AUGUST 2018 Scrublands Chris Hammer
Set in a fictional Riverina town at the height of a devastating drought, Scrublands is one of the most powerful, compelling and original crime novels to be written in Australia.
Sales points • Set to be one of the biggest debuts of 2018 • A riveting and stunning addition to a burgeoning genre - the Small-Town Secrets Crime Thriller • A brilliant mix of page-turning plot, unforgettable characters, and an evocation of the Australian landscape that makes you feel the heat and taste the dust. • Major marketing campaign and big author tour • CATEGORY: Crime fiction
Description In an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated young priest calmly opens fire on his congregation, killing five parishioners before being shot dead himself.
A year later, troubled journalist Martin Scarsden arrives in Riversend to write a feature on the anniversary of the tragedy. But the stories he hears from the locals about the priest and incidents leading up to the shooting don't fit with the accepted version of events his own newspaper reported in an award-winning investigation. Martin can't ignore his doubts, nor the urgings of some locals to unearth the real reason behind the priest's deadly rampage.
Just as Martin believes he is making headway, a shocking new development rocks the town, which becomes the biggest story in Australia. The media descends on Riversend and Martin is now the one in the spotlight. His reasons for investigating the shooting have suddenly become very personal.
Wrestling with his own demons, Martin finds himself risking everything to discover a truth that becomes darker and more complex with every twist. But there are powerful forces determined to stop him, and he has no idea how far they will go to Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 make sure the town's secrets stay buried. ISBN: 9781760632984 Format: Paperback - C format About the Author Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 496 pages Chris Hammer was a journalist for more than thirty years, dividing his career between covering Australian federal politics Bic1: Fiction & related items and international affairs. For many years he was a roving foreign correspondent for SBS TV's flagship current affairs Bic2: Thriller / suspense program Dateline. He has reported from more than 30 countries on six continents. In Canberra, roles included chief Illustrations: political correspondent for The Bulletin, current affairs correspondent for SBS TV and a senior political journalist for The Previous Titles: Author now living: Deakin, ACT Age.
His first book, The River, published in 2010 to critical acclaim, was the recipient of the ACT Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Walkley Book Award and the Manning Clark House National Cultural Award. Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2018 Scrublands 36 copy pack
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Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2018 Inappropriation Lexi Freiman
A search for belonging in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs turns into a riotous satire of identity politics in this wildly irreverent coming-of-age story.
Sales points • Addictive and entertaining reading combined with brilliant literary satire - perfect for everyone who loved and laughed at Crazy Rich Asians! • In Ziggy, Freiman has created an original and compelling voice making hugely enjoyable fun of Sydney's posh Eastern Suburbs private schools, healers, political correctness and teenage girls of all types. • Huge media interest in Lexi, whose star is on the rise both here and overseas. • CATEGORY: Popular fiction
Description 'Lexi Freiman is a savage writer, hilarious and brilliant, and in Inappropriation, she has reframed the traditional coming-of- age story, tackling it with irreverence and acid wit. This is a daring book, thrillingly of our moment.'- Emma Cline, author of The Girls
'Inappropriation's crackling, electric prose is an uncomfortable joyride. You'll laugh out loud and squirm and wince, but you sure won't put it down. This novel is an original treasure--sentence by sentence, there is just no book like it.' - Alissa Nutting, author of Made for Love and Tampa
A wildly irreverent take on the coming-of-age story that turns a search for belonging into a riotous satire of identity politics.
Starting at a prestigious private Australian girls' school, fifteen-year-old Ziggy Klein is confronted with an alienating social hierarchy that hurls her into the arms of her grade's most radical feminists. Tormented by a burgeoning collection of dark, sexual fantasies, and a biological essentialist mother, Ziggy sets off on a journey of self-discovery that moves from the Sydney drag scene to the extremist underbelly of the Internet. Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781760630850 As PC culture collides with her friends' morphing ideology and her parents' kinky sex life, Ziggy's understanding of Format: Paperback - C format gender, race, and class begins to warp. Ostracized at school, she seeks refuge in Donna Haraway's seminal feminist text, Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 264 pages A Cyborg Manifesto, and discovers an indisputable alternative identity. Or so she thinks. A controversial Indian guru, a Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) transgender drag queen, and her own Holocaust-surviving grandmother propel Ziggy through a series of Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) misidentifications, culminating in a date-rape revenge plot so confused, it just might work. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: New York, NY USA Uproariously funny, but written with extraordinary acuity about the intersections of gender, sexual politics, race, and technology, Inappropriation is literary satire at its best. With a deft finger on the pulse of the zeitgeist, Lexi Freiman debuts on the scene as a brilliant and fearless new talent.
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Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2018 Hey Brother Jarrah Dundler
A genuine and compellingly portrayed family drama of a tough kid from rural Australia.
Sales points • Great storytelling: poignancy, family drama and skilful dark humour • Fourteen-year-old Trysten is a genuine and relatable narrator who will appeal to fans of Jasper Jones • A very Australian story that tackles PTSD and returning soldiers - truly topical material • Broad range of appeal, from upper high school students to adults • ""A great story with sharp contemporary relevance...the ending is the best of all: restrained but powerful."" - Stephen Romei, The Australian • Shortlisted for the 2017 The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award • CATEGORY: Literary fiction
Description Fourteen-year-old Trysten 'Tryst' Black's life changes dramatically when his older brother, Shaun, goes off to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan. Their mother, Kirsten, deals with Shaun's absence by drinking, leaving Tryst to fend for himself. Tryst's response is to rage against his father who lives in a caravan by the creek, to get into a punch-up at school, and to line up for another fight with his uncle who has come to stay.
When the fractured family receives news that Shaun is coming home, things begin to look better. But Tryst is dead worried about his big brother. And it's only his friends who'll listen.
Hey Brother tells the story of a tough kid from the bush whose world comes crashing down on his shoulders. But with his own blend of fury, resilience and deadpan humour, Tryst proves to be up for every challenge. Even talking to that girl on the bus.
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Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Jarrah was raised in the Northern Rivers region of NSW. Since completing his BA in Politics at Griffith University he's ISBN: 9781760631123 worked as a barista, pizza-chef, AusAID volunteer, grant writer, uni tutor, and a stonemason's labourer. His short fiction Format: Paperback - C format has appeared in Booranga's fourW anthology, and his novel manuscript Hey Brother was selected for both a Byron Dimensions: 234x153mm Writers Residential Mentorship and Varuna Writers Fellowship and shortlisted for the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) (2017). Jarrah currently lives back in his hometown, Kyogle, with his partner and children and works in nearby Lismore as Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) a peer support worker with people who have a lived experience of mental illness. Hey Brother is his first novel. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
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Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2018 Goodwood Holly Throsby
A delightful novel of secrets and small town obsessions from Australian musician and songwriter, Holly Throsby.
Sales points • Goodwood has a great sales history with over 21,000 copies sold in its first edition • A warm-hearted, tenderly humorous coming-of-age story with the same appeal as Jasper Jones • • 'A little bit Twin Peaks and a little bit Picnic at Hanging Rock, Goodwood is a terrific, thoroughly Australian novel. Throsby is already celebrated for her prowess as a musician and songwriter and with this she proves she has yet another string to her extraordinary creative bow.' - Hannah Richell, Australian Women's Weekly • Much acclaimed and shortlisted for the Indie awards, the ABIA awards, the Ned Kelly and the Davitt awards • Includes the first chapter of Holly's explosive second novel, Cedar Valley, to be published in October 2018! • CATEGORY: Literary fiction
Description It wasn't just one person who went missing, it was two people. Two very different people. They were there, and then they were gone, as if through a crack in the sky. After that, in a small town like Goodwood, where we had what Nan called 'a high density of acquaintanceship', everything stopped. Or at least it felt that way. The normal feeling of things stopped.
Goodwood is a small town where everyone knows everything about everyone. It's a place where it's impossible to keep a secret.
In 1992, when Jean Brown is seventeen, a terrible thing happens. Two terrible things. Rosie White, the coolest girl in town, vanishes overnight. One week later, Goodwood's most popular resident, Bart McDonald, sets off on a fishing trip and never comes home.
Price: AU $14.99 NZ $16.99 People die in Goodwood, of course, but never like this. They don't just disappear. ISBN: 9781760633349 Format: Paperback - B format As the intensity of speculation about the fates of Rosie and Bart heightens, Jean, who is keeping secrets of her own, and Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 384 pages the rest of Goodwood are left reeling. Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Rich in character and complexity, its humour both droll and tender, Goodwood is a compelling ride into a small Illustrations: community, torn apart by dark rumours and mystery. Previous Titles: Author now living: Marrickville, NSW About the Author Holly Throsby is a songwriter, musician and novelist from Sydney, Australia. She has released four critically acclaimed solo albums, a collection of original children's songs, and an album as part of the band, Seeker Lover Keeper. Goodwood Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2018 The Juniper Gin Joint Lizzie Lovell
Can a distinctive blend of gin and friends put Jennifer's life back on track? When life gives you lemons, make gin and tonic!
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Description It's been a tough year for Jennifer in her seaside Devon town. Her kids have left home for pastures new and her husband has left home for another woman.
Home alone with her eccentric home-brewing father and a Jack Russell, she is just getting her life back on track when her job at the local museum is threatened by her first love and nemesis, Councillor David Bourton, who intends to sell the beautiful old building to a pub chain. But help is at hand from her colleagues: Jackie, a former Greenham warrior, Tish, a flamboyant historian, and Carol, mega-flirt. Plus newcomer and former campaigner, Tom Bassett. Who happens to be a widower. And quite sexy. And also the owner of a Jack Russell.
The key to saving the day and putting the town back on the tourist map could lie just within reach, when reaching for a cold gin and tonic that is. Mother's Ruin to some, gin is the making of Jennifer when she comes together with her friends and family to save the museum and open an artisan distillery in the basement.
With its debauched local history of smuggling, can gin be the town's saviour and bring love back into Jennifer's life?
About the Author Lizzie Lovell was born and brought up in the West Country and now lives in an old house in the seaside town of Dawlish with its red cliffs and dodgy railway line. She has three adult children, two of them yet to fly the nest. She can be found walking the Devon lanes with her Tibetan Terriers. Or drinking gin. Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781760632694 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
A&U UK AUGUST 2018 Two Kinds of Truth Michael Connelly
'Superb crime writing from a master ... a triumph, underpinned by an incandescent sense of justice in a world all too often dominated by the indifference of injustice.' - The Australian
Sales points • New in paperback • Tense, fast-paced, and fuelled by this legendary detective's unrelenting sense of mission • 'The 20th novel in Connelly's Bosch series is one of its best.' - Entertainment Weekly • 'Harry Bosch is a one-of-a-kind hero who started out pretty wild when he returned from Vietnam to become a cop, but over the years he's developed into someone you want to ride with.' - New York Times Book Review • 'Connelly's immaculate plotting and gift for bringing procedural intricacies to life now seem as strong as ever...he writes the best detective novels around.' - USA Today • • 'It's become an annual refrain - but Connelly truly is one of the finest mystery writers. And that's the truth.' - Sun- Sentinel
Description Harry Bosch, exiled from the LAPD, is working cold cases for the San Fernando Police Department when all hands are called out to a local drugstore, where two pharmacists have been murdered in a robbery. Bosch and the tiny town's three- person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous, big-business world of prescription drug abuse. To get to the people at the top, Bosch must risk everything and go undercover in the shadowy world of organised pill mills.
Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's days with the LAPD comes back to haunt him when a long-imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him and seems to have new evidence to prove it. Bosch left the LAPD on bad terms, so his former colleagues are not keen on protecting his reputation. But if this conviction is overturned, every case Bosch ever worked will be called into question. As usual, he must fend for himself as he tries to clear his name and keep a clever killer in
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 prison. ISBN: 9781760633479 Format: Paperback - B format The two cases wind around each other like strands of barbed wire. Along the way, Bosch discovers that there are two Dimensions: 198x129mm kinds of truth: the kind that sets you free and the kind that leaves you buried in darkness. Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Crime & mystery About the Author Illustrations: A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the international bestselling author of the Harry Previous Titles: Author now living: Bosch thriller series and the highly acclaimed legal thriller series featuring Mickey Haller, as well as several stand-alone bestsellers. His most recent #1 bestsellers were The Late Show, introducing a new series protagonist, Detective Renee Ballard, and the twentieth in his Harry Bosch series, Two Kinds of Truth.
Michael Connelly has been President of the Mystery Writers of America. His books have been translatedMichael into 39Connelly AUGUST 2018 Angel's Flight Michael Connelly
The book behind BOSCH Season 4 - coming soon to SBS.
Sales points • 'A Connelly novel is a thing of cool beauty.' - Chicago Tribune • 'Michael Connelly is the master of the universe in which he lives, and that is the sphere of crime thrillers. This man is so good at what he does.' - Huffington Post
Description An activist attorney is killed in a cute little LA trolley called Angels Flight, far from Harry Bosch's Hollywood turf. But the case is so explosive - and the dead man's enemies inside the LAPD are so numerous--that it falls to Harry to solve it. Now the streets are superheating. Harry's year-old Vegas marriage is unravelling. And the hunt for a killer is leading Harry to another high-profile LA murder case, one where every cop had a motive. The question is, did any have the guts?
About the Author A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the international bestselling author of the Harry Bosch thriller series and the highly acclaimed legal thriller series featuring Mickey Haller, as well as several stand-alone bestsellers. His most recent #1 bestsellers were The Late Show, introducing a new series protagonist, Detective Renee Ballard, and the twentieth in his Harry Bosch series, Two Kinds of Truth.
Michael Connelly has been President of the Mystery Writers of America. His books have been translated into 39 languages and have won awards all over the world, including the Edgar and Anthony Awards. Michael Connelly is also to be awarded the 2018 CWA Diamond Dagger, the highest honour in British crime writing.
BOSCH, the TV series based on Michael's novels, is the most watched original series on Amazon Prime Instant Video. The third series screened in 2017 on SBS TV in Australia. A fourth series is in production.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 Michael Connelly lives in Tampa, Florida, with his family. ISBN: 9781760528737 Format: Paperback - B format To find out more, visit Michael's official website www.michaelconnelly.com.au or follow him on Facebook www.facebook. Dimensions: 198x128mm com/MichaelConnellyBooks or on Twitter @Connellybooks. Extent: pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Michael Connelly AUGUST 2018 Murder Mile Lynda La Plante
Four brutal murders, a city living in fear, a killer on the streets...Prime Suspect's Jane Tennison returns in the 4th book in the bestselling Tennison series, from the doyenne of crime fiction.
Sales points • Good Friday - the previous book in the Tennison series - sold 27,000 copies across ANZ • Lynda La Plante is the Queen of Crime Drama - responsible for 170 hours of primetime TV and giving countless famous names their first break, including Michael Fassbender and Idris Elba. • She is the creator of the groundbreaking Prime Suspect series, which sold in over 400 territories, and made Helen Mirren a household name • Lynda is the author of over 35 bestselling novels. This is the fourth book in the Tennison series about the iconic detective's early years in the police force • Lynda formed her own television production company in 1993 and has written and produced high-rating series The Governor (ITV), Supply and Demand, Killer Net (Channel 4), Mind Games (ITV) and acclaimed series Trial and Retribution and The Commander (ITV)
Description February, 1979, 'The Winter of Discontent'. Economic chaos has led to widespread strikes across Britain.
Jane Tennison, now a Detective Sergeant, has been posted to Peckham CID, one of London's toughest areas. As the rubbish on the streets begins to pile up, so does the murder count: two bodies in as many days.
There are no suspects and the manner of death is different in each case. The only link between the two victims is the location of the bodies, found within a short distance of each other near Rye Lane in Peckham. Three days later another murder occurs in the same area. Press headlines scream that a serial killer is loose on 'Murder Mile' and that police incompetence is hampering the investigation.
Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 Jane is under immense pressure to catch the killer before they strike again. Working long hours with little sleep, what she ISBN: 9781785764677 uncovers leaves her doubting her own mind. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages About the Author Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Lynda La Plante was born in Liverpool. She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with the National Theatre and RDC Bic2: Crime & mystery before becoming a television actress. She then turned to writing - and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally Illustrations: successful TV series Widows. Her novels have all been international bestsellers. Previous Titles: Author now living: Her original script for the much-acclaimed Prime Suspect won awards from BAFTA, Emmys, British Broadcasting and Royal Television Society. Tennison was adapted by ITV and broadcast in March 2017 in the UK.
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Zaffre AUGUST 2018 Killing It Asia Mackay
Move over, James Bond - meet Lex Tyler - an assassin just back from maternity leave. As dextrous with a breast pump as she is with a gun, here is one badass heroine you won't forget.
Sales points • There really isn't anything like this in the market at the moment. This is women's commercial fiction meets fast-paced thriller with a dynamic heroine and an engaging and thought-provoking plot • Asia was shortlisted for the Richard & Judy Search for a Bestseller competition • Asia works for a TV production company and worked on Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman's The Long Way Round • Asia is a mum of four and wrote the book because she wanted something thrilling and page-turning to read when she was feeding her baby during the night
Description Prepare to meet Lex Tyler. A badass, uncompromising and completely compelling heroine for our times.
It's Lex's first day back at work after maternity leave. Her suit is too tight and she worries about the separation from her daughter as she leaves her with the nanny - but it's normal to worry, right?
But Lex isn't a 'normal' mother. She's an elite-trained killer who works for a covert department within Her Majesty's Secret Service. She's just been given the assignment of her life, but can she juggle motherhood with the life of an assassin and prove to everyone, including herself, that she's still the best?
Her world just isn't ready for an operational new mother. But woe betide anyone who ever tells Lex Tyler 'you can't'.
Sharp, funny, explosive and absolutely page-turning, Killing It intelligently explores the emotional journey every working mother goes through, as well as introducing a badass heroine that you won't forget. Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781785764547 About the Author Format: Paperback - C format Asia lives in London with her husband, four children and two dogs. She can't remember the last time she had a full night's Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages sleep. Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Thriller / suspense Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
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Zaffre AUGUST 2018 Wilde About the Girl Louise Pentland
Join Robin Wilde and Lyla, Lacey and Auntie Kath in this hilarious, heartbreaking, completely unforgettable new novel by number one bestseller Louise Pentland.
Sales points • Bookscan sales of 4,500 copies of Wilde Like Me last year • Wilde Like Me went straight to #1 on the Times bestsellers list in the UK on publication in 2017 • This is Bonnier Zaffre's superlead; Louise Pentland is taking the women's fiction scene by storm! Her debut, Wilde Like Me, sold 25k HBs in the UK and was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller for 2 weeks in 2017 • Louise is a YouTube star with 3.5 million followers on social media
Description Robin Wilde is acing life.
After the year from hell, she's pulled herself up and out of the Emptiness, her love life is ticking along nicely, single motherhood is actually quite fun and she is ready for whatever life throws at her. When a thrilling opportunity at work arises, Robin is more than excited to step up and show everyone, including herself, what she's made of.
But her best friend Lacey is increasingly broken-hearted about struggling to conceive, and her daughter Lyla is starting to come out with some horrible attitudes she's learning from someone at school. Is Auntie Kath hiding loneliness under her bubbly, loving veneer? And can Robin definitely trust the people she must depend on in her fab new role?
But Robin has her girls. And her girls have got her. Together they can handle any crisis. Can't they?
Life is about to throw quite the curve ball at Robin Wilde, and she'll need to make some pretty brave choices if she's going to stop everything she cares about falling apart . . .
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Get ready for the most hilarious, heart-breaking, uplifting and unforgettable novel of the year! ISBN: 9781785764639 Format: Paperback - C format About the Author Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages Award-winning lifestyle and beauty blogger, fashion designer and author Louise Pentland's first novel went straight to Bic1: Fiction & related items number one in 2017. A UN Global Ambassador for Gender Equality, Louise won InStyle magazine's 'Best High-Street Bic2: Fiction & related items Fashion YouTuber' and the Shorty Award for 'Best YouTube Guru'. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre AUGUST 2018 The Old Religion Martyn Waites
From an award-winning author comes a new thriller, where dark secrets hide amongst the beautiful Cornish countryside.
Sales points • Martyn wrote the bestselling 'Brennan and Esposito' series under the pseudonym Tania Carver. To date, the series has sold over 190,000 copies. The first book in the series, The Surrogate, was nominated for the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year Award • Perfect for readers of Peter May and Ann Cleeves, Martyn brings the isolated community life of the Cornish coast vividly to life • As Martyn Waites he also wrote the sequel to Susan Hill's The Woman in Black - Angel of Death • With Mark Billingham, David Quantick and Stav Sherez, Martyn co-wrote Great Lost Albums, a humorous look at the fifty recordings that never existed, but should • have done
Description He was running from his past. She was running from her future. Sometimes helping a stranger is the last thing you should do . . .
The Cornish village of St Petroc is the sort of place where people come to hide. Tom Killgannon is one such person. An ex-undercover cop, Tom is in the Witness Protection Programme hiding from some very violent people and St Petroc's offers him a chance to live a safe and quiet life.
Until he meets Lila.
Lila is a seventeen-year-old runaway. When she breaks into Tom's house she takes more than just his money. His wallet holds everything about his new identity. He also knows that Lila is in danger from the travellers' commune she's been Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 living at. Something sinister has been going on there and Lila knows more than she realises. ISBN: 9781785764141 Format: Paperback - C format But to find her he risks not only giving away his location to the gangs he's in hiding from, but also becoming a target for Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages whoever is hunting Lila. Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: A dark, twisted, fast-paced and literate page-turner that is ultimately redemptive, The Old Religion is a contemporary Illustrations: British rural crime thriller that combines the deft Previous Titles: Author now living: plotting, evocative landscapes and imagery of Peter May with the richness of character and psychological acuity of Belinda Bauer's rural novels. Most surprising of all, it is based on a true story.
Zaffre AUGUST 2018 Sweet Little Lies Caz Frear
What happens when the trust has gone? The mesmerising suspense debut from the Winner of the Richard & Judy Search for a Bestseller competition, perfect for fans of Erin Kelly and Belinda Bauer.
