AUGUST 2015 Surveillance Bernard Keane
They are watching you. Every move you make. Gripping fiction with an edge of terrifying truth - the brilliant and timely debut novel from Crikey's Bernard Keane.
Description 'Veldtech sounded so familiar I searched the WikiLeaks Spy Files.' JULIAN ASSANGE
'They called him an info-terrorist and launched a worldwide hunt for the hacker humiliating the Australian government. But by the time they'd caught their man, there was a new superwarrior in the annals of the Cyber War . . .'
The government is spying on everyone. But who is spying on the government?
A ruthless online activist group called Kittehsaurus Rox has hacked into top-secret Cabinet information and gone public with it, creating widespread panic and embarrassing a government that will stop at nothing to hunt down 'KSR'.
Journalist and cyber-expert Kat Sharpe is chosen by KSR to break news of their operations, and overnight she becomes the media sensation she has always longed to be. But as she gets closer to KSR and its circle of supporters, she can't shake the feeling that something doesn't add up.
Cybersecurity company Veldtech Industries is in line to make a fortune out of the carnage created by the hackers. But they have their own desperate secrets to protect - from the government and from each other.
Surveillance is a thrilling, timely novel about the price we pay for our 'security' and the lengths companies - and governments - will go to hide the truth.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) About the Author ISBN: 9781760113858 Bernard Keane has been Crikey's correspondent in Canberra since 2008, writing on politics, media and economics. He Format: Paperback - C format was educated at the University of Sydney, where he studied history. Before joining Crikey he was a public servant and Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 544 pages speechwriter in transport and communications. He is the author of the ebook War On The Internet and co-author of A
Main Category: F Fiction Short History of Stupid, with Helen Razer, published by Allen & Unwin in 2014. Surveillance is his second book.
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War on the Internet (ebook only, Crikey Shop, 2012) Author now living: Canberra, ACT Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2015 Surveillance 8 copy pack Point of Sale
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Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2015 Endurance Tim Griffiths
A gripping, white-knuckle novel set in the Antarctic and the muddy fields of the Western Front, told through the eyes of real-life adventurer and pioneer Australian photographer Frank Hurley. A moving portrait of the man behind the legend.
Description This novel tells the story of a real-life Australian hero, photographer, explorer and adventurer Frank Hurley. It is a story told through his eyes and in his words, and it reveals a tantalising portrait of the man behind the legend he has become.
Hurley's photographs and documentaries of Douglas Mawson's and Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expeditions, and his astounding images of World War I have been so widely exhibited and reproduced that in many cases they are the principal means by which we have come to see those world-shattering events. His iconic images: of Endurance trapped in an ocean of ice, of men battling the most extreme elements in the Antarctic, and suffering under unthinkable conditions in war are imprinted on the Australian consciousness. One writer has claimed that Frank Hurley 'is the twentieth century'.
Here now is the man, Hurley, telling us of his part in the two ill-fated Antarctic expeditions and recounting tales of great heroism and suffering as he fights for his life among the ice and the elements, and witnesses the worst ravages of war on the Western Front. Endurance is an extraordinary debut novel, a rollicking white-knuckle adventure story that also takes us to the very heart of heroism and sacrifice.
About the Author Tim Griffiths was living in Papua New Guinea when he first came across Frank Hurley's photographs of that country, leading to a long-term interest in the Hurley story. He has had no experiences on the scale of Hurley's adventures and is yet to have an opportunity to visit Antarctica, but has travelled through Europe, Asia and America. He enjoys bushwalking, cross-country skiing, sailing, kayaking, surfing, diving and cycling. Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760111540 Tim lives in Sydney with his wife and four children. He works as a lawyer and arbitrator, and has a keen interest in Format: Paperback - C format Australian history. This is his first novel. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 368 pages
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Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2015 Dog Gone, Back Soon Nick Trout
The gorgeous, hilarious novel from the author of the much-loved bestseller The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs.
Description 'Delightful, endearing, frequently hilarious...reminds us of the truth hidden away in our hearts: loving our animals is a sure way to heal our souls.' Garth Stein, author of The Art of Racing in the Rain
'This is the best writing I've seen in years, comedy and tragedy jostling within a single sentence. Give it your undivided attention.' Country Style
When Dr Cyrus Mills returned home after inheriting his estranged father's veterinary practice, The Bedside Manor for Sick Animals, the last thing he wanted was to stay in Eden Falls a moment longer than absolutely necessary. However the appealingly awkward and eccentric vet quickly found that he actually enjoyed treating animals and getting to know the eccentric residents of the tiny provincial town-especially an attractive and alluring waitress named Amy.
Now Cyrus is determined to make Bedside Manor thrive. Not an easy goal, given that Healthy Paws, the national veterinary chain across town, will stop at nothing to crush its humble competitor. And the rival vet practice isn't Cyrus' only competition. A handsome stranger shows up out of nowhere who clearly has a mysterious past with Amy. To top it off, Cyrus finds himself the guardian of a very unique orphaned dog and smack in the middle of serious small town drama.
This charming companion to the bestselling novel The Patron Saint of Lost Dog, is a wild and delightful ride through one jam- packed week - in which Cyrus must figure out how to outsmart his rivals, win back Amy's heart, solve several tricky veterinary mysteries, find a home for an orphaned dog and detangle himself from an absurd case of mistaken identity. Dog Gone, Back Soon brims with Nick Trout's trademark humour, charm, and captivating tales and intriguing characters, and is proof that all dogs - lost or not, on four feet or two, deserve a second chance.
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Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) Dr Nick Trout graduated from veterinary school at the University of Cambridge in 1989. He is a Diplomate of the American ISBN: 9781925266238 and European Colleges of Veterinary Surgeons and is a staff surgeon at the prestigious Angell Animal Medical Center in Format: Paperback - B format Boston. He is the author of four books, the New York Times bestseller Tell Me Where It Hurts (2009), Love is the Best Dimensions: 198x128mm Medicine (2011), Ever By My Side (2012) and Patron Saint of Lost Dogs (2013); and has been a contributing columnist Extent: 336 pages
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Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2015 The Steady Running of the Hour Justin Go
In this mesmerising debut, a young American discovers he may be heir to the unclaimed estate of an English World War I officer, which launches him on a quest across Europe to uncover the elusive truth.
Description Just after graduating college, Tristan Campbell receives a letter delivered by special courier to his apartment in San Francisco. It contains news that could change Tristan's life forever.
In 1924, an English alpinist named Ashley Walsingham died attempting to summit Mt Everest, leaving his fortune to his former lover, Imogen Soames-Andersson. But the estate was never claimed. Information, recently surfaced, suggests Tristan may be the rightful heir, but unless he can find documented evidence, the fortune will be divided among charitable beneficiaries in less than two months.
In a breathless race from London to the Somme battlefields to the Eastfjords of Iceland, Tristan pieces together the story of a forbidden affair set against the tumult of the First World War and the pioneer British expeditions to Mt Everest. But the more he learns about Ashley and Imogen, the stranger his journey becomes.
Part love story, part historical thriller, The Steady Running of the Hour is utterly compelling, unpredictable, and heartrending.
About the Author Justin Go is thirty-two, raised in California to an American mother and a Japanese father. He has studied history as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley and has received a master's degree in English from University College London. This is his first novel.
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Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2015 The Book of Speculation Erika Swyler
A sweeping and captivating debut novel about a young librarian who is sent a mysterious old book, inscribed with his grandmother's name. What is the book's connection to his family?
Description Simon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home, a house perched on the edge of a cliff that is slowly crumbling into the sea. His parents are long dead, his mother having drowned in the water his house overlooks.
On day, Simon receives a mysterious book from an antiquarian bookseller; it has been sent to him because it is inscribed with the name Verona Bonn, Simon's grandmother.
Simon must unlock the mysteries of the book, and decode his family history, before fate deals its next deadly hand. The Book of Speculation is Erika Swyler's gorgeous and moving debut, a wondrous novel about the power of books, family, and magic.
About the Author Erika Swyler, a graduate of New York University, is a writer and playwright whose work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies. Born and raised on Long Island's north shore, Erika learned to swim before she could walk, and happily spent all her money at travelling carnivals. She is also a baker, photographer and blogger. www.erikaswyler.com
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Corvus AUGUST 2015 The Looking Glass House Vanessa Tait
Vanessa Tait, great-granddaughter of the Alice who inspired Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, tells the fascinating story of the childhood classic's strange beginnings through the eyes of a naive and deceived governess.
Description What happened before Alice fell down the rabbit hole?
Oxford, 1862. As Mary Prickett takes up her post as governess to the daughters of the Dean of Christ Church, she is thrust into a strange new world. Mary is poor and plain and desperate for change but the little girls in her care see and understand far more than their naive new teacher. And there is another problem: Mary does not like children, especially the precocious Alice Liddell.
When Mary meets Charles Dodgson, the Christ Church mathematics tutor, at a party at the Deanery, she wonders if he may be the person to transform her life. Flattered by his attentions, Mary begins to believe that she could be more than just an overlooked, dowdy governess.
One sunny day, as Mary chaperones the Liddells on a punting trip, Mr Dodgson tells the story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. But Mary is determined to become Mr Dodgson's muse and will turn all the lives around her topsy-turvy in pursuit of her obsession.
About the Author Vanessa Tait grew up in Gloucestershire. She went to the University of Manchester and completed a Master's degree in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College. She is the great-granddaughter of Alice Liddell, the little girl who inspired Lewis Carroll to write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The Looking Glass House is her first novel, inspired by family treasures and stories of the 'original' Alice.
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Corvus AUGUST 2015 The Killing Room Christobel Kent
When Sandro Cellini agrees to become head of security for a luxurious private residence overlooking the glittering expanse of Florence, he has no idea of the horrors he is about to uncover...
Description When private investigator Sandro Cellini is invited to attend a glamorous launch party for a luxury residence overlooking the glittering expanse of Florence, he has no idea what he's walking into. Behind the ancient and luxurious facade of Palazzo San Giorgio, there lies a series of terrible secrets; an old torture chamber, hidden for centuries in the bowels of the building, and a much more recent malevolence.
The former head of security for this elite development has just died under suspicious circumstances and Sandro finds himself - quite literally - stepping into dead man's shoes. He soon discovers that other unsavoury incidents have tainted the prestigious opening. When one of the residents is found murdered in her room, events begin to spiral out of control. Sandro must work to untangle the complex web of relationships that exists between residents and staff to unmask a deadly killer.
About the Author Christobel Kent's previous books include The Dead Season, A Time of Mourning, A Party in San Niccolo, Late Season and A Florentine Revenge. She lives near Cambridge with her husband and five children.
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Corvus Pbs AUGUST 2015 A Want of Kindness: A novel of Queen Anne Joanne Limburg
An ambitious, absorbing and authentic historical novel which reimagines Anne's life from child princess in the glittering Restoration court to Queen of England.
Description 'Every time I see the King and the Queen, I am reminded of what it is I have done, and then I am afraid, I am beyond all expression afraid.'
The wicked, bawdy Restoration court is no place for a child princess. Ten-year-old Anne cuts an odd figure: a sickly child, she is drawn towards improper pursuits. Cards, sweetmeats, scandal and gossip with her Ladies of the Bedchamber figure large in her life. But as King Charles's niece, Anne is also a political pawn, who will be forced to play her part in the troubled Stuart dynasty.
As Anne grows to maturity, she is transformed from overlooked Princess to the heiress of England. Forced to overcome grief for her lost children, the political manoeuvrings of her sister and her closest friends and her own betrayal of her father, she becomes one of the most complex and fascinating figures of English history.
About the Author Joanne Limburg was born and grew up in London, at the northern end of the Jubilee Line, but now lives in Cambridge with her husband and son. She has published two collections of poetry with Bloodaxe Books: Feminismo, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and Paraphernalia, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her latest collection is the pamphlet The Oxygen Man, published by Five Leaves Publications. Her latest non-poetry book is The Woman Who Thought Too Much, a memoir about OCD, anxiety and poetry.
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Atlantic AUGUST 2015 Brother's Keeper C. E. Smith
A powerful, sparse debut novel with a moral crux at its heart, Brother's Keeper explores themes of addiction, guilt, forgiveness and redemption.
Description When disgraced American doctor Burkett's twin is murdered while working for a Christian medical charity, Burkett travels to war-torn Khandaros to claim his brother's body. Staring down at the lifeless form in the mortuary, it is as though Burkett is gazing at his own failings. His twin was first and best: the better athlete, better doctor; their father's favourite.
Hooked on prescription drugs and booze, Burkett has little to go home to, and so he agrees to take over his brother's surgical clinic. He struggles through the days, sliding inexorably into a spiral of drug abuse. Then he and his twin's devoutly Christian colleague Nick are taken hostage by Islamic fundamentalists. Forced into withdrawal, Burkett is nursed by Nick, and mutual suspicion blooms into hatred. As their plight becomes ever more desperate, Burkett becomes convinced that their captors are his brother's murderers, and that revenge may be the path to redemption, even if it means death.
Gripping and suspenseful to the last page, Brother's Keeper is a remarkable novel, that vividly and unflinchingly explores pain and healing, empathy and enmity, forgiveness and revenge.
About the Author Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, C.E. Smith studied English at Stanford and medicine at Vanderbilt. In 2013, he won Shakespeare & Company's international Paris Literary Prize. He lives with his wife and children in Louisville, Kentucky, where he works as a radiologist. Brother's Keeper is his first novel.
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Atlantic AUGUST 2015 The King and the Slave Tim Leach
A new novel of the ancient world - in all its splendour and barbarity - from a hotly talented, prize-nominated rising star.
Description Ten years after the fall of Babylon, Cyrus's army is on the march again. His slave Croesus, no longer a young man, accompanies him as always, as does the king's son and heir Cambyses, who has inherited none of his father's diplomacy or charisma and all of his vanity and violence. When the warriors of Persia are unexpectedly crushed in battle Cyrus is put to death, and Cambyses assumes the throne. Croesus, once a king himself, is called upon to guide the young man; but the young man cannot be guided, and after taking offence at an insult by an Egyptian ruler, Cambyses takes the full force of his father's empire to Africa for bloody and brutal vengeance...
About the Author Tim Leach is a graduate of the MA writing course at Warwick University, where he has also taught creative writing on the under-graduate programme. His first novel, The Last King of Lydia, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2013. He lives in Sheffield.
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Atlantic Pbs AUGUST 2015 The Good Doctor Damon Galgut
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker, The Good Doctor is a powerful tale of a friendship overshadowed by betrayal, set against the tawdry hopes and disappointments of a post-apartheid South Africa.
Description Laurence Walters arrives at his rural hospital posting full of optimism. Frank, the disgruntled deputy, is forced to share his room with the new arrival but is determined to stay out of Laurence's ambitious schemes. When the dilapidated hospital is looted, the two men find themselves uneasy allies in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present.
About the Author Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarry, The Good Doctor, The Impostor and In A Strange Room. The Good Doctor was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Dublin/ IMPAC Award, The Impostor was also shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and In a Strange Room was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Cape Town.
