OCTOBER 2017 The Life to Come Michelle de Kretser
The dazzling new novel from Michelle de Kretser, author of Questions of Travel, bestseller and winner of the Miles Franklin Award.
Description 'I so much admire Michelle de Kretser's formidable technique - her characters feel alive, and she can create a sweeping narrative which encompasses years, and yet still retain the sharp, almost hallucinatory detail.' Hilary Mantel
'Michelle de Kretser knows how to construct a gripping story. She writes quickly and lightly of wonderful and terrible things...A master storyteller.' A.S. Byatt
Set in Sydney, Paris and Sri Lanka, The Life to Come is a mesmerising novel about the stories we tell and don't tell ourselves as individuals, as societies and as nations. It feels at once firmly classic and exhilaratingly contemporary.
Pippa is a writer who longs for success. Celeste tries to convince herself that her feelings for her married lover are reciprocated. Ash makes strategic use of his childhood in Sri Lanka but blots out the memory of a tragedy from that time. Driven by riveting stories and unforgettable characters, here is a dazzling meditation on intimacy, loneliness and our flawed perception of other people.
Profoundly moving as well as bitingly funny, The Life to Come reveals how the shadows cast by both the past and the future can transform, distort and undo the present. This extraordinary novel by Miles Franklin-winning author Michelle de Kretser will strike to your soul.
'...one of those rare writers whose work balances substance with style. Her writing is very witty, but it also goes deep, informed at every point by a benign and far-reaching intelligence.' Kerryn Goldsworthy, Sydney Morning Herald
'...a dazzlingly accomplished author who commands all the strokes. Her repertoire stretches from a hallucinatory sense of place to a mastery of suspense, sophisticated verbal artistry and a formidable skill in navigating those twisty paths where Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781760296568 history and psychology entwine.' Boyd Tonkin, Independent Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm About the Author Extent: 384 pages Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and emigrated to Australia when she was 14. Educated in Melbourne and Main Category: FC Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction Paris, Michelle has worked as a university tutor, an editor and a book reviewer. She is the author of The Rose Grower, Illustrations: The Hamilton Case, which won the Commonwealth Prize (SE Asia and Pacific region) and the UK Encore Prize, and The Previous Titles: Author now living: Dulwich Hill, NSW Lost Dog, which was widely praised by writers such as AS Byatt, Hilary Mantel and William Boyd and won a swag of awards, including: the 2008 NSW Premier's Book of the Year Award and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, and the 2008 ALS Gold Medal. The Lost Dog was also shortlisted for the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, the Western Australian Premier's Australia-Asia Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Asia-Pacific Region) and Orange Prize's Shadow Youth Panel. It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction. HerAllen last novel, & Unwin OCTOBER 2017 The Life to Come 24 copy dumpbin
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Allen & Unwin OCTOBER 2017 The Last Hours Minette Walters
For most, the Black Death is the end. For a brave few, it heralds a new beginning.
Description When the Black Death enters England through the port of Melcombe in Dorseteshire in June 1348, no one knows what manner of sickness it is or how it spreads and kills so quickly. The Church cites God as the cause, and religious fear grips the people as they come to believe that the plague is a punishment for wickedness.
But Lady Anne of Develish has her own ideas. Educated by nuns, Anne is a rarity among women, being both literate and knowledgeable. With her brutal husband absent from Develish when news of this pestilence reaches her, she takes the decision to look for more sensible ways to protect her people than daily confessions of sin. Well-versed in the importance of isolating the sick from the well, she withdraws her people inside the moat that surrounds her manor house and refuses entry even to her husband.
She makes an enemy of her daughter and her husband's steward by doing so, but her resolve is strengthened by the support of her leading serfs ... until food stocks run low and the nerves of all are tested by continued confinement and ignorance of what is happening in the world outside. The people of Develish are alive. But for how long? And what will they discover when the time comes for them to cross the moat?
Compelling and suspenseful, The Last Hours is a riveting tale of human ingenuity and endurance against the worst pandemic known to history. In Lady Anne of Develish - leader, saviour, heretic - Walters has created her most memorable heroine to date.
About the Author Minette Walters was one of the most successful crime fiction writers in the world. Published to critical acclaim in over 34 countries, each new novel reached the top of the Australian bestseller lists. Her last novel was The Chameleon's Shadow in 2007.
Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781760294984 The Last Hours sees Minette moving in an exciting direction. She has written an extraordinary historical novel set in 1348, Format: Paperback - C format the year the Black Death came to England. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 568 pages Minette lives in Dorset with her husband. Main Category: F Fiction
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Allen & Unwin OCTOBER 2017 What She Left Rosie Fiore
What would make you walk away from your life, your family and friends, in search of a completely fresh start?
Description Helen Cooper has a charmed life. She's beautiful, accomplished, organised - the star parent at the school. Until she disappears.
But Helen wasn't abducted or murdered. She's chosen to walk away, abandoning her family, husband Sam, and her home.
Where has Helen gone, and why? What has driven her from her seemingly perfect life? What is she looking for? Sam is tormented by these questions, and gradually begins to lose his grip on work and his family life.
He sees Helen everywhere in the faces of strangers. He's losing control.
But then one day, it really is Helen's face he sees...
About the Author Rosie Fiore was born and grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa. She studied drama at the University of the Witwatersrand and has worked as a writer for theatre, television, magazines, advertising, comedy and the corporate market. She has lived in London for the past fifteen years. Her first novel, This Year's Black, was longlisted for the South African Sunday Times Literary Award. After Isabella was her most recent novel. Rosie also writes under the name Cass Hunter.
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A&U UK OCTOBER 2017 Fearless Fiona Higgins
What happens when six pampered Westerners on a spiritual retreat in Bali end up fighting for their lives? A gripping novel from the bestselling author of The Mothers' Group.
Description The breathtakingly suspenseful new novel from the bestselling author of The Mothers' Group and Wife on the Run
Six strangers from across the world meet on the tropical island of Bali to attend a course designed to help them face their fears. Their backgrounds are as diverse as their fears, which range from flying, public speaking and heights, through to intimacy, failure and death.
Friendships and even romance blossom as the participants are put through a series of challenges that are unusual, confronting and sometimes hilarious. A week of fun in the sun suddenly turns into something far more serious, however, when the unthinkable happens--a tragic disaster that puts the group in deadly danger, testing the individual courage of every member.
Shocking, powerful and utterly gripping, Fearless takes you to the edge and makes you look down.
About the Author Fiona Higgins is the author of three novels, Fearless, Wife on the Run and The Mothers' Group, and a memoir, Love in the Age of Drought.
Fiona has qualifications in the humanities and social sciences, and has worked in the philanthropy and not-for-profit sector in Australia for the past seventeen years.
Having recently returned from three years in Indonesia, she now lives in Sydney with her husband and three children.
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Allen & Unwin OCTOBER 2017 Sapphire Falls Fleur McDonald
While mystery surrounds the accidental shooting of a her husband, Fiona Forrest struggles to preserve the family farm in a suspenseful, pacy and action packed novel from the author of Crimson Dawn and Indigo Storm.
Description Fiona Forrest is devastated when her husband Charlie commits suicide after the accidental shooting of his mate Eddie. Though Fiona decides to keep farming their successful property, rumours that she intends to sell keep circulating.
When Detective Dave Burrows arrives to sign off on the investigation into Eddie's death, his suspicions are aroused by some strange anomalies at the scene. As Dave becomes increasingly convinced that something sinister is going on, Fiona finds herself dealing with a series of disasters on the farm . . .
By the bestselling author of Crimson Dawn, this suspenseful novel about a woman fighting to preserve her husband's dream, and a detective determined to uncover the truth will keep you guessing till the very last page.
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.
Fleur likes to write about strong women overcoming adversity, drawing inspiration from her own experiences in rural Australia. She is the best-selling author of Red Dust, Blue Skies, Purple Roads, Silver Clouds and Crimson Dawn. She has two children and a Jack Russell terrier.
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Allen & Unwin OCTOBER 2017 The Necessary Angel C.K. Stead
A beautifully written, carefully observed novel that takes you to the heart of contemporary Paris and into a world of books and witty conversation.
Description With a surprising twist at the end, this book is gripping and hugely satisfying.
It can be read on many levels - as a story of people grappling with love and fidelity; as a story about the importance of books in everyday life; as a commentary on living in complex modern-day Europe; and as a page-turning mystery.
Peopled mainly by lecturers and students of the Sorbonne The Necessary Angel touches on the machinations of various players as they position for power. Written against the wider backdrop of the political turmoil of 2014 - ISIS, Syria and the threat of Brexit - these themes become global. One of the characters quotes Flaubert: 'There is no truth, there is only perception', and this thread runs throughout.
This is a sophisticated novel that shows CK Stead writing at the height of his powers.
About the Author Karl Stead is a distinguished, award-winning novelist, literary critic, poet, essayist and emeritus professor of English of the University of Auckland. He is the current New Zealand Poet Laureate, has won the Prime Minister's Award for Fiction, and is a Member of the Order of New Zealand, the highest honour possible in New Zealand.
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A&U New Zealand OCTOBER 2017 Bluebird, Bluebird: A gripping American South thriller from the Orange-Prize-shortlisted author Attica Locke
A powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy-winning TV show Empire.
Description Highway 59 is the forgotten route that connects the backwoods towns across the state of Texas. It's a place that time - and justice - seem to have forgotten.
When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home.
When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders - a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman - have stirred up a hornet's nest of resentment. Darren must solve the crimes - and save himself in the process - before Lark's long-simmering racial fault lines erupt. A rural noir suffused with the unique music, color, and nuance of East Texas, Bluebird, Bluebird is an exhilarating, timely novel about the collision of race and justice in America.
The first in a blockbuster series set along Highway 59, history casts a long shadow in this high-stakes, small town thriller.
About the Author Attica Locke is a screenwriter who has written for Paramount, Warner Bros, Twentieth Century Fox, HBO and Dreamworks; she currently contributes to the hit show Empire. Locke's first novel Black Water Rising was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, nominated for an Edgar Award, an NAACP Image Award and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her most recent book, Pleasantville, was published in 2015. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, with her husband and daughter. Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781781258965 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages Main Category: FH
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Serpents Tail OCTOBER 2017 The Hidden Keys Andre Alexis
A thief, a junkie and an albino walk into a bar: one comes out dead, one in handcuffs, and the other with millions of dollars ... A slick, sophisticated mystery from the author of the Giller Prize-winning Fifteen Dogs - questioning what it means to be honourable and faithful in the face of desire.
Description In the depths of the ill-reputed Green Dolphin bar, Tancred Palmieri, a talented thief with extravagant tastes, encounters Willow Azarian, an aging heroin addict. She reveals to Tancred that her very wealthy father has recently passed away, leaving each of his five children a mysterious object that provides one clue to the whereabouts of a large inheritance. Willow enlists Tancred to steal these objects from her siblings and solve the puzzle.
A Japanese screen, a painting that plays music, an aquavit bottle, a framed poem, and a model of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater ... Are these really clues, or has Tancred fallen victim to the delusions of a junkie?
Based on a reading of Treasure Island, The Hidden Keys questions what it means to be honourable and faithful in the face of desire.
About the Author Andr. Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. His debut novel, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His previous books include Asylum, Beauty and Sadness, Ingrid & the Wolf, and, most recently, Pastoral, which was also nominated for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His latest novel, Fifteen Dogs, won the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize, awarded annually to the best Canadian fiction book.
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Serpents Tail OCTOBER 2017 Fifteen Dogs Andre Alexis
A pack of dogs are granted the power of human thought - but what will it do to them? A surprising and insightful look at the beauty and perils of consciousness.
Description It begins in a bar, like so many strange stories. The gods Hermes and Apollo argue about what would happen if animals had human intelligence, so they make a bet that leads them to grant consciousness and language to a group of dogs staying overnight at a veterinary clinic.
Suddenly capable of complex thought, the dogs escape and become a pack. They are torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, preferring the old 'dog' ways, and those who embrace the change. The gods watch from above as the dogs venture into unfamiliar territory, as they become divided among themselves, as each struggles with new thoughts and feelings. Wily Benjy moves from home to home, Prince becomes a poet, and Majnoun forges a relationship with a kind couple that stops even the Fates in their tracks.
Engaging and strange, full of unexpected insights into human and canine minds, this contemporary take on the apologue is the most extraordinary book you'll read this year.
About the Author Andr. Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. His debut novel, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His previous books include Asylum, Beauty and Sadness, Ingrid & the Wolf, and, most recently, Pastoral, which was also nominated for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
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Serpents Tail OCTOBER 2017 The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition Fernando Pessoa, translated by Margaret Jull Costa
The definitive edition of the much-loved classic, featuring substantial new and previously unpublished material.
Description Sitting at his desk, Bernardo Soares imagined himself free forever of Rua dos Douradores, of his boss Vasques, of Moreira the book-keeper, of all the other employees, the errand boy, the post boy, even the cat. But if he left them all tomorrow and discarded the suit of clothes he wears, what else would he do? Because he would have to do something. And what suit would he wear? Because he would have to wear another suit.
A self-deprecating reflection on the sheer distance between the loftiness of his feelings and the humdrum reality of his life, The Book of Disquiet is a classic of existentialist literature.
About the Author Fernando Pessoa, one of the founders of modernism, was born in Lisbon in 1888. He grew up in Durban, South Africa, where his stepfather was Portuguese consul. He returned to Lisbon in 1905 and worked as a clerk in an import-export company until his death in 1935. Most of Pessoa's writing was not published during his lifetime; The Book of Disquiet first came out in Portugal in 1982. Since its first publication, it has been hailed as a classic.
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Serpents Tail OCTOBER 2017 Friend of My Youth Amit Chaudhuri
A brilliantly deft, luminous novel about the condition of being alive in time and memory.
Description In Friend of My Youth, a novelist named Amit Chaudhuri visits his childhood home of Bombay. The city, reeling from the impact of the 2008 terrorist attacks, weighs heavily on Amit's mind, as does the unexpected absence of his childhood friend Ramu, a drifting, opaque figure who is Amit's last remaining connection to the city he once called home.
Amit Chaudhuri's new novel is about geographical, historical and personal change. It asks a question we all grapple with in our lives: what does it mean to exist in both the past and the present? It is a striking reminder that, as the Guardian has said, 'Chaudhuri has been pushing away at form, trying to make something new of the novel.'
About the Author Amit Chaudhuri is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the English Association, and was a judge of the Man Booker International Prize. He is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia.
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Faber Fiction OCTOBER 2017 A Life of Adventure and Delight Akhil Sharma
The highly anticipated debut story collection from the award-winning author of Family Life; they're powerful, elegant, tender and often funny.
Description Prize-winning author Akhil Sharma's masterful new collection is a remarkable achievement.
All nine of these elegant, powerful stories were first published in the New Yorker - a unique achievement for any writer and an illustration of the high regard in which his work is held in the States.
