DECEMBER 2018 The Life to Come Michelle de Kretser

The dazzling new novel from Michelle de Kretser, author of Questions of Travel, bestseller and winner of the Miles Franklin Award.

Sales points • Winner for the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award • Major author tour - Sydney / Canberra / Melbourne / Brisbane / Adelaide / Hobart / Geelong / Bendigo • Wide review coverage across print, electronic and online media • Questions of Travel sold 100,000 copies • Michelle's audacious satire on writers and readers will intrigue all in the industry! • CATEGORY: Literary fiction

Description Winner of the 2018 Miles Franklin Award Shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Award

'I so much admire Michelle de Kretser's formidable technique - her characters feel alive, and she can create a sweeping narrative which encompasses years, and yet still retain the sharp, almost hallucinatory detail.' Hilary Mantel

'Michelle de Kretser knows how to construct a gripping story. She writes quickly and lightly of wonderful and terrible things... A master storyteller.' A.S. Byatt

Set in Sydney, Paris and Sri Lanka, The Life to Come is a mesmerising novel about the stories we tell and don't tell ourselves as individuals, as societies and as nations. It feels at once firmly classic and exhilaratingly contemporary.

Pippa is a writer who longs for success. Celeste tries to convince herself that her feelings for her married lover are reciprocated. Ash makes strategic use of his childhood in Sri Lanka but blots out the memory of a tragedy from that time. Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 Driven by riveting stories and unforgettable characters, here is a dazzling meditation on intimacy, loneliness and our ISBN: 9781760296568 flawed perception of other people. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 384 pages Profoundly moving as well as wickedly funny, The Life to Come reveals how the shadows cast by both the past and the Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) future can transform, distort and undo the present. This extraordinary novel by Miles Franklin-winning author Michelle de Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Kretser will strike to your soul. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Dulwich Hill, NSW '...one of those rare writers whose work balances substance with style. Her writing is very witty, but it also goes deep, informed at every point by a benign and far-reaching intelligence.' Kerryn Goldsworthy, Sydney Morning Herald

'...a dazzlingly accomplished author who commands all the strokes. Her repertoire stretches from a hallucinatory sense of Allen & Unwin DECEMBER 2018 Life on the Leash Victoria Schade

Must Love Dogs meets My Not So Perfect Life in this hilarious romantic comedy about a dog trainer who's a master at managing her four-legged friends, but when it comes to her love life...let's just say she still has a lot to learn.

Sales points • Warm and witty romantic comedy - think Girl In Between (over 8,000 copies sold) with dogs! • CATEGORY: Popular fiction

Description Cora Bellamy is a woman who thrives on organization. She's successfully run her own dog training business for years, perfectly content with her beloved rescue pitbull as the main man in her life. She's given everything to her business, and her lack of social life (or slobber-free clothes) has been completely worth it.

But all that changes when she meets Charlie Gill, the hottest client she's ever had. The only problem? Charlie's taken. Luckily, Cora has a new friend -- the sweet, lovably geeky Eli Crawford. More loyal than a retriever, he's always there to help Cora with her problems, including her love life. That's why she's shocked to realize that even as things start heating up with Charlie, there might just be a more-than-friends spark between her and Eli, too.

As Cora's life gets more tangled up than a dogwalker's leashes-and as she prepares to audition for a dog-training TV show that may irrevocably change her entire life-she has to figure things out before it all goes straight to the dogs.

Charming, witty, and warm-hearted, Life on the Leash inspires you to cheer for every underdog looking for love.

About the Author Victoria Schade is an author, speaker, and dog trainer known for her upbeat approach to living and working with dogs. She has been featured in The Washington Post, Martha Stewart Living, Real Simple, Reader's Digest, The Bark, and Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 many dog-specific publications. Victoria has worked on Animal Planet's annual Puppy Bowl special for the past twelve ISBN: 9781760529840 years. She has served as a pet expert for Petside, Pet360, petMD and PawCulture, writing training and behavior content Format: Paperback - C format and appearing in educational videos. Life on the Leash is her first novel. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

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Allen & Unwin DECEMBER 2018 The Wrong Callahan Karly Lane

For readers of Rachael Johns and Fiona Palmer, The Wrong Callahan begins Karly Lane's sparkling CALLAHANS OF STRINGYBARK CREEK trilogy.

Sales points • The first in an exciting and romantic new trilogy about the Callahan family • Karly's readership continues to increase • Karly's combined sales now total over 150,000 copies • Her last novel, Someone Like You, sold over 5,000 copies in its first two weeks • CATEGORY: Popular fiction

Description 'With gentle touches of humour, a big dollop of romance, a sprinkle of history, a dusting of mystery and a drop of magic to froth up the tale, this is one Karly Lane novel you do not want to miss.' Mrs B's Book Reviews on Someone Like You

It had been two long years since Lincoln Callahan had found himself in front of the gates to Stringybark Creek. He was in the army then - a lifetime ago. Linc had always been the unsettled Callahan, looking for danger, the one who couldn't wait to leave the family farm.

This time he was back for his little sister, Hadley's, wedding. From far and wide, the Callahan relatives were streaming toward Stringybark Creek.

Linc's little brother, Griffin, was the steady son, the one who stayed at home, the one who did the right things. And now, the one who had feelings for city-girl, Cash Sullivan.

For Cash, the offer to manage her best friend's luxury beauty spa tucked away in the country had come at the right time. She knew she needed to make smarter choices in her life, starting with the men she dated, and an enforced break in the Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 country seemed the right way to consider her options. ISBN: 9781760632656 Format: Paperback - C format When Linc sets eyes on Cash at a family dinner, their swift attraction floors him. But Cash is his brother's girlfriend...what Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 336 pages was he thinking? Bic1: Romance Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) As Linc, Griff and Cash form an uneasy triangle, each of them have personal demons to face before they can open their Illustrations: hearts. Previous Titles: Author now living: North Coast, NSW '...easy, friendly, and all so natural... Lane's research is impeccable, and rings true. The book is well paced, and engaging from start to finish.' compulsivereader.com on Someone Like You

Allen & Unwin DECEMBER 2018 The Silent Death Volker Kutscher

The sequel to the bestselling German crime novel Babylon Berlin, now a major Netflix series

Sales points • Over a million copies of this series sold in the original German • The basis for the hit Netflix TV series • Fascinating and brilliant crime series set in the Weimar Republic between the world wars with a backdrop of the rise of Nazism • The sequel to Babylon Berlin, which has sold over 3,500 copies in print and ebook • CATEGORY: Crime fiction

Description Berlin 1930. Sound film is conquering the big screen, leaving many by the wayside: producers, cinema owners - and silent film stars. Investigating the violent on-set death of actress Betty Winter, Inspector Gereon Rath encounters the dark side of glamour and an industry in turmoil. When his father requests that he help his friend, the mayor of Cologne, Konrad Adenauer, and his ex-girlfriend Charly makes a renewed attempt at rapprochement, things start to get out of hand. Trapped in the machinations of rival film producers, he roams Berlin's Chinese quarter and the city's underworld as he works ever closer to the edge of legality. Meanwhile the funeral of the murdered Horst Wessel leads to clashes between Nazis and Communists.

About the Author Volker Kutscher was born in 1962. He studied German, Philosophy and History, and worked as a newspaper editor prior to writing his first detective novel. Babylon Berlin, the start of an award-winning series of novels to feature Gereon Rath and his exploits in late Weimar Republic Berlin, was an instant hit in Germany. Since then, a further four titles have appeared, most recently Marzgefallene in 2014. The series was awarded the Berlin Krimi-Fuchs Crime Writers Prize in 2011 and has sold over one million copies worldwide. Volker Kutscher works as a full-time author and lives in Cologne.

Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781760527938 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 528 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Thriller / suspense Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Allen & Unwin DECEMBER 2018 Into the World Stephanie Parkyn

Abandoned by her lover and fleeing the wrath of her family, Marie-Louise must make a desperate choice. Find a man or become one.

Sales points • Original edition sold over 6,000 copies across print and ebook • Fascinating historical novel evoking life onboard 18th century vessels • Based on a true story of an 18th Century Frenchwoman, Marie-Louise Girardin • Set against the background of the French Revolution, Marie and the Recherche comes to Australia • CATEGORY: Historical fiction

Description 1791. In the midst of the French Revolution, unwed mother Marie-Louise Girardin takes one last look at her baby son before entrusting him to her friend, the revolutionary Olympe de Gouges. She must escape, and only the most daring plan will bring her both the anonymity she needs and the independence to return one day for her son.

Marie-Louise disguises herself as a man and joins a voyage of exploration employed as a steward on the Recherche, one of two ships commissioned to journey to the Great Southern Ocean to find the missing explorer La Perouse.

Protecting her identity throughout, Marie-Louise forms friendships among the eccentric naturalists. But tensions rise between the royalist officers and the revolutionaries, and Marie-Louise's position becomes precarious when she discovers someone on board knows the secrets of her past. When the expedition docks in Java, chaos erupts as they learn of King Louis XVI's execution and are imprisoned by the Dutch. Marie-Louise seems certain to be unmasked. Will she ever return to France and be reunited with her child?

Inspired by a true story, Into the World is a compelling novel of the amazing life of Marie-Louise Girardin battling perilous seas, her own self-doubt, and finding unforeseen loves on a journey to reclaim her child. Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781760527464 About the Author Format: Paperback - B format Stephanie Parkyn holds a PhD in biological sciences and worked as an environmental scientist for 15 years, giving her Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 448 pages valuable insight into the minds of the expedition's naturalists. She has had short stories published in the 40 South Bic1: Historical fiction Anthologies, and stories shortlisted for the Scarlet Stiletto competition and RSNZ Manhire Award for Creative Science Bic2: Historical adventure Writing. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Launceston, Tasmania

Allen & Unwin DECEMBER 2018 Babylon Berlin Volker Kutscher

The first book in the bestselling German crime series, now available on Netflix Australia

Sales points • Over a million copies sold in the original German • Now a big-budget TV series from acclaimed director Tom Tykwer, available on Netflix Australia • Fascinating and brilliant crime series set in the Weimar Republic between the world wars with a backdrop of the rise of Nazism • CATEGORY: Crime fiction

Description A GEREON RATH MYSTERY

'Political maelstrom, a populist right on the march -- sound familiar? . . . It's fabulous debauchery and naughtiness, a political maelstrom and a ticking timebomb.' The Guardian

1929: When a car is hauled out of the Landwehr Canal with a mutilated corpse inside, Detective Inspector Gereon Rath claims the case. Soon his inquiries drag him ever deeper into the morass of Weimar Berlin's 'Roaring Twenties' underworld of cocaine, prostitution, gunrunning and shady politics.

Now a major international television series

'Unrelenting in tension until an explosive climax; as well as delivering the thrills Kutscher captures perfectly in dark tones the menacing atmosphere and lurking threats of a unique -- and pivotal -- time and place in history.' Craig Russell, author of the Jan Fabel series

'Twenties Germany in all its seedy splendour: impressive.'

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 Sarah Ward, author of In Bitter Chill ISBN: 9781760527921 Format: Paperback - B format 'Gripping, skilfully plotted and rich in historical detail.' Dimensions: 198x128mm Mrs Peabody Investigates Extent: 528 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: 'Evocative thriller set in Berlin's seedy underworld during Illustrations: the Roaring Twenties.' Previous Titles: Author now living: Mail on Sunday

About the Author Volker Kutscher was born in 1962. He studied German, Philosophy and History, and worked as a newspaper editor prior to writing his first detective novel. Babylon Berlin, the start of an award-winning series of novels featuringAllen Gereon & UnwinRath DECEMBER 2018 Man at the Window Robert Jeffreys

An atmospheric crime novel with a burning moral dilemma at its heart, for fans of Michael Robotham, Jane Harper and Gary Disher.

Sales points • Debut fiction, the first in a new series, starring Detective Cardilini, and set in 1960s Perth • Tension from the central dilemma keeps you turning the pages - 'whodunit?' mixed with 'should they really get caught?' • Appealing main character, a detective with a chance to redeem himself • Topical - what is the appropriate punishment for those who harm children, and those who cover it up?

Description When a boarding master at an exclusive boys' school is shot dead, it is deemed accidental. A lazy and usually drunk detective is sent to write up the report. Cardilini unexpectedly does not co-operate, as he becomes riled by the privileged arrogance of those at the school. He used to have instincts. Perhaps he should follow them now. With no real evidence he declares the shooting a murder and puts himself on a collision course with the powerful and elite of Perth. As he peels back layers, the school's dark secrets being to emerge. But is his dogged pursuit of justice helping or harming those most affected by the dead?

Man at the Window is the first in the Detective Cardilini series, set in 1960s Western Australia.

About the Author Robert Jeffreys has worked as an actor, teacher, builder, labourer, cleaner, real estate agent, personal security agent and playwright of the professional produced stage plays Cox Four, Covert, The Simple Truth, and The Messenger. ABC Radio National featured his radio plays, Covert which received an AWGIE award, and Bodily Harm. He has also published a poetry anthology, Frame of Mind. Man at the Window is Robert's first novel. Robert lives in Subiaco, Western Australia.

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781760683306 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x156mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Thriller / suspense Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Subiaco

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Echo DECEMBER 2018 A House of Ghosts W. C. Ryan

A gripping and atmospheric murder mystery set in a haunted house - And Then There Were None meets The Woman in Black .

Sales points • A brilliant escapist read with the feel of a classic - a gripping whodunnit with a ghostly edge • A beautiful, sumptuous package perfect for the Christmas gifting period or an indulgent self-purchase • Ghost stories are making a real comeback at the moment, as evidenced by the success of The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell (Bloomsbury, 2017) • The author's previous books, as William Ryan, have been much-lauded and shortlisted for multiple awards

Description Winter 1917. As the First World War enters its most brutal phase, back home in England, everyone is seeking answers to the darkness that has seeped into their lives.

At Blackwater Abbey, on an island off the Devon coast, Lord Highmount has arranged a spiritualist gathering to contact his two sons who were lost in the conflict. But as his guests begin to arrive, it gradually becomes clear that each has something they would rather keep hidden. Then, when a storm descends on the island, the guests will find themselves trapped. Soon one of their number will die. For Blackwater Abbey is haunted in more ways than one...

An unrelentingly gripping mystery packed with twists and turns, A House of Ghosts is the perfect chilling read next winter.

About the Author W. C. Ryan is a pseudonym for William Ryan, author of The Constant Soldier and the Korolev series of historical crime novels. His books have been shortlisted for numerous awards including the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year Award, the CWA Historical Dagger and the Ireland AM Irish Crime Novel of the Year Award and have been translated into over a dozen languages. William is married and lives in west London. Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781785767128 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Horror & ghost stories Bic2: Crime & mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

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Zaffre DECEMBER 2018 One Enchanted Evening Anton Du Beke

Perfect for fans of Downton Abbey, Mr Selfridge, The Halcyon and Belgravia. The master entertainer brings us his fabulous debut novel. Prepare to be swept off your feet...

Sales points • Anton Du Beke is a national treasure in the UK, with an army of adoring fans • His debut album 'From The Top' hit the UK Top 20 in 2017 and spent 3 weeks in the top 40

Description Inside the spectacular ballroom of the exclusive Buckingham Hotel the rich and powerful, politicians, film stars, even royalty, rub shoulders with Raymond de Guise and his troupe of talented dancers from all around the world, who must enchant them, captivate them, and sweep away their cares. Accustomed to waltzing with the highest of society, Raymond knows a secret from his past could threaten all he holds dear.

Nancy Nettleton, new chambermaid at the Buckingham, finds hotel life a struggle after leaving her small hometown. She dreams of joining the dancers on the Grand Ballroom floor as she watches, unseen, from behind plush curtains and discreet doors. She soon discovers everyone at the Buckingham - guests and staff alike - has something to hide...

The storm clouds of war are gathering, and beneath the glitz and glamour of the ballroom lurks an irresistible world of scandal and secrets.

Let's dance...

About the Author Anton Du Beke is one of the most instantly recognisable dancers today, best known for his role on the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, which he has featured on since its conception in 2004. His debut album reached the Top 20, and his sell- out Dance Tour is in its tenth year. Anton has more than 206k Twitter followers. Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781785764813 A household name and all-round entertainer, known as Mr Debonair, Anton brings all the wit, charm and style he's Format: Paperback - C format famous for to his debut novel. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Zaffre DECEMBER 2018 Homesick Marc Raabe, translated by Isabel Adey and translated by Isabel Adey

From the international bestselling author of Cut and The Shock comes a thriller that is guaranteed to keep you reading until the end...

Sales points • Cut, Marc Raabe's first thriller, sold over 60,000 copies in Germany and was sold into five territories

Description He thought he'd escaped his past. He was wrong...

Jesse Berg is a successful paediatrician. Newly divorced, he spends his time caring for his young daughter, Isa. But Jesse has secrets in his past. Things he doesn't talk about.

When Jesse's ex-wife is murdered and his daughter abducted, his life spirals out of control. At the scene of the murder there is a message left for him. A message that makes it clear that he was the intended target of the attack.

Jesse would do anything to find Isa, and as a long-forgotten debt comes to light, he realises he must do the one thing he never wanted to do: go back to his past, and back to his old home. A place that almost killed him. A place where he learned to fight back...

A fast-paced and addictive thriller from the author of Cut and The Shock.

About the Author Marc Raabe owns and runs a television production company. He lives with his family in Cologne.

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Zaffre DECEMBER 2018 Don't Wake Up Liz Lawler

A dark and gripping debut psychological thriller with a horrifying premise and a stinging twist.

Sales points • The pitch-black bestselling psychological thriller for fans of Friend Request by Laura Marshall and I Am Watching You by Teresa Driscoll. • Shortlisted for the Richard and Judy Search for a Bestseller competition • A totally compelling story that will keep you gripped, with meaty reading group hooks that you'll be desperate to talk about

Description Alex Taylor wakes up tied to an operating table. The man who stands over her isn't a doctor.

The choice he forces her to make is utterly unspeakable.

But when Alex re-awakens, she's unharmed - and no one believes her horrifying story. Ostracised by her colleagues, her family and her partner, she begins to wonder if she really is losing her mind.

And then she meets the next victim.

So compulsive you can't stop reading.

So chilling you won't stop talking about it.

Don't Wake Up is a dark, gripping psychological thriller with a horrifying premise and a stinging twist...

'Outstanding...a rollercoaster of a read' - Angela Marsons

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781785770579 About the Author Format: Paperback - B format Born in Chatham and partly raised in Dublin, Liz Lawler is one of fourteen children and grew up sharing socks, pants, Dimensions: 198x129mm stuffed bras and a table space to eat at. Liz spent over twenty years working as a nurse, and has since worked as a flight Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Thriller / suspense attendant and as the general manager of a five-star hotel. She now lives in Bath with her husband. Don't Wake Up is her Bic2: Thriller / suspense first novel. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Twenty7 DECEMBER 2018 The Little Snake A.L. Kennedy

A magical, charming and deeply moving fable about the journey we all take through life, about love and family, about war and resilience, about how we live in this world, and how we leave it.

Sales points • A stunning literary gift book for Christmas 2018, from the author of the Costa Prize-winning novel Day • For those who loved The Fox and the Star, The Fir Tree and The Snow Goose • As much as this is a charming tale about friendship and loyalty, it is also a deeply moving story about the refugee experience with a serious message to impart about power, wealth and war • With the war in Syria still ravaging a once beautiful country, A.L. Kennedy's modern fable is all too relevant today

Description ""Some time ago, perhaps before you were even born, a young girl was walking in her garden. She may have been called Mary - that's what most of the stories say. Mary was a little bit taller than the other girls her age and had brownish crinkly hair. She was quite thin, because she didn't always have exactly enough to eat. She liked honey and whistling and the colour blue and finding out.""

This is the story of Mary, a young girl born in a beautiful city full of rose gardens and fluttering kites. When she is still very small, Mary meets Lanmo, a shining golden snake, who becomes her very best friend. The snake visits Mary many times, he sees her city change, become sadder as bombs drop and war creeps in. He sees Mary and her family leave their home, he sees her grow up and he sees her fall in love. But Lanmo knows that the day will come when he can no longer visit Mary, when his destiny will break them apart, and he wonders whether having a friend can possibly be worth the pain of knowing you will lose them.

About the Author A.L. Kennedy has twice been selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and has won a host of other awards, including the Costa Book of the Year for her novel Day. She lives in London and is a part-time lecturer in creative Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 writing at the University of Warwick. ISBN: 9781786893864 @Writerer | a-l-kennedy.co.uk Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 178x111mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate Trade DECEMBER 2018 Ask The Dust John Fante, introduction by Charles Bukowski

One of the great novels of LA, a semi-autobiographical story of a struggling writer.

Sales points • 'Fante was my God.' - Charles Bukowski • Introduced by Charles Bukowksi, John Fante will join cult American writers Bukowski, Jim Dodge and Richard Brautigan on the Canons list • The Canons are books without boundaries. Some are classics already, the rest will be soon

Description Arturo Bandini arrives in Los Angeles with big dreams. But the reality he finds is a city gripped by poverty.

When he makes a small fortune from the publication of a short story, he reinvents himself, indulging in expensive clothes, fine food and downtown strip clubs. But Bandini's delusions take a worrying turn when he is drawn into a relationship with Camilla Lopez, a beautiful but troubled young woman who will be responsible for his greatest downfall.

Ask the Dust is an unforgettable novel about outsiders looking in on a town built on celluloid dreams.

About the Author John Fante was born in Denver on 8 April 1909 and migrated to Los Angeles in his early twenties. Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), his first novel, began the saga of Arturo Bandini, a character whose story continues in The Road to Los Angeles, Ask the Dust and Dreams from Bunker Hill - collectively known as The Bandini Quartet. Fante published several other novels, as well as stories, novellas and screenplays, in his seventy-four years, including The Brotherhood of the Grape (1977) and 1933 Was A Bad Year (posthumously, 1985). He was recognised in 1987 with a PEN Lifetime Achievement Award in Los Angeles, four years after his death.

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Canongate PBS DECEMBER 2018 Wait Until Spring, Bandini John Fante, introduction by Dan Fante

A rediscovered classic about frustrated masculinity in America's Great Depression.

Sales points • 2018 marks 80 years since first publication of Wait Until Spring, Bandini • Features an introduction by Dan Fante • The Canons are books without boundaries. Some are classics already, the rest will be soon

Description For Arturo Bandini, oldest son of Italian immigrants living in small-town Colorado during the Great Depression, the winter proves harsh. When his father seemingly abandons his family, Arturo is left to pick up the pieces, even as turmoil rages within him.

With its evocative account of grinding poverty, tragic love affairs and tumultuous adolescence, this first novel from the Bandini quartet is a much-neglected masterpiece of modern American literature.

Introduced by Dan Fante.

About the Author Born in Denver on 8 April 1909, John Fante migrated to Los Angeles in his early twenties. Classically out of place in a town built on celluloid dreams, Fante's literary fiction was full of torn grace and redemptive vengeance. Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), his first novel, began the saga of Arturo Bandini, a character whose story continues in The Road to Los Angeles, Ask the Dust and Dreams from Bunker Hill - collectively known as The Bandini Quartet. Fante published several other novels, as well as stories, novellas and screenplays in his seventy-four years, including The Brotherhood of the Grape (1977) and 1933 Was A Bad Year (posthumously, 1985). He was posthumously recognised in 1987 with a Lifetime Achievement Award by PEN in Los Angeles, four years after his death from diabetes-related complications.

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Canongate PBS DECEMBER 2018 Lullaby Leila Slimani

The number-one bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt - a compulsive, riveting and bravely observed exploration of power, class, race, domesticity and motherhood.

