This Is Her Story Lynda La Plante

SEPTEMBER 2017 Good Friday: Before Prime Suspect there was Tennison ? this is her story Lynda La Plante

From the creator of the award-winning ITV series Prime Suspect, this is Jane Tennison's story, from rookie police officer to fully-fledged detective.

Description Before Prime Suspect there was Tennison...

Every legend has a beginning...

During 1974 and 1975 the IRA subjected London to a terrifying bombing campaign. In one day alone, they planted seven bombs at locations across central London. Some were defused - some were not.

Jane Tennison is now a fully-fledged detective. On the way to court one morning, Jane passes through Covent Garden Underground station and is caught up in a bomb blast that leaves several people dead, and many horribly injured. Jane is a key witness, but is adamant that she can't identify the bomber. When a photograph appears in the newspapers, showing Jane assisting the injured at the scene, it puts her and her family at risk from IRA retaliation.

'Good Friday' is the eagerly awaited date of the annual formal CID dinner, due to take place at St Ermin's Hotel. Hundreds of detectives and their wives will be there. It's the perfect target. As Jane arrives for the evening, she realises that she recognises the parking attendant as the bomber from Covent Garden. Can she convince her senior officers in time, or will another bomb destroy London's entire detective force?

'La Plante excels in her ability to pick out the surprising but plausible details that give her portrayal of everyday life in a police station a rare ring of authenticity' Sunday Telegraph

About the Author Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) Lynda La Plante was born in Liverpool. She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with the National Theatre and RDC ISBN: 9781785763281 before becoming a television actress. She then turned to writing - and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm successful TV series Widows. Her novels have all been international bestsellers. Extent: 400 pages Main Category: FF Her original script for the much-acclaimed Prime Suspect won awards from BAFTA, Emmys, British Broadcasting and Sub Category: Illustrations: Royal Television Society as well as the 1993 Edgar Allan Poe Writer's Award. Lynda has written and produced over 170 Previous Titles: hours of international television. Tennison has been adapted by ITV and will be broadcast in March 2017 in the UK; Author now living: international broadcast will then follow.

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Zaffre SEPTEMBER 2017 The Choke Sofie Laguna

The Choke is a mesmerising, harrowing and ultimately uplifting novel from the 2015 Miles Franklin winner.

Description I never had words to ask anybody the questions, so I never had the answers.

Abandoned by her mother as a toddler and only occasionally visited by her volatile father who keeps dangerous secrets, Justine is raised solely by her Pop, an old man tormented by visions of the Burma Railway. Justine finds sanctuary in Pop's chooks and The Choke, where the banks of the Murray River are so narrow they can almost touch - a place of staggering natural beauty that is both a source of peace and danger. Although Justine doesn't know it, her father is a menacing criminal and the world she is exposed to is one of great peril to her. She has to make sense of it on her own - and when she eventually does, she knows what she has to do.

A brilliant, haunting novel about a child navigating an often dark and uncaring world of male power, guns and violence, in which grown-ups can't be trusted and comfort can only be found in nature, The Choke is a compassionate and claustrophobic vision of a child in danger and a society in deep trouble. Sofie Laguna, winner of the 2015 Miles Franklin Award for The Eye of the Sheep, once again shows she is a writer of rare empathy, originality and blazing talent.

About the Author Sofie Laguna's second novel for adults, The Eye of the Sheep-shortlisted for the Stella Prize-won the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award. It has been optioned for both film and theatre. Her first novel for adults, One Foot Wrong, published throughout Europe, the US and the UK, was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award. Screen rights have been optioned and she has completed the screenplay. Sofie's many books for young people have been published in the US, the UK and in translation throughout Europe and Asia. She has been shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Award, and her books have been named Honour Books and Notable Books by the Children's Book Council of Australia. Sofie lives in Melbourne with her husband, illustrator Marc McBride, and their two young sons.

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2017 The Eye of the Sheep Sofie Laguna

Told from the mesmerising point of view and in the inimitable voice of Jimmy, this is an extraordinary novel about a poor family who is struggling to cope with a different and difficult child.

Description Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2015.

Ned was beside me, his messages running easily through him, with space between each one, coming through him like water. He was the go-between, going between the animal kingdom and this one. I watched the waves as they rolled and crashed towards us, one after another, never stopping, always changing. I knew what was making them come, I had been there and I would always know.

Meet Jimmy Flick. He's not like other kids - he's both too fast and too slow. He sees too much, and too little. Jimmy's mother Paula is the only one who can manage him. She teaches him how to count sheep so that he can fall asleep. She holds him tight enough to stop his cells spinning. It is only Paula who can keep Jimmy out of his father's way. But when Jimmy's world falls apart, he has to navigate the unfathomable world on his own, and make things right.

Sofie Laguna's first novel One Foot Wrong received rave reviews, sold all over the world and was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award. In The Eye of the Sheep, her great originality and talent will again amaze and move readers. In the tradition of Room and The Lovely Bones, here is a surprising and brilliant novel from one of our finest writers.

About the Author Sofie Laguna originally studied to be a lawyer, but after deciding law was not for her, she trained as an actor. Sofie is now an author, actor and playwright. Her books for young people have been named Honour Books and Notable Books in the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards and have been shortlisted in the Queensland Premier's Awards. She has been published in the US and the UK and in translation in Europe and Asia. Sofie's first novel for adults, One Foot Wrong, was also published throughout Europe, the United States and the United Kingdom. Sofie has written Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760292799 the screenplay for the film of One Foot Wrong, scheduled for pre-production in 2014. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 320 pages

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2017 The Mummy Bloggers Holly Wainwright

Sometimes life behind the screen is not as rosy as it seems... For fans of Zoe Foster-Blake and Liane Moriarty, The Mummy Bloggers is the feisty, fast-paced and funny debut novel from Mamamia's entertainment editor Holly Wainwright.

Description Is everything you see online as shiny as it seems? Do people really live in mess-free kitchens with picture-perfect children or is everything not quite as it seems?

Meet Elle Campbell. She's the glossy, lycra clad Mum with washboard abs and a 10-year plan. Abi Black has quit sugar, moved to the country and is homeschooling her kids while Leisel Adams slogs away every day at her city office job then rushes home steeped in guilt for a precious moment with her kids before bedtime.

Three very different women sharing their lives online are suddenly thrown together when they are nominated for a prestigious #mummyblogger award. The scene is set for a brutal and often hilarious battle for hearts and minds but more importantly, likes and clicks!

About the Author Holly Wainwright is a former-Mancunian Sydneysider who came to Australia as a footloose traveller more than 20 years ago. Since then, Holly has had a long career as a journalist and editor, originally in travel and celebrity magazines and now online. She's been working in digital media for three years, most recently as Head of Entertainment at Mamamia. She also hosts a parenting podcast, has two small children, lives by the ocean and wishes there were four more hours in every day.

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2017 All the Galaxies Philip Miller

Description The Lovely Bones meets Margaret Atwood in this extraordinary, deeply moving, supernatural story of a young man's journey to find his mother, wrapped in a dystopian novel about an epic battle between good and evil that threatens to destroy a near future city.

John Fallon is a disillusioned journalist on a failing Glasgow newspaper. Scotland following two failed independence referendums, Scotland is in turmoil, having broken into a number of autonomous city states. Roland, his son, has gone missing after a student protest turns into a violent clash with the newly militarised police. Roland has in fact been killed, but is wakened in the afterlife by his spirit guide, his beloved childhood dog, Kim. Kim takes Roland on a journey to the planet where the dead go, where Roland hopes to find his long dead mother. Meanwhile, Fallon, searching for his son, uncovers a trail that leads to beleaguered city leader, Parry, and his shadowy advisor, Halfhouse.

As Roland makes a shocking discovery that requires an impossible choice, Fallon discovers that a great deal more is at stake than the future of one nation. In All the Galaxies, Miller presents a mesmerising morality tale than proves both a compulsive page-turner and unforgettable emotional journey.

About the Author Philip Miller has been Arts Correspondent for the Scotsman, the Sunday Times in Scotland and theHerald, and has twice been named Arts Writer of the Year. His stories and poetry have been published widely.

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2017 Maggie's Kitchen Caroline Beecham

Amid the heartbreak and danger of London in the Blitz of WWII, Maggie Johnson finds her courage in friendship and food.

Description They might all travel the same scarred and shattered streets on their way to work, but once they entered Maggie's Kitchen, it was somehow as if the rest of the world didn't exist.

When the Ministry of Food urgently calls for the opening of British Restaurants to feed tired and hungry Londoners during the Second World War, Maggie Johnson is close to realising a long-held dream.

