JULY 2017 The Museum of Modern Love Heather Rose
Winner of the 2017 Stella Prize. A mesmerising literary novel about a lost man in search of connection - a meditation on love, art and commitment, set against the backdrop of one of the greatest art events in modern history, Marina Abramovic's The Artist is Present.
Description Winner of the 2017 Stella Prize.'This is a weirdly beautiful book.' David Walsh founder and curator, MONA'Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one.' Stella Adler'Art will wake you up. Art will break your heart. There will be glorious days. If you want eternity you must be fearless.' From The Museum of Modern LoveShe watched as the final hours of The Artist is Present passed by, sitter after sitter in a gaze with the woman across the table. Jane felt she had witnessed a thing of inexplicable beauty among humans who had been drawn to this art and had found the reflection of a great mystery. What are we? How should we live?If this was a dream, then he wanted to know when it would end. Maybe it would end if he went to see Lydia. But it was the one thing he was not allowed to do.Arky Levin is a film composer in New York separated from his wife, who has asked him to keep one devastating promise. One day he finds his way to The Atrium at MOMA and sees Marina Abramovic in The Artist is Present. The performance continues for seventy-five days and, as it unfolds, so does Arky. As he watches and meets other people drawn to the exhibit, he slowly starts to understand what might be missing in his life and what he must do.This dazzlingly original novel asks beguiling questions about the nature of art, life and love and finds a way to answer them.
About the Author The Museum of Modern Love is Heather Rose's 7th novel. Her novels span adult literary fiction, children's literature, fantasy/sci-fi and crime. Heather's previous novels are White Heart (1999), The Butterfly Man (2005) and The River Wife (2009). Heather also writes the acclaimed Tuesday McGillycuddy series for children (written under the pen-name of Angelica Banks with fellow-author Danielle Wood and published internationally). The series is Finding Serendipity (2013) A Week Without Tuesday (2015) and Blueberry Pancakes Forever (2016). Heather won the Davitt Award in 2006 and her work has been shortlisted for the Nita B Kibble Award and the Aurealis Awards, and longlisted for the IMPAC Awards. She is also a recipient of the international Eleanor Dark Fellowship.Heather was the inaugural Writer in Residence at The
Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) Museum of Old and New Art (MoNA) in Hobart 2012-13 where she did much of the research for The Museum of Modern ISBN: 9781760291860 Love. Heather is currently studying Fine Arts at UTAS. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 296 pages
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Allen & Unwin JULY 2017 The Twentieth Man Tony Jones
Terrorism, politics and betrayals collide in this unputdownable, fast-paced thriller.
Description He was the only one left alive; now it was his turn to die.In September 1972 journalist Anna Rosen takes an early morning phone call from her boss at the ABC telling her about two bombings in Sydney's busy CBD. It's the worst terrorist attack in the country's history and Anna has no doubt which group is responsible for the carnage. She has been investigating the role of alleged war criminals in the globally active Ustasha movement. High in the Austrian Alps, guided by starlight and a crescent moon, Marin Katich is one of twenty would-be revolutionaries who slip stealthily over the border into Yugoslavia on a mission planned and funded in Australia which will have devastating consequences for all involved. Two and half years ago Anna and Marin had become lovers at university but his sudden and mysterious disappearance brought their relationship to an abrupt end. Now the Sydney bombings will draw their lives back together. With Croatian extremists under suspicion and a power struggle erupting between ASIO and the federal police, Attorney-General Lionel Murphy personally directs a raid on the security agency. Events suddenly reach a trigger point with the impending arrival of Yugoslavia's prime minister.
About the Author Tony Jones was still at school when Lionel Murphy raided ASIO. After an ABC cadetship, he joined Four Corners as a reporter in 1985, and then went to Dateline at SBS in 1986. He subsequently was an ABC foreign correspondent, for a time in London and later in Washington. Inter alia, he covered the war crimes in Bosnia. Today he hosts Q & A on Monday nights. He is married to fellow ABC journalist, Sarah Ferguson. This is his first novel.
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Allen & Unwin JULY 2017 The Way Back Kylie Ladd
All she wanted was to escape. But why does she still feel trapped. A gripping psychological drama by the author of Mothers and Daughters and Into My Arms.
Description Charlie Johnson is 13 and in her first year of high school. She loves her family, netball and Liam, the cute guy who sits next to her in Science-but most of all she loves horses and horse-riding. Charlie's parents have leased her a horse, Tic Tac, from the local pony club, but one day they go out for a ride in the national park and only Tic Tac returns...Four months later, long after the police and the SES have called off the search, Charlie is found wandering injured and filthy miles from where she was last seen. Her family rejoice in her return, but can anyone truly recover from what Charlie's been through? When a life has been shattered, how do you put the pieces back together?
About the Author Kylie Ladd is a novelist and freelance writer. She has published four novels: After the Fall, Last Summer, which was highly commended in the FAW Christina Stead Award for fiction, Into My Arms, chosen as one of Get Reading's '50 books you can't put down' for 2013, and Mothers and Daughters. Kylie holds a PhD in neuropsychology and lives in Melbourne with her husband and two children.
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Allen & Unwin JULY 2017 Mothers and Daughters Kylie Ladd
A clear-eyed, insightful and wildly entertaining look into the complicated, emotional world of mothers and their teenage daughters by the acclaimed author of Into My Arms, Last Summer and After the Fall.
Description Four mothers. Four teenage daughters.An isolated tropical paradise with no internet or mobile phone reception.What could possibly go wrong?There's tension, bitchiness, bullying, sex, drunken confessions, bad behaviour and breakdowns - and wait till you see what the teenagers get up to.How can we let our daughters go to forge lives of their own when what we most want to do is hold them close and never let them go? How do we let them grow and keep them protected from the dark things in the world at the same time? And how can mothers and daughters navigate the troubled, stormy waters of adolescence without hurting themselves and each other? A clear-eyed, insightful and wildly entertaining look into the complicated, emotional world of mothers and daughters by the acclaimed author of Into My Arms, Last Summer and After the Fall.A sure-fire hit from a writer who's been steadily building fans and critical acclaim and is ready to explode on to the bestseller lists.'.a strong, intelligent, subtle and wise new voice.being compared with Christos Tsiolkas, Malcolm Knox and Helen Garner ' Booktopia
About the Author Kylie Ladd is a novelist and freelance writer. She has published four novels: After the Fall, Last Summer, which was highly commended in the FAW Christina Stead Award for fiction, Into My Arms, chosen as one of Get Reading.s .50 books you can.t put down. for 2013, and her latest, Mothers and Daughters. With Leigh Langtree she also edited the anthology Naked: Confessions of Adultery and Infidelity. Kylie holds a PhD in neuropsychology and lives in Melbourne with her husband and two children.
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Allen & Unwin JULY 2017 Off Reservation Bram Connolly
Australian Special Forces commander Matt Rix in another action packed adventure.
Description Disgraced and discarded, Australian Special Forces Captain Matt Rix is no stranger to having the deck stacked against him; and just when it seemed things couldn't get any worse he is given an ultimatum that brings the heavens crashing down around him. What follows is the frantic pursuit of Faisal Khan, the recently escaped, ingenious Taliban Commander who has taken receipt of a deadly weapon of mass destruction. Chasing Khan across Turkey would be the easy part; stopping the weapon from falling into the hands of any number of organizations, hell bent on securing it for their own devious plans, that's going to be the hard part.
About the Author As a Special Forces officer, Bram Connolly served several tours in Afghanistan and was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for leadership in combat. He takes you deep into the world of high-intensity combat few have experienced.
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Allen & Unwin JULY 2017 Bridget Crack Rachel Leary
Van Diemen's Land, 1826. A desperate convict flees into the wilderness. But the land that hides her will show her no mercy. A brilliant literary debut from a writer of rare talent.
Description Van Diemen's Land, 1827. When Bridget Crack flees her cruel master's isolated property to walk back to Hobart Town she has no idea just how far off the road she will go, or how hard it will be to ever get back on it.When Bridget arrived in the colony, she had never seen such a place as Hobart Town. A spirited girl, more educated than most in the town, she found the life of an indentured domestic servant intolerable, but when she is punished for her insubordination and sent from one place to another, each significantly worse than the last, she realises there are far worse places to be. The worst of all is where she ends up - the 'Interior' where the hard cases are sent - a brutally hard life with a cruel master miles from civilisation.She runs from there and finds herself imprisoned by the impenetrable Tasmanian wilderness. What she finds there-what finds her-is Matt Sheedy, a man on the run, who saves her from certain death. But her precarious existence among volatile and murderous bushrangers is a different kind of hell. Surrounded by roaring rivers and towering columns of rock, hunted by soldiers and at the mercy of killers, Bridget finds herself in an impossible situation. In the face of terrible darkness, what will she have to do to survive?Bridget Crack is a gripping and moving story of a woman's struggle for survival in a beautiful and brutal landscape. Bridget Crack is a unique and deeply accomplished novel by a rare talent.
About the Author Rachel grew up in Tasmania then moved to Melbourne in 2003 having enrolled in the Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT. Rachel has had a number of short stories and essays published and in 2014 she was awarded an ASA mentorship to develop her novel manuscript. At University of Tasmania Rachel gained First Class Honours for her Cultural Geography thesis on the Hobart Rivulet and then went on to train in physical theatre, clowning and improvisation. She has now been a professional performer for over ten years. While living in Tasmania Rachel spent much time camping, bushwalking, white water rafting and kayaking.
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Allen & Unwin JULY 2017 The Beautiful Miscellaneous Dominic Smith
By the author of the enduring bestseller and Indie Prize winning The Last Painting of Sara de Vos.
Description From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, a dazzling new novel explores the fault lines that can cause a family to drift apart and the unexpected events that can pull them back together.Nathan Nelson is the average son of a genius. His father, a physicist of small renown, has prodded him toward greatness from an early age--enrolling him in whiz kid summer camps, taking him to the icy tundra of Canada to track a solar eclipse and teaching him college algebra. But despite Samuel Nelson's efforts, Nathan remains ordinary.Then, in the summer of 1987, everything changes. While visiting his small-town grandfather in Michigan, Nathan is involved in a terrible accident. After a brief clinical death--which he later recalls as a lacklustre affair lasting less than the length of a Top 40 pop song--he falls into a coma. When he awakens, Nathan finds that everyday life is radically different. His perceptions of sight, sound and memory have been irrevocably changed. The doctors and his parents fear permanent brain damage. But the truth of his condition is more unexpected and leads to a renewed chance for Nathan to find his place in the world.Thinking that his son's altered brain is worthy of serious inquiry, Samuel arranges for Nathan to attend the Brook-Mills Institute, a Midwestern research centre where savants, prodigies and neurological misfits are studied and their specialties applied. Immersed in this strange atmosphere--where an autistic boy can tell you what day Christmas falls on in 3026 but can't tie his shoelaces, where a medical intuitive can diagnose cancer during a long-distance phone call with a patient--Nathan begins to unravel the mysteries of his new mind and finally make peace with the crushing weight of his father's expectations.
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. Dominic's other novels are: The Beautiful Miscellaneous and Bright and Distant Shores. Dominic's awards include the Dobie Paisano Fellowship from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Prize, the Gulf Coast Fiction Prize, and a new works grant from the Australia Council for the Arts. His fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and been shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year and the Vance Palmer Prize. Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760296360 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 352 pages Main Category: FA Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Texas, USA
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Allen & Unwin JULY 2017 The Amber Amulet Craig Silvey
You're in safe hands - The Masked Avenger and Richie the Power Beagle are here to protect you! A brilliant jewel of a book from the acclaimed, bestselling author of Jasper Jones.
Description Dear Sir/Ma'am,Please find enclosed this AMBER AMULET. That must sound unusual to a citizen, but you will have to trust me on this count because the science is too detailed for me to outline here. All you need to know is that the AMBER AMULET will eliminate your unhappiness by counteracting it with POSITIVE ENERGY. This should see you straight. Fear not, you're in safe hands now.Take care,The Masked AvengerMeet twelve-year-old Liam McKenzie, who patrols his suburban neighbourhood as the Masked Avenger - a superhero with powers so potent not even he can fully comprehend their extent.Along with his sidekick, Richie the Powerbeagle, he protects the people of Franklin Street from chaos, mayhem, evil and low tyre pressure - but can he save them from sadness?This perfect jewel of a book by the award- winning author of the 2009 Book of the Year Jasper Jones will hold all readers in its irresistible power.
About the Author Craig Silvey grew up on an orchard in Dwellingup, WA. At 19 he wrote his first novel, Rhubarb, published by Fremantle Press in 2004. Rhubarb was chosen as the 'One Book' for the Perth International Writers' Festival, and was included in the 'Books Alive' campaign. Silvey also received a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist Award. Silvey's second novel, Jasper Jones was released in 2009 and won Indie Book of the Year Award 2009, Indie Book of the Year 2009 - Fiction, ABIA Book of the Year 2010, ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2010 and the 2009 WA Premier's Literary Award for Fiction. Jasper Jones was also shortlised for the 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2010 NSW Premier's Literary Award, Christina Stead Prize for fiction, 2010 Victorian Premier's Literary AwardsVance Palmer Prize for Fiction and the 2011 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award. Outside of literature, Silvey is the singer/songwriter for the band The Nancy Sikes!
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Allen & Unwin JULY 2017 Happy People Read and Drink Coffee Agnes Martin-Lugand
After a terrible tragedy shatters her almost perfect life Diane, owner of a popular literary cafe in Paris, moves to a small Irish village. There she meets Edward, a brooding Irish photographer, and a suprising romance blossoms. An international runaway bestseller soon to be a major film.
Description The bestselling French phenomenon now being made into a Hollywood movie.Diane has a charmed life as a wife, a mother and the owner of a literary cafe in Paris called Happy People Read and Drink Coffee. But when Diane suddenly loses her beloved husband and daughter in a car accident her perfect world is shattered. Trapped and haunted by her memories, Diane withdraws from friends and family, unable and unwilling to move forward.One year on, Diane shocks her loved ones by leaving Paris to move to a small town on the Irish coast to rebuild her life alone. There she meets Edward, a brooding, handsome photographer who lives next door. Initially Edward resents Diane's intrusion into his solitary life, but before long they find themselves drawn to each other . . .At once heartbreaking and uplifting, Happy People Read and Drink Coffee is the inspirational story of a woman finding new meaning-and love-in the wake of devastating loss.
About the Author After six years as a clinical psychologist, Agnes Martin-Lugand now devotes herself to writing full-time. She is also the author of Happiness Slips Through My Fingers (Entre mes mains le bonheur se faufile) and the sequel to Happy People, Don't Worry, Life Is Easy (La vie est facile, ne t'inquiete pas).
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Arena JULY 2017 The Wrong Side of Goodbye Michael Connelly
Only Harry Bosch can uncover LA's darkest secrets in this new gripping thriller from global bestseller Michael Connelly.
