NOVEMBER 2016 Fearless Fiona Higgins

What happens when six pampered Westerners on a spiritual retreat in Bali end up fighting for their lives? A gripping novel from the bestselling author of The Mothers' Group.

Description A breathtaking new novel from the bestselling author of The Mothers' Group and Wife on the Run.

Six strangers from across the world converge on the tropical island of Bali to attend a course designed to help them face their fears. Their backgrounds are as diverse as their fears - which range from flying, public speaking and heights, through to intimacy, failure and death.

Friendships and even romance blossoms as the participants are put through a series of challenges which are unusual, confronting and sometimes hilarious. A week of fun in the sun suddenly transforms into something far more serious, however, when the unthinkable happens - a tragic disaster that puts the group in deadly danger that will test the individual courage of every member.

Shocking, powerful and utterly gripping, Fearless takes you to the edge and makes you look down.

About the Author Fiona Higgins is the author of three novels, Fearless, Wife on the Run and The Mothers' Group, and a memoir, Love in the Age of Drought.

Fiona has qualifications in the humanities and social sciences, and has worked in the philanthropy and not-for-profit sector in Australia for the past seventeen years.

Having recently returned from an extended period in Indonesia, she now lives in Sydney with her husband and three children.

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Allen & Unwin NOVEMBER 2016 The Mothers' Group Fiona Higgins

The acclaimed bestseller about a remarkable group of mothers and their trials, joys and secrets.

Description 'All those things no one ever tells you about motherhood. It's like secret mothers' business. Lots of my friends had babies before me, but not one of them ever told me it would be this hard.It's like a code of silence.'

The Mothers' Group tells the story of six very different women who agree to regularly meet soon after the births of their babies.

Set during the first crucial year of their babies' lives, The Mothers' Group tracks the women's individual journeys-and the group's collective one-as they navigate birth and motherhood as well as the shifting ground of their relationships with their partners.

Each woman strives in her own way to become the mother she wants to be, and finds herself becoming increasingly reliant on the friendship and support of the members of the mothers' group. Until one day an unthinkably shocking event changes everything, testing their bonds and revealing closely held secrets that threaten to shatter their lives.

The Mothers' Group is an unflinching and compelling portrait of the modern family in all its complexity and intensity: love, sex and marriage and all the joys and tensions of raising children in an increasingly complicated world. Moving, provocative, tender and utterly gripping, The Mothers' Group will draw you in and never let you go.

About the Author Fiona Higgins is the author of three novels, Fearless, Wife on the Run and The Mothers' Group, and a memoir, Love in the Age of Drought.

Fiona has qualifications in the humanities and social sciences, and has worked in the philanthropy and not-for-profit sector in Australia for the past seventeen years. Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781743314081 Format: Paperback - B format Having recently returned from an extended period in Indonesia, she now lives in Sydney with her husband and three Dimensions: 198x128mm children. Extent: 416 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FA Popular Fiction www.fionahiggins.com.au www.facebook.com/fionahigginsauthor Illustrations: Previous Titles: Love in the Age of Drought Author now living: Bali

Allen & Unwin NOVEMBER 2016 The Simplest Words: A storyteller's journey Alex Miller

A selection of short pieces - both fiction and non-fiction - from one of Australia's greatest literary treasures.

Description From one of Australia's greatest novelists comes this fine collection, a storyteller's journey. These short stories and essays, written over the last forty years, comprise an insightful and intelligent meditation on the life of the novelist and the culture of contemporary Australia. Personal and intimate as many of these pieces are, this collection forms a kind of assured autobiography, of the sort that only Alex Miller could write.

Alex Miller's stories are told with a rare level of wisdom and profundity, engaging the intellect and the emotions simultaneously. Stories are, after all, in his blood.

'Alex Miller has made an outstanding contribution to Australian literature and to our cultural and intellectual life.' Melbourne Prize for Literature Judges' Statement, 2012

'Coal Creek is a triumph.' Tim Winton

'Miller's voice is never more pure or more lovely than when he channels it through an instrument as artless as Bobby.' Geordie Williamson, The Monthly (on Coal Creek)

'Alex Miller is a wonderful writer.' John Banville, author of The Sea

'Alex Miller has an extraordinary ability to uncover the connections among people - individuals, races, nations.' Elizabeth Kostova, author of The Historian

'A wonderful novel of stunning intricacy and great beauty.' Michael Ondaatje (on The Ancestor Game)

About the Author Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760294052 The Simplest Words is Alex Miller's first collection of stories, memoir, commentary and poetry. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm All of Alex Miller's novels have been critically acclaimed and have won or been shortlisted in the major Australian literary Extent: 368 pages awards. He is twice winner of Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and is an overall winner Main Category: D Literature

Sub Category: D Literature of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for The Ancestor Game. His eleventh and most recent novel, Coal Creek, won the Illustrations: 2014 Victorian Premier's Literary Award. Previous Titles: Author now living: Castlemaine, VIC. Alex Miller is published internationally and his works have been widely translated.

www.alexmiller.com.au Allen & Unwin NOVEMBER 2016 Foal's Bread Gillian Mears

A special hardback edition of the award-winning novel about two generations of the Nancarrow family and the high-jumping horse circuit prior to the Second World War, published to commemorate the life and work of Gillian Mears, 1964 - 2016.

Description The sound of horses' hooves turns hollow on the farms west of Wirri. If a man can still ride, if he hasn't totally lost the use of his legs, if he hasn't died to the part of his heart that understands such things, then he should go for a gallop. At the very least he should stand at the road by the river imagining that he's pushing a horse up the steep hill that leads to the house on the farm once known as One Tree.

Set in hardscrabble farming country and around the country show high-jumping circuit that prevailed in rural New South Wales prior to the Second World War, Foal's Bread tells the story of two generations of the Nancarrow family and their fortunes as dictated by the vicissitudes of the land.

It is a love story of impossible beauty and sadness, a chronicle of dreams 'turned inside out', and miracles that never last, framed against a world both tender and unspeakably hard. Written in luminous prose and with an aching affinity for the landscape the book describes, Foal's Bread is the work of a born writer at the height of her considerable powers. It is a stunning work of remarkable originality and power, one that confirms Gillian Mears' reputation as one of our most exciting and acclaimed writers.

About the Author Gillian Mears grew up in the northern New South Wales towns of Grafton and Lismore. Acclaim came early, with her short-story collections and novels winning major prizes. Her books include Ride a Cock Horse, Fineflour, The Mint Lawn, The Grass Sister and A Map of the Gardens. Gillian's monumental third novel, Foal's Bread, was published by Allen & Unwin in 2011 and by Allen & Unwin UK in 2013. It was shortlisted for many major awards in 2012, including the Miles Franklin Award, and won The Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction, The Age Book of the Year, the Victorian

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) Premier's Award for Fiction, the Colin Roderick Award and the ALS Gold Medal. Her children's story, The Cat with the ISBN: 9781760294991 Coloured Tail, was published by Walker Books Australia in 2013. Gillian died on May 16, 2016, and will be sadly missed. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 376 pages

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Allen & Unwin NOVEMBER 2016 American Blood Ben Sanders

A former undercover cop now in witness protection finds himself pulled into the search for a missing woman. An explosive, unputdownable work of suspense from a fresh voice in crime fiction.

Description After a botched undercover operation, ex-NYPD officer Marshall Grade is living in witness protection in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Marshall's instructions are to keep a low profile: the mob wants him dead, and a contract killer known as the Dallas Man has been hired to track him down. Racked with guilt over wrongs committed during his undercover work, and seeking atonement, Marshall investigates the disappearance of a local woman named Alyce Ray.

Members of a drug ring seem to hold clues to Ray's whereabouts, but hunting traffickers is no quiet task. Word of Marshall's efforts spreads, and soon the worst elements of his former life, including the Dallas Man, are coming for him.

Written by a rising New Zealand star who has been described as 'first rate', this American debut drops a Jack Reacher- like hero into the landscape of No Country for Old Men.

'This novel has it all - great characters that are all too-real, switch-blade sharp writing, dialogue that would bring a smile to Elmore Leonard's face and a plot that grabs the reader by the collar, squeezes hard and never lets go. American Blood is a first-rate, first-class, top-tier thriller and Ben Sanders hits it far and deep. This is one book that flat-out demands to be read. Just sit back and enjoy the ride. If you love a good thriller, then look no further than American Blood.'- Lorenzo Carcaterra, New York Times- bestselling author of Sleepers and The Wolf.

'American Blood is a lean, mean, power-packed novel. A hardboiled bolt of lightning to the crime genre. Ben Sanders has set the new standard for gritty, action packed thrillers.' - Victor Gischler, Edgar Award- nominated author of Gun Monkeys.

About the Author Ben Sanders is the author of three previous novels: The Fallen (2010), By Any Means (2011), and Only The Dead (2013), all of which were New Zealand Fiction Bestsellers. Sanders' first three novels were written while he was studing at Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760294977 university; he graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor of Engineering, but now writes full-time. American Blood is his first U.S.- Format: Paperback - B format based novel, and have been optioned by Warner Bros. and Bradley Cooper for a major motion picture. He lives in Dimensions: 198x128mm Auckland, New Zealand. Extent: 352 pages

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Allen & Unwin NOVEMBER 2016 Sapphire Falls Fleur McDonald

While mystery surrounds the accidental shooting of a her husband, Fiona Forrest struggles to preserve the family farm in a suspenseful, pacy and action packed novel from the author of Crimson Dawn and Indigo Storm.

Description Fiona Forrest is devastated when her husband Charlie commits suicide after the accidental shooting of his mate, Eddie. Though Fiona decides to keep farming their successful property, rumours that she intends to sell keep circulating.

When Detective Dave Burrows arrives to sign off on the investigation into Eddie's death his suspicions are aroused by some strange anomalies at the scene. As Dave becomes increasingly convinced that something sinister is going on, Fiona finds herself dealing with a series of disasters on the farm...

By the bestselling author of Crimson Dawn, this suspenseful novel about a woman fighting to preserve her husband's dream and a detective determined to uncover the truth will keep you guessing til the very last page.

About the Author Fleur McDonald has lived and worked on farms for much of her life. After growing up in the small town of Orroroo in South Australia, she went jillarooing, eventually co-owning an 8000-acre property in regional Western Australia.

Fleur likes to write about strong women overcoming adversity, drawing inspiration from her own experiences in rural Australia. She is the best-selling author of Red Dust, Blue Skies, Purple Roads, Silver Clouds and Crimson Dawn. She has two children and a Jack Russell terrier.

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Allen & Unwin NOVEMBER 2016 Tallowood Bound Karly Lane

Can a love from her past be rekindled and help Erin heal her broken heart? From one of Australia's most popular rural romance authors comes this compelling novel about love, memory and courage.

Description When Erin Macalister leaves the city to take care of her beloved grandmother, she's relieved to be escaping the remnants of her broken marriage.

Arriving in the small rural community she grew up in, Erin finds nothing much has changed - including Jamie McBride, who is still as ridiculously good looking as he was when they were seventeen and madly in love.

Leafing through old photo albums evokes vivid memories for her grandmother of a soldier she once loved. Erin's curiosity about this mysterious soldier deepens when she finds an engagement ring he once gave her grandmother.

Meanwhile, Jamie seems intent on rekindling his relationship with Erin, even though she's not at all sure she wants to risk heartache again.

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 she can fit it in around her part-time job and children.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760295042 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 384 pages

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Arena NOVEMBER 2016 The Wrong Side of Goodbye Michael Connelly

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

Description 'What do you want me to do?' Bosch asked again.

'I want you to find someone for me,' Vance said. 'Someone who might not have ever existed.'

Harry Bosch is working as a part-time detective in the town of San Fernando outside of Los Angeles, when he gets the invitation to meet with the ageing aviation billionaire Whitney Vance. When he was eighteen Vance had a relationship with a Mexican girl called Vibiana Duarte, but soon after becoming pregnant she disappeared.

Now, as he reaches the end of his life, Vance wants to know what happened to Vibiana and whether there is an heir to his vast fortune. And Bosch is the only person he trusts to undertake the assignment.

Harry's aware that with such sums of money involved, this could be a dangerous undertaking - not just for himself, but for the person he's looking for - but as he begins to uncover Vibiana's tragic story, and finds uncanny links to his own past, he knows he cannot rest until he finds the truth.

About the Author Michael Connelly is the author of twenty-eight previous novels, including #1 New York Times bestsellers The Crossing and The Burning Room. His books, which include the Harry Bosch series and Lincoln Lawyer series, have sold more than sixty million copies worldwide. Connelly is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels and is the executive producer of Bosch, starring Titus Welliver. He spends his time in California and Florida. Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781760293833 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages

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Michael Connelly NOVEMBER 2016 Wrong Side of Goodbye 36 copy pack

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Michael Connelly NOVEMBER 2016 The Wrong Side of Goodbye CD Michael Connelly

Unstoppable detective Harry Bosch returns in a new thriller from #1 bestselling author Michael Connelly.

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Allen & Unwin NOVEMBER 2016 Days Without End Sebastian Barry

Twice Booker-shortlisted author Sebastian Barry returns with a sensational new novel set in mid-19th Century America, an intensely poignant story of two men and the lives they are dealt.

Description 'Time was not something then we thought of as an item that possessed an ending, but something that would go on for ever, all rested and stopped in that moment. Hard to say what I mean by that. You look back at all the endless years when you never had that thought. I am doing that now as I write these words in Tennessee. I am thinking of the days without end of my life. And it is not like that now...'

Having signed up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and, ultimately, the Civil War.

Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, they find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in.

Moving from the plains of the West to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry's latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. Both an intensely poignant story of two men and the lives they are dealt, and a fresh look at some of the most fateful years in America's past, Days Without End is a novel never to be forgotten.

About the Author Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His novels and plays have won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Irish Book Awards Best Novel, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He also had two consecutive novels, A Long Long Way (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008), shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize. He lives in Wicklow with his wife and three children.

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Faber Fiction NOVEMBER 2016 The Map and the Clock Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke

An anthology of essential poems, taken from across the centuries, edited by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke, the National Poet of Wales.

Description Curated by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke, the National Poet of Wales, this new anthology gathers from centuries of essential poems. The editors have drawn on the rich languages of these islands, starting with the very first poets whose names we know - Taliesin and Aneirin, who composed in Welsh and Old Brythoneg in what is now Scotland - 'to begin at the beginning', to explore the poetry of Ireland and the British Isles in order to tell our story across the ages in this beautiful, vital treasury.

About the Author Gillian Clarke is president of Ty Newydd, the writers' centre in North Wales which she co-founded in 1990. Her poetry is studied by GCSE and A Level students throughout Britain, and her work has been translated into ten languages. Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow and grew up in Stafford. She won the 1993 Whitbread Award for Poetry and the Forward Prize for Best Collection for Mean Time. The World's Wife received the E. M. Forster Award in America, while Rapture won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2005. She is currently Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent volumes are New and Collected Poems for Children (2009) and The Bees (2011), which won the Costa Poetry Award. She is Poet Laureate in the UK.

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Faber Poetry NOVEMBER 2016 Aeneid Book VI Seamus Heaney and Ian McKellen

Heaney's final work, a beautiful new version of the Aeneid, read by Sir Ian McKellen.

Description In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld. In Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, Heaney acknowledged the importance of the poem to his writing, noting that 'there's one Virgilian journey that has indeed been a constant presence, and that is Aeneas's venture into the underworld. The motifs in Book VI have been in my head for years - the golden bough, Charon's barge, the quest to meet the shade of the father.'

In this new translation, Heaney employs the same deft handling of the original combined with the immediacy of language and flawless poetic voice as was on show in his translation of Beowulf, a reimagining which, in the words of Bernard O'Donoghue, brought the ancient poem back to life in 'a miraculous mix of the poem's original spirit and Heaney's voice'.