Sales points • 'Brilliant. I read it in one sitting...a terrific debut' - Lynda La Plante • Winner of the Richard & Judy Search for a Bestseller competition
Description WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW
In 1998, Maryanne Doyle disappeared and Dad knew something about it?
Maryanne Doyle was never seen again.
WHAT I ACTUALLY KNOW
In 1998, Dad lied about knowing Maryanne Doyle.
Alice Lapaine has been found strangled near Dad's pub.
Dad was in the local area for both Maryanne Doyle's disappearance and Alice Lapaine's murder - FACT
Connection?
About the Author Caz Frear grew up in Coventry and spent her teenage years dreaming of moving to London and writing a novel. After Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 fulfilling her first dream, it wasn't until she moved back to Coventry thirteen years later that the writing dream finally came ISBN: 9781785763359 true. She has a first-class degree in History & Politics, which she's put to enormous use over the years by working as a Format: Paperback - B format waitress, shop assistant, retail merchandiser and, for the past twelve years, a headhunter. When she's not agonising over Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 480 pages snappy dialogue or incisive prose, she can be found shouting at the TV when Arsenal are playing, or holding court in the Bic1: Crime & mystery pub on topics she knows nothing about. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre AUGUST 2018 Kiss Me, Kill Me James Carol
From the pen of the bestselling author of the Jefferson Winter series comes a twisting psychological thriller that will make you question everything you think you know.
Sales points • The 'Jefferson Winter' series to date has sold over 250,000 copies. The first in the series, Broken Dolls, has been optioned for TV by Stephen Fry's production company while Watch Me, the second in the series, was shortlisted for the ITV Specsavers Crime and Thriller Bookclub • This is a twisty psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Gone Girl, The Silent Wife, The Husband's Secret and The Pocket Wife • James has been shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for his thriller The Killing Game
Description She thought she could trust him. She was wrong...
When Zoe meets Dan she can't believe her luck. He's everything she is looking for in a man - intelligent, charming, stable, supportive. Until they're married. Then Zoe realises that Dan is controlling, aggressive, paranoid. And there's no way out.
Or is there?
When Zoe discovers that she's pregnant, she realises that the only way she can keep her baby is to leave Dan. But that's harder than you think. He found her once before, and she knows he can find her again. But Dan has plans of his own - plans that don't necessarily include Zoe. Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781785763946 But then, even the best laid plans often go awry, and you really need to be careful about who you trust... Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 400 pages About the Author Bic1: Thriller / suspense J. S. Carol is the author of The Killing Game, which has been shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award. Bic2: As James Carol, he has also written the bestselling Jefferson Winter series. Broken Dolls, the first of these, was Illustrations: published in 2014 to rave reviews and reached #1 on the Amazon fiction and thriller charts. Previous Titles: Author now living: James lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and two children. When he's not writing he can usually be found in a pair of headphones, recording and producing music.
Zaffre AUGUST 2018 First to Die Alex Caan
Zain Harris and Kate Riley return in another nail-biting thriller.
Sales points • Slick, dark and confident writing with an edgy narrative • Detectives Zain Harris and Kate Riley are compelling and have original back stories
Description Bonfire Night and St James's Park is filled with thousands of Anonymous protesters in a stand-off with the police. When a cloaked, Guido Fawkes mask-wearing body is discovered the following morning, Zain Harris and Kate Riley are called in to investigate. The corpse has been eaten away by a potentially lethal and highly contagious virus, resulting in enforced quarantine for anyone who came into contact with the body. The autopsy reveals the victim was a senior civil servant, whose work in international development involved saving lives. There is no obvious reason why anyone would want him dead.
As the research team looking into the origins of the deadly virus narrow down the possibilities, first one, then another pharmacist go missing. Meanwhile, a dark truth starts to emerge about the murder victim: he was an aggressive man, whose bullying behaviour resulted in the suicide attempt of one of his former staff members, and one of his favoured charities is rumoured to be involved in human trafficking. He must have had enemies after all...
The mystery is becoming increasingly complicated and with thirty lives potentially at stake, Kate and Zain have their work cut out for them. Can they find the two missing pharmacists in time, or will they too end up dead?
About the Author Alex Caan was born in Manchester, and has spent over a decade working in Information Systems Security for a number of government organisations, and is currently specialising in Terrorism Studies. A lifetime passion for writing was sparked by the encouraging words of an English Teacher in school, and eventually led to Alex successfully completing an MA in
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 Creative Writing, and write Cut to the Bone, published in 2017 under Bonnier's Twenty7 imprint. ISBN: 9781785761881 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre AUGUST 2018 From The Shadows Neil White
For fans of John Grisham and Tim Weaver, bestselling author Neil White's From the Shadows introduces Dan Grant, a lawyer who seeks the truth - whatever the cost.
Sales points • From the Shadows is the first in a new series featuring defence lawyer Dan Grant, and private investigator Jayne Brett • Neil White has been a criminal lawyer for over twenty years and brings his wealth of experience to the 'Grant & Brett' series • This is a legal thriller set in the fictional Lancashire town of Highford
Description You can't see him. But he can see you...
Mary Kendricks, a smart, pretty, twenty-four-year-old teacher, has been brutally murdered.
Robert Carter stands accused of killing her.
According to Mary's friends, Robert watched her, harassed her, stalked her.
But did he kill her?
Dan Grant is Robert's lawyer. He and his investigator Jayne Brett have two weeks before Robert Carter goes to trial. Two weeks to prove whether or not he killed Mary.
Together they will get to the truth - whatever the cost...
About the Author Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 Neil White was born and brought up around West Yorkshire. He left school at sixteen but returned to education in his ISBN: 9781785760921 twenties, when he studied for a law degree. He started writing in 1994, and is now a criminal lawyer by day, crime fiction Format: Paperback - B format writer by night. He lives in the north of England with his wife and three children. Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 496 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre AUGUST 2018 The Changeling Victor LaValle
'A dark fairy tale of New York, full of magic and loss, myth and mystery, love and madness ... a mesmerising, monumental work.' - Marlon James
Sales points • A book dealer's journey into parenthood takes a nightmarish turn • ""Victor LaValle's fabulist ode to fatherhood and fairy tales offers a new take on themes as old as time ...Throughout western mythology, white men with swords have been the heroes while the rest of us watch, oohing and aahing, from the sidelines. With his genre-bending novel, The Changeling, Victor LaValle updates the epic narrative for the twenty- first century.' - O: The Oprah Magazine • 'Fiercely defies categorization. Written as a self-proclaimed 'fairy tale' in a punchy, inviting style, Mr. LaValle's haunting tale weaves a mesmerizing web around fatherhood, racism, horrific anxieties and even To Kill a Mockingbird. And the backdrop for this rich phantasmagoria? The boroughs of New York.' - Janet Maslin, The New York Times
Description When Apollo Kagwa was just a child, his father disappeared, leaving him with recurring nightmares and a box labelled 'Improbabilia'. Now a successful book dealer, Kagwa has a family of his own after meeting and falling in love with Emma, a librarian. The two marry and have a baby: so far so happy-ever-after.
However, as the pair settle into their new lives as parents, exhaustion and anxiety start to take their toll. Emma's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, until one day she commits an unthinkable act, setting Apollo on a wild and fantastical quest through a suddenly otherworldly New York, in search of a wife and child he no longer recognises.
An epic novel for our anxiety-ridden times, The Changeling is a tale of parenthood, love - in its most raw and brutal form - and ultimately, humanity.
About the Author Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 Victor LaValle is the author of six previous works of fiction. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an ISBN: 9781786893826 American Book Award, the Shirley Jackson Award and the Key to Southeast Queens. He lives in New York with his wife Format: Paperback - B format and children and teaches at Columbia University. Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 448 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) @victorlavalle | victorlavalle.com Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUGUST 2018 A Long Island Story Rick Gekoski
Rick Gekoski's follow up to his critically acclaimed debut, Darke, is a novel about 1950s America, a marriage in crisis, and a family falling apart at the seams.
Sales points • For fans of Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín, 4321 by Paul Auster and Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road • A Long Island Story captures the spirit of the 50s brilliantly - a decade caught between stiff, deeply conservative post- war values, and the celebration of sexual and political freedom seen in the 60s • It also has something very interesting to say about the times we live in now, and what we can learn from history about freedom of speech and right-wing extremism • Rick Gekoski's debut novel, Darke, published in 2016 when he was 72 years old, received incredible reviews across the broadsheets • This second novel is based very much on Rick's own childhood experiences in America in the 1950s
Description It is 1953, a heat wave is sweeping across America and the Grossmans - Ben, Addie and their two children - are moving their lives from the political heart of Washington DC to suburban Long Island. Benny was a successful lawyer in the Department of Justice, but all that has come tumbling down. With the McCarthy era of paranoia, persecution and propaganda at its height, his past has come back to haunt him, forcing him to pack up his family and leave the capital behind.
With their future uncertain, life in Long Island starts to open old wounds for Ben and Addie, both start to wonder if they were meant for more, whether their future might look different than they planned, and whether their marriage - their family - is worth fighting for ...
A Long Island Story is a portrait of a marriage in crisis, of a unique and fascinating period in US history and of a seemingly perfect family fighting their demons behind closed doors. Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 ISBN: 9781786893420 About the Author Format: Hard Cover Rick Gekoski is a writer, rare-book dealer and academic. He has written several widely praised non-fiction books Dimensions: 214x135mm Extent: 320 pages including Staying Up, Tolkien's Gown, Outside of a Dog and Lost, Stolen or Shredded. His debut novel Darke was Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) published in 2016 when Gekoski was 72 years old. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate Trade AUGUST 2018 Heather, The Totality Matthew Weiner
The explosive debut novel - about family, power and privilege - from the creator of the award-winning Mad Men.
Sales points • 'Heather, The Totality is superb. It gripped me at once. There was no question of turning away at any point. Weiner conveys the sense that beyond the brilliantly chosen details there was a wealth of similarly truthful social and psychological perception unstated. Then there was the ice-cold mercilessness, of a kind that reminded me oddly, I suppose, but there it was of Evelyn Waugh. This novel is something special.' - Philip Pullman • 'Beautifully written ... Curious and unexpected.' - John Banville, Guardian • 'This short novel of upper-crust anomie and class-divide obsession is a scorcher! It's the classic noir construction: the short walk off the long ledge and the plummet to an indifferent Hell. Matthew Weiner demonically delivers the goods! Read this book in one gasping breath.' -James Ellroy • 'Obsession, wealth, anomie, parenting and sociopathic fantasy; about what happens when a young girl comes into contact with an evil man . . . Engaging and brilliant.' - Sunday Times • 'Short and rapier-sharp, Matthew Weiner's Heather, The Totality compels and unnerves in equal measure. Like the great Patricia Highsmith, Weiner renders the disturbing not just plausible but exquisitely, agonisingly inevitable. A tour de force.'- Claire Messud
Description 'Chilling and poised, I loved it' - Maggie O'Farrell
The Breakstone family arrange themselves around their daughter Heather, and the world seems to follow: she is the greatest blessing in their lives of Manhattan luxury. But as Heather grows, her radiance attracts a dark interest and their perfect existence starts to fracture. A very different life, one raised in poverty and in violence, is beginning its own malign orbit around Heather.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781786890665 Matthew Weiner is the creator of Mad Men, and worked as executive producer, writer and director on the show, which is Format: Paperback - B format widely considered one of the greatest television series of all time. He has received nine Emmys for his work on Mad Men Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 144 pages and The Sopranos. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, architect Linda Brettler, and their four sons. Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUGUST 2018 That Was a Shiver, and Other Stories James Kelman
Intimate new stories from the Booker Prize-winning James Kelman. He 'brings alive a human consciousness like no other writer can' - Alan Warner
Sales points • This refreshing new collection of short stories will appeal to fans of William Trevor, Anne Enright and Alice Munro • Kelman's last novel Dirt Road was shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year
Description SHORTLISTED FOR SALTIRE FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2017
A local tries to sell his sister to a trucker as he passes through town; a couple put their children to bed and hear a loud scratching at the wall; a man looks into a mirror and reflects on becoming more like his father.
Sparky, touching and brilliantly daring, these stories uncover human feeling in the ordinary and the everyday, and are a reminder of Kelman's exceptional talent.
About the Author James Kelman was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989 with A Disaffection, which also won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. He went on to win the Booker Prize five years later with How Late It Was, How Late, before being shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 and 2011. Both Dirt Road and That Was a Shiver were shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year in 2016 and 2017.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781786890924 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUGUST 2018 The Graybar Hotel Curtis Dawkins
An unflinching and deeply moving collection of stories by a debut writer currently serving a life sentence in Michigan's prison system. His stories form a vivid portrait of prison life, painted from behind bars.
Sales points • An incredible new literary voice, Curtis Dawkins does for the prison system what Phil Klay's Redeployment did for the army • For fans of Chuck Palahniuk, Junot Díaz and George Saunders • The US has the largest prison population in the world, and the highest incarceration rate • The Graybar Hotel tells the stories of men living in impossible circumstances, coming to terms with the mistakes they've made and struggling to keep their souls alive when their liberty is taken away • Wide-ranging, timely and unique, The Graybar Hotel has a huge amount to teach us about what freedom really means
Description A man sits collect-calling strangers every day just to hear the sounds of the outside world; an inmate recalls his descent into addiction as his prison softball team gears up for an annual tournament; a prisoner is released and finds freedom more complex and baffling than he expected.
In this stunning debut story collection, Curtis Dawkins, who is currently serving a life sentence without parole, offers a glimpse into the reality of prison life through the eyes of the people who spend their days and years behind bars.
About the Author Curtis Dawkins grew up in rural Illinois and earned an MFA in fiction writing at Western Michigan University. He has struggled with alcohol and substance abuse through most of his life and, during a botched robbery, killed a man on Halloween 2004. Since late 2005, he's been serving a life sentence, with no possibility of parole, in various prisons throughout Michigan. He has three children with his partner, Kim, who is a writing professor living in Portland, Oregon.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781786891136 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUGUST 2018 Life Of Pi Yann Martel
A Canons edition of the phenomenal, Man Booker Prize-winning, international bestseller.
Sales points • Canons Edition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Man Booker Prize • Life of Pi has sold over 13 million copies worldwide and is the bestselling Booker prize winner in history • Ang Lee's film adaptation of Life of Pi grossed $609 million worldwide and won four Academy Awards in 2013 • The Canons are books without boundaries. Some are classics already, the rest will be soon
Description One boy, one boat, one tiger . . .
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction in recent years.
About the Author Yann Martel was born in Spain in 1963 of Canadian parents. After studying philosophy at university, he travelled and worked at odd jobs before turning to writing. In addition to the Man Booker Prize-winning Life of Pi, which has been translated into over fifty languages and has sold over thirteen million copies worldwide, he is the author of the novels Self, Beatrice and Virgil and The High Mountains of Portugal, the stories The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, and the collection of letters to the Prime Minister of Canada, What is Stephen Harper Reading? He lives in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781786891686 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUGUST 2018 Orlando Virginia Woolf, introduction by Tilda Swinton
Virginia Woolf's seductive, provocative masterpiece is a whirlwind adventure through time, gender and identity. Introduced by Tilda Swinton.
Sales points • Orlando is a radical classic of queer fiction: joyful, sexy and subversive • 'Orlando is the book to put under your pillow and rest upon.' - Tilda Swinton • 'Sexy, provocative and tantalising.' - Jeanette Winterson • 'Wonderfully bold and inventive.' - Observer • The Canons are books without boundaries. Some are classics already, the rest will be soon
Description 'He stretched himself. He rose. He stood upright in complete nakedness before us, and while the trumpets pealed 'Truth! Truth! Truth!' we have no choice left but confess - he was a woman.'
A young man in the court of the ageing Queen Elizabeth I, the beautiful Orlando seems to belong everywhere and nowhere. One morning, Orlando awakens transformed - transported into the eighteenth century, and the body of a woman.
One of the twentieth century's defining imaginings of queer identity, Orlando is a book of radical possibilities -boy and girl, past and future, nature and magic, life and history, love and literature. One of the most thrilling love letters in all literature, it trespasses thrillingly over the borders of place, time and self.
About the Author Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. Shortly after her father's death, she moved to Bloomsbury where, with her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, Virginia met writers and artists such as Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, forming what later became known as the Bloomsbury Group. In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf and together, in 1917, they founded their Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 own printing press. Virginia Woolf met Vita Sackville-West in 1922, for whom the brilliant fantasy of Orlando was written. ISBN: 9781786892454 She died in 1941 after drowning herself in the River Ouse. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUGUST 2018 The Penelopiad Margaret Atwood
Penelope's slyly brilliant side of the story, from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Blind Assassin and The Handmaid's Tale.
Sales points • 'Atwood takes Penelope's part with tremendous verve ... she explores the very nature of mythic story-telling' - Mary Beard, Guardian • 'Half Dorothy Parker, half Desperate Housewives' - Independent • 'As potent as a curse' - Sunday Times • 'Fabulous ... Determinedly irreverent' - New York Times • 'A witty desecration ... Atwood plays with vigour and ingenuity' - Observer • 'Pragmatic, clever, domestic, mournful, Penelope is a perfect Atwood heroine' - Spectator
Description Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return.
Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story - a tale of lust, greed and murder.
About the Author Margaret Atwood is the author of more than thirty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays.
In addition to the classic The Handmaid's Tale, her novels include Cat's Eye, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize and Oryx and Crake, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, was published in 2009. She was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 2008. Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781786892485 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Myth & legend told as fiction Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Toronto
Canongate PBS AUGUST 2018 Sex & Rage Eve Babitz
A rediscovered classic: Eve Babitz's wry, tender coming-of-age tale of 1970s LA.
Sales points • Eve Babitz's witty, glamorous tales of 1970s LA have been rediscovered as lost classics in recent years, and have been picked up by Tristar for a major TV series • The Canons are books without boundaries. Some are classics already, the rest will be soon
Description It is the 1970s in LA, and Jacaranda Leven - child of sun and surf - is swept into the dazzling cultural milieu of the beautiful people. Floating on a cloud of drink, drugs and men, she finds herself adrift, before her talent for writing, and a determined literary agent, set her on a course for New York and a new life.
Sex & Rage is a recently rediscovered classic from author Eve Babitz, herself a muse to many an artist, writer and musician in the 1970s. A semi-autobiographical novel, it charts the highs and lows of a life lived at the limits, and transports the reader to a sunnier, dreamier, more reckless time and place.
About the Author Eve Babitz was born and grew up in Hollywood. She began to write in 1972 after designing album covers for such artists as Linda Ronstadt, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds and Lord Buckley. Her articles and short stories have appeared in Vogue, Rolling Stone, Esquire and The New York Times Book Review.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781786892744 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUGUST 2018 Ham On Rye Charles Bukowski, introduction by Roddy Doyle
The autobiographical coming-of-age modern classic by one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century.
Sales points • Charles Bukowski is one of the great authors of the 20th century and is known as being at the forefront of the Beat generation and American counter-culture • Will appeal to Bukowski's wide following as well as to fans of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Richard Brautigan, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Tim Winton, Bret Easton Ellis, Salinger, William S. Burroughs and Joseph Heller • Ham on Rye has sold over 60,000 copies in Canongate's editions alone • A fresh new Canons edition for this classic of American literature • 'In an age of conformity, Bukowski wrote about the people nobody wanted to be: the ugly, the selfish, the lonely, the mad' Observer • 'Sometimes funny and always sad, Ham on Rye is written in an admirably hard, bare, vivid style' Times Literary Supplement • 'Reflective, humane, tremendously evocative and absorbingly readable' The Times
Description With introduction by Roddy Doyle
'He brought everyone down to earth, even the angels' Leonard Cohen
Charles Bukowski is one of the greatest authors of the twentieth-century. The autobiographical Ham on Rye is widely considered his finest novel. A classic of American literature, it offers powerful insight into his youth through the prism of his alter-ego Henry Chinaski, who grew up to be the legendary Hank Chinaski of Post Office and Factotum.
About the Author Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 most influential and imitated poet. At the forefront of American counter-culture, his Beat Generation writing is widely ISBN: 9781782116660 celebrated. He was born in Germany in 1920 to an American soldier father and a German mother and was brought to the Format: Paperback - B format United States at the age of three. He grew up in Los Angeles and lived there for the majority of his life. During his lifetime Dimensions: 198x129mm he published more than forty-five books, including novels such as Factotum and Post Office. He died in 1994 shortly after Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) completing his last novel, Pulp. Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUGUST 2018 Hope In The Dark Rebecca Solnit
This updated edition confirms Solnit's seminal work as a timeless classic on politics and change.
Sales points • Available late September • With new foreword and afterword • Very timely publication in the wake of the chaos surrounding Brexit • Canongate Canons batter at the boundaries to create conversation about what makes a classic, breathing fresh life into the books we love and in the process asking what makes a masterpiece • As relevant today as it was on its first publication over a decade ago, Solnit's manifesto on people power will inspire a whole new generation of readers. For fans of Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein and Susan Sontag • Rebecca Solnit is the recipient of many awards, including the Lannan Literary Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a contributing editor to Harper's, where she is the first woman to regularly write the Easy Chair column (founded in 1851)
Description At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable work offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope. This exquisite work traces a history of activism and social change over the past five decades - from the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the worldwide marches against the war in Iraq.
Hope in the Dark is a paean to optimism in the uncertainty of the twenty-first century. Tracing the footsteps of the last century's thinkers - including Woolf, Gandhi, Borges, Benjamin and Havel - Solnit conjures a timeless vision of cause and effect that will light our way through the dark, and lead us to profound and effective political engagement.
About the Author Rebecca Solnit has written eighteen acclaimed works of non-fiction, including Wanderlust: A History of Walking and A Field Guide to Getting Lost. An activist, columnist and cultural historian, she has been awarded a Guggenheim
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lannan Literary Award. She lives in San Francisco. ISBN: 9781782119074 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: History Bic2: History Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUGUST 2018 Pereira Maintains Antonio Tabucchi, translated by Patrick Creagh introduction by Mohsin Hamid
The much lauded modern classic is now being canonised.