In the sleek, minimalist prose for which Family Life was acclaimed, Sharma skilfully reveals the obstacles we face in making meaningful relationships and explores the unpredictability of human emotion. A striking fusion of fiction and memoir, A Life of Adventure and Delight is unflinching in exposing the burdens of trauma, infidelity, and mortality. Whether in New York or Delhi, Sharma's protagonists are always discovering what it really means to be mothers and daughters, sons and lovers, husbands and wives. Deeply intimate, this is a tour de force from a unique literary voice.
About the Author Akhil Sharma was born in Delhi in India and emigrated to the USA in 1979. His stories have been published in the New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly, and included in The Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prize Collections. His first book, An Obedient Father, won the 2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. He was named one of Granta's 'Best of Young American Novelists' in 2007. His second novel, Family Life, won the 2015 Folio Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award 2016. Sharma is currently a Fellow at The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.
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Faber Fiction OCTOBER 2017 Family Life Akhil Sharma
Heart-wrenching and darkly comic, this hotly anticipated second novel from the author of An Obedient Father is the beautifully told story of a boy torn between duty and survival.
Description WINNER OF THE 2016 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD WINNER OF THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015
For eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju, life in Dehli in the late 1970s follows a comfortable, predictable routine: bathing on the roof, queuing for milk, playing cricket in the street. Yet, everything changes when their father finds a job in America - a land of carpets and elevators, swimsuits and hot water on tap. Life is exciting for the two brothers as they adjust to prosperity, girls and 24-hour TV, until one hot, sultry day when everything falls apart.
Darkly comic, Family Life is a story of a boy torn between duty and survival amid the ruins of everything he once knew.
About the Author Akhil Sharma was born in Delhi in India and emigrated to the USA in 1979. His stories have been published in the New Yorker and in Atlantic Monthly, and have been included in The Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prize Collections. His first novel, An Obedient Father, won the 2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. He was named one of Granta's 'Best of Young American Novelists' in 2007.
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Faber Paperback OCTOBER 2017 The Secret Books Marcel Theroux
A world on the brink of catastrophe. A two-thousand-year-old mystery. A lost gospel. Both a page-turning adventure and an examination of the stories that humans are willing to kill and die for.
Description Seeking adventure, a young man flees the drudgery of shopkeeping in Tsarist Russia to make a new life among the bohemians and revolutionaries of 19th century Paris. Travelling undercover in the mountains of British India, he discovers a manuscript that transforms the world's understanding of the historical Jesus. Decades later, in a Europe threatened by unimaginable tragedy, he makes a despairing attempt to right a historic injustice.
This breathtaking novel by the award-winning author of Far North and Strange Bodies tells the extraordinary tale of Nicolas Notovitch and his secret gospel.
It is the epic story of a young man on the make in a turbulent world of spies and double-cross, propaganda and revolutionary violence, lost love and nascent anti-semitism - a world which eerily foreshadows our own era of post-truth politics.
Based on real events, The Secret Books is at once a page-turning adventure and an examination of the stories that humans are willing to kill and die for.
About the Author Marcel Theroux is the author of five novels: A Blow to the Heart, A Stranger in the Earth, The Paperchase (winner of the 2002 Somerset Maugham Award), Far North (shortlisted for America's prestigious National Book Award), and Strange Bodies.
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Faber Fiction OCTOBER 2017 2023: a trilogy The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu
A utopian costume drama, set in the near future, written in the recent past.
Description Well we're back again, They never kicked us out, twenty thousand years of SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT.
Down through the epochs and out across the continents, generation upon generation of the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu have told variants of the same story - an end of days story, a final chapter story. But one with hope, even if the hope at times seems forlorn.
The story contained in this trilogy is the latest telling. Here it is presented as a utopian costume drama, set in the near future, written in the recent past. Read with care. REMEMBERED - TOLD - TRANSCRIBED for K 2 Plant Hire Ltd.
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Faber Social OCTOBER 2017 A Patient Fury Sarah Ward
An unputdownable new Derbyshire thriller: three bodies discovered, a family obliterated - with the evidence all pointing to one conclusion ...
Description When Detective Constable Connie Childs is dragged from her bed to the fire-wrecked property on Cross Farm Lane she knows as she steps from the car that this house contains death.
Three bodies discovered - a family obliterated - their deaths all seem to point to one conclusion: One mother, one murderer.
But D.C. Childs, determined as ever to discover the truth behind the tragedy, realises it is the fourth body - the one they cannot find - that holds the key to the mystery at Cross Farm Lane.
What Connie Childs fails to spot is that her determination to unmask the real murderer might cost her more than her health - this time she could lose the thing she cares about most: her career.
About the Author Sarah Ward is the author of two critically acclaimed novels In Bitter Chill and Deadly Thaw, which also featured DC Connie Childs. On her blog, Crimepieces (www.crimepieces.com), she reviews the best of current crime fiction published around the world, and she has also reviewed for Euro Crime and CrimeSquad. She is a judge for the Petrona Award for Scandinavian translated crime novels. She lives in Derbyshire.
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Faber Fiction OCTOBER 2017 Days Without End Sebastian Barry
Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year, Sebastian Barry's sensational new novel set in mid-19th Century America.
Description After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War.
Having both fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in.
Then when a young Indian girl crosses their path, the possibility of lasting happiness seems within reach, if only they can survive.
About the Author Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His novels and plays have won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He also had two consecutive novels, A Long Long Way (2005) and the top ten bestseller The Secret Scripture (2008), shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize. The Secret Scripture also won the 2008 Costa Book of the Year.
He lives in Wicklow with his wife and three children.
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Faber Paperback OCTOBER 2017 The Country Girls Trilogy: The Country Girls; The Lonely Girl; Girls in their Married Bliss Edna O'Brien, foreword by Eimear McBride
A new edition of Edna O'Brien's stunning first three novels: The Country Girls and its sequels, The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss, changed the temperature of Irish literature in the 1960s and inspired generation after generation of readers and writers. The passion, artistry and courage of Edna O'Brien's vision in these three novels continue to resonate into the twenty-first century.
Description The trilogy follows the lives of Kate Brady and her friend Baba Brennan from the confines of a convent school in the Irish countryside to the bright lights of Dublin, and on to the unexpected challenges of married life in London.
These are novels about innocence and youth, love and passion, dreams and reality.
About the Author Since her debut novel The Country Girls Edna O'Brien has written over twenty works of fiction along with a biography of James Joyce and Lord Byron. She is the recipient of many awards including the Irish Pen Lifetime Achievement Award, the American National Art's Gold Medal and the Ulysses Medal.
Born and raised in the west of Ireland she has lived in London for many years.
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Faber Paperback OCTOBER 2017 Pocket Playhouse: Thirty-six short entertainments Michael Frayn
Thirty-six comic sketches from the cherished playwright Michael Frayn, author of Noises Off and Skios.
Description Pocket Playhouse is Michael Frayn's latest imaginative offering that brings the stage to the page. In thirty-six comic sketches, he provides a tour de force of theatrical imagination and satire. Each sketch reveals the author's infectious delight in writing between the lines of theatre, fiction and comedy.
Charmingly packaged and published with flair, Pocket Playhouse is the perfect gift for all theatre and comedy writers.
About the Author Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong, Spies and Skios. His seventeen plays range from Noises Off, recently chosen as one of the nation's three favourite plays, to Copenhagen, which won the 1998 Evening Standard Award for Best Play of the Year and the 2000 Tony Award for Best Play.
He is married to the writer Claire Tomalin.
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Faber Fiction OCTOBER 2017 New Selected Poems Robert Lowell, compiled by Katie Peterson
A fresh and illuminating New Selected Poems published in the centenary year of one of the most honoured American poets of the twentieth century.
Description 'The best American poet of his generation.' - Time
Gathered on the occasion of Robert Lowell's one hundredth birthday, New Selected Poems offers a fresh and illuminating representation of one of the great careers in twentieth-century poetry. The renowned and controversial author of many books of poems, plays, and translations, Lowell was one of the United States' most honoured poets, winning the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1947 and 1974, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His ongoing interrogation of his family legacy, his personal struggle with manic depression, and his mastery of the tradition of poetry in English formed the groundbreaking autobiographical foundation of Life Studies (1959) and the books that followed it, including For the Union Dead (1964), Near the Ocean (1967), History (1973), and Day by Day (1977).
Katie Peterson's incisive selection of Lowell's poems draws attention to 'the perishability of life, its twinned quality of fragility and repetition, as framed by the structured evanescence of daily consciousness.' Lowell's own intense dramas and struggles are the substrate he drew on in his restless search to make sense of, and fix, shape-shifting experience - not his, but ours. As Peterson says, Lowell was 'constitutionally immune to any stultifying permanence either of form or of spirit.' Her brilliant new reading of Lowell shows us his work constantly breaking, renewing, transforming, as he strives restlessly, over and over, to find an elusive unity.
About the Author Robert Lowell was born in Boston in 1917. He attended Harvard University and Kenyon College, where he received his B. A. in 1940. He was the dominant poetic voice of his era. Lowell died in New York City in 1977.
Katie Peterson is the author of three collections of poetry, This One Tree, Permission, and The Accounts. She lives in California and teaches at the University of California at Davis. Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9780571339488 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 209x138mm Extent: 272 pages Main Category: DCF Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Poetry OCTOBER 2017 All The Wicked Girls Chris Whitaker
The outstanding new crime thriller from the highly acclaimed author of Tall Oaks
Description 'Raine sometimes complains that nothing exciting is ever gonna happen in Grace again. Daddy told her careful what you wish for.'
Everyone loves Summer Ryan. A model student and musical prodigy, she's a ray of light in the struggling small town of Grace, Alabama - especially compared to her troubled sister, Raine.
Then Summer goes missing.
Grace is already simmering, and with this new tragedy the police have their hands full keeping the peace. Only Raine throws herself into the search, supported by a most unlikely ally.
But perhaps there was always more to Summer than met the eye . . .
A gripping crime novel with a huge heart, this is the second novel from the exceptionally talented Chris Whitaker.
About the Author Chris Whitaker's debut novel, Tall Oaks, was published in 2016 by Bonnier Zaffre. It was a Guardian crime book of the month as well as featuring in Crime Time's top 100 books of 2016 and BuzzFeed's incredible summer reads. Chris's second novel, All The Wicked Girls, will be published in autumn 2017. Chris lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and two young sons.
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Zaffre OCTOBER 2017 All the Wicked Girls 8 copy pack
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Zaffre OCTOBER 2017 Tall Oaks: A gripping missing child thriller with a devastating twist Chris Whitaker
Gripping yet hilarious, suspenseful and sad - a brilliant debut for fans of Twin Peaks and The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair.
Description When three-year-old Harry goes missing, the whole of America turns its attention to one small town.
Everyone is eager to help. Everyone is a suspect. Desperate mother Jess, whose grief is driving her to extreme measures. Newcomer Jared, with an easy charm and a string of broken hearts in his wake. Photographer Jerry, who's determined to break away from his controlling mother once and for all. And, investigating them all, a police chief with a hidden obsession of his own...
In Chris Whitaker's brilliant and original debut novel, missing persons, secret identities and dangerous lies abound in a town as idiosyncratic as its inhabitants.
About the Author Chris Whitaker was born in London and spent ten years working as a financial trader in the city. When not writing he enjoys football, boxing, and anything else that distracts him from his wife and two young sons. Tall Oaks is his first novel.
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Twenty7 OCTOBER 2017 From The Shadows Neil White
You can't see him. But he can see you...Bestselling author Neil White introduces Dan Grant, a lawyer who seeks the truth - whatever the cost.
Description He hides in the shadows, watching, waiting, until the time is right . . .
Mary Kendricks, a smart, pretty, twenty-four-year-old teacher, has been brutally murdered and Robert Carter is accused of killing her.
When defence lawyer, Dan Grant inherits Carter's case only weeks before the trial starts, everyone expects him just to babysit it, but Dan's not that kind of lawyer. He'll follow the evidence - wherever it takes him.
But as Dan and his investigator Jayne Brett look into the case, they discover that there is more to it than meets the eye. In order to do their jobs they need to push the limits of the system, even if it means putting themselves in danger.
Together they will get to the truth - whatever the cost . . .
About the Author Neil White was born and brought up around West Yorkshire. He left school at sixteen but returned to education in his twenties, when he studied for a law degree. He started writing in 1994, and is now a criminal lawyer by day, crime fiction writer by night. He lives in the north of England with his wife and three children.
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Zaffre OCTOBER 2017 Kill Me Twice Simon Booker
A gripping new psychological thriller from the highly acclaimed author of Without Trace.
Description Karl Savage is dead.
He must be - because his ex-lover Anjelica is in prison for murdering him in an arson attack. Because multiple forensic experts testified that they found his charred corpse amongst the ruins.
So when Morgan Vine is asked by Anjelica to prove her innocence, it seems an impossible task. It doesn't matter that Karl was certainly abusive. That Anjelica has a young baby to care for. That Anjelica is petrified of fire ...
And then Karl Savage walks past Morgan's window ...
About the Author Simon Booker is an author and screenwriter who has written prime time TV drama for BBC1, ITV and US TV. His UK credits include The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Holby City and The Mrs Bradley Mysteries. He has written seven plays for BBC Radio 4, worked extensively as a producer in television and radio, and as a journalist. Booker lives in London and Deal. His partner is fellow crime writer MJ McGrath. They often discuss murder methods over breakfast.
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Zaffre OCTOBER 2017 The First Dance Catherine Law
A romantic and moving novel for fans of Anna Hope and Tracy Rees
Description 1924
In the aftermath of World War One, eleven-year-old Alexa has everything she ever needed. Growing up in the beautiful Cornwall countryside with a loving mother and father, she doesn't realise that life could be any different.
But when her mother dies, everything is thrown into turmoil, and she's sent away to boarding school.
1931
Now finished at school and desperate for adventure, Alexa flees Cornwall and takes a job as companion to a wealthy woman.
Together they travel to Venice, and here Alexa finds her life full of excitement, passion and romance - although possibly more than she bargained for.
And when life doesn't go to plan she realises that maybe the thing she's been looking for has been waiting at home all along . . .
About the Author Catherine Law was born in Harrow, Middlesex in 1965 and has been a journalist for twenty-two years, having trained first as a secretary at the BBC and then attending the London College of Printing. She now works on a glossy interiors magazine and lives in Buckinghamshire.
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Zaffre OCTOBER 2017 The Shock Marc Raabe
From the international bestselling author of Cut comes a thriller that is guaranteed to keep you up all night . . .
Description When Laura Bjely goes missing during a storm on the Cote d'Azur, the only thing her friend Jan finds is her smartphone - with a disturbing film in the memory.
Back in Berlin, Jan's neighbour is discovered with a bloody message left on her forehead.
As Jan searches for answers about what happened to Laura, he is thrown into a nightmare of madness and murder.
An exhilarating and merciless psychological thriller that's not for the faint-hearted.
About the Author Marc Raabe owns and runs a television production company. He lives with his family in Cologne.
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Manilla OCTOBER 2017 Go, Went, Gone Jenny Erpenbeck
One of the greatest European writers takes on one of Europe's biggest issues.