About the Author Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection of poems, appeared in 1966, and was followed by poetry, criticism and translations which established him as the leading poet of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and twice won the Whitbread Book of the Year, for The Spirit Level (1996) and Beowulf (1999). Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, appeared in 2008; Human Chain, his last volume of poems, was awarded the 2010 Forward Prize for Best Collection. He died in 2013.

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Faber Poetry NOVEMBER 2016 The Story of a Brief Marriage Anuk Arudpragasam

An unforgettable literary debut set during the final days of the Sri Lankan civil war, portraying two people's struggle to create a human relationship when being human has become impossible.

Description Dinesh is a young man trapped on the frontlines between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers. Desensitized to the horror all around him, life has been pared back to the essentials: eat, sleep, survive. All this changes when he is approached one morning by an older man who asks him to marry his daughter Ganga, hoping that victorious soldiers will be less likely to harm a married woman. For a few brief hours, Dinesh and Ganga tentatively explore their new and unexpected connection, trying to understand themselves and each other, until the war once more closes over them.

Told in meditative, nuanced and powerful prose, this shattering novel marks the arrival of an extraordinary new literary voice.

About the Author Anuk Arudpragasam is from Colombo, Sri Lanka and is currently working towards a doctorate in philosophy at Columbia University. He writes in English and Tamil. This is his first novel.

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Granta NOVEMBER 2016 New American Stories Ben Marcus

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

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

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

About the Author Ben Marcus is the author of The Age of Wire and String, Notable American Women, The Flame Alphabet and Leaving the Sea. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Harper's and the Paris Review. Marcus has received a Whiting Writers' Award, a Berlin Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is on the faculty at Columbia University in New York.

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Granta Paperbacks NOVEMBER 2016 Cut: The international bestselling serial killer thriller Marc Raabe

Fast and furious - a stunning thriller debut for fans of Stieg Larsson.

Description A boy is witness to a horrible crime. Decades later, his girlfriend is kidnapped by an insane serial killer. To save her, he must return to the events of the past. But how can he remember when forgetting was the only way to survive?

Gabriel's job as security guard takes him to a derelict mansion in Berlin late at night. The obscure scene there reminds him of the most terrible night of his life - the night his parents died. Soon after, he receives a desperate call. His pregnant girlfriend Liz is being attacked and cries for help. Gabriel alerts the police but they arrive too late. Liz has disappeared without a trace. The hunt for her turns into a frantic chase against time. The terrifying man from the past has returned and will not stop until Gabriel is completely destroyed.

About the Author Marc Raabe owns and runs a television production company. Cut is his first thriller. Marc Raabe lives with his family in Cologne.

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Manilla NOVEMBER 2016 Jacques: An uplifting and moving story of love and loss Tanya Ravenswater

It is only when we matter, when we are seen and truly loved, that we know what it means to fully live.

Description Boyhood, Jacques is Tanya Ravenswater's beautiful and touching coming-of-age novel of what makes an ordinary life extraordinary. A story of loss, longing, falling in love and finding a place to call home. And, most importantly, of the power of the relationships that help us along the way.

This is the story of Jacques Lafitte, a young French boy who is orphaned and torn away from everything he knows. Forced to move to England to live with his guardian - the pompous and distant Oliver - Jacques finds himself in a strange country, and a strange world.

As years pass Jacques becomes part of the Clark family. But then his feelings for Oliver's daughter Rebecca begin to surpass mere sibling affection. A development that has the power to bring them together, or tear the family apart ...

About the Author Tanya Ravenswater was born in County Down, Northern Ireland in 1962. After working as a nurse and a bereavement counsellor, she started writing fiction and poetry for both adults and children. She has published a collection of short stories for women, and has also been shortlisted and published in the Cheshire Prize anthologies.

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Twenty7 NOVEMBER 2016 Breaking Dead: A stylish, edge-of-your-seat crime thriller Corrie Jackson

For fans of Kimberley Chambers and The Cuckoo's Calling, this compelling crime novel uncovers the dark side of high fashion.

Description Newspaper journalist Sophie Kent is hanging by a thread following her brother's suicide, her personal life in chaos.

When the mutilated body of a Russian model turns up in an upmarket hotel on the eve of London Fashion Week, Sophie recognises her from a recent interview and knows she could have saved her. Eaten away by guilt, she throws herself headfirst into the edgy, fast-paced world of fashion with one goal in mind: to catch the killer. Only then can she piece her grief-stricken self back together. As she chips away at the industry's glittery surface, she uncovers a toxic underworld rife with drugs, secrets, prostitution and blackmail. Battling her demons and her wealthy, dysfunctional family along the way, Sophie pushes her personal problems to one side as she goes head to head with a crazed killer; a killer who is only just getting started...

About the Author Corrie Jackson has been a journalist for fourteen years. During that time she has worked at Harper's Bazaar, The Daily Mail, Grazia and Glamour. After a two-year stint in Los Angeles, Corrie now lives in Surrey, England, with her husband and two children. Breaking Dead is her first novel.

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Twenty7 NOVEMBER 2016 What We Didn't Say Rory Dunlop

A darkly witty debut about marriage, communication and the art of answering back.

Description Jack and Laura have separated. Jack thinks it's all Laura's fault.

Laura disagrees.

Jack writes to Laura, desperate to put across his side of the story.

Laura interrupts.

Wryly sarcastic and intensely well-observed, What We Didn't Say is about that gap between words and feelings where relationships live - and die.

About the Author Rory Dunlop studied Classics at Oxford and worked as a teacher and journalist before being called to the Bar. He spent a year in Strasbourg, writing judgments for the European Court of Human Rights, failing to learn French and falling in love with Lika. They now have two daughters and live in London. He's written a text book on immigration law and several book reviews for the Spectator and, very occasionally, people read his tweets.

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Twenty7 NOVEMBER 2016 The Travelling Bag Susan Hill

New chilling tales from the 'grande dame of English supernatural fiction'.

Description From the foggy streets of Victorian London to the eerie perfection of 1950s suburbia, the everyday is invaded by the evil otherworldly in this unforgettable collection of new ghost stories from the author of The Woman in Black.

In the title story, on a murky evening in a warmly lit club off St James, a bishop listens closely as a paranormal detective recounts his most memorable case, one whose horrifying denouement took place in that very building.

In 'The Front Room', a devoutly Christian mother tries to protect her children from the evil influence of their grandmother, both when she is alive and when she is dead.

A lonely boy finds a friend in 'Boy Number 21', but years later he is forced to question the nature of that friendship, and to ask whether ghosts can perish in fires.

This is Susan Hill at her best, telling characteristically flesh-creeping and startling tales of thwarted ambition, terrifying revenge and supernatural stirrings that will leave readers wide-awake long into the night.

About the Author Susan Hill is the winner of numerous literary prizes. In 2012, she was awarded a CBE for her services to literature. Author of the Simon Serrailler crime series and numerous other novels, her literary memoir, Howards End is on the Landing [9781846682667] and the ghost stories The Man In The Picture [9781846681349], The Small Hand [9781846682407], Dolly and Printers Devil Court are all published by Profile. The Woman in Black, which was has been running in the West End for over twenty-five years, and was a huge film in 2012, is published by Profile in hardback [9781781255520].

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Profile Trade NOVEMBER 2016 Rain Dogs Adrian McKinty

A death in a historic castle, locked up overnight. It almost looks like a suicide, but then Sean Duffy pulls on a few little threads, and the whole Establishment could come undone ...

Description It's just the same things over and again for Sean Duffy. Riot duty. Heartbreak. Cases he can solve but never get to court. But what detective gets two locked room mysteries in one career?

When journalist Lily Bigelow is found dead in the courtyard of Carrickfergus castle, it looks like a suicide. But there are just a few things that bother Duffy enough to keep the case file open. Which is how he finds out that she was working on a devastating investigation of corruption and abuse at the highest levels of power in the UK and beyond. And so Duffy has two impossible problems on his desk: who killed Lily Bigelow? And what were they trying to hide?

Book 5 in the Detective Sean Duffy Series.

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

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Serpents Tail NOVEMBER 2016 Gai Waterhouse Autobiography Gai Waterhouse

An Australian horse-racing legend tells the full extraordinary story of her life for the first time.

Description Gai Waterhouse has one of the most captivating stories in Australian sport. Her early working life centred around modelling and acting, but as the daughter of legendary trainer Tommy Smith racing was in her blood, and she began working for her father at his stables. She married Rob Waterhouse, son of the famous bookmaker 'Big' Bill Waterhouse, bringing together two of Australia's most successful racing dynasties. Yet it was a marriage that also initially prevented her from getting her own trainer's licence, given that Rob had been banned from race courses in the wake of the Fine Cotton betting scandal. For years Gai fought the racing establishment to receive her licence, finally winning the battle in 1992. Almost immediately she won her first Group 1 race, and never looked back.

She's gone on to become one of Australia's greatest trainers, winning over one hundred Group 1 races, and finally the pinnacle of the sport - the Melbourne Cup - in 2013, becoming the first Australian woman to do so. Along the way she's brought some much needed glamour and fun back into racing, creating a cult following among both owners and punters.

Full of energy, passion and drive for success, Gai's life has been a lesson in perseverance, hard work, determination and flair. Now for the first time she tells the full story of her remarkable life.

About the Author Gabriel Marie 'Gai' Waterhouse (nee Smith; born 2 September 1954) is an Australian horse trainer and businesswoman. After graduating from the University of New South Wales, she worked as an actor for a time, appearing in both Australian and English television series. Having worked under her father, TJ Smith, for a period of 15 years, Waterhouse was granted an Australian Jockey Club licence in 1992, and trained her first Group One winner later that year.

In 1994, after her father became ill, she took over his Tulloch Lodge stable, and she has since trained over 100 G1 winners and won seven Sydney trainers' premierships. She was also the trainer of Fiorente, the winner of the 2013 Melbourne Cup, becoming the second woman (and first Australian woman) to train a winner of that race. Waterhouse was Price: $44.99 (NZ$49.99) ISBN: 9781925266047 inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame in 2007, and has been described as the 'first lady of Australian racing'. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages

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Allen & Unwin NOVEMBER 2016 Ah Well, Nobody's Perfect Molly Meldrum

A book of hilarious real-life anecdotes from Molly Meldrum, one of Australia's best-loved personalities.

Description Ah, Well, Nobody's Perfect is a funny, eye-opening, nostalgic, warm and utterly compelling collection of Molly's best stories and anecdotes from across his life. They feature everyone from Prince, Madonna, David Bowie and The Beatles to the St Kilda Football Club, the Melbourne Storm and the Australian cricket team.

Few people have lived such a chaotic and colourful life as Molly. And no-one tells a story better than him.

About the Author Ian 'Molly' Meldrum was born in 1943. Described as 'the single most important person in the Australian pop industry for 40 years', he is best known as the host, talent co-ordinator, on-air interviewer and music news presenter on Countdown from 1974-1987. He has also worked as music critic, journalist, musical entrepreneur and record producer. He hosted the Australian leg of Live Aid in July 1985 and was subsequently made a Member of the Order of Australia. Molly lives in Richmond, Victoria. He is a passionate supporter of both the St Kilda Football Club and The Melbourne Storm NRL team.

Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781760294427 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 480 pages

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Allen & Unwin NOVEMBER 2016 A Beautiful Game: From England to Australia - this love affair with cricket Mark Nicholas

Mark Nicholas's personal journey through cricket reveals why it really is the world's beautiful game.

Description Mark Nicholas, anchor for Channel 9's Test commentary team in Australia and Channel 5's Cricket on Five show in the UK, has a unique knowledge and perspective on the world game of cricket. As both a former player and now a professional observer and commentator on the game he knows all the key figures in the sport and has witnessed first- hand some of cricket's greatest moments.

His book is a personal account of the game as he's seen and experienced it. Focusing on England and Australia, the two countries he's intimately familiar with, Mark takes us through the modern game, illuminating the arts of batting, bowling and captaincy, and giving us a wealth of detail about the world's greatest players, as well as epic Ashes battles.

Informed by Mark's own experiences and observations, and filled with wonderful anecdotes, larger than life characters, and an extraordinary breadth of cricket knowledge, A Beautiful Game shows why Mark is so passionate about the sport, and exactly why cricket really is the world's beautiful game.

About the Author As a cricketer, Mark Nicholas was known as a swashbuckling middle-order batsman and occasional medium-pace bowler. He captained English county side Hampshire to four major trophies. After retiring as a player, Mark worked for 12 years as London's Daily Telegraph's sports feature writer before moving into television broadcasting, initially as a commentator for Sky Sports and later as the anchor on Channel 4's cricket coverage. Mark is currently the anchor for Channel 9's cricket commentary team and for Channel 5's Cricket on Five show in the UK.

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Allen & Unwin NOVEMBER 2016 Rolling with the Punchlines Urzila Carlson

Chuckle, laugh and snigger along with Urzila in this fascinating memoir of a life in comedy.

Description Written with her trademark deadpan humour, Urzila's memoir is full of great stories, about both the big things in life as well as the little things.

Urzila first got into comedy when her workmates entered her into an open mic evening which, unknown to her, was a competition that she won. This accidental beginning in stand-up has led her to an incredibly successful career in comedy with regular gigs on television as well as sell-out shows in comedy festivals across New Zealand and Australia.

But life hasn't always been a bundle of laughs and Urzila talks about her childhood with a great family, apart from her abusive dad, and about growing up in South Africa. She shares the crazy but true stories from her OE, her move to New Zealand, coming out, getting married and having children, and her life in comedy.

This is a great read from one of our most loved and most popular comedians.

'A woman who wears scars like a beauty mark, Urzila is a force of nature, unsinkable and funny. She's the heroine we hope is inside every one of us.' Lucy Lawless

'Can't believe she has read a book, never mind written one. She's very funny though.' Jimeoin

About the Author Top Australasian comedian Urzila Carlson has racked up an impressive array of awards for her stand up including 'Best Female Comedian' at the New Zealand Comedy Guild Awards several times, and the coveted TV3 People's Choice Award at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival.

South African born New Zealander Urzila took to the stage for the first time in 2008 and her stand-up shows in New Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781877505638 Zealand, Melbourne, Sydney and Perth are hugely popular sell- outs. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm She makes numerous television appearances in New Zealand and Australia on comedy galas and shows like 7 Days and Extent: 272 pages Road Madness in New Zealand, and the Oxfam Comedy Gala and Comedy Up Late in Australia. Main Category: B Biography/autobiography

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Allen & Unwin NOVEMBER 2016 Australians: A short history Thomas Keneally

A masterly history of Australia and its people by an author of outstanding literary skill whose own humanity permeates every page.

Description '...giving us what Australian history has desperately needed for years.' Canberra Times

'Keneally evokes these distant lives with concrete detail and vivid sympathy...his people inhabit the same world we do-we meet them without the hesitation of reaching across voids of space and time.' Sydney Morning Herald

'The story of Australia and the Australians could be in no better hands than Keneally's.' West Australian

Australians, Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed three volume history of the Australian people from origins to Vietnam, gave us a robust, vibrant and page-turning narrative that brought to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story.

Australians: a short history brings these three volumes together and reintroduces us to the rich assortment of contradictory, inspiring and surprising characters who made a young and cocky Australia.

This is the story of the original Australians and European occupation of their land through the convict era to pastoralists, bushrangers and gold seekers, working men, pioneering women, the rifts wrought by World War I, the rise of hard-nosed radicals from the Left and the Right and the social upheavals of the Great Crash and World War II. Then the Menzies era, the nation changing period of post-war migration and Australia's engagement with Asia, this is a truly masterly history of Australia and its people by an author of outstanding literary skill whose own humanity permeates every page.