But after struggling through government red-tape and triumphantly opening its doors, Maggie's Kitchen soon encounters a most unexpected problem. Her restaurant has become so popular with London's exhausted workers, that Maggie simply can't get enough supplies to keep up with demand for food, without breaking some of the rules.

With the support of locals, and the help of twelve-year-old Robbie, a street urchin, and Janek, a Polish refugee dreaming of returning to his native land, the resourceful Maggie evades the first threats of closure from the Ministry. As she fights to keep her beloved Kitchen open, Maggie also tries desperately to reunite Robbie with his missing father, as well as manage her own family's expectations. Ultimately, she can no longer ignore the unacknowledged hopes of her own heart, and the discovery that some secrets have the power to change everything.

About the Author Caroline Beecham grew up at the English seaside and relocated to Australia to continue her career as a writer and producer in film and television. She has worked on a documentary about Princess Diana lookalikes, a series about journeys to the ends of the earth, as well as a feature film about finding the end of the rainbow. Caroline decided on a new way of storytelling and studied the craft of novel writing at the Faber Academy in 2012. She has an MA in Film & Television and a MA in Creative Writing and lives with her husband and two sons by Sydney harbour. Maggie's Kitchen is her first published novel. Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781760630935 Format: Paperback - B format You can find out more information about Maggie's Kitchen and the events that inspired the novel at www. Dimensions: 198x128mm maggieskitchennovel.com Extent: 400 pages Main Category: FA Sub Category: FA Popular Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Birchgrove, NSW

Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2017 We That Are Left Lisa Bigelow

A moving debut novel about love and war, and the terrifyingly thin line between happiness and tragedy, hope and despair.

Description Melbourne, 1940. Headstrong young Mae meets and falls head over heels in love with Harry Parker, a dashing naval engineer. After a whirlwind courtship they marry and Mae is heavily pregnant when she hears that Harry has just received his dream posting to HMAS Sydney. Just after Mae becomes a mother, she learns Harry's ship is missing.

Meanwhile, Grace Fowler is battling prejudice to become a reporter on the afternoon daily newspaper, The Tribune, while waiting for word on whether her journalist boyfriend Phil Taylor, captured during the fall of Singapore, is still alive.

Surrounded by their friends and families, Mae and Grace struggle to keep hope alive in the face of hardship and despondency. Then Mae's neighbour and Grace's boss Sam Barton tells Mae about a rumour that the Japanese have towed the damaged ship to Singapore and taken the crew prisoner. Mae's life is changed forever as she focuses her efforts on willing her husband home.

Set in inner Melbourne and rural Victoria, We That Are Left is a moving and haunting novel about love and war, the terrifyingly thin line between happiness and tragedy, hope and despair, and how it isn't just the soldiers whose lives are lost when tragedy strikes in times of war.

About the Author Lisa Bigelow's life revolves around story-telling. An avid reader from age five, her career as a journalist and communicator has been all building and delivering compelling stories about water resources, climate change and any issue that interests her audiences. She recently completed a Masters Degree in Communication and aims to use her writing to illuminate ongoing issues and make them accessible to a wide readership. We That Are Left is her first novel.

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2017 The Devil's Advocate Morris West

The book that propelled Morris West to international fame, The Devil's Advocateis a moving exploration of the meaning of faith, and a vivid portrayal of life in impoverished post-war Calabria.

Description In an impoverished village in southern Italy, the enigmatic life and mysterious death of Giacomo Nerone has inspired talk of sainthood.

Father Blaise Meredith, a dying English priest, is sent by the Vatican to investigate. As he tries to untangle the web of facts, rumours and outright lies that surround Nerone, The Devil's Advocate reminds us how the power of goodness ultimately prevails over despair.

The Devil's Advocate was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the W.H. Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature, and was made into a film. It sold three million copies in its first two years and remains one of Morris West's most popular novels.

'A reading experience of real emotional intensity.' The New York Times Book Review

'An engrossing story, expertly told, about a set of fascinating people.' Chicago Sunday Tribune

'Brilliant and deeply disturbing.' The Daily Telegraph

About the Author Morris West was one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. He wrote 28 novels, several of which were made into films, as well as plays and non-fiction. Australian-born, his books have sold nearly 70 million copies worldwide, and they have been translated into 28 languages. He is best known for his novels The Devil's Advocate, The Shoes of the Fisherman and The Clowns of God.

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2017 The Shoes of the Fisherman Morris West

The heartwarming and profound story of Kiril Lakota, a cardinal who reluctantly steps out from behind the Iron Curtain to lead the Catholic Church as pope, and finds himself thrown into the machinations of Cold War politics. This international bestselling novel remains one of Morris West's best known works and is the first title in his Vatican Trilogy.

Description The pope is dead and the corridors of the Vatican hum with intrigue as cardinals gather to elect his successor. The result is a surprise: the new pope is the youngest of them all-a bearded Ukrainian.

The Shoes of the Fisherman is the moving story of Kiril I, recently released from seventeen years in Siberian labour camps and haunted by his past. Not only is he the leader of a fractured Catholic Church, but he also finds he must confront his inquisitor and tormentor in order to avert another world war.

An international bestseller, The Shoes of the Fisherman is one of the great novels of the twentieth century and is still widely read today. It is the first novel in Morris West's Vatican trilogy.

'Tough, spare, brilliant, vital.' The Bookman

'High drama . . . beautifully executed.' The Sunday Times

'A masterpiece.' Chicago Tribune

About the Author Morris West was one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. He wrote 28 novels, several of which were made into films, as well as plays and non-fiction. Australian-born, his books have sold nearly 70 million copies worldwide, and have been translated into 28 languages. He is best known for his novels The Devil's Advocate, The Shoes of the Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) Fisherman and The Clowns of God. ISBN: 9781760297602 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 256 pages

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2017 The Clowns of God Morris West

The Pope declares he has received a private revelation that the world is about to end, and an old friend embarks on a dangerous journey to investigate whether he's mad or whether just possibly there's truth in it. The second novel in Morris West's internationally bestselling Vatican trilogy, it is the book he regarded as his best.

Description Pope Gregory XVII has spent a lifetime quietly serving the Church he loves-until he announces a prophecy so alarming that it threatens to tear the Vatican apart. Terrified, the Vatican cardinals imprison him in a monastery. Is he mad, as they believe, or is it all an elaborate plot?

An old friend of the pope sets out on a risky quest to find out. On the way, he discovers the power of love and faith, while terrorists and politicians use every deadly and unholy means to stop him.

The Clowns of God spent twenty-two weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and is the second novel in Morris West's Vatican trilogy.

'West is a skillful storyteller who knows how to build suspense into every twist of the plot.' The Christian Science Monitor

'An engrossing tale that keeps you reading impatiently all the way through.' Goodreads review

About the Author Morris West was one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. He wrote 28 novels, several of which were made into films, as well as plays and non-fiction. Australian-born, his books have sold nearly 70 million copies worldwide, and have been translated into 28 languages. He is best known for his novels The Devil's Advocate, The Shoes of the Fisherman and The Clowns of God.

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2017 Lazarus Morris West

At the heart of this thriller is Pope Leo XIV, who battles enemies from within the Vatican and Islamic terrorists determined to assassinate him, as well as the damage his own policies have done to the Church. This is the third novel in Morris West's internationally bestselling Vatican Trilogy.

Description Iron-fisted Pope Leo XIV emerges from open heart surgery with the chilling realisation that his reforms have devastated the Church.

As he struggles to overcome the policies he himself put in place, he must battle enemies from within the Vatican, as well as Islamic terrorists determined to assassinate him. Amid political intrigue and counterespionage, his brilliant surgeon Salviati becomes a target too, along with Salviati's beautiful mistress, Tove, and her fragile daughter, as the plot builds to a dramatic climax.

Lazarus completes Morris West's bestselling Vatican trilogy, following The Shoes of the Fisherman and The Clowns of God. It can also be read on its own as a gripping exploration of Church politics in a world of crises.

'Timely and absorbing.' Publishers Weekly

'A tense and exciting thriller.' Library Journal

About the Author Morris West was one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. He wrote 28 novels, several of which were made into films, as well as plays and non-fiction. Australian-born, his books have sold nearly 70 million copies worldwide, and have been translated into 28 languages. He is best known for his novels The Devil's Advocate, The Shoes of the Fisherman and The Clowns of God.

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2017 The Black Echo: Celebrating 25 years of Michael Connelly Michael Connelly

Celebrating 25 years of Michael Connelly, a special edition of the book that introduced the now legendary Harry Bosch to the world.

