AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 The Farm Joanne Ramos
THE must-read debut novel of 2019. Sharp, compulsive and darkly funny, this is an unforgettable novel about a world within touching distance of our own.
Description THE MUST-READ DEBUT NOVEL OF 2019. Sharp, compulsive and darkly funny, this is an unforgettable novel about a world within touching distance of our own. Ambitious businesswoman Mae Yu runs Golden Oaks a luxury retreat transforming the fertility economy where women get the very best of everything, so long as they play by the rules. Jane is a young immigrant in search of a better future. Stuck living in a cramped dorm with her baby daughter and shrewd aunt Ate, she sees an unmissable chance to change her life. But at what cost? A novel that explores the role of luck and merit, class, ambition and sacrifice, The Farm is an unforgettable story about how we live and who truly holds power.
About the Author Joanne Ramos was born in the Philippines and moved to Wisconsin when she was six. She graduated with a BA from Princeton University. After working in investment banking and private-equity investing for several years, she wrote for the Economist as a staff writer. She lives in New York City with her husband and three children. This is her first novel.
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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 The Farm 8 Copy Pack
Contains 8 copies of The Farm plus free reading copy.
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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Outside Looking In T. C. Boyle
One family's adventures in LSD: the brilliantly strange new novel from the mind of 'one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today' (Lionel Shriver)
Description One family's adventures in LSD: the brilliantly strange new novel from the mind of 'one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today' (Lionel Shriver)
Chosen as a Book of the Year 2019 by the Herald It is Harvard in the early 1960s. Just off campus, Dr Timothy Leary plays host for his PhD students, laying on a spread of cocktails, pizza and LSD. Among the guests is Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology student, and his librarian wife Joanie. Married young, and both diligently and unglamorously toiling to support their son, they are not the sort of people one would expect to be seduced by the nascent drug culture. But their nights on LSD prove so extraordinary so revelatory, so earth-shattering, so downright seductive that Fitzhugh and Joanie are soon captive to the whims of the charismatic and subversive Dr Tim.
Follow Fitzhugh and Joanie on their quest for transcendence, as sultry Mexican nights at Hotel Catalina give way to a ramshackle mansion in upstate New York, where thirty devotees students, wives and children play out the final act of a terrible, beautiful experiment.
Join us, won't you? It's going to be one hell of a trip.
About the Author T. C. Boyle is the New York Times-bestselling author of sixteen novels including The Tortilla Curtain, Drop City, San Miguel and The Terranauts, and eleven collections of stories. His work has been translated into twenty-six languages. He is the recipient most recently of the Jonathan Swift Prize, the Mark Twain Voice in American Literature Award and the Henry David Thoreau Award. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California.
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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Outside Looking In 8 Copy Pack
Contains 8 copies of Outside Looking In, plus free reading copy.
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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Small Days and Nights Tishani Doshi
A captivating and original story of family, of the ties that bind and the secrets we bury, set against the vivid and evocative backdrop of modern India
Description A captivating and original story of family, of the ties that bind and the secrets we bury, set against the vivid and evocative backdrop of modern India
An Irish Times Book of the Year 2019
Escaping her failing marriage, Grace has returned to Pondicherry to cremate her mother. Once there, she finds herself heir to an inheritance she could not have expected a property on the beaches of Madras, and a sister she never knew she had: Lucia, who was born with Downs Syndrome and has spent her life in a residential facility. Grace sets up a new and precarious life along the coast of Madras, with Lucia, the village housekeeper Mallika, the drily witty Auntie Kavitha and an ever-multiplying litter of puppies. But Grace's attempts to play house prove first a struggle, then a strain, as she discovers the chaos, tenderness, fury and bewilderment of life with Lucia. Luminous, funny, surprising and heartbreaking, Small Days and Nights is the story of a woman caught in a moment of transformation, and the sacrifices we make to forge lives that have meaning.
About the Author Tishani Doshi was born in Chennai. She has published seven books of poetry and fiction. Her essays, poems and short stories have been widely anthologized. She is also the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award for Poetry, winner of the All- India Poetry Competition, and her first book, Countries of the Body, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2006. Her debut novel, The Pleasure Seekers, was shortlisted for the Hindu Literary Prize and long-listed for the Orange Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She lives in Tamil Nadu.
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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 The Other Americans Laila Lalami
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Moor's Account, a timely and powerful novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery and a love story.
Description 'A provocative and gripping novel by a gifted writer' JOHN BOYNE 'Remarkable, timely ... Impeccably written' ROXANE GAY 'A deftly constructed account of a crime and its consequences' J.M. COETZEE 'A writer of uncommon conviction and tremendous insight' VIET THANH NGUYEN
There wasn't anything I could do. All I saw was a man falling to the ground. Late one spring night, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant in California, is walking across a darkened intersection when he is killed by a speeding car. The repercussions of his death bring together a diverse cast of characters: Guerraoui's daughter Nora, a jazz composer who returns to the small town in the Mojave she thought she'd left for good; his widow Maryam, who still pines after her life in the old country; Efraan, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward; Jeremy, a former classmate of Nora's and now a veteran of the Iraq war; Coleman, a detective who is slowly discovering her son's secrets; Anderson, a neighbor trying to reconnect with his family; and Driss himself.
As the characters deeply divided by race, religion and class tell their stories in The Other Americans, Driss's family is forced to confront its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies and love, in all its messy and unpredictable forms, is born.
About the Author Laila Lalami is the author of three successful novels including The Moor's Account, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the American Book Award. She has written for publications including the Guardian and the New York Times, and is the recipient of a British Council Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship and a
Price: $29.99 Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles. ISBN: 9781526606693 @LailaLalami Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Circus AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Music From Big Pink John Niven
Timed to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the release of The Band's debut album, Music from Big Pink is John Niven's first novel - a heady blend of drugs, music, sixties counter-culture and intoxicating youth
Description Timed to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the release of The Band's debut album, Music from Big Pink is John Niven's first novel - a heady blend of drugs, music, sixties counter-culture and intoxicating youth Through the eyes of 23-year-old Greg Keltner, drug-dealer and wannabe musician, we witness the gestation and birth of a record that will go on to cast its spell across five decades bewitching and inspiring artists as disparate as The Beatles, Eric Clapton, Travis, Wilco and Mercury Rev.
Music From Big Pink is faction: real people like Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Bob Dylan and Albert Grossman rub shoulders with fictional characters and actual, documented events thread their way through text alongside imagined scenarios.
About the Author John Niven was born in Scotland around the time that Music from Big Pink was recorded. After playing guitar in 1980s indie hopefuls the Wishing Stones, he read English Literature at Glasgow University and went on to work as an A&R man in the UK music industry before leaving to write full time. He is the author of eight novels, including Kill Your Friends, The Second Coming and Straight White Male.
Price: $27.99 ISBN: 9781526604453 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 204x136mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Theory of music & musicology Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury USA AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Circe: The Sunday Times Bestseller Madeline Miller
SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
The captivating Sunday Times top 5 bestseller and New York Times number one bestseller by the Orange Prize-winning author of The Song of Achilles; 'spellbinding - a thrilling tour de force of the imagination' (Mail on Sunday)
Description SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, GUARDIAN, I PAPER, IRISH TIMES, REFINERY29, SCOTSMAN, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, TIME MAGAZINE, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, AND WASHINGTON POST
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. Circe is a strange child not powerful and terrible, like her father, nor gorgeous and mercenary like her mother. Scorned and rejected, Circe grows up in the shadows, at home in neither the world of gods or mortals. But Circe has a dark power of her own: witchcraft. When her gift threatens the gods, she is banished to the island of Aiaia where she hones her occult craft, casting spells, gathering strange herbs and taming wild beasts. Yet a woman who stands alone will never be left in peace for long and among her island's guests is an unexpected visitor: the mortal Odysseus, for whom Circe will risk everything. So Circe sets forth her tale, a vivid, mesmerizing epic of family rivalry, love and loss the defiant, inextinguishable song of woman burning hot and bright through the darkness of a man's world.
About the Author Madeline Miller is the author of The Song of Achilles, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012, was shortlisted for the Stonewall Writer of the Year 2012, was an instant New York Times bestseller, and was translated into twenty-five languages. Miller holds an MA in Classics from Brown University, and she taught Latin, Greek and Shakespeare to high Price: $19.99 school students for over a decade. She lives outside Philadelphia. ISBN: 9781408890042 madelinemiller.com Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Pb AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Travelling in a Strange Land David Park
'An extraordinary novel, at once startling and quietly brilliant. David Park is a one of Ireland's great novelists and this is, perhaps, his best' Roddy Doyle
Description 'One of Ireland's great novelists' Roddy Doyle
'Wrings the heart' Bernard MacLaverty
'A mighty book' Frank McGuinness
'Extraordinary, raw and moving a chronicle of pain and powerlessness as could be written' Lisa McInerney
AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
The world is shrouded in snow. With transport ground to a halt, Tom must venture out into a transformed and treacherous landscape to collect his son, sick and stranded in student lodgings. But on this solitary drive from Belfast to Sunderland, Tom will be drawn into another journey, one without map or guide, and is forced to chart pathways of family history haunted by memory and clouded in regret.
Travelling in a Strange Land is a work of exquisite loss and transformative grace. It is a novel about fathers and sons, grief, memory, family and love; about the gulfs that lie between us and those we love, and the wrong turns that we take on our way to find them.
About the Author David Park has written nine previous books including The Big Snow, Swallowing the Sun, The Truth Commissioner, The Light of Amsterdam, which was shortlisted for the 2014 International IMPAC Prize,and, most recently, The Poets' Wives, which was selected as Belfast's Choice for One City One Book 2014. He has won the Authors' Club First Novel Award, Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9781408892756 the Bass Ireland Arts Award for Literature, the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award Format: Paperback and the University of Ulster's McCrea Literary Award, three times. He has received a Major Individual Artist Award from Dimensions: 197x129mm the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and been shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year Award three times. In 2014 he Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) was longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. He lives in County Down, Northern Ireland. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Pb AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 City of Jasmine Olga Grjasnowa
A poignant story of three young adults trying to make a future for themselves in war-torn Damascus
Description When Hammoudi, a young surgeon based in Paris, returns to Syria to renew his passport, he only expects to stay there a few days. But the authorities refuse to let him leave and Hammoudi finds himself caught up in the fight against the regime. Meanwhile, budding actress Amal has also joined the protests against the government and her own father, by whom she feels betrayed. Realising that they will never again be safe in their homeland, Amal and her boyfriend Youssef decide to flee to Europe in a desperate bid to survive. But the path to safety brings its own risks, and Amal and Youssef once again narrowly escape death when their overcrowded ship sinks. Eventually they reach Germany, but soon discover that in this new life where they are perceived as nothing but refugees their struggle is far from over. God Is Not Shy is an intimate and striking novel that offers real insight into the horrors and inhumanity of war, whilst also focusing on the humanity of the protagonists, marking Olga Grjasnowa as one of the most talented and admired young authors working in Germany today.
About the Author Olga Grjasnowa was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. Her debut novel Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt (All Russians Love Birch Trees) was awarded the Klaus-Michael Kue¨hne Prize and the Anna Seghers Prize. God Is Not Shy is her third novel. Olga Grjasnowa lives with her family in Berlin. Katy Derbyshire, originally from London, has lived in Berlin for over twenty years. Her translation of Clemens Meyer's Bricks and Mortar was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017. She occasionally teaches translation and also co-hosts a monthly translation lab and the bi-monthly Dead Ladies Show. Katy was recently awarded the Translator Prize of the Foundation for Art and Culture NRW endowed with E25,000 for her translation and advocacy work.
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Oneworld AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 American Heroin Melissa Scrivner Love
American Heroin is the eagerly-awaited sequel to Lola, featuring a ruthless woman who will stop at nothing to protect her growing drug empire
Description American Heroin is the eagerly-awaited sequel to Lola, featuring a ruthless woman who will stop at nothing to protect her growing drug empire It took sacrifice, pain, and more than a few dead bodies, but Lola has clawed her way to the top of her South Central Los Angeles neighborhood. Her gang has grown beyond a few trusted soldiers into a full-fledged empire, and the influx of cash has opened up a world that she has never known. But with great opportunity comes great risk, and as Lola ascends the hierarchy of the city's underworld she attracts the attention of a dangerous new cartel who sees her as their greatest obstacle to dominance. Soon Lola finds herself sucked into a deadly all-out drug war that threatens to destroy everything she's built. But even as Lola readies to go to war, she learns that the greatest threat may not be a rival drug lord but a danger far closer to home: her own brother. Edgy, complex, and breathtakingly propulsive, Melissa Scrivner Love has crafted a novel sure to please not only those who loved her first book but everyone who enjoys a gripping thriller.
About the Author Melissa Scrivner Love was born to a police officer father and a court stenographer mother. When she was six, a neighbour her father had arrested for possession killed her dog and her cat, opening Melissa's eyes to the concept of retribution. Melissa has lived in Los Angeles for over a decade. During that time, she has written for several television shows, among them Life, CSI: Miami and Person of Interest. She lives with her husband, a comedy writer, in Los Angeles.
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Oneworld AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Lola Melissa Scrivner Love
A tautly plotted L.A.-set thriller for fans of Orange is the New Black and The Wire
Description Lola stands next to Garcia while he mans the grill in their craggy square of backyard. The barbeque has just begun, and the women are clustered gossiping, while the men hold sweating beers. Lola prefers the periphery. Business has been good lately in their tiny nugget of South Central Los Angeles, where a legit man has two choices: landscaping off-the- books for West Side white cash, or sweating through twelve-hour shifts at a factory in Vernon. Garcia does not make his living either way. If Lola were like the other women at her barbeque, she would spend her work day perched on a padded stool behind a dollar store cash register. But Lola is not like the other women in Huntington Park. Suddenly: a sharp knock on the front door, probably a cop. Lola goes to answer it. The man standing there is Mexican, not Mexican-American, like everybody else here. Lola searches his face for a bead of sweat but comes up empty. She has never met him, but she knows his name. Everyone in this neighborhood knows his name. They call him The Collector, and he won't give them long.
About the Author Melissa Scrivner Love was born to a police officer father and a court stenographer mother. When she was six, a neighbour her father had arrested for possession killed her dog and her cat, opening Melissa's eyes to the concept of retribution. Melissa has lived in Los Angeles for over a decade. During that time, she has written for several television shows, among them Life, CSI: Miami and Person of Interest. She lives with her husband, a comedy writer, in Los Angeles.
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Oneworld AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 The Water Thief Claire Hajaj
From the award-winning author of Ishmael's Oranges comes a searing novel set in Africa, with a Graham Greene-esque moral conflict at its heart
Description Who decides what is right? How do we judge our actions? And how do we live with ourselves when things go wrong? From the award-winning author of Ishmael's Oranges comes a searing novel with a profound moral conflict at its heart. When a heart attack kills his father, young architect Nick abandons his comfortable London life to volunteer abroad for a year a last chance to prove himself, and atone for old sins. But in a remote village on the edge of the Sahara, dangerous currents soon engulf him: a simmering family conflict, hidden violence and fanaticism, his host's lonely wife hiding secrets of her own. Their attraction threatens both their worlds, blurring the line between right and wrong. And when a deadly drought descends it brings an irrevocable choice. With all their hopes at stake, should he take matters into his own hands? Or let fate run its course? His decision has life- changing consequences for them all.
About the Author Claire Hajaj has spent the past fifteen years working in international aid and conflict resolution for the United Nations, across war zones from Burma to Baghdad. She shares Palestinian and Jewish heritage, growing up between the deserts of the Middle East and the gardens of rural England. Claire's writing has also appeared in Newsweek, The Sunday Times, New Statesman, The Telegraph, London Literary Review, as well as political institutions dedicated to peace. She has an MA in Classical and English Literature from Oxford University, and is a fellow of the UN Centre for Policy Research. She currently lives in Tajikistan.
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Oneworld AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Orchid & the Wasp Caoilinn Hughes
An anarchic and hilarious portrait of a downwardly mobile family in post-crash Dublin
Description 'Caoilinn Hughes is a massive talent.' Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See An unforgettable young woman navigates Dublin, London and New York, striving to build a life raft for her loved ones in the midst of economic and familial collapse In this dazzlingly original debut novel, award-winning Irish writer Caoilinn Hughes introduces a heroine of mythic proportions in the form of one Gael Foess. Raised in Dublin by single-minded, careerist parents, Gael observes from a young age how a person's ambitions and ideals can be compromised. When Gael's financier father walks out during the economic crash of 2008, her family fractures. Her mother, a once- formidable orchestral conductor, becomes a shadow of her former self, and a tragic incident prevents her unwell brother Guthrie from finishing school. Determined not to let her loved ones fall victim to circumstance, Gael leaves Dublin for the leather-lined, coke-dusted social clubs of London, then Manhattan's gallery scene during the throes of the Occupy movement, always working an angle, but slowly becoming a stranger to those who know her. Written in electric, heart-stopping prose, Orchid & the Wasp is a novel about gigantic ambitions and social upheaval, chewing through sexuality, class, and politics, and crackling with joyful, anarchic fury. It challenges bootstraps morality, questioning what we owe one another and what we earn, what makes for a good life, and how events in our lives can turn us into people we never intended to be. A first novel of astonishing talent, Orchid & the Wasp announces Caoilinn Hughes as one of the most exciting literary writers working today.
About the Author Caoilinn Hughes poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Best British Poetry and Poetry Ireland. Her writing has also appeared in The Rumpus and Tin House, and she's been a recipient of an Irish Arts Council Literary Bursary. She divides her time between her native Ireland and Holland.
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Oneworld AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Transformation Mary Shelley
A paragon of the genre by the author of Frankenstein.
Description 'Having frittered away his family's fortune in Paris, the profligate Guido il Cortese incurs the wrath of his future father-in- law and finds himself in exile from his native Genoa and harbouring plans for revenge. After a mighty storm, he sees a mysterious, misshapen creature emerging from the sea, with whom he makes an infernal bargain to exchange bodies, with momentous consequences. First published in 1831 and here presented with the supernatural stories 'The Evil Eye' and 'The Immortal Mortal', the chilling Gothic tale 'Transformation' is a paragon of the genre by the author of Frankenstein.
About the Author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 1851) was an English author and the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley. A political radical, Frankenstein is her most famous work.
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Alma Classics AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
Description Since it was first published in 1818, Mary Shelley's seminal novel has generated countless print, stage and screen adaptations, but none has ever matched the power and philosophical resonance of the original. Composed as part of a challenge with Byron and Shelley to conjure up the most terrifying ghost story, Frankenstein narrates the chilling tale of a being created by a bright young scientist and the catastrophic consequences that ensue. Considered by many to be the first science-fiction novel, the tragic tale of Victor Frankenstein and the tortured creation he rejects is a classic fable about the pursuit of knowledge, the nature of beauty and the monstrosity inherent to man.
About the Author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was an English author. She was also the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose works she edited. A political radical, Frankenstein is her most famous work.
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Alma Classics AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin's Master Agent Owen Matthews
The thrilling true story of Richard Sorge the man John le Carre called 'the spy to end spies', and whose actions turned the tide of the Second World War
Description The thrilling true story of Richard Sorge the man John le Carre called 'the spy to end spies', and whose actions turned the tide of the Second World War
Richard Sorge was a man with two homelands. Born of a German father and a Russian mother in Baku in 1895, he moved in a world of shifting alliances and infinite possibility. A member of the angry and deluded generation who found new, radical faiths after their experiences on the battlefields of the First World War, Sorge became a fanatical communist and the Soviet Union's most formidable spy.
Like many great spies, Sorge was an effortless seducer, combining charm with ruthless manipulation. He did not have to go undercover to find out closely guarded state secrets his victims willingly shared them. As a foreign correspondent, he infiltrated and influenced the highest echelons of German, Chinese and Japanese society in the years leading up to and including the Second World War. His intelligence regarding Operation Barbarossa and Japanese intentions not to invade Siberia in 1941 proved pivotal to the Soviet counteroffensive in the Battle of Moscow, which in turn determined the outcome of the war.
Never before has Sorge's story been told from the Russian side as well as the German and Japanese. Owen Matthews takes a sweeping historical perspective and draws on a wealth of declassified Soviet archives along with testimonies from those who knew and worked with Sorge to rescue the riveting story of the man described by Ian Fleming as 'the most formidable spy in history'.
About the Author Owen Matthews studied Modern History at Oxford University before beginning his career as a journalist in Bosnia. He has written for the Moscow Times, The Times, the Spectator and the Independent. In 1997, he became a correspondent at Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781408857793 Newsweek magazine in Moscow where he covered the second Chechen war, Afghanistan, Iraq, and the conflict in Format: Paperback Eastern Ukraine. His first book on Russian history, Stalin's Children, was translated into 28 languages and shortlisted for Dimensions: 0x0mm The Guardian First Books Award and France's Prix Medicis. Extent: 320 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 An Impeccable Spy 8 Copy Pack
Contains 8 copies of An Impeccable Spy, plus free reading copy.