Description In this radical, exquisite novel, the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize turns her attention to the contemporary refugee crisis and our responsibility in its creation.
Richard has spent his life as a professor at the university, immersed in the world of books and ideas, but now he is retired, his books remain in their packing boxes and his ideas about how society works begin to change. One day, he notices a group of African men staging a protest on the Alexanderplatz. His interest is piqued and he visits the tent city they've set up.
He meets Yussuf from Mali, Ali from Chad, Osarobo from Niger and Raschid, Yaya and Abdusalam. He fills his previously empty days helping his new friends fill out forms, finding them work, unofficially helping their official German teacher and learning about the intricacies of asylum law in Germany. But the laws of his land appear designed to prevent the people he has connected with from ever finding a home alongside him.
At once a passionate contribution to the debate on race, privilege and nationality and a beautifully written examination of an ageing man's quest to find meaning in his life, Go, Went, Gone showcases a writer at the height of her powers.
About the Author Jenny Erpenbeck is the author of The Old Child & The Book of Words (2008), Visitation (2010) and The End of Days (2014, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize), all published by Portobello. Her fiction is published in fourteen languages.
Susan Bernofsky has translated works by Robert Walser, Franz Kafka, and many others. The recipient of the 2006 Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize and the 2012 Hermann Hesse Translation Prize, she is the author of Foreign Words: Translator- Authors in the Age of Goethe and is currently at work on a biography of Robert Walser. Her translation of Jenny Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781846276200 Erpenbeck's The End of Days was awarded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Format: Hard Cover Prize, the Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize, and the Ungar Award. Dimensions: 216x138mm Extent: 336 pages Main Category: FC Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Portobello Trade OCTOBER 2017 The End of Days Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Susan Bernofsky
A story of the twentieth century told through the various lives of one woman: an intoxicating masterpiece of a novel that kneads time and History like dough.
Description Who are we when we are born? Who are we when the hour of our death comes? What changes? What remains? By tracing the five possible lives lived and the five deaths of one woman whose life spans, or fails to span, the twentieth century, the magical, magisterial author of Visitation exposes the machinations of what we call 'fate' - actually inexplicable and undetermined, an interplay of culture and history, of family and personal entanglements.
The protagonist never grows up, suffocates in her cradle. Or perhaps not? Dies as a lover. Or doesn't after all. Dies betrayed. Highly honoured. Or forgotten by everyone. Or perhaps not? Erpenbeck takes us on a journey through the many lives that could be contained in one single life - starting off in a small Galician town in about 1900 and going to Vienna and Stalin's Moscow before ending up in present-day Berlin. She interrogates the impact of the political on the personal, and as she tackles this theme she draws on a uniquely German narrative impetus: the ongoing need to reckon with its past and its place in recent history.
About the Author Jenny Erpenbeck is the author of Visitation (2010) and The Old Child & The Book of Words (2008), both published by Portobello. Her fiction is published in fourteen languages.
Susan Bernofsky has translated works by Robert Walser, Hermann Hesse, Gregor von Rezzori, Yoko Tawada, Ludwig Harig and Franz Kafka. She is the author of Foreign Words: Translator-Authors in the Age of Goethe and is currently at work on a biography of Robert Walser. Her translation of The Old Child and Other Stories was awarded the 2006 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize.
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Portobello PBS OCTOBER 2017 To the Back of Beyond Peter Stamm, translated by Michael Hofmann
Have you ever wondered how you'd go about disappearing from your own life? In this stunning new novel, Peter Stamm explores the paths taken by a man who chooses to vanish, and the woman he leaves behind.
Description After returning from a pleasant holiday with his wife, Astrid, and their two children, Thomas leaves the house. He walks down the street, and he keeps on walking. At first Astrid asks herself where he's gone, and then when he's coming back, and finally whether he is even still alive.
In precise and hypnotic prose that cuts as cleanly as a scalpel, To the Back of Beyond is a novel that takes away the safe foundations of a marriage and a lifestyle to ask deeper questions about identity, connection and how free we are to change our lives. It is a graceful and resonant work from one of Europe's most important writers.
About the Author Peter Stamm was born in 1963, in Scherzingen, Switzerland. He is the author of the novels Agnes, On A Day Like This, Unformed Landscape, Seven Years (Granta) and the collection We're Flying (Granta), as well as numerous short stories and radio plays. He lives in Winterthur.
Michael Hofmann has translated the works of many writers, including Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, and Hans Fallada. He teaches at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
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Granta OCTOBER 2017 First Love Gwendoline Riley
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 - A tightly-wound, razor-sharp novel that questions our competing desires for intimacy and for freedom.
Description SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017
Neve is a writer in her mid-30s married to an older man, Edwyn. For now they are in a place of relative peace, but their past battles have left scars. As Neve recalls the decisions that led her to this marriage, she tells of other loves and other debts, from her bullying father and her self-involved mother to a musician who played her and a series of lonely flights from place to place.
Drawing the reader into the battleground of her relationship, Neve spins a story of helplessness and hostility, an ongoing conflict in which both husband and wife have played a part. But is this, nonetheless, also a story of love?
About the Author Gwendoline Riley was born in London in 1979. She is the author of the novels Cold Water, Sick Notes, Joshua Spassky and Opposed Positions. Her writing has won a Betty Trask Award and a Somerset Maugham Award, and has been shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. First Love was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017.
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Granta Paperbacks OCTOBER 2017 Train Dreams Denis Johnson
An epic in miniature: a gripping tale of a man's disintegration and his country's transformation, from the National Book Award-winning author of Tree of Smoke.
Description Robert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainier struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime.
Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West - its otherworldly flora and fauna, its rugged loggers and bridge-builders - Train Dreams captures the disappearance of a distinctly American way of life.
About the Author Denis Johnson is the author of six novels, three collections of poetry, and one book of reportage. His novel Tree of Smoke was the 2007 winner of the National Book Award. He died in May 2017.
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Granta Paperbacks OCTOBER 2017 Jesus' Son Denis Johnson
A classic of Twentieth-Century American Literature from one of America's greatest living writers.
Description Jesus' Son is a visionary chronicle of dreamers, addicts, and lost souls. These stories tell of spiralling grief and transcendence, of rock bottom and redemption, of getting lost and found and lost again. The narrator of these interlinked stories is a young, unnamed man, reeling from his addiction to heroin and alcohol, his mind at once clouded and made brilliantly lucid by these drugs. In the course of his adventures, he meets an assortment of people, who seem as alienated and confused as he; sinners, misfits, the lost, the damned, the desperate and the forgotten. Our of their bleak, seemingly random lives, Denis Johnson creates modern-day parables of a harsh and devastating beauty.
About the Author Denis Johnson is the author of six novels, three collections of poetry, and one book of reportage. His novel Tree of Smoke was the 2007 winner of the National Book Award in the US. He died in May 2017.
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Granta OCTOBER 2017 Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems Lemn Sissay
His first book in almost a decade brings together new work and old favourites from national treasure and one of Britain's most exciting poets, Lemn Sissay
Description Lemn Sissay was seventeen when he wrote his first poetry book, which he hand-sold to the miners and mill workers of Wigan. Since then his poems have become landmarks, sculpted in granite and built from concrete, recorded on era- defining albums and declaimed in over thirty countries. He has performed to thousands of football fans at the FA Cup Final, to hundreds of thousands as the poet of the 2012 Olympics, and to millions across our TV screens and the airwaves of BBC Radio. He has become one of the nation's best-loved voices.
About the Author Lemn Sissay is an award-winning writer and popular broadcaster as well as being the author of five poetry books. He was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Huddersfield and the University of Manchester. He was awarded an MBE by the Queen for services to literature. He was the official poet for the London 2012 Olympics. He has worked throughout the world and is patron of the Letterbox Club, supporting children in care. His work in the Arctic has featured at the Royal Academy and in galleries throughout the world. His Landmark poems can be found in London, Manchester, Huddersfield and Addis Ababa. In 2015 he was appointed Chancellor of the University of Manchester. He is British and Ethiopian.
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Canongate PBS OCTOBER 2017 The Seventh Circle: A former Australian soldier's extraordinary story of surviving seven years in Afghanistan's most notorious prison Robert Langdon
In the tradition of Midnight Express, The Damage Done, Marching Powder and Hotel Kerobokan comes an extraordinary story of Australian resilience and survival in Afghan's notorious Pul-e-Charkhi prison, a place that's been described as 'the world's worst place to be a westerner'.
Description Rob Langdon served in the Australian Army for nineteen years, before becoming a security contractor working in Iraq and Afghanistan. In June 2009 Rob was sent to assist a convoy that had been attacked by the Taliban when he shot and killed a fellow Afghan security contractor during a heated argument. Rob's claim that the guard had drawn a gun on him and that he had fired first in self-defence was dismissed by an Afghan court that refused to hear any of his evidence or call any of his witnesses, and he was sentenced to death in a matter of minutes. This was later commuted to 20 years in jail, and he served his time in Kabul's most notorious prison, Pul-e-Charkhi, described as the world's worst place to be a westerner, a sentence that was at the time acknowledged to be worse than execution. Rob was there for seven years, the longest sentence by a westerner since the fall of the Taliban, and every one of those two and half thousand days was an act of extraordinary survival in a jail run from the inside by the Taliban and filled with Afghanistan's most dangerous extremists and murderers. In 2016 Rob was pardoned and released to return to Adelaide. He's given no interviews since his release. This is his story of a seven year battle to stay alive and sane in unimaginable circumstances.
About the Author Robert Langdon grew up on Billa Kalina Station in the South Australian outback. In 1989 he joined the Australian Army where he served for 15 years before transferring to the Army Reserves. He served as a Section Commander on Operation Plumbob to the Solomon Islands in 1999 and Operation Lorosae in East Timor in 2000. Robert was awarded the Australian Active Service Medal with East Timor clasp, the Infantry Combat Badge and the United Nations Medal for his service overseas.
In 2004 he began work as a private security contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan and worked with the US Army, civilian Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) contractors and in medical evacuations. In 2008, Robert was employed in Afghanistan by the U.S. company, The Four ISBN: 9781760296407 Format: Paperback - C format Horsemen International. His job was to supervise security operations for the company on such tasks as guarding food Dimensions: 234x153mm and supply convoys, and medical relief expeditions. Extent: 1 pages Main Category: BGA After serving seven years of a twenty year sentence in Kabul's infamous Pul-e-Charkhi prison, Rob was pardoned by the Sub Category: Illustrations: Afghan President in mid-2016 and returned to Australia. He has always maintained his innocence. Previous Titles: Author now living: Port Augusta, SA Manly, NSW
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Allen & Unwin OCTOBER 2017 Climbing the Mountain Allan Moffat
Told for the first time in his own words, this is the gripping inside story of Allan Moffat, an Australian motor sport legend.
Description Allan Moffat sits high in the pantheon of Australian motor sport. Through the heyday of touring car racing in the '70s and '80s his rivalry with Peter Brock was legendary. Over a 17-year period, either Brock or Moffat won at Bathurst on 13 occasions. Moffat won four Australian Touring Car Championships, Brock won three. But whereas Brock was the charismatic crowd pleaser, Moffat was notoriously taciturn and intense - a man of few words and most of them gruff.
Now aged 76, Moffat is telling his story for the first time. His book is the compelling account of a young Canadian who moved to Australia with his family as a boy and became one of our greatest racing drivers. It's a tale of the great rivalry with Brock, that surprisingly ended with a driving partnership and huge mutual respect, and it's about nostalgia for the glory days of motor sport in this country, when the concept of Holden vs Ford really did divide the nation, and when Mount Panorama was the true Mecca for hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Australians. Filled with intense rivalries, huge egos, on-course stories and incidents, and all against the backdrop of our motor sport history over more than forty years, this is THE book for all fans of Australian motor racing.
About the Author John Smailes is a journalist, motor sport commentator, publicist and until recently the proprietor of a specialised communications agency. He was co-commentator with Will Hagon on the ABC's national coverage of the Australian Touring Car Championship at the combative height of the Ford vs Holden wars. His most recent book was a massive 560- page authorised history of the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport.
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Allen & Unwin OCTOBER 2017 Climbing the Mountain 8 copy pack
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Allen & Unwin OCTOBER 2017 Danger Music: How teaching the cello to children in Afghanistan led to a self-discovery almost too hard to bear Eddie Ayres
From the former ABC Classic FM classicist comes a remarkable story about the power of music and courage to be one's self
Description Eddie Ayres has a lifetime of musical experience - from learning the viola as a child in England and playing with the Hong Kong Philharmonic for many years, to learning the cello in his thirties and landing in Australia to present an extremely successful ABC Classic FM morning radio show. But all of this time Eddie was Emma Ayres.
In 2014 Emma was spiralling into a deep depression, driven by anguish about her gender. She quit the radio, travelled, and decided on a surprising path to salvation - teaching music in a war zone. Emma applied for a position at Dr Sarmast's renowned Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul, teaching cello to orphans and street kids.
In Danger Music, Eddie takes us through the bombing and chaos of Kabul, into the lives of the Afghan children who are transported by Bach, Abba, Beethoven and their own exhilarating Afghan music. Alongside these epic experiences, Emma determines to take the final steps to secure her own peace; she becomes the man always there inside - Eddie.
About the Author Eddie Ayres learnt the viola as a child in England, studying in Berlin and London before playing the viola for eight years with the Hong Kong Philharmonic. As Emma Ayres, she moved from Hong Kong to Australia to present a long-running and extremely popular radio program on ABC Classic FM, while teaching music privately and professionally.
When Emma hung up her headphones at the end of 2014, there was a public outpouring of emotion. This tattooed, intelligent, warm and witty woman had made her way into the hearts of many Australians. What the devoted audience didn't see, however, was Emma's daily struggle to live within her woman's body. For sixteen years, she knew that she was transgender but to take any action seemed impossible. Emma believed there was too much to lose - family, friends Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) and her career. ISBN: 9781760290696 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm In 2016, Emma accepted a position teaching cello, viola and double bass to Afghanistan's children at the world-renowned Extent: 304 pages Afghanistan National Institute of Music. Amid the chaos and unpredictability of life in war-savaged Kabul, Emma realised Main Category: BM she had to accept her future and returned to Australia to begin transitioning from female to male. In 2016, Emma became Sub Category: BM Memoirs Illustrations: Eddie. Previous Titles: Author now living: Author lives in Bulimba, Queensland Danger Music, Eddie's second book will be published in September 2017. He is currently writing a children's book which will be published in 2018. Cadence: Travels with Music, published in 2014, was his first book.
Allen & Unwin OCTOBER 2017 Danger Music 10 copy pack
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Allen & Unwin OCTOBER 2017 Super Green Simple and Lean Sally Obermeder and Maha Koraiem
132 brilliant new super quick and super easy recipes for smoothies, salads, bowls and snacks by the bestselling authors of Super Green Smoothies.
Description The Queens of Green are back!
