Perfectly Imperfect Child Boris Vujicic

The father of Nick Vujicic, one of the world's most beloved persons with a disability, candidly shares the mistakes, challenges and successes he and his wife faced in raising Nick from birth to an independent and satisfying adulthood.

Description 'You may lack limbs, but don't let that define what you can or can't do.'

That's the life-changing advice Boris Vujicic spoke to his son, Nick, who was born without arms or legs. With the help of his parents, Nick has become an internationally-known inspirational speaker, a best-selling author, the founder of the non- profit organization Life Without Limbs and, most importantly, a loving and responsible husband and father himself.

But Nick's journey didn't start there. Raising the Perfectly Imperfect Child is the inspiring, powerfully transparent story of how two unprepared and overwhelmed parents-Boris and Dushka Vujicic-overcame their grief, fears, and badly shaken faith to raise such an accomplished, faith-filled, and perfectly imperfect son.

Through their stories, Boris offers practical advice and encouragement for all parents facing a 'new normal' when raising a special needs or unique child. With transparency and tenderness, he addresses the spiritual, emotional, and financial challenges, as well as offering insight on how to equip a child for happiness and success in life.

Your Guide to What Special Needs Kids Need Most: Love, Roots, and Wings.

Told from the perspective of a humble father, who at times questioned God and his own worthiness, this book addresses the unique challenges of raising a special needs child.

Facing a mountain of doubts and debt, the Vujicics feared their son would never be able to get out of bed, let alone receive an education, support himself, or have a family of his own. And they questioned how a loving Father in heaven could have allowed this to happen. Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760293338 Format: Paperback - C format Yet once they gave up their narrow expectations for the perfect child, their imperfect son taught them that there are no Dimensions: 234x153mm limits to what a determined, faith-filled, and unstoppable individual can accomplish with the help of supportive parents and Extent: 256 pages a caring God. Main Category: B Biography/autobiography

Sub Category: BM Memoirs Illustrations: Boris candidly addresses this family's journey as Nick becomes aware of-and overcomes-the extent of his disabilities, as Previous Titles: Author now living: well as bullying, despair, and suicidal impulses. Other challenges included the stress a child with a disability put on their marriage and the need to not neglect the needs of their other children.

Overflowing with inspiration and practical advice, Raising the Perfectly Imperfect Child helps everyone understand that Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 Gather: Fresh, tasty recipes for sharing Tim Read

Modern family-friendly recipes from MasterChef NZ winner

Description This warm, stylish cookbook is full of great on-trend recipes that suit today's lifestyle of relaxed eating using fresh seasonal produce.

Tim Read, the latest MasterChef NZ winner, delivers excellent recipes with an emphasis on generosity, freshness and ease of preparation. Perfect for family meals or sharing with friends, this is modern New Zealand cooking at its best. Tim loves using fresh food, gathering vegetables from the garden, catching fish from the sea and also venturing into the wilds to hunt for his own meat. His philosophy of cooking is to always use the freshest of ingredients.

He's also a huge fan of gathering together family and friends and sharing good food, and this is reflected in his easy, relaxed recipes that anyone can enjoy.

About the Author Tim Read won MasterChef NZ 2015 and he's building a new career in cooking, having previously worked as a physiotherapist. He grew up in Levin and currently lives in Auckland.

Price: $44.99 (NZ$49.99) ISBN: 9781877505683 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 240x190mm Extent: 192 pages

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A&U New Zealand MAY 2016 All Things Nice Jo Pearson

Enjoy colouring in this beautiful collection of images that remind you of the gorgeous, simple things in our lives.

Description This stunning follow-up to the bestselling All Good has a nostalgic vintage feel to it with images of flowers, gardens, birds, jewellery, ceramics, doilies, embroidery, fabrics, cupcakes and much more.

Illustrated with Jo Pearson’s organic, hand-inked artwork this book has a lovely heart-warming feel that will inspire you to create wonderful images.

About the Author Jo Pearson is a freelance illustrator based in Auckland. Her first colouring book All Good is a huge bestseller. She finds inspiration in the little things in life and has a curiosity for collections, trinkets, small creatures and tiny details. Her hand- inked style is intricate and detailed yet quirky and imperfect.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781877505690 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 240x240mm Extent: 80 pages

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A&U New Zealand MAY 2016 All Good: A New Zealand colouring book Jo Pearson

Relax by colouring in this gorgeous collection of New Zealand images that remind you of good times and happy memories

Description Jo Pearson's charming illustrations feature summer and beach life with native flora and fauna setting the scene. Bring to life sandcastles, picnics, boats, barbecues, puzzles, surfboards, teacups and ice creams. Explore the extraordinary shells, beautiful flowers, stunning birds, fish and amazing sea-life.

With a variety of images-from complex to simple-this is a joy to colour in for all ages. Jo brings a fresh new look to colouring books with her sense of the precious things in life and her intricate artwork.

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About the Author Jo Pearson is a freelance illustrator based in Auckland. She has illustrated two books A Forager's Treasury and Wild Blackberries, and this is her first colouring book. www.jopearson.co.nz

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781877505621 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 240x240mm Extent: 80 pages

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A&U New Zealand MAY 2016 The Umbrian Supper Club Marlena de Blasi

The true story of the Umbrian Supper Club, four country women who gather in an old stone house in the hills above Italy's Orvieto to cook, eat, drink and talk. Each woman's passions, disappointments and hopes are artfully recounted in this earthy celebration of life's 'small delights'.

Description 'A delight to read.' Italianicious

''New wine, new oil, all those chestnuts, fat porcini smelling of loam and the ages, figs dripping honey, the leaves on the vines gone yellow as saffron...''

Evocative and intimate, The Umbrian Supper Club recounts the life stories of a small group of Umbrian women who gather each week in an old stone house in the hills above Orvieto to cook, to eat and to drink. And, equally as important, to talk.

During their meals together, they recount the memories and experiences of their gastronomic lives as well as those of their more personal histories. For a period of four years, it was Marlena de Blasi's task, her pleasure, to cook for the Supper Club. What she learnt, what they cooked and ate and drank and how they talked form the fundamental truths of this book.

A delight to read and to taste, The Umbrian Supper Club includes recipes drawn from these Thursday-night suppers.

'Transports the reader to the tastes and smells within the bare-stoned walls of Orvieto's rusticos.' Good Reading

About the Author Marlena de Blasi is the bestselling author of A Thousand Days in Venice, Tuscan Secrets, An Umbrian Love Story, That Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760292577 Summer in Sicily, Antonia and her Daughters and a novel Amandine. She has been a chef, a journalist, a food and wine Format: Paperback - B format consultant and a restaurant critic. She is also the author of two internationally published cookbooks of Italian food. She Dimensions: 198x128mm and her husband, Fernando, moved from Venice to San Casciano in Tuscany and now live in Orvieto in the region of Extent: 368 pages Umbria. Main Category: B Biography/autobiography

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Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 Ralf: How a Giant Schnauzer brought hope, happiness and healing to sick children Anne Crawford

From being an 'unmanageable' puppy with big barking problems and an uncertain future to one of the best- loved therapy dogs at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital - a heart-warming and inspiring story about how the love of a good human can change a dog's life and how a loving dog can bring life and hope to those in great need.