Description LAPD detective Harry Bosch is a loner and a nighthawk. One Sunday he gets a call out on his pager. A body has been found in a drainage tunnel off Mulholland Drive, Hollywood. At first sight, it looks like a routine drugs overdose case, but the one new puncture wound amidst the scars of old tracks leaves Bosch unconvinced.

To make matters worse, Harry Bosch recognises the victim. Billy Meadows was a fellow 'tunnel rat' in Vietnam, running against the VC and the fear they all used to call the Black Echo. Bosch believes he let down Billy Meadows once before, so now he is determined to bring the killer to justice.

About the Author A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the international bestselling author of the Harry Bosch thriller series, the highly acclaimed legal thriller series featuring Mickey Haller, as well as several stand-alone bestsellers.

Michael Connelly has been President of the Mystery Writers of America. His books have been translated into 39 languages and have won awards all over the world, including the Edgar and Anthony Awards.

BOSCH, the TV series based on Michael's novels, is the most watched original series on Amazon Prime Instant Video and its third series will go to air in 2017. It screens on SBS TV in Australia and on SKY TV in New Zealand.

Michael Connelly lives in Tampa, Florida, with his family.

To find out more, visit Michael's official website www.michaelconnelly.com.au or follow him on Facebook www.facebook. com/MichaelConnellyBooks or on Twitter @Connellybooks Price: $9.99 (NZ$9.99) ISBN: 9781760630881 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: pages Main Category: FF Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Michael Connelly SEPTEMBER 2017 The Floating Theatre Martha Conway

In a nation divided by prejudice, everyone must take a side... A gloriously involving and powerful read for fans of Gone With The Wind and Tracy Chevalier's The Last Runaway.

Description When young seamstress May Bedloe is left alone and penniless on the shore of the Ohio, she finds work on the famous floating theatre that plies its trade along the river. Her creativity and needlework skills quickly become invaluable and she settles in to life among the colourful troupe of actors. She finds friends, and possibly the promise of more...

But cruising the border between the Confederate South and the 'free' North is fraught with danger.

For the sake of a debt that must be repaid, May is compelled to transport secret passengers, under cover of darkness, across the river and on, along the underground railroad.

But as May's secrets become harder to keep, she learns she must endanger those now dear to her.

And to save the lives of others, she must risk her own...

About the Author Martha Conway's first novel, 12 Bliss Street, was nominated for an Edgar Award, and her latest novel, Thieving Forest, won the North American Book Award for Best Historical Fiction. Her short fiction has been published in The Iowa Review, The Carolina Quarterly, The Quarterly, Massachusetts Review, Epoch, Folio, and other journals. A recipient of a California Arts Council Fellowship, Martha teaches creative writing for Stanford University's Continuing Studies Program and UC Berkeley Extension. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, she is one of seven sisters. She now lives in San Francisco with her family.

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Zaffre SEPTEMBER 2017 The Ice Beneath Her Camilla Grebe

A gripping psychological thriller of love, betrayal and obsession with a twist you won't see coming.

Description For fans of Jo Nesbo and The Bridge, The Ice Beneath Her is a gripping and deeply disturbing story about love, betrayal and obsession that is impossible to put down. Fast-paced and peopled with compelling characters, it surprises at every turn as it hurtles towards an unforgettable ending with a twist you really won't see coming ...

A young woman is found beheaded in an infamous business tycoon's marble-lined hallway. The businessman, scandal- ridden CEO of the retail chain Clothes & More, is missing without a trace.

But who is the dead woman? And who is the brutal killer who wielded the machete?

Rewind two months earlier to meet Emma Bohman, a sales assistant for Clothes & More, whose life is turned upside down by a chance encounter with Jesper Orre. Insisting that their love affair is kept secret, he shakes Emma's world a second time when he suddenly leaves her with no explanation.

As frightening things begin to happen to Emma, she suspects Jesper is responsible. But why does he want to hurt her? And how far would he go to silence his secret lover?

About the Author Camilla Grebe was born near Stockholm. She co-founded audiobook publisher Storyside. She has written four celebrated crime novels with her sister, Asa Traff, about psychologist Siri Bergman, the first two of which were nominated for Swedish Crime Novel of the Year by the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy. Camilla has also written the popular Moscow Noir trilogy with Paul Leander-Engstrom. The Ice Beneath Her is Camilla's debut novel as a solo author and announces hers as a fresh new voice in suspense writing.

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Zaffre SEPTEMBER 2017 Unforgiveable Mike Thomas

DC Will MacReady is back with another slice of Cardiff crime, for fans of Stuart MacBride, James Oswald and Luca Veste.

Description A bomb explodes in a busy souk, causing massive devastation. A gunman walks into a mosque and starts shooting. But this isn't the Middle East, this is Cardiff . . .

With the city on high alert and all officers being drafted in to aid the search for the attacker, DC Will MacReady feels sidelined when he's asked to investigate a knife attack on a young woman. Still trying to prove himself after the events of the previous year, which left his sergeant injured, and still coming to terms with events in his personal life, MacReady wonders if he's even cut out for the job. However, when his case appears to offer a lead to the attacks, MacReady must put everything on the line in order to do what is right.

Can he prove to everyone, as well as to himself, that he has what it takes to be a good copper?

About the Author Mike Thomas was born in Wales in 1971. For more than two decades he served in the police, working some of Cardiff's busiest neighbourhoods. He left the force in 2015 to write full time. Mike has previously had two novels published and was longlisted for the Wales Book of the Year and was on the list of Waterstones 'New Voices'. His second novel, Ugly Bus, is currently in development for a six part series with the BBC. He lives in the wilds of Portugal with his wife, children and a senile dog who enjoys eating furniture.

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Zaffre SEPTEMBER 2017 Summer at Rose Island Holly Martin

Fall in love with the gorgeous seaside town of White Cliff Bay and enjoy long sunny days, beautiful beaches and...a little romance.

Description Darcy Davenport is ready for a fresh start. Determined to leave a string of disastrous jobs and relationships behind her, she can't wait to explore White Cliff Bay and meet the locals. As Darcy begins to swim daily in the crystal clear waters, she discovers the charming Rose Island lighthouse. But it's not just the beautiful building that she finds so intriguing . . .

Riley Eddison doesn't want change. Desperate to escape the memories of his tragic past, he lives a life of solitude in the lighthouse. Yet he can't help but notice the gorgeous woman swimming every day.

Darcy is drawn to the mysterious and sexy Riley, but when it seems the town is trying to demolish his home, she soon finds herself having to pick sides.

She's fallen in love with White Cliff Bay. But is that all Darcy's fallen for?

Pull up a deck chair, sink back with a bowl of strawberry ice cream and pick up the read you won't be able to put down.

About the Author Holly Martin worked in a hotel and then as a teacher, before becoming a full-time writer. She won the Carina Valentine's competition and was shortlisted for the New Talent Award, Best Romantic Read, Best Ebook and Innovation in Romantic Fiction awards at the Festival of Romance. She lives in a little white cottage by the sea.

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Zaffre SEPTEMBER 2017 The City Always Wins Omar Robert Hamilton

A thrilling and important debut about the Arab Spring - and a generation that tried to change the world - from an exciting and talented new voice.

Description 'Omar Hamilton brings vividly to life the failed revolution of 2011 on the streets of Cairo, in all its youthful bravery and naive utopianism.' - JM Coetzee

The City Always Wins is a remarkable novel from the psychological heart of a revolution. From the communal highs of pitched night battles against the police in Cairo to the solitary lows of defeated exile in New York, Omar Robert Hamilton's debut is a unique immersion into one of the key chapters of the 21st century. Bringing to life the 2011 Egyptian revolution, The City Always Wins conveys with extraordinary intensity all the stages of that place and that time through the lives of its two main characters Mariam and Khalil, ordinary young people caught up in an extraordinary moment. Furthermore, The City Always Wins is a novel not just about Egypt's revolution but about a global generation that tried to change the world.

Reminiscent of the writing of Jeet Thayil, Zia Haider Rahma and Nadeem Aslam, Hamilton's prose is arrestingly visual, intensely lyrical and uncompromisingly political. A genuinely exciting new writer, he looks set to become a defining voice of his generation.

About the Author Omar Robert Hamilton is an award-winning filmmaker and writer. He has written for the Guardian, the London Review of Books and Guernica. He co-founded the Mosireen media collective in Cairo and the Palestine Festival of Literature. This is his debut novel. www.orhamilton.com

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Faber Fiction SEPTEMBER 2017 The City Always Wins 8 copy pack

Includes 8 copies of The City Always Wins plus free reading copy

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Faber Fiction SEPTEMBER 2017 Every Day Above Ground Glen Erik Hamilton

A thrilling heist-gone-wrong novel, Every Day Above Ground is the third book of Glen Erik Hamilton's multi- prize winning Van Shaw series, set in Seattle.