When Sally Obermeder and Maha Koraeim started their health quest with a Super Green Smoothie a day habit, they noticed the difference straight away. They had more energy, stronger nails and shinier hair not to mention feeling leaner and stronger than ever before.
Now the girls are sharing more of their simple and speedy tips for turning every meal into a nutritious feast. Whether you want to take your smoothie game up a notch with their next level recipes or you want to master your bowl making skills, Super Green Simple and Lean will help you.
With 132 quick and easy recipes for Salads, Bowls, Smoothies and Snacks, there is plenty of delicious ideas to get you looking lean and feeling healthy.
About the Author Sally Obermeder is one of the best-known faces on Channel 7. She hosts the daily news and lifestyle program, The Daily Edition. She has also worked on The Morning Show, Today Tonight, and Sydney Weekender along with a stint on Dancing with the Stars. Sally also co-founded and runs the lifestyle blog SWIISH.com with her sister Maha. SWIISH.com is a leading lifestyle website and online store, where women get their daily fix of luxe for less. Sally lives in Bondi, NSW, with her husband and four-year-old daughter Annabelle. She is also the author of Never Stop Believing (2013), her memoir of growing up, finding her way into TV, undergoing IVF and battling cancer, as well as the co-author of Super Green Smoothies and The Good Life.
Maha Koraiem is the co-founder and director of SWIISH.com. Maha adopted the green smoothie lifestyle along with her Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781760292027 sister Sally, with similarly fantastic results. Her love for green smoothies led to co-authoring her first book, the number 1 Format: Paperback - C format bestseller Super Green Smoothies. Maha is a certified Health and Nutrition Coach and a freelance writer. She is Dimensions: 230x170mm passionate about cooking, creating recipes, and good health. Maha also lives in Bondi, NSW. Extent: 256 pages
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Allen & Unwin OCTOBER 2017 Super Green Simple Lean 10 copy pack
Includes: 10 copies of Super Green Simple and Lean plus a free reading copy.
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Allen & Unwin OCTOBER 2017 The Griffith Wars: The powerful true story of Donald Mackay's murder and the town that stood up to the Mafia Tom Gilling and Terry Jones
The story behind the murder that shocked a nation.
Description The assassination of Donald Mackay was meant to solve a problem for the mafia. Instead it roused the law-abiding citizens of Griffith to fight against the powerful criminal elements who had made their town synonymous with drugs and murder.
Drawing on the personal diaries and memories of Terry Jones - who, as the editor of the local newspaper, knew everyone and heard everything - The Griffith Wars reveals startling new evidence about one of Australia's most notorious unsolved murders. It also powerfully recounts the struggle for the soul of a country town still battling to shake off its criminal past.
About the Author Tom Gilling's acclaimed novels, The Sooterkin, Miles McGinty and Dreamland have all been published in Australia, as well as in London and New York. His is co-author with Clive Small of the highly successful Smack Express, Blood Money, Evil Life and The Dark Side.
Terry Jones was a friend of Donald Mackay, a long-time resident of Griffith and editor of The Area News and The Griffith Times. His diaries form the basis of this book.
Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781760295912 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages
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Allen & Unwin OCTOBER 2017 The New Zealand Cat Rachael Hale McKenna
The cats of New Zealand star in this book of stunning portraits and stories that are by turn quirky, funny, sad and heartwarming.
Description This is the perfect book for all cat lovers and anyone who likes a good cat story.
Some are rescue cats, some are pampered cats, some are cheeky and some of them think they are humans. All of them are adorable.
The New Zealand Cat is a treasure for any cat fan.
About the Author Rachael Hale McKenna is well-known throughout the world for her quirky and delightful images of babies and animals. She has published several books including The French Dog and The French Cat selling millions of copies worldwide. She now lives in New Zealand.
Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781877505744 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 220x180mm Extent: 224 pages
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Allen & Unwin OCTOBER 2017 Eat Up New Zealand: Recipes and stories Al Brown
A stunning new substantial cookbook from Al Brown with more than 150 wonderful recipes that make this THE cookbook of the year.
Description With great stories about New Zealand food as well as more than 150 recipes this is a nostalgic treasure trove that gets to the heart of what New Zealand culture is and the food that reflects that. Combined with stunning food photography and beautiful on-location shots from around the country this is the perfect gift for every New Zealander.
Eat Up New Zealand honours the past with updated Kiwi classics like roast lamb, pies, flounder, corned beef, pikelets, cheese scones, feijoa and tamarillo desserts, preserves and much more. We have access to the best fresh produce in the world and Al's approach is to start with great seasonal produce, cook it simply and add a flavour punch, texture and garnish to take it to another level. It's clever, simple and yet refined food that is inherently Kiwi.
Al believes there's no need for gimmicks as long as you respect the huge flavour that naturally occurs in our produce, you can cook great food. These are accessible, generous recipes that everyone will love, for both everyday cooking and for entertaining.
About the Author Al Brown is an iconic NZ chef, much loved for his restaurant Depot, his Best Ugly bagel shops, his bestselling books Go Fish and Stoked among others, his associations with high-profile brands like Hyundai, and his ground-breaking approach to New Zealand food. He's a leader and a cheer-leader for NZ produce and cooking he's much admired and revered by chefs, cooks and the public alike.
Price: $49.99 (NZ$65.00) ISBN: 9781877505775 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 250x200mm Extent: 424 pages
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A&U New Zealand OCTOBER 2017 The Sound of Summer: A memoir Jim Maxwell
The long-awaited autobiography from the voice of Australian cricket.
Description For more than four decades, Jim Maxwell has called the cricket for the ABC. Since 1973 he has covered 285 Test matches, including over 50 Ashes Tests, six tours to the West Indies, seven to the subcontinent, and five World Cups. His distinctive voice, dryly understated humour and immense knowledge of the game have been part of the fabric of Australian cricket for generations of listeners. It's not too much to say that Jim has been the sound of our summer.
In his long-awaited memoir he reflects on his life and career, on key cricket moments that he's witnessed, and on the many and varied characters he's met along the way. The Sound of Summer is a deep insight into one of our best-loved commentators, and a fascinating, warm, nostalgic and uniquely informed view of the game he loves.
About the Author Jim Maxwell started at the ABC in 1973, becoming their most experienced cricket commentator. He has also edited Australia's longest-running cricket publication, The ABC Cricket Magazine, since 1988, as well as being the author of several cricket books, including The First Sixty Years, The Ashes From Bodyline to Waugh and Stumps, an anecdotal account of his experiences following the Australian team. He and his wife live in Sydney's eastern suburbs.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760630997 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 368 pages
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Allen & Unwin OCTOBER 2017 Genealogy for Gardeners: Plant families explained and explored Simon Maughan
A unique guide to the genealogical relationships between plant families.
Description Most of us think of plants as belonging to one big family, but they don't. There are actually hundreds of different plant families, which botanists have grouped together using what they know of their family histories and genealogy, to bring some sense and order to more than quarter of million different plant species. Using this knowledge, we can teach ourselves to see similarities of characteristics between plants and get a pretty good idea of which family they belong to.
Genealogy for Gardeners presents the enormous diversity shown by the many families of plants in a way that is easy to understand, whether one's interest lies in natural history or with horticulture. The superb illustrations make it exceptionally attractive and accessible book.
Information boxes highlight interesting facts, unexpected relationships, botanical curiosities, and notable members of plant family groups. Readers can make sense of the enormous biological diversity of the plant kingdom, by piecing together family likenesses and genealogical connections.
About the Author Since being inspired by some of the world's leading botanists while studying Plant Science at the University of Edinburgh, Simon Maughan has spent over 25 years furthering his knowledge and developing a love of practical gardening and plants.
He was employed in 1995 to work on the A-Z of Garden Plants and to date has worked on many dozens of gardening books, covering all aspects of the subject from species rhododendrons to garden design. He has worked as an editor and publisher for the Royal Horticultural Society for over twelve years, and is the author of Botany for Gardeners.
Price: $35.00 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781760630508 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 230x170mm Extent: 224 pages Main Category: WM Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: UK
Crows Nest OCTOBER 2017 Build A Rocket Ian Graham
The perfect, accessible and interactive guide to rockets and their role in space exploration, with a full-scale model rocket to build included.
Description With this unique interactive guide to space rockets, you'll build a model of the mighty Saturn V and learn fascinating facts about space and all kinds of spacecraft.
Build a Rocket is the perfect guide to rockets and their role in space exploration. Using the Saturn V rocket as an exciting introduction, it provides a spectacular guide to rocketry and space travel. Building a model of the Saturn V, and slotting each of the parts into place, gives you a unique, hands-on understanding of space rocket engineering.
Which astronauts reached a record-breaking speed of 40,300 km/h?
Which planet weighs so little it would float in water?
Discover the answers to these questions and more as you build the Saturn V rocket!
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: 9781760295370 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 363x192mm Extent: 32 pages
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Crows Nest OCTOBER 2017 Outdoor Learning Environments: Spaces for exploration, discovery and risk-taking in the early years Helen Little, Sue Elliott and Shirley Wyver
An early childhood undergraduate text explaining the importance of outdoor play in the early years.
Description Educators have a key pedagogical role to promote early year's outdoor play in natural environments. Active outdoor play that involves risk-taking has been linked to positive effects on social health and behaviour as well as promoting physical activity and motor skill development. At the same time, it has been recognised that opportunities for children to experience outdoor learning have been reduced in recent decades due to the impacts of technology, urbanisation and social change.
This book brings together renowned authors with research and professional experience in a range of disciplines to provide a comprehensive guide to developing positive and engaging outdoor learning environments in the early years. Part 1 looks at pedagogy and outdoor environments and considers the value of risk-taking and developing a young child's appreciation of the natural world. Part 2 examines the key principles involved in the design and planning of such spaces including applying the relevant equipment standards and regulations. Part 3 explores how educators can develop an understanding of children's own perspectives on outdoor spaces including promoting agency and recognising the importance of private playspaces. Part 4 examines different cultural perspectives on outdoor play including Indigenous approaches, while the final part considers the range of experiences possible beyond purposefully-designed spaces including visiting nature reserves and exploring urban environments.
About the Author Dr Helen Little is Senior Lecturer and Director of Learning and Teaching at the Institute of Early Childhood, Macquarie University, Australia.
Dr Sue Elliott is a Senior Lecturer in early childhood education at the University of New England, NSW.
Price: $69.99 (NZ$79.99) Dr Shirley Wyver is Senior Lecturer and Research Chair at the Institute of Early Childhood, Macquarie University, ISBN: 9781760296858 Australia. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 230x176mm Extent: 272 pages
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Allen & Unwin OCTOBER 2017 Little Me: My Life from A-Z Matt Lucas
The hilarious, moving, heart-warming and tear-jerking memoir from one of the world's best-loved comedians and actors, Matt Lucas.
Description Little Me is the first memoir from comedian, screenwriter and actor Matt Lucas. He is best known for his work with David Walliams in the television show Little Britain, as well as for his portrayals of the scorekeeping baby George Dawes in the comedy panel game Shooting Stars and both Tweedledum and Tweedledee in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. He is also starring alongside Peter Capaldi in the current series of Doctor Who, screening since April 2017.
Matt is a gifted, funny, serious and original writer with a truly unique and moving story, which he will tell for the first time in Little Me: The A to Z of Matt Lucas.
Lucas says: 'From my youth to Shooting Stars, Little Britain, Doctor Who and beyond, I've decided it's time to tell my story.'
'Hello there. Welcome to my autobiography. I see they've made my teeth whiter in the photo, so that's good. Throughout this book I talk about my life and work, including Little Britain, Come Fly With Me, Bridesmaids, Les Miserables, Alice In Wonderland and, of course, Shooting Stars. The thing is, this is a bit different to most memoirs you may have read, because it comes in the form of an A-Z. For instance, B is for Baldy! - which is what people used to shout at me in the playground (not much fun), G is for Gay (because I'm an actual real life gay) and T is for the TARDIS (because I'm a companion in Doctor Who now). You get the sort of thing. Anyway I hope you buy it at least twice. Thank you.'
About the Author Matthew Lucas is a comedian, screenwriter, actor and singer, best known for his work with David Walliams in the television show Little Britain, as well as for his portrayals of George Dawes in the comedy panel game Shooting Stars and both Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee in Alice in Wonderland and his sequel, Alice Through the Looking Glass. He has appeared in numerous films and TV series including Bridesmaids, Portlandia, Paddington and Gavin & Stacey. He lent his Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781786891068 voice to Benny in the animated film Gnomeo and Juliet, and wrote the comedy television series Pompidou for BBC Two. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm In 2007 he was placed seventh in the list of the UK's 100 most influential gay men and women by The Independent. In Extent: 304 pages Main Category: BM 2010 Matt fulfilled a lifetime ambition by appearing in Les Miserables, at the O2 Arena in London and the following year in Sub Category: the West End. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: He lives in London.
Canongate Trade OCTOBER 2017 Little Me 12 copy pack
Includes 12 copies of Little Me plus free reading copy
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Canongate Trade OCTOBER 2017 Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar Virginia Vallejo, translated by Megan McDowell
The shocking, sensational memoir of Virginia Vallejo, Pablo Escobar's famous lover. Soon to be major film Escobar starring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, released worldwide late 2017.
Description VIRGINIA VALLEJO: Top Colombian television journalist, cover model and socialite PABLO ESCOBAR: Head of the Medellin cartel, the founder of the global cocaine industry and one of the most ambitious - and brutal - criminals in history
Over the course of their tempestuous love affair, Vallejo witnessed first-hand the bloodshed, fear and corruption that accompanied the rise of Escobar's crime empire. In this explosive tale of drugs, sex, wealth and violence, Vallejo describes the man she knew and loved. But by the end of their dramatic five-year romance, increasingly plagued by threats of kidnap and death for her knowledge on Escobar's ties to the political establishment, Vallejo would fear for her life - forced to give up her career as a TV anchorwoman and cover model and flee Colombia for the United States. Her testimony would reopen one of the most important criminal cases in Colombian history.
Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar tracks the birth and boom of the cocaine industry and follows Escobar's evolution from billionaire benefactor to ruthless terrorist, responsible for the historic tragedies that forever altered the course of the Colombia conflict and its relationship with the world.
About the Author Virginia Vallejo-Garcia is a Colombian author, journalist and media personality, and a political asylee in the United States of America since 2010. From 1972 to 1994, she was one of the leading television and radio hosts in her native country. In 2006, with her life at risk, the United States took her out of Colombia to testify in high profile criminal cases.
