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Christos Tsiolkas Patti Smith Ann Patchett Archie Roach Margaret Atwood Bill Bryson Helen Garner Christian White Charlotte Wood Favel Parrett Adam Spencer Tyson Yunkaporta Clare Bowditch William Dalrymple Josh Niland Peter Temple Rick Stein Tim Flannery Heather Rose Chris Hammer Kitty Flanagan Thomas Mayor Matthew Evans Grantlee Kieza Elliot Perlman Geoffrey Robertson Andrew McGahan Bri Lee Jason Chongue Roland Perry Lucy Treloar Jessie Burton Zadie Smith Erin Morgenstern Heather Morris Vicki Hastrich Maxine Beneba Cla Jessie rke F Anna Krien Anna Krien Christos Tsiolkas Garry Disher Heather Rose Philip Pullman Michael Palin Julian Barnes Anna Krien Margaret Atwood Archie Roach Chris Hammer Helen Tim Thomas Mayor Clare Bowditch Bill Bryson Vicki Hastrich Helen Garner Christian White Yunkaporta Clare Bowditch William Dalrymple Josh Niland Peter Temple Rick Stein Tim Flannery Rick Stein Favel Parrett Andrew McGahan Adam Spencer Charlotte Wood Tyson Heather Rose Chris Hammer Kitty Flanagan Thomas Mayor Matthew Evans Grantlee Kieza Elliot Perlman Geoffrey Robertson Lucy Treloar Bri Lee Jason Chongue Roland Perry Jessie Burton Zadie Smith Erin Morgenstern Heather Morris Garry Disher Vicki Hastrich Maxine Beneba Clarke Flea Donna Hay Philip Pullman Michael Palin Julian Barnes Anna Krien Bill Bryson Archie Roach Christos Tsiolkas Patti Smith Ann Patchett Helen Garner Tim Flannery Patti Smith AUSTRALIAN FICTION

Damascus Bruny There Was The Wife and The Red Hand Welcome to the Booksellers’ Christos Tsiolkas Heather Rose Still Love the Widow Peter Temple Choice Summer Guide! Allen & Unwin Allen & Unwin Favel Parrett Christian White Text Publishing We are delighted to share with you PB $32.99 PB $32.99 Hachette Australia Affirm Press PB $32.99 a selection of the best books for the PB $29.99 PB $32.99 season as chosen and reviewed by Damascus is an In a not-too-distant world The late Peter Temple was considered among Australia’s leading booksellers. imaginative work of America has retreated from Favel Parrett’s eagerly Set in a coastal town in soaring ambition and the UN, Australia’s closest awaited third novel is a the middle of winter, the very best: the first There is something to suit everyone achievement, immense ally is China, and Daesh’s mesmerising and heart- this murder mystery is Australian to win the – new Australian and international power and epic scope, influence is spreading. When construction of a wrenching story of a family told from two different Gold Dagger and the fiction, compelling life stories, history, taking as its subject the events surrounding the high-tech bridge to the tourist island of Bruny is separated by war and politics. Alternating scenes perspectives, Kate, the widow of the man only crime writer to win nature and science books, gorgeous birth and establishment of the Christian church. bombed, Astrid Coleman agrees to investigate. in Melbourne and Prague capture the immigrant murdered and Abby, the wife of the man the Miles Franklin Literary Award. This collection of short fiction, reviews, essays and an original illustrated editions and a great Based around the gospels and letters of St Paul Navigating her family and the politics of the experience both for those who stay behind and accused of his murder. As events unfold, both and some characters two generations on from bridge, Astrid uncovers a startling truth about the those making a new life in far-away lands, and women come to realise they didn’t really know screenplay, plus most of an unfinished Jack selection of children’s and YA reads. the death of Christ, Tsiolkas explores the themes lengths people and governments will go to for the strength of the love that can stretch between their husbands as well as they thought they did. Irish novel, is connected by Temple’s trademark wit, intelligence and love of Australia. An Happy reading! of religion, masculinity, patriarchy, colonisation, their beliefs. From the winner of the 2017 Stella the two. A book that will stay with you long after Full of twists and turns like White’s The Nowhere exile and the ways in which individuals, families Prize The Museum of Modern Love. you read the last sentence. Child that will have you guessing right up until entertaining introduction by publisher Michael and communities are united and divided. the very end. Heyward rounds out this tribute to a master.

The Weekend The Rich Maybe the The Bee and the Silver Cilka’s Journey Charlotte Wood Man’s House Horse Will Talk Orange Tree Chris Hammer Heather Morris Allen & Unwin Andrew McGahan Elliot Perlman Melissa Ashley Allen & Unwin Echo PB $29.99 Allen & Unwin Vintage Australia Affirm Press PB $32.99 PB $32.99 PB $32.99 PB $32.99 HB $35.00 When Sylvie, the linchpin in Troubled journalist Martin In 1942, at just sixteen, a group of four old friends A billionaire’s controversial Everyone has problems. The incredible story of Scarsden returns to his Cilka is imprisoned in dies, it creates a distance mansion sits atop a peak Stephen Maserov has the woman who invented hometown, Port Silver, Auschwitz-Birkenau. There between the others, with adjacent to the Wheel, a them too; work, marriage, ‘fairy tales’. In 1699 the this time with his new she captures the eye old secrets and resentments coming to the mountain rising 25 kilometres above the Southern money. To save it all, he will have to do things salons of Paris are filled partner, Mandy Blonde. of the Commandant at surface. Jude, who ran a successful restaurant, Ocean. The architect, Richard Gausse, and several he has never done before… This fast-paced, with the creative energy of fierce, independent- Upon arrival he learns Birkenau, Schwarzhuber. Wendy, a respected academic, and Adele, a workers were killed during construction. When laugh-out-loud, account of life in a big legal minded women, but the patriarchal forces of of the brutal murder of his best friend from his On eventual release, she is charged as a mostly unemployed actress, gather over the Gausse’s daughter Rita accepts an invitation to the firm is a love story, a reflection on contemporary Louis XIV and the Catholic Church are curbing schooldays, with Mandy becoming the prime collaborator and sent to the Siberian gulag. Christmas weekend to clear out Sylvie’s beach mansion, she and the other guests find themselves marriage, and further, an examination of the their freedoms. Three women’s illusions will be suspect in the murder. In his quest to pursue the There a female doctor takes her under her wing house. Often darkly funny, this is an exploration trapped in a fight for survival. The last novel by the greater issues that affect us in workplaces shattered as they learn how far they will go to truth, Martin must overcome many obstacles to and teaches her to care for patients. Heather of growing old, growing up, and what happens winner of the 2005 Miles Franklin Literary Award, everywhere in the twenty-first century. By the preserve their liberty in a society determined to clear his partner from the crime. The past is ever Morris has written an uplifting novel that when we are forced to uncover the protective The White Earth. author of Seven Types of Ambiguity and control them. A portrait of a time, a place, and present and this time there is no escape. From captures the kindness and love possible in even lies we tell ourselves. The Street Sweeper. the subversive power of the imagination. the bestselling author of Scrublands. the darkest of atrocities. From the bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.

