JANUARY 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. With film rights sold to Warner Bros, and Bradley Cooper attached to play tortured hero Marshall Grade, American Blood is sure to follow in their award-winning, blockbuster success.
'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 Caracterra, 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 Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760291570 Ben Sanders is the author of three previous novels: The Fallen (2010), By Any Means (2011), and Only The Dead (2013), Format: Paperback - C format all of which were New Zealand Fiction Bestsellers. Sanders' first three novels were written while he was studing at Dimensions: 234x153mm university; he graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor of Engineering, but now writes full-time. American Blood is his first U.S.- Extent: 352 pages based novel, and have been optioned by Warner Bros. and Bradley Cooper for a major motion picture. He lives in Main Category: F Fiction
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Allen & Unwin JANUARY 2016 That Empty Feeling Peter Corris
An unexpected obituary takes Cliff Hardy on a trip down memory lane to a case he's been trying to forget for twenty years: oil, fraud, boxing, racing - and murder.
Description One case still haunts Hardy ...
Legendary PI Cliff Hardy has reached an age when the obituaries have become part of his reading, and one triggers his memory of a case in the late 1980s. Back then Sydney was awash with colourful characters, and Cliff is reminded of a case involving 'Ten-Pound Pom' Barry Bartlett and racing identity and investor Sir Keith Mountjoy.
Bartlett, a former rugby league player and boxing manager, then a prosperous property developer, had hired Hardy to check on the bona fides of young Ronny Saunders, newly arrived from England, and claiming to be Bartlett's son from an early failed marriage. The job brought Hardy into contact with Richard Keppler, head of the no-rules Botany Security Systems, Bronwen Marr, an undercover AFP operative, and sworn adversary Des O'Malley.
At a time when corporate capitalism was running riot, an embattled Hardy searched for leads - was Ronny Saunders a pawn in a game involving big oil and fraud on an international scale? Two murders raise the stakes and with the sinister figure of Lady Betty Lee Mountjoy pulling the strings, it was odds against a happy outcome.
About the Author Peter Corris has been writing his best selling Cliff Hardy detective stories for thirty years. He's written many other books, including a very successful 'as-told-to' autobiography of Fred Hollows, and a collection of short stories about golf.
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Allen & Unwin JANUARY 2016 Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper Hilary Liftin
Theirs was a match made in Hollywood heaven: Elizabeth (formerly Lizzie) Pepper and Hollywood mega-star Rob Mars had their photographs on the cover of every magazine and their pick of lead roles in every blockbuster film. But now it's all over and Lizzie is ready to spill the beans. An addictively juicy novel of celebrity love gone wrong!
Description Actress Lizzie Pepper was America's Girl Next Door and her marriage to Hollywood mega-star Rob Mars was tabloid gold-a whirlwind romance and an elaborate celebrity-studded wedding landed them on the cover of every celebrity weekly. But fame, beauty, and wealth weren't enough to keep their marriage together. Hollywood's 'It' couple are over-and now Lizzie is going to tell her side of the story.
Celebrity ghostwriter Hilary Liftin chronicles the tabloids' favourite marriage as Lizzie Pepper realises that, when the curtain falls, her romance isn't what she and everyone else thought. From her lonely holidays in sumptuous villas to her husband's deep commitment to a disconcertingly repressive mind-body group, Lizzie reveals a side of fame that her fans never get to see. Full of twists and turns, Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper is a breathless journey to the heights of Hollywood power and royalty and a life in the spotlight that is nearly impossible to escape.
About the Author Hilary Liftin is a collaborator specializing in celebrity memoir. Before becoming a full-time writer, Hilary worked in the publishing industry for ten years, holding positions in editorial, marketing, and business development at Houghton Mifflin, Barnes & Noble.com, and the ebook division of Time Warner Books (now Hachette). Since 2006 she has worked on fifteen books, ten of which hit the New York Times bestseller list. Hilary has also written three books under her own name. Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper is her first novel.
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Allen & Unwin JANUARY 2016 Nanny Confidential Philippa Christian
A deliciously gossipy novel about the rich and famous from the nanny who has seen it all.
Description When Lindsay Starwood moved from her tiny home town to the bright lights of Melbourne, she had no idea that her after- school babysitting job would turn into a career.
Her boss was Steven Stavros, the nineties boy-band heartthrob more famous of late for his extramarital activities than his hit records. However, word soon got out about the Australian nanny who was great with kids, cool in a crisis and capable of keeping the secrets of the rich and famous tightly under wraps.
But being a celebrity nanny isn't the Mary Poppins fantasy you might imagine. When Lindsay finds herself caring for the six (yes, six!) daughters of fame-hungry reality television star Alysha Appleby, her patience is pushed to the limit. Will dashing pro-golfer Tommy Grant restore Lindsay's faith that wealth can go hand in hand with kindness? Or will she have to choose between the children she loves and her own happiness?
With a cast of millionaires ripped straight from the headlines, this is a fast-paced, outrageous novel for anyone who loves gossip, glamour and a sneak peek into the unbelievable world of a nanny to the stars.
About the Author Philippa Christian has worked as a nanny for the rich and famous. Born and raised in Melbourne, she has lived and worked in Australia and worldwide. This is her first novel.
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Allen & Unwin JANUARY 2016 Across the Wall: Tales of the Old Kingdom and Beyond Garth Nix
A collection of Garth Nix's best short stories, including a novella set in the Old Kingdom of Sabriel and Clariel.
Description Nicholas Sayre will do anything to get across the wall, back to the Old Kingdom. Thoughts of Lirael and Sam haunt his dreams. But here in Ancelstierre the charter is dormant, and before Nick can re-join his friends he must face one of the rarest and most dangerous of the Free Magic creatures: a creature that seems to draw power from Nicholas himself.
'Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case' opens this superb collection of short stories from Garth Nix, which range from classic fantasy to a gritty urban version of Hansel and Gretel, and an unusual take on the role of nature in matters of the heart.
Across the Wall displays the depth and versatility that have made Garth Nix one of today's leading fantasy writers, and a New York Times bestseller.
'The reader's absorption into the intrigue, magic and dazzling richness of the worlds and characters created by Nix is irresistible pleasure ' Australian Review of Books
About the Author Garth Nix was born in 1963 in Melbourne, Australia. A full-time writer since 2001, he previously worked as a literary agent, marketing consultant, book editor, book publicist, book sales representative, bookseller, and as a part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve. Garth's books include the award-winning fantasy novels Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen and Clariel; the dystopian novel Shade's Children; the space opera A Confusion of Princes; and a Regency romance with magic, Newt's Emerald. His fantasy novels for children include The Ragwitch; the six books of the Seventh Tower sequence; the Keys to the Kingdom series; and the Troubletwisters series and Spirit Animals: Blood Ties (co-written with Sean Williams). More than five million copies of his books have been sold around the world, his books have appeared on the bestseller lists of the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, the Guardian and the Australian, and his work has been translated into forty-one languages. He lives in a Sydney beach suburb with his wife and two children. Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760290603 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 352 pages
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The Keys to the Kingdom series: Mister Monday (2003); Grim Tuesday (2004); Drowned Wednesday (2005); Allen & Unwin JANUARY 2016 Try Not to Breathe Holly Seddon
A woman's search for the truth about a brutal attack on a teenage girl puts her in danger in this tense, emotionally-charged psychological thriller: perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train or The Book of You.
Description Alex is sinking. Slowly but surely, she's cut herself off from everything but her one true love - drink. Until she's forced to write a piece about a coma ward, where she meets Amy.
Amy is lost. When she was fifteen, she was attacked and left for dead in a park not far from her house. Her attacker was never found. Since then, she has drifted in a lonely, timeless place. She's as good as dead, but not even her doctors are sure how much she understands.
Alex and Amy grew up in the same suburbs, played the same music, flirted with the same boys. And as Alex begins to investigate the attack, she opens the door to the same danger that has left Amy in a coma...
About the Author Educated at Grammar school in Devon, but never quite making it to university, Holly Seddon instead became a freelance writer almost straight out of college. In 2003, she launched her own music website, Muso's Guide, from the kitchen of her house, partly in protest at not being given a job at NME. Holly has written features on everything from colonic irrigation to robot butlers. As a freelance writer, she has been published on national newspaper websites, magazines and leading consumer websites. From 2010 to 2012, Holly wrote 'Mumblings', an irreverent column on motherhood, for award- winning Vine magazine.
A mother of four, Holly's time is divided between writing fiction, writing articles, walking Arnie the miniature Schnauzer and chasing homework-evaders around the living room. And then some more writing when night falls.
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Corvus JANUARY 2016 Dead Joker Anne Holt
The gripping fifth instalment of the bestselling Hanne Wilhelmsen series: the edgy detective investigates a brutal series of murders while dealing with tragedy closer to home.
Description Chief Prosecutor Sigurd Halvorsrud's wife is found dead in front of the fireplace in the family living room. The cause of death is instantly apparent - she has been brutally decapitated. Halvorsrud immediately falls under suspicion. Then a journalist at one of Oslo's largest newspapers is found beheaded. What links these two horrifically violent crimes?
Detective Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is called in to lead the investigation with her old colleague Billy T. But the most demanding task that Hanne Wilhelmsen has ever faced in her career clashes with the worst crisis in her personal life. Cecilie, the woman she lived with for almost twenty years, is seriously ill.
Wilhelmsen must ask herself: is the truth worth chasing at all costs?
About the Author Anne Holt is Norway's bestselling female crime writer. She spent two years working for the Oslo Police Department before founding her own law firm and serving as Norway's Minister for Justice between 1996 and 1997. She is published in thirty languages with over seven million copies of her books sold.
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Corvus JANUARY 2016 The Lion's Mouth: Hanne Wilhelmsen 4 Anne Holt
This is a story of lies, intrigue and politics. The Lion's Mouth questions who holds the power in Norway, and how far they will go to use it.
Description Less than six months after taking office, the Norwegian Prime Minister is found dead. She has been shot in the head. But was it a politically motivated assassination or personal revenge?
The death shakes the country to its core. The hunt for her killer is complicated, intense and gruelling. Hanne Wilhelmsen must contain the scandal before a private tragedy becomes a public outrage, in what will become the most sensitive case of her career...
About the Author Anne Holt is one of Scandinavia's most successful crime writers. Her two crime series - featuring Johanne Vik and Hanne Wilhelmsen - have sold more than 7 million copies and are translated into 30 languages. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Riverton Prize (Rivertonprisen) and the Booksellers' Prize (Bokhandlerprisen). She is the former Minister of Justice for Norway, and has worked as a police attorney, lawyer, TV news editor and anchor, media consultant and journalist.
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Corvus Pbs JANUARY 2016 Death of the Demon: Hanne Wilhelmsen 3 Anne Holt
Anne Holt's brilliant detective Hanne Wilhelmsen investigates her third case: the manager of a children's home is dead and a twelve-year-old tearaway is on the run.
Description The Spring Sunshine Children's home has a cheerful facade. But behind closed doors, the regime is brutal. When the manager, Agnes, is found dead in her office, Hanne Wilhelmsen is called in to investigate. It soon becomes clear that the staff are concealing a host of dark secrets and any one of them could have killed the manager. Meanwhile, Hanne must also find Olav, a twelve-year-old with behavioural difficulties who has been taken into care against his mother's will. He may be the only person to know the truth about Agnes's death.
About the Author Anne Holt is one of Scandinavia's most successful crime writers. Her two crime series - featuring Johanne Vik and Hanne Wilhelmsen - have sold more than 7 million copies and are translated into 30 languages. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Riverton Prize (Rivertonprisen) and the Booksellers' Prize (Bokhandlerprisen). She is the former Minister of Justice for Norway, and has worked as a police attorney, lawyer, TV news editor and anchor, media consultant and journalist.
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Corvus Pbs JANUARY 2016 Blessed Are Those Who Thirst: Hanne Wilhelmsen 2 Anne Holt
The second instalment in the Hanne Wilhelmsen crime series.
Description The Oslo police are baffled. Crime scenes are being found covered with blood, but there is no victim. Only an odd series of numbers is left behind. When a girl is brutally raped in her apartment, Detective Hanne Wilhelmsen is charged with solving the case. Hanne quickly notices strange similarities with the blood-stained crime scenes. But the victim's father has started an independent hunt for the rapist...and Hanne will have to race against time to prevent a victim becoming a vigilante.
About the Author Anne Holt is Norway's bestselling female crime writer. She spent two years working for the Oslo Police Department before founding her own law firm and serving as Norway's Minister for Justice between 1996 and 1997. She is published in thirty languages with over seven million copies of her books sold.
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Corvus Pbs JANUARY 2016 The Blind Goddess: Hanne Wilhelmsen 1 Anne Holt
In the first instalment of the Hanne Wilhelmsen series, Anne Holt delivers a superbly chilling story of corruption in the corridors of power.
Description A drug dealer is battered to death in the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutch student, covered in blood, walks aimlessly through the streets of the city. He is taken into custody, but refuses to speak.
Five days later a shady criminal lawyer called Hans Olsen is murdered. The two deaths don't seem related, but Detective Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is unconvinced. Soon, she uncovers a link between the bodies: Olsen defended the drug dealer.
But there are powerful forces working against Hanne; a conspiracy that reaches far beyond a crooked lawyer and a small- time dealer. The investigation will take her into the offices of the most powerful men in Norway - and even put her own life at risk.
About the Author Anne Holt is one of Scandinavia's most successful crime writers. Her two crime series - featuring Johanne Vik and Hanne Wilhelmsen - have sold more than 7 million copies and are translated into 30 languages. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Riverton Prize (Rivertonprisen) and the Booksellers' Prize (Bokhandlerprisen). She is the former Minister of Justice for Norway, and has worked as a police attorney, lawyer, TV news editor and anchor, media consultant and journalist.
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Corvus JANUARY 2016 1222: Hanne Wilhelmsen 8 Anne Holt
A mountain pass, a derailed train, a locked carriage, an ancient hotel, old betrayals, murder and state secrets.
Description 1222 metres above sea level, train 601 from Oslo to Bergen careens off iced rails as the worst snowstorm in Norwegian history gathers force around it. Marooned in the high mountains with night falling and the temperature plummeting, its 269 passengers are forced to abandon their snowbound train and decamp to a centuries-old mountain hotel. They ought to be safe from the storm here, but as dawn breaks one of them will be found dead, murdered.
With the storm showing no sign of abating, retired police inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is asked to investigate. But Hanne has no wish to get involved. She has learned the hard way that truth comes at a price and sometimes that price just isn't worth paying. Her pursuit of truth and justice has cost her the love of her life, her career in the Oslo Police Department and her mobility: she is paralysed from the waist down by a bullet lodged in her spine.
Trapped in a wheelchair, trapped by the killer within, trapped by the deadly storm outside, Hanne's growing unease is shared by everyone in the hotel. Should she investigate, or should she just wait for help to arrive? And all the time rumours swirl about a secret cargo carried by train 601. Why was the last carriage sealed? Why is the top floor of the hotel locked down? Who or what is being concealed? And, of course, what if the killer strikes again?