Her memoir became the #1 bestselling book in Spanish in the United States, and her story has inspired a string of Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781786891051 documentaries, soap operas, television serials such as Narcos, and upcoming film Escobar starring Penelope Cruz and Format: Paperback - C format Javier Bardem. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 416 pages Main Category: BTC True Crime
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Canongate Trade OCTOBER 2017 Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar 8 copy pack
Includes 8 copies of Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar plus free reading copy
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Canongate Trade OCTOBER 2017 Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking Samin Nosrat, illustrated by Wendy MacNaughton and introduction by Michael Pollan
A beautifully illustrated and visionary new masterclass in cooking that distils decades of professional experience into just four simple elements - and will set you free from recipes forever
Description In the tradition of The Joy of Cooking comes Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, an ambitious new approach to cooking by a major new culinary voice. Chef and writer Samin Nosrat has taught everyone from professional chefs to middle school kids to author Michael Pollan to cook using her revolutionary, yet simple, philosophy. While cooking at Chez Panisse at the start of her career, Samin Nosrat had noticed that amid the chaos of the kitchen there were four key principles that her fellow chefs would always fall back on to make their food better: Salt, Fat, Acid and Heat.
Master the use of these four elements-Salt, which enhances flavour; Fat, which delivers flavour and generates texture; Acid, which balances flavour; and Heat, which ultimately determines the texture of food-and anything you cook will be delicious. By explaining the hows and whys of good cooking, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat will teach and inspire a new generation of cooks how to confidently make better decisions in the kitchen and cook delicious meals with any ingredients, anywhere, at any time.
Echoing Samin's own journey from culinary novice to award-winning chef, Salt, Fat Acid, Heat immediately bridges the gap between home and professional kitchens. With charming narrative, illustrated walkthroughs, and a lighthearted approach to kitchen science, Samin demystifies the four elements of good cooking for everyone. Refer to the canon of 100 essential recipes - and dozens of variations - to put the lessons into practice and make bright, balanced vinaigrettes, perfectly caramelized roast vegetables, tender braised meats, and light, flaky pastry doughs.
Featuring 150 illustrations and infographics that reveal an atlas to the world of flavour by renowned illustrator Wendy MacNaughton, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat will be your compass in the kitchen. Destined to be a classic, it just might be the last cookbook you'll ever need. Price: $49.99 (NZ$55.00) ISBN: 9781782112303 About the Author Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 232x187mm Samin Nosrat is a writer, chef and teacher. She learned to cook with Alice Waters at Chez Panisse after studying Extent: 480 pages journalism at UC Berkeley. Inspired by her many teachers, Samin runs a series of hands-on cooking classes in the Bay Main Category: WB Food And Drink Area. She is widely credited as the person who taught Michael Pollan how to cook and features in his book and TV series Sub Category: WB Food And Drink Illustrations: Cooked. Samin lives in Berkeley, California. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat is her first book. www.saminnosrat.com Wendy Previous Titles: Macnaughton is an illustrator and graphic journalist. She illustrated the New York Times bestseller The Essential Scratch Author now living: and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert and Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation and GPS Technology. She lives in San Francisco. www.wendymacnaughton.com
Canongate Trade OCTOBER 2017 The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump Robert Sears
Does a poet's heart beat under Donald Trump's brash exterior? Experience his best quotes and tweets, rearranged into poems and haikus. It's a new word order.
Description What if there's another side to Donald Trump? A sensitive, poetic side? Driven by this question, Rob Sears began combing The Donald's words for signs of poetry.
What he found was a revelation. By simply taking the President Elect's tweets and transcripts, cutting them up and reordering them, he unearthed a trove of beautiful verse that was just waiting to be discovered.
This collection will give readers a glimpse of the Trump's innermost thoughts and feelings, on everything from the nature of truth to what annoys him about Cher - and will reveal a hitherto hidden Donald, who may surprise and delight both students and critics alike.
About the Author Rob Sears is a copywriter at McCann Erickson advertising agency and has written comedy and fiction for McSweeney's. Rob studied philosophy at Cambridge University.
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Canongate Trade OCTOBER 2017 Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump 8 copy
Includes 8 copies of Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump plus free reading copy
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Canongate Trade OCTOBER 2017 Baking with Kafka Tom Gauld
The new collection from multi-award-winning cartoonist Tom Gauld - the perfect gift for book lovers everywhere.
Description In Baking with Kafka, Tom Gauld asks the questions no one else dares ask about civilisation as we know it. - How do you get published during a skeleton apocalypse? - What was the secret of Kafka's lemon drizzle cake? - And what plot possibilities does the exploding e-cigarette offer modern mystery writers?
A riotous collection of laugh-out-loud cartoons in his signature style, Baking with Kafka reaffirms Gauld's position as a first-rate cartoonist, creating work infused with a deep understanding of both literary and cartoon history.
About the Author Tom Gauld was born in 1976 and grew up in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He is a cartoonist and illustrator and his work is regularly published in the The Guardian, The New York Times and New Scientist. He has created a number of comic books. He lives in London with his family.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781786891501 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 156x209mm Extent: 160 pages
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Canongate Trade OCTOBER 2017 A Place for All People Richard Rogers
A stunningly designed memoir with pictures by one of the world's leading architects and urban thinkers.
Description Richard Rogers is one of the pre-eminent architects of his generation, whose approach to buildings is infused with his love of life, strong sense of social justice, and his playful aesthetic sense. From the Pompidou Centre in Paris to the Lloyds Building in the City of London, and from his inspirational Maggie's Centre for cancer sufferers to his Y:Cube housing for homeless young people, he has - by thinking his way from the outside in - turned what architecture can do inside out.
A Place for All People is both the engaging and inspirational story of Richard Rogers' life as an architect and simultaneously a book about creating a better society by creating better places to live. Ranging backwards and forwards over a long and creative life, and integrating relationships, projects, stories, collaborations and arguments with case studies, drawings and photographs A Place for All People is a dazzling and inspiring book as original as its author.
About the Author Richard Rogers was born in Florence in 1933. He was educated in the UK and then at the Yale School of Architecture, where he met Norman Foster. Alongside his partners, he has been responsible for some of the most radical designs of the twentieth century, including the Pompidou Centre, the Millennium Dome, the Bordeaux Law Courts, Leadenhall Tower and Lloyd's of London. He chaired the Urban Task Force, which pioneered the return to urban living in the UK, was chief architectural advisor to the Mayor of London, and has also advised the mayors of Barcelona and Paris.
He is married to Ruth Rogers, chef and owner of the River Cafe in London. He was knighted in 1991 by Queen Elizabeth II, and made a life peer in 1996. He has been awarded the Legion d'Honneur, the Royal Institute of British Architects' Royal Gold Medal, and the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honour.
Price: $59.99 (NZ$69.99) ISBN: 9781782116936 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x174mm Extent: 336 pages
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Canongate Trade OCTOBER 2017 The Dun Cow Rib: A Very Natural Childhood John Lister-Kaye
The long-awaited memoir from one of the founding fathers of nature writing and one of Britain's best-known naturalists and conservationists.
Description Sir John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its creatures. His memoir The Dun Cow Rib is the story of the making of a naturalist, and of a life lived in wonder.
Lister-Kaye's joyous childhood holidays - spent scrambling through hedges and ditches after birds and small beasts, keeping pigeons in the loft and tracking foxes around the edge of the garden - were the perfect apprenticeship for his two lifelong passions: exploring the wonders of nature, and writing about them. Threaded through his adventures - from moving to the Scottish Highlands on a whim to help Gavin Maxwell build a zoo on an island, to founding the now world- famous Aigas Field Centre - is an elegy to his remarkable mother, and a wise and affectionate celebration of Britain's natural landscape.
About the Author Sir John Lister-Kaye is one of Britain's best-known naturalists and conservationists. He is the author of nine books on wildlife and the environment and has lectured all over the world. He has served prominently in the RSPB, the Nature Conservancy Council, Scottish Natural Heritage and the Scottish Wildlife Trust. In 2003 he was awarded an OBE for services to nature conservation. He lives with his wife and family among the mountains of the Scottish Highlands, where he runs the world-famous Aigas Field Centre. www.lister-kaye.co.uk www.aigas.co.uk
Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781786891457 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 336 pages Main Category: BM Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate Trade OCTOBER 2017 Cork Dork: A Wine-Fuelled Journey into the Art of Sommeliers and the Science of Taste Bianca Bosker
A Kitchen Confidential for the wine industry, this is a sharp and entertaining look inside the secret world of sommeliers.
Description Professional journalist and amateur drinker Bianca Bosker didn't know much about wine - until she discovered the world of elite sommeliers who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of flavour. Astounded by their fervour and seemingly superhuman sensory powers, she set out to uncover what drove their obsession, and whether she, too, could become a 'cork dork.'
With boundless curiosity, humour and a healthy dose of scepticism, Bosker takes the reader inside underground tasting groups, exclusive New York City restaurants, California mass-market wine factories and even a neuroscientist's fMRI machine as she attempts to answer the most nagging question of all: what's the big deal about wine?
Funny, counterintuitive and compulsively readable, Cork Dork not only illuminates wine production and consumption, but also shows how cultivating our taste buds can have enormous ramifications for both our brains and our lives.
About the Author Bianca Bosker is the former executive tech editor of The Huffington Post. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, T (the New York Times style magazine), Food & Wine, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian and The New Republic, as well as The New Yorker online. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and journalism awards. She lives in New York City.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760632205 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 352 pages Main Category: WBXD1 Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
A&U UK OCTOBER 2017 1,423 QI Facts to Bowl You Over John Lloyd, James Harkin and Anne Miller
The eye-popping, gob-smacking, rib-tickling phenomenon that is QI serves up a brand new selection of 1,423 facts to bowl you over.
Description The eye-popping, gob-smacking, rib-tickling phenomenon that is QI serves up a brand new selection of 1,423 facts to bowl you over. Bees can play football. Cholesterol is good for you. Camels gave humans the common cold. English has 3,000 words relating to drunkenness. In 1851 all the 436,800 sandwiches sold in London were ham. Books used to be put on shelves with their spines facing inwards. A German airline allows an extra kilo of hand luggage, provided it's books. There are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way. Iceland has more volcanoes than footballers.
About the Author John Lloyd CBE is the creator of QI and founding producer of The News Quiz, Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, Blackadder and No Such Thing As The News.
James Harkin, QI's Head Elf, presents the QI Elves' podcast No Such Thing As A Fish and BBC 2's No Such Thing As The News. He also produces The Museum of Curiosity.
Anne Miller is a scriptwriter and researcher for QI. She is Head Researcher for BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity and writes a literary column for Standard Issue magazine.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780571339105 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 178x111mm Extent: 352 pages
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Faber Non Fiction OCTOBER 2017 Into the Grey Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death Adrian Owen
In 2006 Dr Adrian Owen and his team made medical history. They discovered a new realm of consciousness, a twilight zone somewhere between life and death. They called this the Grey Zone. Into the Grey Zone reveals astonishing stories from the borderlands between life and death.
Description In 2006 Dr Adrian Owen and his team made medical history. They discovered a new realm of consciousness, a twilight zone somewhere between life and death. They called this the Grey Zone.
The people who inhabit the Grey Zone are often mistakenly labelled as being irretrievably lost, with no awareness and no sense of self. The shocking truth is that they are often still there, an intact mind trapped deep inside a broken body and brain, hearing everything around them, experiencing emotions, thoughts, pleasure and pain, just like the rest of us. Not quite living, and not quite gone, they have existed silently in these shadowlands. But now, through Dr Owen's pioneering techniques, we can talk to them - and they can talk back.
These shifting boundaries of consciousness have shaken the architecture of our sense of self. We have known for a long time that a body does not define a person - but what if a brain does not define a mind? What does it mean if a mind can exist unharmed within a deeply damaged brain?
Through cutting edge research and case studies that are poignant, tragic and uplifting, Dr Owen maps this inner universe of the self, showing us what it means to be alive and human.
About the Author Dr Adrian Owen is a British neuroscientist. He is currently the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and imaging at The Brain and Mind Institute, Western University, Canada. He has worked at the Cognitive Neuroscience Unit at the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University and the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) Unit, Cambridge. ISBN: 9781783351398 Format: Paperback - C format He has published more than 270 peer-reviewed scientific papers. His work has appeared in many of the world's most Dimensions: 234x153mm prestigious scientific and medical journals: Science, Nature, the New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet. His Extent: 272 pages research regularly attracts international attention from the world's media; it has been reported in many hundreds of Main Category: PDZ Popular Science newspapers around the world and has been widely discussed on platforms including BBC News, Channel 4 News, ITN, Sub Category: Illustrations: SKY, and Radio 4. Previous Titles: A resident of London, Ontario, he can be found at Owenlab.org. Author now living:
Guardian Books OCTOBER 2017 Defending the Rock: How Gibraltar Defeated Hitler Nicholas Rankin
This thrilling new history reveals how a lone outpost of the British Empire, riddled with secret tunnels, fought off attacks by land, sea and air to help win the war.
Description Two months before he shot himself, Adolf Hitler saw where it had all gone wrong. By failing to seize Gibraltar in the summer of 1940, he lost the war.
The Rock of Gibraltar, a pillar of British sea-power since 1704, looked formidable but was extraordinarily vulnerable. Though menaced on all sides by Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Vichy France and Francoist Spain, every day Gibraltar had to let thousands of people cross its frontier to work. Among them came spies and saboteurs, eager to blow up its 25 miles of secret tunnels. In 1942, Gibraltar became US General Eisenhower's HQ for the invasion of North Africa, the campaign that led to Allied victory in the Mediterranean.
Nicholas Rankin's revelatory new book, whose cast of characters includes Haile Selassie, Anthony Burgess and General Sikorski, sets Gibraltar in the wider context of the struggle against fascism, from Abyssinia through the Spanish Civil War. It also chronicles the end of empire and the rise to independence of the Gibraltarian people.
About the Author Nicholas Rankin worked for 20 years for the BBC World Service, winning two UN awards and becoming Chief Producer. His previous books include biographies of Robert Louis Stevenson and the war-correspondent George Steer, Churchill's Wizards, a study of camouflage, deception and black propaganda in both world wars, and Ian Fleming's Commandos, the history of a WW2 naval intelligence unit. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in London and Kent.
Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9780571307708 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 656 pages Main Category: HBW Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Non Fiction OCTOBER 2017 Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life Malachi O'Doherty
A compelling appraisal of one of the most controversial figures in Irish politics that draws on exclusive new interviews and intelligence.
Description From fanatical, revolutionary street politician in perpetual danger of arrest and assassination, Adams became a political leader with access to the British and Irish Prime Ministers and the US President, and a key player in the delicate work of peace-making. While admired as a statesman around the world, he is still reviled by many at home who believe he is a liar, a terrorist, and that thousands might have been spared horrible deaths if he had come to peaceful ideas earlier.
Drawing on newly available intelligence and scores of interviews, Malachi O'Doherty has crafted a meticulously researched biography of this extraordinary shape-shifter.
About the Author Malachi John O'Doherty is a journalist, author and broadcaster in Northern Ireland. He is the producer and presenter of the audio blog Arts Talk.
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Faber Non Fiction OCTOBER 2017 Release the Bats: A Pocket Guide to Writing Your Way Out Of It DBC Pierre
The Booker Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little returns with a book about fiction.
Description Part biography, part reflection and part practical guide, Release the Bats explores the mysteries of why and how we tell stories, and the craft of writing fiction. DBC Pierre reveals everything he learned the hard way.