Being Black ‘N Wolfe Island The Old Lie Chicken & Chips Lucy Treloar Claire G. Coleman 2019 Award Winners Boy Swallows Universe Matt Okine Picador Australia Hachette Australia Trent Dalton Hachette Australia PB $29.99 PB $32.99 PB $29.99 4th Estate Aus | PB $19.99 The Erratics From the author of Salt Similar to Claire G. Coleman’s Vicki Laveau-Harvie Creek, this is the tale of debut book Terra Nullius, we Winner of the ABA Booksellers’ Choice Book of Mike Amon is a teenager, 4th Estate Aus | PB $22.99 which in itself brings enough Kitty Hawke who lives are presented with a familiar the Year Award. A wonderful novel of love, crime, challenges. Between first alone on an island in the Australia in an unfamiliar magic, fate and coming of age, set in Brisbane’s kisses and fitting in, he doesn’t want to worry US north-east­—a witness to the island’s erosion way. Set in an intergalactic war between the violent working-class suburban fringe–from one Winner of the 2019 Stella about his mum having cancer and living with a while clinging to the ghosts of her past. News Federation (Earth) and the Conglomeration of Australia’s most exciting new writers. Now also Prize. When her elderly mother is dad he doesn’t really know. Matt Okine, a of mainland turmoil is distant until threats draw (other planets), Coleman recontextualizes our available in a gorgeous gift edition, RRP$39.99*. hospitalised unexpectedly, Vicki stand-up comedian, best known for his time as closer and refugees arrive. Forced to flee for history with war and Country asking us again to *while stocks last. travels to her parents’ isolated ranch a Triple J breakfast presenter, is able to tackle their lives, they journey north through winter, and draw parallels with the experience of Indigenous home in Alberta, Canada, to help grief, puberty and racism with a unique lightness Kitty must decide what she will do to protect the Australian’s through a sci-fi story. her father. She has been estranged and humour that makes this book an emotional people she loves. from her parents for many years and and wonderful read. is horrified by what she discovers on The Testaments her arrival. Margaret Atwood Act of Grace Paris Savages CHATTO & WINDUS | HB $42.99 Anna Krien Katherine Johnson Too Much Lip Melissa Lucashenko Black Inc | PB $32.99 Ventura Press | PB $32.99 Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo UQP | PB $29.95 A brilliant meditation on fear and sacrifice, This historical novel follows the journey of three trauma and survival, as the lives of four characters Badtjala people in 1882 who are taken from their HAMISH HAMILTON | HB $35.00 Winner of the 2019 Miles intersect over decades – Toohey, an Australian native Fraser Island to the bustle of Europe. There Franklin Literary Award. soldier back from Baghdad with shrapnel they perform for people in some of the world’s Winners of the Booker Prize 2019. Margaret Atwood’s Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has in his neck and crippled by PTSD; teenager most famous cities. But when the fascination of The Testaments, the sequel to the dystopian The Handmaid’s spent a lifetime avoiding two things Robbie, grappling with her father’s early onset dementia; Nasim, these foreign crowds becomes intrusive, Bonny, Dorondera and Tale which brings the story of Gilead to its dramatic conclusion, – her hometown and prison. But an aspiring Iraqi pianist whose family falls from favour with Saddam Jurano realise that they must find a way to return home. A novel that and Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other – a love song to now her Pop is dying and she’s an Hussein; and Gerry, Toohey’s son, who must find a way to heal from brings a little-known period of history to life and provides a scorching black Britain told by twelve very different women – have shared inch away from the lockup, so she a childhood of violence and damage. examination of cultural injustice. this year’s most prestigious international literary prize. heads south on a stolen Harley.

02 03 International FICTION CRIME & THRILLERS

The Dutch House The Confession Akin The Night Fire In Darkness The Siberian Ann Patchett Jessie Burton Emma Donoghue Michael Connelly Visible Dilemma Bloomsbury Picador Picador A&U Connelly Tony Jones Martin Cruz Smith PB $29.99 PB $29.99 PB $29.99 PB $32.99 Allen & Unwin Simon & Schuster PB $32.99 UK | PB $32.99 In 1945, real-estate In 1980, nineteen-year- A retired Professor’s Harry Bosch’s mentor, developer Cyril Conroy old Elise meets and falls life is thrown into chaos John Jack Thompson, is In this classy political This Arkady Renko novel purchases the Dutch in love with an older when he is given the dead. A murder book he thriller, Tony Jones deftly follows the Russian House in Elkins Park, woman Connie during responsibility of caring for inherits leads Bosch and blurs the line between investigator’s search outside Philadelphia, and a chance encounter on his young grand-nephew, Renée Ballard to take up fiction and history. Set for his part-time lover, presents it, complete Hampstead Heath. In 2017, thirty something just before a planned trip the unsolved killing of a between Sydney and the Balkans in 2005, it is the journalist Tatiana Petrovna, after she fails to with life-size portraits of the original owners Rose is searching for her identity and the to the French Riviera. He hopes to unravel the young man in an alley known for drug dealing. story of betrayal and revenge, and of the pursuit return from an assignment. What follows is a and a servant girl called Fluffy, to his wife. She mother she has never met. This beautiful mystery of his mother’s wartime years, armed As they dig into the case that preyed on John of justice in the murky and dangerous worlds nosedive into Russia’s corrupt politics, and an icy is appalled and runs away to serve the poor, and engrossing read moves backwards and only with a handful of puzzling photographs. Jack’s mind, the question arises: did he take the of international secret agencies. It is also an land where trouble lurks around every corner, as abandoning her 10-year-old daughter, Maeve, forwards seamlessly between the 1980s and the Encumbered with his young charge and adrift in book to pursue the case… or bury it? Another exploration of the intrigues and intricacies of the Renko scours Siberia for the missing journalist. and three-year-old son, Danny. Patchett excels at present time telling the stories of these three the city of Nice, this heart-warming and touching vintage Harry Bosch thriller for all the Michael human heart, and the extent in which we strive The ninth book in the bestselling thriller series portraying the intricacies of family life in this story women, and exploring themes of motherhood, tale shows how secrets drive families apart, but Connelly’s fans out there. for justice and love. which started with Gorky Park. spanning three generations. loss, creativity and friendship. ultimately it’s about the ties that bind us together.

Quichotte The World That The Starless Sea Peace Agent Running Darkness for Light Salman Rushdie We Knew Erin Morgenstern Garry Disher in the Field Emma Viskic John le Carré Jonathan Cape Alice Hoffman Harvill Secker Text Publishing Echo PB $32.99 Simon & Schuster PB $32.99 PB $29.99 Viking PB $29.99 PB $32.99 UK | PB $32.99 December release In a modern masterpiece Zachary Rawlins stumbles You can feel the heat radiating off the pages about the quest for love Berlin 1941, and Hanni across a strange book Ed is an introverted The third thrilling as the events of this and family, Rushdie has Kohn is desperate to hidden in his university and solitary figure instalment in the award- compelling mystery created a dazzling Don get her twelve-year-old library, which leads him who is angered by the winning Caleb Zelic unfold. Disher, the Quixote for the modern daughter Lea out of on a quest unlike any contemporary politics series. After heartbreak master of ‘rural noir’, has created yet another age. Mediocre writer Germany even though she must stay with her other. Its pages entrance of London in 2018. However, in his attempts to and trauma, Caleb, profoundly deaf since early memorable character in the form of Constable Sam DuChamp creates Quichotte who falls for elderly mother. Hanni enlists the help of the him with their tales of lovelorn prisoners, lost cities resist the escalating political climate around childhood, is beginning to rebuild his life. But Paul Hirschhausen, who runs a one-man police a TV star and sets off on a picaresque quest in a rabbi’s daughter, Ettie, who creates a golem to and nameless acolytes, combining strangely with him he makes some decisions that prove to be people in power have other ideas. Caleb’s station in a rural farming community in South wickedly entertaining portrait of a time when fact lead them both to a place of safety. Hoffman recollections from his own childhood. Determined very dangerous indeed. Fast paced and darkly double-crossing business partner, Frankie, has Australia. If you are a fan of Jane Harper, you is so often indiscernible from fiction. employs her signature use of magic realism to to solve the puzzle of the book, Zachary follows humorous, this latest offering by the master of something they want, and they are after Caleb to definitely need be introduced to the works of lead readers through this dark time in history the clues only to uncover a subterranean labyrinth the espionage thriller is a story for our times. get it. On the hunt for Frankie and information, Garry Disher and this is a great place to start. to explore themes of good and evil and love filled with stories hidden far beneath the surface Caleb is drawn into a world of high-level and loyalty. of the earth. corruption and dark political deals.