About the Author Price: $49.99 (NZ$55.00) ISBN: 9781760292430 Thomas Keneally was born in 1935 and, as well as writing many novels, has shown an increasing interest in producing Format: Hard Cover histories. His history of Irish convictism was entitled The Great Shame and was published in all the English language Dimensions: 234x153mm markets. The same was true of his later work, The Commonwealth of Thieves, which looked upon the penal origins of Extent: 928 pages Australia in a way which sought to make the reader feel close to the experience of individual Aboriginals, convicts and Main Category: HB History Sub Category: HBJM Australasian & Pacific History officials. His novels include The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, Schindler's Ark, The Daughters of Mars and Shame and the Illustrations: Captives. He has the won the Miles Franklin Award, the Booker Prize, the Los Angeles Book Prize, the Royal Society of Previous Titles: Author now living: Manly NSW Literature Prize, the Scripter Award of the University of Southern California, the Mondello International Prize, the Helmerich Prize. He lives in Sydney with his wife, Judy, and is Number 1 ticket-holder of the Manly-Warringah Rugby League team.

Allen & Unwin NOVEMBER 2016 Australian Light Horse: The campaign in the Middle East, 1916-1918 Phillip Bradley

The story of the famous Australian Light Horse in the desert campaigns of World War 1.

Description Throughout history, mounted troops have been known as elite men of arms and the Australian Light Horse is a part of that legendary tradition. Part cavalry and part infantry and often recognised by the emu feathers in their slouch hats, the light horsemen were described by the official historian, H.S. Gullett, as 'in body and spirit the true product of the Australian countryside'. They remain, today, the embodiment of the digger ethos.

After the Gallipoli campaign most of the Australian Light Horse, commanded by Major General Harry Chauvel, remained in Egypt to defend the Suez Canal. After thwarting the Turkish advance at Romani in August 1916 the Light Horse led the advance into Palestine with sparkling victories at Magdhaba and Rafa. Twice checked at Gaza despite their bold courage, the light horsemen then broke that stalemate following the legendary charge at Beersheba on 31 October 1917. The fall of Jerusalem, the perilous raids on Amman, the trials of the Jordan Valley and the final breakthrough to Damascus followed before Turkey surrendered on 30 October 1918.

In Australian Light Horse their story is brought to vivid life through the diaries, letters and photographs of the light horsemen who took part in the bloody battles of the desert campaigns of the Sinai and Palestine from April 1916 to October 1918.

About the Author PHILLIP BRADLEY, author of the groundbreaking Hell's Battlefield and Charles Bean's Gallipoli: Illustrated, is a leading researcher of Australian military history. Australian Light Horse is his seventh book.

Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781760111892 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 260x198mm Extent: 208 pages

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Allen & Unwin NOVEMBER 2016 Great Australian Journeys: Gripping stories of intrepid explorers, dramatic escapes and foolhardy adventures Graham Seal

A fascinating collection of some of Australia's most dramatic journeys from the 19th and early 20th century: epics of exploration, survival and tragedy, stories of mystery and romance, and of discovery and loss.

Description 'Graham Seal has the knack of the storyteller' - Warren Fahey AM

Australia's history is one of epic journeys, intrepid explorers, and mysterious disappearances in far flung places. From perilous sea voyages to the distant south land, to forays across vast deserts on horseback, they are stories of endurance and misadventure, survival and loss.

Master storyteller Graham Seal has gathered together a gripping collection of famous and lesser-known journeys by land, sea and air in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As Warren Fahey writes in his foreword, 'Some journeys, like those of Burke and Wills, Lasseter's First Find, and the razing of the riverboat Rodney, are relatively well known. Others, mostly unknown, are tales of bravado, determination and, sometimes, sheer madness.'

From the comfort and safety of your armchair you can join some of Australia's bravest and also some of our most foolhardy men and women in their adventures.

About the Author Graham Seal is Professor of Folklore at Curtin University, and a leading expert on Australian cultural history. He is the bestselling author of Great Australian Stories, Larrikins, Bush Tales and Other Great Australian Stories, and The Savage Shore.

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The inside account of Australia's national intelligence organisation as it grappled with continuing espionage from foreign agents and the rise of terrorist attacks on Australian soil during the years of the Fraser and Hawke governments. This is the third and final volume of the Official History of ASIO.

Description The Cold War between the West and the Soviet Bloc didn't end with detente in 1975: it just went underground. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 tensions between the superpowers continued to play out across the world.

Until now, few would have known of the surprising extent of clandestine operations in Australia by foreign intelligence operatives and the violence-prone activities of local extremist groups from the Middle East, Armenia and Croatia in the 1970s and 1980s. Meanwhile, prompted by probing royal commissions and reviews, ASIO was being systematically transformed into a modern intelligence organisation.

The Secret Cold War uncovers behind the scenes stories of the Hilton bombing in Sydney, assassinations of diplomats, the Combe-Ivanov affair, and the new threat from China. It reveals that KGB officers were able to recruit and run agents in Australia for many years, and it follows ASIO's own investigations into persistent allegations of penetration by Soviet moles.

The Secret Cold War is the third and final volume of The Official History of ASIO.

About the Author John Blaxland is a Senior Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, and a former Director of Joint Intelligence Operations at Headquarters Joint Operations Command. He is the author of the second volume in The Official History of ASIO, The Protest Years.

Price: $49.99 (NZ$55.00) ISBN: 9781760293215 Rhys Crawley works at the Australian War Memorial where he is an author of the official history of Australian military Format: Hard Cover operations in Afghanistan. Prior to this, while working on all three volumes of The Official History of ASIO, he was a Dimensions: 234x153mm Research Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. Extent: 552 pages

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Allen & Unwin NOVEMBER 2016 How Writing Works: A field guide to effective writing Roslyn Petelin

Are you worried about your grip on grammar? Know you need to write better to get through uni or progress in your career? Or do you want to write professionally? We can all improve our writing: How Writing Works show us how.

Description This is Roslyn Petelin's promise: whether you already write reasonably well or not, this book will exponentially improve your writing.

How Writing Works is a lively and practical introduction to the elements of grammar, sentence structure, and style that you need to write well. The book covers social media and writing for online publication, as well as the most common documents in the university and the writing-reliant workplace.

How Writing Works should be on the desk of everyone who needs to write: students, professionals in all fields, and creative writers.

'A superb guide to great writing in the modern media era.' Phil Harding, journalist and broadcaster, London

'Whether you're a CEO or an intern, the ability to communicate clearly is your biggest asset. Petelin's expert advice in this book will accelerate your career'. Damian Kington, Global Head of Marketing, Liquidnet, New York

About the Author Associate Professor Roslyn Petelin initiated and designed the award-winning Program in Writing, Editing, and Publishing at the University of Queensland, and developed the hugely successful international online course WRITE101X English Grammar and Style. She is co-author of The Professional Writing Guide and Professional Communication, and consults extensively to government and other organisations on writing, editing, and information design.

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Sub Category: CBW Writing & Editing Guides Illustrations: Previous Titles: P. Putnis and R. Petelin, Professional Communication, 2nd ed, Prentice Hall, 1999. R. Petelin and M. Durham, The Professional Writing Guide, Allen & Unwin, 1992. Author now living: Brisbane, QLD. Allen & Unwin NOVEMBER 2016 Keating Kerry O'Brien

The life of one of Australia's most intriguing public figures, former Prime Minister Paul Keating, as told to the country's most influential political interviewer, Kerry O'Brien. This long awaited collaboration is a biography unlike any other.

Description Paul Keating is widely credited as the chief architect of the most significant period of political and economic reform in Australia's history. Twenty years on, there is still no story from the horse's mouth of how it all came about. No autobiography. No memoir. Yet he is the supreme story-teller of politics.

This book of revelations fills the gap. Kerry O'Brien, the consummate interviewer who knew all the players and lived the history, has spent many long hours with Keating, teasing out the stories, testing the memories and the assertions.

What emerges is a treasure trove of anecdotes, insights, reflections and occasional admissions from one of the most loved and hated political leaders we have known-a man who either led or was the driving force through thirteen years of Labor government that changed the face of Australia.

This is a man who as prime minister personally negotiated the sale of a quarter of the government-owned Qantas in his own office for $665 million, then delighted in watching the buyer's hand shake so much that champagne spilt down his shirtsleeve. He tells of his grave moment of doubt after making one of the riskiest calls of his political life, and how he used an acupuncturist and a television interviewer to seize the day.

There are many stories of this kind. The revealing inside stories and even glimpses of insecurities that go with the wielding of power, from a man who had no fear collecting his share of enemies and ended up with more than enough, but whose parliamentary performances from 25 years ago are watched avidly on YouTube today by a generation that was either not yet born or in knee pants when he was at his peak.

Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) We'll never get an autobiography or a memoir from Keating. This is as good as it gets-funny, sweeping, angry, ISBN: 9781760294090 imaginative, mischievous, with arrogance, a glimmer of humility and more than a touch of creative madness. Keating Format: Paperback - C format unplugged. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 816 pages

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Sub Category: JP Politics Illustrations: About the Author Previous Titles: Author now living: Binna Burra, NSW Kerry O'Brien is one of Australia's most respected journalists, with six Walkley awards including the Gold Walkley and the Walkley for Outstanding Leadership in journalism.

In a 50-year career, Kerry has worked for newspapers, television and wire service, and as a foreign correspondent. Allen & Unwin NOVEMBER 2016 Riddledom: 101 riddles and their stories David Astle

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

Description Why are ladies like arrows?

When is a bird not a bird?

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

Welcome to the weird new word adventure from David Astle, plunging into the realm of riddles, chasing down and prising open 101 curious questions from around the planet. A mindtrip across time and place, Riddledom uncovers relics from over 50 cultures, delving into language and deception, sampling Pompeii walls and Dothraki warriors. Readers can unravel each mini-chapter, wrestling with riddles from Wonderland or Zanzibar, Oedipus Rex or Harry Potter. Come meet French acrobats, coffee slaves, lusty maids and many more along the way. Riddledom is your chance to roam Tasmania and Mongolia, Fiji and Peru, seeking riddles on clay tablets and Popsicle sticks.

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

About the Author David Astle has written two novels, plus five non-fiction works: Cluetopia, Puzzled, One Down, One Missing, Offbeat Australia and Riddledom. Between books, he drives the world to delight and despair as Friday's crossword setter, DA, appearing in both The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Actor Geoffrey Rush, in fact, describes David as 'the Sergeant Pepper of cryptic crosswords - a complete mind fuck'. Which is possibly a compliment. David was the former dictionary bloke on SBS's Letters and Numbers, while his feature stories have tackled luck, lying, drowning and fridge magnets, to name a few topics. His short stories have won several awards, including a trip to Beijing via Dublin as part of Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760294083 the James Joyce Suspended Sentence Prize in 2001. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 304 pages

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Allen & Unwin NOVEMBER 2016 Live Wire: A memoir of Bon Scott by three people who knew him best Mary Renshaw, John D'Arcy and Gabby D'Arcy

The inside story of the real Bon Scott, told by three of the people who knew him best.

Description The world knows Bon Scott as the wild rocker, the frontman for AC/DC who tragically died of alcohol poisoning on the eve of the band's rise to superstardom.

That's the legend, now meet the man.

Live Wire gives us the Bon Scott we never knew. In this deeply personal and revealing portrait we learn what it was like to be his friend, live and tour with him, and be part of the close-knit world from which one of biggest bands of all time emerged. With Bon there was always sex, drugs and rock'n'roll, but Live Wire also demonstrates the humour, intelligence and warmth of the man. From his early days with The Valentines, living in rundown apartments in inner Melbourne, to the legendary early years of AC/DC, this is the story of Bon, told by three of the people who knew him best.

John D'Arcy was Bon's roadie and mate. Gabby D'Arcy, Darce's wife, was a close friend of Bon's. And Mary Renshaw was - as AC/DC's former bass player Mark Evans called her - Bon's soulmate and companion.

As Bon said, it's a long way to the top. And Mary, Darce and Gabby were with him every step of the way. They lived with him, they loved him, and this is how they remember him.

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JOHN D'ARCY is a legendary Australian roadie, though no one - except his mum and the police - has ever called him 'John'. To the Australian music community, he is Darcy or Darce. After being the roadie for Bon Scott's first major band, Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760294113 The Valentines, Darcy worked with many Australian bands, including Healing Force (YouTube 'Golden Miles', a lost Format: Paperback - B format Aussie classic), and he worked on Leo Sayer's first Australian tour. As The Masters Apprentices' Jim Keays Dimensions: 198x128mm acknowledged, Darcy was there for 'the birth of it all [with a] wide grin, a joint in one hand, spanner in the other, as he got Extent: 288 pages ready for another big night'. Main Category: B Biography/autobiography

Sub Category: BM Memoirs Illustrations: THE FAN Previous Titles: Author now living: St Kilda, VIC and Warburton, VIC GABBY D'ARCY was just 14 when she met The Valentines. Two years later, she started going out with the band's roadie, Darcy. More than 45 years later, they are still together. It's one of rock 'n' roll's most remarkable relationships, and they are the proud parents of Rebecca and Matt. Matt is the drummer in Rival Fire, a band fronted by Rob Farnham. Allen & Unwin NOVEMBER 2016 Teaching Secondary School Mathematics: Research and practice for the 21st century Merrilyn Goos, Gloria Stillman and Colleen Vale with Katie Makar, Sandra Herbert and Vince Geiger

The second edition of a highly successful text introducing the fundamentals of teaching secondary school mathematics, fully revised to reflect the Australian Curriculum.

Description Since its first publication, Teaching Secondary School Mathematics has established itself as one of the most respected and popular texts for both pre- service and in-service teachers. This new edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect the major changes brought about by the introduction of the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics, as well as discussing significant research findings, the evolution of digital teaching and learning technologies, and the implications of changes in education policies and practices.

The mathematical proficiencies that now underpin the Australian curriculum -- understanding, fluency, problem solving and reasoning -- are covered in depth in Part 1, and a new section is devoted to the concept of numeracy. The chapter on digital tools and resources has been significantly expanded to reflect the growing use of these technologies in the classroom, while the importance of assessment is recognised with new material on assessment for learning and as learning, along with a consideration of policy development in this area. Important research findings on common student misconceptions and new and effective approaches for teaching key mathematical skills are covered in detail.

As per the first edition readers will find a practical guide to pedagogical approaches and the planning and enactment of lessons together with enhanced chapters on teaching effectively for diversity, managing issues of inequality and developing effective relationships with parents and the community.

This book provides the essential pedagogical tool for every emerging teacher of secondary school mathematics.

Price: $65.00 (NZ$75.00) 'The text offers an excellent resource for all of those involved in the preparation of secondary mathematics teachers, with ISBN: 9781743315934 links to research literature, exemplars of classroom practices, and instructional activities that encourage readers to Format: Paperback actively examine and critique practices within their own educational settings.' Dimensions: 230x171mm Extent: 576 pages

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Allen & Unwin NOVEMBER 2016 Keeping On Keeping On Alan Bennett

A new collection of Alan Bennett's diaries and more.

Description 'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I nervous that it will it make a jot of difference. I shall still be thought to be kindly, cosy and essentially harmless. I am in the pigeon-hole marked 'no threat' and did I stab Judi Dench with a pitchfork I should still be a teddy bear.'

Alan Bennett's third collection of prose Keeping On Keeping On follows in the footsteps of the phenomenally successful Writing Home and Untold Stories, each published ten years apart. This latest collection contains Bennett's peerless diaries 2005 to 2015, reflecting on a decade that saw four premieres at the National Theatre (The Habit of Art, People, Hymn and Cocktail Sticks), a West End double-bill transfer, and the films of The History Boys and The Lady in the Van.

There's a provocative sermon on private education given before the University at King's College Chapel, Cambridge, and 'Baffled at a Bookcase' offers a passionate defence of the public library. The book includes Denmark Hill, a darkly comic radio play set in suburban south London, as well as Bennett's reflections on a quarter of a century's collaboration with Nicholas Hytner. This is an engaging, humane, sharp, funny and unforgettable record of life according to the inimitable Alan Bennett.

About the Author Alan Bennett has been one of our leading dramatists since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic, as have many of his works for the stage. One of the National Theatre's most successful productions ever, The History Boys won numerous awards including Evening Standard and Critics' Circle awards for Best Play, an Olivier for the Best New Play and the South Bank Award. His collection of prose Writing Home was a number one bestseller. Untold Stories won the PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography, 2006. Recent works of fiction are The Uncommon Reader and Smut: Two Unseemly Stories. The film of The Lady in the Van starring Maggie Smith was released in 2015, and a new edition of his book of the same name a #1 bestseller for nine weeks.