About the Author When not travelling far and wide DBC Pierre divides his time between England and a mountainside in Ireland.
Vernon God Little, his debut novel, won the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award, and was followed by Ludmila's Broken English and Lights Out in Wonderland. He is also the author of a collection of short fictions, Petit Mal, and a Hammer novella, Breakfast with the Borgias.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571329281 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 178x111mm Extent: 304 pages Main Category: BM Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback OCTOBER 2017 Known and Strange Things Teju Cole
Brilliant essays from the acclaimed New Yorker writer and novelist.
Description A blazingly intelligent first collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief.
With these pieces on politics, photography, travel, history and literature - many of which have become viral sensations, shared and debated around the globe - Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today's most powerful and original voices. On page after page, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent ways to interpret art, people and historical moments.
Cole tells of his engagement with Virginia Woolf through her diaries, before reflecting on an episode of temporary blindness in New York. He looks at the rise of Instagram and interrogates the value of its images. He examines the transition of the candidate Obama, the avid reader, into a 'forever-war' president on the global stage.
Persuasive and provocative, erudite yet accessible, Known and Strange Things is an opportunity to live within Teju Cole's wide-ranging enthusiasms, curiosities and passions, and a chance to see the world in surprising and affecting new frames.
About the Author Teju Cole is the author of Every Day is for the Thief, which was shortlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award, and Open City, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Internationaler Literaturpreis, and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is Photography Critic of the New York Times magazine, and Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780571328062 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 416 pages Main Category: DNF Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback OCTOBER 2017 Everybody Loves Our Town: A History of Grunge Mark Yarm
The definitive word on grunge, revealing the never-before-told stories of the movement's biggest bands.
Description Grunge, also known as the 'Seattle sound', is the sludgy fusion of punk rock and heavy metal that emerged from the Pacific Northwest in the early part of the 1980s. But it was the unexpected, seemingly overnight success of Nirvana's single 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' in the fall of 1991, that made grunge a household word and launched an American music movement on par with punk and hip-hop.
Twenty years later, Mark Yarm captures that era in the words of those at the forefront of the movement (and the music's lesser-known champions). Everybody Loves Our Town will tell the whole story: the founding of originators like Soundgarden and the Melvins, the early successes of Seattle's Sub Pop record label, the rise of powerhouses Nirvana and Pearl Jam, the insane media hype surrounding the grunge explosion, the suicide of Kurt Cobain, and finally, the genre's mid-to-late-'90s decline.
About the Author Mark Yarm is senior editor at Blender. He has written for numerous other publications, including Wired, Esquire, FHM, Spin, the Village Voice and Salon.com.
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Faber Paperback OCTOBER 2017 Crusoe's Island: A Rich and Curious History of Pirates, Castaways and Madness Andrew Lambert
The fascinating history of an island that has haunted our imagination and culture.
Description Acclaimed historian Andrew Lambert uncovers the fascinating truth about a faraway place that still haunts our imagination and culture: the island of Robinson Crusoe in the South Pacific Ocean.
Daniel Defoe's enduring novel Robinson Crusoe famously followed the adventures of a shipwrecked sailor. Yet the complex reality is more surprising, more colourful and considerably darker.
Drawing on voyage accounts, journal entries, maps and illustrations, Lambert brings to life the voices of the visiting sailors, scientists, writers and artists. There are the early encounters of the 1500s, the perilous journeys of the eighteenth- century explorers, the naval conflicts of the First World War and the environmental concerns of more recent years. Crusoe's Island reveals that the British relationship with this distant, tiny island extends far beyond a single book. This true history helps us to understand why the British, still a naval power but no longer a great maritime empire, are not yet ready to give up on the ocean - or on tiny specks of land at the far ends of the earth.
About the Author Andrew Lambert is Professor of Naval History at King's College, London. His books include Nelson: Britannia's God of War, Admirals: The Naval Commanders Who Made Britain Great and Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Exploration. His highly successful history of the British Navy, War at Sea, was broadcast on BBC Two.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780571330249 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 350 pages
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Faber Paperback OCTOBER 2017 Ariel: A Literary Life of Jan Morris Derek Johns
An appreciation of the work and life of the great historian and travel writer.
Description Jan Morris is one of the great British writers of the post-war era. Soldier, journalist, writer about places (rather than 'travel writer'), elegist of the British Empire, novelist, she has fashioned a distinctive prose style that is elegant, fastidious, supple, and sometimes gloriously gaudy. For many readers she is best known for her candid memoir Conundrum, which described the gender reassignment operation she underwent in 1972.
But as Ariel demonstrates, this is just one of the many remarkable facts about her life. As James Morris she was the journalist who brought back the story of the conquest of Everest in 1953 and who discovered incontrovertible evidence of British involvement in the Suez Crisis of 1956. She has been described by Rebecca West as the finest prose stylist of her time, and her essays span the entire urban world. Her many books include a classic on Venice, a 1,600 page history of the British Empire, and a homage to what is perhaps her favourite city, Trieste. Her writings on Wales represent the most thorough literary investigation of that mysterious land.
Derek Johns was Jan Morris's literary agent for twenty years. Ariel is not a conventional biography, but rather an appreciation of the work and life of someone who besides being a delightful writer is known to many people as a generous, affectionate, witty and irreverent friend. It was published to coincide with her 90th birthday.
About the Author Derek Johns has been a bookseller, editor, publisher and literary agent. He is a former trustee of English PEN and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. His novel The Billy Palmer Chronicles was published in 2010. He lives in London.
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Faber Paperback OCTOBER 2017 The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Story Mary-Kay Wilmers
Reissued for the centenary of the Russian Revolution in 2017, The Eitingons is an astonishing family history that shines new light on the intrigue, assassinations, and secrets of the Cold War.
Description Leonid Eitingon was a KGB killer who dedicated his life to the Soviet regime. He was in China in the early 1920s, in Spain during the Civil War, and, crucially, in Mexico when Trotsky was assassinated. 'As long as I live,' Stalin had said, 'not a hair of his head shall be touched.' It did not work out like that.
Max Eitingon was a psychoanalyst: a colleague, friend and protege of Freud's. He was rich, secretive and - through his friendship with a famous Russian singer - implicated in the abduction of a white Russian general in Paris in 1937.
Motty Eitingon was a New York fur dealer whose connections with the Soviet Union made him the largest trader in the world. Imprisoned by the Bolsheviks, and questioned by the FBI in a state of Cold War paranoia: was Motty everybody's friend or everybody's enemy?
Mary-Kay Wilmers began exploring the history of her remarkable family twenty years ago. The result is a book of astonishing scope and thrilling originality which throws light into some of the darkest corners of the last century. At the centre of the story stands the author herself - ironic, precise, searching, and stylish - wondering not only about where she is from, but about what she is entitled to know.
About the Author Mary-Kay Wilmers is the editor of the London Review of Books.
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Faber Paperback OCTOBER 2017 Beethoven for a Later Age: The Journey of a String Quartet Edward Dusinberre
The essential read for fans of Beethoven and string quartet music.
Description 'They are not for you but for a later age!' Ludwig van Beethoven, on the Opus 59 quartets
Beethoven's sixteen string quartets are some of the most extraordinary and challenging pieces of music ever written. They have inspired artists of all kinds - not only musicians - and have been subject to endless reinterpretation. What does it feel like to be a musician taking on these iconic works? And how do the four string players who make up a quartet interact, both musically and personally?
The Takacs is one of the world's pre-eminent string quartets. Performances of Beethoven have shaped their work together for over forty years. Using the history of both the Takacs Quartet and the Beethoven quartets as the backbone to his story, Edward Dusinberre, first violinist of the Takacs since 1993, recounts the exhilarating challenge of tackling these pieces. Beethoven for a Later Age takes the reader inside the daily life of a quartet, vividly showing the necessary creative tension between individual and group expression and how four people can enjoy making music together over a long period of time. The key, the author argues, is in balancing continuity with change and experimentation - a theme that lies at the heart of Beethoven's remarkable compositions. No other composer has posed so many questions about the form and emotional content of a string quartet, and come up with so many different answers. In an accessible style, suitable for novices and chamber music enthusiasts alike, Dusinberre illuminates the variety and inherent contradictions of Beethoven's quartets, composed against the turbulent backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath, and shows that engaging with this radical music continues to be as invigorating now as it was for its first performers and audiences.
About the Author Edward Dusinberre is first violinist of the world-renowned Takacs Quartet. The Takacs' recordings of Beethoven's string quartets, released on the Decca label and widely considered one of the most significant recent recordings of the repertoire, have earned numerous awards world-wide, including a Grammy, two Gramophone Awards, and BBC Music Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571317141 Magazine's 'CD of the Year'. They will perform complete cycles of the Beethoven quartets in the USA and London in the Format: Paperback - B format 2016/17 season. Dusinberre is Artist-in-Residence at the University of Colorado Boulder. Dimensions: 200x130mm Extent: 272 pages
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Faber Music OCTOBER 2017 The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms Rebecca Solnit
A new collection of 'further feminisms' - searing, smart and provocative essays from one of the most important public intellectuals writing today.
Description Following on from the success of Men Explain Things to Me comes a new collection of essays in which Rebecca Solnit opens up a feminism for all of us: one that doesn't stigmatize women's lives, whether they include spouses and children or not; that brings empathy to the silences in men's lives as well as the silencing of women's lives; celebrates the ways feminism has shifted in recent years to reclaim rape jokes, revise canons, and rethink our everyday lives.
About the Author Rebecca Solnit is author of, among other books, Men Explain Things To Me, Wanderlust, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, the NBCC award-winning River of Shadows and A Paradise Built in Hell. A contributing editor to Harper's, she writes regularly for the London Review of Books and the Los Angeles Times. She lives in San Francisco.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781783783557 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 176 pages Main Category: DNF Sub Category: JFFK Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta OCTOBER 2017 Men Explain Things to Me: And Other Essays Rebecca Solnit
A collection of essays on feminism, from one of the most important and original public intellectuals writing today.
Description Rebecca Solnit's essay 'Men Explain Things to Me' has become a touchstone of the feminist movement, inspired the term 'mansplaining', and established Solnit as one of the leading feminist thinkers of our time - one who has inspired everyone from radical activists to Beyonce Knowles. Collected here in print for the first time is the essay itself, along with the best of Solnit's feminist writings.
From rape culture to mansplaining, from French sex scandals to marriage and the nuclear family, from Virginia Woolf to colonialism, these essays are a fierce and incisive exploration of the issues that a patriarchal culture will not necessarily acknowledge as 'issues' at all. With grace and energy, and in the most exquisite and inviting of prose, Rebecca Solnit proves herself a vital leading figure of the feminist movement and a radical, humane thinker.
About the Author Rebecca Solnit is author of, among other books, Wanderlust, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, the NBCC award-winning River of Shadows and A Paradise Built in Hell. A contributing editor to Harper's, she writes regularly for the London Review of Books and the Los Angeles Times. She lives in San Francisco.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781783780792 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 204x137mm Extent: 144 pages
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Granta OCTOBER 2017 The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, the Russians and the Jazz Age Timothy Phillips
A thrilling true story of espionage and counterespionage between the Soviets and the British during London's Roaring Twenties.
Description At the height of the hedonistic Jazz Age, many in British society became convinced that they were under attack from the new Soviet state. Still reeling from the Russian revolution of 1917, disturbed by the development of militant workers movements at home, and deeply paranoid about the recent wave of Russian immigration to the UK, the British government tasked the intelligence services to look for evidence of espionage.
Over the next decade, as the political pressure mounted, the spooks began to cast their net of suspicion wider, to include not only suspect Russians, but British aristocrats, Bloomsbury artists, ordinary workers, and even members of parliament. It was the biggest spying operation in British Intelligence's peacetime history to date, undertaken with enthusiastic support from anti-Red crusaders like Winston Churchill, and its ramifications were profound. On the strength of the evidence uncovered, Britain deported hundreds of Russians and broke off diplomatic links with Moscow for more than two years. This was the first Cold War, and it not only set the rules of engagement for Russia and Britain for decades to come, but also sent shockwaves through the British establishment, bringing down a government and ending careers. Drawing on a wealth of recently declassified and previously unseen material, Timothy Phillips uncovers a world of suspicion and extremism, bureaucracy and betrayal set against the sparkling backdrop of cocktail-era London. The Secret Twenties shines fresh light on a glamorous decade, and offers a gripping account of the lives of the first Soviet spies, the British Secret Services that pursued them and the double agents in their midst.
About the Author Timothy Phillips is the author of Beslan: The Tragedy of School No. 1 (Granta 2008). A fluent Russian speaker, he has travelled widely in the former Soviet Union and has worked extensively as a translator. He holds a doctorate in Russian history and lives in London, where he is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and the BBC Russian Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) Service. ISBN: 9781847082510 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x156mm Extent: 320 pages
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Granta OCTOBER 2017 The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return Mihir Desai
Putting the humanity back into finance by looking at the profession's core principles through the prism of art, literature and film.
Description Finance is shrouded in mystery for outsiders, while many insiders are uneasy with the disrepute of their profession. How can finance become more accessible and also recover its nobility?
Harvard Business School professor Mihir Desai takes up the cause of restoring humanity to finance. With deft wit, he draws upon a rich knowledge of literature, film, history, and philosophy to explain finance's inner workings. Through this creative approach, he shows that outsiders can easily access the underlying ideas and insiders can reacquaint themselves with the core values of their profession.
This combination of finance and the humanities creates unusual and illuminating pairings: Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope are guides to risk management; Jeff Koons becomes an advocate of leverage; and Mel Brooks' The Producers teaches us about fiduciary responsibility. In Desai's vision, the principles of finance also provide answers to critical questions in our lives: bankruptcy teaches us how to react to failure, the lessons of mergers apply to marriages, and the Capital Asset Pricing Model demonstrates the true value of relationships.
The Wisdom of Finance is a wholly unique book, offering an enlivening new perspective on one of the world's most complex and misunderstood professions.
About the Author Mihir Desai was born in India and raised in Hong Kong and New Jersey. As a professor and award-winning teacher at Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, Desai teaches finance, tax law, entrepreneurship and has recently developed an online finance course for the HBX platform. His scholarship on corporate finance, international finance and Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) tax policy has prompted several invitations to testify before the U.S. Congress and serves as the basis of his advisory role ISBN: 9781788160049 to leading global companies and organizations. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages Main Category: KJG Sub Category: KFFN Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade OCTOBER 2017 Freud: The Making of An Illusion Frederick Crews
A searing examination of Freud's life and legacy, from a major academic
Description Sigmund Freud is one of the most influential figures of western society. His ideas transformed the way that we think about our minds, our selves, and even our thoughts. But while he was undeniably a visionary thinker, Freud's legend was also the work of years of careful mythologizing, and a fierce refusal to accept criticism or scrutiny of his often unprincipled methods.
