Two Kinds of Truth Michael Connelly

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The 20th Bosch novel: Harry Bosch searches for the truth as an old case from his LAPD days comes back to haunt him in this gripping thriller from mega-bestseller Michael Connelly.

Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's LAPD days comes back to haunt him when a long-imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him, and seems to have new evidence to prove it. Bosch left the LAPD on bad terms, so his former colleagues aren't keen to protect his reputation. He must fend for himself in clearing his name and keeping a clever killer in prison.

The two unrelated cases wind around each other like strands of barbed wire. Along the way Bosch discovers that there are two kinds of truth: the kind that sets you free and the kind that leaves you buried in darkness.

Michael Connelly has been President of the Mystery Writers of America. His books have been translated into 39 languages and have won awards all over the world, including the Edgar and Anthony Awards.

Michael Connelly lives in Tampa, Florida, with his family. Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781760630775 Format: Paperback - C format To find out more, visit Michael's official website www.michaelconnelly.com.au or follow him on Facebook www.facebook. Dimensions: 234x153mm com/MichaelConnellyBooks or on Twitter @Connellybooks. Extent: 400 pages Main Category: FH Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

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Audio edition: Harry Bosch searches for the truth as an old case from his LAPD days comes back to haunt him in this gripping thriller from mega-bestseller Michael Connelly.

Description Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando police and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Bosch and the town's 3-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous, big business world of prescription drug abuse. Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's LAPD days comes back to haunt him when a long-imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him and seems to have new evidence to prove it. Bosch left the LAPD on bad terms, so his former colleagues aren't keen to protect his reputation. He must fend for himself in clearing his name and keeping a clever killer in prison. The two unrelated cases wind across each other like strands of barbed wire.

Along the way Bosch discovers that there are two kinds of truth: the kind that sets you free and the kind that leaves you buried in darkness.

Praise for Michael Connelly: 'A superb natural storyteller' Lee Child 'One of the great crime writers' Daily Mail 'Connelly is a crime writing genius' Independent on Sunday

Michael Connelly has been President of the Mystery Writers of America. His books have been translated into 39 languages and have won awards all over the world, including the Edgar and Anthony Awards. Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781409171034 Format: CD BOSCH, the TV series based on Michael's novels, is the most watched original series on Amazon Prime Instant Video Dimensions: mm and its third series will go to air in 2017. It screens on SBS TV in Australia and on SKY TV in New Zealand. Extent: pages Main Category: FF Sub Category: Michael Connelly lives in Tampa, Florida, with his family. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: To find out more, visit Michael's official website www.michaelconnelly.com.au or follow him on Facebook www.facebook. com/MichaelConnellyBooks or on Twitter @Connellybooks.

Michael Connelly A Darkness More Than Night Michael Connelly

LAPD Detective Harry Bosch crosses paths with FBI profiler Terry McCaleb in the most dangerous investigation of their lives.

Description Harry Bosch is up to his neck in a case that has transfixed all of celebrity-mad Los Angeles: a movie director is charged with murdering an actress during sex, and then staging her death to make it look like a suicide. Bosch is both the arresting officer and the star witness in a trial that has brought the Hollywood media pack out in full-throated frenzy.

Meanwhile, Terry McCaleb is enjoying an idyllic retirement on Catalina Island when a visit from an old colleague brings his former world rushing back. It's a murder, the unreadable kind of murder he specialised in solving back in his FBI days. The investigation has stalled, and the sheriff's office is asking McCaleb to take a quick look at the murder book to see if he turns up something they've missed.

McCaleb's first reading of the crime scene leads him to look for a methodical killer with a taste for rituals and revenge. As his quick look accelerates into a full-sprint investigation, the two crimes - his murdered loner and Bosch's movie director - begin to overlap strangely. With one unsettling revelation after another, they merge, becoming one impossible, terrifying case, involving almost inconceivable calculation. McCaleb believes he has unmasked the most frightening killer ever to cross his sights. But his investigation tangles with Bosch's lines, and the two men find themselves at odds in the most dangerous investigation of their lives.

Michael Connelly has been President of the Mystery Writers of America. His books have been translated into 39 languages and have won awards all over the world, including the Edgar and Anthony Awards. Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760632564 Format: Paperback - B format BOSCH, the TV series based on Michael's novels, is the most watched original series on Amazon Prime Instant Video Dimensions: 198x129mm and its third series will go to air in 2017. It screens on SBS TV in Australia and on SKY TV in New Zealand. Extent: pages Main Category: FF Sub Category: Michael Connelly lives in Tampa, Florida, with his family. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: To find out more, visit Michael's official website www.michaelconnelly.com.au or follow him on Facebook www.facebook. com/MichaelConnellyBooks or on Twitter @Connellybooks.

Michael Connelly Nine Dragons Michael Connelly

From the streets of Los Angeles to the shimmering skyline of Hong Kong, Harry Bosch pursues the criminals who have kidnapped his daughter.

Description Harry Bosch is assigned a homicide call in South L.A. that takes him to Fortune Liquors, where the Chinese owner has been shot to death behind the counter in an apparent robbery.

Joined by members of the department's Asian Crime Unit, Bosch relentlessly investigates the killing and soon identifies a suspect, a Los Angeles member of a Hong Kong triad. But before Harry can close in, he gets the word that his young daughter Maddie, who lives in Hong Kong with her mother, is missing.

Bosch drops everything to journey across the Pacific to find his daughter. Could her disappearance and the case be connected? With the stakes of the investigation so high and so personal, Bosch is up against the clock in a new city, where nothing is at it seems.

Michael Connelly has been President of the Mystery Writers of America. His books have been translated into 39 languages and have won awards all over the world, including the Edgar and Anthony Awards.

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Michael Connelly The Burning Room: A Harry Bosch Novel Michael Connelly

A bullet takes ten years to find its mark. Now Bosch must find the killer.

Description Detective Harry Bosch and his new partner investigate a recent murder where the trigger was pulled years earlier.

In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die a decade after the crime. So when Orlando Merced finally succumbs to complications from being shot ten years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other evidence is virtually nonexistent.

Partnered with Lucia Soto, a rookie detective who made her name in a violent liquor store shoot-out, Bosch begins to see political dimensions to the case - a case where, despite the seemingly impossible odds, failure to find the killer is simply not an option.

But not only does Soto soon reveal a burning obsession that could make her a loose cannon, the one piece of evidence they have on the Merced shooting also points in a shocking and unexpected direction that could unsettle the very people who want Bosch to close out the case.

It's looking like Orlando Merced may not be the investigation's only victim - and that includes Bosch himself.

'A modern-day master of crime writing . . . arguably the best detective series of our era.' Good Reading

'The finest crime writer working today' - Neil Cross, lead scriptwriter of Spooks and creator of Luther

About the Author A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the international bestselling author of the Harry Bosch thriller series and the highly acclaimed legal thriller series featuring Mickey Haller, as well as several stand-alone bestsellers. Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781925267235 Format: Paperback - B format Michael Connelly has been President of the Mystery Writers of America. His books have been translated into 39 Dimensions: 198x128mm languages and have won awards all over the world, including the Edgar and Anthony Awards. Extent: 448 pages

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To find out more, visit Michael's official website www.michaelconnelly.com.au or follow him on Facebook www.facebook. com/MichaelConnellyBooks or on Twitter @Connellybooks. Michael Connelly The Crossing Michael Connelly

Harry Bosch teams up with Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller in the new thriller from international bestselling author Michael Connelly.

Description Six months ago, Harry Bosch left the LAPD before they could fire him, and then hired his half-brother, the maverick Defence Attorney Mickey Haller to sue the department for forcing him out. Although it wasn't the way he wanted to go, Bosch has to admit that being out of the game has its benefits.

Until Mickey asks him to help on one of his cases, and suddenly Harry is back where he belongs, right in the centre of a particularly puzzling murder mystery. The difference is, this time Bosch is working for the defence, aiming to prevent the accused, Da'Quan Foster, from being convicted. And not only does the prosecution seem to have a cast-iron case, but having crossed over to 'the dark side' as his former colleagues would put it, Bosch is in danger of betraying the very principles he's lived by his whole career.

With the secret help of his former LAPD partner Lucia Soto, he turns the investigation inside the police department. But as Bosch gets closer to discovering the truth, he makes himself a target.

Michael Connelly has been President of the Mystery Writers of America. His books have been translated into 39 languages and have won awards all over the world, including the Edgar and Anthony Awards.

BOSCH, the TV series based on Michael's novels, is the most watched original series on Amazon Prime Instant Video and its third series will go to air in 2017. It screens on SBS TV in Australia and on SKY TV in New Zealand. Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760293741 Format: Paperback - B format Michael Connelly lives in Tampa, Florida, with his family. Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 400 pages To find out more, visit Michael's official website www.michaelconnelly.com.au or follow him on Facebook www.facebook. Main Category: FF Sub Category: FF Crime & Mystery com/MichaelConnellyBooks or on Twitter @Connellybooks. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Michael Connelly The Passage of Love Alex Miller

Critically acclaimed, two-time winner of the Miles Franklin award, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and numerous other literary awards, Miller's new work is an exquisitely personal novel of love and creativity.

Description Sitting in a New York park, an old man holds a book and tries to accept that his contribution to the future is over. Instead, he remembers a youthful yearning for open horizons, for Australia, a yearning he now knows inspired his life as a writer. Instinctively he picks up his pen and starts at the beginning...

At twenty-one years, Robert Crofts leaves his broken dreams in Far North Queensland, finally stopping in Melbourne almost destitute. It's there he begins to understand how books and writing might be the saving of him. They will be how he leaves his mark on the world. He also begins to understand how many obstacles there will be to thwart his ambition.

When Robert is introduced to Lena Soren, beautiful, rich and educated, his life takes a very different path. But in the intimacy of their connection lies an unknowability that both torments and tantalises as Robert and Lena long for something that neither can provide for the other.

In a rich blend of thoughtful and beautifully observed writing, the lives of a husband and wife are laid bare in their passionate struggle to engage with their individual creativity.

Alex Miller is magnificent in this most personal of all novels filled with rare wisdom and incisive observation.

Praise for Coal Creek: 'a fine achievement' - Sydney Morning Herald

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781760297343 'a story that will linger in your mind' - Good Reading magazine Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm 'The intelligence of the author haunts the novel, like an atmosphere.' - Australian Book Review Extent: 592 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: F Fiction About the Author Illustrations: All of Alex Miller's novels have been critically acclaimed and have won or been shortlisted in all of the major Australian Previous Titles: Author now living: Castlemaine, VIC. literary awards. He is twice winner of Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and is an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for The Ancestor Game. In 2015, The Simplest Words, Alex Miller's first collection of stories, memoir, commentary and poetry, was published to great acclaim.

Alex Miller is published internationally and his works have been widely translated. Allen & Unwin Passage of Love 8 copy pack

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Allen & Unwin Suddenly One Summer Fleur McDonald

In the tradition of Red Dust, Suddenly One Summer is yet another classic rural romance novel by leading author, Fleur McDonald.

Description When Brianna Donahue was three years old, her mother mysteriously disappeared while farming in Merriwell Bay, Western Australia. Even though she is presumed dead, her body has never been found. Committed to the family's farm, Brianna works the same land with her father Russell, while almost single-handedly raising her two children as her husband Caleb works as a fly-in fly-out criminal lawyer in Perth.

One scorching summer's morning, her son Trent goes missing and, while frantically searching for him, Brianna must come to terms with the fact that her marriage has large cracks in it.

Over two thousand kilometres away in South Australia, Detective Dave Burrows receives a phone call reporting stolen sheep from an elderly farmer. When he and his partner Jack arrive at the farm, it's clear that Guy has early signs of dementia. Following a conversation with his wife Kim, Dave becomes intrigued with Guy's family history. Was there a child, or was there not? No one seems to know.

While trying to save her marriage and battling the threat of bushfires back in Merriwell Bay, Brianna is faced with challenges: her father's new girlfriend, who on the surface seems pleasant, seems to have a hidden agenda; Trent is having nightmares, triggered by his accident; and Beau, her youngest, is afraid to let her out of his sight.

So how will Dave's investigation impact Brianna's world? Suspenseful and incendiary, Suddenly One Summer is an intriguing and heartfelt story of the unlikely connections of life on the land.

About the Author Fleur McDonald has lived and worked on farms for much of her life. After growing up in the small town of Orroroo in South Australia, she went jillarooing, eventually co-owning an 8000-acre property in regional Western Australia. Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760293956 Format: Paperback - C format Fleur likes to write about strong women overcoming adversity, drawing inspiration from her own experiences in rural Dimensions: 234x153mm Australia. She is the best-selling author of Red Dust, Blue Skies, Purple Roads, Silver Clouds and Crimson Dawn. She Extent: 400 pages has two children and a Jack Russell terrier. Main Category: F Fiction

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Allen & Unwin Third Time Lucky Karly Lane

When her marriage ends, December Doyle returns home to Christmas Creek. Will she conquer her fear of heartbreak? A heart-warming novel about betrayal, ambition and the power of love.

Description After a disastrous marriage, December Doyle has returned to her home town to try to pick up the pieces of her life and start again. She's also intent on helping breathe new life into the Christmas Creek township, so the last thing she needs is trouble.

Bad boy Seth Hunter has also returned to Christmas Creek, and trouble is his middle name. Wrongly convicted of a serious crime in his youth, Seth is now a successful businessman, but he's intent on settling some old scores.

As teenagers, December and Seth were madly in love, and seeing each other again reawakens past feelings. But will Seth be able to overcome his destructive anger about the past, and can December conquer her fear of heartbreak to make their relationship third time lucky?

By the bestselling author of Second Chance Town, this compelling novel is about betrayal, ambition and the power of forgiveness - and love.

About the Author Karly Lane lives with her husband and four children in a small town on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. She is the author of several bestselling rural romance novels including her most recent books, Gemma's Bluff and Second Chance Town.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760630980 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 352 pages Main Category: FA Sub Category: FA Popular Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: North Coast, NSW

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Allen & Unwin Manderley Forever: The Life of Daphne Du Maurier Tatiana de Rosnay

An enthralling biography of Daphne du Maurier, the legendary author of novels including Rebecca and My Cousin Rachel.

Description Bestselling novelist Tatiana de Rosnay pays homage to Daphne du Maurier, the writer who influenced her deeply, in this startling and immersive new biography. A portrait of one writer by another, Manderley Forever meticulously recounts a life as mysterious and dramatic as the work it produced, and highlights du Maurier's consuming passion for Cornwall. We meet Daphne as a shy seven-year-old, and follow her through her rebellious teens, her early years as a writer, the complexities of her marriage and her cantankerous old age.

With a rhythm and intimacy to its prose characteristic of all de Rosnay's works, Manderley Forever is a vividly compelling portrait and celebration of an intriguing, hugely popular and (at the time) critically underrated writer.

About the Author Tatiana de Rosnay is the author of more than ten novels, including the New York Times bestselling novel Sarah's Key, an international sensation with over 9 million copies sold in forty-two countries worldwide that has now been made into a major film. Tatiana lives with her husband and two children in Paris.

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A&U UK Heather, The Totality Matthew Weiner

The explosive debut novel - about family, power and privilege - from the creator of the award-winning Mad Men.

Description The Breakstone family arrange themselves around their daughter Heather, and the world seems to follow: beautiful, compassionate, entrancing, she is the greatest blessing in their lives of Manhattan luxury. But as Heather grows - and her empathy sharpens to a point, and her radiance attracts more and more dark interest - their perfect existence starts to fracture. Meanwhile a very different life, one raised in poverty and in violence, is beginning its own malign orbit around Heather.

Matthew Weiner - the creator of Mad Men - has crafted an extraordinary first novel of incredible pull and menace. Heather, The Totality demonstrates perfectly his forensic eye for the human qualities that hold modern society together, and pull it apart.

About the Author Matthew Weiner is the creator of Mad Men, and worked as executive producer, writer and director on the show, which is widely considered one of the greatest television series of all time. He has received nine Emmys for his work on Mad Men and The Sopranos. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, architect Linda Brettler, and their four sons.

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Canongate Trade Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales P. D. James

A second collection of short stories from P.D. James. Six further stories are published together for the first time in a beautiful hardback edition.

Description As a companion volume to The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories, a further six of P. D. James's ingenious short stories are published here together for the first time.

As the six murderous tales unfold, the dark motive of revenge is revealed at the heart of each. Bullying schoolmasters receive their comeuppance, unhappy marriages and childhoods are avenged, a murder in the small hours of Christmas Day puts an end to the vicious new lord of the manor, and, from the safety of his nursing home, an octogenarian exerts exquisite retribution.

The punishments inflicted on the guilty are fittingly severe, but here they are meted out by the unseen forces of natural justice rather than the institutions of the law. Once again, P. D. James shows her expert control of the short-story form, conjuring motives and scenarios with complete conviction, and each with a satisfying twist in the tail.

