MAY 2017 Girl in Between Anna Daniels
Life can be tricky when you're a girl in between relationships, careers and cities ... and sometimes you have to face some uncomfortable truths. The sparkling debut from comic TV and radio presenter, Anna Daniels.
Description Lucy Crighton has just moved in with some gregarious housemates called Brian and Denise . . . who are her parents. She's also the proud mother of Glenda, her beloved 10-year-old . . . kelpie. And she has absolutely no interest in the dashing son of her parents' new next-door neighbour . . . well, maybe just a little.
When you're the girl in between relationships, careers and cities, you sometimes have to face some uncomfortable truths . . . like your Mum's obsession with Cher, your father's unsolicited advice, and the fact there's probably more cash on the floor of your parents' car than in your own bank account.
Thank goodness Lucy's crazy but wonderful best friend, Rosie, is around to cushion reality, with wild nights at the local Whipcrack hotel, escapades in Japanese mud baths, and double dating under the Christmas lights in London.
But will Lucy work out what she really wants to do in life and who she wants to share it with?
Girl in Between is a warm, upbeat and often hilarious story about life at the crossroads. Featuring an endearing and irrepressible cast of characters, it will have you chuckling from start to finish.
About the Author Anna Daniels has enjoyed great success as a comedic storyteller since kicking off her career by winning the ABC's 'Comedy Segment of the Year Award' for an interview with Russell Crowe. She then went on to co-create the ABC's first online sketch comedy series 'Tough at the Top' with Melbourne comedian, Anne Edmonds. For several years Anna wrote and presented funny upbeat stories for The Project, winning over viewers with her warm, silly, endearing style. Having grown up in Rockhampton, she particularly championed the stories and characters of rural and regional Australia with affection and humour. As well as The Project, Anna has written, presented and/or produced radio, TV and online content Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760295301 for Queensland Weekender, Red Symons' Breakfast Show, and the BBC One series, 'John Bishop's Australia'. Anna can Format: Paperback - C format now be heard presenting statewide programs on 612 ABC Brisbane. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 If Wishes Were Horses Karly Lane
This captivating story of two people recovering from terrible tragedy and loss, and the importance of community, friendship and the power of love.
Description Already struggling to come to terms with the tragic death of her husband, Sophie Bryant nearly loses her own life while attending a domestic dispute as a paramedic. Diagnosed with a mild form of post-traumatic stress disorder, Sophie decides to accept a posting to the remote township of Hilsons Ridge.
Soon after her arrival, Sophie decides on a whim to buy an old house on the outskirts of town. There, she discovers the diary of a light horse trooper from the First World War, which she finds fascinating.
Local vet, Zac Conway, is also struggling in the wake of losing his life partner. So when Sophie brings an abandoned horse to him for treatment and they get to know each other, Zac is surprised to feel emotions he never hoped to experience again.
The peace and tranquillity of living in her new community sees Sophie gradually recovering from her trauma and grief. As she discovers more about her farm’s history, she realises that the past and the present are irrevocably connected and, just like love, it waits for the right person to come along to unlock its secrets.
If Wishes Were Horses is a totally captivating novel combining romance and history with a dash of suspense.
About the Author Karly Lane lives on the mid north coast of New South Wales. Proud mum to four beautiful children and wife of one very patient mechanic, she is lucky enough to spend her day doing the two things she loves most - being a mum and writing stories set in beautiful rural Australia.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760291839 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 344 pages
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith
An atmospheric and brilliant novel of Paris, love, madness and photography by the bestselling writer of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Dominic Smith.
Description '...beautifully written ...A compelling psychological study, a thoughtful tracing of the birth of a new art form and an atmospheric portrait of 19th-century France: impressive on all three counts.' Kirkus
When the vision came, he was in the bathtub. So begins the madness of Louis Daguerre. In 1847, after a decade of using poisonous mercury vapours to cure his daguerreotype images, his mind is plagued by delusions. Believing the world will end in a year, Daguerre creates his 'Doomsday List': ten items he must photograph before the final day. The list includes a portrait of Isobel Le Fournier, a woman he has always loved but not spoken to in half a century.
In this luminous novel, Dominic Smith reinvents the life of one of photography's founding fathers. Louis Daguerre's story is set against the backdrop of a Paris prone to bohemian excess and social unrest. It is here, amid this strange and beguiling setting, that Louis Daguerre sets off to capture his doomsday subjects.
Louis enlists the help of the womanising poet Charles Baudelaire, and a jaded and beautiful prostitute named Pigeon. Together they scour the Paris underworld for images worthy of Daguerre's list. But Louis is also confronted by a chance to reunite with the only woman he's ever loved. Half a lifetime ago, Isobel Le Fournier kissed Louis Daguerre in a wine cave outside of Orleans. The result was a proposal, a rejection, and a misunderstanding that outlasted three kings and an emperor. Now, in the countdown to his apocalypse, Louis wants to understand why he has carried the memory of that kiss for so long.
About the Author Dominic grew up in Sydney, Australia and now lives in Austin, Texas. He is the author, most recently, of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, an acclaimed bestseller in Australia and the US.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760296377 Dominic's other novels are: The Beautiful Miscellaneous and Bright and Distant Shores. Dominic's awards include the Format: Paperback - B format Dobie Paisano Fellowship from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Prize, the Gulf Coast Fiction Dimensions: 198x128mm Prize, and a new works grant from the Australia Council for the Arts. His fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize Extent: 368 pages and been shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year and the Vance Palmer Prize. Main Category: FC
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 Watch Over Me Claire Corbett
Watching goes both ways... They watch for control, for survival, for pleasure. We watch for survival, for fear, for love. A contemporary thriller of rebellion and surrender, love and war.
Description ‘This gem of a novel ticks all the boxes—a book of flaming affections and indefatigable loves, dystopian and convincing, a tale of pilgrimages and adventures, all beautifully textured and lovingly narrated.’ Tom Keneally, winner of the Booker Prize
The pressure of my blood, the beat of my heart, is a message to you. You read each second of my body's life. But watching goes both ways. You watch us: for control, for power, for pleasure. We watch you: for survival, for fear, for love.
It is the present day. The foggy northern city of Port Angelsund, gateway to the last great fossil fuel reserves beneath the Arctic Ocean, is under occupation by the soldiers of Garrison. Sylvie is a young woman just trying to survive. She works in a harbourside café with her mother and little brother, and fears for her older brother, Jory, who fled when the enemy invaded.
When Sylvie is singled out for punishment at a Garrison checkpoint, a young lieutenant rescues her from torture. Though she knows the terrible risks of collaboration, she cannot stop herself from falling in love. Watched closely by Garrison’s vast machinery of surveillance, Sylvie now discovers she is also under the protective and suspicious gaze of her lover.
Brooding over the rim of the world, Coalition pledges to free Port Angelsund: storm is coming, they say, we are on our way. When Jory returns on a terrorist mission that will throw the city into chaos, Sylvie’s loyalties are tested beyond breaking point. Her deep bond with her brother and her illicit passion for her Garrison officer are loves that cannot coexist. Whatever she does is betrayal.
In the spirit of Hiroshima Mon Amour and Suite Francaise, this sensual and heart-breaking novel brings the classic conflicts of war and occupation, devotion and treachery, up to the present minute. While the unimaginable power of Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781743310755 modern warfare advances, Watch Over Me reminds us that the things at stake—survival, refuge and love—remain the Format: Paperback - C format things worth fighting for. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 480 pages
Main Category: FC Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction About the Author Illustrations: Claire Corbett was born in Canada and has worked in film and government policy. Her first novel, When We Have Wings, Previous Titles: Author now living: was published in 201 and shortlisted for the 2012 Barbara Jefferis Award and the 2012 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction. Her recent fiction and essays have been published in a range of journals, including The Best Australian Stories 2014/2015, Griffith Review, Southerly and Overland. She has written on defence and strategy for The Diplomat, The Strategist and The Monthly. Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 Watch Over Me 8 copy pack
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 When We Have Wings Claire Corbett
In a world divided into fliers and non-fliers, how far would you go to be able to fly? How much would you sacrifice - perhaps your own child? A beautifully written and compellingly original novel of sacrifice, betrayal and love.
Description 'This book is intoxicating; it made me imagine things I never imagined before. The world of flying is so complete, so detailed and real, it was as if I was flying, as if I could feel my wings. This is an addictive mystery, clever and compelling.' Jane Campion, director of The Piano and Bright Star
Flight - you'll dream about it.
'She had never seen the sky in all her life before. How high could she fly? What was the limit? She was already so high the earth was no longer real. Only her in the sky. Every spiral pure joy. This was Flight. It was for this she'd risked and endured so much. It had to be worth it.'
The dream of being able to fly is now physical reality but only the rich and powerful can afford the surgery, drugs, and gene manipulation to become fliers. Peri, a poor girl from the regions, will sacrifice anything to get her wings and join this elite but the price is higher than she could have imagined. So why then does she throw it all away?
Feel the exhilaration and terror of flight - over vertiginous skyscrapers, into wild storms and across hypnotic wilderness - in this beautiful and daringly imaginative novel that explores the limits of self- transformation.
'A brilliantly conceived vision, bold in its execution and utterly convincing in its detail. When We Have Wings is that rare thing, a compelling read that is both emotionally and intellectually satisfying.' Amanda Lohrey
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Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) Claire Corbett was born in Canada and has worked in film and government policy. She has had essays and stories ISBN: 9781760297466 broadcast on Radio National and published in a range of publications, including Rolling Stone, Cinema Papers, Picador Format: Paperback - B format New Writing and The Sydney Morning Herald. She was a finalist in The Independent Young Writer of the Year awards Dimensions: 198x128mm 1991, completed the MA Writing at UTS in 1997 and a Varuna Mentorship in 2000. When We Have Wings is her first Extent: 480 pages
Main Category: FC novel. Claire currently lives with her husband, son and daughter in the Blue Mountains.
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 Vogel Winner 2017 Vogel Winner
Description 'first rate ... great humour too' Stephen Romei, The Australian
'never lets up ... hugely entertaining' Rohan Wilson, author of The Roving Party and To Name Those Lost
'an intriguing concept' Jenny Barry, BooksPlus
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 The Beekeeper's Secret Josephine Moon
Maria Lindsey has secrets to hide. Living on top of a secluded mountain is a good way to hide from the world... until her past begins to track her down. The surprising and intriguing new novel about the astounding secrets we keep from those we love from the bestselling author of The Tea Chest.
Description 'Maria knew about guilt. It was a stubborn, pervasive and toxic emotion, and incredibly difficult to shake. Especially if really, deep down, you didn't think you deserved to let it go.'
Maria Lindsey is content. She spends her solitary days tending her bees and creating delicious honey products to fund orphaned children. A former nun, her life at Honeybee Haven has long been shaped by her self-imposed penance for terrible past events. But the arrival of two letters heralds the shattering of Maria's peaceful existence.
Pushing aside the misgivings of her family and friends, Tansy Butterfield, on the eve of her marriage, made a serious deal with her adored husband, Dougal. A deal she'd intended to honour. But, seven years on, Tansy is finding her current feelings difficult to ignore. And on top of those not-really-there feelings, Dougal wants to move to Canada!
About the Author Josephine Moon's first novel, The Tea Chest (2014), delighted readers with its strong heroine and enchanting story and was a bestseller both in Australia and overseas. Her second novel, The Chocolate Promise (2015), was a love-story with a difference set in luscious Provence and rural Tasmania and was also a bestseller.
The Beekeeper's Secret, a novel of family and the happiness, guilt and grief that can lie within them, is her third novel.
Josephine lives with her husband, son and her horses, dogs, chickens, goats and cats on acreage in Queensland.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760296230 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 368 pages
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 The Tea Chest Josephine Moon
A beautifully engaging novel set in the world of a boutique teashop. With rose petals, cinnamon bark and orange peel scenting the air, three women come together from very different backgrounds and learn to trust themselves, and each other.
Description 'Stunning, witty and enchanting.' Fleur McDonald
Kate Fullerton, talented tea designer and now co-owner of The Tea Chest, could never have imagined that she'd risk her young family's future to save her fledgling business.
Meanwhile, Leila Morton has just lost her job; and if Elizabeth Clancy had known today was the day she would appear on the nightly news, she might at least have put on some clothes. Both need to move on.
When Kate, Leila and Elizabeth's paths cross, they throw themselves into realising Kate's vision of the newest and most delectable tea shop in London, The Tea Chest.
An enchanting, witty novel about the unexpected situations life throws at us, and how love and friendship help us through. Written with heart and infused with the seductive scents of bergamot, Indian spices, lemon, rose and caramel, it's a world you won't want to leave.
'I loved it - a perfect blend of sweet and spice.' Jenny Colgan
About the Author Josephine Moon writes about strong, creative women making their mark on the world. She describes her stories as 'books like brownies': indulgent, comforting, a treat for the senses, but filling and with chunky nuts to chew on. Josephine lives with her husband and their son, and their extraordinarily large and diverse animal family on acreage on the Sunshine
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) Coast in Queensland. They are currently renovating a house for profit to maintain Josephine's passion for horses and ISBN: 9781760113094 imported fine chocolate. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 392 pages
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 The Chocolate Promise Josephine Moon
From Tasmania to Paris and beyond, an enchanting story of the proprietor of a specialist chocolate shop who must learn that some rules are meant to be broken - this real-life fairy godmother must learn to find her own magic. The new novel for readers who love Cathy Kelly and Monica McInerney from the bestselling author of The Tea Chest.
Description 'A Tasmanian twist on the movie Chocolat... inspiring and life-affirming.' Books + Publishing
In The Chocolate Apothecary, chocolate isn't just good for you, it's medicine. And Christmas Livingstone loves nothing more than enticing customers into her shop with her beautiful chocolate creations and gifts for all the senses.
Until one day a stranger arrives at her front door - a dishevelled botanist seeking her help. She really doesn't need Lincoln van Luc walking into her life. Or does she?
Set across Tasmania, Paris and Provence, amid a delicious tangle of freshly picked herbs, flowers and the luxurious scent of chocolate, Christmas Livingstone is about to find out how far in life a list of rules will take her.
'A feast for the senses and a salve for the heart. Devour it as you would a whole bar of chocolate.' Book Birdy
About the Author Josephine Moon's first novel, The Tea Chest, published in 2014, delighted readers with its strong heroine and enchanting story and was a bestseller in Australia and overseas. Her second novel, The Chocolate Promise, first published in 2015 also quickly became a bestseller. A love story with a difference, The Chocolate Promise deals with issues of family, independence, creativity, food and travel. Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760292522 Josephine lives with her husband, son, and her horses, dogs, chickens, goats and cats on acreage in Queensland. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 400 pages
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 The House Between Tides Sarah Maine
An atmospheric debut about a woman who discovers the century-old remains of a murder victim on her family's Scottish estate plunging her into an investigation of its mysterious former occupants.
Description 'Scotland's Outer Hebrides provides the sensuous setting for this impressive debut...a beautifully crafted novel.' Publishers Weekly
A captivating story of a crumbling estate in the wilds of Scotland, its century-old secret and an enduring mystery.
Following the deaths of her last living relatives, Hetty Deveraux leaves her strained marriage behind in London and journeys to Scotland to inspect her inheritance: her ancestral home, now in ruins. As Hetty dives headfirst into the repairs, she discovers a shocking secret protected by the house for a hundred years.
With only whispered rumours circulating among the local villagers and a handful of leads to guide her, Hetty finds the power of the past is still affecting her present in startling ways.
About the Author Sarah Maine was born in England but grew up partly in Canada, returning to the UK for university where she studied archaeology. She now lives in York with her family. The House Between the Tides is her first novel.
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 Last Night at the Lobster Stewart O'Nan
A frank and funny yet emotionally resonant tale set during a restaurant's last day of operation.
Description The Red Lobster chain restaurant perched in the far corner of a run-down American mall hasn't been making its numbers and headquarters has pulled the plug. But manager Manny DeLeon still needs to navigate a tricky last shift with a near- mutinous staff and the final onslaught of hungry retirees, lunatics and office parties. All the while, he's wondering how to handle the waitress he's still in love with, what to do about his pregnant girlfriend and where to find the Christmas present that will make everything better.
