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Enquiries to: Allen & Unwin Book Publishers 83 Alexander Street, Crows Nest, Sydney, NSW 2065, Australia Email: Maggie Thompson – Rights Manager [email protected] Phone +61 2 8425 0100 Contents

Fiction

5. The Girl in the Mirror - Rose Carlyle 6. The Family Doctor - Debra Oswald 7. The Mothers - Genevieve Gannon 8. Infinite Splendours - Sofie Laguna 9. The Deceptions - Suzanne Leal 10. Finding Eadie - Caroline Beecham 11. Death in Daylesford - Kerry Greenwood 12. Death in the Ladies’ Goddess Club - Julian Leatherdale 13. Red Dirt Country - Fleur McDonald 14. Fool Me Once - Karly Lane 15. The Farm at Pepper Tree Crossing - Leonie C. Kelsall 16. On a Barbarous Coast - Craig Cormick and Harold Ludwick

Non-Fiction

Memoir & Essays

18. Come - Rita Therese 19. Husna’s Story - Farid Ahmed 20. Through an Open Door - Miriam Lancewood 21. Max - Alex Miller 22. Sad Mum Lady - Ashe Davenport 23. She I Dare Not Name - Donna Ward 24. The Shah of Grey Lynn - Ghazaleh Golbakhsh 25. Not That I’d Kiss a Girl - Lil O’Brien 26. This Farming Life - Tim Saunders

Books to Help You Live Better

27. STOIC - Andrew Charlton and Brigid Delaney 28. Your Mind is a Muscle - Dr Rachel Thomas 29. The Book of Overthinking - Gwendoline Smith 30. Slowtopia - Brooke McAlary 31. HOW TO GET TO $@# SLEEP! - Bernice Tuffery 32. 52 New Things in 52 Weeks - Lauren Keenan 33. Your Money Type - Melissa Browne 34. Mission Focus - Bram Connolly 35. Touching a Chord - Dr Anita Collins 36. Balance & Other B.S. - Felicity Harley

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37. Glide - Lisa Forrest 38. Grief on the Run - Julie Zarifeh 39. The Wine O’Clock Myth - Lotta Dann 40. Man Raises Boy - Rob Sturrock

Current Affairs

41. Flight Lines - Andrew Darby 42. Six Capitals - Jane Gleeson-White 43. The Carbon Club - Marian Wilkinson 44. Dangerous Skies - Jim Eames

History & Biography

45. Enid - Robert Wainwright 46. The George Young Story - Jeff Apter 47. Southeast Asia - Milton Osborne 48. The Last Navigator - Gordon Goodwin 49. The Last Lighthouse Keeper - John Cook 50. Eleven Bats - Harry Moffitt

Home & Kitchen

51. Your Baby’s Gut Health - Dr Vincent Ho 52. Raw and Free - Sophie Steevens 53. A Natural Year - Wendyl Nissen 54. Mums Who Clean - Rachael Hallett and Karlie Sutton 55. Magnolia Kitchen Design - Bernadette Gee

Recent Highlights

57. The Note Through the Wire - Doug Gold 58. Kitty Flanagan’s 488 Rules for Life - Kitty Flanagan 59. Bruny - Heather Rose 60. Pain and Prejudice - Gabrielle Jackson

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4 Fiction – Thriller & Suspense The Girl in the Mirror Rose Carlyle

Written with the electric, jaw-dropping sus- THE GIRL IN THE MIRROR pense of Before I Go to Sleep and The Girl by Rose Carlyle on the Train, The Girl in the Mirror is an addictive thriller about greed, lust, secrets and August 2020 deadly lies. 368 pages Identical twins only look the same … RIGHTS HELD: World Beautiful twin sisters Iris and Summer are RIGHTS SOLD: English US startlingly alike, but beyond what the eye can (William Morrow); English see lies a darkness that sets them apart. Cyni- UK (Atlantic/Corvus); Russian cal and insecure, Iris has long been envious of (Exmo); Serbian (Vulkan); open-hearted Summer’s seemingly never-end- Czech (Alpress) ing good fortune, including her perfect husband Adam. Rose Carlyle is a lawyer and keen adventurer. She has crewed on scientific yachting Called to Thailand to help sail the family yacht to the Seychelles, Iris nurtures her own expeditions to subantarctic is- secret hopes for what might happen on the journey. But when she unexpectedly finds her- lands and lived aboard her own self alone in the middle of the Indian Ocean, everything changes. yacht in the Indian Ocean for a year, sailing it from Thailand to Now is her chance to take what she’s always wanted – the idyllic life she’s coveted from South Africa via the Seychelles. afar. But just how far will she go to get the life she’s dreamed about? And how far will she Rose was a Michael King Writ- go to ensure no one discovers the truth? er in Residence in 2020. She lives in Auckland with her three Key Notes: children. The Girl in the Mirror is her first novel. • An edge-of-your-seat debut thriller with identical twins, a crazy inheritance and a boat-full of secrets. Who can you trust? Absolutely nobody! • Massive overseas interest – the US rights were the subject of a hugely competitive auction • For everyone who was obsessed with The Girl on the Train, Before I Go to Sleep and Call Me Evie

5 Fiction – Popular & Contemporary The Family Doctor Debra Oswald

A gripping novel that deals with the cruellest THE FAMILY DOCTOR of domestic tragedies and the eternal ques- by Debra Oswald tion: how do we protect women from violent men when everything in that should protect February 2021 them fails? 400 pages Paula, a much-loved suburban GP, comes home RIGHTS HELD: World one evening to the house she is sharing with her lifelong friend Stacey and Stacey’s two chil- RIGHTS SOLD: Available dren. They have moved in after Stacey finally has left her increasingly disturbed ex-husband, Debra Oswald is a two-time Matt. Life has been difficult for Paula as well winner of the NSW Premier’s since the tragic loss of her beloved husband, Literary Award and the creator Remy, to cancer. Things are much happier with and head writer of the first Stacey and the kids in the house until Paula five seasons of the TV series opens her front door to discover a scene from Offspring. Her stage plays have been performed around hell: Stacey and her children are lying dead in pools of blood with horrendous gunshot the world and are published by wounds. As Paula tries to breathe and take in the unthinkable carnage around her, in walks Currency Press. Gary’s House, Matt, who then shoots himself. Sweet Road and The Peach Sea- son were all shortlisted for the Anita, Paula and Stacey’s close friend, the third in the friendship trio since the age of 13, NSW Premier’s Literary Award. is a journalist covering the criminal courts. She often sees domestic violence and the re- Debra has also written four peated failings of the system to hold violent men to account. Both she and Paula support plays for young audiences. Her each other through the shattering grief that follows. television credits include Police Rescue, Palace of Dreams, The When an obviously scared woman brings in her jumpy little boy for a consultation some Secret Life of Us, Sweet and Sour and Bananas in Pyjamas. weeks later, Paula’s eyes are drawn to the bruises around her neck. Determined to never Debra has also written six see another woman suffer like Stacey did, Paula tries desperately to help, but the wom- children’s novels. Her first adult an rejects every offer of assistance. Some weeks later the abusive husband comes in to novel, Useful, was published in the surgery. Paula realises she has the chance to set things to rights and give the abused 2015, and was followed by The woman the freedom she has dreamed of. But can she go against everything she believes Whole Bright Year in 2018. to make sure one woman is safe, one child?

The Family Doctor is about women’s fury, traumatic grief, deep friendship, and the pre- ciousness of life. It’s about trying to grab some control over chaos and injustice. A novel of searing emotional truth, told with the relentless pull of a thriller, it will never let you go.

6 Fiction – Popular & Contemporary The Mothers Genevieve Gannon

‘Engagingly and unflinchingly told … Like all THE MOTHERS my favourite books, The Mothers is both heart- by Genevieve Gannon breaking and heartwarming, and it leaves you with a lot to think about after you turn the final January 2020 page. I sobbed my way through this wonderful 384 pages book.’ – Sally Hepworth, bestselling author of The Mother-in-Law

RIGHTS HELD: World Two couples. One baby. An unimaginable choice.

RIGHTS SOLD: English US Grace and Dan Arden are in their forties and (William Morrow) have been on the IVF treadmill since the day Genevieve Gannon is an they got married. Six attempts have yielded no award-winning Sydney-based results and with each failure a little piece of journalist and author of four their hope dies. novels. She is presently a staff writer for the nation’s big- Priya Laghari and her husband Nick Archer are being treated at the same fertility clinic, gest women’s magazine, The and while they don’t face the same time pressure as the Ardens, the younger couple have Australian Women’s Weekly, their own problems. where she covers everything from cold-case murders and Priya is booked for her next IVF cycle the same day that Grace goes in for her final, last- cults to celebrities and sports stars. Genevieve has written in- chance embryo transfer. Two weeks later, both women get their results. depth political profiles, comedic personal essays and true crime A year on, angry and heartbroken, one of the women learns her embryo was implanted pieces. Her first foray into in the other’s uterus and must make a devastating choice: live a childless life knowing professional writing included her son is being raised by strangers or seek custody of a baby who has been nurtured and dating and relationship columns loved by another couple. which she published while writing her Masters’ thesis on What if you gave birth to someone else’s child? A gripping family drama inspired by a global terrorism and the media. real-life case of an IVF laboratory mix-up. She then moved to Canberra to start her news career covering local issues and politics. Before Praise for The Mothers: she joined the Women’s Weekly, Genevieve was the chief court ‘The Mothers beautifully captures the desperation for a baby and the emotional roller-coaster of reporter for Australian Associat- IVF … In the style of Jodi Picoult, it’s impossible to choose sides. These characters and their ed Press in Melbourne, covering heart-wrenching dilemma will follow you off the page and have you asking what would you do? some of the most notorious An intriguing, thought-provoking novel.’ – Petronella McGovern, bestselling author of Six crimes of recent years. Her Minutes journalism has appeared in most of Australia’s major newspapers and she has recently won the Mumbrella Publish Journalist of the Year.

7 Fiction – Literary Infinite Splendours Sofie Laguna

With the impact of seminal novels like Han- INFINITE SPLENDOURS ya Yanigahara’s A Little Life, Alice Sebold’s by Sofie Laguna The Lovely Bones and Andrew O’Hagan’s Be Near Me, Infinite Splendours is a stunning October 2020 achievement from one of our most original, 384 pages acclaimed and bestselling writers.

RIGHTS HELD: World Lawrence is a bright, kind and talented ten- year-old boy when he is groomed and raped by RIGHTS SOLD: Available his damaged uncle. The act severs Lawrence from himself and the world. He cannot move PREVIOUS RIGHTS SOLD: forward, can no longer participate at home or One Foot Wrong: Dutch (Sig- in the classroom. His most intense and spiritu- natuur); English UK (Allison & al relationship is with the mountain that looms Busby); Catalan (Ara Librea); over his house, Mount Wallis, in the Southern Russian (Arabesque); Spanish Grampian Mountains of Victoria. (Espasa Calpe); Italian (Gar- zanti); English US (The Other Press); German (Pendo Verlag); When Lawrence reaches early adulthood, he starts a friendship with the son of one of his Marathi and English for India workmates and connects with the boy he once was. At the heart of Lawrence’s desires is only (Mehta Publishing) the longing to be made whole. But after he is savagely beaten by the boy’s father, Law- The Choke: Russian (Arkadia), rence decides to retreat from the world. He goes back to Mount Wallis, and lives as a English UK and Europe (Gallic hermit for the next thirty years. Books) The Eye of the Sheep: French When a single mother moves into the abandoned farm next door to Lawrence with her (Actes Sud), Bulgarian (Ed- teenage daughter and ten-year-old son, his isolation is shattered. Her boy David is often norog) left alone at home, and he and Lawrence begin a friendship. The sense of tension and fore- Sofie Laguna’s third novel boding is almost unbearable as we witness the boy’s growing interest in Lawrence and the The Choke won the 2018 Indie older man’s blossoming at the chance of the tenderness he has been denied his whole life. Book Award for Fiction and her second novel, The Eye of the Praise for Sofie Laguna: Sheep, was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and won the 2015 ‘Laguna creates a world and a character and a language that we become immersed within. This is Miles Franklin Literary Award. humane, passionate, true.’ – Christos Tsiolkas, author of The Slap and Damascus Her first novel, One Foot Wrong, was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award. Sofie’s many books for young people have been published in the US, the UK and in transla- tion.

8 Fiction – Popular & Contemporary The Deceptions Suzanne Leal

Long-buried family secrets surface in a com- THE DECEPTIONS pelling new novel from the author of The by Suzanne Leal Teacher’s Secret.

March 2020 Moving from wartime Europe to modern day 288 pages Australia, The Deceptions is a powerful story of old transgressions, unexpected revelations and RIGHTS HELD: World the legacy of lives built on lies and deceit.

RIGHTS SOLD: Available Prague, 1943. Taken from her home in Prague, Hana Lederova finds herself imprisoned in the PREVIOUS RIGHTS SOLD: Jewish ghetto of Theresienstadt, where she is The Teacher’s Secret: English forced to endure appalling deprivation and the UK (Legend Press) imminent threat of transportation to the east. When she attracts the attention of the Czech Suzanne Leal is the bestselling gendarme who becomes her guard, Hana author of The Teacher’s Secret and Border Street. A regular reluctantly accepts his advances, hoping for the protection she so desperately needs. interviewer and presenter at literary events and festivals, Sydney, 2010. Manipulated into a liaison with her married boss, Tessa knows she needs she was the senior judge for the to end it, but how? Tessa’s grandmother, Irena, also has something to hide. Harkening NSW Premier’s Literary Awards back to the Second World War, hers is a carefully kept secret that, if revealed, would send from 2017 to 2019. Suzanne is shockwaves well beyond her own fractured family. also a lawyer experienced in child protection, criminal law Inspired by a true story of wartime betrayal, The Deceptions is a searing, compassionate and refugee law. She lives in tale of love and duplicity – and family secrets better left buried. Sydney with her husband and four children. Praise for The Deceptions:

‘The Deceptions is a stunning example of the way fiction tells war better than any other form - I could taste its madness, its horror. Saw from the outside, its utter absurdity. For days after reading the novel I found myself wrestling with the price of betrayal, and the value of truth.’ – Sofie Laguna, winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award

‘At what cost can a survivor of hell rebuild a seemingly normal life? The Deceptions is a gripping and tragic story for our times.’ – Leah Kaminsky, author of The Hollow Bones

‘Impossible to put down. Leal is a master storyteller. Mesmerising, heartbreaking, honest – The Deceptions is ferociously good.’ – Nikki Gemmell, author of After

‘Those who grew up in the shadow of the Second World War had Elie Wiesel’s Night to define for them the enormity for the Holocaust. Those who were born later can now rely upon Suzanne Leal’s brilliant and confronting novel The Deceptions to open their eyes to the true horrors of Nazism.’ – Alan Gold, author of Bloodline

9 Fiction – Historical Finding Eadie Caroline Beecham

The author of Maggie’s Kitchen and Elea- FINDING EADIE nor’s Secret delivers another compelling sto- by Caroline Beecham ry of love and mystery during wartime.