Sales points • Available September • New in paperback - following clean tpb sale of 3500 in ANZ • A LANDMARK PUBLICATION: Moroccan-born Slimani, a former journalist, is only the seventh woman to have won the Prix Goncourt in its 112-year history • RARE AND TRAILBLAZING INTERNATIONAL APPEAL: Foreign rights have now sold in more than thirty countries • 'The smartest thriller you'll read all year.' - Independent • 'Compulsively readable. I read it in one sitting.' - The Times • 'Thrilling ... Intelligent and unerringly humane.' - Observer

Description The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds.

When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect caretaker for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite and devoted woman who sings to their children, cleans the family's chic apartment in Paris's upscale tenth arrondissement, stays late without complaint and is able to host enviable birthday parties.

The couple and nanny become more dependent on each other. But as jealousy, resentment and suspicions increase, Myriam and Paul's idyllic tableau is shattered...

About the Author Leila Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France's most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt. Her first Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 novel, The Ogre's Garden - forthcoming from Faber & Faber in 2019 - won the Prix La Mamounia. Slimani is a journalist ISBN: 9780571337545 and frequent commentator on women's and human rights. She lives in Paris with her husband and two children. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages Sam Taylor is the translator of HHhH by Laurent Binet and You Will Not Have my Hatred by Antoine Leiris. Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Fiction in translation Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback DECEMBER 2018 The Wife Alafair Burke

The Wife is the standalone follow-up to Alafair Burke's brilliant, Edgar nominated The Ex (2016)

Sales points • Available September 2018 • New in paperback, following clean tpb sale of 3000 in ANZ • Strong new paperback packaging • Her co-authored Mary Higgins Clarke books - Cinderella Murder ('15), All Dressed in White ('16) - have been top ten hits for S&S in the US and UK • Perfect platform to build on and really look to break Alafair out

Description In our age of accusations, blurred lines, and shifting allegiances, what would you do?

When Angela meets Jason Powell, a brilliant university professor, she assumes their romance to be a fling. But when they marry the following summer and move to Manhattan, Angela feels she's been given the chance to escape her past. Six years later, however, Jason, by now a celebrated liberal figurehead, faces serious allegations made by one of his young college interns, and Angela's seemingly perfect life is under threat ...

About the Author Alafair Burke is a New York Times bestselling author whose novels include the standalone thrillers The Ex, Long Gone and If You Were Here, and the Ellie Hatcher series. She is also the coauthor of the Under Suspicion series with Mary Higgins Clark. A former prosecutor, she is now a professor of criminal law and lives in Manhattan.

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Faber Paperback DECEMBER 2018 The Last Ballad Wiley Cash

Debut on the Faber list from a prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author. Inspired by actual events, The Last Ballad is a moving tale of courage in the face of oppression, with the emotional power of Cold Mountain and The Secret Scripture.

Sales points • New in paperback • Epic, sweeping, historical novel about social injustice - for fans of Cold Mountain, The Grapes Of Wrath and The Secret Scripture • Re-positioning of this highly acclaimed author in the UK - previously published by Transworld, his debut A Land More Kind Than Home won both the Debut And Gold Daggers in 2012 • Inspired by a true story

Description Ella May Wiggins' husband has run off again, and she must keep her four young children alive with the only work she can find - the night shift at a North Carolina mill. When union leaflets begin to circulate, she yearns for the better life the organisers promise. But the mill owners, backed by other nefarious forces, claim the union is nothing but a front for the Bolshevik menace sweeping across Europe, and they will use every means in their power, including bloodshed, to prevent the workers banding together.

About the Author Wiley Cash is the prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of A Land More Kind Than Home and This Dark Road to Mercy. He and his wife live in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9780571340705 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Historical fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback DECEMBER 2018 Lean on Pete film tie-in Willy Vlautin

Film tie-in edition of Willy Vlautin's unforgettable story of a friendship and hope in dark times.

Sales points • Film opens 28 June 2018 • Directed by Andrew Haigh and starring Australian Travis Fimmel and Chloe Sevigny with Charlie Plummer in the lead role • 'Comparisons with Steinbeck and Carver are richly deserved, yet Vlautin's is a truly original voice. Lean on Pete is powerful, heartbreaking stuff. Just three novels in and he is already one of the best writers in America.' - Mark Billingham • 'He is a master at paring loneliness and longing from his characters ... and always sustaining them, and the reader, with hope.' - Sarah Hall • 'A superb evocation of adolescence, loss and, ultimately hope, Lean on Pete confirms Willy Vlautin as one of the finest American writers of his generation.' - John Connolly

Description Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson wants a home; food on the table; a high school he can attend for more than part of a year; and some structure to his life. But as the son of a single father working at warehouses across the Pacific Northwest, he's been pretty much on his own for some time.

Lean on Pete opens as he and his father arrive in Portland, Oregon and Charley takes a stables job, illegally, at the local race track. Once part of a vibrant racing network, Portland Meadows is now seemingly the last haven for washed up jockeys and knackered horses, but it's there that Charley meets Pete, an old horse who becomes his companion as he's forced to try to make his own way in the world.

About the Author Born and raised in Reno, Nevada, Vlautin started playing guitar and writing songs as a teenager and quickly became

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 immersed in music. It was a Paul Kelly song, based on Raymond Carver's Too Much Water So Close to Home that ISBN: 9780571339471 inspired him to start writing stories. Vlautin has published three novels, The Motel Life (2006) and Northline (2008) and Format: Paperback - B format Lean on Pete (2010), which was shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His fourth novel, The Free was Dimensions: 198x129mm published in 2014. Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Vlautin founded the band Richmond Fontaine in 1994. The band has produced nine studio albums to date, plus a handful Illustrations: of live recordings and EPs. Driven by Vlautin's dark, story-like songwriting, the band has achieved critical acclaim at home Previous Titles: Author now living: and across Europe. 2014 will see the debut album from Vlautin's new band, The Delines, featuring vocalist Amy Boone (The Damnations).

Vlautin currently resides in Scappoose, Oregon. Faber Paperback DECEMBER 2018 The Long Shadow Celia Fremlin

Faber's classic seasonal suspense novel for 2018, from the Edgar Award-winning author of The Hours Before Dawn.

Sales points • First published in 1975 • 2017's reissue of her first novel, The Hours Before Dawn, has sold nearly 9,000 copies in paperback for Faber • Like her American counterparts Patricia Highsmith and Shirley Jackson, Celia Fremlin is an acknowledged expert in chilling suspense • 'Genuine chiller ... Splendid suspense in a brilliantly captured domestic setting.' - Sunday Telegraph • 'The story unfolds with brilliant ingenuity, always on the verge of explanation, ever plausibly plunging deeper.' - Times

Description Jolted from sleep by the ringing of the telephone, Imogen fumbles through the dark, empty house to answer it. At first, she can't quite understand the man on the other end of the line. Surely he can't honestly be accusing her of killing her husband. Ivor died in a car crash two months ago - she may not be adjusting to widowhood very well, but Imogen certainly didn't murder him.

As the nights draw in, Imogen finds her home filling up with unexpected Christmas guests - but they may be looking for more than just holiday cheer. Has someone been rifling through Ivor's papers? Who left the half-drunk whiskey bottle beside his favourite chair? And why won't that man stop phoning Imogen, insisting he can prove her guilt?

About the Author Celia Fremlin (1914-2009) was born in Kent. Her first published novel of suspense was The Hours Before Dawn (1958), which went on to win the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1960. Over the next thirty-five years Fremlin published a further eighteen titles.

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Faber Paperback DECEMBER 2018 The Hours Before Dawn Celia Fremlin

In a new edition of this lost classic, The Hours Before Dawn proves - scarily - as relevant to readers today as it was when Celia Fremlin first wrote it in the 1950s.

Sales points • Reissued - with a glow in the dark cover! • Discover the original psychological thriller, as a sleep deprived young mother struggles to stay sane • Winner of the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1960 • 'Celia Fremlin is an astonishing writer, who explores that nightmare country where brain, mind and self battle to establish the truth. She illuminates her dark world with acute perception and great wit.' - Natasha Cooper • 'Tightly plotted and admirably concise ... Fremlin expertly ratchets up the tension, notch by notch.' Laura Wilson • 'Highly intelligent entertainment, beautifully written with wit and humour.' - Frances Fyfield • 'It grips like grim death.' - Spectator

Description Louise would give anything - anything - for a good night's sleep. Forget the girls running errant in the garden and bothering the neighbours. Forget her husband who seems oblivious to it all. If the baby would just stop crying, everything would be fine.

Or would it? What if Louise's growing fears about the family's new lodger, who seems to share all of her husband's interests, are real? What could she do, and would anyone even believe her? Maybe, if she could get just get some rest, she'd be able to think straight.

About the Author Celia Fremlin (1914-2009) was born in Kent. Her first published novel of suspense was The Hours Before Dawn (1958), which went on to win the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1960. Over the next thirty-five years Fremlin published a further eighteen titles. Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9780571338122 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Crime & mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback DECEMBER 2018 The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy Tim Burton

To celebrate its twentieth anniversary, a beautiful new edition of the classic collection of spooky tales and illustrations, from the world's best-loved Gothic movie director, Tim Burton.

Sales points • New cover edition • Over a million copies sold globally of this modern classic • The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy exquisitely conveys the pain of an adolescent outsider • Like Tim Burton's movies, the work manages to be both childlike and sophisticated, blending the innocent with the macabre • Burton's creepy stories conjure up the fantastical, even the slightly demented

Description Twenty-three illustrated gothic tales from the dark corridors of the imagination of Tim Burton. Burton - the creative genius behind Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow and Nightmare Before Christmas, among others - now gives birth to a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children: misunderstood outcasts who struggle to find love and belonging in their cruel, cruel worlds.

His lovingly lurid illustrations evoke both the sweetness and tragedy of these hopeful, yet hapless beings.

About the Author Tim Burton is the creative genius behind Batman, Alice in Wonderland, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, among others. He began his career at Disney, where his first project was a six-minute tribute to Vincent Price. His second film, the twenty-seven-minute Frankenweenie, was deemed unsuitable for children and never released in cinemas.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9780571345106 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Horror & ghost stories Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback DECEMBER 2018 Something to Answer For P. H. Newby

The winner of the inaugural Booker Prize in 1969, Something to Answer For is humorous, macabre and beautifully intricate novel set in Egypt during the Suez Crisis.

Sales points • The Booker Prize is celebrating its 50th year in 2018 with major events and media focus • Something to Answer For competed against books by Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark and Barry England to win the prize

Description It is 1956 and Townrow is in Port Said - of these two facts he's reasonably certain. He has been summoned by the widow of his deceased friend, Elie Khoury. She is convinced that Elie was murdered, but nobody seems to agree with her. What about Leah Strauss, the mistress? And the invading British paratroops? Only an Englishman, surely, would take for granted that the British have behaved themselves.

In this disorientating world Townrow must assess the rules by which he has been living his life - to wonder whether he, too, may have something to answer for ...

About the Author Percy Howard Newby wrote twenty-three novels and six works of non-fiction. He was born in East Sussex in 1918. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1939, and visited Egypt for the first time in 1941, as part of the army's Middle East Force. From 1942 Newby was released from the army to teach English Literature at Fouad 1st University in Cairo, where he stayed until 1946. During that time he wrote his first novel. In 1947 he returned to England to write, joining the BBC in 1949 as a talks producer. He created literary-based broadcasting for the Third Programme (which became Radio Three), before becoming controller of that station in 1958, and then Managing Director of BBC Radio in 1975. He retired from the BBC in 1978, having been awarded a CBE. Newby died in 1997, in Oxfordshire.

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Faber Paperback DECEMBER 2018 Rites of Passage William Golding, introduction by Robert McCrum

The classic novel from Golding's Sea Trilogy, now with a beautiful new cover.

Sales points • The first volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy - all set on a harrowing voyage to Australia • With an introduction by Robert McCrum • 1980 Booker Prize Winner • 'The work of a master at the full stretch of his age and wisdom - necessary, provoking, urgent, rich, complex and rare.' The Times • 'An extraordinary novel.' Observer • 'Golding's best and most accessible story since Lord of the Flies.' - Melvyn Bragg

Description With an introduction by Robert McCrum.

The first volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy. Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, sinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks. Then a single passenger, the obsequious Reverend Colley, attracts the animosity of the sailors, and in the seclusion of the fo'castle something happens to bring him into a 'hell of degradation', where shame is a force deadlier than the sea itself.

'The work of a master at the full stretch of his age and wisdom - necessary, provoking, urgent, rich, complex and rare.' - The Times

'An extraordinary novel.' - Observer

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $24.99 'Golding's best and most accessible story since Lord of the Flies.' - Melvyn Bragg ISBN: 9780571298549 Format: Paperback - B format About the Author Dimensions: 195x127mm William Golding was born in Cornwall in 1911 and was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and at Brasenose Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) College, Oxford. Before he became a schoolmaster he was an actor, a lecturer, a small-boat sailor and a musician. His Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) first novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954. He won the Booker Prize for his novel Rites of Passage in 1980, and Illustrations: was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988. He died at his home in the summer of Previous Titles: Author now living: 1993.

Faber Paperback DECEMBER 2018 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro

Winner 1989 Booker Prize: A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England.

Sales points • Winner of the 1989 Booker Prize • Stunning new repackages to celebrate Ishiguro's popular backlist titles • 'Ishiguro's third novel is a tour de force both a compelling psychological study and a portrait of a vanished social order.' - Publishers Weekly

Description From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go.

In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love.

About the Author Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of six novels, A Pale View of Hills, An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day, The Unconsoled, When We Were Orphans and Never Let Me Go. He received an OBE for Services to Literature in 1995, and the French decoration of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1998.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9780571258246 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback DECEMBER 2018 Life Of Pi Yann Martel

The phenomenal 2002 Booker Prize-winning, international bestseller - now a much-loved classic of contemporary fiction.

Sales points • 'A story to make you believe in the soul-sustaining power of fiction.' - Los Angeles Times Book Review • 'A terrific book ... Fresh, original, smart, devious, and crammed with absorbing lore.'- Margaret Atwood • 'This enormously lovable novel is suffused with wonder. It[probes] the imaginative realm with scientific exactitude, twisting reality to 'bring out its essence'.' - Guardian • 'A great adventure story, the sort that comes along rarely. It is also rich in metaphysics, beautifully written, moving and funny.' Michel Faber, Scotland on Sunday

Description One boy, one boat, one tiger...

After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction in recent years.

About the Author Yann Martel was born in Spain in 1963. After studying philosophy at university, he worked at odd jobs and travelled before turning to writing. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed 2002 Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi, which was translated into thirty-eight languages. Yann Martel lives in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781782118695 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate PBS DECEMBER 2018 Vernon God Little DBC Pierre

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2003: Fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little is in trouble, and it has something to do with the recent massacre of 16 students at his high school ...

Sales points • Winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize • 'A showpiece of superb comic writing Out of the detritus of a morally bankrupt society, Pierre has fashioned a work of comic art.' - Sunday Telegraph • 'In a just world, this ridiculously funny first novel would come free with every television set Not since reading A Confederacy of Dunces have I laughed so much or felt such sheer delight at the discovery of a wholly fresh comic voice this novel reads like a modern day fairy tale.'- Mail on Sunday • 'This book ,with its dangerously comic look at a schoolyard massacre, appears primed for cult antihero status Vernon is a marvellous creation.'- Sydney Morning Herald • 'A frenetic yet unexpectedly moving first novel Vernon God Little is raucous and brooding, coarse and lyric, corrosive and sentimental.' - The New Yorker

Description News of the tragedy serves as open invitation to the media and soon the quirky backwater of Martirio is flooded with wannabe CNN hacks all too keen to lay the blame for the killings at Vernon's feet.

Eulalio Ledesma, in particular, sniffs out his opportunity to make good at Vernon's expense and soon Vernon finds himself drawn into a series of increasingly bizarre (to say nothing of life-threatening) circumstances. Eventually, with the LSD safely deposited and diluted in the ginseng, he succumbs to the workings of Fate and takes off for Mexico and a date - or so he hopes - with the divine Taylor.

About the Author DBC Pierre was born in Reynella, South Australia. He was raised in Mexico between the ages of seven and twenty-three, Price: AU $19.99 NZ $24.99 although he has also travelled extensively. DBC Pierre has worked as a designer and cartoonist, and currently lives in ISBN: 9780571215164 County Leitrim, Ireland. Vernon God Little, his first novel, won the 2003 Bollinger Everyman Woodhouse Award, the Format: Paperback - B format Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel, and the 2003 Man Booker Prize. He is the author of Ludmila's Broken English (2006) Dimensions: 196x125mm Extent: 288 pages and Lights Out in Wonderland. Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback DECEMBER 2018 The White Tiger Aravind Adiga

Winner of the Man Booker prize 2008 Winner of the Galaxy British Book Awards 'Author of The Year' 2009

'[An] extraordinary and brilliant first novel... Adiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and vision.' - Sunday Times

Sales points • Over 300,000 copies sold through the Commonwealth in first outing - the fastest- and best-selling Booker Prize winner in many years • The White Tiger received sensational and blanket review coverage • Aravind Adiga grew up in Australia • A young writer of huge talent, this novel established him as one of the leading novelists of his generation • Adiga's narrator, Balram, is an unforgettable creation: philosopher, comedian, confidence trickster and murderer. His voice seizes the reader on page one and never lets go • The White Tiger has been sold in 19 territories, and has been an international success both critically and commercially • For readers of novels by Hari Kunzru, Kiran Desai and Rohinton Mistry

Description Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables. But Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and takes him to live in Delhi. The city is a revelation. As he drives his master to shopping malls and call centres, Balram becomes increasingly aware of immense wealth and opportunity all around him, while knowing that he will never be able to gain access to that world. As Balram broods over his situation, he realizes that there is only one way he can become part of this glamorous new India - by murdering his master.

The White Tiger presents a raw and unromanticised India, both thrilling and shocking - from the desperate, almost lawless Price: AU $19.99 NZ $24.99 villages along the Ganges, to the booming Wild South of Bangalore and its technology and outsourcing centres. The first- ISBN: 9781848878082 person confession of a murderer, The White Tiger is as compelling for its subject matter as for the voice of its narrator - Format: Paperback - B format amoral, cynical, unrepentant, yet deeply endearing. Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) About the Author Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Aravind Adiga was born in Madras in 1974. He studied at Columbia and Oxford Universities. A former India Illustrations: Previous Titles: correspondent for Time magazine, his articles have also appeared in publications like the Financial Times, the Author now living: Independent, and the Sunday Times. He lives in Mumbai. The White Tiger is his first novel.

Atlantic PBS DECEMBER 2018 The Luminaries Eleanor Catton

The 2013 Man Booker winner and 2014 ABIA International Book of the Year - now in celestial new livery.

Sales points • Reissued to coincide with 2018 Man Booker action • Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2013 • Winner of The Governor General's Literary Award 2013 • For fans of David Mitchell, Hilary Mantel, Michel Faber, John Fowles, Donna Tartt, Dostoevsky and The Sisters Brothers • 'A remarkable tour de force' Sydney Morning Herald • 'A brilliantly constructed symphony that beautifully explores greed, evil, love and hope.' Australian Women's Weekly • 'A clever, multi-layered, joyous piece of storytelling.' Herald Sun

Description It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky.

The Luminaries is an extraordinary piece of fiction. It is full of narrative, linguistic and psychological pleasures, and has a fiendishly clever and original structuring device. Written in pitch-perfect historical register, richly evoking a mid-19th century world of shipping and banking and goldrush boom and bust, it is also a ghost story, and a gripping mystery. It is a thrilling achievement and will confirm for critics and readers that Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international writing firmament.

About the Author

Price: AU $24.99 NZ $0.00 Eleanor Catton was born in 1985 in Canada and raised in New Zealand. Her debut novel The Rehearsal garnered prizes ISBN: 9781847084323 and acclaim around the world, including the 2009 Betty Trask Award. It has since been published in 17 territories and 12 Format: Paperback - B format languages. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she also held an adjunct professorship, and an Dimensions: 198x129mm MA in fiction writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand. Extent: 848 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Granta Paperbacks DECEMBER 2018 Allelujah! Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett's Allelujah! opened at the Bridge Theatre, London, in July 2018.

Sales points • 'We are reminded anew of the singular mix of generosity and perversity that make Mr. Bennett one of the most original and invaluable of playwrights.' - New York Times • 'Patients' singalongs and Bennett's stinging wit light up a state-of-the-nation play set on a geriatric ward. a richly discursive play.' - Guardian • 'Part play, part revue: a sitcom really, but with serious intent.' - Variety • 'It's remarkable how Bennett's humour and faith in the decency of ordinary people manage to make this an ultimately high-spirited occasion.' - Independent

Description - What were you in life? - In life, as you put it, I was a schoolmaster.

The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town on the edge of the Pennines, is threatened with closure as part of an NHS efficiency drive. As Dr Valentine and Sister Gilchrist attend to the patients, a documentary crew, eager to capture its fight for survival, follows the daily struggle to find beds on the Dusty Springfield Geriatric Ward. Meanwhile, the old people's choir, in readiness for next week's concert, is in full swing, augmented by the arrival of Mrs Maudsley, aka Pudsey Nightingale.

Alan Bennett's Allelujah! opened at the Bridge Theatre, London, in July 2018.

With an introduction by Alan Bennett.

About the Author

Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 Alan Bennett has been one of Britain's leading dramatists since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His ISBN: 9780571350643 television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic, as have many of his works for the stage including Format: Hard Cover Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van (together with the screenplay), A Question of Attribution, The Madness of George III Dimensions: 198x126mm (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplay The Madness of King George), and an adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's Extent: 96 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts The Wind in the Willows. At the National Theatre, London, The History Boys (also a screenplay) won numerous awards Bic2: including Evening Standard and Critics' Circle awards for Best Play, an Olivier for Best New Play and the South Bank Illustrations: Award. On Broadway,The History Boys won five New York Drama Desk Awards, four Outer Critics' Circle Awards, a New Previous Titles: Author now living: York Drama Critics' Award, a New York Drama League Award and six Tonys. The Habit of Art opened at the National in 2009; in 2012, People, as well as the two short plays Hymn and Cocktail Sticks, was also staged there.

His latest collection of prose, Keeping On Keeping On, was published in 2016. Of his two previous collections, Writing Home was a number one bestseller and Untold Stories won the PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography, 2006.Faber Bennett's Plays DECEMBER 2018 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Simon Armitage

Christmas gift edition of Armitage's hugely popular translation: with revised text, and colour illustrations by Clive Hicks-Jenkins.

Sales points • The first illustrated edition • Published in time for Christmas: gorgeous hardback perfect for gift market

Description When a mysterious green knight arrives unbidden at Camelot one Christmas, only the young and inexperienced Gawain is brave or foolhardy enough to take up his challenge ...

This story, first told in the late fourteenth century, is one of the most enthralling, enigmatic and beloved poems in the English language. Simon Armitage's version is meticulously responsive to the tact, sophistication and dramatic intensity of the original. It is as if, six hundred years apart, two poets set out on a journey through the same mesmeric landscape - physical, allegorical and acoustic - in the course of which the Gawain poet has finally found his true translator.

The poem's key episodes have been visualised into a series of bold, richly textured screen-prints by British artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins. They are reproduced here, alongside Armitage's revised text, to create a special edition of this marvellous classic.

