AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 The Imitator Rebecca Starford
A page-turning World War Two spy thriller, based on true events.
Description 'The Imitator gripped me to the end: I devoured it … What a rare treat to find a novel that offers both white-knuckled suspense and evocative, beautiful prose. I loved it.' - Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites and The Good People
'We trade in secrets here, Evelyn. There's no shame in having a few of your own. Our only concern is for who might discover them.'
Out of place at boarding school, scholarship girl Evelyn Varley realises that the only way for her to fit in is to be like everyone else. She hides her real self and what she really thinks behind the manners and attitudes of those around her. By the time she graduates from Oxford University in 1939, ambitious and brilliant Evelyn has perfected her performance.
War is looming. Evelyn soon finds herself recruited to MI5, and the elite counterintelligence department of Bennett White, the enigmatic spy-runner. Recognising Evelyn's mercurial potential, White schools her in observation and subterfuge and assigns her the dangerous task of infiltrating an underground group of Nazi sympathisers working to form an alliance with Germany.
But befriending people to betray them isn't easy, no matter how dark their intent. Evelyn is drawn deeper into a duplicity of her own making, where truth and lies intertwine, and her increasing distrust of everyone, including herself, begins to test her better judgement. When a close friend becomes dangerously ensnared in her mission, Evelyn's loyalty is pushed to breaking point, forcing her to make an impossible decision.
A powerfully insightful and luminous portrait of courage and loyalty, and the sacrifices made in their name.
About the Author Rebecca Starford is publishing director of Kill Your Darlings magazine and author of acclaimed memoir Bad Behaviour: A Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781760529796 Memoir of Bullying and Boarding School, which is currently in development with Matchbox Pictures for adaptation into a Format: C-Format PB TV series. She lives in Brisbane with her partner and son. Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Thriller / suspense Bic2:
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Author now living:Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 The Devils You Know Ben Sanders
Ben Sanders, author of American Blood, strikes again in a mile-a-minute white-knuckle ride through the heart of darkness in sunny California.
Description 'It's easy to see what the fuss is about. Sanders' prose is sharper than a switchblade . . . It's like Raymond Chandler, Lee Child and Elmore Leonard rolled into one.' - Sydney Morning Herald on American Blood
Vincent needs a change. He's spent the last fifteen years in covert operations for the US government, but after a botched and fatal mission, he decides he's done with pulling triggers for shadowy officialdom. He wants a rest from the violence.
Vincent accepts a job in Santa Barbara, California, as head of security for supermarket mogul Eugene Lamar. It's perfect: his main duty is driving the boss to and from golf, which means ample down-time for surfing, or sitting by the pool contemplating life - and how to live it with a zero body-count.
He's intrigued too by Lamar's daughter - the journalist Erin Jones - on tour in California to promote her book about the benefits of war. Vincent's seen his share of conflict and is sure he can change her mind - and he'd really like to make his case over drinks.
There's only one problem: if Lamar's business is confined to supermarkets, why does he need a panic room full of assault rifles, and a .357 revolver in his car?
It turns out Lamar owes a debt to bad people - but that's the very least of the trouble. He's ensnared in a criminal enterprise which soon brings costs in lives as well as money.
Erin wants answers, and needs Vincent's help to get them. But how much does she already know? Is his deep attraction to her a liability? And can Vincent keep her safe from the brutal characters who are after her father?
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781760877873 It seems that Santa Barbara is a sunny town full of dark talent, and Vincent worries he'll have to revert to dark talents of Format: C-Format PB his own if he's going to stay alive . . . Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 336 pages About the Author Bic1: Thriller / suspense Ben Sanders is the author of American Blood, Marshall's Law, and The Stakes, as well as three New Zealand Fiction Bic2:
Bestsellers: The Fallen, By Any Means, and Only the Dead. Sanders's first three novels were written while he was Author now living: Auckland, NZ. studying at university; he graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor of Engineering and now writes full-time. American Blood, his highly-anticipated American debut, published in November 2015, and the second in the series, Marshall's Law, in April 2017. His third US-set novel, The Stakes, was published in 2018. Sanders lives in Auckland, New Zealand.Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Devils You Know 12 copy pack Point of Sale
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Author now living:Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 American Blood Ben Sanders
A former undercover cop now in witness protection finds himself pulled into the search for a missing woman. An explosive, unputdownable work of suspense from a fresh voice in crime fiction.
Description After a botched undercover operation, ex-NYPD officer Marshall Grade is living in witness protection in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Marshall's instructions are to keep a low profile: the mob wants him dead, and a contract killer known as the Dallas Man has been hired to track him down. Racked with guilt over wrongs committed during his undercover work, and seeking atonement, Marshall investigates the disappearance of a local woman named Alyce Ray.
Members of a drug ring seem to hold clues to Ray's whereabouts, but hunting traffickers is no quiet task. Word of Marshall's efforts spreads, and soon the worst elements of his former life, including the Dallas Man, are coming for him.
Written by a rising New Zealand star who has been described as 'first rate', this American debut drops a Jack Reacher- like hero into the landscape of No Country for Old Men.
'a first-rate, first-class, top-tier thriller . . . that flat-out demands to be read. Just sit back and enjoy the ride. If you love a good thriller, then look no further than American Blood.'- Lorenzo Carcaterra, New York Times-bestselling author of Sleepers and The Wolf.
About the Author Ben Sanders is the author of three previous novels: The Fallen (2010), By Any Means (2011), and Only The Dead (2013), all of which were New Zealand Fiction Bestsellers. Sanders' first three novels were written while he was studing at university; he graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor of Engineering, but now writes full-time. American Blood is his first U.S.- based novel. He lives in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Author now living: Auckland, NZ.Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 What Could Be Saved Liese O'Halloran Schwarz
An enthralling, redemptive novel set in Bangkok in 1972 and Washington, DC in 2019 about an expatriate child who goes missing, whose family is contacted decades later by a man claiming to be the vanished boy.
Description 'A harrowing tale of the lies of omission and the lies of commission that can break a family apart, What Could Be Saved is a delicious hybrid of mystery, drama, and elegance: rich with detail, lush in language, and capable of keeping you on the edge of your seat.' - Jodi Picoult
Washington, DC, 2019: Laura Preston is a reclusive artist at odds with her older sister Bea as their elegant, formidable mother slowly slides into dementia. When a stranger contacts Laura claiming to be her brother who disappeared forty years earlier when the family lived in Bangkok, Laura ignores Bea's warnings of a scam and flies to Thailand to see if it can be true. But meeting him in person leads to more questions than answers.
Bangkok, 1972: Genevieve and Robert Preston live in a beautiful house behind a high wall, raising their three children with the help of a cadre of servants. In these exotic surroundings, Genevieve strives to create a semblance of the life they would have had at home in the US - ballet and riding classes for the children, impeccable dinner parties, a meticulously kept home. But in truth, Robert works for American intelligence, Genevieve finds herself drawn into a passionate affair with her husband's boss, and their serene household is vulnerable to unseen dangers in a rapidly changing world and a country they don't really understand.
Alternating between past and present as all of the secrets are revealed, What Could Be Saved is an unforgettable novel about a family shattered by loss and betrayal, and the beauty that can exist even in the midst of brokenness.
'Exquisite and memorable writing' Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women
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Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Liese O'Halloran Schwarz currently lives in North Carolina, USA. She grew up in Washington DC after an early childhood ISBN: 9781760879266 lived overseas. She is an emergency medicine doctor and is also a much-praised author of two previous novels, Near Format: C-Format PB Canaan and The Possible World. Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 464 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2:
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Author now living:Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Crackenback Lee Christine
A thrilling tale of snow-bound rural suspense, from the bestselling author of Charlotte Pass.
Description When an injured man bursts into the Thredbo lodge that Eva Bell manages, her first thought is to protect her daughter, Poppy. But the bloodied figure turns out to be Jack Walker, the man she'd had a brief fling with four years earlier - Poppy's father. His arrival turns Eva's world upside down, as she tries desperately to shield Poppy from the dangerous consequences of her father's return.
Meanwhile, Detective Pierce Ryder of the Sydney Homicide Squad is on the hunt for serial killer Gavin Hutton. After months of dead ends, he's finally got some solid leads that trace Hutton back to the Crackenback Range in the Snowy Mountains. Though they don't know it yet, Jack Walker and Ryder are tangled in the same treacherous web - and they'll both do anything in their power to protect the ones they love…
About the Author In 2009, former corporate trainer Lee Christine decided to turn her writing hobby into a serious day job.
Lee is the author of six romantic suspense novels. Her first crime novel, Charlotte Pass, was published in 2020.
She lives in Newcastle, NSW, with her husband, and her Irish Wheaten Terrier, Honey. To read more about Lee Christine visit http://leechristine.com.au
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Author now living: Bar Beach, Newcastle, NSWAllen & Unwin AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 The Shaman Roland Perry
A gripping international thriller from bestselling author Roland Perry.
Description When a maverick genius called the Shaman develops a cold-fusion reactor that could change our world, he finds himself the target of a ruthless international organisation that will do anything to gain control of the new technology. All that stands in their way is Victor Cavalier, an investigative reporter and former soldier with lethal skills and a talent for getting to the bottom of the story. The Shaman is the explosive new thriller from one of Australia's best-known authors.
About the Author Roland Perry is one of Australia's best known authors. He has written 28 books, many of them going on to become bestsellers, including The Queen, Her Lover and the Most Notorious Spy in History, Horrie the War Dog, Bill the Bastard, Bradman's Invincibles, The Changi Brownlow, The Australian Light Horse and Monash: The Outsider Who Won a War.
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Author now living: Elwood, VICAllen & Unwin AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Fair Warning Michael Connelly
Stalwart journalist Jack McEvoy - the hero of The Poet and The Scarecrow - tracks a serial killer who has been operating completely under the radar - until now - in this thriller from #1 bestselling author Michael Connelly.
Description Jack McEvoy has taken down killers before, but when a woman he had a one-night stand with is murdered in a particularly brutal way, he realises he might be facing a criminal mind unlike any he's ever encountered.
Jack investigates against the warnings of the police and his own editor, walking a thin line between investigation and obsession, and makes a shocking discovery, connecting the crime to other mysterious deaths across the country. But then he himself becomes a suspect, and as he races to clear his name, Jack's findings point to a serial killer who uses personal data shared by the victims themselves to select and hunt his targets.
About the Author A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the international bestselling author of 34 novels. He has created many genre-defining characters, including detectives Harry Bosch and Renee Ballard, lawyer Mickey Haller and crime reporter Jack McEvoy, who stars in his most recent #1 bestseller, Fair Warning.
Michael Connelly's books have sold more than seventy-four million copies worldwide. They have been translated into 40 languages and have won awards all over the world, including the Edgar and Anthony Awards. Michael Connelly has also been awarded the 2018 CWA Diamond Dagger, the highest honour in British crime writing.
He is the executive producer of the successful TV series Bosch, starring Titus Welliver, and the creator and host of the podcast Murder Book. He spends his time in California and Florida.
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Author now living:Michael Connelly AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 The Poet Michael Connelly
Michael Connelly's breakout thriller: cunning, poet-quoting serial killer of unprecedented savagery executes one homicide cop after another.
Description Death is my beat . . .
Jack McEvoy specialises in death. As a crime reporter for the Rocky Mountain News, he has seen every kind of murder. But his experience doesn't lessen the brutal shock of learning that his only brother is dead: a suicide.
Jack's brother was a homicide detective, and he had been depressed about a recent murder case-a hideously grisly one- that he'd been unable to solve.
McEvoy decides that the best way to exorcise his grief is by writing a feature on police suicides. But when he begins his research, he quickly arrives at a stunning revelation. Following his leads, protecting his sources, muscling his way inside a federal investigation, Jack grabs hold of what is clearly the story of a lifetime. He also knows that in taking on the story, he's making himself the most visible target for a murderer who has eluded the greatest investigators alive.
'The real thing, and the best of its kind since The Silence of the Lambs . . . An unputdownable masterclass in thriller writing.' ?TimeOut
About the Author A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the international bestselling author of the Harry Bosch thriller series and the legal thriller series featuring Mickey Haller, as well as several stand-alone bestsellers.
Michael Connelly's books have sold more than seventy-four million copies worldwide. They have been translated into 40 languages and have won awards all over the world, including the Edgar and Anthony Awards. Michael Connelly has also
Price: AU $14.99 NZ $16.99 been awarded the 2018 CWA Diamond Dagger, the highest honour in British crime writing. ISBN: 9781760878375 Format: B Connelly is the executive producer of the successful TV series, Bosch, starring Titus Welliver. Bosch Season 4 is now Package Type: PAPERBACK available on SBS in Australia, with Season 5 to screen in 2019 and Season 6 also going into production. Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 512 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Michael Connelly's new true crime podcast, Murder Book, premiered on 28 January, 2019. Bic2:
Author now living: Michael Connelly spends his time in California and Florida.To find out more, head to: Website: www.michaelconnelly.com.au Facebook: www.facebook.com/MichaelConnellyBooks Michael Connelly AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 The Scarecrow Michael Connelly
A standalone crime thriller featuring Jack McEvoy, hero of The Poet, from the global bestselling author of Dark Sacred Night.
Description Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporter. With cuts being made, he's got 30 days left on the job. His last assignment? Training his young replacement. But Jack has other plans. He is going to go out with a bang - a final story that will win journalism's highest honour: a Pulitzer Prize.
Jack focuses on a 16-year-old drug dealer who has confessed to a brutal murder. But he soon realises that the so-called confession is bogus. The investigation leads him to a killer known as The Scarecrow, who has worked completely below the police radar.
Jack is off and running on the biggest story he's had since The Poet crossed his path twelve years before - but The Scarecrow knows he's coming ...