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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Moorish Ben Tish
With an emphasis on flavour and vibrancy, Ben Tish offers 100 recipes influenced by the Moorish conquest into the Mediterranean
Description Fresh, fragrant, fruity, spicy, smoky, sweet, sour, and sharp. Discover how to cook these vibrant southern Mediterranean flavours at home with 100 wonderful recipes from Ben Tish. The bold spices and sun-soaked exotic tastes of North Africa and the Arabic world collided with the characterful food of the Mediterranean when the Moors invaded. It was this glorious fusion of flavours that first seduced British chef, writer and restaurateur, Ben Tish, and sent his cooking on a new course. Moorish is a collection of authentic recipes inspired by Ben's passion for the region, along with a few of his own twists and interpretations. He has divided the book into chapters based around the way he likes to cook at home from quick and refreshing light bites and his notorious barbecue food to lazy brunches and slow-cooked dishes that fill the house with evocative scents of the Mediterranean.
About the Author Ben's love of food started at an early age in the seaside town of Skegness. Very busy parents meant that Ben spent a lot of time with his Jewish grandmother, a feeder if ever there was one and a brilliant home cook. At 19-years-old he moved to London to work as a 3rd commis chef at The Ritz, London. A baptism of fire ensued over the next two years followed by a move to the ultra cool restaurant Coast, where Ben worked with Jason Atherton and Stephen Terry. After working at a number of Michelin-starred restaurants Ben found himself at a high-end Italian restaurant in London's Mayfair which proved to be the turning point for his style. The kitchen's focus was on seasonality, with impeccable produce treated with the utmost respect. From there Ben then spent time at the remote Crinan Hotel in the West Highlands of Scotland where the supplier relationship was paramount and the only way to work was to be completely in tune with the seasons. Returning to London, Ben joined the Salt Yard group, which focused on the cuisines of Spain and Italy, serving tapas-style dishes with a modern spin. As Chef Director he went onto open several award- winning restaurants with the group. In 2018 Ben joined the Stafford London as their Culinary Director, overseeing all the food operations, and this year Ben Price: $49.99 ISBN: 9781472958075 will be leading on new restaurant projects with the Stafford, focusing on his love of Mediterranean cooking. Format: Hard Cover This is Ben's third cookbook, having previously written Salt Yard Food and Wine (2012) and Grill, Smoke, BBQ (2016). He Dimensions: 0x0mm regularly appears on TV including shows such as Saturday Kitchen, Masterchef and Sunday Brunch. Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Cookery / food & drink etc Ben lives in East London with his wife Nykeeta and his French bulldog Piglet. Bic2: @ben_tish / chefbentish.com Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations Mira Jacob
A graphic memoir that grapples with tough conversations about family, race, love and identity and the ways they change us
Description 'By turns hilarious and heart-rending. Plunges fearlessly into the murky grey areas of race and family, of struggling to find common ground, of trying to talk to our children and help them make sense of it all' Celeste Ng
'Who taught Michael Jackson to dance?' 'Is that how people really walk on the moon?' 'Is it bad to be brown?' 'Are white people afraid of brown people?' Inspired by her viral BuzzFeed piece '37 Difficult Questions from My Mixed-Raced Son', Mira Jacob responds to: her six- year-old, Zakir, who asks if the new president hates brown boys like him; uncomfortable relationship advice from her parents, who came to the United States from India one month into their arranged marriage; and increasingly fraught exchanges with her Trump-supporting in-laws. Jacob also investigates her own past, including how it felt to be a brown- skinned New Yorker on 9/11. As earnest and moving as they are laugh-out-loud funny, these are the stories that have shaped one life, but will resonate with many others.
About the Author Mira Jacob is the author of the novel The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing, the co-founder of the Brooklyn literary night Pete's Reading Series and has contributed writings and drawings to the New York Times, Vogue, the Daily Telegraph and Shondaland. She teaches at NYU and the New School and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son.
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Price: $37.99 ISBN: 9781408880166 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing As We Age Mary Pipher
From the New York Times bestselling author of Reviving Ophelia, a guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age.
Description From the New York Times bestselling author of Reviving Ophelia, a guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age. Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life. Their struggles help them grow into the authentic, empathetic, and wise people they have always wanted to be. In Women Rowing North, Pipher offers a timely examination of the cultural and developmental issues women face as they age. Drawing on her own experience as daughter, sister, mother, grandmother, caregiver, clinical psychologist, and cultural anthropologist, she explores ways women can cultivate resilient responses to the challenges they face. 'If we can keep our wits about us, think clearly, and manage our emotions skillfully,' Pipher writes, 'we will experience a joyous time of our lives. If we have planned carefully and packed properly, if we have good maps and guides, the journey can be transcendent.'
About the Author Mary Pipher is a psychologist specializing in women, trauma, and the effects of our culture on mental health, which has earned her the title of 'cultural therapist' for her generation. She is the author of several New York Times bestsellers, including Reviving Ophelia, The Shelter of Each Other, and Another Country. She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Price: $39.99 ISBN: 9781632869609 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury USA AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher Armand D'Angour
Socrates the warrior. An innovative and insightful exploration of the passionate early life of Socrates and the influences that led him to become the first and greatest of philosophers
Description An innovative and insightful exploration of the passionate early life of Socrates and the influences that led him to become the first and greatest of philosophers
Socrates: the philosopher whose questioning gave birth to the ideas of Western thought, and whose execution marked the end of the Athenian Golden Age. Yet despite his pre-eminence among the great thinkers of history, little of his life story is known. What we know tends to begin in his middle age and end with his trial and death. Our conception of Socrates has relied upon Plato and Xenophon men who met him when he was in his fifties and a well-known figure in war-torn Athens.
There is mystery at the heart of Socrates' story: what turned the young Socrates into a philosopher? What drove him to pursue with such persistence, at the cost of social acceptance and ultimately of his life, a whole new way of thinking about the meaning of existence?
In this revisionist biography, Armand D'Angour draws on neglected sources to explore the passions and motivations of young Socrates, showing how love transformed him into the philosopher he was to become. What emerges is the figure of Socrates as never previously portrayed: a heroic warrior, an athletic wrestler and dancer and a passionate lover. Socrates in Love sheds new light on the formative journey of the philosopher, finally revealing the identity of the woman who Socrates claimed inspired him to develop ideas that have captivated thinkers for 2,500 years.
About the Author Armand D'Angour is an Associate Professor of Classics at Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Jesus College, Oxford. Author of The Greeks and the New (2011), an investigation into ancient Greek attitudes to novelty, he has written widely about Greek and Latin poetry, music and literature, and was commissioned to compose odes in ancient Greek for the Olympic Price: $37.99 ISBN: 9781408883914 Games in Athens (2004) and London (2012). He was trained as a pianist and cellist as well as a classicist, and has Format: Hard Cover recently reconstructed ancient Greek music from original documents on stone and papyrus. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine Roger Scruton
Here Scruton explains the connection between good wine and serious thought with a heady mix of humour and philosophy.
Description We are familiar with the medical opinion that a daily glass of wine is good for the health and also the rival opinion that any more than a glass or two will set us on the road to ruin. Whether or not good for the body, Scruton argues, wine, drunk in the right frame of mind, is definitely good for the soul. And there is no better accompaniment to wine than philosophy. By thinking with wine, you can learn not only to drink in thoughts but to think in draughts. This good-humoured book offers an antidote to the pretentious clap-trap that is written about wine today and a profound apology for the drink on which civilisation has been founded. In vino veritas.
About the Author Sir Roger Scruton is a graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge. He has been Professor of Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London, and University Professor at Boston University. He is currently visiting professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford and Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington DC. He has published a large number of books, including some works of fiction, and has written and composed two operas. He writes regularly for the Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator and was for many years wine critic of the New Statesman.
Price: $34.99 ISBN: 9781472969873 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Anthropology Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Continuum AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 MI5 and Me: A Coronet Among the Spooks Charlotte Bingham
'A Jilly Cooper heroine in a John le Carre world' (Libby Purves, TLS); a beguiling comic memoir about a young woman who discovers her father is a spy (and was the model for John le Carre's George Smiley) and goes to work as a secretary in 1950s MI5
Description 'A Jilly Cooper heroine in a John le Carre world' (Libby Purves, TLS); a beguiling comic memoir about a young woman who discovers her father is a spy (and was the model for John le Carre's George Smiley) and goes to work as a secretary in 1950s MI5
Much to her surprise, eighteen-year-old Lottie has just found out that her aloof, rather unexciting father is a spy. And now he's decreed that she must make herself useful and get a Proper Job so she's packed off to MI5 herself, trussed up in a dreary suit. Luckily her delightful colleague Arabella is on hand to enliven the torments of typing and decode the enigmas of office life. But as Lottie's home fills with actors doubling as spies, and Arabella's mother is besieged with mysterious telephone calls, the girls start to feel well and truly spooked - A hilarious true story, and a unique window into 1950s Britain where Russian agents infiltrate the highest echelons, where debutantes are typists and where Englishness is both a nationality and a code of behaviour MI5 and Me is a sparkling comic memoir.
About the Author Charlotte Bingham wrote her first book, Coronet Among the Weeds, a memoir of her life as a debutante, at the age of 19. It was published in 1963 and became an instant bestseller. She went on the write a further memoir, Coronet Among the Grass. Her father, John Bingham, the 7th Baron Clanmorris, was a member of M15 where Charlotte Bingham worked as a secretary. He was an inspiration for John le Carre's character George Smiley. Charlotte Bingham went on to write thirty-three internationally bestselling novels and, in partnership with her late husband Terence Brady, a number of successful, plays, films and TV series including Upstairs Downstairs and Take Three Girls. She lives in Somerset.
Price: $22.99 charlottebingham.com ISBN: 9781408888131 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Pb AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Coronet Among the Weeds Charlotte Bingham
The deliciously funny confessions of a debutante which became an international bestseller
Description The deliciously funny confessions of a debutante which became an international bestseller
It is the early 1960s, and eighteen-year-old Charlotte Bingham, fresh from convent school, has been catapulted into the horrors of The Season. Though desperately on the hunt for a Superman to call her own, the country house ball circuit seems to yield nothing but an inexhaustible crop of charmless, chinless Weeds. But Charlotte's adventures are more than sufficiently diverting: whether she's bouffing up her hair to try and pass herself off as a beatnik, hurtling down the Champs Elysees on the back of a Vespa, or accidentally sticking her eyelids together with eyelash glue while at modelling school, her experiments in coming-of-age are never short of intrigue and disaster. Published in 1963 when she was just nineteen, Bingham's sparkling memoir of her trials and travails became an international bestseller. From its pages emerges a deeply lovable and relentlessly optimistic young woman for all that her shorthand isn't what it might be looking for love in all the wrong places.
About the Author Charlotte Bingham wrote her first book, Coronet Among the Weeds, a memoir of her life as a debutante, at the age of 19. It was published in 1963 and became an instant bestseller. Her father, John Bingham, the 7th Baron Clanmorris, was a member of M15 where Charlotte Bingham worked as a secretary. He was an inspiration for John le Carre's character George Smiley. Charlotte Bingham went on to write thirty-three internationally bestselling novels and, in partnership with her late husband Terence Brady, a number of successful, plays, films and TV series including Upstairs Downstairsand Take Three Girls. She lives in Somerset. charlottebingham.com
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781526608697 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Autobiography: general Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Pb AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures Roma Agrawal
The wonders of engineering revealed by the inspirational young female engineer behind The Shard, Western Europe's tallest building
Description 'A fascinating celebration of the impact that structural engineering has on all our lives -(an) eye-opening book' The Sunday Times In BUILT, structural engineer Roma Agrawal takes a unique look at how construction has evolved from the mud huts of our ancestors to skyscrapers of steel that reach hundreds of metres into the sky. She unearths how engineers have tunnelled through kilometres of solid mountains; how they've bridged across the widest and deepest of rivers, and tamed Nature's precious and elusive water resources. She tells vivid tales of the visionaries who created the groundbreaking materials in the Pantheon's record-holding concrete dome and the frame of the record-breaking Eiffel Tower. Through the lens of an engineer, Roma examines tragedies like the collapse of the Quebec Bridge, highlighting the precarious task of ensuring people's safety they hold at every step.
With colourful stories of her life-long fascination with buildings and her own hand-drawn illustrations Roma reveals the extraordinary secret lives of structures.
About the Author Roma Agrawal is a structural engineer who builds big. From footbridges and sculptures, to train stations and skyscrapers including The Shard she has left an indelible mark on London's landscape. She is a tireless promoter of engineering and technical careers to young people, particularly under-represented groups such as women. She has advised policymakers and governments on science education, and has given talks to thousands around the world at universities, schools and organisations including two for TEDx. Roma has been awarded international awards for her technical prowess and success in promoting the profession, including the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering's Rooke Award. She was awarded an MBE for services to Engineering in 2018. BUILT is her first book. Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781408870372 romatheengineer.com / @RomaTheEngineer Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Popular science Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Pb AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 The Growth Delusion: The Wealth and Well-Being of Nations David Pilling
A revelatory and entertaining book about the pitfalls of how we measure our economy and how to correct them, by an award-winning editor of The Financial Times
Description 'A near miracle' Ha-Joon Chang, author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism In The Growth Delusion, author and prize-winning journalist David Pilling explores how economists and their cult of growth have hijacked our policy-making and infiltrated our thinking about what makes societies work. Our policies are geared relentlessly towards increasing our standard measure of growth, Gross Domestic Product. By this yardstick we have never been wealthier or happier. So why doesn't it feel that way? Why are we living in such fractured times, with global populism on the rise and wealth inequality as stark as ever? In a book that is simultaneously trenchant, thought-provoking and entertaining, Pilling argues that we need to measure our successes and failures using different criteria. While for economic growth, heroin consumption and prostitution are worth more than volunteer work or public services, in a rational world we would learn how to value what makes economies better, not just what makes them bigger. So much of what is important to our wellbeing, from clean air to safe streets and from steady jobs to sound minds, lies outside the purview of our standard measure of success. We prioritise growth maximisation without stopping to think about the costs. In prose that cuts through the complex language so often wielded by a priesthood of economists, Pilling argues that our steadfast loyalty to growth is informing misguided policies and contributing to a rising mistrust of experts that is shaking the very foundations of our democracy.
About the Author David Pilling has been a prize-winning reporter and editor for the Financial Times for twenty-five years. Currently the Africa editor and one of their featured columnists, he was previously the Asia editor, running coverage across the continent. His first book, Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival (Allen Lane, 2014), received outstanding reviews. He lives in London but travels frequently to Africa.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781408893746 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Pb AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Heart Berries: A Memoir Terese Marie Mailhot
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Selected by Emma Watson as an Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick
Description A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Selected by Emma Watson as an Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick
'I loved it' Kate Tempest 'Astounding' Roxane Gay 'A sledgehammer' New York Times
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on an Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalised and facing a dual diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder, Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for Mailhot's mother, a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners; a story of reconciliation with her father an abusive drunk and a brilliant artist who was murdered under mysterious circumstances; and an elegy on how difficult it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame. Memory isn't exact, but melded to imagination. In Heart Berries, Mailhot discovers her own true voice, seizes control of her story, and, in so doing, re-establishes her connection to her family, to her people, and to her place in the world.
About the Author Terese Marie Mailhot graduated from the Institute of American Indian Arts with an MFA in fiction. Heart Berries, her first book, was shortlisted for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction. She teaches creative writing at Purdue University and resides in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781526604507 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Pb AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 A Line in the River: Khartoum, City of Memory Jamal Mahjoub
A moving portrait, part history, part memoir, of Sudan once the largest most diverse country in Africa and its self-destruction
Description A moving portrait, part history, part memoir, of Sudan once the largest most diverse country in Africa and its self- destruction. In 1956, Sudan gained Independence from Britain. On the brink of a promising future, it instead descended into civil war and conflict, including the crisis in Darfur which has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and driven many more from their homes.
When the 1989 coup brought a hard-line Islamist regime to power, Jamal Mahjoub's family were among those who fled. Almost twenty years later, he returned, to find a country on the brink of rupture.
Re-discovering the city in which his formative years were spent, Mahjoub encounters people and places that he left behind. The capital contains the keys to Sudan's divided, contradictory nature and while exploring the Khartoum's present - its changing identity and shifting moods, its wealthy elite and neglected poor - Mahjoub also delves into the country's troubled history, one turbulent with the rivalry between Christians and Muslims. His search for answers evolves into a thoughtful meditation on the meaning of identity, both personal and national.
A Line in the River combines lyrical and evocative memoir with a nuanced exploration of a country's complex history, politics and religion. The result is both captivating and revelatory.
About the Author Jamal Mahjoub was born in London and grew up in Khartoum, Sudan. Since then he has settled in a number of other cities, including London, Aarhus, Barcelona and, more recently, Amsterdam.
The author of seven novels, his work, fiction and non-fiction, has been critically acclaimed and widely translated. He has Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781408885451 published a number of crime novels under the pen name Parker Bilal. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm jamalmahjoub.com Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Pb AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Free Woman: Life, Liberation and Doris Lessing Lara Feigel
'A fascinating mix of literary criticism, cultural history and memoir - Highly enjoyable' Sunday Times
Description 'A fascinating mix of literary criticism, cultural history and memoir - Highly enjoyable' Sunday Times How might we live more freely, and will we be happier or lonelier if we do? Rereading The Golden Notebook in her thirties, Lara Feigel discovered that Doris Lessing spoke directly to her as a woman, writer and mother in a way that no other novelist had done. Veering between admiration and fury at the choices Lessing made, Feigel conducts a dazzling investigation into the joys and costs of sexual, psychological, intellectual and political freedom. The result is this genre- defying book: at once a meditation on life and literature and a daring act of self-exposure.
About the Author Lara Feigel is a Reader in Modern Literature and Culture at King's College London. She is the author of Literature, Cinema and Politics, 1930 1945 and the editor (with Alexandra Harris) of Modernism on Sea: Art and Culture at the British Seaside and (with John Sutherland) of the New Selected Journals of Stephen Spender. She has also written journalism for various publications, including the Guardian, the Financial Times and Prospect. The Love-charm of Bombs (2013) and her most recent book, The Bitter Taste of Victory (2016), were both published to critical acclaim. Lara lives in West Hampstead, London.
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Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781408878576 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Biography: general Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Pb AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2019 Wisden
Wisden 2019 charts the rise and rise of the England one-day team as they head towards a home World Cup in the summer. It also revisits the 1979 tournament, when England made it to the final, but lost out to Clive Lloyd's all-conquering West Indians.
Description *Standard format hardback* Wisden 2019 charts the rise and rise of the England one-day team as they head towards a home World Cup in the summer. It also revisits the 1979 tournament, when England made it to the final, but lost out to Clive Lloyd's all- conquering West Indians. Jon Hotten lifts the covers on the tricky life of the groundsman, under pressure from player and administrator alike, while Richard Hobson examines how cricket began again in 1919, a few months after the end of the First World War. Jonathan Liew considers the traditional measure of the batsman's art, 250 years after the first century was recorded. There's a look beyond the cricket ground, too, now that Imran Khan, one of the towering figures of Pakistan cricket, has become prime minister. Peter Oborne and Richard Heller size up the scale of his task. And Wisden meets an astonishingly courageous young man: Waleed Khan was shot eight times in a terrorist attack on his school in Peshawar, but has found a renewed zest for life through a deep love of cricket. Everything from the cricket year - from Ben Stokes's trial for affray to the game in Leicestershire that had to be stopped when a parrot landed on a fielder's shoulder and wouldn't budge - is here. @WisdenAlmanack
About the Author This is Lawrence Booth's eighth year as Editor of Wisden, although he has contributed for many years. He is also cricket writer for the Daily Mail and author of several critically acclaimed cricket books. He is one of the most respected and well liked authorities in the modern game. @the_topspin
Price: $110.00 ISBN: 9781472964052 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 1488 pages Bic1: Cricket Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Wisden AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2019 Wisden
The 156th edition of the most famous sports book in the world--published every year since 1864--contains some of the finest sports writing of the year and covers every first-class game in every cricket nation, making it the cricketers' bible worldwide.