Price: $49.99 (NZ$55.00) ISBN: 9781781256497 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 750 pages

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Profile Trade NOVEMBER 2016 Fucking Apostrophes Simon Griffin

A hilarious, furious and profoundly useful short guide to the most maddening punctuation in English.

Description Apostrophes are a f'ing pain. The rules about how to use them are complicated, and have evolved haphazardly.

Originally written as advice by a copywriter for designers - wont to insert and remove apostrophes at will, for visual effect - this is a light-hearted, pocket-sized guide to getting the f'ing things right.

Simon Griffin lets off steam so that we don't have to, showing precisely why 'Rhianna and Jennifer's photos were all over the internet' is quite different to 'Rhianna's and Jennifer's photos' or what words apostrophes are replacing in sentences such as 'He'd like you to buy him some cocaine', or 'They've got it all on camera.'

Elegantly produced, this is the perfect gift for any pedant, as well as an indispensable guide in all our moments of grammar-related frustration.

WARNING: CONTAINS EXPLICIT LANGUAGE!

About the Author Simon Griffin is the founder of copywriting agency Hyperbolic (www.thisishyperbolic.com) and lives with his wife and two children in Leeds. He currently has no plans to learn how to touch type and can happily write whole paragraphs without realising he's left caps lock on.

Price: $16.99 (NZ$18.99) ISBN: 9781785781414 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 158x104mm Extent: 64 pages

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Icon NOVEMBER 2016 Love Voltaire Us Apart: A Philosopher's Guide to Relationships Julia Edelman, illustrated by Hallie Bateman

Hilarious relationship advice from history's greatest minds.

Description What would Kant's sexts look like? How would Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir break up? What would Confucius think of Tinder?

Comedy writer Julia Edelman's New Yorker article 'Excerpts from Philosophers Breakup Letters' was a viral hit in 2015. From that same font of wisdom comes a hilarious spoof relationship guide with a philosophical edge.

Including essential information in chapters like 'Getting (Meta)physical' and '5 Ways To Know Your Man is Writing a Manifesto' - which gives the advice you need to avoid losing a relationship to revolution - Love Voltaire Us Apart is funny, smart, refreshingly original, and brought to life with charming illustrations from Hallie Bateman.

About the Author Julia Edelman is a comedy writer, and a graduate of McGill University. She has written for the New Yorker, Playboy, the Atlantic, CollegeHumour, Funny or Die, McSweeney's Internet Tendency and the Believer. She lives in New York.Hallie Bateman is a freelance writer and illustrator based in Brooklyn. Her work has been published by the New Yorker, The New York Times magazine, the Awl and many others.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781785780998 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 144 pages

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Icon NOVEMBER 2016 Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir Molly Brodak

A touching and unforgettable memoir of childhood, by the daughter of a serial bank robber.

Description Aged thirteen, Molly Brodak arrived home to discover that her father had been arrested for pulling over a dozen bank robberies in the Detroit area. After seven years in jail, he set up a new home with her older sister and remarried. A couple of years went by before he defrauded his older daughter and began robbing banks again.

With her father currently serving a 25 year sentence, Brodak's memoir - the first section of which appeared in Granta's Summer 2015 issue - tackles the most fundamental relationship of all: the one between parents and children.

In cinematic prose, Brodak takes the reader back through the maze of childhood and youth, carefully investigating its significant twists, and asks: how do we navigate that most formative of relationships once the bonds of respect and trust have been severed? What moments in childhood come back to shape us as adults? And how can so much distance insinuate itself into what should be the closest attachment of all? Confronted with the results of utter recklessness, she finds there can still be space for forgiveness.

About the Author Molly Brodak is a poet, and the author of three books of poetry. She received a BA in English at Oakland University then an MFA in Creative Writing at West Virginia University. The winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, she teaches at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781785781032 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages

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Icon NOVEMBER 2016 Messi, Neymar, Ronaldo - 2017 Updated Edition: Head to Head with the World's Greatest Players Luca Caioli

From acclaimed football biographer Luca Caioli comes an enjoyable analysis of three players at the peak of their abilities.

Description Lionel Messi, Neymar and Cristiano Ronaldo have risen from humble beginnings in Argentina, Brazil and Portugal to rank among the most exciting talents football has ever seen.

Now Luca Caioli, author of biographies Messi, Ronaldo and Neymar, asks: 'Who is the greatest of them all?' Comparing their contrasting styles, stories, records and awards, he gives you everything you need to decide who comes out on top. With exclusive insights from their friends, families, teammates and managers - including interviews with managers Luiz Felipe Scolari and Vicente del Bosque - Caioli presents a unique insight into what makes a modern player not just successful, but truly great.

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

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781785781117 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages

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Icon NOVEMBER 2016 Creating Freedom: Power, Control and the Fight for Our Future Raoul Martinez

A radical, revolutionary and highly provocative rethink of freedom from a writer, artist and award-winning film- maker.

Description The ideal of freedom is at the heart of our political and economic system. It is foundational to our sense of justice, our way of life, our conception of what it is to be human. But are we free in the way that we think we are?

In Creating Freedom, Raoul Martinez brings together a torrent of mind-expanding ideas, facts and arguments to dismantle sacred myths central to our society - myths about free will, free markets, free media and free elections. From the lottery of our birth to the consent-manufacturing influence of concentrated wealth and power, this far-reaching manifesto lifts the veil on the mechanisms of control that pervade our lives. It shows that the more we understand how the world shapes us, the more effectively we can shape the world.

A highly original exploration of the most urgent questions of our time, it reveals that we are far less free than we like to think, yet it also shows that freedom is something we can create together, and that our very survival may depend on us doing so.

About the Author Raoul Martinez is a writer, artist, and award-winning filmmaker. Creating Freedom is his first book. It is informed by over a decade of research and is accompanied by a documentary series of the same name. Episode One, The Lottery of Birth - produced, written and co-directed by Raoul - premiered in 2012. It was nominated for Best Documentary at London's Raindance Film Festival and went on to win the Artivist Spirit 2012 Award at Hollywood's Artivist Festival. It has been translated into several languages and the second film is currently in production. Raoul lives and works in London, where his paintings have been selected for exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery. www.creatingfreedom.info

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781782111870 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 412 pages

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Canongate Trade NOVEMBER 2016 Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience compiled by Shaun Usher

The pocket edition of this delightful and internationally bestselling collection of letters.

Description Letters of Note is a collection of over one hundred of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name - an online museum of correspondence visited by over 70 million people.

From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter, to Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower; from the first recorded use of the expression 'OMG' in a letter to Winston Churchill, to Gandhi's appeal for calm to Hitler; and from Iggy Pop's beautiful letter of advice to a troubled young fan, to Leonardo da Vinci's remarkable job application letter, Letters of Note is a celebration of the power of written correspondence which captures the humour, seriousness, sadness and brilliance that make up all of our lives.

About the Author Shaun Usher is a writer and sole custodian of the popular blogs www.lettersofnote.com and www.listsofnote.com. He has transformed both blogs into bestselling books, crowd-funded by Unbound and jointly published by Unbound and Canongate. He lives in Wilmslow with his wife Karina and their two sons. He is the author of the bestselling Letters of Note, More Letters of Note and Lists of Note.www.lettersofnote.com www.shaunusher.com Follow @LettersOfNote on Twitter

Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781782119289 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 214x166mm Extent: 320 pages

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Canongate Pbs NOVEMBER 2016 Weak Messages Create Bad Situations: A Manifesto David Shrigley

Over 400 works from the Turner Prize-nominated king of odd.

Description A personal message from the author: Lots of individuals in society today are feeble-minded. They don't know what the HELL is going on. Unfortunately many of these people are responsible for running THE COUNTRY. They don't know the difference between a PRECIOUS JEWEL and a piece of animal turd. Their ideas are MEANINGLESS, illustrated using RUBBISH imagery (often made by a computer). The stupid words they write are always in BAD FONTS.

Yet still people HEED this nonsense. Maybe YOU are one of these people?

It's alright. I am here to HELP you. I have a FULLY-COMPOSED WORLD VIEW. I have STRONG opinions about EVERYTHING. And my ideas are HAND-ILLUSTRATED and use REAL HANDWRITING that you can trust. I know exactly what's going on and am WILLING to share my thoughts with you. If you LISTEN to what I say then things will quickly improve. No more weak messages. No more bad situations. Shall we proceed?

About the Author David Shrigley was born in Macclesfield in 1968 and studied at Glasgow School of Art. His work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, at the MoMA in New York, and in Paris, Berlin, Melbourne and beyond. He has published over twenty books, and has animated a music video for Blur and produced another for Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. His work has also been profiled in a documentary for Channel 4. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2013 and he is the latest artist to be selected to display a sculpture on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth. He lives and works in Glasgow.

Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781782114055 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 205x150mm Extent: 400 pages

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Canongate Pbs NOVEMBER 2016 Gilliamesque: A Pre-posthumous Memoir Terry Gilliam

The raucous life story from the legendary film director and co-founder of Monty Python.

Description Now is probably as good a time as any to make a full confession. . .

Telling his story for the first time, the director of Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - not to mention co-founder of Monty Python's Flying Circus - recalls his extraordinary life so far. Featuring a cast of amazing supporting characters, including George Harrison, Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Uma Thurman, Johnny Depp, Heath Ledger and all of the fellow Pythons, Gilliamesque is a rollercoaster ride through late twentieth century popular culture.

Packed with never-before-seen artwork, photographs and commentary.

About the Author Terry Gilliam is a director, screenwriter, animator, actor, and member of Monty Python. He is well known for directing films that have achieved cult status, including Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), The Fisher King (1991), 12 Monkeys (1995) and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), and is ranked among the top film directors of the 20th Century. He has won many awards and prizes and has lost even more.

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781782111085 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 256x195mm Extent: 304 pages

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Canongate Pbs NOVEMBER 2016 Hope In The Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities Rebecca Solnit

This updated edition confirms Solnit's seminal work as a timeless classic on politics and change.

Description At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable work offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope. This exquisite work traces a history of activism and social change over the past five decades - from the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the worldwide marches against the war in Iraq.

Hope in the Dark is a paean to optimism in the uncertainty of the twenty-first century. Tracing the footsteps of the last century's thinkers - including Woolf, Gandhi, Borges, Benjamin and Havel - Solnit conjures a timeless vision of cause and effect that will light our way through the dark, and lead us to profound and effective political engagement.

About the Author Rebecca Solnit has written seven acclaimed works of non-fiction, including Wanderlust: A History of Walking and Men Explain Things To Me. An activist, columnist and cultural historian, she has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Lannan Literary Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She lives in San Francisco.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781782119074 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 176 pages

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Canongate Pbs NOVEMBER 2016 1,342 QI Facts To Leave You Flabbergasted John Lloyd

A new compendium of flabbergasting QI Facts.

Description The sock-blasting, jaw-dropping, side-swiping phenomenon that is QI serves up a sparkling new selection of 1,342 facts that will leave you flabbergasted.

1,342 QI Facts coincides with more good news from QI, as Sandi Toksvig takes over the duties as presenter on the double-BAFTA nominated TV show, and the QI Elves' podcast No Such Thing As A Fish wins its second Chortle award.

The first pencils were used to draw on sheep.

More people work for Walmart than live in Slovenia.

The beaded lacewing stuns its prey by farting on it.

The allies considered dropping glue to stick Nazi troops to the ground.

The only life on Earth for a billion years was a thick layer of slime. Scientists call it the boring billion.

On the anniversary of landing, the Mars Curiosity rover hummed 'Happy Birthday' to itself.

'Flabbergasted' was first recorded in a 1772 list of new words alongside 'bored'.

About the Author John Lloyd devised The News Quiz and To the Manor Born for radio before moving to television to start Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image and Blackadder. John Mitchinson was the original Marketing Director of Waterstone's, became Managing Director of Cassell, where he published The Beatles, Michael Palin and Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780571332465 and Fable, and now runs Unbound. James Harkin is QI's Senior Researcher and Script Editor and is one of the Format: Hard Cover presenters of the number one podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Dimensions: 178x111mm Extent: 352 pages

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Faber Non Fiction NOVEMBER 2016 Another Day in the Death of America Gary Younge

From the much-admired correspondent comes a powerful, moving and important book on the effect of gun crime on children in the US.

Description On Saturday 23 November 2013 ten children were shot dead. The youngest was nine; the oldest was nineteen. They fell in suburbs, hamlets and ghettos. None made the national news. It was just another day in the death of America, where on average seven children and teens are killed by guns daily.

Younge picked this day at random, searched for their families and tells their stories. What emerges is a sobering, searing, portrait of youth and guns in contemporary America.

About the Author Gary Younge, a feature writer and columnist for the Guardian, is the author of No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey Through the American South, and The Speech: The Story Behind Dr Martin Luther King Jr's Dream. Twitter: @garyyounge

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781783351350 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages

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Faber Non Fiction NOVEMBER 2016 Crusoe's Island: A Rich and Curious History of Pirates, Castaways and Madness Andrew Lambert

The fascinating history of an island that has haunted our imagination and culture.

Description From an acclaimed naval historian, Crusoe's Island charts the curious relationship between the British and an island on the other side of the world: Robinson Crusoe, in the South Pacific.

The tiny island assumed a remarkable position in British culture, most notably in Daniel Defoe's novel, Robinson Crusoe. Andrew Lambert reveals the truth behind the legend of this place, bringing to life the voices of the visiting sailors, scientists and artists, as well as the wonders, tragedy and violence that they encountered.

About the Author Andrew Lambert is Professor of Naval History at King's College, London. His books include Nelson: Britannia's God of War, Admirals: The Naval Commanders Who Made Britain Great and Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Exploration. His highly successful history of the British Navy, War at Sea, was broadcast on BBC Two.

Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9780571330232 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 350 pages

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Faber Non Fiction NOVEMBER 2016 Ariel: A Literary Life of Jan Morris Derek Johns

A literary biography of one of the greatest British writers of the post-war era.

Description Jan Morris is one of the great British writers of the post-war era. Soldier, journalist, writer about places (rather than 'travel writer'), elegist of the British Empire, novelist, she has fashioned a distinctive prose style that is elegant, fastidious, supple, and sometimes gloriously gaudy. For many readers she is best known for her candid memoir Conundrum, which described the gender reassignment operation she underwent in 1972. But as Ariel demonstrates, this is just one of the many remarkable facts about her life.

As James Morris she was the journalist who brought back the story of the conquest of Everest in 1953 and who discovered incontrovertible evidence of British involvement in the Suez Crisis of 1956. She has been described by Rebecca West as the finest prose stylist of her time, and her essays span the entire urban world. Her many books include a classic on Venice, a 1,600 page history of the British Empire, and a homage to what is perhaps her favourite city, Trieste. Her writings on Wales represent the most thorough literary investigation of that mysterious land.

Derek Johns was Jan Morris's literary agent for twenty years. Ariel is not a conventional biography, but rather an appreciation of the work and life of someone who besides being a delightful writer is known to many people as a generous, affectionate, witty and irreverent friend. It is published to coincide with her 90th birthday.

About the Author Derek Johns has been a bookseller, editor, publisher and literary agent. He is a former trustee of English PEN and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. His novel The Billy Palmer Chronicles was published in 2010. He lives in London.

Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9780571331635 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 304 pages

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Faber Non Fiction NOVEMBER 2016 Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905-1953 Simon Ings

From acclaimed SF and non-fiction author Simon Ings comes a fascinating secret history of Soviet science.

Description An epic story of courage, genius and terrible folly, this is the first history of how the Soviet Union's scientists became both the glory and the laughing stock of the intellectual world.