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Author now living:Michael Connelly AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 The Spiral Iain Ryan
It's not just the truth that lurks at the bottom of the spiral...the utterly original and brilliantly compelling new thriller by the twice Ned Kelly Award shortlisted Iain Ryan.
Description Erma Bridges' life is far from perfect, but entirely ordinary. So when she is shot twice by a colleague, her quiet existence is shattered in an instant.
With her would-be murderer dead, no one can give Erma the answers she needs to move on from her trauma. Why her? Why now?
So begins Erma's quest for the truth - and a dangerous, thrilling journey into the heart of darkness.
With all the inventiveness of The Seven Deathsof Evelyn Hardcastle and the raw brutality of Mulholland Drive, The Spiral is a unique crime thriller, featuring a series of deeply involving twists, and concluding with one of 2020's most unsettling finales.
About the Author Iain Ryan is an Australian writer who lives in Melbourne. He is the author of two previous novels, Four Days (2015) and The Student (2017), both shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award.
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Author now living:Echo AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 The Spiral 10 copy pack
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Author now living:Echo AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 A Crooked Tree Una Mannion
This is the story of Libby and her siblings over one long hot summer, and how one decision can have terrible unintended consequences...
Description Rage. That's the feeling engulfing the car as Ellen's mother swerves over to the hard-shoulder and orders her daughter out onto the roadside. Ignoring the protests of her other children, she accelerates away, leaving Ellen standing on the gravel verge in her school pinafore and knee socks as the light fades.
What would you do as you watch your little sister getting smaller in the rear view window? How far would you be willing to go to help her? The Gallagher children are going to find out. This moment is the beginning of a summer that will change everything.
About the Author Una Mannion was born in Philadelphia and lives in County Sligo Ireland. She has won numerous prizes for her work including the Hennessy Emerging Poetry Award and the Doolin, Cuirt, Allingham and Ambit short story prizes. Her work has been published in The Irish Times, The Lonely Crowd, Crannog and Bare Fiction. She edits The Cormorant, a broadsheet of prose and poetry.
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Author now living:Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 A Crooked Tree 10 copy pack
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Author now living:Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 little scratch Rebecca Watson
The explosive and virtuosic debut novel by one of the most talented young authors to have emerged in recent British fiction.
Description little scratch tells the story of a day in the life of an unnamed woman, living in a lower-case world of demarcated fridge shelves and office politics; clock-watching and WhatsApp notifications. In a voice that is fiercely wry, touchingly delicate and increasingly neurotic, the protagonist relays what it takes to get through the quotidian detail of that single trajectory - from morning to night - while processing recent sexual violence.
little scratch is about the coexistence of monotony with our waking, intelligent lives. It is a powerful evocation of how the external and internal aspects of our lives exist in a helix, and what it means to live out the course of a single day consumed by trauma.
About the Author Rebecca Watson is an editorial assistant at the Financial Times. She has been published in the Times Literary Supplement, Granta, The Telegraph, Literary Review, The Spectator and The London Magazine, among others. In 2018, she was shortlisted for The White Review Short Story Prize. A graduate of Oxford University, she was an editor at the Cherwell and was involved in leading the #NotGuilty campaign.
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Author now living:Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Once You Go This Far Kristen Lepionka
You know Reacher, Rebus and Grace. Now meet Roxane Weary...
Description After the death of her cop father, PI Roxane Weary did everything she could to lose herself in her work - but she's getting tired of the hangovers, of fighting with her ex-girlfriend, and of avoiding her mother. When she's asked to investigate a suspicious death, she delves into the case with her usual stubborn determination.
Pulling her far from home, and into an insular and controlling evangelical community, the case might just be bigger than Roxane can handle alone. But is it too late, or too dangerous, to call on the people she needs?
About the Author Kristen Lepionka is the author of The Last Place You Look (2017), winner of the Shamus Award for Best First P. I. Novel, What You Want to See (2018) and The Stories You Tell (2019). She grew up mostly in a public library and could often be found in the adult mystery section well before she was out of middle school. Her writing has been selected for Shotgun Honey, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Grift, and Black Elephant. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her partner and two cats.
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Author now living:Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Follow Her Home Steph Cha
The first book in the riveting Juniper Song series, by the LA Times Book Award winner.
Description 'Compelling from first to last page.' - Denise Mina
Meet Juniper Song, an under employed, twenty-something, Raymond-Chandler-loving, Korean American woman from downtown LA.
When a friend asks Song to carry out surveillance on his father, she figures she doesn't have anything better to do - plus she gets to indulge her Philip Marlowe fantasies. But barely half a day into playing private eye someone has knocked her unconscious and left a dead body in the trunk of her car.
About the Author Steph Cha is the author of the Juniper Song crime trilogy, Noir Editor at The Los Angeles Review of Books, a contributing book reviewer for The Los Angeles Times and a regular panelist at crime and literary festivals. Her most recent novel, Your House Will Pay, was published by Faber in the UK in 2020. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two basset hounds.
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Author now living:Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Beware Beware Steph Cha
The second book in the riveting Juniper Song series, by the LA Times Book Award winner.
Description 'Nathanael West and Raymond Chandler would be proud.' - LA Times
Juniper Song has a new gig: apprenticed to a private investigation firm in downtown LA, she's racking up hours following cheating spouses.
When a NY artist hires Song to keep an eye on her long-distance boyfriend in LA, Song has no problem tailing the guy - until a panicked late-night phone call has her racing to the iconic Roosevelt Hotel. There, in the aftermath of a wild party in its top-floor suite, she finds only two people left: the boyfriend and a Hollywood legend. Only one of them is still alive.
'Defies the stereotype of the Asian American woman….This is prime L.A. noir with a feminist slant.' - Booklist
About the Author Steph Cha is the author of the Juniper Song crime trilogy, Noir Editor at The Los Angeles Review of Books, a contributing book reviewer for The Los Angeles Times and a regular panelist at crime and literary festivals. Her most recent novel, Your House Will Pay, was published by Faber in the UK in 2020. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two basset hounds.
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Author now living:Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Dead Soon Enough Steph Cha
The third book in the riveting Juniper Song series, by the LA Times Book Award winner.
Description 'A gritty, politically charged mystery.' - LA Times
Juniper Song - private detective - has a talent for surveillance, and for knowing when a client isn't telling her the whole story.
Rubina Gasparian, Song's latest client, is worried about her cousin, who just happens to be carrying her baby as a surrogate. Something tells Song she's been hired to do more than just follow a heavily pregnant twenty-six-year-old around LA, and soon enough, she finds herself caught in the dangerous underbelly of one of LA's biggest immigrant communities.
About the Author Steph Cha is the author of the Juniper Song crime trilogy, Noir Editor at The Los Angeles Review of Books, a contributing book reviewer for The Los Angeles Times and a regular panelist at crime and literary festivals. Her most recent novel, Your House Will Pay, was published by Faber in the UK in 2020. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two basset hounds.
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Author now living:Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 A River Called Time Courttia Newland
A monumental speculative fiction story of love, loyalty, politics and conscience set in parallel Londons.
Description The Ark was built to save the lives of the many, but rapidly became a refuge for the elite, the entrance closed without warning.
Years after the Ark was cut off from the world, a chance of survival within its confines is granted to a select few who can prove their worth. Among their number is Markriss Denny, whose path to future excellence is marred only by a closely guarded secret: without warning, his spirit leaves his body, allowing him to see and experience a world far beyond his physical limitations.
Once inside the Ark, Denny learns of another with the same power, whose existence could spell catastrophe for humanity. He is forced into a desperate race to understand his abilities, and in doing so uncovers the truth about the Ark, himself and the people he thought he once knew.
'Courttia's writing is rich with passion and humanity. He manages to convey great depth without ever losing his lightness of touch. A rare feat only reserved for the few.' - Steve McQueen
About the Author Courttia Newland is the author of seven books including his much lauded debut, The Scholar. His latest novel, The Gospel According to Cane, was published in 2013. His short stories have appeared in many anthologies and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. In 2016 he was awarded the Tayner Barbers Award for science fiction writing and the Roland Rees Busary for playwriting. As a screenwriter, he has written two episodes of the Steve McQueen BBC series Small Axe.
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Author now living:Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Ordesa Manuel Vilas, translated by Andrea Rosenberg
The #1 international bestselling phenomenon: a profound and riveting story of love, loss, and memory.
Description Ordesa - a small Spanish town in the Pyrenees - is where our narrator was born, a place his father loved dearly, a place suffused with memories. Now, forty-six years later, he returns to the valley with his own children on a summer vacation. His parents are dead, his marriage has ended and he's struggling to piece together the bits of himself.
Single and living in an apartment he hates, clinging to snatched moments of quality time with his apathetic children, newly sober and with his career on the wane, the ghosts of the narrator's family besiege him, but also bring him hope. Out of despair, he writes this chronicle, this homage, this memoir of his family: grandparents whose photos were never taken, whose funerals were never attended, parents unable to show their love. Maybe the tragedy of life itself is not death, but truly realising the importance of family only once they've passed. Perhaps this trip to Ordesa can help him fall in love with life - his life - once more.
A masterwork of autofiction from Spanish literary icon Manuel Vilas, Ordesa is a deeply moving meditation on identity, nationality, family, loss and the passing of time.
About the Author Manuel Vilas was born in Spain in 1962. He is an award-winning poet and novelist. Ordesa has sold over 100,000 copies in Spain and has gone on to become a phenomenon across Europe, being translated into fifteen languages. Ordesa is the first of his works to be translated into English and was the winner of the Prix Femina etranger 2019. He currently resides in Iowa where he teaches creative writing.
Andrea Rosenberg translates from both Spanish and Portuguese. She holds an MFA in literary translation and an MA in Spanish from the University of Iowa, and she has been the recipient of awards and grants from the Fulbright Program, the American Literary Translators Association, and the Banff International Literary Translation Centre. Her full-length translations include Tomas Gonzalez's The Storm, Aura Xilonen's The Gringo Champion, Juan Gomez Barcena's The Price: AU $34.99 NZ $37.99 ISBN: 9781786897312 Sky over Lima, and David Jimenez's Children of the Monsoon. Format: Misc HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 220h x 144w mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Fiction in translation Bic2:
Author now living:Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 My Name Is Monster Katie Hale
Inspired by Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein, My Name Is Monster is a novel about power, about isolation, and about female relationships.
Description 'Strikingly beautiful' - Guardian 'Tough and tender' - Joanne Harris
After the Sickness has killed off her parents, and the bombs have fallen on the last safe cities, Monster emerges from the Arctic vault which has kept her alive. When she washes up on the coast of Scotland, everyone she knows is dead, and she believes she is alone in an empty world.
Slowly, piece by piece, she begins to rebuild a life. Until, one day, she finds a girl: another survivor, feral, and ready to be taught all that Monster knows. But as the lonely days pass, the lessons the girl learns are not always the ones Monster means to teach . . .
About the Author Born in Cumbria, Katie Hale is a poet, freelance journalist and educator. She has held Emerging Writer in Residence posts at Theatre by the Lake and Creative Futures Cumbria, and is currently working on an oral story-sharing project with the National Trust. Her debut poetry pamphlet, Breaking the Surface, was published by Flipped Eye in 2017, her poetry has been awarded the Jane Martin and Ware Poetry Prizes, and has been shortlisted for the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize. My Name Is Monster is her debut novel.
@halekatie | halekatie.com
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Author now living:Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Weather Jenny Offill
From the author of Dept. of Speculation, a dazzling and deadpan new novel about hope and despair, fear and comfort as it plays out in these times of environmental and political turbulence
Description SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020
'This is so good. We are not ready nor worthy' - Ocean Vuong
What are you afraid of, he asks me and the answer of course is dentistry, humiliation, scarcity, then he says what are your most useful skills? People think I'm funny...
Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practise her other calling: as an unofficial shrink. For years, she has supported her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilised for the moment, but then her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal. Sylvia has become famous for her prescient podcast, Hell and High Water, and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives: from left-wingers worried about climate change and right wingers worried about the decline of western civilisation.
As she dives into this polarised world, she begins to wonder what it means to keep tending your own garden once you've seen the flames beyond its walls. When her brother becomes a father and Sylvia a recluse, Lizzie is forced to acknowledge the limits of what she can do. But if she can't save others, then what, or who, might save her?
And all the while the voices of the city keep floating in--funny, disturbing, and increasingly mad.
About the Author Jenny Offill's novel Dept. of Speculation was shortlisted for the Folio Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award,
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 and was chosen as a book of the year over 20 times, including by the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, FT, Daily Mail, Stylist, ISBN: 9781783784776 Observer and Vogue. She is also the author of the novel Last Things, and four books for children. She lives upstate New Format: B York with her family. Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2:
Author now living:Granta Paperbacks AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 The Captive Deborah O'Connor
Only he can unlock the truth. Only she can set him free.
The most captivating thriller of 2021. A gripping high-concept thriller with a dark love story.
Description He killed her husband. Now he's living in her house...
Hannah is grieving the loss of her husband, a policeman who was brutally murdered. Jem was convicted of the crime. But under a new system he will serve out his twenty five year sentence in a cell in Hannah's house. There it is hoped he will learn the true cost of his terrible crime.
But who is the real captive? Jem, whose whole world is now confined to a few square feet - or Hannah, whose responsibility it is to look after her husband's killer?
As Hannah and Jem settle into their strange new situation, they begin to get used to their new routines. But then something happens. Jem tells Hannah he's innocent. He tells her something else too. That her husband had been lying to her.
Before long, the relationship between Hannah and Jem begins to shift, as Hannah questions everything she thought she knew. But was Jem really wrongly convicted? Or is he simply a desperate man, willing to say and do anything that might grant his freedom?
A brilliant, intelligent and intensely gripping thriller, The Captive will keep you guessing till the very end . . .
