AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Below Deck Sophie Hardcastle
Below Deck is the highly anticipated debut novel from author Sophie Hardcastle. A heartbreakingly poetic and haunting story about the vagaries of consent, about who has the space to speak and who is believed.
Description And then, just like that, a thought bubbles inside me. It's a beginning; a new beginning; my beginning. The beginning of the story I tell myself in order to survive. We choose to breathe, don't we?
Twenty-one-year-old Olivia hears the world in colour, but her life is mottled grey. Estranged from her parents, and living with her grandfather who is drowning in sadness, Oli faces the reality of life beyond university alone.
When she wakes on a boat with no recollection of how she got there, she accepts the help of two strangers who change the course of her future forever. With Mac and Maggie, Oli learns to navigate a life upon open ocean and the world flowers into colours she's never seen before.
Four years later, Oli, fluent in the language of the sea, is the only woman among men on a yacht delivery from Noumea to Auckland. In the darkness below deck, she learns that at sea, no one can hear you scream.
Moving to London, Oli's life at sea is buried. When she meets Hugo, the wind changes, and her memories are dust blown into shapes. Reminding her of everything.
Below Deck is about the moments that haunt us, the moments that fan out like ripples through the deep. So that everything else, becomes everything after.
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Price: $29.99 $32.99 Sophie Hardcastle was born in 1993. She is an author, artist, screenwriter and scholar. In 2018, she was a Provost's ISBN: 9781760876388 Scholar in English Literature at Worcester College, at the University of Oxford, where she wrote Below Deck. In 2017, Format: Paperback - C format Sophie was an artist-in-residence with Chimu Adventures in Antarctica. Sophie is the author of the critically acclaimed Dimensions: 234x153mm Running Like China (2015) and Breathing Under Water (2016). She is the co-creator, co-writer and co-director of the Extent: 296 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) online series Cloudy River. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: None
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 The House on Endless Waters Emuna Elon
A lyrical and exquisitely moving novel about a writer who embarks on a transformative journey in Amsterdam, where he discovers the shocking truth about his mother's wartime experience.
Description 'I read this book in excitement and wonder...touching and fascinating'? - Amos Oz
At the behest of his agent, renowned author Yoel Blum reluctantly agrees to visit his birthplace of Amsterdam to meet with his Dutch publisher, despite promising his late mother that he would never return to that city. While touring the Jewish Museum with his wife, Yoel stumbles upon a looping reel of photos offering a glimpse of pre-war Dutch Jewish life, and is astonished to see the youthful face of his beloved mother staring back at him, posing with her husband, Yoel's older sister, Nettie...and an infant he doesn't recognize.
This unsettling discovery launches him into a fervent search for the truth, revealing Amsterdam's dark wartime history and the underground networks which hid Jewish children away from danger-but at a cost. The deeper into the past Yoel digs, the better he understands his mother's silence, and the more urgent the question that has unconsciously haunted him for a lifetime-Who am I?-becomes. Evocative, insightful, and deeply resonant, House on Endless Waters beautifully illustrates the complex nature of identity and belonging, and the inextricability of past and present.
'A story of love, loss, and yearning. Lyrically phrased and often powerfully visual...this deeply felt tale offers a rewarding meditation on survival.' Kirkus (starred review)
About the Author Emuna Elon is an internationally bestselling, critically acclaimed novelist, journalist, and women's activist. Born in Jerusalem to a family of prominent rabbis and scholars, she was raised in Jerusalem and New York. She teaches Judaism, Hasidism, and Hebrew literature. Her first novel translated into English, If You Awaken Love, was a National Jewish Book Award finalist.
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Death in the Ladies' Goddess Club Julian Leatherdale
Murder and blackmail, family drama and love, all set within the shady underbelly of 1930s Kings Cross and its glamorous fringe.
Description 'Crime's not a woman's business, Joanie. It's not some bloody game.'
In the murky world of Kings Cross in 1932, aspiring crime writer Joan Linderman and her friend and flatmate Bernice Becker live the wild bohemian life, a carnival of parties and fancy-dress artists' balls.
One Saturday night, Joan is thrown headfirst into a real crime when she finds Ellie, her neighbour, murdered. To prove her worth as a crime writer and bring Ellie's killer to justice, Joan secretly investigates the case in the footsteps of Sergeant Lillian Armfield.
But as Joan digs deeper, her list of suspects grows from the luxury apartment blocks of Sydney's rich to the brothels and nightclubs of the Cross's underclass.
Death in the Ladies' Goddess Club is a riveting noir crime thriller with more surprises than even novelist Joan bargained for: blackmail, kidnapping, drug-peddling, a pagan sex cult, undercover cops, and a shocking confession.
From the shadows of bohemian and underworld Kings Cross, who will emerge to tell the real story?
About the Author Julian Leatherdale's first love was theatre. On graduation, he wrote lyrics for four comedy cabarets and a two-act musical. In 2017, he wrote the short play A Life in Ten Meals for the theatre project Breaking Bread and in 2018 the black comedy The Man Who Became Santa. He discovered a passion for popular history as a staff writer, researcher and photo editor Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781760529635 for Time-Life's Australians At War series. He later researched and co-wrote two Film Australia-ABC documentaries, Format: Paperback - C format Return to Sandakan and The Forgotten Force, and was an image researcher at the State Library of New South Wales. He Dimensions: 234x153mm was the public relations manager for a hotel school in the Blue Mountains where he lives with his family. His first novel, Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Historical fiction Palace of Tears, was published by Allen & Unwin in 2015 and HarperCollins Germany in 2016. His essay on the Hydro Bic2: Crime & mystery Majestic and Mark Foy was published on the Dictionary of Sydney website for the 2015 Blue Mountains Icons project. His Illustrations: second novel, The Opal Dragonfly, was published in 2018. His debut YA novel, The Phantasmic Detective Agency, will be Previous Titles: Author now living: Leura NSW published by Eagle Books in 2020. Death in the Ladies' Goddess Club is his third adult novel.
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 The Secrets of Strangers Charity Norman
A gunshot rings out in a London cafe and the lives of five strangers will never be the same again. The only thing that's certain is that nothing is as it seems.
Description Five strangers, one cafe - and the day that everything changed.
A regular weekday morning veers drastically off-course for five strangers whose paths cross in a London cafe - their lives never to be the same again when an apparently crazed gunman holds them hostage. But there is more to the situation than first meets the eye and as the captives grapple with their own inner demons, the line between right and wrong starts to blur. Will the secrets they keep stop them from escaping with their lives?
A compelling, tense and heartfelt drama from the bestselling writer of See You in September, shortlisted for Best Crime Novel in the 2018 Ngaio Marsh Awards for Crime Fiction
About the Author Charity Norman was born in Uganda and brought up in successive draughty vicarages in Yorkshire and Birmingham. After several years' travel she became a barrister, specialising in crime and family law in the northeast of England. Also a mediator and telephone crisis line listener, she's passionate about the power of communication to slice through the knots. In 2002, realising that her three children had barely met her, she took a break from the law and moved with her family to New Zealand. Her first novel, Freeing Grace, was published in 2010. Second Chances (After the Fall) was a Richard and Judy Book Club choice and World Book Night title. See You in September, her last book, was shortlisted for Best Crime Novel in the 2018 Ngaio Marsh Awards for Crime Fiction. The Secrets of Strangers is her sixth book.
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 The Jade Lily Kirsty Manning
The Jade Lily is a sweeping story of friendship, loyalty, love and identity from the popular author of The Midsummer Garden.
Description 'Kirsty Manning has woven, blended, sewn the threads of history, family secrets, the past and the present into a page- turning, beautiful novel. Her talent for researching and writing a seamless dual-narrative story with characters reflecting tragedy and trauma lived, and survived, will enthral and educate. Her approach and style to the multiple cultures and countries reinforces that humanity will rise above evil. The Jade Lily is a story rich in the elements of plot, characters, and unselfish love leading to hope: the last thing to die.' - Heather Morris, author of the bestselling The Tattooist of Auschwitz
In 2016, fleeing London with a broken heart, Alexandra returns to Australia to be with her grandparents, Romy and Wilhelm, when her grandfather is dying. With only weeks left together, her grandparents begin to reveal the family mysteries they have kept secret for more than half a century.
In 1939, two young girls meet in Shanghai, the 'Paris of the East': beautiful local Li and Viennese refugee Romy form a fierce friendship. But the deepening shadows of World War Two fall over the women as Li and Romy slip between the city's glamorous French Concession and the desperate Shanghai Ghetto. Eventually, they are forced separate ways as Romy doubts Li's loyalties.
After Wilhelm dies, Alexandra flies to Shanghai, determined to trace her grandparents' past. As she peels back the layers of their hidden lives, she begins to question everything she knows about her family - and herself.
A gorgeously told tale of female friendship, the price of love, and the power of hardship and courage to shape us all.
'Manning renders Shanghai as a riot of flavors, sights, and sounds, its elegance clashing against gritty poverty in this exquisite window into the past.' - Booklist, starred review
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Kirsty's first novel was the enchanting The Midsummer Garden published in 2017. The Jade Lily, compelling and pacey, is her second book. Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Without a Doubt Fleur McDonald
Detective Dave Burrows finds himself on the wrong side of the law as he searches for the link between a murdered man and illegal stock trading in this suspenseful rural crime novel.
Description 'Another engaging read that shine a light on rural Australia and captivated me start to finish.' - Beauty and Lace
'Nobody does rural fiction quite like Fleur McDonald.' The Weekly Times
Detective Dave Burrows returns in the most compelling and exciting case of his early career.
In Barrabine, as Dave's workload skyrockets, Melinda, Dave's wife, is unhappy about being left alone so much to raise their eighteen-month-old daughter, Bec. It's not how Dave wants it either, but complaints, leads and crimes all have to be investigated - it's what he joined the force for.
Melinda's interfering father isn't helping. He's never thought that Dave was right for his daughter and he's not shy about telling Dave what he's doing wrong. When things come to a head at home, Dave's policing mate, Spencer, comes up with a plan.
In the most dangerous mission of his life, Dave knows what he's risking. If he's found out, he'll never see Melinda or Bec again. Of that he's sure.
About the Author Fleur McDonald has lived and worked on farms for much of her life. After growing up in the small town of Orroroo in South Australia, she became a jillaroo before spending twenty years farming 8000 acres, east of Esperance, WA.
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 The True Story of Maddie Bright Mary-Rose MacColl
The bestselling author of In Falling Snow returns with a spellbinding tale of friendship, love and loyalty.
Description 'A thoughtful, multi-layered tale that probes the stories we tell ourselves about family and friendship, power and control. MacColl's writing deftly - yet gently - explores the nature of courage and kept me guessing to the very end.' - Kirsty Manning, author of the bestselling The Jade Lily
'This book has it all: an unforgettable first chapter, a fascinating insight into the Prince of Wales' visit to Australia in 1920 through the eyes of two women who worked for him, and a compelling mystery set in contemporary times, against the backdrop of Princess Diana's death. Truly wonderful storytelling.' Natasha Lester, author of the internationally bestselling The French Photographer
In 1920, seventeen-year-old Maddie Bright gratefully accepts a job as a serving girl on the royal tour of Australia by Edward, Prince of Wales, the 'people's' prince.
Maddie feels that she's involved in something that really matters but when the unthinkable happens during that tour, it is swift and life changing.
Decades later, Maddie Bright is living alone in a ramshackle house in Brisbane when she's contacted by London journalist Victoria Byrd who is investigating the true identity of a famously reclusive writer. Maddie's version of her own story may change.
1920, 1981 and 1997: the strands twist across the seas and over two continents to build a compelling story of love and motherhood, and fame and friendship.
About the Author The True Story of Maddie Bright is Mary-Rose MacColl's sixth novel. Her first novel, No Safe Place, was runner-up in the Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781760877507 1995 Australian/Vogel literary award and her first non-fiction book, The Birth Wars, was a finalist in the 2009 Walkley Format: Paperback - B format Awards. Her international bestseller, In Falling Snow, was published to great acclaim in 2012 in Australia and the US. Dimensions: 198x128mm Swimming Home, published in 2015, won the People's Choice Award at the 2016 Queensland Literary Awards. MacColl's Extent: 504 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) memoir, For a Girl, was published in 2017 and was shortlisted in the Queensland Literary awards and the Victorian Bic2: Premier's Literary awards. She lives in Brisbane, Australia, with her husband and son. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Paddington, QLD
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 A Thousand Moons Sebastian Barry
Follow-up to the much-loved 2016 Costa Book of the Year Days Without End.
Description Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live.
Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, she is educated and loved, forging a life for herself beyond the violence and dispossession of her past. But the fragile harmony of her unlikely family unit, in the aftermath of the Civil War, is soon threatened by a further traumatic event, one which Winona struggles to confront, let alone understand.
Told in Sebastian Barry's gorgeous, lyrical prose, A Thousand Moons is a powerful, moving study of one woman's journey, of her determination to write her own future, and of the enduring human capacity for love.
'Nobody writes like, nobody takes lyrical risks like, nobody pushes the language, and the heart, and the two together, quite like Sebastian Barry does, so that you come out of whatever he writes like you've been away, in another climate.' ALI SMITH
About the Author Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. The current Laureate for Irish Fiction, his novels have twice won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Independent Booksellers Award and the Walter Scott Prize. He had two consecutive novels shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, A Long Long Way (2005) and the top ten bestseller The Secret Scripture (2008), and has also won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lives in County Wicklow.
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Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Days Without End Sebastian Barry
Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year and longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize: Sebastian Barry's sensational new novel set in mid-19th Century America.
Description After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War.
Having both fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in.
Then when a young Indian girl crosses their path, the possibility of lasting happiness seems within reach, if only they can survive.
About the Author Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His novels and plays have won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He also had two consecutive novels, A Long Long Way (2005) and the top ten bestseller The Secret Scripture (2008), shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize. The Secret Scripture also won the 2008 Costa Book of the Year.
He lives in Wicklow with his wife and three children.
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Faber Paperback AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Low Jeet Thayil
From the Booker-shortlisted author: one man's whirlwind weekend of self-destructive grief.
Description Ullis went to the bathroom and carefully unfolded the business card and placed it on the sink. Then he rolled up a note and snorted the last of his wife's ashes.
Following the death of his wife, Dominic Ullis escapes to Bombay in search of oblivion and a dangerous new drug, Meow Meow. So begins a glorious weekend of misadventure as he tours the teeming, kaleidoscopic city from its sleek eyries of high-capital to the piss-stained streets, encountering a cast with their own stories to tell, but none of whom Ullis - his faculties ever distorted - is quite sure he can trust.