About the Author Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. A recipient of numerous prizes and awards, he has published eleven collections of poetry, including Seeing Stars (2010), Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014 (2014) and The Unaccompanied (2017). He writes extensively for television and radio, and is the author of two novels and the non-fiction bestsellers All Points North (1998), Walking Home (2012) and Walking Away (2015). His theatre works include The Last Days of Troy, performed at Shakespeare's Globe in 2014. In Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 2015 he was appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. ISBN: 9780571340163 Format: Hard Cover Clive Hicks-Jenkins is a British artist known especially for narrative paintings and artist's books. His paintings are Dimensions: 212x162mm Extent: 168 pages represented in all the main public collections in Wales and across the UK, and his artist's books are found in libraries Bic1: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval internationally. In 2011, the National Library of Wales held a retrospective exhibition, and Lund Humphries published a Bic2: Poetry by individual poets substantial monograph devoted to his work, in which Simon Callow called him 'one of the most individual and complete Illustrations: artists of our time'. Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Poetry DECEMBER 2018 Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith Stevie Smith

The Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith is the essential edition of modern poetry's most distinctive voice.

Sales points • Smith's playful and often humorous illustrations sit perfectly alongside her tragicomic poems • Stevie Smith's Not Waving but Drowning received much critical recognition after its publication and has fast become one of the UK's favourite poems • Beautifully packaged to hit straight at the Christmas gift market

Description When Stevie Smith died in 1971 she was one of the twentieth-century's most popular poets; many of her poems have been widely anthologised, and 'Not Waving but Drowning' remains one of the nation's favourite poems to this day.

Satirical, mischievous, teasing, disarming, her characteristically lightning-fast changes in tone take readers from comedy to tragedy and back again, while her line drawings are by turns unsettling and beguiling. In this edition of her work, Smith scholar Will May collects together the illustrations and poems from her original published volumes for the first time, recording fascinating details about their provenance, and describing the various versions Smith presented both on stage and page. Including over 500 works from Smith's 35-year career, The Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith is the essential edition of modern poetry's most distinctive voice.

Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning.

- 'Not Waving but Drowning' Price: AU $35.00 NZ $39.99 ISBN: 9780571311316 About the Author Format: Paperback - C format Stevie Smith (1902-71) lived in Palmers Green, London, and for much of her life worked as a secretary for the magazine Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 848 pages publishers Sir George Newnes and Sir Neville Pearson. Her first book, Novel on Yellow Paper, appeared in 1936, and her Bic1: Literary studies: poetry & poets final collection of poems, Scorpion, was published posthumously in 1972. In 1966 she received a Cholmondeley Award Bic2: Poetry and in 1969 was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Poetry DECEMBER 2018 The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I T. S. Eliot, edited by Christopher Ricks and edited by Jim McCue

Authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets - now in paperback.

Sales points • TLS Book of the Year; Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism, Poetry Foundation, Chicago; Richard J. Finneran Award, Society for Textual Scholarship; Best Scholarly Edition Award, Modernist Studies Association.,Chosen as Book of the Year 2015 by Evening Standard, FT Weekend, Guardian, Independent, Spectator, TLS and Wall Street Journal • 'A magnificent work of literary scholarship and dedication.' - Washington Post

Description This critical edition of T. S. Eliot's Poems establishes a new text of the Collected Poems 1909-1962, rectifying accidental omissions and errors that have crept in during the century since Eliot's astonishing debut, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. As well as the masterpieces, the edition contains the poems of Eliot's youth which were rediscovered only decades later, others that circulated privately during his lifetime, and love poems from his final years, written for his wife Valerie Eliot. Calling upon Eliot's critical writings, as well as his drafts, letters and other original materials, Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue have provided a commentary which illuminates the imaginative life of each poem.

This first volume respects Eliot's decisions by opening with his Collected Poems 1909-1962 as he arranged and issued it, shortly before his death. This is followed by poems uncollected but either written for or suitable for publication, and by a new reading text of the drafts of The Waste Land.

The second volume opens with the two books of verse of other kinds that Eliot issued, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and his translation of St.-John Perse's Anabase. Different again are the verses informal, improper or clubmanlike. Each of these sections has its own commentary. Finally, pertaining to the entire edition, there is a textual history which contains not only variants from all known drafts and the many printings but also extended passages amounting to hundreds of lines of compelling verse.

Price: AU $49.99 NZ $55.00 About the Author ISBN: 9780571349128 Christopher Ricks's publications on Eliot include T. S. Eliot and Prejudice (1988), Inventions of the March Hare: Poems Format: Paperback - C format 1909-1917 (1996), and Decisions and Revisions in T. S. Eliot (the Panizzi Lectures, 2002), together with True Friendship: Dimensions: 234x153mm Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound (2007). Extent: 1344 pages Bic1: Literary studies: poetry & poets Bic2: Poetry by individual poets Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Poetry DECEMBER 2018 The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II T. S. Eliot

Authoritative edition of one of the greatest poets of our age - now in paperback.

Sales points • TLS Book of the Year; Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism, Poetry Foundation, Chicago; Richard J. Finneran Award, Society for Textual Scholarship; Best Scholarly Edition Award, Modernist Studies Association.,Chosen as a Book of the Year 2015 by Evening Standard, FT Weekend, Guardian, Independent, Spectator, TLS and Wall Street Journal • 'A monumental work of scholarship ... a blazing demonstration of what literary criticism, at its best, can do for literature.' - John Sutherland, Financial Times

Description This critical edition establishes a new text of the Collected Poems 1909-1962, rectifying accidental omissions and errors. As well as the masterpieces, it contains the poems of Eliot's youth which were rediscovered only decades later, others that circulated privately during his lifetime, and love poems from his final years, written for his wife Valerie Eliot. Calling upon Eliot's critical writings, as well as his drafts, letters and other original materials, Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue have provided a commentary which illuminates the imaginative life of each poem.

About the Author Christopher Ricks's publications on Eliot include T. S. Eliot and Prejudice (1988), Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917 (1996), and Decisions and Revisions in T. S. Eliot (the Panizzi Lectures, 2002), together with True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound (2007).

Price: AU $49.99 NZ $55.00 ISBN: 9780571349135 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 688 pages Bic1: Literary studies: poetry & poets Bic2: Poetry by individual poets Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Poetry DECEMBER 2018 The Poems of T.S. Eliot Read By the Author T.S. Eliot

The most comprehensive collection of Eliot reading his own work. Contains previously unreleased recordings.

Sales points • T.S. Eliot's readings of his poems are legendary and haunting, essential listening for his readers • Containing previously unreleased recordings of four poems:The Cultivation of Christmas Trees, To the Indians Who Died in Africa, Mr Pugstyles: The Elegant Pig, Billy M'Caw: The Remarkable Parrot • With the co-operation of the Eliot Estate, Faber has gathered the widest range available of Eliot's own recordings

Description T. S. Eliot's readings of his own poetry are legendary and illuminating. Faber and Faber has worked with the Estate of T. S. Eliot to bring together many of them for the first time. From recordings made at Harvard in 1933 through to private, previously unreleased material from Eliot's later years, this is the most comprehensive collection currently available.

T.S. Eliot's readings of his poems are legendary and haunting, essential listening for his readers

Containing previously unreleased recordings of four poems:The Cultivation of Christmas Trees, To the Indians Who Died in Africa, Mr Pugstyles: The Elegant Pig, Billy M'Caw: The Remarkable Parrot

About the Author Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He came to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

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Faber Audio DECEMBER 2018 A Very Murderous Christmas edited by Cecily Gayford, Various

We wish you a very murderous Christmas...

Sales points • Paperback Original • Perfect stocking-filler for friends and loved ones - proven package and good price-point • Following Murder on Christmas Eve and Murder under the Christmas Tree, this is the perfect accompaniment to a mince pie. Just make sure you're really, truly alone ... • Includes writing from Ian Rankin, Margery Allingham, Val McDermid, GK Chesterton, Patricia Highsmith, John Dickson Carr and others

Description The Christmas season is one of comfort and joy, sparkling lights and steam rising from cups of mulled wine at frosty carol services. A season of goodwill to all men, as families and friends come together to forget their differences and celebrate the year together.

Unless, of course, you happen to be harbouring a grudge. Or hiding a guilty secret. Or you want something so much you just have to have it - whatever the cost. In A Very Murderous Christmas, ten of the best classic crime writers come together to unleash festive havoc, with murder, mayhem and twists aplenty.

Following Murder on Christmas Eve and Murder under the Christmas Tree, this is the perfect accompaniment to a mince pie. Just make sure you're really, truly alone ...

About the Author Includes writing from Margery Allingham, Val McDermid, GK Chesterton, Patricia Highsmith, John Dickson Carr and others.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781788161015 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Horror & ghost stories Bic2: Classic horror & ghost stories Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade DECEMBER 2018 A Spot of Folly Ruth Rendell, introduction by Sophie Hannah

Previously uncollected and unpublished short stories from a master of psychological suspense. Introduction from Sophie Hannah.

Sales points • New in paperback • Over 3000 sold in hardback • New stories from Ruth Rendell - never collected together under her name before, and all but two completely unpublished • Perfect fare for Rendell fans: murders, mystery, revenge, claustrophobia and acute psychological observation • Perfect Christmas present for crime fans

Description New and uncollected tales of murder, mischief, magic and madness.

Ruth Rendell was an acknowledged master of psychological suspense: these are ten (and a quarter) of her most chillingly compelling short stories, collected here together for the first time.

In these tales, a businessman boasts about cheating on his wife, only to find the tables turned. A beautiful country rectory reverberates to the echo of a historical murder. A compulsive liar acts on impulse, only to be lead inexorably to disaster. And a wealthy man finds there is more to his wife's kidnapping than meets the eye.

Atmospheric, gripping and never predictable, this is Ruth Rendell at her inimitable best.

The stories are: Never Sleep in a Bed Facing a Mirror; A Spot of Folly; The Price of Joy; The Irony of Hate; Digby's Wives; The Haunting of Shawley Rectory; A Drop Too Much; The Thief; The Long Corridor of Time; In the Time of his Prosperity; and Trebuchet. Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781788160155 Introduction from Sophie Hannah. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages About the Author Bic1: Crime & mystery Ruth Rendell was one of the great crime writers. Her books - notable for their careful psychological observation, as well Bic2: Short stories as their gripping plots - have sold over 20 million copies worldwide, and she won numerous awards, including the Crime Illustrations: Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE Previous Titles: Author now living: and in 1997 became a Life Peer. Ruth Rendell died in May 2015

Profile Trade DECEMBER 2018 Moominvalley in November Tove Jansson

A gentle farewell to Moominvalley in the last story of all.

Sales points • Perfect Christmas reading - featuring the last and most poignant Moomin story of all - and a beautiful gift for Moomin fans and their children • A must-have nostalgia item • Special features of the collectors' editions include: stunning 1950s and 60s vintage covers on art paper wrappers; brilliant-coloured wibalin casings with a Moomin line drawing on each side; beautiful endpapers • Publication follows launch of brand new Moomin animation series in late 2018 • Christmas books coverage, reviews throughout the mainstream and children's press with special features about Jansson's insights into loss and legacy in childhood • Facebook campaigns and competitions • Major promotion via Moomin.com (over 3 million followers), Gransnet and Caboodle • High profile Moomin fans (incl Ali Smith, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Esther Freud, Philip Pullman and others)

Description In her last, most profound and poignant Moomin story, Jansson explores themes of loss, legacy and hope. The Moomins have left their beloved Moominvalley but as winter draws near Snufkin, Mymble, Toft and others move into the Moominhouse to await the family's return. Could that gentle flicker of light on the horizon be their boat?

About the Author The Finnish artist and author Tove Jansson (1914-2001) wrote and illustrated her first Moomin story, The Moomins and the Great Flood, in 1945 as a form of escape from the dark shadows of war. By 1970, when the last in the series, Moominvalley in November was published her books had become world famous. The eight Moomin titles would be translated into over fifty languages and remain in print for the next six decades. Tove Jansson lived in Helsinki and a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland which she shared with her life partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietila.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781908745712 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 185x135mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Sort of DECEMBER 2018 Tales From Moominvalley Tove Jansson

Sort Of books completes the set of Moomin special collectors' edition hardbacks with the most popular title of them all...

Sales points • A perfect Christmas gift to complete the set of Moomin classics • Featuring the only and most wonderful Moomin Christmas story - a beautiful gift for Moomin fans and their children • A must-have nostalgia item • Special features of the collectors' editions include: stunning 1950s and 60s vintage covers on art paper wrappers; brilliant-coloured wibalin casings with a Moomin line drawing on each side; beautiful endpapers • Publication follows launch of brand new Moomin animation series in late 2018 • Christmas books coverage, reviews throughout the mainstream and children's press with special features about Jansson's insights into loss and legacy in childhood • Facebook campaigns and competitions • Major promotion via Moomin.com (over 3 million followers), Gransnet and Caboodle • High profile Moomin fans (incl Ali Smith, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Esther Freud, Philip Pullman and others)

Description Featuring the much loved stories in Waterstone's Oxfam bestseller, The Invisible Child and The Fir Tree - the Moomins' gloriously funny and generous take on Christmas - Tales from Moominvalley collects together nine delightful Moomin short stories. Highlights include The Spring Tune (which Jarvis Cocker described as the best story about composing music) and The Last Dragon in the World, revealing the true essence of friendship.

A perfect Christmas gift to complete the set of Moomin classics.

About the Author The Finnish artist and author Tove Jansson (1914-2001) wrote and illustrated her first Moomin story, The Moomins and Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 the Great Flood, in 1945 as a form of escape from the dark shadows of war. By 1962, when Tales From Moominvalley ISBN: 9781908745682 was published her books had become world famous. The eight Moomin titles would be translated into over fifty languages Format: Hard Cover and remain in print for the next six decades. Tove Jansson lived in Helsinki and a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland which Dimensions: 185x135mm Extent: 176 pages she shared with her life partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietila. Bic1: Classic fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Sort of DECEMBER 2018 Homeland Walter Kempowski

A sharply evocative novel of one man's journey into his family history and the troubled legacy of World War II, from the author of All for Nothing.

Sales points • Kempowski was one of Germany's most important post-war writers, known for his acclaimed collection of first-hand accounts of WWII • Praise for All For Nothing: • 'A novel of profound depth and originality.' - Sunday Times • 'A beautiful, forgiving and compassionate book that looks beyond the futile divisions people make between themselves. It reaches its last devastating line with poetic sensibility and the grace of a classical tragedy, confirming Kempowski as a truly great writer.' - Guardian • 'All for Nothing seethes with human drama, contradiction and complexity. No one is blameless; no one wholly unsympathetic. The result is an astonishing literary achievement.' - Daily Telegraph

Description It is 1988, the year before the Berlin Wall came down. Jonathan Fabrizius, a journalist living in West Germany, is asked to travel to the contested lands of former East Prussia - where the Nazi legacy lives on in buildings and fortifications - to write about the route for a car rally. It's a plum job, but his interest is piqued by a personal connection. Here, among the refugees fleeing the advancing Russians in 1945, he was born.

Homeland is a nuanced work from one of the great modern European storytellers, in which an everyday German comes face to face with his painful family history, and devastating questions about ordinary Germans' complicity in the war.

About the Author Walter Kempowski (1929-2007) was one of Germany's most important post-war writers, known for his acclaimed collection of first-hand accounts of WWII, including Swansong 1945 (Granta, 2014). His critically applauded final novel, Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 All for Nothing (Granta, 2015) was a bestseller in both Germany and the UK. ISBN: 9781783783526 Format: Hard Cover Charlotte Collins studied English Literature at Cambridge and worked as an actor and radio journalist before becoming a Dimensions: mm Extent: 240 pages literary translator. In 2017 she was awarded the Goethe-Institut's Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for her Bic1: Fiction in translation translation of Robert Seethaler's A Whole Life. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Granta DECEMBER 2018 The Great Cave Rescue James Massola

The complete story of the miraculous rescue of the Wild Boars soccer team boys and their coach in Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand.

Sales points • Truly remarkable international story from July 2018, described by Malcolm Turnbull as 'one of the most heroic and inspiring episodes of our time' • Tham Luang cave is regarded by expert cavers as one of the five most dangerous caves in the world: the rescue was an extraordinarily risky operation that nearly failed many times • Author is Australian journalist who was one of the first journalists on the ground and he has interviewed participants • Australian anaesthetist Dr Richard Harris and his dive partner Craig Challen were instrumental to the rescue and are now regarded as national heroes; Australian Federal Police divers and a New Zealand diver were also among the 90 strong crew of international divers in the cave who rescued the boys • Comp title is the story behind the film Lion, Saroo Brierley's bestselling A Long Way Home (originally published 2013, sold 40,000 copies in Australia before it was made into the film Lion) • Perfect Christmas book for adults and teenagers who enjoy inspiring and gripping true stories • CATEGORY: True stories

Description Keen to go exploring after soccer practice, the boys of the Wild Boars soccer team ignored the sign at the cave entrance warning visitors not to enter during the monsoon season. What ensued was a high-stakes international mission which very nearly didn't succeed.

The ordeal riveted millions around the world. First came the awful news that twelve Thai boys aged 11 to 16 and their young coach were missing. Then the flickering video of the huddle of anxious and hungry boys found by a pair of British divers nine days later. But the most difficult part was yet to come. Monsoon rains had raised the water level in the cave system, and the 13 were caught in an air pocket, surrounded by rising muddy water, nearly four kilometres from the cave Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 entrance. None of them knew how to dive. ISBN: 9781760529741 Format: Paperback - C format Expert Australian, British, American, Chinese and other international divers joined the Thai Navy SEALs and hundreds of Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 224 pages local volunteers to mount one of the most risky and complex rescue operations the world has ever seen. Australian doctor Bic1: True stories of heroism, endurance & survival Richard Harris and his dive partner Craig Challen were among the last out of the cave, 18 days later. Bic2: Caving & potholing Illustrations: This is the complete story of the remarkable rescue at Tham Luang cave. Previous Titles: Author now living: Jakarta About the Author James Massola is South-east Asia correspondent for Fairfax Media. He was previously chief political correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based in Canberra. He is the winner of a Quill award for investigative Allen & Unwin DECEMBER 2018 The Great Cave Rescue 15 copy pack Point of Sale

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Allen & Unwin DECEMBER 2018 Fair Go, Sport Peter FitzSimons

Fitzy at his passionate best with chest-puffing tales of great sportsmanship and fair play.

Sales points • Fitzy is absolutely passionate about this topic and will give the book his full support • We're publishing a month earlier than both Gotta Love This Country and Seriously...You Have to Laugh • • Great cartoons from Reg Lynch • Combined Bookscan Sales Figures for Allen & Unwin titles by Peter FitzSimons: over 49,000 copies • CATEGORY: Sport

Description The idea for this book is simple. In the year when Australian cricketers have colluded to nakedly cheat, when attendance rates for all of soccer, rugby union and rugby league have either drifted or roared south, there is an obvious disaffection with modern sport and all the grubbiness that has come with it.

Over the last 30 odd years, in articles and books, Peter FitzSimons has tried, among other things, to capture the best, most inspiring, and most heart-warming tales of sports, together with profiling the characters who gave us that magic - or at the very least, engaged us. One thing that became apparent over the years was that there was frequently more reaction for stories about unknowns, and golden greats of yesteryear rather than the modern big bird professionals.

Fair Go, Sport is what he regards as the best of such tales. Most, but not all, are Australian based. Ideally, they represent the best of sport, or at least the most alluring, and inspirational, before the 'serious-ification' of the whole shebang started to squeeze the life out of it, on so many different levels at once.

This is Fitzy at his passionate best. He reminds us that there really are good guys in sport, and that fair play still exists.

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781760529482 Peter FitzSimons is one of Australia's best-loved authors with over twenty bestsellers to his name. As well as writing his Format: Paperback - C format weekly 'Fitz Files' for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sun-Herald, Peter is a regular TV commentator, an ambassador Dimensions: 234x153mm for good causes and a former Wallaby. In July of 2015, he became Chair of the Australian Republican Movement. Extent: 256 pages Bic1: History of sport Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Neutral Bay, NSW

Allen & Unwin DECEMBER 2018 The Book of Daniel Jeff Apter

The highs, lows and incredible life of the enigmatic Daniel Johns, from Silverchair to Dreams.

Sales points • Daniel Johns has conquered both the rock world (as a teenager) and the electronic world and is considered a modern musical genius. His reclusiveness also makes him an object of fascination for media and punters alike • With Johns and Silverchair having sold millions of records there is a firm fan base for this book • 2019 marks John's 40th birthday and the 25th anniversary of Silverchair's discovery • Jeff Apter has spent fifteen years documenting Johns and Silverchair in preparation for writing this book • Australian music biographies are big sellers - Bon: The Last Highway and High Voltage (both 2017) have sold over 10,000 copies each • CATEGORY: Music biography

Description When Silverchair shuddered suddenly to a halt in 2011, there was no swansong, no farewell tour, just a brief statement and then they were gone, after 15 years of brilliant music, five hit albums, legions of fans, millions of record sales, scores of ARIAs and the odd controversy. Three teenagers from Newcastle had taken the world by storm, graduating from a loft above a family garage to centre stage of Madison Square Garden within the time it typically takes most bands to record their first single. Over their stratospheric career, Daniel Johns developed into a performer and songwriter with few peers in modern music.

Shortly after the breakup of the band, Johns' marriage to pop star Natalie Imbruglia also ended. There were also some sordid headlines: a DUI charge, a snap taken of him asleep in an inner-city back alley, whispers of wayward behaviour. People feared what might happen next.

But at the same time a new Daniel Johns emerged. His debut solo album, Talk, appeared to rapturous reviews in 2015 and raced to the top of the Australian charts, and then 2018 saw the advent of DREAMS, his long-awaited collaboration with Luke Steele. This was a vastly different Daniel Johns to the grungy, guitar-blazing teen of the 1990s. His new sound Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 ISBN: 9781760296292 and image were slick, sophisticated and sexy as hell. It was a remarkable creative makeover, perhaps the most ambitious Format: Paperback - C format ever undertaken by an Australian rockstar. Former rockstar. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Autobiography: arts & entertainment The Book of Daniel documents how Johns also battled many personal demons, including life-threatening anorexia and Bic2: Individual composers & musicians, specific bands crippling reactive arthritis, not to mention a wilful streak a mile wide. Drawing on more than 15 years spent documenting & groups the life and times of Johns and Silverchair, author Jeff Apter has brought Johns' story to life, revealing in remarkable detail Illustrations: Previous Titles: the many struggles and triumphs of one of Australia's most distinctive and dazzling talents. Author now living: Author - Wollongong, Agent - Northern beaches

About the Author Allen & Unwin DECEMBER 2018 Lessons Gisele Bundchen

The supermodel, entrepreneur, activist and philanthropist shares the lessons that have helped shape her life.

Sales points • One of the most recognisable faces in the world finally shares her story • Gisele has committed to Australian publicity, including an exclusive Australian photoshoot and interview with Harper's Bazaar Australia for the January 2019 issue and an exclusive extract with cover line in ELLE magazine Australia • CATEGORY: Lifestyle

Description In this book I've laid out the lessons that have helped me live a more conscious and joyful life, inspired me to overcome challenges I've faced over the years, and given me a deeper understanding of myself and the world. I hope they will help you, too.

Gisele Bundchen's journey began in southern Brazil, growing up with five sisters, playing volleyball, and rescuing the dogs and cats around her hometown. In fact, she wanted to become either a professional volleyball player or a veterinarian. But at the age of fourteen, fate suddenly intervened in the form of a modelling scout who spotted her in Sao Paulo. Four years later, Gisele's appearance in Alexander McQueen's memorable rain-soaked London runway show in spring 1998 launched her spectacular career and put an end to the 'heroin chic' era of fashion models. Since then, Gisele has appeared in almost 450 ad campaigns and on more than 1200 magazine covers. She has walked in nearly 500 fashion shows for the most influential brands in the world. Gisele has become an icon, leaving a lasting mark on the fashion industry.