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Atlantic Pbs AUGUST 2015 In a Strange Room Damon Galgut
Damon Galgut's masterful Man Booker-shortlisted novel of longing and thwarted desire following one man on three very different journeys.
Description A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels with little purpose, letting the chance encounters of the road dictate his path. But although he knows that he is drifting, he is unable to settle. It is as if, without these encounters, the person he is cannot exist. And yet each journey ends in disaster.
A novel of longing and thwarted desire, rage and compassion, In a Strange Room is an extraordinary evocation of one man's search for love, and a place to call home.
About the Author Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarry, The Good Doctor, The Impostor and In A Strange Room. The Good Doctor was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Dublin/ IMPAC Award, The Impostor was also shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and In a Strange Room was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Cape Town.
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Atlantic Pbs AUGUST 2015 Mr Holmes Mitch Cullin
Paperback edition of Mitch Cullin's novel to tie in with Bill Condon's film starring Ian McKellen, released 2015
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It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind.
But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn't even know he was asking - about life, about love, and about the limits of the mind's ability to know.
Previously published as A Slight Trick of The Mind.
About the Author Mitch Cullin is the author of ten books, including the novel Tideland, the film adaptation of which was directed by Terry Gilliam, and the novel-in-verse, Branches. He lives in California's San Gabriel Valley, and as a teenager was featured in USA Today in 1984 as one of the foremost Holmes fans in the world.
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Canongate Pbs AUGUST 2015 You Don't Have To Live Like This Benjamin Markovits
From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists comes a darkly comic and brutally insightful vision of contemporary America in the wake of the global financial crisis.
Description Ten years out of Yale, with an extra degree from Oxford, and all Greg Marnier has to show for it is a rambling academic career that has landed him in Aberystwyth. At his college reunion, jetlagged and drunk, he runs into an old friend who offers him an extraordinary way out.
Robert James, wealthy and influential, a success story of the dotcom bubble, wants to become a political player. His plan: to buy up several abandoned neighbourhoods in Detroit - the poster child for urban decline - and build a new America from their boarded-up ruins. For a small investment, Marnier can transform himself into a twenty-first-century pioneer. The realities of life on America's urban frontier soon become apparent. For every hopeful misfit who's come for a fresh start there's a native Detroiter whose patch is being swallowed up by the new colonials. Marnier finds himself caught in the middle of everyone else's battles - between local and outsider, rich and poor, black and white - until a terrible accident forces him to take sides.
About the Author Benjamin Markovits grew up in Texas, London and Berlin. He is the author of six previous novels: The Syme Papers, Either Side of Winter, Imposture, A Quiet Adjustment, Playing Days and Childish Loves. He has published essays, stories, poetry and reviews on subjects ranging from the Romantics to American sports in the Guardian, Granta, The Paris Review and The New York Times, among other publications. He lives in London and teaches creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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Faber Fiction AUGUST 2015 In Bitter Chill Sarah Ward
You can't bury the truth forever
Description Bampton, Derbyshire, January 1978. Two girls go missing: Rachel Jones returns, Sophie Jenkins is never found. Thirty years later: Sophie Jenkins's mother commits suicide.
Rachel Jones has tried to put the past behind her and move on with her life. But news of the suicide re-opens old wounds and Rachel realises that the only way she can have a future is to finally discover what really happened all those years ago.
This is a story about loss and family secrets, and how often the very darkest secrets are those that are closest to you.
About the Author Sarah Ward is an online book reviewer whose blog, Crimepieces (www.crimepieces.com), reviews the best of current crime fiction published around the world. She has also reviewed for Eurocrime and Crimesquad and is a judge for the Petrona Award for Scandinavian translated crime novels. She lives in Derbyshire. Follow Sarah on Twitter @sarahrward1
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Faber Fiction AUGUST 2015 Kitty Peck and the Child of Ill-Fortune Kate Griffin
The sensational follow-up to the CWA-shortlisted Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders.
Description March 1881, Limehouse.
Kitty Peck, a spirited but vulnerable seventeen-year-old, is the reluctant heiress to Paradise, the criminal empire previously overseen by the formidable Lady Ginger. Far from the colour and camaraderie of the music hall where Kitty had been working, this newfound power brings with it isolation and uncertainty. Desperate to reconnect with Joey, her estranged brother, Kitty travels to Paris. Reunited at last, she is unable to refuse his request to take a child back to London. Within days of her return it's clear that someone has followed them... and this someone is determined to kill the child... and anyone who stands in their way.
Kitty Peck and the Child of Ill-Fortune is a fast-paced historical mystery with breath-taking twists and turns that takes us from the decadent, bohemian world of late 19th-Century Paris to a deadly secret at the heart of the British Empire.
About the Author Kate Griffin was born within the sound of Bow bells, making her a true-born cockney. Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders, Kate's first book, won the Stylist/Faber crime writing competition and was shortlisted for the CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger. Kate's maternal family lived in Victorian Limehouse and her grandmother told her many stories of life around the docks. Kate lives in St Albans.
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Faber Fiction AUGUST 2015 Humor Stanley Donwood
The stories of Stanley Donwood collected for the first time in one beautiful and collectible volume.
Description There was disaster coming; that was blindingly obvious. Life had been almost ridiculously easy, and now things were going to get worse. Much, much worse. I couldn't believe that I had ever thought otherwise. I couldn't believe that I'd ever thought that there could be any other outcome.
Stanley Donwood's fictional universe is one in which anything can happen, and frequently does. Disappearances (people, things) are everyday. Relationships are unstable. Nature has turned unnatural. It's the kind of world (the kind of book) in which you might walk into a room only to find, that room, has ... no ... floor.
A substantial selection of Stanley's fiction over the past ten years or so, Humor shows a contemporary master of the micro narrative. Apocalyptic, funny, unsettling and hallucinogenic in their intensity, Stanley Donwood's stories present a series of haunting episodes in a world drained of meaning, sense and consequence.
About the Author Stanley Donwood is an artist. He has produced record covers for Radiohead and exhibited worldwide.
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Faber Fiction AUGUST 2015 Humor Stanley Donwood
The stories of Stanley Donwood collected for the first time in this beautiful limited edition.
Description There was disaster coming; that was blindingly obvious. Life had been almost ridiculously easy, and now things were going to get worse. Much, much worse. I couldn't believe that I had ever thought otherwise. I couldn't believe that I'd ever thought that there could be any other outcome.
Stanley Donwood's fictional universe is one in which anything can happen, and frequently does. Disappearances (people, things) are everyday. Relationships are unstable. Nature has turned unnatural. It's the kind of world (the kind of book) in which you might walk into a room only to find, that room, has ... no ... floor.
A substantial selection of Stanley's fiction over the past ten years or so, Humor shows a contemporary master of the micro narrative. Apocalyptic, funny, unsettling and hallucinogenic in their intensity, Stanley Donwood's stories present a series of haunting episodes in a world drained of meaning, sense and consequence.
About the Author Stanley Donwood is an artist. He has produced record covers for Radiohead and exhibited worldwide.
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Faber Fiction AUGUST 2015 Holloway Robert Macfarlane, Dan Richards illustrated by Stanley Donwood
A beautiful piece of nature writing, illustrated with spectacular etchings of woodland scenes.
Description Holloway - a hollow way, a sunken path. A route that centuries of foot-fall, hoof-hit, wheel-roll and rain-run have harrowed deep down into bedrock.
In July 2005, Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin travelled to explore the holloways of South Dorset's sandstone. They found their way into a landscape of shadows, spectres and great strangeness. Six years later, after Deakin's early death, Macfarlane returned to the holloway with the artist Stanley Donwood and writer Dan Richards. The book is about those journeys and that landscape.
About the Author Robert Macfarlane is the author of Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places and The Old Ways. Stanley Donwood is an artist. He has produced record covers for Radiohead and has exhibited worldwide. Dan Richards is a writer. Hisfirst book, The Beechwood Airship Interviews, features champagne, arson, cold baths, demolition and chainsaws.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9780571310661 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 197x130mm Extent: 48 pages Main Category: WTL Travel Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback AUGUST 2015 White Crocodile K. T. Medina
'An exciting first novel, from a huge new talent.' - Mo Hayder
Description Every so often a thriller appears that offers more to the reader than just entertainment. White Crocodile is just that.
When emotionally damaged mine-clearer Tess Hardy travels to Cambodia to find out the truth behind her ex-husband's death, she doesn't know much about the country or its beliefs.
On arrival, she finds that teenage mothers are going missing, while others are being found mutilated and murdered. As local superstitions breed fear, Tess is drawn into a web of lies that stretches from Cambodia to another murder in England, and a violent secret twenty years old.
About the Author While studying for a degree in Psychology, K. T. Medina joined the Territorial Army where she spent five years in the Royal Engineers. After leaving the TA she worked in publishing as Managing Editor, Land Based Weapon Systems, at Jane's Information Group. Whilst at Jane's she spent time in the Middle-East and in Cambodia, working with mine clearance charities to provide them with information that would help mine clearers deal with complex mines and IEDs more safely in the field. She lives in London with her husband and three children.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571310760 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FH Thriller / Suspense Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback AUGUST 2015 The Baklava Club: Yashim the Ottoman Detective Jason Goodwin
Jason Goodwin's much-loved Inspector Yashim returns to solve one final mystery - his most thrilling and most colourful case yet.
Description In nineteenth-century Istanbul, a Polish prince has been kidnapped. His assassination has been bungled and his captors have taken him to an unused farmhouse. Little do they realize that their revolutionary cell has been penetrated by their enemies, who use the code name La Piuma (the Feather).
Yashim is convinced that the prince is alive. But he has no idea where, or who La Piuma is - and has become dangerously distracted by falling in love. As he draws closer to the prince's whereabouts and to the true identity of La Piuma, Yashim finds himself in the most treacherous situation of his career: can he rescue the prince along with his romantic dreams?
Jason Goodwin's bestselling 'Yashim' series has been published across the globe and received huge critical acclaim. In The Baklava Club, Goodwin takes Yashim on an adventure like no other, through the stylish, sensual world of Ottoman Istanbul.
About the Author Jason Goodwin is the author of two non-fiction books, The Gunpowder Gardens: Travels in China and India in Search of Tea and On Foot to the Golden Horn, which won the John Llewellyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize in 1993. His first Yashim mystery, The Janissary Tree, won the 2007 Edgar Allan Poe Award and became an international bestseller; the fourth book in the series, An Evil Eye, was published in 2011 to great critical acclaim. Across the series, his books have been translated into over forty languages. He lives in Dorset with his wife Kate and their four children.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571239955 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 300 pages
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Faber Paperback AUGUST 2015 In Love and War Alex Preston
Alex Preston's third novel is a tale of love, heroism and resistance set against the stunning backdrop of 1930s Florence.
Description A tale of love, heroism and resistance set against the stunning backdrop of 1930s Florence, In Love and War weaves fact and fiction to create a thrilling portrait of a man swept up in the chaos of war.
Desperate to prove himself to his politician father, Esmond Lowndes is sent to Italy to forge ties between the British Union of Fascists and Mussolini's government. He is also escaping the disgrace of a scandalous love affair. In Florence, he discovers art and passion amongst eccentric expatriates and glamorous locals.
But with the coming of war, he leaves his past behind and joins the Florentine resistance. He falls in love with a fellow freedom fighter and together they take on the malevolent Mario Carita, head of the Fascist secret police. Esmond is at the centre of assassination plots, shoot-outs and car chases, culminating in a final mission of extraordinary daring.
A novel of art and letters, of bawdy raconteurs and dashing spies, In Love and War takes you deep into the hidden heart of history. It is a tale both epic and intimate, harrowing and life-affirming.
About the Author Alex Preston was born in 1979 and lives with his family in London. His first novel, This Bleeding City, was an international bestseller, won the Spear's and Edinburgh first book awards and was selected as one of Waterstones New Voices 2010. His second, The Revelations, was shortlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize. In Love and War is his third novel. Preston writes and reviews for GQ, the Observer and the New Statesman and appears regularly on BBC television and radio. He is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Kent.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571279463 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages
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Faber Paperback AUGUST 2015 Their Lips Talk of Mischief Alan Warner
Their Lips Talk of Mischief, Alan Warner's first novel with Faber, is a darkly comic tale of hope and humanity against the grim urban and political landscape of Margaret Thatcher's Britain.
Description High up in the Conrad Flats that loom bleakly over Acton, two future stars of the literary scene - or so they assume - are hard at work, tapping out words of wit and brilliance between ill-paid jobs writing captions for the Cat Calendar 1985 and blurbs for trashy novels with titles like Brothel of the Vampire. Just twenty-one but already well entrenched in a life eked out on dole payments, pints and dollops of porridge and pasta, Llewellyn and Cunningham don't have it too bad: a pub on the corner, a misdirected parental allowance, and the delightful company of Aoife, Llewellyn's model fiancee, mother of his young baby - and the woman of Cunningham's increasingly vivid dreams.
Alan Warner's superb new novel sees the author of Morvern Callar at the top of his game.
About the Author Alan Warner is the author of seven previous novels: Morvern Callar, which was made into a film starring Samantha Morton. These Demented Lands, The Sopranos, The Man Who Walks, The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven, The Stars in the Bright Sky, which was longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, and The Deadman's Pedal, which won the 2013 James Tait Black Prize.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571311286 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages
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Faber Paperback AUGUST 2015 The Waste Land: (Anniversary edition) T.S. Eliot
A striking edition of this modernist masterpiece, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of T. S. Eliot's death.
Description Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilization between the two World Wars.
About the Author Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He came to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571325740 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 48 pages
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Faber Poetry AUGUST 2015 Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014 Simon Armitage
Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014 by Simon Armitage is the essential selection of poems from one of Britain's foremost contemporary poets.
Description When Simon Armitage burst on to the poetry scene in 1989 with his spectacular debut Zoom!, readers were introduced to an exceptional new talent who would reshape the landscape of contemporary poetry in the years to come. Now, twenty- five years on, Simon Armitage's reputation as one of the nation's most original, most respected and best-loved poets seems secure. Paper Aeroplane: Poems 1989-2014 is the author's own selection from across a quarter-century of work, from his debut to the latest, uncollected work. Drawing upon all of his award-winning poetry collections, including Kid, Book of Matches, The Universal Home Doctor and Seeing Stars, this generous selection provides an essential gathering of this most thrilling of poets, and is key reading for students and general readers alike.
About the Author Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield. A recipient of numerous prizes and awards, he has published ten collections of poetry, including Selected Poems (2001), Seeing Stars (2010) and his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007). A broadcaster and presenter, he also writes extensively for television and radio, is the author of two novels, the bestselling memoir All Points North (1998) and Walking Home (2012), his poetic journey along the Pennine Way. In 2010 he received the CBE for services to poetry.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780571310692 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages
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Faber Poetry AUGUST 2015 Fire Songs David Harsent
Fire Songs is the new collection from award-winning poet David Harsent.