In Freud: The Making of an Illusion, Frederick Crews dismantles Freud's totemic reputation, brick by brick. Looking at recently revealed correspondence, he examines Freud's own personality, his selfishness, competitiveness and willingness to cut corners and exploit weaknesses to get his own way. He explores Freud's whole-hearted embracing of cocaine as a therapeutic tool, and the role it played in his own career. And he interrogates Freud's intellectual legacy, exposing how many of his ideas and conclusions were purely speculative, or taken wholesale from others.
As acidic as it is authoritative, this critique of the man behind the legend is compulsory reading for anyone interested in Freudianism.
About the Author Frederick Crews is an essayist and literary critic. Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley, Crews is the author of books on Henry James, E. M. Forster, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Postmodern Pooh, a book of satirical essays parodying contemporary criticism (Profile). Crews has written a number of essays, book reviews and commentaries for The New York Review of Books, on topics including Freud.
Price: $54.99 (NZ$59.99) ISBN: 9781781257128 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 700 pages Main Category: B Biography/autobiography Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade OCTOBER 2017 China at War: Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China Hans van de Ven
An authoritative account of the brutal wars that wracked China between 1937 and 1952, including China's war with Japan, the Chinese Civil War, and the Korean War, out of which New China and modern East Asia emerged.
Description China's War of Resistance against Japan, as WWII is known in China, was never about the defeat of Japan alone. China was also at war with itself. Between 1937 and 1949, a vicious revolutionary war between Nationalists and Communists, divided by radically different views about China's future, ravaged the country, killing millions and laying waste to cities and the countryside. The outcomes of these wars have shaped the country and the world since.
China at War focuses on this period, examining the complex truth behind the propaganda of both East and West. Cambridge professor Hans van de Ven shows how the results of the fighting ended European imperialism in East Asia, restored China to its traditional position of regional centrality, and gave the USA a decisive role in East Asian politics. In the process, he argues, it also triggered profound changes in warfare, as important as the development of atomic weapons, and gave the countryside a new social, political, and military significance.
Through fascinating personal accounts and extensive scholarship, China at War casts new light on this crucial period of history, and harnesses contemporary art, culture and ideology to illuminate world-changing events.
About the Author Hans van de Ven is an authority on the history of 19th and 20th century China. At the University of Cambridge he serves as Professor of Modern Chinese History. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the author of Breaking with the Past: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service and Global Origins of Modernity in China, War and Nationalism in China: 1925 -1945 and From Friend to Comrade: The Founding of the Chinese Communist Party, 1920-1927. The Battle for China, a book of essays he co-edited, received the 2012 Distinguished Book Award of the Society for Military History. Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781781251942 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages
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Profile Trade OCTOBER 2017 Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason David Harvey
Marx's Capital explained by its greatest expositor in simple, understandable terms.
Description Marx's Capital is one of the most important texts of the modern era. The three volumes, published between 1867 and 1883, changed the destiny of countries, politics and people across the world - and continue to resonate today. In this book, David Harvey lays out their key arguments.
In clear and concise language, Harvey describes the architecture of capital according to Marx, placing his observations in the context of capitalism in the second half of the nineteenth century. He considers the degree to which technological, economic and industrial change during the last 150 years means Marx's analysis and its application may need to be modified.
Marx's trilogy concerns the circulation of capital: volume I, how labour increases the value of capital, which he called valorisation; volume II, on the realisation of this value, by selling it and turning it into money or credit; volume III on what happens to the value next in processes of distribution.
The three volumes contain the core of Marx's thinking on the workings and history of capital and capitalism. David Harvey explains and illustrates the profound insights and enormous analytical power they continue to offer in terms that, without compromising their depth and complexity, will appeal to a wide range of readers, including those coming to the work for the first time.
About the Author David Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York Graduate School where he has taught since 2001. His books The Enigma of Capital, Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, and The Ways of the World were published by Profile in 2010, 2014 and 2016 to international acclaim.
Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781781258743 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 224 pages Main Category: HP Philosophy Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade OCTOBER 2017 Pocket World in Figures 2018 The Economist
The 2018 edition of this annual bestseller, featuring fascinating facts and figures about the world we live in.
Description For more than 25 years, Pocket World in Figures has been informing and entertaining readers around the world with its blend of the serious, the quirky and the downright surprising.
Where else would you find out, in a single volume, that 98% of Suriname is forest, that Switzerland sells the most expensive Big Macs or that the UK spends the most per person on music downloads?
The 2018 edition includes data from over 180 countries, presented in a series of rankings and country profiles. The rankings cover subjects as diverse as geography and demographics, business, economics and finance, health and welfare, culture and entertainment. Updated, revised and expanded each year to include new rankings and features, it also includes detailed statistical profiles of more than 65 of the world's major economies, the euro area and the world itself.
And, once again, the 2018 edition will showcase the Economist's strength in data journalism by including charts and graphs, and will invite readers to test their knowledge with its world rankings quiz, making the book an indispensable - and entertaining - guide to the world in figures.
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Profile Business OCTOBER 2017 Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters Richard Rumelt
A Profile Business Classic edition of one of the most important and critically acclaimed books on strategy ever written.
Description When Richard Rumelt's Good Strategy/Bad Strategy was published in 2011, it immediately struck a chord, calling out as bad strategy the mish-mash of pop culture, motivational slogans and business buzz speak so often and misleadingly masquerading as the real thing.
Since then, his original and pragmatic ideas have won fans around the world and continue to help readers to recognise and avoid the elements of bad strategy and adopt good, action-oriented strategies that honestly acknowledge the challenges being faced and offer straightforward approaches to overcoming them. Strategy should not be equated with ambition, leadership, vision or planning; rather, it is coherent action backed by an argument.
For Rumelt, the heart of good strategy is insight into the hidden power in any situation, and into an appropriate response - whether launching a new product, fighting a war or putting a man on the moon. Drawing on examples of the good and the bad from across all sectors and all ages, he shows how this insight can be cultivated with a wide variety of tools that lead to better thinking and better strategy, strategy that cuts through the hype and gets results.
About the Author Richard Rumelt is a professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Business. He also taught for several years at INSEAD in France, and has been a consultant to a wide range of organisations, from the Samuel Goldwyn Company to Shell.
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Profile Trade OCTOBER 2017 The French Exception: Emmanuel Macron - The extraordinary rise and risk Adam Plowright
An illuminating portrait of France's youngest ever President and what his victory means for Europe and the world.
Description 39-year old Emmanuel Macron is the youngest-ever inhabitant of the Elysee Palace. A surprise candidate from the start, Macron was considered a rank outsider until a series of fortuitous events - including his survival of a massive last-minute data hack - cleared his path to victory and condemned Marine Le Pen to a resounding defeat in May 2017, in France's most emotional election since 1948.
Paris-based British journalist Adam Plowright presents the inside story of Macron's sudden rise to power, delving into his personal and political background, his vision for the future, and how he is perceived inside France and throughout the rest of the world - especially from within Westminster. Can his movement herald a new centrist vision for Europe, or will his Presidency merely be the forerunner to a Le Pen victory in 2022?
Thrilling, informative, and highly readable, The French Exception is essential reading for anyone interested in the immediate future of Europe.
About the Author Adam Plowright is a former deputy editor-in-chief at Agence France Presse. Based in Paris, he has been a journalist for fifteen years.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781785783111 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 400 pages Main Category: B Biography/autobiography Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon OCTOBER 2017 The Smell of Fresh Rain: The Unexpected Pleasures of our Most Elusive Sense Barney Shaw
An exploration of the hidden complexities of one of our most under-used and misunderstood senses.
Description What do we actually mean when we say that something smells of fresh paint? Or frying bacon? And what does five o clock in the morning smell like?
Inspired by an unsettlingly synaesthesic question put to him by his son, Barney Shaw looks into the science of smell: peering behind its sensory nature to discover its complexities, and finding beauty in its processes.
Shaw's popular science debut is an investigation into the biology, psychology and history of smell. It's also a search for effective ways to describe the kinds of smell we instantly relate to, but find strangely ineffable, and includes a 200-item thesaurus of succinct descriptions of common smells.
Journeying around boatyards, perfume shops and memories, Barney Shaw opens your nose, breaking down the ""chords"" of smells into component notes and revealing new ways of understanding the world around us.
About the Author Barney Shaw is an artist, and former civil servant. He was Private Secretary to Norman Tebbit and later David Miliband, and was put in charge of the country's 1,100 unemployment benefit offices. He was also responsible for government policy on, variously: Scientology, anthrax, and wartime conscription. This is his first book.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781785781131 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 304 pages
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Icon OCTOBER 2017 In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea Danny Goldberg
A rollercoaster new history for the 50th anniversary of the 'Summer of Love', from a music business veteran who was actually there.
Description In Search of the Lost Chord is Danny Goldberg's unique eyewitness history of these epochal twelve months, which saw the flowering of the Haight-Ashbury hippie community in San Francisco, the release of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper and debut albums from The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. It was the year of the Summer of Love and LSD; the Monterey Pop Festival; Muhammad Ali's conviction for draft avoidance and Martin Luther King Jr's public opposition to the war in Vietnam; Black Power; the Six-Day War and Che Guevara's murder.
Exhaustively researched and informed by interviews including Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary and Gil Scott-Heron (one of Goldberg's high school classmates), In Search of the Lost Chord is a refreshing new analysis of the era and provides a unique perspective on how and why the legacy of 1967 lives on today.
About the Author Danny Goldberg is an author and rock music industry veteran. He is president of Gold Village Entertainment, whose clients include Steve Earle and The Hives. Previously, he was president of Gold Mountain Entertainment (Nirvana, Bonnie Raitt), chairman of Warner Bros. Records, president of Atlantic Records, and vice president of Led Zeppelin's Swan Song Records. He was also Zeppelin's publicist in the early 70s and had his first break reporting on Woodstock for Billboard Magazine in 1969. He lives in New York City.
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Icon OCTOBER 2017 Rock Bottom: A Music Writer's Journey into Madness Michael Odell
A tale of loving, living and surviving rock music.
Description Michael Odell is a rock music writer who takes his responsibility as cultural gatekeeper seriously; he asks rock stars the forbidden questions to discover whether they're worthy of readers' admiration.
But after interviewing Mick Jagger and Keith Richards - two of the 'Big Six' icons - Michael is depressed. He has a public meltdown while chaperoning Oasis at an awards ceremony; he's lost joy in his bathroom full of rock'n'roll memorabilia; and his young son is in trouble at school for emulating rock star behaviour.
Reluctantly Michael consults Mrs Henckel, a no-nonsense therapist with zero experience of pop culture. As Michael addresses his feelings about the past, in particular his failed teenage band, Mental Elf, he's forced to confront the question: is it finally time to grow up and forget rock'n'roll?
About the Author Michael Odell is a former contributing editor to Q magazine and has written about music for NME, the Guardian, the Independent and Spin, among others. Currently he does interviews and writes on family matters for The Times. He lives in Bristol.
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Icon OCTOBER 2017 Pogba: The rise of Manchester United's Homecoming Hero Luca Caioli with Cyril Collot
The first biography of Manchester United's wunderkind French midfielder.
Description When Manchester United re-signed their former youth player Paul Pogba for a world record fee in the summer of 2016, they made a powerful statement.
Together with the signing of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, it signalled their determination to attract the best players in the world to Old Trafford, despite three seasons of underachievement.
In the four years since he had left the Reds, Pogba had blossomed into a midfielder of undoubted world class, his power and dynamism propelling Juventus to a host of club titles and the French national team to within a whisker of winning Euro 2016.
With exclusive insights from those closest to the player, Luca Caioli's Pogba is an in-depth portrait of one of modern football's greatest talents.
About the Author Luca Caioli is the bestselling author of Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar and Suarez. A renowned Italian sports journalist, he lives in Spain corresponding for SKY Italia and Corriere della Sera.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781785782398 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages
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Icon OCTOBER 2017 Griezmann: The Making of France's Mini Maestro Luca Caioli with Cyril Collot
The first-ever book on France and Atlético Madrid's dazzling striker.
Description Quick, incisive and versatile, Antoine Griezmann is the ultimate modern forward.
Arriving in 2014 to join an Atletico Madrid side persistently challenging for the biggest trophies in Spanish and European football, he quickly established himself as the team's key player and main goal threat. A Super Cup win over city rivals Real Madrid was just the start but an inspired tilt at the Champions League the following season ended in heartbreak - as did a Euro 2016 campaign in which his performances for France saw him named player of the tournament.
In this first biography of the Atleti and France star, Madrid-based journalist Luca Caioli examines the story behind Griezmann's rise to the top. Features exclusive interviews.
About the Author Luca Caioli is the bestselling author of Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar and Suarez. A renowned Italian sports journalist, he lives in Spain corresponding for SKY Italia and Corriere della Sera.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781785782718 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages
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Icon OCTOBER 2017 The Bible for Grown-Ups: A New Look at the Good Book Simon Loveday
A startling new look at the Bible that is 'fascinating and persuasive' (Matthew Parris).
Description 'Loveday's case is that the mantle of historical truth and divine authority has placed upon the Bible an intolerable weight, crushing it as a creative work of immense imaginative and inspirational power. His argument is both fascinating and persuasive.' - Matthew Parris
The Bible for Grown-Ups neither requires, nor rejects, belief. It sets out to help intelligent adults make sense of the Bible - a book that is too large to swallow whole, yet too important in our history and culture to spit out.
Why do the creation stories in Genesis contradict each other? Did the Exodus really happen? Was King David a historical figure? Why is Matthew's account of the birth of Jesus so different from Luke's? Why was St Paul so rude about St Peter? Every Biblical author wrote for their own time, and their own audience. In short, nothing in the Bible is quite what it seems.
Literary critic Simon Loveday's book - a labour of love that has taken over a decade to write - is a thrilling read, for Christians and anyone else, which will overturn everything you thought you knew about the Good Book.
About the Author Simon Loveday trained as an anthropologist and a literary critic, teaching at UEA and Oxford. He also edited the psychological journal Typeface and wrote The Romances of John Fowles. He lectured at Keele University and lived in Wells, Somerset, where he was at one time Chair of the Wells Festival of Literature. Simon Loveday died in October 2016.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781785782633 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages
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Icon OCTOBER 2017 Turing and the Universal Machine (Icon Science): The Making of the Modern Computer Jon Agar
Part of the new Icon Science series, which collects many of the most fascinating and groundbreaking moments in science history.
Description The history of the computer is entwined with that of the modern world and most famously with the life of one man, Alan Turing. How did this device, which first appeared a mere 50 years ago, come to structure and dominate our lives so totally?
An enlightening mini-biography of a brilliant but troubled man.
About the Author Jon Agar is Professor of Science and Technology Studies at University College London, where he teaches history of science and technology. He is also the author of Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Polity, 2012) and Constant Touch: a Global History of the Mobile Phone (Icon, second edition 2012).
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Icon OCTOBER 2017 A Long Long Way Sebastian Barry
The powerful and moving First World War novel, shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize.