But until now, few people have come to know the real Gisele, a woman whose private life stands in dramatic contrast to her public image. In Lessons, she reveals for the first time who she really is and what she's learned over the past thirty- eight years to help her live a meaningful life -- a journey that takes readers from a childhood spent barefoot in small-town Brazil to an internationally successful career, motherhood, and marriage to quarterback Tom Brady.

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781760529543 A work of great openness and vulnerability, Lessons reveals the inner life of a very public woman. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 228x152mm About the Author Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Autobiography: arts & entertainment Gisele Bundchen is one of the most famous supermodels of all time. Known globally for her business savvy, her Bic2: Memoirs philanthropy and her advocacy for environmental protection, she has been listed by Forbes as the 89th Most Powerful Illustrations: Woman in the World and among the world's thirty most generous celebrities. She has served as Goodwill Ambassador of Previous Titles: Author now living: the UNEP (United Nations Environment Program), and was named by Harvard University as a Global Environmental Citizen in recognition of her eco-efforts. She lives near Boston with her husband, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, their children and dogs. Profits from this book will go to The LUZ Foundation, which Bundchen created in 2007 to address social and ecological issues. Allen & Unwin DECEMBER 2018 Roxy's Little Black Book of Tips and Tricks Roxy Jacenko

The no-bullsh*t guide to all things PR, social media, business and building your brand.

Sales points • Roxy's notoriety and business acumen have made her a household name • Her ""Tips and Tricks"" seminars regularly pull in audiences of over 500 people per month • Handbag-sized paperback, perfect for the worker on the run • Has been endorsed by Helen McCabe (Nine Digital CEO), Francesca Packer, and Pat Ingram (Editor, Sunday Life Magazine) • CATEGORY: Self-help and personal development

Description The fact that I'm sitting here writing a business book when, at school, I was the student who read the crib notes rather than the actual books is rather ironic. However, if I've proved anything over the years, it's that you needn't be the smartest girl in the room or get the highest marks (heck, I didn't even go to uni!) to succeed in PR or business. If I can do it, anyone can. The trick is to be willing to give up your excuses and consistently put in the work.

Roxy Jacenko built a PR empire on intuition, common sense and an unbreakable work ethic. Now she's passing on her best business advice, tips and tricks in a handsome handbag-sized volume that's perfectly sized for the millennial worker on the run. From writing a stand-out application to building your brand to generating killer social media buzz, Roxy's Little Black Book is a must-read resource for aspiring publicists and business builders, and for anyone already in the PR industry.

About the Author Roxy Jacenko is an Australian businesswoman and media personality, socialite and author, known as Sydney's PR queen. She lives in Bondi with her husband and children.

Price: AU $16.99 NZ $18.99 ISBN: 9781760529116 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 165x110mm Extent: 168 pages Bic1: Self-help & personal development Bic2: Public relations Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Woollahra, NSW

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Allen & Unwin DECEMBER 2018 101 Marvellous Movies You May Have Missed David Stratton

Avoid spending hours trawling Netflix for the perfect film to watch, and take the recommendation of one of the world's most experienced film critics.

Sales points • With so many movies now at our fingertips, the real question is how to select a movie worth watching. David takes the pain out of that decision. • After half a century curating film festivals and reviewing literally thousands of movies on TV and in print, David is without a doubt the doyen of movies in Australia • For each movie David lists director and main cast, and a discussion of the plot, interesting background information about the film's production and reception, and the elements of the film he thinks make it worthy of interest. Information provided is far more detailed and engaging than the typically bland synopses in 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die or in online listings. • As we would expect from David Stratton, this is a selection for mainstream tastes • Includes movies mainly from USA, UK, Australia, NZ made since 1980 • Details of where to obtain the movie (streaming, DVD) in Australia, NZ and other countries are included at the back of the book, including the best specialist film stores in Australia and NZ • CATEGORY: Film guides

Description Are you tired of trawling through movies you don't recognise on Netflix? Sick of reading short film descriptions that sound boring? Don't know what to watch next?

Let leading film critic David Stratton introduce you to 101 movies that you probably haven't heard of, and tell you why they are worth seeing.

David Stratton's selection of overlooked gems includes movies from such well-known directors as David Lynch, Ang Lee Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 and Sydney Lumet. They star popular actors such as Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Sean Connery, Cate Blanchett, Clint ISBN: 9781760632120 Eastwood, Paul Newman, Greta Scacchi, Robert Redford and Jack Nicholson. They include comedies, thrillers, westerns, Format: Paperback - Demy format musicals and romances, and were produced from the 1980s through to the past few years. Dimensions: 208x138mm Extent: 232 pages Bic1: Films, cinema A perfect gift for anyone who relishes a cosy night at home with a good movie. Bic2: Illustrations: About the Author Previous Titles: Author now living: Leura, NSW David Stratton AM is an award-winning film critic, film historian and lecturer, television personality and producer. He has served as President of the International Critics Jury for the Cannes and Venice Film Festivals, and was for 25 years co- host with Margaret Pomeranz of SBS's The Movie Show and ABC's At the Movies. A former critic for international film industry magazine Variety, he currently writes for The Australian. He is author of two books on film The Last New Wave Allen & Unwin DECEMBER 2018 101 Marvellous Movies 10 copy pack Point of Sale

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Allen & Unwin DECEMBER 2018 I Can't Remember the Title But the Cover is Blue Elias Greig

Hilarious, unpredictable and, at times, touching, this compilation is the perfect gift for fans of Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops and The Diary of a Bookseller.

Sales points • Elias currently works at Berkelouw Balgowlah • The perfect Christmas gift for every bookseller (or bookstore fan) in your life • For fans of Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops (4,500 copies sold) • • CATEGORY: Humour

Description As any retail or service worker will tell you, customers can be irrational, demanding, abusive, and brain-scramblingly, mind-bendingly strange. They can also be kind, thoughtful, funny, and full of pathos. Something about the often-fraught interaction between customer and worker - with the dividing line of the counter between them, and the commercial imperative, with its curious etiquette and toleration of all kinds of suspect behaviour brooding above - dims down certain inhibitions, and has a kind of hot-house effect on eccentricity.

In I Can't Remember the Title But the Cover is Blue, veteran bookseller Elias Greig collects the best, worst and most interesting customer encounters from his years at Berkelouw Balgowlah. From ill-behaved children to nostalgia seniors and everything in between, this hilarious and unpredictable book is the perfect gift for anyone who's ever been on the wrong side of a store counter.

About the Author Elias Greig was born on the North Coast of New South Wales, and moved to Sydney for university, completing a BA, MA, and, recently, a PhD at the University of Sydney. All this study was funded and made possible by over a decade of retail work, first as a shoe salesman, and later as a bookseller, his current occupation. These long years on the wrong side of Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 the counter have proved surprisingly helpful in Elias's other career as a casual tutor and sessional lecturer at the ISBN: 9781760529451 University of Sydney. Elias's writing has appeared in Hermes (which he was proud to edit in 2010), Contrappasso, The Format: Paperback Conversation, and, most recently, in Overland, where he discussed the Fair Work Commission's decision to cut Sunday Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 150 pages penalty rates as a symptom of the wider disregard for and invisibility of retail and service workers. He has made several Bic1: Humour collections & anthologies appearances on ABC radio program Overnights, discussing Romantic poetry, and the work of Stevie Smith. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Allen & Unwin DECEMBER 2018 I Can't Remember the Title 10 copy counterpack A&U Point of Sale

Includes 10 copies of I Can't Remember the Title But The Cover Is Blue plus counterpack.

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Allen & Unwin DECEMBER 2018 Best Australian Drinking Stories Jim Haynes

This book is an attempt to tell the history of Australia's almost-250-year love affair with alcohol, using stories, verse and some fascinating historical narratives.

Sales points • A perfect Christmas stocking filler • Combined sales of Jim Haynes' previous books now over 135,000 copies • Includes stories and yarns from every corner of Australia, from every era of our history, ranging from the poignant to the hilarious • Author seasoned media performer and great story teller • A number of the stories have never been told before • CATEGORY: AUSTRALIANA

Description 'In Australia there is always the refuge of a regular booze-up with the boys. Suspicion of one's peers is thus temporarily dissolved in plenty of alcohol - Australia's national solvent.' Ronald Conway, Author and psychologist, 1976

Alcohol has played a major, quite disproportionate, role in the history of our nation since 1769 and Jim finds that fascinating. He also finds it quite informative when we come to analyse and understand our 'national character', our social history and accepted cultural attitudes over those 250 years.

Researching and retelling the alcohol related history of Cook's voyages, the First Fleet, the Rum Rebellion, the mutiny of the 99th Regiment, the soldiers riot of 1916 and the effects of six o clock closing has been an enlightening exercise for Jim.

Exploring the impact on our alcoholic history by characters like James Cook, Joseph Banks, John MacArthur, James Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Squire, William Bligh, Lachlan Macquarie, Peter Degraves and others has made him develop a true admiration for some ISBN: 9781760632908 of them, a grudging admiration for others and an understanding of just how wicked and self-serving some of our founding Format: Paperback - C format fathers were. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Humour Some of the stories in this collection celebrate the social gift of alcohol. Riotous evenings of complete surrender to Bic2: Bacchus, or business deals sealed with booze, grave social occasions subverted by drink - and Henry Lawson's apology Illustrations: and justification for alcoholism. Previous Titles: Author now living: Kensington, NSW Other stories are salutary tales that deal with the consequences of getting 'roaring drunk': the hangovers, sufferings and recriminations of the regular binge drinker, the physical and psychological results of drinking - the harsh realities. And still others represent the darker side of drinking and alcoholism; some are accounts of people finally facing some harsh Allen & Unwin DECEMBER 2018 The Grade Cricketer: Tea and No Sympathy Dave Edwards, Sam Perry and Ian Higgins

The brilliantly funny new novel featuring The Grade Cricketer, hero of the bestselling cult classic The Grade Cricketer.

Sales points • Grade Cricketer sold 6000 copies on Bookscan, and the first format of Tea and No Sympathy has sold over 10,000 copies • Perfect gift for cricket fans this Christmas • CATEGORY: SPORT/HUMOUR

Description 'A sequel to The Grade Cricketer? It's like junk time in a second innings - something you just have to be part of.' Gideon Haigh.

Is life without cricket worth living? It's a question asked and answered by the Grade Cricketer, as he faces a cricket-free future after a devious plan goes horribly wrong.

Hilarious, ridiculous and completely true to life to anyone who's ever spent time in a dressing room, Tea and No Sympathy takes us on a skeweringly funny sporting misadventure through the world of grade cricket and the flawed, damaged and occasionally appalling people who play it, from the creators of the bestselling novel The Grade Cricketer.

Praise for The Grade Cricketer: 'The Grade Cricketer is the finest tribute to a sport since Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch, and the best cricket book in yonks. It's belly-laughing funny but it's also a hymn to the grand and complex game delivered with a narrative pace and ability I'm afraid most Test players don't have. For anyone who ever dreamed of excelling at a sport but never quite made it but still gave it your life, this is the story. A great read!' Tom Keneally

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 'The Grade Cricketer has taken us so far inside a district club dressing room that you feel like a locker. Ligaments could ISBN: 9781760527440 not be closer to the bone than some of his observations.' Kerry O'Keeffe Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 256 pages 'The Grade Cricketer is strange and, I suspect, brilliant'. Wisden Bic1: Cricket Bic2: Humour About the Author Illustrations: As wide-eyed juniors, Dave Edwards, Sam Perry and Ian Higgins all dreamed of playing cricket for Australia one day. Previous Titles: Author now living: Aubert Park, London Balmain, NSW Seaforth, That was before they entered the harsh, dog-eat-dog world of Australian grade cricket, where their hopes and dreams NSW were swiftly extinguished; their cricketing careers subsequently laid to rest. As a form of catharsis, 'The Grade Cricketer' was born: a desperate, delusional 'everyman' that thousands of middling amateur athletes can relate to, even if they refuse to admit it publicly. Allen & Unwin DECEMBER 2018 The Best Australian Trucking Stories Jim Haynes

A collection of true stories taken from the lives of trucking men and women from Tarcutta to Alice Springs and all over Australia.

Sales points • Includes fifteen fascinating, dramatic and often hilarious accounts of trucking life • Author toured with the Slim Dusty Show, which regularly did shows to raise money for Truckers Memorial at Tarcutta • Reveals the inside worlds of long haul trucking, short haul truckers and the freight industry • Also includes a brief history of road transport from bullock trains and camels to modern road trains • Australian industry couldn't survive without truckers • CATEGORY: Australiana

Description The trucker's job-so vital to our nation's everyday life-makes for a diverse treasure trove of stories.

This first-ever collection of stories about Aussie truckers captures the humour, tragedy and fascinating history of their world, proving once again that truth is often stranger, funnier and more inspiring than fiction. The unlikely yarns and tales, collected by Jim Haynes, quickly transport the reader into the intriguing but often hard and lonely world of the long- distance truck driver.

There are stories of endurance while crossing the Nullarbor in the early 1950s, of rescuing mates stranded in the desert and dumping wheat in protest at Parliament House, of repossessing vehicles in suburban Adelaide, and of men imprisoned during the long political battle to make the roads of Australia free to carry freight. Steeped in larrikinism, these are salt-of-the-earth Aussie voices from the most genuine characters to ever spin a yarn.

Whether you're interested in one of the most significant social revolutions to have shaped our nation, or in these never- say-die modern pioneers who astound with their resourcefulness, or whether you're just after a laugh and a bloody good Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 story, this book is for you. ISBN: 9781760633325 Format: Paperback - B format About the Author Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 282 pages Jim Haynes has travelled far and wide to meet and interview the people whose stories make up this book. From his days Bic1: Anthologies (non-poetry) as part of the Slim Dusty touring show, Jim has been aware of the special nature of the trucking industry in both rural and Bic2: urban Australia. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Kensington, NSW Before becoming a professional entertainer, songwriter, verse writer and singer in 1988, Jim Haynes taught writing, literature, history and drama in schools and universities from outback NSW to Britain. While teaching he gained two masters' degrees in literature, from New England University and the University of Wales. Jim Haynes is the author of many Great Australian titles including books on Railways, Aviation and Horse Racing. He is one of Australia's most Allen & Unwin DECEMBER 2018 Unholy Trinity Denis Ryan and Peter Hoysted

One policemen's desperate and moving account of how he tried for decades to bring a paedophile priest to justice - but was blocked by not only the Catholic church, but by his own Police Force.

Sales points • A timely new edition of this topical and outrageous memoir • Includes a new chapter bringing Denis' story up to the present day • Previous edition sold over 6,000 copies across all editions • Will appeal to readers of true crime, misery memoirs and thrillers • CATEGORY: True Crime

Description One policeman's desperate and moving account of his decades-long struggle to bring a depraved paedophile priest to justice - only to find himself obstructed by the Catholic Church and betrayed by his own police force.

Monsignor John Day died in 1978. He was arguably Australia's most prolific paedophile. His victims are counted in the hundreds. Yet when Day died, he was feted by Bishop Ronald Mulkearns as having 'faithfully fulfilled his ministry in God's name'.

The Church had been well aware of Day's activities. For years his crimes had been overlooked and tacitly endorsed. Unbelievably, Day had committed his terrible crimes with the knowledge and protection of senior members of the Victoria Police as well as the Clerk of the Courts, the most senior officer of the court in Mildura in the 1960s and '70s. Together the three men cast a shadow over the city that remains today.

Denis Ryan, a young police detective from Melbourne, had transferred to Mildura in the early 1960s. By the tacit rules of the day, priests were not to be charged for any crime short of murder in Victoria. The influence of the Church both in the Victoria Police and within the office of public prosecutions was too strong. But Ryan was a good cop, and quickly gained Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 the trust of the people of Mildura. One by one the victims started coming forward-children who had been molested by ISBN: 9781760529628 Monsignor Day and their shocked and sometimes disbelieving parents. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 280 pages Armed with a dozen or more signed statements, Ryan had sufficient evidence to lay charges. Then began his nightmare, Bic1: True crime as his every step towards bringing Day to justice was blocked by the Catholic Church and then the Victoria Police. Ryan Bic2: True crime struggled for decades to have his story and those of Day's countless victims heard, but shamefully, this will be the first Illustrations: time this tragic tale is made public. Previous Titles: Author now living: Peter Hoysted Mittagong, NSW; Denis Ryan Mildura, NSW Mittagong, NSW This is Ryan's story, told in his own words. It is also the story of Day's victims, many of whom are alive today, and are here for the first time given a voice.

Allen & Unwin DECEMBER 2018 The Journalist's Guide to Media Law Mark Pearson and Mark Polden

A practical guide for journalists, public relations and marketing professionals, bloggers and social media experts to staying on the right side of the law.

Sales points • For over 20 years the standard introductory handbook on law for journalism students • This 6th edition substantially reworked to reflect the increase in litigation between individuals over social media posts, impact of the 24/7 gig economy, and anti-terrorism laws • Used in universities and colleges across the Asia/Pacific region • By authors with extensive traditional media and online experience • Written in a clear, non-legalistic fashion • Recent local and international cases and examples, tips and checklists • For professionals and students in journalism, public relations, social media and web publishing • Professor Mark Pearson's journlaw.com blog provides ongoing updates on this rapidly changing area of law • CATEGORY: Media/Law

Description We are all journalists and publishers now: at the touch of a button we can send our words, sounds and images out to the world. No matter whether you're a traditional journalist, a blogger, or handling social media for a company, everything you publish or broadcast is still subject to the law. But which law?

This widely used practical guide to communication law is essential reading for anyone who writes or broadcasts professionally, online or in traditional media. It shows how to publish or upload what you want, while staying on the right side of the law and behaving ethically.

This sixth edition has been substantially revised to reflect recent developments in litigation, and the impact of anti- terrorism laws and the rising gig economy. It covers defamation, contempt, confidentiality, privacy, trespass, intellectual Price: AU $64.99 NZ $75.00 property, and ethical regulation, as well as the special challenges of commenting on criminal allegations and trials. Recent ISBN: 9781760297848 cases and examples are used to illustrate key points and new developments. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 576 pages Whether you work in a news room, in public relations or marketing, or blog from home, make sure you have The Bic1: Entertainment & media law Journalist's Guide to Media Law at your side. Bic2: Press & journalism Illustrations: 'Whether you're an MSM editor or reporter, a blogger, a tweeter or a personal brand, this book might save your bacon.' - Previous Titles: Author now living: Mark Pearson: Mudgeeraba, QLD; Mark Polden: Jonathan Holmes, former ABC Media Watch host Coledale, NSW Gold Coast, QLD 'The leading text book from which most journos learned their law' - Margaret Simons, Monash University

A&U Academic DECEMBER 2018 Numeracy Across the Curriculum Merrilyn Goos, Vince Geiger, Shelley Dole, Helen Forgasz and Anne Bennison

A guide for pre-service teachers on understanding numeracy and its application in both primary and secondary schooling.

Sales points • The authors are recognised as experts in this field having researched and developed their own numeracy teaching and learning model • The Australian Curriculum up to Year 10 identifies numeracy as a general capability to be developed in all subjects • Poor numeracy has been found to severely limit successful transitions from school - this book addresses a key student competency • The book explains common misconceptions about the difference between mathematics and numeracy • Case studies throughout show how numeracy can be embedded in all subjects and at all levels of schooling

Description Being numerate involves more than mastering basic mathematics. Numeracy connects the mathematics learned at school with out-of-school situations that require capabilities such as problem solving, critical judgment, and sense-making related to non-mathematical contexts. This book provides prospective and practising teachers with practical, research-based strategies for embedding numeracy across the primary and secondary school curriculum.

Based on the authors' ten-year research program, the text explains what numeracy is and how numeracy has developed as an educational goal. It describes in detail the five dimensions of the authors' model: attention to real-life contexts; application of mathematical knowledge; use of physical, representational and digital tools; the promotion of positive dispositions towards the use of mathematics to solve problems encountered in day-to-day life; and a critical orientation to interpreting mathematical results and making evidence-based judgements. There is guidance on how to embed numeracy across all subjects within the curriculum, how to assess numeracy learning and how to deal with challenges and dilemmas including working with discipline boundaries and developing support resources. Price: AU $49.99 NZ $55.00 ISBN: 9781760297886 Format: Paperback - C format Featuring practical examples and case studies throughout, this book will build pre-service teacher confidence, demystify Dimensions: 234x153mm common misconceptions and grounds theory into practice in this vital area of student competency. Extent: 232 pages Bic1: Numeracy strategies Bic2: Numeracy strategies 'The authors of this text are recognised authorities on numeracy. They have engaged heavily in numeracy research over Illustrations: many years and this text reflects the depth of their understanding and knowledge.' - Geoff Hilton, University of Previous Titles: Queensland Author now living: Mg: Brisbane. GS and CV: Melbo Brisbane, QLD About the Author Merrilyn Goos is Professor of STEM Education, University of Limerick, Ireland and is an internationally recognized mathematics educator. A&U Academic DECEMBER 2018 Fundamentals of Nursing and Midwifery Research Lisa McKenna and Beverley Copnell

An accessible and practical reference for undergraduates in nursing and midwifery explaining the principles and value of health research.

Sales points • This is a core subject in nursing degrees however the competition is pitched at too high level to meet the needs of undergraduates -- this text is accessible and engaging • The approach is based on real-life case studies which will ensure the text is practical and meaningful for students • The lead author is an experienced textbook writer and leading academic holding editorial positions on a number of prominent nursing journals

Description Nurses and midwives have a professional responsibility to keep up-to-date with current research impacting on their clinical practice. They require the skills and knowledge to read and understand research reports, evaluate the quality of the research, synthesise different research studies, apply the most appropriate findings into their clinical practice and be able to evaluate its effectiveness.

This book presents a unique approach to teaching the principles of health research using practical case studies throughout with which students can identify and engage. The book covers core concepts and principles including:

What evidence is and why understanding research is vital; Finding reliable sources of evidence; The nature of the research process; Understanding quantitative and qualitative research; Ethical considerations; and Using research to guide clinical practice. Price: AU $69.99 NZ $79.99 ISBN: 9781760631093 Throughout the book activities, summaries and review questions help ground theory into real life scenarios, highlighting Format: Paperback how evidence-based practice can be applied in every aspect of nursing care. Dimensions: 230x176mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Nursing fundamentals & skills 'The text is highly readable while achieving the aim of familiarising the reader with the language of, and process for doing Bic2: research. It is logically organised and ... guides reader learning using a variety of techniques that reinforce [the] Illustrations: information presented and challenge thinking.' Previous Titles: Author now living: Melbourne Karen Francis, Professor of Nursing and Head of Nursing, University of Tasmania

About the Author Lisa McKenna is Professor and Head of the School of Nursing and Midwifery at La Trobe University. She is currently the A&U Academic DECEMBER 2018 Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere Jeanette Winterson

One hundred years after women were first granted the vote, award-winning author Jeanette Winterson celebrates how far we have come on the road to equality, and calls on women and men alike to continue the fight.

Sales points • A feminist manifesto from one of our most-admired contemporary writers • Jeanette Winterson is a regular visitor to ANZ • Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere is adapted from Jeanette's Dimbleby Lecture • The Dimbleby Lecture has been delivered by an influential and distinguished speaker, almost every year since 1972. She was the sixth woman to deliver the lecture since its inauguration • Will appeal to fans of Women & Power by Mary Beard, We Should All Be Feministsby Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Men Explain Things To Meby Rebecca Solnit

Description One hundred years on from the first women in the UK securing the right to vote, and sixty years after women secured the right to sit as members of the House of Lords, Jeanette Winterson examines the recent campaigns promoting the equality of women and explores what can be learnt from the Suffragette movement a century ago.