Heady, heartbroken and heartfelt, Low is a blazing joyride through the darklands of grief towards obliteration - and, perhaps, epiphany.
'Jeet Thayil delights not just in pushing the bounds of possibility, but in smashing them to smithereens.'John Burnside
About the Author Jeet Thayil is a poet, musician and novelist. He was born in Kerala in 1959 and educated at Jesuit schools in Bombay, Hong Kong and New York. He worked as a journalist for twenty-three years before writing his bestselling debut novel, Narcopolis, which won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Man Asian Literary Prize. His second novel, The Book of Chocolate Saints, was longlisted for the DSC Prize and described as 'easily the most original and formally inventive novel to come out of India in years' by Salman Rushdie. Thayil's five poetry collections include These Errors Are Correct, which won the 2013 Sahitya Akademi Award (India's National Academy of Letters) and he is also the editor of The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets.
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Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Narcopolis Jeet Thayil
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Narcopolis is a rich and hallucinatory novel set around a Bombay opium den, as the city transforms itself over three decades.
Description Wait now, light me up so we do this right, yes, hold me steady to the lamp, hold it, hold, good, a slow pull to start with, to draw the smoke low into the lungs, yes, oh my.
Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashid's opium room the air is thick with voices and ghosts: Hindu, Muslim, Christian. A young woman holds a long-stemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling across her eyes. Men sprawl and mutter in the gloom. Here, they say you introduce only your worst enemy to opium. There is an underworld whisper of a new terror: the Pathar Maar, the stone killer, whose victims are the nameless, invisible poor. In the broken city, there are too many to count.
Stretching across three decades, with an interlude in Mao's China, it portrays a city in collision with itself. With a cast of pimps, pushers, poets, gangsters and eunuchs, it is a journey into a sprawling underworld written in electric and utterly original prose.
About the Author Jeet Thayil was born in Kerala, India in 1959 and educated in Hong Kong, New York and Mumbai. He is a performance poet, songwriter and guitarist as well as a writer, and has published four collections of poetry. He is the editor of The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (2008). He currently lives in Bangalore.
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Faber Paperback AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga
Thirty years on from her acclaimed debut Nervous Conditions, considered one of the 100 Books that Shaped the World by the BBC, the award-winning Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga 'has produced another masterpiece' ( New York Times).
Description 'As natural as the grass grows.' Chinua Achebe '[Dangarembga] is a wonderful creator of character.' Doris Lessing '[A] Masterpiece.' New York Times 'Searing and enlightening.' Sefi Atta, author of Everything Good Will Come
In this tense and psychologically charged novel, Tsitsi Dangarembga channels the hope and potential of one young girl and a fledgling nation to lead us on a journey to discover where lives go after hope has departed.
Here we meet Tambudzai, living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare and anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job. At every turn in her attempt to make a life for herself, she is faced with a fresh humiliation, until the painful contrast between the future she imagined and her daily reality ultimately drives her to a breaking point.
About the Author Tsitsi Dangarembga is the author of two previous novels, including Nervous Conditions, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. She is also a filmmaker, playwright, and the director of the Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa Trust. She lives in Harare, Zimbabwe.
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Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Old Possum's Book of Practical CATS: Cats Movie Tie-in T. S. Eliot
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE - The poems by T. S. Eliot that inspired the movie Cats.
Description Cats! Some are sane, some are mad and some are good and some are bad.
Meet magical Mr Mistoffelees, sleepy Old Deuteronomy and curious Rum Tum Tugger. But you'll be lucky to meet Macavity because Macavity's not there!
In 1925 T.S. Eliot became co-director of Faber & Faber, who remain his publishers to this day. Throughout the 1930s he composed the now famous poems about Macavity, Old Deuteronomy, Mr Mistoffelees and many other cats, under the name of 'Old Possum'. In 1981 Eliot's poems were set to music by Andrew Lloyd Webber as Cats, which went on to become the longest-running Broadway musical in history and is now a film starring Taylor Swfit, Idris Elba, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Rebel Wilson, Jennifer Hudson, Jason Derulo, Francesca Hayward and James Corden.
With illustrations by Rebecca Ashdown.
About the Author Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) was born in St Louis, Missouri, USA. He settled in England in 1915 and published his first book of poems in 1917. Eliot received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.
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Faber Child Trade AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Before She Knew Him Peter Swanson
From Peter Swanson, author of The Kind Worth Killing and All the Beautiful Lies, comes a novelas brilliant, dark, coruscating and surprising as Patricia Highsmith and Ira Levin at their very best.
Description 'They had a secret, the two of them, and there was no better way to start a friendship than with a secret.'
When Hen and Lloyd move into their new house in West Dartford, Mass, they're relieved to meet, at their first block party, the only other seemingly-childless couple in their neighborhood, Matthew and Mira Dolamore. Turns out they live in the Dutch Colonial immediately next door.
When they're invited over for dinner, however, things take a sinister turn when Hen thinks she sees something suspicious in Matthew's study. Could this charming, mild-mannered College Professor really be hiding a dark secret, one that only Hen, whose been battling her own problems with depression and medication, could know about? Lloyd certainly doesn't seem to believe her, and so, forced together, Hen and Matthew start to form an unlikely bond. But who, if anyone, is really in danger?
From its deeply unsettling opening, Peter Swanson, the master of contemporary domestic thrillers, fashions a novel as brilliant, dark, coruscating and surprising as Patricia Highsmith and Ira Levin at their very best.
About the Author Peter Swanson's debut novel, The Girl With a Clock for a Heart (2014), was described by Dennis Lehane as 'a twisty, sexy, electric thrill ride' and was nominated for the LA Times book award. His second novel The Kind Worth Killing (2015), a Richard and Judy pick, was shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and named the iBook stores Thriller of the Year, and was followed by two more critical and commercial hits, Her Every Fear (2017) and All the Beautiful Lies (2018). He lives with his wife and cat in Somerville, Massachusetts.
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Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Death Is Hard Work Khaled Khalifa
A tale of three ordinary people embarking on a dogged, absurd quest through the nightmare of Syria's ongoing and catastrophic civil war - with little more than simple determination.
Description Death Is Hard Work is a tale of three people embarking on an absurd quest - an unforgettable journey into a contemporary heart of darkness.
At a hospital in Damascus, Syria, Abdel Latif's final wish is to be buried in the family plot near Aleppo - just a two-hour drive away. Bolbol, his youngest son, persuades his estranged brother and sister to accompany him and their father's body to the ancestral village. But Syria is a war zone, and the trials that confront the family on their journey will have enormous consequences for them all.
About the Author Khaled Khalifa was born in 1964, in a village close to Aleppo, Syria. He is the author of four novels, including In Praise of Hatred, which was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, and No Knives in the Kitchens of this City, which won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2013. He lives in Damascus, a city he has refused to abandon despite the danger posed by the ongoing civil war.
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Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Little Faith Nickolas Butler
Debut on the Faber list by the author of the international best-seller Shotgun Lovesongs.
Description Lyle Hovde is at the onset of his golden years, living a mostly content life in rural Wisconsin with his wife, Peg, daughter, Shiloh, and five-year-old grandson, Isaac. After a troubled adolescence and subsequent estrangement from her parents, Shiloh has finally come home. But, while away, she became deeply involved with an extremist church, and the devout pastor courting her is convinced Isaac has the spiritual ability to heal the sick.
Reckoning with his own faith - or lack thereof - Lyle soon finds himself torn between his unease about the church and the growing threat it poses to keeping his daughter and grandson in his life.
Set over the course of one year and beautifully evoking the change of seasons, Little Faith is a powerful and deeply affecting novel about family and community, the ways in which belief is both formed and shaken, and the lengths we go to protect our own.
About the Author Nickolas Butler was born in Pennsylvania and raised in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. His award-winning debut novel, Shotgun Lovesongs, was an international bestseller and has been optioned for film by Fox Searchlight Pictures and his acclaimed second novel, Hearts of Men, was a finalist for the 2016 Prix Medicis Etrangere. Butler graduated from the University of Wisconsin before attending the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and currently lives in Wisconsin with his wife and their two children.
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Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 The Cobra Queen Tara Moss
You don't know the New York fashion world until you know its haunts.
Description In the months since Pandora English left the small town of Gretchenville to live with her mysterious great aunt in a supernatural Manhattan suburb, her whole world has been turned upside down.
Pandora has discovered she is the chosen one, the Seventh Daughter of a Seventh Daughter, and during the impending Revolution of the Dead, she alone will have the power to save all life as we know it. The Agitation is unfolding, building towards the Revolution, and Pandora can no longer deny the truth in these incredible prophecies. But what will she do when the moment comes? How can she stand against the army of the dead?
Pandora's relationship to her spirit guide, Lieutenant Luke, is intensifying. She's had to grapple with ghosts, vampires and necromancers. Now, with the Blue Moon approaching and a new exhibition opening at The Met, which celebrates an ancient female pharaoh done wrong in antiquity, powerful forces threaten to upend the balance of life and death.
Pandora is given the chance to find out what happened to her parents all those years ago, but first she must put her own supernatural gifts to the test.
From the best-selling author of The Blood Countess, The Spider Goddess and The Skeleton Key.
About the Author Tara Moss is an author, novelist, documentary maker and presenter, speaker and human rights advocate. Since 1999 she has written 11 bestselling books, published in 19 countries and 13 languages, including the acclaimed Mak Vanderwall crime fiction series and the Pandora English paranormal series. Her first non-fiction book, the critically acclaimed The Fictional Woman, was published in 2014 and became a number one national non-fiction bestseller, and her iconic cover design, featuring her face labeled with 'fictions' or stereotypes about women won Best Non-Fiction Book Design. She is a PhD Candidate at the University of Sydney, and has earned her private investigator credentials (Cert III) Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781760686260 from the Australian Security Academy. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Horror & ghost stories Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Echo AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Cobra Queen 10 copy pack A&U Point of Sale
Includes 10 copies of The Cobra Queen plus free reading copy.
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Echo AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 The Shifting Landscape Katherine Kovacic
Description Art dealer Alex Clayton travels to Victoria's Western District to value the McMillan family's collection. At their historic sheep station, she finds an important and previously unknown colonial painting - and a family fraught with tension. There are arguments about the future of the property and its place in an ancient and highly significant indigenous landscape.
When the family patriarch dies under mysterious circumstances and the painting is stolen, Alex decides to leave; then a toddler disappears and Alex's faithful dog Hogarth goes missing. With fears rising for the safety of both child and hound, Alex and her best friend John, who has been drawn into the mystery, join searchers scouring the countryside. But her attempts to unravel the McMillan family secrets have put Alex in danger, and she's not the only one.
Will the killer claim another victim? Or will the landscape reveal its mysteries to Alex in time?
About the Author Katherine Kovacic is a former veterinarian turned art historian who works with a wide variety of museums, galleries and historic houses. She lives in Melbourne with a Borzoi and a Scottish Deerhound. The Portrait of Molly Dean was her debut novel and the first Alex Clayton art mystery.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781760686444 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Forgery, falsification & theft of artworks Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Echo AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 The Inland Sea Madeleine Watts
A fierce and beautiful debut novel about our capacity for harming ourselves, each other and the world around us.
Description In the early 19th century, British explorer John Oxley traversed the then-unknown wilderness of central Australia in search of water. Oxley never found it, but he never ceased to believe it was out there. The myth of the inland sea was taken up by other men, and over the years search parties walked out into the desert, dying as they tried to find it. Two centuries later, his great-great-great-great granddaughter (and our narrator) spends a final year in Sydney reeling from her own self-destructive obsessions. She's working part-time as an emergency dispatch operator, drinking heavily, sleeping with strangers, wandering Sydney's streets late at night, and navigating an affair with an ex-lover. Reckless and adrift, she prepares to leave. Written with down-to-earth lucidity and ethereal breeziness, this is an unforgettable debut about coming of age in a world that seems increasingly hostile. Watts explores feminine fear, apathy and danger, building to a tightly controlled bushfire of ecological and personal crisis.
About the Author Madeleine Watts grew up in Sydney, Australia and has lived in New York since 2013. She has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, and her fiction has been published in The White Review and The Lifted Brow. Her novella, Afraid of Waking It was awarded the 2015 Griffith Review Novella Prize. Her non-fiction has appeared in The Believer and the Los Angeles Review of Books. The Inland Sea is her first novel.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781911590354 Format: Paperback Dimensions: mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: New York
Pushkin AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 The Salt of the Earth Jozef Wittlin, Patrick Corness
The classic pacifist novel by a major Polish writer, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize.
Description At the beginning of the twentieth century the villagers of the Carpathian mountains lead a simple life, much as they have always done. The modern world has yet to reach the inhabitants of this remote region of the Habsburg Empire. Among them is Piotr, a bandy-legged peasant, who wants nothing more from life than an official railway cap, a cottage, and a bride with a dowry. But then the First World War reaches the mountains and Piotr is drafted into the army. All the weight of imperial authority is used to mould him into an unthinking fighting machine, forced to fight a war he does not understand, for interests other than his own. The Salt of the Earth is a classic war novel and a powerfully pacifist tale about the consequences of war for ordinary men. With a foreword by Philippe Sands.
About the Author Jozef Wittlin, born in 1896, was a major Polish poet, novelist, essayist and translator. He studied in Vienna and served in the Austro-Hungarian army in the First World War. His experiences during that war inspired him to write The Salt of the Earth, which was first published in 1935. It was awarded the Polish National Academy Prize, won Wittlin a nomination for the Nobel Prize, and has since been translated into 14 languages. With the outbreak of the Second World War he fled to France and then to New York, where he died in 1976.
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Pushkin AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Deviation Luce d'Eramo
The devastating account of one woman's infatuation - and subsequent disillusion - with Nazism, translated into English for the first time.
Description Lucie was brought up by bourgeois parents as a passionate young fascist. At the age of eighteen, she decides to volunteer in the Nazi labour camps in Germany. Wishing to disprove what she sees as the lies that are being told about Nazi-Fascism, she instead encounters the horrors of life there - and is changed completely. Shedding her identity, she joins a group of deportees being sent to Dachau concentration camp. She escapes the camp in October 1944, and wanders around a Germany devastated by allied bombardments. Then, in February 1945, while helping dig in rubble seeking to rescue survivors, a wall falls on her and she is left paralysed from the waist down. Translated into English for the first time, Deviation is an autobiographical novel about the repression of memory, and one woman's attempt to make sense of the hell she has lived through.
