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ational Bookshop Day is on 20 August Vintage Classics Nand it is a perfect day (let's hope the Notes from Eve Abbey... Catch 22 sun shines) for you to discover (or rediscover) "... the pace is cracking and I just Joseph Heller the Aladdin's cave of culture, knowledge and couldn't wait to reach the end. imagination that dwells on the shelves of Top marks. I suspect Sherborne It is 50 years since your local bookshop. On the day, pop your has let the cat out of the bag and Joseph Heller’s wonderful name in the box in the shop for your chance this is the way many young men creation first appeared. to WIN a $100 Gift Card. Craig (Ed.) think!" [ read on, page 18 ] My first encounter was as a young backpacker in Liechtenstein. Entering Steven Carroll Spirit of Progress 268pp Pb $26.95 the hostel dorm, a young German was lying on In this perfectly judged celebration of post-war Australia Abbey's Choice his bunk with escalating (especially Melbourne), Steven Carroll uses a portrait outbursts of laughter. of a family member by Sydney Nolan to join together When curiosity finally overwhelmed me all the characters which we have already met in his I asked what on earth he was reading. incomparable trilogy, The Art of the Engine Driver, The Gift of Speed and The Time We Have Taken (Miles Franklin Catch 22 is like no other book you will ever Award winner), all $24.99 each, as well as some famous read. The narrative tumbles out, eddies Melbourne identities. So if you start with this prequel, be and circles back, piling absurdity upon sure to also read the books that follow. Eve nonsense until your want for sense and order surrenders. Give yourself over to Heller’s Steven Carroll will be at Abbey's from 6pm on Wed 10 August. anarchic playfulness and you will be richly Please RSVP to [email protected] by Fri 5 August. rewarded with a story about the enterprise of war that is both tragic and comic. Craig
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But as her through his collaboration policies? and lies... 304pp Tp $27.99 family unravel around her, she finds herself 672pp Tp $32.99 drawn to the husband she thought she had left in the past... 272pp Tp $29.99 AUSTRALIAN FICTION Vaclav and Lena I Curse the Haley Tanner Hello Darkness River of Time Vaclav and Lena first met Sam de Brito Per Petterson as children in an ESL class in Brooklyn. Vaclav In Ned’s family, Europe, 1989. Communism is precocious and verbal, journalism is in the genes is crumbling. 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abbeys.com.au 4 Ph (02) 9264 3111 Fax (02) 9264 8993 The Chase Constance The Architect Christopher Kremmer The Tragic and of Kokoda “They’re all doing it... Scandalous Life Bert Kienzle - it’s not so much a contest of Mrs Oscar Wilde The Man Who Made between horses, as Franny Moyle the Kokoda Track a race to find the best This is the story of Robyn Kienzle recipe.” When scientist Constance Wilde, told If one person ‘made’ Jean Campbell is hired to with a fresh eye and new the Kokoda Track, that eliminate drugs in sport, material. Drawing on man was Bert Kienzle. she enters a world where numerous unpublished Born in Fiji and raised in power, privilege and letters, the author Germany and Australia, corruption mix easily. brings to life a woman he was managing a In 1940’s Sydney, Jean and her charismatic at the heart of fin-de-siecle London and the rubber plantation and gold mine in Papua boss Howard Carter expose the cruel Aesthetic movement – until her husband New Guinea at the outbreak of WWII. He underbelly of the ‘sport of kings’ only to find Oscar was convicted for ‘homosexual crimes’ surveyed and established the track, spending themselves in the dock, unaware that the in 1895. In a compelling tale of an unlikely more time on it than anyone else during the struggle of a young rider, Frank Littell, will couple caught up in social scandal, Constance campaign. 