Description Told in Sebastian Barry's characteristically beautiful prose, A Long Long Way evokes the camaraderie and humour of Willie and his regiment, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, but also the cruelty and sadness of war, and the divided loyalties that many Irish soldiers felt. Tracing their experiences through the course of the war, the narrative brilliantly explores and dramatises the events of the Easter Rising within Ireland, and how such a seminal political moment came to affect those boys off fighting for the King of England on foreign fields - the paralysing doubts and divisions it caused them. It also charts Willie's coming of age, his leaving behind of his sweetheart Gretta, and the effect the war has on his relationship with his father, a member of the Dublin Military Police and fervent loyalist. Running throughout is the question of how such young men came to be fighting in a war, and how they struggled with the events that raged around them.
About the Author Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His novels include The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (1998), Annie Dunne (2002), A Long Long Way (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008). A Long Long Way, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Dublin International Impac Prize, was the Dublin: One City One Book choice for 2007. The Secret Scripture won several awards. It was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Wicklow with his wife and three children.
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Faber Paperback OCTOBER 2017 The Secret Scripture Sebastian Barry
Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2008, over 600,000 copies sold in Faber editions to date.
Description Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges is at once shocking and deeply beautiful. Refracted through the haze of memory and retelling, Roseanne's story becomes an alternative, secret history of Ireland's changing character and the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope.
About the Author Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955 and educated at The Catholic University School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he was later Writer Fellow in 1996. His plays include Boss Grady's Boys (1988), The Steward of Christendom (1995), Our Lady of Sligo (1998), and The Pride of Parnell Street (2007), and his novels, The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (1998), Annie Dunne (2002), and most recently A Long Long Way (2005), which was the Dublin: One City One Book choice for 2007 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Dublin International Impac Prize. He has won among other awards the Irish-America Fund Literary Award, The Christopher Ewart-Biggs Prize, the London Critics Circle Award, and The Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize. He lives in Wicklow with his wife Ali and three children, Merlin, Coral and Tobias.
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Faber Paperback OCTOBER 2017 The Temporary Gentleman Sebastian Barry
A stunning return from the prize-winning and best-selling author of The Secret Scripture.
Description Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in his lodgings in Accra, he urgently sets out to write his story. He feels he cannot take one step further, or even hardly a breath, without looking back at all that has befallen him.
He is an ordinary man, both petty and heroic, but he has seen extraordinary things. He has worked and wandered around the world - as a soldier, an engineer, a UN observer - trying to follow his childhood ambition to better himself. And he has had a strange and tumultuous marriage. Mai Kirwan was a great beauty of Sligo in the 1920s, a vivid mind, but an elusive and mysterious figure too. Jack married her, and shared his life with her, but in time she slipped from his grasp.
A heart-breaking portrait of one man's life - of his demons and his lost love - The Temporary Gentleman is, ultimately, a novel about Jack's last bid for freedom, from the savage realities of the past and from himself.
About the Author Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His novels and plays have won, among other awards, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Costa Book of the Year award, the Irish Book Awards Best Novel, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He also had two consecutive novels, A Long Long Way (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008), shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize. He lives in Wicklow with his wife and three children.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780571276998 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 336 pages
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Faber Paperback OCTOBER 2017 On Canaan's Side Sebastian Barry
From the bestselling Costa Prize-winning author of The Secret Scripture a heartbreaking novel spanning a lifetime.
Description 'As they used to say in Ireland, the devil only comes into good things.'
Narrated by Lilly Bere, On Canaan's Side opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. The story then goes back to the moment she was forced to flee Dublin, at the end of the First World War, and follows her life through into the new world of America, a world filled with both hope and danger. At once epic and intimate, Lilly's narrative unfurls as she tries to make sense of the sorrows and troubles of her life and of the people whose lives she has touched.
Spanning nearly seven decades, it is a novel of memory, war, family-ties and love, which once again displays Sebastian Barry's exquisite prose and gift for storytelling.
About the Author Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His plays include The Steward of Christendom and The Pride of Parnell Street and his novels include The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty, Annie Dunne, A Long Long Way and The Secret Scripture. A Long Long Way was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Dublin International Impac Prize, and was the Dublin: One City One Book for 2007. The Secret Scripture won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Irish Book Awards Best Novel, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Wicklow with his wife and three children.
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Faber Paperback OCTOBER 2017 Bluebird, Bluebird: A gripping American South thriller from the Orange-Prize-shortlisted author Attica Locke
The first novel in a thrilling, timely new series Highway 59, about the cost of justice in the American South.
Description Highway 59 is the forgotten route that connects the backwoods towns across the state of Texas. It's a place that time - and justice - seem to have forgotten. But then, two bodies wash up in a bayou outside the tiny town of Lark in three days: a poor local white girl, barely nineteen, and a well-to-do African-American lawyer from Chicago.
Darren Mathews is a Texas Ranger on the brink of indictment. His marriage is failing and he's losing himself to the bottle - until he hears about the murders. There are no clear connections between the two victims, but as fear and paranoia begin to grow, the town's racial fault lines threaten to erupt. Unable to ignore his instincts, Darren risks everything on this last case. But the locals don't take kindly to a black Ranger asking too many questions, and Darren soon finds the target on his own back ...
The first in a blockbuster series set along Highway 59, history casts a long shadow in this high-stakes, small town thriller.
About the Author Attica Locke is a screenwriter who has written for Paramount, Warner Bros, Twentieth Century Fox, HBO and Dreamworks; she currently contributes to the hit show Empire. Locke's first novel Black Water Rising was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, nominated for an Edgar Award, an NAACP Image Award and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her most recent book, Pleasantville, was published in 2015. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, with her husband and daughter.
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Serpents Tail OCTOBER 2017 2023: a trilogy The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu
2023: a trilogy by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu.
Description Well we're back again, They never kicked us out, twenty thousand years of SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT
Down through the epochs and out across the continents, generation upon generation of the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu have told variants of the same story - an end of days story, a final chapter story. But one with hope, even if the hope at times seems forlorn.
The story contained in this trilogy is the latest telling. Here it is presented as a utopian costume drama, set in the near future, written in the recent past.
Read with care.
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Faber Social OCTOBER 2017 The Noise of a Fly Douglas Dunn
The first book for 16 years from a giant of the poetry stage.
Description The Noise of a Fly is the first new collection from Douglas Dunn in sixteen years, and the first since he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2013. It is a book brimming with a charming grumpiness: a quarrel with ageing, an impatience with youth, the grief of losing friends and colleagues - poems that are handled with the dexterous humour and the self-mockery of a knowing curmudgeon. But the book looks outward in equal measure: at Scottish independence, British politics, international refugees, and reflects movingly on what it is to be an ageing member of society.
For decades, Douglas Dunn has been a major figure in British poetry. Elegies won the first ever Whitbread Book of the Year award in 1985, pipping Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit to the prize: it has since become a modern classic and is still in print in our typographic front list look today. Before then, Douglas Dunn had shot to fame with Terry Street (1969), a brilliant and affectionate portrait of life in the working-class terraces of Hull, in the city where he once worked as an apprentice librarian to Philip Larkin.
About the Author Douglas Dunn was born in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, in 1942 and lived there until he married at the age of twenty-two. After working as a librarian in Scotland and Akron, Ohio, he studied English at Hull University, graduating in 1969. He then worked for eighteen months in the university library after which, in 1971, he became a freelance writer. In 1991 he was appointed Professor in the School of English at the University of St Andrews. As well as ten collections of poetry, including Elegies (1985), The Year's Afternoon, The Donkey's Ears (both 2000), and New Selected Poems 1964-2000 (2003), Douglas Dunn has written several radio and television plays, including Ploughman's Share and Scotsman by Moonlight. He has also edited various anthologies, including Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry (2006). Douglas Dunn has won a Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and has twice been awarded prizes by the Scottish Arts Council. In 1981 he was awarded the Hawthornden Prize for St Kilda's Parliament. In January 1986 he was overall winner of the 1985 Whitbread Book of the Year Award for his collection Elegies.
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Faber Poetry OCTOBER 2017 A Pinch of Salt Eileen Ramsay
A heartbreaking novel from the doyenne of saga publishing.
Description Can you love too much and is it wrong to want the best for those you love?
Life for a miner's daughter in Scotland, 1910, was never going to be easy, but young Kate Kennedy has it tougher than most. When tragedy overshadows her family, she is forced to put childhood joys aside and roll up her sleeves, keeping her worries for her prayers.
Almost without noticing the years pass, Kate becomes Charlie's wife and a mother, still working, still looking after everyone except herself - and doing surprisingly well with her own bakery business. But what of the great plans she had for her family, her secret dreams? Sometimes it seems as if it has all been in vain...
Set against the powerful backdrop of two World Wars, canny heroine Kate sets her shoulder against a tidal wave of change and struggles to cherish those she loves...
About the Author Eileen Ramsay was grew up in Dumfriesshire. After graduation she went to Washington DC, where she taught in private schools for some years, before moving to California with her Scottish husband. There, she raised two sons, finished her Masters Degree, fell in love with Mexico, and published her first short stories and a Regency novel. The family returned to Scotland where Eileen continued to teach and write and to serve - at different times - on the committees of The Society of Authors in Scotland, The Scottish Association of Writers and The Romantic Novelists Association. In 2004, her novel Someday, Somewhere was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year award. Eileen is currently Chair of the Romantic Novelists' Association.
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Zaffre OCTOBER 2017 Little Me: My Life from A-Z Matt Lucas
The hilarious, moving, heart-warming and tear-jerking memoir from one of the world's best-loved comedians and actors, Matt Lucas.
Description Little Me is the first memoir from comedian, screenwriter and actor Matt Lucas. He is best known for his work with David Walliams in the television show Little Britain, as well as for his portrayals of the scorekeeping baby George Dawes in the comedy panel game Shooting Stars and both Tweedledum and Tweedledee in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. He is also starring alongside Peter Capaldi in the current series of Doctor Who, screening since April 2017.
Matt is a gifted, funny, serious and original writer with a truly unique and moving story, which he will tell for the first time in Little Me: The A to Z of Matt Lucas.
Lucas says: 'From my youth to Shooting Stars, Little Britain, Doctor Who and beyond, I've decided it's time to tell my story.'
'Hello there. Welcome to my autobiography. I see they've made my teeth whiter in the photo, so that's good. Throughout this book I talk about my life and work, including Little Britain, Come Fly With Me, Bridesmaids, Les Miserables, Alice In Wonderland and, of course, Shooting Stars. The thing is, this is a bit different to most memoirs you may have read, because it comes in the form of an A-Z. For instance, B is for Baldy! - which is what people used to shout at me in the playground (not much fun), G is for Gay (because I'm an actual real life gay) and T is for the TARDIS (because I'm a companion in Doctor Who now). You get the sort of thing. Anyway I hope you buy it at least twice. Thank you.'
About the Author Matthew Lucas is a comedian, screenwriter, actor and singer, best known for his work with David Walliams in the television show Little Britain, as well as for his portrayals of George Dawes in the comedy panel game Shooting Stars and both Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee in Alice in Wonderland and his sequel, Alice Through the Looking Glass. He has appeared in numerous films and TV series including Bridesmaids, Portlandia, Paddington and Gavin & Stacey. He lent his Price: $45.00 (NZ$49.99) ISBN: 9781786890863 voice to Benny in the animated film Gnomeo and Juliet, and wrote the comedy television series Pompidou for BBC Two. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm In 2007 he was placed seventh in the list of the UK's 100 most influential gay men and women by The Independent. In Extent: 304 pages 2010 Matt fulfilled a lifetime ambition by appearing in Les Miserables, at the O2 Arena in London and the following year in Main Category: BM Sub Category: BM Memoirs the West End. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: He lives in London.
Canongate Trade OCTOBER 2017 Into the Grey Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death Adrian Owen
Astonishing stories from the borderlands between life and death.
Description They say you're in a persistent vegetative state. They say you have no more awareness than a head of broccoli. They say you don't understand speech or have memories, that you don't have emotions, and that you feel neither pleasure nor pain. They're wrong.You hear everything they say. And you experience panic, fear and sadness at their words.Dr Adrian Owen's astonishing research into the most damaged brains has uncovered a population of people living in this 'Grey Zone' - intact minds trapped deep inside broken bodies and brains. And he has discovered a way to communicate with them.This changes everything. It changes the way we think about what it means to be alive, and what makes a person a person. And, when death ceases to be a defined event, or a sudden ending, we are forced to reconsider terms such as 'brain death'. The ethical and moral dilemmas are staggering.
As Dr Owen and his team take the first tentative steps into the Grey Zone, and hold the first ever conversations with the people dwelling there, this population of the not quite living and the not quite gone is poised on the brink of a brave new world. Exploring it through case studies and cutting edge research, this book is the beginnings of a map to what we might find there.
About the Author Dr Adrian Owen is a British neuroscientist. He is the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging at The Brain and Mind Institute, Western University, Canada. He has spent the last 20 years pioneering breakthroughs in cognitive neuroscience.
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Guardian Books OCTOBER 2017 Opera for Everybody: The Story of English National Opera Susie Gilbert
A lively and authoritative history of England's oldest continuously performing arts company, the English National Opera.
Description Susie Gilbert traces the development of ENO from its earliest origins in the darkest Victorian slums of the Cut, where it was conceived as a vehicle of social reform, through two world wars, and via Sadler's Wells to its great glory days at the Coliseum and beyond. Setting the company's artistic achievements within the wider context of social and political attitudes to the arts and the ever-changing theatrical style, Gilbert provides a vivid cultural history of this unique institution's 150 years. Inspired by the idealism of Lilian Baylis, the company has been based on the belief that opera in the vernacular can not only reach out to even the least privileged members of society but also create a potent and immediate communication with its audience.
With full access to ENO's archive, Gilbert has unearthed a rich range of material and held numerous interviews with a fascinating array of personalities, to weave an absorbing tale of life both in front and behind the scenes of ENO as it developed over the years.
About the Author Susie Gilbert has worked for many years as an archival researcher and editor on numerous books of twentieth century history, including the official biography of Winston Churchill. Her previous book, A Tale of Four Houses, published in 2003, traced the history of Covent Garden and the Metropolitan Opera since 1945.
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Faber Music OCTOBER 2017 5000-1: The Leicester City Story- Commemorative Edition Rob Tanner
An up-to-date commemorative edition for fans of the first and best book on Leicester City's legendary Premier League victory.
Description A regal blue-and-gold hardback edition - a keepsake for fans to commemorate Leicester City's astonishing title-winning season and the year that followed.
On 2 May 2016 England's football landscape was spectacularly and irreversibly altered as 5000-1 longshots Leicester City were crowned Premier League champions.
Not only did this incredible feat break the long-standing monopoly at the top of the table, it also propelled Leicester into the Champions League for the very first time.
Relive this remarkable season with Rob Tanner, the Leicester Mercury's chief football writer, from the great escape of 2015 to the curtain-closer at Stamford Bridge - now updated to include City's summer of celebration and their fairy-tale run in Europe.
About the Author Rob Tanner is the Leicester Mercury's chief football writer and has been Leicester City FC correspondent for the past eight seasons. He lives in Tamworth, Staffordshire.
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