Issue #251 December 2010

Ars Sacra Prime Minister’s Rolf TOMAN Book launch Literary Awards 800pp Hb $350 Join Patrick Wilcken for the launch of his new book. Christianity is the most widespread Wednesday 15 December 6-8pm Fiction religion in the world. This beautiful Light refreshments will be served. Dog Boy volume pays due tribute to its art No RSVP required. Eva HORNUNG Pb $23.95 and architecture; a comprehensive compendium presenting just under 2,000 years of Claude Levi-Strauss Four-year-old Romochka is left Christian art, from early Christianity to the present The Poet in the alone in a dark, empty Moscow day. Sumptuous illustrations allow you to come Laboratory apartment. After a few days, within grasp of the displayed objects and leisurely Patrick WILCKEN hunger drives him outside, indulge in the details. Excellently researched text where he sees a large, yellow dog lopingoping pastpast 384pp Hb $59.99 highlights the specifi c changes in the sacral art, and follows her to her lair on the outskirts of the Levi-Strauss was one of the architecture and culture over the centuries. For city. During the seasons that follow, Romochka most infl uential intellectuals of further inspiration visit our website to view a video changes from a boy into something far wilder. the 20th century. His ideas and showing production of this opulent tome. A feast for methods inspired the work of Michel Foucault, Young Adult Fiction the senses! Roland Barthes and Jacques Lacan, and arguably changed the face of Western thought. He argued Confessions of a Liar, Quarterly Essay #40 that the “savage” mind had the same structures as Thief and Failed Sex Trivial Pursuit: the “civilised” mind and that human characteristics God Leadership and the End are the same everywhere. These observations Bill CONDON Pb $18.95 of the Reform Era culminated in his famous book Tristes Tropiques, Neil Bridges attends a Catholic George MEGALOGENIS which positioned him as one of the central fi gures boys’ school in which teachers rule 144pp Pb $19.95 in the structuralist school of thought, where his ideas reached into fi elds including the humanities, with iron fi sts and thick leather straps.ps Some boys boys In the aftermath of the 2010 sociology and philosophy. Drawing on interviews crumble under the pressure, but Neil toughs it out, election, this essay considers with Levi-Strauss himself, Wilcken explores and just as his Vietnam-bound older brother has done what has happened to politics in Australia. Have explains his ideas, revealing the man behind them before him. He has to be a man, after all. But at we entered a new phase with minority government to be a writer and artiste manqué, who injected an 16, how can he be sure of himself when he’s not and the rise of the Greens and independents? artistic sensibility into academia, using imagery sure of anything else? He loses a friend and fi nds The Hawke, Keating and Howard years were and ideas worthy of a poet. another, falls in love, and unwittingly treads a path ones of bold reform; recently we have seen an that leads to revenge and possibly murder... era of power without purpose. But why? Is it down to powerful lobbies, or the media, or a failure of Children’s Fiction leadership, or all of the above? And whatever the case, how will hard decisions be taken for the Star Jumps Abbey’s Gift Cards are the answer! future? In a brilliant analysis, the author dissects Lorraine MARWOOD available in any amount Pb $14.95 the cycle of polls, focus groups and presidential A verse novel told through the eyes politics, and explores what it has done to the of a young girl depicting the joys prospect of serious, diffi cult reform. Christmas Hours and heartbreaks of a farming family Suddenly, Last Winter as they struggle to cope with the devastatingvastating Regular trading hours except: effects of long-term drought. An Election Diary December Bob ELLIS 400pp Pb $32.95 Non-Fiction 11 Sat 8am - 8pm Just as Ellis’s last book, One 12 Sun 9am - 6pm The Colony Hundred Days of Summer (Tp $32.95), about Tony Abbott’s 13-15 Mon-Wed 8am - 7pm A History of Early Sydney ascension to the Liberal 16-17 Thu-Fri 8am - 9pm Grace KARSKENS Pb $45 leadership, was ready to hit the 18 Sat 8am - 8pm A ground-breaking history of shelves, the nation was stunned 19 Sun 9am - 6pm the colony of Sydney in its to witness Labor suddenly call time on Kevin 20-22 Mon-Wed 8am - 9pm early years, from the sparkling harbourbour to the Rudd’s Prime Ministership and replace him with 23 Thu 8am -10pm Cumberland Plain, from convicts to the city’s Julia Gillard. When the rural independents swung 24 Fri Christmas Eve 8am - 7pm political elite, from the impact of its geology to its their support behind Gillard, Ellis was there, 25 Sat Christmas Day closed economy. chatting to them between the closed-door meetings 26-28 Sun-Tues 10am - 5pm that decided the government. This is another 31 Fri New Year’s Eve 8.30am - 5pm diary of an extraordinary period in Australian January political history, as ever combining Ellis’s insider Books - understanding with caustic wit. 1 Sat New Year’s Day closed Where Ideas Grow 3 Mon Public Holiday 10am - 5pm www.abbeys.com.au 1 Ph (02) 9264 3111 