Stewart O'Nan has been called 'the bard of the working class', and Last Night at the Lobster is a masterclass of precision and empathy.
About the Author Stewart O'Nan is the author of fifteen previous novels, including West of Sunset; The Odds; Emily, Alone; A Prayer for the Dying; and Snow Angels, as well as several works of non-fiction, including, with Stephen King, the bestselling Faithful. Last Night at the Lobster was a US bestseller and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He was born and raised in Pittsburgh where he lives with his family.
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A&U UK MAY 2017 The Impossible Fortress Jason Rekulak
Set in 1987, both a romance and a coming-of-age story - about what happens when a 14-year-old boy pretends to seduce a girl to steal a copy of Playboy, but then discovers she is his computer-loving soul mate.
Description It's 1987. Billy Marvin, the tallest boy in ninth grade, has just witnessed history.
Wheel of Fortune presenter Vanna White is on the cover of Playboy.
Billy and his friends, Alf and Clark, know that if they can get hold of the magazine, their world will change. For ever.
But as Billy says, 'No shopkeeper in America was going to sell Playboy to a fourteen-year-old boy.'
As they set out on their mission to find the most wanted images in America, they're blissfully unaware of the dangers, dramas and garbage dumpsters that lie ahead. And of how a girl called Mary might just change one of their lives. For ever.
About the Author Jason Rekulak is the Publisher of Quirk Books, an independent publishing house based in Philadelphia, USA, known for New York Times bestsellers like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. The Impossible Fortress is his first novel. Jason lives with his wife and two children in Philadelphia. www.jasonrekulak.com
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Faber Fiction MAY 2017 The Devil and Webster Jean Hanff Korelitz
'It was Naomi Roth's problem: first ignored by her then irritating to her and then, all at once, intractably complex and a threat to everything she had done at Webster, and everything she was trying to do.'
Description Webster College: an elite New England campus and a world of learning where creativity and inclusiveness are the presiding principles. Naomi Roth, a feminist scholar, is named to the coveted position of Webster's president. When a student protest materializes, Naomi initially supports the movement, feeling proud and protective of the protesters, her own daughter Hannah among them. But the protest begins to fester, attracting students from other institutions and media. Attention begins to focus on one charismatic student, a Palestinian immigrant named Omar, and both the tension on campus and the essential conflicts in Naomi's personal life begin to overwhelm her until she finds herself facing an impossible and ultimately tragic conflict.
The Devil and Webster is shot through with caustic comedy, and yet the Faustian notes are a persistent reminder that the possibility of corruption - personal or institutional - remains our persistent companion, however good our intentions might be.
About the Author Jean Hanff Korelitz is the author of the novels You Should Have Known, Admission, which was made into a movie starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd, The White Rose, The Sabbathday River and A Jury of Her Peers. She has also written a novel for children, Interference Powder, and a collection of poetry, The Properties of Breath. Her non-fiction has appeared in various anthologies and in publications such as Vogue, Reader's Digest and the New York Times.
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Faber Fiction MAY 2017 You Should Have Known Jean Hanff Korelitz
A smart, addictive and psychologically acute novel about what we think we know, what we should have known, and what we choose to ignore.
Description 'A great psychological thriller . I couldn't put it down.' Daisy Goodwin
A New York Times bestseller
Grace Sachs, a happily married therapist with a young son, thinks she knows everything about women, men and marriage. She is about to publish a book called You Should Have Known, based on her pet theory: women don't value their intuition about what men are really like, leading to serious trouble later on.
But how well does Grace know her own husband? She is about to find out, and in the place of what she thought she knew, there will be a violent death, a missing husband, and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a very public disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for herself and her child.
About the Author Jean Hanff Korelitz was born and raised in New York City and graduated from Dartmouth College and Clare College, Cambridge. She is the author of the novelsA Jury Of Her Peers, The Sabbathday River, The White Rose and Admission, as well as Interference Powder, a novel for middle grade readers, and The Properties of Breath, a collection of poetry. A film version of Admission starring Tina Fey, Paul Rudd and Lily Tomlin was released in 2013.
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Faber Paperback MAY 2017 Ghachar Ghochar Vivek Shanbhag
A novel of Chekhovian precision and lingering resonance which has all the signs of a contemporary cult classic.
Description In this masterful novel by the acclaimed Indian writer Vivek Shanbhag, a close-knit family is delivered from near- destitution to sudden wealth after the narrator's uncle founds a successful spice company. As the narrator - a sensitive young man who is never named - along with his sister, his parents, and his uncle move from a cramped, ant-infested shack to a larger house and encounter newfound wealth, the family dynamics begin to shift. Allegiances and desires realign; marriages are arranged and begin to falter; and conflict brews ominously in the background.
Their world becomes 'ghachar ghochar' - a nonsense phrase that, to the narrator, comes to mean something entangled beyond repair. Told in clean, urgent prose, and punctuated by moments of unexpected warmth and humour, Ghachar Ghochar is a quietly enthralling, deeply unsettling novel about the shifting meanings - and consequences - of financial gain in contemporary India.
About the Author Vivek Shanbhag is the author of eight works of fiction and two plays, all of which have been published to wide acclaim in the South Indian language of Kannada. Ghachar Ghochar is the first of his books to appear in English. He is the recipient of a Fall 2016 residency at the International Writing Program at Iowa. Srinath Perur (translator) is a writer and translator whose work has appeared in n+1, Granta, and the Guardian. He is the author of If It's Monday It Must Be Madurai, published by Penguin India.
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Faber Fiction MAY 2017 The Contract: A John Q Thriller JM Gulvin
A string of murders. A missing blues singer. A leaky DA's office. Cops and pimps in each other's pockets.
Description In New Orleans, Texas Ranger John Q is out of his jurisdiction, and possibly out of his depth. It seems everyone in Louisiana wants to send him home, and every time he asks questions there's trouble: from the pharmacist to the detective running scared to the pimp who turned to him as a last resort. Before John Q knows it, he looks the only link between a series of murders.
So who could be trying to set him up, and why, and who can he turn to in a city where Southern tradition and family ties rule?
Infused with the rhythms of its iconic setting, The Contract is a thriller to keep even the most seasoned crime readers gripped and guessing all the way to its endgame.
About the Author JM Gulvin divides his time between Wales and the western United States. He is the author of many previous novels, as well as Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman's bestselling travel book Long Way Down. The Long Count is his first John Q mystery and will be followed by The Contract in Spring 2017.
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Faber Fiction MAY 2017 Sunset City Melissa Ginsburg
A thrilling crime debut from a strikingly brave new voice - shades of Patrick deWitt's Ablutions and Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects .
Description Twenty-two-year-old Charlotte Ford reconnects with Danielle, her best friend from high school, a few days before Danielle is found bludgeoned to death in a motel room. In the wake of the murder, Charlotte's life unravels and she descends into the city's underbelly, where she meets the strippers, pornographers and drug dealers who surrounded Danielle in the years they were estranged.
Ginsburg's Houston is part of a lesser known south, where the urban and rural collide gracelessly. In this shadowy world, culpability and sympathy blur in a debut novel which thrillingly brings its three female protagonists to the fore. Scary, funny and almost unbearably sad, Sunset City is written with rare grace and empathy holding you transfixed, praying for some kind of escape for Charlotte.
About the Author Melissa Ginsburg was born and raised in Houston and attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of the poetry collection Dear Weather Ghost and two poetry chapbooks, Arbor and Double Blind. She teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Mississippi. Sunset City is her first novel.
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Faber Paperback MAY 2017 A Deadly Thaw Sarah Ward
The latest D.C. Childs mystery is like 'Happy Valley' in novel form, with all the grit and plot twists of the author's first, In Bitter Chill.
Description Autumn 2004: In Bampton, Derbyshire, Lena Fisher is arrested for suffocating her husband, Andrew.
Spring 2016: A year after Lena's release from prison, Andrew is found dead in a disused mortuary.
Who was the man Lena killed twelve years ago, and who committed the second murder? When Lena disappears, her sister, Kat, sets out to follow a trail of clues delivered by a mysterious teenage boy. Kat must uncover the truth - before there's another death...A Deadly Thaw confirms Sarah Ward's place as one of the most exciting new crime writers.
About the Author Sarah Ward is an online book reviewer whose blog, Crimepieces (www.crimepieces.com), reviews the best of current crime fiction published around the world. She has also reviewed for Eurocrime and Crimesquad and is a judge for the Petrona Award for Scandinavian translated crime novels. She lives in Derbyshire. Follow Sarah on Twitter @sarahrward1
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571321049 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 384 pages
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Faber Paperback MAY 2017 The Return Home Justin Huggler
Ben's story is a gripping coming-of-age tale, in the mould of both David Mitchell's Black Swan Green and Sadie Jones' The Outcast .
Description When Jack, a war correspondent and wayward soul, returns home to Jersey injured from Afghanistan, he turns the lives of the Merryweather family upside down. Ten-year-old Ben and his brother and sister watch helplessly as the lively man they remember struggles to bring himself back from the brink.
Twenty years later, an adult Ben Merryweather himself returns home after a long absence to visit his sick mother. With his own family in turmoil, he is vividly reminded of that fateful winter and realises that he must finally make sense of those months with his uncle Jack to help him decide his future.
Set between an atmospheric Jersey with its Nazi-occupied past and the battle- fields of Afghanistan, The Return Home is a gripping and evocative tale about the breaking and mending of relationships and about facing one's failures in order to be able to move on.
About the Author Justin Huggler was born on the Channel Island of Jersey. A former foreign correspondent for the Independent newspaper, he covered the occupation of Iraq from 2003 to 2004. He has also covered the 2001 war in Afghanistan, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic. He is the author of The Burden of the Desert. He lives in Germany.
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Faber Short Books MAY 2017 The Cutaway Christina Kovac
A taut debut thriller for fans of Ruth Ware, Val McDermid and Peter Swanson.
Description It begins with someone else's story. The story of a woman who leaves a busy restaurant and disappears completely into the chilly spring night. Evelyn Carney is missing - but where did she go? Who was she meeting? And why did she take a weapon with her when she went?
When brilliant TV producer Virginia Knightley finds Evelyn's missing person report on her desk, she becomes obsessed with finding out what happened that night. But her pursuit of the truth draws her deep into the power struggles and lies of Washington DC's elite - to face old demons and new enemies.
A slick, gripping thriller that moves at the pace of breaking news, The Cutaway will keep your heart hammering until the final page.
About the Author Christina Kovac worked for seventeen years managing Washington, DC newsrooms and producing crime and political stories in the District. Her career as television journalist began with Fox Five's Ten O'Clock News, and after that, the ABC affiliate in Washington. For the last nine years, she worked at NBC News, where she worked for Tim Russert and provided news coverage for Meet the Press, the Today show, Nightly News, and others. Christina Kovac lives with her family outside of Washington, DC. The Cutaway is her first novel.
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Serpents Tail MAY 2017 The Cutaway 8 copy pack
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Serpents Tail MAY 2017 Torpor Chris Kraus
A savagely ironic portrait of a couple's failing marriage set in early 90s Europe, offering fierce and timeless reflections on love, identity and desire.
Description 'Sylvie wanted to believe that misery could simply be replaced with happiness. Time was a straight line, stretching out before you.'
It's Summer, 1991, the dawning of the New World Order; a post-MTV, pre-AOL generation. Jerome Shafir and Sylvie Green, two former New Yorkers who can no longer afford an East Village apartment, set off on a journey across the entire former Soviet Bloc with the intention of adopting a Romanian orphan.
Sylvie is an ex-punk video artist locked in a loveless marriage with Jerome, a 53-year-old Columbia University professor who loathes academia. There are only two things, Sylvie believes, that will save them: a child of their own, and the success of The Anthropology of Unhappiness, her husband's long-postponed book on the Holocaust. But as they move forward toward impoverished Romania, Jerome's memories of his father's extermination at Auschwitz and his own childhood survival there impede them.
Kraus harnesses her talent for observational sensitivity to hit back with the grit and trauma of real, human relationships.
About the Author Chris Kraus' previous works include Aliens and Anorexia, I Love Dick and Summer of Hate, as well as Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness and Where Art Belongs. A Professor of Writing at the European Graduate School, she writes for various magazines and lives in Los Angeles.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781781258989 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 312 pages
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Tuskar Rock MAY 2017 I Love Dick Chris Kraus
The cult novel adored by feminists and fashionistas alike, now in paperback.
Description When Chris Kraus, an unsuccessful artist pushing 40, spends an evening with a rogue academic named Dick, she falls madly and inexplicably in love, enlisting her husband in her haunted pursuit. Dick proposes a kind of game between them, but when he fails to answer their letters Chris continues alone, transforming an adolescent infatuation into a new form of philosophy.
Blurring the lines of fiction, essay and memoir, Chris Kraus's novel was a literary sensation when it was first published in 1997. Widely considered to be the most important feminist novel of the past two decades, I Love Dick is still essential reading; as relevant, fierce and funny as ever.
About the Author Chris Kraus is the author of the novels Aliens and Anorexia, I Love Dick and Summer of Hate as well as Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness and Where Art Belongs. A Professor of Writing at the European Graduate School, she writes for various magazines and lives in Los Angeles.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781781256480 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages
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Serpents Tail MAY 2017 A Separation Katie Kitamura
A brilliant novel about the end of a marriage from a luminous young talent.
Description A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it's time for them to separate. For the moment it's a private matter, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life, alone, she gets word that her ex-husband has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged southern Peloponnese. Reluctantly she agrees to go and search for him, still keeping their split to herself. In her heart, she's not even sure if she wants to find him. Adrift in the wild and barren landscape, she traces the failure of their relationship, and finds that she understands less than she thought about the man she used to love.
A story of intimacy, infidelity and compassion, A Separation is about the gulf that divides us from the lives of others and the narratives we create to mask our true emotions. As the narrator reflects upon her love for a man who may never have been what he appeared, Kitamura propels us into the experience of a woman on the brink of catastrophe. A Separation is a riveting masterpiece of absence and presence that will leave the reader astonished, and transfixed.
About the Author Katie Kitamura is based in New York and London. She has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, Wired and the Guardian. She was a finalist in the 2010 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award for her debut novel, The Longshot. Her second novel Gone to the Forest was published to widespread critical acclaim, and was a book of the year in both the Financial Times and the New Yorker.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781781256589 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 226 pages
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The Clerkenwell Press MAY 2017 One of the Boys Daniel Magariel
A spellbinding and unflinching debut novel about the relationship between a controlling father and his two sons, set in the bright heat of suburban Albuquerque.
Description A father and his boys have won 'the war': the father's term for his bitter divorce and custody battle. They leave Kansas and drive through the night to their new apartment in Albuquerque. Settled in new schools, the brothers join basketball teams, make friends. Meanwhile their father works from home, smoking cheap cigars to hide another smell. Soon his missteps - the dead-eyed absentmindedness, the late-night noises, the comings and goings of increasingly odd characters - become sinister, and the boys find themselves watching him transform into someone they no longer recognize.
Set in the stark landscape of New Mexico and the family's cramped apartment, One of the Boys delivers a superbly nuanced portrait of a violent and menacing man, manipulating the world around him that it might service his idea of himself. Brutal and urgent, this masterful debut is a story of survival: two brothers driven to protect each other from the father they once trusted.
About the Author Daniel Magariel received his BA from Columbia University and his MFA from Syracuse University, where he was a Cornelia Carhart Fellow. He has lived in Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Florida, Colorado, and Hawaii. He currently lives in New York with his wife.
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Granta MAY 2017 Things We Lost in the Fire Mariana Enriquez
A thrilling, terrifying slice of 'Argentine Gothic': these stories mark the debut of an internationally renowned writer whose fiction hits 'with the force of a freight train' (Dave Eggers)
Description A woman returns to the rundown suburb of Buenos Aires her family once called home. From the safety of her window, she watches as a teenage prostitute raises her five-year-old son on the street. They sleep outside, surrounded by pimps and addicts, psychopaths and dealers, worshippers of the occult and corrupt police. One day, the mother and the dirty kid are gone, and the dismembered body of a child is found in the neighbourhood. Is the murder part of a satanic ritual, or a gangland killing? Could it be the dirty kid, and if so, is his mother a victim too; or an accomplice; or his killer?