About the Author Anne Holt spent two years working for the Oslo Police Department before founding her own law firm and serving as Norway's Minister for Justice in 1996/97. Her first book was published in 1993 and she has subsequently developed two series: the Hanne Wilhelmsen series and the Vik/Stubo series. Both series will be published by Corvus.
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Includes 4 each of 6 Vespasian titles: Tribune of Rome 9781848879119, Rome's Executioner 9781848879140, False God of Rome 9780857897435, Rome's Fallen Eagle 9780857897466, Masters of Rome 9780857899651, Rome's Lost Son 9780857899699.
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Corvus Pbs JANUARY 2016 Vespasian: Tribune of Rome Robert Fabbri
First in a red-blooded historical adventure series charting the rise of Vespasian from rural obscurity to Emperor of Rome: Roman history as the gods intended!
Description One Man: Born in rural obscurity. One Destiny: To become one of Rome's greatest Emperors. 26 AD: Sixteen-year-old Vespasian leaves his family farm for Rome, his sights set on finding a patron and following his brother into the army. But he discovers a city in turmoil and an Empire on the brink. The aging emperor Tiberius is in seclusion on Capri, leaving Rome in the iron grip of Sejanus, commander of the Praetorian Guard. Sejanus is ruler of the Empire in all but name, but many fear that isn't enough for him. Sejanus' spies are everywhere - careless words at a dinner party can be as dangerous as a barbarian arrow. Vespasian is totally out of his depth, making dangerous enemies (and even more dangerous friends - like the young Caligula) and soon finds himself ensnared in a conspiracy against Tiberius. With the situation in Rome deteriorating, Vespasian flees the city to take up a position as tribune in an unfashionable legion on the Balkan frontier. Even here, rebellion is in the air and unblooded and inexperienced, Vespasian must lead his men in savage battle with hostile mountain tribes. Vespasian will soon realize that he can't escape Roman politics any more than he can escape his destiny .
About the Author Robert Fabbri read Drama and Theatre at London University and has worked in film and TV for 25 years. He is an assistant director and has worked on productions such as Hornblower, Hellraiser, Patriot Games and Billy Elliot. Now, his life-long passion for ancient history, especially for that of the Roman Empire, has drawn him to write his first novel. He lives in London and Berlin.
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Corvus Pbs JANUARY 2016 Vespasian: Rome's Executioner Robert Fabbri
Rome's Executioner: the second instalment in the epic Vespasian series that chronicles the rise from humble origins of one man to fulfil his destiny as one of Rome's greatest Emperors.
Description A hero forged in battle. A legend born.
Thracia, AD30: Even after four years' military service at the edge of the Roman world, Vespasian can't escape the tumultuous politics of an Empire on the brink of disintegration. His patrons in Rome have charged him with the clandestine extraction of an old enemy from a fortress on the banks of the Danube before it falls to the Roman legion besieging it.
Vespasian's mission is the key move in a deadly struggle for the right to rule the Roman Empire. The man he has been ordered to seize could be the witness that will destroy Sejanus, commander of the Praetorian Guard and ruler of the Empire in all but name. Before he completes his mission, Vespasian will face ambush in snowbound mountains, pirates on the high seas, and Sejanus's spies all around him. But by far the greatest danger lies at the rotten heart of the Empire, at the nightmarish court of Tiberius, Emperor of Rome and debauched, paranoid madman.
About the Author Robert Fabbri read Drama and Theatre at London University and has worked in film and TV for twenty-five years. As an assistant director he has worked on productions such as Hornblower, Hellraiser, Patriot Games and Billy Elliot. His life- long passion for ancient history -especially the Roman Empire -inspired the birth of the Vespasian series. He lives in London and Berlin.
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Corvus Pbs JANUARY 2016 Vespasian: False God of Rome Robert Fabbri
Action, adventure and battle in the third instalment of Robert Fabbri's bestselling Vespasian series: rebellions in the provinces, murders and political manoeuvrings in the Eternal City - and a mission to steal one of the greatest artefacts of the ancient world.
Description Vespasian is serving as a military officer on the outskirts of the Roman Empire, suppressing local troubles and defending the Roman way. But political events in Rome - Tiberius' increasingly insane debauchery, the escalating grain crisis - draw him back to the city.
When Caligula becomes Emperor, Vespasian believes that things will improve. Instead, he watches his leader deteriorate from Rome's shining star to a blood-crazed, profligate madman. Lavish building projects, endless games, public displays of his incestuous relationship with his sister, Drusilla, and a terrified senate are as nothing to Caligula's most ambitious plan: to bridge the bay of Neapolis and ride over it wearing Alexander's breastplate. And it falls to Vespasian to make the long journey to Alexandria to steal the legendary armour.
Vespasian's mission will lead to violence, mayhem and murder - and in the end, to a betrayal so great it will echo through the ages.
About the Author Robert Fabbri read Drama and Theatre at London University and has worked in film and TV for 25 years. He is an assistant director and has worked on productions such as Hornblower, Hellraiser, Patriot Games and Billy Elliot. His life- long passion for ancient history inspired him to write the Vespasian series. He lives in London and Berlin.
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Corvus Pbs JANUARY 2016 Rome's Fallen Eagle Robert Fabbri
The fourth instalment of Robert Fabbri's bestselling Vespasian series. Caligula is dead, Rome is in the hands of a drooling fool - and Vespasian must fight to save his brother's life and find the Eagle of the Seventeenth.
Description Rome, AD41. Caligula has been assassinated and the Praetorian Guard have proclaimed Claudius Emperor - but his position is precarious. His three freedmen, Narcissus, Pallas and Callistus, must find a way to manufacture a quick victory for Claudius - but how? Pallas has the answer: retrieve the Eagle of the Seventeenth, lost in Germania nearly 40 years before.
Who but Vespasian could lead a dangerous mission into the gloomy forests of Germania? Accompanied by a small band of cavalry, Vespasian and his brother try to pick up the trail of the Eagle. But they are tailed by hunters who kill off men each night and leave the corpses in their path. Someone is determined to sabotage Vespasian's mission.
In search of the Eagle and the truth, while being pursued by barbarians, Vespasian must battle his way to the shores of Britannia. Yet can he escape his own Emperor's wrath?
About the Author Robert Fabbri read Drama and Theatre at London University and has worked in film and TV for 25 years. He is an assistant director and has worked on productions such as Hornblower, Hellraiser, Patriot Games and Billy Elliot. His life- long passion for ancient history inspired him to write the Vespasian series. He lives in London and Berlin.
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Corvus Pbs JANUARY 2016 Vespasian: Masters of Rome Robert Fabbri
In the fifth instalment of Robert Fabbri's bestselling series, Vespasian fights a battle on two fronts - ancient evil in Britannia and political intrigue in the heart of Imperial Rome.
Description Britannia, 45 AD: Vespasian's brother, Sabinus, is captured by druids. The druids want to offer a potent sacrifice to their gods - not just one Roman Legate, but two. They know that Vespasian will come after his brother and they plan to sacrifice the siblings on Midsummer's Day. But to whom will they be making this sacrifice? What were the gods of this land before the Celts came? Only the druids still hold the secret and it is one of pure malevolence.
Vespasian must strive to save his brother whilst completing the conquest of the south-west of the haunted isle, before he is drawn inexorably back to Rome and the heart of Imperial politics. Claudius' three freedmen remain at the focus of power. As Messalina's time as Empress comes to a bloody end, the three freedmen each back a different mistress. But who will be victorious? And at what price for Vespasian?
About the Author Robert Fabbri read Drama and Theatre at London University and has worked in film and TV for 25 years as an assistant director. He has worked on productions such as Hornblower, Hellraiser, Patriot Games and Billy Elliot. His life-long passion for ancient history inspired him to write the Vespasian series. He lives in London and Berlin.
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Corvus Pbs JANUARY 2016 Vespasian: Rome's Lost Son Robert Fabbri
Vespasian's ascent to power continues in the sixth instalment of Robert Fabbri's bestselling series: sent to defend Rome's interest in the East, Vespasian is imprisoned in the oldest city in the world.
Description Rome, AD 51: Vespasian brings Rome's greatest enemy before the Emperor. After eight years of resistance, the British warrior Caratacus has been caught. But even Vespasian's victory cannot remove the newly-made consul from Roman politics: Agrippina, Emperor Claudius's wife, pardons Caratacus.
Claudius is a drunken fool and Narcissus and Pallas, his freedmen, are battling for control of his throne. Separately, they decide to send Vespasian East to Armenia to defend Rome's interests. But there is more at stake than protecting a client kingdom. Rumours abound that Agrippina is involved in a plot to destabilise the East. Vespasian must find a way to serve two masters Narcissus is determined to ruin Agrippina, Pallas to save her.
Meanwhile, the East is in turmoil. A new Jewish cult is flourishing and its adherents refuse to swear loyalty to the Emperor. In Armenia, Vespasian is captured. Immured in the oldest city on earth, how can he escape? And is a Rome ruled by a woman who despises Vespasian any safer than a prison cell?
About the Author Robert Fabbri read Drama and Theatre at London University and has worked in film and TV for 25 years as an assistant director. He has worked on productions such as Hornblower, Hellraiser, Patriot Games and Billy Elliot. His life-long passion for ancient history inspired him to write the Vespasian series. He lives in London and Berlin.
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Corvus Pbs JANUARY 2016 Fishbowl Matthew Glass
When you're the next big thing in Silicon Valley, the whole world is watching...
Description The internet is everywhere. Those who control it, control us.
As a gifted Ivy League student, Andrei Koss hit upon an idea that would revolutionise social networking and move it on by a generation. Enlisting the help of his best friends, Ben and Kevin, he turned their dorm room into an operations base, where flashes of creative brilliance and all-night-coding sessions led to the creation of Fishbowl. He is now the 21-year- old CEO of a multi-billion-dollar empire. His creation reaches into every corner of the planet. But its immense power has many uses, and some will stop at nothing to get a piece of it.
About the Author Matthew Glass remains anonymous. He is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, Ultimatum and End Game. He is believed to live somewhere in the UK.
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Corvus Pbs JANUARY 2016 Volcano Street David Rain
In the tradition of great Australian literature Volcano Street is a wonderfully vivid portrayal of small-town life and the uncertainties of childhood.
Description What would Germaine do?
This is the mantra that Skip and Marlo Wells turn to as they navigate their way through the twists and turns that life brings. Such as the sectioning of their mother Karen Jane. Marlo puts her faith in her hero, Germaine Greer, and twelve-year-old Skip trusts her clever big sister to know the right thing to do. But when the sisters are forced to move to their Auntie Noreen and Uncle Doug's home in the backwater city of Crater Lakes even Marlo can't think of a solution. At age sixteen, Marlo is forced to quit school and work in the family hardware store. Skip manages to get on her auntie's bad side from the get-go and is an outcast at school as she vehemently declares the injustice of the Vietnam War - not what Noreen wants to hear with her precious son Barry off fighting.
Skip and Marlo dream of escape from Crater Lakes but with Karen Jane's release nowhere on the horizon they resign themselves to their new life. Before long they make the acquaintance of the Novak brothers - Skip's classmate Honza and his eternally cheerful older brother Pavel. Marlo becomes entangled with the local drama teacher, leaving Skip to explore the town's haunts with Honza. Skip learns about the mysterious Dansie residence, a secluded house that once belonged to Roger Dansie - an actor and the closest thing to a local hero that Crater Lakes ever had. As the days roll on the Wells sisters are drawn ever deeper into the lives of their new acquaintances, learning that their first impressions of Crater Lakes may not be as accurate as they believed. Against the backdrop of a broken home, the fight for equality and a far off war, Volcano Street is a heartfelt tale of acceptance and belonging, and learning what family truly means.
About the Author David Rain is an Australian writer living in London. Formerly a lecturer in English Literature at Queens University, Belfast, he presently runs the MA in Creative Writing at Middlesex University. His debut novel The Heat of the Sun (Atlantic Books) was published in 2012. Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780857892089 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198 x129mm Extent: 320 pages
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Atlantic Pbs JANUARY 2016 Rain Dogs: Sean Duffy 5 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?
About the Author Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. He studied law at Warwick University and politics and philosophy at Oxford University. He moved to New York City in the early 1990's where he worked in bars, bookstores and building sites. In 2000 he moved to Denver, Colorado to become a high school English teacher and in 2008 he moved to Melbourne, Australia. His debut crime novel Dead I Well May Be was shortlisted for the 2004 Dagger Award. His first Sean Duffy novel The Cold Cold Ground won the 2013 Spinetingler Award and its sequel, I Hear The Sirens In The Street was shortlisted for the 2013 Ned Kelly Award. In the Morning I'll be Gone won the 2014 Ned Kelly Award and Gun Street Girl was shortlisted for the 2015 Ned Kelly Award.
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Serpents Tail JANUARY 2016 Rain Dogs 8 copy pack
Includes 8 copies of Rain Dogs (9781781254554), plus free reading copy.
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Serpents Tail JANUARY 2016 The Cold Cold Ground: Sean Duffy 1 Adrian McKinty
Sean Duffy will do anything to solve this case. Including risking his life.
Description Two dead.
One left in a car by the side of a road. He was meant to be found quickly. His killer is making a statement.
The other is discovered hanging in a tree, deep in a forest. Surely a suicide: she'd just given birth, but there's no sign of the baby.
Nothing seems to link the two, but Detective Sergeant Sean Duffy knows the links that seem to be invisible are just waiting to be uncovered. And as a policeman who has solved six murders so far in his career, but not yet brought a single case to court, Duffy is determined that this time, someone will pay.
About the Author Adrian McKinty grew up in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. After studying at Oxford University he moved to New York City, working in bars, bookstores, building sites and finally the basement stacks of the Columbia University Medical School Library. In 2000 he relocated to Denver, Colorado where he taught high school English and began writing fiction. His debut Dead I Well May Be was shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, while Fifty Grand won the 2010 Spinetingler Award and was longlisted for the 2011 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. His most recent work was Falling Glass. In 2009 Adrian moved to Melbourne, Australia with his wife and two children.
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Serpents Tail JANUARY 2016 I Hear the Sirens in the Street: Sean Duffy 2 Adrian McKinty
Detective Sergeant Sean Duffy returns for the incendiary and critically acclaimed sequel to The Cold Cold Ground.
Description There's no such thing as a perfect crime. Sean Duffy knows this. He's back at work and ready for the avalanche of horrors that awaits him, beginning with a torso in a suitcase, dumped in an abandoned factory. Fully fit after the severe trauma of his last investigation, Duffy is ready to follow the trail of blood - however faint - that always, always connects a body to its killer.
From an international businessman to a beautiful young widow, ancient police notes to ambassador's records, country lanes to city streets, Duffy works every angle. And wherever he goes, he smells a rat .
About the Author Adrian McKinty grew up in Northern Ireland. After studying at Oxford University he moved to New York City, working in bars, bookstores, building sites and finally the basement stacks of the Columbia University Medical School Library. In 2000 he relocated to Denver, Colorado where he taught high school English and began writing fiction. His debut Dead I Well May Be (9781846686993) was shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and his most recent novel Fifty Grand (9781846687419) won the 2010 Spinetingler Award. In 2009 Adrian moved to Melbourne, Australia.