Simon Ings weaves together what happened when a handful of impoverished and underemployed graduates, professors and entrepreneurs, collectors and charlatans, bound themselves to a failing government to create a world superpower. And he shows how Stalin's obsessions derailed a great experiment in 'rational government'.

About the Author Simon Ings began his career writing science fiction stories, novels and films, before widening his brief to explore perception (The Eye), 20th-century radical politics (The Weight of Numbers), the shipping system (Dead Water) and augmented reality (Wolves). He co-founded and edited Arc magazine, a digital publication about the future, before joining New Scientist as its arts editor. Out of the office, he lives in possibly the coldest flat in London, writing for the Guardian, Times, Telegraph, Independent and Nature.

Price: $49.99 (NZ$55.00) ISBN: 9780571290079 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages

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Faber Non Fiction NOVEMBER 2016 Music for Life: 100 Works to Carry You Through Fiona Maddocks

How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? How do we choose the works that inspire, delight, comfort or console? Fiona Maddocks guides us by selecting 100 classical works from across nine centuries.

Description How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? How do we choose the works that inspire, delight, comfort or console? Fiona Maddocks selects 100 classical works from across nine centuries, arguing passionately, persuasively and at times obstinately for their inclusion, putting each work in its cultural and musical context, discussing omissions, suggesting alternatives and always putting the music first.

About the Author Fiona Maddocks is the Classical Music critic of the Observer. She was founder editor of BBC Music Magazine and chief arts feature writer for the London Evening Standard, and has written for numerous other publications. She is the author of Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age (Faber) and Harrison Birtwistle: Wild Tracks - A Conversation Diary with Fiona Maddocks (Faber).

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9780571329380 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 176 pages

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Faber Music NOVEMBER 2016 The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir David Hare

The shockingly funny and brilliant memoir from one of Britain's greatest and best-loved writers.

Description When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had written five of them. Yet he was born in 1947 into an anonymous suburban street in Hastings. It is a world he believes to be as completely vanished as Victorian England.

Now in his first panoramic work of memoir, ending as Margaret Thatcher comes to power in 1979, David Hare describes his childhood, his Anglo-Catholic education and his painful apprenticeship to the trade of dramatist. He sets the progress of his own life against the history of a time in which faith in hierarchy, deference, religion, the empire and finally politics all withered away. Only belief in private virtue remains.

In his customarily dazzling prose and with great warmth and humour, David Hare explores how so radical a shift could have occurred, and how it is reflected in his own lifelong engagement with two disparate art forms - film and theatre. In The Blue Touch Paper David Hare describes a life of trial and error: both how he became a writer and the high price he and those around him paid for that decision.

About the Author David Hare is the author of 30 full-length plays for the stage, seventeen of which have been presented at the National Theatre. They include Racing Demon, Skylight, Amy's View, The Blue Room and Stuff Happens. His many screenplays for film and television include The Hours, The Reader, Page Eight, Turks and Caicos and Salting the Battlefield.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571294343 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 368 pages

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Faber Paperback NOVEMBER 2016 Love in Vain: Robert Johnson 1911-1938, the graphic novel J. M. Dupont, illustrated by Mezzo

Love in Vain is the thrilling graphic novel telling of the life of Robert Johnson, the legendary bluesman who died over 75 years ago.

Description From 'Crossroads Blues' to 'Sweet Home Chicago', 'Hellhound on My Trail' to 'Come On In My Kitchen', Robert Johnson wrote some of the most enduring and formative songs of the original blues era, songs that would go on to help shape the birth of rock'n'roll in the 1960s. Beloved of Clapton, Dylan and the Stones, Robert Johnson remains one of the most iconic and mythologised figures in popular music (and the first of many to die at the age of 27). Born in the in the South in Mississippi, Johnson made his way to the urban North as a travelling musician, but it was only when he returned to the South that he recorded the twenty-nine songs, in two sessions, which would create his legacy.

Exploring the stories and legends that surround his life and death - his childhood, his womanising, his pact with the devil at the crossroads - Mezzo and DuPont have produced a fittingly creative and beautiful depiction of this most extraordinary life.

About the Author An avid admirer of Robert Crumb, Mezzo is one of the most respected artists in the French graphic novel world. His cult classic King of the Flies (with Michel Pirus) was published in the United States by Fantagraphics. A former music journalist, Jean-Michel Dupont also worked as a copywriter for advertising.

Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9780571328833 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 190x300mm Extent: 72 pages

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Faber Social NOVEMBER 2016 Wrote For Luck: Selected Lyrics Shaun Ryder

30 of Shaun Ryder's lyrics with commentary by the 'Salford Dylan' collected for the first time.

Description In the mid-1980s the Happy Mondays emerged as the prime mischief makers on the Madchester scene. Chief protagonist was Shaun Ryder, a man whose lyrical street swagger in songs like 'Kinky Afro', '24 Hour Party People' and 'Performance', would come to define a generation. Here collected and edited for the first time, in trade and special editions, are his unforgettable lyrics.

About the Author Shaun Ryder is lyricist and singer in Happy Mondays and Black Grape, and author of the bestselling memoir, Twisting My Melon.

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9780571330935 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 192 pages

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Faber Social NOVEMBER 2016 Shock and Awe Simon Reynolds

The first complete epic history of Glam Rock from '68-'76 by the finest music writer of his generation, Simon Reynolds.

Description As the sixties dream faded, a new flamboyant movement electrified the world: GLAM! In Shock and Awe, Simon Reynolds explores this most decadent of genres on both sides of the Atlantic. Bolan, Bowie, Suzi Quatro, Alice Cooper, New York Dolls, Slade, Roxy Music, Iggy, Lou Reed, Be Bop Deluxe, David Essex -- all are represented here. Reynolds charts the retro future sounds, outrageous styles and gender-fluid sexual politics that came to define the first half of the seventies and brings it right up to date with a final chapter on glam in hip hop, Lady Gaga, and the aftershocks of David Bowie's death.

Shock and Awe is a defining work and another classic in the Faber Social rock n roll canon to stand alongside Rip it Up, Electric Eden and Yeah Yeah Yeah.

About the Author Simon Reynolds is the author of Energy Flash: A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture, Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellions and Rock and Roll (co- written with Joy Press), Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984, Bring the Noise: Twenty Years of Hip Hop and Hip Rock and Retromania.

Price: $49.99 (NZ$55.00) ISBN: 9780571301713 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 544 pages

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Faber Social NOVEMBER 2016 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded Jon Savage

2016 is the 50th anniversary of defining year in global pop cultural history, 1966. Jon Savage's exploration of the key highs, lows and revolutionary moments, will be at the centre of reflection on what made that year so uniquely resonant.

Description The pop world accelerated and broke through the sound barrier in 1966. In America, in London, in Amsterdam, in Paris, revolutionary ideas slow-cooking since the late '50s reached boiling point. In the worlds of pop, pop art, fashion and radical politics -- often fueled by perception-enhancing substances and literature -- the 'Sixties', as we have come to know them, hit their Modernist peak. A unique chemistry of ideas, substances, freedom of expression and dialogue across pop cultural continents created a landscape of immense and eventually shattering creativity.

Jon Savage's 1966 is a monument to the year that shaped the pop future of the balance of the century. Exploring canonical artists like The Beatles, The Byrds, Velvet Underground, The Who and The Kinks, 1966 also goes much deeper into the social and cultural heart of the decade through unique archival primary sources.

About the Author Jon Savage is the author of England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock and Teenage: The Creation of Youth, 1875 -1945. He has written sleevesnotes for Wire, St. Etienne and the Pet Shop Boys, among others, and his compilations include: Meridian 1970 (Heavenly/EMI 2005); Queer Noises: From the Closet to the Charts 1961- 1976 (Trikont 2006); and Dreams Come True: Classic Electro 1982-87 (Domino 2008).

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571277636 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 672 pages

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Faber Paperback NOVEMBER 2016 Jane Bown: Cats Jane Bown

The ultimate cat-lover's dream book - packed with adorable photographs from the renowned photographer, Jane Bown.

Description Jane Bown is a legendary Observer photographer best-known for her portraits of icons from Beckett to Bjork. This is a charming collection of 100 black and white pictures of felines which reveals the same sympathetic eye and wit as her portraits. She captures the cats sprawling, prowling, lolling, playing, feeding and lounging. House cats, alley cats, show cats and kittens trip and gambol across these pages making this the perfect photographic treat for cat-lovers.

About the Author Jane Bown began working at the Observer in 1949. Bown's great mantra was, 'photographers should neither be seen nor heard'. An ideal shoot was one where she exposed no more than a roll and a half of film, often in just 15 minutes. Once she cornered the notoriously camera-phobic Samuel Beckett in a dark alleyway down the side of the Royal Court theatre in London as he tried to escape her lens. With simmering hostility, he stood long enough for Jane to expose five frames - the middle one is one of her most recognisable portraits and the best portrait of the playwright. She was made an MBE in 1985, a CBE in 1995. She died in December 2014.

Robin Christian, the editor, is a curator, exhibition programmer and archivist currently working at the Guardian News & Media Archive and the Photography and the Archive Research Centre, a Research Centre of the University of the Arts London. He catalogued Bown's extensive archive collection and was a researcher on previous books, A Lifetime of Looking and Unknown Bown.

Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781783350872 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 229x187mm Extent: 160 pages

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Guardian Books NOVEMBER 2016 The Mindless Colouring Book Molly Manners and Alex Worrall

A light-hearted alternative to the array of wonderful yet slightly more serious colouring books currently available, and proves that laughter is still our favourite stress-reliever.

Description Comedy + mindfulness = smiling + relaxing = smilaxing

Cheeky and charming, this book has a delightful personality, dining out on the notion that you can do something therapeutic for the mind and have fun at the same time ...

About the Author Molly Manners is a film, TV and commercials director whose credits include TOWIE and Made in Chelsea. She spends most of her time doodling when she should be working.

Alex Worrall is a comedy writer whose credits include the BBC, Channel 4 and The Guardian. He also dabbles in stand up comedy and has performed around the UK.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781780722955 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 210x153mm Extent: 76 pages

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Faber Short Books NOVEMBER 2016 A Tale of Trees: How Britain Nearly Lost Its Ancient Woodland Derek Niemann

The extraordinary untold story of what happened to Britain's woodland.

Description 'He would come to the farm with his bulldozer every year. I still remember the smell of the harvest, the bullocks and bales in the background. He would bulldoze round a large oak tree, dig down eight or nine feet and leave this oak tree on one root. Then he'd push the tree over.

Although it seems criminial today to think of it, you were a young man, you were helping the country, you were going to grown more crops. And if a conservationist had come up to me and said: "Do you know that tree is 200 years old?" I would have said, I don't care.'

We are a nation that loves its ancient woods and trees. We prize our sturdy oaks, craggy pines, bluebells and primroses, badgers and dormice. We value the history and heritage of places that have been woodland since before the Norman Conquest. But only a generation ago we were all set to wipe them out. It was said that in the space of just 30 years, nearly half of our ancient woods were destroyed. How and why did this happen? And who prevented them all being lost?

A Tall of Trees features the voices of those who cut down the woods and those who saved what was left. It is a story full of tragedy and heroism, ingenuity and blindness. And it will inspire the reader to go out and explore more ancient woods, and delight in our national treasures.

With an endorsement from Helen McDonald, author of H is for Hawk.

About the Author Derek Niemann is the editor of the RSPB's children's magazine and has written several books on nature and conservation for young readers. He lives in Bedfordshire with his family.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781780722757 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages

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Faber Short Books NOVEMBER 2016 How Good is Your Grammar?: 101 Quiz Questions - the ultimate test to bring you up to scratch John Sutherland

John Sutherland, one of Britain's most celebrated professors of English literature, is here to test, stretch, amuse and instruct you with his definitive quiz on all things grammatical.

Description Why do purists insist that 'television' is wrong while 'telephone' is correct?

Was Bill Clinton taking risks with language as well as his presidency when he declared, 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman?'

And can the use of 'ain't' ever be defended, especially when there's no sunshine when she's gone?

This is neither a rule book nor a primer but a rollercoaster ride through the mysteries and magic of the world's greatest language.

About the Author John Sutherland - Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus, UCL - is the author of over 30 works of scholarship and is a well known journalist who writes, regularly, for the London and New York Times, the Guardian and many places else (spot the solecism).

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781780722856 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 192 pages

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Faber Short Books NOVEMBER 2016 Get a Life: The Diaries of Vivienne Westwood Vivienne Westwood

Fashion designer, political activist, national icon: Vivienne Westwood sets down her unique vision of the world in her blog, Get A Life. Here's the cream of the cream from six years of troublemaking.

Description Vivienne Westwood began Get A Life, her online diary, in 2010 with an impassioned post about Native American activist Leonard Peltier. Since then, she has written two or three entries each month, discussing her life in fashion and her involvement with art, politics and the environment.

Reading Vivienne's thoughts, in her own words, is as fascinating and provocative as you would expect from Britain's punk dame - a woman who always says exactly what she believes. And what a life! One week, you might find Vivienne up the Amazon, highlighting tribal communities' struggles to maintain the rainforest; another might see her visiting Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy, or driving up to David Cameron's house in the Cotswolds in a full-on tank. Then again, Vivienne might be hanging out with her friend Pamela Anderson, or in India for Naomi Campbell's birthday party, or watching Black Sabbath in Hyde Park with Sharon Osbourne.

The beauty of Vivienne Westwood's diary is that it is so fresh and unpredictable. In book form, generously illustrated with her own selection of images, it is irresistible.

About the Author Dame Vivienne Westwood is one of the icons of our age: fashion designer, activist, co-creator of punk, global brand and grandmother. Her career has successfully spanned five decades and her work has influenced millions across the world.

Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781781254981 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages

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Serpents Tail NOVEMBER 2016 Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe Ian Stewart

One of the world's great mathematicians explores the origins, history and future of the universe.

Description Ian Stewart's up-to-the-minute guide to the cosmos moves from the earth and the planets to the galaxy and the universe. He describes how galaxies, stars and planets form, why stars implode, how everything began, and how it's going to end. He considers parallel universes, fine-tuning of the cosmos, whether life on earth will be snuffed out by a comet, and what extra-terrestrial life may be like. He provides crystal clear accounts of gravity, spacetime, relativity and quantum theory, and how they relate to each other.

Mathematics has been the driving force in astronomy and cosmology since the ancient Egyptians. Professor Stewart shows how Kepler's work on the planets led to Newton's law of gravity, which in turn inspired Einstein's theories of relativity. He examines current challenges to Big Bang Theory and how the next scientific revolution may once again transform understanding of the universe and our place within it.

About the Author Ian Stewart is Mathematics Professor Emeritus at the University of Warwick. His books include Incredible Numbers, Seventeen Equations that Changed the World, The Great Mathematical Problems and Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society; his awards include the Royal Society's Faraday Medal (1995), the IMA Gold Medal (2000), the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Public Understanding of Science and Technology Award (2001), the Zeeman Medal (2008), and the Lewis Thomas Prize (2015 with Steven Strogatz).

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781781257180 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages

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Profile Trade NOVEMBER 2016 Release Your Inner Roman by Marcus Sidonius Falx Dr. Jerry Toner

After his acclaimed How to Manage your Slaves, Marcus Sidonius Falx returns with a guide to self-fulfilment the Roman way.

Description At last the Roman self-help book the world has been waiting for. Marcus Sidonius Falx sets out the characteristics that have made the Romans the most successful people in history and shows how following their example will do the same for you. His guide will enhance the value of your life, boost its rewards and enrich its pleasures. You will get practical advice on how to raise your prospects, choose your career and make a fortune. Falx shows how to manage your love-life, choose a spouse and raise your children, as well as offering guidance on marital relations and the importance of loyalty and discipline in family affairs. Supported by Falx's practical wisdom, you will be able to improve every aspect of your life, raising yourself up in society and keeping the gods on your side. You will know how to behave when the tide of affairs is running with you and equally when it turns against you.

Marcus Sidonius Falx's pioneering How to Manage your Slaves was published to critical and commercial acclaim in 2014. Release your Inner Roman is its triumphant sequel.