The Eighth Life After the Flood Imaginary Friend Nino Haratischvili Kassandra Montag Stephen Chbosky Scribe | PB $35.00 4th Estate Aus Orion | PB $32.99 The Overstory Olive, Again PB $32.99 Richard Powers Elizabeth Strout At the start of the Seven-year-old Christopher twentieth century, on The polar caps have has a learning disability Vintage | PB $19.99 Viking | PB $29.99 the edge of the Russian melted, deluging the world and one day disappears Empire, a family prospers. and dislocating billions. into the woods. He Moving through America’s history and its From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of It owes its success to Myra and her daughter returns six days later with landscape, this is a wondrous, exhilarating novel Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again a delicious chocolate Pearl live aboard their boat no memory of what has happened, and his about nine strangers each summoned in different follows the story of Olive as she grows older, recipe, passed down the generations with the Bird, fishing and trading with those that disability mysteriously gone. Then Christopher ways by the natural world and brought together navigating the second half of her life and coming great solemnity and caution. A caution which is live on the mountain peaks remaining above begins to hear a voice and experiences strange in a last stand to save it from catastrophe. to terms with the changes – sometimes welcome, justified – this is a recipe for ecstasy that carries water. It is a violent, lawless world plagued with revelations, while the local community is stricken Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2019. sometimes not – in her own existence and in a very bitter aftertaste. This epic saga takes us piracy and deceit. When Myra learns her oldest with a strange sickness. Everyone Christopher those around her. from before the Russian Revolution to after the daughter, Row, is still alive, a mothers’ fury finds loves is imperilled, and he must face the darkest fall of the Soviet Union, focusing on several its focus. A debut novel of epic imagination, of his fears to save them and find redemption. generations of damaged women. After the Flood signals the arrival of an extraordinary new talent. The Death of Jesus Girl J.M. Coetzee Edna O’Brien Text Publishing | HB $29.99 Faber | PB $29.99 The Secret Commonwealth Grand Union Philip Pullman Zadie Smith The final book in the trilogy sees David as a tall In Edna O’Brien’s new book, we are transported ten-year-old and a natural at soccer. He still asks to the life of a young girl who has been David Fickling Books | PB $32.99 Hamish Hamilton | PB $32.99 lots of questions, refuses to do sums, and will not abducted by Boko Haram jihadis. When offered read any books except Don Quixote. Coetzee a means of escape, she grabs it, only to find This much anticipated second book in The Book In this kaleidoscopic story collection, Zadie Smith continues to explore the meaning of a world empty herself in a society blinkered by denial. This is of Dust trilogy is set twenty years after the events takes on the weirdness of our contemporary world of memory but brimming with questions. a story of extreme courage, and how to find of La Belle Sauvage, and roughly ten years after with infectious lyricism and intensity. There are stories meaning in a world consumed by madness. the events of the His Dark Materials trilogy. Lyra is about drug abuse, race relations, gender identity now a twenty-year-old undergraduate travelling to and our capacity for a seemingly endless array of Central Asia with Malcolm in search of a town said to sexual proclivities and encounters. Smith’s writing be haunted by demons. Another breathtaking read alarms, shocks and delights in equal measure. from a master storyteller. Books marked with this symbol are available in Bolinda audio edition.

04 05 AUSTRALIAN STORIES BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

Tell Me Why The Accidental Tea and Scotch Penny Wong Tall Tales and The Man in the Archie Roach Tour Guide with Bradman Margaret Simons Wee Stories Red Coat Simon & Schuster Mary Moody Roland Perry Black Inc Billy Connolly Julian Barnes AUS | HB $49.99 Simon & Schuster ABC PB $34.99 Two Roads Jonathan Cape AUS | PB $35.00 HB $39.99 HB $45.00 HB $39.99 Archie Roach took Penny Wong is one of almost a lifetime to find Mary Moody has For many years, Roland Australia’s first openly When he announced his The Man Booker Prize- out who he really was. designed and lead Perry regularly met with gay politicians and retirement in December winning author of The In this intimate and a full and busy life; Don Bradman to discuss one of the few Senate 2018, Billy Connolly had Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty moving memoir, Roach’s journalist, author, his career and life, and representations of had a fifty-year career tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story story is an extraordinary odyssey through love presenter, gardener, wife, mother. Along the in 2014 published his definitive biography on Asian Australians. She as one of the world’s most famous comedians. of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi – a and heartbreak, family and community, survival way she inspired many with her bestselling the great sportsman. This companion volume is highly respected by her staff, the public and This book brings together some of the very best rational and scientific man with a famously and renewal and the healing power of music. memoirs including Au Revoir and Last Tango reveals the man behind the myth, what made by people from opposing political parties. But of Billy’s stories and monologues and reveals his complicated private life. A fresh and original Overcoming enormous odds to find his story and in Toulouse. Five years ago, Mary’s life was him tick, who and what inspired him, his she is also intensely private and seldom gives true talent in the craft of storytelling, pointing out portrait of the Belle Epoque, its heroes and his people, Roach voices the joy, pain and hope turned upside down when her beloved great sense of humour – and his affection for interviews. This biography is a rare insight the absurd, and exposing the hypocrisy of human villains, writers, artists and thinkers, and a life he found on his path through song to become husband passed away. Mary’s story of what tea and Scotch. An intimate portrait of the into a person who faced marginalisation and endeavours, and all with his inimitable voice and of a man ahead of his time. the legendary singer-songwriter and storyteller comes next is full of honesty and inspiration, man many regard as the greatest Australian bullying but fought to have her voice, and sense of humanity. that he is today. a third act in an extraordinary story. cricketer of all time. others like it, heard.

Bob Hawke Your Own The Education Gulpilil Yellow Buckley’s Chance Blanche d’Alpuget Kind of Girl of an Idealist Derek Rielly Notebook Garry Linnell Simon & Schuster Clare Bowditch Samantha Power Macmillan Helen Garner Michael Joseph AUS | HB $59.99 Allen & Unwin William Collins UK Australia Text Publishing PB $34.99 PB $29.99 PB $32.99 HB $29.99 HB $29.99 D’Alpuget presents a A surviving soldier from definitive biography of ARIA Award-winning Samantha Power is a Bob Hawke, detailing Fifty years ago, Yolngu Helen Garner has kept Napoleon’s army William singer and actress Clare former US Ambassador his life after the prime man David Gulpilil, a a diary for almost all Buckley escaped the gallows Bowditch confronts her to the United Nations, the ministership, alongside sixteen-year-old dancer, her life, which until for convict chains and inner critic in this no- youngest person to ever never-before-published photos. This is appeared in the film now have been locked on arriving in Australia took his chances again. holds-barred memoir. She reveals a childhood hold that position. She began her illustrious career combined with updated and revised editions Walkabout, forever changing Australia’s away, out of bounds in Adopted by an Aboriginal tribe he was initiated punctuated by grief, anxiety and compulsion, as a war correspondent covering the Yugoslav of her award-winning book from 1982, Robert relationship with Indigenous Australia. a laundry cupboard. Now, Garner has opened into their rich and complex culture to famously and tells how these forces shaped her life for Wars, before becoming an activist, academic, J. Hawke: A Biography, and her 2010 Hawke: Balancing a subsequent roll call of influential her diaries and invited her readers into the emerge 32 years later carrying a spear and no better and for worse. This is a heartbreaking, presidential advisor, and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Prime Minister, bringing these works film appearances with his ancient and remote world behind her novels and works of non- longer speaking the English language. Mythical, wise and at times playful book, a reminder that author. Power reflects on the forces that have together for the first time. Arnhem cultural heritage often sat uneasily. fiction. Recorded with frankness, humour and due to the famous phrase about chances, this is even on the darkest of nights, victory is closer shaped her both personally and professionally, Derek Rielly, author of Wednesdays with Bob steel-sharp wit, these accounts of her everyday his fascinating story. than it seems. saying that, “...even in troubled times, we can offers a beguiling portrait of the enigmatic life provide an intimate insight into the work of each do our part to shape a more humane future.” David Gulpilil. one of Australia’s greatest living writers.