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Peter FitzSimons’ account Michael Wilding Spending her teenage of growing up on the charts the growth, the years accommodating rural outskirts of Sydney experiments and the British attitudes, she in the 1960s is a tribute to decline of an innovative was 27 before returning family. But it also salutes small press against a to Iran, drawn back generations past: when background of social by memories of her praise was understated upheaval and cultural change in Australia. grandmother’s house but love unstinting, This memoir is peppered with comic in Abadan and a desire when work was hard anecdotes and offers vivid portraits of to rediscover her Iranian identity. This and values clear, when important literary figures of the time. This passionate memoir is a love letter to Kamin’s people stood by each other in adversity. In insider’s view on small press and alternative extraordinary family and to Iran itself - an this rollicking and often hilarious memoir, publishing in Australia is very timely in view ancient country which has survived so much FitzSimons describes a childhood of mischief, of the current debates on the future of the modern tumult, but where joy and resilience camaraderie, eccentric characters, drama, book and publishing in the digital age. triumphs over despair. 288pp Tp $29.99 constant love and generosity. 416pp Pb $24.99 144pp Pb $24.95
Abbey’s Bookshop 5 131 York St, Sydney NSW 2000 The Interrogator Britain After Rome TRAVEL A CIA Agent’s True Story The Fall and Rise, Glenn Carle 400 to 1070 Abbey's Paris to the Past Choice This is a first-hand Robin Fleming Traveling Through account of the Bush This book brings readers French History by Train Administration’s War on as close as possible Ina Caro Terror and one of the to understanding the tumultuous seven Ina Caro invites readers CIA’s biggest failures - centuries between the on 25 one-day train trips the kidnapping, rendition departure of the Roman departing from Paris and and torture of the wrong legions and the arrival transporting us through man, as told by a senior of Norman invaders. As 700 years of French agent who conducted towns fell into decay, Christianity disappeared history. Whether taking the interrogation. Initially enthusiastic and invaders swept across the island. Yet us to Orleans to evoke about his role at the CIA, Glenn Carle began this is when modern languages and political the miracles of Joan of questioning the Bush Administration’s policies arrangements were forged and fascinating Arc or to the Place de la Concorde to witness after his involvement in something he felt cultures rose and fell. Principally through the the beheading of Marie Antoinette, Caro was morally abhorrent. Reading like a thriller, study of buildings and burials, Fleming offers animates history with her lush descriptions this is a true tale of international intrigue, tantalising glimpses of a surprisingly resilient of architectural splendours and tales of deceit and betrayal. 336pp Tp $32.95 land. 480pp Pb $24.95 court intrigue. Organising her destinations chronologically, Caro’s passion will appeal The Perfect Nazi Uncovering My SS to the traveller and armchair reader alike! 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The notion of complete history of the Pius XI died in 1939, just ‘Frenchness’ emerged Mediterranean: from the after finishing the address from over 2,000 years erection of the mysterious he hoped to deliver to of history and it is temples on Malta around 3500 BC to its the Italian bishops on the a riveting story from modern reinvention as a tourist destination. tenth anniversary of the Roman conquest to the Ranging across time and the expanse of the Lateran Pact. His address would condemn present day. Jenkins Mediterranean - from Gibraltar to Jaffa, Nazism and Fascism and it was a discourse explains the formation of this nation through Venice to Alexandria - Abulafia provides that Mussolini feared and which the Pope its people, historical events and culture. This a rich history of the region through did not survive to deliver. 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abbeys.com.au 6 Ph (02) 9264 3111 Fax (02) 9264 8993 “Where a good crime can be had by all” ISSUE #306 August 2011 BARTULIN DE LUXE PACKIN’ HEAT IN AUGUST Fans of Jack Susko (and you can count Eve Abbey Kate Ellis among them) will be rushing in to Abbey’s on The Jackal Man 11 August to meet the author Lenny Bartulin in Wesley Peterson #15 conversation with P M Newton. Aim for 6pm for When a teenage girl is left a 6.30pm start. Light refreshments will be served for dead by an attacker – see you on the night! described as having the head of a dog, DI Wesley Peterson suspects the killer is performing an ancient ritual linked to Anubis, the jackal-headed Egyptian god of death. Meanwhile, archaeologist Neil Watson is tasked with cataloguing the collection of Edwardian Egyptologist, Sir Frederick Varley. There, Neil discovers Wesley’s case bears similarities to murders that took place in 1903, said to have been committed by Sir Frederick’s son... [English, Police Procedural] 400pp Pb $19.99