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Serpents Tail JANUARY 2016 In the Morning I'll be Gone: Sean Duffy 3 Adrian McKinty
The third Sean Duffy thriller: a spectacular escape and an intense man-hunt that could change the future of a nation - and lay one man's past to rest.
Description Sean Duffy's got nothing. And when you've got nothing left to lose, you have everything to gain, but only if you want it. So when MI5 come knocking, Sean knows exactly what they want, but he hasn't got the first idea how to get it.
Of course he's heard about the spectacular escape of IRA man Dermot McCann from Her Majesty's Maze prison. And he knew, with chilly certainty, that their paths would cross. But finding Dermot leads Sean to an old locked room mystery, and into the kind of danger where you can lose as easily as winning. And there's no coming back from this kind of losing.
From old betrayals and ancient history to 1984's most infamous crime, Sean tries not to fall too far behind in the race to annihilation. Can he outrun the most skilled terrorist the IRA ever created? And will the past catch him first?
About the Author Adrian McKinty grew up in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. His debut Dead I Well May Be [9781846686993] was shortlisted for the 2004 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award. His first Sean Duffy novel The Cold Cold Ground won the 2013 Spinetingler Award and its sequel I Hear The Sirens In The Street [9781846688195] was shortlisted for the 2013 Ned Kelly Award.
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Serpents Tail JANUARY 2016 Gun Street Girl: Sean Duffy 4 Adrian McKinty
Duffy's back - and this closed case has just been blown wide open.
Description Belfast, 1985. Gunrunners on the borders, riots in the cities, The Power of Love on the radio. And somehow, hanging on, is Detective Inspector Sean Duffy, a Catholic policeman in the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
The usual rounds of riot duty and sectarian murders are interrupted when a wealthy couple are shot dead while watching TV. Their son jumps to his death, leaving a note claiming responsibility. But something doesn't add up, and people keep dying.
Soon Sean Duffy, Belfast's most roguish detective, is on the trail of a mystery that will pit him against shadowy US national security forces, and take him into the white-hot heart of the biggest political scandal of the decade.
About the Author Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Northern Ireland. He studied law, politics and philosophy at university. In the early 1990's 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 (9781846688232) won the 2013 Spinetingler Award, its sequel I Hear The Sirens In The Street (9781846688188) was shortlisted for the 2013 Ned Kelly Award, and Sean Duffy Thriller #3, In the Morning I'll be Gone (9781846688218), 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 JANUARY 2016 Am I Cold Martin Kongstad, translated by Martin Aitken
A sharp, hilarious satire for the credit-crunched generation.
Description Copenhagen, 2008. Excess is in, austerity is out. The international crash is about to send everything tumbling down, but everyone's too wasted to notice. And Mikkel Vallin's own bubble has already burst. Divorced, left by his girlfriend for a successful author, sacked from his job as a food critic, the wrong side of forty, Mikkel has had enough: he's declared war on the monogamous relationship. Jealousy, deceit, hatred ... it's enough to make you wonder if we'd all be better off just sleeping with who we wanted for a change.
Fortunately, his new girlfriend - a successful, young, beautiful Hungarian artist - agrees. Unfortunately, Mikkel might be falling in love with her. Among the orgies, the drug-fuelled sprees, the whirlwind of parties, surely there can't be space for ... love?
Told in Mikkel's brilliantly spiky, terminally cynical deadpan, Martin Kongstad's excoriating debut novel turns the last, glorious, debauched days of pre-crash decadence into a wild satire of modern life.
Translated by Martin Aitken.
About the Author Martin Kongstad has worked for many years as a journalist, columnist, culture writer and food critic at Denmark's leading newspapers and magazines, and has written for film, television and theatre. His debut collection of short stories Han danser pa sin sons grav (He Dances on his Son's Grave) won the 2009 Debutant Prize. He grew up in Copenhagen and lives today in Norrebro. Am I Cold is his first novel.
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Serpents Tail JANUARY 2016 I Love Dick Chris Kraus
The cult novel adored by feminists and fashionistas alike ... for a new generation.
Description When Chris Kraus, an unsuccessful artist pushing 40, spends an evening with a rogue academic named Dick, she falls madly and inexplicably in love, enlisting her husband in her haunted pursuit. Dick proposes a kind of game between them, but when he fails to answer their letters Chris continues alone, transforming an adolescent infatuation into a new form of philosophy.
Blurring the lines of fiction, essay and memoir, Chris Kraus's novel was a literary sensation when it was first published in 1997. Widely considered to be the most important feminist novel of the past two decades, I Love Dick is still essential reading; as relevant, fierce and funny as ever.
About the Author Chris Kraus is the author of the novels Aliens and Anorexia, I Love Dick, and Summer of Hate as well as Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness and Where Art Belongs. A Professor of Writing at the European Graduate School, she writes for various magazines and lives in Los Angeles.
Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781781256473 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages
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Tuskar Rock JANUARY 2016 Kolymsky Heights Lionel Davidson, introduction by Philip Pullman
The book that came in from the cold; this repackaged much celebrated spy thriller from the Faber backlist has become a huge bestseller.
Description A frozen Siberian hell lost in endless night. The perfect location for an underground Russian research station. It's a place so secret it doesn't officially exist; once there, the scientists are forbidden to leave. But one scientist is desperate to get a message to the outside world. So desperate, he sends a plea across the wilderness to the West in order to summon the one man alive who can achieve the impossible...
About the Author Lionel Davidson was born in 1922 in Hull, Yorkshire. He left school early and worked as a reporter before serving in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. His first novel, The Night of Wenceslas, was published in 1960 to great critical acclaim and drew comparisons to Graham Greene and John le Carre. It was followed by The Rose of Tibet (1962), A Long Way to Shiloh (1966), The Chelsea Murders (1978) and Kolymsky Heights (1994). He was thrice the recipient of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award and, in 2001, was awarded the CWA's Cartier Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement award. He died in 2009.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780571324217 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 496 pages
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Faber Paperback JANUARY 2016 Kolymsky Heights 6 copy pack
Includes 6 copies of Kolymsky Heights (9780571324217) plus a free reading copy.
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Faber Paperback JANUARY 2016 The Girl in the Red Coat Kate Hamer
A stand-out debut, The Girl in the Red Coat is the page-turning and hugely moving story of an abduction that will appeal to fans of The Light Between Oceans, Room and The Snow Child.
Description Eight-year-old Carmel has always been different - sensitive, distracted, with a heartstopping tendency to go missing. Her mother Beth, newly single, worries about her daughter's strangeness, especially as she is trying to rebuild a life for the two of them on her own. When she takes Carmel for an outing to a local festival, her worst fear is realised: Carmel disappears into the crowd. Unable to accept the possibility that her daughter might be gone for good, Beth embarks on a mission to find her. Meanwhile, Carmel begins an extraordinary and terrifying journey of her own. But do the real clues to Carmel's disappearance lie in the otherworldly qualities her mother had only begun to guess at?
About the Author Kate Hamer grew up in Pembrokeshire. She did a Creative Writing MA at Aberystwyth University and the Curtis Brown Creative novel-writing course. She won the Rhys Davies short story award in 2011 and her winning story was read out on Radio 4. She has recently been awarded a Literature Wales bursary. She lives in Cardiff with her husband and two children.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571313266 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 384 pages
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Faber Paperback JANUARY 2016 Angel Killer: Jessica Blackwood 1 Andrew Mayne
This compelling debut is the first in a new series featuring FBI agent Jessica Blackwood.
Description She knows how the bodies are buried...
How can a young woman crawl out of a grave that she's been buried in for two years, but only have died within hours?
How can a World War Two plane that's been missing for decades suddenly reappear on the beach where it was last seen - with the pilot's body in the cockpit?
How can a girl disappear from the Empire State Building only to reappear almost instantly in Times Square looking like an angel fallen to earth?
This is the work of the 'Warlock' - a case which has the FBI clueless and facing the rising hysteria of believers who see 'Warlock' as a miracle worker.
Enter Jessica Blackwood, FBI Agent...and ex-illusionist. Only she has the knowledge and the skills necessary to see beyond the illusions. Only she can stop the 'Warlock'.
About the Author Andrew Mayne is the star of A&E's magic reality show Don't Trust Andrew Mayne, and has worked with David Copperfield, Penn & Teller, and David Blaine. He lives in Los Angeles.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571327607 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 368 pages
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Faber Paperback JANUARY 2016 Snow Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk's magnificent and bestselling novel evokes the spiritual fragility of the non-Western world, its ambivalence about the godless West, and its fury.
Description As the snow begins to fall, a journalist arrives in the remote city of Kars on the Turkish border. Kars is a troubled place - there's a suicide epidemic among its young women, Islamists are poised to win the local elections, and the head of the intelligence service is viciously effective. When the growing blizzard cuts off the outside world, the stage is set for a terrible and desperate act...
Orhan Pamuk's magnificent and bestselling new novel evokes the spiritual fragility of the non-Western world, its ambivalence about the godless West, and its fury.
About the Author Orhan Pamuk is the author of many celebrated books, including The White Castle, Istanbul and Snow. In 2003 he won the International IMPAC Award for My Name is Red, and in 2006 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His most recent novel, The Museum of Innocence, was an international bestseller, praised in the Guardian as 'an enthralling, immensely enjoyable piece of storytelling.' Orhan Pamuk lives in Istanbul.
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Faber Paperback JANUARY 2016 The New Life Orhan Pamuk, translated by Guneli Gun
A spiritual journey into the arid heartland of Turkey, in the name of love, literature and freedom.
Description 'I read a book one day, and my whole life was changed.' So begins The New Life, Orhan Pamuk's fabulous road novel about a young student who yearns for the life promised by a dangerously magical book. He falls in love, abandons his studies, turns his back on home and family, and embarks on restless bus trips through the provinces, in pursuit of an elusive vision. This is a wondrous odyssey, laying bare the rage of an arid heartland. In coffee houses with black-and- white TV sets, on buses where passengers ride watching B-movies on flickering screens, in wrecks along the highway, in paranoid fictions with spies as punctual as watches, the magic of Pamuk's creation comes alive.
About the Author Orhan Pamuk is the author of many celebrated books, including The White Castle, Istanbul and Snow. In 2003 he won the International IMPAC Award for My Name is Red, and in 2006 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His most recent novel, The Museum of Innocence, was an international bestseller, praised in the Guardian as 'an enthralling, immensely enjoyable piece of storytelling.' Orhan Pamuk lives in Istanbul.
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Faber Paperback JANUARY 2016 The White Castle Orhan Pamuk, translated by Victoria Holbrook
The classic novel from bestselling author, Orhan Pamuk.
Description The White Castle, Orhan Pamuk's celebrated first novel, is the tale of a young Italian scholar. Captured by pirates between Venice and Naples, he is put up for auction at the Istanbul slave market, and bought by a Turkish savant eager to learn about scientific and intellectual advances in the West. But as they bond over each other's sins and secrets, and their relationship grows increasingly complex, master and slave find themselves part of the Sultan's army, and on a journey that will lead them, ultimately, to the White Castle.
About the Author Orhan Pamuk is the author of many celebrated books, including The White Castle, Istanbul and Snow. In 2003 he won the International IMPAC Award for My Name is Red, and in 2006 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His most recent novel, The Museum of Innocence, was an international bestseller, praised in the Guardian as 'an enthralling, immensely enjoyable piece of storytelling.' Orhan Pamuk lives in Istanbul.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780571309696 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 160 pages
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Faber Paperback JANUARY 2016 Towards the End of the Morning Michael Frayn
A brilliantly comic drama about an ambitious journalist who works for an obscure national newspaper during the declining years of Fleet Street.
Description Michael Frayn's classic is set in the crossword and nature notes department of an obscure national newspaper during the declining years of Fleet Street, where John Dyson dreams wistfully of fame and the gentlemanly life - until one day his great chance of glory at last arrives.
About the Author Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include The Trick of It, The Russian Interpreter, The Tin Men, Sweet Dreams, A Very Private Life and A Landing on the Sun. Headlong was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize, Whitbread Novel Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. His thirteen plays range from Noises Off to Copenhagen, and he has translated a number of works, mostly from Russian. He is married to the biographer and critic Claire Tomalin.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571315871 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages
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Faber Paperback JANUARY 2016 The Russian Interpreter Michael Frayn
Set in Moscow in the political world of intrigue and suspicion of the late 1900s, The Russian Interpreter is an international comic drama that brilliantly captures life in the Soviet Union after the Second World War.
Description 'A love affair through an interpreter,' said Raya. 'That's a very cultured prospect.'
Raya is a mercurial Moscow blonde who speaks no English, and the affair she is embarking upon is with Gordon Proctor- Gould, a visiting British businessman who speaks no Russian. They need an interpreter; which is how Paul Manning is diverted from writing his thesis at Moscow University to become involved in all the deceptions of love and East-West relations.
About the Author Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include Towards the End of the Morning, The Trick of It and A Landing on the Sun. Headlong (1999) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Spies (2002) won the Whitbread Best Novel Award. His most recent novel, Skios, was longlisted for the Booker Prize. His fifteen plays range from Noises Off to Copenhagen and, most recently, Afterlife. He is married to the writer Claire Tomalin.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571315888 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 208 pages
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Faber Paperback JANUARY 2016 The Tin Men Michael Frayn
The Tin Men is Michael Frayn's first novel. It won the Somerset Maugham Award and examines technology, computers and automation with humour, elegance and wit.
Description Why not programme computers to take over the really dull jobs that human beings have to do - such as praying and behaving morally? At the William Morris Institute of Automaton Research they are doing just that to free mankind for the really stimulating and demanding tasks of living today - first and foremost the impending visit of Her Majesty the Queen to open its new wing...
About the Author Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include Towards the End of the Morning, The Trick of It and A Landing on the Sun. Headlong (1999) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Spies (2002) won the Whitbread Best Novel Award. His most recent novel, Skios, was longlisted for the Booker Prize. His fifteen plays range from Noises Off to Copenhagen and, most recently, Afterlife. He is married to the writer Claire Tomalin.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571315895 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 208 pages
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Faber Paperback JANUARY 2016 Sweet Dreams Michael Frayn
A wonderfully comic and satirical journey to the nerve-centre of the universe. An ordinary man finds his way to Heaven and discovers a city of rich opportunities for leisure and enjoyment.
Description Heaven, reported St John in Revelation, was a cubical city 12,000 furlongs high made of 'pure gold, like unto clear glass'. That was 1,900 years ago, and Heaven as it is today has changed out of all recognition. Sweet Dreams is the account of a recent journey to the metropolis at the nerve-centre of the universe. The journey was undertaken not by a mystical reporter like St John, but by Howard Baker, an observer of much more modern outlook. He finds a city which offers rich opportunities for leisure and enjoyment - but one which also presents a moral and intellectual challenge. In short, a city which is highly adapted to the requirements of modest, responsible, likeable, educated men of liberal views and genuine social concern called Howard Baker.
About the Author Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include Towards the End of the Morning, The Trick of It and A Landing on the Sun. Headlong (1999) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Spies (2002) won the Whitbread Best Novel Award. His novel Skios was longlisted for the Booker Prize. His fifteen plays range from Noises Off to Copenhagen and, most recently, Afterlife. He is married to the writer Claire Tomalin.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571315925 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 192 pages
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Faber Paperback JANUARY 2016 A Very Private Life Michael Frayn
A Very Private Life follows a young girl as she ventures into a frightening dystopian world riven with inequality and division.