Fax (02) 9264 8993 FICTION Sunset Park Shall We Dance? Paul AUSTER Maggie ALDERSON How it Feels 320pp Hb $32.99 432pp Tp $32.95 Brendan COWELL In the sprawling fl atlands of On the eve of her dreaded 234pp Tp $32.99 Florida, 28-year-old Miles is 49th birthday, Loulou Landers, An electrifying coming-of-age photographing the last lingering London’s undisputed Queen of story from actor/screenwriter/ traces of families who have Vintage Fashion, meets a man. director Brendan Cowell. In the abandoned their houses due to He’s kind, he’s sensitive, he’s claustrophobic Cronulla of the debt or foreclosure. He is haunted divinely handsome and he carries a designer suit early 90s, four friends - an old by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death like George Clooney. Unfortunately, he’s barely friend, a best friend, a fi rst love, of his step-brother, a situation that caused him half her age, and Loulou’s just not ready to ‘go and the dreamer Neil who connects them all - to fl ee his father and step-mother in New York cougar’. Then there is her 21-year-old daughter, celebrate their fi nal exam results. But this single seven years ago. What keeps him in Florida is Theo, who won’t get a job, won’t move out, wears night changes things forever. A decade later - when his relationship with a teenage high-school girl, chain-store fashion and hasn’t said a civil word to one is dead and one is famous - the truth cannot Pilar, but when her family threatens to expose their her for years. So how will she cope with a daughter help but erupt. I couldn’t help wondering how much relationship, Miles decides to protect Pilar by going who’s off the rails, a man who won’t take no for of this is based on Cowell’s own experiences, but back to Brooklyn, where he settles in a squat to an answer, an ageing process that won’t slow either way, I could not put down this painfully true, prepare himself to face the inevitable confrontation down, not to mention a birthday party in a camping brutally honest, novel. Christos Tsiolkas calls it “a with his father that he has been avoiding for years. ground? Like she always has – with wit, grit and an lacerating, blackly comic novel about the suburban As mythic as it is contemporary, this is a story exemplary sense of style. masculine psyche, but it also extends a warmth about love and forgiveness, not only among men and understanding to contemporary society that and women, but between fathers and sons. Mary Ann in Autumn confronted my prejudices and forced me to look at Armistead MAUPIN the world anew. Cowell’s voice is truthful, without Hand Me Down World 320pp Tp $32.95 any condescension. A smashing novel – urgent, Lloyd JONES The brilliant new episode in the challenging and humane”. Agreed. - Annabel 336pp Tp $32.95 magical Tales of the City series. A woman washes ashore in Sicily. “Everything around her was Preincarnate She has come from north Africa to familiar but somehow foreign to her Shaun MICALLEF fi nd her son, taken from her when own experience, like a place she 192pp Hb $29.95 he was just days old by his father had seen in a movie but had never actuallyactually visited.visited Australia’s pre-eminent comic and stolen away to Berlin. With She had climbed these weathered steps - what? - Renaissance man turns his genius nothing but her maid’s uniform and a knife stashed thousands of times before, but there wasn’t a hint to novel writing. Suppose you in a plastic bag, she relies on strangers - some of homecoming, nothing to take her back to where were murdered and woke up 300 generous, some exploiting - to guide her passage she used to be. The past doesn’t catch up with us, years earlier in someone else’s north. These strangers tell of their encounters with she thought. It escapes us...” Mary Ann Singleton body. Wouldn’t you put yourself a quiet, mysterious woman in a blue coat - each returns to San Francisco a very different person in suspended animation and be re-awoken in account a different view of the truth, a different from when she left. Her career has faded away, time to prevent yourself being murdered in the truth. And slowly these fragments of a life piece her husband has run off with her own life coach fi rst place? This is the extraordinary tale of an together to create a spellbinding story of the and she faces invasive surgery for cancer. In such ordinary man in a race against time. Join Sir Arthur courage of a mother and the versions of truth we circumstances, there is only one person and one Conan Doyle, H G Wells, Queen Victoria, Jack the create to accommodate our lives. city she can turn to - Michael ‘Mouse’ Tolliver - and Ripper and Tom Cruise as they unravel a Masonic San Francisco. plot to restore James II to the throne - and in the The Life of an Unknown Man process, perhaps destroy the Universe itself. Soul Andrei MAKINE 256pp Tp $32.99 Aphrodite’s Hat transference, time travel, cloning, space ships, Jilted by his girlfriend and Salley VICKERS Hollywood and the Loch Ness Monster all come disillusioned by modern France, 288pp Hb $29.99 together for the fi rst time in one action-packed the writer Shutov revisits St The stories in this long-awaited novel. Petersburg after 20 