Cynthia Harrod- Eagles Body Line Bill Slider #13 David Rogers was a doctor - handsome, charming and rich. He lived the lifestyle of a top consultant - expensive Quintin Jardine Peter Robinson clothes, fine restaurants, and exclusive clubs - until Grievous Angel Before the Poison someone killed him in Bob Skinner #21 Hollywood music the hallway of his lovely and expensive home. Detective Superintendent composer Chris Lowndes When Bill Slider and his firm are thrown into Bob Skinner is called to has returned home to the the mystery they soon discover that although investigate the death Yorkshire Dales to make Roger’s girlfriends are plenty, none of them can of a man lying in an a new life for himself tell Slider anything about where he worked or empty swimming pool, after his wife’s death. The exactly what he did… his body shattered. isolated house he buys [English, Private Eye] 256pp Pb $24.95 Soon an organised should give him the space crime connection looms he needs to deal with his Anne Zouroudi and bloody retribution grief. Kilnsgate House The Whispers spreads. Violence erupts on a new front turns out to be more than he expected though. of Nemesis as a vicious knifeman seems to be targeting A man died there, 60 years ago. His wife was Hermes Diaktoros #5 Edinburgh’s gay community. As if this double convicted of murder. And something is pulling dose of homicide isn’t enough, Skinner’s Chris deeper and deeper into the story of Grace In the tiny Greek village personal life takes a similar, perilous twist... Elizabeth Fox, who was hanged... of Vrisi, a coffin is [Scottish, Police Procedural] 416pp Tp $32.99 [English, Suspense] 416pp Tp $32.99 unearthed and opened. 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So when a Cody is a recovering the whereabouts of the decapitated body is found alcoholic and it doesn’t witness to the murder in an abandoned building, help that the body is his trial he’s prosecuting and forensic scientist Theresa AA sponsor, Hank Winters. about the letters he’s MacLean thinks the Data pulled from Hank’s been receiving which decades-old corpse is an fire-damaged hard drive threaten to kill their four- unaccounted-for victim of leads him to a website year-old unless he tells the legendary psychopath. that runs wilderness trips in the nearby national the blackmailer where But the discovery of a newly slain body bearing park. The same trip that his estranged son Justin the witness is hiding. With their daughter’s life the Torso Killer’s signature suggests a copycat is has signed up for. Cody has no choice but to trek at stake, Claire is determined to untangle the following the madman’s footprints. It seems her into the wild in pursuit of Justin and the truth web of lies and half-truths and find out who is investigation trail leads to a terrifying past... about Hank... [American, Police Procedural] responsible. And stop them before it’s too late… [American, Forensic] 432pp Pb $13.50 384pp Pb $24.99 [Scottish, Suspense] 352pp Pb $22.99 www.abbeys.com.au 8 131 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Cleo Coyle Laura DiSilverio Sissel-Jo Gazan Roast Mortem Die Buying The Dinosaur Feather Coffee House Mystery #9 Mall Cop #1 Biology graduate Anna Clare Cosi, manager Emma-Joy Ferris likes Bella Nor is just two weeks and head barista of the being a mall cop, even from defending her thesis landmark Village Blend though it’s a bit more on the origin of birds coffeehouse, has perfected humdrum than the when her supervisor Lars the art of hot espresso. military policing she did in Helland is found murdered But now she needs to the army. But when a local in his office, a copy of keep New York’s bravest developer is found dead her thesis on his lap. from being burned. in a boutique window Assigned to investigate, After being rescued by and someone ‘liberates’ a Superintendent Soren local fire-fighters while 15-foot python from the Marhauge discovers Helland had been infected caught in a blazing restaurant - and then fire- Herpetology Hut, Emma-Joy has no time to be with a rare parasite that only a field expert fighters themselves start dying in suspicious bored. After an arrogant homicide detective would have access to. But when her fellow circumstances - Clare is determined to solve the dismisses her as ‘only’ a mall cop, she decides graduate is also killed, the murders become crime... before someone extinguishes her! to solve the case herself with the help of her linked to Anna, revealing a vicious competition [American, Cosy] 368pp Pb $13.50 grandpa, a retired CIA operative. for academic success. 