Sales points • Pereira Maintains has sold over 30,000 copies since first being published in English by Canongate in 2010 • With an introduction from Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist • Extensively reviewed when first published in English by Canongate, Pereira Maintains is a classic that demands reading and this new, reinvented Canons edition will reach new readers • Will appeal to fans of the novels of Sandor Marai, Irene Nemirovsky and Ismail Kadare • 'A brilliant, profound book that also manages to be a thriller' - Roddy Doyle • 'Brilliant . . . you'll go on thinking about the characters and the way it's written for weeks' Guardian
Description The international bestseller introduced by Mohsin Hamid.
'The most impressive novel I've read for years' - Philip Pullman
'Stunning' - Diana Athill
In the sweltering summer of 1938, with Lisbon in the grip of Portugal's fascist dictatorship, out of nowhere a young man arrives on an elderly widower's doorstep. Lonely and overweight, Dr Pereira lives a quiet, monotonous existence. But when the charismatic Monteiro Rossi bursts into his life, everything changes. Seeing in him the son he never had, Pereira strikes up an unlikely alliance that will result in his political awakening and a devastating act of rebellion. This is his testimony.
About the Author Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ANTONIO TABUCCHI was born in Pisa in 1943. Tabucchi authored twenty critically acclaimed novels and short story ISBN: 9781782116318 Format: Paperback - B format collections, nine of which have been translated into English, together with numerous essays and plays. Twice shortlisted Dimensions: 198x129mm for the Man Booker International Prize, he received many prestigious awards, including the Prix M.dicis .tranger for Indian Extent: 208 pages Nocturne and the Premio Campiello, the Premio Viareggio and the Aristeion Prize for Pereira Maintains. Tabucchi was Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Emeritus professor at the University of Siena, and also taught at Bard College in New York, the .cole de Hautes .tudes Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Illustrations: and the Coll.ge de France in Paris. He died in 2012. Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUGUST 2018 Homicide David Simon, introduction by Richard Price
The bestselling true crime classic from the creator of The Wire, is now a canon
Sales points • Homicide was the inspiration for critically acclaimed TV series The Wire • Homicide was a top 20 bestseller, with almost 140,000 copies now sold for Canongate • Homicide won the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and an Anthony award for Best True Crime in 1992 • Does for Baltimore what Gomorrah did for Italy • 'A masterpiece . . . Simon has exceptional literary gifts of eye and ear. Few novelists have written so well about the corrosiveness of the modern American city' - Martin Amis • 'David Simon has single-handedly raised the bar for writing about crime, crime-fighting and the messy and imprecise business of justice to new and nearly unreachable levels . . . a work of tremendous ambition which made everything in the genre to follow irrelevant' - Anthony Bourdain
Description 'A masterpiece' - Martin Amis
'The best book about homicide detectives by an American writer' - Norman Mailer
Based on a year on the killing streets of Baltimore, David Simon's true crime masterpiece reveals a city few will ever experience. Day in day out citizens are shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the centre of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicide unit, a small brotherhood of men who fight for whatever justice is possible in a deadly world.
About the Author David Simon is an author, journalist, producer and script writer and is best known as the creator of HBO's Peabody Award-winning series The Wire. His first book, the international bestseller Homicide, won the Edgar Award and the Anthony Award and became the basis for the NBC award-winning drama. His second book, The Corner: A Year in the
Price: AU $21.99 NZ $24.99 Life of An Inner-City Neighbourhood, co-authored with Edward Burns, was made into an Emmy-winning HBO miniseries. ISBN: 9781782116301 Simon also co-created the HBO series Generation Kill with Ed Burns, and Treme with Eric Overmyer. He lives in Format: Paperback - B format Baltimore. Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 672 pages Bic1: True crime Bic2: True crime Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUGUST 2018 How to be a Grrrl Charles M. Schulz
The feisty heroine of Schulz's strip gives the patriarchy a kick in the Peanuts!
Sales points • Lucy's feminist manifesto is sure to get people talking • She's ripe for reinvention as a feisty heroine for a younger generation - the young women who idolise Lena Dunham and Amy Poehler • The 65th anniversary of Schulz's beloved Peanuts strip - and the Peanuts movie opens Boxing Day 2015 • Small format paperback gift book designed to look like a DIY movement fanzine • A Canongate Canon - bringing the iconic heroine Lucy into the contemporary canon
Description 'The crabby little girls of today are the crabby old women of tomorrow!'
Entrepreneur, psychiatrist, fussbudget - Lucy van Pelt is the much-loved crabby heroine of the Peanuts gang. Never one to suffer in silence, in this brand new book she is presented as the role model she has always wanted to be. Packed with tips on how to stick up for yourself, how to make yourself heard, how to stand up for what you believe in and much more besides, How to be a Grrrl is Lucy's guide to making the most of being a girl.
About the Author Charles M. Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1922 and grew up in Saint Paul. He gained a reputation worldwide as a cartoonist for his work on Peanuts. He died in 2000.
Price: AU $14.99 NZ $16.99 ISBN: 9781782113614 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 179x131mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Humour Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUGUST 2018 Ask The Dust John Fante, introduction by Charles Bukowski
Fante's cult novel - a heartfelt yet cynical vision of America at the time of the Great Depression.
Sales points • With an introduction by Charles Bukowski • Celebrating some of the most original works in recent years, The Canons are titles of enduring quality and importance that will challenge, inspire and be enjoyed by readers in generations to come • John Fante will join cult American writers Bukowski, Jim Dodge and Richard Brautigan on our Canons list - the perfect fit • 'Written of and from the gut and the heart Fante was my god' - Charles Bukowski • 'A powerful and moving read' Guardian • 'A tough and beautifully realised tale - affecting, powerful and poignant' Time Out • 'Bandini is a magnificent creation, and his discovery is not before time' Times Literary Supplement
Description Arturo Bandini arrives in Los Angeles with big dreams. He wants to write but is faced with grim reality. Not only is he forced to stay in a seedy hotel, but his landlord demands money that Bandini simply doesn't have. Yet when Bandini makes a small fortune from the publication of a short story, he embarks upon a reinvention, indulging in expensive clothes, fine food and downtown strip clubs. It is not until he meets the beautiful Camilla Lopez that his delusions take a worrying turn. In the long, hot summer days, Bandini and Camilla are drawn into a love-hate relationship that slowly but inexorably leads Bandini to another downfall.
Ask the Dust is an unforgettable novel about outsiders looking in on a town built on celluloid dreams. It is a heartfelt yet cynical vision of America at the time of the Great Depression.
About the Author John Fante was born in Denver on 8 April 1909 and migrated to Los Angeles in his early twenties. Wait Until Spring,
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $28.99 Bandini (1938), his first novel, began the saga of Arturo Bandini, a character whose story continues in The Road to Los ISBN: 9780857862372 Angeles, Ask the Dust and Dreams from Bunker Hill - collectively known as The Bandini Quartet. Fante published several Format: Paperback - B format other novels, as well as stories, novellas and screenplays, in his seventy-four years, including The Brotherhood of the Dimensions: 198x129mm Grape (1977) and 1933 Was A Bad Year (posthumously, 1985). He was recognised in 1987 with a PEN Lifetime Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Achievement Award in Los Angeles, four years after his death. Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUGUST 2018 Leila Prayaag Akbar
This tale of motherly love blends the page-turning urgency of The Girl in the Red Coat with the political force of Slumdog Millionaire to create a searing parable of a novel about what happens when the few live at the expense of the many ...
Sales points • Soon to be adapted for the screen as a Netflix Original • A literary/commercial crossover with a powerful hook akin to The Girl in the Red Coat: a mother's search for her missing daughter • Prayaag Akbar has an established reputation as one of India's pre-eminent journalists writing on caste, with over 10k followers on social media • 'Intelligent, chilling, and deeply moving, Leila shows us a future that is both highly imaginative and all too believable.' - Kamila Shamsie
Description Every year on Leila's birthday Shalini kneels by the wall with a little yellow spade and scoops dry earth to make a pit for two candles. One each for herself and for Riz, the husband at her side.
But as Shalini walks from the patch of grass where she held her vigil the man beside her melts away. It is sixteen years since they took her, her daughter's third birthday party, the last time she saw the three people she loves most dearly: her mother, her husband, her child.
There are thirty-two candle stubs buried in that lawn, and Shalini believes her search is finally drawing to a close. When she finds Leila, she will return and dig up each and every one.
About the Author Prayaag Akbar was born in Calcutta in 1982. He studied economics at Dartmouth College and comparative politics at the Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 London School of Economics, and spent a year at Routledge, UK as a publicity assistant. He has been an editor at scroll. ISBN: 9780571341313 in and the Sunday Guardian and a reporter with Outlook magazine. His award-winning reports and commentary have Format: Hard Cover examined various aspects of marginalization in India. His work has appeared in Caravan, The Cricket Monthly, Mint, Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages Indian Express and India Today, among others. He lives in Bombay with his wife and their cat and tweets under Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) @unessentialist. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Fiction AUGUST 2018 Cold Desert Sky Rod Reynolds
Brilliant third novel from emerging young crime writer, whose Charlie Yates series explores the crime ridden landscape of post WWII America - perfect for fans of James Ellroy.
Sales points • Nominated for the CWAs John Creasey Debut Dagger • Acclaimed young author, based in London, good at publicity & events, establishing himself well in the UK crime scene
Description No one wanted to say it to me, that the girls were dead. But I knew.
Late 1946 and Charlie Yates and his wife Lizzie have returned to Los Angeles, trying to stay anonymous in the city of angels.
But when Yates, back in his old job at the Pacific Journal, becomes obsessed by the disappearance of two aspiring Hollywood starlets, Nancy Hill and Julie Desjardins, he finds it leads him right back to his worst fear: legendary Mob boss Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel, a man he once crossed, and whose shadow he can't shake.
As events move from LA to the burgeoning Palace of Sin in the desert, Las Vegas - where Siegel is preparing to open his new Hotel Casino, The Flamingo - Rod Reynolds once again shows his skill at evoking time and place. With Charlie caught between the FBI and the mob, can he possibly see who is playing who, and find out what really happened to the two girls?
About the Author After a successful career in advertising, working as a media buyer, Rod Reynolds took City University's two-year MA in crime writing, where he started The Dark Inside, his first Charlie Yates Mystery. He lives in London with his wife and children. Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9780571334711 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Fiction AUGUST 2018 Alone Chaboute , translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger
The internationally bestselling graphic novel, an official selection at France's prestigious Angouleme International Comics Festival.
Sales points • Available in English for the first time - the internationally bestselling graphic novel • Filled with stunning black-and-white illustrations, Alone is Chabouté's masterpiece • An unforgettable tale where tenderness, despair, and humour intertwine to flawlessly portray how someone can be an everyman, and every man is someone
Description On a tiny lighthouse island far from the rest of the world, a hermit lives out his existence. Every week a supply boat leaves provisions, yet the fishermen never leave their boat, and never meet him.
Years spent on this deserted rock, with imagination his sole companion, has made the lighthouse keeper something more than alone, something else entirely. For him, what lies beyond the horizon might be... nothing. And so, why would you ever want to leave? But, one day, as curiosity gets the better of him, a new boatman steps onto the island.
Intertwining tenderness, despair, and humour, Alone captures how someone can be an everyman, and every man is someone.
About the Author Christophe Chaboute was born in Alsace and studied Fine Arts at Angouleme and then Strasbourg. He is the author of many books, including The Park Bench (2017), his UK debut.
Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 ISBN: 9780571332441 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 245x178mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Graphic novels Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Fiction AUGUST 2018 The Park Bench Chaboute
A beautiful and moving graphic novel from French artist, Chaboute - of a park bench and the lives it witnesses.
Sales points • The latest addition to Faber's popular graphic novel list which includes Craig Thompson, Adrian Tomine and Emily Carroll • For fans of graphic novels and illustrated titles, such as The Fox and the Star, The Man Who Planted Trees and Richard Linklater's Boyhood.
Description Reissued alongside English publication of Alone
The Park Bench is Chaboute's beautiful and acclaimed story of a park bench and the lives it witnesses. At once intimate and universal, it is one of the most moving books you could hope to come across.
For fans of The Fox and the Star, The Man Who Planted Trees and Richard Linklater's Boyhood.
About the Author Christophe Chaboute was born in Alsace and studied Fine Arts at Angouleme and then Strasbourg. He is the author of many books, including The Park Bench and All the World, which Faber will publish in 2018.
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9780571332304 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 236x165mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Graphic novels Bic2: Graphic novels Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Fiction AUGUST 2018 Carnet de Voyage Craig Thompson
A beautiful new edition of the long out of print classic - mixing travelogue, memoir and how-to draw insight - with 30 new pp from Craig's return trip over a decade later.
Sales points • A raw and intimate portrait of countries, culture and the wandering artist • His travels through Barcelona, the Alps, France and Morocco, were for research for Habibi • The result, his stunning graphic novel Habibi is a steady seller in ANZ, having now sold close to 1500 copies
Description In 2004, on the back of the international success of Blankets, Craig Thompson set out on a tour across Europe and Morocco, promoting foreign editions of his book and researching his next project.
Carnet de Voyage is the gorgeous sketchbook diary of these travels. From wandering around Paris and Barcelona between events, to navigating markets in Fez and fleeing tourist traps in Marrakesh, we see glimpses of each place, rendered in Thompson's exquisite ink line.
While desert landscapes and crowded street scenes flow, the sketchbook is packed first and foremost with people - other travellers passing through, friends and lovers he meets along the way and old friends and other cartoonists that weave in and out of Thompson's life.
Carnet de Voyage is a casual yet intimate portrait of a celebrated cartoonist at a moment between his two seminal works - Blankets and Habibi.
About the Author Craig Thompson was born in Michigan in 1975. He is the writer and artist of the critically acclaimed graphic novels Blankets, Habibi, Space Dumplins, Good-bye, Chunky Rice, and Carnet de Voyage. He was awarded three Eisner Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 awards, three Harvey awards, two Ignatz awards, and a Grammy nomination for album cover artwork on Menomena's ISBN: 9780571336036 Friend and Foe. He lives in Los Angeles with partner Sierra Hahn and cat Momo. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 210x160mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Graphic novels Bic2: Graphic novels: true stories & non-fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Fiction AUGUST 2018 Blankets Craig Thompson
A cult classic and one of the bestselling graphic novels of all time.
Sales points • First published in the US in 2003, Blankets is new to Faber • Craig Thompson is one of the most highly respected graphic novelists; he has received four Harvey Awards, three Eisner Awards and two Ignatz Awards
Description 'Achingly beautiful. a first-love story so well remembered and honest that it reminds you what falling in love feels like.' - Time magazine
'Everyone in Blankets has a spark and an inner life, and the fluid panels tease out character with subtlety and generosity. It's a touching, passionate account of growing up.' - Guardian
Wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, Blankets explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in rural isolation, and the budding romance of two young lovers. A tale of security and discovery, of playfulness and tragedy, of a fall from grace and the origins of faith, Blankets is a profound and utterly beautiful work.
About the Author Craig Thompson's previous graphic novels include Goodbye, Chunky Rice, Blankets, Carnet de Voyage, Habibi , an Observer Graphic Novel of the Month, a New York Times bestseller, and described by Neel Mukherjee as 'a landmark publication' - and most recently Space Dumplins. His work has received four Harvey Awards, three Eisner Awards and two Ignatz Awards.
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9780571336029 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 228x178mm Extent: 592 pages Bic1: Graphic novels Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Fiction AUGUST 2018 Habibi Craig Thompson
Influenced by Arabic calligraphy and Islamic mythology, this long awaited graphic novel is an imaginative filtering of Middle Eastern and Muslim culture through an epic fantasy lens.
Sales points • Reissued with publication of Carnet de Voyage • At 672 pages, it is Thompson's most epic work to date • Thompson is motivated by a desire to humanise Islamic culture • The word 'Habibi' is Arabic for 'my beloved' • 'An intimate epic, a startlingly vivid portrait of two unforgettable characters a compelling experience which builds vital bridges between past and present, art and nature, love and faith. It will change the way you think about comics.' - 1001 Comics You Must Read Before you Die
Description Habibi, based on a Middle Eastern fable, tells the story of Dodola, who escapes being sold into slavery and rescues an abandoned baby she names Zam. They live in isolation in an old boat in the desert. As they age their relationship shifts from mother and son, to brother and sister and eventually lovers. In the meantime however Dodola is forced to prostitute herself to desert traders in order to provide for Zam. When he seeks an alternative means of income Dodola is captured by the Sultan and Zam is forced into a quest to try and rescue her. about the environment and the state of the world. Set in the place where Christianity and Islam began, it explores the fundamental connection between these religions, and also the relationship between the first and the third world and the increasingly important battle for the earth's resources.
About the Author Craig Thompson's previous graphic novels include Blankets (which won three 2004 Harvey Awards for Best Artist, Best Graphic Album of Original Work, and Best Cartoonist; the Prix de la critique at Angouleme; and two 2004 Eisner Awards for Best Graphic Album and Best Writer/Artist); Goodbye, Chunky Rice; and Carnet de Voyage.
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $49.99 ISBN: 9780571241323 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 232x190mm Extent: 672 pages Bic1: Graphic novels Bic2: Graphic novels Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Fiction AUGUST 2018 Ghachar Ghochar Vivek Shanbhag
A novel of Chekhovian precision and lingering resonance which has all the signs of a contemporary cult classic.
Sales points • New in paperback • Ghachar Ghochar was in the top ten selling books at Adelaide Writers' Festival 2018 • 'One of the finest literary works you will ever encounter ... Magnificent.' - Irish Times • 'A classic tale of wealth and moral ruin.' - New Yorker • 'A story that packs a powerful punch ... Shanbhag is the real deal, this gem of a novel resounding with chilling truths.' - Independent
Description In this masterful novel by the acclaimed Indian writer Vivek Shanbhag, a close-knit family is delivered from near- destitution to sudden wealth after a miraculous change in fortune. As the narrator, along with his sister, his parents, and his uncle move from a cramped shack to a larger house and encounter new-found wealth, the family dynamics begin to shift.
As the dream of middle-class, aspirational living comes true, allegiances and desires realign; marriages are arranged and begin to falter; and conflict brews ominously in the background.
About the Author Vivek Shanbhag is the author of eight works of fiction and two plays, all of which have been published to wide acclaim in the South Indian language of Kannada. Ghachar Ghochar is the first of his books to appear in English. He is the recipient of a Fall 2016 residency at the International Writing Program at Iowa.
Srinath Perur (translator) is a writer and translator whose work has appeared in n+1, Granta, and the Guardian. He is the Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 author of If It's Monday It Must Be Madurai, published by Penguin India. ISBN: 9780571336081 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Fiction in translation Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback AUGUST 2018 Madame Zero Sarah Hall
A haunting collection of stories from an author twice shortlisted for the Man Booker prize.
Sales points • Twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Hall won the BBC National Short Story Award for 'Mrs Fox' ('Butcher's Perfume' was shortlisted too) and both stories are published here • Her first story collection, The Beautiful Indifference, also won numerous awards • A Man Booker judge for the 2017 prize, and following the widespread acclaim for Wolf Border (which sold almost 30,000 copies across all formats) Hall's public profile is at an all-time high • The public appetite for literary stories (shown by the recent success of authors like Alice Munro, Ali Smith, Miranda July, Colin Barrett, and Kevin Barry) has never been stronger
Description Madame Zero is a remarkable collection of dark, sensuous stories set in sometimes conflicting landscapes - rural, industrial, psychological - all of which are hauntingly resonant with dread. Whether set in an apocalyptic storm, a local swimming pool, or a surgical theatre, Hall's stories inhabit a hinterland between the natural and urban, the mundane and surreal, human and animal.
About the Author Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria in 1974. She is the prize-winning author of five novels - Haweswater, The Electric Michelangelo, The Carhullan Army, How to Paint a Dead Man and The Wolf Border - as well as The Beautiful Indifference, a collection of short stories, which won the Portico Prize and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. The first story in the collection, 'Butchers Perfume', was also shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award - a prize Hall won in 2013 with 'Mrs Fox'.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9780571290024 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Short stories Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback AUGUST 2018 Something to Answer For P. H. Newby
The winner of the inaugural Booker Prize in 1969, Something to Answer For is humorous, macabre and beautifully intricate novel set in Egypt during the Suez Crisis.
Sales points • The Booker Prize is celebrating its 50th year in 2018 with major events and media focus • Something to Answer For competed against books by Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark and Barry England to win the prize
Description It is 1956 and Townrow is in Port Said - of these two facts he's reasonably certain. He has been summoned by the widow of his deceased friend, Elie Khoury. She is convinced that Elie was murdered, but nobody seems to agree with her. What about Leah Strauss, the mistress? And the invading British paratroops? Only an Englishman, surely, would take for granted that the British have behaved themselves.
In this disorientating world Townrow must assess the rules by which he has been living his life - to wonder whether he, too, may have something to answer for ...
About the Author Percy Howard Newby wrote twenty-three novels and six works of non-fiction. He was born in East Sussex in 1918. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1939, and visited Egypt for the first time in 1941, as part of the army's Middle East Force. From 1942 Newby was released from the army to teach English Literature at Fouad 1st University in Cairo, where he stayed until 1946. During that time he wrote his first novel. In 1947 he returned to England to write, joining the BBC in 1949 as a talks producer. He created literary-based broadcasting for the Third Programme (which became Radio Three), before becoming controller of that station in 1958, and then Managing Director of BBC Radio in 1975. He retired from the BBC in 1978, having been awarded a CBE. Newby died in 1997, in Oxfordshire.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9780571348275 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 284 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback AUGUST 2018 100 Poems Seamus Heaney
A singular, accessible selection of Heaney's work, for new and younger readers and for schools.