years in exile, collection all deal with psychological hoping to reconnect with his roots aspects of love: love given and The Hundred-Foot Journey and the woman he loved in his withheld, love craved and lost, love Richard MORAIS 336pp Pb $27.99 youth. But she, and the brash met and disappointed; the differing This charming, funny and new Russia that greets him, are shades of loves between friends, between parents compulsively readable novel not what he was expecting at all. and children, between children and other adults; is a delicious tale of restaurant Then he encounters Volsky, a fellow relic of the love even, in one case, for a pet. Psychologically rivalry, the desperate quest for Communist era who relates his story: of surviving acute, sharply written in lucid and often witty prose, Michelin Stars and the 100-foot the Siege of Leningrad, the march on Berlin and these stories, set in Venice, Greece and Rome, as distance between a new Indian Stalin’s purges, and of a transcendent love affair. well as London and the English countryside, take kitchen and a traditional French To Shutov, his story comes as a revelation, and us into the complex geography of the human heart. restaurant in Paris. Abbas Haji an inspiration. In this powerful and moving novel, is the proud owner of a modest Makine explores what truly matters in life through Player One family restaurant in Mumbai. But whenht tragedy d the prism of Russia’s past and present. Drawing Douglas COUPLAND strikes, he propels his boisterous family into a on his own experience of growing up in the Soviet 288pp Tp $29.95 picaresque journey across Europe, fi nally settling Union, he poses an unsettling question: for all its From the bestselling author of in the remote French village of Lumiere, where horrors, was life under Communism richer than it is Generation X (Pb $23.95) comes he establishes an Indian restaurant, Maison now? In the story of just another unknown, unsung a real-time, fi ve-hour story set in Mumbai. Much to the horror of their neighbour, hero, there lies an answer... an airport cocktail lounge during a a famous chef named Madame Mallory, the global disaster. Five disparate peoplee are trapped Indian establishment opposite her own begins to GORGEOUS GIFTS inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her garner a following. Little does she know that the Looking for a gift that everyone loves? online date; Rick, the down-on-his-luck airport young Hassan, son of Abbas, has discovered Why not give a stylish lounge bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; French cuisine and has vowed to become a Abbey’s Gift Card? Rachel, a cool Hitchcock blonde incapable of true great French chef. Hassan is a natural whose human contact; and fi nally a mysterious voice talents far outweigh Mme Mallory, but the tough known as ‘Player One’. Slowly, each reveals the old Frenchwoman will not brook defeat. An truth about themselves, while the world as they entertaining culinary war follows, pitting Hassan’s know it comes to an end. In the tradition of Kurt Mumbai-toughened father against the imperious Vonnegut and J G Ballard, Coupland explores the Mme Mallory, leading the young Hassan to modern crises of time, human identity, society, greatness and his true destiny. religion and the afterlife. www.abbeys.com.au 2 Ph (02) 9264 3111 Fax (02) 9264 8993 FICTION Tree of Codes Rebels and Traitors Jonathan SAFRAN FOER Lindsey DAVIS Rescue 285pp Pb $59.95 752pp Pb $24.95 Anita SHREVE Inspired to exhume a new story Set against the terrible struggle 304pp Tp $32.99 from an existing text, Safran Foer of the English Civil War and the dark plots of the Commonwealth, The car crash should have killed has taken his favourite book, this is a story of soldiers, her. But rookie paramedic Peter The Street of Crocodiles (Pb adventurers, aristocrats and kings, Webster takes the emergency $23.95) by Polish-Jewish writer tradesmen, politicians, radicals call, and helps the young woman, Bruno Schulz, and used it as a canvas, cuttingtti and scavengers – and the hopes and dreams that Sheila Arsenault, to survive. into and out of the pages, to arrive at an original carried them through one of the most turbulent After the accident, she haunts new story told in Foer’s own acclaimed voice. eras of English history. his thoughts, despite his misgivings about getting This is the story of “an enormous last day of life”. involved with a patient. Soon he is embroiled in As one character’s life is chased to extinction, the Things Bogans Like an intense love affair and in Sheila’s troubled life. intriguing multi-layers of the story cross both a 18 years later, Sheila is long gone and Peter is sense of time and place, merging into the last day Tribal Tatts to Reality TV: raising their daughter, Rowan, alone. But Rowan of everyone’s story. How to Recognise the is veering dangerously off course and for the fi rst 21st Century Bogan time in their quiet life together Peter fears for her The Death of King Arthur E Chas McSWEEN et al future. He seeks out the only person who may be The Immortal Legend 256pp Pb $24.99 able to help Rowan, although Sheila’s return is Peter ACKROYD The word bogan has a bad