Thrilling and terrifying, The Things We Lost in the Fire takes the reader into a world of Argentine Gothic: of sharp-toothed children; of women racked by desire; of demons who lurk beneath the river; of stolen skulls and secrets half-buried under Argentina's terrible dictatorship; of men imprisoned in their marriages, whose only path out lies in the flames.
About the Author Mariana Enriquez is a novelist, journalist and short story writer from Argentina. She has published two novels, a collection of short stories as well as a collection of travel writings, Chicos que vuelven, and a novella. She is an editor at Pagina/12, a newspaper based in Buenos Aires. Megan McDowell is a Spanish language translator. She has translated books by Alejandro Zambra, Samanta Schweblin, Gonzalo Torne, Lina Meruane, Carlos Busqued, and Mariana Enriquez. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Harper's, TinHouse, and McSweeney's. She lives in Chile.
Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781846276347 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 208 pages
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Granta MAY 2017 Certainty Madeleine Thien
A trade relaunch with new livery of the first novel from the author of the Man Booker shortlisted Do Not Say We Have Nothing; an intergenerational love story that crosses Malaysia, Indonesia and Canada.
Description In present-day Vancouver, Gail Lim, a producer of radio documentaries, is haunted by the mysterious events in her father's childhood in war-torn Asia, and using her skills as a journalist is driven to unravel the mystery of his past. As a boy, Matthew Lim hid in the jungle fringe near Leila Road in Japanese-occupied Sandakan, North Borneo, with Ani, a girl whose friendship shapes the rest of his life. Together they barely survive the terrifying events of the war, which shatters their families and ultimately splits them apart - until years later, they meet again, only to endure another separation.
At once sweeping and intimate, Certainty crosses continents, cultures and time to explore the legacies of loss, the dislocations of war and the redemptive qualities of love.
About the Author Madeleine Thien's novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 and won the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2016 and the Governor General Award 2016. She is also the author of the story collection Simple Recipes (2001) and the novels Certainty (2006) and Dogs at the Perimeter (Granta, 2012), which was shortlisted for Berlin's 2014 International Literature Award and won the Frankfurt Book Fair's 2015 LiBeraturpreis. Her books and stories have been translated into 23 languages. The daughter of Malaysian-Chinese immigrants to Canada, she lives in Montreal.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781783783731 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages
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Granta Paperbacks MAY 2017 Addlands Tom Bullough
Addlands is a sweeping tale of rural family life set in the Welsh borders.
Description Addlands is the moving and engrossing story of the Hamer family and their home, the Funnon Farm, deep in the hills of the Welsh borders. There is Idris, proud and insular, a man of the plough and the prayer sheet, haunted by the First World War. Then there is the boy Oliver, who grows to be a near mythic giant in the community, a fighter, a drinker, inescapably rooted in their hard, remote valley. And there is Etty, Oliver's mother, the centre of this close constellation, who navigates old ways and new technologies as she struggles to ensure her family's survival.
From the ancient silence in the hills to the encroaching roar of modernity, spanning seventy years, Addlands tells of human and animal; it speaks of the land and lets the land speak for itself. It is as vast and complex as a symphony but as pure and moving as a solo voice in an empty church.
About the Author Tom Bullough lives in the Brecon Beacons. Addlands is his fourth novel.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781783781669 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages
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Granta Paperbacks MAY 2017 Undying: A Love Story Michel Faber
'Michel Faber addressed these love poems to his wife after her death. They are lucid, tender and wise, and they pulse with this fine writer's intelligence' - Ian McEwan
Description How can you say goodbye to the love of your life?
In Undying Michel Faber honours the memory of his wife, who died after a six-year battle with cancer. Bright, tragic and candid, these poems are an exceptional chronicle of what it means to find the love of your life. And what it is like to have to say goodbye.
All I can do, in what remains of my brief time,/is mention, to whoever cares to listen,/that a woman once existed, who was kind/and beautiful and brave, and I will not forget/how the world was altered, beyond recognition,/when we met.
About the Author Michel Faber has written nine other books. In addition to the Whitbread-shortlisted Under the Skin, he is the author of the highly acclaimed The Crimson Petal and the White, and most recently The Book of Strange New Things, which was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and won the Saltire Book of the Year Award 2015. Born in Holland, brought up in Australia, he now lives in the UK. This is his first poetry collection.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781782118565 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 160 pages
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Canongate PBS MAY 2017 The Book of Strange New Things Michel Faber
Author of the bestselling The Crimson Petal and the White returns after twelve years with an all-out masterpiece about love and the search for meaning in an unfathomable universe.
Description 'I am with you always, even unto the end of the world . . .'
Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, Peter sets out on a quest to take the word of God to the farthest corners of the galaxy. His mission will challenge everything - his faith, his endurance and the love that can hold two people together, even when they are worlds apart.
About the Author Michel Faber has written eight other books. In addition to the Whitbread-shortlisted Under the Skin, he is the author of the highly acclaimed The Crimson Petal and the White, The Fire Gospel and The Fahrenheit Twins. He has also written two novellas, The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps and The Courage Consort, and has won several short-story awards, including the Neil Gunn, Ian St James and Macallan. Born in Holland, brought up in Australia, he now lives in the UK.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781782114086 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x130mm Extent: 592 pages
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Canongate PBS MAY 2017 There Are Little Kingdoms Kevin Barry
The debut short story collection from the winner of the Impac Award, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award: 'The most exciting Irish short story writer of his generation' Sunday Times
Description This award-winning story collection summons all the laughter, darkness and intensity of contemporary Irish life. A pair of fast girls court trouble as they cool their heels on a slow night in a small town. Lonesome hillwalkers take to the high reaches in pursuit of a saving embrace. A bewildered man steps off a country bus in search of his identity - and a stiff drink. These stories, filled with a grand sense of life's absurdity, form a remarkably surefooted collection that reads like a modern-day Dubliners.
About the Author Kevin Barry is the author of the novels Beatlebone and City of Bohane and two short story collections, Dark Lies the Island and There Are Little Kingdoms. He was awarded the Rooney Prize in 2007 and won the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize in 2012. For City of Bohane he was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the Irish Book Award, and won the Author's Club First Novel Prize, The European Prize for Literature and the IMPAC Prize. Beatlebone was the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize and was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781786890177 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 160 pages
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Canongate PBS MAY 2017 The Cleaner Elisabeth Herrmann
An unforgettable heroine hiding an unforgiveable past. An unforgettable thriller from multi-award winning international bestseller Elisabeth Herrmann. Dare you enter the world of...The Cleaner?
Description The Cleaner is a gripping thriller that will chill and intrigue as the sins of the past catch up with the secrets of the present.
Pools of blood, scenes of carnage, signs of agonising death - who deals with the aftermath of violence once the bodies have been taken away? Judith Kepler has seen it all. She is a crime scene specialist. She turns crime scenes back into habitable spaces. She is a cleaner.
It is at the home of a woman who has been brutally murdered that she is suddenly confronted with her own past. The murder victim knew Judith's secret: as a child Judith was sent to an orphanage under mysterious circumstances - parentage unknown. And the East German secret police were always there, in the background...When Judith begins to ask questions, she becomes the target of some powerful enemies. And nothing will ever be the same again.
About the Author Elisabeth Herrmann is an exciting new voice in crime fiction. Her novels have captivated German readers since the publication of The Sitter in 2005 and have reached a broader audience with the subsequent adaptation into TV movies of The Sitter and The Cleaner. Elisabeth lives in Berlin with her daughter.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781786580245 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 464 pages
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Manilla MAY 2017 The Cleaner 8 copy pack
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Manilla MAY 2017 Miss Mary's Book of Dreams Sophie Nicholls
Dreams, books and vintage fashion - the second book in the bestselling ebook series by Sophie Nicholls.
Description In historic York, Ella seems to have the perfect life. She's a published author, her bookshop is thriving, she's married to the man of her dreams and they've started a family of their own.
But Ella is struggling. Motherhood isn't quite everything she imagined it to be, and she's worried that there may be cracks in her marriage.
On the other side of the Atlantic, despite endless blue skies and a stream of eager customers in her vintage dress shop, Ella's mother Fabia finds that life in San Diego is not enough for her. She misses York, and can sense that Ella needs her, so she flies home.
And this is when they meet Bryony. With a complicated life and secrets of her own, Bryony may have some of the answers they're looking for.
Can Ella and Fabia help her find her way, whilst also working out how to find their own happily ever after?
About the Author Sophie Nicholls is an Amazon bestselling author. Her first novel, The Dress, hit the Kindle Top 5. She lives in North Yorkshire in the North of England with her partner and young daughter. She likes swimming outdoors and eating dark chocolate.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781785761768 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages
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Zaffre MAY 2017 The Other Half of Happiness Ayisha Malik
The hilarious new novel from the acclaimed author of Sofia Khan is Not Obliged.
Description Sofia Khan is just married. But no-one told her life was going to be this way...
Her living situation is in dire straits, her husband Conall is distant, and his annoyingly attractive colleague is ringing all sorts of alarm bells.
When her mother forces them into a belated wedding ceremony (elopement: you can run, but you can't hide), Sofia wonders if it might be a chance to bring them together. But when it forces Conall to confess his darkest secret, it might just tear them apart.
A book to make you smile, laugh and cry, this is the story of a mixed-race marriage and a mixed-up family, for anyone who's ever struggled to balance their pride with their principles, or stuck around to try to mend a broken heart.
About the Author Ayisha is a British Muslim, lifelong Londoner, and lover of books. She read English Literature and went on to complete an MA in Creative Writing (though told most of her family it was an MA in English Literature - Creative Writing is not a subject, after all.) She has spent various spells teaching, photocopying, volunteering, editing and being a publicist. You can follow her on Twitter @Ayisha_Malik.
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Zaffre MAY 2017 Nomad James Swallow
Someone has betrayed your country and murdered your friends. You're the only suspect. And the only one who can stop them striking again...
Description Find the truth before they find you...
Marc Dane is a MI6 field agent at home behind a computer screen, one step away from the action. But when a brutal attack on his team leaves Marc as the only survivor - and with the shocking knowledge that there are traitors inside MI6 - he's forced into the front line.
However the evidence seems to point towards Marc as the perpetrator of the attack. Accused of betraying his country, he must race against time to clear his name. With nowhere to turn to for help and no one left to trust, Marc is forced to rely on the elusive Rubicon group and their operative Lucy Keyes. Ex-US Army, Lucy also knows what it's like to be an outsider, and she's got the skills that Marc is sorely lacking.
A terrorist attack is coming, one bigger and more deadly than has ever been seen before. With the eyes of the security establishment elsewhere, only Lucy and Marc can stop the attack before it's too late.
About the Author James Swallow is an veteran author and scriptwriter with over 15 years of experience in fiction, television, radio, journalism, new media and video games. He is a three-time New York Times bestselling author of 38 novels with over 750,000 books currently in print, in nine different worldwide territories. He was nominated by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) for his writing on the critically acclaimed Deus Ex: Human Revolution, 2013's blockbuster videogame with over 2.18 million copies sold.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781785760433 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 512 pages
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Zaffre MAY 2017 The Spy of Venice Benet Brandreth
Swords and seduction, treachery and murder: introducing an inimitable new hero - William Shakespeare.
Description When he's caught out by one ill-advised seduction too many, young William Shakespeare flees Stratford to seek his fortune.
Cast adrift in London, Will falls in with a band of players - but greater men have their eye on this talented young wordsmith. England's very survival hangs in the balance, and Will finds himself dispatched to Venice on a crucial embassy.
Dazzled by the city's masques - and its beauties - Will little realises the peril in which he finds himself. Catholic assassins would stop at nothing to end his mission on the point of their sharpened knives, and lurking in the shadows is a killer as clever as he is cruel.
Suspenseful, seductive and as sharp as an assassin's blade, The Spy of Venice introduces a major new literary talent.
About the Author Benet Brandreth is an expert on Shakespeare's language and times, the rhetoric coach to the Royal Shakespeare Company and others, and a writer and performer whose last one- man show was a five-star reviewed sell-out at the Edinburgh Fringe and on its London Transfer. On top of all that he is a leading IP barrister. The Spy of Venice is his debut novel.
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Twenty7 MAY 2017 Cartel Wives: How an extraordinary family brought down El Chapo and the Sinaloa drug cartel
Mafia Wife meets Narcos in an incredible true story of marriage and the Mexican drug cartels.
Description Cartel Wives is the astonishing and revelatory memoir from two women who escaped the international drug trade, with never-before-revealed details about El Chapo, the Sinaloa Cartel and the dangerous world of illicit drugs. The authors are married to the highest level drug traffickers ever to become US informants. Their husbands worked with - and then brought down - El Chapo, as well as dozens of high-level members of the Mexican cartels.
They had everything money could buy: luxury cars, huge houses and expensive jewellery, but came to understand that with the vast wealth that accompanied high-level cartel life came the ever present threat of death or imprisonment. Choosing their families over money, they decided to give it all up and cooperate with the US government.
Cartel Wives is a love story, a 'Married to the Mob' story, an insider's look into the terrifying but high-flying empire of the new world of drugs, and, finally, the story of a major DEA and FBI operation that brought down the most powerful narco criminal in the world.
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 Cartel Wives 8 copy pack
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 Just Another Hurdle: An autobiography Jana Pittman
The revealing autobiography of one of Australia's most successful athletes.
Description Jana Pittman has represented her country at three Olympic Games, and is the first Australian woman to compete in both a summer and winter Olympics. A two-time World Champion and four-time Commonwealth Champion in the 400m hurdles, she is recognised as one of Australia’s greatest female athletes. But there’s so much more to Jana than her sporting achievements. Hers is a life fully lived.
Now, for the first time, Jana tells her own story. With honesty, humour and warmth, she frankly details all the missteps, successes and disasters on her fascinating journey from a shy, studious girl to a star on the world stage stunned by the intense media spotlight that comes with sporting triumph, and her new life as a mother of three and doctor in training. Jana’s career is an inspiration to aspiring athletes, but her ability to pick herself up after setbacks that would have crushed most of us and her sheer determination to seize life with both hands serve as a lesson to us all that we can overcome whatever hurdles life puts in our way.
Just Another Hurdle allows us to get to know the extraordinary woman behind the media headlines.
About the Author Jana Pittman is now studying a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Western Sydney. She has two children and another due in early 2017, and also runs her own health, fitness and motivational speaking business.
Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781760291235 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 For a Girl: A true story of love, betrayal and understanding Mary-Rose MacColl
When Mary-Rose MacColl gave birth to her much-longed-for son, mothering him triggered memories and feelings hidden for over twenty years.
Description I am by nature a private person. Secrets are different from privacy. They are things you are forced to keep to yourself, by family, friends, by your own shame. Secrets like these come to the surface one day and demand an airing.
Emerging from an unconventional, boisterously happy childhood, Mary-Rose MacColl was a rebellious teenager. And when, at the age of fifteen, her high-school teacher and her husband started inviting Mary-Rose to spend time with them, her parents were pleased that she now had the guidance she needed to take her safely into young adulthood.
It wasn't too long, though, before the teacher and her husband changed the nature of that relationship with overwhelming consequences for Mary-Rose. Consequences that kept her silent and ashamed through much of her adult life. Many years later, safe within a loving relationship, all of the long-hidden secrets and betrayals crashed down upon her and she came close to losing everything.
In this poignant and brave true story, Mary-Rose brings these secrets to the surface and, in doing so, is finally able to watch them float away.
About the Author Mary-Rose MacColl's first novel, No Safe Place, was runner-up in the 1995 The Australian/Vogel.s Literary literary award and her first non-fiction book, The Birth Wars, was a finalist in the 2009 Walkley Awards. Her international bestselling In Falling Snow was published to great acclaim in 2012. Her fifth novel, Swimming Home, won The Courier-Mail 2016 People.s Choice Queensland book of the Year Award. Mary-Rose lives in Brisbane, Australia with her husband and son.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760295233 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 280 pages
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 For a Girl 8 copy pack
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 Because We Are Bad Lily Bailey
A vivid, darkly funny, moving and uplifting account of a young woman's struggle with OCD.