Sales points • An intimate gathering of poems chosen and introduced by the Heaney family • Features a broad range, drawing from the first to last of his prize-winning collections • Readers will enjoy the most loved and celebrated poems, as well as discovering new favourites • A singular and welcoming anthology, reaching out far and wide, now and for years to come • Speaking on behalf of the family, Catherine Heaney comments: • 'Choosing the poems for this book was a very special process for our family, and a poignant one. Rereading my father's twelve original volumes - from Death of a Naturalist to Human Chain - and selecting our favourites gave us the opportunity to immerse ourselves in the work again, hear his voice and remember moments from our shared past. We each had our particular choices, and keeping to one hundred sometimes felt like a challenge, but we hope that the resulting book reflects my father's life's work in all its breadth and that every reader will find something here to enjoy.' •
Description Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection from across the entire arc of his poetry, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this in his lifetime, and no edition exists which has such a broad range, drawing from first collection to last. But now, at last, the project has been returned to, resulting in an intimate gathering of poems chosen and introduced by the Heaney family. Coinciding with the National Library of Ireland launching a major exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Seamus Heaney, 100 Poems is a singular, accessible collection for new and younger readers that has the opportunity to reach far and wide, now and for years to come.
About the Author Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection of poems,
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 appeared in 1966, and was followed by poetry, criticism and translations which established him as the leading poet of his ISBN: 9780571347155 generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and twice won the Whitbread Book of the Year, for The Format: Hard Cover Spirit Level (1996) and Beowulf (1999). Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, appeared Dimensions: 198x129mm in 2008; Human Chain, his last volume of poems, was awarded the 2010 Forward Prize for Best Collection. He died in Extent: 184 pages Bic1: Poetry 2013. Bic2: Poetry by individual poets Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Poetry AUGUST 2018 Selected Poems Robert Graves
Selected Poems by Robert Graves now in poetry front-list paperback.
Sales points • Brings Robert Graves into the classic poetry typographic front-list paperback look • Insightful and welcoming introduction by the editor
Description An essential selection from the range and bulk of Robert Graves's poetry, edited by Ulster poet Michael Longley. This edition restores Graves to view as a major twentieth century poet, and demonstrates his manifold achievement as war poet, as love poet, and as - in the round - a secular visionary whose poems are 'inimitable, eccentric marvels - some of which are extraordinary, many are masterly, all are like nothing else ever written' (Randall Jarrell).
This edition of Robert Graves's poems is scrupulously selected from across the full range of his lifetime's verse. It opens with an illuminating introduction in which Longley makes a persuasive case for the importance of this remarkable poet.
About the Author Robert Graves (1895-1985) was a poet, novelist and critic. His first volume of poems, Over the Brazier (1916), reflected his experiences in the trenches, and was followed by many works of poetry, non-fiction and fiction. He is best known for his novel, I, Claudius (1934), which won the Hawthornden and James Tait Black memorial prizes and for his influential The White Goddess (1948).
Price: AU $27.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9780571347681 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Literary studies: poetry & poets Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Poetry AUGUST 2018 Bad Blood E.O. Chirovici
International bestseller E.O. Chirovici returns with a dark and compelling story of murder, memory and how we never know who we truly are.
Sales points • His previous book The Book of Mirrors received rave reviews and was a top ten bestseller in Italy, Germany, France and the Netherlands • Combines a taut, well-plotted narrative (and good twist) with interesting themes: comparable to Before I Go to Sleep, Apple Tree Yard or even The Secret History
Description You can't trust your own memories.
You can't trust other people's.
So how do you know what really happened that night?
One rainy night in New York, psychologist James Cobb gives a talk on the art of recovering lost memories. Afterwards, he's approached by a stranger: a dying man who, forty years ago, woke up in a hotel room with a murdered woman, and no memory at all of what happened. Now, he needs to know whether he was an innocent bystander - or a killer.
Intrigued, James begins to unpick the tangled threads of this decades-old mystery. But everyone involved has a different story to tell, and every fact he uncovers has another interpretation. As his interest becomes an obsession, and secrets from his own past start to surface, he begins to suspect that someone has buried the truth deep enough to hide it forever.
For fans of Joel Dicker, Peter Swanson and SJ Watson, Bad Blood tells a gripping story of memory, motives, and how little we really know about ourselves. Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781788160636 About the Author Format: Hard Cover E.O. Chirovici has had a prestigious and varied career in the Romanian media and has also published novels and short Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 256 pages stories in his native language. His first book in the English language, The Book of Mirrors, was published in January 2017. Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) He lives in Brussels with his wife. Bic2: Crime & mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Serpents Tail AUGUST 2018 The Summer House Philip Teir, translated by Tiina Nunnally
Scandinavia's answer to Jonathan Franzen.
Sales points • For fans of Ann Patchett and Annie Proulx, The Summer House unites the compelling single-summer family drama of Penelope Lively's Heat Wave with the lyrical Scandinavian beauty of Tove Jansson's The Summer Book • The author speaks perfect English and will be in the UK for publication • The Winter War sold 10,000 copies for Profile across all editions
Description The light greenery of the early summer is trembling around Erik and Julia as they shove their children into the car and start the drive towards the house by the sea on the west coast of Finland where they will spend the summer. From the outside they are a happy young family looking forward to a long holiday together.
But look under the surface, and their happiness shows signs of not lasting the summer. On the eve of the holiday, Erik lost his job, but hasn't yet told the family. And the arrival of Julia's childhood friend Marika - along with her charismatic husband Chris, the leader of a group of environmental activists that have given up hope for planet Earth and are returning to a primitive lifestyle - deepens the hairline cracks that had so far remained invisible.
Around these people, over the course of one summer, Philip Teir weaves a finely-tuned story about life choices and lies, about childhood and adulthood. How do we live if we know that the world is about to end?
About the Author Philip Teir is a Finnish-Swedish writer considered one of the most talented young novelists in Scandinavia. His poetry and short stories have been featured in anthologies including Granta Finland. His first novel The Winter War was a WHSmith 'Fresh Talent' pick. He lives in Helsinki, Finland.
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781781259276 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Fiction in translation Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Serpents Tail AUGUST 2018 The Winter War Philip Teir, translated by Tiina Nunnally
The debut from Finland's answer to Jonathan Franzen - a funny, razor-sharp and truthful family drama that unravels the fantasy we have of a perfect Scandinavian society.
Sales points • Reissued alongside publication of The Summer House • For fans of Jeffrey Eugenides, Meg Wolitzer, Zadie Smith and Jami Attenberg • Includes spot on descriptions of London and the Occupy movement • 'Shot through with understated black humour and nicely balanced between tender and acerbic, this impressive novel is a forceful reminder that there is much more to Scandinavian writing than crime fiction' Sunday Times • 'Presented as Scandinavia's answer to Jonathan Franzen, Teir offers a similarly sardonic yet sympathetic critique of a multi-generational family remarkable eye for human behaviour an intelligent debut' Telegraph
Description On the surface, the Paul family are living the liberal, middle-class Scandinavian dream. Max Paul is a renowned sociologist and his wife Katriina has a well-paid job in the public sector. They live in an airy apartment in the centre of Helsinki. But look closer and the cracks start to show.
As he approaches his sixtieth birthday, the certainties of Max's life begin to dissolve. He hasn't produced any work of note for decades. His wife no longer loves him. His grown-up daughters - one in London, one in Helsinki - have problems of their own. So when a former student turned journalist shows up and offers him a seductive lifeline, Max starts down a dangerous path from which he may never find a way back.
Funny, sharp, and brilliantly truthful, Teir's debut has the feel of a big, contemporary, humane American novel, but with a distinctly Scandinavian edge.
About the Author Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 Finnish-Swedish Philip Teir is considered one of the most promising young writers in Scandinavia. His poetry and short ISBN: 9781781254899 stories have been included in anthologies, including Granta Finland. The Winter War is his first novel. He is married with Format: Paperback - B format two children and lives in Helsinki, Finland, in the same neighbourhood as the Paul family. Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Serpents Tail AUGUST 2018 Other People's Houses Lore Segal
The internationally acclaimed autobiographical novel - A timely and vivid portrayal of a child refugee's experiences.
Sales points • Segal evokes with deep compassion, clarity and calm the experience of a child uprooted from a loving home to become stranded among strangers • Dec 2018 is the 80th Anniversary of the Kindertransport • Major features and review coverage • Highly topical and timely subject • Cross promotion in General Adult and YA markets • Under consideration for a 3-part TV series
Description Nine months after the Nazi occupation of Austria, 600 Jewish Children assembled at Vienna station to board the first of the Kindertransports bound for Britain. Among them was 10 year old Lore Segal.
For the next seven years, she lived as a refugee in other people's houses, moving from the Orthodox Levines in Liverpool, to the staunchly working class Hoopers in Kent, to the genteel Miss Douglas and her sister in Guildford. Few understood the terrors she had fled, or the crushing responsibility of trying to help her parents gain a visa. Amazingly she succeeds and two years later her parents arrive; their visa allows them to work as domestic servants - a humiliation for which they must be grateful.
In Other People's Houses Segal evokes with deep compassion, clarity and calm the experience of a child uprooted from a loving home to become stranded among strangers.
About the Author Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 Lore Segal (born in Vienna in 1928) is an American novelist, translator, children's author and teacher. Other People's ISBN: 9781908745750 Houses (1958) was the first of her five novels. It draws closely from her own experience of escaping to Britain in 1938 as Format: Paperback - B format part of the Kindertransports and moving from home to home, across deep divisions of class and culture. Lore Segal has Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and is a regular contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) and the New Republic. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Sort of AUGUST 2018 Sabrina Nick Drnaso
'The best book - in any medium - I have read about our current moment ... A MASTERPIECE.' - Zadie Smith - A landmark graphic novel about a missing woman, a viral video and the horrors of fake news.
Sales points • Sabrina depicts a modern world devoid of personal interaction and responsibility, where relationships are stripped of intimacy through glowing computer screens • Presenting an indictment of our modern state, Drnaso contemplates the dangers of a fake-news climate • Timely and articulate, Sabrina leaves you gutted, searching for meaning in the aftermath of disaster • 'Nick Drnaso's Sabrina is the best book - in any medium - I have read about our current moment. It is a masterpiece, beautifully written and drawn, possessing all the political power of polemic and yet simultaneously all the delicacy of truly great art. It scared me. I loved it.' - Zadie Smith • 'Sabrina is startling. Drnaso's formal ingenuity and confidence is matched by the acuity and depth of the story's awareness of who and where we are right now.' - Jonathan Lethem • 'Nick Drnaso is one of the most ambitious, singular cartoonists to emerge in recent years, and his dedication to novelistic fiction is an inspiration. Incisive, chilling, and completely unpredictable, Sabrina demonstrates the inexplicable power of comics at their best.' - Adrian Tomine
Description Where is Sabrina?
The answer is hidden on a videotape, a tape which is en route to several news outlets, and about to go viral.
A landmark graphic novel, already hailed as one of the most exciting and moving stories of recent years, Sabrina is a tale of modern mystery, anxiety, fringe paranoia and mainstream misinformation - a book that tells the story of those left behind in the wake of tragedy, has important things to say about how we live now, and possess the rare power to leave readers pulverised. Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 ISBN: 9781783784905 About the Author Format: Hard Cover Winner of the Prix Revelation at Angouleme 2018. Nick Drnaso was born in 1989 in Palos Hills, Illinois. His debut graphic Dimensions: 247x205mm Extent: 208 pages novel, Beverly, received the LA Times Book prize for Best Graphic Novel. He has contributed to several comics Bic1: Graphic novels anthologies and has been nominated for three Ignatz Awards. Drnaso lives in Chicago, where he works as a cartoonist Bic2: Graphic novels: literary & memoirs and illustrator. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta AUGUST 2018 The White Book Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith
From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian comes a stunning meditation on the colour white; about light, about death and about ritual
Sales points • Now in paperback • Over 2000 hardbacks sold in ANZ • 'A brilliant psychogeography of grief, moving as it does between place, history and memory ... The White Book is a mysterious text, perhaps in part a secular prayer book ... [it] succeeds in reflecting Han's urgent desire to transcend pain with language.' - Guardian • 'There is beauty and pain in every sentence and image, made sharper by their simplicity and aching honesty.' - New Internationalist • 'Wonderful. A quietly gripping contemplation on life, death and the existential impact of those who have gone before.' - Eimear McBride
Description From the author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts comes a book like no other. The White Book is a meditation on colour, beginning with a list of white things. It is a book about mourning, rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit. It is a stunning investigation of the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life.
Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith.
About the Author Han Kang was born in Gwangju, South Korea, and moved to Seoul at the age of ten. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. Her writing has won the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today's Young Artist Award, and the Korean Literature Novel Award. The Vegetarian, her first novel to be translated into English, was published by Portobello Books in 2015 and won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. She is also the author of Human Acts (Portobello, 2016) and The Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 White Book (Portobello, 2017). She is based in Seoul. ISBN: 9781846276958 Format: Paperback - B format Deborah Smith's translations from the Korean include two novels by Han Kang, The Vegetarian and Human Acts, and two Dimensions: 198x130mm Extent: 128 pages by Bae Suah, A Greater Music and Recitation. In 2015 Deborah completed a PhD at SOAS on contemporary Korean Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) literature and founded Tilted Axis Press. In 2016 she won the Arts Foundation Award for Literary Translation. She tweets Bic2: Poetry as @londonkoreanist. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Portobello PBS AUGUST 2018 The Vegetarian Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith
A beautiful, unsettling novel in three acts, about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul. Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize.
Sales points • Reissued alongside the paperback publication of The White Book • Over 12,000 copies of The Vegetarian sold in ANZ • Introduced a potent and compelling writer to an English-speaking audience • A cult bestseller in South Korea, with rights sold in 10 other territories so far • Han Kang has won the prestigious Korean Novel Award, the 2005 Yi-Sang Literary Award with Mongolian Mark, and the 2010 Dong-ni Literary Award • For fans of beautiful and startling fiction by authors like Angela Carter, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Ali Smith and A.M. Homes • The Vegetarian was turned into a film, which was a critical success at the Pusan International Film Festival • 'The Vegetarian is a story about metamorphosis, rage and the desire for another sort of life. It is written in cool, still, poetic but matter-of-fact short sentences, translated luminously by Deborah Smith, who is obviously a genius' - Deborah Levy, author, Swimming Home
Description Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more 'plant-like' existence, decides to become a vegetarian, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares. In South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision is a shocking act of subversion. Her passive rebellion manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, leading her bland husband to self-justified acts of sexual sadism. His cruelties drive her towards attempted suicide and hospitalisation. She unknowingly captivates her sister's husband, a video artist. She becomes the focus of his increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, while spiralling further and further into her fantasies of abandoning her fleshly prison and becoming - impossibly, Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ecstatically - a tree. ISBN: 9781846276033 Format: Paperback - B format Fraught, disturbing and beautiful, The Vegetarian is a novel about modern day South Korea, but also a novel about Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 160 pages shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand others, from one imprisoned body to another. Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) About the Author Illustrations: Han Kang was born in Gwangju, South Korea, and moved to Seoul at the age of ten. She studied Korean literature at Previous Titles: Author now living: Yonsei University. Her writing has won the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today's Young Artist Award, and the Korean Literature Novel Award. She currently teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts.
Deborah Smith is working on a PhD in Korean literature at SOAS, University of London. She translated The Essayist's Portobello PBS AUGUST 2018 The Alarming Palsy of James Orr Tom Lee
An exquisite nightmare in suburbia, from an emerging British writer of stupendous and disturbing talent.
Sales points • Now in paperback • 'A clever and disturbing fable about appearance and reality, exploring what humanity might look like if unmasked and free of social norms and rules.' SMH Spectrum 'Pick of the Week'
Description James Orr - husband, father, reliable employee and all round model citizen - wakes one morning to find himself quite transformed.
There's no way he can go into the office, and the doctors aren't able to help. Waiting for the affliction to pass, he wanders the idyllic estate where he lives, with its pretty woodland, uniform streets and perfectly manicured lawns. But there are cracks in the veneer. And as his orderly existence begins to unravel, it appears that James himself may not be the man he thought he was.
A story that consistently confounds expectations, The Alarming Palsy of James Orr introduces a writer of extraordinary and disturbing talents.
About the Author Tom Lee's writing has appeared in the Sunday Times, Esquire and Prospect in the UK, the Dublin Review in Ireland and in Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope All Story in the United States, among others. In 2012 he was shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. He currently teaches undergraduate and postgraduate creative writing at Goldsmiths College.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781783783946 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta Paperbacks AUGUST 2018 Too Soon, Too Late Ralph and Kathy Kelly
The extraordinary story of Kathy and Ralph Kelly, who turned their own family's tragedies into a remarkable social crusade that's helping keep all our children safer.
Sales points • Ralph and Kathy are hugely well-known by both the media and the public. • The book covers the hugely important issues of reducing alcohol related violence amongst young people and youth suicide. • An incredibly moving and inspiring story. • The closest recent market comparison is Rosie Batty's A Mother's Story (Bookscan 39k in tpb) • Huge media interest on release. National TV interview followed by high profile print extract, plus high-rating national and state radio. • CATEGORY: MEMOIR
Description On a winter's night in July 2012, Kathy and Ralph Kelly received a phone call no parent should ever have to answer. It was the Emergency department of a Sydney hospital, telling them that their eldest son Thomas had been in an altercation and that they were to come at once. Thomas had been coward punched by a total stranger within two minutes of getting out of a taxi in Kings Cross, on his way to a private 18th birthday party of a friend. Two days after that first phone call Kathy and Ralph were told that their son had suffered catastrophic head injuries resulting in brain death. They were advised that there was no other option but to switch off his life support. He was 18 years old.
In the aftermath of their son's death, Kathy and Ralph became the public face of the campaign to end the drunken violence that plagued Sydney's major nightspots. Along with Premiers Barry O'Farrell and Mike Baird they helped institute the lock out laws that have been a major factor in the reduction of alcohol related deaths and injuries in Darling Harbour, Kings Cross and Sydney's CBD. They were also instrumental in creating Take Kare Safe Spaces ('Kare' with a 'K' after Thomas's initials) for young people in key nightspots, which has now registered over 52,000 interventions since Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 December 2014, what the Kellys call 'sliding door moments', the difference between a young person's life continuing on ISBN: 9781760632786 as normal or degenerating into something terrible. And they were one of the driving forces behind the introduction of Format: Paperback - C format tougher sentencing for 'coward-punch' deaths. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 1 pages Bic1: Memoirs But their campaigning created a huge toll on their family. Online intimidation, death threats and false news about the Bic2: mishandling of donations came from those with a stake in the clubs and businesses who were the lock out laws financial Illustrations: losers. When Stuart Kelly, Thomas's younger brother, went for his first night at University of Sydney's St Paul's College, Previous Titles: Author now living: Balmain, NSW Manly, NSW Ralph and Kathy believe the bullying he experienced because of the family's profile was so traumatising he left university for good the next day, and wouldn't tell his parents exactly what he'd been made to endure. Five months later, on July 25th 2016, Stuart took his own life.
Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2018 Too Late, Too Soon 18 copy dumpbin
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Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2018 The Mess We're In Bernard Keane
Crikey correspondent Bernard Keane explains capitalism, identity and Why Everything Is Awful
Sales points • Taps directly in to the frustration legions of us feel about our broken systems and hopeless governments - a perfect example of outrage literature and great for water cooler arguments • Bernard's last work of non-fiction - A Short History of Stupid - sold over 13,000 copies • Bernard has a loyal fanbase - over 63,000 Twitter followers and counting • CATEGORY: Politics
Description A tide of populism and xenophobia is sweeping the western world. Voters are disillusioned, are turning to political outsiders and reject the liberal economic solutions of out of touch elites. Despite having access to more information than at any time in human history, we reject experts, evidence and facts themselves in a new Era of Electronic Ignorance. Many warn darkly of a repeat of the chaos, misery and war of the 1930s.
How did it all go so wrong? The Mess We're In explains how of a perfect storm of historical developments has left us feeling as though a Dark Age beckons. How the triumphant economic philosophy of neoliberalism has failed us and provoked a backlash that is sweeping it aside. How the internet is rewiring our economies, our media, our culture and even our own brains. How politics has become a hollowed-out industry rather than a public service. And how, together, they've unleashed a wave of anger and fear that has swept the world.
But don't panic (too much) - things are also better than they seem, and there is a way forward. And Australia can show what it is.
About the Author Bernard Keane has been Crikey's correspondent in Canberra since 2008, writing on politics, media and economics. He
Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 was educated at the University of Sydney, where he studied history. Before joining Crikey he was a public servant and ISBN: 9781760632502 speechwriter in transport and communications. He is the author of the ebook War On The Internet and co-author of the Format: Paperback - C format bestseller A Short History of Stupid, with Helen Razer. He is also the author of Surveillance, his first novel. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Political science & theory Bic2: Political science & theory Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Phillip, ACT
Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2018 Hell Ship Michael Veitch
The riveting story of one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history, the plague-stricken sailing ship Ticonderoga that left England for Victoria with 800 doomed emigrants on board.
Sales points • A great sea-faring story, that will be wonderfully dark and atmospheric and filled with human drama • Michael is a great promoter, and the fact he has a family connection to the story gives him an even stronger publicity hook. This is made for a Fidler conversation... • Michael has established himself as an author of historical narrative non-fiction with a strong sales track record • Michael will be touring his one-man stage play Hell Ship, based on the book, nationally in the second half of 2018 • CATEGORY: Maritime History
Description In the summer of 1852 a ghost ship rounded the heads of Port Phillip Bay. It was the clipper Ticonderoga, three months out from Liverpool, carrying emigrants from the Highlands of Scotland to a new life in Australia. When she'd set out, almost 800 of them were crowded into her 170 foot hull.
The first death happened just a few weeks into the voyage, a sixteen year old girl named Anna-Maria Hando. The next victim, fourteen year old Margaret Doyle, died as the ship rounded the Cape of Good Hope. The symptoms were identical: a burning temperature, followed by delirium, then quickly, death. Within days another followed, this time a baby, then another. Typhus, one of the great scourges of overcrowded jails, slums and ships, had taken hold. Soon so many bodies were going over the side that the ship ran out of sail cloth and weights to bury them in. Dozens of sharks followed the ship, waiting.