July 2020 It’s London 1943 and war and dwindling resourc- 416 pages es are taking their toll on the staff of Partridge Press. The Ministry of Information has published RIGHTS HELD: World The Battle of Britain, and everyone needs more books – to read in the shelters, at home and for RIGHTS SOLD: Available the troops. The pressure is on to create new books to distract readers from the grim realities of the PREVIOUS RIGHTS SOLD: War, but Partridge’s rising star, Alice Cotton, Maggie’s Kitchen: English UK leaves abruptly and Managing Director George (Ebury Press) Armstrong insists that she needs to be found. Eleanor’s Secret: English UK (Ebury Press) But Alice’s forced absence is to give birth and Caroline Beecham grew up at whilst she protects the identity of her baby’s father, her mother breaks her promise that the English seaside and relocat- she will help her raise the child when she sells her granddaughter, Eadie, only a few days ed to Australia to continue her after the birth. Unable to turn to the police for help, Alice’s search takes her from the career as a writer and producer offices of child welfare organisations and newspapers, to dangerous places as she looks in film and television. She has for the infamous Baby Farmers who thrive in the conditions that war has created – more worked on a documentary about unmarried mothers and less justice for them and their children. Princess Diana lookalikes, a series about journeys to the ends When coworkers Ursula and Theo track Alice down and ask her to come back she agrees, of the earth, as well as a feature realising it will allow her to combine her search for her daughter as she also helps them film about finding the end of create desperately needed books. As they battle to meet deadlines, Alice’s search takes the rainbow. Caroline decided on a new way of storytelling her into London’s under-world, Ursula into its infamous gay and lesbian scene, and Theo and studied the craft of novel back to New York’s ‘Book Row’, as their burgeoning love-lives interweave with real sto- writing at the Faber Writing ries of how books helped to win the war. Academy at Allen & Unwin in 2012. She has an MA in Film & But when Alice is forced to make the difficult decision between choosing to help Partridge Television and a MA in Creative and finding her daughter, and the identity of Eadie’s father is finally revealed, she is placed Writing and lives with her hus- in danger and Theo and Ursula must act quickly if they are to help save her and Eadie. band and two sons by Sydney Harbour. Her first two novels, Praise for Eleanor’s Secret: Maggie’s Kitchen and Elea- nor’s Secret, were published ‘Her easy-flowing prose and astute structure make the pages fly.’ – Sydney Morning Herald by Allen & Unwin in 2016 and 2018. Finding Eadie is her third ‘An intriguing read that switches effortlessly between war-torn London in the 1940s to Mel- novel. bourne in 2010. A meticulously researched novel that shows the enduring power of love, the damage of secrets and how dreams come true.’ – Weekly Times

‘A captivating wartime mystery of past deceits, family confidences and long-lasting love.’ – PS News

10 Fiction – Crime & Mystery Death in Daylesford Kerry Greenwood

Surrounded by secrets, great and small, the DEATH IN DAYLESFORD formidable Miss Phryne Fisher returns to by Kerry Greenwood vanquish injustice.

November 2020 When a mysterious invitation arrives for the re- 312 pages doubtable Miss Phryne Fisher from an unknown retired Captain Herbert Spencer, Phryne’s curi- RIGHTS HELD: World osity is excited. Spencer runs a retreat in Vic- toria’s rural spa country for the many shell- RIGHTS SOLD: Available shocked soldiers of the first world war. It’s a cause after Phryne’s own heart but what does PREVIOUS RIGHTS SOLD: Spencer want from her? English US (Poisoned Pen Press); English UK (Constable Meanwhile, Cec, Bert and Tinker find a young woman floating face down in the harbour & Robinson); Spanish (Edi- near the wharves. Could this be the missing friend of Ruth, Phryne’s adopted daughter? With ciones Siruela); Czech (Charles- Detective-Inspector Jack Robinson seconded unwillingly to a special investigation, Mr and ton Media); Greek (Kukuvaya); Estonian (Ersen Publishing Mrs Butler with Detective-Sergeant Hugh Collins are left to shield Phryne’s household from House); Turkish (Dogan Kitap) danger as Tinker, Jane and Ruth decide to solve what appears to be a heinous crime.

Kerry Greenwood is the author Unaware of these happenings, Phryne and the faithful Dot view their rural sojourn as a of many bestselling novels and short holiday but are quickly thrown into disturbing Highland gatherings, disappearing the editor of two collections. women, murder and the mystery of the Temperance Hotel. All test Phryne’s resourceful- The Phryne Fisher mysteries are ness in her search to save lives. a global success and have been made into a television series The Phryne Fisher mysteries: screened in 140+ territories and now a also a feature film. She is also the author of the Corinna Chapman series. Kerry is an advocate in Magistrates’ Court for the Legal Aid Commission.

11 Fiction – Historical & Crime Death in the Ladies’ Goddess Club Julian Leatherdale

Murder and blackmail, family drama and DEATH IN THE LADIES’ love, all set within the shady underbelly of GODDESS CLUB 1930s Kings Cross and its glamorous fringe. by Julian Leatherdale ‘Crime’s not a woman’s business, Joanie. It’s March 2020 not some bloody game.’ 400 pages In the murky world of Kings Cross in 1932, RIGHTS HELD: World ex aspiring crime writer Joan Linderman and her Germany friend and flatmate Bernice Becker live the wild bohemian life, a carnival of parties and RIGHTS SOLD: Available fancy-dress artists’ balls.

Julian Leatherdale’s first love One Saturday night, Joan is thrown headfirst was theatre. He discovered a into a real crime when she finds Ellie, her neigh- passion for popular history as bour, murdered. To prove her worth as a crime a staff writer, researcher and photo editor for Time-Life’s writer and bring Ellie’s killer to justice, Joan secretly investigates the case in the footsteps Australians At War series. Later of Sergeant Lillian Armfield. he researched and co-wrote two documentaries and was an But as Joan digs deeper, her list of suspects grows from the luxury apartment blocks of image researcher at the State Sydney’s rich to the brothels and nightclubs of the Cross’s underclass. Library of New South Wales. He was also the public relations Death in the Ladies’ Goddess Club is a riveting noir crime thriller with more surprises manager for a hotel school in than even novelist Joan bargained for: blackmail, kidnapping, drug-peddling, a pagan sex the Blue Mountains, where he cult, undercover cops, and a shocking confession. lives with his family.

His first novel, Palace of Tears, From the shadows of bohemian and underworld Kings Cross, who will emerge to tell the was published by Allen & Un- real story? win in 2015 and HarperCollins Germany in 2016. His second Praise for Julian Leatherdale: novel, The Opal Dragonfly, was published in 2018. Death in ‘This musical lyricist is carving himself a niche with sumptuous historical fiction.’ – The the Ladies’ Goddess Club is his Australian Women’s Weekly third adult novel.

12 Fiction – Rural Crime Red Dirt Country Fleur McDonald

Detective Dave Burrows returns in another RED DIRT COUNTRY suspenseful rural crime novel from bestsell- by Fleur McDonald ing author Fleur McDonald.

March 2020 Returning to Perth after a near-fatal undercov- 392 pages er case in outback Queensland, Dave Burrows, now a Detective Senior Constable in the stock RIGHTS HELD: World squad, receives an ultimatum from his deeply unhappy wife, Melinda. RIGHTS SOLD: Available Before Dave and Mel’s problems can be re- Fleur McDonald has lived and solved, Dave is sent to the far north of Austra- worked on farms for much of lia on a stock theft investigation. He finds two her life. After growing up in the cattle stations deep in a complex underbelly of small town of Orroroo in South racial divide, family secrets, long-repeated lies, Australia, she became a jillaroo kidnapping and murder. before spending twenty years farming 8000 acres east of Es- perance in Western Australia. Facing one of the biggest challenges of his policing life and the heartbreaking prospect of losing his family, Dave can’t imagine things getting worse. But there’s a hidden danger, Fleur likes to write about strong intent on revenge, coming right for him. women overcoming adversity, drawing inspiration from Praise for Fleur McDonald: her own experiences in rural Australia. She is the bestselling ‘Nobody does rural fiction quite like Fleur McDonald.’ – The Weekly Times author of Red Dust, Blue Skies, Purple Roads, Silver Clouds, Crimson Dawn, Emerald The Dave Burrows series: Springs, Indigo Storm, Sapphire Falls, The Missing Pieces of Us, Suddenly One Summer, Fool’s Gold, Where the Rivers Run, Without a Doubt, and Starting From Now, as well as the ebook exclusives If You Were Here and A Farmer’s Choice.

Fleur currently lives in Espe- rance with her two children, an energetic kelpie and a Jack Russell terrier.

2018 2019 15,500 copies sold 14,100 copies sold

13 Fiction – Romance Fool Me Once Karly Lane

An enticing new rural romance from the FOOL ME ONCE bestselling author of The Wrong Callahan by Karly Lane and Mr Right Now.

April 2020 Farmer Georgie Henderson manages a cattle 336 pages farm in the New England region of NSW, but her dream has always been to buy back her fam- RIGHTS HELD: World ily property, Tamban. For years, her every waking hour has revolved around planning to make RIGHTS SOLD: Available this dream become a reality.

Karly Lane lives on the When an unlikely meeting with Michael Dela- mid-north coast of New South court at a rowdy B&S Ball sends them on a Wales. Proud mum to four whirlwind romance, Georgie can’t believe it’s children and wife of one very possible for life to be this good. For the first patient mechanic, she is lucky time ever, her dream of buying back Tamban enough to spend her day doing the two things she loves most – takes a backseat to her happiness. being a mum and writing stories set in beautiful rural Australia. But her world shatters when she discovers the secret Michael has been trying to keep from her. Her bestselling novels include North Star, Morgan’s Law, Bri- Can Michael convince her they still have a future? And after having her heart so die’s Choice, Poppy’s Dilemma, thoroughly broken, can Georgie ever trust anyone again? Gemma’s Bluff, Tallowood Bound, Second Chance Town, Third Time Lucky, If Wishes Were Horses, Six Ways to Sun- day, Someone Like You, From the same author – the bestselling Callahans of Stringybark Creek series: and the bestselling Callahans of Stringybark Creek series – The Wrong Callahan, Mr Right Now and Return to Stringybark Creek. This is her fifteenth novel.

2018 2019 2019 21,600 copies sold 15,000 copies sold 14,300 copies sold

14 Fiction – Romance The Farm at Pepper Tree Crossing Leonie C. Kelsall

An engaging and compelling story of mys- THE FARM AT PEPPER tery, family, friendship and forgiveness for TREE CROSSING fans of Karly Lane and Maya Linnell. by Leonie C. Kelsall Veronica (Roni), has led a difficult youthful life July 2020 with no family, trusting only herself, looking Extent: tba after herself, and relying on no one. She’s also just discovered that she’s pregnant to her ‘boy- RIGHTS HELD: World friend’ who is not interested in being a father.

RIGHTS SOLD: Available When Roni’s future seems very uncertain, she receives a bequest from an unknown aunt, Mar- Leonie C Kelsall is a registered ian Nelson. Roni and her rescue cat, Scritches, Professional Counsellor with a leave Sydney behind, bound for the 800-acre private practice. property on the edge of the wheat fields of South Australia that was her aunt’s home and is She has largely held roles that require public interaction, such now hers. Just as long as Roni meets a number of conditions set by Marian – the first of as working as a museum guide which is that Roni view the property. and historical interpreter, and a supervisory role in the State One by one, the following conditions of Roni’s inheritance are revealed to her in letters Education Department. Having from her aunt. And as she finds her feet in the local community, helped by local farmer offloaded most of her children Matthew Wilkins, this property she originally thought she’d sell in an instant becomes on adventures of their own, for her home. the last two years she’s dedicated herself to writing.

15 Fiction – Historical On a Barbarous Coast Craig Cormick and Harold Ludwick

Fierce, intriguing and thoughtful, On a Bar- ON A BARBAROUS COAST barous Coast is the story of a past and future by Craig Cormick and Harold that might have been. Ludwick We were becoming the wild things we most June 2020 feared, but could not see it at the time. 320 pages An ill-timed night of raging winds and rain and RIGHTS HELD: World Captain Cook’s Endeavour lies splintered on a coral reef off the coast of far north Australia. RIGHTS SOLD: Available A small disparate band of survivors, fracturing already, huddle on the shore of this strange land Harold Ludwick comes from – their pitiful salvage scant protection from the the Cooktown/Guugu Yim- dangers of the unknown creatures and natives idhirr area and works as a guide that live here. and cultural historian. He is the recipient of a prestigious Encounters Fellowship with the Watching these mysterious white beings, the Guugu Yimidhirr people cannot decide if National Museum of Australia. they are ancestor spirits to be welcomed – or hostile spirits to be speared. One headstrong young boy, Garrgiil, determines to do more than watch, and to be the one to find out what Craig Cormick is an exactly they are. award-winning author and science communicator. Cormick Fierce, intriguing and thoughtful, On a Barbarous Coast is the story of a past and future was a former Chair of the ACT that might have been. Writers Centre and has taught creative writing at both univer- Key Notes: sity and community level.