About the Author Marcus Sidonius Falx is a Roman of noble birth. After serving with distinction in the legions, he retired to manage his substantial country estates. He now divides his time between his properties in Campania and the province of Africa and his luxury villa on the Esquiline hill overlooking Rome. His assistant and amanuensis, Dr Jerry Toner is Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics, Churchill College, Cambridge University. Dr Toner's previous books include How to Manage Your Slaves (9781781252529)and The Ancient World (9781781254202). His next book, Emperors and Crooks, will be published by Profile in 2018.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781781254660 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 224 pages

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Profile Trade NOVEMBER 2016 Shrinking Violets: A Field Guide to Shyness Joe Moran

Come on, don't be shy: pick up this outstanding cultural history of shyness from the brilliant Joe Moran.

Description Our success as a species is built on sociability, so shyness in humans should be an anomaly. But it's actually remarkably common - we all know what it's like to cringe in embarrassment, stand tongue- tied at the fringe of an unfamiliar group, or flush with humiliation if we suddenly become the unwelcome centre of attention.

In Shrinking Violets, Joe Moran explores the hidden world of shyness, providing insights on everything from timidity in lemon sharks to the role of texting in Finnish love affairs. As he seeks answers to the questions that shyness poses - Why are we shy? Can we overcome it? Does it define us? - he uncovers the fascinating stories of the men and women who were 'of the violet persuasion', from Charles Darwin to Agatha Christie, and from Tove Jansson to Nick Drake.

In their stories - often both heart-breaking and inspiring - and through the myriad ways scientists and thinkers have tried to explain and cure shyness, Moran finds a hopeful conclusion. To be shy, he decides, is not simply a burden - it is also a gift, a different way of seeing the world that can be both enriching and inspiring.

About the Author Joe Moran is Professor of English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. He contributes regularly to the Guardian and other newspapers. His book On Roads was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and, together with his previous book, Queuing for Beginners, received unanimous critical acclaim.

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781781252635 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages

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Profile Trade NOVEMBER 2016 Imperial Triumph: The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine Professor Michael Kulikowski

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

Description Imperial Triumph presents the history of Rome at the height of its imperial power. Beginning with the reign of Hadrian in Rome and ending with the death of Julian the Apostate on campaign in Persia, it offers an intimate account of the twists and often deadly turns of imperial politics in which successive emperors rose and fell with sometimes bewildering rapidity. Yet, despite this volatility, the Romans were able to see off successive attacks by Parthians, Germans, Persians and Goths and to extend and entrench their position as masters of Europe and the Mediterranean. Imperial Triumph shows how they managed to do it.

Michael Kulikowski describes the empire's cultural integration in the second century, the political crises of the third when Rome's Mediterranean world became subject to the larger forces of Eurasian history, and the remaking of Roman imperial institutions in the fourth century under Constantine and his son Constantius II. The Constantinian revolution, Professor Kulikowski argues, was the pivot on which imperial fortunes turned - the beginning of the parting of ways between the eastern and western empires.

This sweeping account of one of the world's greatest empires is incisive, readable and authoritative.

About the Author Michael Kulikowski is Professor of History and Classics at Penn State University, where his research and writing ranges widely across ancient and early medieval history. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. His books include Rome's Gothic Wars, described by Bryn Mawr Classical Review as 'exceptional' and by Military History Review as 'breezy and animated, yet authoritative'. He is currently writing Imperial Tragedy on the history of the empire from the Constantinian legacy to the Destruction of Roman Italy in 568, to be published by Profile in 2018.

Price: $49.99 (NZ$55.00) ISBN: 9781846683701 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 416 pages

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Profile Trade NOVEMBER 2016 Why Deals Fail (and how to rescue them): M&A lessons for business success Scott Moeller, Anna Faelten and Michel Driessen

Exploring and explaining The Three Big Mistakes of Deal-Making through expert advice, stories and lessons.

Description Mergers and acquisitions are part of the fabric of business and economic life: they help drive growth in companies of all sizes. Most executives will at some point in their careers experience a takeover, as buyer, seller or intermediary. Yet, despite M&A's obvious attractions, deals often fall short of expectations and, in extreme cases, can go disastrously wrong, with devastating consequences.

From their unique perspective as practitioners and researchers, Faelten, Driessen and Moeller have seen it all when it comes to M&A, and they've used this experience to develop their Three Big Mistakes of Deal-Making. Using case studies from a wide range of companies, many household names (Diageo, BMW, Microsoft, Kraft, HP and even Manchester United), and for deals ranging from the highly to the less successful to the downright questionable, Why Deals Fail offers both a commentary on the inexorable tendency for companies to merge, for good or ill, and a guide to the benefits and pitfalls of M&A as a growth strategy.

The result is a fascinating insight into why some deals work and why others go awry for anyone interested in how the corporate world works, or contemplating or facing a merger or acquisition themselves.

About the Author Anna Faelten is a Corporate Finance advisor at international accounting firm EY, and a visiting lecturer at Cass Business School. Michel Driessen is a Senior Partner at EY focused on post-merger integration, divestments and operational restructuring, and a senior Fellow at the Cass Business Business School. Scott Moeller is a Professor in the Practice of Finance at Cass Business School and Director of its M&A Research Centre. He is a former investment banker with Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank.

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781781254530 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 256 pages

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Profile Business NOVEMBER 2016 The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination Richard Mabey

A Mabey magnum opus: 'Mabey's finest, an eclectic world-roaming collection of stories...lacing colour, intimacy and emotional texture around the scaffold of hard facts.' - Spectator

Description In The Cabaret of Plants, Mabey explores the plant species which have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty and belief.

Picked from every walk of life, they encompass crops, weeds, medicines, religious gathering-places and a water lily named after a queen. Beginning with pagan cults and creation myths, the cultural significance of plants has burst upwards, sprouting into forms as diverse as the panacea (the cure-all plant ginseng, a single root of which can cost up to $10,000), Newton's apple, the African 'vegetable elephant' or baobab - and the mystical, night-flowering Amazonian cactus, the moonflower.

Ranging widely across science, art and cultural history, poetry and personal experience, Mabey puts plants centre stage, and reveals a true botanical cabaret, a world of tricksters, shape-shifters and inspired problem-solvers, as well as an enthralled audience of romantics, eccentric amateur scientists and transgressive artists. The Cabaret of Plants celebrates the idea that plants are not simply 'the furniture of the planet', but vital, inventive, individual beings worthy of respect - and that to understand this may be the best way of preserving life together on Earth.

About the Author Richard Mabey is 'the nation's favourite nature writer' (Sunday Telegraph) and 'a national treasure' (Sunday Times), who, 'as a celebrant of the botanical...has few peers' (Nature Microbiology). He is the author of thirty books, including the bestselling plant bible Flora Britannica, and Nature Cure, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread, Ondaatje and Ackerley Awards. A regular on radio and in the national press, he was elected a Fellow in the Royal Society of Literature in 2012.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781861979582 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 386 pages

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Profile Trade NOVEMBER 2016 The Railways: Nation, Network and People Simon Bradley

An extraordinary social history of Britain's rail networks and its people, that will appeal to railway enthusiasts, commuters and everyone else who travels by train.

Description Britain's railways have been a vital part of national life for nearly 200 years. Transforming lives and landscapes, they have left their mark on everything from timekeeping to tourism. As a self-contained world governed by distinctive rules and traditions, the network also exerts a fascination all its own.

From the classical grandeur of Newcastle station to the ceaseless traffic of Clapham Junction, from the mysteries of Brunel's atmospheric railway to the lost routines of the great marshalling yards, Simon Bradley explores the world of Britain's railways, the evolution of the trains, and the changing experiences of passengers and workers. The Victorians' private compartments, railway rugs and footwarmers have made way for air-conditioned carriages with airline-type seating, but the railways remain a giant and diverse anthology of structures from every period, and parts of the system are the oldest in the world.

Using fresh research, keen observation and a wealth of cultural references, Bradley weaves from this network a remarkable story of technological achievement, of architecture and engineering, of shifting social classes and gender relations, of safety and crime, of tourism and the changing world of work. The Railways shows us that to travel through Britain by train is to journey through time as well as space.

About the Author Simon Bradley is joint editor of the celebrated Pevsner Architectural Guides, to which he has contributed a number of notable revised volumes. He started trainspotting aged eleven, and his interest in railways has broadened and endured. He is the author of St Pancras Station (Profile), and lives in London.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781846682131 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 768 pages

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Profile Trade NOVEMBER 2016 Granta 137: Animalia Sigrid Rausing

This issue of Granta asks writers, poets and artists how we fit into the animal kingdom.

Description The animal kingdom: a community that we alternately identify with and distance ourselves from. We love animals as pets, we weave them into our myths and fables; we breed them under conditions of terrible cruelty so we can eat them cheaply. Animal rights campaigners draw our attention to pig factories, battery hens and cattle containers, while goods marked as 'free range', 'organic' and 'ethically sourced' fill the aisles of our supermarkets. And as new developments in animal cognition force us to concede fewer distinguishing characteristics between us and them, the neighbouring species have begun to occupy a new place in our culture.

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 languages.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781905881994 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 210x145mm Extent: pages

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Granta NOVEMBER 2016 A Good Life: Philosophy from Cradle to Grave Mark Rowlands

From the bestselling author of The Philosopher and the Wolf comes a gripping and provocative story of one man's life through a philosophical lens.

Description Myshkin was born on a certain day and died on a certain day - and some things happened to him in between. These things presented him with ethical questions and this book is a record of his attempt to answer those questions. Discovered by his son after Myshkin's death, A Good Life is one man's reckoning with the life he has led and the choices he made. It is at once a philosophical handbook for living and a page- turning narrative. A Good Life is one man's life (birth, death, education, religion, morality, illness and so on) told through a philosophical lens. It is a riveting examination of the ethical questions we face, and the decisions we must make, and a defence of the idea that at the beating heart of morality we find love. And it is written with the conviction that, on their own, moral rules and principles are childish things - risible and easily refuted. It is only a life in its entirety that can be morally judged.

A Good Life is sometimes profoundly funny, sometimes deeply serious. It is as readable as a novel and as provocative as the best philosophy. It is the finest work to date by a charming and brilliant thinker.

About the Author Mark Rowlands was born in Newport, Wales. He is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami and the author of sixteen books, including the bestselling The Philosopher and the Wolf, also published by Granta. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781847089502 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages

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Granta Paperbacks NOVEMBER 2016 A Long Long Way Sebastian Barry

A repackaged edition of A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry - shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005 - an epic and moving story of one man's war.

Description One of the most vivid and realised characters of recent fiction, Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barry's highly acclaimed novel. Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, he finds himself caught between the war playing out on foreign fields and that festering at home, waiting to erupt with the Easter Rising. Profoundly moving, intimate and epic, A Long Long Way charts and evokes a terrible coming of age, one too often written out of history.

About the Author Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His novels include The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (1998), Annie Dunne (2002), A Long Long Way (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008). A Long Long Way, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Dublin International Impac Prize, was the Dublin: One City One Book choice for 2007. The Secret Scripture won several awards. It was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Wicklow with his wife and three children.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571320233 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages

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Faber Paperback NOVEMBER 2016 The Secret Scripture Sebastian Barry

Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2008, over 600,000 copies sold in Faber editions to date.

Description Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges is at once shocking and deeply beautiful. Refracted through the haze of memory and retelling, Roseanne's story becomes an alternative, secret history of Ireland's changing character and the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope.

About the Author Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955 and educated at The Catholic University School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he was later Writer Fellow in 1996. His plays include Boss Grady's Boys (1988), The Steward of Christendom (1995), Our Lady of Sligo (1998), and The Pride of Parnell Street (2007), and his novels, The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (1998), Annie Dunne (2002), and most recently A Long Long Way (2005), which was the Dublin: One City One Book choice for 2007 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Dublin International Impac Prize. He has won among other awards the Irish-America Fund Literary Award, The Christopher Ewart-Biggs Prize, the London Critics Circle Award, and The Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize. He lives in Wicklow with his wife Ali and three children, Merlin, Coral and Tobias.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780571323951 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages

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Faber Paperback NOVEMBER 2016 The Temporary Gentleman Sebastian Barry

A stunning return from the prize-winning and best-selling author of The Secret Scripture.

Description Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in his lodgings in Accra, he urgently sets out to write his story. He feels he cannot take one step further, or even hardly a breath, without looking back at all that has befallen him.

He is an ordinary man, both petty and heroic, but he has seen extraordinary things. He has worked and wandered around the world - as a soldier, an engineer, a UN observer - trying to follow his childhood ambition to better himself. And he has had a strange and tumultuous marriage. Mai Kirwan was a great beauty of Sligo in the 1920s, a vivid mind, but an elusive and mysterious figure too. Jack married her, and shared his life with her, but in time she slipped from his grasp.

A heart-breaking portrait of one man's life - of his demons and his lost love - The Temporary Gentleman is, ultimately, a novel about Jack's last bid for freedom, from the savage realities of the past and from himself.

About the Author Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His novels and plays have won, among other awards, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Costa Book of the Year award, the Irish Book Awards Best Novel, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He also had two consecutive novels, A Long Long Way (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008), shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize. He lives in Wicklow with his wife and three children.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780571276998 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages

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Faber Paperback NOVEMBER 2016 On Canaan's Side Sebastian Barry

From the bestselling Costa Prize-winning author of The Secret Scripture a heartbreaking novel spanning a lifetime.

Description 'As they used to say in Ireland, the devil only comes into good things.'

Narrated by Lilly Bere, On Canaan's Side opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. The story then goes back to the moment she was forced to flee Dublin, at the end of the First World War, and follows her life through into the new world of America, a world filled with both hope and danger. At once epic and intimate, Lilly's narrative unfurls as she tries to make sense of the sorrows and troubles of her life and of the people whose lives she has touched.

Spanning nearly seven decades, it is a novel of memory, war, family-ties and love, which once again displays Sebastian Barry's exquisite prose and gift for storytelling.

About the Author Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His plays include The Steward of Christendom and The Pride of Parnell Street and his novels include The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty, Annie Dunne, A Long Long Way and The Secret Scripture. A Long Long Way was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Dublin International Impac Prize, and was the Dublin: One City One Book for 2007. The Secret Scripture won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Irish Book Awards Best Novel, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Wicklow with his wife and three children.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780571226542 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 304 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback NOVEMBER 2016 Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 Simon Reynolds

The essential book on post-punk music, a must for any serious pop music fan.

Description Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book to take a big-picture view of the wildly adventurous music created in the years after punk. Renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds celebrates the futurist spirit of such bands as Joy Division, Gang of Four, Talking Heads, and Devo, which resulted in endless innovations in music, lyrics, performance, and style and continued into the early eighties with the video-savvy synth-pop of groups such as Human League, Depeche Mode, and Soft Cell, whose success coincided with the rise of MTV. Full of insight and anecdote and populated by charismatic characters, Rip It Up re-creates the idealism, urgency, and excitement of one of the most important and challenging periods in the history of popular music.

About the Author Simon Reynolds is the author of Energy Flash: A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture, Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, The Sex Revolts: Gender Rebellions and Rock and Roll (cowritten with Joy Press), Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 and, most recently, Bring The Noise: Twenty Years of Hip Hop and Hip Rock.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9780571215706 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 608 pages Main Category: AV Music Sub Category: AVGU Punk, New Wave & Indie Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Music NOVEMBER 2016 Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past Simon Reynolds

Could it be that the greatest danger to the future of our music culture is. its past?

Description The first book to make sense of 21st Century pop, Retromania explores rock's nostalgia industry of revivals, reissues, reunions and remakes, and argues that there has never before been a culture so obsessed with its own immediate past. Pulling together parallel threads from music, fashion, art, and new media, Simon Reynolds confronts a central paradox of our era: from iPods to YouTube, we're empowered by mind-blowing technology, but too often it's used as a time machine or as a tool to shuffle and rearrange music from yesterday. We live in the digital future but we're mesmerized by our analogue past.