Description 'What do you want me to do?' Bosch asked again.'I want you to find someone for me,' Vance said. 'Someone who might not have ever existed.'Harry Bosch is working as a part-time detective in the town of San Fernando outside of Los Angeles, when he gets the invitation to meet with the ageing aviation billionaire Whitney Vance. When he was eighteen Vance had a relationship with a Mexican girl called Vibiana Duarte, but soon after becoming pregnant she disappeared. Now, as he reaches the end of his life, Vance wants to know what happened to Vibiana and whether there is an heir to his vast fortune. And Bosch is the only person he trusts to undertake the assignment.Harry's aware that with such sums of money involved, this could be a dangerous undertaking - not just for himself, but for the person he's looking for - but as he begins to uncover Vibiana's tragic story, and finds uncanny links to his own past, he knows he cannot rest until he finds the truth.
About the Author A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the international bestselling author of the Harry Bosch thriller series, the highly acclaimed legal thriller series featuring Mickey Haller, as well as several stand-alone bestsellers. Michael Connelly has been President of the Mystery Writers of America. His books have been translated into 39 languages and have won awards all over the world, including the Edgar and Anthony Awards. BOSCH, the TV series based on Michael's novels, is the most watched original series on Amazon Prime Instant Video and its third series will go to air in 2017. It screens on SBS TV in Australia and on SKY TV in New Zealand. Michael Connelly lives in Tampa, Florida, with his family.To find out more, visit Michael's official website www.michaelconnelly.com.au or follow him on Facebook www.facebook.com/MichaelConnellyBooks or on Twitter @Connellybooks
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Michael Connelly JULY 2017 How to Stop Time Matt Haig
From Shakespeare's England to jazz age Paris to surfing in Byron Bay, a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling story about love, loss and living in the moment.
Description 'The first rule is that you don't fall in love. There are other rules too, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your mind . . .'Tom Hazard is a history teacher living a quiet suburban life in a Cathedral town in England. He likes his job but has no real friends, spends his time on the internet or playing the piano, and pushes away anyone who tries to get close to him.But Tom has a secret. He suffers from progeria, a condition that causes the body to age ten times slower than normal. He looks 40 but is actually 408. He won't die for another few centuries. In his lifespan he has had time to learn 13 languages, has become an expert at fighting and piano playing, but all of this has a cost. He must change his identity every few years to avoid discovery. And as he has learned the risks of love and the pain it can cause, he has turned away from other people.How to Stop Time is his story.
About the Author Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been translated into 30 languages.
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Canongate Trade JULY 2017 The Graybar Hotel Curtis Dawkins
A gritty, unflinching and deeply moving collection of stories by debut writer Curtis Dawkins, who is currently serving a life sentence in Michigan's prison system. His stories form a vivid portrait of prison life, painted from behind bars.
Description The Graybar Hotel offers a glimpse into the reality of prison life through the eyes of the people who spend their days, years and lives behind bars. A man sits collect-calling strangers every day just to hear the sounds of the outside world; an inmate recalls his descent into addiction as his prison softball team gears up for an annual tournament; a prisoner is released and finds freedom more complex and baffling than he expected.In this stunning debut story collection, Curtis Dawkins, an arts graduate and convicted murderer, serving life without parole, gives voice to the experience of perhaps the most overlooked members of our society.
About the Author Curtis Dawkins grew up in rural Illinois and earned an MFA in fiction writing at Western Michigan University. He has struggled with alcohol and substance abuse through most of his life and, during a botched robbery, killed a man on Halloween 2004. Since late 2005, he's been serving a life sentence, with no possibility of parole, in various prisons throughout Michigan. He has three children with his partner, Kim, who is a writing professor living in Portland, Oregon.
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Canongate Trade JULY 2017 Himself Jess Kidd
Blending strange kindnesses, casual violence and buried secrets: an unforgettable debut from a darkly comic new voice in Irish fiction.
Description A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2016When Mahony returns to Mulderrig, a speck of a place on Ireland's west coast, he brings only a photograph of his long-lost mother and a determination to do battle with the lies of his past. No one in the village - living or dead - will tell Mahony what happened to the teenage mother who abandoned him as a baby.This beautiful and darkly comic debut novel creates an unforgettable world of mystery, bloody violence and buried secrets.
About the Author Jess Kidd completed her first degree in Literature with The Open University, and has since taught creative writing and gained a PhD in Creative Writing Studies. She has also worked as a support worker specialising in acquired brain injury. Jess was brought up in London as part of a large family from Mayo, and plans to settle somewhere along the west coast of Ireland in the next few years. Until then, she lives in London with her daughter.
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Canongate PBS JULY 2017 Orphans of the Carnival Carol Birch
The dazzling new novel, evoking the thrilling world of the Victorian carnival, from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Jamrach's Menagerie
Description A life in the spotlight will keep anyone hidden.Julia Pastrana is the singing and dancing marvel from Mexico. She is heralded across nineteenth-century Europe as much for her talent as for her unusual looks. Yet few can see past her freakish appearance to the ambitious woman within. Orphans of the Carnival sweeps us from the music halls of Vienna to an attic in modern-day South London, playing out an epic tale of grit, love, music and the triumph of the human spirit pushed to extremes.
About the Author Carol Birch is the author of ten previous novels, including Scapegallows (2008) and Turn Again Home (2003) which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She has also won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the David Higham Award for Best First Novel. Jamrach's Menagerie was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the London Book Award.
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Canongate PBS JULY 2017 Under The Skin Michel Faber
One of Michel Faber's best-loved novels - an utterly compulsive and mysterious masterpiece - now in a Canons edition with an introduction by David Mitchell.
Description With an introduction by David Mitchell.Isserley spends most of her time driving. But why is she so interested in picking up hitchhikers? And why are they always male, well-built and alone?An utterly unpredictable and macabre mystery, Under the Skin is a genre-defying masterpiece.
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, 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, and most recently Undying, his first poetry collection. Born in Holland, brought up in Australia, he now lives in the UK.
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Canongate PBS JULY 2017 Notes from a Coma Mike McCormack
From the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize and Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, the critically acclaimed novel that first established one of the 'most adventurous and ambitious Irish writers' - Colm Toibin.
Description After suffering a catastrophic breakdown, J.J. O'Malley volunteers for an improbable government project which has been set up to explore the possibility of using deep coma as a future option within the EU penal system. Brilliantly imagined and artfully constructed, the novel merges science fiction with an affectionate portrait of small town Ireland. Notes from a Coma is both the story of a man cursed with guilt and genius and a compassionate examination of how personal identities are safeguarded and held in trust by loved ones.
About the Author Mike McCormack is an award-winning novelist and short story writer from Mayo. His previous work includes Getting it in the Head (1995) and Forensic Songs (2012). In 1996 he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and in 2007 he was awarded a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship. In 2016, Solar Bones won the Goldsmiths Prize and the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year.
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The celebrated and critically acclaimed debut short story collection from the winner of the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize and the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year 2016.
Description McCormack's celebrated debut collection is richly imaginative, bitterly funny, powerful and original. Here we enter a world where the infatuation with death, ruin and destruction is total. Set in locations ranging from New York to the west of Ireland, and to the nameless realms of the imagination, it is a world where beautiful but deranged children make lethal bombs, talented sculptors spend careers dismembering themselves in pursuit of their art, and wasters rise up with axes and turn into patricides.
About the Author Mike McCormack is an award-winning novelist and short story writer from Mayo. His previous work includes Notes from a Coma (2005), which was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, and Forensic Songs (2012). In 1996 he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and in 2007 he was awarded a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship. In 2016, Solar Bones won the Goldsmiths Prize and the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year.
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Canongate PBS JULY 2017 The Last Place You Look Kristen Lepionka
What really happened to Sarah Cook, the night her parents were murdered?
Description Nobody knows what happened to Sarah Cook. The beautiful blonde teenager disappeared fifteen years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend Brad Stockton - black and from the wrong side of the tracks - was convicted of the murders and is now on death row. Though he's maintained his innocence all along, the clock is running out. His execution is only weeks away when his devoted sister insists she spied Sarah at an area gas station. Willing to try anything, she hires PI Roxane Weary to look at the case and see if she can locate Sarah. Roxane finds herself drawn in to the story of Sarah's vanishing act, especially when she links the disappearance to one of her father's unsolved murder cases involving another teen girl. The stakes get higher as Roxane discovers that the two girls may not be the only beautiful blonde teenagers who've turned up missing or dead. As her investigation gets darker and darker, Roxane will have to risk everything to find the truth. Lives depend on her cracking this case - hers included.
About the Author Kristen Lepionka grew up mostly in her local public library, where she could be found in the adult mystery section well before she was out of middle school. Her writing has been selected for Shotgun Honey, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Grift, and Black Elephant. She is also the editor of Betty Fedora, a semi-annual journal that publishes feminist crime fiction and lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her partner and two cats.
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Faber Fiction JULY 2017 The Last Place You Look 8 copy pack
Includes 8 copies of The Last Place You Look plus free reading copy
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Faber Fiction JULY 2017 The Zoo Christopher Wilson
Animal Farm meets The Noise of Time, when a guileless young boy gets mixed up in Stalin's inner circle.
Description There are certain things that Yuri Zipit knows:That being official food-taster for the leader of the Soviet Union requires him to drink too much vodka for a 12-year-old. That you do not have to be an Elephantologist to see that the great leader is dying. That Marshal Bruhah has been known to eat his own children, while Comrade Krushka is only fit to run a slaughterhouse, and that one of them has Yuri's father somewhere here in the Dacha. That it's a crime to love your family more than you love Socialism, the Party or the Motherland. That, because of his damaged mind, everyone thinks Yuri is a fool. But Yuri isn't. He sits quietly through another excessive state dinner and witnesses it all - betrayals, body doubles, buffoonery. He's starting to get the hang of this politics thing, but there's so much to learn. Who knew that a man could be in five places at once? That someone could break your nose as a sign of friendship? That people could be disinvented? The Zoo is a cutting satire, told through the refreshing voice of one gutsy boy who will not give up on hope.
About the Author Christopher Wilson is the author of novels including Gallimauf's Gospel, Baa, Blueglass, Mischief, Fou, The Wurd, The Ballad of Lee Cotton and Nookie. His work has been translated into several languages, adapted for the stage, longlisted for the Booker Prize, and twice shortlisted for the Whitbread Fiction Prize. Wilson completed a published PhD on the psychology of humour at LSE, worked as a research psychologist at UCL, The London Hospital and The Arts Council, and lectured for ten years at Goldsmiths' College, London University. He has taught creative writing in prisons, at university and for The Arvon Foundation. Wilson has also established a couple of new imprints - Lollapalooza and MojoBooks - as e-publishers of fiction, poetry and books on cultural studies and body-politics. He lives in North London.
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Faber Fiction JULY 2017 Fateful Mornings Tom Bouman
The hugely exciting follow up to Tom Bouman's 2015 Edgar-winning debut, Dry Bones in the Valley.
Description In Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, Officer Henry Farrell's life is getting complicated. Widowed and more traumatised than he cares to admit, he is caught up in an affair with a local woman, and with helping out his friend's barn construction job - on which the clock is ticking. When a troubled old acquaintance of theirs becomes the prime suspect in the disappearance of his girlfriend, it becomes increasingly clear that something seriously dark is at large in the woods that surround them. Against this old and strange landscape - where silence rules - a fascinating and troubling case ensues, as Henry struggles for his very survival.
About the Author Tom Bouman's debut Dry Bones in the Valley won the 2015 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and several other prestigious mystery and thriller awards. He lives with his wife and daughter in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
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Faber Fiction JULY 2017 Walk in Silence John Gordon Sinclair
John Gordon Sinclair's latest thriller takes a trip into the murky world of the mafia.
Description Find the boy. Bring him home. Keep him safe.Keira Lynch is a lawyer who's used to trouble; she's only just landed in Albania, and already, she's neck deep. She thought money would help her find the boy, but in a brutal underworld where anything can be bartered - trust, loyalty, even lives - his kidnappers have other ideas. They want the freedom of one of their gang members. A man Keira is about to help bring to trial back in the UK; a man who once put three bullets in her chest.Can she walk away in silence, and save the boy? Or will she have to play the game, fight and risk losing everything?
About the Author John Gordon Sinclair was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He is the author of the novels Seventy Times Seven and Blood Whispers. As an actor, he has been nominated for a BAFTA for Best Newcomer to a Leading Film Role and his first outing in London's West End won him a Best Actor Olivier award. He lives in Surrey with his wife and their two children.
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Faber Fiction JULY 2017 Madame Zero Sarah Hall
From the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award, a dazzling collection of stories about relationships, the fragility of human life, and the inescapable power of the natural world.
Description Madame Zero is a stunning new story collection embracing the darkness, eroticism, and absurdity of human existence. One of our most celebrated authors, Sarah Hall is an exquisite chronicler of landscapes of all kinds - rural, industrial, bodily, psychological - and these gorgeous stories reveal a writer working at the peak of her powers. Whether depicting a husband who finds his wife utterly transformed, a child who becomes a case study in wildness, or a road trip overwhelmed by buried phobias, Hall is always deeply attuned to the uncanny strangeness that underlies our everyday reality. In these memorable scenes, she delights in the mythic symbolism of wilderness and wasteland, and revels in blurring thresholds between the natural and urban, mundane and surreal, human and animal. This is a haunting collection from a uniquely fertile imagination, written in lyrical prose glittering with the compacted power and striking imagery of poetry. Marked by Hall's characteristic fascination with the intimacy of nature - and the nature of intimacy - these intensely sensual, thrillingly inventive tales seek to expose our innermost fears and desires. Conceptually ambitious, yet magnetically tactile, Madame Zero is a vital new work from one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary fiction.
About the Author Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria in 1974. She is the prize-winning author of five novels - Haweswater, The Electric Michelangelo, The Carhullan Army, How to Paint a Dead Man and The Wolf Border - as well as The Beautiful Indifference, a collection of short stories. The first story in the collection, 'Butchers Perfume', was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, a prize she won in 2013 with 'Mrs Fox'.
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Faber Fiction JULY 2017 Kitty Peck and the Daughter of Sorrow Kate Griffin
The latest in Kate Griffin's popular Kitty Peck series.
Description Summer 1881: the streets of Limehouse are thick with opium... and menace. At eighteen Kitty Peck has inherited Paradise, a sprawling criminal empire on the banks of the Thames. Determined to do things differently to her fearsome grandmother, she now realises that the past casts a long and treacherous shadow. Haunted by a terrible secret and stalked by a criminal cabal intent on humiliation and destruction, Kitty must fight for the future of everyone she cares for...