Description As a child, Lily Bailey knew she was bad. By the age of 13, she had killed someone with a thought, spread untold disease and ogled the bodies of other children.
Only by performing an exhausting series of secret routines could she correct her wrongdoing. But it was never enough. She had a severe case of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. From child to teenager to young woman, OCD had ruled Lily's life, sending a bright, vital mind spinning into a downward vortex. Until she learnt a vital philosophical lesson.
Raw and funny, heart-breaking and uplifting, Because We Are Bad reveals with humour, grace and searing honesty what it's like to live with an almost intolerable burden of obsession.
'Because We Are Bad is an intense heart-rending roller coaster of a book . . . the most engaging and well-written account of mental health experiences I have read.' Huffington Post UK
About the Author Lily Bailey is a model and writer. She became a journalist in London in 2012, editing a news site and writing features and fashion articles for local publications including the Richmond Magazine and the Kingston Magazine. As a child and teenager, Lily suffered from severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). She kept her illness private, until the widespread misunderstanding of the disorder spurred her into action. Lily lives in London with her dog, Rocky.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760297121 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 256 pages
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 Because We Are Bad 8 copy pack
Includes: 8 copies Because We Are Bad plus free reading copy
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 Defiant Earth: The fate of humans in the Anthropocene Clive Hamilton
Humans have become so powerful that we are disrupting the functioning of the earth, to the point where scientists now consider we have entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Clive Hamilton argues this forces us to rethink what kind of creature we humans are, and to acknowledge the power we still have to change the world for good.
Description Forget everything you know. Nature is no longer nature. Humans are no longer humans. We have entered a new era -- the Anthropocene. Everything has changed.
Humans have become so powerful that we have disrupted the functioning of the Earth, bringing on a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. The stable environmental conditions that allowed civilisation to flourish are disappearing.
What does it mean to have arrived at this point, where human history and Earth history collide? Clive Hamilton argues we need to rethink everything. The modern belief that we are free beings making our own future by taking control of our environment is now indefensible. We have rendered the Earth more unpredictable and less controllable; a disobedient planet. And it's too late to turn back the geological clock.
We must face the fact that humans are at the centre of the world, even if we must give up the idea we can control the planet. These truths call for a new kind of anthropocentrism, a philosophy by which we might use our power responsibly and find a way to live on a defiant Earth.
'A dark, disturbing, provocative and entirely original work, which should be read by everyone genuinely interested in the future of humankind.' Robert Manne FASSA, Emeritus Professor of Politics and Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
About the Author Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) Clive Hamilton is Professor of Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University. One of Australia's leading thinkers, he is author of ISBN: 9781760295967 the bestselling Requiem for a Species, and The Freedom Paradox and Growth Fetish. Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 208x138mm Extent: 200 pages Main Category: JFF Current Affairs Sub Category: RN The Environment Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Deakin, ACT.
Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 Requiem for a Species: Why we resist the truth about climate change Clive Hamilton
We know how dire the future looks. We know how little time we have left to act. Yet we continue to ignore the warnings . One of Australia's sharpest thinkers explores the reasons why and offers his vison of our new future.
Description Sometimes facing up to the truth is just too hard. There have been any number of urgent scientific reports in recent years emphasising just how dire the future looks and how little time we have left to act. But around the world only a few have truly faced up to the facts about global warming.
This book is about why we have ignored those warnings, so that now it is too late. It is a book about the frailties of the human species: our strange obsessions, our hubris, and our penchant for avoiding the facts. It is the story of a battle within us between the forces that should have caused us to protect the earth, like our capacity to reason and our connection to nature, and our greed, materialism and alienation from nature, which, in the end, have won out.
And it is about the 21st century consequences of these failures, and what we can do now.
Because we don't have to take this lying down.
'Requiem for a Species magnificently captures the idea that by and large, none of us want to believe that climate change is real. It explains our inability to seriously weigh the evidence of climate change, and to take appropriate action to ensure our own survival.' - Tim Costello, CEO, World Vision Australia
'Clive Hamilton, as usual, has courageously challenged the current nature of our society in this inspirational new book.' - Graeme Pearman, former head of the CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research
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Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) Clive Hamilton is author or co-author of the bestselling Affluenza, Growth Fetish, Scorcher and Silencing Dissent. One of ISBN: 9781742372105 Australia's leading thinkers, he is Charles Sturt Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Format: Paperback - B format Ethics, based at the Australian National University. Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 300 pages
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 Bomber Boys: The extraordinary adventures of a group of airmen who escaped the Japanese and became the RAAF's celebrated 18th Squadron Marianne van Velzen
The unknown story of a unique RAAF squadron, its men and its mission to halt the Japanese advance in the Pacific.
Description March 1942. Singapore is about to fall. In Java, an Australian military dispatch rider and a Dutch air force transport pilot embark on a frightening escape from the advancing Japanese that takes them from Bandung to a crash landing just north of Darwin. Both would join a unique band of flyers determined to strike back at the enemy.
Bomber Boys is the extraordinary and little known story of more than 100 Dutch airmen stranded in Australia with no country to return to who were joined by a contingent of Australians to make up the RAAF's No. 18 (Netherlands East Indies Squadron). Formed in Canberra in April 1942, the squadron flew operational coastal patrols before eventually being relocated to the secret MacDonald Airfield, north of Pine Creek in the Northern Territory and then Batchelor near Darwin.
This is, however, more than a story about the 900 bombing raids, reconnaissance missions and attacks on Japanese shipping that the squadron flew in its three years of existence under Australian control. At its heart, is a powerful and compelling story of a group of very different men thrown together for a common purpose and the strange and sometimes difficult friendships they formed.
About the Author Marianne van Velzen is a Dutch journalist who lived in Australia for many years. She has a life-long interest in the country. She is author of Call of the Outback, the story of Ernestine Hill, published in 2016.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760296476 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 The Gift of Sleep: Teach your baby to sleep in three nights Elizabeth Sloane
The new bible for any parent trying to get their baby into a regular and healthy sleep pattern. Based on the hugely successful 3-day sleep school program which teaches babies (from six months old) how to self-settle.
Description Getting a baby to sleep through the night is the dream of every parent, but unsettled, broken nights are more often the reality.
Elizabeth Sloane has been giving babies aged six months and over the gift of sleep for over 20 years. With a three-night program designed to lovingly correct any unhealthy sleep habits your child may have developed, Elizabeth’s methods have helped break the cycles of sleeplessness, emotional exhaustion and frustration for thousands of babies and their parents, giving them a truly life-changing experience - and proven to work in just three nights. Her program offers a calm, committed and consistent approach to sleep training for all families in need of the Gift of Sleep.
This book contains a step-by-step guide to the Gift of Sleep program, plus modified programs tailored for different age groups, worksheets, meal guides, case studies and FAQs - in short, everything you need to get your baby to learn to self- settle and sleep all night, every night.
About the Author Elizabeth Sloane has been giving babies the gift of sleep for over 20 years. With a gentle, loving and soothing nature, Elizabeth.s methods are credited with breaking cycles of sleeplessness, emotional exhaustion and frustration for babies and their parents.a truly life-changing experience. Her program offers a calm, committed and consistent approach to all families in need of the Gift of Sleep. Elizabeth always enjoyed looking after young babies and children but felt like there was little support for parents with babies over six months old with sleep issues. Following her heart, she discovered a unique talent in teaching babies and toddlers to self-settle and soon found herself inundated with requests for help. Having honed her craft over the past two decades, Elizabeth is deeply committed to each family, ensuring that their baby reaches their goal. She lives in Sydney with her beautiful family.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760296780 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 224 pages
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 And Then You're Dead: The world's most interesting ways to die Cody Cassidy and Paul Doherty
A fun, gruesomely fascinating and scientifically accurate guide to some of the most bizarre ways to die.
Description What would happen if you stuck your head into a nuclear particle accelerator? What if you jumped into an interstellar black hole, or slipped out of a deep-sea submarine wearing only a pair of Speedos?
In And Then You're Dead: The world's most interesting ways to die, we'll give serious answers to these horribly interesting questions in a way a layperson can understand. Illustrated with straight-forward technical art and leavened by small doses of dry humor, the book will be both scientifically informative and gruesomely entertaining. Relying on the deeply human observation that things which actually happen compel little interest, there will be no discussion of heart attacks or car wrecks. But there will be plenty to learn about those people unfortunate enough to get swallowed by a whale.
About the Author Paul Doherty is co-director and senior staff scientist at the famed San Francisco Exploratorium Museum. He has co- written numerous books, including THE EXPLORATORIUM SCIENCE SNACKBOOK, EXPLORABOOK, and KLUTZ BOOK OF MAGNETIC MAGIC. He received his PhD in solid state physics from MIT. Cody Cassidy is a writer who has worked as sports reporter and editor for various magazines and web sites.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760290962 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 1 pages
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 Island Nurses: Stories of birth, life and death on remote Great Barrier Island Leonie Howie and Adele Robertson
Engaging and heart-warming tales of community and life and death, told by a midwife and a nurse on a remote island.
Description Adele and Leonie live and work on remote Great Barrier Island, so called because it faces the full brunt of wild Pacific weather and acts as a barrier for the mainland about 100 kilometres away.
With a population of about 900, no electricity, no ATM machine, no street lights and one pub, this is a wild and rugged place. It has a long history of farming, whaling and fishing and the people who live there are a hardy lot, proud of their isolation, and it's also a popular summer holiday destination for mainlanders.
Midwifery and nursing on a remote island brings with it a wide range of dramas and emergencies, and Adele and Leonie have many wonderful, sometimes tragic, sometimes happy, sometimes funny, stories to tell of over 25 years of challenging and uplifting work with the hardy island inhabitants.
This is a story about the simple life on an isolated island; a story about two remarkable women and how they forged their careers in a remote place; a story of community and the births and deaths that shape the ups and downs of that community; a classic story of making do and overcoming adversity; and a story of hope and new life.
About the Author Adele Robertson and Leonie Howie have lived and worked on Great Barrier Island for over 30 years, Adele as the midwife and Leonie as the nurse.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781877505843 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 256 pages
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A&U New Zealand MAY 2017 An Outback Nurse Thea Hayes
The charming story of a young city nurse who found love in the outback.
Description Thea Hayes trained as a Nurse in Sydney in 1959. A year later she was catapulted out of the safety of her city life into the unknown world of the Outback.
Thea knew nothing of the place she was soon to call home, Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory, the second largest property in the world under one management. It covered four million acres!
With nervous excitement, Thea accepted the job and flew to the Northern Territory where her life was about to change dramatically.
This is a story of growing up, falling up in love and finding your home.
About the Author Thea Hayes qualified as a nurse in Sydney in 1959. Her first posting was to a remote station in the Northern Territory called Wave Hill. She now lives in the Riverina. An Outback Nurse is her first book.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760291396 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 288 pages
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 A Very Rude Awakening: The night the Japanese midget subs came to Sydney Harbour Peter Grose
In May of 1942, the war seemed very far away to most Sydneysiders - until the night the three Japanese midget submarines crept into the harbour and caused an unforgettable night of mayhem, high farce, chaos and courage. A ground-breaking new look at one of the most extraordinary stories of Australia at war.
Description On the night of 31 May 1942, Sydney was doing what it does best: partying. The theatres, restaurants, dance halls, illegal gambling dens, clubs and brothels offered plenty of choice to roistering sailors, soldiers and airmen on leave in Australia's most glamorous city. The war seemed far away. Newspapers devoted more pages to horse racing than to Hitler.
That Sunday night the party came to a shattering halt when three Japanese midget submarines crept into the harbour, past eight electronic indicator loops, past six patrolling Royal Australian Navy ships, and past an anti-submarine net stretched across the inner harbour entrance. Their arrival triggered a night of mayhem, courage, chaos and high farce which left 27 sailors dead and a city bewildered. The war, it seemed, was no longer confined to distant desert and jungle. It was right here at Australia's front door.
Written at the pace of a thriller and based on new first person accounts and previously unpublished official documents, A Very Rude Awakening is a ground-breaking and myth-busting look at one of the most extraordinary stories ever told of Australia at war.
About the Author Peter Grose is a former publisher at Secker + Warburg, founder of Curtis Brown Australia, and was until recently the chairman of ACP (UK).
Price: $32.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781741752199 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 230x152mm Extent: 328 pages Main Category: HBJM Sub Category: HBJM Australasian & Pacific History Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: London
Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 Evil Life: The true story of the Calabrian Mafia in Australia Clive Small and Tom Gilling
The Calabrian Mafia in Australia is alive and well. This is the first time its real story in this country has ever been told.
Description The Calabrian mafia is Australia's oldest, largest and most ruthless crime syndicate, trafficking drugs worth billions of dollars and laundering the proceeds through sophisticated international networks.
Enforcing discipline with age-old tools of violence and intimidation, the Calabrians have been responsible for nearly 40 murders in Australia since the mid-1970s and many more before that. Mafia families in Australia report directly to bosses in Calabria and profits are funnelled back to the mother organisation. Yet despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Federal and State law enforcement agencies have long assured the public that there is no Calabrian mafia in Australia.
With powerful and uncompromising clarity, Evil Life shatters this myth. Drawing on court documents and unreleased intelligence reports, as well as interviews with well-informed sources, the authors reveal how the Calabrian mafia evolved from its beginnings on the north Queensland cane fields in the 1920s to establish cells in every major capital city, making Australia a key outpost in the world of global organised crime.
About the Author Clive Small and Tom Gilling are the authors of the bestselling Smack Express, Blood Money, Milat and Betrayed. Clive is a former Assistant Commissioner of Police, NSW. Tom Gilling is a highly regarded investigative journalist and fiction writer.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760296179 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 368 pages
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 The Secret Cold War: The Official History of ASIO, 1975-1989 John Blaxland and Rhys Crawley
The inside account of Australia's national intelligence organisation as it grappled with continuing espionage from foreign agents and the rise of terrorist attacks on Australian soil during the years of the Fraser and Hawke governments. This is the third and final volume of the Official History of ASIO.
Description The Cold War between the West and the Soviet Bloc didn't end with detente in 1975: it just went underground. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, tensions between the superpowers continued to play out across the world.
Until now, few would have known of the surprising extent of clandestine operations in Australia by foreign intelligence operatives and the violence-prone activities of local extremist groups from the Middle East, Armenia and Croatia in the 1970s and 1980s. Meanwhile, prompted by probing royal commissions and reviews, ASIO was being systematically transformed into a modern intelligence organisation.
The Secret Cold War uncovers behind the scenes stories of the Hilton bombing in Sydney, assassinations of diplomats, the Combe-Ivanov affair, and the new threat from China. It reveals that KGB officers were able to recruit and run agents in Australia for many years, and it follows ASIO's own investigations into persistent allegations of penetration by Soviet moles.
The Secret Cold War is the third and final volume of The Official History of ASIO.
'The publication of John Blaxland and Rhys Crawley's The Secret Cold War, the third volume of The Official History of ASIO, brings to completion one of the more remarkable ventures in Australian publishing.' - Senator the Hon George Brandis QC
About the Author John Blaxland is a Senior Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, and a
Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) former Director of Joint Intelligence Operations at Headquarters Joint Operations Command. He is the author of the ISBN: 9781760297428 second volume in The Official History of ASIO, The Protest Years. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Rhys Crawley works at the Australian War Memorial where he is an author of the official history of Australian military Extent: 552 pages
Main Category: HBJM operations in Afghanistan. Prior to this, while working on all three volumes of The Official History of ASIO, he was a Sub Category: HBJM Australasian & Pacific History Research Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Canberra Canberra, ACT
Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 The Moth - All These Wonders The Moth and Catherine Burns
Storytelling is the new stand-up. And The Moth are the masters. This is a brand new collection of 50 utterly compelling stories, including contributions from five well known Australians.
Description From storytelling phenomenon The Moth: a collection about risk, courage, and facing the unknown, drawn from the best stories ever told on their stages.