About the Author Luce d'Eramo was born in 1925 in France. The daughter of Italian parents, she lived in France until her family returned to Italy in 1938. From a bourgeois Fascist family, she studied at the Sapienza in Rome and was a member of the Association of Fascist Students. When she was 18, she left home to volunteer in the Nazi labour camps, but then joined a group of deportees being sent to Dachau, from which she escaped in October 1944. She was left severely paralysed in 1945. d'Eramo went on to earn degrees in literature and philosophy and wrote many works of fiction and non-fiction, most famously Deviation, published in 1979. She died in Rome in 2001.
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Pushkin AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 The Inugami Curse Seishi Yokomizo
A fiendish classic murder mystery, from one of Japan's greatest crime writers.
Description In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan dies, setting off a chain of bizarre, gruesome murders. Detective Kindaichi must unravel the clan's terrible secrets of forbidden liaisons, monstrous cruelty, and hidden identities to find the murderer. The Inugami Curse is a bloody, intricately plotted classic mystery from a giant of Japanese crime writing.
About the Author Seishi Yokomizo (1902-81) was one of Japan's most famous and best-loved mystery writers. He was born in Kobe and spent his childhood reading detective stories, before beginning to write stories of his own, the first of which was published in 1921. He went on to become an extremely prolific and popular author, best known for his Kosuke Kindaichi series, which ran to 77 books, many of which were adapted for stage and television in Japan. The Inugami Curse is one of Kindaichi's most famous mysteries and has twice been adapted for film in Japan.
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Puskin Vertigo AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Topics of Conversation Miranda Popkey
A major debut novel about the hidden truths of women's lives by a remarkable new writer.
Description What is the shape of a life? Is it the things that happen to us? Or is it the stories we tell about the things that happen to us? Miranda Popkey's remarkable debut novel follows one woman as she makes her way through two decades of bad relationships, motherhood, crisis and consolation, each new episode narrated through the conversations she has with other women: in private with friends, late at night at parties with acquaintances, with strangers in hotel rooms, in moments of revelation, shame, intimacy, cynicism and desire.
From the coast of the Adriatic to sun-soaked California, Topics of Conversation maps out one woman's life through the stories of the women around her and the men they've known. Full of the uncertainty of the present and the instability of the past, sizzling with enigmatic desire, it is a seductive exploration of life as a woman in the modern world, of the stories we tell ourselves and of the things we reveal only to strangers.
About the Author Miranda Popkey was born in Santa Cruz, California in 1987. She graduated with a BA in Humanities from Yale in 2009, and with an MFA in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis in 2018. She has written for, among other outlets, New Republic, the New Yorker's Page-Turner blog, Paris Review Daily, The Hairpin, The Awl, GQ.com and The Cut.
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Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 A Famished Heart Nicola White
The first in a powerful new crime trilogy set in 1980s Dublin, exploring the power of the Catholic church and the powerlessness of unmarried women.
Description Her head was bowed, and the hands braced on the chair arms were not like hands at all, but the dry dark claws of a bird...
The Macnamara sisters hadn't been seen for months before anyone noticed. It was Father Timoney who finally broke down the door. One woman was sitting in her armchair, surrounded by religious tracts, the other was crouched under her own bed. Both had starved themselves to death.
Francesca Macnamara returns to Dublin after decades in the US, to find her family in ruins. Meanwhile, Detectives Vincent Swan and Gina Considine are convinced that there is more to the deaths than suicide. Because what little evidence there is, shows that someone was watching the sisters die...
About the Author Nicola White won the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award in 2008 and in 2012 was Leverhulme Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University. Her novel The Rosary Garden won the Dundee International Book Prize, was shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize, and selected as one of the four best debuts by Val McDermid at Harrogate. She grew up in Dublin and New York, and now lives in the Scottish Highlands.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781788164085 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Fiction & related items Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Night Theatre Vikram Paralkar
A powerful fable about a surgeon negotiating the fine line between life and death.
Description 'I read this book in a single addictive sitting. It will stay with me for a long time' Jeet Thayil 'Paralkar has created my favorite kind of story: morbid, magical, and enthralling' Sarah Blake
As dusk approaches, a former surgeon goes about closing up his dilapidated clinic in rural India. His day, like all his days, has been long and hard. His medical supplies arrive late if at all, the electrics in the clinic threaten to burn out at any minute, and his overseer, a corrupt government official, blackmails and extorts him. It is thankless work, but the surgeon has long given up any hope of reward in this life.
That night, as the surgeon completes his paperwork, he is visited by a family - a teacher, his heavily pregnant wife and their young son. Victims of a senseless attack, they reveal to the surgeon wounds that they could not possibly have survived.
And so the surgeon finds himself faced with a preposterous task: to mend the wounds of the dead family before sunrise so that they may return to life. But this is not the only challenge laid before the surgeon, and as the night unfolds he realises his future is tied more closely to that of the dead family than he could have imagined.
At once dustily realist and magically unreal, Night Theatre is a powerful fable about the miracles we ask of doctors, and the fine line they negotiate between life and death.
About the Author Vikram Paralkar is a physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA. He was born and raised in Mumbai.
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Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Hitler's Secret Rory Clements
With WWII on a knife-edge, the most devestating weapon against the Nazis may not be a weapon at all . . . In Sunday Times bestselling Rory Clement's most intelligent, thrilling novel to date, only the truth can turn the tide of war.
Description In the Autumn of 1941, the war is going badly for Britain and its allies. If the tide is going to be turned against Hitler, a new weapon is desperately needed.
In Cambridge, brilliant history professor Tom Wilde is asked by an American intelligence officer to help smuggle a mysterious package out of Nazi Germany - something so secret, even Hitler himself doesn't know of its existence.
Posing as a German-American industrialist, Wilde soon discovers the shocking truth about the 'package', and why the Nazis will stop at nothing to prevent it leaving Germany. With ruthless killers loyal to Martin Bormann hunting him down, Wilde makes a desperate gamble on an unlikely escape route. But even if he reaches England alive, that will not be the end of his ordeal. Wilde is now convinced that the truth he has discovered must remain hidden, even if it means betraying the country he loves . . .
The stunning new 'what if?' thriller from Sunday Times bestseller, Rory Clements.
Praise for RORY CLEMENTS
'A dramatic, twisty thriller' Daily Mail
'Dramatic . . . pacy and assured' Daily Mail
'Political polarisation, mistrust and simmering violence' The Times
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781838770280 'A standout historical novel and spy thriller' Daily Express Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm 'Enjoyable, bloody and brutish' Guardian Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Historical fiction Bic2: Thriller / suspense 'Sends a shiver down your spine' Daily Mail Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: 'A colourful history lesson . . . exciting narrative twists' Sunday Telegraph
About the Author Rory Clements is a Sunday Times bestselling author. He won the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award for his second novel, Revenger, and a TV series of the John Shakespeare novels is currently in development. Rory lives in Norfolk with Zaffrehis AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 King of Kings Wilbur Smith, Imogen Robertson
The long-awaited sequel to Wilbur Smith's worldwide bestseller, The Triumph of the Sun.
Description An epic story of love, betrayal, courage and war that brings together two of Wilbur Smith's greatest families in this long- awaited sequel to his worldwide bestseller, The Triumph of the Sun.
Cairo, 1887. A beautiful September day. Penrod Ballantyne and his fiancee, Amber Benbrook, stroll hand in hand. The future is theirs for the taking.
But when Penrod's jealous former lover, Lady Agatha, plants doubt about his character, Amber leaves him and travels to the wilds of Abyssinia with her twin sister, Saffron, and her adventurer husband, Ryder Courtney. On a mission to establish a silver mine, they make the dangerous journey to the new capital of Addis Ababa, where they are welcomed by Menelik, the King of Kings.
Back in Cairo, a devastated Penrod seeks oblivion in the city's opium dens. He is rescued by an old friend, who is now in the Italian army, and offered the chance to join the military efforts. Italy has designs on Abyssinia, and there are rumours of a plan to invade . . .
With storm clouds gathering, and on opposing sides of the invasion, can Penrod and Amber find their way back to one another - against all the odds?
About the Author Wilbur Smith (Author) Wilbur Smith is a worldwide phenomenon. His readership has built up over fifty-five years of writing. Born in Central Africa in 1933, Wilbur became a full-time writer in 1964 following the success of When the Lion Feeds, and has since published over forty global bestsellers, including the Courtney Series, the Ballantyne Series, the Egyptian Series, the Hector Cross Series and many successful standalone novels, all meticulously researched on his numerous Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781785768477 expeditions worldwide. Format: Paperback - B format The establishment of the Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation in 2015 cemented Wilbur's passion for empowering writers, Dimensions: 198x129mm promoting literacy and advancing adventure writing as a genre. The foundation's flagship programme is the Wilbur Smith Extent: 464 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Adventure Writing Prize. Bic2: Adventure For all the latest information on Wilbur visit www.wilbursmithbooks.com or facebook.com/WilburSmith Illustrations: Previous Titles: Imogen Robertson (Author) Author now living: Imogen Robertson studied languages at Cambridge and was a TV director before her first novel Instruments of Darkness was published in 2009. She is the author of The Crowther and Westerman crime series and The Paris Winter. Her novels have been shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger three times. You can find her online at www.imogenrobertson.com or on twitter @RobertsonImogen Zaffre AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Stasi Winter David Young
A suspenseful and gripping crime thriller set in East Germany, from the bestselling author of Stasi Child.
Description In the depths of the Republic's catastrophic winter, Major Karin Muller is called upon to stop a group of 'escapers' from crossing the frozen Ostee. Ahead, her partner, Hauptmann Werner Tilsner has caught up with the group but is he arresting them, or assisting them . . .
When a flash of red hair against the expanse of white stops Muller in her tracks, she's in shock. A familiar young girl is on the Ostee. Codename; Wildcat.
As tensions grow with her deputy, Tilsner, and a woman's murder to solve, Muller must work to uncover the secrets of the state under the difficulties of the worst winter in history.
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Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781785765469 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 The Oath Klaus-Peter Wolf
If the system can't make them pay, then he will . . .
Description An atmospheric and chilling crime thriller from German bestselling author, Klaus-Peter Wolf. For readers of Ann Cleeves.
Ubbo Heide, former head of the Aurich police, is enjoying a peaceful retirement in the coastal region of East Frisia. That is until he's catapulted back into the dark world of murder investigation when a gruesome package turns up at his door containing a severed head.
When a torso is found on the local beach, it's assumed that it belongs to the severed head. But then a second head arrives in the post and Chief Commissioner Ann Kathrin Klaasen, now assigned to the case, realises that both victims were criminals who Ubbo had failed to have locked up for their crimes.
Soon it's clear that this quiet coastal community is facing a brutal serial killer. One who is taking justice into his own hands . . .
About the Author Klaus-Peter Wolf was born in Gelsenkirchen in 1954. He is a freelance writer and his books and films have won numerous Awards. So far, his books have been translated into twenty-four languages and sold over nine million copies. More than sixty of his scripts have been made into films.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781786580344 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Crime & mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Manilla AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Bobby March Will Live Forever Alan Parks
The third dark and gripping Harry McCoy thriller from the most exciting new voice in Scottish noir.
Description WHO IS TO BLAME WHEN NO ONE IS INNOCENT?
The papers want blood. The force wants results. The law must be served, whatever the cost.
August 1973. The Glasgow drugs trade is booming and Bobby March, the city's own rock-star hero, has just OD'ed in a central hotel.
Alice Winters is twelve years old, lonely. And missing.
Meanwhile the niece of McCoy's boss has fallen in with a bad crowd and when she goes AWOL, McCoy is asked - off the books - to find her.
McCoy has a hunch. But does he have enough time?
About the Author Alan Parks has worked in the music industry for over twenty years. His debut novel Bloody January was shortlisted for the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere. He lives and works in Glasgow.
Bobby March Will Live Forever is the third Harry McCoy thriller.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781786897152 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Crime & mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 The Ice House Tim Clare
'A strangely beautiful, beautifully strange fantasy' (SFX) about endless life, cheating death and staying true to what matters most from 'one of the UK's most versatile writers' (Grazia).
Description War doesn't end. It sleeps.
Delphine Venner remembers everything. She remembers what it is to be a child of war, and what the terrifying creatures from another world took from her all those years ago.
And in that other world, Avalonia, someone waits for Delphine. Hagar, a centuries-old assassin, daily paying a terrible price for her unending youth, is planning one final death, the death that will cost her everything. The death which requires Delphine.
In the battle to destroy an ageless evil, Delphine must remember who she is and be ready to fight once more, as war reawakens.
About the Author Tim Clare is a writer, poet and musician. He won Best Biography/Memoir at the East Anglian Book Awards for his first book, We Can't All Be Astronauts, while his fiction debut, The Honours, was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. He has performed his work at festivals and clubs across the world, on BBC TV and radio. Tim has also written for the Guardian, The Times, the Independent and the Big Issue, and presents the fiction writing podcast Death Of 1,000 Cuts. @timclarepoet | timclarepoet.co.uk
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781786894823 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Fantasy Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 The Honours Tim Clare
Neil Gaiman meets Northern Lights in this dark and epic fantasy novel about the secrets we keep, the lies we need to believe and the things that are truly worth fighting for.
Description TRUE HONOUR IS ENDLESS.
1935. Norfolk. War is looming in Great Britain and the sprawling country estate of Alderberen Hall is shadowed by suspicion and paranoia. Alderberen's newest resident, Delphine Venner, is determined to uncover the secrets of the Hall's elite society, which has taken in her gullible mother and unstable father.
As she explores the house and discovers the secret network of hidden passages that thread through the estate, Delphine unearths a world more dark and threatening than she ever imagined. With the help of head gamekeeper Mr Garforth, Delphine must learn the bloody lessons of war and find the soldier within herself in time to battle the deadly forces amassing in the woods . . .
About the Author Tim Clare is a writer, poet and musician. His debut novel, The Honours, was published in 2015 by Canongate and was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. His second novel, The Ice House, a sequel to The Honours, was published in 2019. Tim has also written for the Guardian, The Times, the Independent and the Big Issue, and presents the fiction writing podcast Death Of 1,000 Cuts. @timclarepoet | timclarepoet.co.uk
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Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 The Sweet Indifference of the World Peter Stamm
A miniature masterpiece from acclaimed writer Peter Stamm, in which he asks unsettling questions about destiny and desire
Description Christoph, an older man who is a writer, has a story to share with Lena, a younger woman who is an actress. A long time ago, he was in a relationship with a woman called Magdalena, who was also an actress. Lena is currently in a relationship with a man called Chris, who is also a writer. As the two talk, it becomes clear that the two relationships contain echoes, similarities, and coincidences too remarkable to be called coincidences. Are Chris and Lena doomed to repeat Christoph and Magdalena's broken relationship, or are Christoph and Magdalena a warning from the future? Who really exists? Is there such a thing as fate?