About the Author P. D. James (1920-2014) was born in Oxford and educated at Cambridge High School for Girls. From 1949 to 1968 she worked in the National Health Service and subsequently in the Home Office, first in the Police Department and later in the Criminal Policy Department. All that experience was used in her novels. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of Arts and served as a Governor of the BBC, a member of the Arts Council, where she was Chairman of the Literary Advisory Panel, on the Board of the British Council and as a magistrate in Middlesex and London. She was an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. She won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award and The National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature (US). She received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and was created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors, stepping down from the post in August 2013. Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571339877 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 176 pages Main Category: FF Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

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Faber Fiction Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales P. D. James

P.D. James was often commissioned by newspapers and magazines to write a special short story for Christmas. The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories contained four of these stories and this companion volume contains a a further six, recorded here together for the first time.

Description As the six murderous tales unfold, the dark motive of revenge is revealed at the heart of each. Bullying schoolmasters receive their comeuppance, unhappy marriages and childhoods are avenged, a murder in the small hours of Christmas Day puts an end to the vicious new lord of the manor, and, from the safety of his nursing home, an octogenarian exerts exquisite retribution. The punishments inflicted on the guilty are fittingly severe, but here they are meted out by the unseen forces of natural justice rather than the institutions of the law. Once again, P. D. James shows her expert control of the short-story form, conjuring motives and scenarios with complete conviction, and each with a satisfying twist in the tail.

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Faber Audio Sugar Money Jane Harris

Based on a remarkable and little-known true story, Jane Harris's third novel is both a heart-breaking trip into a troubled colonial past, and a stunning act of literary ventriloquism.

Description Martinique, 1765, and brothers Emile and Lucien are charged by their French master, Father Cleophas, with a mission. They must return to Grenada, the island they once called home, and smuggle back the 42 slaves claimed by English invaders at the hospital plantation in Fort Royal. While Lucien, barely in his teens, sees the trip as a great adventure, the older and worldlier Emile has no illusions about the dangers they will face. But with no choice other than to obey Cleophas - and sensing the possibility, however remote, of finding his first love Celeste - he sets out with his brother on this 'reckless venture'.

With great characters, a superb narrative set up, and language that is witty, bawdy and thrillingly alive, Sugar Money is a novel to treasure.

'Compelling, suspenseful, and highly enjoyable.' John Burnside, The Times on Gillepsie & I

About the Author Jane Harris was born in Belfast and grew up in Scotland before moving to England in her 20s. Her first book The Observations was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2007 and the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger in 2009. Her second novel Gillespie and I was shortlisted for the National Book Awards in 2011 and the Scottish Book Awards in 2012.

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Faber Fiction The Observations Jane Harris

A darkly humorous and intriguing story of one woman's journey from a difficult past into an even more disturbing present.

Description So there I was with two pens, my two titties, Charles Dickens, two slice of bread and a blank book at the end of my first day in the middle of nowhere. Except as it turned out it wasn't quite the end.

Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her past, Bessy Buckley takes a job working as a maid in a big country house. But when Arabella, her beautiful mistress, asks her to undertake a series of bizarre tasks, Bessy begins to realise that she hasn't quite landed on her feet.

In one of the most acclaimed debuts of recent years, Jane Harris has created a heroine who will make you laugh and cry as she narrates this unforgettable story about secrets and suspicions and the redemptive power of love and friendship.

About the Author Jane Harris was born in Belfast and brought up in Glasgow. Her short stories have appeared in a wide variety of anthologies and she has also written several award-winng short films. In 2000 she received a Writer's Award from the Arts Council of England. She lives in London with her husband Tom.

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Faber Paperback Blankets Craig Thompson

A cult classic and one of the bestselling graphic novels of all time.

Description 'Achingly beautiful. a first-love story so well remembered and honest that it reminds you what falling in love feels like.' - Time magazine

Wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, Blankets explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in rural isolation, and the budding romance of two young lovers. A tale of security and discovery, of playfulness and tragedy, of a fall from grace and the origins of faith, Blankets is a profound and utterly beautiful work.

About the Author Craig Thompson's previous graphic novels include Goodbye, Chunky Rice, Blankets, Carnet de Voyage, Habibi , an Observer Graphic Novel of the Month, a New York Times bestseller, and described by Neel Mukherjee as 'a landmark publication' - and most recently Space Dumplins. His work has received four Harvey Awards, three Eisner Awards and two Ignatz Awards.

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Faber Fiction 4 3 2 1: A novel Paul Auster

Longlisted 2017 Man Booker Prize: Paul Auster's first novel in seven years - his greatest, most provocative, most heartbreaking and most satisfying work.

Description On March 3rd, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born.

From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous paths.

Four Fergusons will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Loves and friendships and passions contrast.

Each version of Ferguson's story rushes across the fractured terrain of mid-twentieth century America, in this sweeping story of birthright and possibility, of love and the fullness of life itself.

About the Author Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Among his other honours are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Medicis Etranger for Leviathan. He has also been shortlisted for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more than forty languages.

He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Faber Paperback The Red Dancer Richard Skinner

A new edition of Richard Skinner's classic novel about the life of Mati Hari, released to coincide with the 100- year anniversary of her death.

Description When Margaretha Zelle, a young woman living in The Hague, answers a lonely hearts advertisement she becomes drawn into a relationship with an army captain twice her age. After a hasty wedding, they depart for Indonesia, where the marriage collapses amid infidelity and violence. Seeking a new life, Margaretha returns to Europe and travels to Paris, where she adopts the stage name Mata Hari, reinventing herself as an exotic dancer. In her new role she attracts the attention of numerous admirers, many of whom are officers, ready to share their secrets with a woman of notorious allure and intrigue, as Europe lurches towards explosive conflict.

About the Author Richard Skinner is the author of the novels The Red Dancer, Le gentleman de velours (shortlisted in France for the Prix Livres and Musiques) and The Darks. He has also written a writer's handbook entitled Fiction Writing (Hale). For many years, Richard has been an Associate Tutor at Goldsmiths College, London, where he teaches on the MA Creative and Life Writing. He is Director of the Fiction Programme at the Faber Academy and a tutor on its six-month 'Writing a Novel' course.

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Faber Paperback The Map and the Clock: A Laureate's Choice of the Poetry of Britain and Ireland edited by Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke

Now in paperback: a celebration of the most scintillating poems ever composed in Britain, chosen by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke, the National Poet of Wales.

Description The Map and the Clock is a celebration of the most scintillating poems ever composed in Britain.

Curated by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, and by Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales, this anthology gathers fourteen centuries of extraordinary verse - beginning with the first writings from the old languages of England and Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and culminating in some of our most recent poets, speaking in our present-day tongues.

Many of our founding myths and legends are told here - King Arthur and Gawain, Beowulf and Mad Sweeney, the Mabinogion - as are the nursery-tales and songs we still sing today. Through these pages we witness the tragedy of European wars and world conflict; we court romance and friendship; we explore nationhood and belonging, identity and belief; and we are welcomed to a celebration of the cultural diversity of the poetries of our twenty-first century.

The Map and the Clock is a stunning and essential treasury of the poems that have moulded our languages, examined our worlds, and shaped our islands through time.

About the Author Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and grew up in Stafford, England. She won the 1993 Whitbread Award for Poetry and the Forward Prize for Best Collection for Mean Time. The World's Wife received the E. M. Forster Award in America, while Rapture won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2005. She is currently Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent volumes are New and Collected Poems for Children (2009) and The Bees (2011), which won the Costa Poetry Award. Her Collected Poems was published in 2015. She is Poet Laureate.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) Gillian Clarke was born in Cardiff, Wales. National Poet of Wales 2008-2016, winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for ISBN: 9780571277094 Poetry (2010) and the Wilfred Owen Association Poetry award (2012), she is one of the best-known names in UK poetry Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm today, as well as one of the most popular poets on the school curriculum. Poet, playwright, editor, translator, she is Extent: 736 pages President of Ty Newydd writers' centre in North Wales which she co-founded in 1990. Her collections include Making Main Category: DC Poetry Beds for the Dead (2004) and A Recipe for Water (2009); her Selected Poems appeared in 2016. Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Poetry Crossing the Water Sylvia Plath

First published posthumously in 1971, Crossing the Water is now reissued, along with Winter Trees, with a Faber typographical cover.

Description Both published posthumously in 1971, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written along with those that went to form Ariel, from the exceptionally creative period that led up to Sylvia Plath's suicide in 1963. Between them they evoke a sense of place and history, mythology both personal and familial and rooted deeply in the natural world. Alongside the poems in Winter Trees is published Plath's radio play Three Women. In these new incarnations the two extraordinary volumes find their place alongside The Colossus and Ariel in the oeuvre of a singular talent.

About the Author Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

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Faber Poetry Winter Trees Sylvia Plath

First published posthumously in 1971, Winter Trees is now reissued, along with Crossing the Water, with a Faber typographical cover.

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Faber Poetry A Spot of Folly: Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem Ruth Rendell, introduction by Sophie Hannah

Elegant and chilling - new uncollected and unpublished short stories from a master of psychological suspense.

Description New and uncollected tales of murder, mischief, magic and madness.

Ruth Rendell was an acknowledged master of psychological suspense: these are ten (and a quarter) of her most chillingly compelling short stories, collected here together for the first time.

In these tales, a businessman boasts about cheating on his wife, only to find the tables turned. A beautiful country rectory reverberates to the echo of a historical murder. A compulsive liar acts on impulse, only to be lead inexorably to disaster. And a wealthy man finds there is more to his wife's kidnapping than meets the eye.

Atmospheric, gripping and never predictable, this is Ruth Rendell at her inimitable best.

The stories are: Never Sleep in a Bed Facing a Mirror; A Spot of Folly; The Price of Joy; The Irony of Hate; Digby's Wives; The Haunting of Shawley Rectory; A Drop Too Much; The Thief; The Long Corridor of Time; In the Time of his Prosperity; and Trebuchet.

About the Author Ruth Rendell was one of the great crime writers. Her books - notable for their careful psychological observation, as well as their gripping plots - have sold over 20 million copies worldwide, and she won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer. Ruth Rendell died in May 2015

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Profile Trade The Travelling Bag: And Other Ghostly Stories Susan Hill

New chilling tales from the 'grande dame of English supernatural fiction'.

Description From the foggy streets of Victorian London to the eerie perfection of 1950s suburbia, the everyday is invaded by the otherworldly in this unforgettable collection of new ghost stories from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black.

In the title story, on a murky evening in a club off St James, a paranormal detective recounts his most memorable case, one whose horrifying denouement took place in that very building. A lonely boy makes a friend in 'Boy Number 21', but years later is forced to question the very nature of that friendship. 'Alice Baker' tells the story of a mysterious new office worker who is accompanied by a lingering smell of decay. And in 'The Front Room', a devoutly Christian mother tries to protect her children from the evil influence of their grandmother, both when she is alive and afterwards.

This paperback edition includes the chilling 'Printer's Devil Court' in which three medical students make an unholy pact whose consequences will pursue one of them to the grave - and perhaps beyond.

This is Susan Hill at her best, telling characteristically creepy and surprising tales of thwarted ambition, terrifying revenge and supernatural stirrings that will leave you wide-awake long into the night.

About the Author Susan Hill is the winner of numerous literary prizes. In 2012, she was awarded a CBE for her services to literature. Author of the Simon Serrailler crime series and numerous other novels, her literary memoir, Howards End is on the Landing [9781846682667] and the ghost stories The Man In The Picture [9781846681349], The Small Hand [9781846682407], Dolly and Printers Devil Court are all published by Profile. The Woman in Black, which was has been running in the West End for over twenty-five years, and was a huge film in 2012, is published by Profile in hardback [9781781255520].

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Profile Trade Comet in Moominland Tove Jansson

Special Collectors' Edition lovingly restored to its original stunning design.

Description When signs appear that a comet is heading towards their beloved Moominvalley, Moomin and his friend Sniff set sail to consult with the professors in the distant Lonely Mountains. Their journey is full of adventures and narrow escapes; from crocodiles, giant lizards, eagles and the like, but new friends - soon to become firm friends - help lighten the way.

In this first and most exciting Moomin novel, we meet the wandering Snufkin, the fascinating Snork Maiden and her brother the Snork as they join Moomin in his race to get home to Moominmamma before the comet crashes.

About the Author The Finnish artist and author Tove Jansson (1914-2001) wrote and illustrated her first Moomin story, The Moomins and the Great Flood, in 1945 as a form of escape from the dark shadows of war. The publication of Comet in Moominland, introducing readers to the much loved Snufkin, Snork and the Snork maiden, launched the world famous series of Moomin novels, the eight titles of which would be translated into over 60 languages and remain in print for over six decades. Tove Jansson lived in Helsinki and a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland which she shared with her life partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietila.

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Sort of Finn Family Moomintroll Tove Jansson

Special Collectors' Edition lovingly restored to its original stunning design - with fold-out map of Moomin Valley.

Description In case you didn't know, the Moomins are kind, loyal and welcoming creatures with smooth round snouts, who live in a tall blue house shaped like an old stove in a valley in the forests of Finland. They love sunshine and sleep right through the winter, when the snow turns their house into a great snowball. In spring they wake up, clamber down the rope ladders hanging from their windows ready for fresh new adventures.

And so this classic story begins, full of fun and excitement and the most unexpected happenings. Such as when Moomin and his friends Snufkin and Sniff find a Hobgoblin's hat that casts a spell over the whole of Moominvalley...

About the Author The Finnish artist and author Tove Jansson (1914-2001) wrote and illustrated her first Moomin story, The Moomins and the Great Flood, in 1945 as a form of escape from the dark shadows of war. With the publication of The Finn Family Moomintroll, her third and best loved title, she became a worldwide sensation. Her eight Moomin chapter books would be translated into over 60 languages and remain in print for over six decades. Tove Jansson lived in Helsinki and a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland which she shared with her life partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietila.

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Sort of Sweet Little Lies Caz Frear

What happens when the trust has gone? The mesmerising suspense debut from the Winner of the Richard & Judy Search for a Bestseller competition.

Description WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW

In 1998, Maryanne Doyle disappeared and Dad knew something about it? Maryanne Doyle was never seen again.

WHAT I ACTUALLY KNOW

In 1998, Dad lied about knowing Maryanne Doyle. Alice Lapaine has been found strangled near Dad's pub. Dad was in the local area for both Maryanne Doyle's disappearance and Alice Lapaine's murder - FACT Connection?

Trust cuts both ways . . . what do you do when it's gone?

About the Author Caz Frear grew up in Coventry and spent her teenage years dreaming of moving to London and writing a novel. After fulfilling her first dream, it wasn't until she moved back to Coventry thirteen years later that the writing dream finally came true. She has a first-class degree in History & Politics, which she's put to enormous use over the years by working as a waitress, shop assistant, retail merchandiser and, for the past twelve years, a headhunter. When she's not agonising over snappy dialogue or incisive prose, she can be found shouting at the TV when Arsenal are playing or holding court in the pub on topics she knows nothing about.

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Zaffre Sweet Little Lies 8 copy pack

Includes 8 copies Sweet Little Lies plus free reading copy.

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Zaffre Hope to Die David Jackson

When the victim seems perfect, is it the perfect crime? Another gripping Nathan Cody crime thriller - the follow- up to the acclaimed A Tapping at My Door.

Description On a bitterly cold winter's night, Liverpool is left stunned by a brutal murder in the grounds of the city's Anglican Cathedral. A killer is on the loose, driven by a chilling rage.

Put on the case, DS Nathan Cody is quickly stumped. Wherever he digs, the victim seems to be almost angelic - no-one has a bad word to say, let alone a motive for such a violent murder.

And Cody has other things on his mind too. The ghosts of his past are coming ever closer, and - still bearing the physical and mental scars - it's all he can do to hold onto his sanity.

And then the killer strikes again . . .

About the Author David Jackson is the author of a series of crime thrillers featuring New York Detective Callum Doyle. His debut novel, Pariah, was Highly Commended in the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger Awards. When not writing fiction, David spends his time as a lecturer in a university science department. He also gives occasional workshops on creative writing. He lives on the Wirral peninsula with his wife and two daughters. David can be followed on Twitter, where he goes under the name @Author_Dave.

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Zaffre The Assassin of Verona Benet Brandreth

A thrilling new novel of conspiracy, intrigue and rapier-sharp wit, starring the inimitable William Shakespeare.

Description All is not well in Venice.

Threatened daily by Papal assassins, William Shakespeare and his close friends Oldcastle and Hemminges are increasingly isolated - the lies that have protected them so far beginning to wear thin.

His companions want desperately to leave, but Will is tied to the city - his lover, the beautiful Isabella, is growing ever more sick. As tensions reach breaking point, their company is forced to split...

Once more full of swaggering charm, breathless action and rapier-sharp dialogue, this is the second novel in Benet Brandreth's highly acclaimed series reimagining the lost years of William Shakespeare.