• 2020 marks the 250th year of Cook’s landing at Botany Bay • A historical reimagining on the scale of Mrs Cook by Marele Day and Into the World by Stephanie Parkyn • Fascinating collaborative writing between Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers

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17 Non-Fiction – Memoir Come Rita Therese

Bold, brave and darkly funny, Come is the COME extraordinary story of Melbourne sex work- A memoir er Rita Therese and the love, sex and death by Rita Therese she has experienced in her life so far. March 2020 Two selves intertwine and it leaves you, in the 264 pages dance room, making a decision that winged liner is just for work. Because you don’t know RIGHTS HELD: World which self you are looking at right now, which person you are. The song stops and you break RIGHTS SOLD: Available out of your trance and ask if he’d like to ex- tend… Rita Therese is a 25-year-old sex worker, artist and writer Rita is an escort, one of the best in Australia. based in Melbourne. She en- It all began on a whim at 18, after she rang the tered the sex industry at age 18, number on a sign looking for nude models. Al- and has worked as a stripper, porn and as an escort. She cur- ways the outsider, she quickly learns the sex industry is comprised of many other people rently works as an escort under just like her and she becomes immersed in this world: the drugs, the late nights, the the alias Gia James. glamour, being an outcast, the attention and validation from men. Mostly she thrives on how taboo her life has become. Following significant personal tragedy and trauma, the She has written for magazines line between Rita’s sex worker persona Gia and her real self begins to blur in a seemingly like Frankie, Vice and Pent- endless loop of grief, work, sex, love and heartbreak. house Australia, and had a monthly sex and dating column In this achingly honest memoir, Rita learns that death and trauma do not always bring for Sneaky magazine. grand transformative experiences. Sometimes, in order to go forward, we have to write our own stories and choose to keep living. Unflinching, compelling and darkly funny, Rita had her first solo photo- graphic exhibition in 2016. The Come announces a fearless new talent in Australian writing. exhibit was centered around themes of sexuality, kink, fem- Praise for Come: ininity and fantasy. She is also the author of four self-published ‘A riveting and unforgettable journey. Rita’s ability to take you from despair to laughter to zines. The zines focus on short depravity in seconds makes this book utterly addictive. Her words will stay with you like the stories about her life as a sex memory of your first lust and first loss.’ – Nakkia Lui, actor, writer and comedian worker and discuss relationships, love, grief, mental health and sex.

Rita is currently undertaking her Bachelor of Philosophy and working towards a career as an academic, specializing in the field of Gender Studies with a focus on sex work. GENRE: Memoir

18 Non-Fiction – Memoir Husna’s Story Farid Ahmed

Husna Ahmed was a victim of the Christ- HUSNA’S STORY church mosque terrorist attack in March My wife, the Christchurch 2019. She was shot while looking for her hus- massacre & my journey to band, who was in a wheelchair. forgiveness by Farid Ahmed The couple had been praying when a gunman March 2020 burst into the mosque. He shot and killed 51 320 pages people that day and injured many others. In this book Husna’s husband, Farid Ahmed, tells Hus- na’s story, including the day of the attack. RIGHTS HELD: World Farid describes the selflessness and bravery RIGHTS SOLD: Available with which Husna lived her life. As well as looking after her daughter and paraplegic husband, Husna was an important member of the Farid Ahmed has lived in New community, helping women and running class- Zealand for 30 years. 21 years ago he became a paraplegic es for children. when a drunk driver ran him over on the street. Miraculously Her last selfless act was going back into the mosque to look for her husband on that fateful Farid survived, but is now con- day, after she had already led other women and children to safety. fined to a wheelchair. Despite that Farid is a Senior Leader Husna’s husband, quite remarkably, forgives the alleged killer. Farid’s philosophy of for- at the Deans Ave Mosque in giveness, peace and love is an example of how faith and humanity can be tools for navi- Christchurch and he works as a gating even the most horrific of tragedies. homeopath. Since the attacks he also speaks around the world, preaching his message of forgiveness and love.

GENRE: Memoir and current affairs

19 Non-Fiction – Memoir Through an Open Door Miriam Lancewood

From the author of Woman in the Wilderness THROUGH AN OPEN comes this sequel that’s about a whole differ- DOOR ent kind of survival. by Miriam Lancewood Through an Open Door is the story of a couple September 2020 Extent: tba who have lived as nomads for seven years in the wilderness of New Zealand. After the release of Woman in the Wilderness they set off to RIGHTS HELD: World walk 2000 km through the forests of Europe and along the coastline of Turkey. RIGHTS SOLD: Available They travel for two years until New Zealand fi- PREVIOUS RIGHTS SOLD: nally calls them back after a disastrous and trau- English UK (Piatkus); French matic experience. Once again, their life is about (Edition Arthaud); German love, survival and self-discovery. But this time (Droemer Knaur); Dutch (Kos- mos Uitgevers); Chinese Sim- it’s a different kind of survival, as one of them plified (W.E. Time DigiTech) fights for their life.

Miriam Lancewood was born Miriam’s philosophy of not planning much, and going ‘through open doors,’ leads her and in 1983 and grew up in the her seriously ill partner Peter to the most beautiful – as well as the most hellish – places. Netherlands. She was a compet- Life without security is an incredible adventure of trust and survival, but as a reader you itive pole-vaulter and studied wonder at what cost. Physical Education before travelling in Africa and India. There she met her New Zealand husband, and together they trav- elled for many years through Asia and Papua New Guinea before arriving in New Zealand. They have been living in the most primitive manner in the remotest parts of the country: the wilderness of the Southern Alps.

20 Non-Fiction – Memoir Max Alex Miller

Alex Miller, two-time winner of the Miles Max Franklin Literary Award, writes the incred- by Alex Miller ible story of his truest friend, Max Landau.

September 2020 According to your 1939 Gestapo file you ad- Extent: tba opted the cover names Landau and Maxim. The name your mother and father gave you was RIGHTS HELD: World Moses. We knew you as Max. You had worked in secret. From an early age you concealed RIGHTS SOLD: Available yourself – like the Grey Box Beetle in the final country of your exile, maturing on its journey PREVIOUS RIGHTS SOLD: out of sight beneath the bark of the tree. Keep- English US; German; French; ing out of sight became second nature to you. Spanish; Korean; Dutch; In the terrible year 1933 they arrested you in Turkish; Hungarian; Chinese Breslau, the German city where you had grown Simplified; Slovenian; Bulgari- up. They tortured you. You were a young man an; Italian (Please get in touch for a full list then of twenty-six, a German Jewish Socialist intellectual who had dedicated his life to of rights sales) the resistance of totalitarianisms in all their hideous forms. They hunted you. They placed you on their most wanted list. You risked death every day. And when at last the struggle Alex Miller is twice winner became hopeless, you escaped the hell, and you became one of those refugees who in their of Australia’s premier liter- final place of exile chose, not death, but silence and obscurity. ary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, first in 1993 Max was a member of the German antifascist resistance and one of the Gestapo’s most for The Ancestor Game and wanted, who suffered incredibly in Germany and Poland in the years leading up to WWII. again in 2003 for Journey to the After Max’s death, afflicted with the regret that he never truly knew the deepest parts of Stone Country. He is an overall his best friend, Miller travels to Europe to search the archives of Max’s life, to walk the winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, in 1993 for The streets he walked, and to discover the history of his friend who lived the most unassuming Ancestor Game. His fifth novel, of lives in his adopted country of Australia. Conditions of Faith, won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction Marked as always by Alex Miller’s incredible capacity for truth and character in his writ- in the 2001 NSW Premier’s ing, it is a moving meditation on memory itself, on friendship and a reminder to the Awards. In 2011 he won this reader that history belongs to humanity, that the dead still have so much to tell the living. award for the second time with Traversing Europe this is the story of the many who were terrorised and displaced during his novel Lovesong. Follow- some of history’s darkest moments, uncovered by the rare gift of Miller’s powers of mem- ing the publication of Autumn ory and observation. Inhabiting the Helen Garner and Robert Dessaix territory of creative Laing he was awarded the non-fiction this is a beautiful tribute to a lost friend, told in fragments that encapsulate prestigious Melbourne Prize for Literature in 2012. Coal Creek Max’s life. won the 2014 Victorian Pre- mier’s Literary Award. Praise for Journey to the Stone Country:

GENRE: Memoir and ‘Miller’s fiction has a mystifying power that is always far more than the sum of its parts. . . his creative non-fiction footsteps – softly, deftly, steadily – take you places you may not have been, and their sound reso- nates for a long time.’ – The Sydney Morning Herald

21 Non-Fiction – Essay & Memoir Sad Mum Lady Ashe Davenport

For fans of David Sedaris, Jenny Lawson SAD MUM LADY and Caitlin Moran. by Ashe Davenport Sad Mum Lady is a collection of essays by a April 2020 woman who loves her kids and hates mother- Extent: tba hood. Pregnancy dragged Ashe kicking and screaming into parenthood, and when she ar- RIGHTS HELD: World rived it hit her in the face with a brick. Repeat- edly. The stories take place during her own ex- RIGHTS SOLD: Available cruciating birth as a mother. Her claw marks can be traced from hospital corridors to play cen- Ashe Davenport is a copy- tres and a lingerie shop by the sea. This book writer and family columnist for is motherhood ‘real-talk’ meets bitey anecdotes The Design Files. She used to with a touch of the surreal. It’s for the mum have a blog called Sad Pregnant wrestling her screaming toddler out of the cafe, Lady and later felt compelled to her cheek red from having just been slapped change the name to Sad Mum Lady. Ashe has a one and three- with a tiny sticky hand. It’s for the partners pushing the pram on a Saturday morning, year-old. She loves her children mystified as to why they just received a hissing death threat in response to their sugges- and hates motherhood, com- tion that the baby needed feeding. paring the latter to receiving a brick to the face. She and her During Ashe’s first pregnancy she started a blog called Sad Pregnant Lady. According to three sisters were raised by their the internet, sadness and pregnancy meant postnatal depression. The internet kept telling single mother in the south-east- her she was something that needed to be fixed. The blog was Ashe’s attempt to reclaim ern suburbs of Melbourne. After sadness as an appropriate human response to pregnancy. Her life as she knew it was about completing a Bachelor of Media to change forever, her body and mind were no longer her own and the climate crisis was she worked as a receptionist for potentially going to engulf her child’s future in flames. It connected with a lot of people. a company that sold pre- recorded sports content to cable Most of them were mothers who were struggling too. After Ashe became a mother, she channels in the Middle East. found that she was still quite sad, and this book is her exploring and sharing that experi- These days, she writes from ence. home in Northcote, citing ‘day care’ and ‘supportive partner’ as the reasons she’s able to do so as a parent of young children.

GENRE: Cultural and social issues

22 Non-Fiction – Essay & Memoir She I Dare Not Name Donna Ward

A compelling memoir about the single life SHE I DARE NOT NAME and the courage to live alone in a world made A spinster’s meditations on for couples and families. life by Donna Ward Astonishing. Luminous. A book about being human. March 2020 336 pages She I Dare Not Name is a compelling collection of fiercely intelligent, deeply intimate, lyrical RIGHTS HELD: World reflections on the life of a woman who stands on the threshold between two millennia. Both RIGHTS SOLD: Available manifesto and confession, this moving memoir explores the meaning and purpose Donna Ward Donna Ward is the publisher at discovered in a life lived entirely without a part- Inkerman & Blunt. She founded ner and children. indigo, the journal of Western Australian creative writing. Her prose can be found in respect- The book describes what it is like to live on the edge of a world built in the shape of ed journals and anthologies couples and families. Rippling through these pages is the way a spinster – or a bachelor, nationally, internationally and or any of us for that matter – contends with the prejudice and stigma of being different. online. She has past lives as a psychotherapist and as a social With courage and astounding honesty Donna uncovers the challenge of living with more worker. She worked in her own solitude than anticipated and what it is like to walk the road through midlife and beyond private practice, in welfare alone. And she reveals how she found home and discovered herself within it. management and social policy development. She I Dare Not Funny, sharp, wise and wry, She I Dare Not Name shows how reading saved this spin- Name is Donna’s first book. ster’s life, and how friends and writing and walking brought a contentment and sense of GENRE: Cultural and social achievement she never thought possible. issues Praise for She I Dare Not Name:

‘The book is perfect, or very close. She I Dare Not Name is a rollercoaster ride, like life, that takes us deep into a woman’s experience. It enriched me, leaving me with much to think about. Donna is frank and generous, analytical and honest in a way that makes her story our story...and any human will find themself in there.’ – Susan Wyndham, writer and former books editor at the Sydney Morning Herald

‘With a devastatingly clear-eyed honesty, the word Ward dares to name is “spinster”, and this meditative collection of essays spin their own spell, making a deep dive into the world of female solitude in all its guises. She lays it out like a calm tarot reading: feminism, courage, silence, loneliness, grief, recovery and the power of the generative idea, as well as all the labels that come with carving out your own path of self-definition and self-determination.’ – Cate Kennedy, author of The World Beneath

23 Non-Fiction – Essay & Memoir The Shah of Grey Lynn Ghazaleh Golbakhsh

Part memoir, part essay, this collection of THE SHAH OF GREY LYNN personal stories by one of New Zealand’s and other stories most exciting young voices explores the by Ghazaleh Golbakhsh hybridity of living in-between. September 2020 The collection takes its initial influence from Extent: tba One Thousand and One Nights whereby a young heroine Scheherazade must continually tell tales RIGHTS HELD: World to her murderous husband the King in order to keep her life. Similarly, The Shah of Grey Lynn RIGHTS SOLD: Available frames a story within a story and focuses on the various characters the author knows or has met Ghazaleh Golbakhsh is an including the title character, the Shah of Grey Iranian-New Zealand filmmak- Lynn, a lonely hermit who wanders the streets er who studied post-graduate of Jervois Road. screenwriting and directing at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The stories range from a childhood in war-torn Iran, including the trauma of a night spent There she started an internship in prison as a four-year-old, to learning English in order to make friends in the suburbs at the Sundance Institute and of Auckland. It is about growing up as a young woman torn between her immigrant roots continues to work for them still. and her desire to be like everyone else. The stories will venture from childhoods spent She has an MA in Documentary celebrating ancient Zoroastrian fire jumping traditions at Mission Bay beach, falling for from the University of Auck- the Jewish boy who played Jesus in a high school musical production, and dealing with a land. Her thesis film,Iran in major depressive episode at age 17. Transit, premiered in Israel and won the Outstanding Student The humour is sometimes offcut with the more sombre reminder of the racism that has Film award at the Beijing Stu- always existed – from misguided quips (‘Is Saddam Hussein your dad?’) to more serious dent Film Festival. stories of harassment including an altercation at a fast food joint on the streets of Glen- Ghazaleh’s writing has ap- field. There are, of course, reflections on the impact of world events such as 9/11 and peared in publications includ- – more recent – mosque attacks, and how they show that more than ever marginalised ing OnFilm, The Spinoff and voices are needed in our cultural discourse. Villainesse.