Me Face It Janis Finding the Heart of the Nation The Devil’s Grip Elton John Debbie Harry Holly George-Warren Thomas Mayor Neal Drinnan Macmillan HarperCollins UK Simon & Schuster UK HB $44.99 HB $45.00 PB $32.99 Hardie Grant | HB $39.99 Simon & Schuster AUS | PB $32.99 Long awaited and eagerly Deborah Harry is arguably Janis Joplin was a white girl After the Uluru Statement from the Heart was The Western District was one of the wealthiest anticipated this is Elton the coolest female rock from Texas who didn’t fit the formed in May 2017 signatory and campaigner regions on earth at one time, with wool incomes John’s no-holds-barred star ever. This is a visceral mould in her conservative Thomas Mayor travelled with the sacred canvas to making it the seat of power in Australia. The own account of his mix of soulful storytelling oil town. Artistic by nature, communities across Australia. This special book Wettenhall family were world renown for their amazing life. No one is more grateful than and stunning visuals that her passion and perfectionism honed one of details his journey and through 20 key interviews makes clear what the sheep but met with generational tragedy in a Elton for all he has achieved and experienced, include never-before seen photographs, bespoke rock history’s great voices. She was provocative, Uluru Statement is and why it is so important. The book is his gift to the gruesome triple murder in 1992. Neil Drinnan and true to his living legend stature this is illustrations and highlights from Deborah’s private pushing gender boundaries and women’s place in campaign for Voice, Treaty and Truth and like the Uluru Statement he tells the story of the incident with a depth of a heartfelt, funny, outrageous and openly collection. Add to that the grit, grime, and glory rock and roll, and her tragic death robbed us too hopes that all Australians will accept it. insight that recalls Truman Capote’s best, examining rural life, cultural humble memoir. Beautifully written and full of downtown 1970’s New York recounted in soon of an artist in ascension. shame, and the corrosive effects of secrets held in fear and repression. of Elton’s music, relationships, passions and intimate detail; Face It delivers a truly prismatic mistakes, this is a story that will stay with you. portrait well beyond the standard music memoir.

Sand Talk: How Indigenous Life: Selected Writings Thinking Can Save the World Tim Flannery Year of the Monkey Acid for the Children Patti Smith Flea Tyson Yunkaporta Text Publishing | HB $39.99 Bloomsbury | HB $29.99 Headline | PB $32.99 Text Publishing | PB $32.99 By the 2007 Australian of the Year, From the celebrated performer, artist and Michael Peter Balzary, better known as Flea, palaeontologist, explorer and conservationist, Tyson Yunkaporta’s Sand Talk is an indigenous award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, was born in Melbourne but as a kid moved to Tim Flannery, Life: Selected Writing is his interpretation of our world that sees the patterns this is a profound, beautifully realised memoir of the USA. When his parents split, Flea and his definitive collection of work bringing together of creation as central to understanding our place in one transformative year. For Patti Smith, writing the sister moved in with their mother’s jazz musician thirty years of essays, speeches and writings as nature. Nature, Yunkaporta says, is not something year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes boyfriend, and a life of music, booze and drugs one of the world’s greatest thinkers and environmental scientists. separate from us, and that construct trades away our connection and in life: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the revealed itself. At Fairfax High School in LA, Flea The perfect book to read as we reflect on society’s past mistakes, responsibility to the earth. We must learn to live in proper relation to the political landscape of America. Illustrated with Smith’s fell in with Anthony Kiedis, a friendship that launched the Red Hot and work towards a cleaner, more sustainable future. planet if we are to escape the idea of saving the environment, in order to signature Polaroids, this is a moving and original work. Chili Peppers. This is a coming of age story of one of rock’s finest bass embrace our part in this system and ultimately save ourselves. Also available is Just Kids Illustrated, RRP $59.99. players, and a tribute to the redemptive power of music.

06 07 HISTORY NON-FICTION

The Anarchy Where Convict Colony Nothing New Against All Odds The Golden Era William Dalrymple Soldiers Lie David Hill Robyn Annear Richard Harris and Rod Laver with Ian McPhedran Bloomsbury Allen & Unwin Text Publishing Craig Challen Larry Writer HB $29.99 PB $32.99 HarperCollins HB $29.99 Viking Allen & Unwin HB $39.99 PB $34.99 HB $39.99 In August 1765, the Late in the 18th century, Robyn Annear bring us a East India Company the New World was Over thirty-five treasure trove of stories This is the definitive This book is Rod Laver’s defeated the young littered with the remains thousand Australian about the long lives of account of the Thai personal story of the Mughal emperor and of failed colonies, and soldiers and airmen are material objects. Our cave rescue – the rescue 1950s to the 1970s when forced him to set up a Sydney very nearly joined still listed as Missing present-day fixation on mission that captured the Australia dominated new government run by English traders. The them. It was only through a combination of in Action from the wars of the 20th Century. new things is an aberration, as everyday things world’s attention – and of the two Australian’s world tennis. As the greatest of this time, he Anarchy, the latest book by bestselling historian good leaders, good timing and most of all This book tells the powerful, moving and from clothing to cookware to machines have that made its success possible. This is a story shares eyewitness accounts of the action on William Dalrymple, tells the story of how one of good luck, that the fledgling colony survived at compelling story of the determination and historically been passed down or sold on to of determination, cunning and triumph, and and off court. It was a time of great tennis and the world’s most magnificent empires came to all. Master historian David Hill, author of 1788: skills of the searchers who apply painstaking live multiple lives, often with multiple owners. a hopeful reminder that people around the sportsmanship. The book includes interviews be ruled by an aggressive colonial power in the The Brutal Truth of the First Fleet, recounts detective work, exacting forensic analysis and Those objects hold memory from which history world can put aside their differences and unite with many big names from the tennis world guise of a multinational corporation. the first three decades of white settlement in cutting-edge science to uncover and identify can be read, unlike the disposable products we together for the greater good. including Frank Sedgman, Ken Rosewall, the Australia in a fresh and compelling way. the remains of these Australian soldiers, and consume today. late Lew Hoad, Neale Fraser, Mal Anderson, bring their remains home. Ashley Cooper, Roy Emerson, Fred Stolle, John Newcombe and Margaret Court.

Who Owns The Lost Boys The End is Please, Gamble Night Fishing The Sydney History? Paul Byrnes Always Near Irresponsibly Vicki Hastrich Hobart Yacht Race Geoffrey Robertson Affirm Press Dan Carlin Titus O’Reily Allen & Unwin Rob Mundle Knopf Australia HB $45.00 William Collins UK Michael Joseph PB $29.99 ABC HB $39.99 PB $34.99 PB $34.99 HB $49.99 This stunning book A beautifully crafted and Geoffrey Robertson takes a unique Dan Carlin, creator Australia sits at the top of profoundly captivating December release turns his formidable perspective on the of the popular the world when it comes memoir from a writer intellect to the question First World War, award-winning to gambling but doing truly at the top of her Rob Mundle is a of repatriation of cultural when thousands of boys across Australia and podcast Hardcore so wasn’t always as easy game. Hastrich deftly chronicler of Australia’s artefacts such as the ‘Elgin’ Marbles, sold by New Zealand lied about their age and forged History is known as the ‘king of long-form as it is today. This light-hearted book documents fuses her intimate, loving knowledge of a tiny obsession with the sea, and those who sail Lord Elgin to the British government in the early their parents’ signatures in order to fight on the podcasting’ so it’s no surprise that his first the rise, fall, and rise again of sports gambling in arena of Australia’s natural world with the grand upon it. This iconic race is now in its 75th year 19th century. The marble statues were taken other side of the world. Featuring previously book is also just as detailed and entertaining Australia. It traces the history of this thoroughly influence of ideas from throughout civilisation– and Rob has given us a detailed history right from the Parthenon, and argument is they should untold stories of forty Anzac boys as well as as his previous projects. Carlin takes us Aussie pastime with humour and examines from the baroque to the American Western, from the very first meeting. There are dramatic be returned. Robertson sees this as a project beautiful, haunting images taken at training through all the times in history when the end how its legalisation and commercialisation now and artists as diverse as Zane Grey, Tiepolo and photographs and knowledgeable commentary that must sweep the world, as cultural heritage camps and behind the lines, this is military was nigh and asks how they shaped us as threatens the integrity of sport. Goya–to create a singularly original and deeply on both the big and small players and the highs belongs to those whose history it is a material history made deeply personal. humans and what we can expect from future pleasurable collection. and the lows, including the terrible year of 1998, part of, not those who steal or purchase it. world-ending catastrophes to come. the year of the Fatal Storm.