About the Author Kate Griffin was born within the sound of Bow bells, making her a true-born cockney. She has worked as an assistant to an antiques dealer, a journalist for local newspapers and now works for The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders, Kate's first book, won the Stylist / Faber crime writing competition. Kate's maternal family lived in Victorian Limehouse and her grandmother told her many stories of life around the docks. She lives in St Albans.
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Faber Paperback JULY 2017 The Hours Before Dawn Celia Fremlin
In a new edition of this lost classic, The Hours Before Dawn proves - scarily - as relevant to readers today as it was when Celia Fremlin first wrote it in the 1950s.
Description Louise would give anything - anything - for a good night's sleep. Forget the girls running errant in the garden and bothering the neighbours. Forget her husband who seems oblivious to it all. If the baby would just stop crying, everything would be fine.Or would it? What if Louise's growing fears about the family's new lodger, who seems to share all of her husband's interests, are real? What could she do, and would anyone even believe her? Maybe, if she could get just get some rest, she'd be able to think straight.
About the Author Celia Fremlin (1914-2009) was born in Kent. Her first published novel of suspense was The Hours Before Dawn (1958), which went on to win the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1960. Over the next thirty-five years Fremlin published a further eighteen titles.
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Faber Paperback JULY 2017 Berlin Red Sam Eastland
April 1945 - Inspector Pekkala is in a race against time as he heads to Berlin to capture the plans for a secret weapon that could change the course of the war.
Description April, 1945.East of Berlin, the Red Army stands poised to unleash its final assault upon the ruined capital of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich.To the north, at a lonely outpost near the Baltic sea, German scientists perfect a guidance system for the mighty V2 rocket, which has already caused massive damage to the cities of London and Antwerp. This device, known only by the codename Diamondstream, will allow the rocket to arrive at its target with pin-point accuracy. So devastating is the potential of this newly-mastered technology that Hitler's promise to the German people of a 'miracle weapon' that will turn the tide of the war might actually come true.When a radio message sent to Hitler's Headquarters, heralding the success of Diamondstream, is intercepted by an English listening station, British Intelligence orders one of its last agents operating in Berlin to acquire the plans for the device, Desperate to evacuate their agent from the doomed city before the Red Army swarms through its streets, British Special Operations turns to the Kremlin for help. They ask for one man in particular - Inspector Pekkala.Anxious to acquire the plans for himself, Stalin readily agrees to risk his finest investigator on what appears to be a suicide mission. But when Pekkala learns the reason that the British have singled him out, he knows that he must make the journey, no matter what the outcome might be. The agent he must rescue is the woman he had planned to marry, before the Revolution tore them apart, sending her to Paris as a refugee and Pekkala to a gulag in Siberia.This time, for Pekkala, it is personal.
About the Author Sam Eastland lives in the US and the UK. He is the grandson of a London police detective. Eye of the Red Tsar, the first in the Inspector Pekkala series, was followed by The Red Coffin, Red Moth, Siberian Red, The Beast in the Red Forest and Red Icon.
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Faber Paperback JULY 2017 Beast Paul Kingsnorth
The stunning new novel from the prize-winning author of The Wake.
Description 'Come to a place like this . . . and you will understand soon enough that this world is a great animal, alive and breathing.'Beast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster, a man alone on a west-country moor. What he has left behind we don't yet know; what he faces is an existential battle with himself, the elements and with something he begins to see in the margins of his vision: some creature that is tracking him, the pursuit of which will become an obsession.This is a vivid exploration of isolation, courage and the search for truth. Short, shocking and exhilarating, it confirms Paul Kingsnorth as one of our most daring and rewarding contemporary writers.
About the Author Paul Kingsnorth's debut novel, The Wake, won the 2014 Gordon Burn Prize, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Folio Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. He is also the author of three non-fiction books, One No, Many Yeses, Real England and Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist, and a poetry collection, Kidland. He co-founded the Dark Mountain Project, a global network of writers, artists and thinkers in search of new stories for a world on the brink.
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Faber Paperback JULY 2017 Lost for Words Stephanie Butland
This bookshop keeps many secrets ... A compelling, irresistible and heart-rending novel, perfect for fans of The Little Paris Bookshop and 84 Charing Cross Road.
Description Loveday Cardew prefers books to people. If you look carefully, you might glimpse the first lines of the novels she loves most tattooed on her skin. But there are some things Loveday will never show you.Into her refuge - the York book emporium where she works - come a poet, a lover, a friend, and three mysterious deliveries, each of which stirs unsettling memories.Everything is about to change for Loveday. Someone knows about her past and she can't hide any longer. She must decide who around her she can trust. Can she find the courage to right a heartbreaking wrong? And will she ever find the words to tell her own story?It's time to turn the pages of her past ...
About the Author Stephanie lives with her family near the sea in the North East of England. She writes in a studio at the bottom of her garden, and when she's not writing, she trains people to think more creatively. For fun, she reads, knits, sews, bakes and spins.@Under_blue_sky; www.stephaniebutland.co.uk; Instagram/StephanieButland; Facebook/StephanieButland
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Zaffre JULY 2017 Lost for Words 8 copy pack
Includes 8 copies of Lost for Words plus free reading copy
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Zaffre JULY 2017 Lost Girls Angela Marsons
The latest utterly addictive thriller from the No 1 bestseller Angela Marsons.
Description Two girls go missing. Only one will return. The couple that offers the highest amount will see their daughter again. The losing couple will not. Make no mistake. One child will die.When nine-year-old best friends Charlie and Amy disappear, two families are plunged into a living nightmare. A text message confirms the unthinkable; that the girls are the victims of a terrifying kidnapping.And when a second text message pits the two families against each other for the life of their children, the clock starts ticking for D.I. Kim Stone and the squad. Seemingly outwitted at every turn, as they uncover a trail of bodies, Stone realises that these ruthless killers might be the most deadly she has ever faced. And that their chances of bringing the girls home alive are getting smaller by the hour ...Untangling a dark web of secrets from the families' past might hold the key to solving this case. But can Kim stay alive long enough to do so? Or will someone's child pay the ultimate price?The latest utterly addictive thriller from the No 1 bestseller Angela Marsons.
About the Author Angela Marsons is the author of the Amazon #1 bestseller Silent Scream.She lives in the Black Country with her partner, their bouncy Labrador and a swearing parrot.
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Zaffre JULY 2017 My Husband's Son Deborah O'Connor
You'd always recognise your own child. Wouldn't you?
Description 'Amazing. Tore through it!' - Holly Seddon, bestselling author of Try Not To Breathe. A brilliant psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Apple Tree Yard, While My Eyes Were Closed and The Sister.Heidi and Jason aren't like other couples. Six years ago, Heidi's daughter was murdered. A year later, Jason's son Barney disappeared. Their shared loss brought them together.By chance, Heidi meets a boy she's certain is her husband's long-missing son - but Jason is equally convinced it's not him.Is Heidi mad? Or is Jason hiding something? And can their fragile marriage survive Heidi's search for the truth ... See what people are already saying about this #1 Bestselling Psychological Thriller ...'Gripping' - Daily Mail'Wonderful writing, gripping story' - Daisy Goodwin'An ending that left my head spinning and wanting more from this superb author.' - Joanne Spain, author of With Our Blessing'OMG ... That final twist is jaw dropping. - Nicki's Life of Crime'More original than just another 'psychological thriller' . . . unputdownable' - Bibliomaniac'This book was clearly made for someone like me, who loves a mystery and loves a psychological thriller ... I absolutely loved every minute of it' - Comfy ReadingMade me remember the feeling I was left with when I first read Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty ... Highly recommended.' - My Chestnut Reading Tree
About the Author Deborah O'Connor read English at Newnham College, Cambridge before going on to become a television producer. Having worked on everything from The Big Breakfast to Big Brother she produced the BAFTA award-winning poetry documentary Off By Heart and is currently the head of factual development at TV production company, CPL.Born and bred in the North-East of England, she now lives in East London with her husband and three-year-old daughter.
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Twenty7 JULY 2017 Cut Marc Raabe
Fast and furious - a stunning debut thriller for fans of Stieg Larsson.
Description Fast and furious - a stunning debut thriller for fans of Stieg Larsson.The serial killer thriller that took Europe by stormAt eleven years old, Gabriel Naumann is witness to a horrific crime.29 years later his girlfriend is taken.Then the messages begin. Somebody knows about his past. Somebody knows what he did. And now his girlfriend will pay for it - unless he can find her in time ...When you've spent decades running from your past, what do you do when it finally catches up?'If you want to find her, then you'll have to find me'
About the Author Marc Raabe owns and runs a television production company. Cut is his first thriller. Marc Raabe lives with his family in Cologne.
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Manilla JULY 2017 Every Secret Thing Rachel Crowther
A brilliant new novel of friendship, betrayal and broken hearts, from the hugely acclaimed author of The Things You Do For Love.
Description 1995. Five friends, newly graduated, travel together to the Lake District, at the very beginning of the rest of their lives. Young, ambitious and full of life, they little imagine the events that will overtake them that fateful summer, tearing their fragile group apart.Twenty years later, summoned by an eccentric bequest, they return to the same spot - knowing little of one another beyond their youthful memories and what can be gleaned from Google. It's not long before old friendships - and old romances - are re-kindled. But not long either before old rivalries re-emerge and old wounds are painfully re- opened.How long does it take for past sins to be forgiven? And can the love they crushed be regained?Praise for Rachel Crowther'A wonderful page-turner of a novel about the complexity of female life, by a new writer who understands it all too well. You can have it all, but only if you're prepared to pay the price.' Fay Weldon""The very best sort of fiction that makes you really MIND about those people who you have only just met but whose existence throbs with vitality."" Juliet Nicolson, author of A House Full of Daughters
About the Author Rachel Crowther is a doctor who worked for the NHS for 20 years and is the mother of five children. She dabbled in creative writing between babies and medical exams, until an Arvon course prompted her to take it more seriously. She's also a keen musician and cook.
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Zaffre JULY 2017 The Haunting of Henry Twist Rebecca F John
Is there a love so powerful it can bring someone back to life? Rebecca F. John's debut novel about how our longing for a soulmate can bring us to perfect happiness or desolation.
Description London, 1926: Henry Twist's heavily pregnant wife leaves home to meet a friend. On the way, she is hit by a bus and killed, though miraculously, the baby survives. Henry is left with nothing but his new daughter - a single father in a world without single fathers. He hurries the baby home, terrified that she'll be taken from him. Racked with guilt and fear, he stays away from prying eyes; walking her through the streets at night, under cover of darkness.But one evening, a strange man materialises from the shadows and addresses Henry by name. The man says that he has lost his memory, but that his name is Jack. Henry is both afraid of and drawn to Jack, and the more time they spend together, the more Henry sees that this man has echoes of his dead wife. His mannerisms, some things he says.And so Henry wonders, has his wife returned to him? Has he conjured Jack himself from thin air? Or is he in the grip of a sophisticated con man? Who really sent him?Set in a London reeling and recovering from the First World War, where English life is enjoying a vibrancy again, The Haunting of Henry Twist is a novel about the limits and potential of love and of grief. It is about the lengths we will go to, to hold on to what is precious to us, what we will forgive of those we love, and what we will sacrifice for the sake of our own happiness.
About the Author Rebecca F. John was born in 1986, and grew up in Pwll, a small village on the South Wales coast. Her short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. In 2014, she was highly commended in the Manchester Fiction Prize. In 2015, her short story 'The Glove Maker's Numbers' was shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. She is the winner of the PEN International New Voices Award 2015, and the British participant of the 2016 Scritture Giovani project. Her first short story collection, Clown's Shoes, is available now through Parthian. She lives in Swansea with her three dogs.
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Serpents Tail JULY 2017 Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly: A Sean Duffy Thriller Adrian McKinty
Sean Duffy #6: This time, help isn't coming. This time, Duffy has to save himself.
Description Belfast 1988: a man has been shot in the back with an arrow. It ain't Injuns and it isn't Robin Hood. But uncovering exactly who has done it will take Detective Inspector Sean Duffy down his most dangerous road yet, a road that leads to a lonely clearing on the high bog where three masked gunmen will force Duffy to dig his own grave. Hunted by forces unknown, threatened by Internal Affairs and with his relationship on the rocks, Duffy will need all his wits to get out of this investigation in one piece.Multi award winner: SPINETINGLER AWARD WINNER NED KELLY AWARD WINNER BARRY AWARD WINNER STEEL DAGGER AWARD SHORTLISTED EDGAR AWARD SHORTLISTED THEAKSTONS AWARD SHORTLISTED ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEE
About the Author Adrian McKinty grew up in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. He now lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife and kids. Adrian's first crime novel, Dead I Well May Be, was shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award. The first book in the Sean Duffy series, The Cold Cold Ground, won the 2013 Spinetingler Award; the second, I Hear the Sirens in the Street, won the 2014 Barry Award and was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award. The third, In the Morning I'll Be Gone, won the 2014 Ned Kelly award. The fourth, Gun Street Girl, was shortlisted for the 2015 Ned Kelly Award, the 2016 Edgar Award, the 2016 Audie Award and the 2016 Anthony Award. Rain Dogs was shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award and the Ned Kelly Award.
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Serpents Tail JULY 2017 Before Night Falls Reinaldo Arenas
An insight into the brutal and beautiful life of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, detailing his struggles with homosexuality, censorship and political tumult.
Description This poignant and shocking memoir by the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas is a book about sexual, political and artistic freedom. In Before Night Falls, Arenas recounts his journey from a poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba to his death in New York four decades later. He tells of his odyssey from young rebel fighting for the Revolution, through his suppression as a writer, his disillusionment with Castro, his imprisonment and torture, to his eventual flight from Cuba. Now a feature film starring Javier Bardem and Johnny Depp, Before Night Falls is a stunning testament to an individual's urge to create against all odds.
About the Author Reinaldo Arenas was born in Holguin, Cuba, in 1943. His first novel, Singing from the Well, was awarded First Mention in Cuba's Cirilo Villaverde National Competition. It was to be his only book published in his native country. Both as a homosexual and a writer, he found himself persecuted by the Cuban government, and had to smuggle his work out of the country for publication in France. He left Cuba in 1980 and settled in New York, where he died of AIDS in 1990. He is the author of over 20 books, including novels, short stories and poems.
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Serpents Tail JULY 2017 The Story of a Brief Marriage Anuk Arudpragasam
An unforgettable novel set during the final days of the Sri Lankan civil war, portraying the struggle to create a human relationship when being human has become impossible.
Description Dinesh is a young man trapped on the frontlines between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers. Desensitized to the horror all around him, life has been pared back to the essentials: eat, sleep, survive. All this changes when he is approached one morning by an older man who asks him to marry his daughter Ganga, hoping that victorious soldiers will be less likely to harm a married woman. For a few brief hours, Dinesh and Ganga tentatively explore their new and unexpected connection, trying to understand themselves and each other, until the war once more closes over them.Told in meditative, nuanced and powerful prose, this shattering novel marks the arrival of an extraordinary new literary voice.