Description Ralf the Giant Schnauzer was once a small puppy with a big barking problem. He was facing an uncertain future until Caroline Lovick and her loving family came along. They rescued Ralf from Tasmania and welcomed him into their family home in Melbourne.

Ralf was the recipient of daily cuddles from Caroline's four children who would spend hours playing with him. He became an important part of their daily walk to school and a celebrity at the school gates where children would stop and pat the friendly visitor.

One day Caroline and her family took Ralf to compete at the Royal Melbourne Show. It was here that his potential as a therapy dog was first spotted.

Shortly afterwards Ralf began working at Trinity Manor nursing home followed by The Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne where he became an instant hit with children and their families. Soon Ralf was a permanent fixture, earning fans far and wide.

Ralf's story is by turns heart-warming and inspiring, and is full of the amusing antics of this endearing animal. 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 hope to those who need it most.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760292669 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm About the Author Extent: 272 pages Anne Crawford was a feature writer for The Age and The Sunday Age for more than 10 years and is co-author of Doctor Main Category: B Biography/autobiography Hugh: My Life with Animals, Forged with Flames: A True Story of Courage and Survival, and Shadow of a Girl. Great Sub Category: BG Biography: General Illustrations: Australian Horse Stories was published in 2013. Her most recent book, Women of Spirit, was released in May 2014. A Previous Titles: horse-owner and horse- lover, Anne has ridden everywhere from the Victorian High Country to Patagonia to the deserts Author now living: Kilcunda, VIC of Morocco. She lives in country Victoria where she rides a small mare with a lot of attitude called Poppy.

Allen & Unwin MAY 2016 Block Wonders: Super structures created in Minecraft Kirsten Kearney

Delve into the world of Minecraft in this illustrated journey through the greatest structures ever created in the game.

Description The sequel to Block City, Block Wonders showcases the most awe-inspiring buildings and structures ever created by Minecraft's huge community. While Block City explored living, breathing cityscapes, Block Wonders zooms in to give an insight into the creation of the world's most fascinating architectural masterworks in a vivd and fun way. Learn how to plan and build spectacular structures without ever having to don a hardhat!

Block Wonders explores the ultimate structures-including ancient and modern wonders of the world and those from gamers' imaginations-painstakingly put together block by block. From a historically accurate Giza Plateau to a perfect space shuttle replica, enormous projects are showcased in full color. Architectural gems such as Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater and the Taj Mahal are featured along gamer favorites like giant floating dragons and cartoon-style giant pixel art works.

About the Author Kirsten Kearney has been a games journalist for a decade. She began her career as a researcher and producer in broadcasting at the BBC. She is the author of an eBook for Gameleon on freelance games journalism and was section editor for Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition for two years. Kirsten owns and runs the website www.ready-up.net, which has been nominated for a Games Media Award four years running. Having written a variety of in-depth pieces on various game genres, series, and franchises, Kirsten has a particular interest in Minecraft. She has given radio interviews on the subject and runs a Children's Minecraft server, which was impressive enough to have had a fly-through of it screened in a cinema.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781760291679 Format: Dimensions: 227x170mm Extent: 256 pages

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Crows Nest MAY 2016 The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now Dr Meg Jay

30 is not the new 20 - your twenties are the most defining decade of adulthood.

Description Contemporary culture tells us the twentysomething years don't matter. Clinical psychologist Dr Meg Jay argues that this could not be further from the truth. In fact, your twenties are the most defining decade of adulthood.

The Defining Decade weaves the latest science of the twentysomething years with real-life stories to show us how work, relationships, personality, social networks, identity and even the brain can change more during this decade than at any other time in adulthood.

Smart, compassionate and constructive, The Defining Decade is a practical guide to making the most of the years we cannot afford to miss.

About the Author Meg Jay, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who specialises in adult development, and twentysomethings in particular. She is an assistant clinical professor at University of Virginia, and maintains a private practice in Charlottesville, Virginia. Jay earned a doctorate in clinical psychology, and in gender studies, from University of California, Berkeley.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781782114925 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 214x135mm Extent: 272 pages

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Canongate Trade MAY 2016 The Complete Peanuts 1999-2000: Volume 25 Charles M. Schulz

The final volume in this collectible and highly praised series.

Description Volume 25 of The Complete Peanuts presents the very final year of the defining comic strip of the 20th century, which ran for nearly 18,000 strips and for 50 years after its debut in 1950. This masterpiece includes all of 1999 through to the final strip on 13 February 2000. In this volume, Rerun takes centre stage and cements himself as the last great Peanuts character - when he embarks on a career as an underground comic book artist! This volume also features a huge surprise: the complete Li'l Folks, the weekly one-panel comic that Charles Schulz produced for his hometown paper. Li'l Folks was a clear precursor to Peanuts, and its inclusion here will bring The Complete Peanuts full circle.

About the Author Charles M. Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1922 and grew up in Saint Paul. He gained a reputation worldwide as a cartoonist for his work on Peanuts. He died in 2000.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781782115229 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 218x172mm Extent: 344 pages

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Canongate Trade MAY 2016 The Abundance Annie Dillard, introduction by Geoff Dyer

A stunning new collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winner, with an introduction by Geoff Dyer.

Description Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. She conjures currents of magic and wisdom, illuminating the seemingly ordinary moments of a life lived fearlessly - as a breathless teenager, as a roving young adult and as a writer - with her unique wit, boundless curiosity and fierce, undeniably singular voice.

Whether observing a sublime lunar eclipse or a moth consumed in a candle flame, the trembling of lily pads on a pond or hundreds of red-winged blackbirds taking flight, Dillard's awe at the fragility of the natural world rejuvenates and inspires pleasure and heartache.

Precise in language and deeply meditative in spirit, this is a landmark collection from one of America's masters. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Dillard is a formative figure in contemporary non-fiction and The Abundance a remarkable showcase of her enigmatic genius.

About the Author Annie Dillard was born in 1945 in Pennsylvania. She is a much-celebrated poet, novelist and essayist and author of thirteen books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. She is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and has received fellowship grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She was awarded the 2014 National Humanities Medal for her work deepening the understanding of the human experience.www.anniedillard.com

Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781782117711 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 214x135mm Extent: 304 pages

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Canongate Trade MAY 2016 The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone Olivia Laing

A dazzling investigation into loneliness, art and the modern city from the critically acclaimed author of The Trip to Echo Spring.

Description What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately engaged with another human being? How do we connect with other people?

When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Fascinated by the experience, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between works and lives - from Edward Hopper's Nighthawks to Andy Warhol's Time Capsules, from Henry Darger's hoarding to David Wojnarowicz's AIDS activism - Laing conducts an electric, dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed.

Humane, provocative and deeply moving, The Lonely City is about the spaces between people and the things that draw them together, about sexuality, mortality and the magical possibilities of art. It's a celebration of a strange and lovely state, adrift from the larger continent of human experience, but intrinsic to the very act of being alive.

About the Author Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. Her work appears in numerous publications, including the Guardian, Observer, New Statesman, Frieze and New York Times. She's a Yaddo and MacDowell Fellow and was 2014 Eccles Writer in Residence at the British Library. Her first book, To the River, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. The Trip to Echo Spring was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award and the 2014 Gordon Burn Prize. She lives in Cambridge.

Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781782111238 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 220x144mm Extent: 336 pages

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Canongate Trade MAY 2016 The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking Olivia Laing

One of the best reviewed books of 2013 and Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award.

Description Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and drink in the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver. Beautiful, captivating and original, The Trip to Echo Spring strips away the myth of the alcoholic writer to reveal the terrible price creativity can exert.

About the Author Olivia Laing's first book, To the River, was described as 'sublime' by the Times, 'magical' by the Telegraph and 'deeply intelligent' by the Literary Review. It was a book of the year in the Evening Standard, Independent and Financial Times and was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. The Trip to Echo Spring was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award, the 2014 Transmission Prize and the Gordon Burn Prize, was widely reviewed and was also a book of the year in The Times, Observer, Metro, Economist and Times Literary Supplement. Olivia is the former Deputy Books Editor of the Observer and writes for a variety of publications, including the Observer, New Statesman, Guardian and Times Literary Supplement. She is a 2011 MacDowell Fellow and has received awards from the Arts Council and the Authors' Foundation. She was also awarded the 2014 Eccles Foundation Writer in Residence at the British Library.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9781847677952 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages

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Canongate Trade MAY 2016 Gods of the Morning: A Bird's Eye View of a Highland Year John Lister-Kaye

A lyrical celebration of the British countryside from one of the UK's best-known nature writers.

Description 'No one writes more movingly, or with such transporting poetic skill, about encounters with wild creatures. Its pages course with sympathy, humility, and wisdom' - Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk

From his home deep in a Scottish glen, John Lister-Kaye has watched and come to understand intimately the movements and habits of the animals, and in particular the birds, that inhabit the wild and magnificent Highlands. Drawing on a lifetime of observation, Gods of the Morning is his wise and affectionate celebration of the British countryside and the birds that come and go through the year. It is also a lyrical reminder of the relationship we have lost with the seasons and a call to look afresh at the natural world around us.

About the Author Sir John Lister-Kaye is one of Britain's best-known naturalists and conservationists. He is the author of nine books on wildlife and the environment, including At the Water's Edge, and has lectured all over the world. He has served prominently in the RSPB, the Nature Conservancy Council, Scottish Natural Heritage and the Scottish Wildlife Trust. In 2003 he was awarded an OBE for services to nature conservation. He lives with his wife and family among the mountains of the Scottish Highlands, where he runs the world-famous Aigas Field Centre.www.lister-kaye.co.uk www.aigas.co.uk

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781782114178 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages

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Canongate Pbs MAY 2016 The 50 Greatest Walks of the World Barry Stone

A personal view of the 50 finest perambulations available on the planet.

Description Barry Stone, author of 1001 Walks You Must Experience Before You Die, delves into some of the lesser-known aspects of the world's most famous - and not-quite- famous-yet - trails.

The perfect accompaniment to practical guidebooks, Stone relates how slings and carabiners kept him from falling headlong off the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and reports on the progress of the continental-wide monster, the Trans Canada Trail, gaps in which are still being filled by countless grassroots communities.

With walks that will appeal to everyone regardless of ability, The 50 Greatest Walks of the World includes British classics such as the Pennine Way, Offa's Dyke Path, and the Old Man of Hoy as well as personal favourites such as Italy's Cinque Terre Classic and the Isle of Skye's Trotternish Ridge, one of Britain's finest ridge traverses with almost 2,500m of ascents. Whether it's a climb, a stroll, or a life-changing slog, this book has the walk for you.

About the Author Barry Stone is an established travel writer who has contributed to the Courier Mail, the Sun-Herald, and many of Australia's premier travel magazines, including Vacations & Travel, Get Up & Go!, and Australian Traveller. He is the author of 1001 Walks You Must Experience Before You Die, 1001 Escapes to Make Before You Die and a range of illustrative reference books, such as America: The Complete Story, Historica: 1,000 Years of Our Lives and Times, and the critically acclaimed EARTH.

He is currently writing a history on the early growth of colonial Australia's outback pastoral stations. He lives in Sydney, Australia.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781785780639 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages

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Icon MAY 2016 The 50 Most Influential Britons of the Last 100 Years Peter Pugh

The 50 Britons who have had most impact on today's world.

Description Peter Pugh presents his selection of - not the best, fastest, most successful or richest - but the 50 most influential British men and women of the modern world - for good or ill.

Pugh discusses and ranks the influence of scientists and inventors such as Francis Crick, John Logie Baird and Alan Turing; lawmakers and leaders like prime ministers Attlee, Churchill and Thatcher; entrepreneurs including James Dyson, Mary Quant and Terence Conran; and cultural icons like J.K. Rowling, who, in the words of Lisa Simpson no less, 'turned a generation of kids onto reading'.

One of the most influential Britons in Pugh's book achieved influence by saying nothing for over 60 years, and the top three places are held by an economist, a scientist and a civil servant.

In what amounts to a whistle-stop tour through recent British history, this undoubtedly contentious and wholly enjoyable book will spark countless debates.

About the Author Peter Pugh is a businessperson and company historian who has written more than 50 company histories on businesses from Rolls-Royce to Iceland. He is also the author of Introducing Thatcherism and Introducing Keynes, and lives by the sea in north Norfolk, and in Cambridge.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781785780349 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages

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Icon MAY 2016 Pint to Pint: A Crawl Around Britain's Best Pubs The Telegraph

From the popular Telegraph column, a characterful guide to Britain's best boozers.

Description For the dedicated pub-goer and the armchair drinker, here is an enticing selection of 'proper' pubs to gladden the heart and slake the thirst.

All of these pubs get the basics right: they focus on the beer (though the food and wine may also be excellent) and on conversation rather than piped music. They may have a roaring fire in winter and a pleasant beer garden in summer. You can probably bring your dog. Above all, they have a notable character that raises them above the bland corporate pubs that blight the land.

It can be hard to say exactly why - but you just know a good pub the moment you enter. Trusted Telegraph reviewers have made their selection for you, based on highly personal but well-informed criteria, resulting in a nationwide pub crawl like no other.

This is the perfect book for anyone who considers a good pub to be a British birthright.

About the Author The Telegraph's Pint to Pint column is written by a selection of Telegraph journalists and pub aficionados from throughout the country.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781785780394 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages

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Icon MAY 2016 Body Language: The Signals You Don't Know You're Sending, and How To Master Them Glenn Wilson

Whether we're aware of it, or not, our bodies say a lot about us.

Description From interviews to dates, the boardroom to the stage, being aware of the non-verbal signals you, and others, send can have a huge impact on your relationships and success in life - for better or worse.

This fun and friendly guide will show you how to 'read' the body language of others, and how to project the right signals, so you can manage the impression you give to others. Full of real-world and pop-cultural examples, practical tips and strategies, and underpinned by principles from psychological and social experiments, you'll learn how to use and interpret non-verbal messages to put your best face, and body, forwards.

About the Author Glenn Wilson is Visiting Professor of Psychology at Gresham College, London. Previously he was Reader in Personality at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society. He specialises in personality, interpersonal attraction and reading body language.