Macquarie Voices of History: Speeches that The Saturday Portraits This is What A Feminist Looks Like Grantlee Kieza Changed the World Maxine Beneba Clarke Emily Maguire Simon Sebag Montefiore ABC | HB $39.99 Hachette Australia National Library of Australia W&N | HB $35.00 PB $34.99 PB $29.99 Lachlan Macquarie is credited with shaping Australia’s destiny, transforming the harsh Perfectly curated by acclaimed historian Maxine Beneba Clarke has been writing for For over a century, women have been fighting for foreboding penal colony of New Holland into an Simon Sebag Montefiore, this eclectic collection Australia’s newest newspaper, The Saturday feminism, but much of it, especially the Australian agricultural powerhouse and a prosperous society. of speeches spans centuries, continents and Paper, since 2014. In that time, she has movements, remain untaught in schools. Emily But was he the man who sowed the seeds of a cultures. This new edition of the entertaining watched porn star Buck Angel striptease, Maguire brings to light the history and future great nation, or a tyrant who dispossessed the book will take you on a journey from ancient times to the twenty- emailed with the Obamas and interviewed of feminism in Australia, from First Wave to #metoo, through the original landowners? Grantlee Kieza draws on Macquarie’s rich and first century–from Cleopatra to Michelle Obama, Genghis Khan to Hugh Jackman for a “strict 9 minutes”. impacts it has on women in politics, work, home, the body and the detailed journals to create a lively and engaging portrait. Bob Dylan. All seventy speeches are essential reading. This collection brings together every article she has written public space. With pictures, vintage ads and factsheets, this book is with her observant eye and direct wit. as educational as it is inspiring.

Chastise: James Cook The Truth Will Set You Free, Beauty The Dambusters Story 1943 Peter FitzSimons But First It Will Piss You Off! Bri Lee Max Hastings Hachette Australia | HB $49.99 Gloria Steinem Allen & Unwin William Collins UK | PB $34.99 Murdoch Books PB $19.99 From a Yorkshire farm boy to becoming the foremost HB $24.99 Like many of us, renowned journalist and author mariner, scientist, navigator and cartographer Bri Lee’s debut book Eggshell Skull was Max Hastings grew up enthralled by the heroic of his era, Captain James Cook is one of the As an activist for the American feminist movement immensely successful, but in the midst of her book events of Operation Chastise, the 1943 attack most recognisable figures in Australian history. from the late 60s up until now, Steinem has a launch and the glamourous photoshoots and tours on the three dams in Nazi Germany with Barnes Now, 240 years after James Cook’s death, Peter lifetime’s worth of inspiring and memorable that came with it, Lee struggled with the pressure Wallis’ bouncing bomb as depicted in the 1955 FitzSimons brings the real James Cook to life, by focusing on his most quotes. Categorised into chapters on family, growing up, adversaries of perfectionism. Beauty is about how we are constantly surrounded by movie The Dam Busters. In his latest book he delves into the stories iconic expedition, the voyage of the Endeavour. Through his strengths, and revolutions, her quotes are beautifully illustrated and compiled media and culture promoting unattainable ideals of thinness and beauty. behind these events with moving portraits of the young airmen and weaknesses, passions and pursuits, failures and successes, FitzSimons into the perfect gift book. An important read, especially in the age of social media. looking at the raids as part of the bigger picture of World War II. reveals the real James Cook.

08 09 SCIENCE & NATURE FOOD

Planet Earth Botanical Memory-wise The Commons Rick Stein’s Week Light Bob Brown Revelation Dr Anne Unkenstein Matthew Evans Secret France Donna Hay Hardie Grant David J. Mabberley Allen & Unwin Hardie Grant Rick Stein 4th Estate Aus HB $29.99 NewSouth PB $29.99 HB $60.00 BBC Books PB $45.00 PUBLISHING HB $49.99 For many decades HB $89.99 This very useful In The Commons, a With the focus Bob Brown, doctor, and practical book inspired by the Twenty years after on flavour and former leader of the Renowned author and book from clinical SBS television series French Odyssey, simplicity, Week Greens, and ecological botanist David Mabberley’s latest book explores neuropsychologist, Gourmet Farmer, Rick Stein returns to Light brings you warrior has been warning the Australian people and analyses the motives and complex networks Dr Anne Unkenstein, Matthew Evans his beloved France an abundance of about the dangers of unfettered development that led to the international spread of knowledge explains how memory captures Fat Pig to explore further the cuisine he likes most. family-friendly, vegetable-based recipes. Donna and the threat of climate change. This beautifully and cultivation of hundreds of Australian plants works and changes that can occur as we get Farm’s year of growing, cooking and feasting. Part Going off the beaten track, he meanders Hay has reworked some of her all-time classics illustrated book is a collection of his thoughts in Europe in the late eighteenth and early older. It explains the sort of health, attitude and how-to, part evocative diary, part cookbook, this through hidden towns and sleepy villages – to give you a new way of looking at vegetables. and quotes. Knowledgeable, meditative but nineteenth centuries. Illustrated throughout with lifestyle factors that can lead to fluctuation in book is also for all those who just want to dream from Normandy to rural Provence – to brings Including such treats as a pizza base or flat bread above all inspirational, it is a book to treasure many never-before published images, Botanical memory and provides practical tips to minimise the dream without leaving home. Features over us a collection of 120 brand new recipes of made from broccoli, super-green oven-baked from one of our most esteemed leaders. Revelation perfectly marries a history of science their effects on memory. Become more skilled in 100 beautiful recipes focusing on vegetables and true, rustic French cooking – vibrant, fresh and falafels, and a crunchy raw Pad Thai. and a love of botanical art. managing memory and more confident to get ethically sourced meat. uncomplicated, in a stunningly illustrated volume. the most out of your memory’s ability.