About the Author Benet Brandreth is an expert on Shakespeare's language and times, the rhetoric coach to the Royal Shakespeare Company and others, and a writer and performer whose last one-man show was a five-star reviewed sell-out at the Edinburgh Fringe and on its London Transfer. On top of all that he is a leading IP barrister.

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Zaffre Happy Days of the Grump: A darkly comic tale Tuomas Kyro

For fans of A Man Called Ove, maybe there's a little grump in every one of us...

Description Everybody recognises the Grump, everybody knows a grump. And maybe there's a little grump in every one of us...

The Grump, at eighty years old, is more focused on death than life; building his own coffin and keen to write his will in ink - who can trust technology, after all? - he knows that everything was much better in the old days.

But when the Grump finds himself in hospital in a semi-conscious state after falling down his basement steps, his life passes before his eyes. Thinking of the people closest to him and reflecting on the changes society has brought about, he realises he must come to terms with the cards life has dealt him.

With wry humour and sharp observations on family and relationships, The Happy Days of the Grump is a black comedy, sure to bring a smile to the face of even the grumpiest among us.

About the Author Tuomas Kyro is one of the new voices in Finnish literature whose talents were first showcased in his debut novel, Leather Jacket. Kyro draws on the long tradition of Finnish prose to tell compelling, even tragic stories with great authority. He is also a prolific cartoonist and columnist.

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Manilla The Things That Make Us Nick Riewoldt

Description From number one pick in the 2000 AFL draft, to six-time winner of St Kilda's best and fairest award, to five-time All Australian, to captaining his club for a record 220 games, to more than 330 games as a star of the AFL, Nick Riewoldt is an out-and-out champion.

He's also a man whose intelligence and insight allow him a deeply fascinating perspective on his life and career. The Things that Make Us is Nick's autobiography, and it's as powerful, interesting and compelling as the author himself. As Nick describes it:

'I never wanted to write a 'cookie-cutter' footballer's book-chronologically moving from the under 8s through to the big time, full of hard-ball gets, wins and losses, triumphs and disappointments. I chose the title, The Things that Make Us, because it made it easy to explore things we can all relate to, no matter what path our lives have taken.

I hope there's something in these pages for everyone who's known grief, especially anyone who's lost a sibling. I hope, too, that my story brings a deeper understanding of a footballer's crazy world. An insight into what goes into making it, what it takes to stay there, and the crippling anxiety that can consume you when your burden is to accept only the best. I hope it paints a picture of what it's like to be the focus of acclamation and scandal, the good and bad of a searing spotlight, and how these experiences can bring out the best and worst in us.

I hope it honours my family-the German and Tasmanian sides with their stories of struggle and endurance who somehow came together, who are the essence of the book's title. I hope it gives thanks for the love I found on the other side of the world, and the beautiful next generation Cath and I are building together.

I hope above all that it honours my sister Maddie.

These are the things that made me.' Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781760294625 Format: Hard Cover About the Author Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages Main Category: BGA Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Birregurra, VIC

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Allen & Unwin No Front Line: Australian special forces in Afghanistan Chris Masters

Australia's foremost investigative journalist goes deep into the heart of our Special Forces long war in Afghanistan.

Description Chris Masters is Australia's foremost investigative journalist. In Uncommon Soldier he explored the nature of Australian soldiering from recruitment to being on the front line in Afghanistan. His descriptions of battle are some of the most powerful reporting from that war. No Front Line takes this story even further, to the heart of Special Forces and its war in Afghanistan, a war the Australian public know very little about. Implicitly trusted by Special Forces, Chris gives voice to these soldiers. He takes us right into the centre of some of the fiercest combat, opens up the story of the relationship between the Australians and their US partners and provides the most intimate examination of what it is like to be a member of this country's elite fighting forces.

Masterfully told, No Front Line will be as controversial as it is revealing. It will also find a place as one of the finest contemporary books on soldiering.

About the Author Chris Masters is Australia's best-known investigative reporter, and is the author of the bestselling Jonestown (2006). In 1985, he won Australia's most prestigious award in journalism, the Gold Walkley, for his Four Corners report on the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. His reports 'The Big League' and 'The Moonlight State' both led to royal commissions that helped transform the nation. His most recent book is the critically acclaimed Uncommon Soldier.

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Allen & Unwin The Journey: My story, from backyard cricket to Australian Captain Steve Smith with Brian Murgatroyd

The fascinating and revealing inside account of Steve Smith's journey from cricket-mad kid to Australian Captain.

Description In this fascinating inside account, Steve takes us through his cricketing journey from the early days of backyard cricket and net practice with his dad, to the highs and lows of Test cricket as Australian captain.

Whether it's recounting the key moments in his career that saw him progress from talented young player to the pinnacle of his sport, or taking us step-by-step through his most memorable Test century, or giving us the real inside account of what it's like to play through the great series losses and wins of recent years, or giving us a unique examination of his technique, The Journey is a fascinating and revealing insight into one of the world's greatest cricketers.

About the Author Steve Smith was born in 1989. In 2010 he made his Test debut as a legspinner who batted at No.8; by the time he was named Australia's captain in 2015 he was the No.1 Test batsman in the world and no more than an occasional bowler. He currently captain's Australia across all three formats of the game.

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Allen & Unwin Monash and Chauvel: How Australia's two greatest generals changed the course of world history Roland Perry

Monash and Chauvel: How Australia's two greatest generals changed the course of world history tells the story of the emergence and dominance of these brilliant Australian soldiers, who commanded the two most effective armies in defeating the Germans and the Turks in the Great War.

Description John Monash and Harry Chauvel were the two most outstanding battlefield commanders of the First World War across all of the Allied armies. In Monash and Chauvel, bestselling author Roland Perry has written a gripping narrative history that takes us into the very heart of their war-winning campaigns in France and Palestine.

John Monash commanded the Australian forces on the Western Front that made up the single biggest army corps of the twenty on the allied side, at the most critical time of the war, 1918. With his German Jewish heritage, Monash was an outsider who had risen to his position through his ground-breaking military achievements. Almost uniquely among Allied generals on the Western Front, he learned the lessons of past failures and devised the tactics that allowed his Australian troops to break through the stalemate of trench warfare, masterminding crucial battles including Amiens, Mont St Quentin, Peronne, and at the Hindenburg Line that broke the German Army in France. In a one hundred day blitzkrieg, Monash and his digger army defeated thirty-nine German divisions and liberated 116 French towns.

In the war against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East, Harry Chauvel led the 34,000-strong Desert Mounted Column, which consisted of 70 per cent Anzac Light Horse. Chauvel was an Empire man, who considered himself as British first, Australian second. His attitude changed in the course of the war, when he realised he would have to ignore the directives of his British superiors and take the initiative in planning battle tactics himself if he was to defeat the Turks. He did this at Romani in the Sinai in August 1916; at Beersheba on 31 October 1917; and in the final 1918 drive to push the Turks right out of the Middle East after 400 years of brutal rule over the Arab tribes.

By the end of the war Monash and Chauvel had brought a distinctly Australian sensibility to their areas of operation, Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) involving flexibility, innovation and a deep respect for the troops they led, something that was reciprocated in turn by their ISBN: 9781760291433 Format: Paperback - C format men. Their impact on the war was immense, and in this fascinating and compelling account, Roland Perry does full justice Dimensions: 234x153mm to their extraordinary careers and the soldiers under their command. Extent: 584 pages Main Category: HBG About the Author Sub Category: Illustrations: Roland Perry is one of Australia's best known authors. He has written 28 books, many of them going on to become Previous Titles: bestsellers, including Horrie the War Dog, Bill the Bastard, The Queen, Her Lover, and the Most Notorious Spy in History, Author now living: Elwood, VIC Bradman's Invincibles, The Changi Brownlow, The Australian Light Horse and Monash: The Outsider Who Won a War.

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Allen & Unwin Codename Suzette: An extraordinary story of resistance and rescue in Nazi Paris Anne Nelson

Codename Suzette is one of the untold stories of the Holocaust, an account of extraordinary courage in the face of evil.

Description Suzanne Spaak was born into the Belgian Catholic ruling class and married into the country's leading political family. Her brother-in-law was the Foreign Minister and her husband Claude was a playwright and patron of the painter Renee Magritte. Having moved to Paris in the late 1930s she appeared to part of the elite. Her neighbour was Collette, France's most famous living writer, and Jean Cocteau was part of her circle of intimates. But Suzanne was living a double life. Her friendship with a Polish Jewish refugee led her to her life's purpose. When France fell and the Nazis occupied Paris, she joined the Resistance. She used her fortune and social status to enlist allies among wealthy Parisians and church groups.

Under the eyes of the Gestapo, Suzanne and women from the Jewish and Christian resistance groups 'kidnapped' hundreds of Jewish children to save them from the gas chambers.

In the final year of the Occupation Suzanne was caught in the Gestapo dragnet that was pursuing a Soviet agent she had aided. She was executed shortly before the liberation of Paris. Suzanne Spaak is honoured in Israel as one of the Righteous Among Nations.

'During the German occupation of France, Suzanne Spaak displayed almost super-human courage, setting up an elaborate network to save Jewish children while working with numerous resistance groups. Anne Nelson has written an extraordinary book that finally does justice to Spaak's story of heroism and sacrifice.'-Andrew Nagorski, author of The Nazi Hunters

'A riveting book about a truly heroic woman in a Paris of resignation and shame. A must read !'-Diane von Furstenberg, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman I Wanted to Be Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781925266207 'At a time when we most need heroes, Anne Nelson gives us Suzanne Spaak, an undiscovered heroine of the French Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Resistance.'-Kati Marton, New York Times bestselling author of True Believer and Enemies of the People Extent: 336 pages Main Category: HBG 'One person of courage can make a difference. But, as Nelson's gripping book shows, doing the right thing can also come Sub Category: HBG World History Illustrations: at a price.'-Alan Riding, author of And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris Previous Titles: Author now living: USA About the Author Anne Nelson is an award-winning author and playwright. She is the author of Codename Suzette; Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler; Murder Under Two Flags: The US, Puerto Rico, and the Cerro Maravilla Cover-up; and The Guys: A Play. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Los Allen & Unwin Codename Suzette 8 copy pack

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Allen & Unwin Ozzy Man's Mad World Ozzy Man

A book that reviews the bizarreness that is daily life on Earth... OzzyMan style.

Description Ozzy Man's Mad World will be a literary exploration of all things Ozzy Man finds strange, comedic, befuddling, and as he so eloquently puts it...yeah nah strange. It is part nature book, part sports book, part film and TV review book and part world news and viral entertainment book. Basically, it's like Ozzy Man's digital presence, it's like his video channels and his blog, a complete hodgepodge of the bizarreness that is daily life of Earth.

About the Author Ozzy Man Reviews started a cheeky YouTube channel and Facebook page in April of 2014. He remembers it like it was yesterday. He had no long-term goals, no savings, no girlfriend, and no proper direction in life overall. He was so incredibly hopeless he didn't even cook his 2-minute noodles. He would eat them dry with the beef or chicken or shrimp flavouring sprinkled on top (this gourmet meal is best served with a fucken tawny port or beer). He would defend the dry noodle dish as being a legitimately tasty cuisine when family or friends voiced concern over its consumption, which they linked to his mental well-being.

Ozzy Man was also a mature aged student Curtin University in Perth during 2014. He eventually bloody graduated with a master's degree in Internet Communications. The wanker was born on February 2nd in 1986, so that makes him 31- years-old at the time of writing this. He still has no long-term goals, but he does have some savings and a wife now.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760631185 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 208x153mm Extent: 208 pages Main Category: WHX Sub Category: WZG Gift Books Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Hammond Park, Perth

Allen & Unwin Ozzy Man's Mad World 12 copy pack

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Allen & Unwin The Grade Cricketer: Tea and No Sympathy Dave Edwards, Ian Higgins and Sam Perry

The brilliantly funny new novel featuring The Grade Cricketer, hero of the bestselling cult classic The Grade Cricketer.

Description Is life without cricket worth living? It's a question asked and answered by the Grade Cricketer, as he faces a cricket-free future after a devious plan goes horribly wrong.

Hilarious, ridiculous and completely true to life to anyone who's ever spent time in a dressing room, Tea and No Sympathy takes us on a skeweringly funny sporting misadventure through the world of grade cricket and the flawed, damaged and occasionally appalling people who play it.

Praise for The Grade Cricketer: 'The Grade Cricketer is the finest tribute to a sport since Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch, and the best cricket book in yonks. It's belly-laughing funny but it's also a hymn to the grand and complex game delivered with a narrative pace and ability I'm afraid most Test players don't have. For anyone who ever dreamed of excelling at a sport but never quite made it but still gave it your life, this is the story. A great read!' Tom Keneally

'The beauty of The Grade Cricketer is he is more than a grade cricketer - he is every cricketer, from the park to the SCG. His insights into the game make people laugh mostly because they reflect every cricketer's unspoken convictions. We all live vicariously through him, as he does us.' Kerry O'Keeffe

'The Grade Cricketer is strange and, I suspect, brilliant'. Wisden

About the Author As wide-eyed juniors, Dave Edwards, Sam Perry and Ian Higgins all dreamed of playing cricket for Australia one day. That was before they entered the harsh, dog-eat-dog world of Australian grade cricket, where their hopes and dreams were swiftly extinguished; their cricketing careers subsequently laid to rest. As a form of catharsis, 'The Grade Cricketer' Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760631314 was born: a desperate, delusional 'everyman' that thousands of middling amateur athletes can relate to, even if they Format: Paperback - C format refuse to admit it publicly. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 240 pages Main Category: WSJC Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Aubert Park, London Balmain, NSW Seaforth, NSW

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Allen & Unwin A Beautiful Game: My love affair with cricket Mark Nicholas

Mark Nicholas's personal journey through cricket reveals why it really is the world's beautiful game.

Description Mark Nicholas, anchor for Channel Nine's commentary team in Australia and Channel 5's Cricket on Five show in the UK, has a unique knowledge of and perspective on the game around the world. As both a former player and now a professional observer and commentator, he knows all the key figures in the sport and has witnessed first-hand some of cricket's greatest moments.

His book is a passionate, personal and deeply insightful account of the game he's been so close to throughout his life. Informed by Mark's own experiences and observations, and filled with wonderful anecdotes, larger than life characters and an extraordinary breadth of cricket knowledge, it shows exactly why cricket really is the world's beautiful game.

'This book brings out Mark's wonderful knowledge and infectious passion for cricket - two of the things that make listening to him and reading him so enjoyable.' SHANE WARNE

'A Beautiful Game is a page turner and there can be no higher praise than that. Mark's craft as a writer, with his sharp eye for detail and keen sense of humour, shines throughout.' SIR MICHAEL PARKINSON

'Vision, knowledge, enthusiasm: three of the attributes that give Mark authority and respect. The book reflects his passion for the game, and it's his ability to tell the stories that makes it so special. It's a great read.' MICHAEL VAUGHAN

'A love letter to cricket marked by incident, insight and all the craft of one of the best and most likeable figures of our times.' STEPHEN FRY

'Mark has been a powerful salesman for the game on television. He has brought that same passion . . . to his thoughtful and entertaining book.' IAN CHAPPELL

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760632380 'I loved it. If I was buying one cricket book this year, it would be A Beautiful Game.' WASIM AKRAM Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm About the Author Extent: 432 pages Mark Nicholas captained Hampshire for the best part of twelve summers, passing 1000 runs in a season on ten Main Category: WSJC

Sub Category: WSJC Cricket occasions, making 36 first-class hundreds and leading the county to four titles. He also captained England A in nine Illustrations: unofficial Test matches. Previous Titles: Author now living: Mark went on to become a presenter and commentator with Sky TV, Channel 4 (whose coverage won three BAFTA awards) and now Channel 5 in the UK. He has been a fixture on Channel Nine's cricket coverage in Australia since the summer of 2003-04. For sixteen years he was a sports feature writer with the London Daily Telegraph and had two spells in radio for talkSPORT. He has twice been named Sports Presenter of the Year by the Royal TelevisionAllen Society. & Unwin The Crown: The official history Robert Lacey

The official book to the critically acclaimed Netflix drama, The Crown, including additional material and exclusive images.

Description 'The things which I have here before promised, I will perform and keep. So help me God.'

Netflix's original series The Crown painted a unique and intimate portrait of Britain's longest-reigning monarch. This official companion to the show is an in-depth exploration of the early years of Elizabeth II's time as Queen (1947 - 1955), complete with extensive research, additional material and exclusive, beautifully reproduced images.

Princess Elizabeth never expected her father to die so suddenly, so young, leaving her not only a throne to fill, but a global institution to govern. Crowned at 25, already a wife and mother, follow the journey of a woman learning to become a queen.

As the country lifted itself out of the shadow of war, the new Queen faced her own challenges. She had a mother and uncle to prove wrong, a relationship to save and a marriage that threatened her role as head of the Church. This is the story of how Elizabeth II drew on every ounce of strength and British reserve to deal with crises not only on the continent, but at home as well.