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Carol Culver Joseph Finder David Gibbins A Good Day to Pie Buried Secrets Atlantis Pie Shop Mystery #1 Nick Heller #2 Jack Howard #1 Hanna Denton has When PI Nick Heller Archaeologist Jack returned to California to returns to Boston to set Howard is a brave but take over the pie shop her up an agency he gets an cautious man. When he Grannie Louise owned urgent case sooner than embarked on a new search for 30 years. Grannie has expected. Alexandra for buried treasure in the now retired and Hanna Marcus - daughter of Mediterranean, he knew is trying to live up to hedge fund titan Marshall it was a long shot. When Grannie’s reputation for Marcus - has been he uncovered a golden baking the best pies in the kidnapped. Buried alive in disc that spoke of a lost state. But between rolling dough and working an underground casket, a video camera streams civilisation more advanced out the magic ingredients that made Grannie’s her desperate pleas. Nick is determined to catch than any in the ancient world, he started to get pies so popular, she is faced with an even bigger the perpetrators, but when Marcus is arrested excited. But when he and his intrepid crew got challenge: convincing the handsome new police by the FBI for fraud, Nick realises he’s facing a close to uncovering the secrets the sea had chief that Grannie is innocent of murder! conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of held for thousands of years, nothing could have [American, Cosy] 312pp Pb $23.95 government… prepared them for what they would find... [American, Private Eye] 416pp Tp $32.99 [Canadian, Archaelogical] 480pp Pb $10.99
Judith Cutler Dick Francis Ring of Guilt & Felix Francis Michele Giuttari Lina Townend Mystery #3 Crossfire A Death in Calabria Antiques dealer Lina Captain Thomas Forsyth’s Chief Superintendent Townend is making a tour of Afghanistan is cut Michele Ferrara, of Italy’s name for herself as a brutally short after he Anti-Mafia Investigation restorer, with a national is badly wounded by a Department, is tasked with reputation for honesty. roadside bomb. Returning investigating the deaths of So when she spots a dead home to his mother - a several Calabrian citizens body in a field, she calls racehorse trainer and the - some in New York and the police - only for it to ‘First Lady’ of racing - he some in the small villages promptly vanish. And it discovers the training dotting the Calabrian seems that her luck has entirely deserted her business is on the edge and that someone is countryside. Ferrara must when she’s accused of stealing two Anglo-Saxon trying to put his mother out of business. He infiltrate the village of rings and no one believes she’s innocent. So soon finds himself on a very different but just as San Piero d’Aspromonte, deep in the Calabrian when her love life looks up, she’s delighted… deadly battlefield, where he finds himself again Mountains. And there he must put his life on the and completely unprepared when things take caught in the crossfire… line to learn more about a family at the centre of a turn for the worse! [Welsh, Suspense] 368pp Pb $19.95 an ancient, bloody feud... [English, Cosy] 224pp Pb $24.95 [Italian, Police Procedural] 336pp Pb $22.99
Meg Gardiner Juan Gomez-Jurado Jeffery Deaver, David The Nightmare Thief Jo Beckett #4 The Traitor’s Emblem Baldacci [et al] Daddy’s already bought Munich, 1919. After the No Rest for the Dead Autumn Reiniger a car disgrace of his family, When the decaying body and an apartment, so now 15-year-old Paul Reiner of Christopher Thomas, a she wants excitement works as a servant in curator at San Francisco’s for her 21st birthday. Her the palace of Baron Museum of Fine Arts, father signs her up for a Von Schroeder. Paul is found inside an ‘iron reality game called ‘Edge despairingly dreams maiden’, his wife Rosemary Adventures’, who have of the heroic father he is tried and executed. Ten alerted the San Francisco never knew. But one years later, Jon Nunn, the police that a fake ‘crime situation’ is underway. night, seconds before detective who cracked the But when Forensic Psychiatrist Jo Beckett committing suicide, Paul’s cousin reveals a case, is convinced the wrong person was put to encounters a group of men carting six sullen terrible secret. Paul’s father didn’t die in WWI, death. Along with financier Tony Olsen, he plans college kids to the woods, her suspicions land as he’d been told. He was murdered. From that to gather everyone who was there the night her an invite to a birthday party she may never moment, his world is turned upside down and Christopher died and finally uncover the truth leave! Also available: Jo Beckett #3, The Liar’s he sacrifices everything to learn the truth of his about what happened that fateful evening… Lullaby (Pb $19.99). father’s death… [American, Police Proced.] 384pp Pb $24.99 [American, Forensic] 384pp Tp $29.99 [Spanish, Suspense] 304pp Tp $32.99 ph 02 9264 3111 fax 02 9264 8993 9 Abbey’s Bookshop Ann Granger Sara Gran Joyce & Jim Lavene Rack, Ruin City of the Dead Harrowing Hats and Murder Claire Dewitt #1 Renaissance Faire #4 Carter & Campbell #2 In New Orleans, Assistant Spending her summer When old Monty District Attorney Vic working as a hat-maker Bickerstaffe finds an Willing has been missing in the Renaissance Faire unidentified dead body since Hurricane Katrina. Village seems like a pretty in his drawing room, Called in from San sweet deal for Jessie the last thing he wants Francisco is Claire DeWitt, Morton…until one of is police sniffing around a detective with unique the fair’s chocolatiers is his crumbling Cotswold methods and sources. Her discovered drowned in a manor. Not that he has discoveries take her into vat of his own chocolate anything to hide. The locals swear they’ve seen the heart of a crime-ravaged city where those with a hat pin sticking out nothing unusual and his relatives claim they’ve who can afford it live behind fences and those of his eye. Jessie finds herself embroiled in a never seen the body before. But Inspector Jess who can’t are slain on the streets. And it’s there messy murder and must sort through a long list Campbell thinks someone is lying and with the she discovers that the only thing worse than an of knaves, knights and wenches who might have help of Superintendent Ian Carter she must dig unsolved case is a solved one... wanted to see the chocolatier double-dipped deep into Monty’s family history for the truth. [American, Police Proced.] 288pp Tp $27.99 and dead. [American, Cosy] 304pp Pb $13.50 [English, Police Procedural] 320pp Tp $32.99 John Grisham Karen Harper The Confession Mike Lawson Fall from Pride When high school student House Justice Home Valley Amish #1 Nicole Yarber vanished, Joe DeMarco #5 her home town stood still With the hope of as thousands of volunteers When a CIA agent in attracting more tourists to combed the area in search Tehran - tasked with her Amish community in of her. But Nicole’s body spying on an American the struggling economy, was never found and nine defence contractor who Sarah Kauffman is given years later Donte Drumm plans to sell top-secret permission to paint murals - the young black athlete technology to Iran - is on several of the village arrested for her murder - captured and executed, barns. When someone sits on death row. His lawyer Robbie Flak is out it seems someone in sets the barns ablaze, the of options... unless the confession of convicted Washington has leaked community is riddled with felon Travis Boyette can set things right. With the story to an ambitious fear. Assigned to the case is Nate MacKenzie, one week to go before Donte’s execution, the journalist. Imprisoned for refusing to reveal her who must adhere to Amish ways during his clock is ticking source, the journalist threatens to expose her investigation. 