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lEad Title Biography/Gift Australian, and the Bulletin magazine; and Trailblazers written for Time magazine, and , A perfect 100 Inspiring South Australian Women . 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. ’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

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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,

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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 (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 . 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 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 ... There is kitchen throughout.’ Sophie Thomson, Gardening Australia so much to love in this book, it would make a beautiful gift, but it would take strength of character to actually give it ‘A practical and accessible garden-to-table cookbook bursting away.’ Lisa Hill, ANZ LitLovers with useful information ... This may just be the new Grass Roots kitchen bible!’ Grass Roots Curious Recollections Life in the Curiosity Show Silliness 056707 Rob Morrison A serious history 056455 PB • 208 PP • 210 x 140 • B&W images t/out • Peter Timms 781743 ISBN 9781743056707 • $24.95 • Memoir PB • 246 PP • 210 x 140 • ISBN 9781743056455 • $24.95 • 9 ‘Such fun, such adventures, such pioneering inventiveness: 781743 Cultural Studies 9 with blowup dolls, rotting corpses and frolics all over the ‘Silliness, Timms amply demonstrates, has always been with us globe Rob tells how he and his friends revolutionised and of us. His research is detailed, his capacity to let it tumble science on TV. Rob Morrison is one of the top ten science lightly to the page makes the read simultaneously educative and communicators in the world – and I know most of them. amusing.’ Jonathon Green, Sydney Morning Herald His secret? Leave the building, look, listen – and THINK.’ Robyn Williams, The Science Show, ABC Radio National ‘A deeply literary book that is also a lot of fun to read.’ Stephen Romei, Australian Long Flight Home Lainie Anderson Flight to Fame 056639 PB • 372 PP • 210 x 140 • ISBN 9781743056639 • $29.95 • Victory in the 1919 Great Air Race, England to Australia 056400 Fiction Sir Ross Smith, edited and introduced by

781743 ‘While the focus of this fine novel, based on a true story, is Peter Monteath 9 the competition of the first airmen to fly from Britain to 781743 PB • 180 PP • 234 x 156 • B&W images t/out • 9 Australia, what underpins it is a love story ... With this ISBN 9781743056400 • $29.95 • History historical context, author Laine Anderson distils masterfully Smith’s narrative of the flight’s near-disasters and triumphant the impact this had on two protagonists … For aviation successes is, in parts, a remarkably vivid read ... The pictures are enthusiasts, this book has an outstanding atmospheric well-chosen and clearly reproduced, giving a good sense of the sense of what it was like to fly in that era. Still, what lingers aeroplane, its crew, and the conditions encountered along the is the love story with its strength in war and endurance.’ way ... The introduction by Peter Monteath efficiently sketches out Christopher Bantick, Weekly Times the context of the Vimy flight for general readers, giving A documentary about the anniversary of the Epic Flight backgrounds of its crew and their competitors, and explaining the featuring Lainie Anderson will be broadcast in on SMS genesis of the race itself.’ Brett Holman, Honest History in December. The Vanished Land This Excellent Machine Disappearing dynasties of Victoria’s Western District 055014 Stephen Orr Richard Zachariah 056134 PB • 492 PP • 210 x 140 • ISBN 9781743056134 • $34.95 • PB • 328 PP • 210 x 140 • ISBN 9781743055014 • $34.95 • Fiction 781743 History 9 781743 ‘It’s the new novel from literary acrobat Stephen Orr - he ‘At the heart of this personally researched and vividly written 9 swings along from allusion to illusion, spins the words and book, as well as rollicking stories some of the old families drops them so that they land perfectly in a field of metaphor. wouldn’t want told, there is a yearning for a place and time that Keep a look out for turning points or important moments Zachariah discovered and lived as a boy.’ Tony Wright, Age because they will be there and gone before you notice. To say that he writes in an understated style is to understate it; ‘The Vanished Land has polarised opinion in the Western District. what he leaves out goes exactly to the limit of what can be While no doubt a welcome addition to Australia’s bookshelf, it has left out. Keep looking – a master of dialogue and pinpoint produced tensions over how stories have been retold and description, Orr’s writing stealthily makes you complicit in conclusions drawn.’ Kate Dowler, The Weekly Times its created world ... The craftmanship is excellent so enjoy the feeling and the journey.’ Patrica Johnson, Westerly Holden Treasures From the 1946 prototypes to the 1966 HR

The 055649 Don Loffler A century on from the vision

056165 HB • 352 PP • 230 x 210 • Full colour t/out •

Steve Gower 781743 ISBN 9781743055649 • $59.95 • Transport HB • 440 PP • 234 x 156 • ISBN 9781743056165 • $59.95 • 9 Don Loffler has evolved a unique style of automotive social 781743 History 9 history. His great capacity to find the human stories behind the ‘What emerges from this book is the obvious pleasure cars and then to illustrate them with superb photographs makes Gower derived from his role, whether he was greeting all his books a joy to own, to read and to display. He has done the visiting dignitaries, wrangling politicians, presiding over ’s Own Holdens extremely proud in all his solemn ceremonial, scrambling up scaffolding to view volumes. This one, aptly named Holden Treasures, and as restoration work or poring over plans for new galleries and painstakingly researched as his previous six, contains a wealth of buildings, and the privilege he felt in exercising the previously unpublished material. When automotive historians of “temporary stewardship … of this great and uniquely the future (if such exist) look back on the Holden, these fine books Australian institution”. ‘ Derek Abbott, Honest History will present a ready-made archive.’ Dr John M. Wright (PhD) 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

Titles in italics are related backlist titles OLP = Ovenden Lodge Publications

QTY Title First Author/Editor FORMAT iSBN Publisher AU Price Total Trailblazers Collins HB 9781743056905 WP $70.00 Greek Folk Journey, A Armenakis PB 9781743056783 WP $44.95 Further Fables Queer and Familiar Merrilees PB 9781743056929 WP $24.95 Blooms and Brushstrokes Curtin HB 9781743056493 WP $65.00 Curious Recollections Morrison PB 9781743056707 WP $24.95 Long Flight Home Anderson PB 9781743056639 WP $29.95 This Excellent Machine Orr PB 9781743056134 WP $34.95 Australian War Memorial, The Gower HB 9781743056165 WP $59.95 Magic Little Meals Houbein HB 9781743055793 WP $49.95 Silliness Timms PB 9781743056455 WP $24.95 Flight to Fame Smith PB 9781743056400 WP $29.95 Vanished Land, The Zachariah PB 9781743055014 WP $34.95 Holden Treasures Loffler HB 9781743055649 WP $59.95 Photographic Memory, A Hutton PB 9781743056691 WP $29.95 Australian Cricket Digest Colliver PB 9780646808161 OLP $34.95

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