About the Author Anuk Arudpragasam is from Colombo, Sri Lanka and is currently working towards a doctorate in philosophy at Columbia University. He writes in English and Tamil. This is his first novel.
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Granta Paperbacks JULY 2017 A Long Way from Wyandra: My story - from the bush to Black Caviar Peter Moody with Trevor Marshallsea
The forthright, fascinating memoir of Peter Moody, trainer of Black Caviar and one of Australia's most high- profile and best-liked racing identities.
Description Peter Moody is best-known to the Australian public as the trainer of legendary race horse Black Caviar. His story is a classic, a boy from the bush who worked his way from outback Queensland all the way to Royal Ascot.As a kid growing up in Wyandra, a tiny bush town in Western Queensland, Peter learned to ride almost before he could walk. Horses were part of his life, and as a teenager working for local bush trainers he learned many lessons - some of them painful - as he developed his skills and understanding of them. A mate's introduction got him an eye-opening and life changing job working as a strapper for the legendary trainer Tommy Smith in Sydney. It was a momentous move for a bush kid, and one that would set the course of his life.His career was to see him learning from some of the greatest names and minds in the racing industry, as he plied his trade in Sydney, Brisbane and finally Melbourne were he established his own highly successful stables, Moody Racing. He was to win premierships as Melbourne's most successful trainer, but to the wider Australian public he's best-known as the man who gave us Black Caviar. His account of that extraordinary horse's career is unique. He was, quite simply, the man who knew her best.From outback childhood, to strapper, to foreman and then on to premiership winning trainer and the guiding force behind the most famous and successful horse of recent times, Black Caviar, and finally to his run-in with the racing authorities that saw him retire as trainer in the deepest frustration, Peter's autobiography gives a hugely entertaining, fascinating and authentic insight into one of the largest characters in Australian sport.
About the Author From the tiny Queensland town of Wyandra to Royal Ascot and all racecourses in between, Peter Moody has left his mark as a horse trainer.Peter honed his skills with the bush trainers of his native Queensland before moving to Sydney where he worked for Hall of Fame trainer Tommy Smith, then on to Brisbane and finally Melbourne where he established his stables, Moody Racing.He has won the Australian Premiership, Victorian Metropolitan and Provincial premierships on four occasions as well as the leading Group One trainer in Australia both in number of wins and prize money twice. He has trained more than 40 Group 1 winners throughout his career, including the legendary Black Caviar, who retired unbeaten Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781760295202 with an unprecedented 25 straight victories. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 384 pages Main Category: BGA Sub Category: WSNB Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Central Park, Victoria
Allen & Unwin JULY 2017 Long Way from Wyandra 10 copy pack
Includes: 10 copies Long Way from Wyandra plus free reading copy
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Allen & Unwin JULY 2017 Sam's Best Shot: A father and son's life-changing journey through autism, adolescence and Africa James Best
A father and son's life-changing journey through Autism, adolescence and Africa. Inspiring, entertaining and a beacon of hope for those touched by autism.
Description When Dr James Best sold the family home to finance a trip to Africa, he hoped it would have far-reaching and life- changing results for his 14 year old son Sam, who had autism. A loveable young man who knew a lot about the things that interested him but couldn't make his way to the corner shop, Sam's future was limited. James knew that Sam was the ideal age to make the journey far out of his comfort zone in which he would have to take on new and scary challenges and learn to navigate the unexpected - and that the shock of all of those new experiences would change the neuroplasticity of Sam's brain and enable him to achieve what he hadn't been able to in a familiar environment.Their time in Africa was entertaining, nerve-wracking and hugely challenging, but the results for Sam were stunning and tests proved the experiment was successful. Sam learned a huge amount and has returned far more ready and able to take on the world.A moving and inspiring true story that will give hope to many families dealing with autism.
About the Author Dr James Best has a medical degree from Sydney University, and has been a general practitioner for seventeen years. He also has post graduate qualifications in children's medicine. As a GP and an educator of other GPs, he has been recognised for his communication and educator skills by being awarded a highly prestigious national teaching award in 2010, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) General Practice Supervisor of the Year. He is a member of the RACGPs national education committee. He is also a senior clinical lecturer at both the University of Sydney and University of New South Wales. Dr Best has had several articles and commentaries published in national medical and mainstream publications, including being a regular contributor to the largest Australian medical publication Australian Doctor. He has had other articles published in The Medical Journal of Australia and The Sydney Morning Herald. He is also a regular contributor to Kidspot.com.au, one of Australia's leading parenting websites. He is a regular presenter to other GPs and doctors in education forums, including forums on children's medicine, with a particular focus Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) on children with disabilities. He has presented at international scientific conferences on autism, as well as co-authoring ISBN: 9781760113148 guidelines for other GPs on how to screen for, diagnose and manage children with autism. He also regularly presents to Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm the public on issues regarding children with disabilities, including regular appearances on morning TV. Extent: 424 pages
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Allen & Unwin JULY 2017 Sam's Best Shot 8 copy pack
Includes: 8 copies Sam's Best Shot plus free reading copy
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Allen & Unwin JULY 2017 How to DAD Volume 2 Jordan Watson
More hilarious stuff from international internet sensation How to DAD.
Description How to DAD is back with another great book! This follow-up to the bestselling sensation How to DAD has lots more funny stuff and even more great stories.He's known for making extremely popular viral parenting videos on things like 'How to get a baby to clean the house' or 'How to travel with a baby' and he's put his Dad skills on paper again because people loved the first book so much.OK they might not be 'skills' - but the Dad 'stuff' in this book might just help you in your quest to master the art of Dadding.
About the Author How to DAD is a big star on Youtube and Facebook, much loved for his videos, vlogs and posts about dadding.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760631505 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 160x150mm Extent: 160 pages Main Category: WH Humour Sub Category: WH Humour Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
A&U New Zealand JULY 2017 How to Dad #2 15 copy pack Point of Sale
Includes: 15 copies How to Dad #2, till wobbler, free display copy
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A&U New Zealand JULY 2017 How to DAD Jordan Watson
How to Dad's first book! Well-known for his funny videos on Facebook and YouTube, Jordan Watson shares his best stories and tricks.
Description How to DAD wrote a book?! Well I scribbled some stuff down and some other people were crazy enough to publish it so I'll take it! I'm known for making silly viral parenting videos on things like 'How to get a baby to clean the house' or 'How to travel with a baby' and I've put my Dad skills on paper. OK they might not be 'skills' - but the Dad 'stuff' in this book might just help you in your quest to master the art of Dadding. Dadding? Is that a thing...? Well you'll have to buy this book to find out. NAILED IT! Back of book bit - Done.
About the Author Jordan Watson is married and has two young daughters. He created his first hilarious video 'How to hold a baby' for a mate who was about to be a Dad for the first time. That video went viral, and since then his videos have been shared hundreds of thousands of times, around the world.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781877505850 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 160x150mm Extent: 160 pages
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A&U New Zealand JULY 2017 The Shipwreck Hunter: A lifetime of extraordinary discovery and adventure in the deep seas David L Mearns
David Mearns, the man who discovered the wreck of HMAS Sydney, takes us on an extraordinary voyage through his amazing career as one of the world's most successful shipwreck hunters.
Description David Mearns has found some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks, from the deep-water searches that led to him solving the 66-year mystery of HMAS Sydney, and the final resting place of the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood, to the shallow reefs of a remote island that revealed the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco de Gama's 16th century fleet.The Shipwreck Hunter is the compelling story of some of David's most intriguing discoveries. It details the extraordinary techniques used, the painstaking research and the mid-ocean stamina and courage needed to find a wreck kilometres beneath the sea, as well as the moving human stories that lie behind each of these oceanic tragedies.Part detective story, part history and part deep ocean adventure, The Shipwreck Hunter is a unique insight into a hidden, underwater world.
About the Author US-born marine scientist, researcher and deep-sea shipwreck hunter David Mearns OAM has found and filmed some of the world's most famous and controversial shipwrecks; notoriously difficult wrecks that others predicted would never be found or their mysteries solved. Over his 25-year career he has led the research and discovery of 24 major shipwrecks achieving an overall success rate of 89%, and his company Blue Water Recoveries has been awarded three Guinness World Records, including one for the deepest shipwreck ever found at 5,762 metres. David is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club.
Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781760295219 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 416 pages Main Category: BM Sub Category: HBTM Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: UK
Allen & Unwin JULY 2017 Too Right: Politically incorrect opinions too dangerous to be published except that they were Peter Chudd with James Colley
A satirical state of the union delivered by the most marginalised voice in Australian media: an angry, white male.
Description A satirical state of the union delivered by the most marginalised voice in Australian media: an angry, white male. Too Right is a treatise delivered by Australia's most controversial far-right columnist unafraid of who is 'offended' by his 'poorly researched' opinions. We'll discover how this wealthy, privileged man is actually, against all odds, the most maligned, victimised, discriminated against person in the entire country for simply daring to speak the truth - or at least, that's how he sees it. To others, he's a self-congratulatory blowhard who is single-handedly tearing the nation apart. Too Right is Colley's first book.
About the Author Young Walkley Nominated Satirist and creator of SBS Comedy's The Backburner and NailedIt! at Giant Dwarf. Works on ABC TV's The Weekly with Charlie Pickering and Gruen. Selected to perform at the Festival Of Dangerous Ideas, The St. James Ethics Centre, Splendour In The Grass among others. Multiple sold-out seasons at The Sydney Comedy Festival.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760297190 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 234x167mm Extent: 144 pages Main Category: WH Humour Sub Category: JF Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Fictional author Elsternwick, VIC
Allen & Unwin JULY 2017 Too Right 8 copy pack
Includes: 8 copies Too Right plus free reading copy
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Allen & Unwin JULY 2017 Running: A Love Story: How an overweight radio DJ got hooked on running marathons Dom Harvey
How an overweight radio DJ got running, got skinny, kept running, survived a life-threatening tumour and fell in love with running marathons.
Description Dom Harvey is a hugely popular radio DJ on top-rating station The Edge where he has been hosting the breakfast show for sixteen years.When he is not busy causing mayhem by running his mouth, you will find him running marathons. So far he has been lucky enough to run five of the worlds biggest, including New York and London.This book is sort of a love story about running. What got Dom into it? What he has learned along the way? How did it save his life? And why, despite being an old bastard, is he trying to run even faster than ever before?Dom isn't some running expert. He is just a regular guy who drank too much alcohol and ate too much junk food, then fell in love with running and turned his life around.
About the Author Dom Harvey is the best-selling author of Childhood of an Idiot and Bucket List of an Idiot. He is also one-third of New Zealand's most popular breakfast radio team. As part of The Edge's Morning crew, Dom, his wife Jay-Jay and Randall have been keeping the country entertained with their antics for more than a decade.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781877505829 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 288 pages
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A&U New Zealand JULY 2017 The Great New Zealand Robbery: How gangsters pulled off our most audacious robbery Scott Bainbridge
The forgotten true-crime story of one of New Zealand's most audacious robberies-how Auckland's mobsters pulled off the heist of the century.
Description It should be remembered as New Zealand's answer to Britain's Great Train Robbery, but instead it's been almost completely forgotten.In the dead of the night, robbers broke into the commission building and made off with an audacious loot equivalent to almost $1 million today. This 1956 heist, which eventually came to be known as the Waterfront Payroll Robbery, was executed with military precision: nobody saw a thing, there was no violence, and the robbers left nothing but a smoking office and an empty safe behind them.The crime was pinned on small-time crook Trevor Nash in a trial that went relatively unnoticed. It wasn't until four years later, when Nash made a brazen prison-escape attempt, that he rose to notoriety as a kind of anti-establishment hero--a man sticking it to the authorities.To this day, uncertainty remains around whether Nash alone was responsible for the waterfront heist. Could he-cunning as he was-really have pulled it off? Or was it more likely the work of a group of gangsters? And what happened to the money?
About the Author Scott Bainbridge is one of New Zealand's best-known true crime writers. He is the author of four books, including Bassett Rd Machine Gun Murders and Shot in the Dark.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781877505768 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 288 pages
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A&U New Zealand JULY 2017 Bra Boy: Surfer, fighter, larrikin Richie 'Vas' Vaculik with Sean Doherty
Gripping, outrageous and hugely entertaining, Bra Boy is a memoir of Richie's life as a Bra Boy, surfer and UFC fighter.
Description To outsiders, Maroubra seemed like another world. It was Sydney's toughest beach, ruled by a tribe of tattooed surfers named the 'Bra Boys', already notorious for mixing mateship with mayhem. But to young Richie Vaculik, Maroubra Beach was his playground and the Bra Boys were like family. He'd grow up to become their Minister for Good Times and a central character in the Bra Boys' story as they became famous and infamous in equal measure. Richie's 'poor risk assessment' and fearlessness were legendary in the surf but also landed him in trouble with the law.Bra Boy is Richie's account of those wild days, when fuelled by adrenalin and anarchy he took on monster waves, monster nights out and several levels of authority. It's also an account of how he turned his life around, took up mixed martial arts, was signed by the UFC and fought on the biggest card in the sport's history. Gripping, outrageous and hugely entertaining, it's a story told with Richie's trademark humour and an insight uncommon on the street. As his mate reckons, 'He's the only guy I know who gets punched in the head and gets smarter.'
About the Author Richie and fellow big wave surfer Mark Matthews were the stars of Garage Entertaiment's Fighting Fear, a documentary about their lives as Bra Boys, surfers and Richie's MMA career (Garage Entertainment were also the makers of the hit documentary Bra Boys). Richie is part of a weekly Foxsport UFC commentary team, and is also one of the three stars of the long-running Foxtel series The Crew, also produced by Garage Entertainment.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760297077 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 352 pages Main Category: BM Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Maroubra, NSW
Allen & Unwin JULY 2017 Things That Matter David Galler
'This is a masterful tour through the mystery and majesty of modern medicine, guided by a world-class physician who has the mind of a superb scientist and the soul of a fine poet.'
Description 'David Galler also shows rare courage in weaving his own, personal stories into his teaching about the technologies of care. This book will equally deepen the awareness of clinicians and enlighten the lay reader. It is a gift to both.' Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPPIn this highly articulate, down-to-earth, generous book, Dr David Galler tells stories of life and death from his position as Intensive Care specialist at Middlemore Hospital. Written lyrically and warmly, these stories are based on real life events describing the everyday dilemmas and challenges that doctors and patients commonly face.It aims to explain and demystify much of the work doctors do, cast light on the workings of the medical establishment and how medicine operates, in the hope that it will encourage patients to seek to be better informed and play a greater role in the decisions that will affect them and their loved ones.It speaks to the resilience of individuals and families and their extraordinary generosity and dignity under the most extreme pressure. This book is about realistic optimism and is a celebration of life.It is also a very personal story about David Galler's life, his family and about his own slow coming of age as a doctor, from the sadness and helplessness he felt about his father's death to at last feeling that he was of some use to his most important patient, his mother.