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Nevada desert. Among the suspect that Jennifer, a retired surgeon who Brought up by the world’s suspects: an obsessive ex- had specialised in hands, is the one who worst mother, neglected boyfriend, an ex-fiancé… committed the grisly crime. The book is a series throughout her childhood, and the client himself. Alice James knows that of conversations, with Jennifer, whose memory Amanda nonetheless if they crack this case, business will pour in. But is rapidly fading and playing tricks on her, blossomed into a first she’ll need to manage her colleague Jim talking to her son and errant daughter, her carer formidably intelligent Snow’s ill-timed midlife crisis… and deal with and the police. If this sounds dull, it isn’t - dark young woman. A young woman so bright that the chemistry crackling between them! Also secrets are revealed and you would be cold she can out-manoeuvre anyone. 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So begins an extraordinary life of crime, as something very bad happening on Domaro. beneath decades of ice and snow... Michael plots against his employer and searches Something that involves the sea itself… [Swedish, Police Procedural] 288pp Tp $32.99 for the key to his childhood trauma. [Swedish, Suspense] 480pp Pb $23.95 [American, Suspense] 416pp Pb $22.99 www.abbeys.com.au 10 131 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Jeff Lindsay Leslie Meier James Patterson Dexter is Delicious Wicked Witch Murder Now You See Her Dexter #5 Lucy Stone #16 22-year-old Jeanine As if getting married As Halloween rolls around, Fournier was beautiful, wasn’t enough to a murderer is dishing married to a handsome complete his nice-guy out some nasty tricks in police officer and persona, Dexter is now Tinker’s Cove, Maine. After pregnant with her first the proud father of a getting an unnerving child. Her life seemed baby girl. And he actually psychic reading from the complete… until she seems to care. 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[American, Cosy] 304pp Pb $13.95 Read 2011 title written exclusively for World [American, Police Proced.] 464pp Pb $19.99 Book Day UK. [American, Suspense] 400pp Tp $32.95 Guillermo Orsi Casey Mayes No-one Loves Richard North A Killer Column a Policeman Patterson Mystery by December 2001. In the Name the Numbers #2 Argentina is in political of Honour When the editor of puzzle and economic meltdown. Traumatised by his columnist Savannah Pablo Martelli - once experience in Iraq, Brian Stone is found stabbed part of the elite police McCarran is dependent to death, the police turn force known to all as on his friendship with to Savannah as the prime the ‘National Shame’ - is Kate Gallagher, the wife suspect – especially scraping by as a bathroom of Captain Joe D’Abruzzo since her editor had salesman. One evening, and Brian’s commanding just terminated their he is summoned to a friend’s coastal retreat, officer in Iraq. When Brian relationship and then sold where he finds his friend dead. 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It seemed odd to shelve it there titles that are not stocked in Australia by Penguin, but instead as the novel is set in England and Serbia, while the author are shipped here from the UK when we order them. We still sell seems to be a world traveller. But he gets put in Australian a surprising number of these indent titles, which just shows Fiction because he lives in Melbourne. Greg and I both how specialised the interests of our customers are. agreed it was a difficult decision. However, we do have many overseas visitors who come in and ask “Where are your Two interesting titles in Astronomy are A Grand and Bold Thing: Australian writers?” so we still see the need for this section. I An Extraordinary New Map of the Universe Ushering in a New wonder what British readers think of Australian Fiction? Era of Discovery by Ann Finkbeiner ($45 Hb) and The Farthest Shore: A 21st Century Guide to Space edited by Belton & Buckley Patrick Leigh Fermor has died aged 95. I'm not sure if he was ($55 Hb 416pp), in which authors from around the world provide more famous for his travel writing or his daring exploits in a broad-based view, suitable for both scholars and laymen. We Greece and Crete during the Second World War. The first also have a new historical novel about Galileo and Kepler called two volumes of his autobiography / travel memoir were The Sky's Dark Labyrinth ($29.95 Hb 272pp). Manager David Hall A Time of Gifts ($24.95 Pb 304pp) and Between the Woods is interested in Astronomy and is a good one to ask if you have and the Water ($24.99 Pb 256pp). These described his walk any questions. across Europe from Rotterdam to Istanbul when he was in his late teens. The third volume, much awaited, never Are you signed up for the Abbey's email newsletter? In addition appeared, but maybe will turn up posthumously. 