Description From the multiple prize-winning author of Past Crimes

Former Army Ranger Van Shaw is recently single, out of money, and struggling to keep on the straight and narrow. So when an old contact, Mick O'Hassan, shows up on his doorstep, fresh out of prison and claiming to know the whereabouts of a hidden stash of gold, Van feels the powerful pull of his past. The trouble is, some things are too good to be true, and before they know it Van and O'Hassan are trapped in a game with few rules and too many deadly players.

Turns out, the only easy part of a life of crime is getting sucked back in...

About the Author Glen Erik Hamilton is a Seattle native. His first Van Shaw novel, Past Crimes (2015) won a Strand Critics Circle Award as well as the Anthony and Macavity Awards for Best First Novel, and was nominated for the Edgar, Nero, and Barry Awards.

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Faber Fiction SEPTEMBER 2017 The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver

An exquisite new edition of this international best-selling classic novel.

Description This story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959.

They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it - from garden seeds to Scripture - is calamitously transformed on African soil.

About the Author Barbara Kingsolver's thirteen books of fiction, poetry and non-fiction include the novels The Bean Trees and the international bestseller The Poisonwood Bible which, amongst other accolades, won the 2005 Penguin/Orange Reading Group Book of the Year award. The Lacuna, won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010.

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Faber Paperback SEPTEMBER 2017 How I Became a North Korean Krys Lee

The debut novel from Krys Lee, author of the much-loved story collection, Drifting House.

Description Yongju is an accomplished student from one of North Korea's most prominent families. Jangmi, on the other hand, has had to fend for herself since childhood, most recently by smuggling goods across the border. Danny is a Chinese- American teenager of Korean descent whose parents left China when he was nine; his quirks and precocious intelligence have long marked him as an outcast among his peers, and he yearns for the China of his youth.

These three disparate lives converge when each of them travels to the region where China borders North Korea - Danny to visit his mother, who is working as a missionary there; Yongju to escape persecution after his father is killed at the hands of the Dear Leader himself; and Jangmi to protect her unborn child.

As they struggle to survive in a place where danger seems to close in on all sides, in the form of government informants, husbands, thieves, abductors, and even missionaries, they come to form a kind of adopted family.

About the Author Krys Lee is the author of the short story collection Drifting House. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize and the Story Prize Spotlight Award, the Honor Title in Adult Fiction Literature from the Asian/Pacific American Libraries Association, and a finalist for the BBC International Story Prize. Her fiction, journalism, and literary translations have appeared in Granta, The Kenyon Review, Narrative, San Francisco Chronicle, Corriere della Sera, and The Guardian, among others. She lives in Seoul, South Korea, where she is an assistant professor of creative writing and literature at Yonsei University, Underwood International College.

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Faber Paperback SEPTEMBER 2017 Sex & Death: Stories Edited by Sarah Hall and Peter Hobbs

A collection of short stories edited by Sarah Hall and Peter Hobbs featuring Ali Smith, Ben Marcus and Kevin Barry.

Description Sex and death are two of the most powerful, exhilarating and terrifying forces that define and shape the human experience.

In this provocative and haunting collection of short stories edited by two masters of the form, some of today's most compelling writers from around the globe - including Kevin Barry, Yiyun Li, Ben Marcus, Jon McGregor, Taiye Selasi and Ali Smith - explore these challenging themes with honesty, empathy and psychological acuity, in stories that are utterly dazzling.

About the Author Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria in 1974. She is the prize-winning author of five novels - Haweswater, The Electric Michelangelo, The Carhullan Army, How to Paint a Dead Man and The Wolf Border - as well as The Beautiful Indifference, a collection of short stories. The first story in the collection, 'Butchers Perfume', was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, a prize she won in 2013 with 'Mrs Fox'.

Peter Hobbs grew up in Cornwall and Yorkshire, and lives in London. His debut novel, The Short Day Dying, was published by Faber in 2005. It was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and won a Betty Trask Prize. It was also shortlisted for the 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. A collection of stories, I Could Ride All Day In My Cool Blue Train, was published in 2006.

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Faber Paperback SEPTEMBER 2017 Justine Lawrence Durrell

The first book of Lawrence Durrell's celebrated Alexandria Quartet, reissued in Faber Modern Classics livery.

Description In the first book of Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, the story of the mysterious and charismatic Justine is told by her lover, an impoverished Irish teacher who has sought refuge across the Mediterranean in Greece. It is a love story, but the real heroine of the book is its setting: the city of Alexandria, with a sky of 'hot nude pearl' and a thousand streets below, crowded, sensual and exotic; a complex and heady mix of elegance and poverty.

About the Author Lawrence Durrell was born in 1912 in India. He attended the Jesuit College at Darjeeling and St Edmund's School, Canterbury.

His first literary work, The Black Book, appeared in Paris in 1938. His first collection of poems, A Private Country, was published in 1943, followed by the three Island books: Prospero's Cell, Reflections on a Marine Venus, about Rhodes, and Bitter Lemons, his account of life in Cyprus. Durrell's wartime sojourn in Egypt led to his masterpiece, The Alexandria Quartet, which he completed in southern France where he settled permanently in 1957. Between the Quartet and The Avignon Quintet he wrote the two-decker Tunc and Nunquam. His oeuvre includes plays, a book of criticism, translations, travel writing, and humorous stories about the diplomatic corps. Caesar's Vast Ghost, his reflections on the history and culture of Provence, including a late flowering of poems, appeared a few days before his death in Sommieres in 1990.

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Faber Paperback SEPTEMBER 2017 Travesties Tom Stoppard

'Tom Stoppard's Travesties is witty, playful and wise. Forty years on, it is starting to look timeless as well.' - Sunday Times

Description Travesties was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, London, in June 1974. This edition includes a new preface by the author, and revisions made by him for a revival at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London, in October 2016.

About the Author Tom Stoppard's work includes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, After Magritte, Dirty Linen, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink, The Invention of Love, the trilogy The Coast of Utopia and Rock 'n' Roll. His radio plays include If You're Glad I'll Be Frank, Albert's Bridge, Where Are They Now?, Artist Descending a Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died, In the Native State and Darkside (incorporating Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon). Television work includes Professional Foul, Squaring the Circle and Parade's End. His film credits include Empire of the Sun, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which he also directed, Shakespeare in Love, Enigma and Anna Karenina.

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Faber Plays SEPTEMBER 2017 Such Small Hands Andres Barba, translated by Lisa Dillman

A dark uncanny jolt of literary perfection.

Description Her father died instantly, her mother in the hospital. She has learned to say this flatly and without emotion, the way she says her name (Marina), her doll's name (also Marina) and her age (seven). Her parents were killed in a car crash and now she lives in the orphanage with the other little girls. But Marina is not like the other little girls.

In the curious, hyperreal, feverishly serious world of childhood, Marina and the girls play games of desire and warfare. The daily rituals of playtime, lunchtime and bedtime are charged with a horror; horror is licked by the dark flames of love. When Marina introduces the girls to Marina the Doll, she sets in motion a chain of events from which there can be no release.

With shades of Daphne du Maurier, Shirley Jackson, Guillermo Del Toro and Mariana Enriquez, Such Small Hands is a beautifully controlled tour-de-force, a bedtime story to keep readers awake.

About the Author Andres Barba is the author of twelve novels. He has worked as a teacher of Spanish to foreigners at Complutense University in Madrid and now gives writing workshops. He was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young Spanish Novelists. His writing has been translated into eight languages.

Lisa Dillman is a senior lecturer at Emory College. In 2016 she won the Best Translated Book Award for Signs Preceding the End of the World.

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Portobello Trade SEPTEMBER 2017 Multiple Choice Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell

Completely unlike anything you've read before: this playful, poignant, genre-bending novel / entrance examination tells a story of copying, cheating, faking and messing-up.

Description Reader, your life is full of choices. Some will bring you joy and others will bring you heartache. Will you choose to cheat (in life, the examination that follows) or will you choose to copy? Will you fall in love? If so, will you remember her name and the number of freckles on her back? Will you marry, divorce, annul? Will you leave your run-down neighbourhood, your long-suffering country and your family? Will you honour your dead, those you loved and those you didn't? Will you have a child, will you regret it? Will you tell them you regret it? Will you, when all's said and done, deserve a kick in the balls? Will you find, here, in this slender book, fictions that entertain and puzzle you? Fictions that reflect yourself back to you? Will you find yourself?