Written by expert historical biographer Robert Lacey, The Crown provides an in-depth exploration from behind the palace gates. Relive the majesty of the first series of the hit show, with meticulously researched images from the time.

About the Author Robert Lacey is a renowned British historian. He is the author of numerous international bestsellers, including Majesty, his pioneering biography of Queen Elizabeth II, The Kingdom and Great Takes from English History. For nearly 40 years Robert has been writing about the Queen and her extraordinary life, making him an expert of her long reign.

Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781760632557 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 246x189mm Extent: 384 pages Main Category: APT Sub Category: BGR Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: UK

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Allen & Unwin Birdmania Bernd Brunner

A window on the world of birders-obsessive, passionate, quirky, and always interesting

""Like bird watching itself, reading Birdmania is filled with surprises and a sense of discovery. But in this collection it is the watchers, not the birds, who are on display - ornithologists and bird lovers of every description, revealed in sketches and anecdotes that are quirky, intriguing, and always affectionate. Highly enjoyable."" - Thor Hanson, author of Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle

Description ""An exquisitely beautiful book ...These stories about birds are ultimately reflections on the curious nature of humanity itself"" - Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk

There is no denying that many people are crazy for birds. Packed with intriguing facts and exquisite and rare artwork, Birdmania showcases an eclectic and fascinating selection of bird devotees who would do anything for their feathered friends.

In addition to well-known enthusiasts, such as Aristotle, Charles Darwin, and Helen Macdonald, Brunner introduces readers to Karl Russ, the pioneer of ""bird rooms"" and lover of the Australian budgerigar, who had difficulty renting lodgings when landlords realised who he was; George Lupton, a wealthy Yorkshire lawyer, who commissioned the theft of uniquely patterned eggs every year for twenty years from the same unfortunate female guillemot who never had a chance to raise a chick; Ambrose Pratt who leaves us a beautiful example of a devoted relationship between a lyre bird and an Australian hermit; Mervyn Shorthouse, who posed as a wheelchair-bound invalid to steal an estimated ten thousand eggs from the Natural History Museum in Tring; and Tibbles the 19th century cat, who belonged to the lighthouse keeper on Stephens Island in New Zealand, and who collected many of Lord Walter Rothschild's bird samples.

As this book illustrates, people who love birds, whether they are amateurs or professionals, are as captivating and varied Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) as the birds that give flight to their dreams. ISBN: 9781760631352 Format: About the Author Dimensions: 234x159mm Extent: 304 pages Bernd Brunner is an award-winning writer whose books have been translated into a variety of languages. His work has Main Category: PSV been published in Lapham's Quarterly, the Paris Review, the Wall Street Journal Speakeasy, and the Huffington Post, Sub Category: and he has lectured at New York's Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts and Culture, the Bancroft Illustrations: Previous Titles: Library of the University of California at Berkeley, and the Goethe Institute in San Francisco. Author now living: Germany Pete Dunne is the author of numerous books about birds, including Hawks in Flight. He is the vice president of the New Jersey Audubon Society and director of its Cape May Bird Observatory.

Allen & Unwin Great Australian Scams, Cons and Rorts: A book of dodgy schemes and crazy dreams from the bush to the city Jim Haynes

The ultimate collection of Australia's craziest cons and mad schemes from a master storyteller.

Description Australia is the birthplace and setting of some of the wildest, craziest and least-likely-to-succeed cons and rorts in history. From the cleverest double-crosses to the most unlikely and maddest schemes, master storyteller Jim Haynes reminds us that we've never been shy of pulling a trick or two.

So how did a clever bushman who 'couldn't lie straight in bed' steal a thousand head of cattle and get away with it even though he was caught 'red handed'? And what about the disappearing work of art that suddenly dissolved only to reappear at an auction years later? Or how about the butcher from Wagga who passed himself off as a French-born English duke to inherit a small fortune. And then there was the small matter of a horse, a tin of paint and a million dollar double-cross that became known as the Fine Cotton Affair.

In only the way he can, Jim Haynes has collected a veritable 'Gullible's Tales' of unexpected and surprising true stories that may seem hard to believe.

About the Author Jim Haynes has travelled far and wide to meet and interview the people whose stories make up his books. Before becoming a professional entertainer, song writer and verse writer in 1988, Jim taught writing, literature, history and drama in schools and universities from outback NSW to Britain and back again. He is the author of many Great Australian titles, including horse racing, yarns and unknown true stories. He is one of the country's most prolific and successful Australian authors.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760296506 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 272 pages

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Allen & Unwin Seriously...You Have to Laugh: Great yarns and tall tales from the sporting fields, dressing rooms and commentary boxes of Australia Peter FitzSimons

All those great and not so great sporting moments that have made us chuckle, roll and roar with laughter - told in Peter FitzSimons' inimitable style.

Description Putting his unique spin on our sporting life, Peter FitzSimons celebrates the tall tales and true, the outrageous yarns and the knockabout humour from the footy fields, cricket grounds, dressing rooms, bars and commentary boxes of Australia.

From the clever sledges behind the bales and the goalposts to the quick wit of lounge room commentators and the ever so slightly exaggerated tales of holes in one and other great sporting feats, comes this collection of wicked tales, killer quotes and puffed up stories of sporting prowess that it will make you chuckle, roll your eyes and say, 'Seriously... you have to laugh'!

About the Author Peter FitzSimons is one of Australia's best-loved authors with over twenty bestsellers to his name. As well as writing his weekly 'Fitz Files' for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sun-Herald, Peter is a regular TV commentator, an ambassador for good causes and a former Wallaby. In July of 2015, he became Chair of the Australian Republican Movement.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760631017 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 256 pages

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Allen & Unwin Food for Good Lisa King and Michael Meredith

This beautiful, fresh cookbook delivers excellent recipes for daily meals as well as the opportunity to give back. Buy a book and we give a lunch to a Kiwi kid in need.

Description Eat My Lunch is a thriving social enterprise whereby for every lunch ordered they give a lunch to a child in a low-decile school in Auckland, Hamilton and Wellington. Every day volunteers also come in to help make the lunches for the kids early in the morning.

Developed by renowned chef Michael Meredith the recipes are delicious, and include dinners as well as salads, wraps, sandwiches, soups, main meals, sweet treats and essentials. They are family friendly and easy to make.

Food for Good includes heart-warming images of children and volunteers, and the back story of Eat My Lunch. Packed full of lovely recipes. this book reflects the warm, positive, can-do spirit of Eat My Lunch and it's a practical must-have for every kitchen.

About the Author Eat My Lunch is a social enterprise started by Lisa King and Michael Meredith in 2015 to make it easy for Kiwis to help other Kiwis. One in four children in New Zealand lives in poverty and thousands go without lunch every day, and the Eat My Lunch team provides lunches for those children. It works like this: you Buy one lunch for yourself, and another one will be given to a child who would otherwise go hungry. Buy One. Give One. In just two years, they have given more than 450,000 lunches for Kiwi kids in need at 46 low-decile schools in Auckland, Hamilton and Wellington, with the help of more than 3000 volunteers. In 2017 they launched Eat My Dinner with a range of tasty family-friendly dinners that are delivered to homes, and for every dinner bought, they give a lunch to a child who needs one.

Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781877505881 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 240x200mm Extent: 192 pages

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A&U New Zealand Drawn Out: A seriously funny memoir Tom Scott

Riotous, ripping yarns from a polymath who can't add or subtract but who has won awards for cartooning, print journalism, documentary film-making and writing dramas.

Description Drawn Out is a hilarious, heartbreaking, heart-warming account of Tom Scott's tragicomic childhood, his manic student- newspaper days, his turbulent years stumbling through the corridors of power, his falling out with prime ministers, his collaborations with comic legends John Clarke, A.K. Grant and Murray Ball, his travels to the ends of the earth with his close friend Ed Hillary and more . . .

About the Author Tom Scott wrote and illustrated a weekly column on politics for The Listener for over a decade in the 1970s and early 1980s. Since 1988 he has been the editorial cartoonist for Wellington's Evening Post and its successor, The Dominion Post.

A life member of the Press Gallery, he has observed at point-blank range prime ministers from Norman Kirk to John Key. He was famously banned from China by Rob Muldoon. He has been 'a boy on the bus' with David Lange, Mike Moore, Jim Bolger and Helen Clark.

He was a close friend of Ed Hillary, and his television drama series and documentary on Hillary have sold to a number of countries. Footrot Flats, which he co-wrote with Murray Ball, and his stage play The Daylight Atheist were hits on both sides of the Tasman.

Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781877505911 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 233 pages

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A&U New Zealand The Lazy Girl's Guide to Living a Beautiful Life Matilda Rice

Matilda Rice, Instagram sensation and popular winner of The Bachelor, shares her down-to-earth approach to health and happiness in this beautiful book.

Description Written in her chatty and approachable style, this is a refreshing, positive guide to life for young women. Matilda emphasises having fun and being yourself.

She includes her favourite recipes and some great exercises and workouts you can do easily at home plus heaps of great advice on skincare, beauty and fashion.

This is an essential guide to living a happy and fulfilled life.

About the Author Matilda is best known for finding love on The Bachelor NZ in 2015. She's a big fan of health & fitness, travel, food and adventure. @matootles www.matilda-rice.com

Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781760631512 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 250x205mm Extent: 208 pages Main Category: VS Self-help/personal Development Sub Category: VFM Fitness & Diet Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

A&U New Zealand The Australian Policy Handbook: A practical guide to the policy making process Catherine Althaus, Peter Bridgman and Glyn Davis

A fully revised and updated 6th edition of this classic introduction to the process of policy development in government.

Description Public policy permeates every aspect of our lives. It is the stuff of government, justifying taxes, driving legislation, and shaping our social services. Public policy gives us roads, railways and airports, emergency services, industry development, and natural resource management. While politicians make the decisions, public servants provide analysis and support for those choices.

Drawing on their extensive practical experience, the authors outline the processes used in making public policy. They systematically explain the relationships between political decision-makers, public service advisers, other community participants, and those charged with implementing the programs that result.

The sixth edition of this widely used introduction is fully updated, and includes new material on the professionalisation of politicians, the role of opposition members, loss of corporate memory in the public service, addressing systemic policy failure, nudge economics and the impact of social media and the sharing economy on policy making and government.

'An invaluable guide for practitioners, academics and students to the craft of policy analysis, development and evaluation. It is an important resource for those with a commitment to sound evidence-based public policy.' Ken Smith, ANZSOG CEO and Dean

'An enduring and important contribution to the field. Althaus, Bridgman and Davis' pioneering policy cycle approach continues to offer vital insights into the policy-making process in Australia and internationally.' Lisa Paul AO PSM, Former Secretary of the Department of Education

Price: $55.00 (NZ$59.99) About the Author ISBN: 9781760294380 CATHERINE ALTHAUS is Associate Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne Format: Paperback Dimensions: 230x176mm and ANZSOG Associate Dean (Academic). Extent: 336 pages Main Category: JPP PETER BRIDGMAN is a barrister and former consultant specialising in public policy, governance and integrity, and has Sub Category: Illustrations: worked within and for governments in Australia and internationally. Previous Titles: Author now living: PROFESSOR GLYN DAVIS AC is a former Director General of the Department of Premier and Cabinet in Queensland, Professor Davis was Foundation Chair of ANZSOG. He is Vice Chancellor at the University of Melbourne.

Allen & Unwin Developing Positive Classroom Environments: Strategies for nurturing adolescent learning Edited by Beth Saggers

A textbook for pre-service teachers providing practical guidance on managing classroom behaviour in the middle years

Description The middle years of learning are increasingly recognised as one of the most challenging yet opportune periods for growth and development. Based on the Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) framework, this book will equip educators with the appropriate knowledge, skills and strategies to support learners in maximising their educational success, managing emotional issues and making a successful transition to adulthood.

Part A outlines the principles of the PBS framework, defines key characteristics of middle-years learners and provides insight from neuroscience into the nature of the adolescent brain. This section also looks at the importance of listening to the student voice, highlights issues that can arise during the transition into the middle years of schooling, and discusses the use of evidence-based PBS practices to encourage engagement and establish clear behavioural expectations with learners. Part B focuses on the practical aspects of implementing universal PBS strategies in the classroom, including developing strong and effective relationships with students, promoting school connectedness and supporting self- regulation. Part C examines more focused and intensive interventions, and provides strategies for working with students experiencing stress, anxiety and bullying. Finally, Part D discusses ways to support a range of perspectives and experiences in the middle-years, including trauma-affected students, ethnic and cultural diversity and students on the autism spectrum, as well as ways to use ICT to re-engage vulnerable students.

This is an essential reference for both primary and secondary educators, revealing how PBS strategies can play a profound role in positively transforming classroom behaviour.

About the Author DR BETH SAGGERS is senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Queensland University of Technology. She has Price: $69.99 (NZ$79.99) almost thirty years of teaching experience with students on the autism spectrum and is an active research participant in ISBN: 9781760294861 the Cooperative Research Centre for Living with Autism. She has worked with students in all phases of schooling, across Format: Paperback Dimensions: 230x176mm a diverse range of educational settings, and has extensive experience in working with students with challenging Extent: 346 pages behaviours. Main Category: JNF

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Allen & Unwin Pinball Science Ian Graham

Build your own working pinball machine!

Description Build your own working pinball machine while you get to grips with gravity, force and acceleration. Pinball Science is an exciting interactive book and model that lets you demonstrate scientific principles with your own experiments, while building a cool working pinball machine.

Find out how pinball flips, spins and rolls reveal everything that matters about matter, and learn how your pinball machine illustrates the essential principles of physics in this must-have fun package for scientists everywhere.

About the Author Ian Graham is the joint winner of the 2012 Royal Society Young People's Book Prize for the best book that communicates science to young people. He was shortlisted in 2014 for the Educational Writers' Award in the UK.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760294243 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 363x232mm Extent: 32 pages

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Crows Nest The Secret Life of Cows Rosamund Young

Charming, wise and illustrated with beautiful line drawings, this farmer's observations of her herd is a rediscovered gem. 'Delightful ... it alters the way one looks at the world.' - Alan Bennett

Description At Kite's Nest Farm the cows (as well as the sheep, hens, and pigs) all roam free. They make their own choices about rearing, grazing and housing. Left to be themselves the cows exhibit personalities as diverse as our own.

Fat Hat prefers men to women. Chippy Minton refuses to sleep with muddy legs and always reports to the barn for grooming before bed. Jake's vice is sniffing the carbon monoxide fumes from the Land Rover exhaust pipe. Gemima greets all humans with an angry shake of the head and is fiercely independent.

In this affectionate, heart-warming chronicle, Rosamund Young shows that cows love, play games, bond and form life- long friendships.They'll seek out willow when they are injured and stinging nettles when pregnant. They babysit for one another; invent games; take umbrage' and grieve.

The reason most of us don't know about this is because modern farming leaves no room for the natural behaviour celebrated here. This charming, gorgeously illustrated book shows the domestic cow in a entirely different light.

About the Author Rosamund Young and her brother Richard run Kite's Nest Farm in the Cotswolds. They are widely acknowledged as the nation's first organic farmers: 'every farm should be like this. The animals have space and liberty' (The Observer). They produce beef and lamb from 100% grass-fed animals which are butchered and sold in the farm shop.

When The Secret Life of Cows was first published by a small farming press in 2003, it received ecstatic reviews.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571336777 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 128 pages Main Category: WN Natural History Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Non Fiction The Secret Life of Cows 10 copy pack

Includes 10 copies of The Secret Life of Cows plus free reading copy, poster, bookmarks (50) and window sticker.

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Faber Non Fiction 'Twas the Nightcap Before Christmas Katie Blackburn

A favourite festive poem is given a brilliant tipsy twist. This is the perfect Christmas gift for harassed parents everywhere.

Description It is Christmas Eve and as usual mum and dad are knee-deep in presents that need to be wrapped. Dad suggests a sherry 'to keep us both going.' Then out comes the Baileys. And mum hits the rum. Hours of merriment and a stocking- clad tango later, they drift off to sleep - the living room in disarray, the presents unwrapped and their careful Christmas preparations in ruins. But come morning it seems a mysterious visitor has saved the day.

About the Author Katie Blackburn lives in London with her husband and young child. She is the author of Where the Wild Mums Are, Where the Wild Dads Went and Dozy Bear and the Secret of Sleep.

Sholto Walker trained and graduated as a painter in 1988 and since 1995 he has worked professionally as a full-time artist and illustrator.

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Faber Non Fiction The Faber Book of Christmas edited by Simon Rae

A droll Yuletide anthology, reissued in a gorgeous Liberty print gift hardback edition.

Description This is a festive collection of stories, carols, prose and poetry. Over 280 pages celebrate white Christmases, traditional Christmases, carols, family, food, presents, and Christmas legends.

This glorious anthology brings together writers from Charles Dickens and Philip Larkin, Evelyn Waugh and Wendy Cope, Jilly Cooper and John Milton.

You'll learn why we kiss under mistletoe and exactly who can claim to hosting The Worst Christmas Dinner Ever. It is a delightful book that is guaranteed to spread Christmas cheer.