rap; fi rstst imimpressionspressions sure to unleash all the questions Peter has been 336pp Hb $49.95 are still associated with fl annelette, VB, utes and carefully keeping at bay: Why would a mother The legend of King Arthur has mullets. But this would be wrong. The bogan has leave her family? How did the marriage of two retained its appeal and popularity advanced and needs new explanation, evolution people in love unravel? From the bestselling author through the ages: Mordred’s has cursed us with a modern version. The bogan of Testimony ($24.99). treason, the knightly exploits with money, aspirations and Ed Hardy T-shirts. of Tristan, Lancelot’s fatally The new bogan will not rest until it owns a plasma Dark Matter divided loyalties and his love for TV so large that Rove McManus becomes six feet Michelle PAVER Guenevere, and the quest for the ‘Holy Grail’. Now tall for the fi rst time. Today’s bogan defi es income, 272pp Pb $26.99 retold by Ackroyd with his signature clarity, charm class, race, creed, gender, religion and logic. “What is it? What does it want? and relish for a good story, the result is one of the Now the bogan is defi ned by what it does, what Why is it angry with me?” most readable and moving accounts of the knights it says and, most importantly, what it buys. They January 1937. Clouds of war of the Round Table. An immortal story of chivalry, set themselves apart by their efforts to stand out are gathering over a fog-bound treachery and death brought to new life for our by conforming as furiously, and conspicuously, as London. 28-year-old Jack is poor, times. possible. lonely and desperate to change his life. So when he’s offered the chance to be the The Traitor’s Wife The A-Z of Unfortunate Dogsg wireless operator on an Arctic expedition, he jumps Kathleen KENT Adam ELLIOTT at it. Spirits are high as the ship leaves Norway: 420pp Tp $32.99 60pp Hb $24.95 fi ve men and eight huskies crossing the Barents In the harsh wilderness of The famed fi lm-maker Sea by the light of the midnight sun. At last they colonial Massachusetts, Martha and animator draws a reach the remote, uninhabited bay where they will Allen works as a servant in her delightful alphabet of camp for the next year. Gruhuken. But the Arctic cousin’s home, taking charge unfortunate dogs, with summer is brief. As night returns to claim the land, of the neglected household and rhyming couplets to match. From Audrey whose Jack feels a creeping unease. One by one, his locking wills with everyone around her, including tongue is too long, to Zak who is hopeless at companions are forced to leave. He faces a stark a mysterious Welshman who works for the family, tricks. Charming for readers of all ages. choice. Stay or go. Soon he will see the last of the a man whose forceful nature matches her own. sun, as the polar night engulfs the camp in months Thomas Carrier is known for his immense strength An Idiot Abroad of darkness. Soon he will reach the point of no and height, and as Martha discovers pieces of The Travel Diaries of return - when the sea will freeze, making escape his past, and his role as a soldier in the English Karl Pilkington impossible. And Gruhuken is not uninhabited. Jack Civil War, her fascination for him grows. But in is not alone. Something walks there in the dark. Karl PILKINGTON, the rugged new world they inhabit, danger is ever Ricky GERVAIS & Daniel present. In London, King Charles II is assembling Stephen MERCHANT a crew of assassins to capture or kill the man who 296pp Hb $29.95 Henning MANKEL executed his father. As the threat of the assassins 256pp Tp $32.95 draws closer, Martha and Thomas also grow Karl Pilkington isn’t keen on travelling. Given the In 1875, Hans Bengler, a young closer, and Thomas suddenly has everything to choice, he’ll go on holiday to Devon or Wales or, entomologist, leaves Sweden for lose. It seems that even in the remotest parts of at a push, eat English food on a package holiday the expedition of a lifetime to the New England, he cannot be free from the haunting in Majorca. Which isn’t exactly Michael Palin, is Kalahari Desert, where he hopes legacy of his past. Prequel to The Heretic’s it? So what happened when he was convinced by to fi nd a previously undiscovered Daughter (Pb $22.99). Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant to go on an insect to name after himself and advancedvance hishis epic adventure to see the Seven Wonders of the career. Instead, after his long and arduous journey The Fort World? Travel broadens the mind, right? You’d through the sands, he fi nds a small boy, whose Bernard CORNWELL think so...Find out in his hilarious travel diaries. tribe has been decimated by European raiders. 