All These Wonders features voices both familiar and new. Storytellers include the writers Marlon James and Christina Lamb, as well as a hip hop 'one hit wonder', an astronomer gazing at the surface of Pluto for the first time, and a young female spy risking everything as part of Churchill's secret army during World War II. They share their ventures into uncharted territory - and how their lives were changed forever by what they found there. These true stories have been carefully selected and adapted to the page by the creative minds at The Moth, and will encompass the very best of the 17,000+ stories performed in live Moth shows around the world. Filled with a variety of humourous, moving, and gripping tales from all walks of life, it is timed to celebrate the Moth's 20th anniversary year.
About the Author The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth shows are renowned for the great range of human experience they showcase. The Moth: 50 True Stories - the Moth's first story collection - was an international bestseller. They run story slams across the US, Britain, Ireland and Australia.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781781256633 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 416 pages
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Serpents Tail MAY 2017 The Moth 10 copy pack
Includes 10 copies of The Moth, plus free reading copy
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Serpents Tail MAY 2017 The Moth: This Is a True Story Catherine Burns, introduction by Neil Gaiman and The Moth
Pull up an easy chair and settle into the most spell-binding collection of real stories you will ever read.
Description With an introduction by Neil Gaiman
Before television and radio, before penny paperbacks and mass literacy, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. The storytellers knew their craft and bewitched listeners would sit and listen long into the night as moths flitted around overhead. The Moth is a non-profit group that is trying to recapture this lost art, helping storytellers - old hands and novices alike hone their stories before playing to packed crowds at sold-out live events.
The very best of these stories are collected here: whether it's Bill Clinton's hell-raising press secretary or a leading geneticist with a family secret; a doctor whisked away by nuns to Mother Teresa's bedside or a film director saving her father's Chinatown store from money-grabbing developers; the Sultan of Brunei's concubine or a friend of Hemingway's who accidentally talks himself into a role as a substitute bullfighter, these eccentric, pitch-perfect stories - all, amazingly, true - range from the poignant to the downright hilarious.
About the Author The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth shows are renowned for the great range of human experience they showcase.
Price: $21.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781846689901 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 200x130mm Extent: 400 pages
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Serpents Tail MAY 2017 The Durrells of Corfu Michael Haag
The recent TV award winning adaption The Durrells left its 7 million fans with questions: What happened to the family - and what took them to Corfu in the first place? This book has the answers.
Description Simon Nye's TV series, The Durrells, is based loosely on Gerald Durrell's Corfu Trilogy and in particular his much-loved bestseller, My Family and Other Animals. These books in turn are based somewhat loosely on actual events. The real-life Durrells went to Corfu at the urging of Lawrence Durrell, who was already living on the island with his wife, Nancy Myers. Their intent was to keep the family together as his mother, Louisa, was drinking heavily and recovering from a breakdown; 'We can be proud of the way we brought her up,' Larry said, only half-jokingly, of the family's subsequent Corfu sojourn.
Michael Haag's book covers the background to the Durrell family's years in Corfu, including their time in India, where all the children were born, and where their father, a brilliant civil engineer, had died. It recalls the real life characters the Durrells encountered on Corfu, notably the biologist and poet Theodore Stephanides, and the taxi driver, Spiros Halikiopoulos. And Haag tells the story of how the Durrells left Corfu, including Margo's return intent on joining the Greek resistance, and Leslie's romance in England with the family's Corfite maid and friend, Maria Kondos. Further chapters cover what happened to the family in later life; here, Lawrence and Gerald Durrell's biographies are well known, but little has previously been written of Margo, Leslie and Louisa. Haag has fascinating stories to tell of them all.
About the Author Michael Haag knew Lawrence and Gerald Durrell (and met Margo), and is currently writing a biography of Lawrence for Yale University Press, which also published his Alexandria: City of Memory, a definitive study of Cavafy, Forster and Lawrence Durrell in the city. Haag has also written widely on the Egyptian, Classical and Medieval worlds and is the author of a dozen books including, for Profile, The Templars: History and Myth and The Quest for Mary Magdalene. Originally from New York City, he lives in London.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781781257883 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages
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Profile Trade MAY 2017 Notes on Blindness: An experience of blindness John Hull
A unique and moving account of one man's struggle to come to terms with losing his sight.
Description 'It's a gift. Not a gift I want, but it is a gift'
Days before the birth of his first son, writer and academic John M. Hull started to go blind. He would lose his sight entirely, plunged into darkness, unable to distinguish any sense of light or shadow. Isolated and claustrophobic, he sank into a deep depression. Soon, he had forgotten what his wife and daughter looked like.
In Notes on Blindness, John reveals his profound sense of loss, his altered perceptions of time and space, of waking and sleeping, love and companionship. With astonishing lucidity of thought and no self-pity, he describes the horror of being faceless, and asks what it truly means to be a husband and father. And eventually, he finds a new way of experiencing the world, of seeing the light despite the darkness.
Based on John's diaries recorded on audio tape, this is a profoundly moving, wise and life-affirming account of one man's journey into blindness.
Notes on Blindness was the basis for a major documentary in 2016.
About the Author John Hull was Professor of Religious Education at the University of Birmingham. He died in July 2015.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781781258590 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 192 pages
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Profile Trade MAY 2017 Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee?: A mind-bending menagerie of animal psychology Ben Ambridge
Inside the minds of animals, from the author of international psychological sensation Psy-Q.
Description What makes humans special? What makes us different from animals? Psy-Q author Ben Ambridge's entertaining, illuminating new book has a surprising answer: less than you might think. Really, we're all just animals. But all animals - us included - are pretty special. Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee? is a collection of ingenious tests, puzzles, quizzes and games that pits the reader against a range of extraordinary creatures to show that, from dolphins that understand grammar to parrots that can add up, via fetishist quails and the ant-swarms outsmarting the world's best mathematicians, the animal kingdom is more than a match for anything mankind has to offer.
Along the way, Ambridge debunks a plethora of common myths about animals and reveals the bizarre and wonderful science being done at the extreme end of zoology, where animal psychologists are designing personality tests for donkeys and logic problems for pigeons. Based on real, cutting-edge science, Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee? makes us laugh, makes us think and above all makes us question our assumptions about our place in the animal kingdom.
About the Author Ben Ambridge is Reader in Psychology at the University of Liverpool and the ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development (LuCiD). He is a recipient of the Guardian-Wellcome Science Writing Prize and his first book Psy-Q: A Mind-Bending Miscellany of Everyday Psychology was a Sunday Times Book of the Year and has been translated into a dozen languages. Ben writes on psychology for the Guardian and the Big Issue, and his TEDtalk on The Top 10 Myths of Psychology has been viewed over 2 million times. He lives in Sale, Greater Manchester.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781781255735 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages
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Profile Trade MAY 2017 Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation: The Relentless Invention of Modern India Adam Roberts
A compelling portrait of modern India - and where it should go next.
Description Today, India stands on the threshold of global dominance. And as it faces the road ahead, attention focuses on one man: its Prime Minister, Nahrendra Modi. A controversial figure in his own country and abroad, he has garnered unprecedented political support while facing criticism for his nationalism, his record in government and his economic policies.
As it seeks to control its relationships with China and Pakistan, to revitalise its economy and improve the health and education prospects of its citizens, the key to understanding its future may lie in understanding its leader. Here, Adam Roberts, formerly South Asia bureau chief for the Economist, builds up an unflinching portrayal of the man at India's helm, the country's enormous potential - and its equally vast challenges.
Drawing on years of on-the-ground research, and interviews with everyone from wayside fortune-tellers to Modi himself, Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation is essential reading for anyone who wants to know what the future holds for the world's greatest nation.
About the Author Adam Roberts is European Business and Finance correspondent for the Economist, based in Paris. Previously, he was South Asia bureau chief for the same magazine. He is the author of The Wonga Coup.
Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781781256459 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 256 pages Main Category: JFF Current Affairs Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade MAY 2017 Where the Line is Drawn: Crossing Boundaries in Occupied Palestine Raja Shehadeh
As the borders between Palestine and Israel have shifted, so has the experience of crossing between the two countries, peoples and languages.
Description As a young boy, Raja Shehadeh was entranced by a forbidden Israeli postage stamp in his uncle's album, intrigued by tales of a green land beyond the border. Impossible then to know what Israel would come to mean to him, or to foresee the future occupation of his home in Palestine. Later, as a young lawyer, he worked to halt land seizures and towards peace and justice in the region, and made close friends with several young Israelis. But as life became increasingly unbearable under Occupation, and horizons shrank, it was impossible to escape politics or the past, and friendships and hopes were put to the test.
Brave, intelligent and deeply controversial, in Where the Line is Drawn award-winning author Raja Shehadeh explores the devastating effect of Occupation on even the most intimate aspects of life. Looking back over decades of political turmoil, Shehadeh traces the impact on the fragile bonds of friendship across the Israel-Palestine border, and asks whether those considered bitter enemies can come together to forge a common future.
About the Author Raja Shehadeh is Palestine's leading writer. He is also a lawyer and the founder of the pioneering Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq. Shehadeh is the author of several acclaimed books including Strangers in the House, Occupation Diaries and Language of War, Language of Peace and winner of the 2008 Orwell Prize for Palestinian Walks (all Profile). He lives in Ramallah in Palestine.
Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781781256534 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 256 pages
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Profile Trade MAY 2017 Comparing Notes: How We Make Sense of Music Adam Ockelford
We are all instinctively musical. Why? And how does music work? Indeed, what is (or isn't) music? Adam Ockelford has the answers.
Description A tap of the foot, a rush of emotion, the urge to hum a tune; without instruction or training we all respond intuitively to music. Comparing Notes explores what music is, why we are all musical, and how abstract patterns of sound that don't actually mean anything can in fact be so meaningful.
Taking the reader on a clear and compelling tour of major twentieth century musical theories, Professor Adam Ockelford arrives at his own important psychologically grounded theory of how music works. From pitch and rhythm to dynamics and timbre, he shows how all the elements of music cohere through the principle of imitation to create an abstract narrative in sound that we instinctively grasp, whether listening to Bach or the Beatles.
Based on three decades of innovative work with blind children and those on the autism spectrum, the book draws lessons from neurodiversity to show how we all develop musically, and to explore the experience of music from composer and performer to listener.
Authoritative, engaging and full of wonderful examples from across the musical spectrum, Comparing Notes is essential reading for anyone who's ever loved a song, sonata or symphony, and wondered why.
About the Author Adam Ockelford is Professor of Music at Roehampton University, where he directs the Applied Music Research Centre. He is Secretary of the Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE), founder of The Amber Trust, a charity that supports blind children in their pursuit of music, and chair of Soundabout, a music charity for children with complex needs and autism. He is the author of a number of books, including In the Key of Genius, a biography of the musical savant Derek Paravicini. A regular on radio and television, Ockelford's TED Talk with Paravicini has been viewed over one million times and been translated into twenty-five languages. He lives in London and is a composer and pianist. Price: $39.99 (NZ$45) ISBN: 9781781256039 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages
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Profile Trade MAY 2017 The Dawn of Christianity: People and Gods in an Age of Miracles and Magic Professor Robert C. Knapp
Robert Knapp finds a new answer to the old question: why did Christianity take root and spread in the ancient Roman world?
Description Exploring the origins of Christianity, this book looks at why it was that people first in Judea and then in the Roman and Greek Mediterrean world became susceptible to the new religion. Robert Knapp looks for answers in a wide-ranging exploration of religion and everyday life from 200 BC to the end of the first century.
Survival, honour and wellbeing were the chief pre-occupations of Jews and polytheists alike. In both cases, the author shows, people turned first to supernatural powers. According to need, season and place polytheists consulted and placated vast constellations of gods, while the Jews worshipped and contended with one almighty and jealous deity.
Professor Knapp considers why any Jew or polytheist would voluntarily dispense with a well-tried way of dealing with the supernatural and trade it in for a new model. What was it about the new religion that led people to change beliefs they had held for millennia and which in turn, within four centuries of the birth of its messiah, led it to transform the western world? His conclusions are as convincing as they are sometimes surprising.
About the Author Robert Knapp taught ancient history for over thirty years at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is now Professor Emeritus. He has published extensively on the world of the Roman Empire, including Invisible Romans (Profile 2011).
Price: $49.99 (NZ$59.99) ISBN: 9781781252079 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages
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Profile Trade MAY 2017 Invisible Romans: Prostitutes, outlaws, slaves, gladiators, ordinary men and women ... the Romans that history forgot Professor Robert C. Knapp
Rome's invisible inhabitants - prostitutes, innkeepers, housewives, priests, freedmen, slaves, soldiers and gladiators - brought back to life.
Description Robert Knapp seeks out the ordinary people who formed the fabric of everyday life in ancient Rome and the outlaws and pirates who lay beyond it. They are the housewives, prostitutes, freedmen, slaves, soldiers, and gladiators who lived commonplace lives and left almost no trace in history - until now. But their words are preserved in literature, letters, inscriptions and graffiti and their traces can be found in the histories, treatises, plays and poetry created by the elite. A world lost from view for two millennia is recreated through these, and other, tell-tale bits of evidence cast off by the visible mass of Roman history and culture.
Invisible Romans reveals how everyday Romans sought to survive and thrive under the afflictions of disease, war, and violence, and to control their fates under powers that both oppressed and ignored them.
About the Author Robert Knapp is an historian by training, holding a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Ancient History. He has written three books and numerous academic articles on ancient history, a subject he focused on for over thirty years at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is now Professor Emeritus.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781846684029 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 400 pages Main Category: HBLA1 Sub Category: HBLA1 Classical History / Classical Civilisation Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade MAY 2017 The Quest For Mary Magdalene: History & Legend Michael Haag
An illuminating and controversial exploration of Mary Magdalene, from the New Testament to The Da Vinci Code.
Description Mary Magdalene is a larger figure than any text, larger than the Bible or the Church; she has taken on a life of her own. She has been portrayed as a penitent whore, a wealthy woman, Christ's wife, an adulteress, a symbol of the frailty of women and an object of veneration. And, to this day, she remains a potent and mysterious figure.
In the manner of a quest, this book follows Mary Magdalene through the centuries, explores how she has been reinterpreted for every age, and examines what she herself reveals about man and the divine. It will follow her from the Gnostic gospels, where she is extolled as the chief disciple of Christ, through the early Church's reimagining of her as a fallen woman, to the Renaissance artists for whom she became a symbol of compassion and humanity, and into the present day, when once again, we are seeing Mary Magdalene as a symbol of a new and powerful femininity.
About the Author Michael Haag has written widely on the Egyptian, Classical and Medieval worlds. He is author of a dozen books, notably Alexandria: City of Memory, a definitive study of Cavafy, Forster and Lawrence Durrell in the city, and of The Templars: History and Myth. Originally from New York City, he lives in London.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781846684531 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages
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Profile Trade MAY 2017 Island on Fire: The extraordinary story of Laki, the volcano that turned eighteenth-century Europe dark Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe
The 1783 eruption of Laki led to Europe's year without summer - and it is due again soon.
Description Laki is Iceland's largest volcano. Its eruption in 1783 is one of history's great, untold natural disasters. Spewing out sun- blocking ash and then a poisonous fog for eight long months, the effects of the eruption lingered across the world for years. It caused the deaths of people as far away as the Nile and created catastrophic conditions throughout Europe.
Island on Fire is the story not only of a single eruption but the people whose lives it changed, the dawn of modern volcanology, as well as the history and potential of other super-volcanoes like Laki around the world. And perhaps most pertinently, in the wake of the eruption of another Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajokull, which closed European air space in 2010, acclaimed science writers Witze and Kanipe look at what might transpire should Laki erupt again in our lifetime.
About the Author Alexandra Witze is a contributing editor to Science News and past US bureau chief for Nature. Jeff Kanipe is the author of Chasing Hubble's Shadow and Cosmic Connection.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781781252666 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages
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Profile Trade MAY 2017 The Perfect Bet: How Science and Maths are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling Adam Kucharski
A guide to how the world's smartest gamblers are using science to take on the house - and win - whether they're playing blackjack, having a flutter at the racetrack, buying scratch cards or laying in-play football bets at the bookies'.
Description Gamblers have been trying to figure out how to game the system since our ancestors first made wagers over dice fashioned from knucklebones: in revolutionary Paris, the 'martingale' strategy was rumoured to lead to foolproof success at roulette; today, professional gamblers are using cutting-edge techniques to tilt the odds in their favour. Science is giving us the competitive edge over opponents, casinos and bookmakers. But is there such a thing as a perfect bet?