Price: $16.99 (NZ$18.99) ISBN: 9781848319585 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages

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Icon MAY 2016 Broken Vows: Tony Blair, The Tragedy of Power Tom Bower

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Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9780571314218 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x156mm Extent: 300 pages

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Faber Non Fiction MAY 2016 Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix & Friends in Woodstock Barney Hoskyns

The true story of the town of Woodstock - the mythical home of 60s rock and inspiration for the legendary festival.

Description Think 'Woodstock' and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. But Woodstock itself was over 60 miles from the site to which the fabled half a million flocked. So why the misnomer? Quite simply, Woodstock was already a key location in the Sixties rock landscape, the tiny Catskills town where Bob Dylan had holed up after his 1966 motorcycle accident.

In Small Town Talk, Barney Hoskyns recreates Woodstock's community of brilliant dysfunctional musicians, opportunistic hippie capitalists and scheming dealers drawn to the area by Dylan and his sidekicks The Band. Central to the book's narrative is the broodingly powerful presence of Albert Grossman, manager of Dylan, The Band, Janis Joplin and Todd Rundgren - and Big Daddy of a personal fiefdom in Bearsville that encompassed studios, restaurants and his own record label. Intertwined in the story are the Woodstock experiences of artists as diverse as Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Butterfield, Tim Hardin, Karen Dalton and Bobby Charles.

Drawing on first-hand interviews with the remaining key players in the scene, and on the period when he lived there himself in the 1990s, Hoskyns has produced an East Coast companion to his bestselling L.A. Canyon classic Hotel California - a richly absorbing study of a vital music scene in a revolutionary time and place.

About the Author Barney Hoskyns is the co-founder and editorial director of online rock-journalism library Rock's Backpages (www. rocksbackpages.com), and author of several books including Across the Great Divide: The Band and America (1993), Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes, the Sound of Los Angeles (1996), Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters & Cocaine Cowboys in the LA Canyons (2005) and Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits (2009). A former US Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) correspondent for MOJO, Hoskyns writes for Uncut and other UK publications, and has contributed to Vogue, Rolling ISBN: 9780571309757 Stone and GQ. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 240x160mm Extent: 496 pages

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Faber Social MAY 2016 Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits Barney Hoskyns

The exhaustive, definitive biography of Tom Waits, one of the most influential artists of all time.

Description Spanning Tom Waits' extraordinary 40-year career, from Closing Time to Orphans, Lowside of the Road is Barney Hoskyns' unique take on one of rock's great enigmas. Like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, Waits is a chameleonic survivor who's achieved long-term success while retaining cult credibility and outsider mystique. From his perilous 'jazzbo' years in '70s Los Angeles to the multiple-Grammy winner of recent years - by way of such shape-shifting '80s albums as Swordfishtrombones - this exhaustive biography charts Waits' life step-by-step and album-by-album.

Affectionate and penetrating, and based on a combination of assiduous research and deep critical insight, this is a outstanding investigation of a notoriously private artist and performer - the definitive account to date of Tom Waits' life and work.

About the Author Barney Hoskyns is the co-founder and editorial director of online rock-journalism library Rock's Backpages and author of several books including Across the Great Divide: The Band & America (1993), Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes and the Sound of Los Angeles (1996), and Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters and Cocaine Cowboys in the LA Canyons (2005). A former US correspondent for MOJO, Hoskyns writes for Uncut, The Observer Music Monthly and other UK publications, and has contributed to Vogue, Rolling Stone and GQ. He lives in southwest London.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9780571235537 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 640 pages Main Category: AV Music Sub Category: AVH Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback MAY 2016 I've Always Kept a Unicorn: The Biography of Sandy Denny Mick Houghton

The definitive biography of Sandy Denny, one of the most influential folk-rock artists of all time.

Description I've Always Kept a Unicorn tells the story of Sandy Denny, one of the greatest British singers of her time and the first female singer-songwriter to produce a substantial and enduring body of original songs. Sandy Denny laid down the marker for folk-rock when she joined Fairport Convention in 1968, but her music went far beyond this during the seventies. After leaving Fairport she formed Fotheringay, whose influential eponymous album was released in 1970, before collaborating on a historic one-off recording with Led Zeppelin - the only other vocalist to record with Zeppelin in their entire career - and releasing four solo albums across the course of the decade. Her tragic and untimely death came in 1978.

Sandy emerged from the folk scene of the sixties - a world of larger-than-life characters such as Alex Campbell, Jackson C. Frank, Anne Briggs and Australian singer Trevor Lucas, whom she married in 1973. Their story is at the core of Sandy's later life and work, and is told with the assistance of more than sixty of her friends, fellow musicians and contemporaries, one of whom, to paraphrase McCartney on Lennon, observed that she sang like an angel but was no angel.

About the Author Since the 1970s, Mick Houghton has written on music for various publications including Sounds, Time Out and, more recently, Mojo and Uncut. He worked as a PR at Warner Brothers, before setting up his own agency, Brassneck Publicity, where he's represented artists such as Echo & the Bunnymen, Julian Cope, Spiritualized, Bert Jansch, Richard Thompson, and the KLF. As one of the Grammy-nominated compilers of the box set Forever Changing: The Golden Age of Elektra Records, 1963- 1973, he went on to write the critically acclaimed Becoming Elektra: The True Story of Jac Holzman's Visionary Record Label, published in 2010. He lives in London.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571278916 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 528 pages

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Faber Social MAY 2016 Joy David O. Russell

The new film from David O. Russell, the award-winning writer and director of Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle.

Description Joy is the story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and, in the process, recovers her childhood magic and finds her place in the world.

Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise. In this world of unforgiving commerce, allies become adversaries, adversaries becomes allies, an estranged husband becomes a friend, as Joy's inner life and fierce imagination carry her through the storm she faces.

Jennifer Lawrence stars, with Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Edgar Ramirez, Isabella Rossellini, Diane Ladd and Virginia Madsen. Like his previous films, Joy demonstrates David O. Russell's ability to find the extraordinary in the ordinary.

About the Author David O. Russell is an award-winning writer and director, whose films include Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9780571330362 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 160 pages

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Faber Film MAY 2016 Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve Tom Bissell

In this profound and moving journey into the heart of Christianity past and present, Tom Bissell travels across the world to explore the lives and legacies of the Twelve Apostles.

Description Peter, Matthew, Thomas, John: Who were these men and what was their relationship to Jesus? Tom Bissell gives us rich and deeply informed answers to those ancient questions.

Written with warmth, humour, and a rare acumen, Apostle is a brilliant and exhaustive synthesis of travel writing, centuries of biblical history, and a deep lifelong relationship with Christianity. Bissell explores not just who these renowned and pious men were (and weren't), but how their identities have taken shape over two millennia.

Bissell, in his search for this elusive set of truths, has traveled the world, visiting holy sites from Rome and Jerusalem to Turkey, India, and Kyrgyzstan, and he captures vividly the rich diversity of Christianity's global reach. Apostle is an unusual, erudite, and hilarious book, an intoxicating combination of religious, intellectual, and personal adventure.