Description Uncumber lives at a time in the distant future when all humanity is divided in two - the Insiders and the Outsiders. The Insiders are privileged, with their every need catered to by somatic drugs, three-dimensional holovision and a prolonged life. Uncumber lives in this luxurious world and is told that she must never go out into the dust and disease of the real world.
Uncumber, however, is haunted by a restless and inquisitive spirit. When she falls in love with an Outsider, she decides to go exploring...
About the Author Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include The Trick of It, The Russian Interpreter, The Tin Men, Sweet Dreams, Towards the End of the Morning and A Landing on the Sun. Headlong was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize, Whitbread Novel Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. His thirteen plays range from Noises Off to Copenhagen, and he has translated a number of works, mostly from Russian. He is married to the biographer and critic Claire Tomalin.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571315932 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 144 pages
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Faber Paperback JANUARY 2016 The Moderate Soprano David Hare
The latest play from the acclaimed author of The Blue Touch Paper.
Description I want to give my country a model of perfection... Nothing less. My country needs cheering up. I'm the man to do it.
Nobody can doubt John Christie's passion or his formidable will: his wooing of his opera singer wife has been marked by a determination befitting a man who won the Military Cross at the Battle of Loos. Now, in 1934, this Etonian science teacher's admiration for the works of Wagner has led him to embark on an ambitious project: the construction of an Opera House on his estate in Sussex.
But such is the scale of the enterprise that passion may not be enough. It's only when fog descends on Eastbourne, stranding a famous violinist overnight, that Christie hears word of a group of refugees for whom life in Germany is becoming impossible. Perhaps they can deliver Christie's vision of the sublime - assuming they're willing to cast his wife in the lead.
About the Author David Hare is a playwright and filmmaker. His stage plays include Plenty, Pravda (with Howard Brenton) Racing Demon, Skylight, Amy's View, Via Dolorosa, Stuff Happens, South Downs, The Absence of War and The Judas Kiss. His films for cinema and television include Wetherby, The Hours, Damage, The Reader and the Worricker trilogy: Page Eight, Turks & Caicos and Salting the Battlefield. He has written English adaptations of plays by Pirandello, Chekhov, Brecht, Schnitzler, Lorca, Gorky and Ibsen. For fifteen years he was an Associate Director of the National Theatre.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571325276 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 96 pages
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Faber Plays JANUARY 2016 The Bachelors Muriel Spark
'I am dazzled by The Bachelors. It is the cleverest and most elegant of all Spark's clever and elegant books' - Evelyn Waugh
Now available in print and eBook as a gorgeous Canon.
Description The Bachelors displays the best of Sparkian satire, placing her at the heart of a great literary tradition alongside Waugh and Trollope, Wilde and Wodehouse. It demands rediscovery.
'It's easy to see why Waugh admired The Bachelors. On one level, it is a blithely carnivorous satire in the Waugh mould. The bachelors of the title - almost the only men we meet in the narrative - are the thirty-something male barristers, teachers, journalists and museum attendants of a small patch of West London. They lead inturned, doddery, superannuated lives, pottering between grocers, coffee-houses, bedsits and the houses of their mothers and aunts. But the comedy here is serious in a way that Waugh's satanically energetic comedies of misery rarely are . . . comedies of English manners have seldom been darker' - Daily Telegraph
'My admiration for Spark's contribution to world literature knows no bounds. She was peerless, sparkling, inventive and intelligent - the creme de la creme' - Ian Rankin
'Muriel Spark's novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards, decisive as a smashed glass is decisive' - John Updike, New Yorker
About the Author Muriel Spark, DBE, C.Litt., was born in Edinburgh in 1918 and educated in Scotland. A poet and novelist, she also wrote children's books, radio plays, the comedy Doctors of Philosophy and biographies of nineteenth-century literary figures, including Mary Shelley and Emily Bront.. Muriel Spark has garnered international praise and many awards, including the
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) David Cohen Prize for Literature, the Ingersoll T.S. Eliot Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Boccaccio Prize ISBN: 9781782117551 for European Literature, the Gold Pen Award, the first Enlightenment Award and the Italia Prize for dramatic radio. She Format: Paperback - B format died in 2006. Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages
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Canongate Pbs JANUARY 2016 Lace Shirley Conran
The scandalous classic that defined an era - three million copies sold.
Description WHICH ONE OF YOU BITCHES IS MY MOTHER?
1980. In Manhattan's most exclusive hotel, four friends come face to face with a young, mega-watt film star. She has a question for them that has brought her from the streets of Paris to the playgrounds of the rich and famous - and it has almost destroyed her.
Kate, Maxine, Judy and Pagan have soared to the top in fashion, PR and interior design. Now they are forced to look back at their lives: their wicked behavior at school, the building of careers and the breaking of hearts. These women have never questioned their friendship, but now they must answer to Lili.
Lace is the book that every mother kept hidden from her daughter. Originally published in 1982, it is the debut novel from the million-copy bestselling author of Superwoman.
About the Author 'Life's too short to stuff a mushroom' Shirley Conran was born in London and is a former editor on the Daily Mail and the Observer. Her first book, Superwoman, sold more than a million copies worldwide, and was followed by ten other bestsellers. Shirley's ex-husband is designer Terence Conran, and they have two sons, Jasper and Sebastian, both of whom are designers.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780857863904 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 768 pages
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Canongate Pbs JANUARY 2016 Foodie Fiction 24 copy Dumpbin
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Allen & Unwin JANUARY 2016 The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C Morais
The charming, funny and compulsively readable novel about restaurant rivalry, the desperate quest for Michelin Stars and the hundred-foot distance between a new Indian kitchen and a traditional French restaurant in Paris, is now a major movie.
Description Now a major motion picture starring HELEN MIRREN, OM PURI, MANISH DAYAL and CHARLOTTE LE BON, The Hundred-Foot Journey is a culinary fairytale - hailed as 'Slumdog Millionaire meets Ratatouille' by The New York Times Book Review - about a young Indian boy who becomes a three-star chef in Paris.
Born above his grandfather's modest restaurant in Mumbai, Hassan Haji first experienced life through intoxicating whiffs of spicy fish curry, trips to the local markets and gourmet outings with his mother. But when tragedy strikes, the Hajis leave India and embark on a journey around the world, eventually opening an Indian restaurant in Lumiere, a small town in the French mountains. The family takes the village by storm, provoking the ire of their neighbour - Madame Mallory, the proprietress of an esteemed French relais. Only after waging culinary war with the immigrant family does Madame Mallory agree to mentor young Hassan, leading him to Paris and a host of new adventures. A testament to the inevitability of destiny, this is a fable for the ages: charming, endearing and compulsively readable.
About the Author Richard C. Morais is the editor of Barron's Penta, a website and quarterly magazine providing advice to wealthy families. An American raised in Switzerland, Morais was stationed in London for eighteen years, where he was Forbes's European bureau chief. He now lives in New York and is the author of The Hundred-Foot Journey and Buddhaland Brooklyn.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9781743319604 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 336 pages
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Allen & Unwin JANUARY 2016 The Tea Chest Josephine Moon
A beautifully engaging novel set in the world of a boutique teashop. With rose petals, cinnamon bark and orange peel scenting the air, three women come together from very different backgrounds and learn to trust themselves, and each other.
Description 'Stunning, witty and enchanting.' Fleur McDonald
Kate Fullerton, talented tea designer and now co-owner of The Tea Chest, could never have imagined that she'd risk her young family's future to save her fledgling business.
Meanwhile, Leila Morton has just lost her job; and if Elizabeth Clancy had known today was the day she would appear on the nightly news, she might at least have put on some clothes. Both need to move on.
When Kate, Leila and Elizabeth's paths cross, they throw themselves into realising Kate's vision of the newest and most delectable tea shop in London, The Tea Chest.
An enchanting, witty novel about the unexpected situations life throws at us, and how love and friendship help us through. Written with heart and infused with the seductive scents of bergamot, Indian spices, lemon, rose and caramel, it's a world you won't want to leave.
'I loved it - a perfect blend of sweet and spice.' Jenny Colgan
About the Author Josephine Moon writes about strong, creative women making their mark on the world. She describes her stories as 'books like brownies': indulgent, comforting, a treat for the senses, but filling and with chunky nuts to chew on. Josephine lives with her husband and their son, and their extraordinarily large and diverse animal family on acreage on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. They are currently renovating a house for profit to maintain Josephine's passion for horses and Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760113094 imported fine chocolate. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 392 pages
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Allen & Unwin JANUARY 2016 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
A celebration of literature, love, and the power of the human spirit, this warm, funny, tender, and thoroughly entertaining novel is the story of an English author living in the shadow of World War II and the writing project that will dramatically change her life. An international bestseller now in paperback.
Description A moving tale of post-war friendship, love and books, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society is a captivating and completely irresistible novel of enormous depth and heart.
It's 1946, and as Juliet Ashton sits at her desk in her Chelsea flat, she is stumped. A writer of witty newspaper columns during the war, she can't think of what to write next. Out of the blue, she receives a letter from one Dawsey Adams of Guernsey - by chance he's acquired a book Juliet once owned - and, emboldened by their mutual love of books, they begin a correspondence.
Dawsey is a member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and it's not long before the rest of the members write to Juliet - including the gawky Isola, who makes home-made potions, Eben, the fisherman who loves Shakespeare, and Will Thisbee, rag-and-bone man and chef of the famous potato peel pie. As letters fly back and forth, Juliet comes to know the extraordinary personalities of the Society and their lives under the German occupation of the island. Entranced by their stories, Juliet decides to visit the island to meet them properly - and unwittingly turns her life upside down.
Gloriously honest, enchanting and funny, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society is sure to win your heart.
'I can't remember the last time I discovered a novel as smart and delightful as this one. Treat yourself to this book, please - I can't recommend it highly enough.' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the international bestseller Eat, Pray, Love.
About the Author
Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) Mary Ann Shaffer wrote The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society when she was a retired bookseller and ISBN: 9781741758955 librarian, in her seventies. She died in 2008, just before her book was published. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 276 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FA Popular Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: USA
Allen & Unwin JANUARY 2016 Earthly Delights: Corinna Chapman's Murder Mysteries 1 Kerry Greenwood
Introducing baker and amateur sleuth Corinna Chapman . mysteries filled with gastronomical delights, humour and unexpected twists from the bestselling author of the Phyrne Fisher mysteries.
Description Baking is an alchemical process for Corinna Chapman. At four am she starts work at Earthly Delights, her bakery in Calico Alley.
But one morning Corinna receives a threatening note saying 'The wages of sin is death' and finds a syringe in her cat's paw. A blue-faced junkie has collapsed in the dark alley and a mysterious man with beautiful eyes appears with a plan for Corinna and her bread. Then it is Goths, dead drug addicts, witchcraft, a homeless boy and a missing girl and it seems she will never get those muffins cooked in time.
With flair, chutzpah and a talent for kneading, Corinna Chapman will find out who exactly is threatening her life and bake some beautiful bread.
'Greenwood provides us with lavish helpings of the ingredients essential to good popular fiction: food, frocks, furnishings and some essential frolicks beneath the sheets' - Sydney Morning Herald on Murder in Montparnasse
About the Author Kerry Greenwood has written thirteen novels in the Phryne Fisher series, the most recent being The Castlemaine Murders (2003). She is also the author of The Childstone Cycle, Cassandra, Recipes for Crime (with Jenny Pausacker) and has edited The Things She Loves, a collection of essays about women who kill. Kerry has worked as a folk singer, factory hand, director, producer, translator, costumer-maker, cook and also works for Victoria Legal Aid as an advocate in the Magistrates' Courts. She is not married, has no children and lives with four cats and an accredited Wizard. In her spare time, she stares blankly out of the window. And she has no idea where she gets her ideas from.
Price: $22.95 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9781741142365 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 195x130mm Extent: 288 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FF Crime & Mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Phyrne Fisher mysteries Author now living: Footscray, VIC.
Allen & Unwin JANUARY 2016 Friendship Bread Darien Gee
An utterly delicious tale of sisterhood and forgiveness in a small town so endearing you won't want to leave.
Description One afternoon, Julia Evarts and her five-year-old daughter, Gracie, arrive home to find an unexpected gift on the front porch - a homemade loaf of Amish Friendship Bread and a simple note: I hope you enjoy it. Also included are a bag of starter, instructions on how to make the bread herself, and a request to share it with others.
Still reeling from a personal tragedy that left her estranged from the sister who was once her best friend, Julia remains at a loss as to how to move on with her life. She'd just as soon toss the anonymous gift, but to make Gracie happy, she agrees to bake the bread.
When Julia meets two newcomers to the small town of Avalon, she sparks a connection by offering them her extra bread starter. Widow Madeline Davis is struggling to keep her tea salon afloat while Hannah Wang de Brisay, a famed concert cellist, is at a crossroads, her career and marriage having come to an abrupt end. In the warm kitchen of Madeline's tea salon, the three women forge a friendship that will change their lives forever.
Friendship Bread is a celebration of life, loss, friendship and the power of belonging.
About the Author Darien Gee lives in Hawaii with her husband and three children. She is the bestselling author of three previous novels written under the name Mia King. Darien's next Avalon novel, Memory Keeping, will be available in 2012. For more information about Darien Gee and Friendship Bread, visit www.friendshipbreadkitchen.com or find her on Facebook, www.facebook.com/fbkitchen.
Price: $23.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9781743310373 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 576 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FA Popular Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: USA
Allen & Unwin JANUARY 2016 Dinner at Rose's Danielle Hawkins
A beautifully written, funny, intelligent and heartwarming novel about a young woman who leaves the city for her home town where she falls in love with a wonderful man - and does much more besides.
Description In the wake of an unfortunate best-friend-and-boyfriend-caught-having-sex-in-a-chair incident, Jo Donnelly flees her civilised city life to take up a temporary job at the physiotherapy clinic in her small home town.
Jo is ineptly assisted at work by a receptionist who divides her time between nail care and surfing the internet. Meanwhile, her new flatmate is a joyless couch potato who hogs the TV and is vigilant in her quest to prevent excessive electricity consumption. Life would seem a bit grim if not for Jo's eccentric honorary Aunty Rose, who lives up the valley with her pet piglet, four dogs and two sheep.
Rose was a wise and infinitely patient friend to both Jo and her bona fide nephew, Matthew, while they were growing up. And when Rose is hit by illness Jo moves in to look after her, while Matt helps out as much as his farming duties allow. But illness aside, it's not long before the mischievous Rose is playing cupid.
This is an utterly charming, funny, insightful novel of friendship and love.
About the Author Danielle Hawkins grew up on a sheep and beef farm near Otorohanga in New Zealand, and later studied veterinary science. After graduating as a vet she met a very nice dairy farmer who became her husband and switched to sheep farming. Danielle spends two days per week working as a large animal vet and the other five as housekeeper, cook and general dogsbody. She has two small children - and when she is very lucky they nap simultaneously and she can write things.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781743315576 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 416 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FA Popular Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Otoranga, New Zealand
Arena JANUARY 2016 The Last Banquet Jonathan Grimwood
A story of revolution, obsession and one man's hunger.