About the Author Simon Rae is a British poet, broadcaster, biographer and playwright who runs the Top Edge Productions theatre company. He won the Poetry Society's National Poetry Competition in 1999 and has also been awarded an Eric Gregory Award and a Southern Arts Literature Bursary and held Royal Literary Fund fellowships at Oxford Brookes and Warwick Universities. His play Grass won a Fringe Highlight award in 2002. Rae presented Radio 4's Poetry Please for five years and wrote a regular topical poem for the Saturday Guardian for ten years.

Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9780571338726 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 288 pages Main Category: WZ Sub Category: DSK Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Non Fiction Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense Jenny Uglow

A beautifully illustrated, literary appreciation of Edward Lear - best-known for his poem 'The Owl and the Pussycat' - and his 'nonsenses' by one of Britain's most highly regarded historians.

Description Edward Lear's poems follow and break the rules. They abide by the logic of syntax, the linking of rhyme and the dance of rhythm, and these 'nonsenses' are full of joy - yet set against darkness. Where do these human-like animals and birds and these odd adventures - some gentle, some violent, some musical, some wild - come from? His many drawings that accompany his verse are almost hyper-real, as if he wants to free the creatures from the page. They exist nowhere else in literature, springing only from Lear's imagination.

Lear lived all his life on the borders of rules and structures, of disciplines and desires. He vowed to ignore politics yet trembled with passionate sympathies. He depended on patrons and moved in establishment circles, yet he never belonged among them and mocked imperial attitudes. He loved men yet dreamed of marriage - but remained, it seems, celibate, wrapped in himself. Even in his family he was marginal, at once accepted and rejected. Surrounded by friends, he was alone.

If we follow him across land and sea - to Italy, Greece and Albania, to The Levant and Egypt and India - and to the borderlands of spirit and self, art and desire, can we see, in the end, if the nonsense makes sense? This is what Jenny Uglow has set sail to find out.

About the Author Jenny Uglow 's books include prize-winning biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth and Sarah Losh. The Lunar Men, published in 2002, was described by Richard Holmes as 'an extraordinarily gripping account', while Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick, won the National Arts Writers Award and A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Her most recent book is In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815. She lives in Canterbury.

Price: $49.99 (NZ$55.00) ISBN: 9780571269549 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 560 pages Main Category: B Biography/autobiography Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Non Fiction Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil Hamish McKenzie

A former Tesla insider tells the astounding story of the most revolutionary car company since Ford and shows how it is bringing an end to the era of petrol-powered transportation.

Description Hamish McKenzie, with the unique perspective of someone who worked for Tesla and is now an independent journalist, tells how a West Coast start-up's audacious dream came true. Elon Musk created a car company that would go up against not only the might of the government-backed Detroit car manufacturers, but also the massive power of Big Oil and its benefactors, the infamous Koch brothers.

The new Tesla Model 3, scheduled to go on sale in fall 2017 with a price tag of $35,000, is set to transform the public perception of Tesla. Around 400,000 people have put down $1,000 to preorder the car; meanwhile Tesla's debt is teetering on ""junk bond"" status and some on Wall Street are betting the company will fail under the pressure to deliver...

As McKenzie shows, Tesla has triggered frenzied competition, but it remains ahead of the pack because it is building the highest-quality cars and infrastructure that a new era of transportation will require. The popularity of electric cars is growing around the world, especially in China, and McKenzie interviews little-known titans who have the money and the market access to power a global electric car revolution quickly and decisively.

About the Author Hamish McKenzie, former writer for Tesla Motors, has been an editorial advisor to Kik, a reporter for the tech blog PandoDaily, and a freelance journalist covering digital technology and start-ups. His work has appeared in a range of international publications, including Reuters, The Guardian, the South China Morning Post, The Globe and Mail, The Star (Toronto), CNN.com, TechCrunch, and the New Zealand Listener. Originally from Alexandra, New Zealand, he now lives in San Francisco.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9780571327669 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages Main Category: P Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Non Fiction The Grip of Film: By Gordy LaSure Richard Ayoade

Richard Ayoade edits and annotates the meditations on film by that master of the medium, Gordy LaSure.

Description Gordy LaSure's passionate about film. He eats film, he drinks film, and sometimes he'll even watch a film. But most of all he loves talking to people about film: whether a comely student with low confidence and a father complex, a Studio 'development' exec who doesn't trust his own judgement, or the countless people Gordy LaSure's encountered in his capacity as the web moderator on an Excessive Sweating Discussion Forum. Gordy LaSure's always talking about films and how they'd be a shit ton better if only people would pull their asses out of their ears and listen to Gordy LaSure.

The voyage of this book can be categorised as an attempt to understand How In Hell Film Works. Why are some films bad, and some films terrible? How come just a handful of films (Titanic, Porky's, Dirty Harry) are any good at all? Gordy'll tell you How and Why, and he'll give you a slug of Wherefore on the side. And he doesn't shoot from the hip; he shoots from the gut.

About the Author Richard Ayoade is a writer and director. In addition to directing and co-writing Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, he has adapted and directed Joe Dunthorne's novel Submarine for the screen, and is the co-writer (with Avi Korine) and director of the film, The Double. As an actor he is best known for his roles as Dean Learner in Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and Maurice Moss in the Emmy Award-winning The IT Crowd, for which he was awarded a BAFTA as Best Performance in a Comedy.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9780571316557 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 256 pages

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Faber Non Fiction Istanbul: Memories and the City - The Illustrated Edition Orhan Pamuk

A sumptuous photographic edition of Orhan Pamuk's bestselling memoir.

Description Since the publication of Istanbul: Memories of a City, Orhan Pamuk has continued to add to his collection of photographs of Istanbul. Now, he has selected a range of photographs for the illustrated edition of Istanbul, linking each new image to his memoir. This lavish selection of 450 photographs features contributions from the Turkish photographer Ara Guler, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Istanbul's characteristic photography collectors, and contains previously unpublished family photographs from the author's archives.

Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy - or huzun - that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire. With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from the lives of his glamorous, unhappy parents to the gorgeous, decrepit mansions overlooking the Bosphorus; from the dawning of his self-consciousness to the writers and painters - both Turkish and foreign - who would shape his consciousness of his city. Like Joyce's Dublin and Borges' Buenos Aires, Pamuk's Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.

About the Author Orhan Pamuk, is the author of many celebrated books, including The White Castle, Istanbul and Snow. In 2003 he won the International IMPAC Award for My Name is Red, and in 2006 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Museum of Innocence was an international bestseller, praised in the Guardian as 'an enthralling, immensely enjoyable piece of storytelling.' Orhan Pamuk lives in Istanbul.

Price: $49.99 (NZ$55.00) ISBN: 9780571330348 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 232x178mm Extent: 532 pages Main Category: WT Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Non Fiction First Time Ever: A Memoir Peggy Seeger

A superbly wrought memoir from one of folk music's most respected and influential musicians, Peggy Seeger, who herself inspired one of the twentieth century's most popular love songs, 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face'.

Description Peggy Seeger is one of folk music's most influential artists and songwriters. Born in New York City in 1935, she enjoyed a childhood steeped in music and left-wing politics - they remain her lifeblood. After college, she travelled to Russia and China - against US advice - before arriving in London, where she met the man with whom she would raise three children and share the next thirty-three years: Ewan MacColl. Together, they helped lay the foundations of the British folk revival, through the influential Critics Group and the landmark BBC Radio Ballads series. And as Ewan's muse, she inspired one of the twentieth century's most popular love songs, 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face'.

With a clear eye and generous spirit, Peggy writes of a rollercoaster life - of birth and abortion, sex and infidelity, devotion and betrayal - in a luminous, beautifully realised account.

About the Author Peggy Seeger is a singer of traditional Anglo-American songs and activist songwriter, with 200 songs under her belt, one a major anthem of the women's movement. She is a multi-instrumentalist - playing piano, guitar, 5-string banjo, Appalachian dulcimer, autoharp and English concertina - has recorded 23 solo albums, and has contributed to more than 100 others. In 2014, she was awarded the inaugural Women in Music Award for Creative Inspiration, and in 2015 she and her son Calum won Best Original Song at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. She has an Honorary Doctorate in Art from the University of Salford and lives in Oxford.

Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9780571336791 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 416 pages Main Category: BGFA Sub Category: AVGH Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Social Letters of Sylvia Plath: Volume 1: 1940-1956 Sylvia Plath, edited by Karen Kukil and Peter K Steinberg

The essential read for any fan and scholar of Sylvia Plath.

Description This comprehensive edition of Sylvia Plath's letters is a work of immense scholarship and care, presenting a complete and historically accurate text of the known and extant letters Plath wrote to over one hundred and twenty correspondents, including Ted Hughes.

This edition reproduces previously unseen photographs, and a gathering of Plath's own beautiful line drawings taken from the letters she sent to her friends and family, which offer the reader generous insight into the life of one of our most significant poets.

About the Author Sylvia Plath (1932-63) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

Price: $69.99 (NZ$79.99) ISBN: 9780571328994 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 1424 pages Main Category: D Literature Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Non Fiction Soundscapes: A Musician's Journey through Life and Death Paul Robertson

An extraordinary and poignant memoir for all musicians, spiritual thinkers and musical laymen by Paul Robertson, first violinist of the Medici String Quartet.

Description In 2008, the renowned violinist Paul Robertson suffered a ruptured aorta. After dying momentarily on the operating table, he remained in a coma for many weeks. During this time, he experienced visions which afforded him a profound insight into the relationship between music and the mind. When he awoke, he found his understanding of the world - and beyond - fundamentally altered.

This surprising and rewarding memoir offers a singular perspective on creative endeavour: the rigours of learning, the challenges of performance and the spiritual nourishment that drives us on. It is a poignant and wise book that draws on a lifetime's experiences, in both life and death.

About the Author For nearly forty years Professor Paul Robertson performed throughout the world as leader of the internationally renowned Medici String Quartet, of which he was a founder member. They recorded and broadcast prolifically and appeared at International Festivals across four continents. He died in 2016.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780571331901 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages Main Category: BM Sub Category: AVGC6 Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback The Puzzle Ninja: Pit Your Wits Against The Japanese Puzzle Masters Alex Bellos

The Japanese logic puzzle is one of the most addictive products known to man. Bellos has collected over 200 of their most ingenious puzzles, rated easy to excruciating, and introduces 20 new types of addictive problems.

Description The Japanese logic puzzle is one of the most addictive products known to man. Alex Bellos travelled to Tokyo to meet the puzzle masters behind these habit-forming brainteasers and brought back over 200 puzzles that will flex, stretch, and blow your mind. Can you beat the puzzle masters to become a puzzle ninja? Puzzles are so enjoyable. They get your brain sparking and the competitive spirit flowing. Solving them is one of life's simple pleasures. The puzzle masters of Japan create the world's most satisfying puzzles, so Alex Bellos travelled to Tokyo to meet them. These enigmatologists include the godfather of Sudoku, the winner of the World Puzzle Championships, an inspiring teacher who uses games to enliven his students' maths lessons, and the puzzle poet whose name has become a Sudoku solving technique. They use noms de guerre - Edamame, Lenin, Teatime, Sesame Egg - and each has a distinctive style. What unites them are their megawatt brains and the beauty of their hand-crafted puzzles, which will challenge and sharpen your mind. Bellos has collected over 200 of their most ingenious puzzles, rated easy to excruciating, and introduces 20 new types of addictive problems including Shakashaka and Marupeke. Arm yourself with pencil, eraser and laser-like focus. Let's get puzzling ...

About the Author Alex Bellos is an author and broadcaster whose specialises in mathematics and Brazil. When he was the Guardian's correspondent in South America he wrote Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life, a look at contemporary Brazil seen through football. It was a huge critical success, and led to his being asked to ghostwrite Pele: The Autobiography. He is also the author of the popular math books Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Alex Through the Looking-Glass, which were both bestsellers in the UK. The former has had more than 20 translations and won several awards.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781783351367 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x153mm Extent: 288 pages Main Category: WC Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Guardian Books 101 Things to do Instead of Worrying About the World Felicity Brightside

With so much going on in the world to bring us all down, this is the perfect Christmas gift - fun tips and activities to give you a lift.

Description Political pandemonium, nuclear apocalypse, climate change, diabetes, dementia, the dangers of too much sitting down ... Sometimes you'd be forgiven for not wanting to get off the sofa.

Looking to change the record? This book offers you an imaginative mix of activities, games and tips that will help you free your mind and rediscover your joie de vivre!

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Faber Short Books 101 Things to do to Take the Stress Out of Christmas Robin Snow

The perfect Christmas gift: a handbook to improve that most joyous but often most frustrating occasion - Christmas itself.

Description Christmas can be a real whirlwind - buying presents, cooking the dinner, hosting the family. Surely there is a way to make it all a little more relaxing, and a bit more fun?

This book offers an imaginative mix of games and tips to remind you of why we celebrate Christmas in the first place.

Whether you are hoping to recapture that festive childhood magic or looking for a way to remain calm amid the mayhem, these activities will help you get the most out of the 'Most Wonderful time of the Year'.

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Faber Short Books The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World David Eagleman, Anthony Brandt

A profound and powerful exploration of human creativity from the international bestselling author of The Brain.

Description Our relentless drive to create makes us unique among living creatures. What is special about the human brain that enables us to innovate? Why don't cows choreograph dances? Why don't squirrels build elevators to their treetops? Why don't alligators invent speedboats?

Weaving together the arts and sciences, neuroscientist David Eagleman and composer Anthony Brandt explore the need for novelty, the simulation of possible futures, and the social components that drive the inventiveness of our species. Taking us on a tour of human creativity from Picasso to concept cars to umbrellas to lunar travel, Brandt and Eagleman explore the cognitive software that generates new ideas, and illuminate the key facets of a creative mentality. Through understanding our ability to innovate - our most profound, mysterious, and deeply human capacity - we can meet the challenge of remaking our constantly shifting world.

About the Author David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University. His scientific research is published in journals from Science to Nature, and he is also the author of the internationally bestselling books Sum, Incognito and The Brain. He is the writer and presenter of the companion BBC television series The Brain. www.eagleman.com @davideagleman

Dr. Anthony Brandt is an internationally acclaimed composer and an Associate Professor of Composition and Theory at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music. His musical output includes two chamber operas and works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, dance, theatre, film, and television and sound and art installations. He is Artistic Director of the award-winning new music ensemble Musiqa, which has presented the works of nearly two hundred modern composers and performed free educational concerts for over 50,000 public school students. He has co-authored two papers on music cognition and has organized three international conferences on music and the mind at Rice. www.anthonybrandt.net

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9780857862075 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 214x153mm Extent: 304 pages Main Category: P Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate Trade The Runaway Species 8 copy pack

Includes 8 copies of The Runaway Species plus free reading copy.

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Canongate Trade The Brain: The Story of You David Eagleman

Bestselling author and 'the hottest thing in neuroscience' (The Times), David Eagleman, takes readers on a fascinating and eye-opening journey into the world of the brain.

Description 'This is the story of how your life shapes your brain, and how your brain shapes your life.' Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman on a whistle-stop tour of the inner cosmos. It's a journey that will take you into the world of extreme sports, criminal justice, genocide, brain surgery, robotics, and the search for immortality. On the way, amidst the infinitely dense tangle of brain cells and their trillions of connections, something emerges that you might not have expected to see: you.

About the Author David Eagleman is an assistant professor of neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, where he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action as well as the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law. His scientific research is published in journals from Science to Nature, and he is also the author of the international fiction bestseller, Sum, and Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. He is the writer and presenter of the companion BBC television series The Brain.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781782116615 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages

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Canongate PBS The Comfort of Blankets: Peanuts for the Soul Charles M. Schulz

Self-help with a difference: a delightful collection of wit and wisdom on life's little comforts, from the cast of Charles Schulz's classic comic strips.

Description The kids (and canines) of Peanuts know a thing or two about how tough life can be. But with a philosophical approach to the trials and tribulations of growing up - from not being able to talk to the girl you like, to having an idiot brother who won't take your flawless advice - they're never short of the small comforts, and the great wisdom, that can help us get by.

About the Author Charles M. Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1922 and grew up in Saint Paul. He gained a reputation worldwide as a cartoonist for his work on Peanuts. He died in 2000.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781786890696 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 178x111mm Extent: 128 pages

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Canongate Trade More Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience compiled by Shaun Usher

Now in more portable paperback, the follow-up to the phenomenal international bestseller, Letters of Note.

Description Follow-up to the phenomenal international bestseller.

Including letters from: Jane Austen, Richard Burton, Helen Keller, Alan Turing, Albus Dumbledore, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry James, Sylvia Plath, John Lennon, Gerald Durrell, Janis Joplin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hunter S. Thompson, C. G. Jung, Katherine Mansfield, Marge Simpson, David Bowie, Dorothy Parker, Buckminster Fuller, Beatrix Potter, Che Guevara, Evelyn Waugh, Charlotte Bronte and many more.