About the Author Deborah O'Connor is a writer and TV producer. She lives in North Yorkshire with her husband and daughter. Deborah's Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 first novel was the bestseller My Husband's Son, followed by The Dangerous Kind. The Captive is her third novel. ISBN: 9781838772666 Format: C-Format PB Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2:
Author now living:Zaffre AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 The Dangerous Kind Deborah O'Connor
A stunning new thriller that will make you think; then think again. Perfect for fans of Anatomy of a Scandal and He Said/She Said and readers of Jon Ronson's The Psychopath Test.
Description What if the people we trust are the ones we should fear?
We all recognise them. Those who sit just on the fringes of society. Who send prickles up the back of our necks. The charmers. The liars. The manipulators. Those who have the potential to go that one step too far. And then take another step.
Jessamine Gooch makes a living from these people. Each week she broadcasts a radio show looking into the past lives of convicted killers; asking if there was more that could have been done to prevent their terrible crimes.
Then one day she is approached by a woman desperate to find her missing friend, Cassie, fearing her abusive husband may have taken that final deadly step. But as Jessamine delves into the months prior to Cassie's disappearance she fails to realise there is a dark figure closer to home, one that threatens the safety of her own family...
Set over a long, dark winter in London and perfect for fans of He Said/She Said and Belinda Bauer, The Dangerous Kind is at once a gripping thriller and a stunning portrayal of the monsters that live among us.
About the Author Deborah O'Connor is a writer and TV producer. Born and bred in the North-East of England, in 2010 she completed the Faber Academy novel writing course. She lives in London with her husband and daughter. Deborah's first novel was the bestseller My Husband's Son.The Dangerous Kind is her second novel. You can follow her on twitter @deboc77
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Author now living:Zaffre AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Buried Lynda La Plante
The first book in a brand new thriller series by the Queen of Crime Drama, Lynda La Plante. A burnt-out cottage, a fortune buried in the ashes - and a body that could solve a decades-old crime.
Description SOME THINGS SHOULD REMAIN BURIED . . .
The Sunday Times bestselling first book in a brand new thriller series by the Queen of Crime Drama, Lynda La Plante. ______
DC Jack Warr and his girlfriend Maggie have just moved to London to start a new life together. Though charming, Jack can't seem to find his place in the world - until he's drawn into an investigation that turns his life upside down.
In the aftermath of a fire at an isolated cottage, a badly charred body is discovered, along with the burnt remains of millions of stolen, untraceable bank notes.
Jack's search leads him deep into a murky criminal underworld - a world he finds himself surprisingly good at navigating. But as the line of the law becomes blurred, how far will Jack go to find the answers - and what will it cost him?
In Buried, it's time to meet DC Jack Warr as he digs up the deadly secrets of the past . . . ______
Praise for Buried:
'It's quite a challenge to make a detective constable the lead character in a crime novel, but Lynda La Plante does a cracking job of it in Buried. DC Jack Warr is clearly destined for higher things, and I look forward to following his progress' - PETER ROBINSON, No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the DCI Banks series
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781838770327 'A compelling, clever plot with a brilliant cast of diverse characters. Utterly riveting' - RACHEL ABBOTT, million-selling Format: B author of ONLY THE INNOCENT Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 448 pages 'Lynda La Plante practically invented the thriller' - Karin Slaughter Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2:
About the Author Author now living: Lynda La Plante was born in Liverpool. She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with the National theatre and RDC before becoming a television actress. She then turned to writing - and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful TV series Widows. Her novels have all been international bestsellers.Her original script for the much-acclaimed Prime Suspect won awards from BAFTA, Emmy, British Broadcasting and Zaffre AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Hitler's Secret Rory Clements
With WWII on a knife-edge, the most devestating weapon against the Nazis may not be a weapon at all...In Sunday Times bestselling Rory Clement's most intelligent, thrilling novel to date, only the truth can turn the tide of war.
Description The most anticipated spy thriller of 2020, from the award-winning author of Corpus. ______
Autumn 1941.The war is going badly for Britain and its allies. If Hitler is to be stopped, a new weapon is desperately needed.
In Cambridge, professor Tom Wilde is approached by an American intelligence officer who claims to know of such a weapon - one so secret even Hitler himself isn't aware of its existence. If Wilde can smuggle the package out of Germany, the Third Reich will surely fall.
But it is only when he is deep behind enemy lines that Wilde discovers why the Nazis are so desperate to prevent the 'package' falling into Allied hands. And as ruthless killers hunt him through Europe, a treacherous question hangs over the mission: if Hitler's secret will win them the war, why is Wilde convinced it must remain hidden?
Dramatic, intelligent, and utterly compelling, Hitler's Secret is the Sunday Times bestselling spy thriller of 2020 from the award-winning author of Corpus and Nucleus - perfect for readers of Robert Harris, C J Sansom and Joseph Kanon.
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Praise for Rory Clements:
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 'Political polarisation, mistrust and simmering violence' - The Times ISBN: 9781838770297 Format: B 'A standout historical novel and spy thriller' - Daily Express Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 464 pages 'Enjoyable, bloody and brutish' - Guardian Bic1: Historical fiction Bic2:
'A dramatic, twisty thriller' - Daily Mail Author now living:'A colourful history lesson . . . exciting narrative twists' - Sunday Telegraph
About the Author RORY CLEMENTS is a Sunday Times bestselling author. He won the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award for his second Zaffre AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 A Woman's Courage S. Block
In the depths of war, an extraordinary group of women strive to help the war effort and keep their friends and families safe.
Description In the midst of World War II, the members of one village WI fight harder than ever to help the war effort.
But behind closed doors, each is fighting a more personal battle.
Pat Simms is reeling from her own role in her abusive husband's death, and the new freedom before her is daunting. Sarah Collingborne is struggling with the absence of her husband, who is stranded in a POW camp abroad, and trying her best to fill his treasured place in the village.
Meanwhile, Teresa Lucas is anxious about her future as a parent, and her friend Alison Scotlock is on the verge of starting a new relationship. And Miriam Brindsley's good luck might be about to change . . .
Grieving for men already lost and anxious for those still away fighting, the women of Great Paxford must rely on each other. Amidst the complexities of broken relationships, loss and friendship, this group of very different women must work together to find a way through.
About the Author S. Block, the creator and writer behind the Home Fires TV series watched by over six million viewers, is a BAFTA award- winning writer who's been nominated for the Royal Television Society Awards and the British Comedy Awards. He's worked on TV shows such as New Tricks, Lewis, Wire in the Blood, Hotel Babylon and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, as well as shows for NBC and ABC.
Among other jobs he was an elephant keeper at London Zoo, a London bus driver and is the current director of the North
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 London branch of The Samaritans. Simon was born in London and lives there with his wife and sons. ISBN: 9781785765674 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2:
Author now living:Zaffre AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Detransition, Baby Torrey Peters
A uniquely trans take on love, motherhood, and those exes who you just can't quit.
Description Reese nearly had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York, a job she didn't hate. She'd scraped together a life previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was a child. Then everything fell apart and three years on Reese is still in self-destruct mode, avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men.
When her ex calls to ask if she wants to be a mother, Reese finds herself intrigued. After being attacked in the street, Amy de-transitioned to become Ames, changed jobs and, thinking he was infertile, started an affair with his boss Katrina. Now Katrina's pregnant. Could the three of them form an unconventional family - and raise the baby together?
About the Author Torrey Peters lives in Brooklyn and holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a Masters in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth. She is the author of two novellas, Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones and The Masker. @torreypeters
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Author now living:Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Selected Poems Langston Hughes
Classics edition with new introduction by Kayo Chingonyi of the essential poems of 'the poet laureate of black America' - New Yorker.
Description With a new introduction by the multi-prizewinning young poet Kayo Chingonyi.
For over forty years, until his death in 1967, Langston Hughes captured in his poetry the lives of black people in the USA. This edition is Hughes's own selection of his work, and was first published in 1959. It includes all of his best known poems including 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers', 'The Weary Blues', 'Song for Billie Holiday', 'Black Maria', 'Magnolia Flowers', 'Lunch in a Jim Crow Car' and 'Montage of a Dream Deferred'.
A key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes is now seen as one of the great chroniclers of black American experience - and one of the great artists of the twentieth century.
About the Author Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902. After graduation from high school, he spent a year in Mexico with his father, then moved to New York City, where he studied for a year at Columbia and made his career. His first published poem in a nationally known magazine was 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers', which appeared in Crisis in 1921. He became a leading light in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. In 1925, Hughes was awarded the First Prize for Poetry by Opportunity, for his poem 'The Weary Blues' which gave its title to his first collection of poems, published in 1926. He wrote poetry, short stories, song lyrics, essays, humour and plays and an autobiography, The Big Sea.
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Author now living:Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Beyond Sleep Willem Frederik Hermans, translated by Ina Rilke
A darkly comic classic from the author of An Untouched House.
Description A young geologist is determined to win fame for making a great discovery. To this end he joins a small geological expedition, which travels to the far North of Norway, but ultimately realizes he's more likely to drown in a fjord or be eaten by parasites than win glory. Beset by mosquitoes and insomnia in his freezing leaky tent, Alfred becomes increasingly desperate and paranoid. Haunted by the ghost of his scientist father, he moves toward the final act of vanity which will trigger a catastrophe.
A deadpan comedy often subtly calling up the works of Heller or Vonnegut at their best, Beyond Sleep is a unique and illuminating examination of how hard it is to be a true pioneer in the modern world.
About the Author Willem Frederik Hermans (1921-1995) was one of the most prolific and versatile Dutch authors of the twentieth century. In 1977 he received the Dutch Literature Prize - the most prestigious literary prize in the Netherlands. He is considered one of the three most important authors in the Netherlands in the postwar period, along with Harry Mulisch and Gerard Reve. Hermans' An Untouched House was published by Pushkin Press in 2018 to rave reviews. The Darkroom of Damocles and Memories of a Guardian Angel are also forthcoming.
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Author now living:Pushkin AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Ties Domenico Starnone
Domenico Starnone's thirteenth work of fiction is a powerful short novel about relationships, family, love, and the ineluctable consequences of one's actions.
Description Ties is the story of marriage. Like many marriages, this one has been subject to strain, to attrition, to the burden of routine. Yet it has survived intact.
Or so things appear. The rupture in Vanda and Aldo's marriage lies years in the past, but if one looks closely enough, the fissures and fault lines are evident. Their marriage is a cracked vase that may shatter at the slightest touch. Or perhaps it has already shattered, and nobody is willing to acknowledge the fact.
About the Author Domenico Starnone was born in Naples and lives in Rome. He is the author of thirteen works of fiction, including First Execution (Europa, 2009), Via Genito, winner of Italy's most prestigious literary prize, the Strega, and Ties (Europa, 2017), a New York Times Editors' Pick, and The Sunday Times' best novel in translation of 2017.
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Author now living:Europa Editions AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Puppies Maurizio de Giovanni
The new instalment in the bestselling 'Bastards of Pizzofalcone' series, by one of Europe's most renowned and versatile mystery writers.
Description This new instalment in Maurizio de Giovanni's bestselling 'Bastards of Pizzofalcone' series unfolds during the crisp beginning of April in contemporary Naples.
A baby is left abandoned beside a dumpster. A young Ukrainian maid fights torrents of greed and frustration with the world around her. Small animals begin to disappear off the streets. The task of solving these mysteries is entrusted to a team of policemen in which few believe: the Bastards of Pizzofalcone.
De Giovanni is one of Europe's most renowned and versatile mystery writers. His award-winning and bestselling novels, all of which take place in Naples, engage readers in gripping tales of Europe's most fabled, atmospheric, dangerous and lustful city.
About the Author Maurizio de Giovanni's Commissario Riccardi books are bestsellers across Europe, with sales of the series approaching 1 million copies. De Giovani is also the author of the contemporary Neapolitan thriller, The Crocodile. He lives in Naples with his family.
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Author now living:Europa Editions AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Kate Kelly Rebecca Wilson
Kate Kelly has always been overshadowed by her famous brother Ned, but the talented young woman was a popular public figure in her own right. This moving biography tells her astonishing story in full for the first time.
Description Kate Kelly, the daring sister of legendary bushranger Ned Kelly, was mysteriously found dead in a lagoon outside the town of Forbes in 1898.
At the inquest, Kate's husband Bricky Foster claimed that she was addicted to drink and frequently spoke of suicide. However, a friend and neighbour testified that she had only known Kate to drink since the recent birth of her baby and that she never spoke of suicide. Was it suicide, accident or murder, and why had she changed her name to Ada?
Kate's exploits as a decoy and runner for the Kelly gang are well known, as is her presence at the gruesome Glenrowan siege, and the street protests that failed to save Ned's life. In the years after Ned's execution, she appeared at public gatherings around Australia. Huge crowds came to see her talk and ride, and she helped to popularise the Ned Kelly story, becoming a celebrity in her own right. Then she disappeared from the public eye.
Rebecca Wilson is the first to uncover what really happened to Kate Kelly. It will surprise anyone who thought they already knew the story of Australia's most famous outlaw.
About the Author Rebecca Wilson grew up in Forbes NSW where Kate Kelly lived in the last years of her life. Rebecca has been hearing local stories about Kate all her life, and she has been researching, painting and writing Kate's tragic story for over a decade.
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Author now living: Hill End NSWAllen & Unwin AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 With My Little Eye Sandra Hogan
The very funny true story of three children recruited by their parents to work for ASIO in the 1950s.
Description 'Hilarious, moving and brilliantly told' - Susan Johnson
'It reads like the very best of spy thrillers.' - Matthew Condon
'An intimate and compelling look at an ordinary family who happen to be ASIO agents.' - Kristina Olsson
Growing up in the 1950s, the three Doherty children were trained by their parents to memorise car number plates, to spot unusual behaviour on the street, and most important of all, to avoid drawing attention to themselves.