Description *Standard format paperback* The 156th edition of the most famous sports book in the world--published every year since 1864--contains some of the finest sports writing of the year and covers every first-class game in every cricket nation, making it the cricketers' bible worldwide. @WisdenAlmanack
About the Author This is Lawrence Booth's eighth year as Editor of Wisden, although he has contributed for many years. He is also cricket writer for the Daily Mail and author of several critically acclaimed cricket books. He is one of the most respected and well liked authorities in the modern game. @the_topspin
Price: $110.00 ISBN: 9781472964045 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 1488 pages Bic1: Cricket Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Wisden AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Matt Roberts' Younger, Fitter, Stronger: The Revolutionary 8- weekFitness Programme for Men Matt Roberts
The Revolutionary Fitness Plan for Men. Are you ready to feel younger, fitter and stronger?
Description Matt Roberts' Younger, Fitter, Stronger is a ground-breaking fitness manual designed to guide the mid-life man towards a lifestyle that will ensure youthfulness is retained, strength is maintained or increased, and physical and mental performance are maximised.
Drawing on more than 20 years of personal training experience with thousands of clients, Matt Roberts brings you a powerful combination of cutting-edge science and transformative workouts. The benefits and results speak for themselves: boosted energy, improved muscle mass, a revitalised sex drive, more restful sleep even better-looking skin and hair. You'll look and feel as good or better than you did in your 20s.
The day-by-day 8-week plan is based on ground-breaking recent studies that have discovered the anti-ageing benefits of boosting testosterone and human growth hormone (HGH) levels through the targeted use of exercise and diet. Raising levels of these hormones is key to maintaining health and fitness in mid-life, and it can be achieved.
About the Author Matt Roberts is the UK's most respected and prolific personal trainer. He is unique in having maintained his status as the UK's number one trainer over the last 23 years. His client list has included David Cameron, Tom Ford, Naomi Campbell and Amanda Holden among many others. Now 45, Matt has a personal interest in the health of the mid-life age group and has devised a plan that has been rigorously tested, including on himself, to help men look and feel better as they age.
Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781472964496 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Fitness & diet Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Sport AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Dare to Tri: My Journey from the BBC Breakfast Sofa to GB Team Triathlete Louise Minchin
Dare to Tri is the amazing story of TV presenter Louise Minchin's journey from the BBC Breakfast sofa to representing Great Britain at the World Triathlon Championships. This is a warmly written and wonderfully honest adventure-through-sport that will both entertain and inspire.
Description Dare to Tri is the amazing story of TV presenter Louise Minchin's journey from the BBC Breakfast sofa to representing Great Britain at the World Triathlon Championships. This is a warmly written and wonderfully honest adventure-through- sport that will both entertain and inspire.
'I didn't even know what a triathlon was before 2012 - When I took up the sport three years ago I didn't imagine for a second then, that, one day, I would be able to represent my country internationally.' Louise Minchin What started out as a fun television cycling stunt culminated in BBC Breakfast's Louise Minchin wearing the colours of Great Britain at the World Triathlon Championships in her age group. This is the story of how a newly discovered sport became a passion and then an obsession. Dare to Tri is Louise's candid memoir of her incredible journey, recounting her rediscovery of competitive sport after nearly 30 years and her first tentative steps as a triathlete. In a story encompassing equal measures of determination and self-doubt, Louise has to overcome personal nerves, a brutal training regime, the odd bike crash and the occasional drama. Her adventure as she strives to represent Great Britain in triathlon is an inspiration for sporting late-starters everywhere.
About the Author Louise Minchin is one of the UK's best-known news presenters and broadcasters. For more than six years she has been the anchor of BBC Breakfast, the UK's most popular breakfast television programme, watched by over six million viewers a day. @louiseminchin Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781472961846 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Track & field sports, athletics Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Sport AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman: A Bone-shaking Tour Through Cycling's Flemish Heartlands Harry Pearson
You can no more imagine Flanders without bicycles than France without garlic, or Germany without sausages. A journey through the wild madness of bicycle racing in Flanders.
Description Every nation shapes sport to test the character traits it most admires. In The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman, committed Belgophile and road cycling obsessive Harry Pearson takes you on a journey across Flanders, through the lumpy horizontal rain, up the elbow juddering cobbled inclines, past the fans dressed as chickens and the shop window displays of constipation medicines, as he follows races big, small and even smaller through one glorious, muddy spring. Ranging over 500 years of Flemish and European history, across windswept polders, along back roads and through an awful lot of beer cafes, Pearson examines the characters, the myths and rivalries that make Flanders a place where cycling is a religion and the riders its lycra-clad priests.
About the Author Harry Pearson has been shortlisted for both the William Hill and the Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph prizes. Slipless in Settle was the 2012 MCC/Cricket Society Book of the Year and Connie: The Marvellous Life of Learie Constantine won the award in 2018. The Far Corner has been named as one of the fifty greatest sports books of all time by both The Times and the Observer. His book A Tall Man in a Low Land is the bestselling English language travelogue about Belgium.
Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781472945044 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Cycling Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Sport AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Mah-Jong Gwyn Headley, Yvonne See
Contains all you need to know about the game, including equipment, rules, techniques and playing tips. Providing information on how to find a club and meet new people to participate with, this book also includes colour photos and illustrations, top tips and interesting facts.
Description The Know the Game series is firmly established as the leading introduction to a huge range of sports and games. For 50 years they have been the first step into a new sport or game for many people, children and adults alike. The series has now been relaunched in a new format with a modern design - making the best even better. The aim has been to make the books more accessible, and they are now packed with colour photos and illustrations, top tips and interesting facts. Each book contains everything you need to know about the sport or game, including equipment, rules, techniques and training tips. There's even information on how to find a club and meet new people to play the sport or game with. And having been written and endorsed by the game's professional body, you can be sure that you are getting the best information available.
About the Author Each book is written and endorsed by the professional associations.
Price: $16.99 ISBN: 9781472970091 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 64 pages Bic1: Indoor games Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Sigma AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 101 Youth Netball Drills Age 12-16 Anna Sheryn, Chris Sheryn
Designed specifically for players aged 12-16, this manual contains a wide range of progressive practical drills to help young players develop. Fun, educational and challenging, all drills are illustrated and cover the essential technical skills.
Description Designed specifically for players aged 12 to 16, this manual contains a wide range of progressive practice drills to help young players develop. Fun, educational and challenging, all drills are illustrated and cover the essential technical skills, including: warming up; speed and endurance; power development; ball skills; goal shooting; spatial awareness; team work; warming down. As well as easy-to-follow instructions, each drill contains information on the equipment needed, the space required, how to construct a safe and effective training session and how to organise the players. This new edition is fully updated with new drills and illustrations.
About the Author Anna and Chris Sheryn are experienced sports coaches. Chris works closely with the Lilleshall Sports Injury and Human Performance Centre; Anna is an experienced netball player and coach for her local club.
Price: $39.99 ISBN: 9781472969934 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Netball Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Sigma AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 101 Youth Football Coaching Sessions Tony Charles, Stuart Rook
The first volume of the popular 101 Youth Football Coaching Sessions, part of the 101 Drills series and accompanied by 101 Youth Football Coaching Sessions Volume 2.
Description The first volume of the popular 101 Youth Football Coaching Sessions, part of the 101 Drills series and accompanied by 101 Youth Football Coaching Sessions Volume 2. The culmination of years of experience, this manual outlines comprehensive training sessions for young footballers, including warm-ups, skills training, games and final practice drills. Fun, educational and challenging, each session contains information on equipment needed, space required and how to organise the players. Ideal for teachers or coaches who are looking for a fully planned session, this contains everything you need to build up the skills of young players and ensure they have fun and remain safe.
About the Author Tony Charles is a qualified FA coach. After working with the Essex Football Association, Tony formed Foundation Football, a coaching company which currently delivers over 200 sessions a week from a pool of 60 coaches. Stuart Rook is a qualified FA coach and personal trainer and works for Foundation Football.
Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781472969156 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Sports training & coaching Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Sport AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Boom! The Violent Supernovas and Galactic Explosions and Earthly MayhemThat Shook Our Universe Bob Berman
An explosive epic encompassing the Big Bang, other past booms and future cataclysms!
Description Space is quiet. Billion trillions of stars slowly burning out their lives. Bodies of rock, moons, planets, floating in the dark. Most of the time. Sometimes violence is unleashed on the cosmos, the ripple effects so far-reaching that they stretch the limits of human comprehension. Sometimes, something explodes. From the destruction of galaxies to supernovas, hypernovas and gamma ray bursts, these moments are rare yet powerful, often out of sight but consequentially felt. In Boom!, astronomy writer Bob Berman guides us through an epic investigation, unveiling dazzling 'new stars' suddenly created, the moon's violent birth and the effects of the cosmic rays that rain down on us. Returning to the ground, he draws links between cataclysms in space and those on Earth the Black Death's march across continents, the horror of World War II and the devastation of Chernobyl. Just as he explores how our world might end, Berman shows that though we have harnessed these apocalyptic energies for ill, we can, in the nearer future, appropriate them for good.
About the Author Bob Berman is a leading astronomy writer and the author of Zapped, Zoom and The Sun's Heartbeat. He contributed the popular 'Night Watchman' column for Discover for seventeen years and is currently a columnist for Astronomy, a host on Northeast Public Radio and science editor of The Old Farmer's Almanac. He lives in Willow, New York.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781786075970 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Popular science Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Oneworld AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between British andAmerican English Lynne Murphy
A laugh-out-loud dissection of the linguistic myths surrounding British and American English
Description The English language is a beautiful thing, but it suffers under relentless assault from Americans who want nothing more than to corrupt the mother tongue. Well, that's what we're told. But what's the truth? And whose language is it anyway? Lynne Murphy, an American linguist living in England, dives into the war of words being waged over the Atlantic. In a laugh-out-loud report, she separates reality from myth in this special relationship and delves into the social and political forces that have seen British and American English part ways. From the origins of 'the bee's knees' to why so many of Hollywood's evil geniuses sound as though they were educated at Oxford, The Prodigal Tongue reveals how our language really works and tells us where it's going.
About the Author Lynne Murphy is a reader in linguistics at the University of Sussex. She blogs at separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot. com and tweets @lynneguist. A dual British/American citizen, she lives in Brighton.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781786074973 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Language Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Oneworld AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Why Young Men: The Dangerous Allure of Violent Movements and What We Can Do About It Jamil Jivani
Written by a young man who was once at risk of falling for the allure of extremism, Why Young Men is a book of ideas that offers a counterintuitive, often provocative argument for a sea change in the way we look at young men.
Description The day after the 2015 Paris terror attacks, twenty-eight-year-old Canadian Jamil Jivani opened the newspaper to find that the men responsible were familiar to him. He didn't know them, but the communities they grew up in and the challenges they faced mirrored the circumstances of his own life. Jivani travelled to Belgium in February 2016 to better understand the roots of jihadi radicalization. Less than two months later, Brussels fell victim to a terrorist attack carried out by young men who lived in the same neighbourhood as him. Jivani was raised in a mostly immigrant community in Toronto that faced significant problems with integration. Having grown up with a largely absent father, he knows what it is to watch a man's future influenced by gangster culture or radical ideologies associated with Islam. Jivani found himself at a crossroads: he could follow the kind of life we hear about too often in the media, or he could choose a safe, prosperous future. He opted for the latter, attending Yale and becoming a lawyer, a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and a powerful speaker for the disenfranchised. Why Young Men is not a memoir but a book of ideas that pursues a positive path and offers a counterintuitive, often provocative argument for a sea change in the way we look at young men, and for how they see themselves.
About the Author Jamil Jivani was born and raised in Toronto. He is a visiting professor at Toronto's Osgoode Hall Law School, where he focuses on issues affecting youth, immigrants and low-income families. He founded the Citizen Empowerment Project, an organization leading initiatives related to policing, racial profiling, democratic participation and economic development. Jivani attended Yale Law School and served as president of the Yale Black Law Students Association. He has worked for a US senator, as a high school teacher in the US and Kenya and as a corporate lawyer in Manhattan. Since graduating he has practised corporate law in Toronto, acted as a management consultant and was named the 2015 Young Lawyer of Price: $29.99 the Year by the Canadian Association of Black Lawyers. Why Young Men? is his first book. ISBN: 9781925700497 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Politics & government Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
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BLM Pantera AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Dior: A New Look, a New Enterprise (1947-57) Alexandra Palmer
Newly expanded and updated, this absorbing and beautiful book examines the seminal years of Christian Dior, 1947 57, from a truly international perspective.
Description In 1947 Christian Dior rocked the fashion world with his New Look, which firmly secured the name of his house in the minds of the public and at the forefront of the industry. He drew on historical models of femininity and the unique skills of Parisian haute couture as well as a myriad of suppliers to produce stunning designs that caught the mood of optimism after the Second World War. Newly expanded and updated, this absorbing and beautiful book examines the seminal years of Christian Dior, 1947 57, from a truly international perspective.
About the Author Alexandra Palmer is the Nora E. Vaughan Senior Curator of Fashion and Textiles at the Royal Ontario Museum
Price: $79.99 ISBN: 9781851779857 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Fashion & textiles: design Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
V&A Publications AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Christian Dior Oriole Cullen
Capturing the highlights of the major Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition, Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams
Description Capturing the highlights of the major Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition, Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams, this stunning souvenir celebrates the House of Dior from its foundation in 1947 to the present day. Haute-couture gowns by Christian Dior and the illustrious creative directors who followed him Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferre, John Galliano, Bill Gaytten, Raf Simons and Maria Grazia Chiuri are showcased here, each described by Oriole Cullen and atmospherically photographed by Laziz Hamani.
About the Author Oriole Cullen is curator of Fashion and Textiles at the V&A. Connie Karol Burks is Assistant Curator, Furniture, Textiles and Fashion.
Price: $49.99 ISBN: 9781851779901 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Fashion & textiles: design Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
V&A Publications AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin
The foundation of evolutionary biology and natural selection perhaps the most important book of scientific observation ever written.
Description When Darwin set sail at the end of 1831, it was only with a vague notion that all life forms, both present and extinct, were more strongly related than the Christian version of the world's creation purported them to be. During his five-year voyage of research and discovery on board HMS Beagle, and later from his home in Kent, he painstakingly collected a mass of evidence from across the planet from Paraguay and the Galapagos Islands to Staffordshire and Scotland building a compelling case for a theory that would change the world we live in and the way we look at it for ever. The foundation of evolutionary biology and natural selection which prompted as huge a revolution in the fields of science and religion as Copernicus's heliocentric model of the universe and Newton's law of gravity, Darwin's On the Origin of Species is perhaps the most important book of scientific observation ever written.
About the Author The grandson of a pre-eminent natural philosopher, Charles Darwin (1809 82) devoted his life to the study of all forms of animal and vegetable life. His book On the Origin of Species, which was twenty years in the making, is his crowning achievement.
Price: $14.99 ISBN: 9781847497840 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Evolution Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Alma Classics AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Feminism for the 99% Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya
From three of the organisers of the International Women's Strike US: a manifesto for when 'leaning in' is not enough.
Description Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, universal healthcare, police violence; not the issues you ordinarily hear feminists talking about. But why should feminism only deal with issues that impact middle-class women? For most of us for 99% of us 'leaning in' at our corporate board room meeting is not an option. This is a manifesto for the 99%. Those for whom increasing the minimum wage and implementing universal health and childcare would have a far greater impact on their lives that having more women CEOs. It is a manifesto that demands an end to mass incarceration and inhumane border regimes, the provision of safe and truly affordable housing, freedom for Palestine, an end to imperialist wars in the middle-east and much more. From three of the organisers of the International Women's Strike, this manifesto argues that these are all feminist issues. Feminism shouldn't start or stop with seeing women represented at the top of society. It should start with the 99%.
About the Author Cinzia Arruzza is Associate Professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of Dangerous Liaisons. The Marriages and Divorces of Marxism and Feminism (Merlin Press 2013) and of A Wolf in the City. Tyranny and the Tyrant in Plato's Republic (forthcoming from OUP). She was one of the main organizers of the International Women's Strike in the United States.
Tithi Bhattacharya is Associate Professor and Director of Global Studies at Purdue University. She is the author of The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal (OUP, 2005) and the editor of Mapping Social Reproduction Theory (Pluto Press 2017). She was one of the main organizers of the International Women's Strike in the United States.
Nancy Fraser is Henry and Louise A. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of Fortunes of Feminism. From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis (Verso 2013) and of Price: $16.99 ISBN: 9781788734424 Scales of Justice. Reimagining Political Space in a Globalizing World (Polity2008). She was one of the main organizers of Format: Paperback - B format the International Women's Strike in the United States. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Political activism Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Verso Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 The Knowledge Economy Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Revolutionary account of transformative potential in the knowledge economy
Description A revolutionary practice of production the knowledge economy has emerged in our time. It appears in every sector, not just in high-tech industry, but so far only as a series of insular vanguards that exclude the vast majority of workers and businesses. In this book Roberto Mangabeira Unger explores the hidden workings and the transformative potential of the knowledge economy. He describes the radical changes in economic and political institutions, and in ways of thinking, that could bring knowledge-intensive production to the whole economy and inaugurate a period of accelerated and socially inclusive economic growth.
About the Author Roberto Mangabeira Unger is one of the leading philosophers and social thinkers of the present. Verso has published much of his work, including False Necessity; Democracy Realized; The Left Alternative; and most recently The Religion of the Future.
Price: $39.99 ISBN: 9781788734974 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Economic theory & philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Verso Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 People's Republic of Walmart Leigh Philips, Michael Rozworsk
Are Nike, Amazon and Walmart preparing the ground for international socialism?
Description For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the the ultimate expressions of free market competition. Their remarkable success vindicates the old idea that our modern societies are too large, too complex and difficult, to be subjected to a plan. For good or ill, in the 21st century, only the distributed feedback systems of the market can distribute resources. And yet, as Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski argue, late capitalism already operates by central planning. The sheer economic weight of multinational, corporate giants means that the decision making of its owners decides the fate of virtually everyone else downstream of them, shaping the fortunes of much of the world. Not only is planning possible, we already have it. Except all the power is concentrated in the hands of a selfish few. Against the dictatorship of capital, The People's Republic of Walmart is a clarion call for a return to collective decision making in all matters economic. It champions economic planning, a forgotten lodestar for the Left and its vision of an alternative future. With the rise of new computational systems and new capacities for massive, collective enterprises, democratically organizing the economic in the interest of human need rather than in the interests of profit is as great as it ever has been.
About the Author Leigh Philips is a science writer and EU affairs journalist. He is the author of Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts. Michal Rozworski is a Toronto-based union researcher and writer. He blogs at Political Eh-conomy and has been published in Jacobin, Ricochet, The Toronto Star, and Briarpatch Magazine.
Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9781786635167 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Verso Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Towards a New Manifesto Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer
A fascinating dialogue on a new Communist Manifesto from two giants of twentieth century philosophy.
Description Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer wrote the central text of 'critical theory', Dialectic of Enlightenment, a measured critique of the Enlightenment reason that, they argued, had resulted in fascism and totalitarianism. Towards a New Manifesto shows the two philosophers in a uniquely spirited and free-flowing exchange of ideas. This book is a record of their discussions over three weeks in the spring of 1956, recorded with a view to the production of a contemporary version of The Communist Manifesto. A philosophical jam-session in which the two thinkers improvise freely, often wildly, on central themes of their work theory and practice, labor and leisure, domination and freedom in a political register found nowhere else in their writing. Amid a careening flux of arguments, aphorisms and asides, in which the trenchant alternates with the reckless, the playful with the ingenuous, positions are swapped and contradictions unheeded, without any compulsion for consistency. A thrilling example of philosophy in action and a compelling map of a possible passage to a new world.
About the Author Theodor Adorno was director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt from 1956 until his death in 1969. His works include In Search of Wagner, Aesthetic Theory, Negative Dialectics, and (with Max Horkheimer) Dialectic of Enlightenment. Max Horkheimer (1895 1973) was a philosopher and sociologist.
Price: $16.99 ISBN: 9781786635532 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Social & political philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Verso Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Capital City Samuel Stein
A forensic look at the changing landscape of American cities
Description Around the world, more and more money is being invested in real estate, the business of building, buying and renting land and property. You can sense it as you walk through most cities, and you can feel it every time you pay the rent or mortgage. The price of land becomes a central economic determinate and a dominant political issue. The clunky term 'gentrification' becomes a household word and displacement an everyday fact of life. Government, particularly at the municipal scale, becomes more and more obsessed with raising property values and redistributing wealth upward through land and rents. Donald Trump becomes first a celebrity and ultimately a president. Taken together, we witness the rise of the real estate state, a political formation in which real estate capital has inordinate power over the shape of our cities, the parameters of our politics, and ultimately the lives we lead. Capital City describes when, how and why real estate came to rule, and what urban planners the people who have their hands on the levers of housing policy can do under these circumstances.
About the Author Samuel Stein is a lifelong resident of New York City, a PhD student in geography at the CUNY Graduate Center, and a Urban Studies Instructor at Hunter College.