480pp Tp $32.99 Accustomed to collecting specimens, Bengler A stand-alone battle book, set decides to adopt the boy and names him Daniel. this time in the 18th century He takes the traumatised child home with him in the rebellious colony of NEED HELP CHOOSING A GIFT? to Sweden and plans to ‘civilise’ him. But Daniel Massachusetts. This new novel Call us for some great suggestions, cannot slip into an alien culture, and a new takes place during the very early life in the cold and snow, so easily. He yearns days of the rebellion, or the War or email [email protected] desperately for the desert and his real family, of Independence, before Washington and beforef with a few details about the recipient. who visit him in his dreams. His only consolation the organisation of a colonial army. A small British comes from his friendship with a vulnerable fl eet with a few soldiers on board had sailed in to young girl called Sanna, who is also an outsider be met, to their surprise, with an overwhelming in her community. But even this bond is destined strength of local militia. Cornwell tells the story of to be violently broken, as Daniel’s isolation and those on both sides of the confl ict, based largely increasing desperation lead to a chilling tragedy. on real fi gures, including of course Paul Revere (famous from a much later poem). www.abbeys.com.au 3 Ph (02) 9264 3111 Fax (02) 9264 8993 IOGRAPHY B Life Keith RICHARDS Lazarus Rising 608pp Hb $49.99 India A Personal and Political “Half book, half brand extension, The Cookbook Autobiography this is an entertaining, rambling Pushpesh PANT Hb $69.95 monologue, a slurry romp through John HOWARD A comprehensive guide to Indian the life of a man who knew every 512pp Hb $59.99 cooking, with over 1,000 recipes pleasure, denied himself nothing, covering the various aspects of One of Australia’s most and never paid the price. Maybe you can’t always India’s rich and colourful culinary controversial prime ministers, he get what you want. The rule doesn’t apply to heritage. led the Liberal Party to victory over Keith.” The New Yorker four elections and became the second-longest-d l t Quay serving PM in the nation’s history. John Winston The Girl in the Song Food Inspired by Nature Howard is the face of the modern Liberal Party, an The True Stories Behind Peter GILMORE Hb $95.00 economic radical and social conservative whose 50 Rock Classics The much-anticipated book ideology united many Australians and divided just Michael HEATLEY from this culinary genius, one as many others. But what people often forget is 144pp Hb $24.99 of the top 50 chefs in the world. that long before he became Prime Minister, he was Stunning design and photography an idealistic politician. Howard looks back over 30 Here are the stories of 50 women echo his nature-based philosophy years in politics, commenting on the changes he who have inspired classic rock and organic presentation. has seen both inside and outside the Government songs. Who was Emily in Pink during that time. From his modest beginnings, Floyd’s See Emily Play? What happened to Food from Many Greek to his steep ascent in Liberal Party ranks, and Suzanne Verdal, immortalised in Leonard Cohen’s Kitchens subsequent time in the wilderness during the Suzanne? Did life change for Prudence Farrow Tessa KIROS Hb $69.95 Coalition’s opposition years, to a victory almost after John Lennon penned Dear Prudence? And Who better than Greek-Cypriot no one had predicted, and on to some of the most whatever happened to “the girl with mousy hair”, Tessa to take us on a colourful tumultuous years in Australia’s recent past, this an ex-girlfriend Bowie sings about in Life on Mars? journey into the kitchens of her is history seen through the eyes of the ultimate This fascinating book explains how each song friends and family, cataloguing insider. came about, when it was released and the impact the traditional foods for fasting, it had on the charts, then gives a mini-biography of festivals and feast days. the song’s muse. The Making of Julia Gillard Saraban Prime Minister Whale Warrior A Chef’s Journey Jacqueline KENT 400pp Tp $32.95 Pete BETHUNE Through Persia Gillard has always been an 336pp Tp $35.00 Greg & Lucy MALOUF Hb $79.95 exceptional fi gure in Australian An unforgettable journey through Bethune, an environmentalist the culinary landscapes of politics, widely admired by her and anti-whaling campaigner, is adversaries as well as in the ancient Persia and modern-day now the world’s most recognised Iran. electorate. Now she is also an eco-warrior. His boarding of the exceptional fi gure in Australian Japanese whaling vessel, Shonan Stephane Reynaud’s history: the fi rst woman to be this Maru #2, to perform a citizen’s arrest on the 365 Good Reasons country’s Prime Minister. The captain drew worldwide attention earlier this year. to Sit Down to Eat path to power has been far from For his ‘crime’, he was imprisoned in Japan for Stephane REYNAUD Hb $79.95 smooth. Gillard’s career has been markedkdb by four months before fi nally receiving a two-year, Recipes for every day of the year pitched battles with jealous rivals and powerful suspended sentence. In Japan, he was labelled in this quirky culinary almanac. factions. But as she herself has observed, “I am a terrorist and there were daily protests against Includes a seasonal calendar and proof that a woman can thrive in an adversarial his actions. On the day of his release from the clever cooking tips. environment.” Drawing on interviews with her Tokyo Detention Centre, a local television reporter friends and foes – and with Gillard herself – this summed up the view of much the country when Keys to Good Cooking