The children became unwitting foot soldiers in Australia's battle against Soviet infiltration in the Cold War. They attended political rallies, stood watch on houses owned by communist sympathisers, and infiltrated the UFO Society. In 1956 the Doherty family went on a beach holiday with Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov, the famous Soviet defectors, who were hiding from Soviet assassins.
Dudley and Joan Doherty swore their children to secrecy, and for decades, they didn't even discuss among themselves the work they did for ASIO.
With My Little Eye is a poignant and very funny account of a peculiar childhood in 1950s suburban Australia.
Sandra Hogan is a journalist, writer, reviewer and business writing teacher.
About the Author Sandra Hogan is a journalist, writer, reviewer and business writing teacher.
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Author now living: Sandgate and Bulimba, BrisbaneAllen & Unwin AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Dead in the Water Richard Beasley
Full-throated and provocative, this is a very personal battle cry to save our most precious natural resource.
Description 'We want to reset these bio-diversities and the ecologies in our country. We want to see our fish spawning as they once were, our animals coming back down to drink. Fresh quality water out of the Coorong, not this super saline stuff that we're living in today's environment. It's slowly dying. You can smell the impact of what's happening . . .'
Richard Beasley is an angry man. He's angry about vested interests killing off Australia's most precious water resource. He's angry about the political cowardice and negligence that has allowed Big Agriculture and irrigators to destroy a river system that can sustain both the environment and the communities that depend on it. He's angry that the wilful, the self- interested and the plain stupid are choosing to deny the science of climate change because it is a truth that doesn't suit them and their commercial and political interests.
He pulls no punches. He's provocative, he's outrageous, he points the finger without shame. And he will leave you very, very angry. Dead in the Water is political satire of the highest order . . . if weren't all so tragically true.
About the Author Richard Beasley is a Senior Counsel at the Sydney Bar. He was the Counsel Assisting the Murray-Darling Basin Plan Royal Commission, established by the South Australian Weatherill Government in 2018 and conducted by Bret Walker SC. Apart from that, he is the author of five commercial novels, the best-known of which is Hell Has Harbour Views, which was adapted for TV and screened by the ABC, starring Lisa McCune and Matt Day.
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Author now living: Sydney NSWAllen & Unwin AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Dead in the Water 8 copy pack Point of Sale
Includes 8 copies of Dead in the Water plus a free reading copy.
Description Includes 8 copies of Dead in the Water plus a free reading copy.
About the Author
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Author now living:Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Bastard Behind the Lines Tom Gilling
He escaped from Singapore's Changi prisoner of war camp to become one of Australia's greatest World War II guerrilla fighters.
Description 'The way I look at it is this...When you're behind the line and get yourself into trouble, you've got to get your bloody self out irrespective of anybody else. That's why I like it.'
Jock McLaren was a true Australian hero. He escaped Singapore twice, participated in numerous raids on the Japanese in small, armed coastal vessels and was so successful in his land and sea guerrilla actions to disrupt enemy operations that the Japanese eventually placed a bounty on his head.
In command of a 26-foot whaleboat called The Bastard, McLaren sailed into Japanese controlled ports in broad daylight, shot up the the supply vessels and piers with machine guns and mortar, then turned tail and ran. He also made many solo forays into Japanese held areas to gather intelligence for the US and Australian high commands. Eventually he was transferred to the sabotage Z Special Unit, the joint Allied Special Forces unit formed to operate behind enemy lines. But his extraordinary feats and death-defying courage went beyond his secret missions. One of the many tales told of McLaren was the removal of his own appendix without anaesthetic and with the use of a mirror and an 'ordinary knife'.
Action-packed and surprising, A Bastard Between the Lines gives rich life to one of Australia's greatest World War II diggers.
About the Author Tom Gilling is an acclaimed novelist. The Sooterkin, Miles McGinty and Dreamland have all been published in Australia, as well as London and New York. He is co-author with Clive Small of the highly successful Smack Express, Blood Money, Evil Life and The Dark Side. His most recent book is The Lost Battalions.
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Author now living: Artarmon, NSWAllen & Unwin AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Sleep Easy Bernice Tuffery
Say goodbye to lousy sleep with this six-week, step-by-step programme to help you kick insomnia to the curb forever.
Description Bad sleep sucks. Sleep deficiency defies our biology and sabotages our days. Yet more than a third of us struggle to get to sleep or stay asleep at night.
We can shake off the odd sleepless night, but when sleep difficulties persist, things start to unravel. Sleep debt takes its toll on our mood, energy, and productivity. It affects our behaviour around food and exercise as well as eroding our immunity, even our mental and physical health. As our best efforts to help ourselves fail, or perpetuate the problem, we can feel disillusioned, disempowered and frustratingly stuck.
You're not alone, and there is a way through. This six-week, step-by-step guide will help you sleep easy.
Bernice Tuffery, fed up after years of compromised sleep, made it her mission to learn how to sleep well again. She'd tried early nights, warm baths, a bit of yoga and meditation, but nothing worked. Even natural supplements, over-the- counter sleep aids, melatonin, and at times sleeping pills, failed to deliver a sustainable solution. As a qualitative market researcher, she was determined to know how to sleep naturally again.
She discovered a proven, natural, and very learnable way to improve chronic sleep difficulties. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for insomnia (CBTi) is recognised internationally by sleep experts as the gold-standard treatment for insomnia. But with a lack of awareness, a severe shortage of experts offering it and virtually no public funding for treatment in New Zealand and Australia, it's hard and expensive to access.
From her discussions with sleep professionals, extensive research and her lived-experience of restoring her own sleep, Bernice shares her knowledge with humour and heart. Confident that CBTi can be self-taught, she offers this practical
Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 and inspiring insiders' guide to getting a good night's sleep. ISBN: 9781988547459 Format: C-Format PB About the Author Package Type: PAPERBACK Bernice Tuffery is a qualitative market researcher who, after years of sleep difficulties, learned to sleep well. Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: pages Bic1: Sleep & dreams She's passionate about helping people improve and honour their sleep. Bic2:
Author now living: She lives in Auckland with her family, growing her own produce, encouraging her daughter's love of horses, and writing on the side.A&U New Zealand AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Sleep Easy 8 copy pack Point of Sale
Includes 8 copies of Sleep Easy plus a free reading copy.
Description Includes 8 copies of Sleep Easy plus a free reading copy.
About the Author
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Author now living:Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Screen Time Becca Cady
Fed up with your screentime going up and up every week, but unable to give up your phone? It is time for a new, balanced approach.
Description Rather than going cold turkey or fighting against the finely calibrated, billion-dollar barrage of demands for our attention that ping up on our phones, it is time for a more measured approach to our devices. If we can understand how our phones are affecting every area of our lives, from our concentration spans to our body image, then we can start to make small, individual shifts that ensure technology is working for us, not the other way around.
Forget aiming for inbox zero and screen-free days: instead, learn to reassess your relationship with your phone on your own terms, spotting what works for you and what doesn't.
Your phone? Your rules.
About the Author
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781788704212 Format: Demy Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 216h x 135w mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Self-help & personal development Bic2:
Author now living:Blink AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Relax Timothy Caulfield
A surprising, liberating and scientifically informed guide to overcoming the anxiety that permeates modern life.
Description 'Masterfully, and humorously . provides much needed sanity in a world of claims run amok . I devoured it' - Daniel Levitin, author of The Organized Mind
Is breakfast the most important meal of the day? Do I really have to floss? Are office meetings actually worth the time they take up? Am I spending enough time with my children? Should I worry about binge-watching TV? What time should I go to bed?
We make, and worry about, a thousand big and little decisions during our waking hours. Too often these decisions are dictated by concerns or beliefs about our world that simply aren't true.
With precision and wit, award-winning public health expert Timothy Caulfield analyses the innumerable cultural, social and psychological forces that shape these misperceptions. Caulfield provides a scientifically informed way out of this mess - Relax will do exactly what the title suggests and help put your mind at ease.
About the Author TIMOTHY CAULFIELD is a Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy, a Professor in the Faculty of Law and the School of Public Health, and Research Director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta. His interdisciplinary research on topics like stem cells, genetics, research ethics, the public representations of science, and health policy issues has allowed him to publish over 350 academic articles. He has won numerous academic and writing awards and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Trudeau Foundation, and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9780571365159 Format: C-Format PB Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Self-help & personal development Bic2:
Author now living:Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 How to Write One Song Jeff Tweedy
One of the century's most feted singer-songwriters, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, digs deep into his own creative process to share his unique perspective about song-writing and offers a warm, accessible guide to writing your first song.
Description There are few artistic acts more mysterious than writing a song. But what if a shift in perspective - and some practical guidance - could overcome that mystery? Anyone wanting to experience more creativity and mindfulness will be inspired to do just that after reading How to Write One Song.
Why one song? The difference between one song and many songs isn't a charming semantic trick - it's an important distinction that can simplify a notoriously confusing art form. The idea of becoming a capital-S Songwriter can seem daunting, but when approached as a focused, self-contained practice, the mystery and fear subsides and songwriting becomes an exciting pursuit.
How to Write One Song brings readers into this intimate process - lyrics, music and how they come together. It's equally about the importance of making creativity part of your everyday life and of experiencing the hope, inspiration and joy available to anyone who is willing to get started.
About the Author As the founding member and leader of the Grammy Award-winning American rock band Wilco, and before that the co- founder of the alt-country band Uncle Tupelo, Jeff Tweedy is one of contemporary music's most accomplished songwriters, musicians and performers. Jeff has released two solo albums, written original songs for eleven Wilco albums and is the author of the New York Times bestseller Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc. He lives in Chicago with his family.
Price: AU $27.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9780571367207 Format: Misc HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 168h x 126w mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Music Bic2:
Author now living:Faber Social AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 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.
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 $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9780571330515 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2:
Author now living:Faber Social AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Access All Areas Lenny Henry
A revolutionary manifesto from the legendary Sir Lenny Henry reveals why diversity in the media is vital, and shows us how we can set about achieving it.
Description Sir Lenny Henry rang up the Office for National Statistics to confirm something he'd been thinking about for a long time. They told him that only 29.5% of the United Kingdom's population is made up of white, heterosexual, able-bodied men; so, he wonders, why do they still make up the vast majority of people we see in our media?
Joining forces with the former Chair of the Royal Television Society's Diversity Committee Marcus Ryder, he draws on decades of experience to reveal why recent efforts to diversify media have been thus far ineffective, and why they are simply not enough. With wit, humour and unflinching gravitas they analyse the flaws of current diversity initiatives, point out the structural and financial imbalances working against the cause, and provide clear solutions to get the media industry back on track.
Access All Areas is an urgent, actionable manifesto that will dramatically shift the debate around diversity and the media.
About the Author Sir Lenny Henry has been a comedian since the age of 16. He has risen from being a cult star on children's television to one of Britain's best-known and most celebrated comedians, as well as a writer, radio DJ, TV presenter, co-founder of Comic Relief, and award-winning actor. Henry has a PhD in Media Arts and is currently the Chancellor of Birmingham City University, and in was awarded knighthood in the 2015 Honours for services to charity and drama. Henry has also been invited by the UK Government to discuss diversity in the entertainment industry on numerous occasions.
Price: AU $14.99 NZ $16.99 ISBN: 9780571365128 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 112 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2:
Author now living:Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Cooking Alone Kathleen Le Riche, introduction by Bee Wilson
Supper for one? Whether you're a career girl, eccentric bedsitter or wild bachelor, this witty gem is the essential guide to dining in solitude (with a new foreword by Bee Wilson).
Description The Career Woman (who buys a chicken as a treat) The Bedsitter (who experiments with newfangled gadgets) The Old Lady (who feeds her menagerie of pets) The Schoolboy Moocher (who makes toffee and wallows in grapes) The Bachelor (who learns to stockpile food) The Lonely Mother, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. (who becomes a toast connoisseur)
Meet the experts in cooking alone . . .
Supper for one? Cooking Alone (1954) is a delicious miniature compendium of tales inspired by a cast of eccentric solitary characters. Brimming with entertaining anecdotes, recipes (rabbit with aubergine and prunes, anyone?) and top tips (ever wondered how to store ice cream in a bedsit?), Kathleen Le Riche is a witty, charming guide to the single life. Reissued with a new foreword by Bee Wilson, this vintage delight is a hymn to the pleasures of dining solo.
'A clever book, and amusing too. Somebody ought to bestow its author's name upon a sauce.' - Belfast News Letter
'Every servantless man and woman should read her.' - Truth
'Delightful . . . Ingenious.' - Home and Country
About the Author Kathleen Le Riche is the author of Cooking Alone, Cooking From Scratch, and Cooking for a Party, which were published
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 by Faber from the 1950s onwards. ISBN: 9780571365791 Format: B Bee Wilson is a prize-winning food writer and historian. Her books include Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook Package Type: HARD BACK and Eat and, most recently, First Bite: How We Learn to Eat. In 2016, she won the food writer of the year award from The Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 144 pages Guild of Food Writers for her journalism. Bic1: Cooking for one Bic2:
Author now living:Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Square Haunting Francesca Wade
Five exceptional women; one London square. A spellbinding group biography by a luminous new talent.
Description 'Outstanding. I'll be recommending this all year.' - Sarah Bakewell 'A beautiful and deeply moving book.' - Sally Rooney
'I like this London life . . . the street-sauntering and square-haunting.' - Virginia Woolf, diary, 1925
Mecklenburgh Square, on the radical fringes of interwar Bloomsbury, was home to activists, experimenters and revolutionaries; among them were the modernist poet H. D., detective novelist Dorothy L. Sayers, classicist Jane Harrison, economic historian Eileen Power, and writer and publisher Virginia Woolf. They each alighted there seeking a space where they could live, love and, above all, work independently.