About the Author Dr David Galler has worked as an Intensive Care specialist at Middlemore Hospital in Auckland for 25 years. He is Clinical Director at Ko Awatea and has held several high-level healthcare positions in New Zealand.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760631536 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 240 pages Main Category: BM Sub Category: BM Memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
A&U New Zealand JULY 2017 All This in 60 Minutes Nicholas Lee
The hilarious inside story of life on the road as a 60 Minutes cameraman.
Description For more than thirty years Nicholas Lee was a cameraman on 60 Minutes, Australia's most respected and watched current affairs program, alongside Ray Martin, George Negus, Ian Leslie, Richard Carleton, Mike Munro, Jennifer Byrne, Liz Hayes and Tara Brown, among others. All This in 60 Minutes is the revealing and often hilarious memoir of his time with the show - of the crazy days of unlimited expense accounts, of late nights and bleary mornings, the fun and fear on the road, and in the refugee camps and war zones. It goes inside the IRA, Idi Amin's torture cells, and into palaces and mud huts. It recounts unforgettable trips on B-52s, ultra-lights and the Orient Express. And it takes you behind the interviews with the famous and infamous - from presidents, rock stars, despots and kings, to pygmies and manic, charismatic gurus.The result is a book that is compelling, funny and utterly eye-opening. As Ellen Fanning describes it, All This in 60 Minutes 'Perfectly captures the controlled chaos, the seat-of-the-pants improvisation, the behind the scenes exhilaration of 60 Minutes. All of which goes to prove that often the best bits never make it to the screen.'
About the Author Nicholas Lee grew up in Central West NSW and worked as a cameraman for 10 years across a variety of news programs before joining Channel 9's 60 Minutes when it launched in 1979. Over the next 30 years, Nicholas Lee travelled extensively filming and living the world's major news stories, before retiring in 2009. He and his wife Suzanne have two daughters.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760631178 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 400 pages Main Category: BM Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Carcoar, NSW
Allen & Unwin JULY 2017 Understanding the Science of Food: From molecules to mouthfeel Sharon Croxford and Emma Stirling
A foundational textbook for undergraduates outlining the theory and application of chemistry to all aspects of food and food processing systems.
Description Being able to understand the principles of food science is vital for the study of food, nutrition and the culinary arts. In this innovative text, the authors explain in straightforward and accessible terms the theory and application of chemistry to these fields. The key processes in food preparation and the chemistry behind them are described in detail, including denaturation and coagulation of proteins, gelatinisation, gelation and retrogradation of starches, thickening and gelling, browning reactions, emulsification, foams and spherification, chemical, mechanical and biological leaveners and fermentation and preservation. The text also describes the science of key cooking techniques, the science of the senses and the experience of food, food regulations and the future of healthy food. The origins of food are explored through a focus on the primary production of key staples and their journey to the table. Tips and advice from leading chefs as well as insights into emerging food science and cutting-edge nutrition research from around the world are included throughout, and reveal both the practical application of food chemistry and the importance of this field. Featuring explanatory diagrams and illustrations throughout, Understanding the Science of Food is destined to become an essential reference for both students and professionals.'An innovative and informative text that will address the need for a food science text suitable for nutrition and nutrition and dietetics students in Australia.'-Katherine Hanna, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology.SHARON CROXFORD is a senior academic at La Trobe University and an accredited practising dietitian. She was lead editor of Food and Nutrition Throughout Life. EMMA STIRLING is a senior academic at La Trobe University and an accredited practising dietitian.
About the Author SHARON CROXFORD is an accredited practising dietitian and senior academic at La Trobe University. She was co- editor of Food and Nutrition Throughout Life. EMMA STIRLING is an accredited practising dietitian and academic at La Trobe University.
Price: $110.00 (NZ$140.00) ISBN: 9781760296063 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 230x176mm Extent: 416 pages
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Allen & Unwin JULY 2017 Mafia Life: Love, Death and Money at the Heart of Organised Crime Federico Varese
A compelling new account of life inside the mafia around the world. What is it like to belong to the mafia? How do you join? What does it do to your loved ones? How do you make it to the top? And what happens if you break the rules?
Description The Japanese Yakuza. The Chinese Triads. The Sicilian Cosa Nostra. The Calabrian N'Drangheta. The New York Mafia. The Russian Vory -v -Vakone. Today, mafias operate across the globe, with hundreds of thousands of members and billions of pounds in revenue. From Hong Kong to New York, these vast organisations spread their tentacles into politics, finance and everyday life. But what is it like to belong to the Mafia? How do you join? What does it do to your loved ones? How do you make it to the top? And what happens if you break the rules? Criminologist Federico Varese draws on a lifetime's research to give us access to some of the world's most secretive societies. Mixing reportage with case studies and historical insights, this is the story of mafia as it really is: filled with boredom and drama, death and disaster, ambition and betrayal.Infiltrating initiation ceremonies from Russia to England, visiting exclusive gambling clubs in Macau and Mafia summits in Dubai luxury hotels, Varese builds up a unique picture of life in the mafia from the inside.
About the Author Federico Varese is Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories.
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Profile Trade JULY 2017 Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts Ryan Holiday
Bestselling author and marketing strategist Ryan Holiday reveals how a classic work - a Perennial Seller - is made and marketed.
Description Classic. Evergreen. Cult. Backlist. We can all identify with products that seem to last forever and just keep selling. But how can we create things that can and should last, especially in an environment where short-term gain and flash-in-the- pan success are so often the benchmark, where Hollywood movies are written off after a weekend or Silicon Valley start- ups are considered to have failed if they don't go viral? Enter Ryan Holiday and his concept of the Perennial Seller, products that exist in every creative industry, timeless, dependable resources and unsung money-makers, increasing in value over time and outlasting and outstretching the competition. Holiday shows us that creating a classic doesn't have to be a fluke or just a matter of luck. In The Perennial Seller he takes us back to the first principles of the models and thinking that underpin the creation of something built to last. Featuring interviews with some of the world's greatest entrepreneurs and creatives and grounded in a deep study of the classics from every genre, the book shares a mindset and approach we can all adopt to make and market a classic work. Whether you have a book or a business, a song or the next great screenplay, Holiday reveals the recipe for perennial success.
About the Author Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of Growth Hacker Marketing, The Obstacle is the Way and Ego is the Enemy. His books have been translated into 25 languages and his writing has appeared everywhere from the Columbia Journalism Review to Fast Company.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781781257661 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages Main Category: KJMV7 Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade JULY 2017 Beyond Harvard: All new street smarts from the world of Mark H McCormack Edited by Jo Russell
All new Harvard-style street smarts from the people who knew, worked with and were influenced by Mark H. McCormack.
Description The publication of What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School in 1984 introduced the world to the Mark McCormack street smart, nuggets of wisdom offering accessible insights into how to get ahead in the real world of business. McCormack died in 2003, but his legacy and business philosophy live on. Beyond Harvardcelebrates his genius with a collection of new street smarts based on interviews with the people who knew, worked with and were influenced by him - colleagues, clients and competitors alike. From advice on managing people and building relationships, through to the best negotiating tips and how to grow a business, a stellar line-up of contributors from the business, media and sporting worlds show us how a brush with McCormack could change forever the way you do business - and live your life. Learn from the outside the box thinking that encouraged a nervous Wimbledon committee to sign up to IMG-style merchandising; why it pays to hold your nerve when you reach a negotiating impasse; how the rituals and routines of the sporting world can work in business too, and even how re-using incoming paperclips or keeping 3x5 notecards to hand can contribute to success. Beyond Harvard is both an affectionate testament to the man who invented the sports marketing industry and a worthy successor to the original Harvard book, offering a new generation of street smarts to anyone looking to improve their business understanding and practice.
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Profile Trade JULY 2017 That's The Way It Crumbles: The American Conquest of English Matthew Engel
Americanisms have been slyly coloring the English language for centuries, and this practice must stop. Period.
Description Are we tired of hearing that fall is a season, sick of being offered fries and told about the latest movie? Yeah. Have we noticed the sly interpolation of Americanisms into our everyday speech? You betcha. And are we outraged? Hell, yes. But do we do anything? Too much hassle. Until now.In That's The Way It Crumbles Matthew Engel presents a call to arms against the linguistic impoverishment that happens when one language dominates another. With dismay and wry amusement, he traces the American invasion of our language from the early days of the New World, via the influence of Edison, the dance hall and the talkies, right up to the Apple and Microsoft-dominated present day, and explores the fate of other languages trying to fend off linguistic takeover bids. It is not the Americans' fault, more the result of their talent for innovation and our own indifference.He explains how America's cultural supremacy affects British gestures, celebrations and way of life, and how every paragraph and conversation includes words the British no longer even think of as Americanisms. Part battle cry, part love song, part elegy, this book celebrates the strange, the banal, the precious and the endangered parts of our uncommon common language.
About the Author Matthew Engel is a journalist and author. He writes regularly for the Guardian and Financial Times, among other publications, and was the editor of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for twelve years. He is also a baseball enthusiast. His books include Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain, Extracts from the Red Notebooks and Engel's England: Thirty-nine Counties, One Capital and One Man (Profile, 2014) [9781846685729].
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Profile Trade JULY 2017 Our Revolution: A Future to Believe in Bernie Sanders
An inside account of Sanders' extraordinary campaign - and a blueprint for future political action.
Description 'Bernie Sanders has changed US politics forever' Owen JonesBernie Sanders stormed to international headlines after running an extraordinary campaign for the Democratic primaries that saw over 13 million people turn out to vote for him, and changed the global discussion surrounding US politics. But how did a complete unknown and a democratic socialist make such waves? In Our Revolution, Sanders provides a unique insight into the campaign that galvanized a movement, sharing experiences from the campaign trail and the ideas and strategies that shaped it. Sanders' message resonated with millions. His supporters are young and old, dissatisfied with expanding social inequality, struggling with economic instability and fighting against a political elite which has long ignored them. This global phenomenon is driving movements from Syriza in Greece to Podemos in Spain and the support for Jeremy Corbyn in the UK. Drawing on decades of experience as activist and public servant, Sanders outlines his ideas for continuing this revolution. He shows how we can fight for a progressive economic, environmental, racial and social justice agenda that creates jobs, raises wages and protects the planet. Searing in its assessment of the current political and economic situation, but hopeful and inspiring in its vision of the future, this book is essential for anyone tired of 'same as usual' politics and looking for a way to change the game.
About the Author Bernie Sanders ran to be the Democratic candidate for President of the United States. He is currently serving his second term in the U.S. Senate after winning re-election in 2012 with 71 percent of the vote. Sanders previously served as mayor of Vermont's largest city for eight years.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781781258545 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages
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Profile Trade JULY 2017 Treasure Palaces: Great Writers Visit Great Museums edited by Maggie Fergusson
From Julian Barnes to Tim Winton, great writers give us personal tours of the museums they treasure.
Description From a stunning villa on sunny Capri with Ali Smith to an unlikely temple in the heart of Copenhagen with Alan Hollinghurst, Treasure Palaces brings together over twenty of the world's greatest writers to give their own personal tours of the museums that have awed, haunted and inspired them. Join Andrew Motion as he muses on writerly methods in the British Library, or Matthew Sweet at the hands-on joy of the ABBA museum. Julian Barnes meditates on Jean Sibelius's music, as well as the composer's apple corer, while visiting his home in Helsinki. Jacqueline Wilson encounters the dolls of Le Musee de la Poupee, Tim Winton remembers his first barefoot encounter with the National Gallery of Victoria, and Aminatta Forna ponders love tokens in The Museum of Broken Relationships. From mausoleums to massive galleries, from London and New York to Kabul and Zagreb, Treasure Palaces explores some of the world's greatest - and sometimes surprising - museums. The result is a collection of moving, lyrical essays that speak to the enduring power of museums in our cultural life, and will leave you longing to revisit your favourite treasure palace or looking for a new one to explore.
About the Author Maggie Fergusson was for many years the literary editor of The Economist's lifestyle magazine, Intelligent Life, and is author of two biographies, George Mackay Brown: The Life and Michael Morpurgo: War Child to War Horse.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781781256916 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages Main Category: HB History
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Profile Trade JULY 2017 Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness Joe Moran
Come on, don't be shy: pick up this outstanding cultural history of shyness from the brilliant Joe Moran.
Description Our success as a species is built on sociability, so shyness in humans should be an anomaly. But it's actually remarkably common - we all know what it's like to cringe in embarrassment, stand tongue-tied at the fringe of an unfamiliar group, or flush with humiliation if we suddenly become the unwelcome centre of attention. In Shrinking Violets, Joe Moran explores the hidden world of shyness, providing insights on everything from timidity in lemon sharks to the role of texting in Finnish love affairs. As he seeks answers to the questions that shyness poses - Why are we shy? Can we overcome it? Does it define us? - he uncovers the fascinating stories of the men and women who were 'of the violet persuasion', from Charles Darwin to Agatha Christie, and from Tove Jansson to Nick Drake. In their stories - often both heart-breaking and inspiring - and through the myriad ways scientists and thinkers have tried to explain and cure shyness, Moran finds a hopeful conclusion. To be shy, he decides, is not simply a burden - it is also a gift, a different way of seeing the world that can be both enriching and inspiring.
About the Author Joe Moran is Professor of English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. He contributes regularly to the Guardian and other newspapers. His book On Roads was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and, together with his previous book, Queuing for Beginners, received unanimous critical acclaim.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781781252642 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages Main Category: JM Psychology Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade JULY 2017 The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny Ian Davidson
A clear and fast-paced account of how and why the French Revolution descended into the Terror
Description The fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 has become the commemorative symbol of the French Revolution. But this violent and random act was unrepresentative of the real work of the early revolution, which was taking place ten miles west of Paris, in Versailles. There, the nobles, clergy and commoners of France had just declared themselves a republic, toppling a rotten system of aristocratic privilege and altering the course of history forever. The Revolution was led not by angry mobs, but by the best and brightest of France's growing bourgeoisie: young, educated, ambitious. Their aim was not to destroy, but to build a better state. In just three months they drew up a Declaration of the Rights of Man, which was to become the archetype of all subsequent Declarations worldwide, and they instituted a system of locally elected administration for France which still survives today. They were determined to create an entirely new system of government, based on rights, equality and the rule of law. In the first three years of the Revolution they went a long way toward doing so. Then came Robespierre, the Terror and unspeakable acts of barbarism.In a clear, dispassionate and fast-moving narrative, Ian Davidson shows how and why the Revolutionaries, in just five years, spiralled from the best of the Enlightenment to tyranny and the Terror. The book reminds us that the Revolution was both an inspiration of the finest principles of a new democracy and an awful warning of what can happen when idealism goes wrong.