The Perfect Bet looks beyond probability and statistics to examine how wagers have inspired a plethora of new disciplines - spanning chaos theory, machine learning and game theory - which are not just revolutionising gambling, but changing our fundamental notions about chance, randomness and luck.
Explaining why poker is gaming's last bastion of human superiority over AI, how methods originally developed for the US nuclear programme are helping pundits predict sports results and why a new breed of algorithms are losing banks millions, The Perfect Bet has the inside track on any wager you'd care to place.
About the Author Adam Kucharski is a researcher at Imperial College London and an award-winning science writer. Born in 1986, he studied at the University of Warwick before completing a PhD in mathematics at the University of Cambridge. He has published papers on topics ranging from evolutionary biology to the social structure of epidemics, and in 2013 was awarded a research fellowship by the UK Medical Research Council to investigate disease emergence in Southeast Asia. Winner of the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize, his popular science articles have appeared in the Observer newspaper and BBC Focus and BBC Plus magazines. He currently lives in London. Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781781255476 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages
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Profile Trade MAY 2017 Yes! 10th Anniversary Edition: 60 secrets from the science of persuasion Noah Goldstein, Steve Martin and Professor Robert B. Cialdini
Featuring ten new chapters - one for each year - that reveal even more secrets of persuasion.
Description Since its publication in 2007, Yes! has shown how small changes can make a big difference to everyone's powers of persuasion - both at work and at home.
Every day, we face the challenge of persuading others to do what we want. But what makes people say 'yes' to our requests? Based on decades of research into the psychology of persuasion, this book reveals many remarkable insights that will help you be more persuasive both at work and at home.
Co-written by the world's most quoted expert on influence, Professor Robert Cialdini, Yes! contains dozens of tips that you wouldn't want to miss out on - all of them scientifically proven to boost your powers of persuasion.
This special tenth Anniversary edition features ten new chapters of updated research and fresh secrets of persuasion. You will find out how to stop your listeners getting bored, what you can do on your commute to increase your influence, and why being second place is worse than being third. Whether you want someone to promote you, take their medicine, reduce their carbon footprint or even give you their vote, Yes! shows how small changes in your approach can have a dramatic effect on your success.
About the Author Steve Martin, Noah Goldstein and Robert B. Cialdini are renowned practitioners of the science of persuasion. In the field of influence and persuasion, Dr. Cialdini is the world's most cited living social psychologist and author of the seminal book Influence. Together, they are the authors of the Royal Society Prize-listed international bestseller Yes! and The small BIG.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781781257425 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages Main Category: KJ Business/managemnt Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Business MAY 2017 Leadership Transformed: How Ordinary Managers Become Extraordinary Leaders Dr Peter Fuda
Seven stories for leadership transformation from a leading Australian authority on business and leadership transformation.
Description Ask around in business circles, and you'll get a thousand different answers. But now, internationally-renowned leadership expert Dr Peter Fuda has created a single, coherent roadmap for greatness: after more than a decade's research and practice, Fuda shares the seven common threads that have enabled hundreds of CEOs across the world to transform themselves into effective, inspiring leaders.
Leadership Transformed uses seven easy-to-remember metaphors to distil Fuda's research into a pathway for real, lasting change. The Fire metaphor, for example, will help you shift from burning platforms (fear- driven leadership) to burning ambition (purpose-driven leadership).
Fuda has helped leaders on four continents achieve greatness. Previously available only to the select clients of his industry-leading consultancy, now Fuda's expert knowledge can help kick-start your own leadership transformation.
About the Author Dr. Peter Fuda is a prolific change agent, and globally respected authority on leadership and business transformation. He leads the international management consulting firm The Alignment Partnership (TAP) who have produced more than 30 published case studies of business transformation and 500 cases of leader transformation over fifteen years. Peter has coached more than 200 CEOs, delivered speaking engagements to tens of thousands of leaders on four continents, is an Adjunct Professor of Management at the Macquarie Graduate School of Business (MGSM), and was the first Australian to be published on leadership transformation in the Harvard Business Review.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9781781251256 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages
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Profile Trade MAY 2017 The 50 Greatest Bike Rides of the World Sarah Woods
The best cycling routes in the world from the Yorkshire Dales to the volcanoes of Colombia.
Description From freewheeling through tufted French vineyards and scaling the rocky, cloud-topped tracks in the Himalayas to rattling past white-washed sugar-cube houses in narrow Spanish valleys, surviving the peaks of the Yorkshire Dales to tackling truly hair-rising descents in rural Cuba, the sheer variety of routes in The 50 Greatest Cycle Rides will have you reaching for your bicycle clips, helmet and gloves. Be it for excitement, necessity, adventure or relaxation, this book has something for every cycling enthusiast. Enjoy tales of scenic single tracks, switchback climbs and routes newly discovered. It's time to get those panniers packed and sprockets checked and climb into the saddle.
About the Author Sarah Woods is the author of over a dozen travel books, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers. She writes for national newspapers and travel magazines and appears regularly on TV and radio. She has been awarded the BGTW Travel Guide Writer of the Year.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781785781810 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages
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Icon MAY 2017 The Enlightened Mr. Parkinson: The Pioneering Life of a Forgotten English Surgeon Cherry Lewis
The first-ever biography of the man behind the disease - and a pioneer of medical science.
Description Parkinson's disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 10,000 new cases each year in the UK alone, and yet few know anything about the man the disease is named after.
In 1817 - exactly 200 years ago - James Parkinson (1755-1824) defined the disease so precisely that we still diagnose it today by recognising the symptoms he identified. The story of this remarkable man's contributions to the Age of the Enlightenment is told through his three passions - medicine, politics and fossils.
As a political radical Parkinson was interrogated over a plot to kill King George III and revealed as the author of anti- government pamphlets, a crime for which many were transported to Australia; while helping Edward Jenner set up smallpox vaccination stations across London, he wrote the first scientific study of fossils in English, which led to fossil- hunting becoming the nation's latest craze - just a glimpse of his many achievements.
Cherry Lewis restores this neglected pioneer to his rightful place in history, while creating a vivid and pungent portrait of life as an 'apothecary surgeon' in Georgian London.
About the Author Cherry Lewis is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. A geologist by training, she worked in the oil industry as well as in the press office of the University of Bristol before turning her interests to the history of geology. She is the author of The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Price: $39.99 (NZ$45) ISBN: 9781785781780 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages
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Icon MAY 2017 The Reality Frame: Relativity and our place in the universe Brian Clegg
Weaving together the great ideas of science, Reality's Frame takes us on a thrilling journey from empty space all the way to the human mind.
Description Acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg builds up reality piece by piece, from space, to time, to matter, movement, the fundamental forces, life, and the massive transformation that life itself has wrought on the natural world. He reveals that underlying it all is not, as we might believe, a system of immovable absolutes, but the ever-shifting, amorphous world of relativity.
From religion to philosophy, humanity has traditionally sought out absolutes to explain the world around us, but as science has developed, relativity has swept away many of these certainties, leaving only a handful of unchangeable essentials - such as absolute zero, nothingness, light - leading to better science and a new understanding of the essence of being human.
This is an Ascent of Man for the 21st century, the gripping story of modern science that will fill you with wonder and give you a new insight into our place in the universe.
About the Author Science writer Brian Clegg studied physics at Cambridge and specialises in making the strangest aspects of the universe accessible to the general reader. He is editor of popularscience.co.uk and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His previous books include Inflight Science, The Universe Inside You and Science for Life.
Price: $39.99 (NZ$45) ISBN: 9781785782084 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages
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Icon MAY 2017 Science and Islam: A History Ehsan Masood
The 'fascinating and clearly written' (New Scientist) history of the extraordinary Islamic scientific revolution between the eighth and fifteenth centuries.
Description Long before the European Enlightenment, scholars and researchers working from Samarkand in modern-day Uzbekistan to Cordoba in Spain advanced our knowledge of astronomy, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, medicine and philosophy.
From Musa al-Khwarizmi who developed algebra in 9th century Baghdad to al-Jazari, a 13th-century Turkish engineer whose achievements include the crank, the camshaft and the reciprocating piston, Ehsan Masood tells the amazing story of one of history's most misunderstood yet rich and fertile periods in science, via the scholars, research, and science of the Islamic empires of the middle ages.
About the Author Ehsan Masood worked for the journal Nature as a writer from 1995 to 1999 and again as acting chief commissioning editor in 2008/2009. He has also worked as Opinion Editor of New Scientist, and written for Prospect magazine and openDemocracy.net, as well as The Times, The Guardian and Le Monde.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781785782022 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages
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Icon MAY 2017 Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration David Wojnarowicz, introduction by Olivia Laing
The powerful, personal and iconoclastic memoir of David Wojnarowicz, AIDs activist, author and one of the most provocative artists of his generation. With a new introduction by Olivia Laing.
Description From the author's violent childhood in suburbia to eventual homelessness on the streets and piers of New York City, to recognition as one of the most provocative artists of his generation - Close to the Knives is his powerful and iconoclastic memoir. Street life, drugs, art and nature, family, AIDS, politics, friendship and acceptance: Wojnarowicz challenges us to examine our lives - politically, socially, emotionally, and aesthetically.
About the Author David Wojnarowicz authored five books. His artwork is in numerous private and public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, among other institutions. In addition to his artwork, Wojnarowicz attained national prominence as a writer and advocate for AIDS awareness, and for his stance against censorship. He died from AIDS in 1992.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781786890276 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages
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Canongate PBS MAY 2017 Trickster Makes This World: How Disruptive Imagination Creates Culture Lewis Hyde
This book from the author of The Gift is about imagination and philosophy and was described by Margaret Atwood as a 'masterpiece'.
Description Trickster disrupted the world around him, and in doing so he reshaped it. Playful, mischievous, subversive, amoral, tricksters are a great bother to have around, but they are also indispensable heroes of culture.Trickster Makes This World revisits the stories of Coyote, Eshu and Hermes and holds them up against the life and work of more recent creators: Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, Maxine Hong Kingston and others. Authoritative in its scholarship, supple and dynamic in its style, Trickster Makes This World encourages you to think and see afresh.
About the Author Lewis Hyde was born in Boston and studied at the Universities of Minnesota and Iowa. In addition to Trickster Makes This World, he is the author of The Gift, a defence of the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-orientated society. A MacArthur Fellow and former Director of Creative Writing at Harvard, Hyde is currently the Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College in Ohio.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781786890504 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 432 pages
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Canongate PBS MAY 2017 Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist Paul Kingsnorth
The award-winning essayist examines the impact of humans on the Earth and considers how we might live in this changing world.
Description Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist, an ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis in its relentless pursuit of profit. But as the environmental movement began to focus on 'sustainability' rather than the defence of wild places for their own sake and as global conditions worsened, he grew disenchanted with the movement that he once embraced. He gave up what he saw as the false hope that residents of the First World would ever make the kind of sacrifices that might avert the severe consequences of climate change.
Full of grief and fury as well as passionate, lyrical evocations of nature and the wild, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist gathers the wave-making essays that have charted the change in Kingsnorth's thinking. In them he articulates a new vision that he calls 'dark ecology,' which stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can save us, and he argues for a renewed balance between the human and nonhuman worlds. Provocative and urgent, iconoclastic and fearless, this ultimately hopeful book poses hard questions about how we have lived and should live.
About the Author Paul Kingsnorth's debut novel, The Wake, won the 2014 Gordon Burn Prize and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. His second, Beast, was described by Jay Griffiths as 'a portrait of the psyche in gaunt, glittering transcendence.' He is also the author of One No, Many Yeses and Real England, and a poetry collection, Kidland. He is the co-founder of The Dark Mountain Project.
Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9780571329694 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 320 pages
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Faber Non Fiction MAY 2017 Art Sex Music Cosey Fanni Tutti
Punk, pornographer, pioneer, provocateur: the incredible story of Cosey Fanni Tutti, the performer whose art and music inspired a generation and rocked the establishment to its core.
Description Art Sex Music is the autobiography of a musician who, as a founding member of the avant-garde group Throbbing Gristle and electronic pioneers Chris & Cosey, has consistently challenged the boundaries of music over the past four decades.
It is the account of an artist who, as part of COUM Transmissions, represented Britain at the IXth Biennale de Paris, whose Prostitution show at the ICA in 1976 caused the Conservative MP Nicholas Fairbairn to declare her, COUM and Throbbing Gristle 'Wreckers of Civilisation'...shortly before he was arrested for indecent exposure, and whose work continues to be held at the vanguard of contemporary art.
And it is the story of her work as a pornographic model and striptease artiste which challenged assumptions about morality, erotica and art.
Art Sex Music is the wise, shocking and elegant autobiography of Cosey Fanni Tutti.
About the Author Cosey Fanni Tutti whose career began in 1969 is a respected artist and musician of worldwide renown - for her Art, her work in the sex industry, as co-founder of Industrial music and Throbbing Gristle, and her pioneering electronic music as 'Chris & Cosey' and 'Carter Tutti'.
Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9780571328512 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 512 pages
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Faber Social MAY 2017 The Essential Paradise Lost John Carey
A seminal contribution to literary criticism from one of the UK's greatest living academics.
Description After its publication in 1667, John Milton's Paradise Lost was celebrated throughout Europe as a supreme achievement of the human spirit. Now it is little read. To bring readers back to Milton's masterpiece, John Carey has shortened it to a third of its original length. In this fascinating reinterpretation, Carey reveals new insights about Milton's sources of inspiration, while exploring divided readings of the work's key characters. The Essential Paradise Lost presents the epic's greatest poetry, with linking passages that preserve its cosmic sweep - from the superhuman defiance of a ruined archangel to a pair of tragic lovers, bewildered to find themselves responsible for the fate of the whole human race.
About the Author John Carey is an Emeritus Professor at Oxford University and a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include studies of Donne, Dickens and Thackeray, The Intellectuals and the Masses, What Good are the Arts, The Unexpected Professor and a life of William Golding.
Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9780571328550 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 204x153mm Extent: 256 pages
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Faber Non Fiction MAY 2017 The Idiot Brain: A Neuroscientist Explains What Your Head is Really Up To Dean Burnett
From the hugely popular Guardian science blogger, a surprising, funny and mind-bending examination of how and why the brain sabotages our behaviour.
Description Motion sickness. Nightmares. Forgetting people's names. Why did I walk into this room??
For something supposedly so brilliant and evolutionarily advanced, the human brain is pretty messy, fallible and disorganised. In The Idiot Brain neuroscientist Dean Burnett celebrates the imperfections of the human brain in all their glory, and the impact of these quirks on our daily lives. Expertly researched and entertainingly written, this book is for anyone who has wondered why their brain seems to be sabotaging their life, and what on earth it is really up to.
About the Author Dr Dean Burnett is a neuroscientist working as a tutor and lecturer based at Cardiff University's Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences. He has been dabbling in stand-up and comedy writing for over a decade.His Guardian Science blog, 'Brain Flapping', has been viewed over 13 million times in the last three years.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781783350827 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x130mm Extent: 336 pages
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Guardian Books MAY 2017 The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis Patrick Kingsley
The definitive book on the refugee crisis, from the Guardian's award-winning migration correspondent, Patrick Kingsley.
Description Europe is facing a wave of migration unmatched since the end of World War II - and no one has reported on this crisis in more depth or breadth than the Guardian's migration correspondent, Patrick Kingsley. Throughout 2015, Kingsley travelled to 17 countries along the migrant trail, meeting hundreds of refugees making epic odysseys across deserts, seas and mountains to reach the holy grail of Europe. This is Kingsley's unparalleled account of who these voyagers are. It's about why they keep coming, and how they do it. It's about the smugglers who help them on their way, and the coastguards who rescue them at the other end. The volunteers that feed them, the hoteliers that house them, and the border guards trying to keep them out. And the politicians looking the other way.