Francesca Wade's spellbinding group biography explores how these trailblazing women pushed the boundaries of literature, scholarship, and social norms, forging careers that would have been impossible without these rooms of their own.
'Elegant, erudite and absorbing, Square Haunting is a startlingly original debut, and Francesca Wade is a writer to watch.' - Frances Wilson 'A fascinating voyage through the lives of five remarkable women - a moving and immersive portrait.' - Edmund Gordon
About the Author Francesca Wade has written for publications including the London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Financial Times, New Statesman and Prospect. She is editor of The White Review, and winner of the Biographers' Club Tony Lothian Prize. Square Haunting is her first book. She lives in London.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9780571330669 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 Bic2:
Author now living:Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 The Universe Speaks in Numbers Graham Farmelo
A groundbreaking exploration of how the interplay of physics and mathematics has enriched our understanding of the universe - essential reading for anyone who wants to grasp how physicists are attempting, in Stephen Hawking's words, to 'know the mind of God'.
Description 'A superbly written, riveting book.' - Martin Rees
Searching for the fundamental laws of the universe, physicists have found themselves developing ambitious mathematical ideas. But without observation and experiment as their guide, are they now doing 'fairy-tale physics' as their detractors claim?
In The Universe Speaks in Numbers, Graham Farmelo argues that today's greatest scientific minds are working in a tradition that dates back to Newton. He takes us on an adventure, from the Enlightenment to the breakthroughs of Einstein and Dirac, to the work of modern physicists and mathematicians shedding light on each other's disciplines, to their mutual surprise and excitement. This blossoming relationship is responsible for huge advances in our understanding of space and time - and as Farmelo explains, could redefine reality as we know it.
LISTEN TO THE ACCOMPANYING PODCAST featuring interviews with leading scientists at www.grahamfarmelo.com
About the Author Dr Graham Farmelo is an award-winning science writer and biographer, and the winner of the 2012 Kelvin Prize and Medal. Formerly an academic, museum professional and undercover restaurant critic, he is now a Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, and a regular Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. His biography of Paul Dirac, The Strangest Man, won the 2009 Costa Biography Award and the 2010 Los Angeles Times Science Book Prize. www. grahamfarmelo.com @grahamfarmelo
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9780571321827 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Popular mathematics Bic2:
Author now living:Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Fracture Matthew Parris
Matthew Parris, presenter of Great Lives on BBC Radio 4, explores the surprising connection between trauma and greatness through vivid case histories.
Description Ada Lovelace. Frederick Douglass. Vladimir Lenin. Marie Curie. Frieda Kahlo. Carl Jung. Tupac Shakur. All geniuses who changed the world in ways that still influence our lives today. And all men and women who experienced, in childhood, trauma so severe that it should have broken them completely.
While presenting Great Lives on Radio 4, Matthew Parris noticed a trend in the lives of the exceptional people the programme covered: many of them had been marked by extreme trauma and deprivation. They seemed to have succeeded not only in spite of their backgrounds, but perhaps even because of them.
As Matthew Parris brings each individual's story to life in this original and compelling study, it becomes clear that we must rethink the origins of success, as well as the legacy of trauma.
About the Author Matthew Parris worked for the Foreign Office before serving as an MP. He now writes as a columnist for The Times and the Spectator, and has previously won the Best Columnist award at the British Press Awards. He is the author of several books, including his biography Chance Witness, the bestselling The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase and a compendium of the world's greatest insults, Scorn.
Price: AU $34.99 NZ $39.99 ISBN: 9781781257234 Format: Misc HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 222h x 144w mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Psychology Bic2:
Author now living:Profile Trade AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Intensive Care Gavin Francis
On the pandemic's forgotten front lines, a doctor cares for his community - from care homes to homeless shelters, islands to the inner city.
Description 13 January, 2020.
A bulletin from Health Protection Scotland is sent to all GP practices, describing a 'novel Wuhan coronavirus'. 'Current reports describe no evidence of significant human to human transmission, including no infections of healthcare workers,' it says reassuringly.
In Intensive Care, GP Gavin Francis will take you beyond the headlines to the reality of the pandemic response, from his surgery in Edinburgh to care homes and remote and fragile island communities. And inside this compelling narrative of missed opportunities, tragedies and occasional triumphs, he weaves the wider history of medical practice, pandemics and vaccines.
This deeply personal account of medicine in a time of crisis is also an intelligent, compassionate study of what pandemics can do to us - and what we can do about them.
About the Author Gavin Francis is a GP, and the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Adventures in Human Being and Shapeshifters. He has won the Scottish Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and Costa Prize. He also writes for the Guardian, the Times, London Review of Books and Granta. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and children.
Price: AU $34.99 NZ $39.99 ISBN: 9781788167321 Format: Demy Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 216h x 135w mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Popular science Bic2:
Author now living:Profile Trade AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Ruin and Renewal Paul Betts
A major new history of post-war Europe.
Description In 1945, Europe lay in ruins - its cities and towns destroyed by conflict, its economies crippled, its societies ripped apart by war and violence. In the years that followed, Europeans tried to make sense of what had happened - and to forge a new understanding of civilisation that would bring peace and progress to a broken continent.
As they wrestled with questions great and small - from the legacy of colonialism to workplace etiquette - institutions and shared ideals emerged which still shape our world today. Drawing on original sources as well as individual stories and voices, this is a gripping and authoritative account of how Europe rebuilt itself - and what we, in the twenty-first century, could lose again.
About the Author Paul Betts is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Within Walls: Private Life in the German Democratic Republic and The Authority of Everyday Objects: A Cultural History of West German Industrial Design.
Price: AU $49.99 NZ $55.00 ISBN: 9781788161091 Format: C-Format HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 544 pages Bic1: General & world history Bic2:
Author now living:Profile Trade AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Stillness is the Key Ryan Holiday
The #1 New York Times Bestseller that shows why slowing down is the key to getting ahead.
Description Throughout history, there has been one quality that great leaders, makers, artists and fighters have shared. The Zen Buddhists described it as inner peace, the Stoics called it ataraxia and Ryan Holiday calls it stillness: the ability to be steady, focused and calm in a constantly busy world.
Drawing on a wide range of history's greatest thinkers, Holiday shows us how crucial stillness is, and how it can be cultivated in our own lives today. Just as Winston Churchill, Oprah Winfrey and baseball player Sadaharu Oh have done, we can all benefit from stillness to feed into our greater ambitions - whether building a business or simply finding happiness, peace and self-direction.
Stillness is the key to the self-mastery, discipline and focus necessary to succeed in this competitive, noisy world.
About the Author Ryan Holiday is one of the world's foremost thinkers and writers on ancient philosophy and its place in everyday life. He is a sought-after speaker, strategist, and the author of many bestselling books including The Obstacle Is the Way;Ego Is the Enemy; and The Daily Stoic. His books have been translated into over 30 languages and read by over two million people worldwide. He lives outside Austin, Texas, with his family.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781788162067 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Management: leadership & motivation Bic2:
Author now living:Profile Trade AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 The Daily Stoic Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
Beautifully packaged daily doses of Stoic wisdom, from the author of The Obstacle is the Way.
Description 'No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.' - Marcus Aurelius
The Stoics' unique blend of practicality and wisdom has been inspiring the most successful among us for centuries, from Roman Emperors to Barack Obama, and most recently via Ryan Holiday's bestselling The Obstacle is the Way. If that book introduced readers to the idea that what is in the way is the way, The Daily Stoic widens our view on the Stoic philosophy and shows that it can be applied to any problem.
From how to manage failure to getting what you want, the ideas of Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius and others continue to be vitally relevant to today's doers and thinkers. Here, in bold new translations of the ancient classics, language is stripped down to reveal powerful aphorisms that cut straight to the heart of our day-to-day challenges.
Presented in a page-per-day format, this daily resource of Stoic inspiration combines quotations with calls to further reflection - and action. Arranged topically, this guide features twelve principles for overcoming obstacles and achieving greater satisfaction. It introduces readers to a new daily ritual and new orientation that will bring them balanced action, insight, effectiveness, and serenity.
About the Author Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of Growth Hacker Marketing, The Obstacle is the Way and Ego is the Enemy. His books have been translated into 17 languages and his writing has appeared everywhere from the Columbia Journalism Review to Fast Company.
Stephen Hanselman has worked for over three decades in publishing as a bookseller, publisher and literary agent. He received a Master's degree at Harvard Divinity School, while also studying at Harvard's philosophy department.
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9781781257654 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK WITH FLAPS Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Self-help & personal development Bic2:
Author now living:Profile Trade AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 A Scheme of Heaven Alexander Boxer
'A delightful and utterly fascinating work of intellectual history.' - Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking with Einstein
Description Despite a resurgence in popularity, horoscopes are generally considered to be pseudoscience today - but they were once a cutting-edge scientific tool. In this ingenious work of history, data scientist Alexander Boxer examines a treasure trove of esoteric classical sources to expose the deep imaginative framework by which - for millennia - we made sense of our fates. Astrology, he argues, was the ancient world's most ambitious applied mathematics problem, a grand data-analysis enterprise sustained by some of history's most brilliant minds, from Ptolemy to al-Kindi to Kepler.
A Scheme of Heaven explores the wonderful subtleties of astrological ideas. Telling the stories of their inventors and most influential exponents, Boxer puts them through their paces using modern data sets - finding that the methods of today's scientists are often uncomfortably close to those of astrology's ancient sages.
About the Author Alexander Boxer has a doctorate in physics from MIT, a master's degree in the History of Science from Oxford and a bachelors in Classical Language from Yale. His technical research has appeared in journals such as Nature Physics. In his spare time, he is an active member of Atlas Obscura as a D.C.-based 'field agent'.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781781259641 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Astronomy, space & time Bic2:
Author now living:Profile Trade AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Dementia June Andrews
A world expert brings her advice up to date.
Description 'Will help families and friends of people with dementia all over the world' - Dame Judi Dench
Written by an expert, this essential guide will help those with dementia, and their families, make sure that they can stay well and happy for as long as possible. It offers clear and sensible information and advice about:
- Recognising symptoms and getting help - Treatment and remaining healthy - Being a carer - Managing financially - Care homes and staying at home
This edition is updated to include new research on sleep, exercise and reducing dementia risk.
'Exactly what is needed. Sensible advice from someone who really knows what she is talking about.' - John Humphrys
About the Author June Andrews is an international dementia specialist adviser, and professor emeritus in dementia studies. During her decade directing the University of Stirling's Dementia Services Development Centre, she co-wrote 10 Helpful Hints for Carers, a book on helping care for those with dementia, which has sold over 65,000 copies. She has received a Fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), the highest honour awarded to nurses in the UK, and in 2016 she was awarded an OBE. She advises families, organisations and governments across the world. Follow @profjuneandrews on Twitter
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781788165051 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Self-help & personal development Bic2:
Author now living:Profile Trade AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 The Colonizer and the Colonized Albert Memmi
In this classic study of European colonialism, Albert Memmi examines the psychological effects of colonial ideology and system on both the coloniser and those colonised.
Description Written in 1957, when North African independence movements were gaining momentum, The Colonizer and the Colonized studies the enduring legacy, political as much as psychological, of colonisation throughout the world.
Albert Memmi depicts colonialism as a disease of the European but crucially he demonstrates that colonialism destroys both the coloniser and the colonised, providing penetrating insights into colonial inheritance and resistance that remain as relevant today.
One of the great works of twentieth-century political thought, The Colonizer and the Colonized speaks to experiences in the Global South as well as European countries such as Britain and France, who are still struggling with their imperial pasts. In revealing the mechanisms of colonial oppression, it also highlights the origins of all oppression of one group by another.
This edition includes introductions by two of the greatest writers of the twentieth-century: South African novelist and Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, and Jean-Paul Sartre.
About the Author Born in 1920 in Tunisia, when it was a French protectorate, Albert Memmi was educated at the University of Algiers and the Sorbonne in Paris. He published several widely acclaimed novels as well as major works on racism and Judaism. He died in France in 2020.
Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer, Booker Prize winner and Nobel Laureate.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 Nobel Prize winner, playwright, and philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre was a leading public intellectual for much of the 20th ISBN: 9781788167727 century. Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Colonialism & imperialism Bic2:
Author now living:Profile Trade AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 The Language of Thieves Martin Puchner
The story of the secret language of Central Europe and its legacy on the author's hidden Nazi family history, from the author of The Written World.
Description Since the Middle Ages, vagrants and thieves in Central Europe have spoken Rotwelsch, a secret language influenced by Yiddish and written in rudimentary signs. When Martin Puchner inherited a family archive, it led him on a journey into this extraordinary language but also into his family's connections to the Nazi Party, for whom Rotwelsch held a particular significance.
A riveting story of the mindset and milieu of Central Europe and of the way language can be used to evade oppression, The Language of Thieves is also a deeply moving reckoning with a family's buried past.
About the Author Martin Puchner holds the Byron and Anita Wien Chair in Drama, English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He has published over a dozen books, collections, and anthologies, including The Written World (Granta, 2017) and is the general editor of the six volume Norton Anthology of World Literature, used by students worldwide. He has written for the London Review of Books, Raritan Review, Bookforum and N+1.
Price: AU $34.99 NZ $39.99 ISBN: 9781783786404 Format: Demy Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 216h x 138w mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: History Bic2:
Author now living:Granta AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Between Two Fires Joshua Yaffa
How everyday Russians adapt to survive under Putin's rule, from The New Yorker's correspondent in Moscow.
Description In this penetrating exploration of contemporary Russia, Joshua Yaffa meets a variety of Russians - from politicians and entrepreneurs to artists and historians - who have built their careers and constructed their identities in the shadow of the Putin system. Torn between their own ambitions and the omnipresent demands of the state, each has found that compromise is essential for survival and success. Some extract benefits and privileges through cunning and cynicism, others less adept at navigating the system are left broken and demoralised.