About the Author Tom Bissell's first book, Chasing the Sea, was selected by Conde Nast Traveller as one of the 86 best travel books of all time. His second book, God Lives in St. Petersburg, won the Rome Prize. And his third book, The Father of All Things was selected as a best book of the year by Salon, The Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle. He is a contributing editor for Harper's Magazine and currently lives in Portland Oregon where he teaches fiction writing at Portland State University.

Price: $49.99 (NZ$55.00) ISBN: 9780571234745 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 432 pages

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Faber Non Fiction MAY 2016 And the Sun Shines Now: How Hillsborough and the Premier League Changed Britain Adrian Tempany

The story of how modern football has changed from being the people's game to an elite multi-million pound business, and of what it has lost in the process.

Description On 15 April 1989, 96 people were fatally injured on a football terrace at an FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield. The Hillsborough disaster was broadcast live on the BBC; it left millions of people traumatised, and English football in ruins.

And the Sun Shines Now is not a book about Hillsborough. It is a book about what arrived in the wake of unquestionably the most controversial tragedy in the post-war era of Britain's history. The Taylor Report. Italia 90. Gazza's tears. All seater stadia. Murdoch. Sky. Nick Hornby. The Premier League. The transformation of a game that once connected club to community to individual into a global business so rapacious the true fans have been forgetten, disenfranchised.

In powerful polemical prose, against a backbone of rigorous research and interiew, Adrian Tempany deconstructs the past quarter century of English football and examines its place in the world. How did Hillsborough and the death of 96 Liverpool fans come to change the national game beyond recognition? And is there any hope that clubs can reconnect with a new generation of fans when you consider the startling statistic that the average age of season ticket holder here is 41, compared to Germany's 21.

Perhaps the most honest account of the relationship between the football and the state yet written, And the Sun Shines Now is a brutal assessment of the modern game.

About the Author Adrian Tempany is a Liverpool supporter and a journalist who has written for the Observer and the Financial Times.

Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9780571295111 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 416 pages

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Faber Non Fiction MAY 2016 Rain: Four Walks in English Weather Melissa Harrison

The first book to be published by Faber in association with the National Trust, on four walks in the rain in Wicken Fen, Shropshire, the Darent Valley and Dartmoor.

Description An evocative meditation on the English landscape in wet weather by the acclaimed novelist and nature writer, Melissa Harrison. Whenever rain falls, the English countryside changes. Fields, farms, hills and hedgerows appear altered, the wildlife behaves differently, and over time the terrain itself is transformed.

In Rain, Melissa Harrison explores our relationship with the weather as she follows the course of four rain showers, in four seasons, across Wicken Fen, Shropshire, the Darent Valley and Dartmoor. Blending these expeditions with reading, research, memory and imagination, she reveals how rain is not just an essential element of the world around us, but a key part of our own identity too.

About the Author Melissa Harrison writes a monthly Nature Notebook column in The Times. Her debut novel Clay (2013) won the Portsmouth First Fiction Award and was chosen by Ali Smith as a Book of the Year. Her second, At Hawthorn Time, was shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award. It was one of A.S. Byatt's Summer Reads in the Observer, and a Book of the Year for 2015 in the Telegraph. She lives in south London.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571328932 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 128 pages

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Faber Non Fiction MAY 2016 Hot Flashes: And Other Thoughts on the M*n*p**se Christa D'Souza

Drawing on the latest medical and psychological research, Hot Flashes takes the heat out of a much- misunderstood fact of life.

Description Allegedly, there has never been a better time to be a menopausal woman. We can take hormones; technology is such that 60 really is the new 40 (or maybe even the new 35). And for quite a few women there is liberation and even empowerment in reaching this key milestone of maturity.

Except a few nagging questions do remain: what is the point of us now that we are officially biologically irrelevant? Can men still see us (even if we're not wearing purple...)? Will flaxseed help? With her disarmingly intimate and completely accessible voice, Christa D'Souza takes us on a wry and well informed journey through the m*n*p**s* (why is the very word still taboo?). She recounts what happened to her, and what will happen to you - the physical symptoms and the emotional ones too.

Drawing on the latest medical and psychological research, Hot Flashes takes the heat out of a much-misunderstood fact of life. It is a treat of a book, courageous, and unexpectedly moving in its truth telling.

About the Author Christa D'Souza has written for publications such as the Guardian, Daily Mail, the Times, the Daily Telegraph, Vanity Fair, and the Evening Standard, and is currently contributing editor of British Vogue. In her articles, she often probes body issues such as ageing, weight-control, diet, cosmetic surgery, and her own battle with cancer. She lives in London with her husband and two sons.

Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781780722672 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 150x210mm Extent: 304 pages

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Faber Short Books MAY 2016 Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church The Investigative Staff of the Boston Globe

The investigation that inspired the Oscar-nominated film Spotlight.

Description This is the true story of how four courageous journalists uncovered child abuse on a vast scale - and held the Catholic Church to account. Betrayal is a ground-breaking work of investigative journalism, now brought brilliantly to life on the screen in the major new movie Spotlight.

In 2002, criminal charges were brought against five Boston priests. Together, they had abused hundreds of children, a horrific pattern of behaviour known - and ignored - by the Catholic Church. The arrests were the culmination of a campaign waged by the 'Spotlight' investigative team at the Boston Globe, whose coverage had finally exposed not only the predatory priests themselves, but the sinister influence exerted by the church across Boston.

These devastating revelations triggered a crisis in the Catholic Church. This book tells the story from beginning to end, from the men who preyed on innocent children and the cabal of senior Church officials who covered up their crimes, to the 'hush money' used to buy the victims' silence, and the ripples that spread outwards from the investigation, leaving Catholics across the world shocked, angry, and confused. This is the story, too, of how they confronted their Church and called for sweeping change.

About the Author The Boston Globe is one of the largest daily newspapers in America. In November 2001 they petitioned the Massachusetts Superior Court and forced the Boston Archdiocese to release secret documents - and won.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781781257432 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 304 pages

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Profile Trade MAY 2016 This is a Voice: 64 exercises to train, project and harness the power of your voice Jeremy Fisher, Gillyanne Keyes and Steven Connor

Train your voice to speak (and sing) with impact using this practical guide.

Description With its own cadence, tone and rhythm, your voice is as unique as a fingerprint, and conveys even more meaning than the words you say. But your voice can also get in the way: we find ourselves mumbling when we want to sound confident, squeaky when we want to be taken seriously, and off-key on those crucial high notes at choir or karaoke.

This is a Voice is a practical system of step-by-step vocal warm ups and exercises, each one illustrated with striking graphic design. By following these simple techniques, anyone can gain more control over their voice - whether to project confidence and be more persuasive at work, or just to sing in tune.

Divided into sections including speeches, using your voice in the workplace, singing and opera, the book includes guidance on things like breathing and posture, as well as tricks to combat issues such as groggy morning voice or nerves. There are even sections on ventriloquism and beatboxing! This book is both an unusual gift and an essential toolkit to help you transform the way you sound.

About the Author Jeremy Fisher is a performance coach and vocal trainer with more than 30 years' experience. He has trained actors, performers and singers in opera and West End musicals such as Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera. Steven Connor (introduction) is a Grace 2 Professor of English in the University of Cambridge who has written extensively on the history of the voice, sound and music.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781781256565 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 192 pages

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Profile Trade MAY 2016 The Quest For Mary Magdalene: History & Legend Michael Haag

An illuminating and controversial exploration of Mary Magdalene, from the New Testament to the The Da Vinci Code.