Discover Richard Burton's farewell note to Elizabeth Taylor, Helen Keller's letter to The New York Symphony Orchestra about 'hearing' their concert through her fingers, the final missives from a doomed Japan Airlines flight in 1985, David Bowie's response to his first piece of fan mail from America and even Albus Dumbledore writing to a reader applying for the position of Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor at Hogwarts.

More Letters of Note is another rich and inspiring collection, which reminds us that much of what matters in our lives finds its way into our letters.

About the Author Shaun Usher is a writer and sole custodian of the popular blogs www.lettersofnote.com and www.listsofnote.com. He has transformed both blogs into bestselling books, crowd-funded by Unbound and jointly published by Unbound and Canongate. He lives in Wilmslow with his wife Karina and their two sons. He is the author of the bestselling Letters of Note, More Letters of Note and Lists of Note. Along with Simon Garfield's To the Letter, Letters of Note inspired Letters Live, a series of live performances celebrating the enduring power of literary correspondence, with great performers reading remarkable letters to a live audience.

Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781786891693 www.lettersofnote.com Format: Paperback www.shaunusher.com Dimensions: 229x179mm www.letterslive.com Extent: 384 pages Follow @LettersOfNote on Twitter Main Category: WZ Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate PBS Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience compiled by Shaun Usher

The pocket edition of this delightful and internationally bestselling collection of letters.

Description Letters of Note is a collection of over one hundred of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name - an online museum of correspondence visited by over 70 million people.

From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter, to Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower; from the first recorded use of the expression 'OMG' in a letter to Winston Churchill, to Gandhi's appeal for calm to Hitler; and from Iggy Pop's beautiful letter of advice to a troubled young fan, to Leonardo da Vinci's remarkable job application letter, Letters of Note is a celebration of the power of written correspondence which captures the humour, seriousness, sadness and brilliance that make up all of our lives.

About the Author Shaun Usher is a writer and sole custodian of the popular blogs www.lettersofnote.com and www.listsofnote.com. He has transformed both blogs into bestselling books, crowd-funded by Unbound and jointly published by Unbound and Canongate. He lives in Wilmslow with his wife Karina and their two sons. He is the author of the bestselling Letters of Note, More Letters of Note and Lists of Note.www.lettersofnote.com www.shaunusher.com Follow @LettersOfNote on Twitter

Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781782119289 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 214x166mm Extent: 320 pages

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Canongate PBS The Story Cure: An A-Z of Books to Keep Kids Happy, Healthy and Wise Ella Berthoud, Susan Elderkin and illustrated by Rohan Eason

This 'perfect gift' (Vogue) is an essential guide to filling your children's shelves with all the books they'll ever need.

Description The stories that shape our children's lives are too important to be left to chance. With The Story Cure, bibliotherapists Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin have put together the perfect manual for grown-ups who want to initiate young readers into one of life's greatest pleasures. There's a remedy for every hiccup and heartache, whether it's between the covers of a picture book, a pop-up book, or a YA novel.

You'll find old favourites like The Borrowers and The Secret Garden alongside modern soon-to-be classics by Michael Morpurgo, Malorie Blackman and Frank Cottrell-Boyce, as well as helpful lists of the right reads to fuel any obsession - from dogs or dinosaurs, space or spies.

Wise and witty, The Story Cure will help any small person you know through the trials and tribulations of growing up, and help you fill their bookshelves with adventure, insight and a lifetime of fun.

About the Author Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin met as English Literature students at Cambridge University, where they began giving novels to each other whenever one of them seemed in need of a boost. Ella went on to study fine art and become a painter and art teacher. Susan became a novelist and journalist. In 2008 they set up a bibliotherapy service through The School of Life in London, and since then have been prescribing books either virtually or in person to clients all over the world. With four children, two husbands, various cats, dogs, mice and tortoises (some of them imaginary) between them, they created their first book, The Novel Cure, together in 2013, followed up by The Story Cure in 2016. www. thenovelcure.com

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781782115298 Format: Dimensions: 214x153mm Extent: 384 pages

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Canongate Trade To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface Olivia Laing

Olivia Laing's odyssey along the banks of the River Ouse, from source to sea; a profound and haunting reflection on history and landscape, and our place within them.

Description Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing sets out to walk its banks, from the source all the way to the sea. As she walks, she reflects upon the power of rivers, refracting mythology, science, social history and literature through their waters too shed light on their eternal violence and mystery.

Lyrical and stirring, To the River is a meditation on landscape and our place within it - and how ghosts never really leave the places they love.

About the Author Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. Her work appears in numerous publications, including the Guardian, Observer, New Statesman, Frieze and New York Times. She's a Yaddo and MacDowell Fellow and was 2014 Eccles Writer in Residence at the British Library. To the River was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. Her second book, The Trip to Echo Spring was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award and the 2014 Gordon Burn Prize, and The Lonely City has been shortlisted for the 2016 Gordon Burn Prize. She lives in Cambridge.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781786891587 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages Main Category: WN Natural History Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate Trade The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking Olivia Laing

Olivia Laing's captivating exploration of alcoholism and literature; 'beguiling, beautifully written . . . brilliant and original' - Sunday Times

Description Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and drink in the overlapping work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver.

From Hemingway's Key West to Williams's New Orleans, Laing pieces together a topographical map of alcoholism, and strips away the tangle of mythology to reveal the terrible price creativity can exert.

About the Author Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. Her work appears in numerous publications, including the Guardian, Observer, New Statesman, Frieze and New York Times. She's a Yaddo and MacDowell Fellow and was 2014 Eccles Writer in Residence at the British Library. Her first book, To the River, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. The Trip to Echo Spring was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award and the 2014 Gordon Burn Prize. Her third book, The Lonely City, was shortlisted for the 2016 Gordon Burn Prize. She lives in Cambridge.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781786891600 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages Main Category: D Literature Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate Trade The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia Masha Gessen

The sweeping, urgent, revelatory history of post-Soviet Russia in which the great dissident exile Masha Gessen reveals precisely how the hope of democracy gave way to a devastating new strain of autocracy.

Description In The Future is History Masha Gessen follows the lives of four Russians, born as the Soviet Union crumbled, at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children or grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own - as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers and writers, sexual and social beings. Gessen charts their paths not only against the machinations of the regime that would seek to crush them all (censorship, intimidation, violence) but also against the war it waged on understanding itself, ensuring the unobstructed emergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today's terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state.

The Future is History is a powerful and urgent cautionary tale by contemporary Russia's most fearless inquisitor.

About the Author Masha Gessen is a journalist and the author of several books including Blood Matters and The Man Without a Face, which was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2012. She has contributed to the New Republic, the New Statesman, Granta, Slate and Vanity Fair. She lives in Moscow.

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781783784097 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 528 pages Main Category: JFF Current Affairs Sub Category: JP Politics Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Granta The Man Without A Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin Masha Gessen

A brave and revelatory account of how a small-minded, low-level KGB operative came to control the world's largest country and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress, making Russia once more a threat to her own people and to the world.

Description When Vladimir Putin, an unimportant, low-level KGB operative, was rushed to power by a group of Oligarchs in 1999, he was a man without a history. Within a few brief years, Putin had dismantled the country's media, wrested control and wealth from the country's burgeoning business class, and decimated the fragile mechanisms of democracy. Virtually every obstacle to his unbridled control was removed and every opposing voice silenced, with political rivals and critics driven into exile or to the grave.

Drawing on information and sources no other writer has tapped, Masha Gessen's fearless account charts Putin's rise from the boy who had scrapped his way through post-war Leningrad schoolyards, to the 'faceless' man who manoeuvred his way into absolute - and absolutely corrupt - power.

About the Author Masha Gessen is a journalist who has written for Slate, the New Republic, the New York Times and other publications. She is the author of several books, including Dead Again, Two Babushkas and Blood Matters: A Journey Along the Genetic Frontier. She lives in Moscow.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781847084231 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 199x129mm Extent: 320 pages

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Granta Paperbacks A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind Rachel Hewitt

A captivating history of the dramatic collapse of the Enlightenment and the emotional revolution it incorporated, told through the lives of those who lived through the turbulent 1790s.

Description In the 1790s, Britain underwent what the politician Edmund Burke called 'the most important of all revolutions...a revolution in sentiments'. Inspired by the French Revolution, British radicals concocted new political worlds to enshrine healthier, more productive, human emotions and relationships. The Enlightenment's wildest hopes crested in the utopian projects of such optimists - including the young poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the philosophers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, the physician Thomas Beddoes and the first photographer Thomas Wedgwood - who sought to reform sex, education, commerce, politics and medicine by freeing desire from repressive constraints.

But by the middle of the decade, the wind had changed. The French Revolution descended into bloody Terror and the British government quashed radical political activities. In the space of one decade, feverish optimism gave way to bleak disappointment, and changed the way we think about human need and longing.

A Revolution of Feeling is a vivid and absorbing account of the dramatic end of the Enlightenment, the beginning of an emotional landscape preoccupied by guilt, sin, failure, resignation and repression, and the origins of our contemporary approach to feeling and desire. Above all, it is the story of the human cost of political change, of men and women consigned to the 'wrong side of history'. But although their revolutionary proposals collapsed, that failure resulted in its own cultural revolution - a revolution of feeling - the aftershocks of which are felt to the present day.

About the Author Rachel Hewitt is the author of Map of a Nation (Granta, 2010), which tells the 'biography' of Britain's national mapping agency, the Ordnance Survey, which was shortlisted for the Galaxy Award for best popular non-fiction book 2011, and for which she won the 2008 Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction. She lives in York.

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Granta Granta 141: Canada Edited by Madeleine Thien

In this special issue of Granta, we celebrate the diversity of social, political and literary life in Canada.

Description Guest Edited by Catherine Leroux and Madeleine Thien.

2017 marks the 150th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation, when the British colonies of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were united.

In this special issue of Granta, we celebrate the diversity of social, political and literary life in Canada, the largest country in the western hemisphere, and one of the few where the experiment of multiculturalism appears to have worked

Bringing you the best new fiction, reportage, photography, poetry and memoir from Canada, this issue showcases the best of both the English and French literary communities, throwing a spotlight on an enigmatic nation with a rich literary heritage.

About the Author Sigrid Rausing is Editor and Publisher of Granta magazine and Publisher of Granta and Portobello Books. She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm and Everything is Wonderful, which has been translated into four different languages.

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Granta Granta 139: Best of Young American Novelists 3 Sigrid Rausing

The third instalment in Granta's iconic list of the best new voices in American fiction.

Description Once every ten years Granta publishes a list of the twenty best American fiction writers under the age of forty. In 1997 and 2007 we picked out such luminaries as Daniel Alarcon, Edwidge Danticat, Anthony Doerr, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Franzen, Nell Freudenberger, Nicole Krauss, Lorrie Moore, Yiyun Li, Karen Russell, Akhil Sharma and Gary Shteyngart.

This issue distils the preoccupations of another generation; a selection of writers you will be hearing more from, chosen by panel of judges who are themselves acclaimed writers: Patrick deWitt, A.M. Homes, Kelly Link, Ben Marcus and Sigrid Rausing.

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Granta Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon Catherine Hewitt

From the author of The Mistress of Paris, a lavish portrait of a remarkable woman: in the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists' most beautiful model. But behind her captivating facade lay a closely-guarded secret.

Description In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists' most beautiful model. But behind her captivating facade lay a closely-guarded secret.

Born in poverty in rural France, as a teenager Suzanne began, in Montmartre, posing for - and having affairs with - some of the age's most renowned painters. Then Renoir caught her indulging in a passion she had been trying to conceal: the model was herself a talented artist.

Some found her vibrant still lifes and frank portraits as shocking as her bohemian lifestyle. At eighteen, she gave birth to an illegitimate child, future painter Maurice Utrillo. But her friends Toulouse-Lautrec and Degas could see her skill. Rebellious and opinionated, she refused to be confined by tradition or gender, and in 1894, her work was accepted to the Salon de la Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, an extraordinary achievement for a working-class woman with no formal art training.

Renoir's Dancer tells the remarkable tale of an ambitious, headstrong woman fighting to find a professional voice in a male-dominated world.

About the Author Catherine Hewitt studied French Literature and Art History at Royal Holloway, University of London and the Courtauld Institute of Art. The Mistress of Paris, her first book, was published by Icon Books in 2015 and described as an 'enthralling story, told with both conviction and sympathy' by the Observer. She lives in a village in Surrey.

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Icon Renoir's Dancer 8 copy pack

Includes 8 copies of Renoir's Dancer plus free reading copy.

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Icon The Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret Catherine Hewitt

A fantastically readable biography of a 19th-century Parisian courtesan who harbours an incredible secret.

Description Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalised her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumoured affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept gossip columns full.

But her glamourous existence hid a dark secret: she was no Comtesse. She was born into abject poverty, raised on a squalid Paris backstreet; the lowest of the low. Yet she transformed herself into an enchantress who possessed a small fortune, three mansions, fabulous carriages, and art the envy of connoisseurs across Europe. A consummate show- woman, she ensured that her life - and even her death - remained shrouded in just enough mystery to keep her audience hungry for more.

Catherine Hewitt's biography tells, for the first time ever in English, the forgotten story of a remarkable woman who, though her roots were lowly, never stopped aiming high.

About the Author Catherine Hewitt studied French Literature and Art History at Royal Holloway, University of London and the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her proposal for The Mistress of Paris was awarded the runner-up's prize in the 2012 Biographers' Club Tony Lothian Competition for the best proposal by an uncommissioned, first-time biographer. She lives in a village in Surrey.

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Icon The Berlin Airlift: The Relief Operation That Defined the Cold War Barry Turner

Acclaimed historian Barry Turner presents a new history of the Cold War's defining episode.

Description Berlin, 1948 - a divided city in a divided country in a divided Europe. The ruined German capital lay 120 miles inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. Stalin wanted the Allies out; the Allies were determined to stay, but had only three narrow air corridors linking the city to the West. Stalin was confident he could crush Berlin's resolve by cutting off food and fuel.

In the USA, despite some voices still urging 'America first', it was believed that a rebuilt Germany was the best insurance against the spread of communism across Europe. And so over eleven months from June 1948 to May 1949, British and American aircraft carried out the most ambitious airborne relief operation ever mounted, flying over 2 million tons of supplies on almost 300,000 flights to save a beleaguered Berlin.

With new material from American, British and German archives and original interviews with veterans, Turner paints a fresh, vivid picture the airlift, whose repercussions - the role of the USA as global leader, German ascendancy, Russian threat - we are still living with today.

About the Author Barry Turner is a celebrated historian, the author most recently of Karl Doenitz and the Last Days of the Third Reich (Icon, 2015), described as 'page-turning' by the Daily Mail, and of Suez 1956 (Hodder, 2006) and, with Tony Rennell, of When Daddy Came Home (Arrow, 2014). He lives in London and south-west France.

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Icon Frank Whittle: The Invention of the Jet Andrew Nahum

The story of the jet engine has everything: genius, tragedy, heroism, a world war, the individual vs. the state, and an idea that would change the world.

Description Frank Whittle always maintained that he was held back by a lack of government support. At the very moment in 1943 when his invention was unveiled to the world, his company, Power Jets, was forcibly nationalised.

Yet, as Andrew Nahum shows in this brilliantly researched book, Whittle's innovative brilliance, charm and charisma helped him recruit major support from the British government and the RAF, who gave him the green light 'to build a jet engine' at a time when to do so made little sense. Frank Whittle: Invention of the Jet is a story of what pushing technology to its limits can achieve and the effect that such achievement can have on those involved.

About the Author Andrew Nahum is currently Keeper Emeritus at the Science Museum, London. He is also author of Alec Issigonis and the Mini (Icon Books, 2004) and Fifty Cars that changed the World (Design Museum, 2009, 2016).

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Icon What's Next?: What Science Can Tell Us About Our Fascinating Future Jim Al-Khalili

Want to know what's next for the human race? Step into Jim Al-Khalili's time machine ...

Description Thought the science of the future was all hoverboards and space travel? Think again. Every day, scientists come up with the ingenious solutions and surprising discoveries that will define our future. So here, Jim Al-Khalili and his crack team of experts bin the crystal ball and use cutting-edge science to get a glimpse of what's in store.

From whether teleportation is really possible (spoiler: it is), to what we'll do if Artificial Intelligence takes over, The Future takes on the big questions. And along the way, it'll answer questions like Will we find a cure to all diseases? An answer to climate change? Will bionics make us into superheroes?

Touching on everything from genetics to transport, and nanotechnology to teleportation, The Future is a fascinating, fun and informative look at what's in store for the human race.

About the Author Jim Al-Khalili OBE is an Iraqi-born British theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster. He is currently Professor of Theoretical Physics and Chair in the Public Engagement in Science at the University of Surrey. He has hosted several BBC productions about science, including BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific.