With sensitivity and depth, Yaffa profiles Russians from institutions such as the Bolshoi and Channel 1, from the major cities, and from regions such as Chechnya, post-annexation Crimea, and the Urals, including an Orthodox priest at war with the church hierarchy and a Chechen humanitarian who turns a blind eye to persecutions. The result is an intimate and probing portrait of a nation much discussed but little understood. And by showing how citizens shape their lives around the demands of a capricious and repressive state, Yaffa offers urgent lessons about the nature of modern authoritarianism.
About the Author Joshua Yaffa is a correspondent for The New Yorker in Moscow, where he has lived for the last eight years. He has been a fellow at the New America foundation, a finalist for the Livingston Award, a visiting scholar at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, and a grantee of the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781783783724 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Reportage & collected journalism Bic2:
Author now living:Granta Paperbacks AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Good Husbandry Kristin Kimball
An evocative and life-enhancing account of running a community farm and raising a family in New York State.
Description When Kristin Kimball fell in love with a farmer and left behind her life in Manhattan to start a new farm with him in the Adirondacks, she had to learn a lot about farming - and fast. But, it turns out that starting a farm is not as challenging as sustaining it. Over the next five years, as two children are born and more land is acquired, the farm has its ups and downs, but then the downs keep on coming. Kristin's husband gets injured, the weather turns against them, the financial pressures mount. Suddenly, Kristin is facing not only the daily juggle of planting and milking and putting dinner on the table, but bigger questions about the life she has chosen. Is she still a farmer or is she now a farmer's wife? What does the farm need in order to survive? What does a family need in order to thrive?
Beautifully written and refreshingly honest, Good Husbandry is about farmers and food, friends and neighbours, love and marriage, birth and death, and about how to grow and harvest the good things in life.
About the Author Kristin Kimball is a farmer and a writer living in upstate New York. Prior to farming, Kimball worked as a freelance writer, writing teacher, and as an assistant to a literary agent in New York City. A graduate of Harvard University, she and her husband Mark have run Essex Farm since 2003, where they live with their daughters, Jane and Miranda.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781783784707 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2:
Author now living:Granta Paperbacks AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Talking with Psychopaths and Savages: Spree Killers and Mass Murderers Christopher Berry-Dee
The leading writer and criminologist directs his uncompromising gaze on a growing phenomenon - so-called 'rampage killers', whose random multiple killings invariably leave entire communities in shock and mourning.
Description A natural subject for the UK's bestselling true-crime author: a study of people who randomly kill large numbers of others (spree killers), or who set out to do so in specific places or situations (mass killers). Because of the ease of obtaining firearms in the USA, many of these, inevitably, are American, but there have been other recent examples in New Zealand and Norway.
As such killings become more frequent, it is easy to blame them on the ready availability of firearms and weak or non- existent background checks, even though many countries have extremely robust firearms legislation. What is more difficult to establish, however, is the motivation behind such killings: some are occasioned by grievance, real or imagined, while others have their origins in a sense of failure or feelings of inadequacy. Other killers, however, seem to be driven by a desire for power over their fellow humans, often coupled with an overriding contempt for the lives of others. In search of answers to the questions raised, Christopher Berry-Dee offers case studies in some of the most infamous mass killings of the past fifty years, from school massacres to workplace killings, hate crimes to familicides. In doing so he demonstrates, chillingly, that such murders are almost impossible to predict, and therefore almost impossible to prevent.
About the Author A leading writer on crime and the pathology of criminals, Christopher Berry-Dee's recent books include his two earlier titles Talking With Psychopaths and Savages: A journey into the evil mind, the UK's bestselling true-crime title of 2017, and Talking With Psychopaths and Savages: Beyond Evil, a bestseller following its publication in autumn 2019. He is the country's No. 1 true-crime author.
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781789464214 Format: C-Format PB Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: True crime Bic2:
Author now living:John Blake AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Manhunt: Night Stalker Colin Sutton
The second real-life case from detective and Sunday Times bestselling author, Colin Sutton.
Description What does it take to catch a predator who has terrorised southeast England for over fifteen years?
Delroy Grant - dubbed the Night Stalker - was one of the nation's most wanted men, a shocking sex predator. During his seventeen-year reign of fear, he established a clear MO. Target an elderly woman, living alone. Visit them at night. Remove a window pane and slide in. Unscrew the lightbulbs. Cut the power at the electricity meter. Rip out the telephone wires. Tiptoe to the bedroom. Wake the victim by shining a torch in their eyes. What followed for his terrified victims was often unspeakable.
When SIO Colin Sutton was drafted into the case, Grant had been at large for over a decade. Stepping up where others had failed, he began the determined, relentless police work that had marked the end for infamous serial killer Levi Bellfield. Case by case, clue by clue.
Night Stalker is the chilling true story of one of the most testing manhunts the Metropolitan Police have ever undertaken. It is a glimpse into the heart of darkness - and into the mind and work of the brilliant detective who brought one of London's most feared monsters to justice.
About the Author Colin Sutton was a Senior Investigating Officer in the Metropolitan Police from January 2003 to January 2011, leading more than thirty successful murder investigations, notably the Levi Bellfield case and the successful re-investigation of the seventeen-year reign of terror of the 'Nightstalker' Delroy Grant. His first book, Manhunt, was a Sunday Times bestseller.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781789462258 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: True crime Bic2:
Author now living:John Blake AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Eat Sleep Zoom Reheat Chris Stark
How to survive and thrive in your student kitchen!
Description 'Finally, a cookbook for students who actually care about what they put in their mouths! I wish I had written it myself' - Tom Kerridge
'There's nothing that puts a smile on my face as much as Chris Stark's flavours exploding in my mouth' - Lewis Capaldi
Chris Stark was once just like you. A wide-eyed kitchen novice who couldn't tell a cordon bleu from a courgette. A lost soul who boiled his pasta in the kettle. A hopeless dreamer who destroyed his toaster after turning it on its side to make toasties.
But all that has changed.
For years, BBC Radio 1 presenter Chris has secretly been in pursuit of the perfect student recipes. And now he comes to you armed with a hard-won immunity to salmonella and one deep truth: in the student kitchen, there are only three commandments that matter: let all food be practical, Instagrammable, and dead cheap.
This book will arm you with the inspiration to knock together super-tasty, super-easy meals for any occasion: speedy eats, detox dishes, one-pot wizardry, food for thought, food for sport, date night delights, party food, 'DIY takeaway solutions' and breadline-time starvation rations - all with the guarantee of being delicious, nutritious and costing much, much less than your last library fine.
Students up and down the country, heed the call: Eat. Sleep. Zoom. Reheat. is the only cookbook you'll need in 2020. Or ever, really.
About the Author Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9781786065728 CHRIS STARK is a BBC Radio 1 and BBC 5Live presenter, graduate of the University of Southampton, regular guest on Format: Misc HB Saturday Kitchen and full-time third wheel on the award-winning That Peter Crouch Podcast. Do any of these things Package Type: HARD BACK qualify him to write a cookbook? Absolutely not. However, for years now, he has boiled his way through failure, seared his Dimensions: 218h x 158w mm Extent: 176 pages way through fear, and scoured out the doubt, to become a tough-cookin' one-man student food solution.And so, the book Bic1: Cookery / food & drink etc you now hold was born - a one-stop student cookbook, suitable for anyone ready to start out in the university kitchen. Bic2:
Author now living:John Blake AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Handle with Care Rochelle Bugg
My life as a carer and how I learned to live again.
Description This is the story of 25 year old Rochelle as she nurses her mum through a terminal brain tumour having already lost her dad to pancreatic cancer, aged 14. Based on the author's popular blog, this accessible guide provides a unique in-depth look at the reality of being a young carer.
After her mum's initial misdiagnosis of a stroke, Rochelle decides to give up her party-girl lifestyle in Leeds, along with her job in Marketing and lovely flat she shared with her boyfriend, and move 200 miles home to the not-so buzzing metropolis of Ipswich. We follow the timeline of the illness, including finding out her mum's cancer was terminal, becoming a full time carer, splitting up with her boyfriend, being by her mum's side as she passed away, planning her funeral and finding her way again after her mum's death.
Prepare for a tear-jerking journey as Rochelle navigates the changing family dynamics with her two young sisters, the financial and emotional pressure of being a full-time carer, and the challenges of rebuilding your life after the loss of a loved one. But it's not all doom and gloom. This heart-warming account is bursting with practical tips and advice to ease the pressure when someone you love is ill, as well as laugh-out-loud moments.
About the Author Having lost both of parents by her mid-20s, Rochelle felt there wasn't much support for people her age. She found that nobody was talking about how things affect young people, as if everyone presumes that from your mid-teens to your mid- thirties, you will be too busy Instagramming photos from your holiday in Ibiza and going for a cheeky Nandos to ever have to worry about losing someone you love. She wanted to change that, which is why she started her blog (abugsslife.com) has written this book.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781789460353 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Personal & social issues: death & bereavement (Children's / Teenage) Bic2:
Author now living:John Blake AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars Kate Greene
A powerful reflection on life in isolation, in pursuit of the dream of Mars.
Description In 2013 Kate Greene moved to Mars.
On NASA's first HI-SEAS simulated Mars mission in Hawai'i, she lived for four months in an isolated geodesic dome with her crewmates, gaining incredible insight into human behaviour in tight quarters, as well as the nature of boredom, dreams and isolation that arise amidst the promise of scientific progress and glory.
Greene draws on her experience to contemplate what makes an astronaut, the challenges of freeze-dried eggs and time- lagged correspondence, the cost of shooting for a Planet B. The result is a story of space and life, of the slippage between dreams and reality, of bodies in space, and of humanity's incredible impulse to explore.
From trying out life on Mars, Greene examines what it is to live on Earth.
About the Author Kate Greene is an essayist, poet, journalist, and former laser physicist whose work has appeared in Aeon, Harvard Review, the New Yorker, The Economist, and WIRED, among others. She was second-in command on the first simulated Mars mission for NASA's HI-SEAS project. She holds a BS in chemistry, an MS in physics and an MFA in poetry, and has taught writing at Columbia University, San Francisco State University, and the Tennessee Prison for Women. She lives in NYC.
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781785786839 Format: Demy Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 216h x 135w mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Popular astronomy & space Bic2:
Author now living:Icon AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Red Sea Spies Raffi Berg
The little-known story of a daring Mossad operation and the holiday resort run by spies.
Description THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED THE NETFLIX FILM THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT.
'Secret missions, brazen deceptions and thrilling, clandestine operations - Red Sea Spies has it all. But it has something more important, too - a genuine human mission that made a difference.' - David Hoffman, author of The Billion Dollar Spy
In the early 1980s on a remote part of the Sudanese coast, a new luxury holiday resort opened for business. Catering for divers, it attracted guests from around the world. Little did the holidaymakers know that the staff were undercover spies, working for the Mossad - the Israeli secret service.
Providing a front for covert night-time activities, the holiday village allowed the agents to carry out an operation unlike any seen before. What began with one cryptic message pleading for help, turned into the secret evacuation of thousands of Ethiopian Jews who had been languishing in refugee camps, and the spiriting of them to Israel.
Written in collaboration with operatives involved in the mission, endorsed as the definitive account and including an afterword from the commander who went on to become the head of the Mossad, this is the complete, never-before-heard, gripping tale of a top-secret and often hazardous operation.
About the Author Raffi Berg is the Middle East editor of the BBC News website, and has extensive experience reporting on Israel and the wider region. His article scratching the surface of this story was the most-read original feature in the history of the site, with more than 7 million readers to date.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781785786341 Format: Misc PB Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 1980h x 129w mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: True stories of heroism, endurance & survival Bic2:
Author now living:Icon AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 How to Have the Energy Colette Heneghan, Graham Allcott
The complete guide to eating for everyday energy.
Description Are you a regular victim of an afternoon slump? Is it a struggle to keep focused on your to-do list? Do you want to fit more into your day, but feel as if you just don't have the energy?
Nutritionist Colette Heneghan and productivity expert Graham Allcott provide all the answers in How to Have the Energy, explaining how not only what, but how you eat can improve your focus, boost productivity and even give you more time in your day.
Using the High-Energy Plan, they show how eating well can and should fit into your lifestyle, however busy it is. From how to put your shopping list together, to how to upgrade your breakfast, from how to be label-savvy to the importance of ditching the desk lunch, from the author of the bestselling How to be a Productivity Ninja, this the complete guide to eating smarter and boosting your everyday energy.
About the Author Colette Heneghan is a Peak Performance & Nutrition Coach, with extensive experience gained working with some of the world's largest technology companies, as well as with professional sports players and teams. She has designed, managed and delivered successful, high-impact health and wellbeing programmes across the world, ensuring that people thrive, not just survive in their competitive and challenging roles and industries.
Graham Allcott is an entrepreneur, keynote business speaker and founder of Think Productive, who run public workshops throughout the UK and in-house workshops for staff at a diverse range of organisations, including eBay, Heineken, BT, and the Gates Foundation. He is the host of the popular business podcast, Beyond Busy and the author of How to be a Study Ninja and A Practical Guide to Productivity.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781785787003 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Self-help & personal development Bic2:
Author now living:Icon AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 How to be a Productivity Ninja Graham Allcott
A completely revised and updated edition of the bestselling productivity guide.
Description World-leading productivity expert Graham Allcott's business bible is given a complete update for 2019.
Do you waste too much time on your phone? Scroll through Twitter or Instagram when you should be getting down to your real tasks? Is your attention easily distracted? We've got the solution: The Way of the Productivity Ninja.