About the Author Ian Davidson worked for the Financial Times for many years, as Paris correspondent and as chief foreign affairs columnist. He studied English and Classics at Cambridge University, before being awarded the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship at Harvard and later becoming Visiting Fellow at the School for Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. Based in London, he is author of Voltaire in Exile (2004) and Voltaire: A Life (Profile, 2010 - 9781846682322).
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781846685415 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages
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Profile Trade JULY 2017 Veneto: Recipes from an Italian Country Kitchen Valeria Necchio
Discover the secrets of authentic food of the Veneto region.
Description Food writer, columnist and photographer Valeria Necchio will introduce Italy's best kept secret; the cuisine of the Veneto. Celebrating the food and flavours of North Eastern Italy, the book includes lovingly-written recipes from Sarde in Saor (Marinated Sardines) to Gnocchi di Zucca al Burro e Noci (Pumpkin Gnocchi with Butter and Walnuts), Grigliata de Carne (Barbecued Pork Ribs, Pancetta and Sausage with Rosemary) to Sbrisolona (Almond Polenta Shortcake). The 100 recipes - beautifully photographed and split between sections Then, Now and Pantry - burrow deep into a culture that puts the table at the heart of the family.
About the Author Valeria Necchio is an Italian-born food photographer and writer. She shares her recipes on her popular blog, lifelovefood. co. Valeria's work has been featured on a number of publications, including Food52, Kinfolk, Guardian and Die Zeit. She is a food columnist for leading Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. @valerianecchio
Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781783351084 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 246x186mm Extent: 288 pages
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Guardian Books JULY 2017 Blind Spot Teju Cole
From the award-winning author of Open City, an innovative photographic project that explores how we see the world.
Description The shadow of a tree in upstate New York. A hotel room in Switzerland. A young stranger in the Congo. In Blind Spot, readers will follow Teju Cole's inimitable artistic vision into the visual realm, as he continues to refine the voice and intellectual obsessions that earned him such acclaim for Open City. In more than 150 pairs of images and surprising, lyrical text, Cole explores his complex relationship to the visual world through his two great passions: writing and photography. Blind Spot is a testament to the art of seeing by one of the most powerful and original voices in contemporary literature.
About the Author Teju Cole is the author of Every Day Is for the Thief, Open City, and Known and Strange Things. His honours include the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Internationaler Literaturpreis, the New York City Book Award, and the Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction. His photography has been widely exhibited, and he is the Photography Critic of The New York Times Magazine.
Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9780571335015 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 352 pages
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Faber Non Fiction JULY 2017 Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy Mike Love
The incredible story of The Beach Boys from founding member Mike Love
Description Mike Love is a founding member, lyricist and vocalist of The Beach Boys, considered to be the most popular American band in history, with 13 Gold Albums, 55 top-100 singles, and four #1 hits. Love has been the lead singer of the group one of its principal lyricists since its inception in 1961.In Good Vibrations, Mike Love tells the unique story of his legendary, chaotic, and ultimately triumphant five-decade tenure as the front man of The Beach Boys, from their Californian roots to international fame. Mike Love's credits include such pop classics as Good Vibrations, California Girls, I Get Around, Fun Fun Fun, and Kokomo.
About the Author Mike Love is a founding member of The Beach Boys, considered to be the most popular American band in history, with 13 Gold Albums, 55 top-100 singles, and four #1 hits. Love has been the lead singer of the group one of its principal lyricists since its inception in 1961. His credits include such pop classics as Good Vibrations, California Girls, I Get Around, Fun Fun Fun, and Kokomo. Love has received an Ella Award for his song writing, and, as part of The Beach Boys, he is a member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; the Vocal Group Hall of Fame; and has received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. James S. Hirsch is a journalist and New York Times bestselling author whose books include biographies of Willie Mays and Rubin Hurricane Carter and examinations of military issues, the health care system, and global philanthropy. Hirsch won the Christopher Award for Walk in Their Shoes: Can One Person Change the World.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571324699 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 448 pages
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Faber Paperback JULY 2017 Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century Simon Reynolds
The first complete epic history of Glam Rock from '68-'76 by the finest music writer of his generation, Simon Reynolds.
Description As the sixties dream faded, a new flamboyant movement electrified the world: GLAM! In Shock and Awe, Simon Reynolds explores this most decadent of genres on both sides of the Atlantic. Bolan, Bowie, Suzi Quatro, Alice Cooper, New York Dolls, Slade, Roxy Music, Iggy, Lou Reed, Be Bop Deluxe, David Essex - all are represented here. Reynolds charts the retro future sounds, outrageous styles and gender-fluid sexual politics that came to define the first half of the seventies and brings it right up to date with a final chapter on glam in hip hop, Lady Gaga, and the aftershocks of David Bowie's death.Shock and Awe is a defining work and another classic in the Faber Social rock n roll canon to stand alongside Rip it Up, Electric Eden and Yeah Yeah Yeah.
About the Author Simon Reynolds an English music journalist, critic and author. Reynolds began his professional career at Melody Maker in the mid-1980s, and has since gone on to freelance and publish a number of full-length books on music and popular culture, including Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past (2011). He has contributed to Spin, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Guardian, The Wire, and others.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571301720 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 704 pages
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Faber Paperback JULY 2017 Climbing Days Dan Richards
A thrilling travel book, following in the footsteps of a pioneering mountaineer.
Description In Climbing Days, Dan Richards is on the trail of his great-great-aunt, Dorothy Pilley, a prominent and pioneering mountaineer of the early twentieth century. For years, Dorothy and her husband, I. A. Richards, remained mysterious to Dan, but the chance discovery of her 1935 memoir, Climbing Days, leads him on a journey. Perhaps, in the mountains, he can meet them halfway? Following in the pair's footholds, Dan begins to travel and climb across Europe, using Dorothy's book as a guide. Learning the ropes in Wales and Scotland, scrambling in the Lake District, scaling summits in Spain and Switzerland, he closes in on the serrate pinnacle of Ivor and Dorothy's climbing lives, the mighty Dent Blanche in the high Alps of Valais. What emerges is a beautiful portrait of a trailblazing woman, up to now lost to history - but also a book about that eternal question: why do people climb mountains?
About the Author Dan Richards was born in Wales in 1982 and grew up in Bristol. He has studied at UEA and the Norwich Art School. He is the co-author of Holloway with Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood, first published in 2012 as a limited run of 277 books - Letterpress printed by Richard Lawrence in his Oxford workshop - followed by a general edition by Faber & Faber in 2013. He is also the author and editor of The Beechwood Airship Interviews.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571311934 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages
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Faber Paperback JULY 2017 Granta 140: The Mind Sigrid Rausing
We know how the brain works, but do we understand the mind?
Description We know how the brain works, but do we understand the mind? In an age when we are finally taking mental health as seriously as physical health, this issue of Granta explores the conscious self: how it perceives, judges and lives in the world.With new fiction, reportage, poetry, photography, and art addressing this topical issue.
About the Author Sigrid Rausing is Editor and Publisher of Granta magazine and Publisher of Granta and Portobello Books. She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective and Everything is Wonderful, which has been translated into four different languages.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781909889088 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 210x145mm Extent: 256 pages
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Granta JULY 2017 Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? Frans de Waal
From world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal, a groundbreaking work which challenges everything we think we know about animal intelligence
Description What separates your mind from the mind of an animal?Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future - all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the pre-eminent species on Earth. But in recent decades, claims of human superiority have been eroded by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. Take the way octopuses use coconut shells as tools, or how elephants can classify humans by age, gender, and language. Take Ayumu, the young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University who demonstrates his species' exceptional photographic memory.Based on research on a range of animals, including crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, whales, and, of course, chimpanzees and bonobos, Frans de Waal explores the scope and depth of animal intelligence, revealing how we have grossly underestimated non-human brains. He overturns the view of animals as stimulus-response beings and opens our eyes to their complex and intricate minds. With astonishing stories of animal cognition, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? challenges everything you thought you knew about animal - and human - intelligence.
About the Author Frans de Waal has been named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The author of Our Inner Ape (Granta, 2005) among many other works, he is the C. H. Candler Professor in Emory University's Psychology Department and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781783783069 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages Main Category: WNW Sub Category: PDZ Popular Science Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta Paperbacks JULY 2017 Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time Simon Garfield
A witty and entertaining journey through time from the bestselling author of Just My Type and On the Map
Description Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch. Beethoven has his symphonic wishes ignored. A US Senator begins a speech that will last for 25 hours. The horrors of war are frozen at the click of a camera. A woman designs a ten- hour clock and reinvents the calendar. Roger Bannister lives out the same four minutes over a lifetime. And a prince attempts to stop time in its tracks. Timekeepers is a book about our obsession with time and our desire to measure it, control it, sell it, film it, perform it, immortalise it and make it meaningful. It has two simple intentions: to tell some illuminating stories, and to ask whether we have all gone completely nuts.
About the Author Simon Garfield is the author of seventeen acclaimed books of non-fiction including A Notable Woman (as editor), To the Letter, On the Map, Just My Type and Mauve. His study of AIDS in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham prize. www.simongarfield.com
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781782113218 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 368 pages
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Canongate PBS JULY 2017 Creating Freedom: Power, Control and the Fight for Our Future Raoul Martinez
Writer, artist and award-winning film-maker Raoul Martinez's radical, revolutionary and highly provocative rethink of freedom.
Description We are far less free than we like to think. In Creating Freedom, Raoul Martinez exposes the mechanisms of control that pervade our lives and the myths on which they depend. Exploring the lottery of our birth, the coercive influence of concentrated wealth, and the consent-manufacturing realities of undemocratic power, he shows that our faith in free media, free markets, free elections and free will is dangerously misplaced. Written with empathy and imagination, this scholarly, fierce and profoundly hopeful manifesto makes a dazzling case for creating freedom on our own terms.
About the Author Raoul Martinez is a writer, artist, and award-winning filmmaker. Creating Freedom is his first book. It is informed by over a decade of research and is accompanied by a documentary series of the same name. Episode One, The Lottery of Birth - produced, written and co-directed by Raoul - premiered in 2012. It was nominated for Best Documentary at London's Raindance Film Festival and went on to win the Artivist Spirit 2012 Award at Hollywood's Artivist Festival. It has been translated into several languages and the second film is currently in production. Raoul lives and works in London, where his paintings have been selected for exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery. www.creatingfreedom.info
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781782111887 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 496 pages
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Canongate PBS JULY 2017 Insanely Gifted: Turn Your Demons into Creative Rocket Fuel Jamie Catto
From the creative dynamo, workshop leader and founder member of Faithless comes a manifesto for embracing our dark side and a blueprint for boosting our creativity
Description It's time to unleash your genius From infancy we are taught to edit ourselves, trimming out the darker, weirder, less acceptable parts in order to please others. But this addiction to approval is holding us back.What if we dare to be our real selves, honestly and fully? Insanely Gifted is full of techniques and games to transform our thinking and turn our inner demons into allies. Jamie Catto, creative force behind Faithless and 1 Giant Leap, and leader of personal development workshops for more than a decade, teaches us to better know our deepest instincts - and unlock our true power.
About the Author Jamie Catto runs personal development workshops worldwide. His teaching builds on his own experience of overcoming creative hurdles, and provides techniques that invite everyone to fulfil their potential. He was also founding member of dance mega-group Faithless and acclaimed global music and philosophy project 1 Giant Leap. The first 1 Giant Leap project was nominated for two Grammys, sold over 300,000 albums and won numerous awards globally. The greatest hits album from Faithless was the fastest selling dance album of all time.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781782119081 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages
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Canongate Trade JULY 2017 My Old Man: Tales of Our Fathers edited by Ted Kessler
These paternal experiences, with contributions from a wealth of major names in the arts, are 'a medley of happiness and heartache' - Sunday Times
Description If you were asked to write about your father, what would you say? Florence Welch, Paul Weller, Nina Stibbe and the sons and daughters of Ian Dury, Johnny Ball, Roy Castle, Leonard Cohen and many others relate the quirks, flaws and quiet heroisms of their dads. By turns funny, tender and heartbreaking, My Old Man offers a unique opportunity to reflect on our own relationships with our dads - who they really are, and how we come to understand ourselves through them.
About the Author Ted Kessler was a staff writer and editor at NME throughout the 1990s and has been at Q since 2004, where he is currently the magazine's features editor. He has also written for the Observer, Guardian, New Statesman and many other publications. Ted lives in London with his partner and their two children. www.myoldman.org @TedKessler1
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781782114000 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages
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Canongate PBS JULY 2017 A Field Guide To Getting Lost Rebecca Solnit
Solnit's revelatory modern classic exploring philosophy, history, art and metaphysics
Description In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting Lost takes in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting, Beautifully written, this book combines memoir, history and philosophy, shedding glittering new light on the way we live now.
About the Author Rebecca Solnit has written eighteen acclaimed works of non-fiction, including Hope in the Dark, Wanderlust, The Faraway Nearby, and Men Explain Things to Me.An activist, columnist and cultural historian, she has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lannan Literary Award. She lives in San Francisco.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781786890511 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages
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Canongate PBS JULY 2017 Under the Lights and In the Dark: Untold Stories of Women's Soccer Gwendolyn Oxenham
Under the Lights and in the Dark takes us inside the world of women's soccer, following players across the globe.
Description In 2004 football author, journalist and award-winning documentary maker Gwendolyn Oxenham played futebol feminino for Santos FC, Brazil's most celebrated club. The team hitchhiked to practice, shared their field with a horse and wore hand-me-downs from the men's team.If this was Brazil, the mecca of futebol, what did the women's game look like in other countries? Under the Lights and in the Dark takes us inside the world of women's football, following players across the globe, from Portland Thorns star Allie Long, who trains in an underground men's league in New York City; to English national Fara Williams, who kept her homelessness a secret from teammates on the English youth national team. Oxenham takes us to the depths of Siberia, where players battle more than just snowy pitches in pursuing their dream of playing pro, and to a refugee camp in Denmark, where Nadia Nadim, now a Danish international star, practised after her family fled from the Taliban.Whether you're a newcomer to the sport or a die-hard fan, this is an inspiring book about stars' beginnings and adventures, struggles and hardship, and, above all, the time-honoured romance of the game.
About the Author Gwendolyn Oxenham is the author of Finding the Game: Three Years, Twenty-five Countries and the Search for Pickup Soccer (St Martin's Press) and the director of Pelada, an award-winning documentary. She has written for The Atlantic, Sports Illustrated, and Slate, and has an MFA in creative writing. A Duke University soccer alum who played for Santos FC in Brazil, she currently lives in Dana Point, California.
Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781785781537 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 320 pages
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Icon JULY 2017 The 50 Greatest Musical Places Sarah Woods
Discover the places where iconic songs were written, groups were formed, music legends were born and extraordinary talent is celebrated.
Description A trip around the world, played out to the most eclectic soundtrack, discovering hidden musical gems along the way.From mosh pits to cabarets, Berlin's beatnik band haunts to Korea's peppy k-pop clubs, from visiting the infamous Dollywood, to tracing Freddie Mercury's childhood in Zanzibar, The 50 Greatest Musical Places of the World has something for music fans of all genres.Discover the places where iconic songs were written, groups were formed, music legends were born and extraordinary talent is celebrated.
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: 9781785781896 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages Main Category: WT Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon JULY 2017 Destination Mars: The Story of Our Quest to Conquer the Red Planet Andrew May
Mars is back. Suddenly everyone - from Elon Musk to Ridley Scott to Donald Trump - is talking about going to the Red Planet.
Description When the Apollo astronauts walked on the Moon in 1969, many people imagined Mars would be next. However NASA's Viking 1, which landed in 1976, was just a robot. The much-anticipated crewed mission failed to materialise, defeated by a combination of technological and political challenges.Four decades after Viking and almost half a century after Apollo technology has improved beyond recognition - as has politics. As private ventures like SpaceX seize centre stage from NASA, Mars has undergone a seismic shift - it's become the prime destination for future human expansion and colonisation.But what's it really like on Mars, and why should anyone want to go there? How do you get there and what are the risks? Astrophysicist and science writer Andrew May answers these questions and more, as he traces the history of our fascination with the Red Planet.
About the Author Andrew May is a former scientist with an MA from Cambridge University and a PhD in Astrophysics from Manchester University. After a thirty year career spanning the academic, government and private sectors, he has now settled in the South-West of England where he works as a freelance writer and consultant on subjects as diverse as defence technology, history, physics, Forteana and New Age beliefs.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781785782251 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 176 pages Main Category: P Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon JULY 2017 Love Voltaire Us Apart: A Philosopher's Guide to Relationships Julia Edelman, illustrated by Hallie Bateman
An hilarious spoof relationship guide with a philosophical edge, made up of philosophers' love letters, advice columns and breakup letters.
Description What would Kant's sexts look like? How would Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir break up? What would Confucius think of Tinder?Love Voltaire Us Apart is a hilarious spoof relationship guide with a philosophical edge, made up of philosophers' love letters, advice columns and breakup letters.From Confucius learning the Golden Rules of dating to Simone de Beauvoir considering bangs after breaking up with Jean-Paul Sartre, comedy writer Julia Edelman views the love lives of prominent philosophers through a clever and contemporary lens. She points out that Margaret Fuller is the Carrie of transcendentalism, and Nietzsche will always find a way to make a bad breakup infinitely worse.Getting Meta(Physical)-Who is Your Philosopher Crush? is the only quiz you'll need to find your soul mate, and How To Know if Your Man is Writing a Manifesto will show you how to avoid losing your relationship to imminent revolution.Based on Edelman's New Yorker article, Excerpts from Philosophers' Breakup Letters Throughout History, Love Voltaire Us Apart is funny, smart, refreshingly original, and brought to life with charming illustrations by Hallie Bateman.
About the Author Julia Edelman grew up in New York. She studied film theory and philosophy at McGill University. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, New York magazine, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, VICE, Cosmopolitan, Playboy, CollegeHumor and the Believer. She lives in Brooklyn.Hallie Bateman is a Los Angeles-based writer and illustrator. Her work can be seen on halliebateman.com
Price: $16.99 (NZ$18.99) ISBN: 9781785782244 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 112 pages
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Icon JULY 2017 Man Up: Surviving Modern Masculinity Jack Urwin
What does masculinity add up to in the 21st century?
Description 'Jack Urwin writes like he speaks: accessible, funny and interesting. His Vice article got people talking and now, almost two years on, he is right in thinking that the time for a big discussion about masculinity has arrived.' TelegraphWHAT DOES MASCULINITY ADD UP TO IN THE 21ST CENTURY?Jack Urwin traces modern ideas of masculinity from the inability of older generations to deal with the horrors of war, to the mob mentality of football terraces or Fight Club and the disturbing rise of mental health problems among men - especially young men - today.While we struggle with the idea that there is a single version of masculinity worth aspiring to, depression and suicide among men have reached unprecedented levels. Man Up looks at the challenges and pressures on men today, and suggests ways to survive.
About the Author Jack Urwin, 24, is a journalist and a frequent contributor to Vice magazine, among other publications, who writes on pop culture, mental health, and music. His piece for Vice on his father's death A Stiff Upper Lip is Killing British Men was instantly shared tens of thousands of times around the world, and was called 'fabulous' by Irvine Welsh. This is Jack's first book. @JackMerlin
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781785781759 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages
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Icon JULY 2017 Darkness Visible: Philip Pullman and His Dark Materials Nicholas Tucker
A second revised edition of this unique exploration of Pullman's great work while discussing the controversies it has given rise to in the decade following its publication.
Description Philip Pullman's celebrated trilogy His Dark Materials has been translated into 40 languages and sold over four million copies worldwide. All three books with their astonishing characters and richly complex plots will shortly become a major new BBC TV series. In this second, revised edition of Darkness Visible, leading authority on children's literature Nicholas Tucker writes about the man he knows as a friend. He unpacks and examines the sources Pullman drew on for his masterpiece, from poets Milton and Blake to comic books and radio dramas. For while His Dark Materials can be enjoyed as a page-turning saga lit by an extraordinary imagination, it is also packed with literary references which raise important questions about our lives and even our ultimate place in the universe. Written for the general reader of whatever age, and including family photographs and illustrations, Darkness Visible offers a unique exploration of Pullman's great work while discussing the controversies it has given rise to in the decade following its publication.
About the Author Nicholas Tucker is the author of nine books about children, childhood and reading, including The Child and the Book, (Cambridge University Press, 1981 and 1990). He has also written six books for children, broadcasts frequently and reviews in the national press. He lives in Lewes, East Sussex and sometimes finds himself reading aloud the same books to some of his eight grandchildren as he once did to their mothers and father.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781785782282 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages Main Category: B Biography/autobiography Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon JULY 2017 Economyths: 11 Ways Economics Gets it Wrong David Orrell
A brand new edition of David Orrell's acclaimed critique of what economics gets very wrong.
Description From the inability of wealth to make us happier, to our catastrophic blindness to the credit crunch, Economyths reveals ten ways in which economics has failed us all. Forecasters predicted a prosperous year in 2008 for financial markets - in one influential survey the average prediction was for an eleven per cent gain. But by the end of the year, the Standard and Poor's 500 index - a key economic barometer - was down 38 per cent, and major economies were plunging into recession. Even the Queen asked - Why did no one see it coming? An even bigger casualty was the credibility of economics, which for decades has claimed that the economy is a rational, stable, efficient machine, governed by well- understood laws. Mathematician David Orrell traces the history of this idea from its roots in ancient Greece to the financial centres of London and New York, shows how it is mistaken, and proposes new alternatives. Economyths explains how the economy is the result of complex and unpredictable processes; how risk models go astray; why the economy is not rational or fair; why no woman (until 2009) had ever won the Nobel Prize for economics; why financial crashes are less Black Swans than part of the landscape; and, finally, how new ideas in mathematics, psychology, and environmentalism are helping to reinvent economics.
About the Author David Orrell is an applied mathematician and author of popular science books. He studied mathematics at the University of Alberta, and obtained his doctorate from Oxford University on the prediction of nonlinear systems. His work in applied mathematics and complex systems research has since led him to diverse areas such as weather forecasting, economics, and cancer biology. His work has been featured in the New Scientist, the Financial Times and on BBC Radio.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781785782299 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages
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Icon JULY 2017 Sex, Botany and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks Patricia Fara
Was the pursuit of scientific truth really what drove Enlightenment science?
Description When the imperial explorer James Cook returned from his first voyage to Australia, scandal writers mercilessly satirised the amorous exploits of his botanist Joseph Banks, whose trousers were reportedly stolen while he was inside the tent of Queen Oberea of Tahiti. Was the pursuit of scientific truth really what drove Enlightenment science? In Sweden and Britain, both imperial powers, Banks and Carl Linneaus ruled over their own small scientific empires, promoting botanical exploration to justify the exploitation of territories, peoples and natural resources. Regarding native peoples with disdain, these two scientific emperors portrayed the Arctic North and the Pacific Ocean as uncorrupted Edens, free from the shackles of Western sexual mores. Patricia Fara reveals the existence, barely concealed under Banks' and Linnaeus' camouflage of noble Enlightenment, of the altogether more seedy drives to conquer, subdue and deflower in the name of the British Imperial state.
About the Author Patricia Fara is a Senior Tutor at Clare College at the University of Cambridge, where she teaches history of science. Her other books include Newton: The Making of Genius (Macmillan, 2001) and An Entertainment for Angels (Icon, 2002).
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Icon JULY 2017 Last Summer Kylie Ladd
Rory has it all: looks, talent, charisma - an all around good-guy, he's the centre of every party and a loving father and husband. Then one summer's afternoon tragedy strikes . and those who closest to him struggle to come to terms with their loss. Friendships are strained, marriages falter and loyalties are tested in a gripping and brilliantly crafted novel about loss, grief and desire.
Description Rory Buchanan has it all: looks, talent, charisma-an all around good-guy, he's the centre of every party and a loving father and husband. Then one summer's afternoon, tragedy strikes. Those who are closest to him struggle to come to terms with their loss. Friendships are strained, marriages falter and loyalties are tested in a gripping and brilliantly crafted novel about loss, grief and desire.Told from the points of view of nine of the people who are mourning Rory, this riveting novel presents a vivid snapshot of contemporary suburban Australia and how we live now. Marriage, friendship, family-all are dissected with great psychological insight as they start to unravel under the pressure of grief. The characters live on the page; their lives are unfolded and their dilemmas are as real as our own.Last Summer is a stunning novel about loss-the terrible pain of losing a husband, brother or friend-but also all those smaller losses that everyone must face: the loss of youth, the shattering of dreams, the fading of convictions and the change in our notions of who we thought we were. It is also about what comes after the loss: how we pick up the pieces and the way we remake our lives.
About the Author Kylie Ladd is a novelist and freelance writer. She has published four novels: After the Fall, Last Summer, which was highly commended in the FAW Christina Stead Award for fiction, Into My Arms, chosen as one of Get Reading.s .50 books you can.t put down. for 2013, and her latest, Mothers and Daughters. With Leigh Langtree she also edited the anthology Naked: Confessions of Adultery and Infidelity. Kylie holds a PhD in neuropsychology and lives in Melbourne with her husband and two children.
Price: $23.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9781743310816 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 344 pages Main Category: FA Sub Category: FA Popular Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Ivanhoe, Melbourne VIC
Allen & Unwin JULY 2017 Into My Arms Kylie Ladd
When Skye meets Ben their attraction is instantaneous and intense. Niether of them has ever felt more in synch - or in love - with anyone in their lives. What happens next will tear them both apart. Into My Arms is a searing love story and a gripping family drama - a shocking, haunting novel in the tradition of Jodi Picoult and Caroline Overington.
Description The kiss ignited something, blew it into being, and afterwards, all Skye could think about was Ben.One day a woman meets a man and falls instantly and irrevocably in love with him. It hits her like a thunderbolt, and she has to have him, has to be with him, regardless of the cost, of the pain of breaking up her existing relationship. She has never felt more in synch-or in love-with anyone in her whole life. So this is how it feels, she thinks to herself, this is what real love feels like. It's like that for him too; he wants her in a way he's never wanted anything or anyone before: obsessively, passionately, all-consumingly.She has found her one true love, her soulmate, and he has found his. What happens next will tear them apart and unleash havoc onto their worlds.This brave, brilliant, electrifying novel from the acclaimed author of After the Fall and Last Summer, will move you deeply and shock you to your core. Love, lust and longing have rarely wielded such power, nor family secrets triggered such devastation.Praise for Last Summer '.an absorbing and compelling tale about the fragility of human relationships, and how we can never know with certainty what the future holds and, when it arrives, how we will react.' - Good Reading'Vivid characters as recognisable as your own family and friends, facing the challenges that affect us all, make this a very human read.' - Caroline Baum'. a stunning exploration of loss, life, families and friendships. begins with a punch and within the first few pages I had laughed, cried and held my breath as I read on. The pace never falters and I found the writing and storyline literally breathtaking.written so beautifully and honestly.' - Writing Out Loud
About the Author Kylie Ladd is a novelist and freelance writer. She has published four novels: After the Fall, Last Summer, which was highly commended in the FAW Christina Stead Award for fiction, Into My Arms, chosen as one of Get Reading.s .50 books you can.t put down. for 2013, and her latest, Mothers and Daughters. With Leigh Langtree she also edited the anthology Naked: Confessions of Adultery and Infidelity. Kylie holds a PhD in neuropsychology and lives in Melbourne Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) with her husband and two children. ISBN: 9781743319673 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 352 pages
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Allen & Unwin JULY 2017 The Humans Matt Haig
Shortlisted for the Edgar Awards Best Book of 2013.
Description SEE LIFE THROUGH FRESH EYESOne wet Friday evening, Professor Andrew Martin solves the world's greatest mathematical riddle. Then he disappears. When he is found walking naked along the motorway, Professor Martin has changed. He now finds normal life pointless. His loving wife and teenage son seem repulsive to him. In fact, he hates everyone on the planet. Everyone except Newton. And he's a dog. Can a bit of Debussy and Emily Dickinson keep him from murder? And what can he possibly learn from life among the humans?
About the Author Matt Haig is the author of five novels, including the bestselling The Last Family in England - which has been optioned by Brad Pitt's production company - and his latest, The Radleys, which was selected for Channel 4's TV Book Club and was voted the winner of the series in 2011. His works have been translated into over twenty languages, and he has also written award-winning books for children. He lives in York and London.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780857868787 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages
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Canongate PBS JULY 2017 Reasons to Stay Alive Matt Haig
The most talked-about memoir of 2015 - now in paperback.
Description What does it mean to feel truly alive?Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again.A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, Reasons to Stay Alive is more than a memoir. It is a book about making the most of your time on earth.I wrote this book because the oldest cliches remain the truest. Time heals. The bottom of the valley never provides the clearest view. The tunnel does have light at the end of it, even if we haven't been able to see it . . . Words, just sometimes, really can set you free.
About the Author Matt Haig is the bestselling author of five novels, including The Humans, The Radleys and The Last Family in England. He has also written award-winning children's books. His work has been translated into 30 languages. He grew up in Nottinghamshire and now lives in Brighton.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781782116820 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 178x129mm Extent: 272 pages
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Canongate PBS JULY 2017 Live. Love. Work. Prosper: A fresh approach to integrating life and work Michael Tobin and Philip Dodd
A brand-new approach to integrating life and work, introducing us to the life-affirming benefits of the life-love- work continuum.