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Profile Trade Aliens: Science Asks: Is There Anyone Out There? edited by Jim Al-Khalili

The ALIENS invasion is coming ... a new collection of writing from the best scientific thinkers in the galaxy.

Description The ALIENS invasion is coming ...

It's the biggest question we've ever faced, one that has fascinated generations of humans: do aliens exist? If they did, what would they look like? How would they think? And what would it mean for us if we found them?

Here, Professor Jim Al-Khalili blasts off in search of answers. Featuring twenty pieces by top scientists and experts in the field including Martin Rees, Ian Stewart and Adam Rutherford, Aliens covers every aspect of the subject, from alien consciousness to the neuroscience behind alien abductions. And along the way he'll cover science fiction, the probability of us finding extra-terrestrial life, and whether recently-discovered exoplanets might support life.

Engaging, authoritative and filled with scientific insights fresh from the far edges of the galaxy, Aliens is the perfect book for anyone who has ever looked up into the starry sky and wondered: are we alone?

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Profile Trade The Diary of a Bookseller Shaun Bythell

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

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

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

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

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Profile Trade Jacob's Room is Full of Books Susan Hill

A year of reading with one of Britain's most read authors

Description When we spend so much of our time immersed in books, who's to say where reading ends and living begins? The two are impossibly and gloriously wedded, as Hill shows in Jacob's Room Is Full of Books.

Considering everything from Edith Wharton's novels through Alan Bennett's diaries, Virginia Woolf and the writings of twelfth century monk Aelred of Rievaulx, Susan Hill charts a year of her life through the books she has read, reread or returned to the shelf. From beneath a shady tree in a hot French summer, or the warmth of a kitchen during an English winter, Hill reflects on what her reading throws up, from writing and writers to politics and religion, as well as the joy of dandies or the pleasure of watching a line of geese cross a meadow.

Full of wry observations and warm humour, as well as strong opinions freely aired, this is a rare and wonderful insight into the rich world of reading from one of the nation's most accomplished authors.

About the Author Susan Hill has been awarded a CBE for her services to literature. Author of the Simon Serrailler crime series and numerous other novels, her literary memoir, Howard's End is on the Landing [9781846682667] and the ghost stories The Man In The Picture, The Small Hand [9781846682407], Dolly and The Travelling Bag [9781781256190] are all published by Profile. The Woman in Black is published by Profile in hardback [9781781255520].

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Profile Trade The Man Booker Diary 2018 foreword by Helena Kennedy

An illustrated celebration of 50 years of the Man Booker Prize.

Description The Man Booker Prize celebrates 50 years of unforgettable literary triumphs with an illustrated week-to-view diary of prizewinning, first-edition covers. Launched in 1969, the Man Booker Prize aims to promote the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year written in English and published in the United Kingdom. From the very first winner PH Newby's Something to Answer For, to Paul Beatty's 2016 runaway success The Sellout, each week is illuminated by a book that stands enshrined in the illustrious Man Booker history.

Featuring prizewinners:

Salman Rushdie * Thomas Keneally * Keri Hulme * Margaret Atwood * Yann Martel * Nadine Gordimer * Ian McEwan * Arundati Roy * Kazuo Ishiguro * Hilary Mantel * Julian Barnes * Iris Murdoch * Ruth Prawer Jhabvala * William Golding * Marlon James * Paul Beatty * Anne Enright * Aravind Adiga * AS Byatt*

About the Author Helena Kennedy, QC is a British barrister, broadcaster, and Labour member of the House of Lords. She is one of Britain's most distinguished lawyers and has spent her professional life giving voice to those who have least power within the system, championing civil liberties and promoting human rights. She has also written and broadcast on a wide range of issues, from medical negligence to terrorism to the rights of women and children.

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Third Millennium How To Think: A Guide for the Perplexed Alan Jacobs

A contrarian treatise on why we're not as good at thinking as we assume - but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life.

Description Most of us don't want to think, writes the American essayist Alan Jacobs. Thinking is trouble. It can force us out of familiar, comforting habits, and it can complicate our relationships with like-minded friends. Finally, thinking is slow, and that's a problem when our habits of consuming information (mostly online) leave us lost in the echo chamber of social media, where speed and factionalism trump accuracy and nuance.

In this clever, witty book, Jacobs diagnoses the many forces that prevent thought - forces that have only worsened in the age of Twitter, such as ""alternative facts,"" and information overload. He also dispels the many myths we hold about what it means to think well. (For example: it's impossible to ""think for yourself."")

Drawing on sources as far-flung as the novelist Marilynne Robinson, the basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain, the British philosopher John Stuart Mill and the Christian theologian C.S. Lewis, Jacobs digs into the nuts and bolts of the cognitive process, offering hope that each of us can reclaim our mental lives from the whirlpool of what now passes for public debate.

After all, if we can learn to think together, perhaps we can learn to live together.

About the Author Alan Jacobs is the Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Baylor University. He has written extensively for The Atlantic, WSJ, The New Atlantis, and Harper's and is the author of several books including a well-received biography of C. S. Lewis and a book on the pleasures of reading. Find him on Twitter @ayjay http://blog.ayjay.org/

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Profile Trade Write to the Point: How to be Clear, Correct and Persuasive on the Page Sam Leith

The complete guide to persuasive writing

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

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

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

About the Author Sam Leith is literary editor at the Spectator, contributes columns to the Financial Times, the Evening Standard and Prospect, and his work appears regularly in the Guardian, The Times and the TLS among others. His broadcasting work has included appearances on The Culture Show, The Review Show, Front Row, the News Quiz, Fry's English Delight and a regular slot on the Sky Arts Book Programme. His books include Dead Pets, Sod's Law and You Talkin' to Me? Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama. The Coincidence Engine, his first novel, was published in April 2011 and was included Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) in the Waterstone's 11 list of the best first novels of that year. ISBN: 9781781254769 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 256 pages Main Category: CBG Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention Daniel Everett

A revolutionary account of the origins of language from one of the world's best known and most influential linguists.

Description In his groundbreaking new book Daniel Everett seeks answers to questions that have perplexed thinkers from Plato to Chomsky: when and how did language begin? what is it? and what is it for?

Daniel Everett confounds the conventional wisdom that language originated with Homo sapiens 150,000 years ago and that we have a 'language instinct'. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of fields, including linguistics, archaeology, biology, anthropology and neuroscience, he shows that our ancient ancestors, Homo erectus, had the biological and mental equipment for speech one and half million years ago, and that their cultural and technological achievements (including building ocean-going boats) make it overwhelmingly likely they spoke some kind of language.

How Language Began sheds new light on language and culture and what it means to be human and, as always, Daniel Everett spices his account with incident and anecdote. His book is convincing, arresting and entertaining.

About the Author Dan Everett worked in the Amazon jungles of Brazil for over 30 years, among more than one dozen different tribal groups. He has published extensively on language and culture and is one of the world's most influential thinkers in both fields. His Don't Sleep, There are Snakes was selected by Blackwell's bookstores as one of the best of 2009, was an 'editor's choice' of the Sunday Times and has been the subject of a film and a play. He is currently Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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Profile Trade Armageddon and Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation Rodric Braithwaite

Nuclear weapons exist and so does the possibility of worldwide annihilation. How did we reach this terrifying reality?

Description In 1945, the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and old ideas of warfare came to an end. This book tells how the power of the atom was harnessed to produce weapons capable of destroying human civilisation.

There were few villains in the story. On both sides of the Iron Curtain, dedicated scientists cracked the secrets of nature, dutiful military men planned to use the bomb in war, politicians contemplated with a potentially intolerable decision. Patriotic citizens acquiesced in the idea that their country needed the ultimate means of defence. Some tried to grapple with the unanswerable question: what end could possibly be served by such a fearsome means? Those who protested went unheard. None wanted to start a nuclear war, but all were paranoid. The danger of war by accident or misjudgement was never entirely absent.

Rodric Braithwaite, author of bestsellers Moscow 1941 and Afgantsy, paints a vivid and thought-provoking portrait of this intense period in history. Its implications are as relevant today as they ever were, as ignorant and thoughtless talk about nuclear war begins to spread once more.

About the Author Sir Rodric Braithwaite is a former British diplomat and author whose long Foreign Office career took him to Indonesia, Poland, Italy, America and Russia. He was British Ambassador in Moscow during the fall of the Soviet Union, about which he wrote in Across the Moscow River (2002, Yale). He was subsequently foreign policy adviser to the Prime Minister, John Major, and Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee. He is author of Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan [Profile, 9781846680625], and Moscow 1941 [Profile, 9781846687748], a bestseller translated into nineteen languages.

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Profile Trade Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 Rodric Braithwaite

The Soviet-Afgan war through the eyes of the Russians themselves - politicians, officers, soldiers, advisers, journalists, women.

Description As a former ambassador to Moscow, Rodric Braithwaite brings unique insights to the Soviet War in Afghanistan. The story has been distorted not only by Cold War propaganda but also by the myths of the nineteenth century Great Game. It moves from high politics of the Kremlin to the lonely Russian conscripts in isolated mountain outposts. The parallels with Afghanistan today speak for themselves.

Rodric Braithwaite is basing his account in Afgantsy on Russian sources and interviews - showing the war through the eyes of the Russians themselves; politicians, officers, soldiers, advisers, journalists and women.

About the Author Rodric Braithwaite was British Ambassador to Moscow during the crucial years of 1988-92. Subsequently he was foreign policy advisor to John Major. His books include Across the Moscow River and the highly praised and bestselling Moscow 1941 which has been translated into seventeen languages.

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Profile Trade Keeping On Keeping On Alan Bennett

A concise collection of Alan Bennett's latest diaries - and more.

Description Following the phenomenally successful Writing Home and Untold Stories, Keeping On Keeping On contains Bennett's diaries 2005 to 2015, reflecting on a decade that saw four premieres at the National Theatre, a West End double-bill transfer, and the films of The History Boys and The Lady in the Van. There's a provocative sermon against private education, a passionate defence of the public library, a radio play and a screenplay, introductions and eulogies.

An unforgettable record of life according to the inimitable Alan Bennett.

About the Author Alan Bennett has been one of our leading dramatists since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic, as have many of his works for stage including Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, A Question of Attribution, The Madness of George III (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplay The Madness of King George), and an adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. At the National Theatre, London, The History Boys won numerous awards including Evening Standard and Critics' Circle awards for Best Play, an Olivier for Best New Play and the South Bank Award. On Broadway, The History Boys won five New York Drama Desk Awards, four Outer Critcs' Circle Awards, a New York Drama Critics' Award, a New York Drama League Award and six Tony's. The Habit of Art opened at the National in 2009. His collection of prose, Untold Stories, won the PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography, 2006. The Uncommon Reader was published in 2007 and Smut in 2011. The film of The Lady in the Van, starring Maggie Smith, was released in 2015 with the tie-in edition spending several weeks on bestseller lists.

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Profile Trade How the Zebra Got its Stripes: And Other Darwinian Just So Stories Leo Grasset, translated by Barbara Mellor

The Just So stories retold in the light of evolution by France's brightest young natural scientist

Description Why do giraffes have such long necks? Why are zebras striped? Why are buffalo herds broadly democratic while elephants prefer dictatorships? What explains the architectural brilliance of the termite mound or the complications of the hyena's sex life? And why have honey-badgers evolved to be one of nature's most efficient agents of mass destruction?

Deploying the latest scientific research and his own extensive observations on the African savannah, Leo Grasset offers some answers to these and many other intriguing questions. Having shown that natural phenomena are rarely simple and that often they get more complex the more you look at them, he brings to bear a mix of evolutionary biology and lateral thinking to explain the mysteries of animal behaviour in terms that are simple but never simplifying. He ends by considering how our origins in the savannah and evolution as the hybrid of several species can shapes our habits.

Leo Grasset is one of France's brightest young natural scientists. Prepare to be fascinated, delighted, surprised, shocked and, above all, entertained by his brilliantly original Darwinian Just So stories.

About the Author Leo Grasset is the French punk scientist par excellence, founder of Dirty Biology and author of the blog 'Dans les testicules de Darwin' devoted to biology, testosterone and rock'n'roll (danslestesticulesdedarwin.blogspot.co.uk). He is also one of France's leading up-and-coming evolutionary biologists: see him in action on YouTube giving a paper at the Ecole normale superieure conference in Lyon in April 2015 on 'Les hommes hybrides - des chimphumains . Denisova'.

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Profile Trade The Brooklyn Follies Paul Auster

Infused with character, mystery and humour, these lives intertwine and become bound together as Auster brilliantly explores the wider terrain of contemporary America - a crucible of broken dreams and of human folly.

Description I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain .

So begins Paul Auster's remarkable novel, The Brooklyn Follies. Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000, it tells the story of Nathan and Tom, an uncle and nephew double-act. One in remission from lung cancer, divorced and estranged from his only daughter, the other hiding away from his once-promising academic career, and indeed, from life in general.

Having accidentally ended up in the same Brooklyn neighbourhood, they discover a community teeming with life and passion. When Lucy, a little girl who refuses to speak, comes into their lives, there is sudednly a bridge from their pasts that offers them the possibility of redemption.

About the Author Paul Auster is the best-selling author of Invisible, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions, The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has also been short-listed for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more than thirty languages.

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Faber Paperback The New York Trilogy Paul Auster

Paul Auster's stunning debut novel, now in an arresting new look!

Description The New York Trilogy is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what it means to be human.

Auster's book is modern fiction at its finest: bold, arresting and unputdownable.

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Faber Paperback Sunset Park Paul Auster

A compelling story of love and forgiveness, from the bestselling author of The Brooklyn Follies.

Description In the sprawling flatlands of Florida, 28-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure.

Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, a situation that caused him to flee his father and step-mother in New York 7 years ago. What keeps him in Florida is his relationship with a teenage high- school girl, Pilar, but when her family threatens to expose their relationship, Miles decides to protect Pilar by going back to Brooklyn, where he settles in a squat to prepare himself to face the inevitable confrontation with his father that he ahs been avoiding for years.

Pulsing with the energy of Auster's previous novel, Invisible, Sunset Park is as mythic as it is contemporary, as in love with baseball as it is with literature. It is above all, a story about love and forgiveness - not only among men and women, but also between fathers and sons.

About the Author Paul Auster is the best-selling author of Invisible, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions, The New York Trilogy, among many other works. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Faber Paperback Timbuktu Paul Auster

Meet Mr Bones, canine sidekick to the brilliant but troubled Willy G. Christmas.

Description Meet Mr Bones, canine sidekick of Willy G. Christmas, a troubled poet-saint from Brooklyn. Together they sally forth to Baltimore in search of Willy's beloved mentor Bea Wanson - who used to know him as William Gurevitch, son of Polish war refugees. But is she still alive?

About the Author Paul Auster was born in New Jersey in 1947. After attending Columbia University he lived in France for four years. Since 1974, he has published poems, essays, novels, screenplays and translations. His most recent books are the critically acclaimed novel The Brooklyn Follies and Travels in the Scriptorium. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Faber Paperback Writing Home Alan Bennett

A wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's writings, and the companion volume to Untold Stories.

Description This book brings together his diaries for 1980-1995, with reminiscences and reviews, the diary he kept during the production of his very first play, Forty Years On, which starred John Gielgud, together with hilarious accounts of his many television plays, notably An Englishman Abroad and A Private Function.

At the heart of the book is The Lady in the Van, the true account of Miss Mary Shepherd, a homeless tramp who took up residence in Bennett's garden and stayed for fifteen years. From his now-legendary address at Russell Harty's memorial service to recollections of growing up in Leeds, Writing Home gives us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9780571315727 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 200x125mm Extent: 656 pages

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Faber Paperback Untold Stories Alan Bennett

The astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, updated for paperback.

Description The paperback of Untold Stories contains new unpublished diaries, as well as a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional essays, reviews and comic pieces.

Since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s Alan Bennett has delighted audiences worldwide with his gentle humour and wry observations about life. His many works include Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, Talking Heads, A Question of Attribution and The Madness of George III. Bennett's most recent play, The History Boys, opened to great acclaim at the National in 2004, and is winner of the Evening Standard Award, the South Bank Award and the Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play. It came to Sydney in March 2006 and was made into a feature film

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Faber Paperback The Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett

Join the Queen on her life-changing literary odyssey.

Description The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely ( JR Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton Burnett and the classics) and intelligently.

Her reading naturally changes her world view and her relationship with people like the oleaginous prime minister and his repellent advisers. She comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with much that she has to do. In short, her reading is subversive. The consequence is, of course, surprising, mildly shocking and very funny.

About the Author Alan Bennett's many stage and television plays and his prose collection, Writing Home, have made him one of Britain's best-loved authors. He has a huge international reputation for his plays and films which include: Habeus Corpus, Kafka's Dick, Private Function, The Madness of George III and many others - often multi-prize winning. But it is his fiction (The Clothes They Stood Up In, Father! Father! Burning Bright and The Laying on of Hands - all Profile), now translated into many languages, and appearing on bestseller lists in Europe and the US as well as in Britain, which have brought him to the widest international readership. He was Author of the Year at the 2006 British Book Awards.