With two other emerging writers/directors she co-founded the Waking Dream filmmaking collective aimed at supporting women and minorities on and behind the screen. She is currently completing her PhD with creative practice.

GENRE: Cultural and social issues

24 Non-Fiction – Memoir Not That I’d Kiss a Girl Lil O’Brien

Coming-of-age and coming out – not the easi- NOT THAT I’D KISS A GIRL est in general, and not any easier with strong- A memoir of coming out and ly religious parents who don’t know mercy or coming-of-age acceptance. by Lil O’Brien Lil Cameron accidentally outed herself to her July 2020 336 pages parents at the age of 19 when they overhead her talking about liking girls in a phone call to a friend. Half an hour later she found herself on RIGHTS HELD: World the street, her parents having effectively dis- owned her. RIGHTS SOLD: Available What follows is an alternately hugely funny and This book began as a fif- heartbreaking story of a young Kiwi girl – the teen-minute story, where Lil deputy head girl from a posh private school in O’Brien would tell students Christchurch – coming to grips with her sexual- her ‘coming out’ story in high schools around Auckland, as ity and trying to reconcile who she is against the stark disapproval and rejection from her a part of Rainbow Youth’s parents. Lil is an ordinary, bright teenager who has the strength of character to shrug off gender and sexuality education the shame her parents have projected on to her and who, bit by bit, finds her way in an programme. After seeing the entirely new world. impact it had on these young people, she knew that she There are lots of funny moments – including a bouncer trying to give her a heads up: needed to sit down and write the did she know she was entering a gay club, given she looked so conservative; a series of whole story. sexual encounters where Lil realises she’s really not into a woman who has flown across the world to be with her and Lil doing her best to avoid sex; Lil spending weeks trying to Lil has written a number of download The L Word using a shared dial-up computer, etc – and some hugely sad ones: pieces around her experiences to do with sexuality throughout her mother telling her she wouldn’t ever want to meet her dyke girlfriend and their baby if the years, and her monthly col- they ever had one; her parents trying to blame her for her mother’s anxiety and depression umn on NZGirl.co.nz when she over being gay; Lil asking to come home to stay in the uni holidays and being told yes, was in her early twenties was only to realise her family were deliberately going to stay at their holiday house instead to one of the site’s most popular. avoid her. In her professional life Lil is an advertising copywriter and UX writer.

GENRE: Memoir and LGBTQIA+

25 Non-Fiction – Memoir This Farming Life Tim Saunders

Beautifully written description of both the THIS FARMING LIFE harsh realities and the joy of farm life, from by Tim Saunders a writer whose farm has been in the same family for five generations. August 2020 Extent: tba Tim Saunders is a farmer who loves to put his unique life on the page. In This Farming Life he RIGHTS HELD: World describes the life and concerns of a farmer over the course of four seasons: shearing, slaugh- RIGHTS SOLD: Available ter, crop harvest and conservation in summer; floods, trading stock, drenching, dogging in au- Tim Saunders farms sheep and tumn; maize harvest and lambing in winter; and beef near Palmerston North on docking, pet sheep and weaning in summer. the North Island of New Zea- land. He has published poetry He shows how his farming life was influenced and short stories in the New Zea- by the things he experienced on the farm while land Listener and Flash Fron- tier, and won the 2018 Mindfood growing up, and how some of his views have changed. This is powerful and poignant Magazine Short Story Competi- writing that outlines the lifestyle of a profession that is often taken for granted, and it goes tion. He performs poetry around some way to explaining why farmers love what they do and how they are also conflicted Manawatu and beyond. by what they do.

GENRE: Memoir, environ- Key Notes: ment and nature • This is farm literature at its best – reminiscent of James Rebanks’ A Sheperd’s Life • Topical and thoughtful in these days of climate change

26 Non-Fiction – Self-Help & Personal Development STOIC Andrew Charlton and Brigid Delaney

An essential guide to the wisdom of the an- STOIC cient philosophy of the Stoics, completely Buddhism with attitude updated for the current moment. Modern, by Andrew Charlton and Brigid smart and witty this ideology has so much to Delaney teach us about coping with the 21st century and its multitude of crises. September 2020 292 pages When most people hear the name Marcus Au- relius or think about ancient Rome, they think RIGHTS HELD: World of the Russell Crowe film Gladiator: a time of wine-fuelled orgies, epic banquet feasts, and RIGHTS SOLD: Available emperors battling it out.

Andrew Charlton is an But Rome had another side, too – a camp of economist. He was an adviser thinkers who were invested in virtue, modera- to Australia’s Prime Minister, tion and self-discipline. These were the ancient taught at the London School of Economics and has a doctorate Stoics. These philosophers, who spent their lives working out mindfulness techniques in Economics from Oxford Uni- and ways to be happy, might well have been the Western world’s first wellness gurus, and versity. He is the author of two maybe they even held the key to preventative mental health. This book is smart self-help, books – Fair Trade for All with going deeper than fads and trends that incorporate the wisdom of ancient and continuing Joseph Stiglitz and Ozonomics cultures. – and two issues of the Quar- terly Essay. His writing has The beauty of stoicism is it is simple, clear and easily applicable to life – many centuries been published in the Sydney after it was written. This book will show readers, in clear, succinct prose, with easy exer- Morning Herald, The Monthly cises, how to apply the stoic principles to modern life for happiness and wellbeing. and the Financial Times.

Brigid Delaney is a journalist for the Guardian and writes a popular weekly column that’s widely read in Australia, the US and the UK. She is the author of three books: This Restless Life, Wild Things and Wellmania. Wellmania was also published in the UK, Canada, the US and France. She is a co-founder of the Mercy Campaign that ad- vocates for the abolition of the death penalty in Southeast Asia, and she is currently working on a novel.

GENRE: Philosopy and personal development

27 Non-Fiction – Popular Science & Psychology Your Mind is a Muscle Dr Rachel Thomas

We live in a time like no other. In 2018, our YOUR MIND IS A MUSCLE average anxiety and stress levels are at those by Dr Rachel Thomas of a psychiatric inpatient in the 1950s. More content is generated every day than we could July 2020 ever consume in a lifetime. In the last two 264 pages years alone, more than 90% of the world’s data has been created. RIGHTS HELD: World The metaphor of ‘stress’ for mental or emotion- RIGHTS SOLD: Available al strain or tension has shaped thinking about mental health since it was coined in the 1930s. Dr Rachel Thomas is a prac- Borrowed from physics, it suggests that people tising doctor, award-winning can withstand adverse or demanding circum- author and healthcare innovator, stances up to a certain point, after which they with a special interest in wellbe- will break. New studies, however, suggest that ing and mental health. After full the mind is more like a muscle. To grow stron- recovery from an accident that broke her back and neck, she is ger, it needs to face significant challenges and tackle hard tasks in fruitful ways – and to focusing on increasing empow- be allowed to recover afterwards. erment – in mental and physical health – through technology and There is no denying that we each have a stress response for important reasons. It is a key education. survival mechanism that has been finely tuned over thousands of years – however, our current way of living often activates at the wrong times. It is triggered over and over again GENRE: Psychology, popular every day, causing both mental and physical damage, to the body and mind it is designed science and self-help to protect.

In Your Mind is a Muscle, Dr Rachel Thomas outlines the neuroscience and physiology of stress. She explains the impacts of stress, and the science behind them, in areas rang- ing from our genes to our food choices. She also covers evidence-based, small changes that we can all make in different areas of our life, to live a life of less stress and optimum wellbeing.

28 Non-Fiction – Popular Science & Psychology The Book of Overthinking Gwendoline Smith

Overthinking, ruminating, worrying: best- THE BOOK OF selling author Gwendoline Smith explains OVERTHINKING this common form of anxiety and offers help- How to stop the cycle of worry ful advice for overcoming it. by Gwendoline Smith The word overthinking is often used these days February 2020 264 pages instead of ‘worrying’. It’s also known as ruminating and it’s a form of anxiety – statistics show that about one in five people suffer from RIGHTS HELD: World it.

RIGHTS SOLD: Available Psychologist and bestselling author Gwendo- line Smith (more than 10,000 copies sold of PREVIOUS RIGHTS SOLD: The Book of Knowing) uses her broad scientific English US (Andrews Mc- knowledge and experience to explain in clear Meel); Korean (Danielstone and simple language the concepts of positive Publishing) and negative overthinking, the myths of worry and the What-If Cycle. Gwendoline Smith is a clinical psychologist, speaker, blogger She helps you understand what’s going on in your head, using lots of examples and anec- and the author of the books dotes, and she offers powerful strategies to help you overcome these issues. The Book of Knowing, Depres- sion Explained and Sharing Based on Cognitive Behavioural Theory, this book will help you in all the key areas of the Load. She also goes by the relationships, work and money. name Dr Know. Praise for The Book of Knowing: GENRE: Self-help, psychology and popular science ‘This book is gold. It uses such clear, easy-to-read language.’ – New Zealand Herald

‘If only I had read this book when I was a teen, I would’ve saved myself years of confusion and torment.’ – Ghazaleh Golbakhsh, Villainesse

‘Just having a few tools to put in their kete [basket] can lessen a young person’s anxiety; knowing they have something on hand should they need it is reassuring. By carefully selecting a few robust, effective strategies to share, explaining the rationale for using them, and giving clear instructions on their use, Smith makes it more likely readers will give the tools a go. Young people like to know “why”, and Smith makes sure they do, not only with the tools she shares, but as she explains key CBT concepts throughout the book.’ – Louisa Woods, School Counsellor

29 Non-Fiction – Self-Help & Personal Development Slowtopia Brooke McAlary

In her new book the best-selling author of SLOWTOPIA Slow reclaims the movement for a simpler by Brooke McAlary and slower life. January 2021 Extent: tba In 2017, Brooke McAlary wrote Slow, a companion on the long road to living a simpler and more fulfilled life. RIGHTS HELD: World ex North America and UK Since then, Brooke has been published in multiple territories around the world, moved to North RIGHTS SOLD: Available America, toured the States and Canada for close to three months and increased her already huge PREVIOUS RIGHTS SOLD: podcast listenership. But in the two years since Slow: English US (Source- Slow was published, she’s noticed something. books); German (Bastei Luebbe); Chinese Simplified The commodification, or as she says, ‘goopification’, of alternative lifestyles hasleft (Thinkingdom); Chinese Com- Brooke and others completely disillusioned: plex (Business Weekly); Polish (Literackie); Czech (Jota); I want to reclaim slow living for the average among us. I want to show you that you can Russian (Popurri); Vietnamese embrace a slower way of living, starting today, no matter how busy or sceptical you are. (Bestbooks) I’m going to show you how you can do it, and why it’s important. Because yes, all of these changes will have a positive impact on you individually – helping you to stretch time and Brooke McAlary is the creator find beauty and feel more connected – but the real power is in their ability to make the of the award-winning Slow world a better place. One where we are kinder and more generous, where we have time to Home Podcast where she en- connect with our neighbours and to put down our phones and look our friends and family courages thousands of people to live a simpler, slower life. in the eye when we talk. One where we value the natural world we live in so much that we But it wasn’t always like that. want to protect her anyway we can. One where we can tap in to our innate creativity and Six years ago she was over- curiosity and view the world with wonder once more. Not because any of this will make whelmed with two children, you look younger or lose weight, but because it will make this broken, hard-edged world a husband who worked long a better place. hours, a business, a home filled to the brim and a severe case of Brooke highlights seven simple, realistic, accessible things you can do differently that post-natal depression. Every- will have a positive impact on your life and the pace at which you live it. You’ll also thing changed when she began meet scientists and researchers who have valid evidence to back all of this up and you’ll decluttering, which slowly meet people who’ve made these changes in their own lives and found peace and kindness evolved into a complete trans- formation. Now she and her and joy from within circumstances way more challenging than anything the author ever husband are self-employed and experienced. enjoy a life centred on the important things – which, it turns out, aren’t really things at all.

GENRE: Personal development and self-help

30 Non-Fiction – Wellbeing HOW TO GET TO $@# SLEEP! Bernice Tuffery

Sleep. It’s essential but often overlooked – two- HOW TO GET TO $@# thirds of adults in developed nations fail to get SLEEP! the nightly eight hours of sleep recommended by Bernice Tuffery by the World Health Organisation. Technology also plays an increasingly important part in the February 2021 disruption of our sleep, thanks to our obsession Extent: tba with Netflix and our phones.

RIGHTS HELD: World The importance of getting enough sleep is now recognised as being as important as diet and ex- RIGHTS SOLD: Available ercise in decreasing our risk of illness and disease. This book explores why people struggle Bernice Tuffery suffered from to get a good night’s sleep and how to fix it, chronic insomnia for a decade including showing how to do an audit of what’s after having trouble sleeping going on with your sleep; how to keep a sleep when pregnant and after having diary; and how to make changes to your life- a baby. She tried everything – from melatonin to supple- style to improve your sleep. ments, yoga and meditation and sleeping pills. Nothing worked for any length of time. Being a qualitative market researcher, she was determined to research her way out of her sleepless state, and find a natural, long- term effective solution.