Relax, concentrate, dispel any anxious thoughts. Let the world around you settle and fade. Are you ready? Now turn over your papers, and begin.

About the Author Alejandro Zambra is the author of the story collection My Documents, a finalist for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and three previous novels: Ways of Going Home, The Private Lives of Trees, and Bonsai, which won Chile's Literary Critics' Award for Best Novel. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Harper's, Tin House, and McSweeney's, among others. In 2010, he was named one of Granta's Best Young Spanish-language Novelists.

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Granta Paperbacks SEPTEMBER 2017 City of Secrets Stewart O'Nan

From master storyteller Stewart O'Nan, a timely moral thriller of the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem after the Second World War.

Description In 1945, with no homes to return to, Jewish refugees set out for Palestine in their tens of thousands.

City of Secrets follows one survivor, Brand, as he tries to regain himself after losing everyone he's ever loved. Now driving a taxi provided - like his new identity - by the underground, he navigates the twisting streets of Jerusalem as well as the overlapping, sometimes deadly loyalties of the resistance. Alone, haunted by memories, he tries to become again the man he was before the war - honest, strong, capable of moral choice.

He falls in love with Eva, a fellow survivor and member of his cell, reclaims his faith, and commits himself to the revolution, accepting secret missions that grow more and more dangerous even as he begins to suspect he's being used by their cell's dashing leader, Asher. By the time Brand understands the truth, it's too late, and the tragedy that ensues changes history.

A noirish, deeply felt novel of intrigue and identity written in O'Nan's trademark lucent style, City of Secrets asks how both despair and faith can lead us astray, and what happens when, with the noblest intentions, we join movements beyond our control.

About the Author Stewart O'Nan is the author of fifteen previous novels, including West of Sunset; The Odds; Emily, Alone; A Prayer for the Dying; and Snow Angels, as well as several works of non-fiction, including, with Stephen King, the bestselling Faithful. His novel Last Night at the Lobster was a US bestseller and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He was born and raised in Pittsburgh where he lives with his family.

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A&U UK SEPTEMBER 2017 Everyday People Stewart O'Nan

Powerful and moving, tender and resonant, Everyday People is an unforgettable novel that vividly captures the experience of the day-to-day struggle that is life in urban America.

Description Crest has lost the use of his legs after falling off a walkway while trying to write graffiti on a roadside wall; his best friend, Bean, fell too and died. Now Crest must try to repair his relationship with Vanessa, the mother of his child, whose night- school class is alerting her to a wider world. Crest's older brother Eugene, an ex-con turned born-again Christian, is facing the temptations of his past, while their parents confront their own crisis.

Powerful and moving, tender and resonant, Everyday People is an unforgettable novel that vividly captures the experience of the day-to-day struggle that is life in urban America.

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A&U UK SEPTEMBER 2017 Wish You Were Here Stewart O'Nan

A family gathering brings decades of suppressed tension to the surface in this classic novel from master storyteller Stewart O'Nan.

Description A year after the death of her husband, Emily Maxwell gathers her family at Lake Chautauqua for what will be a last holiday at their summer cottage. Joining her is her sister-in-law Arlene, silently mourning both the loss of the lake house and a bygone love affair. Emily's firebrand daughter Meg, a recovering alcoholic recently separated from her husband, brings her children from Detroit. Emily's son Ken, who has quit his job and mortgaged his future to pursue his art, comes accompanied by his children and his wife, who is secretly heartened to be visiting the house for the last time.

Memories of past summers resurface, old rivalries flare up and love is rekindled and born anew, resulting in a timeless novel that 'succeeds beautifully [and] showcases some of the finest character studies a contemporary reader could ask for' (Boston Globe).

About the Author Stewart O'Nan is the author of sixteen novels, including City of Secrets, West of Sunset and Last Night at the Lobster, as well as several works of non-fiction, including, with Stephen King, the bestselling Faithful. He was born and raised in Pittsburgh where he lives with his family.

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A&U UK SEPTEMBER 2017 Wake Me When I'm Gone Odafe Atogun

The powerful second novel - about grief, love, motherhood and breaking the rules - from one of the most exciting new voices in contemporary African writing.

Description Everyone says that Ese is the most beautiful woman in the region, but a fool. A young widow, she lives in a village, where the crops grow tall and the people are ruled over by a Chief on a white horse. She married for love, but now her husband is dead, leaving her with nothing but a market stall and a young son to feed.

When the Chief knocks on Ese's door demanding that she marry again, as the laws of the land dictate she must, Ese is a fool once more. There is a high price for breaking the law, and an even greater cost for breaking the heart of a Chief. Ese will face the wrath of gods and men in the fight to preserve her heart, to keep her son and to right centuries of wrongs. She will change the lives of many on the road to freedom, and she will face the greatest pain a mother ever can.

Wake Me When I'm Gone is a story of curses broken, and lives remade, of great tragedy and incredible rebirth. In this, his second novel, Nigerian writer Odafe Atogun unfolds a world rich with tradition and folklore, a world filled with incredible people of remarkable strength, a world that is changing fast.

About the Author Odafe Atogun was born in Nigeria, in the town of Lokoja, where the Rivers Niger and Benue meet, but hails from Edo State. Now a full-time writer, he is married and lives in Abuja.

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Canongate PBS SEPTEMBER 2017 Taduno's Song Odafe Atogun

'Burning with magic and loss, exile and return, beauty and heartache, Taduno's Song is a colossal epic, disguised as a small novel' - Marlon James, Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings

Description The day a stained brown envelope arrives from Taduno's homeland, he knows that the time has come to return from exile. Back in Nigeria, the musician discovers that his community no longer recognises him, his girlfriend Lela has disappeared, taken away by government agents, and all traces of his old life have been erased. All that is left of him are his own memories. As Taduno begins to unravel the mystery of his lost life he must also face a difficult decision: to sing for love or to sing for his people.

About the Author Odafe Atogun was born in Nigeria, in the town of Lokoja, where the Rivers Niger and Benue meet. Now a full-time writer, he is married and lives in Abuja.

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Canongate PBS SEPTEMBER 2017 That Was a Shiver, and Other Stories James Kelman

Intimate new stories from the Booker Prize-winning James Kelman, bringing 'alive a human consciousness like no other writer can'.

Description A trucker passes through a town he used to know and a local tries to sell him his sister; a couple put their children to bed and hear a loud scratching at the wall; a Principal and his associate examine the dead body before them; a man looks into a mirror and reflects on becoming more like his father.

Sparky, touching and brilliantly daring, these stories reveal profound human feeling in the ordinary and the everyday, and are a reminder of Kelman's exceptional talent.

About the Author James Kelman was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989 with A Disaffection, which also won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. He went on to win the Booker Prize five years later with How Late it Was, How Late, before being shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 and 2011. His latest novel, Dirt Road, was shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year in 2016.

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Canongate Trade SEPTEMBER 2017 Dirt Road James Kelman

The new novel from the Booker Prize-winning James Kelman, 'Dirt Road is about coming of age, grief and the folk music of the American deep south' - Daily Telegraph

Description Shortlisted for Saltire Fiction Book of the Year'

A celebration of what it is to be human' Spectator

Murdo, a teenager obsessed with music, dreams of a life beyond home. His recently widowed dad, Tom, stumbles towards the future, terrified of losing what remains of his family. Both are in search of something as they set out from rural Scotland on a journey to the American South.

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Canongate PBS SEPTEMBER 2017 The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western Richard Brautigan

'Brautigan is a folk-artist, a master storyteller' - Sarah Hall

Description Magic Child, a fifteen-year old Indian girl, wanders into the wrong whorehouse. She is looking for the right men to kill the monster, the monster that lives in the ice caves under the basement of Miss Hawkline's yellow house.

Richard Brautigan takes the reader on a heroic, magical adventure through Eastern Oregon. It confirms his place as one of the twentieth century's most exciting writers.

About the Author Richard Brautigan was born in Tacoma, Washington where he spent much of his youth, before moving to San Francisco where he became involved with other writers in the Beat Movement. During the sixties he became one of the most prolific and prominent members of the counter-cultural movement, and wrote some of his most famous novels including Trout Fishing in America, Sombrero Fallout and A Confederate General from Big Sur.

He was found dead in 1984, aged 49, beside a bottle of alcohol and a .44 calibre gun. His daughter, Ianthe Brautigan, has written a biography of her father, You Can't Catch Death.