And so begins a uniquely existential game of past and present that will leave no one unharmed.
About the Author Peter Stamm was born in Switzerland. He is the author of the novels Agnes, On A Day Like This, Unformed Landscape, Seven Years and All Days are Night and the collection We're Flying, as well as numerous short stories and radio plays. In 2013, he was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize and shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. He lives in Winterthur.
Michael Hofmann has translated the works of many writers, including Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth and Hans Fallada. A poet and essayist, he also teaches at the University of Florida.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781783785735 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Fiction in translation Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Hark Sam Lipsyte
A riotous novel of awkward believers, floundering marriages and our maladjusted 21st century, from one of America's sharpest satirists - for fans of Gary Shteyngart, Paul Murray and Larry David
Description 'The world needed more Sam Lipsyte and Lipsyte, knowing this, perhaps, has given us Hark. It's a stellar work by a great satirist, an uncanny observer, a keen stylist, a truly fine and thrilling writer.' Patrick deWitt, author of The Sisters Brothers
In an America convulsed by political upheaval, cultural discord, environmental collapse and spiritual confusion, many folks are searching for peace, salvation, and - perhaps most immediately - just a little damn focus.
Enter Hark Morner, an unwitting guru whose technique of ""Mental Archery"" - a combination of mindfulness, mythology, fake history, yoga, and, well, archery - is set to captivate the masses and raise him to near-messiah status. It's a role he never asked for, and one he is woefully underprepared to take on. But his inner-circle of modern pilgrims have other plans, as do some suddenly powerful fringe players, including a renegade Ivy League ethicist, a gentle Swedish kidnapper, a crossbow-hunting veteran of jungle drug wars, a social media tycoon with an empire on the skids, and a mysteriously influential (but undeniably slimy) catfish.
In this social satire of the highest order, Sam Lipsyte, author of the bestselling novel The Ask and master of the form, reaches new peaks of daring in a novel that revels in contemporary absurdity and the wild poetry of everyday language while exploring the emotional truths of his characters - men, women and children seeking meaning and dignity in a chaotic, ridiculous and often dangerous world.
About the Author SAM LIPSYTE, b.1968, is an American novelist and short story writer. He is the author of the short story collections Venus Drive and The Fun Parts (Granta, 2013) and three novels: The Subject Steve, Home Land, and The Ask, which was a New York Times Notable Book. He lives New York.
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Granta Paperbacks AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 She I Dare Not Name: A spinster's meditations on life Donna Ward
A compelling memoir about the single life and the courage to live alone in a world made for couples and families.
Description 'She I Dare Not Name is a rollercoaster ride, like life, that takes us deep into a woman's experience. It enriched me, leaving me with much to think about. Donna is frank and generous, analytical in a way that makes her story our story . . . and any human will find themself in there.' - Susan Wyndham, author and former literary editor at the Sydney Morning Herald
Astonishing. Luminous. A book about being human.
She I Dare Not Name: A spinster's meditations on life is a compelling collection of fiercely intelligent, deeply intimate, lyrical reflections on the life of a woman who stands on the threshold of two millennia. Both manifesto and confession, this moving memoir explores the meaning and purpose Donna Ward has discovered in a life lived entirely without a partner and children.
The book describes a life lived on the edge of a world built in the shape of couples and families. Rippling through these pages is the way a spinster, or a bachelor, or any of us for that matter, contends with the prejudice and stigma of being different.
With courage and astounding honesty Donna uncovers the challenge of living with more solitude than anticipated and what it is like to walk the road through midlife and beyond alone. And she reveals how she found home and discovered herself within it.
Funny, sharp, wise and wry, She I Dare Not Name shows how reading saved this spinster's life, and how friends and writing and walking bring a contentment and sense of achievement Donna never thought possible.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781760876296 About the Author Format: Paperback - C format Donna Ward is the publisher at Inkerman & Blunt. She founded indigo, the journal of Western Australian creative writing. Dimensions: 234x153mm Her prose can be found in respected journals and anthologies nationally, internationally and online. She has past lives as Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Literary essays a psychotherapist and as a social worker. She worked in her own private practice, in welfare management and social Bic2: Feminism & feminist theory policy development. She, I Dare Not Name: A Spinster's Meditations on Life, is Donna's first book. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: North Fitzroy, VIC
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse Cassandra Pybus
The haunting story of the extraordinary Aboriginal woman behind the myth of 'the last Tasmanian'.
Description 'At last, a book to give Truganini the proper attention she deserves.' - Gaye Sculthorpe, Curator of Oceania, The British Museum
Cassandra Pybus' ancestors told a story of an old Aboriginal woman who would wander across their farm on Bruny Island, just off the coast of south-east Tasmania, throughout the 1850s and 1860s. As a child, Cassandra didn't know this woman was Truganini, and that she was walking over the country of her clan, the Nuenonne, of whom she was the last.
The name of Truganini is vaguely familiar to most Australians as 'the last of her race'. She has become an international icon for a monumental tragedy: the extinction of the original people of Tasmania within her lifetime. For nearly seven decades she lived through a psychological and cultural shift more extreme than most human imaginations could conjure. She is a hugely significant figure in Australian history and we should know about how she lived, not simply that she died. Her life was much more than a regrettable tragedy. Now Cassandra has examined the original eyewitness accounts to write Truganini's extraordinary story.
A lively, intelligent, sensual young woman, Truganini managed to survive the devastating decade of the 1820s when the clans of south-eastern Tasmania were all but extinguished. Taken away from Bruny Island in 1830, she spent five years on a journey around Tasmania, across rugged highland and through barely penetrable forests, with the self-styled missionary George Augustus Robinson, who was collecting all the surviving people to send them into exile on Flinders Island. She managed to avoid a long incarceration on Flinders Island when Robinson took her to Victoria where she was implicated in the murder of two white men. Acquitted of murder, she was returned to Tasmania where she lived for another thirty-five years. Her story is both inspiring and heart-wrenching, and it is told in full in this book for the first time.
About the Author Cassandra Pybus is an award-winning author and a distinguished historian. She is author of eleven books and has held Price: $32.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9781760529222 research professorships at the University of Sydney, Georgetown University in Washington DC, the University of Texas Format: Paperback - C format and King's College London. She is descended from the colonist who received the largest free land grant on Truganini's Dimensions: 234x153mm traditional country of Bruny Island. Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Biography: historical, political & military Bic2: Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 The XX Brain: The groundbreaking approach for women to prevent dementia and Alzheimer's Disease and improve brain health Dr Lisa Mosconi
The XX Brain is the first book to explain how hormonal changes makes a woman's brain especially vulnerable to Alzheimer's, and shows how this risk and also other forms of dementia can be reduced by preventive medicine and lifestyle modifications designed specifically for women.
Description Women are twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease, and women are far more likely than men to suffer from anxiety, depression, migraines, brain injuries and strokes. The XX Brain reveals groundbreaking research showing that women's brains age distinctly from men's, due mostly to the decline of a key brain-protective hormone: estrogen.
Until now, medical research has focused on 'bikini medicine', assuming that women are essentially men with breasts and tubes. The XX Brain reveals how the two powerful X chromosomes that distinguish women from men impact women's brains first and foremost.
Taking on all aspects of women's health, including brain fog, memory lapses, depression, stress, insomnia, hormonal imbalances, and the increased risk of dementia, Dr. Mosconi introduces cutting-edge, evidence-based approaches to protect the female brain, including diet and lifestyle strategies proven to work for women. She also examines the controversies about soy and hormonal replacement therapy, the perils of environmental toxins, and gut health. Luckily, it is never too late to take care of yourself.
The XX Brain gives women the first plan to address the unique risks and strengths of the female brain for optimal, lifelong brain health.
About the Author Dr Lisa Mosconi, PhD, is the director of the Women's Brain Initiative and associate director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Price: $32.99 $36.99 Clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College and the author of Brain Food. ISBN: 9781760875497 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Women's health Bic2: Alzheimer's & dementia Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: None
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Man Raises Boy: A revolutionary approach for fathers who want to raise kind, confident and happy sons Rob Sturrock
Written from the front line of fatherhood, journalist Rob Sturrock grapples with the daily challenges of raising boys who can thrive in the current era.
Description A book from the front lines of modern fatherhood.
Welcome to Rob Sturrock's journey into parenting. Since the birth of his daughter, Rob has been passionate about being an active and present father, but this hasn't always been straightforward. Struggling with stereotypes, judgement, identity and isolation while on parental leave, Rob has tried to balance supporting his wife and newly born children with the societal expectation of being a breadwinner for his family.
With the arrival of his son, a new set of anxieties was born. In today's climate, how do you raise a boy? The roar of the #MeToo movement has meant that men have had to learn to listen, and to confront their masculinity and what it means to be a man. Through extensive research and interviews with dads doing it differently - including Tony Sheldon, Adam Liaw and Bernie Shakeshaft - Rob Sturrock explores a new era of fathering that balances strength and vulnerability, allowing men to voice their insecurities and uncertainties, and encouraging them to truly cherish their families.
Man Raises Boy is at once an insightful and necessary call to arms for all new fathers, a guiding hand in the maze of love, guilt, anxiety and joy in fatherhood - and an ordinary dad's, beautifully moving love letter to his son.
About the Author Rob Sturrock is an author and a father. He has written widely about his experiences of being a working dad and juggling the responsibilities of home and work. Rob has been published online in Women's Agenda, Mamamia and Circle In, as well as in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the Huffington Post. Rob also appears on the ABC and Channel 9 to talk about his views on fatherhood and is considered a leading father's voice in parenting debates. Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781760875213 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 328 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Advice on parenting Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: None
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 The School of Restoration Alice Achan
Description Alice Achan was only twelve years old when the Lord's Resistance Army began to terrorise her peaceful village in northern Uganda. She spent five years on the run from the brutalities of the LRA, and then became the caretaker of her brother's young children after their mother died of HIV/Aids. When her nieces were diagnosed with HIV/Aids Alice knew it was only a matter of time until it killed them, but she looked after them until the end. Their deaths plunged her into depression, which only began to lift after she took a teenage girl under her wing, who'd been kidnapped and raped by the LRA, and now had a baby by her rapists.
Spurred on by her friend's plight, Alice established an organisation called CCF Pader to house and nurture young female victims of the sexual violence that was such a brutal trademark of the LRA's campaign. Out of this was to rise The Pader Girl's Academy - nicknamed 'the School of Restoration'. It has now helped hundreds of young girls, many of whom were left with babies and often HIV as a consequence of their rape and sexual enslavement. These were girls, women and children that no one wanted, yet whose humanity and potential Alice recognised. The School of Restoration teaches them skills to help them find work, educates them in the care and rearing of healthy children, and above all gives them back their identity and dignity. It is a profound and meaningful response to the outrage of sexual violence used as a weapon of war, and a beacon of light in the broader campaign of educating girls as a means of fighting poverty and raising living standards across Africa.
Written in Alice's powerful yet understated voice, The School of Restoration is a compelling story about hope, forgiveness, redemption, and the human capacity to survive and even thrive against the backdrop of war and chaos.
About the Author Philippa Tyndale has brought Alice's voice to life. She is a journalist, philanthropist and a key supporter of The Pader Academy who can be found at philippatyndale.com . She has written for the Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald, The Bulletin and in recent years she has become involved in the development field through the micro finance work of Opportunity International. She is the author of Don't Look Back: The David Bassau Story ( Allen & Unwin). Price: $32.99 $36.99 Philippa will donate her share of the advance to Alice's charity. ISBN: 9781760875121 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Mosman, Sydney, NSW
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Husna's Story: Why I Forgave my Wife's Killer Farid Ahmed
Husna Ahmed was one of the victims of the Christchurch mosque terrorist attacks on 15 March 2019. She was shot going back into the mosque to look for her husband who was in a wheelchair.
Description Husna's Story is written by Husna's husband Farid Ahmed. They were praying at El Noor Mosque in Christchurch when a gunman burst in and shot and killed 51 people and injured many others in a terrorist attack. This book tells Husna's story, describing the day of the attack - in all of its normal, mundane detail up until the tragedy, and then the horrendous tragedy of what followed.
Interwoven with this is the story of Husna's life, telling of the selflessness and bravery with which she lived her life. As well as looking after her paraplegic husband, Husna was an important member of the community, helping women when they were giving birth, running classes for children and helping many others. Her last selfless act was going back into the mosque to look for her husband on that fateful day. She had already led the other women and children to safety. Tragically she was shot.
Husna's husband, Farid Ahmed, quite incredibly, forgives the alleged killer. His remarkable philosophy of forgiveness, peace and love is an example of how religion and faith, through personal application, can be a tool for navigating the most horrific of tragedies.
About the Author Farid Ahmed has lived in Christchurch for 30 years. Twenty-one years ago he became a paraplegic when a drunk driver ran him over on the street. Miraculously Farid survived, but is now confined to a wheelchair. Despite that Farid is a Senior Leader at the Deans Ave Mosque in Christchurch and he works as a homeopath. Since the attacks he also speaks around the world, preaching his message of forgiveness and love.
Price: $32.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9781988547480 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Social issues & processes Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: None
A&U New Zealand AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Rewording the Brain: How cryptic crosswords can improve your memory and boost the power and agility of your brain David Astle
Master wordsmith and crossword guru David Astle shows how cryptic crosswords can boost your brain power and improve your memory and cognitive capacity.
Description Recent studies have shown that puzzle-solving and wordplay are among the most effective ways to boost the power and agility of your brain. A cryptic crossword a day can help keep memory loss at bay.
Why? The answer lies in the art of teasing out a clue, a discipline that calls for logic, interpretation, intuition and deduction as well as the ability to filter nuance and connotation. All these challenges and more are found in the cryptic crossword. And all are invaluable in increasing your brainpower and improving your memory and cognitive capacity.
In this entertaining and essential book, cryptic crossword guru David Astle explains how your brain responds to and benefits from attempting these crosswords. A growing body of research suggests cryptic crosswords are the ideal workout for your brain, and Astle shows how regular training of this kind can be fun as well as fundamental.
If you've always been intimidated by cryptic crosswords, fear not! Rewording the Brain is an accessible guide to developing and sharpening your puzzle talents. Novices and expert solvers alike will gain plenty of cryptic insights. There has never been a better time to start solving, nor a better teacher than the legendary DA.