GENRE: Health, wellbeing and self-help

31 Non-Fiction – Self-Help & Personal Development 52 New Things in 52 Weeks Lauren Keenan

It was winter. Lauren Keenan was separated 52 NEW THINGS IN 52 from her husband, lonely, and miserable. Then WEEKS came the Night of Doom: asking 27 people to by Lauren Keenan hang out one Friday night, and every single person saying no. Her attempts to console herself December 2020 by going to the movies and eating ice-cream Extent: tba were thwarted by dropping her ice-cream on the toilet floor while fumbling with her phone for RIGHTS HELD: World text messages that weren’t there. Lauren realised that this version of life wasn’t working and RIGHTS SOLD: Available that she needed to re-write her script, so it con- tained more funny dialogue and less wallowing Lauren Keenan is a finalist in a figurative cesspit of despair. It was time to for the Best Emerging Writ- try something new. 52 new things in fact. 52 er category in the 2019 Huia new things in 52 weeks. Pikihuia Awards and has two short stories published in the Huia Short Stories 13 Collec- Some of the things Lauren tried: entering a public dance competition, getting fake lashes, tion. She won both the first and starting a Wine and Netflix club, going zip-lining; giving up drinking for six months; go- third prize in the 2017 Huia ing to a music festival on her own, and feeding a lion. Pikihuia Short Story Competi- tion, and was a member of the 52 New Things in 52 Weeks is structured thematically. Each chapter looks at a wider soci- Huia Papa Tupu 2016 writer etal issue and is informed by both Lauren’s extensive research into social psychology and incubator programme. Previous her observations about pop culture. The themes of each chapter are as follows: a woman’s non-fiction publications include complicated relationship with her looks, how technology has changed how we communi- being a regular contributor to cate, love, giving up alcohol, motherhood, the modern epidemic that is loneliness, what it the Natural Parenting Magazine means to be a ‘classy’ lady, depression and other mental health issues, and the uncomfort- and articles published in The Spinoff. able relationship people have with their hopes and dreams.

GENRE: Memoir and person- Her year of new experiences was a game changer. It repaired her relationship with her al development husband, she regained confidence in herself, and she realised how satisfying it can be to push herself to her limits and to do things alone. She also learned that true happiness is more likely to be found in the everyday fabric of life. New and exciting things have their place, but it’s treasuring the mundane moments in between that matter the most.

32 Non-Fiction – Self-Help & Personal Development Your Money Type Melissa Browne

In this breakthrough book you’ll discover YOUR MONEY TYPE your Money Story and your Money Type – by Melissa Browne and just as importantly you’ll learn the habits, triggers and tricks that are right for you July 2020 and your financial wellbeing. Extent: tba When it comes to saving and spending money, RIGHTS HELD: World we’re not all the same. Yet for too long, the financial advice world has treated us as if we are. RIGHTS SOLD: Available Once you realise that the one size fits all ap- PREVIOUS RIGHTS SOLD: proach so many of us have been adopting when Unf*ck Your Finances: Dutch it comes to money doesn’t work for many of (Karakter); English UK (Orion us, it can be liberating. Finally, there’s a reason - Trapeze) why you’ve struggled with money – why you’re perpetually sabotaging, why you’re constantly Melissa Browne is an author, financial advisor, accountant at logger-heads with your partner or why you just can’t seem to be consistent. and financial wellness advocate. She is CEO of the award-win- When it comes to other areas of our life such as food and exercise we’ve embraced a ning accounting and advisory multi-faceted, often highly personalised approach and we recognise that’s important. firm A&TA (Accounting & Tax- Why do we think it’s any different when it comes to our finances? ation Advantage) and CEO of the financial planning business That’s why understanding your Money Story and discovering Your Money Type is the for 28-48 year olds who want to key to financial success. financially grow up, The Money Barre.

Melissa also writes a fortnightly column for the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne’s The Age and has also been a regular contributor to CEO Magazine, Latte Magazine and Gloss Magazine. She makes regular TV and radio appearances. In 2013 she was featured as one of Australia’s 100 most inspiring women in Madison magazine and in 2016 was named one of The Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence.

GENRE: Self-help and financial independence

33 Non-Fiction – Self-Help & Personal Development Mission Focus Bram Connolly

Powerful, personal and hard-fought life les- MISSION FOCUS sons from a Special Forces commander. A Special Forces commander’s hard fought To be a good leader you first have to be a good lessons forged through follower, but to be a great leader you have to re- combat and adversity by Bram Connolly member that being a good follower wasn’t easy.

August 2020 Imagine having access to the planning, train- Extent: tba ing and motivational secrets of Australia’s most elite military operators; then imagine being able to adapt what they know to your own everyday RIGHTS HELD: World life. This is what Bram Connolly gives us in this surprising and clear-headed manual for person- RIGHTS SOLD: Available al leadership, resilience and success. Bram Connolly turned to writ- Through the tedium of training as a raw recruit ing after a 20-year career within the Australian Army, retiring and in the pitch of battle during the war in Afghanistan, Bram Connolly reminds us among from the Special Forces as a other things that it’s okay to be bored, that laziness can quickly become an habit, that there Major in 2011. He was awarded are advantages in being scared and that it is okay to let go. Autobiographical, honest, and the Distinguished Service Med- self-deprecating, Mission Focus offers 26 powerful lessons that can be used in all aspects al for Leadership in Combat in of life. Afghanistan 2010. He has also served in Somalia and Timor, and was a founding member of the Tactical Assault Group. He has a highly successful weekly podcast and is a popular corporate speaker.

GENRE: Personal development and memoir

34 Non-Fiction – Popular Science & Psychology The Music Advantage Dr Anita Collins

Can learning music help our children learn THE MUSIC ADVANTAGE to read and write? Can playing in an orches- How music helps your child’s tra develop social skills? What is the effect of brain music on the developing brain? by Anita Collins In this major new book Dr Anita Collins, a neu- September 2020 352 pages romusical educator and consultant on the hit ABC TV series Don’t Stop the Music, demon- strates how learning music can bring about RIGHTS HELD: World huge benefits for children. She explains the ground-breaking research that shows how play- RIGHTS SOLD: Available ing an instrument can improve language abil- ities, social skills, concentration, impulse con- Dr Anita Collins is an trol, emotional development, working memory award-winning educator, re- and planning and strategy skills. Throughout searcher and writer in the field the book she provides real-life case studies to- of brain development and music learning. She is international- gether with practical strategies to show the difference music learning can make to the life ly recognised for her unique of every child. work in translating the scientific research of neuroscientists and psychologists to parents, teachers and students. In 2014 Anita wrote one of the most watched TED Education films ever made, ‘How Playing an In- strument Benefits Your Brain’, (currently this has been viewed over 35 million times worldwide), which led to an invitation to speak at TEDXCanberra later that year. Anita regularly pres- ents her research on television, radio and through her scholarly and popular writings. She was the lead on-screen expert in the ABC TV series Don’t Stop the Music and is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Canberra and Associate Fellow of Music, Mind and Wellbeing at the University of Melbourne.

GENRE: Popular science and parenting

35 Non-Fiction – Wellbeing Balance & Other B.S. Felicity Harley

When having it all becomes doing it all: a BALANCE & OTHER B.S. guide to mastering the mental load. How to hold it together when you’re having doing it all Is your life as busy AF (and not in a good way)? by Felicity Harley Are you losing control? Can’t see your way through the overwhelm? Or April 2020 238 pages mental load? Stop right now. You can restore order, rebuild your confidence, renew your wellness... RIGHTS HELD: World There’s never been a better time to be a wom- RIGHTS SOLD: Available an – we can have it all! That’s what feminism promised, didn’t it? Felicity Harley is one of Australia’s most respected As we juggle the roles of partner, boss, friend, contributors to women’s health mother and employee (plus a side hustle), bal- discussions through her work on the country’s leading women’s ance has never been more crucial. We’re obsessed with everything wellness, yet women’s magazines and websites for the mental health and wellbeing are in decline. We’re drowning in feminist guilt while trying past 20 years. to keep everything afloat, plagued by perfectionism, riddled with doubt, ruled by screens and hurtling towards burnout. She appears regularly on TV, radio and as a keynote speaker. When Felicity Harley, founding editor of Women’s Health magazine and whimn.com.au, Felicity is a proud mum to three felt really out of kilter, she started talking to other women about their overwhelm. The young kids, Jimmy, Hugo and floodgates opened. Turns out her girlfriends, colleagues and other mums at the school Arabella, and wife of Tom Har- gate had been quietly worrying about the personal cost of modern life and why their well- ley, Sydney Swans CEO. ness wasn’t working too. GENRE: Wellbeing and self- help Out of those conversations comes this rallying cry for every woman who craves balance but is shouldering the mental load, too tired and crazy-busy to see solutions.

Using research and insights from leading Australian experts in health, sociology and feminism – alongside wisdom from smart women like Turia Pitt and Tanya Plibersek – plus her own experiences, Felicity calls out the crap in cult wellness. In her warm and inspiring way, she shows how you can cut through the B.S. to find clarity in the chaos, offload some of your mental load, and feel truly empowered in the middle of your wonderfully messy life.

36 Non-Fiction – Self-Help & Personal Development Glide Lisa Forrest

A unique and insightful story that will in- GLIDE spire readers to quiet their critical voices and Taking the panic out of take the panic out of modern living. modern living by Lisa Forrest It’s my hope that by the end of this book I will have convinced you that a combination of mind- March 2020 272 pages fulness, self-compassion and compassion is all you need to get on your own side – and to help others get on theirs. And when we can all do RIGHTS HELD: World that, we’ll glide through life’s challenges.

RIGHTS SOLD: Available Glide is the story of what happened when se- rial-achiever Lisa Forrest (Olympian, TV and Lisa Forrest first became a radio broadcaster, author, actor, wife, mother) household name when she burst took time out to answer a question that had been onto the international swimming weighing her down for years: Why, no matter scene in 1978 as a 14-year-old and she captained the Aus- what she achieved, was she never enough for herself? tralian swimming team to the 1980 Moscow Olympics – one Lisa discovered that the get-tough lessons from her years in elite sport were the source of of a small band of high profile her problem – in fact, they are the source of much of the illness, burnout and mental health athletes that led the campaign to challenges we all face today. More surprising is the antidote: self-compassion. Could it be defy Malcolm Fraser’s Federal the super-power we’ve all been looking for? Government in its attempt to support the US-led boycott of Drawing on the wisdom of the women who ran Lisa’s first swimming club through to those Games. contemplative neuroscience, Glide offers remarkably honest and calm insights into navi- gating the perils of modern living from a woman who has experienced it all. GENRE: Personal development and self-help Praise for Glide:

‘A love song to self-compassion: here’s a book for anyone who needs to silence the harsh voice inside their own head.’ – Richard Glover, bestselling author of Flesh Wounds

‘In a cluttered, busy, stressful world Glide is a window to finding the space that exists within us – where the clutter falls away, where the negativity transforms, where the chaos is calmed.’ – Tracey Holmes, sports presenter, journalist, TV and radio broadcaster

37 Non-Fiction – Self-Help & Personal Deveolpment Grief on the Run Julie Zarifeh

What happens when your life is rocked by GRIEF ON THE RUN unimaginable loss and grief? How do you How active grieving helped survive and how do you keep going? me cope with devastating loss by Julie Zarifeh Julie Zarifeh shares her tragic story of the double whammy of her 27-year-old son Sam dying June 2020 288 pages in a whitewater rafting accident just 16 days after her 50-year-old husband, Paul, died of pan- creatic cancer. The loss of her beloved husband RIGHTS HELD: World and son threw Julie and her surviving son and daughter into the depths of grief. RIGHTS SOLD: Available She describes how they dealt with this huge Julie Zarifeh is a Consultant impact and how she has been embracing the Clinical Psychologist. She notion of ‘active grieving’, practising what she previously worked across a preaches in her job as a Consultant Clinical Psy- variety of community and dis- trict health board mental health chologist. So far this has included a 450km bike ride around Sri Lanka, raising money to teams and then, following the supply disadvantaged New Zealand children with new bikes; trekking the 900km Camino Christchurch earthquakes, de Santiago across Northern Spain – which was made into a documentary (www.camino became part of a multi-disci- skies.com) – and running the New York City Marathon on behalf of the Mental Health plinary team investigating the Foundation. psychological factors contribut- ing to ‘broken-heart syndrome’. This is an inspirational and ultimately uplifting account of learning to live with grief, with Changing from this clinical to Julie’s experience as a Clinical Psychologist an additional plus. academic/research focus resulted in publications in academic journals, and presentations at New Zealand and international conferences. In 2017, Julie’s life changed dramatically with the deaths of her husband and son. This fuelled in Julie a passion for resilience psychology as she worked to accept and adjust to the double bereavement. She is now studying for a Diploma in Positive Psychology and Wellbeing, and she recently featured in the documentary Camino Skies about walking the Camino.

GENRE: Psychology, self-help and memoir

38 Non-Fiction – Wellbeing The Wine O’Clock Myth Lotta Dann

The Wine O’Clock Myth takes an in-depth look THE WINE O’CLOCK at the drinking habits of women. It’s written MYTH through the lens of Lotta Dann’s own story and The truth about women and her work in the field of recovery and addic- alcohol tion today. It contains evidence-based research by Lotta Dann gleaned from primary sources, and numerous June 2020 interviews with experts in many fields. 288 pages As well as examining the normalising of alcohol, The Wine O’Clock Myth explores the glo- RIGHTS HELD: World rification that goes on with regards to this drug. It discusses when and how the alcohol industry RIGHTS SOLD: Available began specifically targeting women, unpicking the tactics they employ to target female custom- Lotta Dann started drink- ers. It looks at the rise of the now-ubiquitous ing aged fifteen, trained as a ‘Wine Mum’ culture on social media and the journalist aged eighteen and then spent the next twenty-plus role the alcohol industry and media companies play in perpetuating this. years perfecting both skills. She built a successful career as a TV It also investigates the impact that regular, heavy drinking has on women, both physically reporter, producer and director and emotionally. It looks at the emotional impacts – the numbing, dulling and disconnec- while simultaneously develop- tion that can occur – and the physical impacts: the problems alcohol can cause in the body ing a remarkable aptitude for and the increased risk of diseases. drinking a lot of alcohol. Lotta now lives sober with her hus- But while the book offers a big-picture analysis, it also provides an intimate view of the band and three sons in the hills issue by featuring the voices of women sharing their personal stories, revealing the perva- of Wellington, New Zealand. sive and negative impact alcohol can have on a woman’s life. These personal reflections She is the author of Mrs D is Going Without and Mrs D is contain tales of emotional disconnection, diminished power, confused thinking and dam- Going Within, and she hosts the aged relationships. There are also uplifting stories of the remarkable transformations that highly successful online com- can occur when alcohol is removed. munity Living Sober.