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I six titles: Mao's Great Famine 1958-62 by Frank Dikotter ($35 think his only novel is Violins of Saint Jacques: A Tale of the Pb 448pp – the winner), Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane Antilles ($22.99 Pb 144pp). by Andrew Graham Dixon ($59.95 Hb 544pp), Liberty's Exiles: The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire by It's the 66th birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi this year, which Maya Jesanoff ($44.95 Hb 450pp),The Rational Optimist: How explains yet another biography of this remarkable woman, Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley ($35 Pb 448pp), Bismarck: A still hoping for democracy in her country of Burma. It is Life by Jonathan Steinberg ($48.95 Hb 592pp) and Reprobates: called Struggle for Freedom: Aung San Suu Kyi : A Biography The Cavaliers of the English Civil War by John Stubbs ($49.95Hb by Jesper Bengtsson ($35 Pb 307pp). She is no longer 560pp). What great choices – every one of them is worth reading under house arrest and still hopes for an answer to the – when you get the time. I remember when one of my favourite question “How can democracy emerge from a profoundly books won this award. It was why I read it. It was Stasiland: authoritarian system?” She gave the first of the BBC Reith Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by local author Anna Funder Lectures recently. If you don't already know the story of her ($26.95 Pb 304pp), whose new novel All That I Am (Tp $29.95) is father's struggle for Burmese independence, you'll find it all due next month. in here too.
If you click on any of the six Subject Tabs at the top of the email If you want another picture of her country, read From the (Fiction, Crime, History, Science, Biography & Bargains), you get a Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey by Pascal Khoo resume of recent arrivals in those sections. It takes a few seconds Thwe ($24.99 Pb 320pp), which we always keep in stock. (I for the computer to search for the information, but it is a very suspect all the Burmese refugees in Sydney know they can useful tool. For instance, there were 44 new arrivals in Fiction, get it here). The author is a member of the Padaung hill 31 in Science, 61 in History and 34 in Biography. We were putting tribe, where women traditionally wore rings to elongate the whole Crime Chronicle under the Crime heading, but will their necks. Pascal eventually got a scholarship to study now just put in recent arrivals, which should suit more people as at Cambridge University and this is his story of his tribe. the entire Crime Chronicle is always available on the website. I Beautifully written. sometimes think there are too many entries in our new database. Are you one of those people who start buying little What a pleasure it is to read a good novel! One I can recommend Christmas presents about now? Can I recommend a lovely to old or young, male or female, is the first novel from Craig little hardback called A Potted History of Vegetables by Sherborne, whose two earlier books were the memoirs Hoi Polloi Lorraine Harrison ($24.99 Hb 128pp incl index). There are ($19.95 Pb 208pp) and Muck ($19.95 Pb 208pp). These received beautiful botanical illustrations among the short, informative good reviews and sold well. Now his first novelThe Amateur articles about vegetables, both new and heritage. You'll see Science of Love ($32.95 Pb 280pp) also reads a bit like a memoir. why you certainly don't eat Mexican Jumping Beans and how It is written in the first person, confessional style, by a handsome to grow and harvest Heirloom Onions. A very nice present young man who is escaping his rural New Zealand childhood and for almost anyone actually, for we all eat our vegetables, looking for an exciting future, first in London and then in rural some more than others. Australia. The tone is quite serious, the pace is cracking and I just couldn't wait to reach the end. Top marks. I suspect Sherborne I've just begun reading A Journey by Tony Blair ($35 Pb 718pp has let the cat out of the bag and this is the way many young incl index), which is written in a very open and frank style. men think! I'm sure I will enjoy it.
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