About the Author Simon Reynolds is the author of Energy Flash: A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture, Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, The Sex Revolts: Gender Rebellions and Rock and Roll (cowritten with Joy Press), Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 and, most recently, Bring The Noise: Twenty Years of Hip Hop and Hip Rock.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9780571232093 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 496 pages Main Category: AV Music Sub Category: AVGU Punk, New Wave & Indie Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback NOVEMBER 2016 The Lady In The Van (film tie-in) Alan Bennett

Film tie in edition of Alan Bennett's classic memoir

Description For fifteen years, the recalcitrant Miss Shepherd lived in her broken-down van on Alan Bennett's driveway in Camden. Deeply eccentric and stubborn to her bones, Miss Shepherd was not an easy tenant. Bennett, despite inviting her in the first place, was a reluctant landlord, never under the illusion that his impulse was purely charitable.

This account of those years was first published in 1989 in the London Review of Books. The play premiered in 1999, directed by Nicholas Hytner and starring Dame Maggie Smith, who reprise those roles in this new film adaptation. Shot on location at Bennett's house, Alex Jennings plays the author, alongside household names including James Corden, Frances de la Tour, Jim Broadbent and Dominic Cooper.

About the Author Alan Bennett is the author of Untold Stories and numerous works of fiction including The Uncommon Reader. His play The History Boys was the National Theatre's most successful production ever.

Price: $16.99 (NZ$18.99) ISBN: 9781781255407 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 179x111mm Extent: 112 pages

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Profile Trade NOVEMBER 2016 Smut: Two Unseemly Stories Alan Bennett

Unexpected tales from the master of short fiction.

Description The Shielding of Mrs Forbes

Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother who thinks that if he must have a wife, he should have done better. And her own husband would be better if she were mourning him than living with him. But this is Alan Bennett, so no matter the importance of keeping up appearances, what is happening in the bedroom (and in lots of other places too) is altogether more startling, perhaps shocking, and ultimately much more honest to people's predilections.

The Greening of Mrs Donaldson

Mrs Donaldson is a conventional middle-class woman beached on the shores of widowhood after a marriage that had been much like many others: happy to begin with, then satisfactory and finally dull. But when she decides to take in two lodgers (a young, broke couple) passions that she never knew existed are aroused, and her mundane life becomes much more stimulating.

About the Author Alan Bennett has been one of the UK's leading dramatists since Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic, as have many of his stage plays including Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, A Question of Attribution and The Madness of George III . The History Boys won numerous awards both at the National Theatre, London, and on Broadway. Also at the NT: The Habit of Art, People, Hymn and Cocktail Sticks. His collection of prose Untold Stories won the PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography. Recent works of fiction are The Uncommon Reader and Smut: Two Unseemly Stories.

Price: $17.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781846685262 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 178x111mm Extent: 208 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FA Popular Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade NOVEMBER 2016 The Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett

Join the Queen on her life-changing literary odyssey.

Description The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely ( JR Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton Burnett and the classics) and intelligently.

Her reading naturally changes her world view and her relationship with people like the oleaginous prime minister and his repellent advisers. She comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with much that she has to do. In short, her reading is subversive. The consequence is, of course, surprising, mildly shocking and very funny.

About the Author Alan Bennett's many stage and television plays and his prose collection, Writing Home, have made him one of Britain's best-loved authors. He has a huge international reputation for his plays and films which include: Habeus Corpus, Kafka's Dick, Private Function, The Madness of George III and many others - often multi-prize winning. But it is his fiction (The Clothes They Stood Up In, Father! Father! Burning Bright and The Laying on of Hands - all Profile), now translated into many languages, and appearing on bestseller lists in Europe and the US as well as in Britain, which have brought him to the widest international readership. He was Author of the Year at the 2006 British Book Awards.

Price: $17.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781846681332 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 179x113mm Extent: 128 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback NOVEMBER 2016 Untold Stories Alan Bennett

The astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, updated for paperback

Description The paperback of Untold Stories contains new unpublished diaries, as well as a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional essays, reviews and comic pieces. Since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s Alan Bennett has delighted audiences worldwide with his gentle humour and wry observations about life. His many works include Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, Talking Heads, A Question of Attribution and The Madness of George III. Bennett's most recent play, The History Boys, opened to great acclaim at the National in 2004, and is winner of the Evening Standard Award, the South Bank Award and the Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play. It came to Sydney in March 2006 and was made into a feature film

About the Author Alan Bennett first appeared on the stage in 1960 as one of the authors and performers of the revue 'Beyond the Fringe'. His stage plays include Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus, The Old Country and The Lady in the Van, and he has written many television plays, notably A Day Out, Sunset Across the Bay, A Woman of No Importance and the series of monologues Talking Heads. An adaptation of his television play, An Englishman Abroad, was paired with A Question of Attribution in the double-bill Single Spies, first produced at the National Theatre in 1988. This was followed in 1990 by his adaptation of The Wind in the Willows and in 1991 by The Madness of George III. Alan Bennett is the author of the best-selling biography Writing Home, and the short novels The Clothes They Stood Up In, Father Father Burning Bright, The Lady in the Van and The L

Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9780571228317 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 672 pages Main Category: B Biography/autobiography Sub Category: BM Memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback NOVEMBER 2016 Writing Home Alan Bennett

A wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's writings, and the companion volume to Untold Stories.

Description This book brings together his diaries for 1980-1995, with reminiscences and reviews, the diary he kept during the production of his very first play, Forty Years On, which starred John Gielgud, together with hilarious accounts of his many television plays, notably An Englishman Abroad and A Private Function.

At the heart of the book is The Lady in the Van, the true account of Miss Mary Shepherd, a homeless tramp who took up residence in Bennett's garden and stayed for fifteen years. From his now-legendary address at Russell Harty's memorial service to recollections of growing up in Leeds, Writing Home gives us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights.

About the Author Alan Bennett is one of the most celebrated writers in Britain today. His play (and film) The History Boys won seven Emmys in New York and was the most successful play in the history of the National Theatre. Untold Stories, sold over 700,000 copies in hardback and paperback and won the PEN / Ackerley Prize for Autobiography.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9780571315727 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: pages

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Faber Paperback NOVEMBER 2016 How to Manage Your Slaves by Marcus Sidonius Falx Dr. Jerry Toner, introduction by Mary Beard

An entertaining and amazingly informative guide to the realities of slavery in ancient Rome, with an introduction by Mary Beard.

Description At last, a clear manual for managing slaves the Roman way. In How to Manage Your Slaves, Marcus Sidonius Falx offers practical advice, showing where and how to buy slaves and how to get the best out of them. He explains how to tell good slaves from bad, offers guidance on the punishment of miscreants, and reveals the secrets of command and authority. He covers the delicate subjects of when you should let your slaves have sex and whether to engage in sex with them yourself - and considers when to set them free. Armed with this guide you will be master in your own home: your household will be a comfort to your family, its running the envy of your neighbours.

Slavery was a core institution in the Roman world for all its long existence. As they conquered, the Romans enslaved millions and then bred from this stock to maintain their numbers in times of peace. It almost never occurred to anyone that slavery might be dispensed with and to no one at all that it was morally reprehensible. Up to now ancient slavery may have been difficult to fathom: this Roman's-eye view takes us to the heart of the matter and, based on a wealth of original sources, lets us understand just why slaves meant so much to the Romans.

About the Author Marcus Sidonius Falx is a Roman of noble birth, whose family have kept slaves for generations. After serving with distinction in the legions, he retired to manage his substantial estates. He now divides his time between his country properties and his luxury villa on the Esquiline hill overlooking Rome. He has employed Dr Jerry Toner, Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics, Churchill College, Cambridge University, to set his work in context, and persuaded Professor Mary Beard to write a foreword.

Price: $21.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781781252529 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages

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Profile Trade NOVEMBER 2016 The Great Mathematical Problems Ian Stewart, edited by John Davey

'Britian's foremost populariser of maths' Ian Stewart reveals the ultimate questions that take us to the limits of mathematics - now available in paperback.

Description There are some mathematical problems whose significance goes beyond the ordinary - like Fermat's Last Theorem or Goldbach's Conjecture -they are the enigmas which define mathematics.

The Great Mathematical Problems explains why these problems exist, why they matter, what drives mathematicians to incredible lengths to solve them and where they stand in the context of mathematics and science as a whole. It contains solved problems - like the Poincare Conjecture, cracked by the eccentric genius Grigori Perelman, who refused academic honours and a million-dollar prize for his work, and ones which, like the Riemann Hypothesis, remain baffling after centuries.

Stewart is the guide to this mysterious and exciting world, showing how modern mathematicians constantly rise to the challenges set by their predecessors, as the great mathematical problems of the past succumb to the new techniques and ideas of the present.

About the Author Ian Stewart is Mathematics Professor Emeritus at Warwick University. His many books include Mathematics of Life [9781846682056], Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities [9781846683459], and The Science of Discworld trilogy with Terry Pratchett. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, appears frequently on radio and television, and does research on pattern formation and network dynamics.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9781846683374 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages

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Profile Trade NOVEMBER 2016 Seventeen Equations that Changed the World Ian Stewart, edited by John Davey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Profile Trade NOVEMBER 2016 How Are You Feeling?: At the Centre of the Inside of The Human Brain's Mind David Shrigley

A profound, unsettling and very funny new book from the cult artist, David Shrigley.

Description At the centre of the inside of the human brain's mind is the place where one can find the reasons why human beings behave in such peculiar, delightful and unpleasant ways. I, the author of this book (D.Shrigley BA (Hons)) shall take the reader on a journey around the human brain and along the way I shall point-out various things that are worthy of discussion.

We will start our journey in the eye as that is a common entrance place to the brain. I shall ruminate about the eye and its properties. I shall tell how the eye's seeing is sorted-out in the brain and the magical nature of it and I shall warn of all the things that can go wrong in this sorting-out process. After the eye, we shall travel to the ear and discuss the world that is heard and how it is heard in the brain and all the awful things that can go wrong; some of them amusing and some not amusing. Taste and smell will of course be covered as these are also things of interest to the brain. We will also touch upon touch, so to speak. We will also touch upon the scalp, but only lightly and briefly.

Once we have looked at the brain's government of the senses we shall start to talk about the really interesting stuff. Like how the brain decides what is right and wrong and why some people are very charming and others behave like monkeys. Some other questions that might be dealt-with are as follows: Could my brain be removed and replaced with a computer? Why can't I remember my wife's name? I can constantly hear a faint whistling sound; is it the sound of my brain functioning?

About the Author David Shrigley was born in Macclesfield in 1968 and studied at Glasgow School of Art. He has worked as a sculptor, photographer and 'environment artist' and, most famously, as a cartoonist and illustrator. His work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, at the MoMA in New York, and in Paris, Berlin, Melbourne and beyond. He has published Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) over twenty books, and has animated a music video for Blur and produced another for Bonny Prince Billy. His work has ISBN: 9780857867216 also been profiled in a documentary for Channel 4 and he was recently invited to hold a major, four-month retrospective at Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 197x149mm the Hayward Gallery in London. What the Hell are You Doing? The Essential David Shrigley was published by Canongate Extent: 208 pages in 2010. He lives and works in Glasgow. Main Category: A The Arts Sub Category: AGB Individual Artists, Art Monographs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate Trade NOVEMBER 2016 What The Hell Are You Doing?: The Essential David Shrigley David Shrigley, introduction by Will Self

The definitive collection of the work of cult artist David Shrigley.

Description By turns hilarious, satirical, and brilliant, David Shrigley's full-page illustrations - a combination of drawing, comics, photography, and sculpture - are sui generis: uproariously funny, pleasantly unnerving, and, most of all, really, really cool.

Neither graphic novel nor art book, What the Hell Are You Doing? celebrates the surreal world of the artist who created Ants Have Sex in Your Beer and To Make the Meringue You Must Beat the Egg Whites Until They Look Like This - the man Dave Eggers calls 'probably the funniest gallery-type artist who ever lived.'

About the Author David Shrigley was born in Macclesfield in 1968 and studied at Glasgow School of Art. He has worked as a sculptor, photographer and 'environment artist' and, most famously, as a cartoonist and illustrator. His work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, at the MoMA in New York, and in Paris, Berlin, Melbourne and beyond. He has published over twenty books, and has animated a music video for Blur and produced another for Bonny Prince Billy. His work has also been profiled in a documentary for Channel 4 and he was recently invited to hold a major, four-month retrospective at the Hayward Gallery in London. He lives and works in Glasgow.

Price: $35.00 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781847678638 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 199x155mm Extent: 352 pages Main Category: WH Humour Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate Trade NOVEMBER 2016 Days Without End Sebastian Barry

Twice Booker-shortlisted author Sebastian Barry returns with a sensational new novel set in mid-19th Century America, an intensely poignant story of two men and the lives they are dealt.

Description 'Time was not something then we thought of as an item that possessed an ending, but something that would go on for ever, all rested and stopped in that moment. Hard to say what I mean by that. You look back at all the endless years when you never had that thought. I am doing that now as I write these words in Tennessee. I am thinking of the days without end of my life. And it is not like that now...'

Having signed up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and, ultimately, the Civil War.

Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, they find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in.

Moving from the plains of the West to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry's latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. Both an intensely poignant story of two men and the lives they are dealt, and a fresh look at some of the most fateful years in America's past, Days Without End is a novel never to be forgotten.

About the Author Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His novels and plays have won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Irish Book Awards Best Novel, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He also had two consecutive novels, A Long Long Way (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008), shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize. He lives in Wicklow with his wife and three children.

Price: $44.99 (NZ$49.99) ISBN: 9780571277001 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 272 pages

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Faber Fiction NOVEMBER 2016 Little Sister Death William Gay

The most terrifying novel you'll read this year.

Description Little Sister Death is the stunning 'lost' horror novel of the late William Gay. Inspired by the famous 19th Century Bell Witch haunting of Tennessee, it follows the unravelling life of David Binder, a writer who moves his young family to a haunted farmstead to try and find inspiration for his faltering work.

Beautifully written and structured, Little Sister, Death is a loving and faithful addition to the field of classic horror writing, eschewing any notions of irony or post-modern tricks as it aims, instead, straight for your soul.

About the Author William Gay was born in Hohenwald, Tennessee. After high school, he joined the United States Navy and served during the Vietnam War. For many years he made his living as a carpenter, drywall-hanger and house painter before publishing, in 1998, his first novel, The Long Home, at the age of 57. He went on to publish the story collection I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down and two novels, Provinces of Night and Twilight, in his lifetime.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571325726 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 220 pages

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Faber Paperback NOVEMBER 2016 Mametz Owen Sheers

A play about one of the bloodiest conflicts on the Somme, the battle for Mametz Wood.

Description 'Blood and poetry flow as night falls in the Monmouthshire woods, where National Theatre Wales offers audiences a glimpse of one of the bloodiest conflicts on the Somme: the battle for Mametz Wood. Four thousand of the 38th (Welsh) Division were killed or wounded during the taking of the wood, men and trees falling together. Birdsong was silenced by artillery fire; severed limbs hung from the branches like leaves.

A generation of poets and writers wrote about the experience, including David Jones, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and Llewelyn Wyn Griffith whose words are entwined in a script penned by Owen Sheers. Sheers's own haunting poem Mametz Wood provides the inspiration for an evening that begins with silence, broken by the sound of shelling, and a lone soldier, a runner, glimpsed on a rolling hillside, looking towards a far horizon.' - The Guardian

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.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571332250 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 192 pages

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Faber Plays NOVEMBER 2016 Brian Friel: Collected Plays - Volume 5: Uncle Vanya; The Yalta Game; The Bear; Afterplay; Performances; The Home Place; Hedda Gabler (after Ibsen) Brian Friel

Description This fifth collection of Brian Friel's work contains: Uncle Vanya (after Chekhov) (1998), The Yalta Game (after Chekhov) (2001), The Bear (after Chekhov) (2002), Afterplay (after 2002), Performances (2003), The Home Place (2005), Hedda Gabler (after Ibsen) (2005).