GENRE: Health, wellbeing and self-help

39 Non-Fiction – Parenting Man Raises Boy Rob Sturrock

A book from the front lines of modern father- MAN RAISES BOY hood. A revolutionary approach for fathers who want to raise Welcome to Rob Sturrock’s journey into par- kind, confident and happy enting. Since the birth of his daughter, Rob has sons by Rob Sturrock been passionate about being an active and present father, but this hasn’t always been straight- March 2020 forward. Struggling with stereotypes, judge- 328 pages ment, identity and isolation while on parental leave, Rob has tried to balance supporting his wife and young children with the societal ex- RIGHTS HELD: World pectation of being a breadwinner for his family.

RIGHTS SOLD: Available With the arrival of his son, a new set of anxi- eties was born. In today’s climate, how do you Rob Sturrock is an author and raise a boy? The roar of the #MeToo movement working father. He has written widely about his experiences has meant that men have had to learn to listen, and to confront their masculinity and of being a working dad and what it means to be a man. Through extensive research and interviews with dads doing it juggling the responsibilities of differently – including Tony Sheldon, Adam Liaw and Bernie Shakeshaft – Rob Sturrock home and work. Rob has been explores a new era of fathering that balances strength and vulnerability, allowing men published online in Women’s to voice their insecurities and uncertainties, and encouraging them to truly cherish their Agenda, Mamamia and Circle families. In, as well as in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Man Raises Boy is at once an insightful and necessary call to arms for all new fathers, a the Huffington Post. Rob also guiding hand in the maze of love, guilt, anxiety and joy in fatherhood – and an ordinary appears on the ABC and Chan- dad’s beautifully moving love letter to his son. nel 9 to talk about his views on fatherhood and is considered a leading father’s voice in parent- Praise for Man Raises Boy: ing debates. ‘Raw, inspiring and brutally honest. If you have a son, read this book.’ – Madonna King, best- GENRE: Parenting and cul- selling author of Fathers and Daughters tural and social issues

40 Non-Fiction – Wildlife Flight Lines Andrew Darby

Andrew Darby follows the extraordinary mi- FLIGHT LINES gratory shorebirds from Australia’s south- Across the globe on a journey ern ocean to the Arctic and back. On these with the astonishing ultra- travels he explores the power of science to re- marathon birds veal the mysteries of these birds, and to heal by Andrew Darby both their endangered world – and unexpect- February 2020 edly – himself. 336 pages As the sun lowered and turned Gulf St Vin- cent fiery, they each called a high-pitched RIGHTS HELD: World ‘peeooowiii!’, flashed their black wing-pits, spread their tail skirts and took flight. RIGHTS SOLD: English US (Pegasus) Andrew Darby follows the odysseys of two Grey Plovers, little-known migratory shore- Andrew Darby is the author birds, as they take previously uncharted ultra- of Harpoon: Into the heart of whaling, and former Hobart marathon flights from the southern coast of Australia to Arctic breeding grounds. On these correspondent for the Sydney extraordinary flights they chance predators, typhoon weather and exhaustion before they Morning Herald and The Age. can breed, and maybe return to familiar southern feeding grounds. But the greatest threat to these, and other long-distance migrants on the flyway, is China’s dragon economy, en- GENRE: Nature observation gulfing their vital Yellow Sea staging spots. and environment The author meets the dedicated people working to save these intrepid birds, from Russia to Alaska, and the rim of the Arctic Sea to the coasts of the Southern Ocean. Out of their hard-won science he finds hope for the birds – a bright light for our times.

But his journey to understand this work and these birds almost ends when he is suddenly diagnosed with an incurable cancer. Then he finds science coming to his rescue too.

Praise for Flight Lines:

‘An epic journey soaring on the wings of feather-scraps. Exquisitely told.’ – Wendy Harmer, writer and broadcaster

‘A tender account of the trials, tribulations and triumphs of Australia’s shorebirds in their extraordinary pursuit of eternal spring, and the scientists who fight to preserve their flyways.’ – Penny Olsen, author of Night Parrot

‘A magnificent and personal account of the world we share with migratory shorebirds’ – Heather Rose, author of the award-winning novel Museum of Modern Love and Bruny

41 Non-Fiction – Current Issues Six Capitals Jane Gleeson-White

An accessible, timely and fascinating account SIX CAPITALS of the revolution going on in the world of fi- Capitalism, climate change, nance from the acclaimed author of Double and the accounting revolution Entry – now fully revised and updated. that can save the planet by Jane Gleeson-White This is the story of a 21st-century revolution being April 2020 led by the most unlikely of rebels: accountants. 272 pages It is only the second revolution in accounting since double-entry bookkeeping emerged in RIGHTS HELD: World medieval Italy – and it is of seismic proportions, driven by the 2008 financial crash and the envi- RIGHTS SOLD: Available ronmental crisis. The changes it will wreak are profound and far-reaching. They will transform not only the way the world does business but Jane Gleeson-White is the alter the very nature of corporate capitalism. author of Double Entry: How the merchants of Venice shaped the modern world – and how The accounts of nations and corporations are vital to the global economy. They translate their invention could make or value into the language of modern times – numbers and money – in the shape of GDP break the planet (2011), which and profit figures. They rule the world. But increasingly the world is coming to realise won the 2012 Waverly Library that the seemingly endless growth that capital offers us is in fact limited by the earth’s Award for Literature and was resources and comes at a huge price to the planet and our own wellbeing. It simply cannot shortlisted for the 2013 NSW be sustained. Premier’s Literary Awards, The Age Book of the Year Award This revolution demands that we start accounting for nature and society. It urges us to and the Queensland Literary rethink our idea of capital, insisting that the familiar categories of industrial and financial Awards. She is also the author of Australian Classics (2007) capital bequeathed by the mercantile and industrial ages be broadened to include four new and Classics (2005). Jane is a categories of wealth: intellectual, human, social and natural. Incorporating them into our PhD student in creative writing financial statements and GDP figures could be the only way to address the many crises at the University of New South we face today. Wales and has degrees in economics and literature from the Just two years ago this revolution seemed idealistic and unlikely. Today it is unfolding University of Sydney. She was at speed. 2012 was the sea-change year, in which two key initiatives took root: an in- also an intern at the Peggy Gug- ternational movement to transform corporate accounting, and the rise of natural capital genheim Collection in Venice. accounting for nations and the global economy. Six Capitals tells the story of their rise to prominence, which signals a new age in capitalism, and evaluates their promise – and GENRE: Economics their threat.

Praise for Six Capitals:

‘A fascinating read. Gleeson-White artfully captivates the reader as she explores the fast evolving language, metrics, actors and laws that are profoundly reshaping “capital” in the 21st century.’ – Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics

42 Non-Fiction – Current Issues The Carbon Club Marian Wilkinson

A climate crisis that shocked the world ex- THE CARBON CLUB posed without fear or favour. How a network of influential climate sceptics, politicians As the climate crisis threatens more extreme and business leaders fought bushfire seasons, droughts and floods, many to control Australia’s climate Australians are demanding their leaders ex- policy by Marian Wilkinson plain, ‘Why didn’t you do something?’ This book answers that question. June 2020 448 pages The Carbon Club is the story of the how influential climate science sceptics, politicians and business leaders sought to control Australia’s RIGHTS HELD: World response to the climate crisis. They shared a fear that dealing with climate change would under- RIGHTS SOLD: Available mine the nation’s wealth, jobs and competitive advantage – and the power of the carbon club. Marian Wilkinson was a senior Fairfax journalist for many years and ended up as Deputy Central to their strategy was an international campaign to undermine climate science and Editor of the Sydney Morning the urgency of climate crisis. The more the climate science was questioned, the more Herald. She then became a Se- politicians lost the imperative to act. The sustained success of the carbon club over two nior Producer at Four Corners. decades explains why Australian governments failed to deal with the challenge of climate She is regarded as one of the change. But at what cost to us and the next generation? most distinguished journalists in Australia. She was co-author One of Australia’s most respected investigative journalists, Marian Wilkinson has tracked with David Marr of Dark Victo- the rise and rise of the Australia’s carbon club in brilliant detail with extraordinary access ry and the author of The Fixer: to key players on all sides. The result is a book that is both essential and disturbing read- the untold story of Graham Richardson. ing.

GENRE: Environment and Key Notes: current affairs • Marian has had incredible access to all the major players – from ex-prime ministers to CEOs and business leaders • This is the inside story of the political and PR forces behind international climate scepticism • This is probably the most topical subject in Australia today • Major national news extract on release as well as national television and radio interview campaign

43 Non-Fiction – Current Issues Dangerous Skies Jim Eames

Dangerous Skies unpacks the issues that DANGEROUS SKIES should concern us every time we step onto an How airlines keep us safe aircraft. and what happens when they don’t The year 2017 was something of a watershed by Jim Eames for the world air transport industry – the safest March 2021 year on record, with over 4 billion passengers 264 pages carried without one airline fatality worldwide. Given the number of airline aircraft in the air at any one time this is a remarkable achievement, RIGHTS HELD: World and there is little doubt that developments in flight cockpit automation must largely be cred- RIGHTS SOLD: Available ited with making possible an extremely safe and efficient system. Jim Eames has been involved Unfortunately, 2018 didn’t follow suit and the in aviation since he began work as an aviation writer in the average dropped. And in 2019 the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airline crashes put safety well 1960s. He has been a ministerial and truly back on the agenda again. press secretary and aviation adviser to governments and a The major airline manufacturers Boeing and Airbus are looking at industry airline fleets senior executive with Qantas. that will require more than 40,000 aircraft introduced into service over the next two to He is the author of eight books three decades. And if that figure is not staggering enough, industry estimates suggest including Taking to the Skies: 790,000 pilots will be required to fly them. Resting there near the very top of that world Daredevils, heroes and hijack- aircraft and pilot demand is Asia, of particular relevance to the thousands of Australians ers, The Flying Kangaroo: who board the myriad of airlines that serve the Asian market, many of which didn’t exist Great untold stories of Qan- a decade ago. tas and Courage in the Skies: The untold story of Qantas, its brave men and women and their This raises the question: how do you maintain safety in a vital transport industry which is extraordinary role in World War already showing signs of a safety breaking point? As one leading airline training captain II. has said: ‘With so many hastily trained and low competence airline pilots flying around, should we really rely on them to understand the technology and react properly?’ GENRE: Investigative non-fiction Jim Eames has been thinking about this for some time. With the airline industry running through his veins, he knows what to ask and who to ask, and the answers he’s been getting aren’t necessarily all that reassuring.

44 Non-Fiction – Biography Enid Robert Wainwright

The story of an Australian socialite who fas- ENID cinated the world, from the author of the by Robert Wainwright bestselling Sheila.

July 2020 As Enid Lindeman gallivanted through life she 368 pages accumulated four husbands, numerous lovers, and during the inter-war years her high-jinks RIGHTS HELD: World dominated the gossip columns. Evelyn Waugh satirized her set in Vile Bodies, but the workings RIGHTS SOLD: English UK of his menacing imagination paled in compari- (Atlantic) son to the real thing.

Robert Wainwright has been Born in Australia in 1892, she was the great a journalist for 25 years, rising granddaughter of Henry Lindeman, founder of from the grassroots of country Lindeman Wines. A privileged childhood in- journalism in Western Australia spired Enid to look for a life of glamour and to a senior writer with The Syd- ney Morning Herald. His career excitement. She achieved this at the age of 21 when she married Roderick Cameron, has ranged from politics to an American shipping magnate 24 years her senior. Establishing herself as a New York crime, always focussing on the socialite, she would literally stop traffic when she emerged from the Cameron building people behind the major news in Manhattan. But the celebrated marriage was short-lived. Cameron died from cancer, of the day. He is the author of leaving his young wife a fortune of several million dollars. Rose: The unauthorised biography of Rose Hancock Porteous Her next husband was Brigadier General Frederick Cavendish. After the war, he was giv- (2002), The Lost Boy (2004) en command of the 9th Lancers in Egypt. Enid caused a sensation amongst her husband’s and The Killing of Caroline comrades in Cairo and, as a dare, she reportedly slept with his entire regiment. Byrne (2009).

GENRE: Biography When Caviar died in Paris, she met and married Marmaduke ‘Duke’ Furness, the 1st Vis- count Furness, whose second wife, Thelma, was a lover of the Prince of Wales. Enid held court at Furness’ villa, La Fiorentina, in the south of France. A sensation wherever she went, it was said that people stood on chairs in the lobby of the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo just to catch sight of her as she passed through.

Furness died from cirrhosis of the liver in 1940. After his death, his former wife, Thelma, contested his will, claiming that their son should inherit his estate. The law sided with Thelma. Down on her luck, Enid married Valentine Browne, the Earl of Kenmare. As the confidant and travelling companion of the press magnate Lord Beaverbrook, Valentine had lived an excessive life of debauchery, but he died of a heart attack less than a year after they were married. Having buried four husbands, Somerset Maugham dubbed Enid ‘Lady Killmore’.

In her later years Enid, having outlived her lovers, was revered as a society hostess amongst film stars, with La Fiorentina becoming a hub for Hollywood royalty. She died in 1973 at the age of eighty-one.