Description Starting life in the gutter, Jean-Marie d'Aumout rises through the ranks of eighteenth-century French society propelled by his wits and an obsession with finding the perfect taste. But beyond the palace walls, revolution is in the air and the country is clamouring with a hunger of a different kind.
About the Author Jonathan Grimwood has written for the Guardian, The Times, the Telegraph and the Independent. He is married to the journalist and novelist Sam Baker. They divide their time between Winchester and Paris.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780857868817 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 368 pages
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Canongate Pbs JANUARY 2016 Sweet Desserts Lucy Ellmann
Winner of the Guardian First Book Award
Description Suzy Schwarz has learnt one or two things about life: other people know how you should live better than you do; sisters (especially Fran) can destroy your sanity and self-esteem; lust calls for careful timing because it rarely coincides with that of your partner; and most heartbreaking of all, parents die on you, leaving you grieving. The only thing that provides constant solace when times are bad (and they usually are) is food.
About the Author Natasha Carthew lives in her native Cornwall with her partner of sixteen years. She has published three volumes of poetry, and works with young people in schools through the Kernow Education Arts Partnership. Winter Damage is her first novel, which she wrote longhand, sitting outside. She is currently writing her second novel, also for Bloomsbury.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781408850619 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198 x129mm Extent: 160 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FA Popular Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Pb JANUARY 2016 Hunter Killer: Inside the lethal world of drone warfare T. Mark McCurley and Kevin Maurer
The first-ever inside look at the US military's secretive Remotely Piloted Aircraft program - equal parts techno- thriller, historical account, and war memoir.
Description Remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), commonly referred to by the media as drones, are a mysterious and headline-making tool in the military's counterterrorism arsenal. Previously, their story has been pieced together by technology reporters, major newspapers, and on-the-ground accounts from the Middle East, but it has never been fully told by an insider.
In Hunter Killer, Air Force Lt. Col. T. Mark McCurley provides an unprecedented look at the aviators and aircraft that forever changed modern warfare. This is the first account by an RPA pilot, told from his unique-in-history vantage point supporting and executing Tier One counterterrorism missions. Only a handful of people know what it's like to hunt terrorists from the sky, watching through the electronic eye of aircraft that can stay aloft for a day at a time, waiting to deploy their cutting-edge technology to neutralize threats to America's national security.
Hunter Killer is the counterpoint to the stories from the battlefront told in books like No Easy Day and American Sniper. While special operators such as SEALs and Delta Force have received a lot of attention in recent years, no book has ever told the story of the unmanned air war. Until now.
About the Author LT . COL. T. MARK McCURLEY is an experienced Air Force pilot and former intelligence operator. In 2003, he volunteered for the secretive Predator program, deploying five times to Iraq, Afghanistan, and other locations, where he has flown the MQ-1 Predator and the MQ-9 Reaper, accruing more than 1,000 combat hours in flight.
KEVIN MAURER is an award-winning journalist and the bestselling coauthor, with Mark Owen, of No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden. He has covered special operations forces for a decade.
Price: $32.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760292171 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 368 pages
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Allen & Unwin JANUARY 2016 Hunter Killer 8 copy pack
Includes 8 copies of Hunter Killer plus a free reading copy.
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Allen & Unwin JANUARY 2016 Eat Clean, Live Lean: Art Green's Healthy Action Plan Art Green
Revitalise your life with Art's balanced approach to paleo eating and essential exercises that are easy for everyone.
Description Art Green, star of popular New Zealand The Bachelor shares his action plan so you can get healthier, fitter, stronger and get the most out of life.
Art studied Sport Science at Otago University and then managed a gym giving both nutrition and exercise advice. He tried out several different ways of eating before settling on paleo as the ideal nutrition. He now runs Clean Paleo with two friends, selling paleo products.
In Eat Clean, Live Lean Art explains that the paleo diet is essentially about eating fresh, unprocessed food. He shares his daily nutrition plan with 30 great recipes plus the key exercises that anyone can do to keep strong and fit.
This book will change your life!
About the Author Art Green is an Auckland entrepreneur and co-owner of Clean Paleo, a fast-growing company producing paleo products such as cereals, protein powder and snacks that retail in supermarkets and food stores throughout New Zealand and internationally. He starred on the first season of popular reality television show The Bachelor in New Zealand.
Art grew up on a farm in Martinborough and then studied Sport Science at Otago University. Following his studies, he managed a gym in remote Western Australia, giving both nutrition and exercise advice. He developed an interest in the paleo diet and he now co-owns Clean Paleo with two friends.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781877505614 Follow Art on instagram @art_green Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 224 pages
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A&U New Zealand JANUARY 2016 An Outback Nurse Thea Hayes
The charming story of a young city nurse who found love in the outback.
Description Thea Hayes trained as a Nurse in Sydney in 1959. A year later she was catapulted out of the safety of her city life into the unknown world of the Outback.
Thea knew nothing of the place she was soon to call home, Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory, the second largest property in the world under one management. It covered four million acres!
With nervous excitement, Thea accepted the job and flew to the Northern Territory where her life was about to change dramatically.
This is a story of growing up, falling up in love and finding your home.
About the Author Thea Hayes qualified as a nurse in Sydney in 1959. Her first posting was to a remote station in the Northern Territory called Wave Hill. She now lives in the Riverina. An Outback Nurse is her first book.
Price: $0.00 (NZ$0.00) ISBN: 9781760291396 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 288 pages
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Allen & Unwin JANUARY 2016 Larrikins, Bush Tales and Other Great Australian Stories Graham Seal
From one of our master storytellers, author of the bestselling Great Australian Stories, comes another collection of yarns, tall tales, bush legends and colourful characters. Taking us from the deep outback to the glistening sea, they go to the heart of what makes us distinctively Australian.
Description Yarns, legends, myths, jokes and anecdotes are our national lifeblood. The home-grown and borrowed tales, told and re- told over generations, offer an insight into the larger national story of which every Australian has a part.
Was Breaker Morant the Gatton murderer? What happened to Sniffling Jimmy and Black Mary? We revisit some of the most colourful characters in Australia's past, and the stories that have grown around them. We go looking for the real illywhacker and find out what happened after the execution of our most famous outlaw, Ned Kelly.
It takes a certain character to make a living in the Australian bush. In the most difficult situations, laughter often comes to the rescue. Here are pioneers and battlers, convicts and settler's children, and a land that tests them with fire, flood and drought, all in stories resonant with Australia's distinctive wry humour. Dip into Larrikins, Bush Tales and Other Great Australian Stories for a taste of Australia's rich history and traditions.
'Full of interesting yarns, tall tales and intriguing details that come to life in a fascinating storyscape' - Robyn Floyd
About the Author Graham Seal AM is Professor of Folklore at Curtin University, and a leading expert on traditional Australian culture. He is the author of many books about Australian history and culture, including the bestselling Great Australian Stories, Great Anzac Stories and Savage Shore. His These Few Lines: The Lost Lives of Myra and William Sykes won the National Biography Award.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760290436 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 320 pages
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Sub Category: DQ Anthologies (non-poetry) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Savage Shore (Allen and Unwin, 2015); Great Anzac Stories (Allen and Unwin, 2013); The Soldiers' Press: Trench Journals in the First World War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); A Century of Silent Service (Boolarong Press, 2013); Outlaw heroes in myth and history (Anthem Press 2011); Dog's eye and dead Allen & Unwin JANUARY 2016 Great Australian Stories: Legends, yarns and tall tales Graham Seal
From pioneer tales to urban myths, folklore expert Graham Seal has gathered some of the best Australian stories from around the country. Tall tales and true, these are the stories we tell ourselves over and over again.
Description 'Great Australian Stories is true to its title as it wanders from bush track to spooky hollow, follows the path of yowies and bunyips, searches for Lasseter's Reef, meets Dad and Dave and, on a different path, Henny-Penny, and then rambles into the cities where just as many entertaining characters are ready to tell their stories.' - From the foreword by Warren Fahey
Australia has a rich tradition of storytelling that reflects our unique history and experience. Great Australian Stories gathers some of the best of our stories from colonial times to the present, with bush yarns, tall stories, urban myths, and tales of the mysterious and downright weird.
With ten new stories, this second edition of the bestselling Great Australian Stories is the most representative collection available of the stories we tell about ourselves. Graham Seal explains where the stories come from, and why even the outright lies reveal a truth of sorts.
About the Author Graham Seal is Professor of Folklore at Curtin University, and a leading expert on traditional Australian culture.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9781742374734 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 312 pages Main Category: D Literature Sub Category: DQ Anthologies (non-poetry) Illustrations: 11 black and white images Previous Titles: Dog's eye and dead horse: the complete guide to Australian rhyming slang (Pymble, NSW: HarperCollins, 2009); These Few Lines - A Convict Romance: The lost lives of Myra and William Sykes (Pymble, NSW: HarperCollins, 2008); Tell 'em I died game: the legend of Ned Kelly (Flemington VIC: Hyland House Publishing Allen & Unwin JANUARY 2016 YouTutorial Hairstyling
Your guide to the best instructional YouTube videos for every aspect of hair styling.
Description Confused by the vast array of beauty tutorials available? Unsure which is the best stylist to watch or who can teach you how to create the perfect 'messy bun' or achieve a longlasting blowdry?
YouTutorial Hairstyling leads you straight to over 100 of the best YouTube clips instantly via special QR codes, allowing you to get the information you're looking for without wasting countless hours on internet searches. The book includes a range of specific techniques for classic favourites, plus 'get-the looks' for celebrity and retro styles to re-create. Each entry offers a brief summary and review of the video.
About the Author Caroline Jones is a beauty, fashion, and health journalist in the UK who has worked as a senior editor on several national newspapers and magazines. She is the author of five books including The Busy Girl's Guide to Looking Great and 1001 Ways to Spend Less and Look Beautiful (both published by Carlton).
Price: $14.99 (NZ$16.99) ISBN: 9781760290627 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 164x169mm Extent: 128 pages
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Crows Nest JANUARY 2016 YouTutorial Makeup
Your guide to the best instructional YouTube videos for every aspect of applying makeup.
Description Confused by the vast array of videos available? Unsure which is the best makeup artist to watch or who can teach you how to create the perfect eyeliner flick?
Rather than asking your mother or a girlfriend to teach you how to apply eyeliner or fix false lashes, you can look it up in YouTutorial Makeup and go straight to the site via a QR code. With the vast number of tutorials out there, every woman needs to know the top tier of tutorials and how to get to the right information without wasting countless hours on internet searches. This book is a curated collection of the best videos across all categories and subsections of cosmetics.
About the Author Caroline Jones is a beauty, fashion, and health journalist in the UK who has worked as a senior editor on several national newspapers and magazines. She is the author of five books including The Busy Girl's Guide to Looking Great and 1001 Ways to Spend Less and Look Beautiful (both published by Carlton). She lives in London.
Price: $14.99 (NZ$16.99) ISBN: 9781760290634 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 164x169mm Extent: 128 pages
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Crows Nest JANUARY 2016 Reasons to Stay Alive Matt Haig
The most talked-about memoir of 2015 - now in paperback.
Description What does it mean to feel truly alive?
Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again.
A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, Reasons to Stay Alive is more than a memoir. It is a book about making the most of your time on earth.
I wrote this book because the oldest cliches remain the truest. Time heals. The bottom of the valley never provides the clearest view. The tunnel does have light at the end of it, even if we haven't been able to see it . . . Words, just sometimes, really can set you free.
About the Author Matt Haig is the author of six novels, including the bestselling The Last Family in England, which has been optioned by Brad Pitt's production company; The Radleys, which was selected for Channel 4's TV Book Club and was voted the winner of the series in 2011 and The Humans, a World Book Night 2014 title. His works have been translated into over twenty languages, and he has also written award- winning books for children. He lives in Brighton, UK.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781782116820 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 178x129mm Extent: 272 pages
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Canongate Pbs JANUARY 2016 Wake Up!: A Simon's Cat Book Simon Tofield
Simon's Cat, but pocket-sized!
Description A pocket-sized collection of sleep-themed Simon's Cat cartoons selected from the first three Simon's Cat books.
In full colour and featuring a selection of brand new cartoons, Simon's Cat is back, only smaller, cheaper and cuter but as sleepy as ever.
About the Author Simon Tofield is an award-winning illustrator, animator and director at Tandem Films in London. He owns four cats.
Price: $9.99 (NZ$12.99) ISBN: 9780857867735 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 145x145mm Extent: 80 pages
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Canongate Trade JANUARY 2016 Play Time!: A Simon's Cat Book Simon Tofield
Simon's Cat but pocket-sized!
Description A pocket-sized collection of play-themed Simon's Cat cartoons selected from the first three Simon's Cat books. In full colour and featuring a selection of brand new cartoons, Simon's Cat is back, smaller, cheaper and cuter, but still up to his usual tricks.
About the Author At the age of nine, Simon received his first kitten, a stray rescued from a farmer's barn. He has had cats ever since. Thirty years later, Simon now shares his house with four real-life feline friends, Hugh, Jess, Maisy and Teddy. When not attending to his cats' needs, Simon likes painting, reading history books and spending time in the great British countryside.
Price: $9.99 (NZ$12.99) ISBN: 9780857867711 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 145x141mm Extent: 80 pages
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Canongate Pbs JANUARY 2016 Feed Me!: A Simon's Cat Book Simon Tofield
Simon's Cat, but bite-sized!
Description A pocket-sized collection of food-themed Simon's Cat cartoons selected from the first two Simon's Cat books. In full colour for the very first time and featuring 10 brand new cartoons, Simon's Cat is back, only smaller, cheaper and cuter.
About the Author Simon Tofield is an award-winning illustrator, animator and director at Tandem Films in London. He owns four cats.
Price: $9.99 (NZ$12.99) ISBN: 9780857862778 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 145x145mm Extent: 80 pages Main Category: WH Humour Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate Trade JANUARY 2016 The Internet is Not the Answer Andrew Keen
In this controversial new book, Andrew Keen argues that the Internet has had a disastrous impact on all our lives - and outlines what we must do to change it, before it's too late.
Description In this sharp and witty book, long-time Silicon Valley observer and author Andrew Keen argues that, on balance, the Internet has had a disastrous impact on all our lives.
By tracing the history of the Internet, from its founding in the 1960s to the creation of the World Wide Web in 1989, through the waves of start-ups and the rise of the big data companies to the increasing attempts to monetize almost every human activity, Keen shows how the Web has had a deeply negative effect on our culture, economy and society.
Informed by Keen's own research and interviews, as well as the work of other writers, reporters and academics, The Internet is Not the Answer is an urgent investigation into the tech world - from the threat to privacy posed by social media and online surveillance by government agencies, to the impact of the Internet on unemployment and economic inequality.
Keen concludes by outlining the changes that he believes must be made, before it's too late. If we do nothing, he warns, this new technology and the companies that control it will continue to impoverish us all.