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Verso Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Spaces of Global Capitalism David Harvey
An essential introduction to the field of historical geography
Description Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina. The extreme volatility in contemporary economic fortunes seems to mock our best efforts to understand the forces that drive development in the world economy. David Harvey, the single most important geographer writing today and a leading social theorist of our age, offers a comprehensive critique of contemporary capitalism. In this fascinating book, he shows the way forward for just such an understanding, enlarging upon the key themes in his recent work: the development of neoliberalism, the spread of inequalities across the globe, and 'space' as a key theoretical concept. Both a major declaration of a new research programme and a concise introduction to David Harvey's central concerns, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students across the humanities and social sciences.
About the Author David Harvey teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the author of many books, including Social Justice and the City, The Condition of Postmodernity, The Limits to Capital, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Spaces of Global Capitalism, and A Companion to Marx's Capital. His website is davidharvey.org
Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781788734653 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Economic geography Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Verso Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution David Harvey
Rousing manifesto on the city and the commons from the acclaimed theorist
Description Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary politics, where deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Do the financiers and developers control access to urban resources or do the people? Who dictates the quality and organization of daily life? Rebel Cities places the city at the heart of both capital and class struggles, looking at locations ranging from Johannesburg to Mumbai, from New York City to SAEo Paulo. Drawing on the Paris Commune as well as Occupy Wall Street and the London Riots, Harvey asks how cities might be reorganized in more socially just and ecologically sane ways and how they can become the focus for anti-capitalist resistance.
About the Author David Harvey teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the author of many books, including Social Justice and the City, The Condition of Postmodernity, The Limits to Capital, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Spaces of Global Capitalism, and A Companion to Marx's Capital. His website is davidharvey.org
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781788734929 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Human geography Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Verso Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Dreams of Leaving and Remaining James Meek
The anatomy of Britain on the edge of Brexit by Orwell Prize winning journalist
Description In March 2019, the UK will leave the EU, facing an unpredictable future. Since the referendum in 2016, the nation has been split into two dreams of leaving and remaining. During this period, James Meek, who has been described as 'the George Orwell of our times', went in search of the stories and consequences of this rupture. He discusses the desire to leave with farmers and fishermen, despite the loss of protections and fears of the future that this might bring. He reports as a Cadbury's factory is shut down and moved to Poland, in the name of free market economics, and how it impacts on the local community left behind. He charts how the NHS is coping with the twin burdens of austerity and an aging population. Dreams of Leaving and Remaining is urgent reporting from the frontline of the crisis from one of our finest journalists. James Meek asks what we can recover from the debris of an old nation as we head towards new horizons, and what we must leave behind. He does not find any easy answers that will satisfy Brexiteers or Remainers, but instead paints the masterly portrait of an anxious nation.
About the Author James Meek is a Contributing Editor of the London Review of Books. He is the author of six novels: The People's Act of Love, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Ondaatje Prize. We Are Now Beginning Our Descent won the 2008 Le Prince Maurice Prize and The Heart Broke In was shortlisted for the 2012 Costa Prize. His previous non fiction work, Private Island, won the 2016 Orwell Prize. In 2004 he was named the Foreign Correspondent of the Year by the British Press Awards. Website: www.jamesmeek.net
Price: $34.99 ISBN: 9781788735230 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Political ideologies Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Verso Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Civilization Regis Debray
American civilisation's dominance over Europe - and what to do about it
Description 'Civilisation' - a hard term to define. But while every society has a distinctive culture, authentic civilisations must offer those they subjugate an attractive way of life. Their imprint outlasts their imperium.
A century ago, Debray argues, there was a European civilisation of which America was an outlying culture; but today the relationship is reversed. 'In 1900, an American of taste was a European in exile; in 2000, a trendy European is a frustrated American or one waiting for a visa'. Characteristic of American civilization is its three overarching fetishes: space, image and happiness. America is a civilization of space and image, whereas Europe was one of time and writing. And its kitsch infantilism blinds itself to the tragic complexities of human life. A measure of America's success is how its 'globish' jargon has so successfully infiltrated European languages.
For Debray, the dominance of American civilisation is a historical fait accompli, yet he sees a model for Europe in Vienna after its exclusion from the German Reich. For decades to come, Europe can still offer a rich cultural seedbed. 'Some will call it decadence, others liberation. Why not both?'
About the Author Regis Debray teaches philosophy at the Universite de Lyon-III and is director of the European Institute of the History and Science of Religion. He is the author of many books, including Media Manifestos, Critique of Political Reason and God: An Itinerary.
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Verso Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Our History is the Future: Standing Rock vs the Dakota Access Pipeline Nick Estes
How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming 'Water is Life'
Description In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century, attracting tens of thousands of Indigenous and non-Native allies from around the world. Its slogan 'Mni Wiconi' Water is Life was about more than just a pipeline. Water Protectors knew this battle for Native sovereignty had already been fought many times before, and that, even after the encampment was gone, their anti-colonial struggle would continue.
In Our History is the Future, Nick Estes traces traditions of Indigenous resistance leading to the #NoDAPL movement from the days of the Missouri River trading forts through the Indian Wars, the Pick-Sloan dams, the American Indian Movement, and the campaign for Indigenous rights at the United Nations. While a historian by trade, Estes also draws on observations from the encampments and from growing up as a citizen of the Oceti Sakowin (the Nation of the Seven Council Fires), making Our History is the Future at once a work of history, a personal story, and a manifesto.
About the Author Nick Estes is a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. In 2014, he co-founded The Red Nation, an organization dedicated to Native liberation.
Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781786636720 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Indigenous peoples Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Verso Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Fascism and Dictatorship: The Third International and the Problem of Fascism Nicos Poulantzas
A compelling analysis of fascism, replete with insights into the authoritarian movements and states of our time.
Description The resurgence of the far right across Europe and the emergence of the 'alt-right' in the US have put the question of fascism urgently back on the agenda. For those trying to understand these forms of politics, there is no better place to start than Fascism and Dictatorship, the unrivalled Marxist study of German and Italian fascism. It carefully distinguishes between fascism as a mass movement before the seizure of power and what it becomes as an entrenched machinery of dictatorship. It compares the distinct class components of the counterrevolutionary blocs mobilised by fascism in Germany and Italy; analyses the changing relations between the petty bourgeoisie and big capital in the evolution of fascism; discusses the structures of the fascist state itself, as an emergency regime for the defence of capital; and provides a sustained and documented criticism of official Comintern attitudes and policies towards fascism in the fateful years after the Versailles settlement. Fascism and Dictatorship represents a challenging synthesis of factual evidence and conceptual analysis, a standard bearer of what Marxist political theory should be.
About the Author Nicos Poulantzas was born in Athens in 1936 and died in Paris in 1979. His other published works include Political Power and Social Classes, Classes in Contemporary Capitalism, The Crisis of Dictatorships and State, Power, Socialism.
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Verso Academic AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe Dylan Riley
How the development of twentieth-century fascism depended on strong civil societies
Description Drawing on a Gramscian theoretical perspective and developing a systematic comparative approach, The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe challenges the received Tocquevillian consensus on authoritarianism by arguing that fascist regimes, just like mass democracies, depended on well-organised, rather than weak and atomised, civil societies. In making this argument the book focuses on three crucial cases of interwar authoritarianism: Italy, Spain and Romania, selected because they are all counterintuitive from the perspective of established explanations, while usefully demonstrating the range of fascist outcomes in interwar Europe. Civic Foundations argues that, in all three cases, fascism emerged because of the rapid development of voluntary associations, combined with weakly developed political parties among the dominant class, thus creating a crisis of hegemony. Riley then traces the specific form that this crisis took depending on the form of civil society developed (autonomous, as in Italy; elite-dominated, as in Spain; or state- dominated, as in Romania) in the nineteenth century.
About the Author Dylan Riley is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and is on the editorial committee of New Left Review.
Price: $32.99 ISBN: 9781786635235 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 196x129mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Politics & government Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Verso Academic AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 A Walk Through Paris: A Radical Exploration Eric Hazan
A walker's guide to Paris, taking us through its past, present and possible futures
Description Eric Hazan, author of the acclaimed The Invention of Paris, leads us by the hand in this walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, passing such familiar landmarks as the Luxembourg Gardens, the Pompidou Centre, the Gare du Nord and Montmartre, as well as little-known alleyways and arcades. Filled with historical anecdotes, geographical observations and literary references, Hazan's walk guides us through an unknown Paris. He shows us how, through planning and modernisation, the city's revolutionary past has been erased in order to enforce a reactionary future; but by walking and observation, he shows us how we can regain our knowledge of the radical past of the city of Robespierre, the Commune, Sartre and the May '68 uprising. And by drawing on his own life story, as surgeon, publisher and social critic, Hazan vividly illustrates a radical life lived in the city of revolution.
About the Author Eric Hazan is the founder of the publisher La Fabrique and the author of several books, including the celebrated The Invention of Paris. He has lived in Paris all his life.
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Verso Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Futurability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility Francesco Berardi
The most systematic exposition of Bifo's philosophy to date.
Description We live in an age of impotence. Stuck between global war and global finance, between identity and capital, we seem to be incapable of producing that radical change that is so desperately needed. Is there still a way to disentangle ourselves from a global order that shapes our politics as well as our imagination? In his most systematic book to date, renowned Italian theorist Franco Berardi Bifo tackles this question through a solid yet visionary analysis of the three fundamental concepts of Possibility, Potency, and Power. Overcoming any temptation of giving in to despair or nostalgia, Berardi proposes the notion of Futurability as a way to remind us that even within the darkness of our current crisis, still lies dormant the horizon of possibility.
About the Author Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, founder of the famous Radio Alice in 1976 and one of the most prominent members of Autonomia, is a theorist and media activist. His recent books in English include Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide; The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy; The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance; and After the Future.
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Verso Trade AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 We Are Blood And Thunder Kesia Lupo
A stunning and original YA fantasy from a fantastic new talent
Description In a sealed-off city, it begins with a hunt. A young woman, Lena, running for her life, convicted of being a mage and sentenced to death. Her only way to survive is to trust those she has been brought up to fear those with magic. On the other side of the locked gates is a masked lady, Constance, determined to find a way back in. She knows only too well how the people of Du s Forest loathe magic. Years ago she escaped before her powers were discovered. But now she w t hide who she is any longer. A powerful and terrifying storm cloud unites them. It descends over the dukedom and devastates much in its wake. But this is more than a thunderstorm. This is a spell, and the truth behind why it has been cast is more sinister than anyone can imagine ... Only Lena and Constance hold the key to destroying the spell. Though neither of them realise it, they need each other. They are the blood and they have the thunder within.
About the Author Kesia Lupo studied history at Oxford University and creative writing at Bath Spa. She lives in Bristol with her husband and works as a children s book editor, writing in the mornings before work. We Are Blood and Thunder is her first novel.
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Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Super Cats Gwyneth Rees
Cats with superpowers! This brand-new series from bestselling author Gwyneth Rees is every young animal lover's dream come true
Description Cats with superpowers! This brand-new series from bestselling author Gwyneth Rees is every young animal lover's dream come true. Perfect for fans of Holly Webb, Alex T. Smith, and those who want their animal stories with a bit more action!
Tagg's life changed forever when he discovered that he's no ordinary kitten - His parents have super powers! Will Tagg have super strength like his dad, or amazing claws like his mum? All he knows is that his power will be AWESOME. But super cats are disappearing! Can Tagg and his best friend Sugarfoot save the day from a dastardly villain and solve the purr-fect crime?
About the Author Gwyneth Rees is half Welsh and half English and grew up in Scotland. She studied medicine and qualified as a doctor, working as a child and adolescent psychiatrist before she became a full-time writer. Her bestselling books include the Fairy Dust series, Cosmo and the Magic Sneeze and The Mum Hunt, winner of the Red House Award. She lives near London with her husband, two young daughters and one noisy cat. Becka Moor is a children's book illustrator and storyteller living in Manchester. She studied illustration for children's publishing at Glyndwr University, graduating in 2012. Since then she has worked on a variety of fiction books and series as well as picture books. She rents desk space in a stunning Grade II listed building with other creative folk, has an obsession with cats and loves anything a bit on the quirky side.
Price: $12.99 ISBN: 9781408894194 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Fabio the Flamingo Detective 2 Laura James
When a priceless ruby goes missing on the world's fastest train, Fabio is on the case! The second book in the hilarious illustrated mystery series by the author of Captain Pug. For5-7 years.
Description In a small town on the banks of Lake Laloozee lives the world s greatest flamingo detective. His name is Fabio. s not tall or strong, but slight and pink. And s very, very clever.It's the height of summer and Fabio and his associate Gilbert are taking a relaxing holiday journey on the fastest train in the world! But no sooner does the conductor call 'all aboard' than a very expensive ruby necklace disappears and the great detective is back on the case!The second book in the hilarious illustrated mystery series by the author of Captain Pug
About the Author Laura James s love of storytelling began at an early age and led her to undertake a degree in Film Studies and an MA in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University. Laur s debut novel Captain Pug was shortlisted for the Waterstones Childre s Book Prize in 2017. Laura lives near Bath with her two dachshunds, Brian and Florence. Emily Fox is a Bristol- based illustrator who graduated from Falmouth University. She loves to experiment with colour, funny stories and animals, which means that Fabio is the perfect project for her!
Price: $12.99 ISBN: 9781408889343 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 The Deep Fiction 3 Finn Black
A never-seen-on-screen series of original, exciting adventure books featuring Ant, Fontaine, Kaiko and William, the stars of CBBC s number one programme, The Deep, for 7+ readers. Watch the action, read the adventure
Description A never-seen-on-screen series of original, exciting adventure books featuring Ant, Fontaine, Kaiko and William, the stars of CBBC s number one programme, The Deep, for 7+ readers. Watch the action, read the adventureThe sea is deep and full of secrets ...SOMETHING DEADLY IS GROWING IN THE PANAGI RIVER.A fallen star has contaminated the water, endangering the lives of the marine creatures that the Nektons are sworn to protect.But Ant is following a mysterious route mapped out by the Lemurians and he does t realise that the radioactive material has created something enormous in the river. Can he save the creature without putting his family in danger? Perfect for fans of Beast Quest, Sea Quest and Ninjago
About the Author Finn Black is an avid storyteller who grew up weaving exciting tales of the natural world and the explorers who travel it. An ocean-lover and keen surfer, Finn is thrilled to write stories featuring the amazing characters from The Deep, learning more about our planet and the creatures that dwell beneath the waves.
Price: $9.99 ISBN: 9781408898789 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 The Deep Fiction 4 Finn Black
A never-seen-on-screen series of original, exciting adventure books featuring Ant, Fontaine, Kaiko and William, the stars of CBBC s number one programme, The Deep, for 7+ readers. Watch the action, read the adventure
Description A never-seen-on-screen series of original, exciting adventure books featuring Ant, Fontaine, Kaiko and William, the stars of CBBC s number one programme, The Deep, for 7+ readers. Watch the action, read the adventureThe sea is deep and full of secrets ... ANT HAS LED THE NEKTONS TO A SHIP GRAVEYARD. He can't help thinking of treasure hidden among the sunken vessels, but this place is spooky. There's no such a thing as a pirate curse, is there?An old enemy is on the Nekton trail, but something ghostly is also hiding just out of sight. The ocean is a strange place, and Ant is about to come face-to-face with something that will turn everything he believes upside down ...Perfect for fans of Beast Quest, Sea Quest and NinjagoBack Cover Textnone
About the Author Finn Black is an avid storyteller who grew up weaving exciting tales of the natural world and the explorers who travel it. An ocean-lover and keen surfer, Finn is thrilled to write stories featuring the amazing characters from The Deep, learning more about our planet and the creatures that dwell beneath the waves.
Price: $9.99 ISBN: 9781408898802 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Olobob Top: The Olobobs and Friends: Activity and Sticker Book Leigh Hodgkinson & Steve Smith
The friends in the Olobob Forest come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. This brilliant activity and sticker book, based on the widely successful CBeebies series, welcomes little ones to become part of the amazing world of Olobob Top.
Description All the friends in the Olobob Forest come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and each and every one is important! Meet Gurdy, Lemon and Norbet, along with Crunch, Deeno, Groan Up and even the Snoofs, Scuttles and the Topsy Turvies! What Olobob friends will you make? This brilliant activity and sticker book welcomes little ones to become part of the amazing world of Olobob Top with engaging and colourful activities! Have fun helping all the Olobob friends draw a picture of yourself on Lalloo's friendship wall, help Baby Snoof get back to the nest and get dressed for Deeno's disco party. Complete the pages with colourful stickers and create your very own Olobob characters!
About the Author Leigh Hodgkinson is the award-winning art director on the BAFTA award-winning series Charlie and Lola. Along with Steve Smith, the founder of the animation studio Beakus, Leigh is the creative mind behind the Cbeebies series Olobob Top.
Price: $12.99 ISBN: 9781526600721 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 24 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Olobob Top: Let's Visit Big Fish's Pond Leigh Hodgkinson & Steve Smith
The Olobobs are going to Big Fish's Pond today ... In the distance the pond looks very small but up close it's really BIG! Lift the flaps and uncover the many wonders of Big Fish's Pond in this fun board book. Based on the hit CBeebies series, Olobob Top.
Description The Olobobs are going to Big Fish's Pond today ... In the distance the pond looks very small but up close it's really BIG! Lift the flaps and uncover the many wonders of Big Fish's Pond! Join Tib, Lalloo and Bobble on their exciting trip to see Big Fish and all things big and small. A brilliantly fun introduction to sizes and proportion for little ones with lots of lift-the- flap surprises. Help the Olobobs look out for small fish, big rocks and an even BIGGER boat.
About the Author Leigh Hodgkinson is the CILIP Greenway-longlisted artistic talent behind Bloomsbury picture books Are You Sitting Comfortably? and The Famishing Vanishing Mahoosive Mammoth. She is an award-winning animator who was art director on the BAFTA award-winning series Charlie and Lola. Along with Steve Smith, the founder of the animation studio Beakus, Leigh is the creative mind behind the Cbeebies series Olobob Top. Leigh and Steve live in Lewes, near Brighton.
Price: $12.99 ISBN: 9781408899182 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 24 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Max Champion and the Great Race Car Robbery Alexander McCall Smith
An action-packed story of justice, cheese-and-tomato sandwiches and the greatest car ever from bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, with spectacular illustrations by Kate Hindley
Description Start your engines and get in gear for an action-packed story from the bestselling author of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Alexander McCall Smith, with fun and energetic illustrations by Kate Hindley.When Max finds an old car that has his last name Champio on the bonnet, he learns that his grandfather used to make some of the best cars around ... and race them! That is, until his ideas book and his favourite car, Arabella, were stolen by greedy rival Mr Grabber.Can Max find a way to get back what Grandfather Gus lost? And will Arabella ever be seen again?
About the Author Alexander McCall Smith CBE is the author of over sixty books, including the internationally bestselling series The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. He has won three Author of the Year awards (British Book Awards, Bookselle Association and Waterstones). Alexander lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.Kate Hindley lives and works in Birmingham (near the chocolate factory). She studied Illustration at Falmouth College of Art and went on to work for two years as a childr s print designer whilst working freelance on childr’s books and greetings cards. Ka’s first picture book, The Great Snortle Hunt, written by Claire Freedman, was longlisted for the 2013 Kate Greenaway Medal.
Price: $12.99 ISBN: 9781408886120 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 A Tiger for Breakfast: A Bloomsbury Young Reader Narinder Dhami
Ram the farmer is terrified when a tiger threatens to eat him and all his family. But Reeta, Ram's clever wife, believes she can outwit the hungry tiger. Will her plan work? Bloomsbury Young Readers provide engaging, illustrated stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson, tailored to get children reading.
Description Ram the farmer is in trouble. Bali the tiger has threatened to eat him, his wife and their children, unless Ram gives up his pretty white cow. But Reeta, Ram's clever wife, has a plan to outwit the hungry tiger...This beautiful retelling of an Indian folk tale from best-selling author Narinder Dhami is perfect for children who are learning to read by themselves and for Key Stage 1. It features engaging illustrations from Christopher Corr and quirky characters young readers will find hard to resist.Bloomsbury Young Readers are the perfect way to get children reading, with book-banded stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson. They are packed with gorgeous colour illustrations and include inside cover notes to help adults reading with children, as well as ideas for activities related to the stories.Book Band: Turquoise Ideal for ages 6+
About the Author Narinder Dhami is a widely published author of Indian descent. She taught in primary schools for nine years and now writes full-time. She is the author of Bindi Babes and its companion novels, and may be best known for the novelisation of the hit British movie Bend It Like Beckham. As well as her novels for teenagers, Narinder has written many educational titles.Christopher Corr studied art, graphics and illustration at art school in Manchester before completing his Masters at the Royal College in London. He loves old cities, particularly ones where old meets new such as New York, Delhi, Shanghai and Berlin. Colour is important to Christopher and he is fascinated by how it affects people.