Bird Bonds The World The Best Pardiz: The Whole Just Desserts Gisela Kaplan at Night Australian Science Persian Food Fish Cookbook Charlotte Ree Macmillan Babak Tafreshi Writing 2019 and Memories Josh Niland Plum Australia Quarto UK Bianca Nogrady (ed.) Manuela Hardie Grant PB $29.99 PB $34.99 HB $55.00 NEWSOUTH Darling-Gansser HB $55.00 The perfect gift for PUBLISHING Hardie Grant A fascinating and anyone who loves Celebrating the PB $29.99 HB $60.00 Since opening his first exhaustively researched splendour of the sky seafood restaurant baking and making look into the world of at night, this well in 2015, Josh Niland sweet treats look pretty. What is important to Manuela Darling- Australia’s native birds. curated book brings together the images of has won numerous This pocketsize book the world in 2019? The Gansser left Iran Bird Bonds describes Australia’s important gift over 40 photographers across 25 countries. awards for his approach to using the whole fish. contains 30 delicious Best Australian Science Writing is back and is when she was nine, then returned as an adult as the cradle of the world’s modern songbird, Be astounded by the lights of the night sky in Featuring more than 60 recipes, The Whole recipes for slices, cookies, cakes and desserts, again tackling our questions, anxieties and hope to reconnect with the country she remembered setting the scene to explore the complex some of the darkest places on earth. Through Fish Cookbook uncovers Niland’s philosophy. including a decadent lemon sponge, the lightest, for this modern age. With articles written by so fondly. This book is a celebration of that relationships that co-operative and intelligent these photos you will discover the beauty of From sourcing and butchering to dry ageing fluffiest vanilla chiffon cake, and madeleines that Australia’s leading scientists ranging from golf journey in a compilation of memories, stories birds have evolved to increase life expectancy galaxies, planets and stars, view great celestial and curing, the book challenges everything we would make Proust swoon! Charlotte combines balls on the moon to life after death, Australia’s and beautiful recipes that underline the depth and offspring survival. Ultimately Bird Bonds events, and see some of the world’s most thought we knew about the subject to reveal an classic techniques and flavours with the show- weight problem, invisible diseases, climate and broad appeal of the fascinating Persian food shows how humans and birds may be more important landmarks against the backdrop of amazing, complex source of protein that should stopping decorating tips that have made her change and much more. These are fun and culture, with an emphasis on local ingredients, alike in attachment and mating behaviour incredible nightscapes. be treated with the same nose-to-tail reverence such an Instagram sensation. thought-provoking essays to better understand healthy vegetable dishes, and flourishing food than we think. as meat. the world today. markets. Pardiz, above all, celebrates the joy of the shared table.

The Body Cosmic Chronicles: Bill Bryson A User’s Guide to the Universe gardening Fred Watson Doubleday | HB $49.99 Indoor Jungle NEWSOUTH PUBLISHING | PB $32.99 Lauren Camilleri and Sophia Kaplan Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Green Nearly Everything, now turns his attention to the Trying to explain the universe in 20 chapters is Smith Street Books | HB $49.99 Jason Chongue human body, how it functions and its remarkable no easy feat, but if anyone could, it would be ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts Australia’s Chief Astronomer Fred Watson. In a From the authors of Leaf Supply comes a new, Hardie Grant | PB $32.99 and astonishing stories, The Body: A Guide for wonderfully photographed guide to creating indoor clear and conversational style, Watson takes even December release Occupants is a brilliant, often funny attempt the most complex questions about dark matter, spaces that are alive with artful greenery. Plants are to understand the miracle of our physical and off-planet economics and black holes, to name a few, and makes them beautiful works of art that complete any interior and have undeniable Jason Chongue is the founder of The Plant Society, neurological make up. A must-have for fans of Bryson and popular science. accessible and interesting for everyone. benefits for our health and wellbeing. This book is your perfect excuse a Melbourne-based studio focusing on designing to dive right into creating your own indoor jungle. with plants in small urban areas. In Green he shows us how to curate and look after plants in variety of environments and climates – from balconies, porches, courtyards and small backyards to entryways, offices and living spaces. Adam Spencer’s Numberland Dr Karl’s Random Road Trip Adam Spencer Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki The Land Gardeners: Cut Flowers The Edible Garden Brio | PB $34.99 ABC | PB $35.00 Bridget Elworthy and Henrietta Courtauld Paul West Ever wondered what numbers have to do with Dr. Karl’s 45th book is a hilarious, full colour Thames & Hudson Aus | HB $80.00 Plum | PB $39.99 everything from outer space to twins or chess? How adventure, taking you on an exciting and does GPS work? Can honey-bees really count? Adam interesting ride through the world of science. Oxfordshire’s Wardington Manor is home to the Equal parts practical and inspirational, this is simply a Spencer, bestselling author of The Number Games Australia’s favourite science guru will answer Land Gardeners, creators of productive gardens terrific book by chef, gardener and presenter of the and Top 100, delights us with the figures behind the all the questions you’ve been dying to have and the tradition of working with the land to produce amazing, beautiful River Cottage Australia TV series, Paul West! Part one facts. He brings to life the magic of numbers with engaging humour that answered – and many that you didn’t even know you needed the answers blooms. This gorgeously photographed book lets you in on the secrets is a practical guide to backyard edible gardening– will suit all ages. This fully illustrated title will spark your curiosity and have to! Why do wombats poo cubes? Why does spaghetti always break into to ensure your garden’s health can provide you with seasonal blooms from setting up to an A-Z edible planting guide. Also includes an extensive you flicking through the pages. three pieces? Plus, a whole lot more. that are just as enchanting. Not only is it a visual feast, but the practical selection of great recipes and even a section on building communities guidance will help with your own garden success. around helping and sharing in food production. West’s first book is a keeper.