About the Author Andrew Keen is the Executive Director of the Silicon Valley salon FutureCast, a columnist for CNN and a regular commentator on all things digital. He is the author of Digital Vertigo and the international sensation The Cult of the Amateur, which has been published in seventeen languages.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781782393436 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages
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Atlantic Pbs JANUARY 2016 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded Jon Savage
2016 will see the 50th anniversary of a defining year in global pop history, 1966. Jon Savage explores the key highs, lows and revolutionary moments which 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. After 1966 nothing in the pop world would ever be the same. The 7 inch single outsold the long-player for the final time. It was the year in which the ever lasting and transient pop moment would burst forth in its most articulate, instinctive and radical way. 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 Closest to the Charts 1961- 1976 (Trikont 2006); and Dreams Come True: Classic Electro 1982-87 (Domino 2008).
Price: $49.99 (NZ$55.00) ISBN: 9780571277629 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 640 pages
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Faber Non Fiction JANUARY 2016 Other Colours Orhan Pamuk
Other Colours is a collection of the best pieces from twenty years of writing from Orhan Pamuk, the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Description Other Colours is a collection of immediate relevance and timeless value, ranging from lyrical autobiography to criticism of literature and culture, from humour to political analysis, from delicate evocations of his friendship with his daughter Ruya to provocative discussions of Eastern and Western art. It also covers Pamuk's recent, high profile, court case. My Father's Suitcase, Pamuk's 2006 Nobel Lecture, a brilliant illumination of what it means to be a writer, completes the selection from a man who is now without doubt one of international literature's most eminent and popular figures.
About the Author Orhan Pamuk is the author of many celebrated books, including The White Castle, Istanbul and Snow. In 2003 he won the International IMPAC Award for My Name is Red, and in 2006 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His most recent novel, The Museum of Innocence, was an international bestseller, praised in the Guardian as 'an enthralling, immensely enjoyable piece of storytelling.' Orhan Pamuk lives in Istanbul.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571327355 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 464 pages
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Faber Paperback JANUARY 2016 The Fast Diet (The Original 5:2 Diet: Revised and Updated): New Research, New Recipes Michael Mosley & Mimi Spencer
Is it possible to eat well, most of the time and get slimmer and healthier as you do it? With The Fast Diet it is!
Description Two years on from first publication of The Fast Diet, which outlined a radical new approach to weight loss and started a worldwide health revolution, intermittent fasting and the 5:2 programme is still the diet everyone is talking about.
In this fully updated and expanded edition for 2015, Dr Michael Mosley and Mimi Spencer revisit the health phenomenon of the decade. This bigger, better version of the original book will include:
New testimonials and case studies from Fast Dieters An update on new science and research presented by Dr Michael Mosley An update on Fast Diet lifestyle presented by Mimi Spencer - getting the best out of your Fast Days in practice Some new recipes plus some Fast Day Favourites - a 'best of' selection from across the Fast books New section on the psychology of dieting - mindfulness, willpower and good habits How to get the most out of incorporating HIT and exercise into your programme An all new Fast Diet planner An improved, user-friendly calorie counter
About the Author Dr Michael Mosley is a British journalist, scientist, producer and TV presenter.
Mimi Spencer is a feature writer and columnist for publications including the Mail and the Evening Standard.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781780722375 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 256 pages
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Faber Short Books JANUARY 2016 The Fast Beach Diet: The Super-Fast 6-Week Programme to Get You in Shape for Summer Mimi Spencer, foreword by Dr Michael Mosley
From the author of the bestselling 5:2 Fast Diet and Fast Diet Recipe Book - Mimi Spencer presents the super- fast 6-week programme to kickstart your Fast Diet for summer.
Description Based on the original, bestselling Fast Diet, this modified approach will take you off cruise control and give your 5:2 lifestyle a summer-time turbo boost.
The Fast Beach Diet includes:
- A clear six-week plan to encourage fat loss of up to 1kg per week
- New tips and tricks to get you through your Fast Days
- Plateau-busting ideas to jumpstart the 5:2
- A brilliant new HIT exercise programme to maximise your fitness and fat loss - in just five minutes a day
- 25 new calorie-counted summer recipes, and plenty of healthy speed cooking ideas for busy days
With detailed meal plans and extra motivational support, this book will get you beach-fit for 2014. Think of it as a boot camp for the 5:2. For six weeks only.
About the Author Mimi Spencer is a journalist and author. A feature-writer and columnist for titles including the Mail, the Evening Standard, the Guardian, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Observer Food Monthly and Waitrose Food Illustrated. She is the author of Price: $17.99 (NZ$22.99) 101 Things To Do Before You Diet (Transworld 2010). ISBN: 9781780722245 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 176 pages Main Category: V Health/fitness Sub Category: VFMD Diets & Dieting Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Short Books JANUARY 2016 Fast Exercise: The simple secret of high intensity training-get fitter, stronger and better toned in just a few minutes a day Dr Michael Mosley with Peta Bee
From the author of the international bestselling The Fast Diet: The simple secret of High Intensity Training: how just 3 minutes a week can help you feel great and live longer.
Description Exercise is good for just about everything - you stay fitter, younger, stronger. But how should you exercise? And how much?
In this book, Michael Mosley and Peta Bee present the truth about exercise, based on cutting-edge research from the leading sports science team at Loughborough University and other studies from around the world which show that short bouts of high intensity training can be significantly more effective than prolonged periods of low-impact exercise.
It is now known that everyone responds differently to exercise. Depending on our DNA, we range from 'super- responders' (viz Olympic athletes) to 'non-responders' (ever felt that you will never get really fit, however much you try?)
In Fast Exercise, Dr Mosley (technically a 'non-responder') teams up with health journalist Peta Bee (a 'super-responder') to explain how to improve the way you exercise - whatever your fitness level. They offer practical, user-friendly advice to help you get better results in shorter time, and present a range of short workouts, so there is something which works for everyone.
About the Author Michael Mosley trained to be a doctor at the Royal Free Hospital in London, before joining the BBC, where he has been a science journalist, executive producer and, more recently, a well known television presenter. He has won numerous television awards, including an RTS (Royal Television Award) and being named Medical Journalist of the Year by the Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) British Medical Association. He is married to a doctor and has four children. ISBN: 9781780721989 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Peta Bee is an award winning journalist who writes regularly for The Times, Daily Mail and Sunday Times. She has Extent: 208 pages degrees in sports science and nutrition and is a qualified running coach. Peta won the Medical Journalists' Associations Main Category: V Health/fitness freelance of the Year in 2008 and 2012 and appears regularly on television and radio. Peta has published several books Sub Category: Illustrations: on health and fitness and lives with her family in Berkshire. Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Short Books JANUARY 2016 Fast Cook: Easy new recipes to get you through your Fast Days Mimi Spencer
In response to popular demand, a pocket edition of 120 all-new recipes with the emphasis on simple, convenient, low-cal food to provide the definitive support system for the 5:2 diet.
Description From the author of the bestselling Fast Diet and Fast Diet Recipe Book.
In response to popular demand, a pocket edition of 120 all-new recipes with the emphasis on simple, convenient, low-cal food to provide the definitive support system for the 5:2 diet.
Sections range from Fast Favourites - a collection of calorie-controlled classics - to Lightning Quick Suppers (speed cooking for when you just want to walk in the door and eat in ten minutes flat). There are recipes here for everyone - Freezer Food to Prepare in Advance, Hearty Food for Hungry Days, and Filling Meals for Men, a range of delicious, nutritious dishes for anyone who prefers to eat their 600 calories all in one go.
With each recipe calorie-counted and infinitely adaptable, Fast Cook is the perfect adjunct to the original Fast Diet Recipe Book, offering a whole new repertoire of really fast Fast food to sustain you through the tough, colder months and help you lose weight with ease.
About the Author Mimi Spencer is a journalist and author. A feature-writer and columnist for titles including the Mail, the Evening Standard, the Guardian, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Observer Food Monthly and Waitrose Food Illustrated. She is the author of 101 Things To Do Before You Diet (Transworld 2010) and co-author with Dr Michael Mosley of The Fast Diet.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781780722177 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 194x135mm Extent: 192 pages
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Faber Short Books JANUARY 2016 The Fast Diet Recipe Book (The official 5:2 diet): 150 delicious, calorie-controlled meals to make your fast days easy Mimi Spencer with Dr Sarah Schenker
The companion guide to the groundbreaking #1 bestselling The Fast Diet, with 150 delicious and nutritious, low-calorie recipes - illustrated in full colour throughout.
Description Following the #1 bestselling The Fast Diet, this fabulous cookbook offers 150 carefully crafted, nutritious, low-calorie recipes to enable you to incorporate the 5:2 weight-loss system into your daily life.
As revealed by Dr Michael Mosley in The Fast Diet, scientific trials have revealed that if you eat normally for five days a week but reduce your calorie intake for only two days, you will not only lose weight but potentially lower your risk of cancer, diabetes and other age-related diseases.
The recipes here range from simple breakfasts to leisurely suppers and warming winter stews, all expertly balanced and calorie-counted by leading nutritionist Dr Sarah Schenker. There's also a month of meal plans for men and women and Mimi Spencer, co-writer of The Fast Diet, offers a groundbreaking guide to following this diet in a safe, effective and sustainable way - you will never have to worry about planning your fast days again. There are plenty of encouraging tips - including kitchen cupboard essentials and a whole section of speedy meals that can be quickly made for those busier days.
This book offers a wonderful companion guide to the groundbreaking Fast Diet, with recipes so delicious you'll find yourself looking forward to your Fast Days. You'll lose weight, and enjoy doing it.
About the Author Mimi Spencer is a journalist and author. A feature-writer and columnist for titles including the Mail, the Evening Standard, the Guardian, the Spectator, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, and Observer Food Monthly. She is the author of 101 Things To Do Before You Diet. Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781780721873 Dr Sarah Schenker is one of the most high profile and influential nutritionists in the UK. She has been quoted in every Format: Paperback Dimensions: 245x190mm national daily newspaper on numerous diet and health issues as well as appearing regularly on TV and radio, from news Extent: 224 pages programmes to reality shows. Sarah regularly writes for magazines, newspapers and journals. Main Category: V Health/fitness
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Faber Non Fiction JANUARY 2016 Alive, Alive Oh!: and Other Things that Matter Diana Athill
In this sequel to Costa Biography Award Winning Somewhere Towards the End, Diana Athill writes vivaciously, poignantly, and with extraordinary clarity about what really matters in the end, from the remarkable vantage point of her late nineties.
Description Several years ago, Diana Athill accepted that she could no longer live entirely independently, and moved to a retirement home in Highgate. There, she found herself released from the daily anxieties of caring for her own property, and free to settle into her remaining years. From this vantage point, she reflects on what it feels like to be very old, and on the moments in her long life that have risen to the surface and which sustain her in these last years. What really matters in the end? And after a long life, which memories stand out?
As she approaches her 100th year, Athill recalls in sparkling, precise detail the exact layout of the garden of her childhood, a vast and beautiful park attached to a large house; relates with humour, clarity and honesty her experiences of the First and Second World Wars and her trips to Europe as a young woman; and in the remarkable title chapter, describes her pregnancy at the age of forty-three, losing the baby and almost losing her life - and her gratitude and joy on discovering that she had survived.
With vivid memories of the past mingled with candid, wise and often very funny reflections on what it's like to be very old, Alive, Alive Oh! reminds us what really matters, and of the joy to be found at every stage of life.
About the Author Diana Athill was born in 1917. She helped Andre Deutsch establish the publishing company that bore his name and worked as an editor for Deutsch for four decades. Athill's distinguished career as an editor is the subject of her acclaimed memoir Stet, which is also published by Granta Books, as are five further volumes of memoirs, Instead of a Letter, After a Funeral, Yesterday Morning, Make Believe, Somewhere Towards the End, a novel, Don't Look at Me Like That, and a collection of letters, Instead of a Book. In January 2009, she won the Costa Biography Award for Somewhere Towards the End, and was presented with an OBE. She lives in London. Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781783782543 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 144 pages
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Granta JANUARY 2016 The Art of Understanding Art: A new perspective Hugh Moss
A refreshingly original and thought-provoking new theory of art, argued with intelligence, panache and wit.
Description What is art? How do you judge it - by price, artist, technique, emotional response? How did artists such as Duchamp and Hirst change things? And what can we learn from the Chinese about appreciating art - and music?
In this delightfully readable book, art expert and artist Hugh Moss persuasively presents a controversial new theory of art that should help everyone to enjoy art more, and feel more confident in their judgements about it. He shows that much accepted thinking about art is the result of intellectual tyranny. To fully appreciate a work of art, he argues, we need to combine intellect and reason with the transcendental side of consciousness. Not easy, admittedly - but if you can reach your own enlightened view, immensely rewarding.
Written with a light touch, practical, intelligent, provocative, seasoned with irreverence and wit, and wonderfully illustrated by Peter Suart, this is a book that anyone interested in art will find stimulating.
About the Author Hugh Moss ran a gallery specialising in Asian art in London's West End before moving to Hong Kong in the 1970s. In the 1980s he represented some of China's leading artists, and took up painting himself, becoming an accomplished artist. An acknowledged expert in Chinese snuff bottles, scholarly works of art and modern paintings, he has worked closely with the world's leading auction houses for over fifty years.
Peter Suart is a writer and illustrator, musician and theatrical performer. He is the author/illustrator of the Tik and Tok books, and has illustrated several Folio Society volumes.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781781256114 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages
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Profile Trade JANUARY 2016 Social Theory: Ideas in Profile William Outhwaite
Social theory lets us understand the full complexity of the world we live in - this book explains how.
Description Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics
In a world that is constantly changing, understanding the world has never been more important. But by thinking in neat segments, we miss the big picture. When economists think about globalisation, they often see trade; politicians see institutions and power; artists see a new global aesthetic. Social theory is what sees them all together.
Renowned theorist William Outhwaite takes us on a journey through the major thinkers and topics of this often misunderstood discipline. We move from the the work of Rousseau to the still powerful insights of Marx and on to the great sociologists, Weber and Durkheim. We probe the big questions - why is religion powerful, where does capitalism come from - and move through the key ideas of the twentieth century thought from the Frankfurt School to Bourdieu and Giddens.
Lastly Outhwaite questions the role of social theory today. Where does this vital discipline go next and how will its wide horizons help us stand up to the challenge of the twenty-first century?
About the Author William Outhwaite studied at the Universities of Oxford and Sussex, where he taught for many years, and has been Professor of Sociology at Newcastle University since 2007. He is the author of numerous ground- breaking books on Social Theory.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781781254813 Format: Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 176 pages
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Profile Trade JANUARY 2016 Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries Ian Stewart
Solving mathematical riddles with the world's most popular maths sleuth.
Description Like its wildly popular predecessors, Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities and Hoard of Mathematical Treasures, Professor Stewart's brand-new book is a miscellany of over 150 mathematical curios and conundrums, packed with trademark humour and numerous illustrations.
In addition to the fascinating formulae and thrilling theorems familiar to Professor Stewart's fans, the Casebook follows the adventures of the not-so-great detective Hemlock Soames and his sidekick Dr John Watsup (immortalised in the phrase 'Watsup, Doc?'). By a remarkable coincidence they live at 222B Baker Street, just across the road from their more illustrious neighbour who, for reasons known only to Dr Watsup, is never mentioned by name. A typical item is 'The Case of the Face-Down Aces', a mathematical magic trick of quite devilish cunning.