Price: $9.99 ISBN: 9781472959584 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Jack and the Jungle: A Bloomsbury Young Reader Malachy Doyle
When Jack kicks his ball over the garden wall, he meets Abbie, his mysterious neighbour, who introduces him to an exciting world filled with snakes, wolves, tigers and giants! Bloomsbury Young Readers provide engaging, illustrated stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson, tailored to get children reading.
Description When Jack kicks his ball over the garden wall, he meets Abbie, his mysterious neighbour, who gives him a glimpse of a whole jungle next door. From slithering snakes to ferocious wolves, Abbie must face them all to get Jack his ball back. But when the tigers and giant appear, Jack must venture into the wild too. This exciting tale from award-winning author Malachy Doyle is perfect for children who are learning to read by themselves and for Key Stage 1. It features engaging illustrations from Paddy Donnelly and quirky characters young readers will find hard to resist.Bloomsbury Young Readers are the perfect way to get children reading, with book-banded stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson. They are packed with gorgeous colour illustrations and include inside cover notes to help adults reading with children, as well as ideas for activities related to the stories.Book Band: PurpleIdeal for ages 6+
About the Author Malachy Doyle lives in Ireland on a tiny island off the coast of Donegal, with his wife, cats, dogs, hens and ducks. Before writing children's books, he worked in advertising and as a teacher for children with special needs. Malachy has written over a hundred books and is the best-selling author of The Hound of Ulster and Rama and Sita: The Story of Diwali. Paddy Donnelly is an Irish illustrator who now lives in Belgium. With over 14 years experience as an illustrator and designer, Paddy now gets to make a living drawing dinosaurs and his five-year-old self is very happy about this.
Price: $9.99 ISBN: 9781472959614 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Go, Go, Pirate Boat Katrina Charman
Take one pirate adventure, add to that a text to read aloud to the tune of 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat', and you have the perfect preschool combination from the bestselling Nick Sharratt and talented newcomer Katrina Charman.
Description Join two seafaring pirates and their captain on a nautical adventure to find a treasure chest. Add to that a text that is read aloud to the tune of Row, Row, Row Your Boa and you have a book that will be enjoyed time and time again! Go, go, pirate boat,Across the salty sea,Raise the anchor, hoist the sail,It's a pirate's life for me.Little pirate fans will have endless fun singing along to the tune of a favourite nursery rhyme and doing the pirate actions in this fun ocean adventure. With bold, colourful illustrations by the instantly recognisable Nick Sharratt and text by talented newcomer Katrina Charman.
About the Author Katrina Charman wanted be a children's writer ever since she was eleven and her school teacher set her class the task of writing an epilogue to Roald Dahl's Matilda. The experience ignited her love of reading and writing and a desire to be a children's author. In 2014 Katrina won the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators' Undiscovered Voices Competition. Since then she has written several young fiction titles for children, and Car, Car, Truck, Jeep was her first picture book and the start of a series with Bloomsbury and Nick Sharratt. Katrina lives in a small village in Berkshire with her husband and three children. Nick Sharratt is the bestselling illustrator of over 250 books for children including books by Dame Jacqueline Wilson, Julia Donaldson and Michael Rosen. His instantly recognisable art style has delighted children for years. Nick lives in Sussex and is the proud owner of a gold Blue Peter badge.
Price: $12.99 ISBN: 9781408866344 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 273x244mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Don't Make Me Cross! Smriti Prasadam-Halls
This grumpy, grouchy Monster needs to learn how to behave! A fun, rhyming story which will strike a chord with all parents and toddlers. From the creators of the bestselling Don't Call Me Sweet!
Description I'm a little monster, I am smiley, small and sweet,With gorgeous little monster eyes and furry monster feet.There's just one thing that you should know I have to be the boss. And if you don't remembe I'll get very VERY CROSS!It's Little Monster's birthday and his friends are coming to his party. But it's not much fun playing party games with someone who always has to wi or having birthday tea with someone who wants ALL the food for himself. It's time this grumpy, grouchy Monster learned how to behave!With funny rhyming text and delightful illustrations, this is the perfect picture book for little monsters everywhere.
About the Author Smriti Prasadam-Halls has been a children's writer for more than ten years and has written several children's books, including the bestselling Jingle Jangle Jungle, illustrated by Axel Scheffler. Her books for Bloomsbury include Don't Call Me Sweet, I Love You Night and Day and I'll Never Let You Go. Smriti lives in London.www.smriti.co.ukAngela Rozelaar grew up in Kent, and has lived in London, Brighton, Devon, Sweden and France. Angela now lives in Normandy, where she shares an old farmhouse with her family. This is Angela's second book with Bloomsbury, a follow-up to Don't Call Me Sweet!.
Price: $12.99 ISBN: 9781408885611 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Jump About with Ted Sophy Henn
Meet Ted, a charming pre-school character in a colourful series from award-winning Sophy Henn. Lift the flaps to find out which animal friend Ted will jump about with today. Toddlers will adore this chunky board book perfect for little imaginations!
Description Which animal friend will Ted jump about with today? Will he hop like a fluffy, snuffly bunny? Or leap like a lovely little lamb? Or maybe even spring up and down like a funny, croaky frog? Lift the flaps to find out what Ted's marvellous imagination can conjure up this time.With sturdy flaps to lift on every page, this colourful pre-school series featuring the charming Ted is ideal for little hands.
About the Author Sophy Henn studied fashion at Central Saint Martins, accidentally had a London-based career in advertising, then completed an MA in Illustration at the University of Brighton. Now she writes and illustrates children s books full-time in Sussex. She was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal for Where Bear? in 2015 and was shortlisted for the AOI Illustration Awards in 2014. She was the World Book Day Illustrator for 2016.
Price: $14.99 ISBN: 9781408888803 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 12 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Let's Explore with Ted Sophy Henn
Meet Ted a charming pre-school character in a colourful series from award-winning Sophy Henn. Lift the flaps to discover which magical place Ted will explore today. Toddlers will adore this chunky board book perfect for little imaginations!
Description Which magical place will Ted explore today? A cold, snowy iceberg with lots of slippery seals? A hot, tropical jungle full of tigers and leopards? Or maybe the tippity-top of a mountain where the giddy goats live! Lift the flaps to find out where Ted's marvellous imagination will take him this time. With sturdy flaps to lift on every page, this colourful pre-school series featuring the charming Ted is ideal for little hands.
About the Author Sophy Henn studied fashion at Central Saint Martins, accidentally had a London-based career in advertising, then completed an MA in Illustration at the University of Brighton. Now she writes and illustrates children's books full-time in Sussex. She was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal for Where Bear? in 2015 and was shortlisted for the AOI Illustration Awards in 2014. She was the World Book Day Illustrator for 2016.
Price: $14.99 ISBN: 9781408888810 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 12 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Perfectly Peculiar Pets Ellie Woollard
Elli Woollard presents a lovely, illustrated collection of poems for younger children about pets which are just a little bit peculiar... Filled with fun rhymes and exotic animals, these poems are perfect for sharing.
Description From armadillos, flamingos and umbrella birds to quokkas and iguanas, Elli Woollard presents a lovely collection of poems for younger children about pets which are just a little bit peculiar... Filled with fun rhymes, quirky black-and-white illustrations and exotic animals, this book is perfect for reading aloud. Some poems are hilarious, some are gruesome and some will make you want to wash your hair, but there's sure to be a pet poem here for every child and adult alike.
About the Author Elli Woollard is a writer of picture books, young fiction and poetry. She has worked variously as a teacher of English as a foreign language, a copywriter, an editor and a freelance Thai to English translator having lived in Thailand for seven years. She now lives in London with her husband, four children, two guinea pigs, a cat and (unintentionally) lots of spiders and mice.
Price: $11.99 ISBN: 9781472958464 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 64 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 KEW: Growing Things: A Sticker and Activity Claire Rossiter
There are so many different things you can find growing in the garden! A delicately illustrated activity and sticker book with links to the national curriculum that will get little ones curious to explore the many wonders in their garden. Published in partnership with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Description Join Rosie, Ren and Gran as they spot spring flowers, discover what grows in a greenhouse and taste the delicious foods that come from plants. Strawberries, blueberries, peas and carrots YUM!This activity book is the perfect first introduction to the marvellous things that grow just outside our back door. With delightful illustrations by the much-loved Clair Rossiter and plenty of activities that link to the national curriculum for Key Stage 1, entertain little nature lovers by making paper flowers, creating a bee hotel and even baking a delicious apple cake. Produced in partnership with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Kew is the world famous centre for botanical and mycological knowledge. Over the past 250 years, Kew has made innumerable contributions to increasing the understanding of plants and fungi, with many benefits for humankind.Activities include: spotting spring flowers, planting sunflowers, learning what makes up a flower, making a cress head, growing your own basil, starting your own allotment and more.
About the Author Clair Rossiter is an illustrator currently based just outside of London who graduated from Falmouth University in 2014. She works mainly in gouache, ink and colouring pencils, before finishing her work digitally. Clair always seeks to create a sense of joy in her work through wobbly lines and imperfections. She also has a special talent for making a mess, and her desk is usually a precarious balancing act of paint pots and sketchbooks. When not drawing, Clair can often be found reading picture books and eating cheese.
Price: $12.99 ISBN: 9781408899168 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 The Sea Painter's World: The new marine art of Geoff Hunt, 2003-2010 Geoff Hunt
This follow-up to the Marine Art of Geoff Hunt showcases his spectacular catalogue of work since 2003. The renowned artist responsible for the covers of Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey-Maturin covers novels provides the world with an authentic portrait of each of his maritime subjects.
Description This timely follow-up to Conway's highly successful Marine Art of Geoff Hunt (2004) presents the considerable artistic output of Britain's leading marine painter since 2003. This new volume is heavily illustrated with images ranging from large paintings to sketchbook drawings with text written by the artist himself. The new book reflects Hunt's developing career during a time in which he served a five-year term as President of the Royal Society of Marine Artists, worked on large-scale paintings such as the definitive Mary Rose,and also completed numerous outdoor sketches and paintings. The book is divided into six sections: 1. The Sea Painter's World, an introduction to the artist's studio work at Merton Place, London and his plein air work on the River Thames; 2. Home Waters; 3. The Mediterranean; 4. In the Wake of Nelson; 5. North America and 6. The West Indies and Beyond. This concept sets Geoff's work in a broadly geographical context, showcasing the artist's freer plein air style alongside the exhaustively researched maritime history paintings to which he owes his standing as Britain's leading marine artist.
About the Author Geoff Hunt is a former President of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. His work is represented in public and private collections worldwide, and Geoff is an expert on the Navy of Nelson and Patrick O'Brian. In 2004 The Marine Art of Geoff Hunt was published to much acclaim, presenting over 100 of the artist's key works from a thirty year career. Geoff's studio is on the site of Nelson's house at Merton Place.
Price: $64.99 ISBN: 9781472969804 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Adlard Coles Nautica AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Wildlife Gardening for Everyone (and Everything) Kate Bradbury
An easy-to-follow gardening guide endorsed by the Wildlife Trusts and the RHS to help you encourage different types of wildlife into your garden
Description Wildlife Gardening for Everyone (and Everything) is a useful and easy-to-follow gardening guide endorsed by the Wildlife Trusts and the RHS, with a strong focus on the different types of wildlife you can attract to your garden.
The book breaks down by accessible groups of species, and each chapter explains what they require to thrive, what their role in the garden is and how they contribute to the garden ecosystem. The first chapters begin with the favourites that all gardeners know and love, such as the pollinators, birds and amphibians. Later sections of the book explore species that are more likely to be overlooked, including the wasps, flies and spiders, explaining the crucial role they play and how to provide for them.
Every chapter will include wide-ranging suggestions of useful plants and projects that will be relevant to all, regardless of the size of their available space, ranging from an urban balcony or patio to a community or large garden. You will be encouraged not only to create but also to relax and observe the habitats in your garden through the year. Ultimately, this is a book about creating a space that's as much for you as it is for the other species you welcome into it, and about getting to know the wildlife around you.
About the Author Kate Bradbury is the wildlife editor on BBC Gardeners' World magazine, and a freelance writer for the Guardian, BBC Wildlife magazine, and Telegraph Gardening. Kate is a regular contributor to BBC Gardener's Question Time. Her book The Wildlife Gardener (published by Kyle Books, May 2013) was the Environmental Award winner at the Garden Media Guild Awards in 2013.
Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781472956057 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Gardening Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Natural History AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Looking for the Goshawk Conor Mark Jameson
Looking for the Goshawk recounts the author's search for the Goshawk, a charismatic raptor commonly seen in Europe but highly elusive in the UK.
Description The book traces Conor Jameson's travels in search of the Goshawk, a magnificent yet rarely seen (in Britain at least) raptor. Each episode of the narrative arises from personal experience, investigation, and the unearthing of information from research, exploration and conversations. The journey takes him from an encounter with a stuffed Goshawk in a glass case, through travels into supposed Goshawk territories in Britain, to Berlin - where he finds the bird at ease in the city. Why, he wants to know, is the bird so rarely seen in Britain? He explores the politics of birdwatching, the sport of falconry and the impact of persecution on the recent history of the bird in Britain and travels the length of Britain, through central Europe and the USA in search of answers to the goshawk mystery. Throughout his journey he is inspired by the writings of T H White who told of his attempts to tame a Goshawk in his much-loved book. It's a gripping tale on the trail of a most mysterious and charismatic bird.
About the Author Conor Jameson works for the RSPB and has contributed to numerous wildlife magazines including the RSPB's Birds magazine and BBC Wildlife. In 2010 he won the BBC Wildlife Nature Writer of the Year award with his article, Phantom about an encounter with a Goshawk in Berlin. His first book Silent Spring Revisited was published by Bloomsbury in spring 2012. He is currently working on a book about the collapse of the Asian vulture population and the efforts being made to save the bird.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781472969170 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Wildlife: general interest Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Natural History AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 A Complete Guide to Antarctic Wildlife Hadoram Shirihai
The only complete guide to the wildlife and natural history of the vast, beautiful Antarctic region. Illustrates all the region's birds and marine mammals with stunning colour photos, and includes distribution maps and up-to-date species accounts expertly detailing abundance, seasonal status, and conservation prospects.
Description This spectacularly illustrated book is the only complete guide to the wildlife and natural history of the vast and beautiful Antarctic region. Covering the Antarctic continent, the southern ocean, and the subantarctic islands, this guide illustrates all of the region's breeding birds and marine mammals with stunning colour photographs. In addition to the colour plates, it features distribution maps and up-to-date species accounts expertly detailing abundance, seasonal status, and conservation prospects. The volume also covers numerous nonbreeding species, migrants, and vagrants. Regional chapters describe all of the subantarctic islands, in addition to most regularly visited sites in Antarctica, and are accompanied by maps of each area and photographs of each locale. These chapters present detailed information on geography, climate, geology, general ecology, and flora. They also address conservation efforts - past, present, and planned. The book concludes with practical information about visiting the area, including details on the best-available landing sites and notes on seasonal weather conditions. This is an indispensable companion for a trip far south, as well as an Price: $89.99 informative volume for anyone interested in the Antarctic region's ISBN: 9781472969989 remarkable, occasionally strange, and frequently beautiful animals. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 544 pages About the Author Bic1: Natural history Hadoram Shirihai is an award-winning author who has travelled Bic2: extensively in the Southern Ocean and Antarctica. His previous books Illustrations: Previous Titles: include Birds of Israel, Sylvia Warblers and Whales, Dolphins and Seals. Author now living:
BLM Natural History AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Whales, Dolphins and Seals: A field guide to the marine mammals of the world Brett Jarrett, Hadoram Shirihai
The author's unique depth of experience and knowledge, coupled with the artist's unrivalled skill, have come together to produce a neat, practical field guide that will enable any observer to quickly identify any mammals they may encounter at sea.
Description This new field guide is a complete and convenient reference to every species of cetacean, pinniped and sirenian in the world, along with the Marine and Sea Otters and the Polar Bear. Every species is illustrated with magnificent colour paintings and a stunning collection of photographs, chosen to illustrate the key field marks which can be used to separate each species in the field.
The author's unique depth of experience and knowledge, coupled with the artist's unrivalled skill, have come together to produce a neat, practical field guide that will enable any observer to quickly identify any mammals they may encounter at sea.
About the Author Hadoram Shirihai is a globally reknowned ornithologist and mammalogist with many books to his credit including the award-winning Antarctic Wildlife (Alula) and Sylvia Warblers (Helm). Brett Jarrett is an acclaimed wildlife artist.
Price: $39.99 ISBN: 9781472969668 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Marine & freshwater mammals Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Natural History AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Flora of the Silk Road Basak Gardner, Christopher Gardner
Revealing the most spectacular floral region on earth
Description The Silk Road - a name that has enchanted for centuries. Yet a well kept secret, even today, is that this fabled route linking Europe with Asia is also the most spectacular floral region on earth. Chris and Basak Gardner offer a unique pictorial celebration of the plants and scenery to be found along its 5,000 miles. Embracing Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Central Asia and China, more than five hundred of the finest wild flowers are depicted together with the beautiful landscapes in which these botanical paradises are found. With an accompanying text giving descriptions of the species, plant families and their distribution, as well as information on photographing plants in the wild, this unique book will amaze and delight not only those with an interest in the spectacular and legendary landscapes that form the Silk Road but also plantsmen and horticulturalists worldwide.
About the Author Chris and Basak Gardner have lead specialist botanical and wildlife tours worldwide for many years, particularly in the countries of the Silk Road. Both are professional botanists with extensive experience in identifying and photographing flowers. Chris is also an experienced garden designer and co-author of the successful book, ' The Plant Hunters' (1998). Basak was Head of Herbarium at Nezahat Gokyigit Botanic Garden in Istanbul.
Price: $69.99 ISBN: 9781472969101 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Botany & plant sciences Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Natural History AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Pilgrim Days: From Vietnam to the SAS Alastair MacKenzie
THis title details the author's unique military expericne, from platoon command in the jungles of Vietnam, through service with the Paras in Northern Ireland, commanding a troop in the legendary 22 SAS, operating with the ParaBats in South Africa and training the Special Forces of Oman.
Description 'We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go, Always a little further; it may be, Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow'. And if there was ever anyone who went a little further, a little beyond, it was Alastair MacKenzie. In a career spanning 30 years, MacKenzie served uniquely with the New Zealand Army in Vietnam, the British Parachute Regiment, the British Special Air Service, the South African Defence Force's famed ParaBats, the Sultan of Oman's Special Forces and a host of private security agencies and defence contractors, MacKenzie lived the soldier's life to full as he's journeyed the 'the Golden Road to Samarkand'. This extraordinary new work from the author of Special Force: The Untold Story of 22nd Special Air Service Regiment (SAS), vividly documents in a detail that stuns, the experience of infantry combat in Vietnam, life with the Paras, the tempo of selection for UK Special Forces, covert SAS operations in South Armagh and SAS Counter Terrorist training on the UK mainland, vehicle mounted Pathfinder Brigade insertions into Angola and maritime counter-terrorism work in Oman.
About the Author Alastair MacKenzie comes from a military family of long standing and he served as a para-trained platoon commander for 12 months with the New Zealand infantry on combat operations in South Vietnam and in the special forces of South Africa, Oman and the UK, where for four years he was troop commander in the 22nd Special Air Service Regiment. After his retirement as a full-time Army officer he enjoyed a successful commercial career with Royal Ordnance and British Aerospace before moving to consultancy roles. In civilian life he retained an involvement with the Territorial Army as an SAS officer and retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel in 2001. He obtained his PhD in Politics in 2005 and is the author of published works including Special Force: The Untold Story of 22nd Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) and The Sounds Soldiers' Memorial Stories of the Fallen.
Price: $39.99 ISBN: 9781472833181 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 A6M Zero-sen Aces 1940-42 Nicholas Millman
Fully illustrated study of the famous Mitsubishi A6M Zero-sen in the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force (IJNAF) campaigns between 1940-1943, focusing on the A6M2 and A6M2-N floatplane fighter variants.
Description The Mitsubishi A6M Zero-sen was Japan's Spitfire. In continuous development and operational service from the time of the Sino-Japanese war in 1940 to the end of the Pacific War in 1945, it is held in almost mythical awe, similar to Britain's legendary fighter aircraft.
At the time of its operational debut the fighter's design features offered the revolutionary combination of an all-round vision canopy, cannon armament and a jettisonable drop tank giving it phenomenal range. Together with the flying and tactical proficiency of superbly trained pilots, this made the Zero-sen a true strategic fighter, spearheading Japan's offensive in the Pacific. It was also the mount of a plethora of successful and flamboyant naval aces engaged in both sea and land campaigns.