Also included are 50 cryptic crosswords hand-picked to keep your brain abuzz, ranging from beginner-friendly to fiendishly complicated!
About the Author As crossword maker in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, as well as Wordplay columnist with Spectrum, David Astle is a full-time word nerd. He's the author of Wordburger - a quick-snack guide to cryptic crosswords for kids or Price: $19.99 $22.99 rookies in general, as well as the time-travelling mind-trip called Riddledom. His other wordy hits include Cluetopia, plus ISBN: 9781760876944 the ultimate manual-cum-memoir, Puzzled. To complete the set are the two pocketbooks: Puzzles & Words - and Puzzles Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm & Words 2. David has a regular column Wordwit in the Saturday SMH, Age and Canberra Times and has a weekly slot on Extent: 328 pages Radio National's Sunday Extra with Jonathan Green. He is an ambassador for Dementia Australia. Bic1: Popular science Bic2: Crosswords Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Kew (Melbourne) Victoria
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Husna's Story: Why I Forgave my Wife's Killer Farid Ahmed
Husna Ahmed was one of the victims of the Christchurch mosque terrorist attacks on 15 March 2019. She was shot going back into the mosque to look for her husband who was in a wheelchair.
Description Husna's Story is written by Husna's husband Farid Ahmed. They were praying at El Noor Mosque in Christchurch when a gunman burst in and shot and killed 51 people and injured many others in a terrorist attack. This book tells Husna's story, describing the day of the attack - in all of its normal, mundane detail up until the tragedy, and then the horrendous tragedy of what followed.
Interwoven with this is the story of Husna's life, telling of the selflessness and bravery with which she lived her life. As well as looking after her paraplegic husband, Husna was an important member of the community, helping women when they were giving birth, running classes for children and helping many others. Her last selfless act was going back into the mosque to look for her husband on that fateful day. She had already led the other women and children to safety. Tragically she was shot.
Husna's husband, Farid Ahmed, quite incredibly, forgives the alleged killer. His remarkable philosophy of forgiveness, peace and love is an example of how religion and faith, through personal application, can be a tool for navigating the most horrific of tragedies.
About the Author Farid Ahmed has lived in Christchurch for 30 years. Twenty-one years ago he became a paraplegic when a drunk driver ran him over on the street. Miraculously Farid survived, but is now confined to a wheelchair. Despite that Farid is a Senior Leader at the Deans Ave Mosque in Christchurch and he works as a homeopath. Since the attacks he also speaks around the world, preaching his message of forgiveness and love.
Price: $32.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9781988547480 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Social issues & processes Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: None
A&U New Zealand AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 SPSS Survival Manual: A step by step guide to data analysis using IBM SPSS Statistics Julie Pallant
The internationally successful, user-friendly guide that takes students and researchers through the often daunting process of analysing research data with the widely used SPSS software package. Fully revised and updated for IBM SPSS Statistics version 26.
Description The SPSS Survival Manual throws a lifeline to students and researchers grappling with this powerful data analysis software.
In her bestselling guide, Julie Pallant guides you through the entire research process, helping you choose the right data analysis technique for your project. From the formulation of research questions, to the design of the study and analysis of data, to reporting the results, Julie discusses basic and advanced statistical techniques. She outlines each technique clearly, with step-by-step procedures for performing the analysis, a detailed guide to interpreting data output and an example of how to present the results in a report.
For both beginners and experienced users in psychology, sociology, health sciences, medicine, education, business and related disciplines, the SPSS Survival Manual is an essential text. Illustrated with screen grabs, examples of output and tips, it is supported by a website with sample data and guidelines on report writing.
This seventh edition is fully revised and updated to accommodate changes to IBM SPSS Statistics procedures, screens and outputs.
'An excellent introduction to using SPSS for data analysis. It provides a self-contained resource itself, with more than simply (detailed and clear) step-by-step descriptions of statistical procedures in SPSS. There is also a wealth of tips and advice, and for each statistical technique a brief, but consistently reliable, explanation is provided.' - Associate Professor George Dunbar, University of Warwick Price: $49.99 $55.00 ISBN: 9781760875534 Format: Paperback 'This book is recommended as ESSENTIAL to all students completing research projects - minor and major.' - Dr John Dimensions: 253x200mm Roodenburg, Monash University Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Social research & statistics About the Author Bic2: Research methods: general Illustrations: JULIE PALLANT has spent many years helping students overcome 'statistics phobia' in her roles as Director of Research Previous Titles: and Graduate Studies in the Department of Rural Health at the University of Melbourne, and Senior Lecturer in Applied Author now living: Ballina NSW Statistics at Swinburne University. She has worked as a counselling psychologist, and has taught psychology, statistics and research methods at a number of universities. She now works as a research and statistical consultant internationally.
A&U Academic AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Teaching Writing: Effective approaches for the middle years Edited by Tessa Daffern and Noella M Mackenzie
A comprehensive introduction to teaching writing to upper primary and young adolescent students in a screen- based world.
Description In the 21st century, writing is more important than at any other time in human history. Yet much of the emphasis in schooling has been on reading, and after the early years, writing skills have been given less attention. Internationally, too many children are leaving school without the writing skills they need to succeed in life.
The evidence indicates that students rarely develop proficiency as writers at school without effective teacher instruction. Teaching Writing offers a comprehensive approach for the middle years of schooling, when the groundwork should be laid for the demanding writing tasks of the senior school and the workplace.
Teaching Writing outlines evidence-based principles of writing instruction for upper primary students and young adolescents. It presents strategies that are ready for adoption or adaptation, and exemplars to assist with designing and implementing writing lessons across the middle years of school. It addresses writing from a multimodal perspective while also highlighting the importance of teaching linguistic aspects of text design such as sentence structure, vocabulary and spelling as foundations for meaning-making. Contributors argue that students need to continue to develop their skills in both handwriting and keyboarding. Examples of the teaching of writing across disciplines, in both the upper primary years and in the secondary years, are presented through a range of vignettes. Strategies for assessing student writing and for supporting students with diverse needs are covered.
With contributions from leading literacy educators, Teaching Writing is an invaluable resource for primary teachers, secondary teachers, and in pre-service teacher education.
About the Author Tessa Daffern is a Senior Lecturer in Literacy Education at the University of Wollongong, and author of The Components of Spelling. In 2012 she was one of the first Australian educators certified as a Highly Accomplished Teacher. Noella Price: $64.99 $75.00 ISBN: 9781760528928 Mackenzie is Associate Professor in Literacy Studies at Charles Sturt University, and author of Understanding and Format: Paperback Supporting Young Writers from Birth to 8. Dimensions: 230x176mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Teaching skills & techniques Bic2: Educational: English language: reading & writing skills Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Thurgoona, NSW Gungahlin, ACT
A&U Academic AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac
The defining book on the climate crisis that shows us how we can and will survive.
Description 'The Paris Agreement was a landmark for humanity. In this timely and important book, two of the principle creators of that agreement show us why and how we can now realise its' promise. I hope it is widely read and acted on' Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace
The Future We Choose is a passionate call to arms, written by former UN Secretary for Climate Christiana Figures and Tom Rivett-Carnac, her UN political strategist. They outline two scenarios for our future: how life on Earth will be by 2050 if we fail to meet the Paris Agreement climate targets; or how it will look and feel to live in a carbon neutral, regenerative world. Each of us must confront the crisis head on, with determination and optimism.
Practical and empowering, The Future We Choose features ten things we can do today to make a difference. The Future We Choose is for all of us, teenagers to adults, who feel powerless to stop the climate emergency.
This is the final hour: it can be our finest hour. We can solve our climate emergency, but we must act now.
About the Author Christiana Figueres was the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 2010-2016 and the public face of the most pivotal climate agreement in history, the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015. Tom Rivett-Carnac was Christiana's political strategist. Together they are the co-founders of Global Optimism, an organization focused on creating environmental and social change.
Price: $27.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781786580368 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Climate change Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Manilla AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Mindf*ck: Inside Cambridge Analytica's Plot to Break the World Christopher Wylie
From whistleblower Christopher Wylie, the definitive story of the Brexit coup, the making of Bannon's America, and an ongoing crime against democracy.
Description What if you could look into the minds of an entire population? What if you could target the weakest with messages that only they saw?
In 2016, an obscure British military contractor turned the world upside down. Funded by a billionaire on a crusade to start his own far-right insurgency, Cambridge Analytica combined psychological research with Facebook data to make an invisible weapon so powerful it would throw democracy off its axis.
Personality was the key. If you know how to find them, there are millions of potential fanatics out there, from India to Indianapolis, London to Abuja, liking celebrities, posting photos of their holidays, just waiting to be radicalised. Learn how to mine their data and Facebook paints a target on each one.
But as Cambridge Analytica honed its dark arts in elections from Trinidad to Nigeria, 25-year-old whistleblower Christopher Wylie began to realise what he and his colleagues had unleashed. He knew the disturbing visions of the investors. He had seen how ruthless CEO Alexander Nix could be behind closed doors. On the eve of the Brexit vote, it was time to expose the political crime of the century.
Mindf*ck is a terrifying joyride through the new corridors of power. Plunge deep inside the wave of extremism that is sweeping the globe and discover why Brexit is only the beginning. Hostile actors are coming for your data, and they want to control what you think.
About the Author Christopher Wylie has been called 'the millennials' first great whistleblower' and 'a pink-haired, nose-ringed oracle sent from the future.' He is known for his role in setting up - and then taking down - Cambridge Analytica. His revelations Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781788165068 exposing the rampant misuse of data rocked Silicon Valley and led to some of the largest multinational investigations into Format: Paperback - C format data crime ever. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Politics & government Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: None
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill's Cook Annie Gray
The story of the twentieth century through one woman's life and the food she cooked for our most famous Prime Minister, Winston Churchill.
Description In a suburban house in 1977 an elderly lady destroyed her memoirs. Her life, she felt, was not one people would want to read about. The life of a woman, born into the working class, brought up to go into service, who had married, had a daughter, and gone back to work after her husband died, was so like that of many others, that there could be little there worth saving.
This is the story of a woman who was, indeed, like many other people: not a royal, not rich, not famous, simply someone who worked hard and enjoyed her life. Beginning in 1882, she ranged through life in the country, life in the town, life in her own house, and in that of others. She travelled, married, had children and a highly successful career. For while Georgina Landemare saw herself as ordinary, her accomplishments, and the life she lived, were anything but. She started her career as a nursemaid, and ended it cooking for one of the best-known figures in British history, a man to whom food was central, not only as a pleasure by itself, but as a diplomatic tool in a time when the world was embroiled in a worldwide war.
Victory in the Kitchen is a culinary biography: a life lived through food ranging from rural Berkshire to wartime London, via Belle Epoque Paris and prohibition-era New York. Through one eager eater, and one skilled cook, Annie Gray tells the story of the way Victorian tastes changed and 20th century food developed, taking a look into the kitchens of the time complete with evolving technology and attitudes towards domestic service.
Recipes include Georgina's German Kougelhof, Curried Brains, macaroons, Boodles Orange, Mousse de Maple and 'Chocolat Cake Good'.
About the Author Annie Gray is an historian, cook, broadcaster and writer specialising in the history of food and dining in Britain from Price: $34.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9781788160445 around 1600 to the present day, conducting her research both in libraries and in kitchens. She has worked at Audley End Format: Hard Cover amongst other historical kitchens, and gives lectures all over the country. She has presented TV history documentaries Dimensions: 216x135mm including Victorian Bakers and The Sweetmakers, and appears on BBC Radio 4's The Kitchen Cabinet. She lives in East Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Food & society Anglia. Bic2: History Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 The Greedy Queen: Eating with Victoria Annie Gray
Full of original research, Annie Gray's first book considers Britain's most iconic monarch from a new perspective, telling the history of British dining culture along the way.
Description From Dr Annie Gray, presenter of BBC2's Victorian Bakers
What does it mean to eat like a queen? Elizabeth gorged on sugar, Mary on chocolate and Anne was known as 'Brandy Nan'. Victoria ate all of this and more. The Greedy Queen celebrates Victoria's appetite, both for food and, indeed, for life.
Born in May 1819, Victoria came 'as plump as a partridge'. In her early years she lived on milk and bread under the Kensington system; in her old age she suffered constant indigestion yet continued to over-eat. From intimate breakfasts with the King of France, to romping at tea-parties with her children, and from state balls to her last sip of milk, her life is examined through what she ate, when and with whom. In the royal household, Victoria was surrounded by ladies-in- waiting, secretaries, dressers and coachmen, but below stairs there was another category of servant: her cooks. More fundamental and yet completely hidden, they are now uncovered in their working environment for the first time.
Voracious and adventurous in her tastes, Queen Victoria was head of state during a revolution in how we ate - from the highest tables to the most humble. Bursting with original research, The Greedy Queen considers Britain's most iconic monarch from a new perspective, telling the story of British food along the way.
About the Author Annie Gray is an historian, cook, broadcaster and writer specialising in the history of food and dining in Britain from around 1600 to the present day, conducting her research both in libraries and in kitchens. She has worked at Audley End amongst other historical kitchens, and gives lectures all over the country. She presents history documentaries including Victorian Bakers, and appears on BBC Radio 4's The Kitchen Cabinet. She lives in East Anglia.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781781256831 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Food & society Bic2: History Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance Rashid I. Khalidi
This is the story of Palestine told from the inside.
Description Renowned scholar and historian Professor Khalidi draws on primary sources to give an intensely personal account of a century of conflict in Palestine.
This is not a happy story. The Balfour Declaration of 1917 promised the Jews a homeland where the Palestinians already lived. The 1917 capture of Jerusalem by British forces and the formalisation of British colonial power over what became Mandatory Palestine under the terms of the treaty of Versailles. Despite constant bloodshed and uprisings, that impossible arrangement continued until 1948 when it was ended by what Israelis call the War of Independence and the Palestinians the Nakba, or Tragedy. Worse was to follow with conclusion of the Six Day War in 1967 and Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, previously respectively under Jordanian and Egyptian rule. Since then, the Palestinian story has been one of occupation and resistance.
In this book, Professor Khalidi interweaves voices such as that of the 19th century Arab mayor of Jerusalem who predicted the coming conflict, nationalist writer and educator Muhammad 'Izzat Darwaza, and leaders of the PLO including Faysal Husayni, Hanan Ashrawi, and Yasser Arafat with his own account as a child of a UN official and a resident of Beirut during its 1982 siege. The result is an intensely personal history of one of the most long-running and controversial modern conflicts.