book gives us the fi rst thorough account of her she asked him how it felt to be “the most hated A Guide to Making the Best of career before she challenged for the top job. man in Japan”. This is a nail-biting account of his Foods and Recipes It describes her Adelaide childhood, her time fi ght to save the great whales of the Southern Harold McGEE Hb $59.99 as a fi ery student activist, her battles to get Ocean. Concise, accessible and into Parliament, and her relationships with the authoritative guide to the best important men in her political life: Simon Crean, So Greek practices in home cooking from world-renowned food writer, Kim Beazley, Mark Latham and Kevin Rudd. Confessions of a Conservative Leftie Harold McGee. Frank Niki SAVVA 352pp Pb $29.95 Delicious The Making of a Legend Born in a small village in Cyprus, Savva spent her childhood More Please James KAPLAN 800pp Tp $35.00 in Melbourne’s working-class Valli LITTLE Pb $39.99 Who was Frank Sinatra? And how suburbs - frontiers where locals The latest cookbook from did he create such incomparable were suspicious of olive oil, and the team behind Australia’s music? He was a bundle of Greek kids spoke ‘Gringlish’ to bestselling glossy food magazine, contradictions. At once both their parents. Only a few decades Delicious. spoiled and neglected by his later, she had risen through the rankss of political tough, insensitive parents, he Poh’s Kitchen journalism at The Australian and had gone on to Poh LING YEOW Pb $39.99 grew up convinced of his special head the Canberra bureaus of both the Melbourne destiny, yet agonisingly lonely. He Based on the ABC TV show, Herald Sun and The Age. Then in 1997, family Poh’s Kitchen, where Poh cooks came to defi ne modern manhood, tragedy struck, and she was forced to reassess yet in many ways he never grew up. KaplanKaplan relivesrelives alongside leading chefs, adding her career. In spite of her own Labor convictions, her own style and charm. the years 1915 to 1954, highlighting Sinatra’s she became press secretary to Liberal treasurer journey from the streets, his fall from the apex of Peter Costello, a role she kept for six years before Mosh Potatoes celebrity and his Oscar-winning return in From moving on to join John Howard’s staff. This is Recipes, Anecdotes Here to Eternity. Here at last is a biographer who one of the few books about Australian political life and Mayhem from the makes us feel what it was really like to be Frank written by an insider with decades of exposure to Heavyweights of Heavy Metal Sinatra – and truly get under his skin. its major players. Steve SEABURY Pb $29.99 More than 100 recipes from bands including KISS, Judas Priest, and Guns ‘n’ Roses. www.abbeys.com.au 4 Ph (02) 9264 3111 Fax (02) 9264 8993 HISTORY To War with The Golden Age Wellington The Spanish Empire The Ancient From the Peninsula of Charles V Egyptian Book of to Waterloo Hugh THOMAS the Dead Peter SNOW 648pp Hb $59.95 R O FAULKNER 400pp Hb $55.00 Focusing on the magisterial and 192pp Pb $39.95 What made Arthur, Duke of enigmatic Charles V, Emperor The Book of the Dead is the Wellington, the military genius of Europe and the New World, name now given to sheets who was never defeated in battle? In the vivid this title begins with the return of thee remnants of papyrus covered with narrative style that is his trademark, Snow recalls of Magellan’s expedition around the world in religious and magical texts and accompanying how Wellington evolved from a backward, sensitive 1522 and ends with Charles’ death in 1558. In illustrations, which the ancient Egyptians placed schoolboy into an aloof, brilliant commander. He the decades in between, the Spaniards conquer in the tombs of their dead in order to guide them tracks the development of Wellington’s leadership Guatemala, Yucatan, Columbia, Venezuela, Peru safely through the dangers of the Underworld and and his relationship with the extraordinary band and Chile. of men he led from Portugal in 1808 to their fi nal to achieve a blissful afterlife. This authoritative Griftopia book contains the translated text of the Papyrus destruction of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo of Ani, one of the greatest treasures of the British seven years. Having described his soldiers as “the Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids and Museum. The spells are numbered and shown scum of the earth”, Wellington transformed them the Long Con that is Breaking America alongside photographs of the illustrative vignettes into the fi nest fi ghting force of their time. Digging Matt TAIBBI 352pp Pb $35.00 and complemented by a concise introduction deep into the rich treasure house of diaries and Beneath America’s outer and extensive glossary. Faulkner’s work is widely journals that make this war the fi rst in history to be appearance of sanity and acknowledged as containing the most reliable so well recorded, Snow examines how Wellington democracy, there is a machine translation of this fascinating collection of spells, won the devotion of generals, such as the irascible devoted to pure theft and political prayers and incantations, making this an essential Thomas Picton and the starry but reckless