Wakefield Press CELEBRATING For all flyers and complete stocklist visit www.wakefieldpress.com.au 30 YEARS IN 2019 For all price and availability queries visit www.titlepage.com DECEMBER 2019 NEW RELEASES LeAD TITLE Biography/Gift Australian, and the Bulletin magazine; and Trailblazers written for Time magazine, and The Times, A perfect 100 Inspiring South Australian Women London. From 2000–2005, he was the Christmas gift! Australian’s Washington correspondent. He 056905 CAROLYN COLLINS AND ROY EccLESTON HB • 320 PP • 297 x 248 • Full colour t/out • has edited SAWeekend magazine at the ISBN 9781743056905 • $70.00 Advertiser since 2009. Australia’s first female prime minister. The country’s first 781743 female judge. The first woman to win the Archibald Prize Key selling points 9 This gorgeous, full colour coffee-table gift book for portraiture. Australia’s first female chief diplomat. The • celebrating 100 of South Australia’s most notable nation’s first female winemaker. women is a perfect Christmas gift. These women were all trailblazers, but they have Featured women range from political leaders Julia something else in common – every one of them was South • Gillard and Penny Wong, to model and media personality Australian. And they are just a handful of the 100 Maggie Tabberer and singer–songwriter Sia, as well as remarkable women whose stories are told in this beautiful chef Maggie Beer, anti-nuclear campaigner Helen book, illustrated with hundreds of photographs. Caldicott, Mem Fox, and Lowitja O’Donoghue. Written by historian Carolyn Collins and journalist Roy Each entry features a full-page feature photograph (with Eccleston, Trailblazers shines a light on the lives of these • additional images) and a fascinating, fully researched extraordinary women whose feats inspired their state, feature article on the featured woman’s life, combining nation and, often enough, the world. Now they can inspire a magazine-style accessibility and historical rigour. whole new generation. • Will attract substantial SA media coverage, with extracts Carolyn Collins is a research fellow in the University of in SA Weekend (edited by co-author Roy Eccleston) and Adelaide’s history department. Her interests include ABC radio interviews with the authors. twentieth-century Australian history, women’s history and • Comparison title: 200 Women, the Christmas bestseller oral history. Her PhD thesis, which combined all three, was of 2017 ($105). This is similar in concept and look, with a awarded the university’s Doctoral Research Medal. She more commercial price ($70), and more biographical has also been a journalist, magazine columnist, and heft. communications manager. Roy Eccleston is an award-winning journalist with the Advertiser. He has worked at the Courier-Mail, the Age, the LeAD TITLE Travel Terina Armenakis was born and raised in A Greek Folk Journey Ethiopia. Her life has been dedicated to A unique Travel, Culture and Gastronomy promoting Ethiopia from her position as the cultural tourism Honorary Consul General of Ethiopia in guide! 056783 TeRINA ARMENAKIS PB • 408 PP • 225 x 206 • Full colour t/out • Greece. She is a founding member of several ISBN 9781743056783 • $44.95 cultural, humanitarian and business associations and Honorary President of the Consular Corps in Greece. 781743 Greece is famous for its glorious history, archaeological In 2018 Terina Kalogeropoulos Armenakis was 9 wealth, democracy and contribution to sciences, but it is awarded the Carolos Mitsakis Award for her contribution also a land of rich folk heritage. to the promotion of the Hellenic ethnographic culture, A Greek Folk Journey acquaints you with this folk through A Greek Folk Journey. heritage by providing an insight into the abundance of customs, festivals and events to be found in all corners of the country, presented by the month. Praise for A Greek Folk Journey ‘A Greek Folk Journey is an enticing cultural and Ancient and more recent traditions live on in many of gastronomic journey into Greece’s past and present. Terina Greece’s cities, towns or the smallest of villages, thanks to Armenakis takes us beyond the beautiful landscapes and the dedication of local communities, cultural associations archaeological treasures of Greece to document its rich and local authorities. folkloric history. This book is a must for every visitor who Many of the events have historic or religious wishes to get to know the heart of Greece and its people.’ backgrounds, others are contests or sporting competitions, including world-famous marathons, sailing regattas and Konstantinos Loulis, General Secretary of Tourism, chess tournaments. Interesting seasonal produce festivals Ministry of Tourism Greece also feature, such as cherry, watermelon, fig, mushroom, ‘Terina Armenakis takes us on a journey into the heart and olive and wine festivals. Commercial and agricultural fairs, soul of the real Greece ... Her book brings us to the which have a local flavour and where entertainment and essence of Greek life enhanced by the seasonings and delicacies are offered to visitors, are described to entice flavours of immortal Hellas which harmoniously you. celebrates the spirit and truly embodies what it means to And if that is not enough, A Greek Folk Journey serves be Greek.’ Father Alexander Karloutsos, Protopresbyter up regional dishes, helping you to savour the flavours of of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Greek Orthodox glorious Greece. Archdiocese of America Wakefield Press CELEBRATING 30 YEARS IN 2019 FICTION radio serial. The book was published in 2014. Her most recent novel Further Fables Queer and Familiar Big Rough Stones is the back-story, in novel form, of some of the MAGARET MERRILeeS, ILLUSTRATED BY CHIA MOAN characters from the Fables. 056929 PB • 144 PP • 210 x 140 • B&W illustrations t/out • Chia Moan is a feminist, artist and concerned citizen. Her poster and ISBN 9781743056929 • $24.95 organising work recently featured in a large retrospective at the Hackney 781743 Victoria is delighted to help Gran unscrew the U-bend. She always guessed Museum in London. Women on Screens showcased the work of the 9 there was another world beyond the plughole. Lenthall Road Workshop, which she co-founded. It ran from the 1970s until the 90s. Chia lives in the Blue Mountains of NSW where she soaks up Welcome to the hidden complexities of life in an ordinary Australian nature through bushwalking and plein air painting. suburb. Who will fix the plumbing? How do you adapt to a trans person in the family? How do you end racism and make a safe haven for refugees, or keep up with the housework? And what on Earth do you do about the Praise for Fables Queer and Familiar climate emergency? ‘As with Charlie Pickering’s satire on The Weekly we can chuckle over the important issues of the day while not losing sight of how they matter.’ Lisa Here at last, between these two covers, we present the complete Hill, ANZ LitLovers instructions for being a lesbian granny. ‘Fables Queer and Familiar is a lighthearted, odd and delightful novel about Margaret Merrilees’s award-winning novel The First Week was published unconventional families. It depicts youthful rebels in old age, and in 2013. Fables Queer and Familiar started online and were broadcast as a normalises same-sex families.’ Catalina Bonati, Lip PHOTOGRAPHY fashion and way of life in these historic beachside suburbs from the A Photographic Memory 1930s to the 1980s. They also chronicle the long career of this much- George S. Hutton’s Port Adelaide and surrounds, 1924 to 1984 loved neighbourhood photographer. 056691 ERINA HUTTON Lovingly compiled and annotated by George’s daughter, Erina Hutton, PB • 80 PP • 265 x 218 • colour & B&W images t/out • this is an original and absorbing book. 781743 ISBN 9781743056691 • $29.95 9 This beautiful book brings together six decades of photographs of Port Adelaide, Semaphore and surrounds, as captured by professional photographer George Hutton (whose business was based in Exeter and then Largs Bay). These images chart the changing streetscapes, industry, DISTRIBUTED BY WAKefIELD PRESS extensive coverage of lower forms of the game, from Club cricket to Australian Cricket Digest 2019–20 underage formats. 8th Edition 808161 EDITED BY LAWRIE COLLIVER Lawrie Colliver has been following the game since the summer World PB • 388 PP • 210 x 148 • ISBN 9780646808161 • $34.95 • Sport Series Cricket started, in 1977–78. He went on to play grade cricket, then 780646 to work as a freelance cricket statistician for Fox Sports (where he is 9 Professional cricket tragic Lawrie Colliver has been producing the currently head cricket statistician), Macquarie Radio and Network Ten. Australian Cricket Digest, his annual almanac for the game, for eight Lawrie was also a credited ghostwriter on Dizzy: The Jason Gillespie Story, years now. published by HarperCollins, and worked for Fox Sports as their This year’s issue features full coverage of Australian cricket in the ‘on-ground’ producer at the 2009 and 2013 Ashes series in England. 2018-19 season plus the incredible 2019 Ashes, match reports, and full scorecards of all Tests, ODIs and Twenty20 for Men’s and Women’s games. Sheffield Shield, JLT Cup, BBL and WBBL are also covered, along with Wakefield Press CELEBRATING 30 YEARS IN 2019 CHRISTMAS CRACKERS Blooms and Brushstrokes Magic Little Meals A floral history of Australian art Making the most of homegrown produce 055793 056493 PeNELOPE CURTIN AND TANSY CURTIN LOLO HOUBEIN AND TORI ARBON HB • 216 PP • 275 x 220 • Full colour t/out • HB • 352 PP • 200 x 200 • Full colour t/out • 781743 781743 ISBN 9781743056493 • $65.00 • Art ISBN 9781743055793 • $49.95•Food/Cooking 9 9 ‘An attractive, vibrant addition to any coffee table ... Blooms ‘At last, a cookbook written by gardeners, for gardeners! This and Brushstrokes will please gardeners, historians, and art book celebrates what is delicious, seasonal and extraordinary lovers alike.’ Weekly Times about homegrown produce, and it encourages the reader to grow more and cook more, with practical handy tips for the garden and ‘Blooms and Brushstrokes is a sublime work of art ..