Ranging from one-liners to four-page investigations from the frontiers of mathematical research, the Casebook reveals Professor Stewart at his challenging and entertaining best.
About the Author Ian Stewart is Mathematics Professor Emeritus at Warwick University. His many books include Seventeen Equations that Changed the World [9781846685323], Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities [9781846683459], and The Great Mathematical Problems [9781846683374]. 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$24.99) ISBN: 9781846683480 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages
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Profile Trade JANUARY 2016 Mastery Robert Greene
'Live by your own rules' - Robert Greene, the 'modern Machiavelli' debunks the prevailing mythology of success and presents a radical new way to greatness.
Description Around the globe, people are facing the same problem - that we are born as individuals but are forced to conform to the rules of society if we want to succeed. To see our uniqueness expressed in our achievements, we must first learn the rules - and then how to change them completely.
Charles Darwin began as an underachieving schoolboy, Leonardo da Vinci as an illegitimate outcast. The secret of their eventual greatness lies in a 'rigorous apprenticeship': by paying close and careful attention, they learnt to master the 'hidden codes' which determine ultimate success or failure. Then they rewrote the rules as a reflection of their own individuality, blasting previous patterns of achievement open from within.
Told through Robert Greene's signature blend of historical anecdote and psychological insight and drawing on interviews with world leaders, Mastery builds on the strategies outlined in The 48 Laws of Power to provide a practical guide to greatness - and how to start living by your own rules.
About the Author Robert Greene is author of The 48 Laws of Power, The 33 Strategies of War, The Art of Seduction and The 50th Law (9781846680687). He has a degree in Classical Studies and has been an editor at Esquire and other magazines. He is also a playwright and lives in Los Angeles.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781781250914 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 236x256mm Extent: 368 pages Main Category: VS Self-help/personal Development Sub Category: VSP Popular Psychology Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade JANUARY 2016 The 48 Laws Of Power Robert Greene
In this huge international bestseller, the 48 laws are illustrated through the tactics, triumphs and failures of great figures from the past who have wielded - or been victimised by - power.
Description The perfect book for the power hungry (and who doesn't want power?). At work, in relationships, on the street or on the 6 o'clock news: the 48 Laws apply everywhere. For anyone with an interest in conquest, self- defence, wealth, power or simply being an educated spectator, The 48 Laws of Power is one of the most useful and entertaining books ever.
This book 'teaches you how to cheat, dissemble, feign, fight and advance your cause in the modern world.' (Independent on Sunday) The distilled wisdom of the masters - illustrated through the tactics, triumphs and failures from Elizabeth I to Henry Kissinger on how to get to the top and stay there.
Wry, ironic and clever, this is an indispensable and witty guide to power.
About the Author Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power and The Art of Seduction (both from Profile), has a degree in Classical Studies and has been an editor at Esquire and other magazines. He is also a playwright and lives in Los Angeles.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781861972781 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 237x169mm Extent: 480 pages
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Profile Trade JANUARY 2016 The Art Of Seduction Robert Greene
Which sort of seducer could you be: *Siren? *Rake? *Cold Coquette? *Star? *Comedian? *Charismatic? or *Saint?
Description Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who is able to manipulate, mislead and give pleasure all at once.
When raised to the level of art, seduction, an indirect and subtle form of power, has toppled empires, won elections and enslaved great minds. In this beautiful, sensually designed book, Greene unearths the two sides of seduction: the characters and the process. Discover who you, or your pursuer, most resembles. Learn, too, the pitfalls of the anti- Seducer. In part II, immerse yourself in the twenty-four manoeuvres and strategies of the seductive process, the ritual by which a seducer gains mastery over their target. Understand how to 'Choose the Right Victim', 'Appear to Be an Object of Desire' and 'Confuse Desire and Reality'. In addition, Greene provides instruction on how to identify victims by type.
Each fascinating character and each cunning tactic demonstrates a fundamental truth about who we are, and the targets we've become - or hope to win over. The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer on the essence of one of history's greatest weapons and the ultimate power trip.
About the Author Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power and The Art of Seduction (both from Profile), has a degree in Classical Studies and has been an editor at Esquire and other magazines. He is also a playwright and lives in Los Angeles.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781861977694 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 230x166mm Extent: 496 pages
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Profile Trade JANUARY 2016 The 50th Law Robert Greene and 50 Cent
Bestselling author Robert Greene combines forces with 50 Cent to help you get ahead.
Description The ultimate hustle is to move freely between the street and corporate worlds, to find your flow and never stay locked in the same position. This is a manifesto for how to operate in the twenty-first century, where everything has been turned on its head. Building on the runaway success of Robert Greene's The 48 Laws of Power (almost five million copies sold), the 'modern Machiavelli' teams up with rapper 50 Cent to show how the power game of success can be played to your advantage.
Drawing on the lore of gangsters, hustlers, and hip-hop artists, as well as 50 Cent's business and artistic dealings, the authors present the 'Laws of 50', revealing how to become a master strategist and supreme realist. Success comes from seeking an advantage in each and every encounter, and The 50th Law offers indispensable advice on how to win in business - and in life.
About the Author Robert Greene is the author of three international bestsellers. He has been an editor at Esquire and other magazines.
50 Cent is a US rapper and entrepreneur. He has released four major label albums, earned eleven Grammy nominations and taken street culture by storm from music and movies to clothing and books.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781846680793 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages
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Profile Trade JANUARY 2016 The Concise Mastery Robert Greene
A concise guide to living by your own rules (and a radical new guide to achieving greatness) from Robert Greene, author of international bestseller The 48 Laws of Power.
Description The perfect pocketbook gift for the power-hungry - from 'the modern Machiavelli', Robert Greene, international bestselling sensation author of The 48 Laws of Power, Seduction and War. This concise version of the business classic Mastery provides a shortcut to Greene's powerful new tools for achieving greatness. Around the globe, people are facing the same problem - that we are born as individuals but are forced to conform to the rules of society if we want to succeed. To see our uniqueness expressed in our achievements, we must first learn the rules - and then change them completely.
Charles Darwin began as an underachieving schoolboy, Leonardo da Vinci as an illegitimate outcast. The secret of their eventual greatness lies in a 'rigorous apprenticeship': they learnt to master the 'hidden codes' which determine ultimate success or failure. Then they rewrote the rules as a reflection of their own individuality.
Told through Robert Greene's signature blend of historical anecdote and psychological insight and drawing on interviews with world leaders, Concise Mastery builds on the strategies outlined in The 48 Laws of Power to provide a practical guide to greatness - and learn how to start living by your own rules.
About the Author Robert Greene is author of The 48 Laws of Power (9781861972781), The 33 Strategies of War (9781861979780) The Art of Seduction (9781861977694), The 50th Law (9781846680687) and Mastery (all Profile). He has a degree in Classical Studies and has been an editor at Esquire and other magazines.
Price: $17.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781846681561 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 166x118mm Extent: 208 pages
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Profile Trade JANUARY 2016 The Concise 48 Laws Of Power Robert Greene
The Concise Edition of this huge international bestseller - the 48 laws are illustrated through the tactics, triumphs and failures of great figures from the past who have wielded - or been victimised by - power.
Description The perfect gift book for the power hungry (and who doesn't want power?) at an excellent price. At work, in relationships, on the street or on the 6 o'clock news: the 48 Laws apply everywhere. For anyone with an interest in conquest, self- defence, wealth, power or simply being an educated spectator, The 48 Laws of Power is one of the most useful and entertaining books ever.
This book 'teaches you how to cheat, dissemble, feign, fight and advance your cause in the modern world.' (Independent on Sunday) The distilled wisdom of the masters -illustrated through the tactics, triumphs and failures from Elizabeth I to Henry Kissinger on how to get to the top and stay there.
Wry, ironic and clever this is an indispensable and witty guide to power. The laws are now famous: Law 1: Never outshine the master Law 2: Never put too much trust in friends; learn how to use enemies Law 3: Conceal your intentions Law 4: Always say less than necessary
About the Author Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power and The Art of Seduction (both from Profile), has a degree in Classical Studies and has been an editor at Esquire and other magazines. He is also a playwright and lives in Los Angeles.
Price: $17.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781861974044 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 165x117mm Extent: 208 pages
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Profile Trade JANUARY 2016 The Concise Seduction Robert Greene
The companion book to the bestselling Concise 48 Laws of Power.
Description Which sort of seducer could you be: *Siren? *Rake? *Cold Coquette? *Star? *Comedian? *Charismatic? or *Saint? Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who is able to manipulate, mislead and give pleasure all at once.
When raised to the level of art, seduction, an indirect and subtle form of power, has toppled empires, won elections and enslaved great minds. In this beautiful, sensually designed book, Greene unearths the two sides of seduction: the characters and the process. Discover who you, or your pursuer, most resembles. Learn, too, the pitfalls of the anti- Seducer. In part II, immerse yourself in the twenty-four manoeuvres and strategies of the seductive process, the ritual by which a seducer gains mastery over their target. Understand how to 'Choose the Right Victim', 'Appear to Be an Object of Desire' and 'Confuse Desire and Reality'. In addition, Greene provides instruction on how to identify victims by type. Each fascinating character and each cunning tactic demonstrates a fundamental truth about who we are, and the targets we've become - or hope to win over. The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer on the essence of one of history's greatest weapons and the ultimate power trip.
About the Author Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power and The Art of Seduction (both from Profile), has a degree in Classical Studies and has been an editor at Esquire and other magazines. He is also a playwright and lives in Los Angeles.
Price: $17.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781861976413 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 166x117mm Extent: 224 pages
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Profile Trade JANUARY 2016 Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome Nessa Carey
Cutting-edge popular science from the author of the brilliant The Epigenetics Revolution.
Description For decades, 98 per cent of our DNA was written off as 'junk' on the grounds that it did not code for proteins. From rare genetic diseases to Down's Syndrome, from viral infections to the ageing process, only now are the effects and the vital functions of these junk regions beginning to emerge. Scientists' rapidly growing knowledge of this often controversial field has already provided a successful cure for blindness and saved innocent people from death row via DNA fingerprinting, and looks set to revolutionise treatment for many medical conditions including obesity.
From Nessa Carey, author of the acclaimed The Epigenetics Revolution, this is the first book for a general readership on a subject that may underpin the secrets of human complexity - even the very origins of life on earth.
About the Author Nessa Carey has a PhD in virology from the University of Edinburgh and worked in the biotech and pharma industry for thirteen years. She is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London. Her previous book, The Epigenetics Revolution, was published by Icon Books in 2011, and was described as 'a book that would have had Darwin swooning - anyone seriously interested in who we are and how we function should read this.'
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781848319158 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages
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Icon JANUARY 2016 Introducing Literary Criticism: A Graphic Guide Owen Holland
A brand new literary title in the renowned graphic novel-style of the Introducing Graphic Guide series.
Description From Plato to Virginia Woolf, Structuralism to Practical Criticism, Introducing Literary Criticism charts the history and development of literary criticism into a rich and complex discipline. Tackling disputes over the value and meaning of literature, and exploring theoretical and practical approaches, this unique illustrated guide will help readers of all levels to get more out of their reading.
About the Author Owen Holland is a doctoral student at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he teaches the history of literary criticism. Piero is an illustrator, artist and graphic designer whose work has been included in the Royal College of Art in London. He has illustrated many Introducing titles.
Price: $12.99 (NZ$14.99) ISBN: 9781848319042 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 168x118mm Extent: 176 pages
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Icon JANUARY 2016 Introducing Graphic Guide Box Set - The Origins of Life: Introducing Evolution, Introducing Darwin, Introducing Genetics Jonathan Miller, illustrated by Borin Loon, Dylan Evans illustrated by Howard Selina and Steve Jones
This box set contains three brilliant Introducing Graphic Guides on mind-blowing ideas that have revolutionised our view of how the universe works - Darwin, Evolution and Genetics.
Description Using comic-book style illustration combined with accessible but authoritative text, the Introducing Graphic Guide series is a uniquely brilliant way to get your head around some of humankind's most thrilling ideas.
In 1859, Charles Darwin shocked the world with a radical theory - evolution by natural selection. One hundred and fifty years later, his theory still challenges some of our most precious beliefs. Introducing Evolution: A Graphic Guide, on 'Darwin's dangerous idea', takes a fresh look at the often misunderstood concepts of natural selection and the selfish gene.
Introducing Darwin: A Graphic Guide charts the difficult progress from pre-Darwinian thinking to modern genetics, and the devastatingly important impact of one man on our fundamental understanding of biology, life and ourselves.
Introducing Genetics: A Graphic Guide takes readers on a journey through this new science to the discovery of DNA and the heart of the human gene map. In everyday life, many of us increasingly have to make moral decisions where genetics plays a part. This Graphic Guide gives us the information to do so.
About the Author Various
Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781848317529 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 168x118mm Extent: 528 pages
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Icon JANUARY 2016 Introducing Graphic Guide Box Set - Mind-Bending Thinking Tom Whyntie, Oliver Pugh and Christopher Kul-Want
A box set containing three enlightening, comic-book style Introducing Graphic Guides (Particle Physics, Continental Philosophy, Slavoj Zizek) on the politics that has helped shape the world.
Description Using comic-book style illustration combined with accessible but authoritative text, the Introducing Graphic Guide series is a uniquely brilliant way to get your head around some of humankind's most thrilling ideas.
What really happens at the most fundamental levels of nature? Introducing Particle Physics: A Graphic Guide explores the very frontiers of our knowledge, even showing how particle physicists are now using theory and experiment to probe our very concept of what is real.
What makes philosophy on the continent of Europe so different and exciting? And why does it have such a reputation for being 'difficult'? Covering the great philosophers of the modern and postmodern eras - from Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze right to up Agamben and Žižek - and philosophical movements from German idealism to deconstruction and feminism - Introducing Continental Philosophy: A Graphic Guide brilliantly elucidates some of the most thrilling and powerful ideas ever to have been discussed.
Covering topics from philosophy and ethics, politics and ideology, religion and art, to literature, cinema, corporate marketing, quantum physics and virtual reality, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide deftly explains Zizek's virtuoso ability to transform apparently outworn ideologies - Communism, Marxism and psychoanalysis - into a new theory of freedom and enjoyment.
About the Author Various
Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781848317499 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 168x118mm Extent: 528 pages
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Icon JANUARY 2016 Introducing Graphic Guide Box Set - More Great Theories of Science Brian Clegg, Oliver Pugh, William Rankin, J.P. McEvoy illustrated by Oscar Zarate
This box set contains three brilliant Introducing Graphic Guides on mind-blowing ideas that have revolutionised our view of how the universe works - Infinity, Consciousness and Stephen Hawking.
Description Using comic-book style illustration combined with accessible but authoritative text, the Introducing Graphic Guide series is a uniquely brilliant way to get your head around some of humankind's most thrilling ideas.
Infinity is a profoundly counter-intuitive and brain-twisting subject that has inspired some great thinkers - and provoked and shocked others. Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide is a brilliant graphic tour of infinity features a cast of characters ranging from Archimedes and Pythagoras to al-Khwarizmi, Fibonacci, Galileo, Newton, Leibniz, Cantor, Venn, Godel and Mandelbrot, and shows how infinity has challenged the finest minds of science and mathematics.