About the Author Brian Patrick Friel (1929-2015) was an Irish dramatist, short story writer and founder of the Field Day Theatre Company. Considered one of the greatest English-language dramatists, the English-speaking world hailed him as an 'Irish Chekhov' and 'the universally accented voice of Ireland'. His plays have been compared favourably to those of contemporaries such as Samuel Beckett, Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter and Tennessee Williams.

Price: $44.99 (NZ$49.99) ISBN: 9780571331819 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 320 pages

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Faber Plays NOVEMBER 2016 Collected Poems Louis MacNeice

The Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice was originally created to mark his centenary in September 2007.

Description In the decades since his death in 1963, Louis MacNeice's reputation as a poet (and, indeed, amongst poets) has grown steadily, and there are now several generations of readers in Ireland, Britain, and beyond, for whom he is one of the essential poets of the twentieth century. His work has also received increasing attention from academic writers and students. For both readers and critics, the nature of MacNeice's poetic work as a whole is a matter of importance, and the second posthumous Collected Poems, entirely re-edited by Peter McDonald, attempts, for the first time, to print MacNeice's poetry in groupings corresponding closely to the collections published by Faber between 1935 and 1963. This makes it easier to read the poet in the published forms in which he was read by his contemporaries.

In choosing to re-create the environments of MacNeice's individual volumes of poetry, moreover, this new Collected reflects the opinion that MacNeice works best in and through those separate volumes, particularly so in the brilliant return to form - and unique kinds of return on lyric form itself - of the last three collections. The texts of the poems in the new edition are based on a comparison of all printed versions, as revised in the light of the poet's later thoughts. This has resulted in a large number of changes. It is hoped that the present edition presents MacNeice's poetry more accurately, as well as more fully, than all previous collections. The new Collected Poems also includes, as appendices, The Last Ditch - the short book of poems which MacNeice published with the Cuala Press in 1940 - and The Revenant, a cycle of songs written for MacNeice's wife, the singer Hedli Anderson, a selection of uncollected early poems, and from Blind Fireworks, MacNeice's first published book of verse.

About the Author Louis MacNeice was born in Belfast in 1907 and educated at Marlborough and MertonCollege, Oxford. His first book of poems, Blind Fireworks, appeared in 1929, and he subsequently worked as a translator, literary critic, playwright, autobiographer, BBC producer and feature writer. The Burning Perch, his last volume of poems, appeared shortly before his death in 1963.

Price: $59.99 (NZ$69.99) ISBN: 9780571331383 Peter McDonald was born in Belfast in 1962, and educated at Methodist College, Belfast, and University College Oxford. Format: Paperback - Demy format He is author of Louis MacNeice: The Poet in His Contexts (OUP 1991) and Mistaken Identities: Poetry and Northern Dimensions: 216x135mm Ireland (OUP, 1997). He is Tutor in English at Christ Church, Oxford. Extent: 880 pages

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Faber Poetry NOVEMBER 2016 Morning, Paramin Derek Walcott and Peter Doig

A vibrant meditation on the difficult beauty of the Caribbean, taking the form of a dialogue between a Nobel Prize winning poet and a renowned figurative painter.

Description Morning, Paramin offers us a stunning collaboration between a Nobel Prize winning poet, Derek Walcott, and a renowned figurative painter, Peter Doig. It journeys through the physical and psychological landscapes of two lives, from the snowy landscapes of Edmonton to the sun-washed shores of the Caribbean, from the process of mourning a loved one to the experience of watching a film. Taking the form of a call-and-response, with paintings on one side and poetry on the other, Morning Paramin lets Walcott's characteristic perception and wit shine through in his illuminating responses to Doig's luminescent paintings. Both poems and paintings are triumphant celebrations of life's pleasures and pains loving, observing, aging.

Walcott, born and living in St. Lucia, and Doig, living in Trinidad, engage in a powerful dialogue on the Caribbean's colonial legacy, the politics of home and belonging, and the boundaries of art. A poignant exploration of a friendship and a vibrant meditation on the difficult beauty of the Caribbean, Morning, Paramin probes the boundaries of communication and celebrates the thrills of a shared language.

About the Author Derek Walcott was born in St. Lucia in 1930. He is the author of seventeen collections of poetry, nine plays or collections of plays, and a book of essays. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.

Peter Doig, a Scottish painter born in 1959, has lived and worked in Trinidad since 2002. He was nominated for the Turner Prize and received the Prix Eliette von Karajan in 1994. He was the recipient of the Wolfgang Hahn Prize in 2008. Major solo exhibitions have been shown at the Tate Britain, the Musee d Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, the National Galleries of Scotland, the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, and the Fondation Beyeler.

Price: $59.99 (NZ$69.99) ISBN: 9780571332045 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 255x196mm Extent: 116 pages

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Faber Poetry NOVEMBER 2016 Peace Talks Andrew Motion

The stunning new sequence of poems from former poet laureate Andrew Motion.

Description The second half of Andrew Motion's new collection returns to the sequence begun in Laurels and Donkeys, completing a body of work recognised by the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award in 2014. These meditations on combat and the people caught up in it look back to conflicts of the past: to the 'war to end all wars'; to Rupert Brooke on his final journey; to Wilfred Owen at Craiglockhart War Hospital; to Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the day of his fatal shooting. But Motion also depicts the ravages of modern warfare through reported speech, redacted documents, and vivid evocations of place, his plain understatement bringing the magnitude of war home to our own shores. These poems are moving and measured, delicate and clear-eyed, and bear witness to the futility of war and the suffering of those left behind. Elsewhere we find biographies in miniature, dreams and visions, family histories, which in their range of forms and voices consider questions of identity, and character. These are poems of remembrance in which Motion's war poems, all in their own way elegies, find a natural partner. Peace Talks is a wise and compassionate work.

About the Author Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009; he is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and co-founder of the online Poetry Archive. His authorised life of Philip Larkin won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. His most recent collection of poems is The Customs House (2012). Andrew Motion was knighted for his services to poetry in 2009. In 2014 he received the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571325481 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 80 pages

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Faber Poetry NOVEMBER 2016 A Ghost's Story: A Novel Lorna Gibb

The novelised autobiography of the Katie King spirit: a tale of desire and delusion, belief and illusion.

Description Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries seances and spiritualist meetings grew in popularity. One 'ghost' appeared more than any other: the Katie King spirit. A Ghost's Story presents the mysterious spirit writings and biographical outpourings of Katie King, this famous and enigmatic spirit celebrity. Is she a profound and curious consciousness guided into this realm by the faith of true believers, or the cheap trickery of parlour cheats and exploitative swindlers? Katie King is both, and more.

This is the tale of a ghost's quest to understand human faith, loss and passion. It is also the tale of a contemporary scholar desperate to understand the allure of the spirit world, journeying with Katie from the candle-lit drawing rooms of Victorian London to the Imperial Palaces of Tsars; from the shadiest of gimmicks and tricks, to the most poignant sincerity of the death-bed wish. A Ghost's Story announces a narrator like no other, moving in and out of time and space, obstreperous, witty and profoundly honest. Above all, it is an examination of belief and a spectacular insight into what lies on the other side.

About the Author Lorna Gibb was born in Belshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. She is a university lecturer and now lives in London. She is the author of Lady Hester: Queen of the East and West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West. A Ghost's Story is her first novel.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781783780365 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 336 pages

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Granta Paperbacks NOVEMBER 2016 Hay Bales and Hollyhocks Sheila Newberry

A heart-warming novel from 'the queen of family saga'.

Description The Cambridge Fens, 1938.

Little Rosanna is part of a close-knit Fenland family and the youngest of three cousins. In a time of childhood abandon and adventures on the water, life couldn't be more perfect.

But things are not always as they seem. When Rosanna's new baby brother is born, tragedy strikes the family. And, with the outbreak of World War Two just around the corner, Rosanna's life is changed forever . . .

About the Author Sheila Newberry was born in Suffolk and spent a lot of time there both before and during the war. She wrote her first 'book' before she was ten - all sixty pages of it - in purple ink. Her family has certainly been her inspiration and she has been published most of her adult life. She spent forty years living in Kent with her husband John on a smallholding, and has nine children and twenty-two lively grandchildren. They retired back to Suffolk where Sheila still lives today.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781785761607 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 400 pages

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Zaffre NOVEMBER 2016 Creating Freedom: Power, Control and the Fight for Our Future Raoul Martinez

A radical, revolutionary and highly provocative rethink of freedom from a writer, artist and award-winning film- maker.

Description The ideal of freedom is at the heart of our political and economic system. It is foundational to our sense of justice, our way of life, our conception of what it is to be human. But are we free in the way that we think we are?

In Creating Freedom, Raoul Martinez brings together a torrent of mind-expanding ideas, facts and arguments to dismantle sacred myths central to our society - myths about free will, free markets, free media and free elections. From the lottery of our birth to the consent-manufacturing influence of concentrated wealth and power, this far-reaching manifesto lifts the veil on the mechanisms of control that pervade our lives. It shows that the more we understand how the world shapes us, the more effectively we can shape the world.

A highly original exploration of the most urgent questions of our time, it reveals that we are far less free than we like to think, yet it also shows that freedom is something we can create together, and that our very survival may depend on us doing so.

About the Author Raoul Martinez is a writer, artist, and award-winning filmmaker. Creating Freedom is his first book. It is informed by over a decade of research and is accompanied by a documentary series of the same name. Episode One, The Lottery of Birth - produced, written and co-directed by Raoul - premiered in 2012. It was nominated for Best Documentary at London's Raindance Film Festival and went on to win the Artivist Spirit 2012 Award at Hollywood's Artivist Festival. It has been translated into several languages and the second film is currently in production. Raoul lives and works in London, where his paintings have been selected for exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery. www.creatingfreedom.info

Price: $49.99 (NZ$55.00) ISBN: 9781782111818 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 496 pages

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Canongate Trade NOVEMBER 2016 The Missing of the Somme Geoff Dyer, introduction by Wade Davis

Republished to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, Geoff Dyer's classic book is 'the great Great War book of our time' (Observer).

Description The Missing of the Somme has become a classic meditation upon war and remembrance. It weaves a network of myth and memory, photos and films, poetry and sculptures, graveyards and ceremonies that illuminate our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War.

About the Author Geoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and three previous novels, as well as ten non-fiction books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography's 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E.M. Forster Award. In 2009 he was named GQ's Writer of the Year. He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 and was a finalist in 1998. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in London.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781782119265 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages

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Canongate Pbs NOVEMBER 2016 Another Day in the Death of America Gary Younge

From the much-admired correspondent comes a powerful, moving and important book on the effect of gun crime on children in the US.

Description On Saturday 23 November 2013 ten children were shot dead. The youngest was nine; the oldest was nineteen. They fell in suburbs, hamlets and ghettos. None made the national news. It was just another day in the death of America, where on average seven children and teens are killed by guns daily.Younge picked this day at random, searched for their families and tells their stories. What emerges is a sobering, searing, portrait of youth and guns in contemporary America.

About the Author Gary Younge, a feature writer and columnist for the Guardian, is the author of No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey Through the American South, and The Speech: The Story Behind Dr Martin Luther King Jr's Dream. Twitter: @garyyounge

Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781783351015 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages

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Faber Non Fiction NOVEMBER 2016 Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey Madeleine Bunting

An extraordinary journey deep into the history and landscape of the Hebrides, exploring the islands' turbulent history, the spread of their influence, and how they shaped the nations of Britain, from the award- winning author of The Plot.

Description Few landscapes are as iconic as the islands off the north-western Scottish coast. On the outer edge of the British Isles and facing the Atlantic Ocean, the Hebrides form part of Europe's boundary. Because of their unique position in the Atlantic archipelago, they have been at the centre of a network of ancient shipping routes which has led to a remarkable history of cultures colliding and merging. Home to a long and rich Gaelic tradition, for centuries their astonishing geography has attracted saints and sinners, and stimulated artists and writers, inspiring awe and dread as well as deep attachment.Over six years, Madeleine Bunting travelled north-west, returning again and again to the Hebrides, exploring their landscapes, histories and magnetic pull. With great sensitivity and perceptiveness, she delves into the meanings of home and belonging, which in these islands have been fraught with tragedy as well as tenacious resistance.The Hebrides hold a remarkable place in the imaginations of Scotland and England. Bunting considers the extent of the islands' influence beyond their shores, finding that their history of dispossession and migration has been central to the British imperial past. Perhaps more significant still is how their landscapes have been repeatedly used to imagine the British nation. Love of Country shows how their history is a backdrop for contemporary debates about the relationship between our nations, how Britain was created, and what Britain has meant - for good and for ill.

About the Author Madeleine Bunting was for many years a columnist for the Guardian, which she joined in 1990. Born in North Yorkshire, Bunting read History at Cambridge and Politics at Harvard. She is the author of The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands under German Rule, 1940-45, Willing Slaves: How the Overwork Culture is Ruling Our Lives (both published by HarperCollins) and The Plot: A Biography of an English Acre (published by Granta in 2009) which won the Portico Prize and was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize. She left the Guardian in 2013 to concentrate on her writing. She lives in London with her family.

Price: $49.99 (NZ$55.00) ISBN: 9781847085177 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x156mm Extent: 368 pages

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Granta NOVEMBER 2016 Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe Ian Stewart

One of the world's great mathematicians explores the origins, history and future of the universe.

Description Ian Stewart's up-to-the-minute guide to the cosmos moves from the earth and the planets to the galaxy and the universe. He describes how galaxies, stars and planets form, why stars implode, how everything began, and how it's going to end. He considers parallel universes, fine-tuning of the cosmos, whether life on earth will be snuffed out by a comet, and what extra-terrestrial life may be like. He provides crystal clear accounts of gravity, spacetime, relativity and quantum theory, and how they relate to each other.

Mathematics has been the driving force in astronomy and cosmology since the ancient Egyptians. Professor Stewart shows how Kepler's work on the planets led to Newton's law of gravity, which in turn inspired Einstein's theories of relativity. He examines current challenges to Big Bang Theory and how the next scientific revolution may once again transform understanding of the universe and our place within it.

About the Author Ian Stewart is Mathematics Professor Emeritus at the University of Warwick. His books include Incredible Numbers, Seventeen Equations that Changed the World, The Great Mathematical Problems and Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society; his awards include the Royal Society's Faraday Medal (1995), the IMA Gold Medal (2000), the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Public Understanding of Science and Technology Award (2001), the Zeeman Medal (2008), and the Lewis Thomas Prize (2015 with Steven Strogatz).

Price: $49.99 (NZ$55.00) ISBN: 9781781254318 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages

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Profile Trade NOVEMBER 2016 Hinterland Chris Mullin

A wry and revealing political memoir from the man behind the celebrated diaries: The View from the Foothills, A Walk-On Part and Decline & Fall.

Description All serious politicians are supposed to possess a hinterland, but not all do. Chris Mullin was one who did. By the time he entered parliament he had reported from the wars in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia and tracked down the survivors of the CIA operation in Tibet. He was the author of three novels, including the classic A Very British Coup. His successful campaign to free the innocent people convicted of the Birmingham bombings was described as 'one of the greatest feats ever achieved by an investigative reporter'.

Elected to parliament, aged 39, he quickly established himself as a fearless inquisitor before going on to become a minister in three departments. His three volumes of diaries have been widely acclaimed as the best account of the Blair years and the rise and fall New Labour. He left parliament in 2010 ('better to go while people are still asking why rather than when'). These are his memoirs.

About the Author Chris Mullin was the Labour MP for Sunderland South from 1987 until 2010. He played a key role in Tony Blair's New Labour government, chairing the Home Affairs Select Committee and served in three departments. He is the author of three volumes of diaries, The View from the Foothills, A Walk-On Part and Decline and Fall, and the bestselling novel A Very British Coup, re-published by Serpent's Tail, which was turned into an award-winning television series.

Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781781256053 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 386 pages

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