About the Author Professor Rashid I. Khalidi is a Palestinian American historian and the Edward Said professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University where he also serves as the director of the Middle East institute. He is the editor of the Journal of Palestine. His previous books include Palestinian Identity, The Iron Cage, and Brokers of Deceit.
Price: $49.99 $55.00 ISBN: 9781781259337 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Middle Eastern history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 The World in Conflict: Understanding the world's troublespots John Andrews
From a top Economist journalist, an all-new guide to the world's conflicts - recent, current and future.
Description In the second decade of each century, a new global order commonly starts to assert itself. In the 19th, Napoleon's defeat gave birth to the world of rivalrous European powers. In the 20th, the First World War triggered a wave of revolutions that cleared a path for the American era. Ours appears to be no different. The world is once again on the move: China extends its influence across the globe; Europe is struggling to maintain unity and the United States looks hollowed out by its own past adventures. Meanwhile Russia is up to a lot of startlingly bold new tricks. In this expanded new edition of The World in Conflict, John Andrews tackles head-on the reasons why global violence is ever-present in our lives. He analyses every single one of today's major conflicts region by region, considering the causes, contexts, participants, impacts and likely outcomes. He looks at recently-ended wars that still spawn intermittent fighting. And he considers where, why and how new conflicts might erupt.
This is a must-read for our interesting times, a guide to our new world of terrorism, kompromat and cyber war, shifting powers and enduring strife. If you want to know who is fighting where, for what, and whether they can win, The World in Conflict is indispensable.
About the Author Over the course of a journalistic career that began in the Middle East, John Andrews became The Economist's most experienced foreign correspondent, with postings in Europe, Asia and America. Before joining The Economist, he wrote from and about north Africa and the Middle East for the Guardian and NBC News, interviewing personalities such as Muammar Qaddafi, Yasser Arafat and Ezer Weizman. He is the author of two books on Asia, co-author of a book on Europe and co-editor of Megachange: The World in 2050.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781788165198 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Geopolitics Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Business AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking Adam Sisman
How a liar, bigamist and fraudulent priest took in some of the brightest minds of his generation.
Description 'I embarrassed myself by uncontrollable guffaws ... This is a truly wonderful story' A. N. Wilson, Spectator
'A white-knuckle roller-coaster ride of fibs and frauds' Sunday Telegraph
'An utterly mad, and wholly delightful story of chicanery and fantasy' Simon Winchester
One day in November 1958, the celebrated historian Hugh Trevor-Roper received a curious letter. It was an appeal for help, written on behalf of a student at Magdalen College, with the unlikely claim that he was being persecuted by the Bishop of Oxford. Curiosity piqued, Trevor-Roper agreed to a meeting. It was to be his first encounter with Robert Parkin Peters: plagiarist, bigamist, fraudulent priest and imposter extraordinaire. The Professor and the Parson traces the strange career of one of Britain's most eccentric criminals. Motivated not by money but by a desire for prestige, Peters' lied, stole and cheated his way to academic positions and religious posts from Cambridge to New York, Singapore and South Africa. Frequently deported, and even more frequently discovered, his trail of destruction included seven marriages (three of which were bigamous), an investigation by the FBI and a disastrous appearance on Mastermind.
Based on Trevor-Roper's own detailed 'file on Peters', The Professor and the Parson is a witty and charming account of eccentricity, extraordinary narcissism and a life as wild and unlikely as any in fiction.
About the Author Adam Sisman is the author of Boswell's Presumptuous Task, winner of the US National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and the biographer of John Le Carre, A. J. P. Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper. Among his other works are two volumes of letters by Patrick Leigh Fermor. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of Price: $22.99 $24.99 the University of St Andrews. ISBN: 9781788162128 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Hoaxes & deceptions Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars Francesca Wade
An enticing exploration of hidden interwar London from a prize-winning young biographer writing in the vein of Jenny Uglow.
Description 'I like this London life . . . the street-sauntering and square-haunting.' Virginia Woolf, diary, 1925
In London during the interwar years, five women's lives intertwined around one address. Mecklenburgh Square, on the radical fringes of Bloomsbury, was home to activists, experimenters and revolutionaries; among them were the modernist poet H. D., detective novelist Dorothy L. Sayers, classicist Jane Harrison, economic historian Eileen Power, and author and publisher Virginia Woolf. In an era when women's freedoms were fast expanding, they each sought a space where they could live, love and - above all - work independently.
From the square, these trailblazing women pushed the boundaries of scholarship, literary form and social norms. Taking us into the emotional texture of their lives, Francesca Wade's luminous group biography reveals five unforgettable characters who forged careers that would have been impossible without these rooms of their own.
'Elegant, erudite and absorbing, Square Haunting is a startlingly original debut, and Francesca Wade is a writer to watch.' Frances Wilson
'A fascinating voyage through the lives of five remarkable women - a moving and immersive portrait.' Edmund Gordon
About the Author Francesca Wade has written for publications including the London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Financial Times, New Statesman and Prospect. She is editor of The White Review, and winner of the Biographers' Club Tony Lothian Prize. Square Haunting is her first book. She lives in London. Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9780571330652 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 432 pages Bic1: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 Bic2: Biography: literary Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood Sam Wasson
A book that will take its place alongside classics like Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Robert Evans' The Kid Stays in the Picture.
Description Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true story of its making.
In Sam Wasson's telling, it becomes the defining story of its most colorful characters. Here is Jack Nicholson at the height of his powers, embarking on his great, doomed love affair with Anjelica Huston. Here is director Roman Polanski, both predator and prey, haunted by the savage murder of his wife, returning to Los Angeles, where the seeds of his own self- destruction are quickly planted. Here is the fevered deal-making of ""The Kid"" Robert Evans, the most consummate of producers. Here too is Robert Towne's fabled script, widely considered the greatest original screenplay ever written.
Wasson for the first time peels off layers of myth to provide the true account of its creation. Looming over the story of this classic movie is the imminent eclipse of the '70s filmmaker-friendly studios as they gave way to the corporate Hollywood we know today.
About the Author Sam Wasson studied film at Wesleyan University and at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He is the author of the bestseller Fifth Avenue, 5A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's and the Dawn of the Modern Woman. He is also the author of the definitive biography of dancer-choreographer-filmmaker Bob Fosse. He currently teaches film at Emerson College in Los Angeles.
Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9780571347636 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Films, cinema Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Film AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Dreams: What They Tell Us While We Sleep and How They Can Change Our Waking Lives Melinda Powell, Melinda Powell
Tap into the magic of your dreams and discover better, more balanced sleep with this revelatory new book from Melinda Powell, Director of the Dream Research Institute.
Description We spend a third of our lives sleeping and, as new research would suggest, almost all of that is spent dreaming. Despite this, very few of us try to explore the messages that our brain is projecting, or try to use this knowledge in our everyday lives.
In The Magic of Dreams, psychoanalyst and Director of the Dream Research Institute, Melinda Powell, teaches us how to better remember, understand and interpret the dreams we have, and shows us how we can use this to improve our waking life.
As well as analysing the importance of dreaming for our sleeping brains, Powell discusses the role of light, landscapes, space and people within our dreams, examines the role of nightmares, dispels some common misconceptions and gives readers the tools to unpick these symbols, improve their mental wellbeing and discover better, more balanced sleep.
About the Author Melinda Powell is Director and Co-founder of the Dream Research Institute (DRI), which promotes research into the relationship between dreams and physical, psychological and spiritual wellbeing. She is also a Director of the Management Committee of the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education (CCPE) and was previously Vice President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD). She has researched extensively into the area of lucid dreaming, developing and teaching courses on the theory and writing pieces on that and dream practice for a variety of publications. Born in Southern California, she has lived in Poland and Switzerland, and now resides in the UK near Oxford.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781788702386 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Self-help & personal development Bic2: Sleep & dreams Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Lagom AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace Kapka Kassabova
From the celebrated author of Border, here is a portrait of an ancient but little-understood corner of Balkans, and a personal reckoning with the past
Description Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two vast lakes joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that seem to hold both the turbulent memories of the region's past, and the secret of its enduring allure. Two lakes that have played a central role in Kapka Kassabova's maternal family. As she journeys to her grandmother's place of origin, Kassabova encounters a civilisational crossroads. The Lakes are set within the mountainous borderlands of North Macedonia, Albania and Greece, and crowned by the old Roman road, the via Egnatia. Once a trading and spiritual nexus of the southern Balkans, this lake region remains one of Eurasia's most culturally diverse areas. Meanwhile, with their remote rock churches, changeable currents, and large population of migratory birds, the Lakes live in their own time. By exploring on water and land the stories of poets, fishermen, and caretakers, misfits, rulers, and inheritors of war and exile, Kassabova uncovers the human history shaped by the Lakes. Setting out to resolve her own ancestral legacy of the Lakes, Kassabova's journey unfolds to a deeper enquiry into how geography and politics imprint themselves upon families and nations, and confronts her with questions about human suffering and the capacity for change.
About the Author KAPKA KASSABOVA is a poet, novelist and writer of narrative non-fiction. She grew up in Sofia, Bulgaria, and now lives in the Scottish Highlands. Her acclaimed memoirs Street Without a Name (2008) and Twelve Minutes of Love (2011) were followed by Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe (2017) which won the British Academy's Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year, the Edward Stanford-Dolman Travel Book of the Year, and the inaugural Highlands Book Prize. It was short-listed for the Baillie-Gifford Prize. kapka-kassabova.net
Price: $34.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9781783783977 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x138mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Travel writing Bic2: European history Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe Kapka Kassabova
One of the most celebrated books of the year: a vivid journey through the haunted borderlands that once made up the easternmost stretch of the old Iron Curtain and today mark the outer reaches of Europe.
Description When Kapka Kassabova was a child, the borderzone between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece was rumoured to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall so it swarmed with soldiers, spies and fugitives. On holidays close to the border on the Black Sea coast, she remembers playing on the beach, only miles from where an electrified fence bristled, its barbs pointing inwards toward the enemy: the holiday-makers, the potential escapees.
Today, this densely forested landscape is no longer heavily militarised, but it is scarred by its past. In Border, Kapka Kassabova sets out on a journey to meet the people of this triple border - Bulgarians, Turks, Greeks, and the latest wave of refugees fleeing conflict further afield. She discovers a region that has been shaped by the successive forces of history: by its own past migration crises, by communism, by two World wars, by the Ottoman Empire, and - older still - by the ancient legacy of myths and legends. As Kapka Kassabova explores this enigmatic region in the company of border guards and treasure hunters, entrepreneurs and botanists, psychic healers and ritual fire-walkers, refugees and smugglers, she traces the physical and psychological borders that criss-cross its villages and mountains, and goes in search of the stories that will unlock its secrets.
Border is a sharply observed portrait of a little-known corner of Europe, and a fascinating meditation on the borderlines that exist between countries, between cultures, between people, and within each of us.
About the Author Kapka Kassabova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and now lives in the Scottish Highlands. She is the author of several poetry collections, numerous travel essays, the novel Villa Pacifica (2011), and the acclaimed memoirs Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria (2008) and Twelve Minutes of Love: A Tango Story (2011). She has written for the Sunday Times, the Guardian, Vogue, and 1843 magazine.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781783783205 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Travel writing Bic2: Social & cultural history Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta Paperbacks AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Childless Voices: Stories of Longing, Loss, Resistance and Choice Lorna Gibb
A brave, pioneering book that gives voice to the stories behind an issue that affects millions
Description From the playgrounds of Glasgow to the villages of Bangladesh; from religious rites to ancient superstitions; from the world's richest people to its powerless and enslaved, Lorna Gibb's masterful Childless Voices paints a global portrait of people without children. Brilliantly grouped by thematic commonality (Those who long, Those who were denied, Those who Choose, etc) the book is a testament to the power of listening, and the power of sharing stories. It is an essential, moving and surprising book on a subject which touches everyone.
About the Author Dr Lorna Gibb is the author of biographies of Rebecca West and Lady Hester Stanhope as well as the author of the novel A Ghost's Story. She is a senior lecturer at Middlesex University.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781783782642 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Women's health Bic2: Memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta Paperbacks AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 A Love Supreme: The Creation Of John Coltrane's Classic Album Ashley Kahn, introduction by Elvin Jones
With a new introduction for the 55th anniversary of the album's release, this is Ashley Kahn's seminal work on John Coltrane's masterpiece A Love Supreme
Description A deeply researched and beautifully illustrated study of saxophone legend John Coltrane's signature album. Written with the full co-operation of the Coltrane family and featuring the voices of musicians, producers and writers of the 1960s, Kahn has also unearthed rare, unpublished interviews with Coltrane and bassist Jimmy Garrison. The book also features commentary from contemporary music stars including Carlos Santana, Bono, Phil Lesh, Patti Smith, Ravi Shankar and Steve Reich.
About the Author Ashley Kahn is the author Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece and A Love Supreme: The Creation of John Coltrane's Classic Album, both published by Granta Books. He is a contributor to Rolling Stone, the New York Times and Mojo. He lives in New Jersey.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781783786053 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 464 pages Bic1: Biography: arts & entertainment Bic2: Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta Paperbacks AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Live More Think Less: Overcoming Depression and Sadness with Metacognitive Therapy Pia Callesen
Stop Depression in its Tracks with the Revolutionary Number 1 Danish Bestseller.
Description Live More Think Less presents strategies for regaining control over your thoughts - learning not only how to overcome depression, but how to avoid developing it altogether.
Many of us believe that the best way to treat crises and challenges is to process them: to mull over and analyse the stresses, anxieties and traumas we face. But this perception is misguided. Instead, we should think of our mind as a sieve, through which everything slips unless we choose to hold onto it. But how do we let go of those negative thoughts we've held onto which are weighing us down?
The first practical book on metacognitive therapy - a groundbreaking new treatment for depression - Live More Think Less presents guidance, case studies, and exercises and tips from the therapy room. Dr Pia Callesen shows us that depression is not an inevitable disease, but something which we can learn to control and prevent, by living more and thinking less.
About the Author Dr Pia Callesen is a therapist and specialist in metacognitive therapy, having trained at the MCT Institute in Manchester and then with Professor Adrian Wells, the originator of MCT. She completed her PhD at Manchester University and works as a therapist and clinic manager in Denmark.
Price: $27.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781785785542 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 168 pages Bic1: Popular psychology Bic2: Psychotherapy Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur Catherine Hewitt
A new biography of the wildly unconventional 19th-century animal painter and gender equality pioneer Rosa Bonheur.
Description Rosa Bonheur was the very antithesis of the feminine ideal of 19th-century society. She was educated, she shunned traditional 'womanly' pursuits, she rejected marriage - and she wore trousers. But the society whose rules she spurned accepted her as one of their own, because of her genius for painting animals.
She shared an intimate relationship with the eccentric, self-styled inventor Nathalie Micas, who nurtured the artist like a wife. Together Rosa, Nathalie and Nathalie's mother bought a chateau and with Rosa's menagerie of animals the trio became one of the most extraordinary households of the day.
Catherine Hewitt's compelling new biography is an inspiring evocation of a life lived against the rules.
About the Author Catherine Hewitt studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her previous books with Icon are The Mistress of Paris (2015), 'an enthralling story, told with both conviction and sympathy' (Observer), and Renoir's Dancer (2017), described as 'fascinating' by France magazine.
Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781785786211 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 448 pages Bic1: Biography: arts & entertainment Bic2: History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900 Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon Catherine Hewitt
From the author of The Mistress of Paris, a lavish biography of a remarkable 19th-century woman.
Description In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists' most beautiful model. But behind her captivating facade lay a closely-guarded secret.
Born in poverty in rural France, as a teenager in Montmartre, Suzanne began posing for - and having affairs with - some of the age's most renowned painters. Then Renoir caught her indulging in a passion she had been trying to conceal: the model was herself a talented artist.
Some found her vibrant still lifes and frank portraits as shocking as her bohemian lifestyle. At eighteen, she gave birth to an illegitimate child, future painter Maurice Utrillo. But her friends Toulouse-Lautrec and Degas could see her skill. Rebellious and opinionated, she refused to be confined by tradition or gender, and in 1894, her work was accepted to the Salon de la Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, an extraordinary achievement for a working-class woman with no formal art training.
Renoir's Dancer tells the remarkable tale of an ambitious, headstrong woman fighting to find a professional voice in a male-dominated world.
About the Author Catherine Hewitt studied French Literature and Art History at Royal Holloway, University of London and the Courtauld Institute of Art. The Mistress of Paris, her first book, was published by Icon Books in 2015 and described as an 'enthralling story, told with both conviction and sympathy' by the Observer. She lives in a village in Surrey.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781785784040 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 Bic2: Painting & paintings Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Lost in a Good Game: Why we play video games and what they can do for us Pete Etchells
An exploration of the psychological effects - the pleasures, benefits and disbenefits - of computer games.
Description 'Etchells writes eloquently ... A heartfelt defence of a demonised pastime' The Times
'Once in an age, a piece of culture comes along that feels like it was specifically created for you, the beats and words and ideas are there because it is your life the creator is describing. Lost In A Good Game is exactly that. It will touch your heart and mind. And even if Bowser, Chun-li or Q-Bert weren't crucial parts of your youth, this is a flawless victory for everyone' Adam Rutherford.
When Pete Etchells was 14, his father died from motor neuron disease. In order to cope, he immersed himself in a virtual world - first as an escape, but later to try to understand what had happened. Etchells is now a researcher into the psychological effects of video games, and was co-author on a recent paper explaining why WHO plans to classify 'game addiction' as a danger to public health are based on bad science and (he thinks) are a bad idea.
In this, his first book, he journeys through the history and development of video games - from Turing's chess machine to mass multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft- via scientific study, to investigate the highs and lows of playing and get to the bottom of our relationship with games - why we do it, and what they really mean to us.
At the same time, Lost in a Good Game is a very unusual memoir of a writer coming to terms with his grief via virtual worlds, as he tries to work out what area of popular culture we should classify games (a relatively new technology) under.
About the Author Pete Etchells is a Reader in Psychology and Science Communication at Bath Spa University, whose field of research is the behavioural effects of videogames on the human brain. This is his first book. Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781785786143 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 340 pages Bic1: Popular culture Bic2: Ethical & social aspects of IT Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 How to be a Fascist Michela Murgia
How fascist are you? A sharp, provocative conversation-starter about the authoritarian in all of us.
Description Democracy is difficult, flawed and unstable. It involves barely distinguishable political parties engaging in lengthy, overcomplicated and expensive decision-making processes. Engaging so many people with political issues seems to lead only to complexity and disagreement. So why bother? Doesn't fascism guarantee a more effective and efficient management of the state? In this short, bitingly ironic book, Michela Murgia explores the logic that is attracting increasing numbers of voters to right- wing populism. Ending with a 'fascistometer' to measure the reader's own authoritarian inclinations, How to be a Fascist is a refreshingly direct, polemical book that asks us to confront the fascist in our governments, in our societies and in our own minds.
About the Author Michela Murgia is an Italian novelist and politician. She is the winner of the Premio Campiello and the Mondello International Literary Prize.
Price: $14.99 $16.99 ISBN: 9781782276159 Format: Paperback Dimensions: mm Extent: 112 pages Bic1: Politics & government Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Pushkin AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump Neal Katyal
President Trump has left the US people with no choice but to remove him from office, so explains celebrated Supreme Court lawyer and former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal.
Description In this short book he tells you everything you need to know about the impeachment process: its history, what it is, and how it works - before laying out the impartial case for why Donald Trump must be impeached.
No one is above the law. This belief is as fundamental as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - held sacred by Democrats and Republicans alike. But as celebrated Supreme Court lawyer and former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal argues in Impeach, if President Trump is not held accountable for repeatedly asking foreign powers to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, this could very well mark the end of US democracy. To quote President George Washington's Farewell Address: 'Foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.' Impeachment should always be a last resort, explains Katyal, but the founders, core principles, and the Constitution leave no choice but to impeach President Trump - before it's too late.
About the Author Neal Katyal is the Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of Law at Georgetown University and a partner at a law firm where he leads one of the largest US Supreme Court practices in the nation. He previously served as Acting Solicitor General of the United States (the government's top courtroom lawyer). He has argued more Supreme Court cases in US history than has any minority attorney (39 in total). A frequent contributor to MSNBC and the New York Times, he has been named one of GQ's Men of the Year and has appeared on House of Cards, where he played himself.
Sam Koppelman is a senior speechwriter at Fenway Strategies, where he's written for public officials, philanthropists, business leaders and organisations working to make the world a better place. He has also been a speechwriter to former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and has written for publications including the Boston Globe and Harper's Magazine.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781838852122 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Politics & government Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Figuring Maria Popova
A history of women who have changed our understanding of the universe, from the creator of Brain Pickings.
Description Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries - beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, who catalysed the environmental movement.
Stretching between these figures is a cast of artists, writers, and scientists - mostly women, mostly queer - whose public contribution has risen out of their unclassifiable and often heartbreaking private relationships to change the way we understand, experience and appreciate the universe. Among them are the astronomer Maria Mitchell, who paved the way for women in science; the sculptor Harriet Hosmer, who did the same in art; the journalist and literary critic Margaret Fuller, who sparked the feminist movement; and the poet Emily Dickinson.
Emanating from these lives are larger questions about the measure of a good life and what it means to leave a lasting mark of betterment on an imperfect world: Are achievement and acclaim enough for happiness? Is genius? Is love? Weaving through the narrative is a set of peripheral figures - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman - and a tapestry of themes spanning music, feminism, the history of science, the rise and decline of religion, and how the intersection of astronomy, poetry and Transcendentalist philosophy fomented the environmental movement.
About the Author Maria Popova started Brain Pickings in 2006 as a weekly email that went out to seven friends and which she eventually brought online. The site was added to the Library of Congress permanent web archives in 2012. She has written for the Atlantic, New York Times and Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781786897268 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 592 pages Bic1: Social & cultural history Bic2: History of science Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia Tracey Thorn
The Sunday Times top ten bestseller. A wise and witty exploration of suburbia from music icon Tracey Thorn; singer-songwriter and bestselling author of Bedsit Disco Queen.
Description THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'Tender, wise and funny' Sunday Express 'Beautifully observed, deadly funny' Max Porter
Before becoming an acclaimed musician and writer, Tracey Thorn was a typical teenager: bored and cynical, despairing of her aspirational parents. Her only comfort came from house parties and the female pop icons who hinted at a new kind of living.
Returning to the scene of her childhood, Thorn takes us beyond the bus shelters, the pub car parks and the weekly discos, to the parents who wanted so much for their children and the children who wanted none of it. With great wit and insight, Thorn reconsiders the Green Belt post-war dream so many artists have mocked, and yet so many artists have come from.
About the Author Tracey Thorn is a singer-songwriter and writer, best known for her seventeen years in bestselling duo Everything But The Girl. She grew up as the youngest of three children in Brookmans Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, where she learned the piano, enjoyed underaged drinking, and started her first band while still at school. Since then, she has released four solo albums, one movie soundtrack, a large handful of singles and two books, including the Sunday Times bestselling memoir, Bedsit Disco Queen, and currently writes a column for the New Statesman. She lives in London, with her husband Ben Watt and their three children.
@tracey_thorn | traceythorn.com
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781786892584 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Autobiography: arts & entertainment Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Salt On Your Tongue: Women and the Sea Charlotte Runcie
A lyrical exploration of the sea, how it inspires art, music and literature and how it connects us, from the Daily Telegraph's poetry critic. As heard on BBC Radio 4.
Description 'An ode to the ocean, and the generations of women drawn to the waves or left waiting on the shore' Guardian.
In Salt On Your Tongue, Charlotte Runcie explores what the sea means to us, and particularly what it has meant to women through the ages. In mesmerising prose, she explores how the sea has inspired, fascinated and terrified us, and how she herself fell in love with the deep blue.
This book is a walk on the beach with Turner, with Shakespeare, with the Romantic Poets and shanty-singers. It's an ode to our oceans - to the sailors who brave their treacherous waters, to the women who lost their loved ones to the waves, to the creatures that dwell in their depths, to beach-combers, swimmers, seabirds and mermaids. Navigating through ancient Greek myths, poetry, shipwrecks and Scottish folktales, Salt On Your Tongue is about how the wild untameable waves can help us understand what it means to be human.
About the Author Charlotte Runcie is the Daily Telegraph's radio columnist and arts writer. For several years she lived and worked in Edinburgh, where she ran a folk-music choir, and she now lives in the Scottish Borders. She has a secret past as a poet, having been a Foyle Young Poet of the Year with a pamphlet published by tall-lighthouse. Salt On Your Tongue is her first book.
@charlotteruncie | charlotteruncie.com
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781786891211 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Prose: non-fiction Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Unspeakable: The Things We Cannot Say Harriet Shawcross
From award-winning journalist and film-maker Harriet Shawcross comes a deeply personal exploration of silence, taboo and how and why words fail us.
Description As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year. As an adult, she became fascinated by the limits of language.
From the inexpressible trauma of trench warfare and the aftermath of natural disaster to the taboo of coming out, Harriet studies wartime poet George Oppen, interviews the author of The Vagina Monologues, meets Nepalese earthquake- survivors and the founders of The Samaritans, asking why words scare us and what makes us silent.
About the Author Harriet Shawcross is an award-winning filmmaker and journalist. She obtained an MA in Creative Non-Fiction from the University of East Anglia, and was shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize. Unspeakable is her first book.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781786890078 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Speech & language disorders & therapy Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Quicksand Tales: The Misadventures of Keggie Carew Keggie Carew
A hilarious, embarrassing collection of misadventures from the Costa-winning author of Dadland.
Description Keggie Carew has an unerring instinct for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, of putting her foot in it, and making a hash of things. From the repercussions of a missing purse, to boiling a frog, or the holiday when the last thing you could possibly imagine happens, Keggie has been there. She also has an enviable talent for recycling awfulness and turning embarrassment into gold. In prose that will make you laugh, wince and curl your toes, Keggie Carew shares her most humiliating, awkward, uncomfortable, funny, true, terrible and all-too-relatable moments.
About the Author Keggie Carew has lived in West Cork, Barcelona, Texas, Auckland and London. Before writing, her career was in contemporary art. Keggie lives in Wiltshire with her husband Jonathan. She is the author of Dadland, which won the 2016 COSTA biography award.
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Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 A Thousand Moons Sebastian Barry
Follow-up to the much-loved 2016 Costa Book of the Year Days Without End.
Description Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live.
Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, she is educated and loved, forging a life for herself beyond the violence and dispossession of her past. But the fragile harmony of her unlikely family unit, in the aftermath of the Civil War, is soon threatened by a further traumatic event, one which Winona struggles to confront, let alone understand.
Told in Sebastian Barry's rare and masterly prose, A Thousand Moons is a powerful, moving study of one woman's journey, of her determination to write her own future, and of the enduring human capacity for love.
'Nobody writes like, nobody takes lyrical risks like, nobody pushes the language, and the heart, and the two together, quite like Sebastian Barry does, so that you come out of whatever he writes like you've been away, in another climate.' ALI SMITH
About the Author Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. The current Laureate for Irish Fiction, his novels have twice won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Independent Booksellers Award and the Walter Scott Prize. He had two consecutive novels shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, A Long Long Way (2005) and the top ten bestseller The Secret Scripture (2008), and has also won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lives in County Wicklow.
Price: $44.99 $49.99 ISBN: 9780571333370 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Loss David Harsent
A sequence of intricately patterned verses that capture the lyrical, dream-like intensity of a mind at night.
Description The city never sleeps. Silence would weaken it. When all else fails it talks to itself seamless thrum of machinery dark undertone.
It is 00:00 and the full of the night yet to come.
A man sits at a window through the dead hours of night, his sleep broken by troubling dreams of a figure in a white landscape. This fragmentary vigil anchors a series of narrative sections in which a dramatic voice - which might well be an interior monologue - gives, first, an account of the man, then addresses him directly. We learn of a conflicted childhood, of love lost to circumstance, of the press of death on the protagonist's waking thoughts. He is a man afflicted by personal loss, but also a man of his time, all too aware of the troubled world in which he lives.
In this powerful sequence, David Harsent's breathtaking formal skills are always in evidence. Intense, lyrical and passionate, Loss makes for enthralling reading.
'A master of the human drama.' John Burnside
About the Author David Harsent has published twelve collections of poetry. Night (2011), a Poetry Book Society Choice, was shortlisted for the Costa, Forward and T. S. Eliot poetry prizes and won the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Fire Songs (2014) won the T. S. Eliot Prize. The most recent, Salt, was published in 2017.
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Faber Poetry AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Wing Matthew Francis
Adventurous and illuminating, Matthew Francis's new poetry collection is full of flight, air and possibility.