Description Winner of the 2014 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry
'A writer we should treasure.' Charlotte Runcie, Daily Telegraph
'With every book [Harsent's] stature as a truly significant writer becomes more undeniable.' Fiona Sampson, Independent
The poems in David Harsent's new collection, whether single poems, dramatic sequences, or poems that 'belong to one another', share a dark territory and a sometimes haunting, sometimes steely, lyrical tone. Throughout the book - in the stark biography of 'Songs from the Same Earth', the troubling fractured narrative of 'A Dream Book', the harrowing lines of connection in four poems each titled 'Fire', or the cheek-by-jowl shudder of 'Sang the Rat' - Harsent writes, as always, with passion and a sureness of touch.
About the Author David Harsent has published ten collections of poetry. The most recent, Night (2011), was a Poetry Book Society Choice, was shortlisted for the Costa, Forward and T. S. Eliot poetry prizes and won the Griffin International Poetry Prize.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571316083 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 80 pages
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Faber Poetry AUGUST 2015 Happiness Jack Underwood
Self-aware and sad, unpredictable and funny, Happiness is an exciting and accomplished debut by award- winning poet Jack Underwood.
Description Happiness is the long-anticipated debut collection from the award-winning Jack Underwood. With the sort of smart, persuasive voice associated with Simon Armitage and Michael Donaghy, these poems worry at the world in search of consolation, or else meet life's absurdity and strangeness half-way; whether sitting proudly atop an unexploded bomb, or injecting blood under the skin of a banana, playfulness and imagination are vehicles for confronting 'the fearful and forgotten things I've lied to myself about'. Here are poems which address anxiety about fatherhood, remorse for lost lovers and friends, or mourn for a miscarried sibling.
Happiness is a collection preoccupied with the ephemerality of happiness itself, at the ever-present possibility of its departure, and the ways we try to grasp and keep hold of it. 'Every single thought I'm having is about LOVE', here meaning both the pleasure and panic of love, its peculiarity; love as a feeling of risk, love for one's own body, familiar yet estranged, of 'cack-handed LOVE at his console', love like 'pausing to move a snail somewhere safer in the rain'.
About the Author Jack Underwood was born in Norwich in 1984. He graduated from Norwich School of Art and Design in 2005 before completing an MA and PhD in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College, where he now teaches English Literature and Creative Writing. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2007 and Faber published his debut pamphlet in 2009 as part of the Faber New Poet series. He also teaches at the Poetry School, co- edits the anthology series Stop Sharpening Your Knives, and reviews for Poetry London and Poetry Review.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780571313617 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 64 pages
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Faber Poetry AUGUST 2015 Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday Life William Sieghart
Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday Life - edited by William Sieghart - is a book for every occasion, to let the spirit soar, whether you are looking for inspiration or expression, reflection or recognition.
Description Faster, higher, stronger: winning words are those that inspire you on to Olympian goals. From falling in love to overcoming adversity, celebrating a new born or learning to live with dignity: here is a book to inspire and to thrill through life's most magical moments. From William Shakespeare to Carol Ann Duffy, our most popular and best loved poets and poems are gathered in one essential collection, alongside many lesser known treasures that are waiting to be discovered. These are poems that help you to see the miraculous in the commonplace and turn the everyday into the exceptional - to discover, in Kipling's words, that yours is the Earth and everything that's in it.
About the Author Winning Words is a public art project designed to create new encounters with poetry during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and to create a legacy of inspiring words for future generations. It is a major project of the Forward Arts Foundation, one of the UK's leading organisations for poetry and aims to 'carpet the nation in poetry', engaging millions of people with the written word in new and unique contexts. The Forward Arts Foundations' other major projects include the prestigious Forward Prize for poetry and National Poetry Day.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571325702 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages
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Faber Poetry AUGUST 2015 The Absence of War David Hare
'Britain's leading contemporary playwright.' The Times
Description The Absence of War offers a meditation on the classic problems of leadership, and is the third part of a critically acclaimed trilogy of plays (Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges) about British institutions.
Its unsparing portrait of a Labour Party torn between past principles and future prosperity, and of a deeply sympathetic leader doomed to failure, made the play hugely controversial and prophetic when it was first presented at the National Theatre, London, in 1993.
About the Author David Hare is a playwright and filmmaker. His stage plays include Plenty, Pravda (with Howard Brenton) Racing Demon, Skylight, Amy's View, Via Dolorosa, Stuff Happens, South Downs, The Absence of War and The Judas Kiss. His films for cinema and television include Wetherby, The Hours, Damage, The Reader and the Worricker trilogy: Page Eight, Turks & Caicos and Salting the Battlefield. He has written English adaptations of plays by Pirandello, Chekhov, Brecht, Schnitzler, Lorca, Gorky and Ibsen. For fifteen years he was an Associate Director of the National Theatre.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780571325894 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 96 pages
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Faber Plays AUGUST 2015 Uncle Vanya Anton Chekhov, translated by Samuel Adamson
Samuel Adamson's translation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya is a dark and funny exploration of cross- purposed love, bitter jealousy and a dysfunctional family.
Description Tea's cold, lunch is late and the great Professor has turned out to be a fraud - for Uncle Vanya, life has gone wonky, it's gone to hell.
Only one thing can save him - a glamorous woman's love. But she's not interested either. And what's worse, she's married to the Professor.
Samuel Adamson new version of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya - a dark and funny exploration of cross- purposed love, bitter jealousy and a dysfunctional family - opened at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, in February 2015.
About the Author Anton Chekhov, Russian dramatist and short-story writer, was born in 1860, the son of a grocer and the grandson of a serf. After graduating in medicine from Moscow University in 1884, he began to make his name in the theatre with the one-act comedies The Bear, The Proposal and The Wedding. His earliest full- length plays, Ivanov (1887) and The Wood Demon (1889), were not successful, and The Seagull, produced in 1896, was a failure until a triumphant revival by the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898. This was followed by Uncle Vanya (1899), Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry Orchard (1904), shortly after the production of which Chekhov died. The first English translations of his plays were performed within five years of his death.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571325917 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 80 pages
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Faber Plays AUGUST 2015 Signs for Lost Children Sarah Moss
From the author of Night Waking, a powerful novel about the dangers of the human mind and the eternal fragility of love, set between Japan and England.
Description Only weeks into their marriage a young couple embark on a six-month period of separation. Tom Cavendish goes to Japan to build lighthouses and his wife Ally, Doctor Moberley-Cavendish, stays and works at the Truro asylum. As Ally plunges into the institutional politics of mental health, Tom navigates the social and professional nuances of late 19th century Japan. With her unique blend of emotional insight and intellectual profundity, Sarah Moss builds a novel in two parts from Falmouth to Tokyo, two maps of absence; from Manchester to Kyoto, two distinct but conjoined portraits of loneliness and determination. An exquisite continuation of the story of Bodies of Light, Signs for Lost Children will amaze Sarah Moss's many fans.
About the Author Sarah Moss was educated at Oxford University and is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick. She is the author of three novels: Cold Earth (Granta 2010), Night Waking (Granta 2012), which was selected for the Fiction Uncovered Award in 2011, and Bodies of Light (Granta 2014); and the co-author of Chocolate: A Global History. She spent 2009-10 as a visiting lecturer at the University of Reykjavik, and wrote an account of her time there in Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland (Granta 2012), which was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2013.
Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781783781058 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 368 pages
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Granta AUGUST 2015 Bodies of Light Sarah Moss
From the acclaimed author of Night Waking comes this beautiful and nuanced historical novel about maternal failures, sibling affection and the everyday savagery of family.
Description Bodies of Light is a deeply poignant tale of a psychologically tumultuous nineteenth century upbringing set in the atmospheric world of Pre-Raphaelitism and the early suffrage movement.
Ally (older sister of May in Night Waking), is intelligent, studious and engaged in an eternal and losing - battle to gain her mother's approval and affection. Her mother, Elizabeth, is a religious zealot, keener on feeding the poor and saving prostitutes than on embracing the challenges of motherhood. Even when Ally wins a scholarship and is accepted as one of the first female students to read medicine in London, it still doesn't seem good enough.
The first in a two-book sequence, Bodies of Light will propel Sarah Moss into the upper echelons of British novelists. It is a triumphant piece of historical fiction and a profoundly moving master class in characterisation.
About the Author Sarah Moss was educated at Oxford University and is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick. She is the author of two novels: Cold Earth (Granta 2010), and Night Waking (Granta 2012), which was selected for the Fiction Uncovered Award in 2011; and the co-author of Chocolate: A Global History. She spent 2009-10 as a visiting lecturer at the University of Reykjavik, and wrote an account of her time there in Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland (Granta 2012), which was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2013.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781847089090 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages
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Granta Paperbacks AUGUST 2015 Without the Moon Cathi Unsworth
Val McDermid meets Kate Summerscale in this atmospheric crime novel set in wartime London.
Description Hush, hush, hush
Here comes the Bogeyman ...
London during the long, dark days of the Blitz: a city outwardly in ruins, weakened by exhaustion and rationing. But behind the blackout, the old way of life continues: in the music halls, pubs and cafes, soldiers mix with petty crooks, stage magicians with lonely wives, scandal-hungry reporters with good-time girls - and DCI Edward Greenaway keeps a careful eye on everyone.
Out on the streets, something nastier is stirring: London's prostitutes are being murdered, their bodies left mutilated to taunt the police. And in the shadows Greenaway's old adversaries in organised crime are active again, lured in by rich pickings on the black market. As he follows a bloody trail through backstreets and boudoirs, Greenaway must use all his skill - and everything he knows about the city's underworld - to stop the slaughter.
About the Author Cathi Unsworth began a career in journalism at nineteen on the music weekly Sounds, and has since worked for many music, arts, film and alternative lifestyle journals. She is the author of four other novels, Weirdo [9781846687938] The Not Knowing [9781852428921], The Singer [9781846686405] and Bad Penny Blues [9781846686788], and the editor of the award-winning crime compendium London Noir, all published by Serpent's Tail. She lives in London.
Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781846689864 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 352 pages
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Serpents Tail AUGUST 2015 The Book of Speculation Erika Swyler
A sweeping and captivating debut novel about a young librarian who is sent a mysterious old book, inscribed with his grandmother's name. What is the book's connection to his family?
Description Simon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home, a house perched on the edge of a cliff that is slowly crumbling into the sea. His parents are long dead, his mother having drowned in the water his house overlooks.
On day, Simon receives a mysterious book from an antiquarian bookseller; it has been sent to him because it is inscribed with the name Verona Bonn, Simon's grandmother.
Simon must unlock the mysteries of the book, and decode his family history, before fate deals its next deadly hand. The Book of Speculation is Erika Swyler's gorgeous and moving debut, a wondrous novel about the power of books, family, and magic.
About the Author Erika Swyler, a graduate of New York University, is a writer and playwright whose work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies. Born and raised on Long Island's north shore, Erika learned to swim before she could walk, and happily spent all her money at travelling carnivals. She is also a baker, photographer and blogger. www.erikaswyler.com
Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781782397755 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x156mm Extent: 352 pages
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Corvus AUGUST 2015 The Looking Glass House Vanessa Tait
Vanessa Tait, great-granddaughter of the Alice who inspired Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, tells the fascinating story of the childhood classic's strange beginnings through the eyes of a naive and deceived governess.
Description What happened before Alice fell down the rabbit hole?
Oxford, 1862. As Mary Prickett takes up her post as governess to the daughters of the Dean of Christ Church, she is thrust into a strange new world. Mary is poor and plain and desperate for change but the little girls in her care see and understand far more than their naive new teacher. And there is another problem: Mary does not like children, especially the precocious Alice Liddell.
When Mary meets Charles Dodgson, the Christ Church mathematics tutor, at a party at the Deanery, she wonders if he may be the person to transform her life. Flattered by his attentions, Mary begins to believe that she could be more than just an overlooked, dowdy governess.
One sunny day, as Mary chaperones the Liddells on a punting trip, Mr Dodgson tells the story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. But Mary is determined to become Mr Dodgson's muse and will turn all the lives around her topsy-turvy in pursuit of her obsession.
About the Author Vanessa Tait grew up in Gloucestershire. She went to the University of Manchester and completed a Master's degree in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College. She is the great-granddaughter of Alice Liddell, the little girl who inspired Lewis Carroll to write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The Looking Glass House is her first novel, inspired by family treasures and stories of the 'original' Alice.
Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781782396543 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 210x148mm Extent: 304 pages
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Corvus AUGUST 2015 A Want of Kindness: A novel of Queen Anne Joanne Limburg
An ambitious, absorbing and authentic historical novel which reimagines Anne's life from child princess in the glittering Restoration court to Queen of England.
Description 'Every time I see the King and the Queen, I am reminded of what it is I have done, and then I am afraid, I am beyond all expression afraid.'
The wicked, bawdy Restoration court is no place for a child princess. Ten-year-old Anne cuts an odd figure: a sickly child, she is drawn towards improper pursuits. Cards, sweetmeats, scandal and gossip with her Ladies of the Bedchamber figure large in her life. But as King Charles's niece, Anne is also a political pawn, who will be forced to play her part in the troubled Stuart dynasty.
As Anne grows to maturity, she is transformed from overlooked Princess to the heiress of England. Forced to overcome grief for her lost children, the political manoeuvrings of her sister and her closest friends and her own betrayal of her father, she becomes one of the most complex and fascinating figures of English history.
About the Author Joanne Limburg was born and grew up in London, at the northern end of the Jubilee Line, but now lives in Cambridge with her husband and son. She has published two collections of poetry with Bloodaxe Books: Feminismo, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and Paraphernalia, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her latest collection is the pamphlet The Oxygen Man, published by Five Leaves Publications. Her latest non-poetry book is The Woman Who Thought Too Much, a memoir about OCD, anxiety and poetry.
Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781782395850 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 210x148mm Extent: 464 pages
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Atlantic AUGUST 2015 Beautiful Screaming of Pigs Damon Galgut
An intense and sizzling novel seething with betrayal and political upheaval from the twice Man Booker- shortlisted author.
Description A year ago Patrick Winter was in Namibia completing his military service. Now, during the first free elections, Patrick has returned to the country he defended; the place where he fell in love for the first and only time. With the country poised to change forever, Patrick is forced to revisit his past and scale the wall that he has built around his painful memories of love, war and loss.
About the Author Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarry, The Good Doctor, The Impostor and In A Strange Room. The Good Doctor was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Dublin/ IMPAC Award, The Impostor was also shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and In a Strange Room was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Cape Town.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781782396239 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198 x129mm Extent: 192 pages
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Atlantic Pbs AUGUST 2015 The Impostor Damon Galgut
A gripping, claustrophobic novel of guilty secrets, obsession and self-reinvention on the African Savannah from the twice Man Booker-shortlisted author.
Description When Adam moves into an abandoned house on the dusty edge of town, he is hoping to recover from the loss of his job and his home in the city. But when he meets Canning - a shadowy figure from his childhood - and Canning's enigmatic and beautiful wife, a sinister new chapter in his life begins. Canning has inherited a vast fortune and built for himself a giant folly in the veld, a magical place of fantasy and dreams that seduces Adam and transforms him absolutely, violently - and perhaps forever.