In the age of information overload, traditional time management techniques simply don't cut it anymore. Using techniques including Ruthlessness, Mindfulness, Zen-like Calm and Stealth & Camouflage, this fully revised new edition of How to be a Productivity Ninja offers a fun and accessible guide to working smarter, getting more done and learning to love what you do again.
About the Author Graham Allcott is an entrepreneur, keynote business speaker and founder of Think Productive. Think Productive run public workshops throughout the UK and also run in-house workshops for staff at a diverse range of organizations, including eBay, Heineken, BT, and the Gates Foundation. He is the host of the popular business podcast, Beyond Busy. He is also the author of How to be a Study Ninja and A Practical Guide to Productivity.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781785784613 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Self-help & personal development Bic2:
Author now living:Icon AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Behavioural Economics David Orrell
The controversial science that claims to have revolutionised economics.
Description For centuries, economics was dominated by the idea that we are rational individuals who optimise our own 'utility'. Then, in the 1970s, psychologists demonstrated that the reality is a lot messier. We don't really know what our utility is, and we care about people other than ourselves. We are susceptible to external nudges. And far from being perfectly rational we are prone to 'cognitive biases' with complex effects on decision-making, such as forgetting to prepare for retirement.
David Orrell explores the findings from psychology and neuroscience that are shaking up economics - and that are being exploited by policy-makers and marketers alike, to shape everything from how we shop for food, to how we tackle societal happiness or climate change. Finally, he asks: is behavioural economics a scientific revolution, or just a scientific form of marketing?
About the Author David Orrell is a scientist and writer of books on science and economics. His latest books are Economyths: 11 Ways Economics Gets It Wrong (Icon Books, 2017), and Quantum Economics: The New Science of Money (Icon Books, 2018).
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Author now living:Icon AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Chronic Pain Management David Walton
A compassionate, life-changing guide to coping with pain, using psychological and practical strategies.
Description Chronic pain affects huge numbers of people - the WHO estimates that 37-41% of people across developed and developing countries suffer, and the figure rises in countries like the UK where the population is ageing. From arthritis to migraine, back pain to diabetes, chronic pain is a huge problem for individuals, their families and carers, health providers and employers.
David Walton, a clinical and cognitive psychologist who experiences chronic pain himself, guides readers through an understanding of the nature of pain; how the body and mind react to it; how to minimise pain; and how to choose the right therapies, medication and relief strategies. Modern research is presented in an engaging and positive way, alongside self- assessment questionnaires, case studies and practical do's and don'ts. Through an understanding of pain mechanisms and relief strategies, readers will be enabled to manage their symptoms better and regain some control over their daily lives.
About the Author David Walton is a clinical and cognitive psychologist with a background in mental health, cognitive therapy and pain management. He has worked within and advised the NHS, United Nations, European Economic Council, and the UK Department of Health, on matters ranging from health service reconstruction to improving management practices. He has run pain management clinics and advises arthritis and carers' charities on pain. He experiences chronic pain personally, following a horse riding accident.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781785786983 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Pain & pain management Bic2:
Author now living:Icon AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 The Psychology of Parenting Teenagers Kairen Cullen
An original, theoretically informed way of thinking about, understanding and actually living with teenagers.
Description Complex, exciting and often turbulent, every teenage experience is different, and growth, development and learning are intrinsic to these years. This book is for anyone who cares about a teenager's wellbeing, development and learning.
Experienced professional educational psychologist Kairen Cullen, parent of four adult children, draws upon a wealth of experience as she looks at the areas of particular challenge in the teenage years, and the different psychological theories and approaches that can be used to address them.
Full of case studies, practical tips and exercises, this guide focuses on the three major issues prevalent in teenage years: achievement, belonging and control, and the behaviours that fall within these categories. Underpinning everything with educational psychology literature and psychology theory in general, Dr Kairen Cullen expertly explains how the reader can develop and improve their relationships with teenagers.
About the Author Dr Kairen Cullen is a registered Practitioner Educational Psychologist, working independently and for local authorities for over four decades. She is currently involved in writing, consultation, and media-related projects. She is the author of Icon's A Practical Guide to Child Psychology.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781785786990 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Advice on parenting Bic2:
Author now living:Icon AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 The Year of Living Danishly Helen Russell
Denmark is officially the happiest nation on Earth, so when journalist Helen Russell finds herself spending a year in rural Jutland, she decides she'll do all she can to uncover the secrets of the Danes' happiness. But will the long, dark winters and pickled herring take their toll?
Description When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn't Disneyland, but Denmark, a land often thought of by foreigners as consisting entirely of long dark winters, cured herring, Lego and pastries.What is the secret to their success? Are happy Danes born, or made? Helen decides there is only one way to find out: she will give herself a year, trying to uncover the formula for Danish happiness.
From childcare, education, food and interior design to SAD, taxes, sexism and an unfortunate predilection for burning witches, The Year of Living Danishly is a funny, poignant record of a journey that shows us where the Danes get it right, where they get it wrong, and how we might just benefit from living a little more Danishly ourselves.
About the Author Helen Russell is a journalist and former editor of MarieClaire.co.uk. She now lives in rural Jutland and works as a Scandinavia correspondent for the Guardian, as well as writing a column on Denmark for the Telegraph.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781785780233 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Travel writing Bic2:
Author now living:Icon AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Ego is the Enemy Ryan Holiday
A powerful meditation on the nature and dangers of ego, from the bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way.
Description It's wrecked the careers of promising young geniuses. It's evaporated great fortunes and run companies into the ground. It's made adversity unbearable and turned struggle into shame. Every great philosopher has warned against it, in our most lasting stories and countless works of art, in all culture and all ages. Its name? Ego, and it is the enemy - of ambition, of success and of resilience.
In Ego is the Enemy, Ryan Holiday shows us how and why ego is such a powerful internal opponent to be guarded against at all stages of our careers and lives, and that we can only create our best work when we identify, acknowledge and disarm its dangers. Drawing on an array of inspiring characters and narratives from literature, philosophy and history, the book explores the nature and dangers of ego to illustrate how you can be humble in your aspirations, gracious in your success and resilient in your failures.
The result is an inspiring and timely reminder that humility and confidence are our greatest friends when confronting the challenges of a culture that tends to fan the flames of ego, a book full of themes and life lessons that will resonate, uplift and inspire.
About the Author Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of Trust Me, I'm Lying, Growth Hacker Marketing and The Obstacle is the Way. His books have been translated into seventeen languages and his writing has appeared everywhere from the Columbia Journalism Review to Fast Company. He was director of marketing at American Apparel for many years, and his strategies in growth hacking and advertising are used as case studies by Twitter, YouTube and Google.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781781257029 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Entrepreneurship Bic2:
Author now living:Profile Trade AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 The Obstacle is the Way Ryan Holiday
A modern guru who shows the way to turn problems into opportunities - in business and marketing, Ryan Holiday has done it all, seen it all, and now he's here to show you the way.
Description We give up too easily. With a simple change of attitude, what seem like insurmountable obstacles become once-in-a- lifetime opportunities. Ryan Holiday, who dropped out of college at nineteen to serve as an apprentice to bestselling 'modern Machiavelli' Robert Greene and is now a media consultant for billion-dollar brands, draws on the philosophy of the Stoics to guide you in every situation, showing that what blocks our path actually opens one that is new and better.
If the competition threatens you, it's time to be fearless, to display your courage. An impossible deadline becomes a chance to show how dedicated you are. And as Ryan discovered as Director of Marketing for American Apparel, if your brand is generating controversy - it's also potentially generating publicity.
The Stoic philosophy - that what is in the way, is the way - can be applied to any problem: it's a formula invented more than 2,000 years ago, whose effectiveness has been proven in battles and board rooms ever since. From Barack Obama's ability to overcome obstacles in his election races, to the design of the iPhone, the stoic philosophy has helped its users become world-beaters.
About the Author Ryan Holiday is a media strategist for notorious clients like Tucker Max and Dov Charney, and worked on the publicity campaign for Tim Ferriss's The 4-Hour Work Week. After dropping out of college at nineteen, he went on to advise bestselling authors and multi-platinum musicians. He is the Director of Marketing at American Apparel and his strategies are used as case studies by Twitter, YouTube and Google. His first book, Trust Me I'm Lying was a Wall Street Journal bestseller. He currently lives in New Orleans.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781781251492 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Business strategy Bic2:
Author now living:Profile Trade AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 The Daily Stoic Journal Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
A companion volume to The Daily Stoic: an elegant journal to help readers apply the stoic principles of wisdom and virtue in today's tumultuous world.
Description Ryan Holiday has led the popular revival of stoicism since 2014, with his acclaimed bestsellers The Obstacle is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, and - in partnership with Stephen Hanselman - The Daily Stoic. This latter offered powerful quotations, fresh anecdotes, and insightful commentary on the wisdom of Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius. Now Holiday and Hanselman are back with The Daily Stoic Journal, an interactive guide to integrating this ancient philosophy into our 21st century lives. Readers will find weekly explanations and quotations to inspire deeper reflection on Stoic practices, as well as daily prompts and a helpful introduction explaining the various Stoic tools of self-management. The beautifully designed hardback features space for morning and evening notes, along with advice to encourage ongoing writing and insights, day by day through the year. As a companion volume for those who already love The Daily Stoic, or as a stylish stand-alone journal, this is perfect for anyone seeking inner peace and clarity in our volatile world.
About the Author Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of six books, including The Obstacle is the Way and Ego is the Enemy. His books have been translated in twenty languages and his writing has appeared everywhere from the Columbia Journalism Review to Entrepreneur and Fast Company. He lives with his family in Austin, Texas. Stephen Hanselman, coauthor of The Daily Stoic, has worked for more than three decades in publishing as a bookseller, publisher and literary agent. He is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, where he received a master's degree while also studying extensively in Harvard's philosophy department. He lives with his family in South Orange, New Jersey. Find Ryan on Twitter @RyanHoliday https://ryanholiday.net/
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9781788160230 Format: B Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Law, citizenship & rights for the lay person Bic2:
Author now living:Profile Trade AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Talking with Serial Killers Christopher Berry-Dee
A chilling study of the world's most evil people.
Description Christopher Berry-Dee is the man who talks to serial killers. A world-renowned investigative criminologist, he has gained the trust of murderers across the world, entered their high security prisons, and discussed in detail their shocking crimes.
The killers' pursuit of horror and violence is described through the unique audiotape and videotape interviews which Berry-Dee conducted, deep inside the bowels of some of the world's toughest prisons.
Christopher Berry-Dee has collated these interviews into this astounding, disturbing book, which, since its first publication, has gone on to become a True Crime classic. Not only does he describe his meetings with some of the world's most evil men and women, he also reproduces, verbatim, their very words as they describe their crimes, allowing the reader a glimpse into the inner workings of the people who have committed the worst crime possible - to mercilessly take the life of another human being.
About the Author A noted writer and criminologist of many years' standing, Christopher Berry-Dee is the author of the bestselling Talking With Serial Killers.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781786069740 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: True crime Bic2:
Author now living:John Blake AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Talking with Female Serial Killers - A chilling study of the most evil women in the world Christopher Berry-Dee
Christopher Berry-Dee, criminologist and bestselling author of books about the serial killers Aileen Wuornos and Joanne Dennehy, turns his uncompromising gaze upon women who not only kill, but kill repeatedly.
Description Because female murderers, and especially serial murderers, are so rare compared with their male counterparts, this new study will surprise as well as shock, particularly in the cases of women like Beverley Allitt, who kill children, and Janie Lou Gibbs, who killed her three sons and a grandson, as well as her husband. Here too are women who kill under the influence of their male partners, such as Myra Hindley and Rosemary West, and whose lack of remorse for their actions is nothing short of chilling. But the author also turns his forensic gaze on female killers who were themselves victims, like Aileen Wuornos, whose killing spree, for which she was executed, can be traced directly to her treatment at the hands of men.
Christopher Berry-Dee has no equal as the author of hard-hitting studies of the killers who often walk among us undetected for many years, and who in so many cases seem to be acting entirely against their natures.
About the Author A noted writer and criminologist of many years' standing, Christopher Berry-Dee is the author of the bestselling Talking With Serial Killers and Talking with Psychopaths.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781786069009 Format: Misc PB Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: True crime Bic2:
Author now living:John Blake AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Talking With Serial Killers: World's Most Evil Christopher Berry-Dee
Christopher Berry-Dee is back. In Talking With Serial Killers: World's Most Evil, the bestselling author delves deeper still into the gloomy underworld of killers and their crimes.
Description Christopher Berry-Dee is back. In Talking With Serial Killers: World's Most Evil, the bestselling author delves deeper still into the gloomy underworld of killers and their crimes. He examines, with shocking detail and clarity, the lives and lies of people who have killed, and shines a light on the motives behind their horrific crimes.
Through interviews with the killers, the police and key members of the prosecution, alongside careful analysis of the cases themselves, the reader is given unprecedented insight into the most diabolical minds that humanity has to offer.
Extending its sweep from lonesome outsiders to upstanding members of the community, Talking with Serial Killers: World's Most Evil shows that the world's most monstrous killers may be far closer than you think...
About the Author A noted writer and criminologist of many years' standing, Christopher Berry-Dee is the author of the bestselling Talking With Serial Killers.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781789460544 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 197h x 128w mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: True crime Bic2:
Author now living:John Blake AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Talking With Psychopaths and Savages - A journey into the evil mind Christopher Berry-Dee
Look around you, because the person sitting next to you could be a cold, heartless murderer...a chilling look deep inside the minds of some of the most pitiless and dangerous people alive.
Description Bestselling author and criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee takes readers deep inside the dark minds of some of the most pitiless and dangerous people alive.