What the Ticonderoga was to experience over the next weeks was a floating hell. After her captain and most of his officers had all succumbed to the fever, it was left to the surgeon's mate, a young Scotsman only recently graduated, to tend to the sick and dying as he could and rally what few defenses they had against the plague ravaging the ship. Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 ISBN: 9781760630843 When at last the ship arrived in Port Phillip Bay, and the story of the dreadful voyage emerged, panic struck Melbourne. Format: Paperback - C format Special editions of newspapers were rushed out, bringing bulletins of the now infamous 'fever ship' or 'plague ship' to a Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 300 pages population both fascinated and terrified of the disease. The ship was quarantined and the survivors landed and kept in Bic1: Maritime history isolation at what became known as Ticonderoga Bay. The young surgeon's mate worked tirelessly with a young woman Bic2: called Annie, who acted as his nurse, trying to save those he could in the primitive conditions of a tented camp on the Illustrations: shoreline. Previous Titles: Author now living: Launching Place, VIC More than a quarter of those 800 emigrants died from the fever, and hundreds of others had been struck down but survived. A Royal Commission was established, and conditions in other emigrant ships were to be improved as a result. The young surgeon's mate, James William Henry Veitch, married his helper, Annie. Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2018 Hell Ship 10 copy pack
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Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2018 Charles Ulm Rick Searle
The untold story of one of Australia's greatest aviation pioneers.
Sales points • Author's first book sold over 6000 copies on bookscan • Perfect Father's Day gift for history buffs • Fantastic and previously untold story of one of Charles Kingsford Smiths contemporaries • CATEGORY: Biography
Description Charles Ulm and Charles Kingsford Smith were the two of the most important pioneers of Australian aviation. Together they succeeded in a number of record-breaking flights that made them instant celebrities in Australia and around the world: the first east-to-west crossing of the Pacific, the first trans-Tasman flight, Australia to New Zealand, the first flight from New Zealand to Australia. Business ventures followed for them, as they set up Australian National Airways in late 1928. Smithy was the face of the airline, happier in the cockpit or in front of an audience than in the boardroom. Ulm on the other hand was in his element as managing director. Ulm had the tenacity and organisational skills, yet Smithy had the charisma and the public acclaim. In 1932, Kingsford Smith received a knighthood for his services to flying; Ulm did not.
Business setbacks and dramas followed, as Ulm tried to develop the embryonic Australian airline industry. ANA fought hard against the young Qantas, already an establishment favourite, but a catastrophic crash on the airline's regular route from Sydney to Melbourne and the increasing bite of the Great Depression forced ANA's bankruptcy in 1933. Desperate to drum up support for a new airline venture, Ulm's final flight was meant to demonstrate the potential for a regular trans- Pacific passenger service. Somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii his plane, Stella Australis, disappeared. No trace of the plane or crew were ever found.
In the years since his death, attention has focused more and more on Smithy, leaving Ulm neglected and overshadowed.
Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 This biography shows that while Ulm lacked Smithy's prowess as an aviator, he was his superior as a visionary, as an ISBN: 9781760294274 organiser and as a driving force behind the growth of truly modern global air travel. His untimely death robbed Australia of Format: Paperback - C format a huge talent. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Australasian & Pacific history About the Author Bic2: Australasian & Pacific history Rick Searle has been a full-time freelance writer and film maker for almost forty years. He has worked in radio, television Illustrations: and film, and lectured in television writing at the Queensland University of Technology. Rick has had a lifelong interest in Previous Titles: Author now living: The Gap, QLD aviation, and a long-standing fascination with the life of Australian flyer and navigator Sir Gordon Taylor. His first book, The Man Who Saved Smithy, was published in 2015.
Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2018 The House Helen Pitt
The extraordinary story of the 20th century's most recognisable building, with new insights into the controversy and drama that surrounded its construction.
Sales points • The building of the Sydney Opera House is an iconic Australian story, and it has never been told as well, nor as fully, as here. • Uncovers much new material: extensive new interviews with Utzon and Hall family, and with workers, journalists and politicians from the period; unpublished letters from Utzon and Hall; documents from archives in Denmark and Australia; classified oral histories from the Fairfax archive. • Throws new light on Utzon's working process, political machinations of the day, and the sad personal stories of the leading figures involved in the project. • Mid century modern is very fashionable at present, and the Sydney Opera House fits right in. • The Sydney Opera House story is kept alive in the public imagination by regular retelling in many forms, e.g. the 2016 ABC TV Australian Story on Peter Hall; the 2016 Australian Opera; The Eighth Wonder; also a feature film in development. • CATEGORY: Australian History
Description The best-loved building in Australia nearly didn't get off the drawing board. When it did, the lives of everyone involved in its construction were utterly changed: some for the better, many for the worse.
Helen Pitt tells the stories of the people behind the magnificent white sails of the Sydney Opera House. From the famous conductor and state premier who conceived the project; to the two architects whose lives were so tragically intertwined; to the workers and engineers; to the people of Sydney, who were alternately beguiled and horrified as the drama unfolded over two decades.
Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 With access to diaries, letters, and classified records, as well as her own interviews with people involved in the project, ISBN: 9781760295462 Helen Pitt reveals the intimate back story of the building that turned Sydney into an international city. It is a tale worthy of Format: Paperback - C format Shakespeare himself. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 312 pages Bic1: Australasian & Pacific history About the Author Bic2: Concert halls, arenas, stadia Helen Pitt is a Sydney Morning Herald journalist who has worked as the opinion and letters editor at Australia's oldest Illustrations: daily metropolitan newspaper where she began her career in 1986. She has worked as a writer for The Bulletin magazine, Previous Titles: Author now living: Coogee NSW in California for New York Times Digital, and as a television reporter at Euronews in France. Her feature writing has won the Austcare Media award and been highly commended in the UN Media Peace prize.
Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2018 God is Good For You Greg Sheridan
At a time of crisis for Christianity in the West, God is Good for You shows just why we need faith in our world.
Sales points • This is a brilliant and intelligent examination of Christianity and its importance in the modern world • There has been huge attention on the atheistic side of the religious argument in recent years, with international bestsellers from Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens among many others. This is the argument from the side of faith, written with high intelligence, but for a mainstream readership. • Strong support from Greg's newspaper, The Australian, as well as major interest across TV and radio • CATEGORY: Current Affairs
Description The Judaeo-Christian tradition has created and underpinned the moral and legal fabric of Western civilisation, yet now we've reached a point in both Australia and many parts of Europe where Christianity has become a minority faith, rather than the mainstream belief. It's a situation that's fraught both for Christians and our wider society, where the moral certainties that were the foundation of our institutions and laws are no longer held by the majority.
At this point of crisis for Christianity, God is Good For You shows us why Christianity is so vital for our personal and social well-being, and how modern Christians - of all denominations - have never worked so hard to make the world a better place at a time when their faith has never been less valued. It carries a vital torch for Christianity in a way that's closely argued, warmly human, good humoured, and by turns passionate and surprising, and, above all, convincing.
About the Author Greg Sheridan is Foreign Editor of The Australian, and a highly regarded journalist. He is active across radio and television, as well as print. He is also a committed Catholic.
Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 ISBN: 9781760632601 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Social issues & processes Bic2: Religion: general Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Lower Templestowe, VIC
Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2018 Australia's First Spies John Fahey
The first systematic account of Australian intelligence operations in the early 20th century offers fascinating new insights into Australian politics and international relations.
Sales points • The story of Australian espionage in the early 20th century is largely uncharted and Australia's First Spies fills the gap • Drawing on his own professional experience in signals intelligence, Fahey brings an insider's perspective to his account of the early days of Australian espionage • Fahey has undertaken extensive archival research and pieced together stories which have never been told before • Media will be fascinated with Fahey's discovery of Australia's first spymaster and his claim that Britain's leading intelligence officer in Australia in WWII was a woman • The Official History of ASIO trilogy (published by Allen & Unwin 2014-2016) demonstrates a solid readership for books on the history of intelligence in Australia • CATEGORY: Australian history
Description Australia was born with its eyes wide open. Although politicians spoke publicly of loyalty to Britain and the empire, in secret they immediately set about protecting Australia's interests from the Germans, the Japanese - and from Britain itself.
As an experienced intelligence officer, John Fahey knows how the security services disguise their activities within government files. He has combed the archives to compile the first account of Australia's intelligence operations in the years from Federation to World War II.
He tells the stories of dedicated patriots who undertook dangerous operations to protect their new nation, despite a lack of training and support. He shows how the early adoption of advanced radio technology by Australia contributed to the war effort in Europe. He also exposes the bureaucratic mismanagement in World War II that cost many lives, and the leaks Price: AU $34.99 NZ $39.99 that compromised Australia's standing with its wartime allies so badly that Australia was nearly expelled from the Anglo- ISBN: 9781760631208 Saxon intelligence network. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 456 pages Australia's First Spies shows Australia always has been a far savvier operator in international affairs than much of the Bic1: Australasian & Pacific history historical record suggests, and it offers a glimpse into the secret history of the nation. Bic2: Military intelligence Illustrations: 'Fills a major gap in the history of Australian intelligence organisations.' Previous Titles: Author now living: Carlingford, NSW Professor David Horner, author of The Spy Catchers
About the Author Dr John Fahey worked at Defence Signals Directorate (1988-1996) and within the Australian intelligence community for a Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2018 The Things That Make Us Nick Riewoldt with Peter Hanlon
The revealing and insightful autobiography of an AFL superstar.
Sales points • A percentage of proceeds will be donated to the charity Maddie Riewoldt Vision (mrv.org.au) • Nick Riewoldt is one of St Kilda's greatest and most-respected players • First format hardcover has sold 34,000 copies • CATEGORY: SPORTS AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Description From No. 1 pick in the 2000 AFL draft, to six-time winner of St Kilda's best and fairest award, to five-time All Australian, to captaining his club for a record 220 games, to more than 330 games as a star of the AFL, Nick Riewoldt is an out-and-out champion.
The Things that Make Us is Nick's autobiography, written with a deep intelligence and insight, and giving a fascinating perspective on his extraordinary life and career. As Nick describes it:
'I hope there's something in these pages for everyone who's known grief, especially anyone who's lost a sibling. I hope, too, that my story brings a deeper understanding of a footballer's crazy world. An insight into what goes into making it, what it takes to stay there, and the crippling anxiety that can consume you when your burden is to accept only the best. I hope it paints a picture of what it's like to be the focus of acclamation and scandal, the good and bad of a searing spotlight, and how these experiences can bring out the best and worst in us.
'I hope it honours my family - the German and Tasmanian sides with their stories of struggle and endurance - who are the essence of the book's title. I hope it gives thanks for the love I found on the other side of the world, and the beautiful next generation Cath and I are building together.
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 'I hope above all that it honours my sister Maddie. ISBN: 9781760528201 Format: Paperback - C format 'These are the things that made me.' Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Autobiography: general The Things That Make Us is the intimate, powerful and revealing account of the life of an AFL superstar, and a classic in Bic2: the making. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Birregurra, VIC Brighton, VIC About the Author Nick Riewoldt is a former Australian Rules footballer, playing for St Kilda from 2001 to 2017, with eleven years as captain. He has won their best and fairest award a record-breaking six times and was selected five times for the All-Australian team. Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2018 The Last Crocodile Hunter Bob Irwin and Amanda French
Bob Irwin's extraordinary life as a wildlife pioneer, father to wildlife warrior Steve and founder of Australia Zoo, told in his own words.
Sales points • First edition sold over 13,000 copies across print and ebook • The life of a truly remarkable man • Will appeal to both the biography and Australiana markets • Comparable to Hell West and Crooked by Tom Cole (more than 100,000 copies sold - pre-Bookscan) • CATEGORY: Autobiography
Description 'When the world lost Steve, the animals lost the best friend they ever had, and so did I. But he's still here with me and knowing that means that I am able to gain strength from him, and harness the same passion and drive that he and I had together. There are so many people who have been inspired and are still being inspired by Steve Irwin and that makes me feel really, really proud.' - Bob Irwin
Bob Irwin grew up in the Dandenong Ranges where his passion for wildlife was born. A near-death experience while working as a plumber made Bob realise he needed to follow his dreams, so he and his wife Lyn moved their young family to Queensland where they opened a wildlife park on the Sunshine Coast.
The Irwin children grew up in and around the Beerwah Reptile & Wildlife Park, learned about the animals there from their dad and cared for orphaned wildlife at home with their mum. Passion for the environment and all animals became a way of life for them. This unique upbringing had a profound impact on Bob's son Steve, who followed in his father's footsteps and became famous around the world as the Crocodile Hunter, educator and wildlife warrior.
Bob nearly didn't survive the sudden death of his adored wife Lyn, and it was Steve who helped him face life again. When Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 the world tragically lost Steve to a freak diving accident, it wasn't just the animals that lost the best friend they ever had. ISBN: 9781760632465 Bob did too. Describing it as moving forward without a map, Bob spent many years burying himself in physical work, as a Format: Paperback - B format means to cope with the loss of his son. It was the natural world and the animals within it that helped Bob to keep going, Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 400 pages and since then he has continued to fight for his beloved Steve's legacy of protecting the wildlife, environment and planet Bic1: Biography: general on which our own survival depends. Bic2: Biography: general Illustrations: Entertaining, moving, impassioned and inspiring, The Last Crocodile Hunter shows the heart and soul of a great Previous Titles: Author now living: Robert - Wattle Camp, QLD Amanda - Australian character, father and wildlife campaigner. Scarborough, QLD About the Author BOB IRWIN Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2018 Bomber Boys Marianne van Velzen
The unknown story of a unique RAAF squadron, its men and its mission to halt the Japanese advance in the Pacific
Sales points • First format sold 7,500 • The vivid and compellingly told story of a little known RAAF squadron and the men who comprised it • The 18th Squadron was a mixed Australian/Dutch Squadron that worked together from 1942 until the end of 1945 • The Dutch were mainly pilots and crew who had escaped from Java • Focuses on the air battle against the Japanese in northern Australia, about which little to date has been published • CATEGORY: Military
Description March 1942. Java is about to fall. An Australian military dispatch rider and a Dutch air force transport pilot embark on a frightening escape from the advancing Japanese that takes them from Bandung to a crash landing just north of Darwin. Both would later join a unique band of flyers determined to strike back at the enemy.
Bomber Boys is the extraordinary and little known story of more than 100 Dutch airmen, stranded in Australia with no country to return to, who were joined by a contingent of Australians to make up the RAAF's No. 18 (Netherlands East Indies) Squadron. Formed in Canberra in April 1942, the squadron flew operational coastal patrols before eventually being relocated to the secret MacDonald Airfield, north of Pine Creek in the Northern Territory, and eventually Batchelor, near Darwin.
This is, however, more than a story about the 900 bombing raids, reconnaissance missions and attacks on Japanese shipping that the squadron flew in its three years of existence under Australian control. At its heart, is a powerful and compelling story of a group of very different men, thrown together for a common purpose, and the strange and sometimes difficult friendships they formed. Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781760528232 About the Author Format: Paperback - B format Marianne van Velzen is a Dutch journalist who lived in Australia for many years. She has a life-long interest in the Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 320 pages country. She is the author of Call of the Outback, the story of Ernestine Hill, published in 2016. Bic1: Air forces & warfare Bic2: Second World War Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Netherlands
Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2018 Mortality Christopher Hitchens
Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers.
Sales points • Sales of Hitch-22 now in excess of 20,000 copies • Sales of God is Not Great now in excess of 20,000 copies • Sales of Arguably now in excess of 10,000 copies • The first, hardcover edition sold out its 10,000 copy print run • CATEGORY: Memoirs
Description During the US book tour for his memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens collapsed in his New York hotel room to excoriating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of deeply moving Vanity Fair pieces, he was being deported 'from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady.' Until his death in 2011 he underwent the brutal gamut of modern cancer treatment, enduring catastrophic levels of suffering and eventually losing his voice.
Mortality is the most meditative piece of writing Hitchens has ever produced; at once an unsparingly honest account of the ravages of his disease, an examination of cancer bathroom etiquette, and the coda to a lifetime of fierce debate and peerless prose. In this eloquent confrontation of mortality, Hitchens returns a human face to a disease that has become a contemporary cipher of suffering.
About the Author Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011), 'one of the most prolific, and well as brilliant, journalists of our time' (Observer), was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of liberal studies at the New School in New York. The most recent of his numerous books are the international bestsellers God is Not Great, Hitch-22 and Arguably.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781760528799 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Washington DC
Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2018 No Limits Joanne Black
A fascinating biography of one of New Zealand's top entrepreneurs.
Sales points • Started Sky TV, sold it a few years back before its decline • Steve Tew, head of NZRFU, says that Craig changed the face of NZ rugby when Sky TV allowed professionalism in rugby • Foreword and endorsement by John Key • Endorsement from Murray Deaker • Huge deal being invited to be part of Augusta Golf Club, golfing devotees will love this • Speaking events
Description Craig Heatley was still at high school when he built a subdivision on the back of $200 saved from his paper round. A few years later, building a mini golf course launched a business which in 1986 saw Heatley become the youngest person to have then featured in the National Business Review's Rich List.
But it is Sky Television that was his boldest and most precarious undertaking. The fledgling company teetered in the early '90s as rugby suffered its own crisis - torn between its amateur heritage and the forces of professionalism. Heatley could see the answer. Making it happen is part of his story.
Sky is Not the Limit covers Heatley's rollercoaster ride through good times and bad, his philosophies, currency trading and how he became the first person from the southern hemisphere to be invited to join the world's most prestigious golf club, Augusta National, home of the Masters.
About the Author Joanne Black is an award-winning journalist. She currently lives in Washington DC where she is a speech writer, a
Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 freelance journalist and author of the New Zealand Listener's popular Back to Black column. ISBN: 9781760633561 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 296 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: New Zealand
A&U New Zealand AUGUST 2018 Kiwi Backyard Andrew Ellis
This beautifully illustrated backyard design book from Andy Ellis, ex-All Black, Cantabrian and part-time landscape designer, will provide lots of creative ideas for your own backyard plans.
Sales points • Perfect Father's Day present • Blokey, practical yet also including beautiful images - great for both men and women • No other NZ landscape design books out there • Andy is well-loved ex All Black and Crusader • Very popular in Canterbury • Now playing rugby in Japan, and coming back here regularly • Presented on-going backyard segment on TV One's Seven Sharp
Description Inspired by his backyard segments on TVNZ1's Seven Sharp Andy's book features some amazing gardens. It's stylish and aspirational and yet written in a friendly and relaxed manner, making it a book for anyone dreaming of making changes in their own backyard.
It features a range of gardens from Kiwi heroes like Kieran Read, Wayne Smith, Wyatt Crockett, the Whitelocks, Jason Gunn, Al Brown, Matt Watson and others. Each has a different theme, for instance the small city garden, native haven, child friendly backyard, traditional garden or the entertainer's dream. In addition there are generic plans drawn up by landscape architects Kamo Marsh that give practical ideas for creating your ideal backyard, as well as planting lists.
About the Author Andy Ellis studied landscape architecture at Lincoln university on a Rugby Scholarship. He got three years through the four-year degree when professional rugby took over. His rugby career started in 2005 playing for Canterbury, then for the Crusaders from 2006. He played 154 games for the Crusaders, winning two Super rugby titles. His All Black career began Price: AU $34.99 NZ $39.99 in 2006 and he played 28 tests, including winning the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand in 2011. ISBN: 9781760631888 Format: Paperback While playing rugby Andy and landscape architect and friend Danny Kamo worked together on an entry for the Ellerslie Dimensions: 250x200mm Extent: 272 pages Flower Show and won a gold and supreme award for their design entitled 'The Last Laugh' - nature fighting back against Bic1: Gardening unsustainable design and products. From there they were invited to the Singapore garden show, one of the big three in Bic2: Landscape gardening the world. With the help of Weta Workshop and Sir Richard Taylor they came up with a design inspired by Ruamoko, the Illustrations: God of earthquakes. They were the first New Zealanders to win a gold at this prestigious show. Previous Titles: Author now living: Harewood, Christchurch NZ Andy's landscaping degree has been put on hold while he plays rugby overseas in Japan but he loves to stay involved with landscaping and appeared in a series of segments on TVNZ1's Seven Sharp where he visited kiwi celebrities and learnt about their love and passion for their backyards, something he feels many kiwis have in common. A&U New Zealand AUGUST 2018 Notes on a Nervous Planet Matt Haig
The follow-up to the number one bestseller Reasons to Stay Alive: A vital look at how to feel happy, human and whole in the twenty-first century.
Sales points • Matt Haig will be in Australia on publication • Canongate's lead non-fiction title, from their award-winning author Matt Haig • An upbeat book about how to live well and survive in today's world • For fans of Haig's Reasons to Stay Alive, Recovery by Russell Brand, How to Be Human by Ruby Wax and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari • Reasons to Stay Alive sold over 325,000 copies, spent 46 weeks in the Sunday Times Top 10 and was second overall bestseller in the 2016 Paperback Non-Fiction Top 10 in the UK • Haig's latest novel, How to Stop Time was a Sunday Times bestseller in hardback and paperback, sold rights in 33 territories and was optioned for film by SunnyMarch with Benedict Cumberbatch attached to star
Description The world is messing with our minds. Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is creating fast and nervous lives. We are more connected, yet feel more alone. And we are encouraged to worry about everything from world politics to our body mass index.
- How can we stay sane on a planet that makes us mad? - How do we stay human in a technological world? - How do we feel happy when we are encouraged to be anxious?
After experiencing years of anxiety and panic attacks, these questions became urgent matters of life and death for Matt Haig. And he began to look for the link between what he felt and the world around him.
Price: AU $27.99 NZ $29.99 Notes on a Nervous Planet is a personal and vital look at how to feel happy, human and whole in the 21st century. ISBN: 9781786892676 Format: Hard Cover About the Author Dimensions: 178x129mm Extent: 320 pages Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and six highly acclaimed novels for adults, Bic1: Prose: non-fiction including How to Stop Time, The Humans and The Radleys. As a writer for children and young adults he has won the Bic2: Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has Illustrations: been translated into over forty languages. Previous Titles: Author now living: @matthaig1 | matthaig.com
Canongate Trade AUGUST 2018 Notes on a Nervous Planet 10 copy pack
Includes 10 copies of Notes on a Nervous Planet, plus free reading copy.