About the Author Patrick Kingsley is the Guardian's inaugural migration correspondent. He was named Foreign Affairs Journalist of the year at the 2015 British Journalism Awards and is a past-winner of the Frontline Club Award for print journalism. The Guardian's former Egypt correspondent, Patrick has reported from more than 25 countries, including Denmark, where he wrote a travel book called How to be Danish. A percentage of his royalties from this book will be donated to refugee causes. @PatrickKingsley
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781783351060 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 368 pages
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Guardian Books MAY 2017 Stars, Cars and Crystal Meth Jack Sutherland
A wild ride to hell and back by way of Hollywood, from the PA to RuPaul, Michael Stipe and Mickey Rourke.
Description Jack Sutherland, the narrator and protagonist of this memoir has, you might say, led a charmed life in the face of seeming damnation. A confirmed alcoholic in his early teens, by his twenties he was PA and bodyguard to the Hollywood stars most notably Michael Stipe, Ru Paul and Mickey Rourke. His work took him to exotic destinations around the world and bizarre encounters and requests. It also led him back to a smorgasbord of lethal addictions: alcohol, marijuana, ecstasy and perhaps most damaging of all crystal meth and the crazed chem sex that characterises its use. On the shores of death's coastline, a nine stone skeleton in a frame that once boasted the shape and tone of a bodybuilder, Jack is saved. By his father, one of the literary world's most esteemed personalities: John Sutherland.
A son's memoir told through the prism and prose of a father will surely take its place among the classics of contemporary addiction and recovery stories like A Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. Stars, Cars & Crystal Meth lifts the lid on the shadowy world of the Hollywood PA with grim but ultimately inspiring honesty.
About the Author Jack Sutherland is a former PA and bodyguard to Hollywood stars including Michael Stipe, Ru Paul and Mickey Rourke. John Sutherland is a Professor of English at UCL, a former Chair of the Man Booker Prize, and author of several books.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571331871 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 368 pages
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Faber Paperback MAY 2017 To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death Mark O'Connell
An engaging and often astounding exploration of transhumanism, the philosophical and technological movement that is working on an update of the human machine.
Description What is transhumanism? Simply put, it is a movement whose aim is to use technology to fundamentally change the human condition, to improve our bodies and minds to the point where we become something other, and better, than the animals we are. It's a philosophy that, depending on how you look at it, can seem hopeful, or terrifying, or absurd. In To Be a Machine, Mark O'Connell presents us with the first full- length exploration of transhumanism: its philosophical and scientific roots, its key players and possible futures. From charismatic techies seeking to enhance the body to immortalists who believe in the possibility of 'solving' death; from computer programmers quietly re-designing the world to vast competitive robotics conventions; To Be a Machine is an Adventure in Wonderland for our time.
To Be a Machine paints a vivid portrait of an international movement driven by strange and frequently disturbing ideas and practices, but whose obsession with transcending human limitations can be seen as a kind of cultural microcosm, a radical intensification of our broader faith in the power of technology as an engine of human progress. It is a character study of human eccentricity, and a meditation on the immemorial desire to transcend the basic facts of our animal existence - a desire as primal as the oldest religions, a story as old as the earliest literary texts.
A stunning new non-fiction voice tackles an urgent question... what next for mankind?
About the Author Mark O'Connell is a journalist, essayist, and literary critic from Dublin. He is a books columnist for Slate, a staff writer at The Millions, and a regular contributor to the New Yorker's 'Page-Turner' blog and the Dublin Review; his work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, and the Observer.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781783781966 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 256 pages
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Granta MAY 2017 The Roving Party Rohan Wilson
A surprisingly beautiful evocation of horror and brutality - a meditation on the intricacies of human nature at its most raw. Winner of the 2011 The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award.
Description '. grim and astonishing.' - Australian Book Review
1829, Tasmania
John Batman, ruthless, singleminded; four convicts, the youngest still only a stripling; Gould, a downtrodden farmhand; two free black trackers; and powerful, educated Black Bill, brought up from childhood as a white man. This is the roving party and their purpose is massacre.
With promises of freedom, land grants and money, each is willing to risk his life for the prize.
Passing over many miles of tortured country, the roving party searches for Aborigines, taking few prisoners and killing freely, Batman never abandoning the visceral intensity of his hunt. And all the while, Black Bill pursues his personal quarry, the much-feared warrior, Manalargena.
About the Author Rohan Wilson lived a long, mostly lonely, life until a lucky turn of events led him to take up a teaching position in Japan where he met his wife. They have a son who loves books, as all children should. They live in Launceston but don't know why. Rohan holds degrees and diplomas from the universities of Tasmania, Southern Queensland and Melbourne. This is his first book. He can be found on Twitter: @rohan_wilson.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781743314111 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 288 pages Main Category: FC Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Launceston, Tasmania.
Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 After Darkness Christine Piper
Winner of The 2014 Australian/Vogel's Literary Award.
Description The winner of The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2014
It is early 1942 and Australia is in the midst of war.
While working at a Japanese hospital in the pearling port of Broome, Dr Ibaraki is arrested as an enemy alien and sent to Loveday internment camp in a remote corner of South Australia. There, he learns to live among a group of men who are divided by culture and allegiance. As tensions at the isolated camp escalate, the doctor's long- held beliefs are thrown into question and he is forced to confront his dark past: the promise he made in Japan and its devastating consequences.
'Piper draws us deeper and deeper into the compelling story of Tomakazu Ibaraki, a man whose strengths - discretion, honour and loyalty - also lie at the heart of his personal tragedy.' - Danielle Wood, winner of the The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award in 2002; Vogel's judge
'After Darkness is about friendships that transcend cliched notions of mateship. It's also about a man silenced by a promise . a haunting novel that lingers in a most unsettling way.' - Fiona Stager, bookseller, Avid Reader; Vogel's judge
'A brave, profound meditation on identity, trauma, loss and courage . A novel that demands its place alongside Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Mark Dapin's Spirit House.' - Stephen Romei, literary editor, The Australian; Vogel's judge
About the Author Christine Piper's short fiction has been published in Seizure, SWAMP and Things That Are Found In Trees and Other Stories. She was the 2013 Alice Hayes writing fellow at Ragdale in the United States. Christine has studied creative writing at Macquarie University, the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of Technology, Sydney, where she wrote a Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760113117 version of this novel as part of her doctoral degree. She has also worked as a magazine editor and writer for more than a Format: Paperback - B format decade. Both in South Korea in 1979 to an Australian father and a Japanese mother, Christine moved to Australia when Dimensions: 198x128mm she was one. She has previously taught English and studied Japanese in Japan, and currently lives in New York with her Extent: 304 pages husband. Christine is also the 2014 recipient of the ABR Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay. The winner of The Main Category: FC
Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction Australian/Vogel's Literary Prize 2014. After Darkness is Christine Piper's first novel. She was also shortlisted for the Illustrations: Readings New Australian Writing Award 2014. Previous Titles: Author now living: New York, USA
Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 When There's Nowhere Else to Run Murray Middleton
The winner of the 2015 Australian/Vogel's Literary Award is a vivid and compelling collection of stories about people who find their lives unravelling and discover that no matter how many thousands of kilometres they put between themselves and their transgressions, sometimes there's nowhere else to run.
Description Winner of The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2015.
'Masterfully controlled, lingers long in the memory.' Rohan Wilson, author of The Roving Party and To Name Those Lost
In one way or another, isn't everyone on the run?
A survivor of Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires takes asylum with old friends in the Dandenong Ranges. An editor-in- chief drives his sister halfway around the country to an east-coast rehabilitation clinic. A single mother flies to Perth with her autistic son for one last holiday. A father at the end of his tether tries to survive the chaos of the Sydney Royal Easter Show. A group of young friends hire a luxury beach house in the final weeks of one of their lives. A postman hits a pedestrian and drives off into the night.
When There's Nowhere Else to Run is a collection of stories about people who find their lives unravelling. They are teachers, lawyers, nurses, firemen, chefs, gamblers, war veterans, hard drinkers, adulterers, widows and romantics. Seeking refuge all across the country, from the wheat belt of Western Australia, the limestone desert of South Australia, the sugarcane towns of Queensland, the hinterland of New South Wales to the coastline of Victoria, they discover that no matter how many thousands of kilometres they put between themselves and their transgressions, sometimes there's nowhere else to run.
'Assured, witty and wise.' Stephen Romei, Literary Editor, The Australian
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) 'Vivid and compelling.' Jenny Barry, BooksPlus ISBN: 9781760292584 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 256 pages
Main Category: FC About the Author Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction Murray Middleton was born with fractured hips in 1983. He spent the first three months of his life in plaster and has Illustrations: broken most bones since. He won The Age Short Story Award in 2010 with 'The Fields of Early Sorrow'. When There's Previous Titles: Author now living: Nowhere Else to Run is his first published collection of short stories. He currently lives in Melbourne and won't publish a second collection of stories until the Saints win a second premiership.
Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 Eleven Seasons Paul D Carter
The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award winner 2012
Description The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award winner 2012
'Some guys are good at school and telling jokes or they have the latest stuff. Others are cricketers and basketball players: they can do things with the ball that make their classmates talk about them when they're not around. His thing is football. He becomes the centre of whichever team he plays for: he becomes the advantage.'
MELBOURNE, 1985. Jason Dalton sits on his bed and counts his football cards, dreaming of the day he too is immortalised in the public eye. He's young and gifted, a natural player who can do anything with the ball in his hand. If only everything else in his life was as obvious to him as playing.
GOLD COAST, 1991. The bottom has fallen out of Jason's life; he's now a high-school dropout, tired and wasted on the Gold Coast, with an explosive family secret still ringing in his ears. He needs to get his life back. But first he needs to find out who he is.
'A smashing book: heartfelt, tough-minded, occasionally shocking.' - Geordie Williamson
About the Author Paul D. Carter was born in Melbourne and spent much of his youth going to Collingwood Football matches with his Dad and brother Marcus. In 2001, Paul completed a Bachelor of Arts with honours from Deakin University and, in 2008 completed a PhD while writing Eleven Seasons. In writing Eleven Seasons, Paul was able to integrate his own experience of growing up in Melbourne in the 1980s with his keen interest in modern Australian history. He is especially interested in the sociological aspects of AFL and sport in society, in particular its sometimes fraught relationship with women. Paul currently teaches English and Creative Writing to secondary students in the western suburbs, as part of the Teach for Australia Programme. Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781743314104 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 276 pages Main Category: FC Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Melbourne, VIC
Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 Affluenza: When too much is never enough Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss
The Western world is in the grip of a consumerism that is unique in human history. We overwork, we spend huge amounts on things we never use, then we chuck them out. The author of the bestselling Growth Fetish pries into our wardrobes, kitchens and backyards, and shows us what choice really means.
Description Our houses are bigger than ever, but our families are smaller. Our kids go to the best schools we can afford, but we hardly see them. We've got more money to spend, yet we're further in debt than ever before. What is going on?
The Western world is in the grip of a consumption binge that is unique in human history. We aspire to the lifestyles of the rich and famous at the cost of family, friends and personal fulfilment. Rates of stress, depression and obesity are up as we wrestle with the emptiness and endless disappointments of the consumer life.
Affluenza pulls no punches, claiming our whole society is addicted to overconsumption. It tracks how much Australians overwork, the growing mountains of stuff we throw out, the drugs we take to 'self-medicate' and the real meaning of 'choice'. Fortunately there is a cure. More and more Australians are deciding to ignore the advertisers, reduce their consumer spending and recapture their time for the things that really matter.
'Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss at the Australia Institute never disappoint they set out on paths others don't go down, then explore without fear or favour and finally draw conclusions about modern Australia, warts and all. It's all accompanied by passion which is why the results cannot be ignored.' - Geraldine Doogue, ABC broadcaster
'Fascinating at the same time a call to arms and a chill-pill, Affluenza challenges not just individuals, but society itself.' - Adam Spencer, comedian, mathematician and radio DJ
About the Author Clive Hamilton is the author of Growth Fetish, and Executive Director of The Australia Institute, Australia's foremost public
Price: $24.95 (NZ$29.99) interest think tank. Described as Australia's most amazing economist', he has held visiting positions at the Australian ISBN: 9781741146714 National University, the University of Sydney and the University of Cambridge. Richard Denniss is Deputy Director of the Format: Paperback - B format Australia Institute. He has taught economics at the University of Newcastle and was Chief of Staff to Senator Natasha Dimensions: 195x130mm Stott Despoja. Extent: 240 pages
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 Earthmasters: Playing God with the climate Clive Hamilton
What if there were a magic bullet to fix our ailing planet? What if it meant seizing control of Earth's climate? Clive Hamilton investigates the huge risks of reaching for desperate measures to save the planet, explains the science accessibly and uncovers the worrying motives of those promoting them.
Description 'As we collectively contemplate upping the ante on the same arrogant logic that created the climate crisis, we could ask for no wiser nor more trustworthy guide than Clive Hamilton. A dazzling, multilayered exploration of the strange and terrifying world of geoengineering.' - Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine
While Washington, London and Canberra fiddle, the planet burns. It has become painfully clear that the big democracies won't take the hard decisions to halt climate change. Climate scientists now expect the worst, and they're considering a response which sounds like science fiction: climate engineering.
This means large-scale manipulation of the Earth's climate using grand technological interventions, like spraying sulphur compounds into the upper atmosphere to reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the planet, or transforming the chemistry of the world's oceans so they soak up more carbon. The potential risks are enormous: disrupting the food chain, damaging the ozone layer, the loss of monsoon rains in Asia - the list goes on. It is messing with nature on a scale we've never before seen, and it's attracting a flood of interest from scientists, venture capitalists and oil companies.
We have reached the end of the epoch of climate stability that allowed human civilisation to flourish, and the end of the era of 'progress'. Like an angry beast woken from a long slumber, climate instability is dangerous and resists efforts to control it. In his characteristically lucid and passionate style, Clive Hamilton spells out the implications for all of us.
'I am in awe of what Clive Hamilton has done in Earthmasters.' - James Gustave Speth, author of Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment
Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) About the Author ISBN: 9781743312933 One of Australia's leading thinkers, Clive Hamilton is author of the bestsellers Requiem for a Species, Affluenza and Format: Paperback - Demy format Growth Fetish. He is Vice-Chancellor's Chair and Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Dimensions: 208x138mm Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University. Extent: 264 pages
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2017 Long Time Lost Chris Ewan
The must read new thriller from the bestselling author of Safe House
Description Nick Miller and his team provide a unique and highly illegal service, relocating at-risk individuals across Europe with new identities and new lives. Nick excels at what he does for a reason: he's spent years living in the shadows under an assumed name. But when Nick steps in to prevent the attempted murder of witness-in-hiding Kate Sutherland on the Isle of Man, he triggers a chain of events with devastating consequences for everyone he protects - because Nick and Kate share a common enemy in Connor Lane, a man who will stop at nothing to get what he wants, even if it means tearing Nick's entire network apart.
About the Author Born in Taunton in 1976, he now lives in Somerset with his wife, Jo, and their daughter. Safe House, his first stand-alone thriller, was a number one bestseller in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. Dead Line, his second thriller, was published in 2013 and is optioned for film. Dark Tides was shortlisted for CrimeFest's eDunnit award for the best crime fiction eBook. www.chrisewan.com @chrisewan
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571307494 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 464 pages
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Faber Paperback MAY 2017 Collected Poems Robert Lowell
The Collected Poems of Robert Lowell brings together, for the first time, the work of America's pre-eminent post-war poet.
Description Edmund Wilson wrote of Robert Lowell that he was the 'only recent American poet - if you don't count Eliot - who writes successfully in the language and cadence and rhyme of the resounding English tradition'. Frank Bidart and David Gewanter have compiled a comprehensive edition of Lowell's poems, from the early triumph of Lord Weary's Castle, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, through the brilliant wilfulness of his Imitations of Sappho, Baudelaire, Rilke and other masters, to the late spontaneity of his History, winner of another Pulitzer, and of his last book of poems, Day by Day. This volume includes several poems never previously collected, as well as a selection of Lowell's intriguing drafts. As Randall Jarrell said, 'You feel before reading any new poem of his the uneasy expectation of perhaps encountering a masterpiece'. Lowell's Collected Poems offers the first opportunity to view the entire range of his astonishing verse.