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Faber Paperback Sugar Money Jane Harris

Based on a remarkable and little-known true story, Jane Harris's third novel is both a heart-breaking trip into our troubled colonial past, and a stunning act of literary ventriloquism.

With great characters, a superb narrative set up, and language that is witty, bawdy and thrillingly alive, Sugar Money is a novel to treasure.

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Faber Fiction The Death of King Arthur Simon Armitage

Simon Armitage's sparkling translation of the legendary tale of King Arthur.

Description The Alliterative Morte Arthure - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around 1400 - was part of a medieval Arthurian revival which produced such masterpieces as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Sir Thomas Malory's prose Morte D'Arthur. The Death of King Arthur deals in the cut-and-thrust of warfare and politics: the ever- topical matter of Britain's relationship with continental Europe, and of its military interests overseas.

Simon Armitage is already the master of this alliterative music, as his earlier version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2006) so resourcefully and exuberantly showed. His new translation restores a neglected masterpiece of storytelling, by bringing vividly to life its entirely medieval mix of ruthlessness and restraint.

About the Author Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield. A recipient of numerous prizes and awards, he has published ten collections of poetry, including Selected Poems (2001), Seeing Stars (2010) and his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007). A broadcaster and presenter, he also writes extensively for television and radio, is the author of two novels, the bestselling memoir All Points North (1998) and Walking Home (2012), his poetic journey along the Pennine Way. In 2010 he received the CBE for services to poetry.

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Faber Poetry Blood's Game Angus Donald

For fans of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and The Tudors comes the new historical series from the bestselling author of the Outlaw Chronicles.

Description It is the winter of 1670.

Holcroft Blood has entered the employ of the Duke of Buckingham, one of the most powerful men in the kingdom after the king. It is here that his education really begins. With a gift for numbers and decoding ciphers, Holcroft soon proves invaluable to the Duke, but when he's pushed into a betrayal he risks everything for revenge.

His father, Colonel Thomas Blood, has fallen on hard times. A man used to fighting, he lives by his wits and survives by whatever means necessary. When he's asked to commit treason by stealing the crown jewels, he puts himself and his family in a dangerous situation - one that may end at the gallows.

As the machinations of powerful men plot to secure the country's future, both father and son must learn what it is to survive in a more dangerous battlefield than war - the court of King Charles II.

One missed step could prove fatal . . .

About the Author Angus Donald was born in 1965 and educated at Marlborough College and Edinburgh University. For over twenty years he was a journalist. He and his wife now live in Kent. www.angus-donald.com

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Zaffre Widening Income Inequality Frederick Seidel

Cutting and brilliant new poetry from master controversialist Frederick Seidel - now in paperback.

Description Seidel is the great controversialist of American poetry. Dubbed a 'transgressive adventurer,' a 'demonic gentleman,' a 'triumphant outsider,' a 'great poet of innocence,' and 'an example of the dangerous Male of the Species', his sly, witty and wide-eyed poems seem earnest one moment and flippant the next, and will see him rotating his caustic fire from high- society cocktail parties to street-level poverty, genocide to Obamacare, New York to Syria. He's never more than a turn- line from humour, and it is often when he is at his funniest that he is also at his most shocking.

The Independent said of his last collection: 'There is no contemporary poet writing in English as witty, as shrewd, as touching and as debonair as Frederick Seidel. That's a lot of praise, but he surely merits it.'

Widening Income Inequality, Seidel's new collection, is a rhymed magnificence of sexual, historical, and cultural exuberance. Rarely has poetry been this dapper, or this dire, or this true.

About the Author Frederick Seidel was born in St Louis and lives in New York City. His previous books of poems include Final Solutions, Sunrise, These Days, Poems 1959-1979, My Tokyo, Going Fast, The Cosmos Poems, Life on Earth, Area Code 212, The Cosmos Trilogy and Selected Poems. His most recent collection was Nice Weather (2013). He received the PEN/Voelker Award for Poetry in 2002.

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Faber Poetry The Sleeping Lord: And Other Fragments David Jones

Jones's visionary collection of poems and fragments published in the months before his death, reissued in paperback with a cover based on the artist's original design.

Description Published months before David Jones's death in 1974, and modestly presented by the author himself as a collection of 'fragments', The Sleeping Lord continued the exploration of themes begun by its predecessors Parenthesis and The Anathemata. Set mainly in different parts of the Roman Empire, either in the Holy Land or on the Celtic fringes, animated by his Catholic faith and by his own experiences as a soldier, formidably erudite and of a visionary intensity, the book springs from a lifetime's concern with questions of history, culture and religion. Mysterious, musical and alive with a sense of the wilderness and the elements, the poems show the startling development of Jones's imagination in his later years.

About the Author David Jones (1895-1974) was born in Kent. In 1915, then an art student, he went to war with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, where he fought in the battles of the Somme and Ypres. In 1922 he began a long association with the artist Eric Gill. In Parenthesis, based on Jones's experiences in World War I, was published in 1937, followed in 1952 by The Anathémata and The Sleeping Lord in 1974. David Jones's works are exhibited at the Tate Museum and the National Museum of Wales.

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Faber Poetry Playing the Bass with Three Left Hands Will Carruthers

A memoir of life in Spacemen 3, the most mythologised and revered psychedelic band of the 1980s.

Description I can confirm that should you ever find yourself on stage playing the bass guitar with three left hands, it is usually the one in the middle that is the real one. The other two are probably phantoms. Playing the Bass with Three Left Hands tells the story of one of the most revered British bands of the 1980s: Spacemen 3. As the decade turned and acid house hit the mainstream, the band imploded spectacularly, going their separate ways just as they were on the cusp of breakthrough success. Here, Will Carruthers tells the story of his time in a wholly dysfunctional yet hugely influential band, in one of the funniest and most memorable music memoirs.

About the Author Will Carruthers has played bass in Spacemen 3, Spiritualised and Brian Jonestown Massacre, three of the most terrifyingly dysfunctional bands of all time.

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Faber Paperback Vital Little Plans: the short works of Jane Jacobs Jane Jacobs, edited by Samuel Zipp and Nathan Storring, preface by Will Self

From the internationally renowned author of the modern classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities.

Description No one did more to change how we look at cities than Jane Jacobs, the visionary urbanist and economic thinker whose 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities started a global conversation that remains profoundly relevant more than half a century later.

Vital Little Plans is an essential companion to Death and Life and Jacobs' other books on urbanism, economics, politics, and ethics. It offers readers a unique survey of her entire career in 40 short pieces that have never been collected in a single volume, from charming and incisive urban vignettes from the 1930s to the raw materials of her two unfinished books of the 2000s, together with introductions and annotations by editors Samuel Zipp and NathanStorring.

Readers will find classics here, including Jacobs' breakout article 'Downtown Is for People', as well as lesser-known gems like her speech at the inaugural Earth Day and a host of other rare or previously unavailable essays, articles, speeches, interviews, and lectures. Some pieces shed light on the development of her most famous insights, while others explore topics rarely dissected in her major works, from globalization to feminism to universal health care.

This book, published in Jacobs's centenary year, enables contemporary readers, whether well versed in her ideas or new to her writing, to finally appreciate the full scope of her remarkable voice and vision. At a time when urban life is booming and people all over the world are moving to cities, the words of Jane Jacobs have never been more significant.

Vital Little Plans weaves a lifetime of ideas from the most prominent urbanist of the twentieth century into a book that is indispensable to life in the twenty-first.

About the Author Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) was a writer who for more than forty years championed innovative, community-based ISBN: 9781780723129 approaches to urban planning. Her 1961 treatise The Death and Life of Great American Cities became perhaps the most Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 210x135mm influential text about the inner workings and failings of cities, inspiring generations of planners and activists. Extent: 432 pages Main Category: AM Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Short Books The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World David Eagleman, Anthony Brandt

A profound and powerful exploration of human creativity from the international bestselling author of The Brain.

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Canongate Trade The Hidden Ways: Scotland's Forgotten Roads Alistair Moffat

The Hidden Ways wanders Scotland's forgotten paths to tell an alternative history of Scotland and our place within its landscape.

Description In The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland - its Roman roads tramped by armies, its warpaths and pilgrim routes, drove roads and rail roads, turnpikes, flyways and sea-roads - in a bid to understand how our history has left its mark upon our landscape. Alistair's travels along the hidden ways reveal not only the searing beauty and magic of the Scottish landscape, but open up a new means of understanding our past: in retracing the forgotten paths, he charts a powerful, surprising and moving history of Scotland through the unremembered lives who have moved through it.

About the Author Alistair Moffat was born in Kelso, Scotland in 1950. He is an award winning writer, historian and former Director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Director of Programmes at Scottish Television. He is the founder of Borders Book Festival and Co-Chairman of The Great Tapestry of Scotland. www.alistairmoffat.co.uk

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Canongate Trade The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia Masha Gessen

The Future is History is a powerful and urgent cautionary tale by contemporary Russia's most fearless inquisitor.

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Granta Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago Patrick Barkham

An enticing exploration of the smallest islands of Britain from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Butterfly Isles.

Description The people of the British Isles are an island race. We are distributed across an archipelago of two large islands and 6,289 smaller ones. Some, like the Isle of Man, resemble miniature nations, with their own language and tax laws; others, like Ray Island in Essex are abandoned and mysterious places haunted by myths, ghosts and rats. There are resurgent islands such as Eigg, which have been liberated from capricious owner-dictators; holy islands like Bardsey, the resting place of 20,000 saints, and still a site of spiritual questing; and dying islands such as St Kilda, famed for the evacuation of its people, and now dominated by wild sheep and seabirds. Our small islands are both places of freedom and imprisonment, party destinations and oases of peace, strangely suburban and deeply wild. They are places where the past is unusually present, but they can also offer a vision of alternative future. At times of crisis, the centre often looks to the periphery for escape, and inspiration.

In this evocative book, Patrick Barkham travels from larger small islands to ever-smaller islands in search of their special magic. Meeting all kinds of islanders, from nuns to puffins, from dropouts to rare subspecies of vole, he seeks to discover what it is to be an islander. How do communities function on small islands? Are they insular or outward looking? Are eccentrics attracted to islands, or do islands make people eccentric? Do they keep us sane or drive us mad? Patrick's journey across the British Isles sets out to answer these questions. Along the way, he uncovers bizarre and touching stories about island life, meets a host of curious characters and native species, and explores some of the most beautiful landscapes in Britain.

About the Author Patrick Barkham was born in 1975 in Norfolk and was educated at Cambridge University. He is a features writer for the Guardian, where he has reported on everything from the Iraq War to climate change. He is the author of The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals, Badgerlands: The Twilight World of Britain's Most Enigmatic Animal and Coastlines: The Story of Our Shore. He lives in Norfolk. Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781783781881 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x156mm Extent: 368 pages Main Category: WTL Travel Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Granta Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon Catherine Hewitt

Description In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists' most beautiful model. But behind her captivating facade lay a closely-guarded secret.

Renoir's Dancer tells the remarkable tale of an ambitious, headstrong woman fighting to find a professional voice in a male-dominated world.

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Icon A Better World is Possible: The Gatsby Charitable Foundation and Social Progress Georgina Ferry

A case study in contemporary philanthropy, giving GBP1bn to help make the world a better place.

Description 'Lord David Sainsbury's ambition to take on some of society's biggest challenges with compassion, thoughtfulness, and rigor is inspiring. It's been a pleasure to get to know him through his involvement in the Giving Pledge.' - Bill Gates, co- chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

'David Sainsbury's 50 years of outstanding philanthropic work has unlocked social progress in a unique way- venturing into areas where no one has gone, testing ideas no one has thought of, sponsoring lifesaving and life enhancing innovations no one has championed and by investing in the best of causes his charities have transformed conditions for millions.' - Gordon Brown

On 17 March 1965 the 26-year-old David Sainsbury wrote out a cheque for 5 pounds and established the trust which would become the Gatsby Charitable Foundation. Gatsby's purpose was ambitious - to make the world a better place by taking on some of the social, economic and scientific challenges that face humanity. In recent years, Gatsby has spent around GBP50m annually on charitable activities, and by its 50th anniversary in 2017 it will have spent over GPB1bn on programmes that range from reducing poverty in Africa to raising the standard of technical education, investigating how plants fight disease, and finding out how the brain works. But despite Gatsby's wide reach and the level of its donations, it has always functioned discreetly and out of the public eye. Georgina Ferry's in-depth account reveals its achievements and invites us to question how the super-rich - and even the moderately affluent - might spend their money more wisely and for the common good.

About the Author Georgina Ferry is a science writer, author and broadcaster. She was a staff editor and feature writer on New Scientist, and presented science programmes on BBC Radio. Her biography of Britain's only female Nobel-prizewinning scientist, Price: $55.00 (NZ$59.99) Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life (Granta 1998), was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Marsh Biography Award, and ISBN: 9781781259160 was reissued by Bloomsbury Reader in 2014. She has written five further books on 20th and 21st century science and Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm history. Extent: 288 pages

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Profile Trade In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room: Travels Through Indian Medicine Aarathi Prasad

The first comprehensive history of medicine in India - now available in paperback.

Description India defies definition, and the story of medicine in India is similarly rich and complex: shaped by unique challenges and opportunities, uniting cutting-edge technological developments with ancient cultural traditions, fuelled by political changes which transformed the lives of millions and moulded by the energy of forceful individuals.

Here, Aarathi Prasad investigates how Indian medicine came to be the way it is. Her travels will take her to bonesetter clinics in Jaipur and Hyderabad and the waiting-rooms of Bollywood's best plastic surgeons, and introduce her to traditional healers as well as the world-beating heart surgeon who is revolutionising treatment of the poor around the globe. From the asthma treatment 'cure' that involves swallowing a live fish, to ground-breaking mental health initiatives in Mumbai's Dharavi mega-slum and ground-breaking neuroscience happening inside the Mughal walls of old Delhi, In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room tells the story of the Indian people, in sickness and in health, and provides a unique perspective on the most diverse and fascinating country in the world.

About the Author Aarathi Prasad is a biologist and writer. She has appeared on TV and radio programmes, including BBC Radio 4, Channel 4 and the Discovery Channel. She is the author of Like A Virgin: How Science is Redesigning the Rules of Sex. She lives in London.

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Profile Trade Peace, Love & Potatoes John Hegley

New in paperback - a new collection from one of Britain's best-loved poets.

Description This all-new volume by the inimitable poet, comedian and performer John Hegley brings together poetry, prose and drawings on the themes closest to his heart. Contemplating subjects from painting, France and family to Daleks and of course potatoes, these pieces are by turns funny, moving, thought-provoking - and always brilliantly original.

Peace, Love and Potatoes opens a new window onto John Hegley's unique and vivid way of seeing the world, and is certain to delight fans old and new.

About the Author John Hegley performs live in venues all over Britain. He appears on television and radio and his poems have been featured regularly in the Guardian. He has published numerous volumes of poetry, including My Dog is a Carrot, which sold 8,500 copies, and Uncut Confetti which sold 4,000 copies.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781781258385 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 120 pages

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Serpents Tail No Pasaran!: Writings from the Spanish Civil War edited by Pete Ayrton

International writing from the Spanish Civil War, from both behind and at the front line.

Description Hope, resignation, despair, sadness, humour, confusion, ruthlessness, compassion, kindness, generosity and love inhabit Pete Ayrton's anthology of writings from the Spanish Civil War: there is little sense of certainty and still less of triumphalism among the bewilderingly diverse Republican and Nationalist coalitions, all shades of which are represented here. Previous collections privileged the writings of the International Brigades over those of the Spanish, sometimes excluding them altogether. ¡No Pasarán! corrects the balance: by far the largest contingent of its thirty-five writers are Spanish, including Luis Buñuel, Manuel Rivas, Javier Cercas, Arturo Barea, Joan Sales and Chaves Nogales. The remainder offer contrasting perspectives of participants in the conflict from America (among them John Dos Passos, Muriel Rukeyser and Langston Hughes); Italy (Curzio Malaparte and Leonardo Sciascia); France (Jean-Paul Sartre, André Malraux and others); Germany (Gustav Regler); Russia (Victor Serge); Great Britain (including Arthur Koestler, George Orwell and Laurie Lee); Cuba, Argentina and Mexico.

Pete Ayrton brings together hauntingly vivid stories from a bitterly fought war. This is powerful writing that allows the reader to witness life behind and at the front lines of both sides.

About the Author Pete Ayrton was born in London in 1943. After studying and briefly teaching philosophy, a period of left-wing tourism in France and Italy led to his learning to read and converse in these languages, and to take part in the intense, opaque discourses of Marxism. A period of work as translator led to a job as editor with Pluto Press and to his founding in 1986 of Serpent's Tail with the specific remit of publishing fiction in translation; this includes two First World War classics Frederic Manning's Her Privates We and Gabriel Chevallier's Fear, both represented in No Man's Land.

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