Description Mary Magdalene is a larger figure than any text, larger than the Bible or the Church; she has taken on a life of her own. She has been portrayed as a penitent whore, a wealthy woman, Christ's wife, an adulteress, a symbol of the frailty of women and an object of veneration. And, to this day, she remains a potent and mysterious figure.

In the manner of a quest, this book follows Mary Magdalene through the centuries, explores how she has been reinterpreted for every age, and examines what she herself reveals about man and the divine. It will follow her from the Gnostic gospels, where she is extolled as the chief disciple of Christ, through the early Church's reimagining of her as a fallen woman, to the Renaissance artists for whom she became a symbol of compassion and humanity, and into the present day, when once again, we are seeing Mary Magdalene as a symbol of a new and powerful femininity.

About the Author Michael Haag has written widely on the Egyptian, Classical and Medieval worlds. He is author of a dozen books, notably Alexandria: City of Memory, a definitive study of Cavafy, Forster and Lawrence Durrell in the city, and of The Templars: History and Myth. Originally from New York City, he lives in London.

Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781846684524 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 352 pages

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Profile Trade MAY 2016 Templars: History and Myth: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons Michael Haag

The definitive guide to the Templars - from Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons.

Description An order of warrior monks founded to protect pilgrims to Jerusalem, the Templars were among the most powerful bodies in the medieval world. Yet two centuries later, they were accused of blasphemy, heresy and orgies, and their leaders were burnt at the stake.

Part guide, part history, this book investigates the Templar legends and legacy - from the mysteries of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, via nineteenth century development of the Freemasons, through to Templar appearances in Dan Brown and Indiana Jones.

This book explains the whole context of Templar history, including the recent evidence discovered by the Vatican that the Templars were not guilty of heresy. It also features a guide to Templar castles and sites.

About the Author Michael Haag has written widely on the Egyptian, Classical and Medieval worlds. He is the author of the much-admired Alexandria: City of Memory and of the bestselling Rough Guides to Tutankhamun and The Da Vinci Code.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781846681530 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 205x153mm Extent: 384 pages Main Category: HB History Sub Category: HBG World History Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade MAY 2016 The Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States Michael Haag

A controversial and illuminating new study of the Templars and the Crusader States.

Description In 1187, nearly a century after the victorious First Crusade, Saladin captured Jerusalem. The Templars, headquartered on the Temple Mount, were driven from the city along with the Frankish population.The fall of Jerusalem was a turning point, the start of a narrative of desperate struggle and relentless loss. In little more than a century Acre would be destroyed, the Franks driven from Outremer, and the Templars themselves, reviled and disgraced, would face their final immolation.

Michael Haag's new book explores the rise and fall of the Templars against the backdrop of the Crusader ideal and their settlement venture in Outremer. Haag argues that the Crusader States were a rare period when the population of Palestine had something approaching local rule, representing local interests - and the fall of Jerusalem to Saladin was a disaster. He contends that the Templars, as defenders of the Crusader States, were made scapegoats for a Europe whose newfound nationalism caused it to withdraw support for the Crusader venture. Throughout, he charts the Templars' rise and fall in gripping narrative, with their beliefs and actions set in the context of their time.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$26.99) ISBN: 9781846684517 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages

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Profile Trade MAY 2016 A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities: A Collection of Puzzles, Oddities, Riddles and Dilemmas Roy Sorensen, edited by John Davey

An entertaining miscellany of logical curiosities - from anecdotes and proofs to puzzles and puns - found outside the classroom.

Description If you want to learn how to conform to confound, raze hopes, succeed your successor, order absence in the absence of order, win by losing and think contrapositively, look no further. Here you can unlock the secrets of Plato's void, Wittgenstein's investigations, Schopenhauer's intelligence test, Voltaire's big bet, Russell's slip of the pen and lobster logic. Among your discoveries will be why the egg came before the chicken, what the dishwasher missed, and just what it was that made Descartes disappear.

Experience the unbearable lightness of logical conclusions in Professor Sorensen's intriguing cabinet of riddles, problems, paradoxes, puzzles and the anomalies of human utterance. As you accompany him on investigations into the mysteries of truth, falsehood, reason and delusion, prepare to be surprised, enlightened, mystified and, above all, entertained.

About the Author Roy Sorensen never told you that he is the son of Ted Sorensen, President Kennedy's speech writer and confidant. For it is not true. Roy Sorensen is a professor of philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Seeing Dark Things; A Brief History of the Paradox; Thought Experiments; and Blindspots.

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781846685217 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 320 pages

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Profile Trade MAY 2016 Warren Buffett's Ground Rules: Words of Wisdom from the Partnership Letters of the World's Greatest Investor Jeremy Miller

Easy-to-follow ground rules from the world's most successful investor.

Description At the age of 26, Warren Buffett founded Buffett Partnership Limited, which lasted from 1956 to 1970. During this time he wrote 33 letters to his small but growing group of partners. These letters chronicle his thoughts, approaches and reflections in the period immediately prior to his Berkshire Hathaway tenure - one that saw an unprecedented record of investing success.

This early period was astonishing: in 1968 he beat the Dow by more than 50%. Because Buffett wanted to ensure that his partners understood his process, he wrote letters. In them, he sets out what he termed ground rules for investing that remain startlingly relevant today for every type of investor - from beginners to sophisticated pros.

Warren Buffett's Ground Rules brings together, for the first time, and with Buffett's permission, the key investment principles and teachings the letters reveal. Here you will find the basis for Buffett's contrarian diversification strategy, his almost religious celebration of compounding interest and his tactics for bettering market results by at least 10% annually.

Quoting extensively and directly from Buffett, equity research expert Jeremy Miller introduces us to the timeless advice the letters contain, demonstrating a set of highly effective investment strategies that continue to resonate today.

About the Author Jeremy Miller works in institutional sales at Vertical Research Partners, a leading New York City-based equity research and consulting firm. His clients include investors working at some of the largest money management firms in world - Blackrock, Goldman Sachs, Paulson & Co, GLG, and others. Warren Buffett is a business magnate and the most successful investor of the twentieth century. He is the CEO and largest shareholder of the multinational conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway and often ranked among the wealthiest people in the world. Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781781255636 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages

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Profile Trade MAY 2016 Geography: Ideas in Profile Danny Dorling

A clear and accessible introduction to geography by two experts in the topic, part of the Ideas in Profile series.

Description Geography gives shape to our innate curiosity; cartography is older than writing. Channelling our twin urges to explore and understand, geographers uncover the hidden connections of human existence, from infant mortality in inner cities to the decision-makers who fly overhead in executive jets, from natural disasters to over-use of fossil fuels.

In this incisive introduction to the subject, Danny Dorling and Carl Lee reveal geography as a science which tackles all of the biggest issues that face us today, from globalisation to equality, from sustainability to population growth, from climate change to changing technology - and the complex interactions between them all.

Illustrated by a series of award-winning maps created by Benjamin D. Hennig, this is a book for anyone who wants to know more about why our world is the way it is today, and where it might be heading next.