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Canongate Trade AUGUST 2018 Reasons to Stay Alive Matt Haig
A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive.
Sales points • Reissued to coincide with Matt Haig's new book Notes on a Nervous Planet/i> • Reasons to Stay Alive has been a massive bestseller • An upbeat book about how to live well and how to survive depression and anxiety • For fans of Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson and The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry • Matt has a dedicated and growing Twitter following (over 70k) • His novels i>The Radleys, The Humans and How to Stop Time have achieved critical and commercial success
Description What does it mean to feel truly alive?
Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again.
A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, Reasons to Stay Alive is more than a memoir. It is a book about making the most of your time on earth.
I wrote this book because the oldest cliches remain the truest. Time heals. The bottom of the valley never provides the clearest view. The tunnel does have light at the end of it, even if we haven't been able to see it . . . Words, just sometimes, really can set you free.
About the Author Matt Haig is the bestselling author of five novels, including The Humans, The Radleys and The Last Family in England.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 He has also written award-winning children's books. His work has been translated into 30 languages. He grew up in ISBN: 9781782116820 Nottinghamshire and now lives in Brighton. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 178x129mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Self-help & personal development Bic2: Self-help & personal development Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUGUST 2018 How Not To Be a Boy Robert Webb
The number one Sunday Times bestseller - Peep Show's Robert Webb's part-memoir, part call-to-arms.
Sales points • 'Quite simply brilliant. I (genuinely) cried. I (genuinely) laughed out loud. It's profound, touching, personal yet universal ... I loved it' - J.K. Rowling • • 'Takes us deftly from hilarity to heart-stopping hurt ... A truly great read, full of heart' - Dawn French • • 'With enormous poignancy and insight ... Webb's early portrait of himself as a hapless underdog navigating the boulder-strewn path of masculinity is vividly drawn and very funny ... Echoes of Adrian Mole' - Guardian • 'Frank and compelling ... Laugh-out-loud funny ... also, in parts, blink-back-tears sad. Why would I blink back tears rather than give full rein to the emotion? Well, Webb can explain' - Mail on Sunday • 'A brilliant telling of a sad story, it is also a manifesto for a change in attitudes ... I laughed innumerable times and cried twice ... You should give a copy to any young male you care about *****' - Sunday Express • • 'A witty, honest coming-of-age story with a subtext that tackles masculinity and manhood. Webb has a storytelling skill many would kill for' - Ian Rankin • • 'Simply brilliant' - Joanna Lumley • • 'A much-needed contribution to the vital conversation about the damage gender can do' - Juno Dawson
Description Robert Webb tried to follow the rules for being a man: Don't cry Drink beer
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 Play rough ISBN: 9781786890115 Don't talk about feelings Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Looking back over his life, from schoolboy crushes (on girls and boys) to discovering the power of making people laugh Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Memoirs (in the Cambridge Footlights with David Mitchell), and from losing his beloved mother to becoming a husband and father, Bic2: Robert Webb considers the absurd expectations boys and men have thrust upon them at every stage of life. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Hilarious and heartbreaking, How Not To Be a Boy explores the relationships that made Robert who he is as a man, the lessons we learn as sons and daughters, and the understanding that sometimes you aren't the Luke Skywalker of your life - you're actually Darth Vader.
About the Author Canongate PBS AUGUST 2018 Stealing the Show Joy Press
The definitive cultural history of female showrunners, starting with Roseanne Barr in the 1980s to contemporary icons such as Lena Dunham. Amy Schumer, and Tina Fey.
Sales points • Available May 2018 • Shows us how strategic advocating for women in writers' rooms, in producing discussions, and behind the camera as directors led to an inspiring new era for television drama • Women have been able to make their names in what has been an often misogynistic and myopic industry • The essential companion to what has become a game-changer in our culture • Exhaustively researched and featuring insightful commentary and interviews from the key players
Description In recent years, the television landscape has seen the glorious rise of women to key positions of power within the industry, from writers to producers to directors. Successes like Shonda Rhimes's Holy Trinity of shows as a producer - Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder - and critical darlings like Lena Dunham's Girls, Jill Soloway's Transparent and Jenji Kohan's Orange Is the New Black have heralded a revolution and inspired women creators to put their smartest and boldest art onto screens everywhere.
But this wasn't always the case. The story of how women were able to make their names in an often misogynistic and myopic industry is a decades-long journey full of challenges, hard work, heartbreak, and determination.
Starting with Roseanne Barr and Diane English with their now iconic shows, Roseanne and Murphy Brown respectively, Press shows us how strategic advocating for women in writers' rooms, in producing discussions, and behind the camera as directors led to an inspiring new era for television drama.
Exhaustively researched and featuring insightful commentary and interviews from the key players involved, this book is Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 the essential companion to what has become a game-changer in our culture. ISBN: 9780571342440 Format: Paperback - C format About the Author Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages Joy Press has been writing about popular culture for twenty years and specifically about television for more than a dozen Bic1: Film, TV & radio years. In the early 2000s, she was the chief television critic at The Village Voice, where she wrote weekly reviews and Bic2: features from a perspective that combined feminism and fandom. She then served as entertainment editor of Salon and Illustrations: most recently was a TV editor at the Los Angeles Times, where in addition to commissioning coverage of the latest Previous Titles: Author now living: series, she wrote features and essays on the medium. She has contributed to publications including The New York Times, Slate, Vogue, the Guardian, and Salon. She lives in Los Angeles.
Faber Film AUGUST 2018 An Excellent Choice Emma Brockes
From the author of She Left Me The Gun, an explosive and hilarious memoir about the exceptional and life- changing decision to conceive a child on one's own via assisted reproduction.
Sales points • She Left Me The Gun received incredible reviews around the world • Sure to make headlines on publication, with lead interviews and features across international media
Description When British journalist, memoirist, and New York-transplant Emma Brockes decides to become pregnant, she quickly realises that, being single, 37, and in the early stages of a same-sex relationship, she's going to have to be untraditional about it. From the moment she decides to stop ""futzing"" around, have her eggs counted, and ""get cracking""; through multiple trials of IUI, which she is intrigued to learn can be purchased in bulk packages, just like Costco; to the births of her twins, which her girlfriend gamely documents with her iPhone and selfie-stick, Brockes is never any less than bluntly honest about her extraordinary journey to motherhood.
She quizzes her friends on the pros and cons of personally knowing one's sperm donor, grapples with esoteric medical jargon and the existential brain-melt of flipping through donor catalogues and conjures with the politics of her Libertarian OB/GYN-all the while exploring the cultural circumstances and choices that have brought her to this point. Brockes writes with charming self-effacing humour about being a British woman undergoing fertility treatment in the US, poking fun at the starkly different attitude of Americans. Anxious that biological children might not be possible, she wonders, should she resent society for how it regards and treats women who try and fail to have children?
Brockes deftly uses her own story to examine how and why an increasing number of women are using fertility treatments in order to become parents-and are doing it solo. Bringing the reader every step of the way with mordant wit and remarkable candour, Brockes shares the frustrations, embarrassments, surprises, and, finally, joys of her momentous and excellent choice. Price: AU $35.00 NZ $39.99 ISBN: 9780571327461 About the Author Format: Hard Cover Emma Brockes is an award-winning journalist who writes for the Guardian's Weekend magazine and whose articles have Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages appeared in the New York Times and the New Yorker. Her last book, She Left Me The Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me, Bic1: Biography: general was serialized on BBC Radio 4. She lives in New York. Bic2: Memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Non Fiction AUGUST 2018 The Grip of Film Richard Ayoade
Richard Ayoade edits and annotates the meditations on film by that master of the medium, Gordy LaSure.
Sales points • Now in paperback • Richard Ayoade is best-know for the Emmy Award-winning The IT Crowd, for which he was awarded a BAFTA for Best Performance in a Comedy, and for the TV series Travel Man which screens on SBS TV in Australia
Description Gordy LaSure's passionate about film. He eats film, he drinks film, and sometimes he'll even watch a film. But most of all he loves talking to people about film: whether a comely student with low confidence and a father complex, a Studio 'development' exec who doesn't trust his own judgement, or the countless people Gordy LaSure's encountered in his capacity as the web moderator on an Excessive Sweating Discussion Forum. Gordy LaSure's alwaystalking about films and how they'd be a shit ton better if only people would pull their asses out of their ears and listen to Gordy LaSure.
The voyage of this book can be categorised as an attempt to understand How In Hell Film Works. Why are some films bad, and some films terrible?How come just a handful of films (Titanic, Porky's, Dirty Harry) areany good at all? Gordy'll tell you How and Why, and he'll give you a slug of Wherefore on the side. And he doesn't shoot from the hip; he shoots from the gut.
About the Author Richard Ayoade is a writer and director. In addition to directing and co-writing Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, he has adapted and directed Joe Dunthorne's novel Submarine for the screen, and is the co-writer (with Avi Korine) and director of the film, The Double. As an actor he is best known for his roles as Dean Learner in Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, as Maurice Moss in the Emmy Award-winning The IT Crowd, for which he was awarded a BAFTA for Best Performance in a Comedy, and for his TV series Travel Man which screens on SBS TV in Australia.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9780571316564 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Films, cinema Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback AUGUST 2018 I May Be Some Time Francis Spufford
A new edition of the classic study of the expeditions to the South Pole, and why we are so fascinated with exploring vast, empty, and extreme landscapes.
Sales points • Francis Spufford has received huge recognition for his Costa Award-winning novel Golden Hill • I May Be Some Time won the Writers' Guild Non-Fiction Book of the Year
Description When Captain Scott died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole, his story became a myth embedded in the national imagination. Everyone remembers the doomed Captain Oates's last words: 'I'm just going outside, and I may be some time.' Francis Spufford's celebrated and prize-winning history shows how Scott's death was the culmination of a national enchantment with vast empty spaces, the beauty of untrodden snow, and perilous journeys to the end of the earth.
About the Author Francis Spufford, a former Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year (1997), has edited two acclaimed literary anthologies and a collection of essays about the history of technology. His first book, I May Be Some Time, won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of 1996, the Banff Mountain Book Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award. His second, The Child That Books Built, gave Neil Gaiman 'the peculiar feeling that there was now a book I didn't need to write'. His third, Backroom Boys, was called 'as nearly perfect as makes no difference' by the Daily Telegraph and was shortlisted for the Aventis Prize. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He teaches writing at Goldsmiths College and lives near Cambridge.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9780571346783 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 Bic2: General & world history Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback AUGUST 2018 Puzzle Ninja Alex Bellos
Pit your wits against the people who created Sudoku: the puzzle masters of Japan.
Sales points • The ideal gift for Suduko addicts and crossword enthusiasts • Think of this as Marie Kondo for the brain - logical and tidy brain is a happy brain • Alex Bellos writes a very popular puzzle column in the Guardian and Can You Solve My Problems was a bestseller • The puzzles are organised by relatively simple to the utterly fiendish so there should be something for everyone to enjoy
Description From the Guardian's very own puzzle master, Puzzle Ninja is a new collection following the bestselling Can You Solve My Problems?
The puzzle masters of Japan create the world's most satisfying puzzles. Each has a distinctive style but what unites them is their megawatt brains and the beauty of their hand-crafted puzzles, which will challenge and sharpen the mind. Alex Bellos has collected over 200 of their most ingenious puzzles, rated easy to excruciating, and introduces over twenty new types of addictive problems to solve.
Can you beat the puzzle masters to become a puzzle ninja?
About the Author Alex Bellos is brilliant on all things mathematical. He has a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from Oxford. His bestselling, award-winning books Alex's Adventures in Numberland, Alex Through the Looking-Glass and Can You Solve My Problems? have won awards and been translated into more than 20 languages. He is the co-author of two mathematical colouring books and the children's series Football School. His YouTube videos have been seen by more than 20 million people. He writes a popular maths blog and a puzzle blog for the Guardian.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781783351374 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Hobbies, quizzes & games Bic2: Puzzles & quizzes Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Guardian Books AUGUST 2018 The Future is History Masha Gessen
The sweeping, revelatory history of post-Soviet Russia from the great dissident exile.
Sales points • Now in paperback • 'A fascinating account ... Gessen tracks the toxic legacy of the Soviet era and the ways it has infiltrated and undermined hopes for a liberal, democratic, law-bound Russia.' - The Guardian • Masha Gessen is a regular visitor to Australia and our media is always very keen to talk to her • In 2018 Masha is a guest at Sydney Writers' Festival in May and will also be back in Melbourne in August
Description In The Future is History Masha Gessen follows the lives of four Russians, born as the Soviet Union crumbled, at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children or grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own - as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers and writers, sexual and social beings. Gessen charts their paths not only against the machinations of the regime that would seek to crush them all (censorship, intimidation, violence) but also against the war it waged on understanding itself, ensuring the unobstructed emergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today's terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state.
The Future is History is a powerful and urgent cautionary tale by contemporary Russia's most fearless inquisitor.
About the Author Masha Gessen is a journalist and the author of several books including Blood Matters and The Man Without a Face, which was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2012. She has contributed to the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker. She has been described as Russia's leading LGBT rights activist, and served as a member of the board of directors for the Moscow-based LGBT rights organization ""Triangle"" from 1993 to 1998. She lives in New York.
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9781783784028 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 528 pages Bic1: Reportage & collected journalism Bic2: Politics & government Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta Paperbacks AUGUST 2018 The Written World Martin Puchner
The true story of literature -- of how writing changed civilizations, cultures and the history of the world.
Sales points • New in paperback • Through vivid storytelling and across a huge sweep of time, The Written World offers a new and enticing perspective on human history
Description From clay tablets to the printing press. From the pencil to the internet. From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. This is the true story of literature - of how great texts and technologies have shaped cultures and civilizations and altered human history.
The inventions of paper, the printing press and the world wide web are usually considered the major influences on the way we share stories. Less well known is the influence of Greek generals, Japanese court ladies, Spanish adventurers, Malian singers and American astronauts, and yet all of them played a crucial role in shaping and spreading literature as we know it today.
The Written World tells the captivating story of the development of literature, where stories intersect with writing technologies like clay, stone, parchment, paper, printing presses and computers. Central to the development of religions, political movements and even nations, texts spread useful truths and frightening disinformation, and have the power to change lives. Through vivid storytelling and across a huge sweep of time, The Written World offers a new and enticing perspective on human history.
About the Author
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 Martin Puchner holds the Byron and Anita Wien Chair in Drama, English and Comparative Literature at Harvard ISBN: 9781783783144 University. He has published over a dozen books, collections, and anthologies, and is the general editor of the six volume Format: Paperback - B format Norton Anthology of World Literature, used by students worldwide. He has written for the London Review of Books, Dimensions: 198x129mm Raritan Review, Bookforum and N+1. Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Palaeography (history of writing) Bic2: History Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta Paperbacks AUGUST 2018 Granta 144 Sigrid Rausing
Published in book form four times a year, Granta is respected around the world for its mix of outstanding new fiction, poetry, reportage, memoir, photography and art.
Sales points • Available 15 August 2018 • This issue is about gender: about what it means to be born a woman, and to become a woman • It's about patriarchy, feminist values and all the ways in which our culture is creakily changing • It's about empowerment, activism and wit
Description The path to radical social change is never smooth - there are many questions to address. Who runs the discourse; who is excluded, and why? Is #metoo a flash in the pan? Will there be a backlash, and what might that look like? And most importantly, how do we ensure that this debate produces substantive change?
This issue of Granta is about gender: about what it means to be born a woman, and to become a woman. It's about patriarchy, feminist values and all the ways in which our culture is creakily changing. It's about empowerment, activism and wit.
About the Author Sigrid Rausing is Editor and Publisher of Granta magazine and Publisher of Granta and Portobello Books. She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm and Everything is Wonderful, which has been translated into four different languages.
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9781909889170 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 210x145mm Extent: pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta AUGUST 2018 Buzz Thor Hanson
A superb natural and cultural history of bees - the only such book to celebrate their full diversity.
Sales points • Available in trade paperback, only in ANZ • As informative and enchanting as the waggle dance of a honeybee, Buzz shows us why all bees are wonders to celebrate and protect • Bees are like oxygen: ubiquitous, essential, and, for the most part, unseen • While we might overlook them, they lie at the heart of relationships that bind the human and natural worlds
Description In Buzz, the award-winning author of Feathers and The Triumph of Seeds takes us on a journey that begins 125 million years ago, when a wasp first dared to feed pollen to its young.
From honeybees and bumbles to lesser-known diggers, miners, leafcutters, and masons, bees have long been central to our harvests, our mythologies, and our very existence. They've given us sweetness and light, the beauty of flowers, and as much as a third of the foodstuffs we eat. And, alarmingly, they are at risk of disappearing.
As informative and enchanting as the waggle dance of a honeybee, Buzz shows us why all bees are wonders to celebrate and protect. Read this book and you'll never overlook them again.
About the Author Thor Hanson is a biologist whose research and conservation activities have taken him around the globe. His previous books include The Impenetrable Forest, Feathers (longlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize), and The Triumph of Seeds. He has appeared on BBC Radio 4 and contributed to publications including BBC Wildlife and the Huffington Post. He lives
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 on an island in the Pacific Northwest, USA. ISBN: 9781785784422 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Natural history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon AUGUST 2018 The Big Ones Lucy Jones
A riveting history of natural disasters, their impact on our culture, and new ways of thinking about the ones to come.
Sales points • More than just history or science, The Big Ones is a call to action: natural hazards are inevitable; human catastrophes are not • 'A timely and essential remembrance of how natural disasters have changed the world in dramatic ways. Lucy Jones is a first-rate storyteller and fine researcher.' - Douglas Brinkley, author of The Great Deluge • 'Nobody does a better job of explaining the science of disasters and the psychology of humans than Lucy Jones. This book is priceless - both as a history and a prophecy.' - Amanda Ripley, author of The Unthinkable
Description When the forces that give our planet life exceed our ability to withstand them, they become disasters. Together they have shaped our cities and architecture, elevated leaders and toppled governments, influenced the way we think, feel, fight, unite and pray. The history of natural disasters is a history of ourselves.
The Big Ones investigates some of the most impactful natural disasters, and how their reverberations are still felt today. From a volcanic eruption in Pompeii challenging and reinforcing prevailing views of religion, through the California floods of 1862 and the limitations of memory, to what Hurricane Katrina and the 2004 tsunami can tell us about governance and globalisation. With temperatures rising around the world, natural disasters are striking with ever greater frequency.
More than just history or science, The Big Ones is a call to action. Natural hazards are inevitable; human catastrophes are not. With this energising and richly- researched book, Jones offers a look at our past, readying us to face down the Big Ones in our future.
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781785784361 Dr Lucy Jones is a world-renowned seismologist. A research associate at Caltech, she holds a PhD in geophysics from Format: Paperback - Demy format MIT. For decades, she has provided scientific information to the public, and has appeared on every major network's Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 256 pages Nightly News Broadcast as well as every major morning television show, Conan and Larry King Now, among others. She Bic1: Natural disasters lives in Southern California. Bic2: The environment Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon AUGUST 2018 Black Sunset Clancy Sigal
The riveting, poignant, star-studded and hilarious memoir of award-winning author Clancy Sigal's time as a film agent on the make in Blacklist-era Hollywood.
Sales points • Hilarious, touching, intimate and revealing: Sigal's memoir reads like a forgotten hardboiled detective novel and has all the makings of an instant classic • Clancy Sigal co-wrote with his wife, the Oscar-winning 2002 Salma Hayek movie Frida
Description For me it begins in such an ordinary way ... with a gorilla, a blonde, and a gun ...
Mid- 20th century Hollywood; 'Raymond Chandler's LA before Pilates and cell phones'. Clancy Sigal (who would later be the inspiration for Doris Lessing's 'Saul Green') is just back from fighting in the Second World War and an abortive solo attempt to assassinate Hermann Goering at the Nurenburg trials.
Charming his way into a job as an agent with the Sam Jaffe agency, Sigal plunges into a chaotic Hollywood peopled by fast women, washed-up screenwriters, wily directors, and starstruck FBI agents trailing 'subversives'. He parties with the likes of Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Tony Curtis and an anxious Peter Lorre, who becomes a drinking buddy.
But this is the era of the Hollywood Blacklist and Sigal, like many of his contemporaries, is subpoenaed to testify before the HUAC. Will he give up the list of nine names, burning a hole in his pocket, to save his own skin?
Hilarious, touching, intimate and revealing: Sigal's memoir reads like a forgotten hardboiled detective novel and has all the makings of an instant classic.
About the Author Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 Clancy Sigal's parents were both union organizers, and he was largely raised solely by his mother, Jennie, After a stint in ISBN: 9781785784392 the army Sigal was a union organiser in Detroit, then a talent agent in Hollywood. Escaping the Macarthyite witch-hunts, Format: Paperback - B format he emigrated to Great Britain, where he met and commenced a four-year affair with the writer Doris Lessing. He returned Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 250 pages to the US, married, and with his wife co-wrote the Oscar-winning 2002 Salma Hayek movie Frida. He died in 2017. Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Biography: arts & entertainment Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon AUGUST 2018 The Cryotron Files Douglas Buck, Iain Dey
The true life story of Dudley Buck, an American Cold War hero whose pioneering work with computer chips placed him firmly in the sights of the KGB.
Sales points • A fascinating narrative history of Cold War era computer and tech research, combining social historical elements to produce a brilliant portrait of America in the mid-20th century
Description Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefited from them greatly, had he not died aged 32 of a mysterious heart attack, just after a high-profile group of Soviet scientists visited his lab on a cold war-era tour of the USA.
Buck was not the only scientist to expire that day - his colleague Dr Ridenour, chief scientist at Lockheed, also died of an unexplained heart attack. Both deaths are consistent with KGB contact-poison hits.
Recently discovered papers reveal Buck's extensive career in clandestine government work, that had led to his contact with Russia's top computer scientists. His work was filed away and rediscovered in the 1980s when it was used in research projects by NASA.
A fascinating narrative history of Cold War era computer and tech research, combining social historical elements to produce a brilliant portrait of America in the mid-20th century.