Description Entrepreneur Michael Tobin knows a thing or two about the perils and pitfalls of juggling work and family, and how a single-minded, all-consuming approach to work can have a destructive impact on the home life of even the most successful and charismatic leader. In Live. Love. Work. Prosper he draws on his experience, both personal and professional, to challenge the received wisdom that there needs to be, or even can be, a divide or a 'balance' between work and life. This is truer than ever, given dizzyingly rapid rates of change in technology, business models and family fragmentation. He re-evaluates how - now and into the future - we can be liberated by an integrated approach to success at work that's more in tune with a satisfying and fulfilling personal life. Through anecdote, personal examples and clear thinking, Michael Tobin shows us that drawing on the combined strengths of life, love and work creates a powerful new way of living. The result is a provocative, thoughtful manifesto which aims to alter forever the old school thinking of work- life balance and replace it with a far braver new world of work-life integration. As he says, this book might just save your relationship, your career and your sanity.
About the Author Michael Tobin is an entrepreneur, businessman and philanthropist who is an acknowledged authority on leadership, management techniques and business innovation. The Evening Standard has called his story a life-affirming rags-to- riches tale.As CEO of TelecityGroup, he took the company into the FTSE250 and increased its market cap from a few million to .1.6 billion. He has won multiple business awards including Entrepreneur and Outstanding Leader of the Year, was nominated as Business Leader of the Year in the National Business Awards and received the OBE for 'Services to the Digital Economy.' He is active in many charities, including Action for Children, British Asian Trust and the Duke of Edinburgh's Award: in 2016 he completed 40 marathons in 40 days to raise funds for The Prince's Trust. He is the author of Forget Strategy. Get Results.After working abroad for several years, Michael now lives in Bermondsey, London, a mere Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) stone's throw away from his birthplace. ISBN: 9781781258767 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages Main Category: KJ Business/managemnt Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade JULY 2017 Asylum: A survivor's flight from Nazi-occupied Vienna through wartime France Moriz Scheyer, translated by P.N. Singer
A miraculous memoir of escape, survival and art in wartime Europe.
Description In 1943, hidden by the Resistance in a French convent, Moriz Scheyer began drafting an account of his wartime experiences: a tense, moving, at times almost miraculous story of flight and persecution in Austria and France.As arts editor of Vienna's principal newspaper before the German annexation of Austria, Scheyer had known the city's great artists, including Stefan Zweig and Gustav Mahler, and was himself an important literary journalist. In this book he brings his distinctive critical and emotional voice to bear on his own extraordinary experiences: Vienna at the Anschluss; Paris immediately pre-war and under Nazi occupation; the 'Exodus'; two periods of incarceration in French concentration camps; contact with the Resistance; a failed attempt at escape to Switzerland; and a dramatic rescue followed by clandestine life in a mental asylum run by Franciscan nuns.Completed in 1945, Scheyer's memoir is remarkable not just for the riveting events that it recounts, but as a near-unique survivor's perspective from that time.
About the Author Moriz Scheyer (1886-1948) was a significant critic, essayist and travel writer, within the literary and cultural milieu of pre- war Vienna. As arts editor of the city's main newspaper, Neues Wiener Tagblatt, from 1924 until 1938, he knew such figures as Gustav Mahler and Joseph Roth, and was a personal friend of Stefan Zweig and Bruno Walter. In his lifetime he published three books inspired by his travels in the Near East and South America, as well as three volumes of literary- historical essays. Scheyer called his memoir of his wartime experiences 'A Survivor', and seems to have sought its publication. After his death in 1949, however, his stepson destroyed the manuscript. Or thought he did. Recently Scheyer's grandson, P. N. Singer, discovered a carbon copy in his father's attic. Asylum is Singer's translation of the manuscript, to which he has added an epilogue on the people, events and context. Learn more about Singer's family and the manuscript at www.asylumthebook.com.
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Profile Trade JULY 2017 Pimp State: Sex, Money and the Future of Equality Kat Banyard
Pimps, pornographers, politicians: leading feminist Kat Banyard confronts them all in this passionate and provocative expose of the myths surrounding the global sex industry.
Description Never before have prostitution, strip clubs and pornography been as profitable, widely used or embedded in mainstream culture as they are today. How society should respond to the rise of the sex trade is shaping up to be one of the Twenty- First Century's big questions. Should it be legal to pay for sex? Isn't it a woman's choice whether she strips for money? Could online porn warping the attitudes of a generation of boys? An increasingly popular set of answers maintains that prostitution is just work, porn is fantasy, demand is inevitable; so fully legalise the sex trade and it can be made safe. Kat Banyard contends that these are profoundly dangerous myths. Sexual consent is not a commodity, objectification and abuse are inherent to prostitution, and the sex trade poses a grave threat to the struggle for women's equality. Skilfully weaving together first-hand investigation, interviews and the latest research, Pimp State powerfully argues that sex trade myth-makers will find themselves on the wrong side of history.
About the Author Kat Banyard is the author of The Equality Illusion and founder of campaign group UK Feminista. In 2014 The Equality Illusion was used as a key text in the development of the play Blurred Lines, written by Nick Payne and directed by Carrie Cracknell, premiering at the National Theatre. In 2010 Kat was named in the Guardian as the most influential young feminist in the country and in 2011 she was selected as one of the Observer's 50 contemporary innovators, described as Game-changers whose vision is transforming the world around us.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571278237 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages
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Faber Paperback JULY 2017 Selected Poems of Thom Gunn Thom Gunn
A beautifully produced collection of Thom Gunn's classic poetry.
Description Thom Gunn's controlled use of form and the metaphysical was in evidence from his first collection, Fighting Terms, in 1954, which was widely regarded - perhaps not entirely accurately - as a contributor to 'The Movement' and the opposition to modernism. The same technical ability and formal prowess endured after he moved from Cambridge to San Francisco, though became, from The Sense of Movement (1959) onwards, shot through with a new mood of hedonism, freedom and the excesses of the gay and counter-cultural scenes of 1960s America in poems written in celebration of rock and roll, myth, and hallucinogenic drugs. The '80s saw a shift in this life with the devastation of the Aids epidemic, which claimed the lives of a number of Gunn's friends. Many of these friends are memorialised in the moving, passionate and humane collections of his later years; the Forward Prize-winning The Man With the Night Sweats, and Boss Cupid, Gunn's last collection, published in 2000.This Selected Poems, compiled by his friend Clive Wilmer and accompanied by insightful notes, serves to honour a true original, a thrill-seeker in the language, and to exhibit the best of Thom Gunn's electric, powerful, intensely joyful poems.
About the Author Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent in 1929. After National Service and a short time living in Paris, he enrolled at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read English. He published his first book of poems, Fighting Terms, while he was still an undergraduate. In 1954 he moved to San Francisco and held a one-year Fellowship at Stanford University. He published over thirty books of poetry, including The Man with Night Sweats, which won the Forward Prize for Poetry in 1992, and Boss Cupid (2000). Thom Gunn died in 2004.
Price: $39.99 (NZ$45) ISBN: 9780571327690 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 224 pages
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Faber Poetry JULY 2017 Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey Madeleine Bunting
An extraordinary journey deep into the history and landscape of the Hebrides, exploring the islands' turbulent history, the spread of their influence, and how they shaped the nations of Britain, from the award-winning author of The Plot.
Description The Hebrides hold a remarkable place in the imaginations of Scotland and England. On the outer edge of the British Isles and facing the Atlantic Ocean, these iconic islands form part of Europe's boundary. Because of their unique position, they have been at the centre of a network of ancient shipping routes which has led to a history of cultures colliding and merging. Home to a long and rich Gaelic tradition, they have attracted saints and sinners, and artists and writers, inspiring awe and dread as well as deep attachment.Over six years, Madeleine Bunting travelled to the Hebrides, exploring their landscapes, histories and magnetic pull. With great sensitivity and perceptiveness, she delves into the meanings of home and belonging, which in these islands have been fraught with tragedy as well as tenacious resistance. She finds that their history of dispossession and migration played a part in the British imperial past. And perhaps more significant still is the extent of the islands' influence on ideas of Britishness. Love of Country shows how the islands' history is a backdrop for contemporary debates about the relationship between our nations, how Britain was created, and what Britain has meant - for good and for ill.
About the Author Madeleine Bunting was for many years a columnist for the Guardian, which she joined in 1990. Born in North Yorkshire, Bunting read History at Cambridge and Politics at Harvard. She is the author of: The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands under German Rule, 1940-45; Willing Slaves: How the Overwork Culture is Ruling Our Lives (both published by HarperCollins); and The Plot: A Biography of an English Acre (published by Granta in 2009) which won the Portico Prize and was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize. She left the Guardian in 2013 to concentrate on her writing. She lives in London with her family.
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Granta Paperbacks JULY 2017 The History Thieves: Secrets, Lies and the Shaping of a Modern Nation Ian Cobain
A revelatory book exposing the culture of concealment at the heart of the British government, from the award- winning author of Cruel Britannia.
Description In 1889, the first Official Secrets Act was passed, creating offences of 'disclosure of information' and 'breach of official trust'. It limited and monitored what the public could, and should, be told. Since then a culture of secrecy has flourished. As successive governments have been selective about what they choose to share with the public, we have been left with a distorted and incomplete understanding not only of the workings of the state but of our nation's culture and its past.In this important book, Ian Cobain offers a fresh appraisal of some of the key moments in British history since the end of WWII, including: the measures taken to conceal the existence of Bletchley Park and its successor, GCHQ, for three decades; the unreported wars fought during the 1960s and 1970s; the hidden links with terrorist cells during the Troubles; the sometimes opaque workings of the criminal justice system; the state's peacetime surveillance techniques; and the convenient loopholes in the Freedom of Information Act.Drawing on previously unseen material and rigorous research, The History Thieves reveals how a complex bureaucratic machine has grown up around the British state, allowing governments to evade accountability and their secrets to be buried.
About the Author Ian Cobain was born in Liverpool in 1960. He has been a journalist since the early 1980s and is currently an investigative reporter with the Guardian. He has won a number of awards for his journalism, including the Martha Gellhorn Prize and the Paul Foot Award. He has also won several Amnesty International media awards. His first book, Cruel Britannia, won the Paddy Power Total Politics Award for Debut Political Book of the Year.
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Portobello PBS JULY 2017 The Farm Girl's Dream Eileen Ramsay
Will one young girl's dreams of reclaiming the farm where she grew up ever come true?
Description From the fields of Angus to the shores of Mexico, a family struggles to find their way home. Perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries, Rita Bradshaw and Kitty Neale.To young Victoria Cameron, Angus, Scotland is the most beautiful place on earth and she wishes nothing more than to stay on her little farm for ever. But the death of her beloved grandfather leaves her and her mother without a farm and struggling to make ends meet.Never one to give up, Victoria soon finds work in a Dundee mill, while her mother supports them by taking in lodgers. Neither ever expected one of those lodgers would be John Cameron, the father that walked out on them so many years ago.Victoria is torn about how to receive this stranger, and torn about the other man in her life - a young boy she thinks she could love if only he comes back from the war.What everyone's saying about Eileen Ramsay:'This wonderful panoramic novel sweeps you up and carries you along to the end. Lovely!' Katie Fforde'An unpredictable ending, a few surprises along the way and several tear jerkers - I enjoyed every minute of it.' Historical Novel Review'Captivating romance . . .The beautiful Scottish setting only adds to this poignant and poetic journey . . . This book is as unique as it is exquisite.' Daily RecordMissed the first in Eileen Ramsay's Flowers of Scotland series? Rich Girl, Poor Girl is available now! Search 9781785762215 to get your copy.
About the Author Eileen Ramsay grew up in Dumfriesshire. After graduation she went to Washington DC, where she taught in private schools for some years, before moving to California with her Scottish husband. There, she raised two sons, finished her Masters Degree, fell in love with Mexico, and published her first short stories and a Regency novel. The family returned to Scotland where Eileen continued to teach and write and to serve - at different times - on the committees of The Society of Authors in Scotland, The Scottish Association of Writers and The Romantic Novelists Association. In 2004, her novel Someday, Somewhere was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year award. Eileen is currently Chair of the Romantic Novelists' Association.
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Zaffre JULY 2017 How to Stop Time Matt Haig
From Shakespeare's England to jazz age Paris to surfing in Byron Bay, a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling story about love, loss and living in the moment.
Description 'The first rule is that you don't fall in love. There are other rules too, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your mind . . .'Tom Hazard is a history teacher living a quiet suburban life in a Cathedral town in England. He likes his job but has no real friends, spends his time on the internet or playing the piano, and pushes away anyone who tries to get close to him.But Tom has a secret. He suffers from progeria, a condition that causes the body to age ten times slower than normal. He looks 40 but is actually 408. He won't die for another few centuries. In his lifespan he has had time to learn 13 languages, has become an expert at fighting and piano playing, but all of this has a cost. He must change his identity every few years to avoid discovery. And as he has learned the risks of love and the pain it can cause, he has turned away from other people.How to Stop Time is his story.
About the Author Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been translated into 30 languages.
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Canongate Trade JULY 2017 I Don't Like Where This Is Going: Book #2 of the Wylie 'Coyote' Melville series John Dufresne
A crime caper filled with Dufresne's trademark black humour, I Don't Like Where This is Going continues the story of Wylie's haphazard investigations into America's bankrupt political system, where power and influence are on sale and the corrupt prey on the innocent.
Description Wylie 'Coyote' Melville - burnt-out professional therapist and hobbyist forensic consultant - needs a break. South Florida might be home, but it's also home to bad memories and local gangsters bearing grudges. So Wylie and his ace poker- playing best friend Bay Lettique head to the tawdry glitz of Las Vegas to lie low for a while.But when Wylie and Bay see a woman fall from the balcony of her hotel on the Strip, their low-profile Vegas vacation soon turns into a murder investigation. With the powers-that-be keen to cover up all trace of the woman's death, Wylie starts to follow a trail that leads him across the vast and lawless deserts of redneck Nevada and deep into the heart of a human trafficking conspiracy.A crime caper filled with Dufresne's trademark black humour, I Don't Like Where This is Going continues the story of Wylie's haphazard investigations into America's bankrupt political system, where power and influence are on sale and the corrupt prey on the innocent.
About the Author John Dufresne is a professor in the MFA programme at Florida International University and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is the author of eight novels, including No Regrets, Coyote, the first book in the Wylie Melville series, also published by Serpent's Tail, and New York Times Notable Books Love Warps the Mind a Little and Louisiana Power & Light. He lives in Dania Beach, Florida.
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