45 Non-Fiction – Biography The George Young Story Jeff Apter

Pop star, hit songwriter, producer, mentor THE GEORGE YOUNG and icon – George Young was one of the most STORY important figures in Australian popular mu- by Jeff Apter sic history. August 2020 From his early days with the Easybeats, through Extent: tba his collaboration with partner Harry Vanda as Flash and the Pan and as producers/songwrit- RIGHTS HELD: World ers for hire with John Paul Young, the Angels, Rose Tattoo, Cheetah, Ted Mulry, Stevie Wright RIGHTS SOLD: Available and, most crucially, AC/DC, Young co-wrote, co-performed and co-produced such classics as Jeff Apter is the author of ‘Friday on my Mind’. more than 20 music biogra- phies, many of them bestsellers. Young wasn’t so much on the charts for the best His subjects include Johnny part of three decades: he and Vanda were the O’Keefe, Keith Urban, John Farnham, the Bee Gees, the charts. In 2001, APRA voted ‘Friday on my Mind’ as the ‘best and most significant Aus- Finn brothers and Angus Young tralian song of the past 75 years.’ In 2004, a cover of 1974’s ‘Evie’ by Aussie ‘supergroup’ of AC/DC. Jeff was on staff at the Wrights hit the number on chart position, a rare occurrence of the same song topping Rolling Stone for several years the charts twice. and has written about legends such as Aretha Franklin, Patti George’s story is an immigrant story. George was one of eight Young siblings who re- Smith, Robbie Robertson, Bob located from rough and tumble Glasgow to very working-class Sydney in 1963. He met Dylan, Chrissie Hynde and Vanda, the son of Dutch migrants, at the Villawood Migrant Hostel in 1964, a fortuitous Lucinda Williams. Away from moment that Australian Musician magazine rated as ‘the most important event in Aus- music, Jeff has also worked tralian pop and rock music history.’ Young, in particular, never shunned his roots, even on books with soldiers, diplo- mats and sports greats such as when he and Vanda became perhaps the most successful studio team on the planet. ‘Never Michael Slater and Tim Cahill. forget you’re working class,’ he’d advise his younger siblings, Malcolm and Angus, as He lives in Wollongong, New their star rose incredibly high with AC/DC. ‘Stay Glasgow.’ South Wales, with his wife, two children and a cat that’s so In this long overdue examination of the life and work of George Young, the first book to damned cool it needs no name. focus exclusively on him, writer Jeff Apter explores his three key relationships: Young’s long and fruitful association with Vanda; his rare ability to maintain a stable a married life GENRE: Music biography with his wife Sandra; and the handshake deal with Ted Albert that helped create a music empire. The book also reveals such little-known facts as the accident that almost killed off ‘Down Among the Dead Men’ before its release, and the full story about Vanda’s wife’s suicide, on the eve of the Easybeats’ departure for the UK, which cast a large shadow over the pair throughout their working life.

46 Non-Fiction – Travel & History Southeast Asia 13th Ed Milton Osborne

A lively and easy to read guide to Southeast SOUTHEAST ASIA Asian history written by one of the world’s An introductory history pre-eminent historians of the area. 13th edition by Milton Osborne The first edition ofSoutheast Asia: An introductory history was published in 1979 and imme- July 2020 376 pages diately filled a need for travellers and students interested in a tantalisingly different part of the world. Subsequent editions (translated into Jap- RIGHTS HELD: World anese, Khmer, Korean and Thai) have contin- ued to document with great perception the enor- RIGHTS SOLD: Available mous changes and dramatic growth experienced in the region. Dr Milton Osborne is a writer and consultant on Asian issues Dr Milton Osborne has been a resident, student and the author of many books, and fascinated observer of Southeast Asia for including Sihanouk: Prince of Light, Prince of Darkness, River over 50 years. This familiarity has resulted in a highly readable and lively chronicle. Road to China, The Mekong: While giving due regard to the early history of the region, Osborne concentrates on the Turbulent past, uncertain changes that have taken place since the eighteenth century: the impact of colonial rule, future and Exploring Southeast economic transformations of the 19th and 20th centuries, the emergence and triumph of Asia: A traveller’s guide to the the independence movements, the impact of social change and the pivotal roles played by region. He is a regular visitor to religion, ethnic minorities and immigrant groups. He also provides an introduction to the Southeast Asia and for the past art of the region and a comprehensive guide to literature about Southeast Asia. decade has been a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute for Clearly written and extensively illustrated this 13th edition of Southeast Asia remains a International Policy, Sydney. classic in the field. GENRE: Travel and history Praise for Southeast Asia:

‘While deepening our understanding of Southeast Asia, this fine introduction reminds us of the importance of history itself.’ – Anthony Milner, Basham Professor of Asian History, Austra- lian National University

‘Still one of the best short introductory histories to the region.’ – Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University

47 Non-Fiction – History & Travel The Last Navigator Gordon Goodwin as told to Paul Goodwin

An extraordinary first-person story of a boy THE LAST NAVIGATOR from the Queensland bush who survived the From the Queensland bush dangers of Bomber Command to become to Bomber Command and Qantas’ last navigator. Pathfinders – a true story of courage and survival against The choking, chest-tightening feeling of being the odds by Gordon Goodwin as told to trapped in a burning Lanc, enduring the uncer- Paul Goodwin tainty, you count down the requisite sixty seconds for the tanks to blow. Your skip, rated an July 2020 exceptional heavy bomber pilot, has thrown off 352 pages the fighters with yet another brilliant corkscrew manoeuvre. You stifle the flames and navigate a safe course to get your badly wounded bomber RIGHTS HELD: World home. RIGHTS SOLD: Available Gordon Goodwin was a decorated airman and Gordon Goodwin died in 2012 an inspired leader. During World War II, he served in probably the most dangerous oc- aged 95. He wrote a memoir cupation of all, with the Pathfinders leading bombing raids into Germany. He survived (which forms the basis of this 23 Pathfinder missions, including nine over Berlin, and 65 missions over enemy territory manuscript) and sat with his son with Bomber Command (of the 10,000 Australians flying with Bomber Command, 3500 expanding on these memories. died in the air). But to survive his childhood was perhaps a greater achievement. Raised Gordon retired from Qantas in cruel and loveless circumstances near Brisbane during the Depression, it is remarkable in 1971 as the airline’s Chief that he achieved what he did, going on to become Qantas’ chief navigator. Navigator with the arrival of the Boeing 747. This is the first-hand account of Gordon’s brave, crazy and dangerous war experiences as told to his son Paul. As Paul says, ‘My father told me that to survive you had to surrender Paul Gordon is retired having had a long and very successful all hope’. This was the extraordinary formula followed by the men of Bomber Command career in marketing and execu- to get through, the chances of remaining alive and unhurt. You had to blot out all possibil- tive positions. ities of demise and disaster and focus only on the mission at hand.

GENRE: History and memoir

48 Non-Fiction – Memoir The Last Lighthouse Keeper

John Cook with Jon Bauer

This is the incredible life story of John Cook, THE LAST LIGHTHOUSE one of Australia’s longest-serving lighthouse KEEPER keepers, of a sort like they don’t exist any- A memoir more. by John Cook with Jon Bauer In Tasmania, John is known as ‘the Keeper of July 2020 320 pages the Flame’. He’s renowned as one of the last of the kerosene keepers: he spent a good part of his 26-year career in Tasmanian lighthouses tend- RIGHTS HELD: World ing kerosene, not electrical, lamps. John joined the lighthouse service in 1969, after a spell in RIGHTS SOLD: Available the merchant marine. Through to the mid-90s he looked after Tasmania’s well-known ‘Lights’ John Cook is a former light- on Tasman Island, Bruny Island, Eddystone house keeper, Australian Point and Maatsuyker Island. through and through, a thoughtful and charming storyteller of the old sort. Keepers took watches around the clock, in a system similar to that on a ship. Day watches weren’t a chance to slack off: standing orders required the watchkeeper to look seawards GENRE: History and memoir at least every half-hour and to log sightings of any vessels, and their course, in the area.

It was a harsh life. But John didn’t mind it. Far from reviling work on isolated islands such as Maatsuyker, Australia’s southernmost lighthouse, he discovered that he loved the solitude and delighted in the sense of purpose that light keeping gave him.

49 Non-Fiction – Memoir Eleven Bats Harry Moffitt

Harry Moffitt spent more than 20 years in the ELEVEN BATS SAS (Special Air Service), finally leaving the A story of cricket and the SAS regiment earlier last year. His two decades of by Harry Moffitt service and his multiple tours in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan made him one of the October 2020 SAS’s most experienced and respected figures. Extent: tba Apart from the SAS, Harry’s other lifetime RIGHTS HELD: World love is cricket. He began a tradition of organising teams and matches wherever he was sent, RIGHTS SOLD: Available whether it was in the mountains of East Timor with a fugitive resistance leader, or on the dusty Harry Moffitt was a sergeant in streets of Baghdad, or in the remote villages of the SAS, leaving the regiment Afghanistan. Fellow soldiers, locals and even in 2019 after more than 20 years visiting politicians played in these strange, yet service in it. often bridge-building games. And Harry also GENRE: Military memoir took a cricket bat with him on operational tours, eleven of them in total across his career. and sports They’d travel with him, often go into combat with him, and end up signed by those he met or fought alongside.

His book will use these eleven bats, as well as the cricket games they played in, as the narrative structure and entry point into his two decades of service in the SAS. Combat, adrenaline, and visceral nature of war will come through strongly, but so will a different narrative thread – a larrikin streak of love for a sport that’s so strong it couldn’t be stopped by war zones, IEDs or the threat of ISIS.

50 Non-Fiction – Health & Parenting Your Baby’s Gut Health Dr Vincent Ho

An accessible, practical guide to preventing YOUR BABY’S GUT and managing children’s allergies and im- HEALTH proving their immune systems, from leading by Dr Vincent Ho gastroenterologist Dr Vincent Ho. September 2020 A must-read for every parent and parent-to-be. 288 pages Almost one in five children suffer from -aller RIGHTS HELD: World gies, and this number is rising year on year. From eczema, asthma and hay fever to reactions RIGHTS SOLD: Available to dairy, nuts, gluten and seafood, childhood allergies are a constant source anxiety for parents Dr Vincent Ho is an academic and can have devastating consequences. researcher, educator and gastroenterologist. In addition to a With international research exploding in the medical degree and specialist field of gut health, the medical community have medical qualification (gastroenterologist), he holds a Master’s pinpointed the first 1000 days of a baby’s life as a crucial stage in the development of a degree in Medicine (Clinical healthy gut. From conception to birth; breastfeeding to the introduction of solid foods, Epidemiology) and a PhD in there are a number of simple steps pregnant women can take to prevent allergies and sup- gastrointestinal pathology. port their child’s immune system. Detailing common symptoms and management strategies for a broad range of allergies in young children, plus exploring the relevance of He is considered an expert in supplements and environment, this important book provides practical, sensible strategies the subject matter of the book for parents to safeguard their child’s health. and has had multiple invita- tions to speak at roundtables of Leading gastroenterologist Dr Vincent Ho has combined the latest medical discoveries industry, nursing and midwifery with his own research into infant gut health, cutting through the scientific jargon to show workshops and nutritionist conferences. He is often invited to just how influential the gut is for babies and infants – and for the adults they will become. comment on gut issues to local and national media.

He is the highest ranked author on The Conversation for West- ern Sydney University. His articles have been viewed over 3.5 million times. They have been reprinted in the popular press and even in other languages for interested readers overseas.

GENRE: Health and parenting

51 Non-Fiction – Lifestyle Raw and Free Sophie Steevens

Sophie Steevens’ hugely popular Instagram RAW AND FREE page depicts her plant-based lifestyle with her Plant-based, family friendly gorgeous family. meals by Sophie Steevens Her stunning cookbook is jam-packed with over 100 delicious, vibrant, plant-based recipes that February 2020 264 pages she has devised, and that her whole family en- joys eating.

RIGHTS HELD: World She also shares her story of overcoming a major health challenge, Graves’ Disease, a serious RIGHTS SOLD: Available autoimmune disease which affects the thyroid. She turned to a plant-based diet to try and re- Sophie Steevens is the blogger verse the disease and to heal holistically. Five behind the super popular and years later, she has fully recovered, beating all inspirational Instagram odds. And not only has she recovered, but she @rawandfree. She’s the mother of three boys and married to is thriving and swears by the plant-based way of living, with her husband and children professional surfer Ricardo having fully embraced it as well. Christie. These easy, family-friendly recipes are grouped into Smoothies and Juices, Breakfast and GENRE: Cooking recipes Brunch, Hearty Salads, Hot Pots and Warming Mains, Snacks and Dips, Raw Treats, and Basics, including dressings and sauces.

Key Notes:

• There’s great information to help readers get started with plant-based eating, including material such as top tips, kitchen essentials, ingredient staples and an acid/alkaline food chart • Beautifully photographed at amazing locations, this book is a delight to read and will inspire anyone with its clever recipes and helpful advice

52 Non-Fiction – Lifestyle A Natural Year Wendyl Nissen

Wendyl’s story of living the simple life in the A NATURAL YEAR country: gardening, foraging, fishing and the Living simply through the freedom she has found in ageing. Beautifully seasons illustrated and including 100 new and deli- by Wendyl Nissen cious recipes. March 2020 376 pages A Natural Year follows writer Wendyl Nissen’s life in the peaceful New Zealand countryside over one year. RIGHTS HELD: World It’s the story of what happens in her garden, her RIGHTS SOLD: Available kitchen and her life over twelve months, and the thoughts inspired by each passing season.

Wendyl Nissen is a journalist, She writes about the freedom that she has found in ageing and the joy that comes along broadcaster and former maga- with it. She addresses her depression, anxiety and the mental wellbeing she’s gained from zine editor who is the author of nine books, mostly about living her back-to-basics lifestyle and the practical things she does to live in a sustainable, nat- a chemical-free, old-fashioned ural way. life. She left the corporate world 19 years ago and now lives With photographs taken at her home in Northland, Wendyl shares 100 new recipes, in- in the Hokianga on the North cluding how to make yeast from grapes, yoghurt using chilli stalks and many others she Island of New Zealand with has discovered. her husband, 10 chickens (and counting), two dogs and two In a world which can be full of stress and confusion, A Natural Year is a guide to a stray cats. simpler, less complicated life. GENRE: Lifestyle, cooking Eat free-range recipes and memoir If you’re reading this book and you’re not eating free-range eggs and meat then you probably want to but can’t, either because of price or availability. In my nearest town, neither supermarket stocks free-range chicken, eggs or pork, because people in Kaikohe don’t have a lot of money. They can’t afford to support free-range and that is fine by me because that’s not their job. Their job is to put food on the table. But if you can afford it, then it is your job. I can afford to pay a few dollars extra for free-range bacon when I can find it and I consider it a donation to the world. This helps produce more free-range bacon (they also don’t use sulphites and sulphates to preserve their meat and cure it the old-fashioned, natural way) and to support them in making a choice to use meat that is farmed without cruelty. I do the same for chicken, eggs and pork. In my lifetime I’ve signed a lot of petitions but it’s really been the activists who have worked so hard to get chickens in battery cages banned, getting pigs out of crates and stopping many of the cruel and inhumane practices carried out on our farms to get us our meat. I think the least we can do as consumers is reward those farmers who took notice and spent a lot of money investing in new equipment so that they could do free-range. Your consumer spend rewards those guys.