10 11 BETTER LIVING ART, DESIGN, Illustrated

488 Rules for Life Find Your Sparkle For Small Creatures Bibliostyle: Australian Iconic: Modern Kitty Flanagan Meredith Gaston Such As We How We Live at Designers Australian Allen & Unwin Hardie Grant Sasha Sagan Home with Books At Home Houses 1950-2000 PB $29.99 HB $29.99 Murdoch Books Nina Freudenberger Jenny Rose-Innes Karen McCartney PB $29.99 Hardie Grant Thames & Hudson Murdoch Books Kitty Flanagan has written The latest book from HB $50.00 Aus HB $59.99 a manual for human Meredith Gaston is as As the daughter of writer HB $59.99 bitterness, based on beautiful and enchanting and producer, Ann Druyan In Bibliostyle, interior Karen McCartney’s book common sense and her as her previous and astronomer, Carl designer Nina In Australian Designers showcases, in a fresh, new and collectible capacity to always be bestsellers. Meredith’s delightful and thoughtful Sagan, Sacha Sagan had a secular upbringing. Freudenberger celebrates the beauty of books at Home Jenny Rose-Innes invites readers into edition, fifty years of some of the best and right about everything. words encourage us to explore, nurture and After her own daughter was born, Sasha decided and the personal touch they bring to the homes the homes of 20 of the country’s leading names in most iconic of Australia’s residential modernist It’s a good thing too. We need less middle- nourish our inner sparkle and her whimsical to explore celebrations and create her own they live in. This book offers a peek into the interior design. Richly illustrated throughout with homes. McCartney is an expert in modern aged men with ponytails, people should be in watercolour illustrations inspire us to colour rituals. Part biography, guidebook and history private libraries of passionate readers from all stunning colour photography by Simon Griffiths, Australian architecture and the book shows single file on an escalator, and banana should our lives with wonder, gratitude and peace. lesson, this book explores the meanings and over the world and all walks of life. Featuring the book takes readers on an intimate journey, the extent of her knowledge in this beautifully never make it into the salad. Kitty makes gentle history of things such as birthdays, births, deaths an abundance of rare collections, floor-to- revealing how the most influential designers designed and packaged volume. Featuring mockery of Jordan Peterson by being both funny and other celebrations, for someone who isn’t ceiling shelves and stacks upon stacks of books, decorate their own houses. Find out what home houses from Harry Seidler, Peter Muller, Roy and true. necessarily of a particular religion. Bibliostyle is a visual feast and inspiration for means from the people who create them for Grounds, Robin Boyd and many more, this is every bibliophile. a living. An invaluable resource for designers, a worthy addition to our architectural history. decorators and interiors enthusiasts alike. Fucking Good The Power Age Me Time Manners Kelly Doust Jessica Sanders Simon Griffin Murdoch Books Five Mile In An Olive Cotton Elegance: HB $39.99 HB $24.99 Icon Books Australian Light Helen Ennis The Beauty HB $19.99 Not interested in or From the author of the Thames & Hudson 4th Estate Aus of French Fashion Among today’s busyness willing to sit back and bestselling children’s book Thames & HB $49.99 Megan Hess and confusion, it seems become invisible? Take Love Your Body comes a Hudson Aus inspiration from dozens joyfully illustrated book for Hardie Grant we’ve forgotten a few of HB $59.99 Olive Cotton was one HB $29.99 the basics in life, like the of interviews and words of wisdom from adults about taking care of Australia’s pioneering ability to treat one another with respect, dignity women working their power age, including of our wellbeing. Me Time modernist photographers. The light in Australia is Renowned fashion and good manners. Simon Griffin, author of former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen reframes self-care from acts Her significant talent was like nowhere else on earth. This photographic illustrator Megan Hess Fucking Apostrophes, imparts rules and advice Clark, designer Leona Edmiston and food of indulgence to a holistic recognised in the bold and distinctive work she survey traverses the country–from rugged explores the timeless beauty and glamour of for living life in a way that makes it just a bit legend Maggie Beer, as well as exquisite practice of self-love that made with Max Dupain. After leaving Max, she coastline to arid outback; from teal oceans and ten of France’s best-loved designers in a stylish better for everyone. With some liberal use of illustrations and photographs of outstanding nurtures both mind and continued her photography despite challenges rockpools, to golden sunsets over city skylines; celebration of one of the world’s favourite fashion rude words thrown in to emphasise the point. (older!) icons. Embrace your inner greatness, body, and offers a range of self-care ideas from but was almost forgotten until the 1980s. from rays reaching through forest branches to destinations. Megan discovers the origins of no matter what your vintage. one minute to half-day exercises. Intriguing, moving and powerful, this is Olive’s paddocks muted by mist and trees laden with haute couture, prêt-à-porter and everything chic. story, but it is also a compelling story of women luminous snow. In an Australian Light showcases Accompanied by Megan’s exquisite illustrations, and creativity – and the competing demands of light in all its glorious forms. this is the story of how France’s iconic fashion their art, work, and family. houses have influenced the very fabric of design. TRAVEL The Art of Looking Up Leonardo da Vinci’s Catherine McCormack Flying Machines 1,000 Places to See Before Slow Travel Quarto UK | HB $50.00 Andrew Dewar You Die, New Edition Penny Watson Tuttle Publishing Patricia Schultz Explore | HB $50.00 The Art of Looking Up is a visual feast that takes Kit $22.99 you on a tour of the extraordinary artworks that Workman | HB $75.00 demand an alternative viewpoint. Art historian, December release We all know the inventive genius of Catherine McCormack, tells the stories behind Leonardo, but now we can go a step Featuring over 1,100 colour photographs over 544 Travel is something we do for leisure, but so often forty spectacular ceilings and explores the further with this kit. Thirteen of Leonardo’s famous aviation inventions pages, this new edition of the bestselling iconic travel it is stressful and last-minute. Slow down, says conception, execution and artists involved in creating these cultural are replicated in these detailed models, with sturdy pop-out pieces and book is a perfect gift for every traveller–budding, Penny Watson, in her beautifully compiled collection of experiences and artistic masterpieces. Feast your eyes on works by Michelangelo, comprehensive instructions for building realistic models that actually fly. experienced or armchair alike. Patricia Schultz takes us on a visual journey that inspire us to travel in our own time and at our leisure. Life is fast Marc Chagall, Cy Twombly and many more spectacular artworks. to some of the most breathtaking places on earth, from Great Britain and paced enough, and Watson wants us to engage more with our travel Ireland, to Europe and the Americas, to Africa, Antarctica, Asia and the best of and be more immersive when we do so that the experience is more Australia’s stunning natural monuments and man-made attractions. thoughtful and philosophical. Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Sky Atlas Australia: 2nd Edition Edward Brooke-Hitching Walks in Nature: Australia, 2nd edition North Korea Journal Bill Arthur and Frances Morphy Anna Carlile Michael Palin Simon & Schuster UK | HB $45.00 Macquarie | HB $79.99 Explore | PB $29.99 Hutchinson | HB $29.99 A wonderfully illustrated treasury of celestial A book that should be in every home, this new cartography, medieval manuscripts, The new edition of this bestselling guide has While he was filming the acclaimed television edition of the Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous masterpiece paintings, ancient star been completely updated and features new walks documentary on the Democratic People’s Republic Australia is a unique way to understand more catalogues, antique instruments and other for every state. From coastal cliffs to iconic bush of Korea, Michael Palin kept a daily journal. Now about Australia’s First Peoples. Each chapter curiosities. This book will take you through landscapes, Walks in Nature: Australia offers more sharing it with us we are given a glimpse at this most explores a different aspect of Indigenous culture the history of how humankind has viewed than 100 walking trails around the country, all within secretive country. Through his witty observations, we or experience over the past 60,000 years. With 250 maps supported by and marvelled at the sky, and the stars and an easy distance from your capital city. Featuring a map, an easy to follow read of his brushes with authority and his conversations with the people. numerous diagrams, illustrations and indigenous art this is the perfect planets beyond. A wonderful and highly description and notes on distance, grade, ideal season and amenities for Illustrated throughout, this is a must for anyone interested in peeking book to delve into in this International Year of Indigenous Languages. readable work that contextualises the scale of our current achievements each entry, this is a must-have for nature lovers. behind the curtain which hides North Korea. and reminds us where we began.

12 13 BOOKS TO SHARE MIDDLE FICTION & YA

We hope you enjoy this selection of handpicked titles from the 2019 – 2020 The Lords Land of Roar The Fowl Twins Kids’ Reading Guide. For more great kids books visit kidsreadingguide.com.au of Melody Jenny McLachlan Eoin Colfer Phillip Gwynne Hardie Grant HarperCollins Penguin Random Egmont PB $19.99 The Tiny Star Tilly All The Factors House PB $16.99 Mem Fox and Freya Jane Goodwin and of Why I Love PB $16.99 The Fowl family is back and Blackwood (illus.) Anna Walker (illus.) Tractors Twins Arthur and Rose this time the focus is on Davina Bell and Philip Gwynne never have grown apart, mostly Artemis’s 11 year old twin Penguin Random Scholastic Press because Rose now brothers Myles and Beckett, Jenny Lovlie (illus.) disappoints, and this latest House HB $24.99 offering is a wonderfully funny and quirky tale of considers herself too cool to hang out with her who, after being left alone for just one night, end HB $24.99 Little Hare sibling rivalry, rock ‘n’ roll parents and the ghost dorky brother. However, when their grandad up having to save a troll from a wicked nobleman and that is only the start of their adventures. The picture book HB $24.99 of a not-so-sorely missed uncle named Fleabag. disappears into an imaginary land from their Mem Fox’s touching ‘dream team’ of Jane childhood game, the twins must venture into the Fantastic fun with surprises around every corner. land of Roar to save him. words about the Godwin and Anna Frankie loves going to the library so he can journey of life and the love of family and Walker have created another timeless classic borrow his favourite book about tractors friends, work beautifully with Freya Blackwood’s about a little girl’s bond with her collection of despite his mother suggesting he try This is How We heartwarmingly soft illustrations. This beautiful special treasures and the secret world something different for a change. A fabulous Change the Ending It Sounded Angel Mage picture book will soon become a classic that is they live in. rhyming story perfect for reading aloud. This Better in My Head Garth Nix read and reread to generations of children in the Vikki Wakefield book is sure to become a favourite and read Nina Kenwood years to come. as often as Frankie reads his tractor book. Text (Juvenile) Allen & Unwin PB $19.99 Text (Juvenile) PB $24.99 PB $19.99 Beast Feast Farmblock Australian Baby Complex, gritty, In this intriguing adventure, full of secrets and twists, Emma Yarlett Christopher Animals compelling and Natalie’s world is turned emotionally charged, upside down. Her parents Nix skilfully blends Walker Books Franceschelli Frané Lessac this is realistic Australian YA at its best. Nate have decided to separate angels, magic, monsters and seventeenth century musketeers into a HB $24.99 Abrams Walker Books is smart, thoughtful and creative but, living and she had no clue. Her best friends become as a charity case with an abusive father, can’t a couple and she had no clue. How can all this compelling fantasy world. The vivid descriptions Board Book Board Book and fast pace immerse you in the story – in which, Beast is very pleased imagine a way out. Gradually his passive happen at the same time. Now she has to deal $21.99 $15.99 if you have the ability, angels can be called upon with himself. He has resistance becomes active and, with support with the emotions of sadness and teenage love. from unexpected places, Nate begins to feel With fabulous characters this story is funny, to do your bidding. But the cost can be high... caught Dinner and invites his friends to a Beast Follow a year in the life A celebration of hope and the possibility of change. honest and real. Feast. One problem though, he is beginning of a farm in this delightful book, the latest in a Australian baby animals and their special baby to think of Dinner as a friend. What can he do, series of educational stories for the very young. names. Rhyming text and colourful illustrations should Dinner run and hide? A fun interactive With sturdy pages perfect for little hands, and make this perfect for sharing with little ones. story with beastly letters to open. lots of flaps to lift, this colourful book is the perfect gift for any toddler. THINGS TO KNOW AND DO