About the Author Danny Dorling joined the University of Oxford in 2013 to take up the Halford Mackinder Professorship in Geography. He was previously a professor of Geography at the University of Sheffield. His recent books include co-authored texts The Atlas of the Real World: Mapping the Way We Live and Bankrupt Britain: An Atlas of Social Change and sole authored books, Injustice: Why Social Inequalities Persist, The 32 Stops and Population Ten Billion. Carl Lee has taught Geography for the past twenty years at The Sheffield College. He has written The Urban Challenge (with Graham Drake) and Home: A Personal Geography of Sheffield. His latest book is Everything is Connected To Everything Else. He has made several short films about geographical issues.

Price: $21.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781781255308 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 176 pages

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Profile Trade MAY 2016 Being a Beast Charles Foster

A lyrical exploration of what it is really like to 'be a beast', from swimming with otters to burrowing with badgers, and what this can tell us about the beast inside us all.

Description Charles Foster wanted to know what it was like to be a beast: a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, a swift. What it was really like. And through knowing what it was like he wanted to get down and grapple with the beast in us all.

So he tried it out; he lived life as a badger for six weeks, sleeping in a dirt hole and eating earthworms, he came face to face with shrimps as he lived like an otter and he spent hours curled up in a back garden in East London and rooting in bins like an urban fox.

A passionate naturalist, Foster realises that every creature creates a different world in its brain and lives in that world. As humans, we share sensory outputs, lights, smells and sound, but trying to explore what it is actually like to live in another of these worlds, belonging to another species, is a fascinating and unique neuro-scientific challenge. For Foster it is also a literary challenge. Looking at what science can tell us about what happens in a fox's or badger's brain when it picks up a scent, he then uses this to imagine their world for us, to write it through their eyes or rather through the eyes of Charles the beast. An intimate look at the life of animals, neuroscience, psychology, nature writing, memoir and more, it is a journey of extraordinary thrills and surprises, containing wonderful moments of humour and joy, but also providing important lessons for all of us who share life on this precious planet.

About the Author Charles Foster is a Fellow at the University of Oxford. Much of his life has been spent on expeditions; he has run a 150 mile race in the Sahara, skied to the North Pole, and 'bled in many beautiful and desolate landscapes'. He has written or contributed to over thirty-five books on subjects including travel, evolutionary biology, natural history, anthropology and philosophy. www.charlesfoster.co.uk

Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781781255346 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 256 pages

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Profile Trade MAY 2016 The Vital Question: Why is life the way it is? Nick Lane

A game-changing book on the origins of life, called the most important scientific discovery 'since the Copernican revolution' in The Observer.

Description Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth-and all complex life shares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets, would it be the same or completely different?

In The Vital Question, Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a cogent solution to conundrums that have troubled scientists for decades. The answer, he argues, lies in energy: how all life on Earth lives off a voltage with the strength of a bolt of lightning. In unravelling these scientific enigmas, making sense of life's quirks, Lane's explanation provides a solution to life's vital questions: why are we as we are, and why are we here at all?

This is ground-breaking science in an accessible form, in the tradition of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species, Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, and Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel.

About the Author Nick Lane has published four critically acclaimed books, translated into 20 languages; most recently The Vital Question. He was awarded the 2015 Biochemical Society Award for his outstanding contribution to the molecular life sciences. Life Ascending won the 2010 Royal Society Prize for Science Books.

Nick is a biochemist in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London.

'Like his forebears in that same department - Steve Jones, JBS Haldane - he's that rare species, a scientist who can illuminate the bewildering complexities of biology with clear, luminous words' - The Observer

'One of the most exciting science writers of our time' - Independent Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781781250372 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages

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Profile Trade MAY 2016 Fashion on the Ration: Style in the Second World War Julie Summers

Julie Summers, the bestselling author of Jambusters, lifts the veil on the captivating story of fashion in the Second World War - now available in paperback.

Description In September 1939, just three weeks after the outbreak of war, Gladys Mason wrote briefly in her diary about events in Europe: 'Hitler watched German siege of Warsaw. City in flames.' And, she continued, 'Had my wedding dress fitted. Lovely.'

For Gladys Mason, and for thousands of women throughout the long years of the war, fashion was not simply a distraction, but a necessity - and one they weren't going to give up easily. In the face of bombings, conscription, rationing and ludicrous bureaucracy, they maintained a sense of elegance and style with determination and often astonishing ingenuity. From the young woman who avoided the dreaded 'forces bloomers' by making knickers from military-issue silk maps, to Vogue's indomitable editor Audrey Withers, who balanced lobbying government on behalf of her readers with driving lorries for the war effort, Julie Summers weaves together stories from ordinary lives and high society to provide a unique picture of life during the Second World War.

As a nation went into uniform and women took on traditional male roles, clothing and beauty began to reflect changing social attitudes. For the first time, fashion was influenced not only by Hollywood and high society but by the demands of industrial production and the pressing need to 'make-do-and-mend'. Beautifully illustrated and full of gorgeous detail, Fashion on the Ration lifts the veil on a fascinating era in British fashion.

About the Author Julie Summers is the author of Jambusters: The Story of the Women's Institute in the Second World War, which inspired ITV's 2015 hugely successful drama Home Fires, now into a second series. She also wrote When the Children Came Home and Stranger in the House, among others. Fashion on the Ration was a major Imperial War Exhibition in 2015. She lives in Oxford.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781781253274 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages

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Profile Trade MAY 2016 Granta 135: New Irish Writing Sigrid Rausing

Published in book form four times a year, Granta is respected around the world for its mix of outstanding new fiction, poetry, reportage, memoir, photography and art.

Description A century ago the Irish took up arms to end British rule - the Easter Rising marked the beginning of a period of drastic social and political changes that continue to reverberate through Irish life.

Aesthetically, too, it has been a century of great experimentation, exploration and evolution. Granta 135: New Irish Writing celebrates one of the most distinguished literary traditions from a contemporary perspective, showcasing new writing from up-and-coming talent as well as from the country's most established voices.

An issue of fiction, memoir, reportage, poetry, photography and art that will chart the many places, identities and stories that make up a nation, 'New Irish Writing' features Colin Barrett, Kevin Barry, Sara Baume, Lucy Caldwell, Mary Costello, Paul Muldoon, Colm Toibin and many others.

About the Author Sigrid Rausing is Editor and Publisher of Granta magazine and Publisher of Granta and Portobello Books. She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm and Everything is Wonderful, which has been translated into four different languages.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781905881956 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 210x145mm Extent: 256 pages

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Granta MAY 2016 Mexican Hooker #1: And My Other Roles Since the Revolution Carmen Aguirre

From revolutionary to actress; from refugee to acclaimed director; from victim to lover, wife and mother; here are the many roles of Carmen Aguirre.

Description At six years old Carmen Aguirre was a Chilean refugee adjusting to life in North America. At eighteen she was a revolutionary dissident married to a man she couldn't fully love. In her twenties she fought to find herself as an actress and break away from the stereotypes thrust upon her - housekeeper, hotel maid, Mexican Hooker #1. But alongside these many identities was another that was hard to embrace and impossible to escape: that of the thirteen-year-old girl attacked by one of Canada's most feared rapists. Thirty-three years after the assault, Carmen decided it was time to meet the man who changed her life.