About the Author Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit,won the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel. Since then she has published many other novels, including The Passion, Written on the Body and The PowerBook, a collection of short stories, a book of essays, and children's picture books. She has adapted her work for TV, film and stage and was awarded an OBE for services to literature in 2006. Her books are published in 32 countries.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781786896216 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 178x111mm Extent: 80 pages Bic1: Philosophy Bic2: Feminism & feminist theory Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate Trade DECEMBER 2018 Sick Porochista Khakpour

A devastating memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction and the myth of full recovery - already an online phenomenon in the USA in summer 2018.

Sales points • Available October 2018 • Sick, chronicles the author's discovery of late-stage Lyme disease • 'Reads like a mystery and a reckoning with a love song at its core. Humane, searching, and unapologetic, Sick is about the thin lines and vast distances between illness and wellness, healing and suffering, the body and the self. Khakpour takes us all the way in on her struggle toward health with an intelligence and intimacy that moved, informed, and astonished me.' - Cheryl Strayed • 'Thrumming, diaristic, unabashedly wild and homeless-feeling, Sick is something gut-wrenching and new, a globally intimate book.' Eileen Myles, author of Afterglow

Description BuzzFeed's 33 Most Exciting New Books Bustle's 28 Most Anticipated Non-fiction Books of 2018 Nylon's 50 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 Huffington Post's 60 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 Electric Literature's 46 Books to Read By Women of Colour in 2018

For as long as Porochista Khakpour can remember, she has been sick. For most of that time, she didn't know why. A story of survival, pain and transformation, Sick examines the colossal impact of illness on one woman's life. It is a journey that took Porochista Khakpour from Tehran, the town of her birth, through the major cities of America, the country she came to call home, before she eventually found a diagnosis of late-stage Lyme disease.

Sick explores what it means to feel at home in one's body, and also one's country. And what it means not to. Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781786896049 About the Author Format: Paperback - B format Porochista Khakpour is the author of the novels Sons and Other Flammable Objects, which was longlisted for the Dylan Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages Thomas Prize, and The Last Illusion. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Elle, Bic1: Memoirs Slate and Salon, among others. She has been awarded a number of fellowships and is currently a guest member of the Bic2: Biography: science, technology & medicine faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts and a Contributing Editor at the Evergreen Review. Born in Tehran and raised in Illustrations: Los Angeles, she now lives in New York City's Harlem. Her memoir, Sick, chronicles her discovery of late-stage Lyme Previous Titles: Author now living: disease. @PKhakpour | porochistakhakpour.com

Canongate PBS DECEMBER 2018 Beautiful Country Burn Again Ben Fountain

A timely, interrogative, passionate but even-handed exploration of the state of US politics, from the New York Times bestselling author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.

Sales points • Taking in the campaign, the election, the inauguration and the first year of Trump's presidency, Ben Fountain presents a unique and necessary examination of the US as a nation in existential crisis • For readers who loved Failed States by Noam Chomsky, Political Fictions by Joan Didion and Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson • Having covered the 2016 Presidential election in his Guardian columns (some of which appear in the book) and having addressed America's obsession with war and celebrity in Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Ben is perfectly placed to write on the current state of US politics

Description As Ben Fountain sees it, the United States is facing its third existential crisis. The first was the struggle over slavery, culminating in the Civil War. The second was the Great Depression, the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialised world, which brought about the New Deal. The third, is Donald Trump. But how will it end?

Taking in America's love affair with firearms, celebrity culture, Russia, Obamacare, Hillary Clinton and, of course, Trump himself, Beautiful Country Burn Again explores how the United States reached a new crisis point and asks how America really can be great again

About the Author Ben Fountain is the author of the acclaimed short-story collection Brief Encounters with Che Guevara and the novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, which won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and the 2012 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2012 National Book Award. The film adaptation of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk was directed by Ang Lee. In addition, he has received Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction, an O. Henry Award and two Pushcart ISBN: 9781786892003 Prizes. He was also shortlisted for the International Author of the Year Award in 2012. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 448 pages His writing has been published in Harper's, The Paris Review, Zoetrope: All-Story and Stories from the South: The Year's Bic1: Prose: non-fiction Best, The New York Times and the Guardian among other publications. He lives in Dallas, Texas. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate PBS DECEMBER 2018 The Snooty Bookshop Tom Gauld

A hilarious collection of fifty postcards celebrating multi-award-winning cartoonist Tom Gauld's iconic Guardian comics - the perfect gift for book lovers everywhere.

Sales points • This postcard set celebrates more than a decade of Gauld's contributions to the Guardian, with fifty of his most beloved strips, on everything from Samuel Beckett's sitcom pitches (such as Waiting for Kramer, a show where two men await the arrival of a man named Kramer who never comes), 'Procrastination for Creative Writers, a 10-Week Course' and 'Poetry Anthologies for People Who Don't Like Poems' • Witty and beautifully drawn, The Snooty Bookshop will make you laugh at least fifty times, guaranteed

Description Tom Gauld has created countless iconic strips for the Guardian over the course of his illustrious career. A master of condensing grand, highbrow themes into panel comics, his weekly strips embody his trademark sense of humour while simultaneously opening comics to an audience unfamiliar with the artistry that cartooning has to offer. Funny but serious, these comics allow Gauld to put his impressive knowledge of history, literature and pop culture on full display - his impeccable timing and distinctive visual style setting him apart from the rest.

This postcard set celebrates more than a decade of Gauld's contributions to the Guardian, with fifty of his most beloved strips, on everything from Samuel Beckett's sitcom pitches (such as Waiting for Kramer, a show where two men await the arrival of a man named Kramer who never comes), 'Procrastination for Creative Writers, a 10-Week Course' and 'Poetry Anthologies for People Who Don't Like Poems'. Witty and beautifully drawn, The Snooty Bookshop will make you laugh at least fifty times, guaranteed.

About the Author Tom Gauld was born in 1976 and grew up in Aberdeenshire. He is a cartoonist and illustrator with weekly comic strips in the Guardian and New Scientist and his comics have been published in the New York Times. He is the author of the Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 comic books Goliath, You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, Mooncop (a New York Times bestseller) and Baking with ISBN: 9781786891525 Kafka. He has also designed a number of book covers. Gauld lives and works in London. Format: Dimensions: 156x209mm Extent: 50 pages @tomgauld | tomgauld.com Bic1: Humour collections & anthologies Bic2: Cartoons & comic strips Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate Trade DECEMBER 2018 Baking with Kafka Tom Gauld

The new collection from multi-award-winning cartoonist Tom Gauld - the perfect gift for book lovers everywhere.

Sales points • Reissued alongside The Snooty Bookshop • A quirky gift for the literary lover • 'Tom Gauld might just be the Edward Gorey of our time, channelling his wry humour and macabre aesthetic through exquisite black-and-white illustrations.' - Maria Popova • 'Each single-page piece is a clever, funny, slightly bonkers riff on a literary theme ... Sublime.' - The Times • 'One of the best cartoonists around!' - BoingBoing

Description In Baking with Kafka, Tom Gauld asks the questions no one else dares ask about civilisation as we know it. - How do you get published during a skeleton apocalypse? - What was the secret of Kafka's lemon drizzle cake? - And what plot possibilities does the exploding e-cigarette offer modern mystery writers?

A riotous collection of laugh-out-loud cartoons in his signature style, Baking with Kafka reaffirms Gauld's position as a first-rate cartoonist, creating work infused with a deep understanding of both literary and cartoon history.

About the Author Tom Gauld was born in 1976 and grew up in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He is a cartoonist and illustrator and his work is regularly published in the The Guardian, The New York Times and New Scientist. He has created a number of comic books. He lives in London with his family.

Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9781786891501 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 156x209mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate Trade DECEMBER 2018 Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar Virginia Vallejo, translated by Megan McDowell

The shocking, sensational memoir of Virginia Vallejo, Pablo Escobar's famous lover. Soon to be the major film Loving Pablo starring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, released worldwide early 2018.

Sales points • How was Virginia Vallejo seduced by Pablo Escobar, and how did he seduce the world? • The real-life account of Escobar's crime empire and the inside story of Virginia Vallejo's seductive love affair with Pablo Escobar • Tracks the birth and boom of the cocaine industry and follows Escobar's evolution from billionaire benefactor to ruthless terrorist • For fans of Narcos and Killing Pablo

Description VIRGINIA VALLEJO: Top Colombian television journalist, cover model and socialite PABLO ESCOBAR: Head of the Medellin cartel, the founder of the global cocaine industry and one of the most ambitious - and brutal - criminals in history

Over the course of their tempestuous love affair, Vallejo witnessed first-hand the bloodshed, fear and corruption that accompanied the rise of Escobar's crime empire. In this explosive tale of drugs, sex, wealth and violence, Vallejo describes the man she knew and loved. But by the end of their dramatic five-year romance, increasingly plagued by threats of kidnap and death for her knowledge on Escobar's ties to the political establishment, Vallejo would fear for her life - forced to give up her career as a TV anchorwoman and cover model and flee Colombia for the United States. Her testimony would reopen one of the most important criminal cases in Colombian history.

Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar tracks the birth and boom of the cocaine industry and follows Escobar's evolution from Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 billionaire benefactor to ruthless terrorist, responsible for the historic tragedies that forever altered the course of the ISBN: 9781786891051 Colombia conflict and its relationship with the world. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 480 pages Bic1: True crime Bic2: Memoirs About the Author Illustrations: Virginia Vallejo-Garcia is a Colombian author, journalist and media personality, and a political asylee in the United States Previous Titles: Author now living: of America since 2010. From 1972 to 1994, she was one of the leading television and radio hosts in her native country. In 2006, with her life at risk, the United States took her out of Colombia to testify in high profile criminal cases.

Her memoir became the #1 bestselling book in Spanish in the United States, and her story has inspired a string of Canongate Trade DECEMBER 2018 Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat Samin Nosrat, illustrated by Wendy MacNaughton and introduction by Michael Pollan

A beautifully illustrated and visionary new masterclass in cooking that distils decades of professional experience into just four simple elements - and will set you free from recipes forever

Sales points • Samin's Netflix series will be launched in the US in October • Destined to be a classic, this might just be the last cookbook you'll ever need • Samin shares her canon of 100 essential recipes • 'This beautiful, approachable book captures how it should feel to cook: full of exploration, spontaneity and joy.' - Alice Waters, Chez Panisse • Beautiful full-colour illustrations throughout • With a foreword by Michael Pollan • 'This beautiful, approachable book not only teaches you how to cook, but captures how it should feel to cook: full of exploration, spontaneity and joy. Samin is one of the great teachers I know, and wins people over to cooking with real food - organic, seasonal, and alive - with her irrepressible enthusiasm and curiosity.' - Alice Waters, Chez Panisse • 'Everyone was impressed when Michael Pollan managed to summarize the huge and complex subject of what we should be eating in just seven words: 'Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.' Samin Nosrat has managed to summarize the huge and complex subject of how we should be cooking in just four words: 'Salt, fat, acid, heat.' Everyone will be hugely impressed.' - Yotam Ottolenghi

Description In the tradition of The Joy of Cooking comes Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, an ambitious new approach to cooking by a major new culinary voice. Chef and writer Samin Nosrat has taught everyone from professional chefs to middle school kids to author Michael Pollan to cook using her revolutionary, yet simple, philosophy. While cooking at Chez Panisse at the start of her career, Samin Nosrat had noticed that amid the chaos of the kitchen there were four key principles that her fellow chefs would always fall back on to make their food better: Salt, Fat, Acid and Heat. Price: AU $49.99 NZ $55.00 ISBN: 9781782112303 Format: Hard Cover Master the use of these four elements-Salt, which enhances flavour; Fat, which delivers flavour and generates texture; Dimensions: 232x187mm Acid, which balances flavour; and Heat, which ultimately determines the texture of food-and anything you cook will be Extent: 480 pages delicious. By explaining the hows and whys of good cooking, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat will teach and inspire a new generation Bic1: Cookery / food & drink etc Bic2: Cookery / food & drink etc of cooks how to confidently make better decisions in the kitchen and cook delicious meals with any ingredients, Illustrations: anywhere, at any time. Previous Titles: Author now living: Echoing Samin's own journey from culinary novice to award-winning chef, Salt, Fat Acid, Heat immediately bridges the gap between home and professional kitchens. With charming narrative, illustrated walkthroughs, and a lighthearted approach to kitchen science, Samin demystifies the four elements of good cooking for everyone. Refer to the canon of 100 essential recipes - and dozens of variations - to put the lessons into practice and make bright, balanced vinaigrettes, Canongate Trade DECEMBER 2018 How Music Works David Byrne

New edition of David Byrne's bestselling magnum opus, with new preface and updated with a discography.

Sales points • Reissued to coincide with David Byrne's ANZ tour in November 2018 • A brainy, irresistible adventure, How Music Works is an impassioned argument about music's liberating, life-affirming power • Over 11,000 sold in ANZ including 5000 of this edition alone and it just keeps on steaming along • Talking Heads remain one of the most important and influential bands of the 1970s and 1980s • Will appeal to fans of music books as diverse as Alex Ross's The Rest is Noise (37,000 copies sold) and Listen to This and Brian Eno's A Year with Swollen Appendices

Description How Music Works is David Byrne's buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about.

Equal parts historian and anthropologist, raconteur and social scientist, Byrne draws on his own work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and his myriad collaborators - along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses, African villages, and anywhere music exists - to show that music-making is not just the act of a solitary composer in a studio, but rather a logical, populist, and beautiful result of cultural circumstance.

A brainy, irresistible adventure, How Music Works is an impassioned argument about music's liberating, life-affirming power.

About the Author David Byrne is a Scottish-born Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and cofounder of Talking Heads. He has been the recipient of many awards, including an Oscar and a Golden Globe. The author of Bicycle Diaries and The New Sins, Byrne lives in New York City.

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $36.99 ISBN: 9780857862525 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 215x167mm Extent: 376 pages Bic1: Music Bic2: Music Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate PBS DECEMBER 2018 Bicycle Diaries David Byrne

The unique, enchanting travelogue from a cult figure in contemporary music - Talking Heads frontman David Byrne.

Sales points • Reissued to coincide with David Byrne's ANZ tour in November 2018 • Takes the reader on a journey through some of the best (and worst!) cycling cities, including Paris, London and Sydney • Filled with personal anecdotes and David's own photographs • Cycling is more popular than ever • A renowned musician and visual artist presents an idiosyncratic behind-the-handlebars view of the world's cities • 'Candid and self-deprecating, Byrne offers a work that is as engaging as it is cerebral and informative.' - Publishers Weekly

Description Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bicycle as his principal means of transportation in New York City. A few years later he discovered folding bikes, and starting taking them with him on music tour overseas, and experienced a sense of liberation as he pedalled around many of the world's principal cities. The point of view from his bike seat has given Byrne a panoramic window on urban life over the last thirty years as he has cycled round cities such as London, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, Manila, New York, and San Francisco. From music and the visual arts, to globalisation, politics, the nature of creative work, fashion and art, this book gives the reader an incredible insight into what Byrne is seeing and thinking as he pedals around these cities.

Filled with intimate photographs, incredible musical stories and a powerful ecological message, this is a enchanting celebration of bike riding - of the rewards of seeing the world at bike level.

About the Author Price: AU $24.99 NZ $29.99 David Byrne was born in Dumbarton, Scotland, in 1952, and attended Rhode Island School of Design and Maryland ISBN: 9780571241033 Institute College of Art. He is primarily known as the musician who cofounded the group Talking Heads (1976-88), and Format: Paperback - B format has also been involved in an array of music, theatre, art and film projects, including work with Brian Eno, Thwyla Tharp, Dimensions: 197x126mm Extent: 320 pages Robert Wilson, Jonathan Demme and Bernardo Bertolucci. He currently lives in New York. Bic1: Travel writing Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback DECEMBER 2018 Insane Mode Hamish McKenzie

A former Tesla insider tells the astounding story of the most revolutionary car company since Ford and shows how it is bringing an end to the era of petrol-powered transportation.

Sales points • A fascinating exploration of how rapidly the world is now moving away from gas-guzzling vehicles to the electric car - everywhere but particularly in China and the US • Covers the global developments in technology, including electric cars and solar power storage that will transform the way we live • The insider's account of what it's really like to work at Tesla with Elon Musk • Huge worldwide publication for car, business and science readership • Major press and radio interest in the story, with interviews and features on publication • Elon Musk is increasingly in the news, and we'll be promoting the book around topical stories as they happen • Originally from Alexandra, New Zealand, Hamish McKenzie now lives in San Francisco

Description Hamish McKenzie, with the unique perspective of someone who worked for Tesla and is now an independent journalist, tells how a West Coast start-up's audacious dream came true. Elon Musk created a car company that would go up against not only the might of the government-backed Detroit car manufacturers, but also the massive power of Big Oil and its benefactors, the infamous Koch brothers.

The new Tesla Model 3, scheduled to go on sale in fall 2017 with a price tag of $35,000, is set to transform the public perception of Tesla. Around 400,000 people have put down $1,000 to preorder the car; meanwhile Tesla's debt is teetering on ""junk bond"" status and some on Wall Street are betting the company will fail under the pressure to deliver...

As McKenzie shows, Tesla has triggered frenzied competition, but it remains ahead of the pack because it is building the highest-quality cars and infrastructure that a new era of transportation will require. The popularity of electric cars is Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 growing around the world, especially in China, and McKenzie interviews little-known titans who have the money and the ISBN: 9780571327669 market access to power a global electric car revolution quickly and decisively. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages About the Author Bic1: Popular science Hamish McKenzie, former writer for Tesla Motors, has been an editorial advisor to Kik, a reporter for the tech blog Bic2: PandoDaily, and a freelance journalist covering digital technology and start-ups. His work has appeared in a range of Illustrations: international publications, including Reuters, The Guardian, the South China Morning Post, The Globe and Mail, The Star Previous Titles: Author now living: (Toronto), CNN.com, TechCrunch, and the New Zealand Listener. Originally from Alexandra, New Zealand, he now lives in San Francisco.

Faber Non Fiction DECEMBER 2018 Let's Go (So We Can Get Back) Jeff Tweedy

The story, in his own words, of one of the century's most feted singer-songwriters: Jeff Tweedy, the man behind music by Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, and Tweedy.

Sales points • Wilco are one of the most popular alt/post-rock bands on the planet with a hugely dedicated audience • Rolling Stone described them as 'America's foremost rock impressionists' • Tweedy's story will be of interest to fans of Willy Vlautin (on whom he was a huge influence) and Billy Bragg (with whom he collaborated) • The memoir will cover his infamous split with Jay Farrar in Uncle Tupelo, which has been described as the fracture between Morrissey and Johnny Marr for the American alt country world

Description Through his pioneering work in the legendary country-punk band, Uncle Tupelo, to his enduring legacy as the creative force behind the unclassifiable sound of Wilco, Jeff Tweedy has weaved his way between the underground and the mainstream - and back again.

Funny, disarming, and deeply honest, his memoir casts light on his unique creative process and the stories that shaped his life and career, from a childhood spent in Illinois to the release of No Depression in the early 90s - which set the blueprint for alt-country - and later working with Mavis Staples and, posthumously, Woody Guthrie.

About the Author Jeff Tweedy was born in Belleville, Illinois, in 1967. He has been releasing music as Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, and Tweedy since 1967.

Price: AU $35.00 NZ $39.99 ISBN: 9780571330492 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Rock & Pop music Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Social DECEMBER 2018 Schumann Judith Chernaik

A groundbreaking account of Schumann, a major composer whose music is becoming increasingly popular over the years.

Sales points • A major new biography: a groundbreaking account of a major composer whose life and works have been the subject of intense controversy ever since his attempted suicide and early death in an insane asylum • Schumann's music is becoming increasingly popular, championed by many major artists including the cellist, Steven Isserlis • The biography contains hitherto unpublished material

Description Schumann: The Faces and the Masks is a groundbreaking account of a major composer whose life and works have been the subject of intense controversy ever since his attempted suicide and early death in an insane asylum. Schumann was a key figure in the Romanticism which swept Europe and America in the 19th century, inspiring writers, musicians and painters, delighting their enthralled audiences, and reaching to the furthest corners of the world. All the contradictions of his age enter Schumann's works, from the fantastic disguises of his carnival masquerades and his passionate love songs to his great 'Spring' and 'Rhenish' Symphonies. He was intensely original and imaginative, but he also worshipped the past-especially Shakespeare and Byron, Raphael and Michelangelo, Beethoven and Bach. He believed in political, personal and artistic freedom but struggled with the constraints of artistic form. He turned his tumultuous life into music that speaks directly to the heart, losing none of its power with the passage of time.

Drawing on hitherto unpublished archive material, Chernaik sheds new light on Schumann's life and music, his sexual escapades, his fathering of an illegitimate child, the true facts behind his courtship of his wife Clara and the opposition of her monstrous father, and the ways in which the crises of his life, his dreams and fantasies, entered his music. Schumann's troubled relations with his fellow-Romantic composers Mendelssohn and Chopin are freshly explored, and the full medical diary kept at Endenich Asylum, long withheld, enables Chernaik to look again at the mystery of Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 Schumann's final illness. Using her wide experience as a scholar of Romanticism and a novelist, Chernaik vividly brings ISBN: 9780571331260 Schumann's world and his extraordinary artistic achievement to life in all its rich complexity. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 368 pages About the Author Bic1: Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830) Born in New York, Judith Chernaik now lives in London. She is best known for founding London's popular Poems on the Bic2: Individual composers & musicians, specific bands Underground, which offers poetry of all times and places to a mass audience, a programme which has taken off in cities & groups worldwide. Illustrations: Previous Titles: She is the co-editor of anthologies of Poems on the Underground and her other publications include The Lyrics of Author now living: Shelley, four novels and many essays, reviews and short stories in the TLS, Guardian, Times, New York Times,Yale Review, most recently essays on Schumann, Mendelssohn, and Chopin in The Musical Times.

Faber Music DECEMBER 2018 Keats Andrew Motion

Newly jacketed reissue of Andrew Motion's celebrated biography of one of England's best-loved poets, John Keats.

Sales points • Part of 2018's fresh republishing of Motion's biographies: including Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life and The Lamberts (see indent list) • Andrew's new book Essex Clay, a biographical sequel in verse to In the Blood, was published in July 2018

Description First published in 1997, Keats was the first major biography of this tragic hero of Romanticism for some thirty years, and it differs from its predecessors in important respects. The outline of the story is well known - has become, in fact, the stuff of legend: the archetypal life of the tortured genius, critically spurned and dying young. What Andrew Motion brings to bear on the subject is a deep understanding of how Keats fitted into the intellectual and political life of his time. Important friendships with such anti-establishment figures as William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt are given their full due, and the closeness of his own spirit, as expressed in his poems, to the ferment all around is made clear. Many significant facts about Keats's schooldays and medical training, in particular, enrich the picture.

Keats emerges as a more political figure than he is usually portrayed, but his personal sufferings, too, come into closer focus. Most importantly, Andrew Motion - himself a distinguished poet and former poet laureate - demonstrates how the poems continue to exert their power.

'A definitive life of a great poet, and one of the finest biographies of the decade.' New Statesman

About the Author Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009; he is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and co-founder of the online Poetry Archive. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, and Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 has published four celebrated biographies. His group study The Lamberts won the Somerset Maugham Award and Philip ISBN: 9780571346660 Larkin: A Writer's Life - his authorised life of Philip Larkin - won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. His memoir, In the Format: Paperback - Demy format Blood (2006), was described as 'the most moving and exquisitely written account of childhood loss I have ever read' in the Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 704 pages Independent on Sunday. Andrew Motion was knighted for his services to poetry in 2009. Bic1: Biography: general Bic2: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Non Fiction DECEMBER 2018 The Secret Life of Cows Rosamund Young

Charming, wise and illustrated with beautiful line drawings, this farmer's observations of her herd is a rediscovered gem. 'Delightful ... it alters the way one looks at the world.' - Alan Bennett

Sales points • Reissued for Christmas 2018, Faber's charming little bestseller (8000 sold in ANZ) • 'A lovely, thoughtful little book about the intelligence of cows.' James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd's Life • Cows are as varied as people - they can be highly intelligent or slow to understand; vain, considerate, proud, shy, or inventive • An affectionate record of a hitherto secret world • Point of sale: bookmarks, posters and window decal (see 10 copy pack) • A rights sensation at London Book Fair 2017 - with sales of over 200,000 pounds • Introduction by Alan Bennett • •

Description At Kite's Nest Farm the cows (as well as the sheep, hens, and pigs) all roam free. They make their own choices about rearing, grazing and housing. Left to be themselves the cows exhibit personalities as diverse as our own.