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Canongate PBS SEPTEMBER 2017 Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942 Richard Brautigan

'An absolute original' Guardian

Description When you hire C. Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye barrel. He is a detective of sorts. When he's hired to steal a body from the morgue, he needs to stop dreaming, find bullets for his gun and get there before someone else does. Not since Trout Fishing in America has Brautigan so successfully combined his wild sense of humour with his famous poetic imagination.

In this parody of the hard-boiled crime novel, the adventures of seedy, not-too-bright C. Card are a delight to both the mind and the heart.

He was found dead in 1984, aged 49, beside a bottle of alcohol and a .44 calibre gun. His daughter, Ianthe Brautigan, has written a biography of her father, You Can't Catch Death.

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Canongate PBS SEPTEMBER 2017 So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away Richard Brautigan, introduction by Jeffrey Lent

'Poetic, gently eccentric and deeply poignant' - The Times

Description In a small Pacific Northwest town we meet a young man who has shot dead his best friend with a gun. The novel deals with the repercussions of this tragedy: the anguish, regret, despair and bittersweet romance.

Typical of Brautigan's singular style, So the Wind Won't Blow it all Away is a beautifully written, brooding novel. Its autobiographical prose is a fitting epitaph to this complex, contradictory and often misunderstood writer.

He was found dead in 1984, aged 49, beside a bottle of alcohol and a .44 calibre gun. His daughter, Ianthe Brautigan, has written a biography of her father, You Can't Catch Death.

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Canongate PBS SEPTEMBER 2017 Let Us Be True Alex Christofi

A poignant love story set in the wake of the Second World War.

Description Paris, 1958. After a chance encounter, Ralf and Elsa begin a love affair that will change everything.

Both of them bear scars from their continent's violent upheavals. The end of the war brought Ralf to Paris, where he feels he can both hide from the past and try to gradually overcome it. Elsa meanwhile tries to hide her past from Ralf, but as they fall more deeply in love she faces a dilemma - can she trust him to forgive her for all of her transgressions?

In a Paris recovering from the Second World War but riven by protests and discontent as the old world order falls away, Ralf tries desperately to hold on to the only person he has ever felt he belongs with, while facing the prospect of a reality where love might not be enough.

Deeply moving and sweeping in scope, Alex Christofi's second novel is an unforgettable love story as well as a profoundly affecting study of the personal cost of Europe's bloody 20th century.

About the Author Alex Christofi was born and grew up in Dorset. After reading English at the University of Oxford, he moved to London to work in publishing. He has written a number of short pieces for theatre, and blogs about arts and culture for Prospect magazine. His first novel Glass was also published by Serpent's Tail, and won the Betty Trask Prize.

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Serpents Tail SEPTEMBER 2017 Constellation Adrien Bosc, translated by Willard Wood

The best-selling debut novel based on the true story of a tragedy - now in paperback. Winner of the prestigious Academie Francaise Prize.

Description On 27 October 1949, a Lockheed Constellation passenger plane left Paris for New York. Hours later, it disappeared on approach to its scheduled stopover in the Azores. It was found on a mountainside five miles from its intended landing zone.

There were no survivors.

Among those lost in the accident were heavyweight boxer Marcel Cerdan flying to New York for a world title fight; 30- year-old virtuoso violinist Ginette Neveu; Kay Kamen, Walt Disney's merchandising tsar; five Basque shepherds emigrating to America; a pilot who ran missions for the Free French during the war.

Constellation tells the untold true stories of the forty-eight men and women who died on board, and paints a moving portrait of their place in the changing post-war world and of their hopes and dreams for the life awaiting them across the Atlantic.

Adrien Bosc's magnetic debut novel is a memorial to an air disaster that happened half a century ago. But it is also a love song to the forgotten lives that every tragedy scatters around it like so much debris, and a poignant investigation into the nature of collective tragedy.

About the Author Adrien Bosc was born in Avignon in 1986. He is the founder of Editions du sous-sol and the magazines Desports and Feuilleton. Constellation is his first novel.

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Serpents Tail SEPTEMBER 2017 Don't Cry Mary Gaitskill

Don't Cry is Mary Gaitskill's first collection of stories in over ten years, following the tremendous success of her previous collections, Bad Behaviour and Because They Wanted To.

Description The collection begins with College Town 1980, which follows young people adrift in Ann Arbor debate the meaning of personal strength at the start of the Reagan era. The second opens with a disembodied list of newspaper headlines, before diving into a dissection of the lives of the characters behind the headlines, including a murderer who is slated for giving a prime-time interview, and a woman from San Francisco attempting to break a world record by having sex with one thousand men. Another story describes a nurse's obsession with her 43 year-old patient's virginity, and another a man who steals a girl's soul during a one night-stand.

Dirty sex, broken people and powerful, original language. Don't Cry is a testament to Gaitskill's formal range and incomparable excavation of character in jagged, lived emotion.

About the Author Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To, and Don't Cry, and the novels Veronica and Two Girls Fat and Thin. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories, and the O. Henry Prize Stories.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781781255957 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages

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Serpents Tail SEPTEMBER 2017 I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014 Eileen Myles

Selected works new and old from the celebrated poet and radical icon.

Description A collection of thrilling verse, including both new poems and beloved favourites, from the celebrated poet, modern cult icon, and author of nineteen books including Chelsea Girls.

Eileen Myles' work is known for its blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and the ephemeral. At once intimate and open- hearted, her poems are a raw, complex and compelling diary of postmodern life and invite readers into astonishing new considerations of familiar settings, from the beginnings and ends of love and the imperatives of sexual desire, to the daily wonder of a poet's life in New York City and beyond - into lush-and sometimes horrible-dream worlds, imbuing the landscapes of her writing with the vividness and energy of fantasy.

I Must Be Living Twice reflects Myles' sardonic, unapologetic, and freewheeling literary voice. Steeped in the culture of New York City, I Must Be Living Twice is a prism refracting a radical world and a compelling life.

About the Author An important and beloved radical icon of American letters, Eileen Myles has been described as 'one of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature'. She has published twenty books of poetry, art journalism, fiction, plays and libretti, and both she and her poems have recently appeared in the hit US TV series Transparent.

She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in non-fiction, an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers' grant, a Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant, four Lambda Book Awards, the Shelley Prize, the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing and was named to the Slate/Whiting Second Novel List in 2015. Myles lives in Marfa, Texas, and New York. Visit her website at www.eileenmyles.com.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781781257371 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 368 pages

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Serpents Tail SEPTEMBER 2017 Slow Brooke McAlary

From the creator of the award-winning Slow Home podcast comes Slowthe perfect companion on the long road to living a simpler and more fulfilled life.

Description 'Dear Mr & Mrs Jones, I am writing to inform you of my withdrawal from the race to keep up with you . . .'

Once upon a time, Brooke McAlary thought she was close to having it all. Married to a wonderful man, mother to a lively young daughter, and pregnant for a second time, she'd acquired all the things she'd once thought important-holidays, cars, a renovated home. Yet despite this, she found herself utterly despondent. Realising that they wanted a simpler, more fulfilling existence, Brooke and her family gradually created their own way of living, with an emphasis on depth, connection and experiences. In Slow Brooke gently encourages you to find pleasure and value in a simpler life, sharing the practical tips and rituals that have helped her on her own journey, from decluttering to de-owning, messiness to mindfulness, from asking why to asking where to now? Part memoir, part practical companion, Slow provides a fascinating insight into the benefits of slowing down. It will inspire you to forget about the Joneses and create a life filled with the things that really matter to you . . . slowly, of course.

About the Author Brooke McAlary is passionate about slow living. She has experienced the transformative power of simplifying, paying attention and living a mindful, intentional life, and as the host and creator of the award-winning Slow Home Podcast (downloaded more than 2 million times) she encourages thousands of people every day to live a simpler, slower life.

But it wasn't always like that. Six years ago Brooke was completely overwhelmed. She had two young children, a husband who worked long hours, a business, a home filled to the brim with all the trappings of a 'successful life' and a severe case of post-natal depression.

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781760296919 Everything changed when she began decluttering. What began as an effort to remove some of the excess, slowly evolved Format: Hard Cover into a complete transformation. Gone is the overwhelm, the clutter, the excess, the busy-ness, replaced by a simpler, Dimensions: 232x150mm more meaningful, more connected life. Extent: 264 pages

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2017 Up Until Now Petrea King

The inspirational true story of an amazing Australian woman who has devoted her life to helping people experiencing life-threatening illnesses and devastating mental distress.

Description 'Petrea King is one of those rare Australians who have changed the country for the better.' Richard Glover

As a child Petrea King was dogged by health issues, spending many years in and out of hospital and undergoing numerous operations. After leaving school at fourteen, she worked as a secretary until her desire to help others impelled her to become a nurse. A growing interest in alternative therapies led to Petrea qualifying as a naturopath, herbalist, homoeopath, yoga instructor, meditation teacher and counsellor.