This volume, the first of two on the A6M Zero-sen, covers the use of the A6M2 variant from its debut in China to the Solomons Campaign, and also tells the story of the A6M2-N 'Rufe' floatplane fighter aces.
About the Author Nicholas Millman is one of Britain's leading researchers of Japanese military aviation. He is the author of three previous Aircraft of the Aces titles for Osprey, and in addition to publishing articles in specialist journals and supporting the research of other authors, he runs his own website dedicated to the subject which attracts visitors from 195 countries. He is a member of Pacific Air War History Associates, an international group of authors and researchers working in this field. Having spent much of his working life in the Far East, he has an abiding interest in the history of military aviation in that part of the world, and first-hand knowledge of the geography, languages and people. He lives in Bury St Edmonds.
Ronnie Olsthoorn was born and raised in the Netherlands, where he studied aeronautical engineering. After graduating he chose to become a professional artist and soon moved to the UK. Currently a freelancer, Ronnie has created artwork Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781472821447 for 15 computer games and even more aviation books. His work has also appeared in forensic air crash visualisations Format: Paperback and numerous aviation and digital arts magazines. He lives in Voorschoten, Netherlands. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 European Ironclads 1860-75 Angus Konstam
The story of the most revolutionary period in naval history - the first iron-hulled, steam-powered warships, their first battles at sea, and the great arms race that followed.
Description From Spain to Russia, and from Ottoman Turkey to Bismarck's Prussia, this book explores 15 years that transformed European naval warfare. When the Gloire slid down the Toulon slipway in 1859, it changed sea power forever. With this ship, the world's first oceangoing ironclad, France had a warship that could sink any other, and which was proof against the guns of any wooden ship afloat. Instantly, an arms race began between the great navies of Europe first to build their own ironclads, and then to surpass each other's technology and designs. As both armour and gun technology rapidly improved, naval architects found new ways to mount and protect guns. The ram briefly came back into fashion, and Italian and Austro-Hungarian fleets fought the ironclad era's great battle at Lissa. By the end of this revolutionary period, the modern battleship was becoming recognizable, and new naval powers were emerging to dominate Europe's waters.
About the Author Angus Konstam hails from the Orkney Islands, and is the author of over 80 books, 60 of which are published by Osprey. This acclaimed author has written widely on naval history, from Sovereigns of the Seas and Piracy: The Complete History to his most recent bestseller, Jutland 1916: Twelve Hours to Win the War. A former naval officer and museum professional, he worked as the Curator in both the Royal Armouries, Tower of London and the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum in Key West, Florida. He now works as a full-time author and historian, and lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Price: $24.99 ISBN: 9781472826763 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 48 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Hitler's Death: The Case Against Conspiracy Luke Daly-Groves
A revealing look at the many conspiracy theories surrounding the death of the twentieth century's most destructive dictator
Description Did Hitler shoot himself in the Fohrerbunker or did he slip past the Soviets and escape to South America? Countless documentaries, newspaper articles and internet pages written by conspiracy theorists have lead the ongoing debate surrounding Hitler's last days. Historians have not yet managed to make a serious response. Until now. This book is the first attempt by an academic to return to the evidence of Hitler's suicide in order to scrutinise the most recent arguments of conspiracy theorists using scientific methods. Through analysis of recently declassified MI5 files, previously unpublished sketches of Hitler's bunker, personal accounts of intelligence officers along with stories of shoot- outs, plunder and secret agents, this scrupulously researched book takes on the doubters to tell the full story of how Hitler died.
About the Author Luke Daly-Groves is a PhD researcher based at the University of Leeds. His doctoral research analyses Anglo-American intelligence relations in occupied Germany. In 2015 he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree with First Class Honours in History from the University of Central Lancashire and was awarded the Sydney Lee Prize for History. In 2016 he was awarded the degree of Master of Arts in Modern History with Distinction from the University of Leeds. His MA dissertation won the Marion Sharples Prize.
Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781472834546 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Armies of the Baltic Independence Wars 1918-20 Nigel Thomas, Toomas Boltowsky
Fully illustrated study into the many conflicting national forces contending for the Baltic coast region in the immediate aftermath of World War I and during the Russian Revolution.
Description Immediately following the end of World War I, amid the collapse of the German, Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires, bitter fighting broke out in the Baltic region as Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania struggled for their independence, and Red and White Russian armies began their civil war. There were also German forces still active in what had been the northern end of Germany's Eastern Front. This book offers a concise but detailed introduction to this whole theatre of war, focusing on the Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and relevant German and Russian forces, plus Finnish, Danish and Swedish contingents. For each region there is a detailed map as well as meticulous orders-of-battle and insignia charts. Detailed for the first time in the English language, this fascinating book concisely tells the story of the birth of these Baltic nation states.
About the Author Dr Nigel Thomas is an accomplished linguist and military historian, formerly at Northumbria University, now a freelance military author, translator and military uniform consultant. His interests are 20th-century military and civil uniformed organizations, with a special interest in Germany, Central and Eastern Europe. He was awarded a PhD on the Eastern enlargement of NATO. He lives in Tyne and Wear, UK. Lieutenant Colonel Toomas Boltowsky has been a professional soldier for 25 years, joining the army in 1991 after Estonia regained its independence. He has served in various positions in the Estonian Defence Forces, most recently as Chief of the Arms Control and Verification Centre. A graduate of Tartu University and of the Baltic Defence College, he is currently a lecturer at the latter institution, and is working on several projects focusing on ancient and medieval warfare. Johnny Shumate works as a freelance illustrator living in Nashville, Tennessee. He began his career in 1987 after graduating from Austin Peay State University. Most of his work is rendered in Adobe Photoshop using a Cintiq monitor. His greatest influences are Angus McBride, Don Troiani and Edouard Detaille.
Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781472830777 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 48 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Holding the Line: The Naval Air Campaign in Korea Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
The gripping story of Task Force 77, the US Navy carrier commitment to the Korean War that was vital to the success of the UN forces battling the Chinese and North Koreans.
Description Naval and air power was crucial to the United Nations' success in the Korean War, as it sought to negate the overwhelming Chinese advantage in manpower. In what became known as the 'long hard slog', naval aviators sought to slow and cut off communist forces and support troops on the ground. USS Leyte (CV-32) operated off Korea in the Sea of Japan for a record 93 continuous days to support the Marines in their epic retreat out of North Korea, and was crucial in the battles of the spring and summer of 1951 in which the UN forces again battled to the 38th Parallel. All of this was accomplished with a force that was in the midst of change, as jet aircraft altered the entire nature of naval aviation. Holding the Line chronicles the carrier war in Korea from the first day of the war to the last, focusing on front-line combat, while also describing the technical development of aircraft and shipboard operations, and how these all affected the broader strategic situation on the Korean Peninsula.
About the Author Thomas McKelvey Cleaver is the author of the well-received and best-selling Fabled Fifteen: The Pacific War Saga of Carrier Air Group 15, a history of the US Navy's top-scoring carrier air group in World War II, published by Casemate. He is additionally the author of F4F and F6F Aces of VF-2 published by Osprey, and also the author of Pacific Thunder (2017) and Tidal Wave (2018) a history of the carrier battles in the Pacific War. He lives in Encino, California, USA.
Price: $39.99 ISBN: 9781472831729 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 The Aleutians 1942-43: Struggle for the North Pacific Brian Lane Herder
A highly illustrated study of the Japanese conquest and American reconquest of the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska, one of the most inhospitable theatres of World War II.
Description It is often forgotten that during World War II, the Japanese managed to successfully invade and conquer a precious part of American home soil the first time this had happened since 1815. Capturing the Aleutian Islands, located in Alaska territory, was seen by the Japanese as vital in order to shore up their northern defensive perimeter. Fighting in the Aleutians was uniquely brutal. It is a barren, rugged archipelago of icy mountains and thick bogs, with a climate of constant snow, freezing rains and windstorms. These geographic conditions tended to neutralize traditional American strengths such as air power, radar, naval bombardment and logistics. The campaign to recapture the islands required extensive combined-ops planning, and inflicted on the United States its second highest casualty rate in the Pacific theatre. Featuring the largest Japanese banzai charge of the war, first use of pre-battle battleship bombardment in the Pacific and the battle at the Komandorski Islands, this is the full story of the forgotten battle to liberate American soil from the Japanese.
About the Author Born in 1981, Brian Lane Herder graduated with a BA in History from the University of Kansas in 2003 and a Masters of Library Science from Emporia State University in 2009. He is a legislative librarian for the Kansas state government and his historical research interests include the US military, naval warfare and World War II. He lives in Topeka, Kansas, USA. Singpore born and bred, Dorothy J. Hwee started her career at Imaginary Friends Studios. LucasArts was her first stepping stone into the video game industry as a concept artist, and she has had the privilege of working with some of the great art directors from LucasFilm. She is now a Senior Concept Artist in one of Japan's most well known video game companies, Bandai Namco Studios Singapore and has worked on titles such as, Star Wars: Battle Pod (lead concept artist), Star Wars: 1313, God Eater 2: Rage Burst and Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown.
Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781472832542 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Men of Bronze Eric Farrington
A set of large skirmish/small battle wargames rules for hoplite warfare in Ancient Greece.
Description Men of Bronze is a wargame that allows you to play out Classical Greek hoplite battles on the tabletop. Players are Strategos (generals) leading phalanxes of bronze-clad warriors in pursuit of fame, glory, and the honor of their city-states. To win such prizes, however, you must prove your mettle, display your valor, and bring the other Strategos to their knees! Designed to recreate small battles or larger skirmishes with 50 80 figures per side, each army will have its own unique mix of rules, advantages, backgrounds, and abilities. Strategos must understand and appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of their forces in order to win glory on the battlefield. Of course, there's no telling what tricks a rival Stratego might have up their tunic sleeves -
About the Author Eric Farrington is a veteran wargamer since the late 80s. He started his path in Fantasy and Sci-fi wargaming before moving into historicals. He has a BA in History from the University of Minnesota, is a corporate efficiency expert, and owns a number of small businesses including Blood and Spectacles Publishing. Eric is married with one child and has lived in Minnesota most of his life. Peter Dennis was inspired by contemporary magazines such as Look and Learn, leading him to study Illustration at Liverpool Art College. Peter has since contributed to hundreds of books, predominantly on historical subjects, including many Osprey titles. A keen wargamer and modelmaker, he is based in Nottinghamshire, UK.
Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781472832610 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 64 pages Bic1: Role-playing, war games & fantasy sports Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey Games AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Gin: A Short History Moses Jenkins
An accessible and colourful illustrated narrative of the manufacturing and social history of a favourite British tipple.
Description Gin is a drink deeply rooted in British culture. From 'Dutch Courage' to 'Gin Soaked' our language is full of expressions which reflect our gin drinking heritage. Consumed straight or as part of a mixed drink such as gin and tonic, martini or Pimms, gin has been a part of British drinking culture for over 400 years. First consumed in Britain after importation from the Netherlands in the seventeenth century, Britain was gripped by the Gin Craze in the early eighteenth century, when the drink was dubbed 'mothers ruin'. In the nineteenth century gin became more respectable as advances in distilling led to a drink of higher quality and improved flavour, which was consumed in lavish gin palaces highly decorative public houses of the Victorian and Edwardian era. In recent years a twenty-first century renaissance in gin drinking and craft gin production has led to the drink once again rising high in our national conscience. This book explores the processes involved in manufacturing gin, the history of its production and consumption as well as modern methods of distilling and drinking the spirit.
About the Author Moses Jenkins is Senior Technical Officer at Historic Environment Scotland, and gained his PhD in 2016. He has written various technical guidance notes on subjects including brickwork and energy efficiency and contributes a regular column to the Victorian magazine.
Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9781784423438 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 112 pages Bic1: British & Irish history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 1970s Childhood Liza Hollinghurst
A colourfully illustrated introduction to what British childhood was like in the 1970s.
Description The 1970s was a decade of style contrasts: every extreme of fashion was met by an equally trendy opposite reaction. Ankle-length maxi skirts vied for attention with super-short hot-pants. Outfits in vibrant prints and obviously man-made fabrics contrasted with subtly-coloured ensembles in wool jerseys and silky crepes. Delicate floral cottons, hand-knits and hand-tooled leather came up against boldly synthetic and plastic looks perched atop platform shoes for men and women alike. More so than at any other time, fashion looked backwards in order to dress the future with quirkily ironic retro looks, while alternative street-style movements such as Punk used appearance to startle and challenge the establishment. In this book, Daniel Milford-Cottam uses colourful photographs to illustrate an eye-opening introduction to the bold fashions that still have such resonance today.
About the Author Liza Hollinghurst, herself a child of the 1970s, has had over thirty magazine articles published since 2013, specialising in twentieth-century social history and vintage lifestyle. Liza's first book, Vintage Knitting, was published by Shire in 2015.
Price: $16.99 ISBN: 9781784423285 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 64 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Vespa and Lambretta Motor Scooters Stuart Owen
The story of Lambretta and Vespa scooters in the UK and their social history.
Description Vespa and Lambretta remain the two most iconic motor scooter brands, even four decades after the latter's demise. But what made them such a European sensation in the postwar era? And why were they particularly popular in Britain in the 1950s and '60s? Motor scooter expert Stuart Owen explains the rise of Innocenti's Lambretta and Piaggio's Vespa, from the wartime ruins of Italy, through years of plenty as the two manufacturers exploited a ready market for affordable, economic transport, and then their decline into more uncertain times as motor cars trespassed on their success. He also explores the rich history of accessorising and customising the scooters, their essential role in the mod movement, and the revival in Vespa's fortunes following the release of the cult film Quadrophenia.
About the Author Stuart Owen has written more than two hundred regular features for Scootering Magazine and in 2017 he published his first book on the history of the Lambretta. He has been involved in the scooter industry for more than 30 years, owning both Lambrettas and Vespas and running a business to cater for them.
Price: $16.99 ISBN: 9781784423148 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 64 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Toy Train Sets: 1938-1975 Paul Atterbury
The ideal introduction to electric train sets from the Second World War to 1975.
Description The 00 gauge train set was the ultimate 'boy's toy' of the 1950s and '60s.Electric 00 gauge trains were introduced by Trix and Hornby Dublo in the mid-1930s, but the Second World War quickly halted production. However, they burst back onto the post-war scene with great success, and 00 quickly became the dominant scale in Britain, and was taken up by other large manufacturers including Tri-ang. Whilst the components of the sets themselves were often basic, they could be transformed into astonishing landscapes in the hands of imaginative builders. The sheer number of box sets, locomotives, rolling stock, buildings and accessories gave everyone the ability to form a bespoke layout. This beautifully illustrated introduction to the heyday of clockwork and electric 00 gauge trains tells their story up until 1975, when finer detailing and changing trends led to them becoming enthusiasts' models rather than children's toys.
About the Author Bob Leggett has had a lifelong enthusiasm for railways and train sets and is a committee member of the Train Collectors Society. In 1993 he started the Alresford Festival of Toy Trains and he has his own post-war toy museum at Beale Park, Pangbourne.
Price: $15.99 ISBN: 9781784423087 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 64 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 The End Of The Rainbow Peter Quilter
Musical drama of Judy Garland's 'come-back' concerts
Description Musical drama of Judy Garland's 'come-back' concerts Christmas 1968: with a six week booking at London's Talk of the Town, it looks like Judy Garland is set firmly on the comeback trail. The failed marriages, the suicide attempts and the addictions are all behind her. At forty-six and with new flame Mickey Deans at her side, she seems determined to carry it off and recapture her magic. But lasting happiness always eludes some people, and there was never any answer to the question with which Judy ended every show: 'If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why, oh, why, can't I?' End of the Rainbow is a savagely funny drama featuring a glorious ensemble of Judy Garland hits and infused with the glamour and the melancholy of stardom. 'Every note she sings, every racket she makes, every tear she sheds, every joke she cracks, every pill she pops - is conveyed with alarming honesty. This knockout portrait of a living catastrophe should not be missed.' What's On Published to tie-in with the premiere at the Sydney Opera House in July 2005
About the Author Peter Quilter's work includes Respecting Your Piers (UK tour, 1994 and amateur productions worldwide ); The Canterville Ghost (number one UK tour, 1998 starring Ron Moody); Stand by your Man (number on e UK tour, 1999/2000); Boyband (Palace Westcliff, Derby Playhouse, Gielgud Theatre, Nico Centre in C ape Town and tour of Holland and Denmark, produced by PW Productions, Adam Spiegel, Mark Vijn, 1997-2001); Glorious! (Birmingham Rep Theatre and UK tour, 2005 produced by Michael Codron and starring M aurcen Lipman).
Price: $26.95 ISBN: 9780413775320 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x127mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Methuen Drama AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Teaching Playwriting: Creativity in Practice Paul Gardiner
This book presents the latest research on teaching playwriting toyoung people. It offers a new approach, based upon dramaturgical and creativity theory that enables teachers to sequence rigorous teaching and learning activities for students across a range of contexts.
Description Playwriting is a skill under-explored in the classroom, despite the strong evidence that it's an engaging and rewarding activity for young people. Teaching Playwriting addresses this gap and is an essential resource for teachers wanting to gain the skills and confidence necessary to introduce playwriting to their students. Based on rich research and clearly explained theoretical concepts, the book explores the lessons from creativity theory that will provide the teacher with the skills and knowledge necessary to empower students' writing and creativity. It also includes extensive practical activities and writing exercises to develop students' playwriting proficiency and creative capacity. Discussing key concepts in playwriting such as idea, dialogue, character, action and structure, the book enables teachers to respond to the unique learning needs of their students and help them tell their stories and reach their potential as young playwrights.
About the Author Dr Paul Gardiner lectures in creativity, drama education and pedagogy in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney. He is an experienced Drama and English teacher, having taught in secondary schools for nearly twenty years before embarking on his doctoral studies. He was Senior Marker for the Scriptwriting component of the NSW HSC Drama exam and continues to offer playwriting workshops for teachers and students.
Price: $49.99 ISBN: 9781474288019 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Theatre direction & production Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Methuen Drama AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Rebel Voices: Monologues for Women by Women: Celebrating 40 Years of Clean Break's Rebel Voices Edited by Roisin McBrinn and Laura Mooney
Clean Break, the long-established theatre company that champions women from the criminal justice system, presents a diverse collection of monologues written by women for female performers.
Description Drawn together from over 40 years of writing from Clean Break theatre company, this collection features the unheard voices in the criminal justice system. Offering a diverse set of monologues representing a range of characters in age, ethnicity and lived experience, Monologues for Women by Women is just that: an opportunity for female performers to celebrate the opportunities inherent in allowing women to represent themselves. The themes of the body of work itself are by necessity diverse, but are united by the stories of women in the justice system which inevitably bringing themes of poverty, family, love, motherhood, friendship, money, reproductive labour and freedom to the fore. Readers will encounter the trafficked woman who dreams of taking her daughter to Brighton Beach; the policewoman who cannot move past her own teenage transgressions; the rigid Nigerian mother who refuses to understand her daughter's history of addiction or the abuse it stems from. By turns moving, funny and darkly self-aware, these monologues will humanise and dramatise the real women caught up in the justice system, who are all too often misunderstood and silenced. The monologues include both published and unpublished works and feature writers such as: Chloe Moss, Theresa Ikoko, Alice Birch, Winsome Pinnock, Tanika Gupta, Lucy Kirkwood and many more. Whether you are an auditioning actor, a student with an interest in the history of alternative and women's theatre or a fan of the best new writing the UK has to offer, this book is a gateway to Clean Break's remarkable back catalogue and a celebration of the real voices of women affected by the criminal justice system, still so often unheard.
About the Author Roisan McBrinn is a theatre director with over fifteen years experience working in the UK, Ireland and internationally. She is the Head of Artistic Programme of Clean Break Theatre Company where she commissions, develops and directs theatre inspired by the experiences of women within and around the criminal justice system, by leading female writers. Price: $29.99 For Clean Break she has directed Joanne (Soho Theatre and RSC) and House/Amongst The Reeds (Yard Theatre) and ISBN: 9781350097506 will direct a co-production with Theatr Clwyd of a new play by Katherine Chandler this Autumn. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Roisan has directed for the Donmar Warehouse (Noveccento), Sheffield Theatres (Afterplay), West Yorkshire Playhouse Extent: 192 pages (Yerma), Prime Cut (Villa/Discurso), The Abbey Theatre (No Escape, Perve, Heartbreak House) and Sherman Theatre Bic1: Individual actors & performers (Before it Rains, Sleeping Beauties and It's A Family Affair). Bic2: Illustrations: Lauren Mooney is a writer, producer and dramaturg. She joined Clean Break in 2016 and worked as their Literary Previous Titles: Producer until autumn 2018, supporting emerging writers and producing the company's engagement work in prisons. Author now living: Since 2015, she has co-run Kandinsky Theatre Company with director James Yeatman, where her work as producer and co-writer includes Dog Show, Still Ill and Trap Street (all New Diorama Theatre). In 2019, the company's work will include Dinomania (New Diorama Theatre), There Is a Light that Never Goes Out (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester) and a transfer of their 2018 show Trap Street to the Schaubohne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin. She is a graduate of the Royal Methuen Drama AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 User Experience Design: A Practical Introduction Gavin Allanwood and Peter Beare
A step-by-step introduction to the concepts of user experience design, written for those with no prior experience in the area and ideal for an introductory class.