Source local alcohol or make your own

In recent years it has become much easier to source local wines, beers and spirits. By doing this you are reducing the amount of fossil fuel that is used to get you your bottle of French champagne when we make perfectly good sparkling wines in New Zealand. We are also brewing great craft beers and wonderful vodkas and gins. So make a good choice next time you have a drink and not only save the environment a bit but also support Kiwi-made. Or make your own. Here are my three favourite recipes for making your own tipple. Old-fashioned no-knead tank loaf

4 cups high-grade baking flour 166 A Natural Year ½ tsp granulated yeast (not Surebake) 1½ tsp salt about 2 cups water

In the evening while you are cooking dinner or doing the dishes, put the flour, yeast and salt into a large bowl. Gradually pour on the water, stirring, until you have a nice wet dough. It should look sticky, not runny.

Place a plastic bag or a beeswax wrap over it and put it in a nice quiet, warm place for the night.

In the morning take the dough out of the bowl and put it on a floured board. Mould it into a loaf shape and put it into a large loaf tin that you have sprayed with oil. Put the plastic bag back over it and leave in a warm place for 2 hours.

Preheat the oven to 200°C. Bake for 20–30 minutes. The loaf should be golden on top, and when you tap the bottom it should sound hollow.

Cool on a rack before you slice into it, or you will ruin its lovely shape.

Wholegrain version

To make a wholegrain version cover a cup of grains in warm water in the morning. The grains will swell and start to sprout. Drain well and add them to the flour when you make your bread.

My favourite grains to use are a mix of ¼ cup barley, ¼ cup chia seed and ½ cup kibbled wheat.

82 A Natural Year 83 Summer 53 Non-Fiction – Lifestyle Mums Who Clean Rachael Hallett and Karlie Sutton

Mums Who Clean will give advice to readers MUMS WHO CLEAN on how to keep their entire home clean with a by Rachael Hallett and Karlie focus on fast yet deep cleaning. Using the vast Sutton knowledge from more than 100,000 mothers, Mums Who Clean will bring it all together in an September 2020 easy to read format. Extent: tba The book will compile cleaning tips by room RIGHTS HELD: World and provide tips on how best to clean specific items and surfaces within that room as well as RIGHTS SOLD: Available how to clean specific spills and trouble areas. Readers will be offered options where possible, Karlie Suttie is a 38-year-old as there is never just one way which will suit mother of three girls. Karlie re- every home. sides in Clyde with her husband and children. She is a small business owner and works from Key Notes: home as well as being dedicated to the Mums Who brand. • The Mums Who Facebook groups have built a community of real women. The most popular groups are Mums Who Clean with 142,000 members, Mums Who Organise with 137,000 Rachael Hallett is a 31-year- members and Mums Who Budget & Save with 128,000 members old mother of two boys. Ra- • Marie Kondo and Mrs Hinch in the UK have led a new wave of interest in cleaning and chael lives in Cranbourne with organising her husband and sons. Rachael runs a small plumbing business with her husband and mostly works from home as well as being heavily involved with the Mums Who brand.

GENRE: Home improvement

54 Non-Fiction – Baking Magnolia Kitchen Design Bernadette Gee

After the huge worldwide success of her first MAGNOLIA KITCHEN book Magnolia Kitchen (more than 15,000 cop- DESIGN ies sold), Bernadette Gee brings us a spectacu- by Bernadette Gee lar new book, focusing on the design elements of her incredible cakes. Her fans have requested September 2020 more amazing images of her stunning creations Extent: tba and more how-to instructions, and she has de- livered. RIGHTS HELD: World Magnolia Kitchen Design includes several cake RIGHTS SOLD: Available design projects, each one being described in detail with a written brief from the customer, Bets Gee is a highly successful initial design sketches, mood board of design baker and business owner. Her ideas, step-by-step work in progress as the cake baking creations can be found is constructed, the final cake, and then the final cake in situ at the wedding, party or event. on Instagram: @magnoliakitch- en There are also step-by-step guides for design techniques such as stencilling, lace work, GENRE: Baking and recipes using fresh florals, stacking a three-tier cake for travel, and hand painting.

With great new recipes for cakes, icings and fillings, this book is the complete package to inspire bakers at every level. It’s another beautiful creation from Bets and will be loved by her fans, old and new.

55 Recent Highlights

56 Non-Fiction – Memoir The Note Through the Wire Doug Gold

PUBLISHING IN THE US AND THE UK THE NOTE THROUGH THE AND IN MULTIPLE FOREIGN TERRITO- WIRE RIES IN 2020. A WWII prisoner of war, a resistance heroine and their An extraordinary true story of a love that incredible true story by Doug Gold emerged, against all odds, between two young people from opposite sides of the globe April 2019 as they fought for freedom during World 336 pages War II.

In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two peo- RIGHTS HELD: World ex ple meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. One Italy, Spain and Portugal is an underground resistance fighter; the other a prisoner of war. A crumpled note passes be- RIGHTS SOLD: English US tween these two strangers and sets them on a (William Morrow); English course that will change their lives forever. UK (Ebury); Dutch (Harp- erCollins); Slovenian (tba); Polish (tba) The Note Through the Wire is the true story of Josefine Lobnik, a Yugoslav partisan heroine, and Bruce Murray, a New Zealand soldier, who, due to a succession of near-impossi- Doug Gold has had a long and ble coincidences, discover love in the midst of a brutal war. successful media career. With a business partner, he set up the Woven through this tale of great bravery, daring escapes, betrayal, torture and retaliation More FM radio network and, is the remarkable story of a love that survived against all odds. This is an extraordinary later, was a founding partner of account of two ordinary people living through the unimaginable hardship of Hitler’s bar- NRS Media, an international baric regime. media company with offices in London, Atlanta, Toronto and Sydney. He has won numerous Praise for The Note Through the Wire: broadcasting awards and con- sulted to major media networks ‘An unforgettable love story set in perilous circumstances. It is a reminder that even in the most globally. He lives in Wellington horrific times love will find a way and ultimately conquer. I can’t recommend it enough.’ – with his wife, Anemarie. Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz

GENRE: Memoir and narra- ‘Sensational – an absolute page-turner, full of love but also the grim realities of what war was tive non-fiction like for those on the ground.’ – Emma Clifton, The Australian Women’s Weekly

‘Gripping and, ultimately, uplifting…The Note Through the Wire is an extraordinary tale of survival against unbelievable odds and of the power of love to transcend obstacles, difficulties and boundaries.’ – Steve Walker, Sunday Star Times

57 Non-Fiction – Humour Kitty Flanagan’s 388 Rules for Life Kitty Flanagan

NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING TITLE – KITTY FLANAGAN’S 388 MORE THAN 130,000 COPIES SOLD RULES FOR LIFE The thankless art of being 488 Rules for Life is Kitty Flanagan’s way of correct making the world a more pleasant place to by Kitty Flanagan live. Providing you with the antidote to ev- October 2019 ery annoying little thing, these rules are not 320 pages made to be broken.

488 Rules for Life is not a self-help book, be- RIGHTS HELD: World cause it’s not you who needs help, it’s other people. Whether they’re walking and texting, RIGHTS SOLD: English US asphyxiating you on public transport with their (Andrews McMeel); English noxious perfume cloud, or leaving one useless UK (HarperCollins) square of toilet paper on the roll, a lot of people just don’t know the rules. At school Kitty was a small, stick-like child with large front teeth and fuzzy hair. Nothing But thanks to Kitty Flanagan’s comprehensive guide to modern behaviour, our world will much has changed. After several soon be a much better place. A place where people don’t ruin the fruit salad by putting ba- attempts at university the gov- nana in it … where your co-workers respect your olfactory system and don’t reheat their ernment introduced HECS and fish curry in the office microwave … where middle aged men don’t have ponytails … the free ride was over. Advertis- ing beckoned because it seemed What started as a joke on Kitty Flanagan’s popular segment on ABC TV’s The Weekly, is like the job that paid the most now a quintessential reference book with the power to change society. (Or, at least, make money for the least amount of it a bit less irritating.) qualifications. Eventually she was fired. So then she tried doing stand-up. Then she got a job What people are (Kitty Flanagan is) saying about this book: on Full Frontal (a sketch show, not a nudie mag). Then she ‘You’re welcome everyone.’ moved to London and did stand- up. Another sketch show. A ‘Thank god for me.’ short film. After that, she wrote stuff for the BBC and Channel ‘I’d rather be sad and lonely, but right.’ Four. Then Kitty moved back to Australia where she is now ‘There’s not actually 488 rules in here but it sure feels like it.’ probably best known for her regular appearances on The Project. She also had a segment Key Notes: on Charlie Pickering’s show The Weekly. Aware that stand-up is • Kitty has a loyal and engaged fan base, with over 110,000 likes on Facebook like a sport that must be prac- • Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies, her previous book, sold over 28,000 copies in print and tised, Kitty tours constantly. ebook • The original ‘Rules’ segment on The Weekly has been viewed over two million times GENRE: Humour

58 Fiction – Modern & Contemporary Bruny Heather Rose

MORE THAN 26,000 COPIES SOLD BRUNY by Heather Rose The brilliant and explosive new novel from the author of the award-winning The Muse- October 2019 um of Modern Love. 424 pages Why is a massive bridge being built to connect RIGHTS HELD: UKBC ex the sleepy island of Bruny with the mainland of Canada Tasmania? And why have terrorists blown it up?

RIGHTS SOLD: Available When the Bruny bridge is bombed, UN trouble- shooter Astrid Coleman agrees to return home Heather Rose is the Australian to help her brother before an upcoming election. author of eight novels. Her But this is no simple task. Her brother and sister seventh novel The Museum of are on either side of politics, the community is Modern Love won the 2017 full of conspiracy theories, her mother is fading Stella Prize. It also won the 2017 Christina Stead Prize and her father is quoting Shakespeare. Only on Bruny does the world seem sane. Until and the 2017 Margaret Scott Astrid discovers how far the government is willing to go. Prize. It has been published internationally and translated Bruny is a searing, subversive novel about family, love,loyalty and the new world order. into numerous languages. Both It is a gripping thriller with a jaw-dropping twist, a love story, a cry from the heart and a The Museum of Modern Love fiercely entertaining and crucial work of imagination that asks the burning question: what and The Butterfly Man were would you do to protect the place you love? longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. The Praise for Bruny: Butterfly Man won the Davitt Award in 2006, and in 2007 The River Wife won the international ‘Bruny is a fantastic political thriller. I no longer work in a bookstore, but if I did I’d tell people Varuna Eleanor Dark Fellow- this is the perfect summer read. Page-turner, explosions, intrigue, affairs and betrayal, and a ship. Heather writes with Dan- touch of romance. It’s like an intelligent blockbuster.’ – Bri Lee, author of the award-winning ielle Wood under the pen name Eggshell Skull and Beauty Angelica Banks and their Tues- day McGillycuddy children’s ‘Book of the now, if not the great modern Tasmanian novel. Incandescent with despair-filled rage series has twice been shortlisted and ferocious with caring. I wept while reading, over and over, at the painful truths and at our for the Aurealis Awards for best idiot carelessness … seamless and enormously entertaining story telling for readers of all stripes.’ children’s fantasy. Angelica – Catherine Schultz, bookseller Banks is also published internationally. Heather lives by the ‘Rose has mastered the contemporary realist novel.’ – The Age sea in Tasmania. ‘... imbued with great empathy, sincerity and humour.’ – Good Reading

59 Non-Fiction – Current Issues Pain and Prejudice Gabrielle Jackson

A timely and powerful look at how our cul- PAIN AND PREJUDICE ture treats the pain and suffering of women. A call to arms for women and their bodies Women are in pain, all through their bodies; by Gabrielle Jackson they’re in pain with their periods, and while having sex; they have pelvic pain, migraine, September 2020 360 pages headaches, joint aches, painful bladders, irrita- ble bowels, sore lower backs, muscle pain, vul- val pain, vaginal pain, jaw pain, muscle aches. RIGHTS HELD: World And many are so, so tired … But women’s pain is all too often dismissed, their illnesses mis- RIGHTS SOLD: English diagnosed or ignored. In medicine, man is the US (Greystone); English UK default human being. Any deviation is atypical, (Piatkus) abnormal, deficient. Gabrielle Jackson is a news Fourteen years after being diagnosed with endo- editor at The Guardian Aus- tralia. Before that, she was a metriosis, Gabrielle Jackson couldn’t believe how little had changed in the treatment and senior journalist at The Hoopla. knowledge of the disease. In 2015, her personal story kick-started a worldwide investiga- Gabrielle has worked in the tion into the disease by The Guardian; thousands of women got in touch to tell their own USA, UK and Australia as stories and many more read and shared the material. What began as one issue led Jackson a journalist and copywriter. to explore how women – historically and through to the present day – are under-served by Gabrielle was first diagnosed the systems that should keep them happy, healthy and informed about their bodies. with endometriosis in 2001. In 2015 she was also diagnosed Pain and Prejudice is a vital testament to how social taboos and medical ignorance keep with adenomyosis. After writing women sick and in anguish. The stark reality is that women’s pain is not taken as seriously about endometriosis for the as men’s. Women are more likely to be disbelieved and denied treatment than men, even Guardian in 2015, she became interested in how women’s pain though women are far more likely to be suffering from chronic pain. is treated in modern healthcare systems. Gabrielle loves cook- In a potent blend of personal memoir and polemic, Jackson confronts the private concerns ing and is a kebab connoisseur. and questions women face regarding their health and medical treatment. Pain and Preju- In 2011-2012, she spent eight dice, finally, explains how we got here, and where we need to go next. months travelling from Europe through the Middle East to Asia Praise for Pain and Prejudice: sampling and researching the history of the kebabs and their ‘A major contribution to feminist writing of the 21st century’ – Caroline de Costa, Professor of journey to the western world. Obstetrics and Gynaecology, James Cook University She returned to Australia after being run over by a train in ‘Gabrielle Jackson deploys facts to tear away the destructive myths that surround women’s India. health’ – Lenore Taylor, Editor, The Guardian Australia GENRE: Women’s health, ‘This book could not be more timely or important.’ – Katharine Viner, Editor, The Guardian investigative non-fiction

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