Fat Hat prefers men to women. Chippy Minton refuses to sleep with muddy legs and always reports to the barn for grooming before bed. Jake's vice is sniffing the carbon monoxide fumes from the Land Rover exhaust pipe. Gemima greets all humans with an angry shake of the head and is fiercely independent.

In this affectionate, heart-warming chronicle, Rosamund Young shows that cows love, play games, bond and form life- long friendships.They'll seek out willow when they are injured and stinging nettles when pregnant. They babysit for one another; invent games; take umbrage' and grieve. Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9780571336777 The reason most of us don't know about this is because modern farming leaves no room for the natural behaviour Format: Hard Cover celebrated here. This charming, gorgeously illustrated book shows the domestic cow in a entirely different light. Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Miscellaneous items About the Author Bic2: Rosamund Young and her brother Richard run Kite's Nest Farm in the Cotswolds. They are widely acknowledged as the Illustrations: nation's first organic farmers: 'every farm should be like this. The animals have space and liberty' (The Observer). They Previous Titles: Author now living: produce beef and lamb from 100% grass-fed animals which are butchered and sold in the farm shop.

When The Secret Life of Cows was first published by a small farming press in 2003, it received ecstatic reviews.

Faber Non Fiction DECEMBER 2018 I'll Be Gone in the Dark Michelle McNamara, introduction by Gillian Flynn

With introduction by Gillian Flynn, a compelling true crime account of the Golden State Killer - the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorised California for over a decade - from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case.

Sales points • Bestselling true crime, reissued for Christmas 2018 (11,000 sold in ANZ) • Utterly original and compelling • A chilling account of a criminal mastermind and the wreckage he left behind • Destined to become a true crime classic - and may at last unmask the Golden State Killer (soon after publication a former police man Joseph DeAngelo was arrested and charged) • 'This is a one sit-down read. That's how riveting it is. I'll Be Gone in the Dark is the chilling account of an obsessive search for a monster and along the way we are as equally transfixed by the searcher as we are the monster. • Very few writers have the skill to bring a decades-old cold case to life; in these pages, Michelle McNamara has not only successfully resuscitated the fascinating case of the Golden State Killer, but done so with humanity, insight, and grace. This is true crime reporting at its best.' - Michael Connelly • • 'I tore through I'll Be Gone in the Dark in two days. It was so deeply rewarding beyond any 'solution' because it's ultimately not just about the Golden State Killer case - it's a portrait of a woman's rich and complicated mind and her immense heart. And it goes a long way to exploring what's too often underexplored: the real connection so many of us - especially women - have with these crimes. This book just knocked me over.' - Megan Abbott • 'I'll Be Gone in the Dark will undoubtedly be stocked in the True Crime section, which is fine, but in so many ways it's a brilliant genre-buster. It's propulsive, can't-stop-now reading, which makes it all too easy to ignore the clean and focused writing. • • What readers need to know - what makes this book so special - is that it deals with two obsessions, one light and one dark. The Golden State Killer is the dark half; Michelle McNamara's is the light half. It's a journey into two minds, one Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 sick and disordered, the other intelligent and determined. I loved this book.' - Stephen King ISBN: 9780571345144 Format: Paperback - C format Description Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 336 pages ""You'll be silent forever, and I'll be gone in the dark."" Bic1: True crime For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before Bic2: moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces Illustrations: Previous Titles: and some of the best detectives in the area. Author now living: Three decades later, Michelle McNamara, a true crime journalist who created the popular website TrueCrimeDiary.com, was determined to find the violent psychopath she called ""the Golden State Killer."" Michelle pored over police reports, interviewed victims, and embedded herself in the online communities that were as obsessed with the case as she was. Faber Non Fiction DECEMBER 2018 RAW Lamont U-God Hawkins

The explosive, never-before-told story behind the historic rise of the Wu-Tang Clan, as told by one of its founding members, Lamont 'U-God' Hawkins.

Sales points • The Wu Tang Clan are performing in four 25th Anniversary Shows at the Sydney Opera House in December 2018 • An unforgettable first-person account of U-God's journey - from the streets of Brooklyn to some of the biggest stages around the world • Affecting, unfiltered, and explosive, it paints, in vivid detail, the making of one of the greatest acts in American music history • The Wu Tang Clan have toured regularly to Australia and NZ over the years • To quote Lee Brackstone, Faber Social publisher: 'This is the best gangster rap memoir you'll ever read!'

Description 'It's time to write down not only my legacy but also the story of nine dirt-bomb street thugs who took our everyday life- scrappin' and hustlin' and tryin' to survive in the urban jungle of New York City - and turned that into something bigger than what we could possibly imagine, something that took us out of the projects for good, which was the only thing we all wanted in the first place.' - from RAW

The Wu-Tang Clan are considered hip-hop royalty. Remarkably, none of the founding members have told their story - until now. Lamont 'U-God' Hawkins was born in Brownsville, New York, in 1970. Raised by a single mother and forced to reckon with the hostile conditions of project life, Lamont learned from an early age how to survive. And surviving in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s was no easy task - especially as a young black boy living in some of the city's most ignored and destitute districts. But, along the way, he met and befriended what would eventually form the Clan's core: RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Inspectah Deck, Ghostface Killah, and Masta Killa. Raised by the streets, and while bonding over their love of hip-hop, they sought to pursue the impossible: music as their ticket out of the ghetto. Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9780571342419 U-God's unforgettable first-person account of his journey - from the streets of Brooklyn to some of the biggest stages Format: Paperback - C format around the world - is not only thoroughly affecting, unfiltered, and explosive, but paints, in vivid detail, the making of one Dimensions: 254x153mm Extent: 320 pages of the greatest acts in American music history. Bic1: Music Bic2: About the Author Illustrations: Born Lamont Jody Hawkins, U-God is an American rapper and hip-hop artist and one of the founding members of the Previous Titles: Author now living: legendary Wu-Tang Clan. A native New Yorker, Raw is his first book.

Faber Social DECEMBER 2018 101 Things To Help You Sleep Dusty Sandman

The new title in the hugely successful '101 Things' series.

Sales points • Praise for 101 Things to do Instead of Playing on Your Phone: • 'Definitely recommended... This book is remarkably well thought out and diverse. We have maths. We have language. We have reflection and meditation. We have imagination... And even the act of flicking through and reading all the options was an activity in itself.' - Bookbag

Description Late nights and alarm clocks... Bags under your eyes and a groggy head... It's an all too familiar story.

That is, until now! Curl up with this delightful little book, the latest in the bestselling 101 Things series, and let it gently guide you towards the best night's sleep you've ever had.

From tips for ideal sleeping conditions and advice for helping you clear your head, to fun activities to take your mind off the battle with the bedsheets - this is the ultimate book to fall asleep to!

About the Author Dusty Sandman after much research has discovered the secrets to a sound sleep.

Price: AU $12.99 NZ $14.99 ISBN: 9781780723570 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 145x110mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Gift books Bic2: Humour Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Short Books DECEMBER 2018 Two Weeks in November Douglas Rogers

Combining close political analysis and personal anecdotes, this book tells the incredible story of the three weeks in November 2017 when Mugabe fell from power.

Sales points • Douglas Rogers is an award-winning journalist and travel writer and is the author of The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe • Surreal, strange, sinister but often very funny, The Fall of Mugabe is above all a testament to Douglas Roger's love and loyalty to the people of Zimbabwe

Description Douglas Rogers spent his youth and early adult life watching his parents struggle to make ends meet under the vicious dictator, Sir Robert Mugabe. He thought he would never see the day when his iron grip on the country would come unstuck.

Combining close political analysis and personal anecdotes, this book tells the incredible story of the two weeks in November 2017 when Mugabe fell from power.

Written in the style of a contemporary political thriller, Two Weeks in November is a ripping historical account of Zimbabwe's chequered and difficult past and a moving memoir of a journalist's life-long relationship with the country he was born in.

Surreal, strange, sinister but often very funny, Two Weeks in November is above all a testament to Douglas Roger's love and loyalty to the people of Zimbabwe.

About the Author Douglas Rogers is an award-winning journalist and travel writer. He was born and raised in Zimbabwe and now lives in Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Brooklyn, New York. ISBN: 9781780723686 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Biography: general Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Short Books DECEMBER 2018 Collusion Luke Harding

A #1 New York Times Bestseller, Collusion is a gripping expose about the biggest political scandal of the modern era, with new chapters to bring the book up to date.

Sales points • Luke Harding featured on ABC TV Four Corners in the powerful 3-part series on Trump and Russian interference in the US which screened June 2018 • NEWSWORTHY: this updated paperback edition includes revelations and photographs that will ensure major news coverage • FIRST-CLASS INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM: Based on a wide range of sources in the US and UK, some of them from the world of intelligence • AUTHORITY: Written by award-winning journalist, Harding was the Guardian's Moscow bureau chief and is an authority on Russian espionage. He has interviewed two of the leading Russian and American personalities in this murky story; Aragalov and Manafort • POLITICAL THRILLER: Two of the author's previous non-fiction books The Snowden Files and Wikileaks have been adapted for cinema, this is similarly pacy and gripping

Description #1 New York Times Bestseller

'It's a superb piece of work, wonderfully done and essential reading for anyone who cares for his country. Amazing research and brilliantly collated.' - John Le Carre

'Collusion is so essential and ... I wish everyone who is skeptical that Russia has leverage over Trump would read it ... Invaluable.' The New York Times

MOSCOW, July 1987. Real-estate tycoon Donald Trump visits Soviet Russia for the first time at the invitation of the Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 government. ISBN: 9781783351503 Format: Paperback - B format LONDON, December 2016. Luke Harding meets former MI6 officer Christopher Steele to discuss the president-elect's Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages connections with Russia. Harding follows two leads; money and sex. Bic1: Politics & government Bic2: Press & journalism WASHINGTON, January 2017. Steele's explosive dossier alleges that the Kremlin has been 'cultivating, supporting, and Illustrations: assisting' Trump for years and that they have compromising information about him. Trump responds on twitter, 'FAKE Previous Titles: Author now living: NEWS.'

In Collusion, award-winning journalist Luke Harding reveals the true nature of Trump's decades-long relationship with Russia and presents the gripping inside story of the dossier. It features exclusive new material and draws on sources Guardian Books DECEMBER 2018 Goalless Draws David Squires

An uproarious collection of over 180 of David Squires's funniest football cartoons for the Guardian.

Sales points • David Squires is a Sydney-based artist and illustrator • David's cartoons receive over 6.5 million views annually, with each image averaging around 150,000 hits • This collection groups over 180 of David's funniest cartoons into 16 thematic chapters • It features a new introduction from David giving a behind-the-scenes insight into his art, as well as new intros to each chapter • The perfect gift for football fans, as well as readers of The Illustrated History of Football and The Illustrated Football Hall of Fame

Description Modern football can be baffling. What with half-and-half scarves, VARs and player signings announced via online piano recitals, you could be forgiven for wanting to throw it all in for the simpler pleasures of quantum mechanics, or cricket. But don't despair just yet: help is at hand.

In Goalless Draws, David Squires introduces an unmissable highlights reel of his finest Guardian football cartoons from 2014 to the 2018 Russia World Cup. From the ever-dizzying managerial roundabout to the absurd world of the transfer window, and from the true meaning of 'football heritage' to the annual tradition of poppygate, the result is a riotous reminder both of everything that's wrong with the modern game, and everything that keeps us coming back for more.

About the Author David Squires is a Sydney-based artist and illustrator. His work has featured prominently in a wide range of publications, from the Guardian to Pickles magazine. His work focuses on football and his hilarious comics and detailed illustrations cast a critical eye on the beautiful game. He is the author of The Illustrated History of Football and The Illustrated Football Hall of Fame.

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781783351626 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Cartoons & comic strips Bic2: Football (Soccer, Association football) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Guardian Books DECEMBER 2018 Corbyn Steve Bell

An uproariously entertaining collection of Steve Bell's political cartoons, charting the rise and rise of Jeremy Corbyn.

Sales points • Steve Bell is one of Britain's best-loved political cartoonists • His work has won just about every award going, including Political Cartoon Society Cartoon of the Year and Cartoonist of the Year (twice each), the Cartoon Arts Trust Award (eight times), the British Press Awards Cartoonist of the Year and the Channel 4 Political Humour Award

Description The must-have gift for all the Corbynistas in your life.

Since the 2015 Labour leadership election, Jeremy Corbyn has been on a seemingly unstoppable upward trajectory, from 'the unelectable' to 'the prime minister-in-waiting'. And Britain's best-loved political cartoonist, Steve Bell, has been with him every step of the way.

In Corbyn: The Resurrection, Steve has curated an unmissable selection of his most caustically witty cartoons charting the rise and rise of Corbyn. From his long-running Star Wars pastiche depicting Jez-Bi-Wan Conorbyn's leadership saga, to last year's shock snap election result and beyond, the result is an endlessly entertaining account of Corbyn's ascent, and one of the most turbulent periods in the history of UK politics.

About the Author Steve Bell is a multi-award-winning political cartoonist. Born in Walthamstow in 1951, he began to work for the Guardian in 1981 and his cartoons have appeared in the paper ever since. He is a trustee of the Cartoon Museum in Bloomsbury, and is married with four grown-up children. He lives in Brighton.

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Guardian Books DECEMBER 2018 Wasted Calories and Ruined Nights Jay Rayner

A wickedly entertaining collection of 20 of Jay Rayner's most unfortunately memorable dining experiences from recent years, including Le Cinq, Beast and Farm Girl Cafe.

Sales points • This selection includes Jay's infamous hatchet job of Le Cinq in Paris, which with over 2.2 million views and 114k shares is his most-read review in 20 years as the Observer's restaurant critic • Jay's previous collection, My Dining Hell, sold 5.6k copies in the UK and a total of 20k including non-trade and export • Publication will be supported with an extensive print and digital ad campaign in the Guardian and Observer, tagging in Jay's reviews and comment pieces around publication, and author events around the country • Faber will also be aiming to serialise the introduction in the Guardian

Description Featuring a new introduction by the author.

Jay Rayner isn't just a trifle irritated. He is eye-gougingly, bone-crunchingly, teeth-grindingly angry. And admit it - that's the only reason you're here, isn't it?

Because you don't really want to hear his eulogies about the finest dining experiences known to man, do you? You want him to suffer abysmal meals - preferably at eye-watering prices - so that you can gorge on the details and luxuriate in vicarious displeasure.

Well, feast your eyes. Revel in Jay's misfortune as he is subjected to 'gummy condiments full of machismo and casual violence' and 'gravy like an episode of Downton Abbey'. He hopes you enjoy reading his accounts of these twenty miserable meals a damn sight more than he didn't enjoy experiencing them.

About the Author Price: AU $12.99 NZ $14.99 Jay Rayner is an award-winning writer, journalist and broadcaster with a fine collection of shirts. He has written on ISBN: 9781783351763 everything from crime and politics, through cinema and theatre to the visual arts, but is best known as the restaurant critic Format: Paperback for the Observer. For a while he was a sex columnist for Cosmopolitan; he also once got himself completely waxed in the Dimensions: 178x111mm Extent: 112 pages name of journalism. He only mentions this because it hurt. Jay is a former Young Journalist of the Year, Critic of the Year Bic1: Humour and Restaurant Critic of the Year, though not all in the same year. In 2018 he was named Restaurant Writer of The Year Bic2: Restaurant, cafe & pub guides in the Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Awards. Somehow, he has also found time to write four novels and five works Illustrations: of non-fiction. He performs live all over the country, both with his one man shows and as a pianist with his jazz ensemble, Previous Titles: Author now living: The Jay Rayner Quartet. He is a regular on British television, where he is familiar as a judge on MasterChef and, since 2012 has been the chair of BBC Radio 4's food panel show The Kitchen Cabinet. He likes pig.

Guardian Books DECEMBER 2018 Nine Pints Rose George

From a prize-winning writer, a fascinating exploration of blood: the stuff of life, the stuff of nightmares, and one of the most expensive liquids on the planet.

Sales points • Reveals the richness and wonder of the potent red fluid that courses around our bodies, unseen but miraculous • Will appeal to fans of Gawande's Being Mortal and Giulia Enders' global bestseller Gut • 'Plenty of books promise to reveal the secrets of little-known worlds but few actually deliver. This is one that does.' - Sunday Telegraph on Deep Sea and Foreign Going

Description Most humans contain between nine and twelve pints of blood. Here Rose George, who probably contains nine pints, tells nine different stories about the liquid that sustains us, discovering what it reveals about who we are. In Nepal, she meets girls challenging the taboos surrounding menstruation; in the Canadian prairies, she visits a controversial plasma clinic; in Wales she gets a tour of the UK's only leech farm to learn about the ancient art of blood-letting and its modern revival in microsurgery; and in a London hospital she accompanies a medical team revolutionising the way we treat trauma.

Nine Pints reveals the richness and wonder of the potent red fluid that courses around our bodies, unseen but miraculous.

About the Author Rose George is the author of A Life Removed: Hunting for Refuge in the Modern World, and (for Portobello) The Big Necessity: Adventures in the World of Human Waste, which was judged one of the best books of 2008 by the Economist, and one of the top ten science books of the same year by the American Library Association, and Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that brings you Ninety Percent of Everything, which was a Radio 4 Book of the Week, and won the Mountbatten Literature Award by the British Maritime Foundation. Rose writes frequently for the Guardian, New Statesman, Scientific American, and many others, and her two TED talks, on sanitation and seafaring, have had nearly 3 million views. Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 http://rosegeorge.com/site/ ISBN: 9781846276125 Format: Paperback Dimensions: mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Popular science Bic2: Popular medicine & health Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Portobello Trade DECEMBER 2018 Dramatic Exchanges edited by Daniel Rosenthal, National Theatre Letters and foreword by Helen Mirren

A unique collection of correspondence between the most celebrated actors, directors and playwrights of the past 50 years.

Sales points • Full of first-hand gossip, drama, laughter and tears, these are the true stories from behind the scenes at the National Theatre • With letters from a range of stars, including Ian McKellen, Alan Bennett, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Samuel Beckett, Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier, Tom Stoppard, James Corden, Peter Schaffer, Helen Mirren and more • The book will have support from the National Theatre, including a potential book tour alongside the UK tour of War Horse and advertising during NT Live screenings (which also screen in ANZ) • A beautiful, full-colour package filled with photos and ephemera - think Letters of Note with a dramatic twist - the perfect Christmas present

Description There has been always as much drama offstage as on at the National Theatre, and much of it is to be found in the letters, telegrams, scribbled notes and colourful postcards of its main players.

- What drove Laurence Olivier to confess: 'The foolishness of my position starts to obsess me'? - Why did Maggie Smith write: 'I am absolutely heartbroken by your decision'? - What prompted Judi Dench to ask: 'Can't you write me a musical so that I can sit on a chair in a fur hat & nothing else and sing RUDE songs?'

This book brings together for the first time over one hundred of the most inspiring, dramatic and amusing letters from the life of Britain's most beloved theatre: from Laurence Olivier's gracious rejection letters to Peter Hall's backbiting memos; from Helen Mirren's impassioned defence of theatrical innovation to a Tory politician's brutal telegram damning a play; Price: AU $49.99 NZ $55.00 from fantastical good luck missives to long conspiratorial letters. Together, they reveal the stories behind some of the ISBN: 9781781259351 Format: Hard Cover most lavish, triumphant, daring and disastrous productions in the theatre's history, including Amadeus, Romans in Britain, Dimensions: 234x153mm Laurence Olivier's Othello, Closer, The History Boys and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. A rich Extent: 448 pages collection of correspondence like no other, this book offers a fascinating and celebratory look at the world of theatre and Bic1: Diaries, letters & journals Bic2: Theatre studies beyond. Illustrations: Previous Titles: About the Author Author now living: Daniel Rosenthal is a writer and lecturer. He has written on theatre and film for The Times, Independent and Observer, and his previous books include the award-winning The National Theatre Story, 100 Shakespeare Films and Student Editions of David Mamet's Oleanna and Patrick Marber's Closer. He has chaired 30 National Theatre Platforms and is Associate Producer of the BBC 4 Arena documentaries on the NT. Profile Trade DECEMBER 2018 Darwin's Most Wonderful Plants Ken Thompson

A rediscovery of Darwin the botanist and his theories on insectivorous and climbing plants.

Sales points • Darwin books are legion - but there is very little on the botany that consumed so much of his time and thought • Ken Thompson writes highly accessible science: he is both an academic plant biologist and a gardening columnist for the Telegraph (UK) • Beautifully illustrated with contemporary drawings, this makes a perfect gift for gardeners who share Darwin's fascination with the actions of 'the most wonderful plants'

Description Most of us think of Darwin at work on The Beagle, taking inspiration for his theory of evolution from his travels in the Galapagos. But Darwin published his Origin of Species nearly thirty years after his voyages and most of his labours in that time were focused on experimenting with and observing plants at his house in Kent. He was particularly interested in carnivorous and climbing plants, and in pollination and the evolution of flowers.

Ken Thompson sees Darwin as a brilliant and revolutionary botanist, whose observations and theories were far ahead of his time - and are often only now being confirmed and extended by high-tech modern research. Like Darwin, he is fascinated and amazed by the powers of plants - particularly their Triffid-like aspects of movement, hunting and 'plant intelligence'.

This is a much needed book that re-establishes Darwin as a pioneering botanist, whose close observations of plants were crucial to his theories of evolution.

About the Author Ken Thompson is a plant biologist with a keen interest in the science of gardening. He writes and lectures extensively and has written five gardening books, including Compost and No Nettles Required, as well as books on biodiversity (Do We

Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 Need Pandas?) and invasive species (Where Do Camels Belong?). ISBN: 9781788160285 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Botany & plant sciences Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade DECEMBER 2018 The Cabaret of Plants Richard Mabey

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

Sales points • Reissued for Christmas 2018 • A magical mystery tour of Mabey's loveliest life forms • Beautifully illustrated throughout • Lyrically written, global in breadth and ambitious, weaving myth, metaphor, fact and analogy - The Cabaret of Plants is a rare species

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

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

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

Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781861979582 Richard Mabey is 'the nation's favourite nature writer' (Sunday Telegraph) and 'a national treasure' (Sunday Times), who, Format: Paperback - B format 'as a celebrant of the botanical ... has few peers' (Nature Microbiology). He is the author of thirty books, including the Dimensions: 195x130mm bestselling plant bible Flora Britannica, and Nature Cure, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread, Ondaatje and Ackerley Extent: 384 pages Bic1: History Awards. A regular on radio and in the national press, he was elected a Fellow in the Royal Society of Literature in 2012. Bic2: History Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade DECEMBER 2018 Beneath the Skin Ned Beauman, Naomi Alderman, Thomas Lynch, Philip et al

Fifteen talented writers each explore a different body part in this funny and moving collection.