Description Applicable to a wide spectrum of design activity, this book offers an ideal first step, clearly explaining fundamental concepts and methods to apply when designing for the user experience. Covering essential topics from user research and experience design to aesthetics, standards and prototyping, User Experience Design explains why user-centered methods are now essential to ensuring the success of a wide range of design projects. This second edition includes important new topics including; digital service standards, onboarding and scenario mapping. There are now 12 hands-on activities designed to help you start exploring basic UX tasks such as visualising the user journey and recognising user interface patterns. Filled with straightforward explanations and examples from around the world, this book is an essential primer for students and non-designers needing an introduction to contemporary UX thinking and common approaches. Designed specifically for newcomers to UX Design, the companion website offers extra material for hands-on activities, templates, industry interviews, contributor notes and sources of guidance for those seeking to start a career in the industry.
About the Author Gavin Allanwood is a UX freelancer and educator based in northwest England, UK.
Peter Beare is a learning technologist and content developer at London Metropolitan University, UK.
Price: $49.99 ISBN: 9781350021709 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Graphic design Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Disparities Slavoj Zizek
A provocative account of what the concept of disparity might really mean from one of the world's most famous contemporary thinkers.
Description The concept of disparity has long been a topic of obsession and argument for philosophers but Slavoj Zizek would argue that what disparity and negativity could mean, might mean and should mean for us and our lives has never been more hotly debated. Disparities explores contemporary 'negative' philosophies from Catherine Malabou's plasticity, Julia Kristeva's abjection and Robert Pippin's self-consciousness to the God of negative theology, new realisms and post- humanism and draws a radical line under them. Instead of establishing a dialogue with these other ideas of disparity, Slavoj Zizek wants to establish a definite departure, a totally different idea of disparity based on an imaginative dialectical materialism. This notion of rupturing what has gone before is based on a provocative reading of how philosophers can, if they're honest, engage with each other. Slavoj Zizek borrows Alain Badiou's notion that a true idea is the one that divides. Radically departing from previous formulations of negativity and disparity, Zizek employs a new kind of negativity: namely positing that when a philosopher deals with another philosopher, his or her stance is never one of dialogue, but one of division, of drawing a line that separates truth from falsity.
About the Author Slavoj Zizek is one of the world's leading contemporary cultural critics and a hugely prolific author. He is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, UK, and Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research, New York, USA.
Price: $26.99 ISBN: 9781350066564 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 456 pages Bic1: History of Western philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 On Music, Sense, Affect and Voice Carol Harrison
Carol Harrison explores, via the writings of Augustine, the importance of music to religious experience and philosophical thought and how our thinking about music has changed since late antiquity.
Description On Music, Sound, Affect and Ineffability explores early reflections on music and its effects on the mind and soul. Even if we cannot say precisely what these early theologians heard only a snippet of an early hymn from that period remai we can learn how they heard it.Augustine is an obvious place to start; his De Musica is the only treatise we have on music by a Christian philosopher in the first five centuries. For five of its six books, it considers the classical, liberal discipline of music, concerned with numerical measure and rhythm, but in the sixth book, it opens into considerations of music, perception, and Christianity. In both it and The Confessions, Augustine establishes a psychology and an ethics of musical perception, which considered together form an effective theology of music. For Augustine, music - both heard and performed - becomes the means by which we can sense and participate in divine grace.
About the Author Carol Harrison is Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford University, UK.
Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781501326264 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Music Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Perspectives on Educational Practice Around the World Edited by Sue Hammond and Margaret Sangster
A collection of specially commissioned articles looking at the influences, opportunities and values that shape experiences of education around the world.
Description This book explores the philosophies, barriers and opportunities shaping education environments for children, teachers and student teachers in diverse countries around the world through a series of pertinent articles. These are drawn from the contributors' experiential knowledge of education in contexts such as Australia, Canada, China, Finland, India, Nepal, Palestine, Qatar, South Africa, Venezuela and the UK. The issues raised enable valuable insights into formal education from pre-school to higher education within individual national contexts, while also having significance across state boundaries. They are set against a background of international comparisons, global economies and communications, and environmental and social change. The topics covered include global citizenship, learning environments, inclusion and inequality. Each of the articles introduces a key issue, offers contextualized examples and questions to prompt discussion and further research, along with a guide to further resources. Thoughtfully structured, the editors provide an overarching introduction and concluding chapter, reflecting on global issues and directions of travel in educational policies as well as highlighting countries which are bucking current trends. They also include a short introduction to each part, drawing together chapters and challenging thinking.
About the Author Sue Hammond is Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. As a primary school teacher, Sue was committed to developing children's talents, interests and learning. Through her role in teacher education, she works closely with schools, extending her research into social diversity. Sue was a consultant in Malaysia and India and has taught teachers and students from across the globe. Margaret Sangster was formerly Principal Lecturer in Primary Education at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. Margaret worked as an advisor to primary and middle schools, was a Principal Lecturer in Primary Mathematics, and held managerial positions in higher education. She acted as a mathematics consultant in Malaysia.
Price: $44.99 ISBN: 9781350076334 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Teacher training Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Virtuoso: Film Performance and the Actor's Magic Murray Pomerance
Explores virtuosic performance in film, ranging from classical works through to contemporary productions.
Description Elizabeth Taylor's electrifying performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The milkshake scene in There Will be Blood. Leonardo DiCaprio's turn as Arnie in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? What makes these performances so special? Eloquently written and engagingly laid out, Murray Pomerance answers the tough question as to what makes an exceptional, or virtuosic performance. Pomerance intensively explores virtuosic performance in film, ranging from classical works through to contemporary production, and gives serious consideration to structural problems of dramatization and production, actorial methods and tricks, and contingencies that befall performers giving stand-out moments. Looking at more than 40 aspects of the virtuosic act, and using an approach based in careful meditation and discursion, Virtuoso moves through such themes as showing off, effacement, self-consciousness, performative collapse, spontaneity, acting as dream, acting and femininity, virtuosity and torture, secrecy, improvisation, virtuosic silence, and others; giving special attention to the labors of such figures as Fred Astaire, Johnny Depp, Marlene Dietrich, Basil Rathbone, Christopher Plummer, Leonardo DiCaprio, Alice Brady, Ethel Waters, James Mason, and dozens more. Numerous scenic virtuosities are examined in depth, from films as far-ranging as Singin' in the Rain and The Bridge on the River Kwai, and My Man Godfrey. As the first book about virtuosity in film performance, Virtuoso offers exciting new angles from which to view film both classical and contemporary.
About the Author Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar living in Toronto, Canada. He is the editor of the 'Techniques of the Moving Image' series and the Horizons of Cinema series, and co-editor, with Lester D. Friedman and Adrienne L. McLean respectively, of the Screen Decades and Star Decades series. Pomerance has written, edited and co-edited several books, including Cinema, If You Please (2018), Moment of Action (2016), Alfred Hitchcock's America (2013), The Horse who Drank the Sky: Film Experience beyond Narrative and Theory (2008), and two BFI Classics on Marnie (2014) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (2016).
Price: $49.99 ISBN: 9781501350672 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 312 pages Bic1: Acting techniques Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Latin American Film Industries Tamara L. Falicov
An overview of the history and present context of Latin American film production, distribution and exhibition, focusing particularly on Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, and addressing issues such as transnationalism, film policy and film piracy.
Description Film production in Latin America is as old as cinema itself, but local film industries have always been in a triangulated relationship with Hollywood and European cinema. This book situates Latin American film industries within the global circulation of film production, exhibition and distribution, charting the changes that the industries have undergone from the sound era to the present day. Focusing in particular on Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, Tamara Falicov examines commonalities among Latin American film industries, such as the challenges of procuring funding, competition from Hollywood, state funding battles, and the fickle nature of audiences, as well as censorship issues, competition from television, and the transnational nature of Latin American film. She addresses production, exhibition, and distribution contexts and financing and co-production with Europe and the United States, as well as the role of film festivals in funding and circulating films both within and outside of Latin America. Newer trends such as the revival of protectionist measures like the screen quota are framed in contrast to the U.S.'s push for trade policy liberalization and issues of universal concern such as film piracy, and new technologies and the role of television in helping and hindering Latin American cinema.
About the Author Tamara L. Falicov is Associate Dean for Research in the Arts and the Humanities, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Kansas, USA, as well as affiliated with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She is the author of The Cinematic Tango: Contemporary Argentine Film (2007).
Price: $46.99 ISBN: 9781844573103 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Film, TV & radio Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
British Film Institute AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 The Farm Joanne Ramos
A compulsive, brilliant novel about race, class, family and power for fans of Celeste Ng, Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman.
Description What would you sacrifice for a new life?
'A firecracker of a novel, at once caustic and tender, page-turning and thought-provoking. Highly recommended' Madeline Miller
'Ramos's debut novel couldn't be more relevant or timely' O: The Oprah Magazine, '25 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2019' 'Exploring everything from white privilege to surrogacy, The Farm is set to be one of the biggest books for 2019' Stylist, 'Books you need to add to your 2019 reading list'
'An unsettling, unputdownable read' ELLE, 'Ones To Watch: The New Writers We're Excited To Read In 2019'
'Wow, Joanne Ramos has written the page-turner about immigrants chasing what's left of the American dream ... Truly unforgettable' Gary Shteyngart
Ambitious businesswoman Mae Yu runs Golden Oaks - a luxury retreat transforming the fertility industry - where women get the very best of everything, so long as they play by the rules. Jane is a young immigrant in search of a better future. Stuck living in a cramped dorm with her baby daughter and her shrewd aunt Ate, she sees an unmissable chance to change her life. But at what cost? A brilliant, darkly funny novel that explores the role of luck and merit, class, ambition and sacrifice, The Farm is an unforgettable story about how we live and who truly holds power.
About the Author Price: $37.99 ISBN: 9781526605252 Joanne Ramos was born in the Philippines and moved to Wisconsin when she was six. She graduated with a BA from Format: Hard Cover Princeton University. After working in investment banking and private-equity investing for several years, she wrote for the Dimensions: 0x0mm Economist as a staff writer. She lives in New York City with her husband and three children. This is her first novel. Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Outside Looking In T. C. Boyle
One family's adventures in LSD: the brilliantly strange new novel from the mind of 'one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today' (Lionel Shriver)
Description One family's adventures in LSD: the brilliantly strange new novel from the mind of 'one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today' (Lionel Shriver)
Chosen as a Book of the Year 2019 by the Herald It is Harvard in the early 1960s. Just off campus, Dr Timothy Leary plays host for his PhD students, laying on a spread of cocktails, pizza and LSD. Among the guests is Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology student, and his librarian wife Joanie. Married young, and both diligently and unglamorously toiling to support their son, they are not the sort of people one would expect to be seduced by the nascent drug culture. But their nights on LSD prove so extraordinary so revelatory, so earth-shattering, so downright seductive that Fitzhugh and Joanie are soon captive to the whims of the charismatic and subversive Dr Tim.
Follow Fitzhugh and Joanie on their quest for transcendence, as sultry Mexican nights at Hotel Catalina give way to a ramshackle mansion in upstate New York, where thirty devotees students, wives and children play out the final act of a terrible, beautiful experiment.
Join us, won't you? It's going to be one hell of a trip.
About the Author T. C. Boyle is the New York Times-bestselling author of sixteen novels including The Tortilla Curtain, Drop City, San Miguel and The Terranauts, and eleven collections of stories. His work has been translated into twenty-six languages. He is the recipient most recently of the Jonathan Swift Prize, the Mark Twain Voice in American Literature Award and the Henry David Thoreau Award. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California.
Price: $37.99 ISBN: 9781526604682 tcboyle.com Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Small Days and Nights Tishani Doshi
A captivating and original story of family, of the ties that bind and the secrets we bury, set against the vivid and evocative backdrop of modern India
Description A captivating and original story of family, of the ties that bind and the secrets we bury, set against the vivid and evocative backdrop of modern India
An Irish Times Book of the Year 2019 Escaping her failing marriage, Grace has returned to Pondicherry to cremate her mother. Once there, she finds herself heir to an unexpected inheritance. First, there is the strange pink house, blue-shuttered, out on a spit of the wild beach, haunted by the rattle of fishermen in their catamarans. And then there is the sister she never knew she had: Lucia, who was born with Downs Syndrome and has spent her life in a residential facility.
Soon Grace sets up a new and precarious life in this lush, melancholy wilderness, with Lucia, the village housekeeper Mallika, the drily witty Auntie Kavitha and an ever-multiplying litter of puppies. Here in Paramankeni, with its vacant bus stops colonised by flying foxes, its solitary temples and step-wells shielded by canopies of teak and tamarind, where every dusk the fishermen line the beach smoking and mending their nets, Grace feels that she has come to the very end of the world. But Grace's attempts to play house prove first a struggle, then a strain, as she discovers the chaos, tenderness, fury and bewilderment of life with Lucia.
Luminous, funny, surprising and heartbreaking, Small Days and Nights is the story of a woman caught in a moment of transformation, and the sacrifices we make to forge lives that have meaning.
About the Author Tishani Doshi was born in Chennai. She has published seven books of poetry and fiction. Her essays, poems and short stories have been widely anthologized. She is also the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award for Poetry, winner of the All- India Poetry Competition, and her first book, Countries of the Body, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in Price: $37.99 ISBN: 9781526603753 2006. Her debut novel, The Pleasure Seekers, was shortlisted for the Hindu Literary Prize and long-listed for the Orange Format: Hard Cover Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She lives in Tamil Nadu. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 The Other Americans Laila Lalami
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Moor's Account, a timely and powerful novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery and a love story.
Description 'A provocative and gripping novel by a gifted writer' JOHN BOYNE 'Remarkable, timely ... Impeccably written' ROXANE GAY 'A deftly constructed account of a crime and its consequences' J.M. COETZEE 'A writer of uncommon conviction and tremendous insight' VIET THANH NGUYEN
There wasn't anything I could do. All I saw was a man falling to the ground. Late one spring night, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant in California, is walking across a darkened intersection when he is killed by a speeding car. The repercussions of his death bring together a diverse cast of characters: Guerraoui's daughter Nora, a jazz composer who returns to the small town in the Mojave she thought she'd left for good; his widow Maryam, who still pines after her life in the old country; Efraan, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward; Jeremy, a former classmate of Nora's and now a veteran of the Iraq war; Coleman, a detective who is slowly discovering her son's secrets; Anderson, a neighbor trying to reconnect with his family; and Driss himself.
As the characters deeply divided by race, religion and class tell their stories in The Other Americans, Driss's family is forced to confront its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies and love, in all its messy and unpredictable forms, is born.
About the Author Laila Lalami is the author of three successful novels including The Moor's Account, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the American Book Award. She has written for publications including the Guardian and the New York Times, and is the recipient of a British Council Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship and a
Price: $37.99 Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles. ISBN: 9781526606709 @LailaLalami Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Circus AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin's Master Agent Owen Matthews
The thrilling true story of Richard Sorge the man John le Carre called 'the spy to end spies', and whose actions turned the tide of the Second World War
Description The thrilling true story of Richard Sorge the man John le Carre called 'the spy to end spies', and whose actions turned the tide of the Second World War
Richard Sorge was a man with two homelands. Born of a German father and a Russian mother in Baku in 1895, he moved in a world of shifting alliances and infinite possibility. A member of the angry and deluded generation who found new, radical faiths after their experiences on the battlefields of the First World War, Sorge became a fanatical communist and the Soviet Union's most formidable spy.
Like many great spies, Sorge was an effortless seducer, combining charm with ruthless manipulation. He did not have to go undercover to find out closely guarded state secrets his victims willingly shared them. As a foreign correspondent, he infiltrated and influenced the highest echelons of German, Chinese and Japanese society in the years leading up to and including the Second World War. His intelligence regarding Operation Barbarossa and Japanese intentions not to invade Siberia in 1941 proved pivotal to the Soviet counteroffensive in the Battle of Moscow, which in turn determined the outcome of the war.
Never before has Sorge's story been told from the Russian side as well as the German and Japanese. Owen Matthews takes a sweeping historical perspective and draws on a wealth of declassified Soviet archives along with testimonies from those who knew and worked with Sorge to rescue the riveting story of the man described by Ian Fleming as 'the most formidable spy in history'.
About the Author Owen Matthews studied Modern History at Oxford University before beginning his career as a journalist in Bosnia. He has written for the Moscow Times, The Times, the Spectator and the Independent. In 1997, he became a correspondent at Price: $49.99 ISBN: 9781408857786 Newsweek magazine in Moscow where he covered the second Chechen war, Afghanistan, Iraq and the conflict in Format: Hard Cover Eastern Ukraine. His first book on Russian history, Stalin's Children, was translated into twenty-eight languages and Dimensions: 0x0mm shortlisted for The Guardian First Books Award and France's Prix Medicis. Extent: 320 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Go, Go, Pirate Boat Katrina Charman
Take one pirate adventure, add to that a text to read aloud to the tune of 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat', and you have the perfect preschool combination from the bestselling Nick Sharratt and talented newcomer Katrina Charman.
Description Join two seafaring pirates and their captain on a nautical adventure to find a treasure chest. Add to that a text that is read aloud to the tune of Row, Row, Row Your Boa and you have a book that will be enjoyed time and time again! Go, go, pirate boat,Across the salty sea,Raise the anchor, hoist the sail,It's a pirate's life for me.Little pirate fans will have endless fun singing along to the tune of a favourite nursery rhyme and doing the pirate actions in this fun ocean adventure. With bold, colourful illustrations by the instantly recognisable Nick Sharratt and text by talented newcomer Katrina Charman.
About the Author Katrina Charman wanted be a children's writer ever since she was eleven and her school teacher set her class the task of writing an epilogue to Roald Dahl's Matilda. The experience ignited her love of reading and writing and a desire to be a children's author. In 2014 Katrina won the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators' Undiscovered Voices Competition. Since then she has written several young fiction titles for children, and Car, Car, Truck, Jeep was her first picture book and the start of a series with Bloomsbury and Nick Sharratt. Katrina lives in a small village in Berkshire with her husband and three children. Nick Sharratt is the bestselling illustrator of over 250 books for children including books by Dame Jacqueline Wilson, Julia Donaldson and Michael Rosen. His instantly recognisable art style has delighted children for years. Nick lives in Sussex and is the proud owner of a gold Blue Peter badge.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781408866337 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: Early learning: verse & rhymes Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Don't Make Me Cross! Smriti Prasadam-Halls
This grumpy, grouchy Monster needs to learn how to behave! A fun, rhyming story which will strike a chord with all parents and toddlers. From the creators of the bestselling Don't Call Me Sweet!
Description I'm a little monster, I am smiley, small and sweet,With gorgeous little monster eyes and furry monster feet.There's just one thing that you should know I have to be the boss. And if you don't remember I'll get very VERY CROSS!It's Little Monster's birthday and his friends are coming to his party. But it's not much fun playing party games with someone who always has to win or having birthday tea with someone who wants ALL the food for himself. It's time this grumpy, grouchy Monster learned how to behave!With funny rhyming text and delightful illustrations, this is the perfect picture book for little monsters everywhere.
About the Author Smriti Prasadam-Halls has been a children's writer for more than ten years and has written several children's books, including the bestselling Jingle Jangle Jungle, illustrated by Axel Scheffler. Her books for Bloomsbury include Don't Call Me Sweet, I Love You Night and Day and I'll Never Let You Go. Smriti lives in London.www.smriti.co.ukAngela Rozelaar grew up in Kent, and has lived in London, Brighton, Devon, Sweden and France. Angela now lives in Normandy, where she shares an old farmhouse with her family. This is Angela's second book with Bloomsbury, a follow-up to Don't Call Me Sweet!
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781408885604 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2019 Wisden
The 156th edition of the most famous sports book in the world--published every year since 1864--contains some of the finest sports writing of the year and covers every first-class game in every cricket nation, making it the cricketers' bible worldwide.