Introducing Consciousness presents the history of the philosophical relation between mind and matter, and covers the scientific attempts to explain consciousness in terms of neural mechanisms, cerebral computation and quantum mechanics. It also introduces readers to zombies, ghosts in machines and Schrodinger's cat.
Stephen Hawking is the world-famous physicist; to the public he is a tragic figure - a brilliant scientist and author of the 9 million-copy-selling A Brief History of Time, and yet confined to a wheelchair and almost completely paralysed. Introducing Stephen Hawking: A Graphic Guide guide explores his life, and the evolution of his work from his days as a student.
About the Author Various
Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781848317505 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 168x118mm Extent: 528 pages
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Icon JANUARY 2016 Introducing Graphic Guide Box Set - How To Change The World Rupert Woodfin, illustrated by Oscar Zarate, Dan Cryan illustrated by, Sharon Shatil and
A box set containing three essential, comic-book style Introducing Graphic Guides (Marxism, Capitalism and Romanticism) on the politics that has helped shape the world.
Description Using comic-book style illustration combined with accessible but authoritative text, the Introducing Graphic Guide series is a uniquely brilliant way to get your head around some of humankind's most thrilling ideas.Was Marx himself a 'Marxist'? Was his visionary promise of socialism betrayed by Marxist dictatorship? Is Marxism inevitably totalitarian? What did Marx really say? Introducing Marxism: A Graphic Guide provides a fundamental account of Karl Marx's original philosophy, its roots in 19th century European ideology, and his radical economic and social criticism of capitalism.Capitalism has influenced everything in the 21st-century world. Introducing Capitalism: A Graphic Guide tells the story of its remarkable and often ruthless rise, evolving through strife and struggle as much as innovation and enterprise. Tracing capitalism from its beginning, it looks at its practical and theoretical impact.Introducing Romanticism: A Graphic Guide shows us how romanticism is crucial to an understanding of modern Western culture. Philosophy, art, literature, music, and politics were all transformed in the turbulent period between the French Revolution of 1789 and the Communist Manifesto of 1848 - this was the age of the 'Romantic revolution'.
About the Author Various
Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781848317512 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 168x118mm Extent: 528 pages
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Icon JANUARY 2016 The Spider of Sarajevo Robert Wilton
A novel of shadows, intrigue and manipulation in a Europe teetering on the brink of the Great War...
Description From the secret archives of the Comptrollerate-General for Scrutiny and Survey
Summer 1914 Europe is on the brink. As Britain's enemies grow stronger, the Comptroller-General must confront the man with whom he has struggled for a generation - a man he knows only as the Spider. In a desperate gamble, he sends four agents out across the continent, on a mission they do not understand...
The future of British intelligence - of the British Empire - is in their hands. Not all of them will return. Unique and resourceful, hunted and deceived, they have embarked on a journey that will climax in the town of Sarajevo on the 28th of June 1914.
About the Author Robert Wilton held a variety of posts in the British Government. He was advisor to the Prime Minister of Kosovo in the lead-up to the country's independence, and is now helping to run an international mission in Albania. Treason's Tide won the HWA/Goldsboro Crown for best historical debut; in addition to his novels he writes on international intervention and translates a little poetry. He divides his time between Cornwall and the Balkans.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781782391944 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 416 pages
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Corvus Pbs JANUARY 2016 Evening at the Talk House Wallace Shawn
The latest play by American actor and playwright, Wallace Shawn, which premiered at The National Theatre in London in November 2015.
Description A reunion at the almost legendary club, The Talk House. Still presided over by the kindly Nellie, there's the same genteel atmosphere, the familiar drinks and the special snacks.The playwright, the composer, the actress.The former television star brutally beaten up. The possibility of a pleasant night. Evening at the Talk House by Wallace Shawn premiered at the National Theatre, London, in November 2015.
About the Author Wallace Shawn is an American actor, stand-up comedian, singer, dancer, playwright, and essayist. His other plays include Our Late Night, A Thought in Three Parts, Marie and Bruce, Aunt Dan & Lemon, The Fever, and The Designated Mourner.
Shawn has appeared as an actor in many films, including Manhattan, Clueless and The Princess Bride.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571328130 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 96 pages
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Faber Plays JANUARY 2016 T. S. Eliot The Poems Volume One: Collected & Uncollected Poems T S Eliot, edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue
The authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets.
Description The Poems of T. S. Eliot is the authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets, scrupulously edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. It provides, for the first time, a fully scrutinized text of Eliot's poems, carefully restoring accidental omissions and removing textual errors that have crept in over the full century in which Eliot has been so frequently printed and reprinted. The edition also presents many poems from Eliot's youth which were published only decades later, as well as others that saw only private circulation in his lifetime, of which dozens are collected for the first time.
To accompany Eliot's poems, Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue have provided a commentary that illuminates the creative activity that came to constitute each poem, calling upon drafts, correspondence and other original materials to provide a vivid account of the poet's working processes, his reading, his influences and his revisions.
The first volume respects Eliot's decisions by opening with his Collected Poems 1909-1962 in the form in which he issued it, shortly before his death fifty years ago. There follow in this first volume the uncollected poems from his youth that he had chosen to publish, along with such other poems as could be considered suitable for publication. The second volume opens with the two books of poems of other kinds that he issued, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and his translation of Perse's Anabase, moving then to verses privately circulated as informal or improper or clubmanlike. Each of these sections is accompanied by its respective commentary, and then, pertaining to the entire edition, there is a comprehensive textual history recording variants both manuscript and published.
The Poems of T. S. Eliot is a work of enlightening scholarship that will delight and inform all those who read Eliot for pleasure, as well as all those who read with pleasure and for study. Here are a new accuracy and an unparalleled insight into the marvels and landmarks from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land through to Four Quartets.
About the Author Christopher Ricks is co-director of the Editorial Institute and Warren Professor of Humanities at Boston University. He is Price: $95.00 (NZ$120.00) ISBN: 9780571238705 author of numerous works of literary criticism, including Beckett's Dying Words (1993) and is responsible for the Format: Hard Cover forthcoming new edition of The Complete Poetry of T. S. Eliot (2011). He was knighted for his services to scholarship in Dimensions: 234x153mm 2009. Extent: 1200 pages
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Faber Poetry JANUARY 2016 T. S. Eliot The Poems Volume Two T S Eliot
The authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets of our age, containing carefully restored poems alongside works published here for the first time.
Description The Poems of T. S. Eliot is the authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets, scrupulously edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. It provides, for the first time, a fully scrutinized text of Eliot's poems, carefully restoring accidental omissions and removing textual errors that have crept in over the full century in which Eliot has been so frequently printed and reprinted. The edition also presents many poems from Eliot's youth which were published only decades later, as well as others that saw only private circulation in his lifetime, of which dozens are collected for the first time.
To accompany Eliot's poems, Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue have provided a commentary that illuminates the creative activity that came to constitute each poem, calling upon drafts, correspondence and other original materials to provide a vivid account of the poet's working processes, his reading, his influences and his revisions.
The first volume respects Eliot's decisions by opening with his Collected Poems 1909-1962 in the form in which he issued it, shortly before his death fifty years ago. There follow in this first volume the uncollected poems from his youth that he had chosen to publish, along with such other poems as could be considered suitable for publication. The second volume opens with the two books of poems of other kinds that he issued, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and his translation of Perse's Anabase, moving then to verses privately circulated as informal or improper or clubmanlike. Each of these sections is accompanied by its respective commentary, and then, pertaining to the entire edition, there is a comprehensive textual history recording variants both manuscript and published.
The Poems of T. S. Eliot is a work of enlightening scholarship that will delight and inform all those who read Eliot for pleasure, as well as all those who read with pleasure and for study. Here are a new accuracy and an unparalleled insight into the marvels and landmarks from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land through to Four Quartets.
About the Author Price: $95.00 (NZ$120.00) ISBN: 9780571238712 Christopher Ricks is co-director of the Editorial Institute and Warren Professor of Humanities at Boston University. He is Format: Hard Cover author of numerous works of literary criticism, including Beckett's Dying Words (1993) and is responsible for the Dimensions: 234x153mm forthcoming new edition of The Complete Poetry of T. S. Eliot (2011). He was knighted for his services to scholarship in Extent: 800 pages 2009. Main Category: DC Poetry
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Faber Poetry JANUARY 2016 The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 6: 1932-1933 edited by John Haffenden and T.S. Eliot
The Letters of T. S. Eliot series provides a vivid and personal documentation of T. S. Eliot's most crucial years, both in his private and public life.
Description Despairing of his volatile, unstable wife, T. S. Eliot, at 44, resolves to put an end to the torture of his eighteen-year marriage. He breaks free from September 1932 by becoming Norton Lecturer at Harvard. His lectures will be published as The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933). He also delivers the Page-Barbour Lectures at Virginia (After Strange Gods, 1934). At Christmas he visits Emily Hale, to whom he is 'obviously devoted'. He gives talks all over - New York, California, Missouri, Minnesota, Chicago - and the letters describing encounters with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson and Marianne Moore ('a real Gillette blade') brim with gossip. High points include the premiere at Vassar College of his comic melodrama Sweeney Agonistes (1932). The year 'was the happiest I can ever remember in my life . . . successful and amusing.' Returning home, he hides out in the country while making known to Vivien his decision to leave her. But he is exasperated when she buries herself in denial: she will not accept a Deed of Separation. The close of 1933 is lifted when Eliot 'breaks into Show Business'. He is commissioned to write a 'mammoth Pageant': The Rock. This collaborative enterprise will be the proving-ground for the choric triumph of Murder in the Cathedral (1935).
About the Author John Haffenden is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His publications include a biography of the American poet John Berryman; editions of the works of William Empson including the Complete Poems (2000); and an award-winning two-volume biography of Empson (2005, 2006). He was General Editor of Letters of T. S. Eliot, volumes 1, 2 (2009), 3 (2012) and 4 (2013).
Price: $120.00 (NZ$150.00) ISBN: 9780571316342 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 960 pages
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Faber Non Fiction JANUARY 2016 Corona, Corona Michael Hofmann
Corona, Corona was first published in 1993 and is at last published in Faber's poetry series look.
Description Arranged in three parts - the first concerning other people's lives, the second autobiographical, the third to do with the poet's travels in Mexico - Corona, Corona displays to the full Michael Hofmann's gift for compressed and vividly pointed reportage. It offers some of the boldest, frankest and most searching poetry of our time.
About the Author Michael Hofmann was born in 1957 in Freiburg, Germany, and came to England in 1961. He has published four volumes of poems and won a Cholmondeley Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for poetry. His translations have won many awards, including the Independent's Foreign Fiction Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the P.E.N./Book of the Month Club Translation Prize. His reviews and criticism are gathered in Behind the Lines (2001). Ashes for Breakfast - his translations of the poetry of Durs Grunbein - appeared in 2005, and his Selected Poems was published in 2008.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571327379 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 64 pages
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Faber Poetry JANUARY 2016 Approximately Nowhere Michael Hofmann
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Description A number of the poems in this collection by Michael Hofmann show him returning to the subject of his father, the German novelist Gert Hofmann, whose relationship with his son was also the principal subject of his celebrated 1986 collection, Acrimony, and of a memorable television documentary that appeared at that time. In 1993, however, Gert Hofmann died, and the poems written since then replace the combativeness and acerbity of the earlier book with a more complex tone: frankness and factuality are still important elements, but they are tempered now by grief, pity, pain and bemusement.
Readers will note other differences, too: among them, a greater sense of formal freedom, a more flowing and abundant style of poetic discourse, an ever-sharper receptiveness to brilliant and brittle observations, and an increasing variety of tones, from the droll to the remorseful and the delirious. Above all, they will be delighted to learn that Michael Hofmann, whose outstanding talents were evident from his very first collection has found ways of putting them at the service of a more mature, profound and revelatory view of the world.
About the Author Michael Hofmann was born in 1957 in Freiburg, Germany, and came to England in 1961. He has published four volumes of poems and won a Cholmondeley Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for poetry. His translations have won many awards, including the Independent's Foreign Fiction Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the P.E.N./Book of the Month Club Translation Prize. His reviews and criticism are gathered in Behind the Lines (2001). Ashes for Breakfast - his translations of the poetry of Durs Grunbein - appeared in 2005, and his Selected Poems was published in 2008.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571327386 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 96 pages
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Faber Poetry JANUARY 2016 Nights in the Iron Hotel Michael Hofmann
A Poetry Book Society recommendation, at last in Faber's poetry series look.
Description Michael Hofmann, a much-praised contributor to Poetry Introduction 5, was born in Germany in 1957 but brought up in Britain. Nights in the Iron Hotel, which won the author a Cholmondeley Award in 1984, is his first full-length volume. Hofmann's poems are marked by a classical authority, a formidable ironic intelligence, wide-ranging subject matter and a unique tone of voice. 'You move the fifty-seven muscles it takes to smile,' Hofmann writes in a poem whose subject is sexual tension - and immediately the reader recognises a world in which emotions are not the usual poetic counters but something truer, more complex and more painful. This quality of disenchantment is served by a deceptively laconic style of measured brio.
About the Author Michael Hofmann was born in 1957 in Freiburg, Germany, and came to England in 1961. He has published four volumes of poems and won a Cholmondeley Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for poetry. His translations have won many awards, including the Independent's Foreign Fiction Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the P.E.N./Book of the Month Club Translation Prize. His reviews and criticism are gathered in Behind the Lines (2001). Ashes for Breakfast - his translations of the poetry of Durs Grunbein - appeared in 2005, and his Selected Poems was published in 2008.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571327393 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 64 pages
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Faber Poetry JANUARY 2016 My Grandmother's Glass Eye: A Look at Poetry Craig Raine
From one of our leading contemporary critics and poets comes a fresh, wily, accessible book of poetry in all its forms.
Description 'By poetry we - we the masses - mean something vague, something untrue, something uplifting, something beautiful, something so eloquent it isn't for everyday. The word "poetry" is up there with "soul". And I am against it.'
My Grandmother's Glass Eye deploys its considerable learning, its intelligent expertise, wittily, memorably. It is an exercise in demystification and clarity. If you want to know how poetry works on the page, here are sure-footed accounts of particular poems. There is something Johnsonian in Craig Raine's common sense--an elegant wrecking ball used with precision and delicacy to pick off the pretentious, the platitudinous, the over-promoted. Here, poetry is well read, attentively read, by a practitioner whose range runs from Bion to John Lennon, from Bishop to Balanchine.
About the Author Craig Raine was born in 1944 and educated at Exeter College, Oxford. He became editor of Quarto in 1979 and was subsequently Poetry Editor at Faber from 1981 to 1991. He is now an emeritus Fellow at New College, Oxford, and has been the editor of Arete since 1999. He is the author of three collections of literary essays, six works of poetry and two novels, Heartbreak and The Divine Comedy, published by Atlantic Books. His Collected Poems 1978-1999 were published in 2000 and his verse drama, '1953' was directed by Patrick Marber at the Almeida Theatre in 1996. His critical study of T. S. Eliot was published in 2007.
Price: $59.99 (NZ$69.99) ISBN: 9781848872899 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 210x148mm Extent: 224 pages
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