About the Author Iain Dey is a Sunday Times correspondent who was named UK Business Journalist of the Year in 2010. This is his first full-length book. Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9781785784347 Douglas Buck is the son of Dudley Buck, and has had privileged access to his father's diaries, associates and papers. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Biography: historical, political & military Bic2: Biography: science, technology & medicine Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon AUGUST 2018 Quantum Economics David Orrell
The emerging science of quantum economics can help us create a 'real-world' economics that actually works for us all.
Sales points • A profoundly important book revealing that quantum economics is to neoclassical economics what quantum physics is to classical physics • Heralds a genuine turning point in our understanding
Description A decade after the financial crisis, there is a growing consensus that economics has failed and needs to go back to the drawing board. David Orrell argues that it has been trying to solve the wrong problem all along.
Economics sees itself as the science of scarcity. Instead, it should be the science of money (which plays a surprisingly small role in mainstream theory). And money is a substance that turns out to have a quantum nature of its own.
Just as physicists learn about matter by studying the exchange of particles at the subatomic level, so economics should begin by analysing the nature of money-based transactions. Quantum Economics therefore starts with the meaning of the phrase 'how much' - or, to use the Latin word, quantum.
From quantum physics to the dualistic properties of money, via the emerging areas of quantum finance and quantum cognition, this profoundly important book reveals that quantum economics is to neoclassical economics what quantum physics is to classical physics - a genuine turning point in our understanding.
About the Author David Orrell is a scientist and writer of books on science and economics. According to the Sunday Times 'Orrell is an engaging and witty writer, adept at explaining often complicated theories in clear language.' His latest books are The Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Money Formula: Dodgy Finance, Pseudo Science and How Mathematicians Took Over the Markets, written with Paul ISBN: 9781785783999 Wilmott; and Economyths: 11 Ways Economics Gets It Wrong (Icon Books, 2017). Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Economics Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon AUGUST 2018 The Graphene Revolution Brian Clegg
Welcome to the wonderful world of graphene, the thinnest substance known to science.
Sales points • Get ready for the graphene revolution • Ultra-thin materials give us the next big step forward since the transistor revolutionised electronics • Graphene is far stronger than steel, a far better conductor than any metal, and able to act as a molecular sieve to purify water • Using graphene it will be possible to build electronics into clothing, produce solar cells to fit any surface, or even create invisible temporary tattoos that monitor your health
Description In 2003, Russian physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov found a way to produce graphene - the thinnest substance in the world - by using sticky tape to separate an atom-thick layer from a block of graphite.
Their efforts would win the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics, and now the applications of graphene and other 'two- dimensional' substances form a worldwide industry.
Graphene is far stronger than steel, a far better conductor than any metal, and able to act as a molecular sieve to purify water. Electronic components made from graphene are a fraction of the size of silicon microchips and can be both flexible and transparent, making it possible to build electronics into clothing, produce solar cells to fit any surface, or even create invisible temporary tattoos that monitor your health.
Ultra-thin materials give us the next big step forward since the transistor revolutionised electronics. Get ready for the graphene revolution.
About the Author
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 Brian Clegg's most recent books are The Reality Frame (Icon, 2017) and What Colour is the Sun? (Icon, 2016). His Dice ISBN: 9781785783760 World and A Brief History of Infinity were both longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. He has also Format: Paperback - B format authored Big Data and Gravitational Waves for the Hot Science series, and has written for Nature, BBC Focus, Physics Dimensions: 198x129mm World, The Times and The Observer. Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Popular science Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon AUGUST 2018 Rooms with a View Adrian Mourby
Incredible, startling and often hilarious tales from the world's best hotels - now in paperback.
Sales points • From the author of Rooms of One's Own - a distinguished travel writer • Stories from hotels across the globe - from Morecambe Bay to Singapore
Description Salvador Dali once asked room service at Le Meurice in Paris to send him up a flock of sheep. When they were brought to his room he pulled out a gun and fired blanks at them. George Bernard Shaw tried to learn the tango at Reid's Palace in Madeira, and the details of India's independence were worked out in the ballroom of the Imperial Hotel, Delhi.
The world's grandest hotels have provided glamorous backgrounds for some of the most momentous - and most bizarre - events in history.
Adrian Mourby is a distinguished hotel historian and travel journalist - and a lover of great hotels. Here he tells the stories of 50 of the world's most magnificent, among them the Adlon in Berlin, the Hotel de Russie in Rome, the Continental in Saigon, Raffles in Singapore, the Dorchester in London, Pera Palace in Istanbul and New York's Plaza, as well as some lesser known grand hotels like the Bristol in Warsaw, the Londra Palace in Venice and the Midland in Morecambe Bay.
All human life is to be found in a great hotel, only in a more entertaining form.
About the Author Adrian Mourby was an award-winning BBC drama producer before turning to full-time writing. He has published three novels, two AA travel guides, a book based on his Sony Award-winning Radio 4 series Whatever Happened To...?, as well as the companion volume to this book, Rooms of One's Own: 50 Places that Made Literary History. In recent years Adrian has won two Italian awards for his travel journalism. He also writes extensively on opera, has produced works by
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 Mozart, Handel and Purcell and leads cultural tours worldwide. ISBN: 9781785784019 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides Bic2: True stories Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon AUGUST 2018 The Persecution of the Templars Alain Demurger
A striking account of the relentless persecution, and the oft-underestimated resistance, of the once-mighty Knights Templar.
Sales points • Readers have an insatiable appetite for titles on the Templars and the Crusades • The Persecution of the Templars is perfect for this market • A classic tragedy, and a terrific story: excellent, controversial history
Description The trial of the Knights Templar is one of the most infamous in history. Accused of heresy by the king of France, the Templars were arrested and imprisoned, had their goods seized and their monasteries ransacked. Under brutal interrogation and torture, many made shocking confessions: denial of Christ, desecration of the Cross, sex acts and more.
This book follows the everyday reality of the trial, from the early days of scandal and scheming in 1305, via torture, imprisonment and the dissolution of the order, to 1314, when leaders Jacques de Molay and Geoffroy de Charnay were burned at the stake. Through first-hand testimony and written records of the interrogations of 231 French Templars, this book illuminates the stories of hundreds of ordinary members, some of whom testified at the trial, as well as the many others who denied the charges or retracted their confessions.
A deeply researched and immersive account that gives a striking vision of the relentless persecution, and the oft- underestimated resistance, of the once-mighty Knights Templar.
About the Author Alain Demurger is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Paris, and France's foremost specialist in the history of the Crusades and the Military Orders. His books on the subject have become required reading, including The Last Templar, published by Profile [9781861975539] and translated into a dozen languages. Price: AU $49.99 NZ $55.00 ISBN: 9781781257852 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Medieval history Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUGUST 2018 Lying for Money Dan Davies
Understand financial crime and you understand the world. Here's how.
Sales points • Reveals the simple patterns that underlie even the most complicated financial scandals • Blends hard-won street smarts with philosophical depth and mordant humour • Will appeal to fans of Michael Lewis and John Kay
Description Financial crime seems horribly complicated but there are only so many ways you can con someone out of what's theirs. In fact, there are four. A veteran regulatory economist and market analyst, Dan Davies has years of experience picking the bones out of some of the most famous frauds of the modern age. Now he reveals the big picture that emerges from their labyrinths of deceit.
Along the way you'll find out how to fake a gold mine with a wedding ring, a file and a shotgun. You'll see how close Charles Ponzi, the king of pyramid schemes, came to acquiring his own private navy. You'll learn how fraud has shaped the entire development of the modern world economy. And you'll discover whether you have what it takes to be a white- collar criminal mastermind, if that's what you want to be. (Which you don't. You really, really don't.)
About the Author Dan Davies is a former regulatory economist at the Bank of England and analyst for a number of investment banks. His career has seen him tackle all manner of financial crookedness, including the LIBOR and FX scandals, the collapse of Anglo Irish Bank and the Swiss Nazi gold scandal. He has written for the Financial Times and the New Yorker among other publications.
Price: AU $35.00 NZ $39.99 ISBN: 9781781259658 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Economic theory & philosophy Bic2: Finance & accounting Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUGUST 2018 Conan Doyle for the Defence Margalit Fox
Arthur and George meets The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: how the creator of Sherlock Holmes overturned one of the great miscarriages of justice.
Sales points • The Sherlock TV series has introduced millions to the genius of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: fans who will want to know the true story of a brilliant investigation by the world's most famous detective story writer • Based entirely on contemporary sources, and full of period detail, sheds light on the shadiest sides of Edwardian England • A brilliant narrative and astonishing piece of detective work in itself - even reveals the identity of the real murderer
Description Just before Christmas 1908, Marion Gilchrist, a wealthy 82-year-old spinster, was found bludgeoned to death in her Glasgow home. A valuable diamond brooch was missing, and police soon fastened on a suspect - Oscar Slater, a Jewish immigrant who was rumoured to have a disreputable character. Slater had an alibi, but was nonetheless convicted and sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment in the notorious Peterhead Prison.
Seventeen years later, a convict called William Gordon was released from Peterhead. Concealed in a false tooth was a message, addressed to the only man Slater thought could help him - Arthur Conan Doyle. Always a champion of the downtrodden, Conan Doyle turned his formidable talents to freeing Slater, deploying a forensic mind worthy of Sherlock Holmes.
Drawing from original sources including Oscar Slater's prison letters, this is Margalit Fox's vivid and compelling account of one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in Scottish history.
About the Author Margalit Fox is an American writer for The New York Times, and other publications. Her previous books include Riddle of Price: AU $35.00 NZ $39.99 the Labyrinth (Profile 2013). ISBN: 9781781253564 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: True crime Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUGUST 2018 The Art of Logic Eugenia Cheng
A survival guide for our post-truth world using the timeless methods of logic, from a Royal Society Prize shortlisted mathematician.
Sales points • Cheng is a brilliant populiser of maths • In The Art of Logic she turns her skills to a subject with broad appeal: what lessons can we take from maths to help us navigate the modern world? • Cheng is a media dream, beloved by radio, press and TV alike - she's been profiled in the Guardian and New York Times, has appeared on Radio 3, 4 and 5, and had a cameo on CBS staple The Late Show alongside Stephen Colbert • Like Jordan Ellenberg's bestselling How Not To Be Wrong, this is a witty, illuminating guide to the world that uses maths to expand our minds
Description Emotions are powerful. In newspaper headlines and on social media, they have become the primary way of understanding the world. But strong feelings make it more difficult to see the reality behind the rhetoric. In The Art of Logic, Eugenia Cheng shows how mathematical logic can help us see things more clearly - and know when politicians and companies are trying to mislead us.
First Cheng explains how to use black-and-white logic to illuminate the world around us, giving us new insight into thorny political questions like public healthcare, Black Lives Matter and Brexit. Then she explains how logic and emotions, used side-by-side, can help us not only to be more rational individuals, but also to live more thoughtfully.
Clear-sighted, revelatory and filled with useful real-life examples of logic and illogic at work, The Art of Logic is an essential guide to decoding modern life.
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781788160384 Eugenia Cheng is Honorary Fellow in Pure Mathematics at the University of Sheffield and Scientist in Residence at the Format: Paperback - Demy format School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was educated at the University of Cambridge and did post-doctoral work at the Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 336 pages Universities of Cambridge, Chicago and Nice. Since 2007 her YouTube lectures and videos have been viewed over a Bic1: Popular science million times. A concert pianist, she also speaks French, English and Cantonese, and her mission in life is to rid the world Bic2: Mathematical logic of maths phobia. She is the author of How to Bake Pi and Beyond Infinity, which was shortlisted for the 2017 Royal Illustrations: Society Science Book Prize. Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUGUST 2018 Feminism Deborah Cameron
A short, authoritative and lively introduction to feminism.
Sales points • Part of the successful Ideas in Profile series - over 20,000 copies sold • Well-connected author who has a successful blog and connections with a young, hip generation of feminists like Carolina Crialdo-Perez • Author is hugely authoritative and has been writing and researching the topic for decades • She has a very prestigious post at Oxford
Description 'Feminism' wrote Marie Shear in 1986, 'is the radical notion that women are people'. But, simple and powerful though this definition is, feminism is not a single, clear narrative. It doesn't begin with a specific event at a particular moment in time, it can't be identified with any one political organisation or movement, and it isn't defined by the contributions of a handful of great thinkers.
Here, Professor Deborah Cameron unpicks the various strands that constitute one of history's most important intellectual and political movements. In her clear and incisive account, she discusses oppression, sexuality, violence, academic theory and practical activism, shows how feminism can be a way of viewing the world and provides an overview of its history.
In an era of #metoo, pay gap scandals and online harassment, it's impossible to deny that gender inequality is a fact of life. And as long as that continues to be true, we will need to understand and engage with the ideas and history of the feminist movement.
About the Author Deborah Cameron is the Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication at Worcester College, Oxford. Find
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 her on Twitter @wordspinster or on her blog at www.debuk.wordpress.com ISBN: 9781781258378 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Feminism & feminist theory Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUGUST 2018 Get a Life Vivienne Westwood
Fashion designer, political activist, national icon: Vivienne Westwood sets down her unique vision of the world in her blog, Get A Life. Here's the cream of the cream from six years of troublemaking.
Sales points • Reissued for the 2018 release of the feature documentary, Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist, screening at Sydney Film Festival in June • Vivienne Westwood is news - turning up at David Cameron's house in a tank to denounce fracking one week, launching a new Milan collection the next • Vivienne Westwood celebrated her 77th birthday on April 8th 2018 • A stunning production illustrated with her own selection of images
Description Vivienne Westwood began Get A Life, her online diary, in 2010 with an impassioned post about Native American activist Leonard Peltier. Since then, she has written two or three entries each month, discussing her life in fashion and her involvement with art, politics and the environment.
Reading Vivienne's thoughts, in her own words, is as fascinating and provocative as you would expect from Britain's punk dame - a woman who always says exactly what she believes. And what a life! One week, you might find Vivienne up the Amazon, highlighting tribal communities' struggles to maintain the rainforest; another might see her visiting Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy, or driving up to David Cameron's house in the Cotswolds in a full-on tank. Then again, Vivienne might be hanging out with her friend Pamela Anderson, or in India for Naomi Campbell's birthday party, or watching Black Sabbath in Hyde Park with Sharon Osbourne.
The beauty of Vivienne Westwood's diary is that it is so fresh and unpredictable. In book form, generously illustrated with her own selection of images, it is irresistible.
Price: AU $34.99 NZ $39.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781781254981 Dame Vivienne Westwood is one of the icons of our age: fashion designer, activist, co-creator of punk, global brand and Format: Hard Cover grandmother. Her career has successfully spanned five decades and her work has influenced millions across the world. Dimensions: 224x144mm Extent: 479 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Serpents Tail AUGUST 2018 The Rise of Rome Kathryn Lomas
A fresh, original account of the origins and rise of the ancient world's greatest imperial power.
Sales points • Now in paperback, this is the impressive second volume in the wide-ranging Profile History of the Ancient World series • Answers an important and oft-overlooked question: why Rome? • Sets the rise of Rome in the context of Italy and the wider world • This is the first account of the period written for the general public, and will appeal to scholar and amateur alike
Description In the late Iron Age, Rome was a small collection of huts arranged over a few hills. By the third century BC, it had become a large and powerful city, with monumental temples, public buildings and grand houses. It had conquered the whole of Italy and was poised to establish an empire. But how did it accomplish this historic transformation?
This book explores the development of Rome during this period, and the nature of its control over Italy, considering why and how the Romans achieved this spectacular dominance. For Rome was only one of a number of emerging centres of power during this period. From its complex forms of government, to its innovative connections with other states, Kathryn Lomas shows what set Rome apart. Examining the context and impact of the city's dominance, as well as the key political, social and economic changes it engendered, this is crucial reading for anyone interested in Ancient Rome.
About the Author Kathryn Lomas is Honorary Research Fellow in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Durham. Her books include Roman Italy 338 BC to AD 200: A Sourcebook; Rome and the Western Greeks, 350 BC - AD 200: Conquest and Acculturation in Southern Italy; and numerous edited volumes on Italian history and archaeology.
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9781846684128 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 432 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUGUST 2018 A Short History of England Simon Jenkins
The definitive concise account of England's remarkable past - now updated.
Sales points • Only book that exists to fill the gap in the market for a commanding yet succinct history of England • Total lifetime sales over 155,000 copies for Profile • Jenkins's Thousand Best Churches sold over 400,000 copies, and his Thousand Best Houses over 200,000 • A Sunday Times bestseller • On the History A-level reading list in the UK
Description From the invaders of the dark ages to the aftermath of the coalition, one of Britain's most respected journalists, Simon Jenkins, weaves together a strong narrative with all the most important and interesting dates in a book that characteristically is as stylish as it is authoritative.
A Short History of England sheds light on all the key individuals and events, bringing them together in an enlightening and engaging account of the country's birth, rise to global prominence and then partial eclipse. There have been long synoptic histories of England but until now there has been no standard short work covering all significant events, themes and individuals.
Now updated to take in the rapid progress of recent events and beautifully illustrated, this magisterial history will be the standard work for years to come.
About the Author Simon Jenkins is the author of the bestselling England's Thousand Best Churches and England's Thousand Best Houses, the former editor of The Times and Evening Standard and a columnist for the Guardian. He is also chairman of the National Trust.
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9781788160896 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUGUST 2018 The Hardmen The Velominati, Frank Strack, Brett Kennedy, John Millar and foreword by David Millar
Stories of the toughest cyclists of all time, told by The Velominati, originators of The Rules.
Sales points • From the founders of Velominati.com, notorious home of The Rules and one of the most influential cycling websites ever • Published in 2018 Tour de France season • Bikes Etc's Book of the Year 2017
Description It's time we all stopped whining and learned a thing or two from The Toughest Cyclists Ever. Including:
Stephen Roche, whose cure for exhaustion was to go up a gear and fight harder, all the way to the ambulance. Eddy Merckx, who hurt himself so badly in breaking the Hour record that, he estimated, he shortened his career by a year. Beryl Burton, who crushed her (male) rival's morale with the offer of a piece of liquorice, before speeding past to victory. Nicole Cooke and Edwig Van Hooydonck, who rejected dope and became legends.
The Hardmen tells the stories - the good bits, anyway - of the 40 most heroic Cyclists ever. Their bravery, their panache and their Perfect Amount of Dumb.
It reminds us that suffering on a bike liberates us from our daily lives, and that, in the words of Lance Armstrong 'pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever'; proof that even assholes can be insightful.
About the Author The Velominati are the founders of a singular online community - www.velominati.com - which celebrates the history of road cycling with a distinctive point of view, best described as (ir)reverence. Their infamous The Rules challenge cycling Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 fans to emulate their heroes in everything from training ('it never gets easier, you just go faster') and equipment ('the ISBN: 9781781256138 Format: Paperback - B format correct number of bikes to own is n+1') to sock length and coffee choice. Frank Strack, the Editor-in-Chief, appears at Dimensions: 198x129mm bike shows worldwide and writes a column for Cycling magazine. Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Sports teams & clubs Bic2: Cycling Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUGUST 2018 Natural Born Heroes Christopher McDougall
From the man who brought you Born to Run: a radical new approach to fitness
Sales points • Reissued for change of isbn/cover • The book that inspires casual athletes to dump the gym membership for cross-training, mud runs and free-running
Description When Chris McDougall stumbled across the story of Churchill's 'dirty tricksters', a motley crew of English poets and academics who helped resist the Nazi invasion of Crete, he knew he was on the track of something special.
To beat the odds, the tricksters-starving, aging, outnumbered-tapped into an ancient style of fitness: the lost art of heroism. They listened to their instincts, replaced calories with stored bodily fat and used their fascia, the network of tissue which criss-crosses the body, to catapult themselves to superhuman strength and endurance.
Soon McDougall was in the middle of a modern fitness revolution taking place everywhere from Parisian parkour routes to state-of-the-art laboratories, and based on the know-how of Shanghai street-fighters and Wild West gunslingers. Just as Born to Run got runners off the treadmill and into nature, Natural Born Heroes will inspire casual athletes to dump the gym membership for cross-training, mud runs and free-running.
About the Author Christopher McDougall is a former war correspondent for the Associated Press and author of the international bestseller Born to Run, an anthropological study of endurance, fitness, and what makes ultra-runners tick. He does his own running among the Amish farms around his home in rural Pennsylvania.
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9781846684579 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Sports & outdoor recreation Bic2: Sports & outdoor recreation Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUGUST 2018 Born to Run Christopher McDougall
The international bestseller and word of mouth sensation!
Sales points • Reissued August 2018 • 'This is, quite simply, the best book on sport I have ever read. It is engrossing, exciting, beautifully written and tells a story that, whether you are interested in long-distance running or not, is so compelling and so unusual you will happily forsake meals, drinks and friendships just so you can read another page.' - Sydney Morning Herald • 'Extraordinary.' - Herald Sun • 'This book will either pin you to the couch or send you running until you drop.' - The Age • 'A fascinating meditation on man's urge to run. Endurance running, suggests McDougall, is not only a 'magic bullet' against disease, but may even hold the secret to human evolution.' - Men's Health • 'A fascinating read.' - Sunday Telegraph • 'Startlingly candid with incredible passion and smart observatio [McDougall] learns that running is not punishment - it is a fine art that we were all born to enjoy.' - Outdoor Australia • 'Inspirational.' - Readers Digest
Description At the heart of Born to Run lies a mysterious tribe of Mexican Indians, the Tarahumara, who live quietly in canyons and are reputed to be the best distance runners in the world; in 1993, one of them, aged 57, came first in a prestigious 100- mile race wearing a toga and sandals. A small group of the world's top ultra-runners (and the awe-inspiring author) make the treacherous journey into the canyons to try to learn the tribe's secrets and then take them on over a course 50 miles long.