Having spent years interviewing imprisoned criminals - including notorious serial killers - he discovered that the lack of remorse these people showed was in many ways even more terrifying than the crimes they had committed. Yet in the course of these conversations, the author also had the chance to interview his subjects' psychiatrists and, in doing so, uncovered a terrible truth: a monster can be hidden behind a friendly face. Some of these experts, he found, proved to have more in common with their patients than he would ever have expected.
This book examines horrific crimes committed by some of the most remorseless and merciless people ever to have lived. If it reveals a mindset wholly alien to most people, it also, shockingly, demonstrates that some of the people who treat these psychopaths have their own demons. This chilling study of darkest of criminal minds will inevitably shift the reader's view of psychopaths, and in doing so, reveals that horror can be much closer to us than we think...
About the Author A noted writer and criminologist of many years' standing, Christopher Berry-Dee is also the author of the bestselling Talking With Serial Killers.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781786061225 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: True crime Bic2:
Author now living:John Blake AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Talking With Psychopaths and Savages: Beyond Evil Christopher Berry-Dee
Bestselling author Christopher Berry-Dee is back with a companion volume that delves even deeper into the savage world of psychopaths and their hideous crimes.
Description Sunday Times-bestselling author Christopher Berry-Dee is back with a companion volume that delves even deeper into the savage world of psychopaths and their hideous crimes. This time, however, he combines sections on killers whom he has known, interviewed or corresponded with, with studies of psychopathic serial killers from the past, including Peter Kürten, the 'Düsseldorf Monster', John Christie, responsible for the killings at 10 Rillington Place; and Neville Heath, a ladykiller in every sense of the word.
The result is a chilling narrative that sets the forensic examination of killers and their crimes within the context of murder in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, an examination of the evil mind set against the insoluble problem of identifying psychopaths w ho kill.
This is not a book for the squeamish, but it is undeniably fascinating in its portrayal of just what one human being will do to others - while all too often moving among us unnoticed and unhindered. If their crimes seem as incomprehensible as they are horrific, it is undeniably true that the world's most savage killers may be much closer than we think...
About the Author A noted writer and criminologist, Christopher Berry-Dee's recent books include Talking With Psychopaths and Savages, the UK's bestselling true crime title of 2017, and Talking With Female Serial Killers. He is the UK's No. 1 true crime author.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781789461152 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: True crime Bic2:
Author now living:John Blake AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 A Crooked Tree Una Mannion
This is the story of Libby and her siblings over one long hot summer, and how one decision can have terrible unintended consequences...
Description Rage. That's the feeling engulfing the car as Ellen's mother swerves over to the hard-shoulder and orders her daughter out onto the roadside. Ignoring the protests of her other children, she accelerates away, leaving Ellen standing on the gravel verge in her school pinafore and knee socks as the light fades.
What would you do as you watch your little sister getting smaller in the rear view window? How far would you be willing to go to help her? The Gallagher children are going to find out. This moment is the beginning of a summer that will change everything.
About the Author Una Mannion was born in Philadelphia and lives in County Sligo Ireland. She has won numerous prizes for her work including the Hennessy Emerging Poetry Award and the Doolin, Cuirt, Allingham and Ambit short story prizes. Her work has been published in The Irish Times, The Lonely Crowd, Crannog and Bare Fiction. She edits The Cormorant, a broadsheet of prose and poetry.
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9780571357956 Format: Demy Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 216h x 135w mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2:
Author now living:Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 little scratch Rebecca Watson
The explosive and virtuosic debut novel by one of the most talented young authors to have emerged in recent British fiction.
Description 'little scratch is a story that is urgent. It is a story that needs to be told.' - Meena Kandasamy 'Reads like the cinders settling in the air after an explosion... daring and completely readable.' - Colin Barrett 'Wry, funny and heartbreaking.' - Sophie Mackintosh 'little scratch is a little miracle... impossible to read it and not wish there were more books like it.' - Alan Trotter 'Confident and vital... little scratch is an absolute gift.' - Naoise Dolan
little scratch tells the story of a day in the life of an unnamed woman, living in a lower-case world of demarcated fridge shelves and office politics; clock-watching and WhatsApp notifications. In a voice that is fiercely wry, touchingly delicate and increasingly neurotic, the protagonist relays what it takes to get through the quotidian detail of that single trajectory - from morning to night - while processing recent sexual violence.
little scratch is about the coexistence of monotony with our waking, intelligent lives. It is a powerful evocation of how the external and internal aspects of our lives exist in a helix, and what it means to live out the course of a single day consumed by trauma.
About the Author Rebecca Watson is Assistant Arts Editor at the Financial Times. Her work has been published in the Times Literary Supplement and Granta. In 2018, she was shortlisted for the White Review Short Story Prize.
Price: AU $34.99 NZ $39.99 ISBN: 9780571356577 Format: Misc HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 216h x 153w mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2:
Author now living:Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 A River Called Time
A monumental speculative fiction story of love, loyalty, politics and conscience set in parallel Londons.
Description The Ark was built to save the lives of the many, but rapidly became a refuge for the elite, the entrance closed without warning.
Years after the Ark was cut off from the world, a chance of survival within its confines is granted to a select few who can prove their worth. Among their number is Markriss Denny, whose path to future excellence is marred only by a closely guarded secret: without warning, his spirit leaves his body, allowing him to see and experience a world far beyond his physical limitations.
Once inside the Ark, Denny learns of another with the same power, whose existence could spell catastrophe for humanity. He is forced into a desperate race to understand his abilities, and in doing so uncovers the truth about the Ark, himself and the people he thought he once knew.
About the Author Courttia Newland is the author of seven books including his much lauded debut, The Scholar. His latest novel, The Gospel According to Cane, was published in 2013. His short stories have appeared in many anthologies and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. In 2016 he was awarded the Tayner Barbers Award for science fiction writing and the Roland Rees Busary for playwriting. As a screenwriter, he has written two episodes of the Steve McQueen BBC series Small Axe.
@courttianewland
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9781786897060 Format: Misc HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 240h x 162w mm Extent: 464 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2:
Author now living:Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 The Captive Deborah O'Connor
Only he can unlock the truth. Only she can set him free. The most captivating thriller of 2021. A gripping high- concept thriller with a dark love story.
Description Hannah knows the cage intimately. Small, the size of a shopping mall parking space. A bed, a basin, a table and chair. A hatch and metal drawer through which to exchange food and other items.
Then there's him. Always there on the edges of her vision, no matter how hard she tries to block him out.
Every day, the same thoughts run through Hannah's mind:
What if he speaks to me? What if he hurts me? What if he gets out?
A brilliant, high concept, intensely gripping thriller perfect for fans of THE SILENT PATIENT, THE CAPTIVE is a standout new thriller from one of the most exciting new voices in crime fiction. It will keep you guessing till the very end . . .
About the Author Deborah O'Connor is a writer and TV producer. She lives in North Yorkshire with her husband and daughter. Deborah's first novel was the bestseller My Husband's Son, followed by The Dangerous Kind. The Captive is her third novel.
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9781838772659 Format: C-Format HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2:
Author now living:Zaffre AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Strongmen Ruth Ben-Ghiat
A leading academic exposes the historical and cultural contexts which allow political strongmen to thrive
Description 'A gripping and illuminating picture of how strongmen have deployed violence, seduction, and corruption' Daniel Ziblatt, co-author of How Democracies Die
'A timely analysis of how a certain kind of charisma delivers political disaster' Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny
Today, countries from Russia to India, Turkey to America are ruled by men who combine populist appeal with authoritarian policies. These leaders have reshaped their countries around them, creating cults of personality which earn the loyalty of millions. And, as historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat shows, they do so by drawing on a playbook of behaviour established by figures such as Benito Mussolini, Muammar Gaddafi and Adolf Hitler.
So why - despite the evidence of history - do strongmen still hold such appeal for us? Ruth Ben-Ghiat reveals how, for a hundred years, charismatic leaders have emerged at moments of uncertainty and transition, manipulating electoral systems, brutally suppressing opposition, gaining control of the media and distorting the imaginations of the people they rule over in pursuit of absolute power.
Authoritarians hold their greatest appeal when society is polarised. Skilfully exposing both the power and the weakness of the strongman, this fierce and perceptive history is a vital step in understanding how to combat the forces which seek to derail democracy and seize our rights.
About the Author Ruth Ben-Ghiat is Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University and a political commentator and cultural critic who has received Guggenheim, Fulbright, and other fellowships. An expert on fascism and its memory, authoritarian rulers, Donald Trump, and propaganda, she's written for or appeared on BBC World News, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Sky News, New Yorker and other media outlets. Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9781788161237 Format: C-Format HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship Bic2:
Author now living:Profile Trade AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 The Case for Keto Gary Taubes
A revelatory expose of the bad science behind conventional weight loss advice, arguing for low-carb high-fat diets, from the bestselling author of The Case Against Sugar.
Description While government and nutritional agencies still spout the failed mantra of calorie reduction, doctors treating diabetes and obesity are experiencing extraordinary results among patients cutting out carbs; a diet which has the essential benefit of allowing you to lose weight without ever feeling hungry.
With forensic journalistic rigour and in compelling prose, world authority Gary Taubes analyses the bad science behind our nutritional dogma. He shows that weight gain is driven by genetic, hormonal factors - and not overeating or 'gluttony' as is commonly the underlying suggestion - citing compelling evidence that people with the propensity to fatten easily can be helped best by a low carbohydrate high fat diet.
This groundbreaking read offers hope to anyone wishing to prevent or reverse diabetes or obesity - as well as anyone wanting to eat more healthily - and will fundamentally change our habits around food forever.
About the Author Gary Taubes is the author of the bestselling The Case Against Sugar, Why We Get Fat and The Diet Delusion. An award- winning science and health journalist, his writing has appeared in Discover, Science, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, Nature and the British Journal of Medicine. He has received three Science in Society Journalism Awards from the National Association of Science writers, Investigator Award in Health Policy Research and is a co-founder of the Nutrition Science Initiative. He lives in Oakland, California.
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9781783786558 Format: C-Format HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: pages Bic1: Dietetics & nutrition Bic2:
Author now living:Granta AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars Kate Greene
A powerful reflection on life in isolation, in pursuit of the dream of Mars
Description In 2013 Kate Greene moved to Mars.
On NASA's first HI-SEAS simulated Mars mission in Hawai'i, she lived for four months in an isolated geodesic dome with her crewmates, gaining incredible insight into human behaviour in tight quarters, as well as the nature of boredom, dreams and isolation that arise amidst the promise of scientific progress and glory.
Greene draws on her experience to contemplate what makes an astronaut, the challenges of freeze-dried eggs and time- lagged correspondence, the cost of shooting for a Planet B. The result is a story of space and life, of the slippage between dreams and reality, of bodies in space, and of humanity's incredible impulse to explore.
From trying out life on Mars, Greene examines what it is to live on Earth.
About the Author Kate Greene is an essayist, poet, journalist, and former laser physicist whose work has appeared in Aeon, Harvard Review, the New Yorker, The Economist, and WIRED, among others. She was second-in command on the first simulated Mars mission for NASA's HI-SEAS project. She holds a BS in chemistry, an MS in physics and an MFA in poetry, and has taught writing at Columbia University, San Francisco State University, and the Tennessee Prison for Women. She lives in NYC.
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9781785786822 Format: Demy Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 216h x 135w mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Popular astronomy & space Bic2:
Author now living:Icon AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Justice for Helen Marie McCourt
A mother's 31 year quest for the truth.
Description Burying a child is every parent's nightmare. But Marie McCourt has spent 31 years yearning to do just that.
On February 9th, 1988, her 22-year-old daughter, Helen, left her office in Liverpool city centre, and began her usual commute home. But she was never seen again... Within days, local pub landlord, Ian Simms was identified as her murderer; and despite Helen's body not being found, a mass of incontrovertible DNA and witness evidence at his trial twelve months later resulted in a life sentence.
But Simms has refused to disclose the whereabouts of Helen's body, meaning Marie and her family have never been able to get closure. They've never had a grave at which they can pay their respects.
Marie has fought for the last 30 years to find her daughter's body and to stop other families facing the same horrifying fate, recently winning the Ministry of Justice's approval for "Helen's Law", characterised by the slogan: "No Body No Parole", to be enacted.
This is the incredible story of the crushing devastation of a mother from the loss of her daughter, a callous murderer and the indomitable strength of a woman, who would not be bowed by an outdated law.
About the Author Marie McCourt, 76, is a married mother of two from Lincolnshire. Her daughter Helen was murdered in 1988 and she has spent the last 30 years trying to find her daughter's body. Marie's co-writer, journalist Fiona Duffy, has personally supported Marie and her campaign for the last 21 years, during which they formed a deep bond.
Fiona Duffy first heard of Marie's desperate search for her daughter while working as Women's Editor on the Liverpool Echo in 1995 - seven years after Helen's murder. Three years later, working as a commissioning editor on a women's Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9781789462913 magazine in London, Marie's story landed on her desk to be edited. Over the last 21 years she has worked exceptionally Format: B closely with Marie, writing countless stories and supporting her during every step of her fight for justice. Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2:
Author now living:John Blake AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 2021 Trapped in the Snow: An Escape Room Thriller Eva Eich, illustrated by Marielle Enders
Crime novel meets puzzle book in this spine-tingling escape thriller!
Description This book is more than your average thriller... work out the answers to these riddles to uncover the mystery.
When Noah returns to his old hometown after his father's death, he suspects that his father has been murdered. He is being sent mysterious clues from someone... is it his father's killer? When a snowstorm traps him in the village, he is forced to embark on a quest to find the truth. And more importantly, he needs to find a way to escape!
Answering each riddle correctly will lead you to the next page in the story. This is the perfect book for fans of escape rooms, puzzles and crime fiction.
About the Author
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781787418400 Format: Misc HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 150h x 200w mm Extent: 84 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2:
