SEPTEMBER 2018 The Clockmaker's Daughter Kate Morton

Kate Morton's highly acclaimed novels have sold over 11 million copies worldwide and are number one bestsellers around the world.

Sales points • Kate Morton's eagerly awaited new novel - her first in three years • Kate Morton's books have sold over 11 million copies in 33 languages worldwide • Kate's last novel - The Lake House - has sold over 100,000 copies across Australia and New Zealand alone • The Lake House reached no 1 in Bookscan charts in Australia • CATEGORY: Popular fiction

Description My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows.

In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Upper Thames. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been shot dead while another has disappeared; a priceless heirloom is missing; and Edward Radcliffe's life is in ruins.

Over one hundred and fifty years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist in London, uncovers a leather satchel containing two seemingly unrelated items: a sepia photograph of an arresting-looking woman in Victorian clothing, and an artist's sketchbook containing the drawing of a twin-gabled house on the bend of a river.

Why does Birchwood Manor feel so familiar to Elodie? And who is the beautiful woman in the photograph? Will she ever give up her secrets?

Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 Told by multiple voices across time, The Clockmaker's Daughter is a story of murder, mystery and thievery, of art, love ISBN: 9781742376523 and loss. And flowing through its pages like a river is the voice of a woman who stands outside time, whose name has Format: Paperback - C format been forgotten by history, but who has watched it all unfold: Birdie Bell, the clockmaker's daughter. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 608 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) About the Author Bic2: Historical mysteries KATE MORTON was born in South Australia and grew up in the mountains of south-east Queensland. She has degrees Illustrations: in dramatic art and English literature and lives now with her husband and three young sons in London and Australia. Kate Previous Titles: Author now living: Paddington, QLD Morton has sold over eleven million copies of her novels. The Shifting Fog, published internationally as The House at Riverton, The Forgotten Garden, The Distant Hours, The Secret Keeper and The Lake House have all been number one bestsellers around the world. You can find more information about Kate Morton and her books at katemorton.com or Facebook @KateMortonAuthor and Instagram @katemortonauthor. Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2018 Clockmaker's Daughter 40 cpy dumpbin

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2018 The Clockmaker's Daughter Kate Morton

Kate Morton's highly acclaimed novels have sold over 11 million copies worldwide and are number one bestsellers around the world.

Sales points • Kate Morton's eagerly awaited new novel - her first in three years • Kate Morton's books have sold over 11 million copies in 33 languages worldwide • Kate's last novel - The Lake House - has sold over 100,000 copies across Australia and New Zealand alone • The Lake House reached no 1 in Bookscan charts in Australia • CATEGORY: Popular fiction

Description My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows.

In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Upper Thames. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been shot dead while another has disappeared; a priceless heirloom is missing; and Edward Radcliffe's life is in ruins.

Over one hundred and fifty years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist in London, uncovers a leather satchel containing two seemingly unrelated items: a sepia photograph of an arresting-looking woman in Victorian clothing, and an artist's sketchbook containing the drawing of a twin-gabled house on the bend of a river.

Why does Birchwood Manor feel so familiar to Elodie? And who is the beautiful woman in the photograph? Will she ever give up her secrets?

Price: AU $49.99 NZ $55.00 Told by multiple voices across time, The Clockmaker's Daughter is a story of murder, mystery and thievery, of art, love ISBN: 9781760527006 and loss. And flowing through its pages like a river, is the voice of a woman who stands outside time, whose name has Format: Hard Cover been forgotten by history, but who has watched it all unfold: Birdie Bell, the clockmaker's daughter. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 608 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items About the Author Bic2: KATE MORTON was born in South Australia and grew up in the mountains of south-east Queensland. She has degrees Illustrations: in dramatic art and English literature and lives now with her husband and three young sons in London and Australia. Kate Previous Titles: Author now living: Paddington, QLD Morton has sold over eleven million copies of her novels. The Shifting Fog, published internationally as The House at Riverton, The Forgotten Garden, The Distant Hours, The Secret Keeper and The Lake House have all been number one bestsellers around the world. You can find more information about Kate Morton and her books at katemorton.com or Facebook @KateMortonAuthor and Instagram @katemortonauthor. Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2018 2028 Ken Saunders

Move over Shaun Micallef ... a work of comic genius that takes the mickey out of anything and everything to do with Australian politics.

Sales points • Brilliantly funny and wholly original • A who's who of endorsers • Truth can sometimes be stranger than fiction and one of the ways to deal with Australian politics today is to have a big belly laugh • • CATEGORY: Modern & Contemporary Fiction

Description 'I've found the Australian Douglas Adams!' - Tom Gleeson 'Hilarious.' - Wendy Harmer 'It's awesome.' - H.G. Nelson 'Absurdly funny.' - Sami Shah 'The revolution is coming.' - Cathy Wilcox 'Highly amusing.' - John Doyle 'Fizzing with ideas.' - Dominic Knight

2028. Prime Minister Fitzwilliams' instincts tell him it's time to call a snap election. His cabinet team is adequate (just), the howling protests of the doctors after the GP changes has finally died down and, best of all, the Australian Greens are in receivership. So what could possibly go wrong?

The PM is prepared for everything until he finds himself facing what he least expected - an actual opposition. How do you deal with a party that doesn't play by the rules, protests in the nude, sends mail by carrier pigeon and has a list of Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 candidates all called Ned Ludd? ISBN: 9781760631062 Format: Paperback - C format Welcome to the Australia of 2028 where parking meters double as poker machines, radio shock jocks have been Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages automated, the Communist Party of China has turned itself into a multinational corporation and ASIO's glory days are so Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) far over that it's resorting to surveillance of a Charles Dickens reading group. Bic2: Parodies & spoofs Illustrations: Outrageous, sharp and wickedly funny, 2028 takes us into the near future where the not very good ideas around today Previous Titles: Author now living: Glebe, NSW have become ten years worse.

About the Author Ken Saunders is a Sydney resident who moved to Australia from Canada in 1994. He has won several Australian and Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2018 2028 10 copy pack

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2018 How to Be Perfect Holly Wainwright

The bestselling author of The Mummy Bloggers is back with another page-turning, rip-roaring story about mums, phones and the cult of self-improvement.

Sales points • Desperate Housewives meets The Stepford Wives meets Sydney eastern suburbs mummy bloggers • Author has worked at Mamamia for past 3 years and the book will be promoted through their channels • Accessible writing by a well connected, media-savvy author • Perfect for the commercial women's fiction market • Her debut novel Mummy Bloggers was published in 2017 and has sold 6800 copies • CATEGORY: Fiction

Description What did you have for breakfast? Was it pure enough? Did it set you up for a day of grace, positive intentions and bum- selfies that would make a teenager weep?

If not, Elle Campbell is here to help. She once led an army of ab-tastic, aspirational mums, but after a blistering public shaming she's reinvented herself as a mountain-top model of serenity with a new band of followers - the Elle-ness Warriors.

Elle presides over an exclusive retreat where women pay thousands to mimic her extreme lifestyle, or die trying. But who's bankrolling Elle's new empire? And why are her two tiny sons suddenly absent from her glossy public image?

Abi Black is blogging about her chaotic blended family from her falling-down farmhouse, trying to keep it together while her ex-husband is building a financial cult in the shed and her teenage daughter's YouTube channel is gaining followers for all the wrong reasons. All Abi wants is to marry her one true love in the perfect wedding this Christmas, but the Internet - and Elle - appear to have other ideas. Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781760633486 Frances Graham has a colicky newborn, an absent husband and a Whatsapp Mother's Group that's giving her anxiety. Format: Paperback - C format But she's sure that if she can just be more like those fitmums on Instagram - do one more boot camp, one more juice Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages cleanse - things can only get better. And surely, if she can get scrape enough money together to make it to Elle's retreat, Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) everything in her life will be just...perfect. Bic2: Illustrations: Through a world of fake gurus, pretox parties, smug mummies and influencer angst, How to Be Perfect follows Elle, Abi Previous Titles: Author now living: Coogee, NSW and Frankie into the cult of self-improvement that's taken over your phone - and your breakfast.

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2018 The Wolf Hour Sarah Myles

A gripping thriller set in Africa about a young aid worker in danger and the lengths to which her family will go to save her. Edge-of-your-seat suspense combines with a compelling family drama in this story of power, greed and salvation.

Sales points • A gripping African thriller meets a searing family drama • Terrific combination of sophisticated page-turner/thriller and literary fiction that is increasingly irresistible to many readers • Seat-of-your-pants writing with settings ripped straight from the headlines • Sarah has made multiple trips to Africa for research and enlisted Ugandan author Doreen Baingana to ensure she handled the material with sensitivity • Thrillers set in Africa have a great track record - Tony Park's novels regularly sell over 15,000 copies • CATEGORY: Popular fiction

Description The 'Wolf Hour': the time we come face-to-face with ourselves.

Thirty-year-old Tessa Lowell has a PhD in psychology and is working in Uganda to research the effects of PTSD and war on child soldiers. She joins a delegation travelling across the Congolese border, deep into the jungle, for peace talks with Joseph Kony, notorious leader of the Lord's Resistance Army.?

At the camp Tessa meets thirteen-year-old Francis, already an experienced soldier and survivor of violent raids. The talks stall and the camp is attacked by other rebels who kidnap Tessa, believing she is a medical doctor and can treat a dying major's gunshot wound. Isolated in an increasingly volatile situation, Tessa tries to form a bond with Francis.

In Melbourne, Tessa's parents are notified of the abduction, but learn there is little government agencies can do. Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Desperate, they contact Tessa's brother Stephen, an astute if manipulative businessman based in Cape Town. He agrees ISBN: 9781760632519 to search for Tessa - and pursue his own agenda. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 380 pages As Tessa's time runs out, her family begins to fracture. Should you betray your corrupt brother if he tries to save you? Bic1: Thriller / suspense Should you ruin your son if he destroys other people's lives? Bic2: Adventure Illustrations: Previous Titles: About the Author Author now living: St Kilda, VIC Sarah Myles began to write fiction after graduating in literature from Monash University, and studying at the University of Western Australia. She has trained and worked as a nurse, travelled through Europe, the Americas and Africa. She is the author of Transplanted. Currently she divides her time between writing and family, living in inner Melbourne and on the west coast of Victoria. Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2018 Wolf Hour 8 copy pack

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2018 The Dinner List Rebecca Serle

If you could invite anyone at all to a fantasy dinner party, who would be on your list?

Sales points • Everyone has had the fantasy dinner party conversation at one time or another, it's a brilliant talking point to get people hooked from the outset • Beautiful Tiffany blue cover with gold foil - of course! • 'I have five words for Rebecca Serle's The Dinner List - wistful, delicious, romantic, magical, love.' - Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times bestselling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry and Young Jane Young • An interactive social media campaign around choosing your own fantasy dinner list and create fitting marketing assets e.g. personalised table place cards for booksellers, bloggers and reviewers • The enduring appeal of Audrey Hepburn is strong and can only help with the publication of this charming novel

Description 'We've been waiting for an hour.' That's what Audrey says. She states it with a little bit of an edge, her words just bordering on cursive. That's the thing I think first. Not: Audrey Hepburn is at my birthday dinner, but Audrey Hepburn is annoyed.

At one point or another, we've all been asked to name five people, living or dead, with whom we'd like to have dinner. Why do we choose the people we do? And what if that dinner was to actually happen? These are the questions Rebecca Serle contends with in her utterly captivating novel, The Dinner List, a story imbued with the same delightful magical realism as One Day, and the life-changing romance of Me Before You.

When Sabrina arrives at her thirtieth birthday dinner she finds at the table not just her best friend, but also three significant people from her past, and well, Audrey Hepburn. As the appetisers are served, wine poured, and dinner table conversation begins, it becomes clear that there's a reason these six people have been gathered together.

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Delicious but never indulgent, sweet with just the right amount of bitter, The Dinner List is a romance for our times. Bon ISBN: 9781760528058 appetit. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm About the Author Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Rebecca Serle is an author and television writer who lives between New York and Los Angeles. Serle most recently co- Bic2: developed the television adaptation of her YA series Famous in Love for Freeform and Warner Brothers Television. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2018 My Sister's Keeper Jodi Picoult

With her penetrating insight into the hearts and minds of real people, Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person, and what happens when emotions meet with scientific advances.

Sales points • Jodi's most successful novel ever • Exciting new cover treatment • Part of 'Fan Favourites' collection • Jodi's new book A Spark of Light is out in October 2018 • CATEGORY: Fiction

Description 'Rarely have I read such an eloquent portrayal of the family in crisis. Every character: real. Every situation: true. Picoult defies you to put this novel down once you've begun it. I do the same.' - Elizabeth George

Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate, a life and a role that she has never questioned until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister - and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves.

Told from multiple points of view, My Sister's Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child's life, even if that means infringing upon the rights of another? Should you follow your own heart, or let others lead you? What happens when emotion catches up to scientific advances? Price: AU $14.99 NZ $16.99 ISBN: 9781760527266 Jodi Picoult is the author of more than twenty bestselling and widely acclaimed novels. Read more about her on her Format: Paperback - B format website www.jodipicoult.com.au. Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items About the Author Bic2: JODI PICOULT is the author of twenty novels. Her most recent, Lone Wolf, Sing You Home and House Rules, have all Illustrations: Previous Titles: been number one on the Australian and New Zealand fiction bestseller lists. Jodi lives in New Hampshire with her Author now living: Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. husband and three children. Read more about Jodi on her website: www.jodipicoult.com.au

Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2018 Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult

The startling and poignant story of the aftermath of a tragic high school shooting, from the bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and The Pact.

Sales points • Exciting new cover treatment • Online promotion • Jodi's new book A Spark of Light is out in October 2018 • CATEGORY: Fiction

Description 'Picoult makes us ponder the ambiguous relationships between love and lying, legality and morality; the strange ways repressed memories leak into the present.' Los Angeles Times

Intricately textured and rich with psychological and social insight, Jodi Picoult's novels grab readers by the throat from page one and never let go. As emotionally charged as any she has written, Nineteen Minutes is one of her most powerful works to date.

Set in a small town in the wake of a horrific school shooting, Nineteen Minutes features the return of two beloved Picoult characters - Jordan McAfee, the lawyer from The Pact and Salem Falls, who once again finds himself representing a boy who desperately needs someone on his side; and Patrick Ducharme, the intrepid detective introduced in Perfect Match, whose best witness is the daughter of the superior court judge assigned to the case. As the story unfolds, layer after layer is peeled back to reveal some hard-hitting questions about the nature of justice, the balance of power and what it means to be different.

Nineteen Minutes is a riveting, thought-provoking tale with a jaw-dropping finale.

Price: AU $14.99 NZ $16.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781760527273 JODI PICOULT is the author of twenty novels. Her most recent, Leaving Time, The Storyteller and Lone Wolf, have all Format: Paperback - B format been number one on the Australian and New Zealand fiction bestseller lists. Jodi lives in New Hampshire with her Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 600 pages husband and three children. Read more about Jodi on her website: www.jodipicoult.com.au Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.

Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2018 The Storyteller Jodi Picoult

After befriending an old man in her town, Sage Singer is deeply shocked when he begs her for a terrible favour - until he shares his darkest secret with her. In the latest novel from master storyteller, Jodi Picoult, she asks: can evil ever be forgiven? And can murder ever be justified?

Sales points • One of her most provocative novels to date • Exciting new cover treatment • Part of 'Fan Favourites' collection • Jodi's new book A Spark of Light is out in October 2018 • CATEGORY: Fiction

Description An astonishing novel about redemption and forgiveness from number-one bestselling author Jodi Picoult.

Sage Singer is a young woman who has been damaged by her past. Her solitary night work as a baker allows her to hide from the world and focus her creative energies on the beautiful bread she bakes.

Yet she finds herself striking up an unlikely friendship. Josef Weber is a quiet, grandfatherly man, well respected in the community; everyone's favourite retired teacher and Little League coach.

One day he asks Sage for a favour: to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses.

Then Josef tells her that he deserves to die - and why.

What do you do when evil lives next door? Can someone who's committed horrendous acts ever truly redeem themselves? Is forgiveness yours to offer if you aren't the person who was wronged? And most of all - if Sage even Price: AU $14.99 NZ $16.99 considers his request - would it be murder, or justice? ISBN: 9781760527280 Format: Paperback - B format 'Picoult is an expert at posing questions in her books. The Storyteller is all about justice and forgiveness. Would you Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 472 pages forgive such harrowing crimes against humanity? This is the ultimate question at the core of her book. A riveting read.' - Bic1: Fiction & related items culturestreet.com Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: About the Author Author now living: Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. JODI PICOULT is the author of twenty novels. Her most recent, Lone Wolf, Sing You Home and House Rules, have all been number one on the Australian and New Zealand fiction bestseller lists. Jodi lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children. Read more about Jodi on her website: www.jodipicoult.com.au

Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2018 Girl in Between Anna Daniels

Life can be tricky when you're a girl in between relationships, careers and cities ... and sometimes you have to face some uncomfortable truths. The sparkling debut from comic TV and radio presenter, Anna Daniels.

Sales points • 'This book captures reality in a wonderfully funny way... plenty of humour and heartfelt moments.' Fictionalthoughts. com (blog) • New paperback edition of a fabulous, funny book from a rising media star • Over 9,000 copies sold of the first edition • Anna has written, produced and presented comedy pieces for radio (Red Symons' Breakfast Show) and TV (including The Project and ABC TV) • For readers who love Sophie Kinsella, Helen Fielding and Zoe Foster Blake • CATEGORY: Popular fiction

Description 'There's lots to enjoy about Girl in Between - notably the likeable, offbeat observational humour.' SMH.com.au

Lucy Crighton has just moved in with some gregarious housemates called Brian and Denise . . . who are her parents. She's also the proud mother of Glenda, her beloved 10-year-old . . . kelpie. And she has absolutely no interest in the dashing son of her parents' new next-door neighbour . . . well, maybe just a little . . .

As the girl in between relationships, careers and cities, Lucy is facing some awkward truths - like her mum's obsession with Cher, her father's unsolicited advice, and the probability there's more cash on the floor of her parents' car than in her own bank account.

Thank goodness for Lucy's crazy-but-wonderful best friend, Rosie, who's around to cushion reality with wild nights at the local Whipcrack Hotel, escapades in Japanese mud baths, and double dating under the Christmas lights in London. Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781760528140 But will Lucy work out what she really wants to do in life - and who she wants to share it with? Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 320 pages Girl in Between is a warm, funny, charmingly Australian story about life at the crossroads. Featuring an endearing and Bic1: Fiction & related items irrepressible cast of characters, it will have you chuckling from start to finish. Bic2: Fiction & related items Illustrations: About the Author Previous Titles: Author now living: Anna Daniels has enjoyed great success as a comedic storyteller since kicking off her career by winning the ABC's 'Comedy Segment of the Year Award' for an interview with Russell Crowe. She then went on to co-create the ABC's first online sketch comedy series 'Tough at the Top' with Melbourne comedian, Anne Edmonds. For several years Anna wrote and presented funny upbeat stories for The Project, winning over viewers with her warm, silly, endearing style. Having Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2018 The One Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared Jonas Jonasson

After a long and eventful life Allan Karlsson is moved to a nursing home to await the inevitable. But his health refuses to fail and as his 100th birthday looms a huge party is planned. Allan wants no part of it and decides to climb out the window. Charming and funny; a European publishing phenomenon.

Sales points • Reissued to coincide with the release of the sequel, The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred- Year-Old Man, which HarperCollins are publishing on 9th August • Sold 80,000 copies in Australia across all formats, and more than 2 million copies in Europe • Amazing love for this novel across the world • CATEGORY: Fiction

Description Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, Allan Karlsson is waiting for a party he doesn't want to begin. His one- hundredth birthday party to be precise. The Mayor will be there. The press will be there. But, as it turns out, Allan will not . . .

Escaping (in his slippers) through his bedroom window, into the flowerbed, Allan makes his getaway. And so begins his picaresque and unlikely journey involving a suitcase full of cash, a few thugs, a very friendly hot-dog stand operator, a few deaths, an elephant and incompetent police. As his escapades unfold, Allan's earlier life is revealed. A life in which - remarkably - he played a key role behind the scenes in some of the momentous events of the twentieth century.

The One Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared is a charming, warm and funny novel, beautifully woven with history and politics.

About the Author Price: AU $19.99 NZ $24.99 Jonas Jonasson was born in Sweden in 1962. A former journalist and media consultant, he is now writing his second ISBN: 9781743317938 Format: Paperback - B format novel. Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Sweden

Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2018 Normal People Sally Rooney

The feverishly anticipated second novel from the young author of 2017's most acclaimed debut Conversations with Friends.

Sales points • Bookseller and readers will be eager to get hold of Sally Rooney's new novel after the incredible critical reception and word-of-mouth for her debut • Acclaim and praise for Conversations with Friends: • Winner of The Sunday Times / PFD Young Writer Of The Year • Shortlisted for The Kerry Group Irish Novel Of The Year 2018 • Shortlisted for The Desmond Elliot Prize 2018 • Shortlisted for The Rathbones Folio Prize 2018 • A Sunday Times, Observer and Telegraph Book Of The Year • 'A sharp, darkly funny comment on modern relationships. Required reading.' - Sunday Telegraph • 'This is a novel to set beside Lena Dunham's Girls, Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag, Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha ... I can't wait to see what Rooney serves up next.' - Sunday Times • 'An addictive, funny and truthful first novel about love and literature.' - Metro • 'Fascinating, ferocious and shrewd. Sally Rooney has the sharpest eye for all of the most delicate cruelties of human interaction.' Lisa McInerney • 'Sally Rooney is a writer going all the way to the top.' Colin Barrett

Description Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years.

This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life - a simple yet profound realisation Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 that unfolds beautifully over the course of the novel. It tells us how difficult it is to talk about how we feel and it tells us - ISBN: 9780571347292 blazingly - about cycles of domination, legitimacy and privilege. Alternating menace with overwhelming tenderness, Sally Format: Paperback - Demy format Rooney's second novel breathes fiction with new life. Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) About the Author Bic2: Sally Rooney was born in 1991 and lives in Dublin. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, The White Illustrations: Review, The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, Kevin Barry's Stonecutter and The Winter Page anthology. Her debut Previous Titles: Author now living: novel, Conversations with Friends, was the most popular debut in the 2017 end-of-year round-ups. Rooney was shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award for 'Mr Salary' and was the winner of the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award.

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Faber Fiction SEPTEMBER 2018 Immigrant, Montana Amitava Kumar

An explosive, genre-defying reinvention of the 'immigrant' novel from Amitava Kumar.

Sales points • A novel of intensity and luminous intelligence - seriously good • Brilliant for serious reading groups • Radically reinvents the bildungsroman, campus novel, and postcolonial narrative for a new generation - and introduces an unforgettable voice • 'In the works of Coetzee, Fitzgerald, Cusk, Berger, Naipaul, or Lerner, one is relieved to find that the novel is not dead. The sentences sing in the dark. Immigrant, Montana is a book in this class, and easily the best new novel I have read in recent years.' - Teju Cole • 'A beguiling meditation on memory and migration, sex and politics, ideas and art, and race and ambiguity. Part novel, part memoir, this book is as sly, charming, and deceptive as its passionate protagonist, a writer writing himself into being.' - Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer • 'There is a buoyant energy and hilarity to this account of an Indian student seeking the wide world through the women he meets, but one laughs with growing unease as a darker undercurrent is slowly revealed. An unusual, brave twist on the migrant's tale.' - Kiran Desai, author of the Man Booker Prize-winning The Inheritance of Loss

Description Immigrant, Montana is story of AK, an Indian academic working in America. It is a love story, or rather the story of what a man can fall in love with: in AK's case, literature, radical politics, and, of course, women. AK's education is both an intellectual and an emotional journey, and we share in his learning and humanity in an unusually sympathetic way.

This is a novel of subtle intensity and luminous intelligence: both a reinvention of what used to be called the 'campus novel' and an exploration of postcolonial identity. It is a tender yet provocative book about exile, desire, passion, and restlessness. It sits in a tradition that started with Flaubert's Sentimental Education and was resurrected by V.S.Naipaul. And it does what fiction should always do: make the world seem new.

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9780571339600 Immigrant, Montana is the radical extension of a literary genre that started with Sebald and has recently found voice in the Format: Paperback - C format work of Teju Cole and Ben Lerner. A witty cultural satirist and beguiling ironist, Kumar has created a voice that is elliptical, Dimensions: 234x153mm self-deprecating, and brilliantly ambiguous: and the result is one of the most distinctive novels of the decade. Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: About the Author Illustrations: Amitava Kumar is an Indian writer and journalist. He is the author of several books of non-fiction and a novel. His non- Previous Titles: Author now living: fiction and poetry has been published in the New York Times, Granta, the New Yorker, and the Guardian, among other places. He lives in upstate New York, where he is Helen D. Lockwood Professor of English at Vassar College.

Faber Fiction SEPTEMBER 2018 Immigrant, Montana 8 copy pack

Includes 8 copies of Immigrant, Montana plus free reading copy.

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Faber Fiction SEPTEMBER 2018 Perfidious Albion Sam Byers

A searing, satirical portrait of a divided England in a connected age - a 1984 for our times.

Sales points • Think The Casual Vacancy meets The League of Gentlemen - this is a very funny satire of Brexit Britain • Huge UK Prize Potential: Sam Byers's debut novel was included on the Waterstones 11 list of debut novels to watch out for; shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Prize and the Desmond Elliot Prize; and won a Betty Trask Award • Author has a clever website with an interface that riffs on the novel: http://sambyers.co.uk/

Description Welcome to Edmundsbury, a small town in England, some time in the recent future. Brexit has happened and is real. Fear and loathing are on the rise. Grass-roots right-wing political party England Always are fomenting hatred. The residents of a failing housing estate are being cleared from their homes. A multinational tech company is making inroads into the infrastructure. Just as the climate seems at its most pressured, masked men begin a series of 'disruptions', threatening to make internet histories public, asking the townspeople what don't you want to share? As tensions mount, lives begin to unravel.

Jess Ellis's research into internet misogyny pushes her relationship with her over-exposed opinion columnist boyfriend Robert Townsend to breaking point. Robert's championing of the inhabitants of the threatened estate begins to erode the edges of his fragile idealism. Local England Always politician Hugo Bennington finds his twisted loyalties catching up with him. At the nearby tech park, behind the utopian rhetoric, Trina James finds that something is dangerously amiss.

A controversial tweet; a series of ill-judged thinkpieces; a riot of opinions. Suddenly Edmundsbury is no longer the peaceful town it has always imagined itself to be. Things are changing. No-one is quite who they appear. The future has arrived, and it is not what anyone imagined.

About the Author

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Sam Byers's writing has appeared in Granta, the New York Times, The Spectator, and The Times Literary Supplement. ISBN: 9780571336296 His debut novel, Idiopathy (2013) was included on the Waterstones 11 list of debut novels to watch out for; shortlisted for Format: Hard Cover the Costa First Novel Prize and the Desmond Elliot Prize; and won a Betty Trask Award. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) http://sambyers.co.uk/ Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Fiction SEPTEMBER 2018 The Cry (TV tie-in) Helen FitzGerald

Coming to ABC TV, the 4-part BBC TV drama, The Cry by Helen FitzGerald brings a parent's worst nightmare to vivid life.

Sales points • A major BBC drama series, coming to ABC TV (four 60-minute episodes) • Multi award-winning Australian actors Asher Keddie and Alex Dimitriades, star with Jenna Coleman (Victoria, Dr Who) and Ewen Leslie (Top of the Lake, Safe Harbour) • Filmed in Australia in Melbourne and around the Mornington Peninsula and in Scotland • The Cry will continue to grow her fans • The perfect read for fans of Sophie Hannah

Description Longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award

When a baby goes missing on a lonely roadside in Australia, it sets off a police investigation that will become a media sensation and dinner-table talk across the world.

Lies, rumours and guilt snowball, causing the parents, Joanna and Alistair, to slowly turn against each other.

Finally Joanna starts thinking the unthinkable: could the truth be even more terrible than she suspected? And what will it take to make things right?

Perfect for fans of Julia Crouch, Sophie Hannah and Laura Lippman, The Cry was widely acclaimed as one of the best psychological thrillers of the year. There's a gripping moral dilemma at its heart and characters who will keep you guessing on every page.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 About the Author ISBN: 9780571342945 Helen FitzGerald is the bestselling author of Dead Lovely (2007) and nine other adult and young adult thrillers, including Format: Paperback - B format My Last Confession (2009), The Donor (2011) and most recently The Cry (2013), which was longlisted for the Theakstons Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize. Helen has worked as a criminal justice Bic1: Thriller / suspense social worker for over ten years. She is one of thirteen children and grew up in Victoria, Australia. She now lives in Bic2: Crime & mystery Glasgow with her husband and two children. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Scotland

Faber Paperback SEPTEMBER 2018 Fateful Mornings Tom Bouman

Now in paperback the follow up to Tom Bouman's Edgar Award-winning debut, Dry Bones in the Valley

Sales points • Dry Bones in the Valley won the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller and Winner of the 2015 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, and was nominated for the John Creasey New Blood Dagger in the UK • Huge support from other writers - perfect for fans of intelligent US rural crime, from James Lee Burke to James Sallis to Cormac McCarthy to Donald Ray Pollock • Dry Bones... was a NZ Listener top 100 book for 2015

Description 'Fateful Mornings is a haunting dissection of the broken heart of America.' Val McDermid

For fans of James Lee Burke and Cormac McCarthy, Tom Bouman is the new must-read author exploring the outer darkness of contemporary America.

In Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, Officer Henry Farrell's life is getting complicated. Widowed and more traumatised than he cares to admit, he is caught up in an affair with a local woman, and with helping out his friend's barn construction job - on which the clock is ticking. When a troubled old acquaintance of theirs becomes the prime suspect in the disappearance of his girlfriend, it becomes increasingly clear that something seriously dark is at large in the woods that surround them.

Against this old and strange landscape - where silence rules - a fascinating and troubling case ensues, as Henry struggles for his very survival.

About the Author Tom Bouman's debut Dry Bones in the Valley won the 2015 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and several other prestigious mystery and thriller awards. He lives with his wife and daughter in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9780571327775 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 292 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback SEPTEMBER 2018 Dry Bones in the Valley Tom Bouman

'A tough, edgy thriller . readers of smart literary thrillers are going to love this novel. I wish like hell that my name were on the cover.' - Wiley Cash

Sales points • Reissued alongside paperback publication of Fateful Mornings • Won the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller and Winner of the 2015 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, and was nominated for the John Creasey New Blood Dagger in the UK • Paperback Original • Published in America to huge critical acclaim, Dry Bones in the Valley is a perfect bookgroup novel

Description When an elderly recluse discovers a corpse on his land, Officer Henry Farrell follows the investigation to strange places in the countryside, and into the depths of his own frayed soul.

In Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, secrets and feuds go back generations. The lone policeman in a small township on the sparse northern border, Henry Farrell expected to spend his mornings hunting and fishing, his evenings playing old-time music. Instead, he has watched the dual encroachment of fracking companies and drug dealers bring money and troubles to the area. As a second body turns up, Henry's search for the killer opens old wounds and dredges up ancient crimes which some people desperately want to keep hidden.

With vivid characters and flawless pacing, Tom Bouman immerses readers in this changing landscape. In these derelict woods, full of whitetail deer and history, the hunt is on.

About the Author Tom Bouman is a former book editor and musician. His debut novel Dry Bones in the Valley won the 2015 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and several other prestigious mystery and thriller awards. He Price: AU $19.99 NZ $24.99 lives with his wife and daughter in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. ISBN: 9780571320646 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Crime & mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback SEPTEMBER 2018 A Life of Adventure and Delight Akhil Sharma

'He is truly the Chekhov of our time.' - Yiyun Li

Sales points • His first book, An Obedient Father, won the 2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award • He was named one of Granta's 'Best of Young American Novelists' in 2007 • His second novel, Family Life, won the 2015 Folio Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award 2016

Description Late one June afternoon, seven months after my wedding, I woke from a short, deep sleep, in love with my husband.

Whether describing the tensions of an arranged marriage, the trauma of having an alcoholic mother, or the petty corruption of an Indian neighbourhood, Akhil Sharma's stories always expose the cultural collisions - the paradoxes, ironies, and harmonies - that characterise modern life. What does it mean to be foreign? And can you find a home in exile?

In these elegant, unsparing and unusually intimate stories - five of which were first published in the New Yorker - the Folio Prize-winning author explores these questions with disarming honesty. Marrying the minimalism of Chekhov and Carver with an unparalleled flair for dark comedy, A Life of Adventure and Delight is a book of wisdom, wonder and poignant reflection from a writer courageous enough to explore the darkening margins of the psyche.

About the Author Akhil Sharma was born in Delhi in India and emigrated to the USA in 1979. His stories have been published in the New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly, and included in The Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prize Collections. His first book, An Obedient Father, won the 2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. He was named one of Granta's 'Best of Young American Novelists' in 2007. His second novel, Family Life, won the 2015 Folio Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award 2016. Sharma is currently a Fellow at The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 for Scholars and Writers. ISBN: 9780571326327 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Short stories Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback SEPTEMBER 2018 Sacred Games Vikram Chandra

Now a Netflix series: India's most wanted. A washed-up cop. Mumbai, a city running out of time.

Sales points • Netflix series to be released on 6 July 2018 - stock to be stickered • Opulent and exhilarating, Sacred Games skilfully combines a page-turning thriller with the intelligence and emotional depth of the best literature. • It's the fruit of seven years spent with the cops and gangsters of Mumbai - the vast, vibrant, violent mega-city that contains more people than in the whole of Australia. • Sacred Games is the first novel to capture 21st century India in all its glory. • 'Sacred Games is that rare novel that escapes the confines of its publishers blurb: a 900-page thriller that fuses the tradition of the Victorian novel with those of Indian storytelling, Bollywood and the detective novel, it is, like the city in which it grew, a bold, garrulous, oversized, overpopulated and beguiling novel.' - Canberra Times

Description An enormously satisfying, exciting and enriching book, Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the lives of detective Sartaj Singh and Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. Sartaj, the only Sikh inspector in the whole of Mumbai, is used to being identified by his turban, beard and the sharp cut of his trousers. But 'the silky Sikh' is now past forty, his marriage is over and his career prospects are on the slide. When Sartaj gets an anonymous tip off as to the secret hideout of the legendary boss of the G-company, he's determined that he'll be the one to collect the prize. This is a sprawling, epic novel of friendships and betrayals, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its underworld. Drawing on the best of Victorian fiction, mystery novels, Bollywood movies and Vikram Chandra's years of first hand research on the streets of Mumbai, this novel reads like a pot boiling page-turner but resonates with the intelligence and emotional depth of the best of literature.

About the Author Vikram Chandra was born in New Delhi. His first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain (1995) won the Commonwealth

Price: AU $22.99 NZ $28.99 Writers Prize for Best First Book and the David Higham Prize. His collection of short stories, Love and Longing in ISBN: 9780571231218 Bombay (1997) won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (Eurasia region) and was shortlisted for the Guardian Format: Paperback - B format Fiction Prize. He has co-written Mission Kashmir, an Indian feature film. Vikram Chandra currently divides his time Dimensions: 198x126mm between Mumbai and Berkeley, where he teaches at the University of California. His work has been translated into eleven Extent: 960 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) languages. Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback SEPTEMBER 2018 Liberty Faber Poetry Diary 2019 Various

A full colour hardback A5 size desk diary with a week to a view, with a poem or illustration every week. Illustrated throughout with vintage and contemporary book jackets the diary has a sturdy cover and an elastic closure.

Sales points • With gorgeous Liberty print cover • An illustrated week-to-view • With a poem or illustration every week • Includes ribbon marker and elastic closure • 55% discount firm sale

Description The Faber poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, is celebrating its 90th year in 2019. For nearly forty years the list was shaped by the taste of T.S. Eliot, who was its guiding light. Since the sixties, each passing decade has seen the list grow with the addition of poets who were arguably the finest of their generation. More recently the creation of the Poet to Poet series has further broadened the scope of Faber poetry by including the work of great poets from the past, selected and introduced by the contemporary poets they have inspired.

Rachael Allen; Simon Armitage; William Blake; Emily Bronte; Robert Burns; Lord Byron; Thomas Campion; Geoffrey Chaucer; John Clare; Wendy Cope; John Donne; Joe Dunthorne; T.S. Eliot; Lavinia Greenlaw; Ivor Gurney; Thomas Hardy; David Harsent; Seamus Heaney; Robert Herrick; Gerard Manley Hopkins; Ted Hughes;Ishion Hutchinson; John Keats; Philip Larkin; Toby Martinez de las Rivas; Charlotte Mew; Paul Muldoon; Daljit Nagra; Don Paterson; Sylvia Plath; Christopher Reid; Christina Rossetti; Richard Scott; William Shakespeare; Jo Shapcott; Edward Thomas; Derek Walcott; William Wordsworth ;W.B. Yeats

About the Author Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9780571341696 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 210x145mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Poetry anthologies (various poets) Bic2: Stationery items Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Poetry SEPTEMBER 2018 Faber & Faber Poetry Diary 2019 Various

A full colour hardback A5 size desk diary with a week to a view, with a poem or illustration every week. Illustrated throughout with vintage and contemporary book jackets the diary has a sturdy cover and an elastic closure.

Sales points • An illustrated week-to-view • With a poem or illustration every week • Includes ribbon marker and elastic closure • 55% discount firm sale

Description The Faber poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, is celebrating its 90th year in 2019. For nearly forty years the list was shaped by the taste of T.S. Eliot, who was its guiding light. Since the sixties, each passing decade has seen the list grow with the addition of poets who were arguably the finest of their generation. More recently the creation of the Poet to Poet series has further broadened the scope of Faber poetry by including the work of great poets from the past, selected and introduced by the contemporary poets they have inspired. Rachael Allen; Simon Armitage; William Blake; Emily Bronte; Robert Burns; Lord Byron; Thomas Campion; Geoffrey Chaucer; John Clare; Wendy Cope; John Donne; Joe Dunthorne; T.S. Eliot; Lavinia Greenlaw; Ivor Gurney; Thomas Hardy; David Harsent; Seamus Heaney; Robert Herrick; Gerard Manley Hopkins; Ted Hughes;Ishion Hutchinson; John Keats; Philip Larkin; Toby Martinez de las Rivas; Charlotte Mew; Paul Muldoon; Daljit Nagra; Don Paterson; Sylvia Plath; Christopher Reid; Christina Rossetti; Richard Scott; William Shakespeare; Jo Shapcott; Edward Thomas; Derek Walcott; William Wordsworth ;W.B. Yeats

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Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9780571341702 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 210x145mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Poetry anthologies (various poets) Bic2: Stationery items Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Poetry SEPTEMBER 2018 The Poems of T.S. Eliot (4 CDs) T. S. Eliot

Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Irons's perceptive reading illuminates the poetry of T. S. Eliot in all its complexity.

Sales points • Includes 4 CDs • Dame Eileen Atkins joins Jeremy Irons in the reading of 'The Waste Land'

Description Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Irons's perceptive reading illuminates the poetry of T. S. Eliot in all its complexity.

Major poems range from 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', through the post-war desolation of 'The Waste Land' and the spiritual struggle of 'Ash-Wednesday', to the enduring charm of 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats'.

The Spectator praised Jeremy Irons's interpretation as 'so accessible, reading Eliot as if finding his words for the first time, grappling with them, relishing them, using them to express feelings that we all share as we struggle to accept, to recognise or relinquish'.

Dame Eileen Atkins also appears alongside Jeremy Irons in the reading of 'The Waste Land'.

About the Author Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1888. He was educated at Harvard, at the Sorbonne in Paris, and at Merton College, Oxford. His early poetry was profoundly influenced by the French symbolists, especially Baudelaire and Laforgue. In his academic studies he specialised in philosophy and logic. His doctoral thesis was on F. H. Bradley.

He settled in England in 1915, the year in which he married Vivienne Haigh-Wood and also met his contemporary Ezra Price: AU $35.00 NZ $39.99 Pound for the first time. After teaching for a year or so he joined Lloyds Bank in the City of London in 1917, the year in ISBN: 9780571342709 which he published his first volume, Prufrock and Other Observations. Format: CD Dimensions: 140x125mm Extent: pages Bic1: Poetry by individual poets Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Audio SEPTEMBER 2018 The Helicopter Heist Jonas Bonnier

A page-turning thriller based on an incredible true story about the spectacular theft of hundreds of millions of pounds.

Sales points • Right sold in 18 territories • Film rights were won by Netflix at auction, with actor Jake Gyllenhaal attached to star and produce • The Helicopter Heist went straight into the Swedish bestseller charts at number 4 • Based on the amazing true story of the Vastberga helicopter robbery in Stockholm (of which there is CCTV footage on YouTube!) • A pulse-racing thriller about a spectacular real-life robbery. Perfect for readers of Nomad, Crisis and James Patterson • 'Fun, thrilling and utterly captivating' - TIME magazine • 'A wildly entertaining rollercoaster ride of a novel' - CBS

Description A race against time to pull off the ultimate heist - but is everyone involved who they say they are?

Four men gather in Stockholm, preparing to steal millions from the largest cash facility in the country.

The plan is foolproof. Every contingency is covered, every detail planned perfectly.

But not everyone is as they seem. They each have a secret.

And one might just sabotage the biggest robbery the country has ever seen...

About the Author Jonas Bonnier (b. 1963) is a novelist, screenwriter and journalist. He was the CEO & President of the Bonnier Group from Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 2008 until 2014. Jonas Bonnier lives with his wife and two children in Miami. ISBN: 9781785764288 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 512 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Thriller / suspense Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Zaffre SEPTEMBER 2018 The Secrets of Primrose Square Claudia Carroll

Ireland's #1 bestseller Claudia Carroll is back with this compelling, warm and poignant story. Perfect for fans of Marian Keyes and Joanna Trollope.

Sales points • Combines emotional intelligence, sharp humour, darkness as well as light, and she always delivers a page-turner • This is Joanna Trollope's City of Friends meets Marian Keyes

Description Can you guess what's hidden behind closed doors?

It's late at night and the rain is pouring down on the Dublin city streets. A mother is grieving for her dead son. She stands silently outside the home of the teenage boy she believes responsible. She watches...

In a kitchen on the same square, a girl waits for her mum to come home. She knows exactly where she is, but she knows she cannot reach her.

A few doors down, and a widow sits alone in her room. She has just delivered a bombshell to her family during dinner.

And an aspiring theatre director has just moved in to a flat across the street. Her landlord is absent, but there are already things about him that don't quite add up...

Welcome to Primrose Square.

About the Author Claudia lives in Dublin. She's the author of fourteen novels - all bestsellers - three of which were optioned for film and TV. Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Claudia has always been grateful to her mentor Maeve Binchy, and stars in the Dublin-based soap opera Fair City. ISBN: 9781785765261 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Zaffre SEPTEMBER 2018 All The Wicked Girls Chris Whitaker

From the award-winning author of Tall Oaks comes an outstanding new thriller. Even small towns can hide big secrets...

Sales points • For fans of Lisa Jewell, Holly Seddon and Local Girl Missing, All the Wicked Girls is a gripping thriller with a huge heart from an exceptional talent. • A bold, eye-catching package, as Chris moves in a darker and more powerful direction • Tall Oaks won the 2017 CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger

Description Everyone loves Summer Ryan. A model student and musical prodigy, she's a ray of light in the struggling small town of Grace, Alabama - especially compared to her troubled sister, Raine. Then Summer vanishes.

Raine throws herself into the investigation, aided by a most unlikely ally, but the closer she gets to the truth, the more dangerous her search becomes.

And perhaps there was always more to Summer than met the eye...

A gripping crime novel with a huge heart, this is the second novel from the exceptionally talented Chris Whitaker.

About the Author Chris Whitaker's debut novel, Tall Oaks, was published in 2016. It was a Guardian crime book of the month as well as featuring in Crime Time's top 100 books of 2016 and BuzzFeed's incredible summer reads. It won the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger Award, and was shortlisted for the CrimeFest Last Laugh Award.

Chris lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and two young sons. Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781785761522 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 448 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Zaffre SEPTEMBER 2018 Shame on You Amy Heydenrych

A gripping psychological thriller that explores the darker side of social media, perfect for fans of The Girl Before and Friend Request..

Sales points • Timely commercial thriller looking at where reality and the online world meet. Perfect for the social media generation and our obsession with online 'stars' • Publishing into eBook first on the Twenty7 debut list • Amy is a successful and well-connected South African book blogger

Description Surely we all lie a little bit online...don't we?

Have you ever reached the New Year and thought it's time to reinvent yourself? Have you ever lied about who you are to get more likes? Have you ever followed someone online who you think is perfect?

Meet Holly.

Social media sensation. The face of clean eating.

Everyone loves her. Everyone wants to be her.

But when Holly is attacked by a man she's only just met, her life starts to spiral out of control. He seemed to know her - but she doesn't know him.

What if Holly isn't who she seems to be? What if Holly's living a lie? Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781785768002 You think you know her... Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages About the Author Bic1: Thriller / suspense Amy Heydenrych is a writer and book blogger based in South Africa. She has been shortlisted twice for the acclaimed Bic2: Crime & mystery Miles Morland African Writing Scholarship. Her short stories and poems have published in multiple anthologies including Illustrations: Brittle Paper, The Kalahari Review and the Short Sharp Stories anthologies. When she is not writing her own fiction, she Previous Titles: Author now living: ghost-writes books and columns for global tech and financial companies. She is currently working on her second novel.

Twenty7 SEPTEMBER 2018 Washington Black Esi Edugyan

A dazzling new novel of slavery and freedom by the author of the Man Booker ond Orange Prize shortlisted Half Blood Blues.

Sales points • A boy rises from the ashes of slavery to become a free man of the world • A story of friendship and betrayal, love and redemption, of a world destroyed and made whole again - and asks the question, What is true freedom? • Half Blood Blues won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the Governor-General's Literary Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Prize, and the Orange Prize • For readers of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railway and Francis Spufford's Golden Hill • The story was inspired by the case of an English aristocrat Sir Roger Tichborne, presumed last at sea, and a man who, more than a decade later, appeared from Australia claiming to be the missing heir. The civil and criminal trials which followed held the record as the longest court case in British legal history until quite recently!

Description When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, nervousness and fear run high. Washington Black - an eleven year-old field slave who has known no other life - is aghast to find himself selected as personal servant to one of these men. His new master is the eccentric Christopher Wilde - naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor and abolitionist - whose single-minded pursuit of the perfect aerial machine mystifies all around him. Through Wilde, Washington is initiated into a world of wonder: a world where the night sea viewed from a hilltop shivers with light; where a simple cloth canopy can propel a man across the sky; where even a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity and meaning.

Then, on a disastrous voyage of escape, Wilde disappears. Washington is forced to make his way back to the civilized world alone. One day, however, a man appears in the doorway of his new life, making claims of the past. Is this truly the long-lost Wilde? If so, what are the real motives for his return? And is it possible that his resurrection will destroy Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 everything? ISBN: 9781781258972 Format: Paperback - Demy format Based on an infamous 19th century criminal case, Washington Black tells the story of a world destroyed and made whole Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 432 pages again, where certainty seems unattainable, and men must remain strangers even to themselves. Bic1: Historical fiction Bic2: Historical fiction About the Author Illustrations: Esi Edugyan's Half Blood Blues won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the Governor- Previous Titles: Author now living: General's Literary Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Prize, and the Orange Prize. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

Serpents Tail SEPTEMBER 2018 Washington Black 8 copy pack

Includes 8 copies of Washington Black plus free reading copy.

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Profile Trade SEPTEMBER 2018 Half Blood Blues Esi Edugyan

Repackaged edition of Man Booker and Orange Prize shortlisted novel, to tie in with publication of Washington Black.

Sales points • A brilliant novel of pre-WW2 Berlin, bringing a new angle to a well-known moment in history • Shortlisted for the following awards: the Man Booker Prize 2011, the Orange Prize 2012, the Walter Scott Prize 2012, Writers' Trust Award in Canada and the Governor General's Literary Award • Winner of the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf prize • 'Shines with knowledge, emotional insight, and historical revisionism, yet it never becomes overburdened by its research. The novel is truly extraordinary in its evocation of time and places, its shimmering jazz vernacular, its pitch- perfect male banter and its period slang.' - Canberra Times

Description Chip told us not to go out. Said, don't you boys tempt the devil. But it been one brawl of a night, I tell you.

The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymous Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, was arrested in a cafe and never heard from again. He was twenty years old. He was a German citizen. And he was black.

Fifty years later, Sid, Hiero's bandmate and the only witness that day, is going back to Berlin. Persuaded by his old friend Chip, Sid discovers there's more to the journey than he thought when Chip shares a mysterious letter, bringing to the surface secrets buried since Hiero's fate was settled.

In Half Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan weaves the horror of betrayal, the burden of loyalty and the possibility that, if you don't tell your story, someone else might tell it for you. And they just might tell it wrong ...

About the Author Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 Esi Edugyan is author of the novels The Second Life of Samuel Tyne and Half Blood Blues, which won the Scotiabank ISBN: 9781788161770 Giller Prize, was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the Governor-General's Literary Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Format: Paperback - B format Prize, and the Orange Prize. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia. Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Serpents Tail SEPTEMBER 2018 Hits and Misses Simon Rich

A sharp new collection from the hilarious writer who draws comparisons to Douglas Adams, James Thurber and P.G. Wodehouse.

Sales points • Inspired by Simon Rich's Hollywood career, here are agents who can't meet their client's eyes, studio execs who don't know what they want and writers who fear they'll never work again ... • Miracle Workers, Simon's biggest TV project to date, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Steve Buscemi, and based on his book What In God's Name will be released later in 2018 • Fans include Caitlin Moran, Lauren Laverne and Peter Serafinowicz

Description From a bitter tell-all by a horse who made a man famous and then got left behind to a gushing magazine profile of one of your favorite World War II dictators, these stories trawl through history to skewer our obsession with fame and fortune - all the way from ancient Babylon to Hollywood. What father-to-be wouldn't feel a little jealous when his baby outstrips his success from the womb? And what happens when a film critic is forced to live in the movies he so cruelly damned?

Loved in the UK by celebs and writers alike, from Lauren Laverne to Matt Haig and Caitlin Moran, Simon Rich is back with his funniest and most personal collection of stories to date.

About the Author Simon Rich has written for Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons, and he worked on Inside Out for Pixar. He is the creator and showrunner of TV series Man Seeking Woman (based on The Last Girlfriend on Earth) and the forthcoming Miracle Workers, starring Steve Buscemi and Daniel Radcliffe, which is based on his novel What In God's Name. His other collections include Spoiled Brats and The World of Simon Rich. He is a contributor to The New Yorker and BBC Radio 4.

Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9781781259054 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Serpents Tail SEPTEMBER 2018 Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke

Winner 2018 Edgar for Best Novel. A powerful novel about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox TV/Channel 4 show Empire.

Sales points • Early release: Available late June • The recent 2018 Edgar announcement provides an exciting breakthrough moment for Attica Locke • 'In Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke had both mastered the thriller and exceeded it. Ranger Darren Mathews is tough, honor-bound, and profoundly alive in corrupt world. I loved everything about this book.' Ann Patchett

Description When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules - a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger working the backwoods towns of Highway 59, knows all too well. Deeply conflicted about his home state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him back.

So when allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders - a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman - have stirred up a hornet's nest of resentment. Darren must solve the crimes - and save himself in the process - before Lark's long-simmering racial fault lines erupt.

'In Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke had both mastered the thriller and exceeded it. Ranger Darren Mathews is tough, honor-bound, and profoundly alive in corrupt world. I loved everything about this book.' Ann Patchett

'Locke's writing is both sharp-edged and lyrical. This is thoughtful, piercing storytelling with the power to transport.' Diana Evans, Financial Times

About the Author Attica Locke is the author of Pleasantville, which won the 2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was short-listed for Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction; Black Water Rising, which was nominated for an Edgar Award; and The Cutting ISBN: 9781781257685 Season, a national bestseller and winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Attica is also a screenwriter Format: Paperback - B format and has written for Paramount, Warner Bros, Twentieth Century Fox and Dreamworks. Most recently, she was a writer Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages and producer on Empire. She lives in Los Angeles. Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Crime & mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Serpents Tail SEPTEMBER 2018 The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa, translated by Margaret Jull Costa

The definitive edition of the much-loved classic.

Sales points • Serpent's Tail Classic edition • First published in 1982 • Featuring a new introduction by the translator, an index of first lines and facsimiles of original manuscript and typescript pages from Pessoa's archive • Margaret Jull Costa's translation, available only from Serpent's Tail, is widely regarded as the best version of Pessoa's masterpiece • Acclaimed by writers including Phillip Pullman, William Boyd and Anthony Burgess

Description The Book of Disquiet is one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. Written over the course of Fernando Pessoa's life, it was first published in 1982, pieced together from the thousands of individual manuscript pages left behind by Pessoa after his death in 1935.

Now this fragmentary modernist masterpiece appears in a major new edition that unites Margaret Jull Costa's celebrated translation with the most complete version of the text ever produced. It is presented here, for the first time in English, by order of original composition, and accompanied by facsimiles of the original manuscript.

Narrated principally by an assistant bookkeeper named Bernardo Soares - an alias of sorts for Pessoa himself - The Book of Disquiet is 'the autobiobraphy of someone who never existed', a mosaic of dreams, of hope and despair; a hymn to the streets and cafes of 1930s Lisbon, and an extraordinary record of the inner life of one of the century's most important writers. This new edition represents the most complete vision of Pessoa's genius.

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Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 Fernando Pessoa was born in Lisbon in 1888. He grew up in Durban, South Africa, where his stepfather was Portuguese ISBN: 9781781258644 consul. He returned to Lisbon in 1905 and worked as a clerk in an import-export company until his death in 1935. Most of Format: Paperback - B format Pessoa's writing was not published during his lifetime; The Book of Disquiet first came out in Portugal in 1982. Since its Dimensions: 198x129mm first publication, it has been hailed as a classic. The new edition was edited by Jeronimo Pizarro and translated by Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Margaret Jull Costa. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Serpents Tail SEPTEMBER 2018 The Future Won't Be Long Jarett Kobek

A euphoric coming-of-age story about friendship in 80s and 90s New York.

Sales points • New in paperback with vibrant hot pink cover • Following on from I Hate the Internet, a riotous satire of 2013 San Francisco, Jarett Kobek has written the great novel of late 80s and early 90s New York - the city of Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, of the AIDS crisis, of Michael Alig and the Club Kids • The Future Won't Be Long takes the story of I Hate the Internet's main characters Baby and Adeline back to their youth • A magnetic piece of storytelling with two incredibly charismatic lead characters from a writer with his finger on the pulse of modern America

Description It's the tail-end of 1986 and Baby is the freshest-faced, starriest-eyed young homo in all of New York City, straight off the bus from closeted backwoods Wisconsin. Adeline is his rich-art-school-kid saviour with a bizarre transatlantic drawl and a spare bed.

The Future Won't Be Long follows Baby and Adeline as they cling to each other for dear life through a decade of mad, bad New York life punctuated by the deaths of Warhol, Basquiat and Wojnarowicz and the forcible gentrification of the East Village. While Adeline develops into the artist she never really expected to become, Baby falls into a twilight zone of clubbing, ketamine and late-capitalistic sexual excess. As he struggles to find his way out again, Baby will test the strength of a friendship that had seemed unbreakable.

Riotously funny, provocative but tender, The Future Won't Be Long is a sprawling, ecstatic elegy to New York, and to the friendships that have the power to change - and save - our lives.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 'A punky, heartbreaking and hilarious epic on America going nowhere, going crazy, going bad. It's brilliant' Dorthe Nors, ISBN: 9781781258569 author of Mirror, Shoulder, Signal Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm About the Author Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Jarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer living in California. He is the author of ATTA, published by Semiotext(e), and I Bic2: Hate the Internet, published by Serpent's Tail. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Serpents Tail SEPTEMBER 2018 I Hate the Internet Jarett Kobek

A savage indictment of the intolerable bullshit of unregulated capitalism and an uproarious, hilarious but above all furious satire of our Internet Age.

Sales points • Reissued alongside paperback publication of The Future Won't Be Long • Jarett Kobek tackles the pressing questions of our moment: • Why do we applaud the enrichment of CEOs at the expense of the weak and the powerless? • Why are we giving away our intellectual property? • Why is activism in the 21st Century nothing more than a series of morality lectures typed into devices built by slaves? • A cult novel in the US • 'A grainy political and cultural rant, a sustained shriek about power and morality in a new global era. It's a glimpse at a lively mind at full boil... [An] entertaining novel of ideas ... This book has soul as well as nerve.' - The New York Times

Description In New York in the middle of the twentieth century, comic book companies figured out how to make millions from comics without paying their creators anything. In San Francisco at the start of the twenty-first century, tech companies figured out how to make millions from online abuse without paying its creators anything.

In the 1990s, Adeline drew a successful comic book series that ended up making her kind-of famous. In 2013, Adeline aired some unfashionable opinions that made their way onto the Internet. The reaction of the Internet, being a tool for making millions in advertising revenue from online abuse, was predictable. The reaction of the Internet, being part of a culture that hates women, was to send Adeline messages like 'Drp slut ... hope u get gang rape.'

Set in a San Francisco hollowed out by tech money, greed and rampant gentrification, I Hate the Internet is a savage indictment of the intolerable bullshit of unregulated capitalism and an uproarious, hilarious but above all furious satire of Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 our Internet Age. ISBN: 9781781257623 Format: Paperback - B format About the Author Dimensions: 200x130mm Extent: 288 pages Jarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer living in California. His novella ATTA was called 'highly interesting,' by the Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Times Literary Supplement, has appeared in Spanish translation, been the subject of much academic writing and was a Bic2: recent and unexplained bestseller in parts of Canada. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Serpents Tail SEPTEMBER 2018 Go, Went, Gone Jenny Erpenbeck

Now in paperback, the unforgettable German bestseller about the European refugee crisis.

Sales points • A scathing indictment of Western policy toward the European refugee crisis, but also a touching portrait of a man who finds he has more in common with the refugees than he realises • Addresses one of the most pivotal issues of our time, facing it head-on in a voice that is both nostalgic and frightening • Longlisted for the 2018 International Man Booker Prize • 'The best novel to date about the migration refugee crisis ... both urgent and tender, taking on depicting Europe on the brink of its next profound change - as seen through the eyes of a professor from Berlin's former East, a man who knows something of what it means to lose one's place in the world.'- Vogue • 'Wonderful, elegant, and exhilarating, ferocious as well as virtuosic.' - The New York Review of Books • 'Both a gripping story about the life of the modern migrant and a meditation on how we all find meaning in life.' - The Guardian

Description One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue

Richard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas, but now he is retired, his books remain in their packing boxes and he steps into the streets of his city, Berlin. Here, on Alexanderplatz, he discovers a new community -- a tent city, established by African asylum seekers. Hesitantly, getting to know the new arrivals, Richard finds his life changing, as he begins to question his own sense of belonging in a city that once divided its citizens into them and us.

At once a passionate contribution to the debate on race, privilege and nationality and a beautifully written examination of an ageing man's quest to find meaning in his life, Go, Went, Gone showcases one of the great contemporary European writers at the height of her powers.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781846276224 About the Author Format: Paperback - B format Jenny Erpenbeck is the author of The Old Child & The Book of Words (2008), Visitation (2010) and The End of Days Dimensions: 198x129mm (2014, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize), and Go, Went, Gone (2017), all published by Portobello. Her Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Fiction in translation fiction is published in fourteen languages. Bic2: Illustrations: Susan Bernofsky has translated works by Robert Walser, Hermann Hesse, Gregor von Rezzori, Yoko Tawada, Ludwig Previous Titles: Author now living: Harig and Franz Kafka. She is the author of Foreign Words: Translator-Authors in the Age of Goethe and is currently at work on a biography of Robert Walser. Her translation of The Old Child and Other Stories was awarded the 2006 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize.

Portobello PBS SEPTEMBER 2018 Visitation Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Susan Bernofsky

A haunting novel from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: an exquisitely crafted, stealthily chilling story of a house and its inhabitants, and a country and its ghosts.

Sales points • New cover edition • A story both beautiful and brutal, about the things that haunt a home

Description By the side of a lake in Brandenburg, a young architect builds the house of his dreams - a summerhouse with wrought- iron balconies, stained-glass windows the colour of jewels, and a bedroom with a hidden closet, all set within a beautiful garden. But the land on which he builds has a dark history of violence that began with the drowning of a young woman in the grip of madness and that grows darker still over the course of the century: the Jewish neighbours disappear one by one; the Red Army requisitions the house, burning the furniture and trampling the garden; a young East German attempts to swim his way to freedom in the West; a couple return from brutal exile in Siberia and leave the house to their granddaughter, who is forced to relinquish her claim upon it and sell to new owners intent upon demolition.

Reaching far into the past, and recovering what was lost and what was buried, Jenny Erpenbeck tells a story both beautiful and brutal, about the things that haunt a home.

About the Author Jenny Erpenbeck is the author of The Old Child & The Book of Words (2008), Visitation (2010) and The End of Days (2014, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize), and Go, Went, Gone (2017), all published by Portobello. Her fiction is published in fourteen languages.

Susan Bernofsky has translated works by Robert Walser, Hermann Hesse, Gregor von Rezzori, Yoko Tawada, Ludwig Harig and Franz Kafka. She is the author of Foreign Words: Translator-Authors in the Age of Goethe and is currently at Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 work on a biography of Robert Walser. Her translation of The Old Child and Other Stories was awarded the 2006 Helen ISBN: 9781846276743 and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Portobello PBS SEPTEMBER 2018 Lion's Honey David Grossman, translated by Stuart Schoffman

A daring retelling of the story of Samson, from the author of the Man Booker International Prize-winning A Horse Walks Into a Bar.

Sales points • David Grossman is one of the leading Israeli writers of his generation, with his work translated into more than thirty languages around the world • The Canons are books without boundaries. Some are classics already, the rest will be soon • First published as part of Canongate's groundbreaking Myths series - bold retellings of legendary tales, by the world's greatest contemporary writers

Description In exhilarating and lucid prose, Grossman gives us a provocative new take on the story of Samson: his battle with the lion, the three hundred burning foxes, the women he bedded, the one he loved and who betrayed him and the destruction of the temple. It reveals the journey of a lonely and tortured soul, whose search for a true home echoes our own private struggles.

About the Author David Grossman is the author of nine internationally acclaimed novels and a number of children's books. Grossman has been presented with numerous awards including the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France), and he won the International Man Booker Prize with A Horse Walks into a Bar. He lives with his wife and children in a suburb of Jerusalem.

Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781786893383 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Historical fiction Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate PBS SEPTEMBER 2018 Rocky Road Robert Wainwright

The marvellously strange but true story of the family behind the famous Darrell Lea confectionery company.

Sales points • Sheila has sold over 24,000 copies across all formats • Explores the fascinating history behind one of Australia's biggest brands • Robert has had access to a great deal of material from the family, including Valerie's diaries • Colour photo inserts • CATEGORY: Biography

Description 'The answer to our success was family.'

In 1935, the Australian family confectionery company, Darrell Lea, was a sensation. Delicious chocolates, marshmallows, nougat and much more were displayed colourfully and plentifully in line with the family's motto, 'Stack 'em high, watch 'em fly'.

It was at this time that Montague Lea met the vivacious and confident Valerie Everitt. Although still a young woman, Valerie knew exactly what she wanted from life. Monty fell hard for her and, despite strong family opposition on both sides, they later married.

Valerie was keen to have a family and, despite difficult pregnancies, Val gave birth to four children. But these children seemed neither to satisfy her desire for a large family nor her notions of child rearing. In 1947 she adopted the first of three more children who were designated to be playmates for her own.

Rocky Road is the story of this chocaholic family and the woman who dominated. Behind the irresistible sweetness of Darrell Lea Chocolates lay a family who made bitter sacrifices to succeed at the candy business.

Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 ISBN: 9781760291556 Format: Paperback - C format About the Author Dimensions: 234x153mm Robert Wainwright has been a journalist for 25 years, rising from the grassroots of country journalism in Western Australia Extent: 328 pages Bic1: Biography: business & industry to a senior writer with the The Sydney Morning Herald. His career has ranged from politics to crime, always focussing on Bic2: Food & society the people behind the major news of the day. He is the author of Rose: The unauthorised biography of Rose Hancock Illustrations: Porteous (2002), The Lost Boy (2004), The Killing of Caroline Byrne (2009), the bestselling Sheila (2014), Maverick Previous Titles: Author now living: Mountaineer (2015) and Miss Muriel Matters (2017).

Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2018 Rocky Road 12 copy pack

Includes 12 copies of Rocky Road plus free reading copy.

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2018 Sex, Drugs and the Electoral Roll Fiona Patten

The incredible story of Fiona Patten, in her own inimitable words. Tireless fighter, courageous activist and effective politician who really is making a difference to her world.

Sales points • Fiona is a fascinating woman with an incredible story to tell • More than ever Fiona is making headlines as a Victorian crossbencher • The Sex Party (now known as the Reason Party) was always in the headlines and a firm media favourite • Great endorsements from admirers and fellow campaigners like Philip Adams and Andrew Denton. • CATEGORY: Biography

Description Sex worker, fashion designer, anti-censorship activist, fierce campaigner, political lobbyist and Member of Parliament - Fiona Patten's journey to the top has been nothing if eventful!

Beginning as an AIDS educator with ACT sex worker advocacy group, WISE, she also held positions on the Board of the AIDS Action Council, as an AFAO (Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations) Committee Member and as the CEO of Australia's national adult goods and services lobby group, the Eros Association. Frustrated and deeply disappointed with the lack of social change in censorship, drug law reform, euthanasia and same-sex marriage, she set up and registered the Australian Sex Party in 2009.

The Sex Party led with a strong focus on civil libertarian and personal freedom issues, with Fiona being the first Leader of a political party to call for a Royal Commission into child sex abuse in religious institutions. Fiona contested the 2014 Victorian State Election and won her upper house seat representing the Northern Metropolitan Region. As one of three crossbenchers, she currently holds the balance of power in Legislative Council.

Since her election, Fiona has successfully instigated landmark parliamentary inquiries and legislation, including Australia's Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 largest public inquiry into drug law reform. In August 2017, the Australian Sex Party was dissolved to make way for ISBN: 9781925575132 REASON, a movement of radical common sense. Her story will amaze and inspire you. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 300 pages About the Author Bic1: Biography: historical, political & military Fiona Patten is a former sex worker and the founder and leader of REASON (formerly The Australian Sex Party) and a Bic2: Social issues & processes Member of the Victorian Legislative Council for the Northern Metropolitan region. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2018 Sex, Drugs and the Electoral Roll 8 copy pack

Includes 8 copies of Sex, Drugs and the Electoral Roll plus poster.

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2018 The Lost Battalions Tom Gilling

A little known story of two Australian battalions abandoned in Java during World War II and the heroes who kept them alive in the worst of Japan's prisoner of war camps.

Sales points • Beautifully written and carefully researched • A little known story that will have a significant impact on our general understanding of Australia's World War II history • Author has undertaken extensive interviews with the few remaining survivors and used their diaries, letters and war crimes testimonies • Survivors still living will be available for media • CATEGORY: Australian & Pacific history

Description This is a story of forgotten Australian heroes, the soldiers of two battalions - the 2/3 Machine-Gun battalion and the 2/2 Pioneer battalion - who were on their way home from action in the Middle East to defend Australia from the Japanese when they found themselves diverted to Java to face the vastly superior Japanese army sweeping through the Dutch East Indies.

Condemned, for political reasons, by Churchill and the Allied leadership - and by the Australian prime minister, Curtin - to a hopeless battle alongside Dutch forces bent on capitulation, the outnumbered Australians fought heroically before being ordered by the Allied high command to join the Dutch surrender.

While their compatriots from the Middle East campaign reached Australia, the men of the 2/3rd and the 2/2nd were marched into captivity and to three and half years of hell as prisoners of the Japanese. For nearly a year, their families in Australia did not know whether their missing fathers and sons were dead or alive.

Scraps of information began to trickle out, via radio broadcasts and the Red Cross, about the fate of the prisoners, many Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 of whom ended up on the infamous Thai-Burma railway while others endured atrocious conditions as prisoners in Taiwan, ISBN: 9781760632342 Korea and Japan. Several hundred never returned. The full horror of what the men endured only came to light after the Format: Paperback - C format wasted survivors were brought home at the end of the war. Some of these men would be key witnesses in war crimes trial Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages against the Japanese. Bic1: Australasian & Pacific history Bic2: Prisoners of war About the Author Illustrations: Tom Gilling is an acclaimed novelist, with a vast array of non-fiction to his credit. For Allen & Unwin he is the co-writer of Previous Titles: Author now living: Artarmon, NSW all of Clive Small's books and the author of Colin Dillon's Code of Silence and Griffith Wars.

Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2018 Unbreakable Threads Emma Adams

The remarkable true story of an Australian mother's fight to free an unaccompanied Hazara boy from detention, and include him in her family.

Sales points • Huge media potential - this story has been a big secret and is being told for the first time in this book • The book contains many important revelations about the treatment of children in detention and the extremely nebulous process of fostering unaccompanied minors • Emma and Abdul will be available for extensive high profile media interviews • Endorsements to come from Jackie French, Julian Burnside and Gillian Triggs • Category: Memoir

Description Back in 2014, child/neo-natal psychiatrist Emma Adams travelled to Darwin and then on to Blaydin Detention Centre as a representative of ChilOut (Children Out of Immigration Detention). The trip was confronting for obvious and not so obvious reasons, and Emma and her colleague both left feeling extremely distressed. She returned to her Canberra family - her doctor husband Rob and her three sons - and became consumed by the idea that she must help one of the boys she met at Blaydin. So followed eighteen months of lobbying on the part of Emma and her husband to bring Abdul, an Afghanistani Hazara boy aged around fifteen, to come and live with them as part of their family. Emma is an indigenous Australian and Rob is the child of Hungarian refugees.

Three years later, Abdul is one of Emma's boys. He is doing his HSC, just like one of Emma's other sons, but the decision he makes about future study will revolve around what will give him the best chance of winning a coveted temporary protection visa. Emma is one of only a handful of Australians, including Julian Burnside, who managed to foster a child from one of the detention centres.

About the Author Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 Dr Emma Adams is a psychiatrist who specialises in perinatal and infant psychiatry and had this interest area of 15 years. ISBN: 9781760633103 In addition to her private practice, Dr Adams works for Canberra's local community controlled Aboriginal health service Format: Paperback - C format and has an appointment as a visiting specialist to the central Australia remote mental health team. Dr Adams sees mental Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 336 pages health as something broader than diagnoses and medication (although very important!). She focuses on on a biological, Bic1: Memoirs social, psychological, cultural and environmental influences on social and emotional wellbeing. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2018 After the First Six Weeks Midwife Cath

The essential guide to caring for your baby in the first 12 months, from routines to major milestones and everything in between.

Sales points • Cath is becoming a well-known expert in the childcare field. Since the publication of first title, The First Six Weeks, she has appeared on a number of Mamamia parenting podcasts • Cath is happy to use her celebrity mum connections to promote the book. Last time we saw a lift each time Bec Judd promoted the book for her • This book will catch both the expectant Mum and New Mum market as it is a wider topic than The First Six Weeks • Includes sought after how-to illustrations of Cath's infamous 'baby wrap' • CATEGORY: Parenting

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Midwife Cath has delivered more than 10,000 babies over the last 40 years, but her care of mothers and babies doesn't end when they leave the hospital. She strongly believes that all families need ongoing support, particularly in their first crucial year of parenting.

After the First Six Weeks is a follow-up to Midwife Cath's bestselling book The First Six Weeks. Week six is a major milestone for both babies and parents, and this comprehensive guidebook will provide a roadmap to 'what's next'-starting at six weeks and taking you through to the end of the first 12 months.

Midwife Cath covers all the joys and challenges of your child's first year at home, focusing on such issues as breast and bottle feeding; the introduction of solids; sleep; growth and development; the importance of play; safety; and her Bath Bottle Bed (BBB) routine and how it evolves over these 12 months. Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781760632113 Midwife Cath's invaluable experience and wisdom will help you establish routines that will ensure a healthier, happier Format: Paperback - C format baby and better-rested, more confident parents. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Advice on parenting About the Author Bic2: Cathryn Curtin, known as 'Midwife Cath' has delivered over 10,000 babies throughout her 40 year career. Cath was Illustrations: instrumental in the 1980's in setting up Birth Centres within Melbourne in order to promote active hospital birth within a Previous Titles: Author now living: South Yarra, VIC home like environment, as an alternative to traditional hospital labour wards. She now presents a series of talks all around Australia helping parents solve their parenting issues.

Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2018 The First Six Weeks Midwife Cath

Everything you need to know about caring for your new baby, from feeding to sleeping and everything in between - every parent's new best friend.

Sales points • A fresh take on early child care, delivered as an easily digestible plan • Midwife Cath (as she is widely known) has delivered over 10,000 babies in her 40 year career • Designed to help parents set the best foundations for sleeping and eating • Concentrates on the first, often tough, six weeks - the crucial weeks for setting up good, lifelong habits • Foreword by Rebecca Judd, who can personally vouch for Midwife Cath's common sense approach • Midwife Cath regularly tours the country running 'master classes' for expectant mums • CATEGORY: Parenting

Description 'Cath Curtin is the newborn baby guru! A calming voice, a gentle hand and a wealth of knowledge during one of the most incredible but terrifying times of your life - new parenthood. To have Cath's support after the birth of my first son was invaluable and I don't know how I would have done it without her!' Rebecca Judd

Cathryn Curtin has delivered more than 10,000 babies over the last 40 years, so she understands how the first six weeks of a baby's life are vital for establishing habits that help create a healthy, happy routine for your baby and a loving lifelong bond between you and your child.

In this practical and easy-to-use guide, Midwife Cath covers all aspects of a newborn's first weeks, from caring for your baby to coping with the sudden emotional and physical changes of new parenthood. By following her brilliant bath, bottle and bed routine, you'll enjoy a deep sleep for up to five hours in these demanding early weeks while your partner has some precious one-on-one time with your child.

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 These first weeks of a baby's life can be a challenge for any new parent. Midwife Cath's invaluable experience and ISBN: 9781743439968 wisdom will guide you through them as well as help you establish a routine that will ensure a healthier, happier baby and Format: Paperback - C format better-rested and more confident parents. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Advice on parenting About the Author Bic2: Advice on parenting Cathryn Curtin, known as 'Midwife Cath' has delivered over 10,000 babies throughout her 40 year career. Cath was Illustrations: instrumental in the 1980's in setting up Birth Centres within Melbourne in order to promote active hospital birth within a Previous Titles: Author now living: South Yarra, VIC home like environment, as an alternative to traditional hospital labour wards. She now presents a series of talks all around Australia helping parents solve their parenting issues.

Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2018 Tree David Suzuki and Wayne Grady with foreword by Peter Wohlleben

A new edition of a contemporary natural history classic, with a new foreword by Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees.

Sales points • David Suzuki remains one of the best-loved writers on all things environment • Gorgeous unjacketed hardback matches the beautifully written narrative - a perfect gift • For readers who enjoyed Peter Wohlleben The Hidden Life of Trees, and David George Haskell Songs of Trees • • A new edition of a contemporary classic from 2005, updated to reflect the effects of climate change on forests • CATEGORY: Popular science/Gift

Description 'A story that fills us with wonder: the tree keeps its soul and steals our hearts' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees

All across the planet, trees literally hold the world together. This is the awe-inspiring biography of a single tree, from the moment the seed is released from its cone until, more than five hundred years later, it lies on the forest floor as a nurse log, giving life to ferns, mosses, and hemlocks, even as its own life is ending.

David Suzuki and Wayne Grady describe in lyrical detail the dramatic origins of a Douglas fir, which begins its life with a burst of millions of microscopic grains of pollen. They uncover its amazing resilience, and also its vulnerability across its long life in the forest. The tree's pivotal role in making life possible for the creatures around it - including human beings - is lovingly explored.

'Read Tree. It will fill you with wonder, magic and awe.'

Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 Globe and Mail ISBN: 9781760523770 Format: Hard Cover 'From the tiny seed of a single Douglas-fir, David Suzuki and Wayne Grady have grown a wonderful book, learned but Dimensions: 208x138mm lovely, thorough but terse. It's as big as all life.' Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Popular science David Quammen, author of The Tangled Tree Bic2: Trees, wildflowers & plants Illustrations: About the Author Previous Titles: Author now living: Vancouver, Canada Vancouver, British David Suzuki is an internationally renowned geneticist and environmentalist and a recipient of UNESCO's Kalinga Prize Columbia. for the Popularization of Science and the 2009 Right Livelihood Award. He is the author of many bestselling books. Wayne Grady is one of Canada's finest science writers, and a Governor General's Award-winning translator.

Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2018 Fight Like A Girl Clementine Ford

Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our most outspoken feminist writers.

Sales points • Part Caitlin Moran, part Roxane Gay, all social media sensation, Clem has more than 180,000 Facebook fans, more than 120,000 Twitter followers and over 38,000 on Instagram • First edition of Fight Like a Girl has sold over 50,000 copies and generated huge responses online • A mixture of memoir, opinion and investigative journalism • Uses a variety of sources including first personal narrative, media clippings and the words of young women themselves • Includes a new chapter on the #MeToo movement • CATEGORY: Current affairs

Description 'With wit, insight and glorious, righteous rage, Clementine Ford lays out all the ways in which girls and women are hurt and held back, and unapologetically demands that the world do better. A passionate and urgently needed call to arms, Fight Like A Girl insists on our right to be angry, to be heard and to fight. It'll change lives.' Emily Maguire, author of An Isolated Incident

A friend recently told me that the things I write are powerful for her because they have the effect of making her feel angry instead of just empty. I want to do this for all women and young girls - to take the emptiness and numbness they feel about being a girl in this world and turn it into rage and power. I want to teach all of them how to FIGHT LIKE A GIRL. Clementine Ford

Online sensation, fearless feminist heroine and scourge of trolls and misogynists everywhere, Clementine Ford is a beacon of hope and inspiration to thousands of Australian women and girls. Her incendiary debut Fight Like A Girl is an Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 essential manifesto for feminists new, old and soon-to-be, and exposes just how unequal the world continues to be for ISBN: 9781760633400 women. Crucially, it is a call to arms for all women to rediscover the fury that has been suppressed by a society that still Format: Paperback - B format considers feminism a threat. Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 312 pages Bic1: Gender studies, gender groups Fight Like A Girl will make you laugh, cry and scream. But above all it will make you demand and fight for a world in which Bic2: Feminism & feminist theory women have real equality and not merely the illusion of it. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Coburg, VIC About the Author Clementine Ford is a freelance writer, broadcaster and public speaker based in Melbourne.

Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2018 Danger Music Eddie Ayres

From the former ABC Classic FM broadcaster comes a remarkable story about the power of music and courage to be one's self

Sales points • 'Captivating, moving and relevant...this book is one of the best memoirs I've ever read.' The Bibliophile's Bookshelf • 'I loved this book.' Readings.com.au • First edition of Danger Music sold over 6,000 copies in print and ebook • Shortlisted for Biography of the Year at the 2018 ABIA awards • Seasoned performer in front of camera and microphone • Eddie is talented, thoughtful and dedicated and all of this is evoked in the book • Allows the reader an amazing insight into life in a war zone • A remarkable story about the power of music woven through with his personal story of transitioning • CATEGORY: Memoir

Description 'I was deeply moved by this book' Good Reading

'Eddie Ayres writes with forthrightness and compassion in this timely, powerfully-told tale.' The Age

Eddie Ayres has a lifetime of musical experience - from learning the viola as a child in England and playing with the Hong Kong Philharmonic for many years, to learning the cello in his thirties and landing in Australia to present an extremely successful ABC Classic FM morning radio show. But all of this time Eddie was Emma Ayres.

In 2014 Emma was spiralling into a deep depression, driven by anguish about her gender. She quit the radio, travelled, and decided on a surprising path to salvation - teaching music in a war zone. Emma applied for a position at Dr Sarmast's renowned Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul, teaching cello to orphans and street kids. Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781760528836 In Danger Music, Eddie takes us through the bombs and chaos of Kabul, into the lives of the Afghan children who are Format: Paperback - B format transported by Bach, Abba, Beethoven and their own exhilarating Afghan music. Alongside these epic experiences, Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 304 pages Emma determines to take the final steps to secure her own peace; she becomes the man always there inside - Eddie. Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Music About the Author Illustrations: Eddie Ayres learnt the viola as a child in England, studying in Berlin and London before playing the viola for eight years Previous Titles: Author now living: Author lives in Bulimba, Queensland with the Hong Kong Philharmonic. As Emma Ayres, she moved from Hong Kong to Australia to present a long-running and extremely popular radio program on ABC Classic FM, while teaching music privately and professionally.

When Emma hung up her headphones at the end of 2014, there was a public outpouring of emotion. This tattooed, Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2018 Best Australian Racing Stories Jim Haynes

The finest collection of writing about horse racing includes short stories, verse and anecdotes from some of Australia's best-loved writers.

Sales points • Author seasoned media performer and great story teller • First edition (2005) netted over 8000 copies • Published to coincide with Spring Racing Carnival • Includes works by Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson, Les Carlyon • CATEGORy: Australiana

Description Did you know that Jorrocks raced till the grand old age of 19? Or that Melbourne Cup - winner Grand Flaneur never lost a race? Or that Sunline was the top stakes-winning mare in the world in her day?

The Best Australian Racing Stories is chock-a-block with the victories and tragedies of these amazing champions and many more. Insiders reveal fascinating stories of the rags-to-riches lives of Tony Santic, Bart Cummings and T.J. Smith. Some of Australia's finest writers, such as Banjo Paterson, C.J. Dennis and Les Carlyon, tell tall tales and true of the racing life from Australia's earliest colonial times to the present day. Nat Gould, Jim Haynes, Bruce Montgomerie, Crackers Keenan and many others share moving memories, engaging yarns and laughs galore, ensuring that the coat- tuggers, touts and urgers are never far from view and that the great characters of the track live on.

Whether you are a racing tragic, a lover of horses or a two-bob, once-a-year punter, you will love this horseracing celebration that ripples with all the laughter, romance, heartbreak and humanity of the sport of kings.

About the Author Before becoming a professional entertainer, songwriter, verse writer and singer in 1988, Jim Haynes taught writing, Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 literature, history and drama in schools and universities from outback NSW to Britain and back again! The son of British ISBN: 9781760633318 migrants, Jim attended Sydney Boys' High School and Sydney Teachers' College. While teaching in schools and Format: Paperback - B format universities in NSW and Britain he gained two masters' degrees in literature, from New England University and the Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 368 pages University of Wales. A professional entertainer and writer since 1988, Jim has released many albums of his own songs, Bic1: Anthologies (non-poetry) verse and humour. He has won the 'Bush Laureate Book of the Year' four times and has had many songs in the Country Bic2: Music Charts, including a number one with 'Since Cheryl Went Feral' and a national hit with 'Don't Call Wagga Wagga Illustrations: Wagga'. He has won Country Comedy Song of The Year four times. Jim still tours as an entertainer, he works in radio as Previous Titles: Author now living: Kensington, NSW the resident weekend Australiana Humourist on Radio 2UE.

Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2018 Women, Equality, Power Helen Clark

A fascinating insight into Helen Clark's career, throughout which she has consistently worked for equality and parity, most particularly for women.

Sales points • Timed to coincide with 150th anniversary of Women's Suffrage in NZ • Helen will do speaking events across New Zealand - venues and dates TBC • Foreword by PM Jacinda Ardern • Introduction by Auckland University's Professor of Policy and International Relations Jennifer Curtin • Helen will be plugging the book to her 178k Twitter followers, her 99k Facebook fans and her 27k Instagram followers • There is a hunger for material like this after the #metoo movement: Young and older women alike will find this inspiring • Great resource for students and academics - special order form for schools available from beckyi@allenandunwin. com • Beautiful gift book

Description Helen Clark has been a world leader for 35 years from first entering parliament in 1982 as a 31-year-old to being Prime Minister of New Zealand for nine years, to serving as Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme for eight years.

One of her key focuses throughout this time has been the empowerment of women and she has paved the way for other women to step up and lead. With a foreword by the Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern, this is a timely and important book.

An analysis of Helen's speeches shows that while the position of women has improved over time, this change is very fragile and that we need to keep working towards equality for women in many crucial areas.

Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45 Women, Equality, Power also serves as a celebration of an outstanding leader who continues to strive and work for ISBN: 9781988547053 change. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages About the Author Bic1: Political leaders & leadership Helen Clark was Prime Minister of New Zealand for three successive terms from 1999-2008. She was the first woman to Bic2: Autobiography: historical, political & military be elected as Prime Minister in New Zealand. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: New Zealand Throughout her tenure as Prime Minister, and as a Member of Parliament over 27 years, Helen Clark engaged widely in policy development and advocacy across the international, economic, social, environmental, and cultural spheres. She advocated strongly for New Zealand's comprehensive program on sustainability and for tackling the problems of climate change. She was an active leader of her country's foreign relations, engaging in a wide range of international issues. A&U New Zealand SEPTEMBER 2018 Daughter of Gloriavale Lilia Tarawa

One young woman's true story of growing up in Gloriavale Christian Community the repressive cult led by her grandfather, the charismatic and controlling Hopeful Christian.

Sales points • The first edition in 2017 was a bestseller, selling well over 10,000 copies • Lilia is excellent media talent and continues to be asked to comment on Gloriavale issues on TV and radio • This is the first time someone from Gloriavale has written a book detailing life within this community • The three Gloriavale documentaries have been the highest-rating TV shows each year that they have screened • The founder of this cult, Neville Cooper aka Hopeful Christian, is Australian • CATEGORY: Memoir

Description In this personal account, Lilia Tarawa exposes the shocking secrets of the cult, with its rigid rules and oppressive control of women. She describes her fear when her family questioned Gloriavale's beliefs and practices.

When her parents fled with their children, Lilia was forced to make a desperate choice: to stay or to leave. No matter what she chose, she would lose people she loved.

In the outside world, Lilia struggled. Would she be damned to hell for leaving? How would she learn to navigate this strange place called 'the world'? And would she ever find out the truth about the criminal convictions against her grandfather?

'A powerful and revealing book . . .' Kirsty Wynn, New Zealand Herald

'An affecting parable and testament, in the most commendably secular senses.' David Hill, New Zealand Listener

Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781988547015 Lilia is a health and lifestyle business mentor who lives in Christchurch. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Christian & quasi-Christian cults & sects Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Christchurch, New Zealand

A&U New Zealand SEPTEMBER 2018 Breaking News Alan Rusbridger

A powerful and profound study of the news - how we read it, who controls it and why it matters - from former Guardian Editor-in-Chief Alan Rusbridger.

Sales points • Available 12 September • An urgent and agenda-setting examination of the past, present and future of the press, and the forces menacing its freedom • Perfect for readers of Andrew Marr, Will Hutton, Jeremy Paxman, Naomi Klein, Nick Davies and our own Paul Barry and David Marr • Extract and media attention guaranteed

Description We are living through the greatest communication revolution since Gutenberg. In Breaking News Alan Rusbridger offers an open, personal and agenda-setting account of how we arrived at the news world of today.

The President of the United States regularly lies to the public and accuses anyone who criticisms him of being fake. Politicians openly rubbish the views of 'so called experts', dissemble and mislead. So how do we hold those in power accountable? Fox News, Breitbart Media and the Murdoch papers peddle views not news, pushing politically-motivated agendas. So, where can we look for reliable, verifiable sources of news and information? What does it mean for democracy? And what will the future hold?

Reflecting on his twenty years as editor of the Guardian and his experience of breaking some of the most significant news stories of our time, including the Edward Snowden revelations, phone-hacking, wikileaks and the Keep in the Ground campaign, Rusbridger answers these questions and offers a stirring defence of why quality journalism matters now more than ever.

Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781786890948 Alan Rusbridger was Editor-in-Chief of Guardian News & Media from 1995 to 2015. He launched the Guardian Weekend Format: Paperback - C format magazine and the paper's G2 section as well as overseeing the integration of the paper and digital operations, building a Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 480 pages website which today attracts more than 100 million unique browsers a month. The paper's coverage of phone-hacking led Bic1: Prose: non-fiction to the Leveson Inquiry into press standards and ethics. Guardian US won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service for its Bic2: leading global coverage of the Snowden revelations. He is the author of Play It Again: An Amateur Against the Illustrations: Impossible. Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate Trade SEPTEMBER 2018 Amateur Thomas Page McBee

An exploration of modern masculinity by the first transgender man to box at Madison Square Garden.

Sales points • As a self-described 'amateur' in the male world, Thomas Page McBee does for masculinity what Rebecca Solnit, Roxane Gay and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie do for women's issues, exploring stereotypes, violence and feminist thought with nuance and verve • As someone who has experienced both female socialisation and the privileges of living as a man, Thomas Page McBee has a unique perspective on masculinity • 'Thomas Page McBee writes about manhood - in all its danger and damaged allure - more beautifully and with greater nuance than any other writer I know' - Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You • 'When this comes out I recommend you buy, beg, steal and/or borrow this. A blazingly wise and beautiful book.' - A L Kennedy

Description 'A blazingly wise and beautiful book.' - A L Kennedy

In this ground-breaking new book, Thomas Page McBee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the vexed relationship between masculinity and violence.

Through his experience of boxing - learning to get hit, and to hit back; wrestling with the camaraderie of the gym; confronting the betrayals and strength of his own body - McBee examines the weight of male violence, the pervasiveness of gender stereotypes and the limitations of conventional masculinity. A wide-ranging exploration of gender in our society, Amateur is ultimately a story of hope, as McBee traces a way forward: a new masculinity, inside the ring and out of it.

A graceful and uncompromising exploration of living, fighting and healing, in Amateur we gain insight into the stereotypes and shifting realities of masculinity today through the eyes of a new man.

Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 ISBN: 9781786890979 About the Author Format: Hard Cover Thomas Page McBee was 'masculinity expert' for Vice and the first trans man ever to box at Madison Square Garden. His Dimensions: 214x135mm essays and reportage have appeared in the New York Times, Playboy, Glamour and Salon. Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Prose: non-fiction @ThomasPageMcBee | thomaspagemcbee.com Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate Trade SEPTEMBER 2018 The Beekeeper of Sinjar Dunya Mikhail, translated by Max Weiss

Either we die here, or we escape together.

Sales points • Like The Optician of Lampedusa and The Bookseller of Kabul, this is a deeply moving story of courage in the face of unimaginable adversity • Heartbreakingly relevant to current events, The Beekeeper of Sinjar reveals the scale of ISIS's atrocities in Iraq • 'Mikhail bears witness to women in war-torn Iraq, women who have scarcely known peace throughout their lives. That she is a poet is clear on each page.' - Kirkus Reviews • 'A searing portrait of courage.' - New York Times Book Review • Dunya Mikhail worked as a journalist for the Baghdad Observer before she was forced to flee Iraq • She has been awarded the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing • Beautiful small format hardback

Description In The Beekeeper of Sinjar, the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail tells the harrowing stories of women from across Iraq who have managed to escape the clutches of ISIS. Since 2014, ISIS has been persecuting the Yazidi people, killing or enslaving those who won't convert to Islam. These women have lost their families and loved ones, along with everything they've ever known. Dunya Mikhail weaves together the women's tales of endurance and near-impossible escape with the story of her own exile and her dreams for the future of Iraq.

In the midst of ISIS's reign of terror and hatred, an unlikely hero has emerged: the Beekeeper. Once a trader selling his mountain honey across the region, when ISIS came to Sinjar he turned his knowledge of the local terrain to another, more dangerous use. Along with a secret network of transporters, helpers, and former bootleggers, Abdullah Shrem smuggles brutalised Yazidi women to safety through the war-torn landscapes of Iraq, Syria, and Western Turkey.

This powerful work of literary nonfiction offers a counterpoint to ISIS's genocidal extremism: hope, as ordinary people risk

Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 torture and death to save the lives of others. ISBN: 9781788161268 Format: Hard Cover About the Author Dimensions: 198x129mm Dunya Mikhail worked as a journalist for the Baghdad Observer before she was forced to flee Iraq. Her poetry collection Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Biography & True Stories The War Works Hard was shortlisted for the Griffin Prize. Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea won the 2010 Arab American Bic2: Book Award for poetry. Dunya Mikhail has also been awarded the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing. She Illustrations: currently lives in Michigan. Previous Titles: Author now living:

Serpents Tail SEPTEMBER 2018 Ocean of Sound David Toop

The classic account of ambient music, with a new foreword by Michel Faber.

Sales points • Serpent's Tail Classic edition

Description David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk and Brian Wilson.

Beginning in 1889 at the Paris exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed, Ocean of Sound channels the competing instincts of 20th century music into an exhilarating, path-breaking account of ambient sound.

'A meditation on the development of modern music, there's no single term that is adequate to describe what Toop has accomplished here ... mixing interviews, criticism, history, and memory, Toop moves seamlessly between sounds, styles, genres, and eras' Pitchfork's '60 Favourite Music Books'

About the Author David Toop is an English musician, author and professor of audio culture and improvisation at the London College of Communication. He was a member of the Flying Lizards and a contributor to the British magazine The Face. He is a regular contributor to The Wire, has recorded Yanomami shamanism in Amazonas, appeared on Top of the Pops, exhibited sound installations in Tokyo, Beijing and London's National Gallery, and performed with artists ranging from John Zorn, Evan Parker, Bob Cobbing and Ivor Cutler to Akio Suzuki, Elaine Mitchener, Lore Lixenberg and Max Eastley. He has published five books, including Ocean of Sound, and released eight solo albums.

Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781788160308 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: 20th century & contemporary classical music Bic2: History of ideas Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Serpents Tail SEPTEMBER 2018 The Invisible Emperor Mark Braude

An intimate encounter with one of the most influential people ever to live.

Sales points • Sheds light on important, little-known episode in life of one of history's most famous figures • Incorporates new information from recently discovered Vatican papers • Entertaining plot, driven by espionage, romantic intrigue, and moments of comic bathos

Description Few historical figures are as well-known as Napoleon Bonaparte, and yet the Emperor's ten-month exile on the small island of Elba is virtually unexplored. Now, for the first time, we have a window into this critical moment when the most powerful man on earth turns defeat into one final challenge.

A close character study mixed with a world-shaking drama, The Invisible Emperor will show Napoleon as he's never before been seen: as heart-broken husband, civil engineer, interior decorator, gardener and spy master. It will show a man at his nadir rise up against the global odds to build a miniature island empire, turn his two greatest foes into his closest confidantes, and return to France without firing a single shot.

About the Author Mark Braude is a lecturer in modern European history at Stanford and the author of Making Monte Carlo (Simon and Schuster)

Price: AU $35.00 NZ $39.99 ISBN: 9781781258026 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade SEPTEMBER 2018 The Little Book of Yes Noah Goldstein, Steve Martin and Robert B. Cialdini

The pocket-sized companion to the international bestseller Yes! that brings persuasive science into all areas of your life.

Sales points • Yes! has sold over 100,000 copies - this book is the perfect complement and extends the original's reach into more personal areas • Like The Decision Book,, this is a small, beautiful package that will appeal to the millennial market and is great for pick-up and till-point purchases • How to Win Friends and Influence People for the Twitter age - short, humane and effective nuggets of advice on engaging and persuading people

Description This travel-sized handbook will become your go-to key for ensuring that the world says 'yes' to you, your ideas and your requests.

We all want to hear 'yes'. 'Yes' connects us to the world, and carries us into the future. So why do we find it so hard to get others to agree? And how can we improve our chances?

The Little Book of Yes contains 21 short essays that outline a range of effective persuasion strategies, each proven to increase the chances that someone will agree to your request. That someone could be a friend, a colleague, a partner, a lover, a manager, a sibling, a parent, even a stranger. The timeless principles and practical lessons in this collection can be used to tackle a variety of everyday challenges, from repairing a soured relationship to negotiating a higher fee for your work, from convincing a dithering friend to take action, to building your social network and personal brand.

Full of wisdom from the leaders in influence, with carefully curated advice, this little book is essential reading for any freelancer, manager, entrepreneur, parent or person who wants more from their world. Price: AU $12.99 NZ $14.99 ISBN: 9781788160568 About the Author Format: Paperback Steve Martin, Noah Goldstein and Robert B. Cialdini are renowned practitioners of the science of persuasion. Together, Dimensions: 165x115mm Extent: 112 pages they are the authors of the Royal Society Prize-listed international bestseller Yes! and The small BIG. Bic1: Self-help & personal development Bic2: Business communication & presentation Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade SEPTEMBER 2018 The Economist Guide To Financial Markets 7th Edition Marc Levinson

The indispensable classic on the trade in financial instruments.

Sales points • The classic text, comprehensively revised and updated • Illuminates the most recent major developments in a fast-moving and complex field • Sober and practical guide for individual and institutional investors alike

Description Extensively revised to reflect the dramatic shifts and consolidation of the financial markets, the seventh edition of this highly regarded book provides a clear and incisive guide to a complex world that even those who work in it often find hard to understand.

With chapters on the markets that deal with money, foreign exchange, equities, bonds, commodities, financial futures, options and other derivatives, it looks at why these markets exist, how they work and who trades in them, and it gives a run-down of the factors that affect prices and rates.

Business history is littered with disasters that occurred because people involved their firms with financial instruments they didn't properly understand. If they had had this book they might have avoided their mistakes. For anyone wishing to understand financial markets, there is no better guide.

About the Author Marc Levinson is a former finance and economics editor of The Economist. He was previously a senior writer at Newsweek and more recently spent 10 years as an economist with JPMorgan Chase. He has published widely on economic subjects in such journals as Harvard Business Review and Foreign Affairs, and is currently senior fellow in international business at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781788160346 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Finance Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Business SEPTEMBER 2018 The Diary of a Bookseller Shaun Bythell

Love, Nina meets Black Books: a wry and hilarious account of life in Scotland's biggest second-hand bookshop and the band of eccentrics and book-obsessives who work there.

Sales points • Paperback brought forward to coincide with Shaun Bythell's ANZ tour • New cover and format will have even broader appeal • Got to love a bookseller who in his shop has hung a framed Kindle through which he himself has fired a bullet! • The Christmas bestseller for booksellers everywhere - the new Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops • Combines the best of comic masterpieces Love, Nina and Black Books with a dash of Diary of a Nobody: fall in love with the eccentric world of Wigtown and life amongst books • Great hardback sales - over 4000 sold in ANZ

Description Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost ...

In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribulations of life in the book trade, from struggles with eccentric customers to wrangles with his own staff, who include the ski-suit-wearing, bin-foraging Nicky. He takes us with him on buying trips to old estates and auction houses, recommends books (both lost classics and new discoveries), introduces us to the thrill of the unexpected find, and evokes the rhythms and charms of small-town life, always with a sharp and sympathetic eye.

About the Author Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, and also one of the organisers of the Wigtown Festival.

Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781781258637 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Diaries, letters & journals Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade SEPTEMBER 2018 Significant Figures Ian Stewart

Vivid accounts of the lives of 25 of the world's greatest mathematicians with clear descriptions of their far- reaching discoveries.

Sales points • Quirky detail and human appeal combined with explanations of the mathematicians' key discoveries • Written with Ian Stewart's unrivalled combination of clarity, broad scholarship, and depth of mathematical understanding • Ian Stewart, whose books have been translated into over 20 languages, is among the most widely read science writers in the English-speaking world

Description Which mathematician elaborated a crucial concept the night before he died in a duel? Who funded his maths and medical career through gambling and chess? Who learned maths from her wallpaper?

Ian Stewart presents the extraordinary lives and amazing discoveries of twenty-five of history's greatest mathematicians from Archimedes and Liu Hui to Benoit Mandelbrot and William Thurston. His subjects are the inspiring individuals from all over the world who have made crucial contributions to mathematics. They include the rediscovered geniuses Srinivasa Ramanujan and Emmy Noether, alongside the towering figures of Muhammad al-Khwarizmi (inventor of the algorithm), Pierre de Fermat, Isaac Newton, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Bernhard Reimann (precursor to Einstein), Henri Poincare, Ada Lovelace (arguably the first computer programmer), Kurt Godel and Alan Turing.

Ian Stewart's vivid accounts are fascinating in themselves and, taken together, cohere into a riveting history of key steps in the development of mathematics.

About the Author Ian Stewart is Mathematics Professor Emeritus at the University of Warwick. His recent books include Incredible Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 Numbers, Seventeen Equations that Changed the World, Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries and ISBN: 9781781254301 Calculating the Cosmos (all published by Profile). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Popular science Bic2: Mathematics Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade SEPTEMBER 2018 Write to the Point Sam Leith

Get writing right - in the only way that matters.

Sales points • Explains the arts of persuasive writing • Shows you how to get your message across on every occasion, from business to love • In this practical, hands-on book Sam Leith demonstrates all the skills and techniques you need, provides examples to fit every occasion

Description Writing tends to make people anxious, and with good reason. The first sentence of a job application letter can consign it to the bin. A speech intended to rouse can put a room to sleep. A mistimed tweet can cost you your job. And a letter to a beloved may aim to convey feelings of tenderness but end up making the recipient laugh rather than melt.

In this complete guide to persuasive writing, Sam Leith shows how to express yourself fully across any medium, and how to maximise your chances of getting your way in every situation. From work reports to Valentine cards, and from emails of condolence to tweets of complaint, Leith lays bare the secrets to successful communication, eloquence and off- and online etiquette. How do you write a job application, a thank-you card, or an email to your bank manager, to your children's headteacher, to your clients or your boss? How do you prepare a speech to win the argument, get the vote of confidence, or embarrass the bridegroom? Getting these things right - or wrong - can be life-changing.

Succinct treatments of the most general principles of style and composition, as well as examinations of specific modes of address (What is a subtweet? How do I write a moving elegy?) are accompanied by concrete and well-illustrated dos and don'ts and examples of wins and fails. Astute, sprightly and illuminating, Write to the Point will give you the skills and confidence you need to get your message across on every occasion.

About the Author

Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 Sam Leith is literary editor at the Spectator, contributes columns to the Financial Times, the Evening Standard and ISBN: 9781781254783 Prospect, and his work appears regularly in the Guardian, The Times and the TLS among others. His broadcasting work Format: Paperback - B format has included appearances on The Culture Show, The Review Show, Front Row, the News Quiz, Fry's English Delight and Dimensions: 198x129mm a regular slot on the Sky Arts Book Programme. His books include Dead Pets, Sod's Law and You Talkin' to Me? Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Language: reference & general Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama. The Coincidence Engine, his first novel, was published in April 2011 and was included Bic2: Writing skills in the ""Waterstone's 11"" list of the best first novels of that year. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade SEPTEMBER 2018 Ghost Riders Mark Felton

GIs and Germans join forces in a thrilling true adventure story from the last days of the Second World War.

Sales points • An ANZ exclusive trade paperback • A true story from World War II, which will engage animal lovers, especially those aware of the Lipizzaner horses • Film of previous title, Castle of the Eagles, in production • From the author of the bestselling Zero Night

Description April 1945. As Allied bombs rain down on Europe, a 400-year-old institution looks set to be wiped off the face of the Earth. The famous white Lipizzaner stallions of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, unique and precious animals representing centuries of careful breeding, are scattered across rural Austria and Czechoslovakia in areas soon to be swallowed up by Soviet forces - there, doubtless, to become rations for the Red Army.

Their only hope lies with the Americans: what if a small, highly mobile US task force could be sent deep behind German lines, through fanatical SS troops, to rescue the horses before the Soviets arrive. Just five light tanks, a handful of armoured cars and jeeps, and 300 battle-weary GIs must plunge headlong into the unknown on a rescue mission that could change the course of European history.

So begins Operation Cowboy, the greatest Second World War story that has never been fully told. GIs will join forces with surrendered German soldiers and liberated prisoners of war to save the world's finest horses from fanatical SS and the ruthless Red Army in an extraordinary battle during the last few days of the war in Europe.

About the Author Mark Felton is a well-known British historian whose numerous books and articles on military history have received international attention. His last book Castle of the Eagles ('an extraordinary and largely forgotten wartime story, brought

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 back to life in this Boys' Own account' - Daily Mail) has been optioned by Hollywood for movie development, as has his ISBN: 9781785784415 Zero Night ('a thundering good read' - History of War). After a decade working in Shanghai, Mark now lives in Norwich. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon SEPTEMBER 2018 The Sea Devils Mark Felton

July 1945. Eighteen young British, Australian and New Zealand special forces from a top-secret underwater warfare unit prepare to undertake three audacious missions against the Japanese.

Sales points • New in paperback

Description Using XE-craft midget submarines, the raiders will creep deep behind Japanese lines to sink two huge warships off Singapore and sever two vitally important undersea communications cables. Success will hasten ultimate victory over Japan; but if any of the men are captured they can expect a gruesome execution.

Can the Sea Devils overcome Japanese defences, mechanical failures, oxygen poisoning and submarine disasters to fulfil their missions? Mark Felton tells the true story of a band of young men living on raw courage, nerves and adrenalin as they attempt to pull off what could be the last great raid of World War Two.

About the Author Mark Felton is a well-known British historian whose numerous books and articles on military history have received international attention. His last book Castle of the Eagles ('an extraordinary and largely forgotten wartime story, brought back to life in this Boys' Own account' - Daily Mail) has been optioned by Hollywood for movie development, as has his Zero Night ('a thundering good read' - History of War). After a decade working in Shanghai, Mark now lives in Norwich. Visit www.markfelton.co.uk.

Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781785780493 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: History Bic2: History Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon SEPTEMBER 2018 Zero Night Mark Felton

A remarkable story told in full for the first time: a rip-roaring adventure story of WWII derring-do, all the more thrilling for being true.

Sales points • The first book published on the unknown yet first and most dangerous mass escape - 'The Warburg Wire Job' - of the Second World War • 6000 tpbs sold in ANZ • The escape was led by Australian and New Zealand officers • Film rights optioned by the team behind Saving Mr. Banks • Will capture the imagination of anyone who has ever enjoyed the 1963 'most want to see on Christmas Day' film of the more famous 1944 escape • Told with Boys Own gusto - replete with colourful characters and derring-do • For fans of Ben MacIntyre, Nicholas Rankin and last year's long-running New York Times bestseller, A Higher Call

Description Oflag VI-B, Warburg, Germany: On the night of 30 August 1942 - 'Zero Night' - 40 officers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa staged the most audacious mass escape of the Second World War.

It was the first 'Great Escape' - but instead of tunnelling, the escapers boldly went over the huge perimeter fences using wooden scaling contraptions. This was the notorious 'Warburg Wire Job', described by fellow prisoner and fighter ace Douglas Bader as 'the most brilliant escape conception of this war'.

Months of meticulous planning and secret training hung in the balance during three minutes of mayhem as prisoners charged the camp's double perimeter fences.

Telling this remarkable story in full for the first time, historian Mark Felton brilliantly evokes the suspense of the escape Price: AU $21.99 NZ $24.99 itself and the adventures of those who eluded the Germans, as well as the courage of the civilians who risked their lives ISBN: 9781848318472 to help them in enemy territory. Fantastically intimate and told with a novelist's eye for drama and detail, this is a rip- Format: Paperback - B format roaring adventure story, all the more thrilling for being true. Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: History About the Author Bic2: History Mark Felton has written over a dozen books on prisoners of war, Japanese war crimes and Nazi war criminals, and writes Illustrations: regularly for magazines such as Military History Monthly and World War II. He is the author of Today is a Good Day to Previous Titles: Author now living: Fight, an acclaimed history of the American west, and Japan's Gestapo (named 'Best Book of 2009' by The Japan Times). His most recent book is China Station: The British Military in the Middle Kingdom, 1839-1997. Originally from Colchester, Dr Felton has returned to the UK after living for almost a decade in Shanghai, China. He is married with one son. Visit www.markfelton.co.uk. Icon SEPTEMBER 2018 Castle of the Eagles Mark Felton

The little-known true story of one of World War II's greatest escapes, from the author of the bestselling Zero Nights.

Sales points • A cinematic, rip-roaring WWII breakout history thriller, featuring larger than life characters • Three Brits, two New Zealanders and a half-Belgian aristocrat will attempt to make it from a POW camp in Tuscany to neutral Switzerland, over 200 miles away • Among those who hatched the escape were the two New Zealander brigadiers - Jim Hargest, (after whom theJames Hargest High School in Invercargill is named) and Reg Miles - and they were among those who did escape successfully • 'History as it should be told...a thundering good read' - History of War magazine on Felton's Zero Night

Description High in the Tuscan hills above Florence, an elaborate medieval castle, converted to a POW camp on Mussolinia's personal orders, holds one of the most illustrious groups of prisoners in the history of warfare.

The dozen or so British and Commonwealth senior officers includes three knights of the realm and two VCs. The youngest of them is 48, the oldest 63. One is missing a hand and an eye. Another suffers with a gammy hip. Against insuperable odds, these extraordinary middle-aged POWs plan a series of daring escape attempts, culminating in a complex tunnel deep beneath the castle.

One rainswept night in March 1943, six men will burst from the earth beyond the castle's curtain wall and slip away. By assorted means, the three Brits, two New Zealanders and a half-Belgian aristocrat will attempt to make it to neutral Switzerland, over 200 miles away.

About the Author Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 Mark Felton has written over a dozen books on World War Two, including most recently, Castle of the Eagles, The Sea ISBN: 9781785782824 Devils and Zero Night, an account of a mass POW escape, described as 'a thundering good read' by History of War Format: Paperback - B format magazine. His Japanese Gestapo was named 'Best Book of 2009' by the Japan Times. He also writes regularly for Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 334 pages publications including Military History Monthly and World War II. After a decade spent working in Shanghai, he now lives Bic1: European history in Colchester. Visit markfelton.co.uk. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon SEPTEMBER 2018 Fucking Apostrophes Simon Griffin

A hilarious, furious and profoundly useful short guide to the most maddening punctuation in English.

Sales points • Has already sold 10,000 copies in ANZ - reissued for an expletive-friendly Father's Day • 'At last, a book that tells you exactly where to stick your apostrophe ... funny and useful, the perfect stocking filler.' - David Marsh, Guardian • Exceptionally elegant presentation with green cloth cover ... and very competitively priced • WARNING: CONTAINS EXPLICIT LANGUAGE!

Description Apostrophes are a f'ing pain. The rules about how to use them are complicated, and have evolved haphazardly.

Originally written as advice by a copywriter for designers - wont to insert and remove apostrophes at will, for visual effect - this is a light-hearted, pocket-sized guide to getting the f'ing things right.

Simon Griffin lets off steam so that we don't have to, showing precisely why 'Rhianna and Jennifer's photos were all over the internet' is quite different to 'Rhianna's and Jennifer's photos' or what words apostrophes are replacing in sentences such as 'He'd like you to buy him some cocaine', or 'They've got it all on camera.'

Elegantly produced, this is the perfect gift for any pedant, as well as an indispensable guide in all our moments of grammar-related frustration.

WARNING: CONTAINS EXPLICIT LANGUAGE!

About the Author Simon Griffin is the founder of copywriting agency Hyperbolic (www.thisishyperbolic.com) and lives with his wife and two

Price: AU $16.99 NZ $18.99 children in Leeds. He currently has no plans to learn how to touch type and can happily write whole paragraphs without ISBN: 9781785781414 realising he's left caps lock on. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 158x104mm Extent: 64 pages Bic1: Gift books Bic2: Gift books Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon SEPTEMBER 2018 A Practical Guide to CBT Elaine Iljon Foreman, Clair Pollard

Full of practical exercises to help you overcome your fears, manage negativity and think in a more helpful way, using the tools of cognitive behavioural therapy.

Sales points • Practical Guides are self-help books on life-changing practices - full of real-world case studies, useful tips and practical exercises written by experts in their field. • Our relaunch of the series, beginning in February 2018, presents a fresh new look for the books which emphasizes results.

Description Overcome fears, manage negativity and improve your life with A Practical Guide to CBT.

Change can often seem like an impossible task, but this practical book will help you put it into perspective. Using the same tools employed by Cognitive Behavioural Therapy practitioners, this book is full of activities to challenge you, stories to provide perspective, and a clear framework to guide you. The expert authors' friendly and supportive approach will help you learn to manage recurrences of negative thinking and behaviour, and to develop strong coping strategies, so that you can think more positively, act more calmly, and feel better about yourself.

A Practical Guide to CBT incorporates the latest therapies and research, including ACT and mindfulness, and explicitly addresses problem areas like insomnia and depression.

About the Author Elaine Iljon Foreman is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist specializing in the treatment of anxiety-related problems. Her clinical research into Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques, developed over 30 years, has meant she is regularly in demand by the media for her expert contribution. Elaine's research into the treatment of anxiety and particularly fear of flying has generated invitations to present her research in this field across Europe, the Americas, Australia, the Middle Price: AU $12.99 NZ $14.99 and Far East. Clair Pollard is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and is accredited by the BABCP (British Association for ISBN: 9781785783845 Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies). Clair works in the NHS with adults with mental health problems and for a Format: Paperback charity called The Back-Up Trust, working with people with spinal cord injury. Clair has a particular interest in issues Dimensions: 168x118mm Extent: 224 pages around adjustment to disability and in post-traumatic coping and growth. Bic1: Cognition & cognitive psychology Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon SEPTEMBER 2018 A Practical Guide to Confident Speaking Alan Woodhouse

A Practical Guide to learning how to best express yourself

Sales points • Practical Guides are self-help books on life-changing practices - full of real-world case studies, useful tips and practical exercises written by experts in their field • Written by an expert in the field - Alan Woodhouse trains everyone from actors to business executives to media professionals • Ideal companion to Assertiveness, Self-Esteem and Success • Our relaunch of the series, beginning in February 2018, presents a fresh new look for the books which emphasises results.

Description A Practical Guide to Confident Speaking teaches you how to plan what you want to say, manage your anxieties and project your best self.

Whether you want to ask your boss for a pay rise, chair meetings better, or deliver a faultless wedding speech, voice, acting, communication and public speaking coach Alan Woodhouse teaches you to express yourself more clearly, persuasively and confidently.

You'll understand how to tailor your speeches and find the perfect words for every occasion, project your voice and make sure you can be heard, and overcome stage fright and get your point across.

About the Author Alan Woodhouse is a voice, acting, communication and public speaking coach. He runs a private consultancy based in London, training everyone from actors to business executives to media professionals.

Price: AU $12.99 NZ $14.99 ISBN: 9781785783807 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 168x118mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Public speaking guides Bic2: Self-help & personal development Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon SEPTEMBER 2018 A Practical Guide to Counselling Alistair Ross

A Practical Guide to a broad and extremely vital psychological speciality

Sales points • Practical Guides are easy to read, jargon-free and FUN - full of tips, facts and real-world case studies • Ideal for psychology graduates looking to pursue a career in the field • Author is a BACP accredited counsellor and supervisor • Practical Guides are self-help books on life-changing practices - full of real-world case studies, useful tips and practical exercises written by experts in their field. • Our relaunch of the series, beginning in February 2018, presents a fresh new look for the books which emphasises results.

Description A Practical Guide to Counselling provides you with a hands-on understanding of how counselling works and how it can help people.

Alastair Ross offers an invaluable guide to anyone interested in learning more about how counselling works - with expert advice on everything from the ethics of counselling to how to listen attentively and establish a relationship,

You'll view things from both a client's and a trainee counsellor's point of view, and will gain both a theoretical and practical grounding in the subject, building the skills to talk and listen to others, as well as determining whether counselling is something you'd like to pursue further.

About the Author Dr Alistair Ross initially trained as a Baptist Minister and worked in South London, Kent and Birmingham. He subsequently did an experiential therapeutic training at Claybury Psychiatric Hospital in Essex and worked as a pastoral counsellor and pastoral theologian. Further training as a psychodynamic counsellor and supervisor followed and since

Price: AU $12.99 NZ $14.99 2002 he has led the MA in Psychodynamic Counselling at the University of Birmingham. He is a BACP accredited ISBN: 9781785783821 counsellor and supervisor, Chair of BACP's Professional Ethics and Quality Standards Committee and a lecturer at Format: Paperback Oxford University. Dimensions: 168x118mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Counselling & advice services Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon SEPTEMBER 2018 A Practical Guide to Entrepreneurship Alison Price, David Price

Turn your passions into a thriving business. From finding a niche, to expanding a successful enterprise to new horizons, learn how to turn any business opportunity into a rewarding venture - while avoiding the pitfalls of pursuing a pipe dream.

Sales points • Practical Guides are easy to read, jargon-free and FUN - full of tips, facts and real-world case studies • A must-read guide for people inspired by BBC's The Apprentice • The perfect accompaniment to Introducing Leadership, Introducing Management and Introducing Success • Practical Guides are self-help books on life-changing practices - full of real-world case studies, useful tips and practical exercises written by experts in their field. • Our relaunch of the series, beginning in February 2018, presents a fresh new look for the books which emphasises results.

Description Distilling the key points into down-to-earth, realistic advice, business experts Alison and David Price explain how to create the right brand to stand out from the crowd, achieve the best work-life balance and grow your business to success.

This Practical Guide offers expert insights, case studies and practical techniques to help you begin and prosper on your entrepreneurial journey.

About the Author Alison Price is a business psychologist, inspirational keynote speaker and international training consultant.

David Price is qualified in disciples including psychology, sports psychology, peak performance coaching and NLP.

Together they are The Success Agents. Price: AU $12.99 NZ $14.99 ISBN: 9781785783814 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 168x118mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Entrepreneurship Bic2: Advice on careers & achieving success Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon SEPTEMBER 2018 A Practical Guide to Management Alison Price, David Price

Motivate your team to go the extra mile. New managers, experienced managers or aspiring managers - learn how to understand your team and get the best out of them.

Sales points • Practical Guides are self-help books on life-changing practices - full of real-world case studies, useful tips and practical exercises written by experts in their field • Our relaunch of the series, beginning in February 2018, presents a fresh new look for the books which emphasises results

Description From hiring new members to dealing with poor performance, from goal setting to promoting work-life balance, understand how to foster effective employees with Alison and David Price's A-Z map to managerial success.

Filled with expert insights, real-life case studies and proven techniques, this Practical Guide will make you a better manager - right now.

About the Author Alison Price is a Chartered Psychologist and Occupational Psychologist, inspirational keynote speaker and an international consultant. She lectures at Kingston University, London, and comments within the media on business psychology.

David Price is an experienced senior manager qualified in management, consulting and coaching. He is a member of the Chartered Management Institute and the Institute of Leadership and Management.

Price: AU $12.99 NZ $14.99 ISBN: 9781785783784 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 168x118mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Management & management techniques Bic2: Management: leadership & motivation Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon SEPTEMBER 2018 A Practical Guide to Mindfulness Tessa Watt

A Practical Guide to being present in the moment and discovering contentment.

Sales points • Practical Guides are self-help books on life-changing practices - full of real-world case studies, useful tips and practical exercises written by experts in their field. • Our relaunch of the series, beginning in February 2018, presents a fresh new look for the books which emphasises results.

Description We hear about mindfulness everywhere. But how does it really work?

In this short, easy-to-follow book, mindfulness teacher Tessa Watt explains how to use mindfulness every day, by listening to your body, becoming more aware of the present and letting negative thoughts go.

A Practical Guide to Mindfulness introduces simple techniques with lots of examples and exercises for newcomers to begin right away. It also outlines deeper mindfulness practice for those who wish to take it further.

Put these lessons into action and you'll be able to reduce stress and anxiety, focus better at work, find your own source of calm, and discover genuine contentment.

About the Author Tessa Watt is a mindfulness teacher and consultant and the founding director of Being Mindful. She is the author of Mindful London and is part of the Mindfulness Initiative, supporting the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Mindfulness at Westminster.

Price: AU $12.99 NZ $14.99 ISBN: 9781785783838 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 168x118mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Self-help & personal development Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Wandsworth

Icon SEPTEMBER 2018 A Practical Guide to Well-being Patricia Furness-Smith

This Practical Guide is full of expert, practical advice which teaches you to use the latest techniques to achieve a healthy state of mind and body.

Sales points • A Practical Guide from the author of Overcoming Problem Eating and Overcoming Phobias • A holistic manual designed to improve life for the whole of you • Practical Guides are self-help books on life-changing practices - full of real-world case studies, useful tips and practical exercises written by experts in their field. • Our relaunch of the series, beginning in February 2018, presents a fresh new look for the books which emphasises results.

Description Learn to use the latest techniques to achieve a healthy state of mind and body.

Become more energized by adopting quality sleep patterns, optimize mental and physical health by harnessing your natural ability to heal, achieve calm by learning to manage your stress levels and discover happiness and fulfillment by investing in yourself and others.

A Practical Guide to Well-Being is full of expert, practical advice which teaches you to live well and stress-free.

About the Author Patricia Furness-Smith is a psychologist and accredited practitioner with over 25 years' experience in her field. Her work with people suffering with phobias has led her to travel around the world helping people to overcome the various fears which have blighted their lives.

Price: AU $12.99 NZ $14.99 ISBN: 9781785783791 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 168x118mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Self-help & personal development Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon SEPTEMBER 2018 Writing a Novel Richard Skinner

The essential companion for your writing life.

Sales points • The distilled educational approach of the Faber Academy - one of Britain's and Australia's most successful creative writing schools: full of textual examples, inspiring quotations and things to try in your own work • To August 2017, 60 of Richard's Faber Academy students have secured publishing deals - including Felicia Yap, S. J. Watson, Colette McBeth, Katie Khan and Laline Paull • Richard takes a 'non-prescriptive' approach: he helps aspiring writers ask the right questions of themselves, rather than providing them with the answers

Description Writing A Novel is not a set of rules and regulations. It is an atlas, a guide to finding your own way over the treacherous passes of your first novel.

Pulling together his years of experience as a novelist and a teacher, Richard Skinner covers the basics of writing great fiction - narrators, characters, settings - with charm and rigour. But more than that, he argues that the journey towards a final manuscript is as important as the finished article itself.

His approach works: many of Richard's students have gone on to secure publishing deals and many more have left his courses with work to be proud of. With its balance of warmth and wisdom, Writing a Novel will give any aspiring writer the confidence to face the blank page -- and to fill it.

About the Author Richard Skinner is the Director of the Fiction Programme at Faber Academy. He has taught the Faber Academy's flagship six-month course 'Writing A Novel' since its inception in 2009 and has helped hundred of people to tell their stories, including Baileys Prize-shortlisted Laline Paull and international bestseller S. J. Watson. Richard is also a talented

Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 novelist in his own right: his most recent book, The Mirror, was described as ""beautifully written. immersive. captivating"" ISBN: 9780571340460 by the Guardian. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Creative writing & creative writing guides Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Non Fiction SEPTEMBER 2018 Mars by 1980 David Stubbs

An exhaustive history of electronic music from the acclaimed author of Future Days.

Sales points • The first substantial history to tackle what has come to define modern popular music • Future Days was met with rapturous reviews on publication and was voted #2 in the Rough Trade Books of the Year 2014 • Will appeal to fans of Alex Ross's bestselling The Rest Is Noise

Description Electronic music is now ubiquitous, from mainstream pop hits to the furthest reaches of the avant-garde. The future, a long time coming, finally arrived. But how did we get here?

In Mars by 1980, David Stubbs charts the evolution of electronic music from the earliest mechanical experiments in the late nineteenth century to the pre-World War 1 inventions of the Futurist Luigi Russolo, author of the 'Art Of Noises' manifesto. He takes us through the musique concrete of radical composers such as Edgard Varese, Pierre Schaeffer, and Karlheinz Stockhausen, to the gradual absorption of electronic instrumentation into the mainstream: be it through the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and the work of pioneers like Delia Derbyshire, grandiose prog rock, or the more DIY approach of electronica, house, and techno.

It's a tale of mavericks and future dreamers overcoming Luddite resistance, malfunctioning devices, and sonic mayhem. Its beginnings are in the world of avant-classical composition, but the book also encompasses the cosmic funk of Stevie Wonder, Giorgio Moroder, and unforgettable 80s electronic pop from the likes of Depeche Mode, the Pet Shop Boys, and Laurie Anderson - right up to present day innovators on the underground scene. But above all, it's an essential story of authenticity: is this music? Is it legitimate? What drew its creators to make it? Where does it stand, in relation to rock and pop, classical and jazz music, to the modern society that generated it? And why does it resonate more strongly than ever in our own postmodern, seemingly post-futurist times? Mars by 1980 is the definitive account that answers these

Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 questions. ISBN: 9780571323975 Format: Paperback - C format About the Author Dimensions: 234x153mm David Stubbs is a British author and music journalist. Alongside Simon Reynolds, he was one of the co-founders of the Extent: 448 pages Bic1: Music Oxford magazine Monitor before going on to join the staff at Melody Maker. He later worked for NME, Uncut and Vox, as Bic2: Theory of music & musicology well as the Wire. His work has appeared in The Times, Sunday Times, Spin, Guardian, Quietus and GQ. He has written a Illustrations: number of books, including a song-by-song profile of Jimi Hendrix and Fear Of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don't Previous Titles: Author now living: Get Stockhausen, a comparative study of twentieth-century avant-garde music and art. He lives in London.

Faber Social SEPTEMBER 2018 Where the Wild Dads Went Katie Blackburn

The hilarious sequel to Where the Wild Mums Are.

Sales points • Available now - reissued for Father's Day • Katie Blackburn's Where the Wild Mums Are has sold over 20,000 copies across the ANZ trade • Major newspaper coverage on publication for this charming and funny book, plus review coverage in all relevant national press and online parenting sites • The perfect gift for doting dads, and everyone who loved Ladybird How It Works: The Husband, Go The F*** To Sleep and We're Going on a Bar Hunt

Description The night Dad had a few cheeky ones after work, forgot the milk and tripped over the rubbish, Mum called him A Wild Thing and left him to it for the rest of the evening...In this hilarious, touching homage to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, a 'tired and emotional' dad finds himself drifting off to the place where the Wild Dads went. 'Now party like real men!' he said. And there was never a manliness like it.

In a riot of headbanging, air guitar and table football he finds himself at the centre of a great escape, but pretty soon he begins to miss the place he left behind...Lovingly illustrated by the award-winning Sholto Walker, this little book is the perfect gift for new dads - or any parent who's ever wanted to run away from it all.

About the Author Katie Blackburn is the author of Where the Wild Mums Are, a humorous homage to the children's bestseller Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. Katie lives in London with her husband and young child. Katie has also written a picture book which helps children to fall asleep, Dozy Bear and the Secret of Sleep which has received rave reviews from C4's Three Day Nanny, Kathryn Mewes and a clinical hypnotherapist. This is her third book. Sholto Walker is based in a village near Bath. Sholto trained to be a painter, but his talent for drawing led him into illustration. He's happiest when he can take an idea and turn it into a picture. Cycling is one of Sholto's main passions and Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9780571332113 for a while he even thought of becoming a professional. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 195x220mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Humour Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Non Fiction SEPTEMBER 2018 The Secret Life Andrew O'Hagan

A groundbreaking examination of identity, secrecy, and the relationship between the individual, the state, and technology.

Sales points • Now in paperback • These incisive essays (covering psychology, internet ethics, spying, and finance - as well as the controversial figures Julian Assange and Satashgiu Nakamoto) will tap into an exceptionally broad non-fiction readership • 20 years on from first publication, O'Hagan's The Missing is now regarded as a classic of non-fiction reportage and this collection is set to be similarly acclaimed

Description The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age.

In The Secret Life: Three True Stories, Andrew O'Hagan issues three ground-breaking bulletins from the porous border between cyberspace and the 'real world'. 'Ghosting' introduces us to the beguiling and divisive Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, whose autobiography the author agrees to ghostwrite with unforeseen-and unforgettable-consequences. 'The Invention of Ronnie Pinn' finds the author using the actual identity of a deceased young man to construct an entirely new one in cyberspace, leading him on a journey into the deep web's darkest realms. And 'The Satoshi Affair' chronicles the strange case of Craig Wright, the Australian web developer who may or may not be the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin, and who may or may not be willing, or even able, to reveal the truth.

What does it mean when your very sense of self becomes, to borrow a phrase from the tech world, 'disrupted'? Perhaps it takes a novelist, an inventor of selves, armed with the tools of a trenchant reporter, to find an answer.

About the Author Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 Andrew O'Hagan is one of our most exciting and most serious chroniclers of contemporary Britain. He has twice been ISBN: 9780571335862 nominated for the Man Booker Prize. He was voted one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003. He has won Format: Paperback - B format the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He lives in Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages London. Bic1: Biography: general Bic2: Politics & government Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback SEPTEMBER 2018 Music for Life Fiona Maddocks

How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? How do we choose the works that inspire, delight, comfort or console?

Sales points • New in paperback • As Classical Music Critic for the Observer, Fiona Maddocks is one of the UK's most respected voices on classical music • Music for Life is set to become The Novel Cure for the classical music lover

Description Fiona Maddocks selects 100 classical works from across nine centuries, arguing passionately, persuasively and at times obstinately for their inclusion, putting each work in its cultural and musical context, discussing omissions, suggesting alternatives and always putting the music first.

About the Author Fiona Maddocks is the Classical Music critic of the Observer. She was founder editor of BBC Music Magazine and chief arts feature writer for the London Evening Standard, and has written for numerous other publications. She is the author of Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age (Faber) and Harrison Birtwistle: Wild Tracks - A Conversation Diary with Fiona Maddocks (Faber).

Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9780571342747 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Western "classical" music"estern "classica"stern "c"t Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback SEPTEMBER 2018 Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life Malachi O'Doherty

Updated edition of the compelling appraisal of one of the most controversial figures in Irish politics.

Sales points • Drawing on newly released intelligence & exclusive interviews, this is a hugely valuable, authoritative addition to the field of writing about the Troubles and Gerry Adams • As a Northern Irish journalist who grew up in Belfast and witnessed the Troubles first-hand, Malachi O'Doherty is uniquely placed to write this book • Revised and updated for 2018

Description 'Loathed, loved, terrorist to some, brilliant political strategist to others - what do we make of Gerry Adams? Malachi O'Doherty, one of Northern Ireland's most fearless journalists and writers, has gone further than anyone else to disentangle it all in this impressively measured and stylishly written biography - an illuminating read.' - Professor Marianne Elliott

How did Gerry Adams grow from a revolutionary street activist - in perpetual danger of arrest and assassination - into the leader of Sinn Fein, with intimate access to the British and Irish Prime Ministers and the US President? And how has he outlasted them all?

Drawing on newly available intelligence and scores of exclusive interviews, Malachi O'Doherty's meticulously researched biography sheds light on the history of this extraordinary shape-shifter. O'Doherty grew up on a 1950s Belfast housing estate, behind IRA barricades in his teens, and witnessed the start of the Troubles first hand; he is uniquely placed to expose the real man behind the myths in this compelling study.

O'Doherty's experience as a journalist - at the BBC, on Belfast's newspapers, as correspondent for the Scotsman during the peace process, and as a commentator on Northern Irish affairs for the New Statesman - informs this authoritative

Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 account of one of the world's most controversial politicians. ISBN: 9780571315963 Format: Paperback - B format About the Author Dimensions: 198x129mm Malachi John O'Doherty is a journalist, author and broadcaster in Northern Ireland. He is the producer and presenter of Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Biography: historical, political & military the audio blog Arts Talk. He covered the troubles and the peace process as a journalist and has written for several Irish Bic2: Politics & government and British newspapers and magazines, including The Irish Times, the New Statesman, The Scotsman, and The Illustrations: Guardian. This is his seventh book. Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback SEPTEMBER 2018 Immigrant, Montana Amitava Kumar

An explosive, genre-defying reinvention of the 'immigrant' novel from Amitava Kumar.

Sales points • A novel of intensity and luminous intelligence - seriously good • Brilliant for serious reading groups • Radically reinvents the bildungsroman, campus novel, and postcolonial narrative for a new generation - and introduces an unforgettable voice • 'In the works of Coetzee, Fitzgerald, Cusk, Berger, Naipaul, or Lerner, one is relieved to find that the novel is not dead. The sentences sing in the dark. Immigrant, Montana is a book in this class, and easily the best new novel I have read in recent years.' - Teju Cole • 'A beguiling meditation on memory and migration, sex and politics, ideas and art, and race and ambiguity. Part novel, part memoir, this book is as sly, charming, and deceptive as its passionate protagonist, a writer writing himself into being.' - Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer • 'There is a buoyant energy and hilarity to this account of an Indian student seeking the wide world through the women he meets, but one laughs with growing unease as a darker undercurrent is slowly revealed. An unusual, brave twist on the migrant's tale.' - Kiran Desai, author of the Man Booker Prize-winning The Inheritance of Loss

Description One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol around, the primate brain prompting the opposable thumb to grasp the trigger, the monkey blew his brains out.

Meet AK, an Indian 'immigrant' studying in New York where he embarks on a sequence of erotic relationships with women, politics, and literature. Immigrant, Montana is the story of his education. Ironic, provocative, satirical, and explosively stylish, Amitava Kumar's novel radically reinvents the bildungsroman, campus novel, and postcolonial narrative for a new generation - and introduces an unforgettable voice.

Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9780571339587 About the Author Format: Hard Cover Amitava Kumar is a journalist and author of several works of prize-winning literary non-fiction and two novels. His writing Dimensions: 204x153mm has appeared in the New York Times, Harper's, the New Yorker, and Granta ('Pyre' was selected by Jonathan Franzen Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) for The Best American Essays 2016). He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and Ford Fellowship in Literature, Bic2: and is a board member at the Asian American Writers Workshop. He is currently Helen D. Lockwood Professor of English Illustrations: at Vassar College. Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Fiction SEPTEMBER 2018 Normal People Sally Rooney

The feverishly anticipated second novel from the young author of 2017's most acclaimed debut Conversations with Friends.

Sales points • Bookseller and readers will be eager to get hold of Sally Rooney's new novel after the incredible critical reception and word-of-mouth for her debut • Acclaim and praise for Conversations with Friends: • Winner of The Sunday Times / PFD Young Writer Of The Year • Shortlisted for The Kerry Group Irish Novel Of The Year 2018 • Shortlisted for The Desmond Elliot Prize 2018 • Shortlisted for The Rathbones Folio Prize 2018 • A Sunday Times, Observer and Telegraph Book Of The Year • 'A sharp, darkly funny comment on modern relationships. Required reading.' - Sunday Telegraph • 'This is a novel to set beside Lena Dunham's Girls, Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag, Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha ... I can't wait to see what Rooney serves up next.' - Sunday Times • 'An addictive, funny and truthful first novel about love and literature.' - Metro • 'Fascinating, ferocious and shrewd. Sally Rooney has the sharpest eye for all of the most delicate cruelties of human interaction.' Lisa McInerney • 'Sally Rooney is a writer going all the way to the top.' Colin Barrett

Description Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years.

This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life - a simple yet profound realisation Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 that unfolds beautifully over the course of the novel. It tells us how difficult it is to talk about how we feel and it tells us - ISBN: 9780571334643 blazingly - about cycles of domination, legitimacy and privilege. Alternating menace with overwhelming tenderness, Sally Format: Hard Cover Rooney's second novel breathes fiction with new life. Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) About the Author Bic2: Sally Rooney was born in 1991 and lives in Dublin. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, The White Illustrations: Review, The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, Kevin Barry's Stonecutter and The Winter Page anthology. Her debut Previous Titles: Author now living: novel, Conversations with Friends, was the most popular debut in the 2017 end-of-year round-ups. Rooney was shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award for 'Mr Salary' and was the winner of the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award.

Faber Fiction SEPTEMBER 2018 Invisible City Julia Dahl

Perfect for fans of Megan Abbott, Gillian Flynn and Laura Lippman, Dahl's first novel brilliantly explores the secret world of one of New York's most secluded communities.

Sales points • Winner of the Barry, Shamus and Macavity Awards for Best First Novel • Vocab Films (run by Toni Collette) and RadicalMedia (What Happened, Miss Simone?) have optioned TV rights • The first book in this series, offering readers of Conviction a chance to go back to Rebekah's first big story, and a brilliant introduction to the series for new readers

Description Fresh out of journalism school, Rebekah Roberts is working for the New York Tribune, trying to make a name for herself. Assigned a story about the murder of a woman in Brooklyn, Rebekah finds a case from inside a closed, secretive Hasidic Jewish community - the same Brooklyn neighbourhood her estranged mother was brought up in.

Shocked to discover that the victim is set to be buried without an autopsy, Rebekah knows there is a story to uncover, but getting to the truth won't be easy - in the cloistered world her mother rebelled against, it's clear she's not welcome, and everyone she meets has a secret to keep, most of all from an outsider.

About the Author Julia Dahl is a journalist specializing in crime and criminal justice. Her first novel, Invisible City, was named one of the Boston Globe's Best Books of 2014, won the Macavity, Barry, and Shamus Awards, and was a finalist for an Edgar Award and a Mary Higgins Clark Award. Her acclaimed second novel, Run You Down, was published in 2016. She lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9780571347766 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Fiction SEPTEMBER 2018 The Crooked Scythe George Ewart Evans

A beautiful new edition of The Crooked Scythe: An Anthology of Oral History, by George Ewart Evans - author of the classic Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay.

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Description George Ewart Evans, who wrote the classic Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay, was one of the pioneers of oral history. This anthology is drawn from his writings about the memories of men and women of a past era - farm labourers, shepherds, horsemen, blacksmiths, wheelwrights, sailors, fisherman, miners, maltsters, domestic servants and many others. The anthology is edited and includes drawings by David Gentleman.

'A pleasure to look at and a delight to read . . . A treasury of country folklore in words and pictures, and a monument to a great and pioneering man . . . It is right that the past should be heard of in the words of those who lived it . . . Those who actually cut the hay.' Daily Telegraph

About the Author Born in the mining town of Abercynon, South Wales, George Ewart Evans (1909-88) was a pioneering oral historian. In 1948 he settled with his family in Blaxhall, Suffolk, and through conversing with his neighbours he developed an interest in their dialect and the aspects of rural life which they described. Many were agricultural labourers, born before the turn of the century, who had worked on farms before the arrival of mechanisation. With the assistance of a tape recorder he collected oral evidence of the dialect, rural customs, traditions and folklore throughout East Anglia, and this work, reinforced by documental research, provided the background for his renowned East Anglian books.

Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9780571340804 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Sociology & anthropology Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback SEPTEMBER 2018 The Rockingham Shoot and Other Dramatic Writings John McGahern

This welcome volume brings together a selection powerful dramatic writings by one of Ireland's greatest writers.

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Description Sinclair; The Sisters; Swallows; The Rockingham Shoot; The Power of Darkness

John McGahern, the leading Irish novelist of his generation, wrote a substantial number of compelling scripts for radio and television. This volume brings together five of his produced works, at the heart of which sits the previously unpublished The Rockingham Shoot, a dark and powerful play for television that concerns a Nationalist teacher whose attempt to prevent his pupils beating at a pheasant shoot held in honour of the British Ambassador leads to a shockingly violent incident.

Collectively, these dramatic works offer an evocative and often stark account of a deeply troubled and divided nation.

About the Author John McGahern was born in Dublin in 1934 and brought up in the West of Ireland. He was a graduate of University College, Dublin. He worked as a Primary School teacher and held various academic posts at universities in Britain, Ireland and America.

John McGahern was the author of six highly acclaimed novels and four collections of short stories, and was the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship, the American-Irish Award, the Prix Etrangere Ecureuil and the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Amongst Women, which won both the GPA and the Irish Times Award, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made into a four-part BBC television series. His work Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 has appeared in anthologies and has been translated into many languages. His last book, Memoir, was published in ISBN: 9780571336630 2005. John McGahern died in 2006. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Film scripts & screenplays Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Plays SEPTEMBER 2018 Feel Free Nick Laird

Northern Ireland meets New York in this brave and energetic new collection of poems from Nick Laird.

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Description Nick Laird has been an assured and brilliant voice in contemporary poetry since his acclaimed debut, To a Fault, in 2005. Feel Free, his fourth collection, effortlessly spans the Atlantic, combining the acoustic expansiveness of Whitman or Ashbery with the lyricism of Laird's forebears Heaney, MacNeice and Yeats. With characteristic variety, invention and wit (here are elegies, monologues, formal poems and free verse) the poet explores the sundry patterns of freedom and constraint - the family, the impress of history, the body itself - and how we might transcend them.

Feel Free is always daring, always renewing, and Laird's most remarkable work to date.

About the Author Born in County Tyrone in 1975, Nick Laird is a poet, novelist, screenwriter, and former lawyer. His poetry collections are To A Fault, On Purpose and Go Giants. His novels are Utterly Monkey, Glover's Mistake and Modern Gods. Awards for his writing include the Betty Trask prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, a Somerset Maugham award, the Aldeburgh Poetry Prize, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and a Guggenheim Fellowship. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he co-edited the anthology The Zoo of the New with Don Paterson, and is currently a Writer-in-Residence at New York University.

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9780571341726 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 88 pages Bic1: Poetry by individual poets Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Poetry SEPTEMBER 2018 New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender Stephen Spender

Definitive collection of Spender's poetry - now in paperback.

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Description Stephen Spender, along with his friends W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and C. Day Lewis, rose to prominence in the 1930s, writing powerfully of the fear and paranoia of a continent heading towards war. By the time of his death in 1995 he had established a distinguished reputation as a poet, critic, editor and translator.

This New Collected Poems, edited by Michael Brett, gathers seven decades of verse from Poems (1933) to Dolphins (1994) and the late uncollected work. Reordering the thematic principle of the 1985 Collected Poems, this edition returns to a book-by-book chronology and allows the reader to experience, for the first time, the full development and range of his career.

About the Author Stephen Spender was born in 1909 and was educated at University College, Oxford, where his friends included W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Louis MacNeice, Christopher Isherwood and Edward Upward. His first book, Poems, was published by T. S. Eliot at Faber & Faber in 1933. He went to Spain during the Civil War and worked as a Republican propagandist. With Cyril Connolly he founded Horizon in London in 1939, and co-edited it until he joined the National Fire Service in 1942. He founded Encounter with Irving Kristol in 1953 and was co-editor of the magazine until 1965. He spent much time in the USA where he was Visiting Professor at several universities. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1971, and was knighted in 1983. His oeuvre includes numerous volumes of poems concluding with Dolphins in 1994, plays, translations, novels, short stories, essays on art and literature, criticism, and journals. He died in London in 1995.

Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9780571347728 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Literary studies: poetry & poets Bic2: Poetry by individual poets Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Poetry SEPTEMBER 2018 The Secrets of Primrose Square Claudia Carroll

Ireland's #1 bestseller Claudia Carroll is back with this compelling, warm and poignant story. Perfect for fans of Marian Keyes and Joanna Trollope.

Sales points • Combines emotional intelligence, sharp humour, darkness as well as light, and she always delivers a page-turner • This is Joanna Trollope's City of Friends meets Marian Keyes

Description Can you guess what's hidden behind closed doors?

It's late at night and the rain is pouring down on the Dublin city streets. A mother is grieving for her dead son. She stands silently outside the home of the teenage boy she believes responsible. She watches...

In a kitchen on the same square, a girl waits for her mum to come home. She knows exactly where she is, but she knows she cannot reach her.

A few doors down, and a widow sits alone in her room. She has just delivered a bombshell to her family during dinner.

And an aspiring theatre director has just moved in to a flat across the street. Her landlord is absent, but there are already things about him that don't quite add up...

Welcome to Primrose Square.

About the Author Claudia Carroll lives in Dublin. She's the author of fourteen novels, selling more than half a million copies and gracing the Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 bestseller charts regularly; including the Irish number one spot. Three of her books have been optioned for film and TV. ISBN: 9781785765254 Claudia stars in the Dublin-based soap opera Fair City. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Romance Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Zaffre SEPTEMBER 2018 Its Colours They Are Fine Alan Spence

A Canons edition: Alan Spence's debut collection of short stories is a timeless portrait of Glasgow, and an acknowledged piece of classic Scottish writing.

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Description A classic of short fiction, Alan Spence's celebrated debut collection, first published in 1977, brings Glasgow to vibrant life, and captures the spirit of the city as it teetered on the brink of change.

From childhood Christmases in small tenement flats and games played on scrubland, to Orange Walks on bright Saturday afternoons and Thursday nights in dark, pulsing dancehalls, these interlinked stories vividly evoke the city and its inhabitants - young and old, Catholic and Protestant, hopeful and disillusioned.

About the Author Alan Spence is an award-winning poet, playwright, novelist and short story writer and is the author of six works of fiction, five collections of poetry and six plays. His awards include the Glenfiddich Award, The People's Prize, Macallan Short Story Prize and McVitie Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year. He is Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Aberdeen where he founded the annual WORD Festival in 1999 and was its Artistic Director for twelve years. With his wife he runs the Sri Chinmoy Meditation Centre in Edinburgh.

Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781786892973 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate PBS SEPTEMBER 2018 Washington Black Esi Edugyan

A stunning new novel of slavery and freedom by the author of the Man Booker and Orange Prize shortlisted Half Blood Blues.

Sales points • A boy rises from the ashes of slavery to become a free man of the world • A story of friendship and betrayal, love and redemption, of a world destroyed and made whole again - and asks the question, What is true freedom? • Half Blood Blues won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the Governor-General's Literary Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Prize, and the Orange Prize • For readers of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railway and Francis Spufford's Golden Hill • The story was inspired by the case of an English aristocrat Sir Roger Tichborne, presumed last at sea, and a man who, more than a decade later, appeared from Australia claiming to be the missing heir. The civil and criminal trials which followed held the record as the longest court case in British legal history until quite recently!

Description When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black - an eleven year-old field slave - finds himself selected as personal servant to one of these men. The eccentric Christopher 'Titch' Wilde is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor and abolitionist, whose single-minded pursuit of the perfect aerial machine mystifies all around him.

Titch's idealistic plans are soon shattered and Washington finds himself in mortal danger. They escape the island together, but then then Titch disappears and Washington must make his way alone, following the promise of freedom further than he ever dreamed possible.

From the blistering cane fields of Barbados to the icy wastes of the Canadian Arctic, from the mud-drowned streets of London to the eerie deserts of Morocco, Washington Black teems with all the strangeness and mystery of life. Inspired by Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 a true story, Washington Black is the extraordinary tale of a world destroyed and made whole again. ISBN: 9781846689598 Format: Hard Cover About the Author Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 432 pages Esi Edugyan's Half Blood Blues won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Governor-General's Literary Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Prize, and the Orange Prize. She lives in Victoria, British Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Columbia. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Serpents Tail SEPTEMBER 2018 Breaking News Alan Rusbridger

A powerful and profound study of the news - how we read it, who controls it and why it matters - from former Guardian Editor-in-Chief Alan Rusbridger.

Sales points • An urgent and agenda-setting examination of the past, present and future of the press, and the forces menacing its freedom • Perfect for readers of Andrew Marr, Will Hutton, Jeremy Paxman, Naomi Klein, Nick Davies and our own Paul Barry and David Marr • Extract and media attention guaranteed

Description How do we know any more what is true and what isn't?

We are living through the greatest communication revolution since Gutenberg in which falsehood regularly seems to overwhelm truth. In Breaking News Alan Rusbridger offers an urgent and agenda-setting examination of the past, present and future of the press, and the forces menacing its freedom.

The news media have been disrupted by huge and fast-moving changes in the economic and technological models of information. The growth of social media has changed journalism for ever as well as creating an existential threat to traditional players. The ability of billions of people to publish has created a vast amount of unreliable and false news which now competes with, and sometimes drowns more established forms of journalism. The President of the United States regularly lies to the public and brands his critics ""fake"". Politicians openly rubbish the views of 'so called experts."" Where can we look for reliable, verifiable sources of news and information? What does all this mean for democracy? And what will the future hold?

Reflecting on his twenty years as editor of the Guardian at a time of unprecedented digital disruption; and his experience Price: AU $45.00 NZ $49.99 of breaking some of the most significant news stories of our time, including the Edward Snowden revelations, phone- ISBN: 9781786890931 hacking, Wikileaks and the Keep it in the Ground campaign, Rusbridger answers these questions and offers a stirring Format: Hard Cover defence of why quality journalism matters now more than ever. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Prose: non-fiction About the Author Bic2: Alan Rusbridger was Editor-in-Chief of Guardian News & Media from 1995 to 2015. He launched the Guardian Weekend Illustrations: magazine and the paper's G2 section as well as overseeing the integration of the paper and digital operations, building a Previous Titles: Author now living: website which today attracts more than 100 million unique browsers a month. The paper's coverage of phone-hacking led to the Leveson Inquiry into press standards and ethics. Guardian US won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service for its leading global coverage of the Snowden revelations. He is the author of Play It Again: An Amateur Against the Impossible. Canongate Trade SEPTEMBER 2018 Stranger in a Strange Land George Prochnik

A daring, singular biography of one of the great forgotten thinkers of the 20th century - Gershom Scholem, the founder of modern Kabbalah.

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Description Gershom Scholem, the great humanist thinker and founder of modern Kabbalah, is all but forgotten today. But here, in a biography as daring and inquisitive as its subject, George Prochnik goes in search of Scholem, restoring the reputation of a vital intellectual and finding in his work a vision with the power to reinvigorate contemporary religious and political thought.

Tracing Scholem's life from his upbringing in Berlin, where he experienced a close and transformative friendship with Walter Benjamin, Prochnik reveals how Scholem's frustration with the bourgeois ideology of Germany during WWI led him to discover mystic Judaism, Kabbalah, and, finally, Zionism. But having emigrated to what was to become Israel, Scholem again found himself a 'stranger in a strange land', ill at ease with a prevailing conservative form of Zionism.

Prochnik follows Scholem to the modern Holy Land - only to find that he too is disillusioned by the state politics he encounters. But through his profound study of Scholem and his own experience of Jerusalem, Prochnik not only questions the ideological and religious constructs of Jerusalem, but finds an ethical way forward, showing how a new form of pluralism might energize Jewish thought.

About the Author George Prochnik's essays, poetry, and fiction have appeared in numerous journals. He has taught English and American literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is editor-at-large for Cabinet magazine, and is the author of The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World (2014), In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Noise (2010), and Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam, and the Purpose of American Psychology ISBN: 9781783781805 (2006). He lives in New York City. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 528 pages Bic1: Philosophy Bic2: Jewish studies Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Granta Paperbacks SEPTEMBER 2018 Ghost Riders Mark Felton

GIs and Germans join forces in a thrilling true adventure story from the last days of the Second World War.

Sales points • A never-before-told story from the latter days of World War Two - the race to save the world's most precious horses from the hands of the Nazis. • From the author of Zero Night, The Sea Devils and Castle of the Eagles. • The film of Castle of the Eagles is currently in development.

Description April 1945. As Allied bombs rain down on Europe, a 400-year-old institution looks set to be wiped off the face of the Earth. The famous white Lipizzaner stallions of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, unique and precious animals representing centuries of careful breeding, are scattered across rural Austria and Czechoslovakia in areas soon to be swallowed up by Soviet forces - there, doubtless, to become rations for the Red Army.

Their only hope lies with the Americans: what if a small, highly mobile US task force could be sent deep behind German lines, through fanatical SS troops, to rescue the horses before the Soviets arrive. Just five light tanks, a handful of armoured cars and jeeps, and 300 battle-weary GIs must plunge headlong into the unknown on a rescue mission that could change the course of European history.

So begins Operation Cowboy, the greatest Second World War story that has never been fully told. GIs will join forces with surrendered German soldiers and liberated prisoners of war to save the world's finest horses from fanatical SS and the ruthless Red Army in an extraordinary battle during the last few days of the war in Europe.

About the Author Mark Felton is a well-known British historian whose numerous books and articles on military

Price: AU $49.99 NZ $55.00 history have received international attention. His last book Castle of the Eagles ('an extraordinary and largely forgotten ISBN: 9781785784026 wartime story, brought back to life in this Boys' Own account' - Daily Mail) has been optioned by Hollywood for movie Format: Hard Cover development, as has his Zero Night ('a thundering good read' - History of War). After a decade working in Shanghai, Mark Dimensions: 234x153mm now lives in Norwich. Extent: 320 pages Bic1: General & world history Bic2: Second World War Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

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