Sales points • From Naomi Alderman on the intestines to AL Kennedy on our sense of smell and Phillip Kerr on the brain, surprising and personal writing from 15 of the world's finest authors • With a stunning foil cover, this is the perfect tillpoint Christmas gift for anybody who has a body • Publication will coincide with the broadcast of the third series of BBC Radio 3's popular A Body of Essays • Features essays by Naomi Alderman, Ned Beauman, Kayo Chingonyi, Abi Curtis, Imtiaz Dharker, William Fiennes, Annie Freud, AL Kennedy, Philip Kerr, Thomas Lynch, Patrick McGuinness, Daljit Nagra, Chibundu Onuzo, Christina Patterson, Mark Ravenhill

Description Published to accompany BBC Radio 3's A Body of Essays series

Buried beneath layers of flesh, our hearts pump, our lungs inflate, our kidneys filter. These organs, and others, are essential to our survival but remain largely unknown to us. And yet they all have stories to tell.

So who better to tell them than fifteen of the world's finest writers? Working with medical experts, each writer has chosen a different organ: Naomi Alderman unravels the intestines and our obsession with food and digestion; AL Kennedy gets inside the nose and our sense of smell; Philip Kerr traces the development of brain surgery; and Ned Beauman argues that the appendix might not be as useless as we think.

The human stomach, we discover, contains as many brain cells as a cat has in its head. The lungs weigh about the same as a loaf of bread. A traumatic memory can show itself on the skin. Moving, comical and endlessly surprising, Beneath the Skin is an unforgettable voyage through the mysterious landscape of our anatomy.

Price: AU $27.99 NZ $32.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781788160957 Features essays by Naomi Alderman, Ned Beauman, Kayo Chingonyi, Abi Curtis, Imtiaz Dharker, William Fiennes, Annie Format: Hard Cover Freud, AL Kennedy, Philip Kerr, Thomas Lynch, Patrick McGuinness, Daljit Nagra, Chibundu Onuzo, Christina Patterson, Dimensions: 198x129mm Mark Ravenhill. Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Medicine Bic2: Popular medicine & health Beneath the Skin is published in association with Wellcome Collection, a free museum and library that aims to challenge Illustrations: how we think and feel about health. Inspired by the medical objects and curiosities collected by Henry Wellcome, it Previous Titles: Author now living: connects science, medicine, life and art. Wellcome Collection exhibitions, events and books explore a diverse range of subjects, including consciousness, forensic medicine, emotions, sexology, identity and death.

Profile Trade DECEMBER 2018 Seriously Curious Tom Standage

Following up 2016's hit Go Figure, another collection of astonishing bite-sized explainers from the Economist.

Sales points • Follow-up to Go Figure (ISBN 9781781256251), which sold over 20,000 copies for Profile • Full of great dinner-party facts and statistics • Excellent stocking-filler for curious minds of any age • Draws on one of the most popular of the Economist.com's regular features

Description Some questions you never think to ask. Others, you didn't know you didn't know. And some facts are so surprising they cry out for answers.

What can a president actually do? Why do cities sink into the ground? Why is Australia seemingly invulnerable to recessions? Why do people in couples do more housework than singletons?

The brilliant minds of the Economist collect these questions. Individually, they might seem bite-sized and inconsequential, but taken together they can reveal a whole new world.

About the Author Tom Standage is Deputy Editor of The Economist. He is author of several books, including Go Figure, Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years and The Victorian Internet. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian and Wired.

Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781788161367 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Gift books Bic2: Humour Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade DECEMBER 2018 Babel Gaston Dorren

A quirky language-lovers tour of the twenty most-spoken languages in the world - what puts them a cut above the other six thousand?

Sales points • Following the success of his first book, Lingo, about Europe's language, Gaston turns his attention to the 20 languages spoken by half the world • Gaston Dorren is a polyglot extraordinaire • The perfect Christmas gift for language lovers - anyone who was given Lingo, or reads the likes of David Crystal or Stephen Pinker • Covering: Chinese, Hindi, Urdu, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Swahili, Malay, Japanese, Tamil, Turkish, Persian, Vietnamese

Description If you were to master the 20 languages discussed in Babel you could chat to more than half the world's population. Actually, you could talk to another quarter of the world, who speak them as second languages.

As he did in Lingo, Gaston Dorren delves deep into the linguistic oddities and extraordinary stories of these global tongues, tracing their origins and tracking their sometimes bloody rise to greatness. He listens to their distinctly un- English sounds and deciphers their bewildering array of scripts, presents the gems and gaps in their vocabularies and charts their inventive coinages and surprising loans. He explains the oddities of their grammars, which order their speakers' worldview but often appear bafflingly complex to outsiders.

Learn why Russian has no word for blue, how Turkish stopped borrowing words, and why Arabic is possibly the hardest global language to learn. Look into the future of Chinese script and re-examine the Latin alphabet's gory past. Consider the difficulties of having four forms for 'I' as in Vietnamese, and the questions that arise from the way Tamil pronouns keep humans and deities apart. Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781781256404 Witty, fascinating and utterly compelling, Babel will change the way you look at the world and how it speaks. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 368 pages About the Author Bic1: Language: reference & general Gaston Dorren is author of the bestselling Lingo (Profile, 2014) and contributes regularly to Onze Taal, the popular Bic2: Humour linguistics magazine. A true polyglot, he speaks Dutch, Limburgish, English, German and Spanish, and reads French, Illustrations: Afrikaans, Frisian, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Luxembourgish and Esperanto. For this Previous Titles: Author now living: book, he also learnt to speak Thai.

Profile Trade DECEMBER 2018 Human Relations and Other Difficulties Mary-Kay Wilmers

A selection of works by LRB editor and journalist Mary-Kay Wilmers, with introduction by John Lanchester.

Sales points • Features a punchy introduction by journalist, novelist and frequent LRB contributor John Lanchester • Decades of witty and incisive articles by editor and journalist Mary-Kay Wilmers • Brilliant essays on a broad range of subjects: there's something for everyone • The frequent controversies surrounding LRB mean this book is guaranteed coverage in the media

Description Mary-Kay Wilmers has been a giant of the English literary world for decades. She was integral in the founding of LRB in 1979 during the year-long lock-out at The Times and has served as its editor in chief since 1992. Under her leadership, the magazine has pulled no punches and faced the inevitable controversies head on, leading the Observer to wonder whether LRB is 'the best magazine in the world'. Which may explain why, while most print media has been struggling, LRB has grown to become the most circulated magazine of its kind in Europe.

This collection of Mary-Kay Wilmers' essays, book reviews, short articles and obituaries handles subjects from mistresses to marketing, and seduction to psychoanalysts, all with Wilmers' trademark insightful wit. Throughout she uses her deep and varied knowledge to provide both context and cutting criticism. This creates a portrait of a particular slice of English culture in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

About the Author A giant of English letters, Mary-Kay Wilmers was a founding contributor and editor of LRB, and has served as the magazine's editor in chief since 1992. Under her leadership, the magazine has grown to be the largest of its kind in Europe with a circulation of more than 70,000.

After an itinerant youth spent between America, Portugal, Switzerland and Belgium, Mary-Kay Wilmers moved to the UK

Price: AU $27.99 NZ $29.99 to read French and Russian at Oxford. Initially planning on a career as a simultaneous translator, Mary Kay-Wilmers ISBN: 9781788161800 instead found work as a secretary at Faber and Faber and as a contributor to the New Statesman. She went on to serve Format: Paperback - Demy format as deputy editor at the Listener and later worked for a time at the Times Literary Supplement before founding LRB. Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Literary essays This book is being published to mark her 80th birthday. Bic2: Humour collections & anthologies Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade DECEMBER 2018 Populism and Economics Charles Dumas

Essential reading from a leading macroeconomic forecaster.

Sales points • Available September 2018 • Analysis of world economics in the light of the rise of populism, Trump and Brexit • Draws on exclusive research • Written by one of the world's leading macroeconomic forecasters

Description Populism and Economics, Charles Dumas' latest book, examines the reasons for the rise in populism - Brexit and the election of Trump among other events - and how this discontent with the status quo has affected economics, both perceptions and reality. The book argues that while globalization and the influence of new technology have pulled the world economy out of recession and while the benefits of world trade are now spread more widely, there is a perception of injustice because of inequality within individual nations. In a detailed region-by-region analysis of the current state of the world economy and using exclusive research carried out by TS Lombard, Dumas shows how the perception of inequality now threatens to destabilize not only politics but also the economic order itself.

About the Author Chief Economist at TS Lombard, Charles Dumas is one of the world's leading macroeconomic forecasters. His previous books include Globalisation Fractures (2010) and The American Phoenix (2011).

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781788161893 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Popular economics Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade DECEMBER 2018 Women and Power Mary Beard

Mary Beard's feminist manifesto.

Sales points • Reissued December 2018 - over 5000 sold in ANZ • Britain's most influential academic at her most polemical • Small, attractive hardback - perfect for gifting • SPQR has sold over 5000 hardbacks and over 10,000 B format paperbacks in ANZ • Social media storm guaranteed • 'An irrepressible enthusiast with a refreshing disregard for convention.' - FT

Description Why the popular resonance of 'mansplaining' (despite the intense dislike of the term felt by many men)? It hits home for us because it points straight to what it feels like not to be taken seriously: a bit like when I get lectured on Roman history on Twitter.

Britain's best known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit she shows how history has treated powerful women. With examples ranging from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Elizabeth Warren, Beard explores the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, considering the public voice of women, how we look at women who exercise power, our cultural assumptions about women's relationship with power, and how powerful women resist being packaged into a male template.

With personal reflections on her own experiences of sexism online and the gendered violence she has endured as a woman in the public eye, Mary asks: if women aren't perceived to be fully within the structures of power, isn't it power that we need to redefine?

About the Author

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 Mary Beard is a professor of classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the Classics editor of the TLS. She has ISBN: 9781788160605 world-wide academic acclaim, and is a fellow of the British Academy and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Format: Hard Cover Sciences. Her previous books include most recently SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, and the bestselling, Wolfson Dimensions: 178x111mm Prize-winning Pompeii, The Roman Triumph, also The Parthenon and Confronting the Classics. Her blog has been Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Philosophy collected in the books It's a Don's Life and All in a Don's Day. Bic2: Philosophy Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade DECEMBER 2018 SPQR Mary Beard

Mary Beard on Ancient Rome: Britain's favourite classicist lifts the lid on the Roman Empire.

Sales points • Reissued for Christmas 2018 • Has sold 5000 hardbacks and over 14,000 paperbacks in ANZ to date • From the reviews of SPQR: • 'In her wonderful concise history, Mary Beard unpacks the secrets of the city's success with a crisp and merciless clarity that I have not seen equalled anywhere else.' - New York Times • 'Fast-moving, exciting, psychologically acute, warmly sceptical' - Sunday Times • 'Vastly engaging...a tremendously enjoyable and scholarly read' - Observer • 'Masterful ... Ms Beard is the consummate guide, both wise and witty. This is exemplary popular history, engaging but never dumbed down, providing both the grand sweep and the intimate details that bring the distant past vividly to life.' - Economist

Description Ancient Rome matters.

Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the Rape of Lucretia - still strike a chord with us. And its debates about citizenship, security and the rights of the individual still influence our own debates on civil liberty today.

SPQR is a new look at Roman history from one of the world's foremost classicists. It explores not only how Rome grew from an insignificant village in central Italy to a power that controlled territory from Spain to Syria, but also how the Romans thought about themselves and their achievements, and why they are still important to us. Covering 1,000 years of history, and casting fresh light on the basics of Roman culture from slavery to running water, as well as exploring democracy, migration, religious controversy, social mobility and exploitation in the larger context of the empire, this is a

Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 definitive history of ancient Rome. ISBN: 9781846683817 Format: Paperback - B format SPQR is the Romans' own abbreviation for their state: Senatus Populusque Romanus, 'the Senate and People of Rome'. Dimensions: 200x130mm Extent: 608 pages Bic1: Ancient history: to c 500 CE About the Author Bic2: Ancient history: to c 500 CE Mary Beard is a professor of classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the classics editor of the TLS. She has Illustrations: world-wide academic acclaim. Her previous books include the bestselling, Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii, The Roman Previous Titles: Author now living: Triumph, The Parthenon and Confronting the Classics. Her blog has been collected in the books It's a Don's Life and All in a Don's Day. She is in the 2014 top 10 Prospect list of the most influential thinkers in the world.

Profile Trade DECEMBER 2018 Swearing Is Good For You Emma Byrne

The science of swearing: from neuroscience to swearing apes, why we swear, what it does to us and why it's important.

Sales points • A witty and humorous exploration of taboo words that will appeal to readers who enjoyed the bizarre case studies in Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat or the irreverence of Ben Goldacre • A popular science science title - not a language or reference book • Emma Byrne's Twitter-based swearing research made the national news • Regularly appears as an expert on BBC, Sky and elsewhere

Description Swearing, it turns out, is an incredibly useful part of our linguistic repertoire. Not only has some form of swearing existed since the earliest humans began to communicate, but it has been shown to reduce physical pain, help stroke victims recover their language, and encourage people to work together as a team.

Swearing Is Good For You is a spirited and hilarious defence of our most cherished dirty words, backed by historical case studies and cutting-edge research.

From chimpanzees creating their own curse words to a man who lost half his brain in a mining accident experiencing a new-found compulsion to swear, Dr Emma Byrne outlines the fascinating science behind swearing: how it affects us both physically and emotionally, and how it is more natural and beneficial than we are led to believe.

About the Author Dr Emma Byrne is a scientist, journalist, and public speaker. Her BBC Radio 4 'Four Thought' episode was selected as one of the 'Best of 2013' by the programme's editors. She has been selected as a British Science Association Media Fellow and for the BBC Expert Women Training, and is published in CIO, Forbes, the Financial Times and e-Health Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 Insider. Swearing is Good For You is her first book. ISBN: 9781781255780 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Popular science Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade DECEMBER 2018 This is a Voice Jeremy Fisher, Gillyanne Kayes and introduction by Cerys Matthews

Train your voice to speak (and sing) with impact using this practical guide, with a foreword by Cerys Matthews.

Sales points • The perfect guide for anyone looking to improve their vocal abilities at work, play or performance • Richly illustrated with over 100 colour graphics • For everyone from voiceover artists to choir members, drama students to those giving presentations at work

Description Your voice is a powerful instrument, as individual as a fingerprint. You use it every single day, but do you know how to look after it? Or to get the best out of it?

This is a Voice is a practical toolkit of step-by-step vocal exercises to help speakers and singers of all abilities transform the quality of their voice. Bursting with advice from expert vocal coaches, it covers everything from warm ups, breathing, pacing and projection to techniques for speaking with confidence and singing jazz, pop, opera - even beatboxing - with style.

Whether you're a member of a choir or a professional singer, preparing for a big presentation or planning a wedding speech, This is a Voice will ensure that you make yourself heard. With a foreword by Cerys Matthews.

Published in partnership with the Wellcome Collection.

Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we think and feel about health. Inspired by the medical objects and curiosities collected by Henry Wellcome, it connects science, medicine, life and art. Wellcome Collection exhibitions, events and books explore a diverse range of subjects, including consciousness, forensic medicine, emotions, sexology, identity and death.

Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781781256572 Wellcome Collection is part of Wellcome, a global charitable foundation that exists to improve health for everyone by Format: Paperback helping great ideas to thrive, funding over 14,000 researchers and projects in more than 70 countries. Dimensions: 192x128mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Music wellcomecollection.org Bic2: Illustrations: About the Author Previous Titles: Author now living: Jeremy Fisher is a performance coach and vocal trainer with more than 30 years of experience. He has trained actors, performers and singers in opera and West End musicals such as Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera. Gillyanne Kayes is a singing voice expert, voice researcher and author with a PhD on female singing voice. Steven Connor (introduction) is a Grace 2 Professor of English in the University of Cambridge who has written extensively on the history of the voice, sound and music. Profile Trade DECEMBER 2018 Rogues' Gallery Philip Hook

Sotheby's art expert exposes five centuries of history, scandals, big wins and horrifying losses in the international art world.

Sales points • Written by Sotheby's art expert, and bestselling author of Breakfast at Sotheby's • A history of art dealing that is unrivalled for its insight, anecdotes, solid history and good gossip • 'A cultured, witty, clear-eyed, worldly teacher with a fully functioning sense of humour.' - William Boyd of Philip Hook • The book garnered brilliant reviews in hardback, and will attract a whole new audience in its paperback form

Description Philip Hook takes the lid off the world of art dealing to reveal the brilliance, cunning, greed and daring of its practitioners. In a richly anecdotal narrative he describes the rise and occasional fall of the extraordinary men and women who over the centuries have made it their business to sell art to kings, merchants, nobles, entrepreneurs and museums.

From its beginnings in Antwerp, where paintings were sometimes sold by weight, to the rich hauteur of the contemporary gallery in London, Paris and New York, art dealing has been about identifying what is intangible but infinitely desirable, and then finding clients for whom it is irresistible. Those who have purveyed art for a living range from tailors, spies and the occasional anarchist to scholars, aristocrats, merchants and connoisseurs, each variously motivated by greed, belief in their own vision of art and its history, or simply the will to win.

The cast of characters includes Paul Durand-Ruel, the Impressionists' champion; Herwath Walden, who first brought Modernism into the limelight; Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, high priest of Cubism; Leo Castelli, dealer-midwife to Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art; and Peter Wilson, the charismatic Sotheby's chairman who made the auction room theatre.

Philip Hook's history is one of human folly, greed and duplicity, interspersed with ingenuity, inspiration and acts of heroism. Rogues' Gallery is learned, witty and irresistibly readable. Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781781255711 About the Author Format: Paperback - B format Philip Hook is a Board member and senior director of Impressionist & Modern art at Sotheby's in London. He previously Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages worked at Christie's in the 19th Century Paintings Department. He has appeared regularly on Antiques Roadshow and is Bic1: Art: financial aspects the author of five novels and many books on the art world, including Breakfast at Sotheby's (2013) which was a book of Bic2: the year in the Sunday Times, Spectator, Financial Times, Guardian and Mail on Sunday. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade DECEMBER 2018 How Language Began Daniel Everett

A revolutionary account of the origins of language from one of the world's best known and most influential linguists.

Sales points • Daniel Everett, the 'bombshell' linguist and 'instant folk hero' (Tom Wolfe, Harper's), at his stunning best • Author is known for highly controversial overturning of the widely accepted linguistic theories of Noam Chomsky; this book contains more iconoclastic ideas, and is sure to stoke debate • Up there with Pinker's Language Instinct, and Chomsky's On Language - this is important, groundbreaking but accessible work that will become an instant classic

Description In his groundbreaking new book Daniel Everett seeks answers to questions that have perplexed thinkers from Plato to Chomsky: when and how did language begin? What is it? And what is it for?

Daniel Everett confounds the conventional wisdom that language originated with Homo sapiens 150,000 years ago and that we have a 'language instinct'. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of fields, including linguistics, archaeology, biology, anthropology and neuroscience, he shows that our ancient ancestors, Homo erectus, had the biological and mental equipment for speech one and half million years ago, and that their cultural and technological achievements (including building ocean-going boats) make it overwhelmingly likely they spoke some kind of language.

How Language Began sheds new light on language and culture and what it means to be human and, as always, Daniel Everett spices his account with incident and anecdote. His book is convincing, arresting and entertaining.

About the Author Daniel Everett worked in the Amazon jungles of Brazil for over 30 years, among more than a dozen different tribal groups. He has published extensively on language and culture and is one of the world's most influential thinkers in both fields. His Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes was selected by Blackwell's bookstores as one of the best of 2009, was an 'editor's ISBN: 9781781253939 choice' of the Sunday Times and has been the subject of a film and a play. He is currently Dean of Arts and Sciences at Format: Paperback - B format Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Language: history & general works Bic2: linguistics Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade DECEMBER 2018 Enigma Brian Clegg

How good are you at code-breaking? Can you solve this fiendish cumulative puzzle?

Sales points • A fun, cryptic puzzle book- in the same vein as the hugely successful GCHQ Puzzle Book

Description The ultimate trial of knowledge and cunning, Enigma features 200 cryptic puzzles and ciphers. The solutions link throughout the book - so you need to solve them all to get to the final round.

With a focus on ciphers and codebreaking, Enigma contains twenty sections, each built around a specific subject from music to literature, physics to politics. To take on Enigma you need good general knowledge and the ability to think laterally. But if you need help, there are plenty of hints to point you in the right direction.

Whether you attempt to crack it alone or work in a team, Enigma will challenge you to the extreme.

Can you take on Enigma and win? There's only one way to find out ...

About the Author Brian Clegg's most recent books are The Reality Frame (Icon, 2017), What Colour is the Sun? (Icon, 2016) and Ten Billion Tomorrows (St Martin's Press, 2016). His Dice World and A Brief History of Infinity were both longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. He has also written Big Data and Gravitational Waves for Icon's Hot Science series. Brian has written for numerous publications including The Wall Street Journal, Nature, BBC Focus, Physics World, The Times and The Observer. He is editor of popularscience.co.uk and blogs at brianclegg.blogspot.com.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781785784101 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Puzzles & quizzes Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon DECEMBER 2018 Renoir's Dancer Catherine Hewitt

From the author of The Mistress of Paris, a lavish biography of a remarkable 19th-century woman.

Sales points • A brilliantly lavish new biography of a woman who succeeded in a man's world • From the author of the acclaimed The Mistress of Paris • Packed full of illustrations and guaranteed to receive wide-ranging review and feature coverage

Description In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists' most beautiful model. But behind her captivating facade lay a closely-guarded secret.

Born in poverty in rural France, as a teenager in Montmartre, Suzanne began posing for - and having affairs with - some of the age's most renowned painters. Then Renoir caught her indulging in a passion she had been trying to conceal: the model was herself a talented artist.

Some found her vibrant still lifes and frank portraits as shocking as her bohemian lifestyle. At eighteen, she gave birth to an illegitimate child, future painter Maurice Utrillo. But her friends Toulouse-Lautrec and Degas could see her skill. Rebellious and opinionated, she refused to be confined by tradition or gender, and in 1894, her work was accepted to the Salon de la Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, an extraordinary achievement for a working-class woman with no formal art training.

Renoir's Dancer tells the remarkable tale of an ambitious, headstrong woman fighting to find a professional voice in a male-dominated world.

About the Author Catherine Hewitt studied French Literature and Art History at Royal Holloway, University of London and the Courtauld

Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 Institute of Art. The Mistress of Paris, her first book, was published by Icon Books in 2015 and described as an 'enthralling ISBN: 9781785784040 story, told with both conviction and sympathy' by the Observer. She lives in a village in Surrey. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 Bic2: Painting & paintings Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon DECEMBER 2018 The Mistress of Paris Catherine Hewitt

A fantastically readable biography of a 19th-century Parisian courtesan who harbours an incredible secret.

Sales points • Reissued alongside publication of Renoir's Dancer in paperback • Sold 2,500 copies in TPB in ANZ • Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan • Painted by Manet, she was the inspiration for Zola's scandalous novel Nana and her love affairs kept the gossip grapevine very busy • A brilliant biography in the vein of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize-winning The Pike • Full of the colour and verve of 19th-century Paris • Includes 8 page colour plate section • 'Through incisive enquiry and astute observation, Catherine Hewitt traces the courtesan's flight from squalor to splendour, her prose sparkling in the light of her luminous subject.' - The Biographer's Club prize

Description Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalised her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumoured affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept gossip columns full.

But her glamourous existence hid a dark secret: she was no Comtesse. She was born into abject poverty, raised on a squalid Paris backstreet; the lowest of the low. Yet she transformed herself into an enchantress who possessed a small fortune, three mansions, fabulous carriages, and art the envy of connoisseurs across Europe. A consummate show- woman, she ensured that her life - and even her death - remained shrouded in just enough mystery to keep her audience hungry for more.