Black despotism. The mechanism is huge purchase for anybody interested in Ancient Egypt. Bob Crauford, and soldiers like Rifl eman Benjamin and bizarrely complex - layers Harris and Irishman Ned Costello. Through many of government and bureaucracy, The Crimes of Elagabalus fi rsthand accounts, he brings to life the horrors and impenetrably complicated fi nancial The Life and Legacy of Rome’s the humanity of life, in and out of battle, and shows instruments and procedures, a law-making process Decadent Boy Emperor the way that Wellington mastered the battlefi eld that frustrates even the closest observer. Taibbi to outsmart the French and change the future of tells the story of the people and institutions that Martijn ICKS 288pp Hb $54.95 Europe. Elagabalus is one of the most notorious of Rome’s have taken over America, centring on Wall Street, ‘bad emperors’: a sexually-depraved and eccentric Villages of Britain then moving out to Washington DC, the media and other plutocrats and crumb snatchers who are in hedonist who, in his short and riotous reign, made The Five Hundred Villages unprecedented changes to Roman state religion on the scam. 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www.abbeys.com.au 10 Ph (02) 9264 3111 Fax (02) 9264 8993 FROM EVE ABBEY You’ll understand my enthusiasm for this when you remember that daughter Jane works up on the Burma border with the Karen Women’s Organisation. Christmas and New Year are upon us soon – I hope you The Burma elections, which no-one expects to make much difference, will all have some fun choosing books for your friends, your were held in November. I recommend a new book by David Steinberg, children and yourself. The Young Reader’s sections on our Distinguished Professor of Asian Studies at Georgetown University, called fi rst fl oor are especially good and, as always, Lindy Jones, Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know ($32.95 Pb 216pp incl our buyer for Children’s books, is especially able to help index).The book is presented in question-and-answer format, so it’s an easy you choose. One suggestion from me is The Legend of the way to come to some understanding of the situation in Burma. Golden Snail by Graeme Base ($29.95 large Hb). Everyone Looking for an entertaining detective story to read over the holidays? Have remembers the magical drawings of Graeme Base, including Eleventh Hour you tried the titles by Andrea Camilleri? They are set in a small Sicilian ($19.95 Pb), Uno’s Garden ($29.95 Hb), Discovery of Dragons ($29.95 Hb) seaside town and if you have ever seen the (too infrequent) episodes of and The Waterhole ($19.95 Pb). His latest offering tells the tale of Wilbur, Inspector Montalbano on SBS TV, you will enjoy these stories even more a small boy who sails away to the Ends of the Earth, through the Doldrums because you’ll recognise all the characters. I’ve just read August Heat and the Slithering Sea, to reclaim the Golden Snail sailing ship. Wonderful ($22.99 Pb 277pp), which has a most interesting denouement, and his latest illustrations and an absorbing story. is Track of Sand ($23.95 Pb 272pp). At Christmas, I normally suggest a good dictionary or atlas, but as more I’ve discovered yet another crime writer from distant lands. Quo Xioalong is people use Google or a computer link such as Encarta, a better family gift a Chinese crime writer visiting Australia in December under the auspices of this year may be a good reference book. I especially recommend Thomas the Confucian Institute. The author was born in Shanghai and now lives in Keneally’s Australians: Origins to Eureka ($39.99 Pb 628pp incl index), America. He will be “in conversation” with Nicholas Jose at the State Library a very readable new history of our country that is suitable for all ages. on 2 December at 6pm. His main character is Inspector Chen, a Poet, Physically it’s a bit heavy, with very nice paper and binding, but it has a Policeman and Party Man. We have in stock A Case of Two Cities ($19.99 good typeface and excellent illustrations. Or what about a bird book, such as Pb), The Mao Case ($24.99 Pb), Red Mandarin Dress ($24.99 Pb) and Simpson & Day’s Field Guide to Birds of Australia, 8th edition ($39.95 Pb Death of a Red Heroine ($24.99 Pb). 396pp)? Or even Orr & Kirching: Butterfl ies of Australia ($45 very large Pb 336pp). And I can never resist suggesting my favourite reference, Brewer’s Are you interested in Roald Dahl, the author of the most marvellous children’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 18th edition ($69.99 Hb 1,488pp). Looking stories, as well as many unforgettable black short stories - as in Someone at this huge number of pages, I can understand the new ventures, Brewer’s Like You ($24.95 Pb 272pp)? His reputation grows even more now that he’s Dictionary of London Phrase and Fable ($69.99 Hb 592pp) and Brewer’s not around to upset people! You may have read his autobiographical memoirs, Irish Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ($69.99 Hb 884pp) - so many Boy and Going Solo, now available in one volume ($22.95 Pb 400pp). Now fascinating stories to be told. we have the authorised biography, Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl ($35 Pb 655pp) by Donald Sturrock, who earlier made several fi lms about the Really good news that Howard Jacobson won the Man Booker Prize for The author and became very friendly with the family. In fact, he is an author who Finkler Question ($32.99 Pb 320pp). As he says, “writing comic novels is admires his subject, but sees his faults as well. This is a terrifi c book - all you no laughing matter”, but thank goodness he does. The Finkler is actually the can ask for - Tales of Norwegian Myths, derring-do, espionage in wartime Jewish Question – very tenderly approached. Clever, funny and interesting. Washington amongst the rich and powerful, scriptwriting for Hollywood, I really enjoyed Wait for Me!: The Memoirs of the Youngest medical traumas, two love stories and popular literary success, despite not Mitford Sister ($35 Pb 370pp) by Deborah Devonshire (as being quite accepted by the London literary luminaries. in The Duchess of D…. and as in the only sister who did not I found Storyteller especially interesting when his various books are run away!). It is a very satisfying book which ties up the ends discussed. My favourites are The BFG ($14.95 Pb 224pp) and Revolting of the story for all the sisters (and the parents), as well as Rhymes ($16.95 Pb 48pp illustrated by Quentin Blake), which is probably being full of fascinating detail about the aristocratic life and better appreciated by adults than children as Dahl puts a nasty twist on the country life, especially about the world-famous rebirth of famous fairy tales. The Audio version, Revolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts, Chatsworth. A more than modest account of a very full life. is $24.95. On our new website, I see there are 273 titles listed as by Roald Recommended. Dahl, so this would be a good time to Narrow Your Search by the Availability And of course, for those who haven’t yet had their fi ll, there are other books option of “in stock and ready to ship”. about the Mitfords, such as The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn An autobiography which will be much in demand is And Furthermore by the Waugh ($29.95 Pb 560pp), The Mitford Girls by Mary S Lovell ($29.99 Pb inimitable Dame Judi Dench ($45 Hb 320pp). We also have a 2-CD set, With 624pp) and House of Mitford ($27 Pb 624pp) by Jonathan Guinness (elder Great Pleasure ($29.99), where Judi, together with husband Michael Williams son of Diana, when she was married to the heir to the brewery fortune). The and some other friends, read poems which have been special to them. It’s Pursuit of Laughter: Essays, Reviews and Diary ($27.99 Pb 520pp) is worth looking in our Audio section for some great fi ction, crime and even non- between Debo and Diana. fi ction, while we have more Audio in both Poetry and Shakespeare Studies. Jessica Mitford’s biography of her amazing life is Hons and Rebels ($24.99 In my Christmas box, I will have The Donald Friend Diaries: Pb 768pp), where we get the American side of the story, while Decca: The Chronicles and Confessions of an Australian Artist edited Letters of Jessica Mitford ($35 Pb 768pp) fi lls out the family feuds, as by Ian Britain ($39.95 Pb 478pp incl index). If, like me, you well as the laughs. The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters ($29.99 Pb already have the four big volumes published by the National 834pp incl index) is edited by Charlotte Mosley, Diana’s daughter-in-law, and Library (some of which now seem out of print), you need this is mostly made up of previously unpublished letters and some nice family in addition to your collection because apart from being an photos. abridgement of the four volumes, it also contains entries from Nancy Mitford’s fi ction now in stock: Don’t Tell Alfred, The Pursuit of Love, the missing diaries, discovered by the editor in America. Wigs on the Green (only recently republished, this book caused a rift in the Every man and his dog seems to want to discuss the Future of theh Book,B k or family because Nancy made fun of Oswald Mosely, Diana’s husband), The the Future of Bookselling, or the Future of Publishers! For some real facts on Blessing (about the English abroad) and the short stories in Love in a Cold which to base your opinion, look at John Thompson’s Merchants of Culture: Climate (all $22.95 Pb). Enjoy. The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century ($39.95 Hb 432pp). If after reading Wait for Me! you fancy more about the English country life, Unfortunately he only discusses America and Britain, which is a shame I recommend the second part of Clarissa Dixon Wright’s memoirs, Rifl ing as independent booksellers in Australia are doing much better than their Through My Drawers ($24.99 Pb 304pp, Audio CD $35). The fi rst part, counterparts overseas. I saw a good cartoon recently where the owners of a describing her wild life drinking away her fortune, is called Spilling the Beans bookshop café are seen saying, “If Amazon ever fi nds a way to sell a cup of ($24.99 Pb 336pp). Both great stories. Of course, Clarissa is one of the Two coffee on the internet, we’re doomed”! Fat Ladies. 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