In her early thirties Petrea was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and given little chance to live. She defied her dire prognosis, and believes meditation and the integration of past traumatic experiences in her life, including the suicide of her brother Brenden, were key to her recovery.

Motivated by her own experiences, Petrea founded the Quest for Life Foundation in 1989 and has since dedicated herself to supporting people living with cancer, neurological and other serious physical illnesses, as well as those suffering from grief, loss, post-trauma stress and mental illnesses.

Up Until Now is an inspirational tale of how Petrea King overcame acute physical setbacks in childhood and recovered from a life-threatening illness as an adult. It is the story of a woman who has dedicated her life to supporting people suffering devastating physical and mental illnesses.

About the Author Petrea King is the CEO of the Quest for Life Foundation, and a well-known author, inspirational speaker, teacher and facilitator. Petrea came to the forefront of wellness education after overcoming acute myeloid leukaemia in her early thirties. She Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781760297336 sees crisis as a catalyst for personal growth, understanding, healing and peace. Both individually and through residential Format: Paperback - C format programs, Petrea has counselled tens of thousands of people living with cancer and other life-challenging illnesses, as Dimensions: 234x153mm well as grief, loss, trauma and tragedy. She has also given lectures and conducted workshops around Australia and Extent: 366 pages internationally. Main Category: BM Sub Category: BM Memoirs Petrea is the author of the best-selling book, Your Life Matters: The Power of Living Now and is a regular guest on ABC Illustrations: radio. She has been featured on Australian Story, Compass, This is Your Life and the acclaimed documentary Quest for Previous Titles: Author now living: Life: A Year in the Life of Petrea King. Petrea was awarded the Advance Australia Award, Citizen of the Year and the Centenary Medal for her contribution to the community. She has two adult children and lives with her partner, Wendie Batho, in the Southern Highlands in New South Wales.

Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2017 Up Until Now 10 copy pack

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2017 Emergencies Only: A nurse's journey through natural disasters, civil wars, extreme poverty and general chaos Amanda McClelland

The extraordinary true story of an Australian nurse's work at the forefront of global medical emergencies.

Description This is the memoir of an extraordinary Australian Nurse. Recently awarded the Florence Nightingale medal by the International Committee of the Red Cross for exceptional courage and devotion to victims of armed conflict and natural disasters, Amanda is a young Australian making big waves in the international aid world.

Amanda started her career nursing in remote Aboriginal communities but later shifted her focus to public and emergency health.

Working with the Australian Red Cross she currently lives in Geneva but works wherever a health epidemic explodes. Amanda has been on the ground after typhoons and tsunamis, amid famine and war in places as diverse as South Sudan, Banda Aceh and dealing with horror of Ebola the forefront of the Red Cross's response in West Africa.

Her memoir is told with humour, empathy and a vivid eye for detail.

About the Author Amanda is an Australian emergency health advisor working internationally with the Red Cross. Amanda's current role is as Senior Officer in the Emergency Health Unit of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, based in Geneva.

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781760294212 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2017 Daughter of Gloriavale: My life in a Religious Cult Lilia Tarawa

Lilia describes what it's like to live two lives - the subservient slave and the freedom thinker. She takes us inside the Gloriavale cult to see what it's really like - the pressure to submit, the role of women, man's lust for power and the loyal friendship bonds. Most importantly she exposes her grandfather's heavy religious control.

Description Lilia grew up in a religious cult. Since birth she'd known nothing but life on the inside of the Gloriavale Christian Community. The cult was led by her grandfather, Hopeful Christian.

On one hand she was accustomed to religious abuse and discrimination. On the other hand, she experienced a loving church community.

Her family was one of high status in the church. Her mother was the highest ranking woman and her father sat on the elite council.

Family members began to disappear from the property and people who defied the leaders were kept in huts. Lilia started to question what she'd been taught as a child.

When Lilia's parents dared oppose the church system she was torn between two families she loved dearly - Gloriavale and her own blood. Her religious vows bound her to the church but her heart wrenched her away.

More lies and deceit were uncovered and Lilia realised that total obedience to the church wasn't going to work anymore. But she couldn't leave. She was so afraid of a world she knew nothing about.

Love prevailed and she fled with her entire family. Their leaving sent shockwaves through the community.

But it wasn't over. Lilia struggled to adapt to life on the outside. Would she be damned to hell for leaving? Simple things

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) like dressing style and social cues were a nightmare. She'd lost everything she'd ever known. Who was she and what did ISBN: 9781760631499 she believe in? Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm It was time to confront the demons. She wanted to know the truth about her grandfather's sexual indecencies and she Extent: 320 pages Main Category: BM wanted peace from the grief that racked her soul. Sub Category: BM Memoirs Illustrations: About the Author Previous Titles: Author now living: Christchurch, New Zealand Lilia is a health and lifestyle business mentor who lives in Christchurch.

A&U New Zealand SEPTEMBER 2017 Secret Army: An elite force, a secret mission, a fleet of Model-T Fords, a far flung corner of WWI Barry Stone

The story of the 'Dunsterforce', a secret force of elite solders hand-picked from across the Allied forces, sent to the ethnic power keg of the Caucasus in 1918 to defend British interests from the Ottomans, Cossacks and Germans. Little known today, this is a story of derring do, exotic locations and dangerous encounters - and a fleet of 41 Model T Fords.

Description It was arguably the greatest fighting force in the entirety of the Great War. They were the very best: hardened, fearless, decorated, cocky fighting men, all veterans of Gallipoli and the Western Front. Yet this elite force secretly assembled in London in late 1917 remains an enigma even today.

Barry Stone tells the story of these Australian, British, New Zealand, Canadian and South African men who were sent to the ethnic powder keg of the Caucasus to preserve British interests. They matched wits with German spies and assassins. They fought the Turks. They dined with sheiks, outraged local mullahs, forged unlikely alliances with Russian Cossacks, helped Armenians flee genocide, and saved the lives of thousands of starving Persians.

This book is a rarity: a story set against the backdrop of war, filled not with bloodshed but with acts of kindness and selflessness; a triumph of the human spirit.

About the Author Barry Stone is a journalist and travel writer. He is author of The Desert Anzacs andThe Digger's Menagerie,and has written on topics as varied as mutinies in the Age of Sail, and a history of hermits and recluses.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760290689 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 272 pages Main Category: HBWN Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Picton, NSW

Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2017 Total Propaganda: Basic Marxist Training for the Angry and the Young Helen Razer

Marxism and socialism explained for a younger readership

Description Millennials have it bad. In 2017, they face the problems of underemployment, unaffordable housing and economists who write crap columns telling them that it's their fault for taking an Uber to brunch.

Today, the future's so dark, we need night vision goggles, not a few liberal guys shining a torch on a sandwich. Maybe today, we could use the light of Karl Marx.

Marx may not have had much to say about brunch in the twenty-first century, but he sure had some powerful thoughts about where the system of capitalism would land us. Over time, it would produce a series of crises, he said, before pushing the wealth so decisively up, a top-heavy system would come crashing down with a push.

Pushy old communist Helen Razer offers an introduction to the thought of Marx for Millennials, and anyone else tired of wage stagnation, growing global poverty and economists writing desperate columns saying everything would work better, if only we stopped eating sandwiches.

Brunchers of the world must unite! They have nothing to lose but a life lived for the wealth of a few. Both for themselves and their comrades in the Global South, they have a world to win.

About the Author For more than two decades, Helen Razer has been broadcasting and writing her way into disagreement of various scales. She has been employed as a contributor by The Age and The Australian, and is now a columnist on dissent with Crikey and gardening correspondent for The Saturday Paper. Helen has produced four previous books of humorous non-fiction and her frequently published thoughts on the impotence of current public debate are extended in A Short History of Stupid.

Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760297312 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 208x138mm Extent: 220 pages

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2017 Total Propaganda 8 copy pack

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2017 A Smile For My Parents Heather Henderson

A delightful, surprising and warm collection of stories about Sir Robert and Dame Pattie Menzies, from their only daughter, Heather Henderson

Description Heather Henderson is the only daughter of Sir Robert Menzies, Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister and founder of the Liberal party. Father and daughter were very close, and in 2011 Heather edited and published Letters to My Daughter, a collection of letters written by Menzies to Heather throughout the fifties, sixties and seventies, when she was living overseas with her diplomat husband. They are full of warmth, love, humour and insights - both political and personal - and they allow us to see a completely different side of a man many Australians think of as a rather stern and forbidding authoritarian figure.