Catherine Hewitt's biography tells, for the first time ever in English, the forgotten story of a remarkable woman who,

Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 though her roots were lowly, never stopped aiming high. ISBN: 9781785780448 Format: Paperback - B format About the Author Dimensions: 198x129mm Catherine Hewitt studied French Literature and Art History at Royal Holloway, University of London and the Courtauld Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Biography: general Institute of Art. Her proposal for The Mistress of Paris was awarded the runner-up's prize in the 2012 Biographers' Club Bic2: Biography: general Tony Lothian Competition for the best proposal by an uncommissioned, first-time biographer. She lives in a village in Illustrations: Surrey. Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon DECEMBER 2018 Pogba - 2019 Updated Edition Luca Caioli

The first biography of Manchester United's wunderkind French midfielder.

Sales points • From the author of bestselling biographies of Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar - over 225,000 books sold worldwide • Contains exclusive material and interviews with those closest to Pogba • A fully updated edition for 2019, covering the league season, Champions League, and World Cup

Description When Manchester United re-signed their former youth player Paul Pogba for a world record fee in the summer of 2016, they made a powerful statement. Together with the signing of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, it signalled their determination to attract the best players in the world to Old Trafford, despite three seasons of underachievement.

In the four years since he had left the Reds, Pogba had blossomed into a midfielder of undoubted world class, his power and dynamism propelling Juventus to a host of club titles and the French national team to within a whisker of winning Euro 2016.

With exclusive insights from those closest to the player, Luca Caioli's Pogba is an in-depth portrait of one of modern football's greatest talents.

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

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781785784248 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Football / soccer (Children's / Teenage) Bic2: Biography: sport Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon DECEMBER 2018 Griezmann - 2019 Updated Edition Luca Caioli

The first-ever book on France and Atletico Madrid's dazzling striker.

Sales points • The first biography on Antoine Griezmann • From the author of bestselling biographies of Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar - over 225,000 books sold worldwide • Contains exclusive material and interviews with those closest to Griezmann • A fully updated edition for 2019

Description Quick, incisive and versatile, Antoine Griezmann is the ultimate modern forward. Arriving in 2014 to join an Atletico Madrid side persistently challenging for the biggest trophies in Spanish and European football, he quickly established himself as the team's key player and main goal threat.

A Super Cup win over city rivals Real Madrid was just the start but an inspired tilt at the Champions League the following season ended in heartbreak - as did a Euro 2016 campaign in which his performances for France saw him named player of the tournament.

In this first biography of the Atleti and France star, Madrid-based journalist Luca Caioli examines the story behind Griezmann's rise to the top. Features exclusive interviews.

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

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781785784262 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Football / soccer (Children's / Teenage) Bic2: Biography: sport Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon DECEMBER 2018 A House of Ghosts W. C. Ryan

A gripping and atmospheric murder mystery set in a haunted house - And Then There Were None meets The Woman in Black.

Sales points • A brilliant escapist read with the feel of a classic - a gripping whodunnit with a ghostly edge • A beautiful, sumptuous package perfect for the Christmas gifting period or an indulgent self-purchase • Ghost stories are making a real comeback at the moment, as evidenced by the success of The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell (Bloomsbury, 2017) • The author's previous books, as William Ryan, have been much-lauded and shortlisted for multiple awards

Description Winter 1917. As the First World War enters its most brutal phase, back home in England, everyone is seeking answers to the darkness that has seeped into their lives.

At Blackwater Abbey, on an island off the Devon coast, Lord Highmount has arranged a spiritualist gathering to contact his two sons who were lost in the conflict. But as his guests begin to arrive, it gradually becomes clear that each has something they would rather keep hidden. Then, when a storm descends on the island, the guests will find themselves trapped. Soon one of their number will die. For Blackwater Abbey is haunted in more ways than one...

An unrelentingly gripping mystery packed with twists and turns, A House of Ghosts is the perfect chilling read next winter.

About the Author W. C. Ryan is a pseudonym for William Ryan, author of The Constant Soldier and the Korolev series of historical crime novels. His books have been shortlisted for numerous awards including the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year Award, the CWA Historical Dagger and the Ireland AM Irish Crime Novel of the Year Award and have been translated into over a dozen languages. William is married and lives in west London. Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9781785766510 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Horror & ghost stories Bic2: Crime & mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Zaffre DECEMBER 2018 One Enchanted Evening Anton Du Beke

Perfect for fans of Downton Abbey, Mr Selfridge, The Halcyon and Belgravia. The master entertainer brings us his fabulous debut novel. Prepare to be swept off your feet...

Sales points • Anton Du Beke is a national treasure in the UK, with an army of adoring fans • His debut album 'From The Top' hit the Top 20 in 2017 and spent 3 weeks in the top 40

Description Inside the spectacular ballroom of the exclusive Buckingham Hotel the rich and powerful, politicians, film stars, even royalty, rub shoulders with Raymond de Guise and his troupe of talented dancers from all around the world, who must enchant them, captivate them, and sweep away their cares. Accustomed to waltzing with the highest of society, Raymond knows a secret from his past could threaten all he holds dear.

Nancy Nettleton, new chambermaid at the Buckingham, finds hotel life a struggle after leaving her small hometown. She dreams of joining the dancers on the Grand Ballroom floor as she watches, unseen, from behind plush curtains and discreet doors. She soon discovers everyone at the Buckingham - guests and staff alike - has something to hide...

The storm clouds of war are gathering, and beneath the glitz and glamour of the ballroom lurks an irresistible world of scandal and secrets.

Let's dance...

About the Author Anton Du Beke is one of the most instantly recognisable dancers today, best known for his role on the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, which he has featured on since its conception in 2004. His debut album reached the Top 20, and his sell- out Dance Tour is in its tenth year. Anton has more than 206k Twitter followers. Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9781785764806 A household name and all-round entertainer, known as Mr Debonair, Anton brings all the wit, charm and style he's Format: Hard Cover famous for to his debut novel. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 464 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Zaffre DECEMBER 2018 The Blessed Child Rosie Goodwin

The Sunday Times bestselling Rosie Goodwin brings us a heartrending, dramatic and uplifting treat for Christmas 2018.

Sales points • Rosie is Catherine Cookson for a new generation • Mothering Sunday reached #2 in the Sunday Times hardback bestseller list, and #1 in Ireland, selling over 70k copies across all editions • The fourth in a very special seven-book series based on the 'Monday's Child...' rhyme and set in Victorian Nuneaton, Warwickshire • Having fostered over 100 children, Rosie has an incredible personal story of fostering to tell, and she was the only author ever permitted to write official sequels to Catherine Cookson's novels

Description Wednesday's child is full of woe...

Warwickshire, 1865.

Nessie Carson will do anything to keep her family together after her mother is killed, her father abandons them and they are evicted from their cosy little Nuneaton home. She and her brothers and sisters take on jobs as live-in assistants to a local undertaker. She is soon entwined in fortunes of her employer, Andre, who is forced to live a lie, and the local doctor - someone she's attracted to but can never have. But even in the darkest of times, and saddest of places, when you're as spirited as Nessie Carson, there is light, love and the promise of happiness if you're only brave enough to search for it ...

The perfect Christmas treat for fans of Dilly Court, Katie Flynn and Catherine Cookson.

Have you read Mothering Sunday, The Little Angel and A Mother's Grace - the other novels in Rosie's Days of the Week Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 collection? ISBN: 9781785762406 Format: Hard Cover About the Author Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages Rosie Goodwin is the author of over twenty bestselling novels. She is the first author in the world to be allowed to follow Bic1: Sagas three of Catherine Cookson's trilogies with her own sequels. Having worked in the social services sector for many years, Bic2: then fostered a number of children, she is now a full-time novelist. She is one of the top 50 most borrowed authors from Illustrations: UK libraries. Rosie lives in Nuneaton, the setting for many of her books, with her husband and their beloved dogs. Previous Titles: Author now living:

Zaffre DECEMBER 2018 HELL Dante Alighieri, translated by Alasdair Gray

Part one of Alasdair Gray's remarkable interpretation of Dante's Divina Commedia, translated and sublimely illustrated.

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Description One of the masterpieces of world literature, completed in 1320, Dante's Divina Commedia describes Dante's journey through Hell, Purgatory and his eventual arrival in Heaven. In this new, fully illustrated version of Dante's masterpiece, Alasdair Gray offers an original translation in prosaic English rhyme.

Accessible, modern and sublimely illustrated, this remarkable edition yokes two great literary minds, seven hundred years apart, and brings the classic text alive for the twenty-first century.

About the Author Born in 1934, Alasdair Gray graduated in design and mural painting from Glasgow School of Art. Since 1981, when Lanark was published by Canongate, he has written, designed and illustrated seven novels, several books of short stories, a collection of his stage, radio and TV plays and a book of his visual art, A Life in Pictures.

In his own words, 'Alasdair Gray is a fat, spectacled, balding, increasingly old Glaswegian pedestrian who has mainly lived by writing and designing books, most of them fiction.'

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781786892539 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x135mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate Trade DECEMBER 2018 Highland River Neil M. Gunn, introduction by Dairmid Gunn

A dark and uplifting modern classic of Scottish literature. Introduced by Diarmid Gunn.

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Description Kenn returns to the Highlands of his youth, back to the river which has haunted his dreams since boyhood. Determined to walk all the way back to its source, Kenn embarks on a journey that will lead him deep into the wilderness of his own heart.

Profound and moving, Highland River is a stirring tale of what is lost and what endures, and the unexpected ways we can be renewed.

About the Author Neil M. Gunn (1891-1973), was born in Dunbeath, Caithness. The author of over twenty-seven books, he worked tirelessly as an essayist and broadcaster until his death in 1973. The Neil Gunn International Fellowship has been established in his honour.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781782118848 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate PBS DECEMBER 2018 The Meeting Charlotte Jones

The Meeting by Charlotte Jones premiered at Chichester Festival Theatre in July 2018.

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Description Teach me the language of your hands.

Rachel has been the voice for her deaf mother since she was born, but now she is restless to be heard for herself. Together, they have found sanctuary in a Quaker community that reveres silence. But the world is at war and it is becoming ever harder to live in Friendship. When a stranger arrives in their midst, their fragile peace is set to shatter.

The Meeting by Charlotte Jones premiered at Chichester Festival Theatre in July 2018.

About the Author Charlotte Jones has written six stage plays: Airswimming, In Flame, Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis, Humble Boy, The Dark and The Lightning Play. She won the Critics' Circle Most Promising Playwright award 1999. Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis won the Pearson TV Best New Play Award and Manchester Evening News Best New Play Award 1999. Humble Boy won the Critics' Circle Best New Play 2001, Susan Smith Blackburn Award, People's Choice Best New Play 2001 and was nominated for an Olivier award and a Drama Desk Award. It ran at the National Theatre and in the West End and has since been produced all over the world. She also she wrote the book for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical of Wilkie Collins' novel The Woman in White (lyrics by David Zippel) which ran in the West End and on Broadway. She has also written for extensively for TV, Film and Radio.

Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9780571350506 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 112 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Plays DECEMBER 2018 Anomaly Jamie McKendrick

Richly imaginative and intercontinental: the new collection from the prizewinning poet and translator.

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Description Jamie McKendrick connects our list to the European continent with his sensitive prizewinning translations of Italian and Spanish poetry. This new collection of original poems shows his gift for bringing into verse the vivid landscapes and 'earscapes' wherever he travels: be it the English countryside or the sunlit Mediterranean. Philosophical, compassionate and ever imaginative, Anomaly demonstrates McKendrick's deep learning in the visual arts as well as in the European literary heritages we share.

About the Author Jamie McKendrick was born in Liverpool in 1955. He is the author of six collections of poetry, including The Marble Fly (1997), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection and a Poetry Book Society Choice; Ink Stone (2003), shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award; and Crocodiles & Obelisks, shortlisted for the Forward Prize. Out There (2012) won the Hawthornden Prize. An earlier selection of his poems was published as Sky Nails (2000), and he is editor of 20th-Century Italian Poems (2004). The Embrace, his translations of Valerio Magrelli's poetry, won the Oxford-Weidenfeld and the John Florio prizes.

Price: AU $35.00 NZ $39.99 ISBN: 9780571349210 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 64 pages Bic1: Poetry by individual poets Bic2: Poetry Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Poetry DECEMBER 2018 In Parenthesis David Jones, foreword by Sebastian Barry

Introduced by Sebastian Barry: a trade edition of David Jones's masterwork of the First World War, aimed at a fiction audience.

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Description With an introduction by Sebastian Barry

In Parenthesis is loved by many as one of the great verse works of the Great War: but it is unique in being also one of the great prose works on the subject. This edition, aimed at readers of fiction unfamiliar to Jones's writing, seeks to share the triumphantly original, genre-defying master-work of 'the 20th century's great neglected genius' (Spectator).

About the Author David Jones (1895-1974) was born in Kent. In 1915, then an art student, he went to war with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, where he fought in the battles of the Somme and Ypres. In 1922 he began a long association with the artist Eric Gill. In Parenthesis, based on Jones's experiences in World War I, was published in 1937, followed in 1952 by The Anathemata and The Sleeping Lord in 1974. David Jones's works are exhibited at the Tate Museum and the National Museum of Wales.

Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9780571347308 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Poetry by individual poets Bic2: Literary studies: poetry & poets Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Poetry DECEMBER 2018 Music Lessons Pierre Boulez, translated by Jonathan Goldman, Jonathan Dunsby and Arnold Whittall

First publication in English of an extraordinary and prestigious series of Lectures given by Pierre Boulez, arguably the most influential composer of the second half of the last century.

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Description Pierre Boulez was appointed to the College de France in 1976, with the chair devoted to 'Invention, technique and language in Music', and he held his position until 1995. The publication of his extraordinary College de France lectures, his most significant writings from the 1970s to the 1990s, will make a major contribution to the discussion in English about Boulez's aesthetic legacy. His goal in Lecons de musique is to express his conception of musical language, laid out over the course of nearly twenty years of lecturing. He is thinking about the possible paths musical thought could take, as well as the musical legacy of the past In addition to composers, music historians, theorists, and music students, this book will be invaluable to those interested in the history and aesthetics of 20th century music, musical manifestations of artistic modernism, the history of ideas, and French intellectual and cultural history. Faber have been Pierre Boulez's publisher since 1986 - previous books include Orientations, Boulez on Music Today and Boulez on Conducting. 'Boulez's achievements in changing every part of the fabric of classical musical culture all over the world are indelible.' Tom Service, Guardian

About the Author Pierre Boulez (1925-2016) influentially steered the course of post-war contemporary concert music through his multiple roles as path-breaking composer (from the dazzling Le Marteau sans maitre (1955) to the glittering Sur Incises (1996)), iconoclastic conductor of many of the world's greatest orchestras, and founder of durable musical institutions in his native France (IRCAM, Cite de la musique). His provocative pronouncements cast in chiselled prose made him a hotly Price: AU $59.99 NZ $69.99 discussed cultural figure not only in France, but worldwide. ISBN: 9780571334278 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 496 pages Bic1: 20th century & contemporary classical music Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Music DECEMBER 2018 Philip Larkin: Letters Home Philip Larkin

The last outstanding unpublished facet of Larkin's writing life: his correspondence 'home' to his father, mother and sister.

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Description Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family. These correspondences help tell the story of how Larkin came to be the writer and the man he was: to his father Sydney, a 'conservative anarchist' and admirer of Hitler, who died relatively early in Larkin's life; to his timid depressive mother Eva, who by contrast, lived long, and whose final years were shadowed by dementia; and to his sister Kitty, the sparse surviving fragment of whose correspondence with her brother gives an enigmatic glimpse of a complex and intimate relationship. But it was the years during which he and his sister looked after their mother in particular that shaped the writer we know so well: a number of poems written over this time are for her, and the mood of pain, shadow and despondency that characterises his later verse draws its strength from his experience of the long, lonely years of her senility. One surprising element in the volume, however, is the joie de vivre shown in the large number of witty and engaging drawings of himself and Eva, as 'Young Creature' and 'Old Creature', with which he enlivens his letters throughout the three decades of her widowhood.

This important edition, meticulously edited by Larkin's biographer, James Booth, is a key piece of scholarship that completes the portrait of this most cherished of English poets.

About the Author Philip Larkin was born in Coventry in 1922 and was educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry, and St John's College, Oxford. As well as his volumes of poems, which include The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows, he wrote two novels, Jill and A Girl in Winter, and two books of collected journalism: All What Jazz: A Record Diary, and Required Writing: Price: AU $85.00 NZ $99.00 Miscellaneous Prose. He worked as a librarian at the University of Hull from 1955 until his death in 1985. He was the ISBN: 9780571335596 best-loved poet of his generation, and the recipient of innumerable honours, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, Format: Hard Cover and the WH Smith Award. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 688 pages Bic1: Literary studies: poetry & poets James Booth edited Philip Larkin's early girls'-school stories and poems as Trouble at Willow Gables and Other Fiction Bic2: and has published two critical studies of the poet's work: Philip Larkin: Writer (1991) and Philip Larkin: The Poet's Plight Illustrations: (2005). He is Literary Adviser to the Philip Larkin Society and Co-Editor of its journal, About Larkin. He recently retired Previous Titles: Author now living: from the Department of English at the University of Hull, where he had been a colleague of Larkin for seventeen years.

Faber Poetry DECEMBER 2018 The Lamberts Andrew Motion

Newly jacketed reissue of Motion's award-winning biography of this high-achieving yet tragically self- destructive family.

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Description 'Families are societies in miniature.'

The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1987. A lesson in the fragility of fame, it tells the tragic story of three generations: George, one of Australia's leading painters; his talented composer-conductor son Constant; and grandson Kit, who managed the pop group The Who.

'Motion's project is not just to tell the story of passing generations, which he does very readably and well, but necessarily also to describe and evaluate aspects of English culture - revivalist painting, classical music in the Twenties and Thirties, the foundation of a native ballet, pop music in the Sixties - which he does with considerable confidence and resource.' - London Review of Books

'The story of the three Lamberts is as cruel and horrifying as any Greek tragedy... Its portrayal of the way in which the Lamberts instinctively yet unintentionally assisted in the destruction of their own offspring makes for truly compulsive reading.' - Harpers and Queen

'A biographical triumph.' - Observer

About the Author Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009 and is co-founder of the online Poetry Archive; in 2015 he was Price: AU $35.00 NZ $39.99 appointed a Homewood Professor in the Arts at Johns Hopkins University. He has received numerous awards for his ISBN: 9780571346653 poetry, including most recently the Ted Hughes Award (2015), and has published four celebrated biographies, a novella, Format: Paperback - Demy format The Invention of Dr Cake (2003) and a memoir, In the Blood (2006). Andrew Motion was knighted for his services to Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 416 pages poetry in 2009. He lives in Baltimore. Bic1: Biography: general Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback DECEMBER 2018 Chamber Music Will Ashon

A book about one of the most important albums of all time, which reinvents music writing in the awesome scope of its exploration.

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Description Will Ashon tells, in 36 interlinked 'chambers', the story of Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) and how it changed the world. As unexpected and complex as the album itself, Chamber Music ranges from provocative essays to semi-comic skits, from deep scholarly analysis to satirical celebration, seeking to contextualise, reveal and honour this singularly composite work of art.

From the FBI's war on drugs to the porn theatres of 42nd street, from the history of jazz to the future of politics, Chamber Music is an explosive and revelatory new way of writing about music and culture.

About the Author Will Ashon is the author of Strange Labyrinth (Granta, 2017) and two novels. He previously ran BIG DADA records where his artists included Roots Manuva, MF DOOM, Kate Tempest and Diplo.

Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 ISBN: 9781783784035 Format: Paperback Dimensions: mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Music Bic2: Music industry Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Granta DECEMBER 2018 101 Things To Do Instead of Playing on Your Phone Ilka Heinemann

Get started with meditation Learn how to read your palm Draw a selfie This book provides the ideal antidote to modern mindlessness.

Sales points • A perfect Christmas gift for the person who needs to break free of their attachment to technology - in short, a gift for anyone! • A neat, handbag-sized package, with one-colour illustrations throughout, at a Secret Santa price point • An ideal antidote to modern mindlessness

Description Have you ever found yourself mindlessly checking your phone for updates, or playing some pointless game? In fact, do you ever do anything else, when on the bus or on the train, than sit glued to the screen? Research shows that the average person spends 23 days a year wasting time on their mobile phone. That's four years of your life!

In 101 Things to Do Instead of Playing on Your Phone, Ilka Heinemann has devised an imaginative list of alternative activities to cure us of our portable tech addiction. These are more than mere time-killers - they are ways to unleash your creative side, to learn facts or train your brain; some will even set you on the road to happiness and mindfulness.

About the Author Ilka Heinemann is a teacher. This is her first book. She only looks at her phone between 6 and 7pm.

Price: AU $14.99 NZ $16.99 ISBN: 9781780722467 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 178x115mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Gift books Bic2: Gift books Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Short Books DECEMBER 2018 101 Things to Do When You're Not Drinking Robert Short

A sequel to the bestselling 101 Things to do Instead of Playing on Your Phone: a fun and imaginative take on sobriety with a mix of games and tips to remind you of the simple joys of an alcohol-free life.

Sales points • With non-stop alcohol fuelled festivities throughout December and January, the prospect of going alcohol-free is on millions of minds in the New Year • This is a fun and nourishing take on sobriety - a perfect gift for pretty much anyone!

Description Recite the alphabet backwards ... Memorise these five conversation ice-breakers ... Mix up this non-alcoholic cocktail ...

Sometimes it seems like our whole society is underpinned by alcohol - big nights out with friends, boozy corporate lunches, a cheeky wine with dinner. Perhaps it's time for a change.

This book offers an imaginative mix of games and tips to remind you of the simple joys of an alcohol-free life.

Whether you are about to embark upon a short detox, quit the sauce for good, or just wondering what life might be like without a drink, these activities will reacquaint you with the you that you had forgotten existed.

About the Author Robert Short works as an editor at a publishing house and has a passion for books in his private life too.

Price: AU $14.99 NZ $16.99 ISBN: 9781780722870 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 178x111mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Gift books Bic2: Gift books Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Short Books DECEMBER 2018 101 Things to do to Take the Stress Out of Christmas Robin Snow

The perfect Christmas gift: a handbook to improve that most joyous but often most frustrating occasion - Christmas itself.

Sales points • Proven sales track record with over 5000 101 Things To Do Instead of Playing With your Phone now sold • Perfect little stocking filler - fun and useful!

Description Christmas can be a real whirlwind - buying presents, cooking the dinner, hosting the family. Surely there is a way to make it all a little more relaxing, and a bit more fun?

This book offers an imaginative mix of games and tips to remind you of why we celebrate Christmas in the first place.

Whether you are hoping to recapture that festive childhood magic or looking for a way to remain calm amid the mayhem, these activities will help you get the most out of the 'Most Wonderful time of the Year'.

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Price: AU $12.99 NZ $14.99 ISBN: 9781780723297 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 145x111mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Gift books Bic2: Humour Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Short Books DECEMBER 2018 101 Things to do Instead of Worrying About the World Felicity Brightside

With so much going on in the world to bring us all down, this is the perfect Christmas gift - fun tips and activities to give you a lift.

Sales points • Proven sales track record with over 5000 101 Things To Do Instead of Playing With your Phone now sold • Perfect little stocking filler - fun and useful!

Description Political pandemonium, nuclear apocalypse, climate change, diabetes, dementia, the dangers of too much sitting down ... Sometimes you'd be forgiven for not wanting to get off the sofa.

Looking to change the record? This book offers you an imaginative mix of activities, games and tips that will help you free your mind and rediscover your joie de vivre!

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Price: AU $12.99 NZ $14.99 ISBN: 9781780723181 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 145x111mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Gift books Bic2: Humour Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

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