About the Author Carmen Aguirre is a celebrated playwright and actress. She has written or co-written eighteen plays and she had a lead role in Quinceanera, winner of the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Something Fierce, her first book, was published by Portobello Books in 2012. She lives in Vancouver.

Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781846275432 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages

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Portobello Trade MAY 2016 Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter Carmen Aguirre

A teenage revolutionary's gripping, darkly comic account of life, love and fighting for freedom in Latin America in the 1980s.

Description One minute, 11-year-old Carmen is watching her hippy mum put curlers in for the first time, the next she is being dragged with her sister through LA airport with her mother muttering about 'the patriarchy' under her breath. The three of them board a plane that takes them to Peru, next door to the Chile from which the family had fled after Pinochet's coup. Eight days after landing in Lima, and still perplexed by their mother's disguises and lies, they're off again, on a bus bound they know not where. They are then to spend most of the next decade, the 1980s, moving from dictatorship to dictatorship, evading capture, torture and peril at every turn. It is no way to spend your teenage years, until, overnight, it becomes the way Carmen herself chooses.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781846272028 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x131mm Extent: 288 pages Main Category: B Biography/autobiography Sub Category: BM Memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Portobello Pbs MAY 2016 The Saffron Road: A Journey with Buddha's Daughters Christine Toomey

From an award-winning journalist, here is the story of an unforgettable journey from the east to the west in the company of the extraordinary women who choose to dedicate their lives to Buddhism.

Description A brief meeting with a Buddhist nun in India made a deep impression on Christine Toomey. It sent her on a two-year, 60,000-mile odyssey to learn more about the contemporary women choosing in their thousands to become part of a long tradition of female spirituality that stretches back through the centuries and now embraces the radical possibility that the next Dalai Lama could be female.

In The Saffron Road, Toomey follows in the footsteps of earlier generations of Buddhist nuns to trace the routes by which the philosophy has spread from a solitary order in a remote area of India in the 5th century BC, via 1950s San Francisco where Zen was popularised by the Beat generation, to the globally-renowned practitioners of mindfulness of today. Beginning her journey in the Himalayas, close to the birthplace of the Buddha, Toomey travels from Nepal, to India, through Burma, Japan and on to North America and Europe, along the way visiting contemporary nunneries to meet the women who practise there. Amongst those she talks to are a group of kung fu nuns, an acclaimed novelist, a princess, a concert violinist, a former BBC journalist, and a one-time Washington political aide. Through these conversations, the daily reality of the Buddhist existence is gradually revealed, together with the diverse spiritual paths leading these women towards nirvana.

Combining travelogue, history, interviews and personal reflection, The Saffron Road opens the door to a rarely glimpsed world of ritual, discipline and enlightenment.

About the Author Christine Toomey has been a foreign correspondent and feature writer for the Sunday Times for more than 20 years, reporting extensively from Latin America, the Middle East and throughout Europe. She has investigated the sinking of Russia's Kursk nuclear submarine and the mass murder of women in Guatemala, reported from Kosovo and Bosnia on the fate of children born to women raped during the Balkans wars, tracked down a wanted Nazi war criminal, and lived for Price: $23.99 (NZ$26.99) ISBN: 9781846274930 a week with the two wives of a Hamas politician in the West Bank. She has received several prizes for her journalism, Format: Paperback - B format including two Amnesty International Awards for Magazine Story of the Year. Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 384 pages

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Portobello Trade MAY 2016 Cuttin' It Charlene James

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Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571329632 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 96 pages

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Faber Plays MAY 2016 Selected Poems Jamie McKendrick

Drawn from thirty years of work, this selection, made by the poet himself, gathers from the best of Jamie McKendrick's six acclaimed collections.

Description Drawn from thirty years of work, this selection, made by the poet himself, gathers from the best of Jamie McKendrick's six acclaimed collections, including some translations, from 1991's debut The Sirocco Room to Out There (2012, winner of the Hawthornden Prize) by way of The Marble Fly (1997), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and Ink Stone, shortlisted for both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award in 2003. Sky Nails, his selected poems, was published by Faber in 2000, and selections of his poems have been translated and published in Holland and in Italy.

Throughout, McKendrick has been concerned with the charting of space, of the distances between homeland and edgeland, the far-flung and the near-at-hand, the past and present, the familiar and the strange in poems which cast a sharp eye over their subject matter and return with wry, unsettling observations. There is remembrance, here, and salvage, a bringing to light of that which is obscured or lost, not only the ink stones in Chinese riverbeds, but extinct species, spacecraft and flooded houses, as well as historical figures, including a 10th-century physicist from Basra, Irish activist Roger Casement, and artists Gaudi, Hoch and Piranesi.

About the Author Jamie McKenrick was born in Liverpool in 1955. He taught at the University of Salerno in Italy and is the author of five collections of poetry: including The Marble Fly (1997), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection and a Poetry Book Society Choice; Ink Stone (2003), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award; and Crocodiles & Obelisks, shortlisted for the Forward Prize. A selection of his poems was published as Sky Nails (2000), and he is editor of 20th-Century Italian Poems (2004). His translations of the poetry of Valerio Magrelli were published by Faber in 2009.

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9780571327294 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 144 pages

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Faber Poetry MAY 2016 Hapgood Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard's Hapgood premiered at the Aldwych Theatre, London, in March 1988. It was revived at the Hampstead Theatre, London, in December 2015.

Description I can't remember which side I'm supposed to be working for, and it is not in fact necessary for me to know. The Cold War is approaching its endgame and somebody in spymaster Elizabeth Hapgood's network is leaking secrets. Is her star double agent really a triple? The trap she sets becomes a hall of mirrors in which betrayal is personal and treachery a trick of the light.

Tom Stoppard's Hapgood premiered at the Aldwych Theatre, London, in March 1988. It was revived at the Hampstead Theatre, London, in December 2015.

About the Author Tom Stoppard's work includes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, After Magritte, Dirty Linen, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink, The Invention of Love, the trilogy The Coast of Utopia and Rock 'n' Roll. His radio plays include If You're Glad I'll Be Frank, Albert's Bridge, Where Are They Now?, Artist Descending a Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died, In the Native State and Darkside (incorporating Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon). Television work includes Professional Foul, Squaring the Circle and Parade's End. His film credits include Empire of the Sun, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which he also directed, Shakespeare in Love, Enigma and Anna Karenina.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571330041 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 200x127mm Extent: 112 pages

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Faber Plays MAY 2016 A Tapping at My Door David Jackson

From the bestselling author of Cry Baby, the beginning of a brilliant and gripping police procedural series set in Liverpool, perfect for fans of Peter James and Mark Billingham.

Following the success and acclaim of the Callum Doyle novels, A Tapping at My Door is the first instalment of David Jackson's new Nathan Cody series.

Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781785761072 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages

Main Category: F Fiction

Sub Category: FF Crime & Mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Zaffre MAY 2016 Broken Vows: Tony Blair, The Tragedy of Power Tom Bower

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Price: $49.99 (NZ$55.00) ISBN: 9780571314201 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x156mm Extent: 300 pages

Main Category: B Biography/autobiography

Sub Category: BG Biography: General Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Non Fiction