Damon Galgut's magnificent novel evokes a hot and cruel and claustrophobic world, in which sex and death are never far from the surface.
About the Author Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarry, The Good Doctor, The Impostor and In A Strange Room. The Good Doctor was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Dublin/ IMPAC Award, The Impostor was also shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and In a Strange Room was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Cape Town.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781782396284 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198 x129mm Extent: 224 pages
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Atlantic Pbs AUGUST 2015 The Quarry Damon Galgut
A breathtaking parable of death and deception from the twice Booker-shortlisted author.
Description On a lonely stretch of road a nameless man commits a murder. The victim is a religious minister on his way to take up a post in a nearby town. The murderer decides to steal the dead man's identity in order to conceal the crime. But one of his first duties as the new minister is to bury a body that has just been discovered in suspicious circumstances. As the corpse is laid to rest the manhunt begins...
In The Quarry, Galgut's tender prose combines with the power of myth to create a devastating drama, alive with tension.
About the Author Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarry, The Good Doctor, The Impostor and In A Strange Room. The Good Doctor was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Dublin/ IMPAC Award, The Impostor was also shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and In a Strange Room was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Cape Town.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781782396307 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198 x129mm Extent: 176 pages
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Atlantic Pbs AUGUST 2015 Small Circle of Beings Damon Galgut
An exquisite early work by the twice Man Booker-shortlisted Damon Galgut, 'a novelist of great and growing power' (Rian Malan).
Description Damon Galgut's first collection of stories transports us to 1980s South Africa where politics begins at home.
The family - that small circle of beings where love should flourish - can be an arid and alienating territory where hatred and violence may ignite. The title novella is set in a house far out of town, at the end of a dust road that rises up into the mountains. The desperate bondage of family life is revealed to a mother as she sits at her son's bedside where he lies sick, perhaps dying. Galgut's understated prose unpicks the emotional paradoxes of family life with a surprising, surreal twist.
In a world where some of the most intimate relationships are those between strangers, Small Circle of Beings describes how children must learn to pull away from their parents if they are to find their own way.
About the Author Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarry, The Good Doctor, The Impostor and In A Strange Room. The Good Doctor was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Dublin/ IMPAC Award, The Impostor was also shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and In a Strange Room was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Cape Town.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781782396314 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198 x129mm Extent: 224 pages
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Atlantic Pbs AUGUST 2015 A Goat's Song Dermot Healy
A profoundly moving novel about the destructive effects that drink, and regret for the past can have on a relationship.
Description In a wind-battered Mayo cottage, playwright Jack Ferris tries to salvage something from his broken love affair with Catherine Adams. Drink and despair drove her away; can his imagination call her back? But as he summons up her past, Jack finds he has also called up Catherine's father and a whole dangerous world of opposed traditions.
About the Author Dermot Healy was a poet, novelist and dramatist. He lived in County Sligo and was the author of A Goat's Song, Sudden Times, The Bend for Home and Long Time, No See. He won the Hennessy Award (twice), the Tom Gallon Award, the Encore Award and the AWB Vincent American Ireland Fund Literary Award. He died in 2014.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571281817 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 416 pages
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Faber Paperback AUGUST 2015 Sudden Times Dermot Healy
Dermot Healy's highly acclaimed novel, now in a stunning new package.
Description Ollie is back home in Sligo, but his mind is still in London. He is keeping life simple, dealing with trolleys in the supermarket, dossing with some art students, treading quietly on the stairs, watching himself. But close his eyes and he's back in the city with his pal Marty, queuing for jobs on building sites and drinking in The Lag. At night the terror closes in: the gangers, the protection rackets, Scots Bob and Silver John, his brother Redmond. Finally, he realises that he must go back and face his ghosts.
About the Author Dermot Healy was a poet, novelist and dramatist. He lived in County Sligo and was the author of A Goat's Song, Sudden Times, The Bend for Home and Long Time, No See. He won the Hennessy Award (twice), the Tom Gallon Award, the Encore Award and the AWB Vincent American Ireland Fund Literary Award. He died in 2014.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571281862 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages
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Faber Paperback AUGUST 2015 Jefferson's Garden Timberlake Wertenbaker
Jefferson's Garden by Timberlake Wertenbaker premiered at Watford Palace Theatre in February 2015.
Description America. 1776.
Christian is a Quaker. His family came to America to live in peace. But he is a young man fired up by dreams of revolution. Should he defy his community and pick up a gun?
Thomas Jefferson is an idealist, with a vision of liberty for all. But America is a fractured coalition of states, in a bloody war for independence. How will he balance the ideal with the reality?
Susanna was born a slave. But the British promise liberation for those who join their fight against the revolution. Where does true freedom lie?
About the Author Timberlake Wertenbaker's plays include New Anatomies (ICA, London, 1982), Abel's Sister (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, 1984), The Grace of Mary Traverse (Royal Court), which won the Plays and Players Most Promising Playwright Award in 1985, Our Country's Good (Royal Court and Broadway), winner of the Laurence Olivier Play of the Year Award in 1988 and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best New Foreign Play in 1991, The Love of the Nightingale (RSC's Other Place), which won the 1989 Eileen Anderson Central TV Drama Award, Three Birds Alighting on a Field (Royal Court), which won the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, Writers' Guild Award and London Critics' Circle Award in 1992, The Break of Day (Out of Joint production, Royal Court and tour, 1995), After Darwin (Hampstead Theatre, 1998), The Ash Girl (Birmingham Rep, 2000), Credible Witness (Royal Court, 2001), Galileo's Daughter (Theatre Royal, Bath, 2004), Arden City (NT Connections, 2008) and The Line (Arcola Theatre, 2009). She has written the screenplay of The Children, based on the novel by Edith Wharton, and a BBC2 film entitled Do Not Disturb. Translations and adaptations include Marivaux's La Dispute, Jean Anouilh's Leocadia, Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelleas and Melisande for BBC Radio,
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) Ariane Mnouchkine's Mephisto, adapted for the RSC in 1986, Sophocles's The Theban Plays (RSC, 1991), Euripides' ISBN: 9780571325122 Hecuba (ACT, San Francisco, 1995; BBC Radio 3, 2001) and Hippolytus (Riverside Studios, 2009), Eduardo de Filippo's Format: Paperback - B format Filumena (Peter Hall Company at the Piccadilly Theatre, 1998), Pirandello's Come tu mi vuoi, Gabriela Preissova's Dimensions: 198x129mm Jenufa (Arcola Theatre, 2008) and Racine's Brittanicus (Wilton's Music Hall, 2011). Extent: 96 pages
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Faber Plays AUGUST 2015 Death of a Comedian Owen McCafferty
"what if i'm not funny though - what if i go out there and i'm not funny"
Description Steve Johnston, guided and inspired by his girlfriend, is a small-time comedian, raw, original and true. Until he's spotted by an agent, who suggests he could be so much more: his act just needs to change. It's a Faustian pact. As tension builds over the course of four gigs, so too do the audiences. But at what cost?
Death of a Comedian by Owen McCafferty premiered at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, in February 2015 in a co-production with the the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, and Soho Theatre, London.
About the Author Born in 1961, Owen McCafferty lives with his wife, three children and granddaughter in Belfast. His work for the stage includes Shoot the Crow (Druid, Galway, 1997; Royal Exchange, Manchester, 2003), Mojo Mickybo (Kabosh, Belfast, 1998), Closing Time (National Theatre, London, 2002), Cold Comfort (Primecut Productions, Belfast, 2002), Scenes from the Big Picture (National Theatre, London, 2003), Days of Wine and Roses (Donmar Warehouse, 2005), a version of Sophocles' Antigone (Primecut Productions, Belfast, 2008) and The Absence of Women (Lyric Theatre, Belfast, 2010). He has won the Meyer-Whitworth, John Whiting and Evening Standard Awards for New Playwriting.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571325535 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 96 pages
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Faber Plays AUGUST 2015 Poems of the Decade: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry Various
'These annual anthologies of the poems in the running for the Forward Prizes remain the best way of encountering the richness that new poetry has to offer.' Daily Telegraph
Description Agbabi, Armitage, Burnside, Duffy, Dunmore, Fanthorpe, Heaney, Motion, Nagra, O'Brien and more...
Poems of the Decade brings together more than one hundred poems from the many thousands submitted to the Forward Prizes for Poetry in the first decade of the 21st century.
The Forwards are among the world's most coveted poetry honours. They have been awarded annually since 1992 for the Best Collection, Best First Collection and Best Single Poem published in Britain and Ireland, and the roster of winning, shortlisted and highly commended poets regularly juxtaposes familiar canonical names with fresh voices.
This anthology of anthologies draws on the ten Forward Books of Poetry published to accompany the prizes between 2001 and 2010.
It is the perfect introduction to a wide range of contemporary poetry: works that speak of violence, danger and fear, of love and all that opposes love, in forms of language broken and reshaped by the need to communicate what it is to be alive now, here.
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Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780571325405 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 208 pages
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Faber Poetry AUGUST 2015 I Knew the Bride Hugo Williams
I Knew the Bride is the straight-talking, self-deprecating and profoundly moving poetry collection from the renowned poet Hugo Williams.
Description Hugo Williams is rightly cherished for his inimitable fusion of autobiography and irony, and a technical glide that allows his writing to 'slip back to the past as effortlessly as a dreamer' (The Times).
I Knew the Bride is Williams' eleventh collection of poems, and his first since West End Final was shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot and Forward prizes for poetry in 2009. This new volume bears - and lays bare - those qualities that have become so characteristic of his work: his unflinching survey of his childhood and adult life alike, alighting on moments of vivacity from his upbringing in a theatrical family in the 1940s and 50s (the title poem a touching tribute to his late sister) through to the romantic peaks and pains of his adult years. Straight-talking, self-deprecating and funny, these recklessly accountable inspections are set against a Williams-esk miscellany of day-to-day backdrops that readers have come to treasure: of record collections, kitchen sinks, shopping bicycles, hotels, bedrooms. But I Knew the Bride is no mere rehearsal of old lives lived; instead it takes the author and his readers into startling new terrain in a series of brave, painful and profoundly moving poems 'From the Dialysis Ward', in which the author records his own ongoing hospital treatment with a fearless vulnerability that makes this collection of poems a courageous and inspiring read.
About the Author Hugo Williams was born in 1942 and grew up in Sussex. He worked on the London Magazine from 1961 to 1970, since when he has earned his living as a journalist and travel writer. Billy's Rain won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1999. His Collected Poems was published by Faber in 2002 and his last collection, Dear Room, was published in 2006. He writes a freelance column for the TLS and lives in London.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571308897 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 80 pages
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Faber Poetry AUGUST 2015 How's Your Father Rose Boyt
'Rose Boyt writes with a vivid physical immediacy that can take the breath away. She is an original, with her own strange magic.' The Independent
Description 'I am smiling. It ain't just me listening to our Maggie. Her voice carries all over the flats. I imagine all the women on our estate what have sons and daughters and husbands like it all sitting up and listening to hear what she says you just let him shit on you makes you so weak you ain't no good to no cunt. I think about myself and my Tony. I picture all the women down our way what suffer and turn a blind eye listening to our Maggie and finding the strength to sling their loved ones out on the street and slamming the door and getting on with their life. How women can stand up for ourselves and say no what I don't think is a lot to ask. Do you?'
What goes on behind closed doors? Hows Your Father tells the story of four generations of one Hackney family on a rollercoaster ride of drugs, violence, infidelity and the redeeming joys of motherhood.
About the Author Rose Boyt was born in London. As a child she lived on a sailing ship taking cargoes round Scandinavia, and then emigrated to Trinidad, from where the family was repatriated. She has lived in London ever since. Her previous books are Rose and Sexual Intercourse.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781780722306 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages
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Faber Short Books AUGUST 2015 What My Daughters Taught Me Joseph Wakim
A heartwarming memoir of a widower bringing up his three daughters - and the precious life lessons they taught him along the way.
Description 'Without a word spoken, mothers effortlessly read a room, gauging its temperature, scanning their children's faces and measuring their heartbeats ... This is the language of love, a language that should not be the monopoly of mothers. It is a language that we men can reclaim and relearn, as it lies dormant within us, waiting to be brought back to life. I was sure that whoever gave women this gift would not have bypassed fathers, in case they ended up like me.'
When Joseph Wakim's wife died of breast cancer in 2003, his three daughters were only eleven, nine and four years old. Despite well-meaning friends, family and even strangers telling him he would need help to bring up his daughters, Joseph followed his heart and did the job his way, trusting that he - and the girls - would know what to do. To stop himself from succumbing to grief and taking his daughters with him, Joseph relied on humour and honesty as they all learned to live again and celebrate life, while honouring the memory of his beloved wife, Nadia.
Twelve years later, the family is thriving, and Joseph and his daughters have learned hard and valuable truths about each other - and themselves. This moving and engaging memoir will touch the hearts of parents and children everywhere, and may even provide some secrets to family harmony that we can all share.
About the Author Joseph Wakim is a widowed father of three daughters. From psychologist to social worker, he founded the Streetwork Project in Adelaide, the Australian Arabic Council, produced TV documentary Zero to Zenith: Arab Contributions Down Under, wrote four satirical comedies that were staged in Melbourne, founded Australia's first Arabic Festival (Mahrajan), was appointed Victoria's youngest Multicultural Affairs Commissioner, and composed music for his band The Heartbeats. He was granted the Violence Prevention Award by Commonwealth Heads of Government in 1996 and the Order of Australia Medal for public campaigns to redress the roots of racism in 2001. His debut book Sorry We Have No Space Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) was 2014 finalist for Australian Christian Book of the Year. He has had over 600 opinion pieces published in all major ISBN: 9781760113926 Australian newspapers and was finalist at the United Nations Australia Association - Media Award 2014 for creating a Format: Paperback - C format 'voice for the voiceless'. Most of his opinion pieces can be viewed via www.josephwakim.com.au and can be followed on Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 288 pages Twitter @WakimJ
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Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2015 The Man Who Saved Smithy: Fighter pilot, pioneer aviator, hero: the life of Sir Gordon Taylor MC, GC Rick Searle
The incredible true story of a largely unsung Australian aviation hero.
Description Patrick Gordon 'Bill' Taylor was a pioneer of Australian aviation. As a fighter pilot during the First World War, he was awarded the Military Cross and discovered a life-long passion for flight and air navigation. Returning to Australia after the war, he became a close friend of Charles Kingsford Smith; they went on to form an incredible flying partnership, setting records around the globe.
It was on a flight across the Tasman in Smithy's famous Southern Cross that Taylor earned the Empire's highest award for civilian bravery, the George Cross. With one engine out of action and another fast running out of oil, Taylor repeatedly climbed out of the cockpit to transfer oil to the stricken engine and keep the Southern Cross flying - all this while suspended over the sea in a howling slipstream.
After the deaths of his friends Charles Ulm and Kingsford Smith in separate accidents, Taylor became Australia's greatest surviving aviator, pioneering vital new trans-oceanic air routes during the Second World War and receiving a knighthood in honour of his services to flight. The Man Who Saved Smithy is the enthralling account of his remarkable life and achievements.
About the Author Rick Searle has been a full-time freelance writer and film maker for almost forty years. He has worked in radio, television and film, and lectured in television writing at the Queensland University of Technology. Rick has had a lifelong interest in aviation, and a long-standing fascination with the life of Australian flyer and navigator Sir Gordon Taylor.
Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781760113407 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages
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Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2015 Tunnel Rats vs the Taliban: How Aussie sappers led the way in the war on terror Jimmy Thomson and Sandy MacGregor
The extraordinary story of Australian sappers on the frontlines of the war in Afghanistan.
Description They were young, they were tough and they were everywhere. They were both the backyard builders and the frontline troops in Australia's war against the Taliban.
This is the powerful story of the sappers, the Army engineers in Afghanistan whose raw courage and skills were inspired by the original Australian Tunnel Rats of the war in Vietnam. These Tunnel Rats of Afghanistan have rooted out the enemy from deep inside their caves and mountain hideouts, have defused thousands of improvised explosive devices (the booby traps and landmines of this most recent of wars), built bridges and schools to win a war of hearts and minds, and fought side by side with special forces commandos and SAS troops. They, too, lost a disproportionate number of their comrades and many returned home with the devastating baggage of war, post-traumatic stress disorder.
Inspiring and action packed, this is the story of a special breed of soldier operating in a modern war against an enemy with medieval morals . . . and bombs triggered by mobile phones. It is a story that connects the unsung heroes of Vietnam with the modern heroes of Afghanistan.
About the Author Jimmy Thomson is a journalist, author and screenwriter. He is the author of Snitch, Watto and Wendell Sailor: Crossing the line, and co-wrote Tunnel Rats and A Sappers' War with Sandy MacGregor. As a young captain Sandy MacGregor, a graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, commanded 3 Field Troop in Vietnam and was awarded the Military Cross. He served in the Army for 30 years, finishing as a colonel in the Reserves.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760113544 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 288 pages
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Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2015 Tunnel Rats vs the Taliban 8 copy pack Point of Sale
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Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2015 Tunnel Rats: The larrikin Aussie legends who discovered the Vietcong's secret weapon Jimmy Thomson with Sandy MacGregor
The thrilling story of the young Australian Army engineers of 3 Field Troop who were the first allied soldiers to risk their lives in the darkness of the Vietcong tunnels of South Vietnam.
Description 'All I could do was prod the earth with my bayonet and shine the light to see if I could find anything. It doesn't matter how small the tunnel is you never know what's around the bend ... You don't know if it's abandoned, you don't know if it's booby trapped and you don't know why the tunnel is there in the first place.'
They were young, they were Australian, they were Army engineers and they were the first allied soldiers to risk their lives in the darkness of the Vietcong tunnels of South Vietnam. Staring death squarely in the face every day, not only did they follow their enemy down into these unknown underground labyrinths, but matched the Vietcong's jungle warfare skills and defused thousands of their clever booby traps.
Off duty, it was a different story. The bad boys of 3 Field Troop were a boozing, brawling, bonking bunch of larrikins, who cut a swathe through the bars and brothels of Saigon, fought American Military Police to a standstill, built a secret casino and booby-trapped their own HQ to teach their officers a lesson.
Thrilling, inspiring and action packed, this is the true story of the unsung heroes of Australia's war in Vietnam. Living up to their motto of 'We Make and We Break', they created the legend of the Tunnel Rats.
About the Author Jimmy Thomson is a journalist, author and screenwriter whose credits include the ABC-TV series Rain Shadow. His most recent book is Snitch: Crooked cops and Kings Cross crims by the man who saw it all.
A graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, as a young captain Sandy MacGregor commanded 3 Field Troop in Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) Vietnam, where he won the Military Cross. He served in the Army for thirty years, finishing as a colonel in the Reserves. ISBN: 9781743317358 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 256 pages
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Sub Category: JW Illustrations: Previous Titles: Jimmy Thomson - Snitch, The Koala Who Bounced, Succeed with Me; Sandy MacGregor - Piece of Mind Author now living: Jimmy Thomson - Kings Cross, Sandy MacGregor - Sydney, NSW Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2015 A Sappers' War: How the legendary Aussie Tunnel Rats fought the Vietcong Jimmy Thomson and Sandy MacGregor
They were the forward scouts, the mine clearers, the bridge builders and the tunnel rats. This is the story of the Sappers in Vietnam.
Description 'We make and we break.'
They were the forward scouts, the mine clearers, the bridge builders and the tunnel rats. They were frequently not just on the front line, but right at the sharp end of the action. They were the legendary Aussie sappers, the army engineers, who were literally everywhere in the fighting against the Vietcong.
This special breed of soldier lived hard and played hard. They were there at the beginning of the war. They were also among the last to leave. And on the way, they fought alongside their mates in infantry and tanks and bore the brunt of the Vietcong's revenge.
To the rest of the world, Vietnam was a conflict of ideologies. On the ground it was a battle of wits and the sappers were at the forefront. This is their story.
About the Author Jimmy Thomson is a journalist, author and screenwriter whose credits include the ABC-TV series Rain Shadow. He is the author of Snitch, Tunnel Rats and Watto.
A graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, as a young captain Sandy MacGregor commanded 3 Field Troop in Vietnam, where he won the Military Cross. He served in the Army for 30 years, finishing as a colonel in the Reserves.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9781743319628 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 280 pages
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Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2015 When We Were Young and Foolish: A memoir of my misguided youth with Tony Abbott, Bob Carr and Kevin Rudd Greg Sheridan
An extraordinary look at the formative years of some of our most prominent and influential politicians.
Description By chance, Greg Sheridan's early life saw him become intimate friends and colleagues with a fascinating list of people who now make up Australia's political leadership. At university Tony Abbott was his best friend; he became close to Peter Costello as well as Labor figures Michael Danby and Michael Easson. As a young journalist on The Bulletin he became friends and colleagues with Bob Carr and Malcolm Turnbull. When he first joined The Australian he was posted to China, there to befriend another future leader, Kevin Rudd.
When We Were Young and Foolish traces Greg's own journey from impoverished childhood in Sydney's inner west, on to his formative years at university and then The Bulletin, and in doing so also illuminates the formative years and experiences of his friends would who go on to be prime ministers, premiers and senior cabinet ministers. It offers new and personal insights into the people they were as students and twenty-somethings, and the events, philosophies, demons and relationships that helped make them the people they are.
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.
Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781760113391 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 384 pages
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Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2015 Graeme Clark: The man who invented the bionic ear Mark Worthing
The story of the man behind one of the truly great inventions of the late 20th century: the cochlear implant which has brought the gift of hearing to thousands of children and adults around the world.
Description As a young man, Graeme Clark read about Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie and other great scientists, little knowing that one day he would join their ranks. After watching his father struggle with hearing problems, Graeme knew he wanted to find a solution to deafness.
Graeme became a surgeon, and his quiet persistence and methodical approach yielded results that fulfilled his childhood dream. Around the world, hundreds of thousands of people have now received the gift of hearing from the cochlear implant he developed. The first major medical 'bionic' implant technology, it has transformed the everyday lives of people who are profoundly deaf. Throughout his career, his belief that the impossible could be achieved, his strong family support and his Christian faith have sustained him through many obstacles, and helped him overcome resistance to his ideas from people who doubted them.
This new biography tells the inspiring story of Graeme's life, and the triumphs and the setbacks behind the invention of the bionic ear.
'I found Mark Worthing's story of Graeme Clark moving and inspiring. It captures the spirit of a truly amazing man who changed the life of our daughter and of many thousands of others in the world.' Li Cunxin, author of Mao's Last Dancer
'An interesting and sometimes moving biography of a fascinating scientific pioneer who helped to bring hearing to the profoundly deaf.' Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) About the Author ISBN: 9781760113155 Mark Worthing is a historian of science and a senior researcher with Lutheran Education Australia, Adelaide. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 240 pages
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Worthing, M. 2004, When Choice Matters: An Introduction to Christian Ethics, Pantaenus Press, Adelaide SA. Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2015 Being an Early Childhood Educator: Bringing theory and practice together Felicity McArdle, Megan Gibson and Lyn Zollo
A practical guide for early childhood teachers on how to make the most of their practicum experience and successfully transition from student teacher to professional.
Description 'This book will be an invaluable resource for pre-service early childhood educators as they prepare not only for their placements but also their future careers. The examples, activities and reflection points are realistically representative of events and contexts across the birth to 8 years age range. These features effectively scaffold the pre-service teacher's preparation and thinking for socially just early childhood teaching.' - Associate Professor Susan Krieg, Early Childhood Program Coordinator, Flinders University
Making the transition from pre-service teacher to professional can be challenging. From field experience placements, or 'pracs', to the early years in the classroom, this text provides a comprehensive and practical guide to help every early childhood student develop their professional expertise and confidence.
The authors prompt students to bring together theories learned at university with ways of working with real children in real settings, framed by the principles of recognising equity and diversity. There is clear guidance on how to be successful 'on prac', including understanding the many roles pre-service teachers will be expected to take on, and the important relationships they need to build. Lesson planning, understanding curriculum documents and fail-safe strategies for teaching in a wide range of situations and with children from wide-ranging backgrounds are all covered in depth. Suggestions for tutorial activities and further reading accompany each chapter, prompting students to engage in critical reflection and self-evaluation, while the 'On track on prac' feature will help pre-service teachers monitor and review their progress. Readers are also provided with insights from 'real world' pre-service students and professional teachers who have mentored many different students on prac.
This is an essential text for all students undertaking practicums and preparing for the first years of their professional Price: $45.00 (NZ$49.99) careers. ISBN: 9781760111182 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 230x176mm About the Author Extent: 240 pages FELICITY MCARDLE teaches undergraduate and postgraduate education students at Queensland University of Main Category: JN Education Technology and Charles Sturt University. She publishes nationally and internationally, and is co-author of The Trouble Sub Category: JN Education Illustrations: with Play. She has led the design and implementation of programs of study for pre- service teachers, and regularly Previous Titles: FM: S. Grieshaber and F. McArdle, The trouble conducts professional learning programs for in-service teachers. with play, Open University Press, 2010. F. McArdle and G. Bolt (eds), Young children, MEGAN GIBSON is a lecturer in the School of Early Childhood, QUT. Her key areas of interest for research and teaching pedagogy and the arts, Routledge, 2013. Author now living: FM: Chelmer QLD; MG: Ashgrove QLD; LZ: New include teacher professionalism, leadership and management, and policy and sustainability. She currently works with pre- Farm QLD. All work in Kelvin Grove QLD. i t h d l d f i l l i ith ti i d t i th l hildh d fi ld Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2015 It Will Get Better: The inspirational true story of one woman's courage to overcome abuse, loss and heartache to create a better life Stella Gibney
The inspirational story of one woman's courage to overcome abuse, loss and heartache to create a better life
Description Stella Gibney grew up in 1960s New Zealand. She was the fifth child in a family of six. But unlike her brothers and sisters, Stella suffered a number of abusive incidents during her formative years.
But Stella was determined not to let years of horrific abusive situations and domestic violence determine her life. She found solace in writing her thoughts down in a series of journals. Through writing she began to understand her feelings and how to gain control of her life. Over the course of 16 journals, Stella relived every moment of her life and managed to deal with the memories and move on with her life in a positive way. Now Stella has completely turned her life around and become the happy, confident person she had always wanted to be.
Today Stella has a happy healthy life with her two loving sons. This is her inspiring story of reclaiming her life and creating a happy home for herself and her two boys.
About the Author Stella Gibney was born in New Zealand in 1960, the fifth child in a family of six. She moved to Australia in 1989 and now lives on Sydney's Northern Beaches where she lives happily with her two sons and works in the hospitality industry.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781925266221 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 256 pages
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Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2015 Cluetopia: The story of 100 years of the crossword David Astle
A celebration of the 100th birthday of the crossword puzzle.
Description Crosswords are not as old as you think. The first one appeared a century ago, the little square keeping in remarkable shape. Cluetopia is here to toast the centenary, whizzing you through 100 years of remarkable clues, across the world, seeking the inside stories.
Come travel to New Guinea, Venezuela and Metropolis: every destination arising from a clue. Encounter love, murder, hoaxes, propaganda. Visit a Maori funeral, a Bass Strait oil-rig, a Russian game show-just some of side-trips locked inside a crossword.
With almost 100 mini-chapters, each one with a clue to crack, Cluetopia is a book for word lovers and puzzle fans. You'll see how crosswords capture the life around them, from prison cells to outer space. A holiday for the head, Cluetopia is as fun, as wild and as wordy as David's previous bestseller, Puzzled.
About the Author David Astle has written two novels, plus five non-fiction works: Cluetopia, Puzzled, One Down, One Missing, Offbeat Australia and Riddledom. Between books, he drives the world to delight and despair as Friday's crossword setter, DA, appearing in both The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Actor Geoffrey Rush, in fact, describes David as 'the Sergeant Pepper of cryptic crosswords - a complete mind fuck'. Which is possibly a compliment. David was the former dictionary bloke on SBS's Letters and Numbers, while his feature stories have tackled luck, lying, drowning and fridge magnets, to name a few topics. His short stories have won several awards, including a trip to Beijing via Dublin as part of the James Joyce Suspended Sentence Prize in 2001.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760112950 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 320 pages
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Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2015 The Best Australian Yarns: and other true stories Jim Haynes
An omnibus from Jim Haynes about the true essence of what makes us Australians - our yarns, collected from every walk of life.
Description Best Australian Yarns is a substantial and definitive collection of factual and fanciful Aussie stories, humour and anecdotes - the result of decades of researching popular Aussie culture and history and yarning to mates and other colourful characters from all parts of Australia and all walks of life.
This collection includes tall stories from the bush, reminiscences from the racetrack and shearing shed, railway yarns, stories from the world of show business, Aboriginal legends and humour, digger yarns from both world wars, ghost stories, monsters, bunyips and yowies... and many things you never knew about our amazing history and the characters who made it - the pioneers, heroes, convicts, bushrangers, eccentrics and brave and forgotten men and women whose fascinating lives and achievements created the Aussie spirit that we all love.
While the stories range from poignant to hilarious, many simply describe unusual coincidences, strange occurrences or simple everyday humorous events with a refreshing understatement that vividly evokes a vanishing Australia where looking for a good laugh was a key component of a cheekier national character and a simpler lifestyle.
About the Author Jim Haynes is one of Australia's most successful and prolific Australiana authors. Before becoming a professional entertainer, songwriter, verse writer and singer in 1988, Jim Haynes taught writing, literature, history and drama in schools and universities from outback NSW to Britain. While teaching he gained two masters' degrees in literature, from New England University and the University of Wales. Jim Haynes is the author of many Great Australian titles, including bestselling books on Trucking, Railways, Aviation, Horse Racing and the Sea.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760113063 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 512 pages
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Sub Category: DQ Anthologies (non-poetry) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Australia's Best Unknown Stories, Best Australian Bush Stories, Best Australian Racing Stories, Best Australian Sea Stories, Best Australian Trucking Stories, Big Book of Verse for Aussie Kids, Best Gallipoli Yarns and Stories, Great Australian Book of Limericks Author now living: Kensington NSW Allen & Unwin AUGUST 2015 The Sea Devils: Operation Struggle and the Last Great Raid of World War Two Mark Felton
From the author of Zero Night, another thrilling tale of World War Two derring-do - the last great Allied raid of the war which was a plan hatched in Australia and involved several young British, Australian and New Zealand special forces from a top-secret underwater warfare unit.
Description July 1945. Eighteen daring young British, Australian and New Zealand special forces from the top-secret underwater warfare unit known as The Sea Devils prepare to undertake three simultaneous and incredibly risky missions against the Japanese.
Using four brilliantly conceived XE-craft midget submarines, the raiders will creep deep behind Japanese lines to sink two huge warships and sever two vitally important undersea communications cables. If any of the Sea Devils are captured they can expect a gruesome execution.
Mark Felton expertly tells the incredible tale - the last great Allied raid of the war - of how this band of young men living on raw courage, nerves and adrenalin repeatedly combat Japanese defences, oxygen poisoning and calamitous submarine disasters to pull off a brilliant display of ingenuity, courage and sheer guts, on missions that earn the last Victoria Crosses of World War Two and ensure final victory over Japan.
About the Author Mark Felton has written over a dozen books on World War II, and writes regularly for magazines such as Military History Monthly. His Zero Night (Icon, 2014) was described as 'a fitting tribute to the ingenuity of the escapees and of the brave civilians who subsequently assisted them' by the Good Book Guide. He lives in Colchester.
Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781848319943 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 320 pages
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Includes 8 copies The Sea Devils plus free reading copy.
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Icon AUGUST 2015 David Gower's 50 Greatest Cricketers of All Time David Gower
Ashes-winning former England cricket captain David Gower reveals his half-century of heroes, with anecdotes and insider knowledge from 40 years in the game.
Description Former England captain and impeccably stylish batsman David Gower, himself inducted into cricket's Hall of Fame, here takes a leap of faith and names his 50 greatest players of all time.
Going back through the history of the game, he honours the finest run-getters, wicket-takers, glove men and captains he played with and against, as well as those he has been able to observe as a spectator or commentator, and legendary achievers from earlier eras. Full of first-hand recollections and anecdotes, this book is sure to delight - and occasionally infuriate - cricket enthusiasts everywhere.
Who was the best of the great West Indian quicks? Have England heroes like Boycott, Pietersen and Flintoff made the cut? Who has been the greatest Australian batsman, post-Bradman? All is revealed in this lively and contentious celebration of cricket's true greats.
About the Author David Gower made his mark on the game through the 15 years of his international career from the late 1970s onwards as an elegant and at times prolific left-handed batsman. His finest year came in 1985 when he captained England to victory in the Ashes and in the process set a new record for the most runs in a home Ashes series for an England captain. Sadly not every series as captain reaped quite the same success and he is still waiting for the scars to heal after 'leading' England through two 5-0 defeats at the hands of the all-powerful West Indies teams of the mid-1980s. David's second career as a broadcaster with, in order, Channel 9, the BBC and Sky Sports has seen him establish himself as a calm and measured judge of the game. It is with those qualities to the fore that he has turned his mind to picking his 50 all-time greats.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781906850883 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages
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Icon AUGUST 2015 Harry's Last Stand: How the world my generation built is falling down, and what we can do to save it Harry Leslie Smith
'As one of the last remaining survivors of the Great Depression and the Second World War, I will not go gently into that good night. I want to tell you what the world looks like through my eyes, so that you can help change it...'
Description In November 2013, 91-year-old Yorkshireman, RAF veteran and ex-carpet salesman Harry Leslie Smith's Guardian article - 'This year, I will wear a poppy for the last time' - was shared almost 60,000 times on Facebook and started a huge debate about the state of society.
Now he brings his unique perspective to bear on NHS cutbacks, benefits policy, political corruption, food poverty, the cost of education - and much more. From the deprivation of 1930s Barnsley and the terror of war to the creation of our welfare state, Harry has experienced how a great civilisation can rise from the rubble. But at the end of his life, he fears how easily it is being eroded.
Harry's Last Stand is a lyrical, searing modern invective that shows what the past can teach us, and how the future is ours for the taking.
About the Author Harry Leslie Smith is a survivor of the Great Depression, a second world war RAF veteran and, at 91, an activist for the poor and for the preservation of social democracy. His Guardian articles have been shared over 80,000 times on Facebook and have attracted huge comment and debate. He has authored numerous books about Britain during the Great Depression, the second world war and postwar austerity. He lives outside Toronto, Canada and in Yorkshire.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781848317369 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages
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Icon AUGUST 2015 The Collector's Cabinet: Tales, Facts and Fictions from the World of Antiques Marc Allum
Explore the wonderful world of antiques and collectables with Antiques Roadshow regular, Marc Allum.
Description Explore the wonderful world of antiques and collectables with Antiques Roadshow regular, Marc Allum. Go in search of stolen masterpieces, learn the secrets of the forgers, track down Napoleon's toothbrush and meet the garden gnome insured for GBP 1 million. Eclectic, eccentric and brimming with remarkable tales from history, The Collector's Cabinet is for all those who are fascinated by the relics of the past.
About the Author Marc Allum is a freelance art and antiques writer, broadcaster, consultant and lecturer based in Wiltshire. He has been a miscellaneous specialist on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow since 1998. He writes regularly for magazines, has contributed to numerous books and is the author of Allum's Antiques Almanac (Icon, 2014).
Price: $21.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781848319110 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages
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Icon AUGUST 2015 The Foodie: Curiosities, Stories and Expert Tips from the Culinary World James Steen
A feast of hundreds of food facts, mouth-watering myths and culinary curiosities to satisfy all appetites.
Description Join award-winning writer James Steen for a feast of facts, stories, recipes and tips about food and drink.
Delving into forgotten corners of gastronomic history, Steen reveals what Parmesan has to do with broken bones, why John Wayne kept a cow in a hotel and how our attitudes to horsemeat have changed. Laying bare the secrets of the kitchen, he concocts the ultimate hangover cure and explains how to cook perfect rib of beef with the oven off.
With much-loved cooks including Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood sharing their passion and know-how, this mouth- watering miscellany will sate the appetite of every kitchen dweller, from the masterful expert to the earnest apprentice.
About the Author James Steen is an award-winning journalist, food writer, author and ghostwriter. He has a deep fascination for both the cook and cooking, and collaborates with great chefs. He ghosted the autobiographies of Marco Pierre White (The Devil in the Kitchen), Raymond Blanc (A Taste of My Life) and Keith Floyd (Stirred But Not Shaken). His other books include Marco Made Easy and Kitchen Secrets. He is a consultant to small-but-pioneering food companies, and contributes to a wide variety of publications. James lives in London with his wife Louise and their children, Charlie, Billy and Daisy.
Price: $21.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781848319882 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages
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Icon AUGUST 2015 Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-49 Jim Baggott
A new edition of the account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon. This book draws on declassified material, such as MI6's FarmHall transcripts, coded Soviet messages cracked by American cryptographers in the Venona project, and interpretations by Russian scholars of documents from the Soviet archives.
Description An account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon. This book draws on declassified material, such as MI6's FarmHall transcripts, coded Soviet messages cracked by American cryptographers in the Venona project, and interpretations by Russian scholars of documents from the Soviet archives.
Spanning ten historic years, from the discovery of nuclear fission in 1939 to 'Joe-1', the first Soviet atomic bomb test in August 1949, Atomic is the first fully realised popular account of the race between Nazi Germany, Britain, America and the Soviet Union to build atomic weapons.
Rich in personality, action, confrontation and deception, Jim Baggott's book tells an epic story of science and technology at the very limits of human understanding.
About the Author Jim Baggott is an award-winning science writer. A former academic chemist,he runs an independent management consultancy practice but maintains a broad interest in science, philosophy and history and continues to write on these subjects in his spare time, for, amongother publications, New Scientist magazine. His previous bookshave been widely acclaimed and include A Beginner's Guide to Reality (Penguin, 2005) and Beyond Measure: Modern Physics,Philosophy and the Meaning of Quantum Theory (OUP, 2004).
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781848319929 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 480 pages
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Icon AUGUST 2015 Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery and Billion-Dollar Deals John LeFevre
From the man behind the infamous @GSElevator Twitter account, true stories from the wild world of international finance.
Description Over the past three years, the notorious @GSElevator Twitter feed has offered a hilarious, shamelessly voyeuristic look into the real world of international finance. Hundreds of thousands followed the account, Goldman Sachs launched an internal investigation, and when the true identity of the man behind it all was revealed, it created a national media sensation - but that's only part of the story.
Where @GSElevator captured the essence of the banking elite with curated jokes and submissions overheard by readers, Straight to hell adds John LeFevre's own story - an unapologetic and darkly funny account of a career as a globe-conquering investment banker spanning New York, London, and Hong Kong. Straight to Hell pulls back the curtain on a world that is both hated and envied, taking readers from the trading floors and roadshows to private planes and after- hours overindulgence. Full of shocking lawlessness, boyish antics, and win-atall-costs schemes, this is the definitive take on the deviant, dysfunctional, and absolutely excessive world of finance.
About the Author John LeFevre has enjoyed a distinguished career in international finance. He joined Salomon Brothers immediately out of college, and worked for Citigroup in New York, London, and Hong Kong. In 2010 he was hired by Goldman Sachs to be head of Debt Syndicate in Asia, a position that he eventually did not take due to a contractual issue. He has written for Business Insider and has been interviewed about @GSElevator by the New York Times, CNN, and other outlets.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781611855548 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x156mm Extent: 288 pages
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Grove press AUGUST 2015 Straight to Hell 8 Copy Pack Point of Sale
Includes 8 copies Straight to Hell plus free reading copy.
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Grove press AUGUST 2015 Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938 Philipp Blom
A sweeping and vibrant history of Europe and America during the inter-war years, by the acclaimed author of The Vertigo Years.
Description In Fracture, critically acclaimed historian Philipp Blom argues that in the aftermath of the First World War, citizens of the West directed their energies inwards, launching into hedonistic, aesthetic and intellectual adventures of self-discovery. It was a period of both bitter disillusionment and visionary progress. From Fritz Lang's Metropolis to theoretical physics, and from Art Deco to Jazz and the Charleston dance, artists, scientists and philosophers grappled with the question of how to live and what to believe in a broken age.
Morbid symptoms emerged simultaneously from the decay of the First World War: progress and innovation were everywhere met with increasing racism and xenophobia. On both sides of the Atlantic, disenchanted voters flocked to Communism and fascism, forming political parties based on violence and revenge that presaged the horror of a new World War.
Vividly recreating this era of unparalleled ambition, artistry and innovation, Blom captures the seismic shifts that defined the interwar period and continue to shape our world today.
About the Author Philipp Blom was born in Hamburg in 1970. After some years in Vienna, he moved to Oxford where he obtained a PhD in Jewish philosophy. He has worked in publishing and as a journalist and translator in both London and Paris. He lives in Vienna with his wife Veronica Buckley.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9780857892201 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x156mm Extent: 496 pages
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Atlantic AUGUST 2015 The Black Mirror: Fragments of an Obituary for Life Raymond Tallis
The Black Mirror is a deeply moving and startlingly original celebration of everyday life, by one of our leading thinkers and writers, who has been described as 'One of Britain's greatest intellectual all-rounders... Someone who comes closer than most ever will to knowing everything' (Independent)
Description Inspired by E. M. Forster's thought that 'Death destroys a man but the idea of it saves him', The Black Mirror takes death as an external viewpoint from which we may see our lives more clearly.
Raymond Tallis looks back on his world from the standpoint of his future corpse. He reflects on the senses that opened up his late world, the elements they reveal, the distances, divisions and intimacies of space, the multifarious activities that occupied his days, his possessions, his utterances, his relationship to others, the extinguished flame that was his self, his journey towards the end, and his after-life either side of the grave.
About the Author Raymond Tallis trained as a doctor before going on to become Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester. He was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences for his research in clinical neuroscience. He retired from medicine in 2006 to become a full-time writer and has written over a dozen books including, most recently, The Kingdom of Infinite Space, Michelangelo's Finger, Aping Mankind and In Defence of Wonder. In 2009, The Economist's Intelligent Life magazine named him as one of the top living polymaths in the world.
Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781848871281 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234 x156mm Extent: 352 pages
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Atlantic AUGUST 2015 The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World Lincoln Paine
'The most enjoyable, the most refreshing, the most stimulating, the most comprehensive, the most discerning, the most insightful, the most up-to-date - in short, the best maritime history of the world.' - Felipe Fernandez- Armesto
Description A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the story of mankind's relationship with the sea.
An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of history that reveals in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways.
Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our ancestors' first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley. He reacquaints us with the great seafaring cultures of antiquity like those of the Phoenicians and Greeks, as well as those of India, Southeast and East Asia who parlayed their navigational skills, shipbuilding techniques, and commercial acumen to establish vibrant overseas colonies and trade routes in the centuries leading up to the age of European overseas expansion. His narrative traces subsequent developments in commercial and naval shipping through the post-Cold War era. Above all, Paine makes clear how the rise and fall of civilizations can be traced to the sea.
About the Author Lincoln Paine is the author of four books and more than fifty articles, reviews, and lectures on various aspects of maritime history. He lives in Portland, Maine.
Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781782393580 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234 x156mm Extent: 784 pages
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Atlantic AUGUST 2015 Eureka!: Everything You Wanted to Ask About the Ancient Greeks But Were Afraid to Ask Peter Jones
From the Trojan War through to the rise of the Roman empire, Peter Jones tells the epic story of ancient Greece in this entertaining and illuminating follow-up to Veni, Vidi, Vici.
Description The ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; laid the foundations of philosophy, history, tragedy and comedy; and debated everything from the good life and the role of women, to making sense of foreigners and the best form of government, all in the most sophisticated terms.
But who were they? In Eureka!, Peter Jones tells their epic story, which begins with the Trojan War and ends with the rise of the Roman Empire, by breaking down each major period into a series of informative nuggets. Along the way he introduces the major figures of the age, including Homer, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Euclid and Archimedes; explores the Greek myths and the role of the gods; provides fascinating insights into everyday life in ancient times; and shows us the very foundations of Western culture.
Eureka! is both entertaining and illuminating, and will delight anyone who ever wanted to know more about our ancient ancestors.
About the Author Peter Jones was educated at Cambridge University and taught Classics at Cambridge and at Newcastle University, before retiring in 1997. He has written a regular column, 'Ancient & Modern', in the Spectator for many years and is the author of various books on the Classics, including the bestselling Learn Latin and Learn Ancient Greek, as well as Reading Virgil's Aeneid I and II, Vote for Caesar and Veni, Vidi, Vici.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781782395164 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198 x129mm Extent: 400 pages
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Atlantic Pbs AUGUST 2015 Dubai: The Story of the World's Fastest City Jim Krane
A bestselling exploration of the fascinating city-state.
Description Today, Dubai is a city of shimmering skyscrapers attracting thousands of tourists every year. Yet just sixty years ago Dubai's population scraped a living by picking dates, diving for pearls, or sailing in wooden dhows to trade with Iran and India.
Dubai is everything the rest of the Arab world is not. Until recently it was the fastest-growing city in the world, with an economy whose growth outpaced China's while luring more tourists than all of India. The city has become a metaphor for the lush life, where the wealthy mingle in gilded splendour and luxury cars fill the streets, yet it is also beset by a backwash of bad design, environmental degradation and controversial labour practices. Dubai tells its unique story.
About the Author Jim Krane, an award-winning journalist, was the Associated Press' Persian Gulf Correspondent for two and a half years, covering all six Gulf Arab countries. He has also written about Dubai for the Economist and the Financial Times. Previously, he was the AP's Baghdad Correspondent and New York-based Business Writer.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781782397601 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 368 pages
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Atlantic Pbs AUGUST 2015 Time to Be in Earnest P. D. James
Time to Be in Earnest is P. D. James's extraordinary memoir of her early life and time starting out as a novelist, as well as diaries recording her in old age.
Description In this intriguing and very personal book, part diary, part memoir, P. D. James considers the twelve months of her life between her 77th and 78th birthdays, and looks back on her earlier life.
With all her familiar skills as a writer she recalls what it was like to be a schoolgirl in the 1920s and 1930s in Cambridge, and then giving birth to her second daughter during the worst of the Doodlebug bombardment in London during the war. It follows her work, starting out as an administrator in the National Health Service, then on to the Home Office in the forensic and criminal justice departments. She later served as a Governor of the BBC, an influential member of the British Council, the Arts Council and the Society of Authors, and eventually entering the House of Lords.
Along the way, this diary and personal memoir deals with her burgeoning reputation as a novelist, starting with Cover Her Face in 1962, and with the craft of the classical detective story. She also details the writing of one of her most intriguing and carefully researched books, A Certain Justice. This wonderful memoir will enthral aficionados of detective fiction, and will also appeal to anyone who lived through those turbulent years of the twentieth century.
About the Author P. D. James was a bestselling and internationally acclaimed crime writer. She was the creator of Adam Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray, and their long and successful series of mysteries. Her works include Cover Her Face (1962), An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972), Innocent Blood (1980), Children of Men (1992), and the Jane Austen inspired Death Comes to Pemberley (2011).
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571325696 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages
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Faber Non Fiction AUGUST 2015 The Boy Who Played with Fusion Tom Clynes
The incredible true story of how a teenager became the youngest person ever to build a working nuclear fusion reactor.
Description By the age of 11, Taylor Wilson had mastered the science of rocket propulsion. At 13, his grandmother's cancer diagnosis drove him to investigate medical uses for radioactive isotopes. And at 14, Wilson became the youngest person in history to achieve nuclear fusion. How could someone so young achieve so much, and what can Wilson's story teach parents and teachers about how to support high-achieving children?
In The Boy Who Played with Fusion, science journalist Tom Clynes follows Taylor Wilson's extraordinary journey - from his Arkansas home where his parents encouraged his intellectual passions, to the present, when now-17-year-old Wilson is winning international science competitions with devices designed to prevent terrorists from shipping radioactive material into the US.
Brilliant, funny and inspiring, The Boy Who Played with Fusion will delight anyone who believes in the ability of gifted children to change the world.
About the Author Tom Clynes is a contributing editor at Popular Science and regularly writes for National Geographic and Men's Journal. His work has also appeared in GQ, the Guardian, the Washington Post, Conservation Magazine, Bicycling and many other publications.
Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9780571298136 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 240 pages
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Faber Non Fiction AUGUST 2015 Ayoade on Ayoade Richard Ayoade
The bestselling and hilarious dissection of the film world from one of the best-loved young comedians and film- makers coming from the UK.
Description In this book Richard Ayoade - actor, writer, director, and amateur dentist - reflects on his cinematic legacy as only he can: in conversation with himself. Over ten brilliantly insightful and often erotic interviews, Ayoade examines himself fully and without mercy, leading a breathless investigation into this once-in-a- generation visionary.
Only Ayoade can appreciate Ayoade's unique methodology. Only Ayoade can recognise Ayoade's talent. Only Ayoade can withstand Ayoade's peculiar scent. Only Ayoade can truly get inside Ayoade. They have called their book Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey. Take the journey, and your life will never be the same again.
Ayoade on Ayoade captures the director in his own words: pompous, vain, angry and very, very funny.
About the Author Richard Ayoade is an English comedian, actor, writer, TV presenter and director, best known for his roles as Dean Learner in Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and Maurice Moss in the Emmy Awardwinning The IT Crowd, director of the movies Submarine and The Double, and presenter of Channel 4's Gadget Man.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780571316533 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 252 pages Main Category: AN Performing Arts Sub Category: AP Film, Tv & Radio Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback AUGUST 2015 The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors Dan Jones
The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors, from Dan Jones - the celebrated author of The Plantagenets - is an exciting, fast-paced history of the Wars of the Roses.
Description The fifteenth century saw the crown of England change hands seven times as the great families of England fought to the death for power, majesty and the right to rule. The Hollow Crown completes Dan Jones' epic history of medieval England, and describes how the Plantagenets tore themselves apart to be finally replaced by the Tudors.
Some of the greatest heroes and villains in British history were thrown together in these turbulent times: Henry V, whose victory at Agincourt and prudent rule at home marked the high point of the medieval monarchy; Edward IV, who was handed his crown by the scheming soldier Warwick the Kingmaker, before their alliance collapsed into a fight to the death; and the last Plantagenet, Richard III, who stole the throne and murdered his own nephews, the Princes in the Tower. Finally, the Tudors arrived - but even their rule was only made certain in the 1520s, when Henry VIII ruthlessly hunted down his family's last remaining enemies.
In the midst this tumult, chivalry was reborn, the printing press arrived and the Renaissance began to flourish. With vivid descriptions of the battle of Towton, where 28,000 men died in a single morning, and the Battle of Bosworth Field, at which Richard III was hacked down, this is the real story behind Shakespeare's famous history plays.
About the Author Dan Jones is an acclaimed historian and award-winning journalist. His first book, Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381, was an Independent Book of the year. He is a columnist for the London Evening Standard, and writes, as well, for The Times, Daily Telegraph, Spectator and Literary Review. He has presented documentaries for the BBC. He lives in London with his wife and two daughters.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780571288083 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 480 pages Main Category: HB History Sub Category: HBG World History Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback AUGUST 2015 In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815 Jenny Uglow
A beautifully observed history of the home front during the Napoleonic Wars from one of Britain's greatest historians.
Description We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic wars - but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, a London bank or a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers and candlestick makers - how did the war touch their lives?
Jenny Uglow, the prize-winning author of The Lunar Men and Nature's Engraver, follows the gripping back-and-forth of the first global war, but turns the news upside down, seeing how it reached the people. Illustrated by the satires of Gillray, Rowlandson and the paintings of Turner and Constable, and combining the familiar voices of Jane Austen, Wordsworth, Scott and Byron with others lost in the crowd, In These Times delves into the archives to tell the moving story of how people lived and loved and sang and wrote, struggling through hard times and opening new horizons that would change their country for a century ahead.
About the Author Jenny Uglow grew up in Cumbria and now works in publishing. Her books include prize-winning biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell and William Hogarth. The Lunar Men, published in 2002, was described by Richard Holmes as 'an extraordinarily gripping account', while Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick, won the National Arts Writers Award for 2007 and A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration was shortlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize. She lives in Canterbury.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571269532 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 450 pages Main Category: HB History Sub Category: HBG World History Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback AUGUST 2015 This New Noise: The Extraordinary Birth and Troubled Life of the BBC Charlotte Higgins
A brilliantly researched and gripping history of the BBC, from its origins to the present day.
Description 'The BBC, to my mind at least, is the most powerful British institution of them all, for, as well as informing, educating and entertaining, it permeates and reflects our existences, infiltrates our imaginations, forms us in myriad ways.'
Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian's chief culture writer, steps behind the polished doors of Broadcasting House and investigates the BBC. Based on her hugely popular essay series, this personal journey answers the questions that rage around this vulnerable, maddening and uniquely British institution. Questions such as, what does the BBC mean to us now? What are the threats to its continued existence? Is it worth fighting for?
Higgins traces its origins, celebrating the early pioneering spirit and unearthing forgotten characters whose imprint can still be seen on the BBC today. She explores how it forged ideas of Britishness both at home and abroad. She shows how controversy is in its DNA and brings us right up to date through interviews with grandees and loyalists, embattled press officers and high profile dissenters, and she sheds new light on recent feuds and scandals.
This is a deeply researched, lyrically written, intriguing portrait of an institution at the heart of Britain.
About the Author Charlotte Higgins is the chief culture writer of the Guardian and a member of its editorial board. A classicist by education, she is the author of three books on aspects of the ancient world. The most recent, Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain (Vintage, 2014), was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction, the Thwaites Wainwright prize for nature writing, the Dolman travel-writing prize and the Hessell-Tiltman history prize. In 2010, she won the Classical Association prize for her books and journalism.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781783350728 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x153mm Extent: 216 pages
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Guardian Books AUGUST 2015 Just Your Average Muslim Zia Chaudhry
'A must read for anyone interested in or even concerned about Muslims in this country, and indeed the faith of Islam.' - Roger Phillips, BBC
Description This fascinating and original book provides a better insight into the life of "just your average Muslim" than you will find anywhere else. A powerful antidote to common but exhausted stereotypes, it challenges non-Muslims to reexamine their perceived ideas of what they think they know and Muslims to examine how they portray themselves to the world. It encourages us all to reflect on our similarities, not our differences.
About the Author Zia Chaudhry's family originally came from Pakistan, and he was brought up in Liverpool. After graduating from Manchester University, he was called to the bar in 1991. In the last decade he has become increasingly involved in inter- faith dialogue, and has addressed a variety of audiences, including the judiciary, school pupils, criminal offenders and assorted Church groups. He featured in the ITV series Soul to Soul hosted by Jo Brand, and has made numerous radio appearances discussing Islam and related issues.
Price: $21.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781780722481 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages
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Faber Short Books AUGUST 2015 Stuff Brits Like: A Guide to What's Great about Great Britain Fraser McAlpine
A wonderfully wry take on the British, their culture and obsessions by the man who explains them to the world for the BBC.
Description This pukka tour of British loves/hates (a la Marmite) and eccentricities by the lead writer of BBC's Anglophenia blog, will appeal to Brits and Anglophiles alike. It gives us the low down on topics from 'ampersand foods' (bangers & mash, fish & chips, Marks & Spencer) to Doctor Who to the Royal Family to emotional reserve and the infamous stiff upper lip. When do we find it bloody appropriate to swear? What are the five best British rock bands? Why can't we Brits resist a pun? Find out in this truly spiffing guide to what's great about Great Britain.
About the Author Fraser McAlpine is a gobby British writer and broadcaster with far too many opinions and an inflated sense of their worth. Originally a music journalist for the BBC's Top of the Pops website, the NME and Radio 1, he is now lead writer for the BBC Anglophenia blog, and consequently spends a good deal of his working live arguing about the finer points of Doctor Who, Sherlock, Downton Abbey and anything with Tom Hiddleston in. He lives in Truro.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781857886344 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages
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Nicholas Brealey AUGUST 2015 Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story Jerry Lee Lewis and Rick Bragg
Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story is the last great untold rock-and-roll story, in the legend's own words.
Description Otherwise known as The Killer, Jerry Lee Lewis has lived an extraordinary life. He gave rock-and-roll its devil's edge with hit records like 'Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On' and 'Great Balls of Fire'; caused riots and boycotts with his incendiary performances; performed with some of the greatest musicians from Elvis Presley to Keith Richards; married his thirteen- year-old second cousin, the third of seven wives; ran a decade's-long marathon of drugs, drinking, and women; and nearly met his maker, at least twice.
He survived it all to be hailed as one of the greatest music icons, and now, for the very first time, he reveals the truth behind the Last Man Standing of the rock-and-roll era. From encounters with legends including Johnny Cash, John Lennon and Mick Jagger, to hair-raising first-person accounts of Jerry's lifelong rivalries with Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry for the title of king of rock-and-roll, Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist Rick Bragg traces the incredible story of a young man from the American South who used his piano to drive the world into a music revolution. Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story is the fascinating authorised biography of this musical genius in his own words.
About the Author In 1986, Jerry Lee Lewis was the first person inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He has had 14 no.1 hits and 42 top 20 singles and 22 top 20 albums and has won a Lifetime Achievement Grammy. Lewis is the last surviving member of the Million Dollar Quartet which included Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley.
Rick Bragg is an American journalist. He joined the New York Times in 1994 and in 1996 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. Bragg is the author of five books: All Over but the Shoutin', Ava's Man, The Prince of Frogtown, I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story and The Most They Ever Had. He is now professor on the journalism programme at the University of Alabama's College of Communications and Information Sciences.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780857861597 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 512 pages
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Canongate Pbs AUGUST 2015 Young Winstone Ray Winstone
From the boxing clubs and street-markets of 1970s East London to Hollywood's red carpets - the knockout autobiography by the British screen legend.
Description Ray Winstone's amazing talent for bringing out the humanity buried inside his often brutal screen characters - violent offender in Scum, wife-beater in Nil by Mouth, retired blagger in Sexy Beast - has made him one of the most charismatic actors of his generation. But how do these uncompromising and often haunting performances square with his off-duty reputation as the ultimate salt-of-the-earth diamond geezer?
The answer lies in the East End of his youth. Revisiting the bomb-sites and boozers of his childhood and adolescence, Ray Winstone takes the reader on an unforgettable tour of a cockney heartland which is at once irresistibly mythic and undeniably real. Told with its author's trademark blend of brutal directness and roguish wit, Young Winstone offers a fascinating insight into the social history of East London, as well as a school of hard knocks coming-of-age story with a powerful emotional punch.
About the Author Ray Winstone was born in Hackney Hospital in February 1957, and spent the early years of his life playing on the bombsites of Plaistow. At the age of eight, his family moved him up the A10 to the cultural wasteland of Enfield, and from that moment on, Ray was constantly looking for ways to get back home to the East End - from 'banging up' on his dad's market stalls, to winning 80 out of 88 bouts as a three-time London schoolboy boxing champion for Bethnal Green's famous Repton club.