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Price: $49.99 (NZ$55) ISBN: 9780571335275 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 1216 pages
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Faber Poetry MAY 2017 Doves Lachlan Mackinnon
Doves is a powerful and affecting new volume of poems by Lachlan Mackinnon.
Description Doves is Lachlan Mackinnon's most candid and affecting volume of poems to date, and follows on from Small Hours, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Poetry in 2010. Formally dexterous and inventive, these inclusive, approachable poems welcome all-comers in their broad-minded address: refugees, reality television, detective shows, number-theory, Shakespeare's brothers, ecology, a marriage. Wherever it turns, the poetry remains courageously sociable and moral, ever concerned with honouring lives and good deeds, and asking what can be saved from the ruins of what is lost by individuals, cultures and civilisations. But for all its outward gaze, its cares speak privately too - of crises in personal action and belief, of friends and intimacies disturbed and renewed - and, underpinning it all, an urging to account for our behaviour and 'to start to answer / to ourselves for what we have made of life.'Doves is an uplifting account of recovery that makes no stranger of despair. But with each moment of despondency comes a tough-minded - even humorous - response that tempers grief, and bolsters our equipment for living, and in so doing extends a timeless ring around the heart of this thoughtful, inspiriting and memorable book.
About the Author Lachlan Mackinnon lives in Ely. He is the author of five collections of poems including Small Hours, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Poetry in 2010, and works of criticism and biography. He writes academically in English and French about Shakespeare and modern English and French literature. He is a regular reviewer for the national press, and received a Cholmondeley Award in 2011.
Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9780571333318 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 80 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Poetry MAY 2017 The Finest Music: Early Irish Lyrics Maurice Riordan
Now available in paperback, The Finest Music: Early Irish Lyrics, edited by Maurice Riordan, is a timeless treasury of early Irish verse, including specially commissioned poems from Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon.
Description In a series of timeless and modern-day renditions, Maurice Riordan brilliantly introduces us to the poems that founded Ireland's rich literature. Memorable and accessible, these early lyrics are presented in their classic incarnations by literary giants from both sides of the Irish Sea: in examples by W. H. Auden, Flann O'Brien, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Montague, Robert Graves and Frank O'Connor. But the anthology is much more than a survey of canonical texts; through a series of specially commissioned poems, fresh eyes are brought to bear on these ancient poems: by Seamus Heaney and Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, by Paul Muldoon and Kathleen Jamie, by Ciaran Carson and Christopher Reid, and many others. The experience is enhanced still further by the enabling hand of Riordan himself, in a sweep of exquisite translations of his own made especially for this publication. Unforgettable and inspirational, a book for giving and for keeping: The Finest Music by some of the art-form's finest players.
About the Author Maurice Riordan was born in 1953 in Lisgoold, Co. Cork. His first collection, A Word from the Loki (1995) was nominated for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Floods (2000) was a Book of the Year in both the Sunday Times and Irish Times. The Holy Land (2007) won the Michael Hartnett Award. He has taught at Imperial College and Goldsmiths College, and is currently Professor of Poetry at Sheffield Hallam University. In 2013 Riordan was appointed Editor of Poetry Review.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571298020 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 176 pages
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Faber Poetry MAY 2017 The Cutaway Christina Kovac
A taut debut thriller for fans of Ruth Ware, Val McDermid and Peter Swanson
Description It begins with someone else's story. The story of a woman who leaves a busy restaurant and disappears completely into the chilly spring night. Evelyn Carney is missing - but where did she go? Who was she meeting? And why did she take a weapon with her when she went?
When brilliant TV producer Virginia Knightley finds Evelyn's missing person report on her desk, she becomes obsessed with finding out what happened that night. But her pursuit of the truth draws her deep into the power struggles and lies of Washington DC's elite - to face old demons and new enemies.
A slick, gripping thriller that moves at the pace of breaking news, The Cutaway will keep your heart hammering until the final page.
About the Author Christina Kovac worked for seventeen years managing Washington, DC newsrooms and producing crime and political stories in the District. Her career as television journalist began with Fox Five's Ten O'Clock News, and after that, the ABC affiliate in Washington. For the last nine years, she worked at NBC News, where she worked for Tim Russert and provided news coverage for Meet the Press, the Today show, Nightly News, and others. Christina Kovac lives with her family outside of Washington, DC. The Cutaway is her first novel.
Price: $39.99 (NZ$45) ISBN: 9781781258828 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages
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Serpents Tail MAY 2017 Natural Selection: A year in the garden Dan Pearson
Reading this book is as restorative and inspiring as an afternoon spent in the garden.
Description The perfume of witch hazel in January.
The skywards race of clematis in April.
The blaze of sunflowers in September.
As the year rolls round, our gardens rise and fall to its rhythms. Every week is different from the next, but there is also reassurance in the cyclicality - the inevitability of spring blossom and the flare of autumn berries at the other end of the season.
Dan Pearson takes us through twelve months in the garden, from his city-bound plot in Peckham to twenty acres of rolling hillside in Somerset. Through a beautifully wrought landscape of words he shares with us his wealth of knowledge, and teaches us to see the gardens around us with new eyes, whether in the countryside, village or city. Natural Selection is a book to bring you year-round joy and a newfound appreciation of nature, both wild and tamed.
About the Author Dan Pearson is an award-winning British landscape and garden designer, plantsman, writer and journalist. For the last 20 years he has written a weekly gardening column for a number of broadsheets including The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and most recently the Observer. His books include The Garden, The Essential Garden Book (with Sir Terence Conran), and Spirit: Garden Inspiration and Home Ground. He is a contributing editor to Gardens Illustrated magazine. www. digdelve.com / @thedanpearson
Price: $44.99 (NZ$49.99) ISBN: 9781783351176 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 448 pages
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Faber Non Fiction MAY 2017 The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 7: 1934-1935 T.S. Eliot, edited by John Haffenden
The seventh volume in the momentous series of selected letters from T. S. Eliot.
Description T. S. Eliot's career as a successful stage dramatist gathers pace throughout the fascinating letters of this volume. Even while absorbed in time-consuming theatre work, Eliot was untiring in promoting the writers on Faber's ever broadening lists - George Barker, Marianne Moore and Djuna Barnes among them. Having separated from his wife Vivien in 1933, he is anxious to avoid running into her; but she refuses to comprehend that her husband has chosen to leave her and stalks him across literary society, leading to his place of work at the offices of Faber & Faber.
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Price: $110.00 (NZ$140) ISBN: 9780571316366 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 960 pages Main Category: B Biography/autobiography Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Non Fiction MAY 2017 The Importance of Music to Girls Lavinia Greenlaw
The Importance of Music to Girls is award-winning poet and novelist Lavinia Greenlaw's vivid and engaging portrait of what music means to us as we grow up.
Description If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as if I had gone through all that anyway...the music attracted and repelled, organised and disturbed and then let us into the night, clusters of emotion ready to dissolve into sleep. In The Importance of Music to Girls, Lavinia Greenlaw tells the story of the adventures that music leads us into: getting drunk, falling in love, dying of boredom, cutting our hair, terrifying our parents, wanting to change the world.
This is a vivid memoir unlike any other, recalling the furious passion of being young, female, and coming alive through music.
About the Author Lavinia Greenlaw was born in 1962. Night Photograph (1993) was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize for First Collection and the Whitbread Poetry Prize; A World Where News Travelled Slowly (1997) was her award-winning second collection and most recently she published Minsk (2003) which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her novel, Mary George of Allnorthover (Flamingo), was published in 2001. She lives in London and works as a freelance writer, critic and broadcaster.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780571332274 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 208 pages
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Faber Paperback MAY 2017 Uprooted: On the Trail of the Green Man Nina Lyon
A provocative and playful exploration of the Green Man, from an exciting new talent.
Description Who, or what, is the Green Man, and why is this medieval image so present in our precarious modern times? An encounter with a carving of the Green Man at an ancient church leads Nina Lyon on a search to track him down in all his various guises. Against a backdrop of mountains, forests, rivers and stone circles, a cult of the Green Man emerges, as Nina explores his meaning and how he came into being. Meanwhile, in the woods, from an overgrown Welsh railway line to leafy London suburbia, strange things are happening...
About the Author Nina Lyon has worked in a Buddhist therapeutic community in Scotland, written contraband essays for cash in Berlin, and helps run the HowTheLightGetsIn philosophy festival near her home in Hay-on-Wye. Her essay 'Mushroom Season', inspired by youthful psychedelic misadventures and the mountains behind her home, was published by Random House in 2014 after being chosen as runner-up in the Financial Times/Bodley Head Essay Prize. She is currently completing a PhD about nonsense and metaphysics at Cardiff University.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780571318025 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages
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Faber Paperback MAY 2017 The Leaping Hare George Ewart Evans
A new edition of a rare and remarkable book about every aspect of the life and legend of the wild hare.
Description The Leaping Hare is a classic of nature writing, considering the wild hare in nature, poetry, folklore, history and art. George Ewart Evans was a pioneer of oral history, and the book features testimony from all walks of countryside life, which sings from the pages.
'A lovely book that is both exploratory and rooted in a sense of the hare's mystery.' - Seamus Heaney
About the Author Born in the mining town of Abercynon, South Wales, George Ewart Evans (1909-88) was a pioneering oral historian. In 1948 he settled with his family in Blaxhall, Suffolk, and through conversing with his neighbours he developed an interest in their dialect and the aspects of rural life which they described. Many were agricultural labourers, born before the turn of the century, who had worked on farms before the arrival of mechanisation. With the assistance of a tape recorder he collected oral evidence of the dialect, rural customs, traditions and folklore throughout East Anglia.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780571336050 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages
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Faber Paperback MAY 2017 Strange Labyrinth: Outlaws, Poets, Mystics, Murderers and a Coward in London's Great Forest Will Ashon
A book about a forest, which is like a forest. A story of tangled pathways and surprising encounters; magic and madness, litter and loss. A book about getting lost, and finding oneself.
Description In litter-strewn Epping Forest on the edge of London, might a writer find that magical moment of transcendence? He will certainly discover filthy graffiti and frightening dogs, as well as world-renowned artists and fading celebrities, robbers, lovers, ghosts and poets. But will he find himself? Or a version of himself he might learn something from?
Strange Labyrinth is a quest narrative arguing that we shouldn't get lost in order to find ourselves, but solely to accept that we are lost in the first place. It is a singular blend of landscape writing, political indignation, cultural history and wit from a startling new voice in non-fiction.
About the Author Will Ashon was born in Leicester in 1969. Having worked as a music journalist, he founded the record label Big Dada Recordings in 1996, which he ran for over fifteen years, signing acts like Roots Manuva, Wiley, Diplo, Kate Tempest and Young Fathers and, in the process, winning the Mercury Music Prize twice. He also published two novels with Faber & Faber, Clear Water and The Heritage. He currently lives in Walthamstow, north east London.
Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781783783434 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x138mm Extent: 416 pages Main Category: D Literature Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta MAY 2017 Keys to Success: 50 Secrets from a Business Maverick John Timpson
50 essential tips to business success from management maverick John Timpson.
Description John Timpson, Chairman of the eponymous British high street chain, knows a thing or two about running a successful business. Over many years he revolutionised how his firm worked, developing his philosophy of upside-down management, and has reaped the rewards - the Timpson Group (which includes the Snappy Snaps and Max Spielmann chains).
Timpson, whose weekly Daily Telegraph column and regular media appearances have made him a well-known business commentator, here shares his secrets. Full of actionable advice, Keys to Success is a step-by-step MBA for business women and men who need results now.
From encouraging flexible working, having a happy index and a great bonus scheme to the importance of checking the cash on hand every day and planning for disaster scenarios; from why you should never make decisions at meetings to the value of a mentor - even when you're at the top - these are essential markers on your roadmap to business success, whatever business you're in.
About the Author John Timpson CBE was born in 1943 and educated at Oundle and Nottingham University. He become the Director responsible for buying of the family footwear business William Timpson Ltd in 1970. Following the acquisition of the company by the UDS Group in 1973, he became Managing Director of retailer Swears & Wells and in 1975 was appointed Managing Director of William Timpson, his original family business. His previous books include Ask John (Icon, 2014) and High Street Heroes (Icon, 2015). He lives in Cheshire.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781785781995 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 224 pages
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Icon MAY 2017 From Bags to Blenders: The Journey of a Yorkshire Businessman Gordon Black
This is a book about success and how to achieve it.
Description While there are many books about eminent retailers, From Bags to Blenders tells the story from a different angle - from the point of view of a supplier.
Gordon Black's career at Peter Black spanned over 40 years. He led a team with his brother which built a substantial business with sales of approximately 300 million and 3,000 employees. His revealing book faces up to the difficulties of supplying retailers today, and contrasts that with the close and fruitful relationship the Blacks enjoyed in the 1980s and 1990s with their main customer, Marks & Spencer.
This fascinating and amusing book explains why the biggest challenge in building a successful company is the development of a culture of teamwork and passion for the business while, at the same time, avoiding arrogance and taking advice from those with experience.
In Gordon's opinion, exiting a business is as big a challenge as building a business. He pinpoints the different options and the pitfalls to be avoided, and emphasises the need for first-class products: 'You can have the most modern factories and the best systems, but, without the right product, you're dead!'
About the Author Gordon Black CBE DL was born in 1943 and educated at Bootham School, York and Clare College, Cambridge, where he took a degree in History. He joined Peter Black in 1965 and became Chairman in 1977. Peter Black Holdings was a major supplier of footwear, toiletries, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and logistics to the UK's leading retailers, with annual sales of 300 million pounds and around 3,000 employees. It was a plc for 25 years and was then taken private in 2000. The remaining companies were sold to Li & Fung, a Hong Kong-based global trading company, in 2007.
Gordon Black now runs Black Family Investments with his brother Thomas, and was awarded a CBE in 2005 for services Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781785782046 to business and charity. He is married to Louise, with three children and nine grandchildren, and lives in Ilkley, Yorkshire. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 160 pages
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Icon MAY 2017 Hope to Die David Jackson
Another gripping Nathan Cody crime thriller - the follow-up to the acclaimed A Tapping at My Door.
Description When the victim seems perfect, is it the perfect crime? The gripping new serial killer thriller, from the runaway bestselling author of Cry Baby.
On a bitterly cold winter's night, Liverpool is left stunned by a brutal murder in the grounds of the city's Anglican Cathedral. A killer is on the loose, driven by a chilling rage.
Put on the case, DS Nathan Cody is quickly stumped. Wherever he digs, the victim seems to be almost angelic - no-one has a bad word to say, let alone a motive for such a violent murder.
And Cody has other things on his mind too. The ghosts of his past are coming ever closer, and - still bearing the physical and mental scars - it's all he can do to hold onto his sanity. And then the killer strikes again...
About the Author David Jackson is the author of a series of crime thrillers featuring New York Detective Callum Doyle. His debut novel, Pariah, was Highly Commended in the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger Awards. When not writing fiction, David spends his time as a lecturer in a university science department. He also gives occasional workshops on creative writing. He lives on the Wirral Peninsula with his wife and two daughters. David can be followed on Twitter, where he goes under the name @Author_Dave.
Price: $44.99 (NZ$49.99) ISBN: 9781785761119 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages Main Category: FF Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre MAY 2017 The House of Ullstein Hermann Ullstein
An enthralling history of the Ullstein publishing empire, one of the largest publishing companies in Germany.
Description 'Their motto was political liberalism and modern culture', Arthur Koestler wrote of the Ullstein family.
Enthralling and full of the atmosphere of the period, Hermann Ullstein brings the early years of the Ullstein publishing empire to life. He portrays its impressive rise to become Europe's largest publisher, as well as the dramatic upheavals in Germany that led to the company's expropriation by the Nazis.
About the Author Hermann Ullstein was born in 1875, the youngest of the five famous sons of Leopold Ullstein, the founder of the publishing dynasty. He joined the family business in 1920, where he pioneered modern advertising, writing a fundamental textbook on the subject, Wirb und werde! Ein Lehrbuch der Reklame exemplifying his motto: Whoever does not want to be bored must be original. In 1939, he was forced to emigrate and settled in New York, where he died in 1943.
Price: $39.99 (NZ$45) ISBN: 9781785763243 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 220x140mm Extent: 336 pages
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