Ask Hercules Quick Bold Tales for Brave-hearted Boys The Australia Welcome to Country Explore Your Ursula Dubosarsky and Susannah McFarlane Survival Guide Youth Edition World: Weird, Andrew Joyner (illus.) Allen & Unwin | HB $24.99 George Ivanoff Marcia Langton Wild, Amazing ALLEN & UNWIN | HB $19.99 Penguin Random Hardie Grant Tim Flannery and For bold, brave-hearted boys everywhere House Egmont Sam Caldwell (illus.) A very funny story about a boy called Hercules comes this collection of classic fairy tales HB $24.99 PB $29.99 who lives with his alligator aunt in a building retold with a contemporary twist. Fabulous Hardie Grant bold illustrations and a text showing you that Egmont full of eccentric characters. When Hercules Want to know a book This introduction for sees a magic box, he wants to buy he decides you can be strong but also follow your heart HB $34.99 to do the right thing. The perfect companion full of ways Australia young adult readers to the to earn some money by taking on odd jobs for wants to kill you? Well this is the place to come. Indigenous peoples of Australia comes from the to Fairytales for Feisty Girls. Tim Flannery, one of Australia’s best-known his even odder neighbours. With lots of very Slithering, tentacle, or wibbly wobbly jelly death award-winning author of Welcome to Country. scientists, takes a fascinating look at some of colourful illustrations this is a great first chapter and how not to die from them- all feature in this Covering their unique art and storytelling, the world’s strangest animals and their bizarre book for new readers. Aussie survival guide. Want to know whether that knowledge and kinship systems, along with The behaviours. Full of curious and quirky facts, this spider with the weird red bit on its back that just Stolen Generations and The Uluru Statement, brightly illustrated look into the natural world’s bit you is deadly? QUICK! READ THE BOOK! it is a brilliant and timely insight into the world’s weird, funny and disgusting creatures is perfect Madame Badobedah The Glimme oldest living cultures. Sophie Dahl and Emily Rodda and Marc McBride (illus.) for young nature lovers. Lauren O’Hara (illus.) Omnibus Books | HB $34.99 Walker Books | HB $26.99 Australian Lunch at 10 Let’s Get An amazing new book by Emily Rodda with Sea Life Pomegranate Street Gardening illustrations by Marc McBride, full of high When the mysterious Madame Badobedah Matt Chun Felicita Sala DK Australia checks in to the Mermaid Hotel, Mabel fantasy, adventure, magic and mystery. Finn decides she must be a supervillain! In her lives in a small village on the edge of the veil Little Hare Scribble Kids’ Books DK Life quest to discover the truth, she instead finds between worlds. Are the images that Finn HB $29.99 HB $27.99 (Australian Child) friendship and adventure. This absolutely draws just his imagination, or can he see PB $24.99 beyond the veil? gorgeous book is great for emerging readers, Matt Chun returns Join the residents of 10 or as a readtogether story at bedtime. with a beautiful book Pomegranate Street for a This book is perfect for a of Australian sea life. sumptuous feast in this delightful story and recipe budding green thumb. Not only does this book Sixteen different creatures are featured from book! The feeling of warmth and welcome are teach children about kitchen gardening, wildlife the venomous blue ringed octopus to the beautifully communicated through the vibrant gardening and recycled gardening, it also delves This reading guide is printed on 100gsm Offset (uncoated) and fully PEFC certified paper. The PEFC (Program gentle dugong and the terrifying great white illustrations, as each apartment creates a dish for into conservation and sustainability to help make for the Endorsement of Forest Certification scheme) promotes sustainable forest management and resources. shark. Each entry is accompanied by lively and their communal lunch. With simple recipes for your backyard and beyond a greener place. accessible information about the sea life. every dish, you’ll soon be creating delicious food to share, too! 14 15 GREAT GIFTS

Bowie’s Books Love is Strong Morning Glory John O’Connell as Death on the Vine Bloomsbury Paul Kelly Joni Mitchell HB $34.99 Hamish Hamilton A&U Canongate HB $39.99 HB $49.99 David Bowie, the great musician, was fuelled Paul Kelly has gathered A wonderful by books. Three years from around the world compendium of Joni before he died, he pulled the poems he loves Mitchell’s handwritten together a list of his top 100 and which inspired and lyrics and drawings, originally crafted as a books. John O’Connell introduces these books challenged him over the years. This wide- gift for a select group of friends in 1971, and and matches them with a Bowie Song–Sarah ranging anthology combines the ancient and now available to the public for the first time. Water’s Fingersmith with “All the Madmen”, the modern, the hallowed and the profane, the Accompanied by full-colour drawings, it is a Ian McEwan’s In Between the Sheets with famous and the little known, to speak to two book of song and art that will serve as a wonderful “Eight Line Poem”. Read this beautiful volume of literature’s great themes that have proven keepsake for any fan of the talented musician. to see what is matched with Madame Bovary, so powerful in his music: love and death, plus A Clockwork Orange and the Illiad. everything in between.

Incidental Inventions The Innocent Reader Elena Ferrante, translated by Debra Adelaide Ann Goldstein, Andrea Ucini (illus.) Picador Australia | pB $29.99 Europa Editions | HB $29.99 One of Australia’s most prolific and respected From the bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend authors, Debra Adelaide, shares a life dedicated comes a collection of short pieces, written by to reading and writing. With immediate wit Ferrante for The Guardian on wide-ranging and intimacy, Adelaide explores what shapes subjects: from love to climate change, from enmity us as readers, how books inform, console and among women to the adaptation of her novels to film and TV. Gathered broaden our senses of self, and the constant here in a beautiful gift edition and accompanied by Andrea Ucini’s conversations of authors and readers with the rest of their libraries. intelligent, witty, and beautiful illustrations, this is a must for all Ferrante fans. A marvellous book for any bibliophile and aspiring writer.

The Memory Pool Good Food Guide 2020 Therese Spruhan Myffy Rigby (Ed.) NEWSOUTH PUBLISHING | pB $29.99 S&S Aus | pB $29.99

This collection of 28 stories celebrating the local The Good Food Guide is Australia’s most swimming pool is sure to evoke memories of summer trusted restaurant guide, compiled and edited romances, swimming lessons and the smell of chlorine by respected, independent critics. Hats are or the sting of saltwater. Including reminiscences from awarded to the best of the best. The 2020 the likes of Trent Dalton, Bryan Brown and Shane edition of this acclaimed national guide reviews Gould, this anthology covers everything from the 500 restaurants around Australia and awards joy of perfecting the classic bomb to the grind of endless training laps. the best eateries from Darwin to Hobart, Melbourne to Perth, and The perfect book to read while lazing by a pool this summer. Sydney to Brisbane.

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