Having achieved the rare distinction of being suspended from nursery school, he was asked to leave a series of educational establishments (including drama college), before finally graduating with first-class honours from the university of life.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781782112457 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages
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Canongate Pbs AUGUST 2015 Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets David Simon, introduction by Richard Price
The bestselling true crime classic from the creator of The Wire, is now a canon
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 Life of An Inner-City Neighbourhood, co-authored with Edward Burns, was made into an Emmy-winning HBO miniseries. Simon also co-created the HBO series Generation Kill with Ed Burns, and Treme with Eric Overmyer. He lives in Baltimore.
Price: $21.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781782116301 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 656 pages
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Canongate Pbs AUGUST 2015 Instrumental James Rhodes
'The unforgettable story of an unforgettable and remarkable man' STEPHEN FRY
Description James Rhodes' passion for music has been his absolute lifeline. It has been the thread that has held him together through a life that has encompassed pain, conflict and turmoil. Listening to Rachmaninov on a loop as a traumatised teenager or discovering an Adagio by Bach while in a hospital ward - such exquisite miracles of musical genius have helped him survive his demons, and, along with a chance encounter with a stranger, inspired him to become the renowned concert pianist he is today.
This is a memoir like no other: unapologetically candid, boldly outspoken and surprisingly funny - James' prose is shot through with an unexpectedly mordant wit, even at the darkest of moments. An impassioned tribute to the therapeutic powers of music, Instrumental also weaves in fascinating facts about how classical music actually works and about the extraordinary lives of some of the great composers. It explains why and how music has the potential to transform all of our lives.
About the Author James Rhodes was born in London in 1975. A keen piano player, he was offered a scholarship when he was eighteen at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, but went to Edinburgh University instead. James stopped playing the piano entirely and dropped out after a year. After twelve months working at Burger King in Paris, he went to University College, London to read psychology. He then worked in the City for five years. After a period of personal crisis, he took up the piano again. He is now a professional and acclaimed concert pianist, writer and TV presenter.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781782115342 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 214x153mm Extent: 304 pages Main Category: B Biography/autobiography Sub Category: BM Memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate Trade AUGUST 2015 Getting (More of) What You Want: Mastering the Secrets of Psychology and Economics for Negotiation, Performance, Profit and Prosperity Margaret Neale & Thomas Z. Lys
Cutting-edge psychology for a new style competitive edge in negotiation.
Description Forget about 'getting to yes' - in most negotiations, we can get what we want. Drawing on the latest research in psychology and behavioural economics, Getting (More of) What You Want shows us how new behavioural models allow negotiators to move past the outdated win-win approach and find the most advantageous outcome for each and every negotiation.
Be it with colleagues, superiors, spouses, friends, enemies, estate agents or market traders, negotiation is present in almost every social interaction. Neale and Lys's detailed analysis of economics, psychology, and strategic thinking show that, by taking into account rational behaviour and irrational biases - and learning how best to exploit that - anyone can become a more successful, more effective negotiator. Find out: when to negotiate and when to walk away; how to know what a good deal is; when to make the first offer and when to wait; the difference between aspiration and expectation; and why meeting in the middle can be the worst of all possible deals.
Drawing on three decades of ground-breaking empirical research, Getting (More of) What You Want reveals the counterintuitive methods used by successful negotiators to get everything they want - and more.
About the Author Margaret Neale is an Adams Distinguished Professor of Management at Stanford University, where her research focuses primarily on negotiation and team performance. She is the author of over seventy articles on the topics of bargaining and negotiation. She lives in Pescadero, California.
Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) Thomas Lys is Eric L. Kohler Chair in Accounting at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He is ISBN: 9781781253458 an editor of the Journal of Accounting and Economics and has served as a consultant for General Electric and IBM, Format: Paperback - Demy format among other companies. Lys lives in Mettawa, Illinois. Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 320 pages
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Profile Trade AUGUST 2015 Flashes of Thought: Lessons in life and leadership from the man behind Dubai Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
A concise edition of the acclaimed Flashes of Thought, packed with ideas and inspiration for governance, leadership and life from the man behind Dubai.
Description If you thought it was worth hearing the insights of a man at the head of a major corporation or who has turned around a disaster-prone technology company, here's a new level. This book is packed with ideas for governance, leadership and life from the man behind the city that's home to the world's tallest tower, largest mall and two million people from 220 nationalities - backed by the world's busiest airport and the biggest manmade seaport on earth. This is Dubai and its ruler, Sheikh Mohammed. And these are his inspirations for leadership and success.
Available for the first time in an updated and refreshed Pocket Edition, Sheikh Mohammed shares the many important ideas which not only sit at the heart of his vision for his nation but are also central to the wellbeing of society and personal happiness. By bringing together these unique experiences, ideas and thoughts, Flashes of Thought offers a compelling routemap and blueprint for professional and personal fulfilment.
About the Author Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is the Prime Minister and Vice President of the United Arab Emirates and the Ruler of Dubai. He is the driving force behind Dubai's remarkable transformation into a major global city. His initiatives in creating strategic economic opportunities for Dubai have resulted in world leading enterprises such as Emirates Airline, Jumeirah Group, DP World, Dubai Internet City, Media City, Dubai International Finance Centre and Dubai World Central, the worlds' first purpose-built aerotropolis.
A passionate proponent of open, service-led governance and strategic planning, Sheikh Mohammed has driven major government reform in the UAE. He is the founder of the famous Godolphin and Darley racing operations as well as the world's richest race, the annual Dubai World Cup. A trained pilot and champion endurance rider, he is also an acclaimed Price: $17.99 (NZ$19.99) poet in his native Arabic. ISBN: 9781781255032 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 166x117mm Extent: 128 pages
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Profile Trade AUGUST 2015 The Economist Guide to Intellectual Property: What it is, How to protect it, How to exploit it Stephen Johnson
A comprehensive business guide to intellectual property - understanding its value and how to protect it.
Description Intellectual Property (IP) is worth an estimated $5trn in the US alone. It covers patents, trademarks, domain names, copyrights, trade secrets and know-how. The IP of a big brand can be worth tens of billions of dollars. And yet IP is hard to value; accountants struggle with it, and banks treat it cautiously as loan collateral.
Unsurprisingly, companies zealously guard their own ideas and fight to acquire those of others. Damages arising from infringements have fostered a sizeable claims industry. But IP law is complex. Protections deemed excessive to one party are seen as inadequate to another. Court decisions and interpretation of IP laws can be unpredictable, and can dramatically change the fortunes of businesses that rely on their IP - as demonstrated in the pharmaceutical industry's battle with generic drugs.
This guide to intellectual property will help companies, investors, and creative thinkers understand the scope and nature of IP issues, and maximize the value from this crucial intangible asset.
About the Author Stephen Johnson studied genetics at Cambridge University before qualifying as a solicitor in 1982. He subsequently also qualified as an attorney and worked in the US for Kirkland & Ellis LLP for over thirty years, most recently in San Francisco. He now consults for the US charity One Mind on intellectual property and other policy issues affecting neuroscience research.
Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781846688973 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 352 pages
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Profile Trade AUGUST 2015 Adventures in Stationery: A Journey Through Your Pencil Case James Ward
From Bronze Age India to a Surrey Stationers via pencil wars and accidental inventions: a hilarious insight into the familiar yet unexpectedly bizarre world of stationery.
Description We are surrounded by stationery: half-chewed Cristal Bics and bent paper clips, rubber bands to fiddle with or ping, blunt pencils, rubbers and Tipp-ex are integral parts of our everyday environment. So much so that we never think about where they come from, why they are the way they are - or what stories they might have to tell.
But luckily, James Ward does and he's here to tell you all about the secret pull stationery exerts on our lives. After all, who remains unmoved by the sight of a pristine blu-tak slab, or the first unmarked sheet of a brand new notepad? And which of humanity's brightest ideas didn't start life on a scrap of paper, a Post-it, or in the margins of a notebook?
Exploring the stories behind these everyday objects, Ward reveals tales of invention - accidental and brilliant - and bitter rivalry. He also asks the questions you never thought you had: Who is Mr Pritt? What does shatter-proof resistant mean? How many pens does Argos use? And what does design evolutions in desk organisers mean for society?
This witty and entertaining book, packed with fascinating facts, will change the way you look at your desk, pencil case or stationery cupboard forever.
About the Author James Ward's London-based blog, I Like Boring Things, has featured in the Independent, Observer and on the BBC website. He is co-founder of Stationery Club and the Boring Conference, featured in the Wall Street Journal and on Radio 4. This is his first book.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781846686160 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages
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Profile Trade AUGUST 2015 Belles and Whistles: Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains Andrew Martin, translated by Ross Benjamin
The bestselling author of Underground, Overground recaptures the glamour of a lost age of rail travel and trains by travelling Britain's most famous train journeys.
Description In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Belle; smoke a post- prandial cigar as the Golden Arrow closed in on Paris, or be shaved by the Flying Scotsman's on-board barber. Everyone from schoolboys to socialites knew of these glamorous 'named trains' and aspired to ride aboard them.
In Belles and Whistles, Andrew Martin recreates these famous train journeys by travelling aboard their nearest modern day equivalents. Sometimes their names have survived, even if only as a footnote on a timetable leaflet, but what has usually - if not always - disappeared is the extravagance and luxury. As Martin explains how we got from there to here, evocations of the Golden Age contrast with the starker modern reality: from monogrammed cutlery to stirring sticks, from silence on trains to tannoy announcements, from compartments to airline seating. For those who wonder whatever happened to porters, dining cars, mellow lighting, timetables, luggage in advance, trunk murders, the answers are all here.
Martin's five journeys add up to an idiosyncratic history of Britain's railways, combining humour, historical anecdote and reportage from the present and romantic evocations of the past.
About the Author Andrew Martin is a journalist and author. His previous book for Profile, Underground, Overground[9781846684784], was a history of the London Underground. He has written for the Evening Standard, Sunday Times, Independent on Sunday, Daily Telegraph and New Statesman among others. His 'Jim Stringer' series of novels based around railways are published by Faber.
Price: $21.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781781252130 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages
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Profile Trade AUGUST 2015 Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938 Philipp Blom
A sweeping and vibrant history of Europe and America during the inter-war years, by the acclaimed author of The Vertigo Years.
Description In Fracture, critically acclaimed historian Philipp Blom argues that in the aftermath of the First World War, citizens of the West directed their energies inwards, launching into hedonistic, aesthetic and intellectual adventures of self-discovery. It was a period of both bitter disillusionment and visionary progress. From Fritz Lang's Metropolis to theoretical physics, and from Art Deco to Jazz and the Charleston dance, artists, scientists and philosophers grappled with the question of how to live and what to believe in a broken age.
Morbid symptoms emerged simultaneously from the decay of the First World War: progress and innovation were everywhere met with increasing racism and xenophobia. On both sides of the Atlantic, disenchanted voters flocked to Communism and fascism, forming political parties based on violence and revenge that presaged the horror of a new World War.
Vividly recreating this era of unparalleled ambition, artistry and innovation, Blom captures the seismic shifts that defined the interwar period and continue to shape our world today.
About the Author Philipp Blom was born in Hamburg in 1970. After some years in Vienna, he moved to Oxford where he obtained a PhD in Jewish philosophy. He has worked in publishing and as a journalist and translator in both London and Paris. He lives in Vienna with his wife Veronica Buckley.
Price: $49.99 (NZ$55.00) ISBN: 9780857892195 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234 x156mm Extent: 496 pages
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Atlantic AUGUST 2015 Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo Anjan Sundaram
A brilliant and thrilling memoir of a dangerous and disorienting year of self-discovery in the Congo, set against the backdrop of the explosively violent 2006 elections.
Description Written with startling beauty and acuity, Stringer is an account of a year and a half that Anjan Sundaram spent in the Congo working on the bottom rung of the Associated Press. It was an intense period that would take him deep into the shadowy city of Kinshasa, to the dense rainforests that still evoke Conrad's vision, and to the heart of Africa's great war, culminating in the historic and violent multiparty elections of 2006. Along the way he would go on a joyride with Kinshasa's feral children, fend off its women desperate for an escape route, and travel with an Indian businessman hunting for his fortune.
About the Author Anjan Sundaram is an award-winning journalist who has reported from Africa and the Middle East for the New York Times and the Associated Press. His writing has also appeared in Foreign Policy, Fortune, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Telegraph, Guardian and the International Herald Tribune. He has been interviewed by the BBC World Service and Radio France Internationale for his analysis of the conflict in Congo. He received a Reuters journalism award in 2006 for his reporting on Pygmy tribes in Congo's rain forest. He currently lives in Kigali, Rwanda, with his wife.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781782392491 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198 x129mm Extent: 288 pages
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Atlantic Pbs AUGUST 2015 Something Will Turn Up: Britain's Economic Yo-Yo: Why it is Endless Boom to Bust David Smith
Overcoming economic decline, inflation and mass unemployment have challenged successive Chancellors of the Exchequer. Britain's leading economic journalists explains why some of them have made a better fist of it than others.
Description As the prevailing winds of the global economy have changed, so Britain has been buffeted from boom to bust and back again. But how much is our country's economic landscape shaped by the huge forces of international capital - and the hope that 'something will turn up' - and how much by the individual men and women at the heart of our economic policy?
David Smith forged his career as Britain's leading economic journalist during the country's traumatic transition from the 'workshop of the world' to the playground of international financiers. Something Will Turn Up is his account of the chancellors, prime ministers, Bank of England governors and senior officials Smith has encountered and interviewed over the last five decades, and their impact on the realities of modern British life since the war. Smith leads us through the mire of government policy and long-term trends with wit and clarity to paint a vivid, personal picture of how we got to now - and where we might go from here.
About the Author David Smith is Economics Editor of the Sunday Times and the author of a number of books including The Dragon and the Elephant [9781847650474] and the classic guide to economics Free Lunch [9781781250112].
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781781253229 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages
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Profile Trade AUGUST 2015 Finding Home: The Real Stories of Migrant Britain Emily Dugan
An unforgettable portrait - a British Nothing to Envy - of the real people behind immigration statistics.
Description Award-winning reporter Emily Dugan's Finding Home follows the tumultuous lives of a group of immigrants, all facing extraordinary obstacles in their quest to live in the UK.
Mihai, 29, works in construction in London and longs for a National Insurance Number. Syrian refugee Emad, 35, set up the Free Syrian League and danger in the UK became as real as it had been in Damascus. He worked illegally in London to pay for his mother to be smuggled from Turkey on a near-deadly trip across the Mediterranean - but the battle to get her into Britain has only just started. Teaching assistant Klaudia is one of many thousands of Polish people now living in Boston - itself a microcosm of poorly managed migration.
Dugan's timely and acutely observed book reveals numerous intense personal dramas of ordinary men and woman as they struggle to find somewhere to call home. It shows that migration is not about numbers, votes or opinions: it is about people.
About the Author Emily Dugan is Social Affairs Editor at the Independent, i and the Independent on Sunday. Her investigations into human trafficking have twice been awarded Best Investigative Article at the Anti-Slavery Day Media Awards and her human rights journalism was shortlisted for the Gaby Rado Memorial prize at the 2012 Amnesty Media Awards. This is her first book.
Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781848318649 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages
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