With incredible energy and smart observation, McDougall tells this story while asking what the secrets are to being an incredible runner. Travelling to labs at Harvard, Nike, and elsewhere, he comes across an incredible cast of characters, including the woman who recently broke the world record for 100 miles and for her encore ran a 2:50 marathon in a bikini,
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $29.99 pausing to down a beer at the 20 mile mark. ISBN: 9781846684227 Format: Paperback - B format About the Author Dimensions: 198x129mm Christopher McDougall is a former war correspondent for the Associated Press and is now a contributing editor for Men's Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Memoirs Health. A three-time National Magazine Award finalist, he has written for Esquire, the New York Times Magazine, Outside Bic2: Memoirs and Men's Journal. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUGUST 2018 Tove Jansson Life, Art, Words Boel Westin
The definitive, authorised biography of the creator of The Moomins.
Sales points • New in paperback • Sole authorised biography based on unprecedented access to the author, her journals and letters • Beautifully illustrated with rare pictures and photos • Following the hugely popular Tove Jansson exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Description The Finnish-Swedish writer and artist Tove Jansson achieved worldwide fame as the creator of the Moomin stories, written between 1945 and 1970 and still in print in more than twenty languages. However, the Moomins were only a part of her prodigious output. Already admired in Nordic art circles as a painter, cartoonist and illustrator, she would go on to write a series of classic novels and short stories. She remains Scandinavia's best loved author.
Tove Jansson's work reflected the tenets of her life: her love of family (and special bond with her mother), of nature, and her insistence on freedom to pursue her art. Love and work was the motto she chose for herself and her approach to both was joyful and uncompromising. If her relationships with men foundered on her ambivalence towards marriage, those with women came as a revelation, especially the love and companionship she found with her long-time partner, the artist Tuulikki Pietilä, with whom she lived on the solitary island of Klovharu.
In this meticulously researched, authorised biography, Boel Westin draws together the many threads of Jansson's life: from the studies interrupted to help her family; the dark shades of war and her emergence as an artist with a studio of her own; to the years of Moomin-mania, and later novel writing. Based on numerous conversations with Tove, and unprecedented access to her journals, letters and personal archives, Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words offers a rare and
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 privileged insight into the world of a writer whom Philip Pullman described, simply, as 'a genius'. ISBN: 9781908745569 Format: Paperback - B format About the Author Dimensions: 198x129mm Boel Westin is Professor of Literature at the University of Stockholm. She has published works on Lewis Carroll, August Extent: 576 pages Bic1: Biography: literary Strindberg, and is the editor, with Helen Svensson, of the forthcoming collection, Letters from Tove (Sort of Books, Oct Bic2: 2018) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Sort of AUGUST 2018 Murder Mile Lynda La Plante
Four brutal murders, a city living in fear, a killer on the streets...Prime Suspect's Jane Tennison returns in the 4th book in the bestselling Tennison series, from the doyenne of crime fiction.
Sales points • Good Friday - the previous book in the Tennison series - sold 27,000 copies across ANZ • Lynda La Plante is the Queen of Crime Drama - responsible for 170 hours of primetime TV and giving countless famous names their first break, including Michael Fassbender and Idris Elba. • She is the creator of the groundbreaking Prime Suspect series, which sold in over 400 territories, and made Helen Mirren a household name • Lynda is the author of over 35 bestselling novels. This is the fourth book in the Tennison series about the iconic detective's early years in the police force • Lynda formed her own television production company in 1993 and has written and produced high-rating series The Governor (ITV), Supply and Demand, Killer Net (Channel 4), Mind Games (ITV) and acclaimed series Trial and Retribution and The Commander (ITV)
Description February, 1979, 'The Winter of Discontent'. Economic chaos has led to widespread strikes across Britain.
Jane Tennison, now a Detective Sergeant, has been posted to Peckham CID, one of London's toughest areas. As the rubbish on the streets begins to pile up, so does the murder count: two bodies in as many days.
There are no suspects and the manner of death is different in each case. The only link between the two victims is the location of the bodies, found within a short distance of each other near Rye Lane in Peckham. Three days later another murder occurs in the same area. Press headlines scream that a serial killer is loose on 'Murder Mile' and that police incompetence is hampering the investigation.
Price: AU $44.99 NZ $49.99 Jane is under immense pressure to catch the killer before they strike again. Working long hours with little sleep, what she ISBN: 9781785764660 uncovers leaves her doubting her own mind. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages About the Author Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Lynda La Plante was born in Liverpool. She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with the National Theatre and RDC Bic2: Crime & mystery before becoming a television actress. She then turned to writing - and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally Illustrations: successful TV series Widows. Her novels have all been international bestsellers. Previous Titles: Author now living: Her original script for the much-acclaimed Prime Suspect won awards from BAFTA, Emmys, British Broadcasting and Royal Television Society. Tennison was adapted by ITV and broadcast in March 2017 in the UK.
Zaffre AUGUST 2018 Wilde About The Girl Louise Pentland
Join Robin Wilde and Lyla, Lacey and Auntie Kath in this hilarious, heartbreaking, completely unforgettable new novel by number one bestseller Louise Pentland.
Sales points • Bookscan sales of 4,500 copies of Wilde Like Me last year • Wilde Like Me went straight to #1 on the Times bestsellers list in the UK on publication in 2017 • This is Bonnier Zaffre's superlead; Louise Pentland is taking the women's fiction scene by storm! Her debut, Wilde Like Me, sold 25k HBs in the UK and was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller for 2 weeks in 2017 • Louise is a YouTube star with 3.5 million followers on social media
Description Robin Wilde is acing life.
After the year from hell, she's pulled herself up and out of the Emptiness, her love life is ticking along nicely, single motherhood is actually quite fun and she is ready for whatever life throws at her. When a thrilling opportunity at work arises, Robin is more than excited to step up and show everyone, including herself, what she's made of.
But her best friend Lacey is increasingly broken-hearted about struggling to conceive, and her daughter Lyla is starting to come out with some horrible attitudes she's learning from someone at school. Is Auntie Kath hiding loneliness under her bubbly, loving veneer? And can Robin definitely trust the people she must depend on in her fab new role?
But Robin has her girls. And her girls have got her. Together they can handle any crisis. Can't they?
Life is about to throw quite the curve ball at Robin Wilde, and she'll need to make some pretty brave choices if she's going to stop everything she cares about falling apart . . .
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 Get ready for the most hilarious, heart-breaking, uplifting and unforgettable novel of the year! ISBN: 9781785764622 Format: Hard Cover About the Author Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages Award-winning lifestyle and beauty blogger, fashion designer and author Louise Pentland's first novel went straight to Bic1: Romance number one in 2017. A UN Global Ambassador for Gender Equality, Louise won InStyle magazine's 'Best High-Street Bic2: Fiction & related items Fashion YouTuber' and the Shorty Award for 'Best YouTube Guru'. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre AUGUST 2018 The Old Religion Martyn Waites
From an award-winning author comes a new thriller, where dark secrets hide amongst the beautiful Cornish countryside.
Sales points • Martyn wrote the bestselling 'Brennan and Esposito' series under the pseudonym Tania Carver. To date, the series has sold over 190,000 copies. The first book in the series, The Surrogate, was nominated for the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year Award • Perfect for readers of Peter May and Ann Cleeves, Martyn brings the isolated community life of the Cornish coast vividly to life • As Martyn Waites he also wrote the sequel to Susan Hill's The Woman in Black - Angel of Death • With Mark Billingham, David Quantick and Stav Sherez, Martyn co-wrote Great Lost Albums, a humorous look at the fifty recordings that never existed, but should • have done
Description He was running from his past. She was running from her future. Sometimes helping a stranger is the last thing you should do . . .
The Cornish village of St Petroc is the sort of place where people come to hide. Tom Killgannon is one such person. An ex-undercover cop, Tom is in the Witness Protection Programme hiding from some very violent people and St Petroc's offers him a chance to live a safe and quiet life.
Until he meets Lila.
Lila is a seventeen-year-old runaway. When she breaks into Tom's house she takes more than just his money. His wallet holds everything about his new identity. He also knows that Lila is in danger from the travellers' commune she's been Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 living at. Something sinister has been going on there and Lila knows more than she realises. ISBN: 9781785764318 Format: Hard Cover But to find her he risks not only giving away his location to the gangs he's in hiding from, but also becoming a target for Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages whoever is hunting Lila. Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: A dark, twisted, fast-paced and literate page-turner that is ultimately redemptive, The Old Religion is a contemporary Illustrations: British rural crime thriller that combines the deft Previous Titles: Author now living: plotting, evocative landscapes and imagery of Peter May with the richness of character and psychological acuity of Belinda Bauer's rural novels. Most surprising of all, it is based on a true story.
Zaffre AUGUST 2018 It All Falls Down Sheena Kamal
From the author of Eyes Like Mine comes another gripping suspense novel featuring Nora Watts - a woman as intriguing and kick-ass as Lisbeth Salander.
Sales points • 'A brave, unflinching heroine and brave, unflinching writing adds up to an extraordinary debut - highly recommended' - Lee Child • For fans of Stieg Larsson, Sharon Bolton and Peter Swanson • Nora is a survivor. Like Lisbeth Salander readers will respond to her - she's engaging, sympathetic and kick-ass
Description Nora Watts is being hunted...
When Nora Watts is approached by a man claiming to know her late father, she is thrown into turmoil. Struggling with the imminent death, from cancer, of her friend and mentor Sebastian Crow, she is unprepared for the memories that this encounter brings back. What happened to her father that made him kill himself and abandon Nora and her sister?
Heading to Detroit to try and find some answers about his life there, Nora expects to discover a reason behind his suicide. Instead, she finds more questions than answers.
But trouble always follows Nora, and it's found her in Detroit, a city that is as broken as she is.
About the Author Sheena Kamal holds an HBA in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and went on to work in the film and TV industry, most recently as a researcher for a crime drama series being developed for television. Her research into crime and investigative journalism inspired her debut bestseller Eyes Like Mine.
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9781785764097 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Thriller / suspense Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre AUGUST 2018 To the Back of Beyond Peter Stamm, translated by Michael Hofmann
'Stamm sets up the psychological territory with such quiet precision that the reader succumbs at once' - Guardian
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Description After returning from a pleasant holiday with his wife, Astrid, and their two children, Thomas walks out the front door. Thomas walks up the street. Thomas keeps walking.
Astrid gradually realizes that her husband has not just gotten up early to go to work. She waits for as long as she can and then puts as much energy as she can into trying to find him - coming to understand, along the way, that there is little she can do if Thomas is striving to stay lost.
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.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781783783304 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Fiction in translation Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta Paperbacks AUGUST 2018 A Patient Fury Sarah Ward
An unputdownable new Derbyshire thriller, in the vein of Val McDermid's A Place of Execution.
Sales points • The third book in this series • Sarah is very active crime blogger and hugely popular member of the crime community • Perfect for fans of Vera and Happy Valley • An Observer Thriller of the Month
Description Three bodies discovered.
A family obliterated.
All evidence seems to point to one murderer: the mother.
DC Connie Childs, determined to discover the truth about the fire-wrecked property on Cross Farm Lane, realises that a fourth body - one they cannot find - must hold the key to the mystery. But what Connie fails to realise is that her determination to unmask the 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 In Bitter Chill, which was published in 2015 to critical acclaim. 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.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 Follow Sarah on Twitter @sarahrward1 ISBN: 9780571332335 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback AUGUST 2018 Patrick Marber: Plays Patrick Marber
Includes: Dealer's Choice; Closer; Howard Katz; Don Juan in Soho; The Red Lion
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About the Author Patrick Marber was born in 1964. He began his career as a stand-up comedian and writer in 1986. He co-wrote and appeared in a number of radio and television programmes including The Day Today and Knowing Me, Knowing You. In 1995 his first play, Dealer's Choice, premiered at the National Theatre in a production he also directed. Since then he has written plays and screenplays including After Miss Julie, Closer, Howard Katz, Don Juan in Soho, Notes on a Scandal and Love You More. He lives in London with his wife and their three children.
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9780571346806 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 496 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Plays AUGUST 2018 Patrick Marber: Versions Patrick Marber
Includes: After Miss Julie; Three Days in the Country; Hedda Gabler; Trelawny of the Wells; The Beaux Strategem
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About the Author Patrick Marber was born in 1964. He began his career as a stand-up comedian and writer in 1986. He co-wrote and appeared in a number of radio and television programmes including The Day Today and Knowing Me, Knowing You. In 1995 his first play, Dealer's Choice, premiered at the National Theatre in a production he also directed. Since then he has written plays and screenplays including After Miss Julie, Closer, Howard Katz, Don Juan in Soho, Notes on a Scandal and Love You More. He lives in London with his wife and their three children.
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9780571346820 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 496 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Plays AUGUST 2018 House of Lords and Commons Ishion Hutchinson
National Book Critics Circle Award-winning collection - moving from the Jamaican landscape of the poet's childhood to worlds beyond with sensitivity and graceful music.
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Description 'Exquisite' (New Yorker), 'breathtaking' (Los Angeles Times), 'baroque and moon-lit' (Boston Globe) - House of Lords and Commons enthralled readers in the Americas when it recently appeared, winning the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and being widely applauded in 'books of the year'. No wonder this first British publication is a significant and much anticipated event.
Ishion Hutchinson's book is a profound engagement with culture and landscape, seascape and language, inheritance and race. It speaks - as its title implies - to a pursuit of justice and rebalance of a world in which lords and commoners must live side by side, and where the distance between those who 'have' and those who 'have not' is a more breaching and surprising journey than we perhaps once thought.
The poems convey the complex allure of Hutchinson's native Jamaican landscape, and the violent forces that shaped its history, with remarkable lyric precision. But they speak far beyond Caribbean experience, thanks to the author's uncanny ability to reach the universal within the local.
House of Lords and Commons is a skilfully crafted and tender expression of human experience in a world of prejudice and danger that is also a world of intense colour, remarkable music, indefatigable love.
'Ishion Hutchinson's darkly tinged yet exuberant new poems are the strongest to come out of the Caribbean in a generation.' William Logan, New York Times Book Review Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9780571347759 About the Author Format: Paperback - B format Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. His first collection, Far District, came out in 2010 and received the Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 80 pages PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award. House of Lords and Commons, his second collection, was awarded the National Book Bic1: Poetry by individual poets Critics Circle Award 2016. Other honours include the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award Bic2: Poetry and the Larry Levis Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Poetry AUGUST 2018 The Song of Lunch Christopher Reid
Now reissued in the poetry front-list look: Reid's hugely popular narrative poem The Song of Lunch.
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Description Lunch in Soho with a former lover - but Zanzotti's is under new management, and as the wine takes effect fond memories give way to something closer to the bone . . .
Christopher Reid's poem, which since its first publication has been filmed by the BBC and presented on stage in numerous venues, follows the lunchtime reunion of two long-separated lovers. Every smallest detail is cherished, as step by step the narrative moves towards its tragicomic outcome.
About the Author Christopher Reid is the author of a number of books of poems, including A Scattering (winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award) and The Song of Lunch (both 2009). From 1991 to 1999 he was Poetry Editor at Faber and Faber, and worked with Ted Hughes on such books as Tales from Ovid and Birthday Letters. He is now a freelance writer and lives in London.
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9780571347735 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 80 pages Bic1: Literary studies: poetry & poets Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Poetry AUGUST 2018 The Mabinogi Matthew Francis
Matthew Francis's poetic retelling of the first four stories of the Welsh national epic The Mabinogi captures the magic and strangeness of this medieval Celtic world - now in paperback.
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Description 'Here at the turn of the leaf a horseman is riding through the space between one world and another . . .'
The Mabinogi is the Welsh national epic, a collection of prose tales of war and enchantment, adventure and romance, which have long fascinated readers all over the world. Matthew Francis's retelling of the first four stories (the Four Branches of the Mabinogi) is the first to situate it in poetry, and captures the magic and strangeness of this medieval Celtic world: a baby is kidnapped by a monstrous claw, a giant wades across the Irish Sea to do battle, a wizard makes a woman out of flowers, only to find she is less biddable than he expected. Permeating the whole sequence is a delight in the power of the imagination to transform human experience into works of tragedy, comedy and wonder.
The Mabinogi is an important contribution to the storytelling of the British Isles.
'I have waited a life for this book: our ancient British tales re-told, in English, by a poet, as they were in their original Welsh. This is more than translation. It picks up the harp and sings.' Gillian Clarke
About the Author Matthew Francis is the author of four Faber collections, most recently Muscovy (2013). He has twice been shortlisted for the Forward Prize, and in 2004 was chosen as one of the Next Generation poets. He has also edited W. S. Graham's New Collected Poems, and published a collection of short stories and two novels, the second of which, The Book of the Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 Needle (Cinnamon Press) came out in 2014. He lives in West Wales and is Professor in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth ISBN: 9780571333776 University. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 112 pages Bic1: Poetry Bic2: Poetry by individual poets Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Poetry AUGUST 2018 Buzz Thor Hanson
A superb natural and cultural history of bees - the only such book to celebrate their full diversity.
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Description Bees are like oxygen: ubiquitous, essential, and, for the most part, unseen. While we might overlook them, they lie at the heart of relationships that bind the human and natural worlds.
In Buzz, the award-winning author of Feathers and The Triumph of Seeds takes us on a journey that begins 125 million years ago, when a wasp first dared to feed pollen to its young.
From honeybees and bumbles to lesser-known diggers, miners, leafcutters, and masons, bees have long been central to our harvests, our mythologies, and our very existence. They've given us sweetness and light, the beauty of flowers, and as much as a third of the foodstuffs we eat. And, alarmingly, they are at risk of disappearing.
As informative and enchanting as the waggle dance of a honeybee, Buzz shows us why all bees are wonders to celebrate and protect. Read this book and you'll never overlook them again.
About the Author Thor Hanson is a biologist whose research and conservation activities have taken him around the globe. His previous books include The Impenetrable Forest, Feathers (longlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize), and The Triumph of Seeds. He has appeared on BBC Radio 4 and contributed to publications including BBC Wildlife and the Huffington Post. He lives on an island in the Pacific Northwest, USA.
Price: AU $45.00 NZ $49.99 ISBN: 9781785783746 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Wildlife: butterflies, other insects & spiders Bic2: Insects (entomology) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon AUGUST 2018 To Provide All People Owen Sheers
A film-poem by the author of Pink Mist and The Green Hollow to mark the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service Act's passage into law.
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Description July 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service Act coming into effect. Owen Sheers, the author of Pink Mist and The Green Hollow, has created a virtuosic 'film-poem' to coincide with the broadcast on BBC Wales of his film with Pip Broughton.
To Provide All People is the intimate story of the N.H.S in British society today. Depicting the life of one hospital over the course of 24 hours, it charts an emotional and philosophical map of what defines the N.H.S against the personal experiences that lie at the heart of the service; from patients to surgeons, porters to midwives. This is a world of transformative pains, triumphs, losses and celebrations that joins us all in our universal experiences of health and sickness, birth and death, regardless of race, gender or wealth.
Based upon interviews, the work is punctuated with the historical narrative of the original journey of the N.H.S Act, from its origins in a local miners' scheme in Tredegar in Wales, through multiple hearings, amendments and battles with the press, the B.M.A and the Conservative party, to its coming into effect in July 1948.
To Provide All People is a work that excavates what the N.H.S. represents and means - on a personal and national level - and paints an authentic, tonal picture of a rare social phenomenon, illuminating with exquisite sensitivity and power why the ethos at its heart should be protected.
About the Author Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Owen Sheers is a poet, novelist and playwright. Twice winner of Wales Book of the Year, his books of poetry include ISBN: 9780571348077 Skirrid Hill, winner of a Somerset Maugham Award, and the verse drama Pink Mist, winner of the Hay Festival Poetry Format: Hard Cover Medal and Wales Book of the Year. His first novel Resistance was translated into 15 languages and adapted into a film. Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 112 pages His most recent novel, I Saw a Man was shortlisted for the Prix Femina Etranger. Owen's theatrical work includes The Bic1: Film scripts & screenplays Two Worlds of Charlie F., winner of the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award, Mametz and National Bic2: Documentary films Theatre Wales's 72 hour The Passion. A former New York Public Library Cullman Fellow Owen was the recipient of the Illustrations: 2016 St David's Award for Culture and is currently chair of Wales PEN Cymru and Professor in Creativity at Swansea Previous Titles: Author now living: University. He lives in the Black Mountains of Wales with his wife and two daughters.
Faber Non Fiction AUGUST 2018 I, Maybot John Crace
Devastatingly funny political satire, for fans of Private Eye and Have I Got News For You?
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Description New, fully updated edition.
'Brexit means Brexit.' 'Strong and stable.' 'I don't think I'm in the least robotic.'
Ever since Theresa May first whirred into inaction as prime minister, there has only been one reliable source of strength and stability: John Crace's political sketches for the Guardian. These doses of biting satire not only provided much- needed respite from the madness of it all, but also gave us his now notorious moniker for our automaton PM, the Maybot.
In I, Maybot, Crace introduces a curated selection of his most acerbic sketches, charting May's tumultuous premiership to date. From the EU referendum and ensuing tragicomic leadership campaign, to the snap election, Tory-DUP coalition of chaos and endless Brexit wranglings, Crace's analysis makes for essential and uproariously entertaining reading.
About the Author John Crace is the Guardian's parliamentary sketch writer and author of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. He writes the Digested Read for G2.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781783351596 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Parodies & spoofs Bic2: Politics & government Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Guardian Books AUGUST 2018 All Things Remembered Goldie
A whirlwind, adrenalin-fuelled celebrity memoir from the godfather of urban rave.
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Description All Things Remembered is the story of the man born Clifford J. Price - jungle's most streetwise ambassador who went on to collect an MBE from Buckingham Palace. As one of Britain's most influential DJs, producers and record-label owners, Goldie's contribution to the UK rave scene in the 1990s with Metalheadz provided the blueprint for dubstep and grime.
Here is the memoir of an extraordinary life, an explosive story of abuse, revenge, graffiti, breakdancing, gold teeth, sawn- off shotguns, car crashes, hot yoga, absent fatherhood and redemption through reality TV - all told in Goldie's unmistakeable, charismatic voice.
About the Author Goldie was born Clifford Joseph Price in Walsall in 1965. He is a world-renowned musician, producer, record-label owner, artist and actor.
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9780571332090 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
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