Description Matthew Francis's latest collection celebrates the richness of nature and of our responses to it. The pleasures of summer are emblazoned in the colourful wings and evocative names of butterflies, while a nocturnal encounter with an earwig becomes a joyous incantation to the 'witchy-beetle, forkin-robin' of dialect. His love of history, embodied in his acclaimed Mandeville and The Mabinogi, gives rise to a sequence based on Robert Hooke's microscopic observations. There are tributes to the poets Basho, Dafydd ap Gwilym and W. S. Graham, to fireworks, apple varieties, and hot toddies. And, in a moving elegy for a friend killed in a parachute accident, Francis shows us a vertiginous vision of a world where even the dead 'sleep on the wing'.
About the Author Matthew Francis is the author of five Faber collections, most recently The Mabinogi (2017). He has twice been shortlisted for the Forward Prize, and in 2004 was chosen as one of the Next Generation poets. He lives in West Wales and is Professor in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University.
Price: $34.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9780571358618 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 80 pages Bic1: Poetry by individual poets Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Poetry AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Muscovy Matthew Francis
Fact meets fable, and science meets reason in Muscovy by Matthew Francis, this magical collection from the acclaimed poet - now in paperback.
Description Like his acclaimed Mandeville (2008), Matthew Francis's fourth Faber collection explores a world of marvels, real and fantastic. A man takes off for the moon in an engine drawn by geese, a poltergeist moves into a remote Welsh village, and a party of seventeenth-century Englishmen encounter the wonders of Russia - sledges, vodka, skating and Easter eggs. The scientist Robert Boyle basks in the newly discovered radiance of phosphorus (the noctiluca of the title) and the theme of light in darkness is taken up by the more personal poems in the book: phoneboxes, streetlamps, moonlight. The joys of the world and of the imagination find their equivalent in Francis's joy in the possibilities of language:
'A basket of snow for the Empress / with a poem of modest triumph: / I made this out of what does not last.'
About the Author Matthew Francis is the author of three Faber collections, most recently Mandeville (2008). He has twice been shortlisted for the Forward Prize, and in 2004 was chosen as one of the Next Generation poets. He has also edited W.S. Graham's New Collected Poems, and published a collection of short stories, Singing a Man to Death (Cinnamon, 2012). He lives in west Wales and teaches creative writing at Aberystwyth University.
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Faber Poetry AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 The Inland Sea Madeleine Watts
A fierce and beautiful debut novel about our capacity for harming ourselves, each other and the world around us.
Description In the early 19th century, British explorer John Oxley traversed the then-unknown wilderness of central Australia in search of water. Oxley never found it, but he never ceased to believe it was out there. The myth of the inland sea was taken up by other men, and over the years search parties walked out into the desert, dying as they tried to find it. Two centuries later, his great-great-great-great granddaughter (and our narrator) spends a final year in Sydney reeling from her own self-destructive obsessions. She's working part-time as an emergency dispatch operator, drinking heavily, sleeping with strangers, wandering Sydney's streets late at night, and navigating an affair with an ex-lover. Reckless and adrift, she prepares to leave. Written with down-to-earth lucidity and ethereal breeziness, this is an unforgettable debut about coming of age in a world that seems increasingly hostile. Watts explores feminine fear, apathy and danger, building to a tightly controlled bushfire of ecological and personal crisis.
About the Author Madeleine Watts grew up in Sydney, Australia and has lived in New York since 2013. She has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, and her fiction has been published in The White Review and The Lifted Brow. Her novella, Afraid of Waking It was awarded the 2015 Griffith Review Novella Prize. Her non-fiction has appeared in The Believer and the Los Angeles Review of Books. The Inland Sea is her first novel.
Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781911590231 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: New York
Pushkin AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Hitler's Secret Rory Clements
With WWII on a knife-edge, the most devestating weapon against the Nazis may not be a weapon at all . . . In Sunday Times bestselling Rory Clement's most intelligent, thrilling novel to date, only the truth can turn the tide of war.
Description In the Autumn of 1941, the war is going badly for Britain and its allies. If the tide is going to be turned against Hitler, a new weapon is desperately needed.
In Cambridge, brilliant history professor Tom Wilde is asked by an American intelligence officer to help smuggle a mysterious package out of Nazi Germany - something so secret, even Hitler himself doesn't know of its existence.
Posing as a German-American industrialist, Wilde soon discovers the shocking truth about the 'package', and why the Nazis will stop at nothing to prevent it leaving Germany. With ruthless killers loyal to Martin Bormann hunting him down, Wilde makes a desperate gamble on an unlikely escape route. But even if he reaches England alive, that will not be the end of his ordeal. Wilde is now convinced that the truth he has discovered must remain hidden, even if it means betraying the country he loves . . .
The stunning new 'what if?' thriller from Sunday Times bestseller, Rory Clements.
Praise for RORY CLEMENTS
'A dramatic, twisty thriller' Daily Mail
'Dramatic . . . pacy and assured' Daily Mail
'Political polarisation, mistrust and simmering violence' The Times
Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781838770273 'A standout historical novel and spy thriller' Daily Express Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm 'Enjoyable, bloody and brutish' Guardian Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Historical fiction Bic2: Thriller / suspense 'Sends a shiver down your spine' Daily Mail Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: 'A colourful history lesson . . . exciting narrative twists' Sunday Telegraph
About the Author RORY CLEMENTS is a Sunday Times bestselling author. He won the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award for his second novel, Revenger,and a TV series of the John Shakespeare novels is currently in development. Rory lives in NorfolkZaffre with AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Time to Say Goodbye Melody Sachs
Lizzie Wood abandons her nursing career for the bright lights of London's West End
Description For fans of Kitty Neale and Nadine Dorries. This gritty yet charming WWII saga is impossible to put down!
About the Author Melody Sachs was born in Newcastle. As a child, she appeared regularly in pantomime at the Theatre Royal. At 18 Melody moved to London where she spent time in West End cabaret and in provincial repertory theatres.
In 1960, she married the actor and writer, Andrew Sachs, and they have three children. Melody wrote short stories and sketches and for the BBC.
Melody went on to study antique textiles and design and opened her first shop in the eighties in Hampstead, specialising in wedding gowns. Her creations frequently featured in Tatler, Brides and Wedding magazines.
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Zaffre AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Lily's War Shirley Mann
The country's biggest challenge could be her greatest chance.
Description An uplifting and inspiring World War II saga for readers of Nancy Revell and Annie Groves.
It's 1942 and World War Two is in full swing. In Manchester, Lily Mullins is determined to do her bit for the war effort. Her friends and her sweetheart have all joined up and Lily's sure there must be a role for her that goes further than knitting socks for the troops!
Lily has always dreamed of flying, so she jumps at the chance to become a WAAF and soon discovers that she has a talent as a wireless operator. Helped along the way by a gang of girls - all from different walks of life, but forging an unbreakable bond of friendship in the most testing times - Lily find strengths she didn't know existed and realises that the safety of the country might just be in her hands . . .
Meanwhile, Danny is determined to marry Lily, but his letters home become more and more distant. Will a long separation mean the end of their love story?
About the Author Shirley Mann is a Derbyshire-based journalist who spent most of her career at the BBC. She now makes short films for organisations such as the Heritage Lottery Fund. Lily's War is inspired by Shirley's mother who was a WAAF and her father who was in the Eighth Army.
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Zaffre AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 Mindf*ck: Inside Cambridge Analytica's Plot to Break the World Christopher Wylie
From whistleblower Christopher Wylie, the definitive story of the Brexit coup, the making of Bannon's America, and an ongoing crime against democracy.
Description What if you could peer into the minds of an entire population? What if you could target the weakest with rumours that only they saw?
In 2016, an obscure British military contractor turned the world upside down. Funded by a billionaire on a crusade to start his own far-right insurgency, Cambridge Analytica combined psychological research with private Facebook data to make an invisible weapon with the power to change what voters perceived as real.
The firm was created to launch the then unknown Steve Bannon's ideological assault on America. But as it honed its dark arts in elections from Trinidad to Nigeria, 24-year-old research director Christopher Wylie began to see what he and his colleagues were unleashing.
He had heard the disturbing visions of the investors. He saw what CEO Alexander Nix did behind closed doors. When Britain shocked the world by voting to leave the EU, Wylie realised it was time to expose his old associates. The political crime of the century had just taken place - the weapon had been tested - and nobody knew.
About the Author Christopher Wylie has been called 'the millennials' first great whistleblower' and 'a pink-haired, nose-ringed oracle sent from the future.' He is known for his role in setting up - and then taking down - Cambridge Analytica. His revelations exposing the rampant misuse of data rocked Silicon Valley and led to some of the largest multinational investigations into data crime ever.
Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781788164993 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Politics & government Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: None
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 On the Edge: Ireland's off-shore islands: a modern history Diarmaid Ferriter
The first ever really honest account of the reality of Ireland's offshore islands.
Description SHORTLISTED FOR THE ONSIDE NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
The islands off the coast of Ireland have long been a source of fascination. Seen as repositories of an ancient Irish culture and the epitome of Irish romanticism, they have attracted generations of scholars, artists and filmmakers, from James Joyce to Robert O'Flaherty, looking for a way of life uncontaminated by modernity or materialism.
But the reality for islanders has been a lot more complex. They faced poverty, hardship and official hostility, even while being expected to preserve an ancient culture and way of life. Writing in her 1936 autobiography, Peig Sayers, resident of Blaskets island, described it as 'this dreadful rock'. In 1841, there were 211 inhabited islands with a combined population of 38,000; by 2011, only 64 islands were inhabited, with a total population of 8,500. And younger generations continue to leave.
By documenting the island experiences and the social, cultural and political reaction to them over the last 100 years, On the Edge examines why this exodus has happened, and the gulf between the rhetoric that elevated island life and the reality of the political hostility towards them. It uncovers, through state and private archives, personal memoirs, newspaper coverage, and the author's personal travels, the realities behind the ""dreadful rocks"", and the significance of the experiences of, and reactions to, those who were and remain, literally, on the very edge of European civilisation.
About the Author Diarmaid Ferriter is one of Ireland's best- known historians and is Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD. His books include The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000 (2004), Judging Dev: A Reassessment of the life and legacy of Eamon de Valera (2007), Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland (2009) and Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s (2012). His most recent book is A Nation and not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913-23 (2015) He is a regular broadcaster on television and radio and a weekly columnist with the Irish Times. In 2010 he presented a three-part history Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781781256442 of twentieth century Ireland, The Limits of Liberty, on RTE television. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Regional & national history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 All Together Now?: One Man's Walk in Search of a Lost England Mike Carter
The Road to Wigan Pier for the 21st Century.
Description 'This important, disturbing and frequently heartbreaking book should be read by every politician in Westminster.' Adrian Tempany, Observer
'In a few weeks' time, it would be thirty-five years to the day since those men and women had walked 340 miles to try to save their communities and their culture, and thirty-five years since I had turned down Pete's invitation to join them. I called work and booked some time off. Then I bought a one-way train ticket to Liverpool.'
In 1981, Mike Carter's dad, Pete, organised the People's March for Jobs, which saw 300 people walk from Liverpool to London to protest as the Thatcher government's policies devastated industrial Britain and sent unemployment skyrocketing. Just before the 2016 EU referendum, Mike set off to walk the same route in a quest to better understand his dad and his country.
As he walked, Mike found many echoes of the early eighties: a working class overlooked and ignored by Westminster politicans; communities hollowed out but fiercely resistant; anger and despair co-existing with hope and determination for change. And he also found that he and Pete shared more in common than he might have thought.
All Together Now? maps the intricate, overlapping path of one man's journey and that of an entire country. It is a book about belonging, about whether to stay or go, and about the need to write new stories for our communities and ourselves.
About the Author MIKE CARTER is a freelance travel writer. His previous book, One Man and His Bike, followed what happened when his cycle ride to work one morning turned into a 5,000-mile cycle ride around the coastline of Britain. In 2008 Uneasy Rider, the chronicle of his motorbike ride of over 20,000 miles to the four extremes of Europe, won the Oldie Travel Book of the Year. @getcarter7 Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781783351572 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Travel writing Bic2: Social groups Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Guardian Books AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 The Lost Decade: 2010-2020, and What Lies Ahead for Britain Polly Toynbee, David Walker
An authoritative survey of 2010-20: what went wrong, what went right, and what's next for Britain.
Description The ten years from 2010 have been devastating. A decade of austerity and paralysis nurtured contempt for leaders, institutions and fellow citizens and fertilised the ground for a rebellious Brexit. It has been a decade characterised by national tragedies from Grenfell to Windrush, and food banks to the property crisis.
But, as Adam Smith said, 'there's a great deal of ruin in a nation'. No truthful portrait of an era can be monochrome. Bright spots included the rise of renewable energy, lower crime rates, legalisation of same-sex marriage and the creative industries continuing to punch well above their weight in spite of cuts.
In The Lost Decade, Polly Toynbee and David Walker offer the definitive survey of this most tumultuous of periods in British history and look to what lies ahead for us. This is the anatomy of a dark decade, bringing hope for better to come.
About the Author Polly Toynbee and David Walker have co-authored several works of non-fiction, most recently Cameron's Coup: How the Tories Took Britain to the Brink and Dismembered: How the Conservative Attack on the State Harms Us All.Polly Toynbee is a columnist for the Guardian. David Walker is a contributing editor to the Guardian Public and former director of public reporting at the Audit Commission.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781783351718 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Social issues & processes Bic2: 21st century history: from c 2000 - Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Guardian Books AUSTRALIA MARCH 2020 RENDANG Will Harris
A rising star of contemporary British poetry reflects on race, culture, memory and identity in his first full-length collection
Description In RENDANG, Will Harris complicates and experiments with the lyric in a way that urges it forward. With an unflinching yet generous eye, RENDANG is a collection that engages equally with the pain and promise of self-perception. Drawing on his Anglo-Indonesian heritage, Harris shows us new ways to think about the contradictions of identity and cultural memory. He creates companions that speak to us in multiple languages; they sit next to us on the bus, walk with us through the crowd and talk to us while we're chopping shallots. They deftly ask us to consider how and what we look at, as well as what we don't look at and why.
Playing eruditely with and querying structures of narrative, with his use of the long poem, images, ekphrasis, and ruptured forms, RENDANG is a startling new take on the self, and how an identity is constructed. It is intellectual and accessible, moving and experimental, and combines a linguistic innovation with a deep emotional rooting.
About the Author Will Harris is a London based poet of Anglo-Indonesian heritage. He's the author of the critically acclaimed Mixed-Race Superman and All This is Implied, winner of the LRB Bookshop Poetry Pick for best pamphlet. In 2016, he was part of an Evening Standard feature on the 'new guard' of London poets; he was shortlisted for the 2017 Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize, and the 2018 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem for 'SAY' (Poetry Review). He has published with the Guardian, the London Review of Books, Granta, The Poetry Review, and The White Review, among many others.
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