Description *Large format hardback* The 156th edition of the most famous sports book in the world--published every year since 1864--contains some of the finest sports writing of the year and covers every first-class game in every cricket nation, making it the cricketers' bible worldwide. @WisdenAlmanack
About the Author This is Lawrence Booth's eighth year as Editor of Wisden, although he has contributed for many years. He is also cricket writer for the Daily Mail and author of several critically acclaimed cricket books. He is one of the most respected and well liked authorities in the modern game. @the_topspin
Price: $150.00 ISBN: 9781472964069 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 1488 pages Bic1: Cricket Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Wisden AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Pocket Guide to Mushrooms John C. Harris
An essential guide to every aspect of mushrooms, including detailed information and many colour photographs.
Description Pocket Guide to Mushrooms covers 158 of the most common mushrooms found in the UK and also in northern and central Europe, each mushroom is identified and presented with expert photography in this informative yet highly portable book. It is as visually impressive as it is easy to use, with many stunning full-page images to support the authoritative text.
About the Author John C. Harris has been a keen forager and field mycologist from many years in the UK. He is a member of a local fungi study group and is the author of The Mushroom Diary, a popular online mushroom blog www.mushroomdiary.co.uk
Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9781472969606 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Trees, wildflowers & plants Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Natural History AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Concise Coastal Bird Guide: Bloomsbury
A mini field guide that is packed with information on the most common coastal birds of Britain and the near Continent. 179 species are illustrated with full-colour artworks.
Description This beautifully illustrated mini field guide is packed with information on the coastal birds of Britain and the near Continent. It covers more than 170 species, which are illustrated with superb full-colour artworks that show - where relevant - variations in plumage, for example for male, female and juvenile birds, and breeding and non-breeding birds. A concise written account covering size, description, voice, habitat, distribution and habits appears on the same page. The easy-to-follow layouts and superb artworks aid quick and accurate identification, and make this book an indispensable reference in the field as well as at home. It is compact enough to fit in the pocket yet packed with essential information for the nature enthusiast. To protect it against the elements, the book is wrapped in a durable plastic wallet. Also included is a foldout insert illustrating such topics as variations in plumage in flying birds of different species. Renowned natural history artists Richard Allen, David Daly, Szabolc Kokay, Dan Cole and Stephen Message painted the artworks.
About the Author Endorsed by the Wildlife Trusts
Price: $14.99 ISBN: 9781472963819 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Wildlife: birds & birdwatching Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Natural History AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Field Guide to the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Great Britain and Ireland Steve Brooks, Steve Cham
A complete Field Guide to the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Great Britain and Ireland
Description All Great Britain and Ireland's resident and migrant dragonfly and damselfly species fully described and illustrated. Fully updated, revised and redesigned, this 2014 edition features full descriptions, ecological notes and distribution maps, as well as a general introduction and regional guide to the best places to watch dragonflies. The 2002 edition was shortlisted for the BP Natural World Book Prize.
About the Author Steve Brooks has had an interest in dragonflies since he was young. He was impressed by the voracity of dragonfly larvae which ate everything else in the jam jar he had filled after pond dipping trips with his Dad, and by the spectacle of the adult dragonflies later emerging during the night from those same jars lined up on his bedroom windowsill. Steve has been fortunate to pursue this interest in his professional career as a specialist in freshwater insects and environmental change at the Natural History Museum in London. Steve has published over 190 scientific papers and book chapters, many of them on dragonflies, and five books, including the New Naturalist volume Dragonflies with Philip Corbet. Steve is a founder member of the British Dragonfly Society (BDS), was a former editor of the Journal of the British Dragonfly Society, and currently serves on the BDS Conservation Committee. He is Associate Editor of Odonatologica and Journal of Paleolimnology. Steve Cham has had a life long interest in all aspects of natural history and a passion for dragonflies from an early age. He has served as Vice-county recorder for Bedfordshire and was National Co-ordinator for the Dragonfly Recording Network after it transitioned from the Biological Records Centre at Monkswood and was one of the editors of the Atlas of Dragonflies in Britain and Ireland published in 2014. He is the author of a number of books on dragonflies, including the popular field guides to larvae and exuviae. Steve was elected to honorary membership of the NBN Trust in 2008 in recognition of his services to biological recording in the UK and awarded the Royal Entomological Society Marsh Award for Insect Conservation in 2011. Price: $39.99 Over almost forty years, Richard Lewington has built up a reputation as one of Europe's finest wildlife illustrators. He first ISBN: 9781472964533 became interested in butterflies as a child when he inherited a cabinet of insects from his father. He studied graphic Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm design at the Berkshire College of Art, and since leaving in 1971 has specialised in natural-history illustration. His Extent: 192 pages meticulous paintings of insects and other wildlife are the mainstay of many of the modern classics of field-guide art, Bic1: Insects (entomology) including Insects of Britain and Western Europe, Collins Butterfly Guide, Field Guide to Dragonflies of Britain and Europe, Bic2: Illustrations: Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland, Pocket Guide to Butterflies of Britain and Ireland and Guide to Previous Titles: Garden Wildlife. He was, for many years, the principal artist on the multi-volume series, The Moths and Butterflies of Author now living: Great Britain and Ireland. He has also designed and illustrated wildlife stamps for a number of countries, including a set of ten stamps of British butterflies for Royal Mail in 2013.
BLM Natural History AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 British Moths: Second Edition Chris Manley
A stunning new edition of the bestselling photographic guide to the moths of the British Isles. It covers 2,147 species including 871 species of macro-moths and 1276 micros. In all, over 3200 photographs are presented, together with brief text and maps for almost every species.
Description Packed with the stunning photography, this photographic guide is the perfect single-volume guide to Britain's moths. Its coverage is broad, including 871 macro-moths and 1276 species of micros. The concise text provides important information on identification, size and larval food plant for each species and, for the first time, maps are included. Introductory sections cover habitats, life cycles, conservation, and trapping and photographic techniques. The new edition is far more comprehensive than the original edition, and the main changes are as follows: Covers 800 additional species Many of the photographs have been replaced and the total number of images is now over 3200. The photos are presented in a uniform alignment for ease of comparison between species. Size bars are added below each image showing average forewing length. Taxonomy and nomenclature conform to the latest checklist (but old Bradley numbers are still included) Maps included for every species for the first time. Covers all of the British Isles (Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man) plus the Channel Islands. Excludes butterflies and caterpillars to make room for much greater coverage of true moths. With many people now setting up their own backyard moth traps, and many others who are simply curious to know which species are fluttering around their light bulbs, this book provides a superb introduction to this fascinating insect group.
About the Author Chris Manley is an author, sculptor and moth specialist. Beyond his detailed knowledge of lepidopterans gained through years of study, Chris is an insect photographer of rare talent. His previous book The Moths of Trigon, is a photographic guide to the 500 species recorded in that corner of Dorset. He is also the compiler of a comprehensive app covering the Butterflies of Europe.
Price: $79.99 ISBN: 9781472966490 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Wildlife: butterflies, other insects & spiders Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Natural History AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Pocket Guide to the Orchids of Britain and Ireland Simon Harrap
The perfect guide to these beautiful and evocative plants, covering all 52 British and Irish species
Description The orchid family is one of the largest plant families in the world, reaching its highest diversity in the tropics where their exotic and colourful flowers are often truly breathtaking. Britain and Ireland have just 52 species of wild orchid, some of which are rare or scarce, whilst others are surprisingly inconspicuous. Yet, whether large or small, all orchids share flamboyant flower structures and incredible beauty. This pocket guide allows the identification of all species of orchid in the British Isles. It has concise text highlighting ID criteria as well as notes on biology, habitat and conservation, along with stunning colour photographs and accurate range maps based on maps compiled by the Biological Record Centre. This book provides the perfect guide to these beautiful and evocative plants, and is a must for any field naturalist.
About the Author Simon Harrap is the author of Orchids of Britain and Ireland: A Field and Site Guide (Bloomsbury 2005, 2009). He is the author of several books including Harrap's Wild Flowers (2013), RSPB Pocket Guide to British Birds (2007, 20012) and Where to Watch Britain and Ireland (2003, 2010), all published by Bloomsbury.
Price: $34.99 ISBN: 9781472969095 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Trees, wildflowers & plants Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Natural History AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Birds of Sri Lanka Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne
A neat series of truly portable guides designed for the nature-loving traveller.
Description A compact, easy-to-use bird identification guide for any nature watcher on a visit to Sri Lanka, a rich and satisfying destination for watching birds with more than 430 species identified on the island. A total of 252 species is described here in detail, from the Black-rumped Flameback to the Ceylon Blue Magpie. All of these birds are clearly illustrated in a collection of specially commissioned colour photographs. With almost 300 full-colour photographs, easy-to-use thumbnail family silhouettes, a regional distribution map and handy tips on the best birding localities. Illustrated with clear colour photography and brief but authoritative descriptions the Pocket Photo Guides highlight the species of birds and animals from each region that the traveller is most likely to see, as well as those that are genuinely endemic (only to be seen in that country or region) or special rarities. The genuine pocket size allow the books to be carried around on trips and excursions and will take up minimal rucksack and suitcase space.
About the Author Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne has been passionate about Sri Lanka's wildlife since the age of three when he went on his first leopard safari in Yala. He has authored and photographed more than 300 articles for national and international newspapers and magazines on Sri Lankan biodiversity, travel and business topics along with 15 books. Deepal Warakagoda is a prominent Sri Lankan ornithologist who also works as a professional guide for birding tours of the island. He discovered a new species of bird endemic to Sri Lanka, the Serendib scops owl and has also identified (each for the first time) 15 new migrant species of birds in Sri Lanka, and published a large number of articles on the avifauna of Sri Lanka. T S U de Zylva is an ornithologist and nature photographer who has published a number of books on the natural history of Sri Lanka.
Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9781472969941 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Wildlife: birds & birdwatching Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Helm Ornithonoly AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Reeds Vol 2: Applied Mechanics for Marine Engineers Paul Anthony Russell
Authoritative guide to the principles of applied mechanics within a marine setting.
Description The book covers the principal topics in applied mechanics for professional trainees studying Merchant Navy Marine Engineering Certificates of Competency (CoC) as well as the core syllabi in applied mechanics for undergraduates studying for BSc, BEng and MEng degrees in marine engineering, naval architecture and other marine technology related programmes. The revised version takes into account the need of these students, recognising recent changes to the Merchant Navy syllabus and current pathways to a sea-going engineering career, including National diplomas, Higher National Diploma and degree courses. Basic principles are dealt with, beginning at a fairly elemental stage, with this new edition applying the underlying principles to a shipping environment. Each chapter has fully worked examples interwoven into the text, with test examples set at the end of each chapter. Other revisions include examples reflecting modern machines and practice, current legislation and current syllabi.
About the Author Paul A Russell was Head of School at the National Sea Training Centre at North West Kent College, UK as well as lecturer in Marine Engineering at the University of Greenwich. He is Managing Director of Thamesview Maritime Limited, a marine engineering consultancy specialising in the professional development of marine engineers and has previously worked as the Editor for the journal Marine Propulsion and Auxiliary Machinery. Paul has also completed two terms in office as the Chair of the South East branch of the Institute of Marine Engineering Science and Technology.
Price: $79.99 ISBN: 9781472969842 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 576 pages Bic1: Engineering: general Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Adlard Coles Nautica AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Reeds Vol 11: Engineering Drawing H.G. Beck
With explanations and examples, this is the essential textbook for anyone studying for the Department of Trade's Marine Engineers Certificates (class 1 and 2).
Description This book was compiled to assist students studying for the Department of Trade Engineering Drawing examination for a First and Second Class Certificate of Competency. It will also benefit anyone studying for the Engineering Knowledge paper in Part B of the exam.
The DoT requirements differ from standard drawing office practice. In order to determine the engineering knowledge of a candidate, a general assembly drawing is required. Details of the drawing are given in the form of dimensioned pictorial views of the individual components for an item of marine engineering machinery. The candidate's skill as a draughtsman is judged from his attempt at the drawing. It is expected that the particular piece of machinery could be manufactured from the drawing, which necessitates inserting dimensions on a general assembly drawing - a practice not common elsewhere.
This established textbook will assist students through the course.
About the Author Reeds Marine Engineering Series caters for engineers who are studying for Marine Engineers' Certificates of Competency as well as BTEC and SCOTVEC courses.
Price: $89.99 ISBN: 9781472969859 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Shipbuilding technology, engineering & trades Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Adlard Coles Nautica AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Reeds Vol 3: Applied Thermodynamics for Marine Engineers William Embleton, Leslie Jackson
An essential text for all marine engineers, offering a comprehensive resource on thermodynamics within a marine setting.
Description This book covers the principal topics in thermodynamics for officer cadets studying Merchant Navy Marine Engineering Certificates of Competency (CoC) as well as the core syllabi in thermodynamics for undergraduate students in marine engineering, naval architecture and other marine technology related programmes. This new edition will cover the laws of thermodynamics and of perfect gases, their principles and application in a marine environment. This key textbook takes into account the varying needs of marine students, recognising recent changes to the Merchant Navy syllabus and current pathways to a sea-going engineering career, including National Diplomas, Higher National Diploma and degree courses.
About the Author Paul A Russell was Head of School at the National Sea Training Centre at North West Kent College, UK as well as lecturer in Marine Engineering at the University of Greenwich. He is Managing Director of Thamesview Maritime Limited, a marine engineering consultancy specialising in the professional development of marine engineers and has previously worked as the Editor for the journal Marine Propulsion and Auxiliary Machinery. Paul has also completed two terms in office as the Chair of the South East branch of the Institute of Marine Engineering Science and Technology.
Price: $79.99 ISBN: 9781472969040 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 448 pages Bic1: Marine engineering Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Adlard Coles Nautica AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Teaching Playwriting: Creativity in Practice Paul Gardiner
This book presents the latest research on teaching playwriting toyoung people. It offers a new approach, based upon dramaturgical and creativity theory that enables teachers to sequence rigorous teaching and learning activities for students across a range of contexts.
Description Playwriting is a skill under-explored in the classroom, despite the strong evidence that it's an engaging and rewarding activity for young people. Teaching Playwriting addresses this gap and is an essential resource for teachers wanting to gain the skills and confidence necessary to introduce playwriting to their students. Based on rich research and clearly explained theoretical concepts, the book explores the lessons from creativity theory that will provide the teacher with the skills and knowledge necessary to empower students' writing and creativity. It also includes extensive practical activities and writing exercises to develop students' playwriting proficiency and creative capacity. Discussing key concepts in playwriting such as idea, dialogue, character, action and structure, the book enables teachers to respond to the unique learning needs of their students and help them tell their stories and reach their potential as young playwrights.
About the Author Dr Paul Gardiner lectures in creativity, drama education and pedagogy in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney. He is an experienced Drama and English teacher, having taught in secondary schools for nearly twenty years before embarking on his doctoral studies. He was Senior Marker for the Scriptwriting component of the NSW HSC Drama exam and continues to offer playwriting workshops for teachers and students.
Price: $150.00 ISBN: 9781350011328 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Theatre direction & production Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Methuen Drama AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 On Music, Sense, Affect and Voice Carol Harrison
Carol Harrison explores, via the writings of Augustine, the importance of music to religious experience and philosophical thought and how our thinking about music has changed since late antiquity.
Description On Music, Sound, Affect and Ineffability explores early reflections on music and its effects on the mind and soul. Even if we cannot say precisely what these early theologians heard only a snippet of an early hymn from that period remai we can learn how they heard it.Augustine is an obvious place to start; his De Musica is the only treatise we have on music by a Christian philosopher in the first five centuries. For five of its six books, it considers the classical, liberal discipline of music, concerned with numerical measure and rhythm, but in the sixth book, it opens into considerations of music, perception, and Christianity. In both it and The Confessions, Augustine establishes a psychology and an ethics of musical perception, which considered together form an effective theology of music. For Augustine, music - both heard and performed - becomes the means by which we can sense and participate in divine grace.
About the Author Carol Harrison is Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford University, UK.
Price: $100.00 ISBN: 9781501326257 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Music Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Perspectives on Educational Practice Around the World Edited by Sue Hammond and Margaret Sangster
A collection of specially commissioned articles looking at the influences, opportunities and values that shape experiences of education around the world.
Description This book explores the philosophies, barriers and opportunities shaping education environments for children, teachers and student teachers in diverse countries around the world through a series of pertinent articles. These are drawn from the contributors' experiential knowledge of education in contexts such as Australia, Canada, China, Finland, India, Nepal, Palestine, Qatar, South Africa, Venezuela and the UK. The issues raised enable valuable insights into formal education from pre-school to higher education within individual national contexts, while also having significance across state boundaries. They are set against a background of international comparisons, global economies and communications, and environmental and social change. The topics covered include global citizenship, learning environments, inclusion and inequality. Each of the articles introduces a key issue, offers contextualized examples and questions to prompt discussion and further research, along with a guide to further resources. Thoughtfully structured, the editors provide an overarching introduction and concluding chapter, reflecting on global issues and directions of travel in educational policies as well as highlighting countries which are bucking current trends. They also include a short introduction to each part, drawing together chapters and challenging thinking.
About the Author Sue Hammond is Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. As a primary school teacher, Sue was committed to developing children's talents, interests and learning. Through her role in teacher education, she works closely with schools, extending her research into social diversity. Sue was a consultant in Malaysia and India and has taught teachers and students from across the globe. Margaret Sangster was formerly Principal Lecturer in Primary Education at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. Margaret worked as an advisor to primary and middle schools, was a Principal Lecturer in Primary Mathematics, and held managerial positions in higher education. She acted as a mathematics consultant in Malaysia.
Price: $130.00 ISBN: 9781350076341 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Teacher training Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Virtuoso: Film Performance and the Actor's Magic Murray Pomerance
Explores virtuosic performance in film, ranging from classical works through to contemporary productions.
Description Elizabeth Taylor's electrifying performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The milkshake scene in There Will be Blood. Leonardo DiCaprio's turn as Arnie in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? What makes these performances so special? Eloquently written and engagingly laid out, Murray Pomerance answers the tough question as to what makes an exceptional, or virtuosic performance. Pomerance intensively explores virtuosic performance in film, ranging from classical works through to contemporary production, and gives serious consideration to structural problems of dramatization and production, actorial methods and tricks, and contingencies that befall performers giving stand-out moments. Looking at more than 40 aspects of the virtuosic act, and using an approach based in careful meditation and discursion, Virtuoso moves through such themes as showing off, effacement, self-consciousness, performative collapse, spontaneity, acting as dream, acting and femininity, virtuosity and torture, secrecy, improvisation, virtuosic silence, and others; giving special attention to the labors of such figures as Fred Astaire, Johnny Depp, Marlene Dietrich, Basil Rathbone, Christopher Plummer, Leonardo DiCaprio, Alice Brady, Ethel Waters, James Mason, and dozens more. Numerous scenic virtuosities are examined in depth, from films as far-ranging as Singin' in the Rain and The Bridge on the River Kwai, and My Man Godfrey. As the first book about virtuosity in film performance, Virtuoso offers exciting new angles from which to view film both classical and contemporary.
About the Author Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar living in Toronto, Canada. He is the editor of the 'Techniques of the Moving Image' series and the Horizons of Cinema series, and co-editor, with Lester D. Friedman and Adrienne L. McLean respectively, of the Screen Decades and Star Decades series. Pomerance has written, edited and co-edited several books, including Cinema, If You Please (2018), Moment of Action (2016), Alfred Hitchcock's America (2013), The Horse who Drank the Sky: Film Experience beyond Narrative and Theory (2008), and two BFI Classics on Marnie (2014) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (2016).
Price: $180.00 ISBN: 9781501350689 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 312 pages Bic1: Acting techniques Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA MAY 2019 Latin American Film Industries Tamara L. Falicov
An overview of the history and present context of Latin American film production, distribution and exhibition, focusing particularly on Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, and addressing issues such as transnationalism, film policy and film piracy.
Description Film production in Latin America is as old as cinema itself, but local film industries have always been in a triangulated relationship with Hollywood and European cinema. This book situates Latin American film industries within the global circulation of film production, exhibition and distribution, charting the changes that the industries have undergone from the sound era to the present day. Focusing in particular on Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, Tamara Falicov examines commonalities among Latin American film industries, such as the challenges of procuring funding, competition from Hollywood, state funding battles, and the fickle nature of audiences, as well as censorship issues, competition from television, and the transnational nature of Latin American film. She addresses production, exhibition, and distribution contexts and financing and co-production with Europe and the United States, as well as the role of film festivals in funding and circulating films both within and outside of Latin America. Newer trends such as the revival of protectionist measures like the screen quota are framed in contrast to the U.S.'s push for trade policy liberalization and issues of universal concern such as film piracy, and new technologies and the role of television in helping and hindering Latin American cinema.
About the Author Tamara L. Falicov is Associate Dean for Research in the Arts and the Humanities, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Kansas, USA, as well as affiliated with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She is the author of The Cinematic Tango: Contemporary Argentine Film (2007).
Price: $140.00 ISBN: 9781844573110 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Film, TV & radio Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
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