Now comes A Smile for My Parents, Heather Henderson's engaging memoir recounting charming and insightful stories and memories of Dame Pattie and Sir Robert and their family and friends that will surprise and delight all who read it.

About the Author Heather Henderson (nee Menzies) is the daughter of Sir Robert and Dame Pattie Menzies. She resides in Canberra.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781760111403 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 240 pages

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Allen & Unwin SEPTEMBER 2017 How Not to be a Boy Robert Webb

Following ten series of the award-winning Peep Show, comes part-memoir, part call-to-arms from the award- winning and hilariously funny Robert Webb.

Description Rules For Being A Man: Don't Cry Love Sport Play Rough Drink Beer Don't Talk About Feelings

But Robert Webb has been wondering for some time now: are those rules actually any use? To anyone?

Looking back over his life, from schoolboy crushes (on girls and boys) to discovering the power of making people laugh (in the Cambridge Footlights with David Mitchell), and from losing his beloved mother to becoming a husband and father, Robert Webb considers the absurd expectations boys and men have thrust upon them at every stage of life.

Hilarious and heart-breaking, One of the Boys explores the relationships that made Robert who he is as a man, the lessons we learn as sons and daughters, and the understanding that sometimes you aren't the Luke Skywalker of your life - you're actually Darth Vader.

About the Author Robert Webb has been a male for his whole life. As such, he has been a boy in a world of fighting, pointless posturing, and the insistence that he stop crying. As an adult man, he has enjoyed better luck, both in his work as the Webb half of Mitchell & Webb in the Sony award-winning That Mitchell & Webb Sound and the Bafta award-winning That Mitchell & Webb Look, and as permanent man-boy Jeremy in the acclaimed Peep Show. Robert has been a columnist for The Telegraph and The New Statesman, and now lives in London with his wife and daughters, where he continues trying to be Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781786890092 funny and to fumble beyond general expectations of manhood. Format: Paperback - Demy format @arobertwebb Dimensions: 214x135mm Extent: 336 pages

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Canongate Trade SEPTEMBER 2017 The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking (New Edition) Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler

The comprehensively revised edition of the international bestseller, with new material.

Description Most of us face the same questions every day: What do I want? And how can I get it? How can I live more happily and work more efficiently?

This updated edition of the international bestseller distils into a single volume the fifty best decision-making models used on MBA courses, and elsewhere, that will help you tackle these important questions - from the well known (the Eisenhower matrix for time management) to the less familiar but equally useful (the Swiss Cheese model). It will even show you how to remember everything you will have learned by the end of it.

Stylish and compact, this little black book is a powerful asset. Whether you need to plot a presentation, assess someone's business idea or get to know yourself better, this unique guide will help you simplify any problem and take steps towards the right decision.

About the Author Mikael Krogerus is a freelance writer for German and Swiss newspapers and magazines and was a staff writer with Switzerland's leading newspaper Neue Zarcher Zeitung for five years. They have a brilliant blog at http://50topmodels. wordpress.com/

Roman Tschappeler is the founder and CEO of guzo, a communication agency based in Biel, Switzerland.

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Profile Trade SEPTEMBER 2017 Significant Figures: Lives and Works of Trailblazing Mathematicians Ian Stewart

Vivid accounts of the lives of twenty-five of the world's greatest mathematicians with clear descriptions of their far-reaching discoveries.

Description Which mathematician elaborated a crucial concept the night before he died in a duel? Who funded his maths and medical career through gambling and chess? Who learned maths from her wallpaper?

Ian Stewart presents the extraordinary lives and amazing discoveries of twenty-five of history's greatest mathematicians from Archimedes and Liu Hui to Benoit Mandelbrot and William Thurston.

His subjects are the inspiring individuals from all over the world who have made crucial contributions to mathematics. They include the rediscovered geniuses Srinivasa Ramanujan and Emmy Noether, alongside the towering figures of Muhammad al-Khwarizmi (inventor of the algorithm), Pierre de Fermat, Isaac Newton, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Bernhard Reimann (precursor to Einstein), Henri Poincare, Ada Lovelace (arguably the first computer programmer), Kurt Godel and Alan Turing.

Ian Stewart's vivid accounts are fascinating in themselves and, taken together, cohere into a riveting history of key steps in the development of mathematics.

About the Author Ian Stewart is Mathematics Professor Emeritus at the University of Warwick. His recent books include Incredible Numbers, Seventeen Equations that Changed the World, Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries and Calculating the Cosmos (all published by Profile). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781781258996 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages

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Profile Trade SEPTEMBER 2017 Conservatism: Ideas in Profile Roger Scruton

The ideas and principles of conservatism explored and explained by the world's leading thinker on the subject.

Description Roger Scruton looks at the central ideas of conservatism over the centuries.

He examines conservative thinking on civil society, the rule of law and the role of the state on the one hand; and freedom (including freedom of expression and association), morality, equality, property and rights on the other. He traces the origins and development of the conservative ideology in the philosophies and thoughts of, among others, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, John Ruskin, Michael Oakeshott, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman and Robert Nozick. He shows how conservative ideas have worked out in the politics and policies of leading figures people such as Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Disraeli, the Earl of Salisbury, Calvin Coolidge, Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. He also looks closely at the degree to which capitalism and free markets have been and are integral to conservative ideology and politics in the UK and in the USA.

Professor Scruton's clear, incisive guide is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the politics and policies of the west now and over the last three centuries.

About the Author Roger Scruton is a philosopher whose books include Art and Imagination (1974), The Meaning of Conservatism (1980), The Philosopher on Dover Beach (1990), The Aesthetics of Music (1997), Beauty (2009), How to Think Seriously About the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism (2012) and Our Church (2012). In 2010 he delivered the Gifford Lectures at St Andrews on 'The Face of God'. He has been described, by Daniel Hannan, MEP, as 'The man who, more than any other, has defined what conservatism is.'

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781781257524 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 160 pages

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Profile Trade SEPTEMBER 2017 Anquetil, Alone Paul Fournel, translated by Nick Caistor

The legend of Jacques Anquetil, controversial French cycling star of the 60s, told through the eyes of novelist and childhood Anquetil fan Paul Fournel.

Description Jacques Anquetil was arrogant and iconoclastic, with a relaxed attitude to rules - including those about drugs - and morals. His womanising appalled conservative French society, even as his five Tour de France wins enthralled it. But Paul Fournel always preferred him to his great rival, working-class hero Raymond Poulidor, and followed Anquetil's career from childhood with the passion of a fan and the eye of a poet.

In this stunningly original biography of a complex and divisive character, Fournel blends elements of memoir and imagined autobiography to tell the captivating story of this cycling legend.

About the Author Paul Fournel is a French writer, poet, publisher, and cultural ambassador. He was awarded the Prix Goncourt for short fiction for Les Athletes dans leur tete. His Besoin de Velo was published in English as Velo by Rouleur/Bloomsbury. Translated by Nick Caistor.

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Profile Trade SEPTEMBER 2017 Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe Ian Stewart

One of the world's great mathematicians explores the origins, history and future of the universe

Description Ian Stewart's up-to-the-minute guide to the cosmos moves from the formation of the Earth and its Moon to the planets and asteroids of the solar system and from there out into the galaxy and the universe. He describes the architecture of space and time, dark matter and dark energy, how galaxies form, why stars implode, how everything began, and how it will end. He considers parallel universes, what forms extra-terrestrial life might take, and the likelihood of Earth being hit by an asteroid.

Mathematics, Professor Stewart shows, has been the driving force in astronomy and cosmology since the ancient Babylonians. He describes how Kepler's work on planetary orbits led Newton to formulate his theory of gravity, and how two centuries later irregularities in the motion of Mars inspired Einstein's theory of General Relativity. In crystal-clear terms he explains the fundamentals of gravity, spacetime, relativity and quantum theory, and shows how they all relate to each other. Eighty years ago the discovery that the universe is expanding led to the Big Bang theory of its origins. This in turn led cosmologists to posit features such as dark matter and dark energy. But does dark matter exist? Could another scientific revolution be on the way to challenge current scientific orthodoxy? These are among the questions Ian Stewart raises in his quest through the realms of astronomy and cosmology.

About the Author Ian Stewart is Mathematics Professor Emeritus at the University of Warwick. His books include Incredible Numbers, Seventeen Equations that Changed the World, The Great Mathematical Problems and Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society; his awards include the IMA Gold Medal (2000), the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Public Understanding of Science and Technology Award (2001), the Zeeman Medal (2008), and the Lewis Thomas Prize (2015, joint with Steven Strogatz).

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Profile Trade SEPTEMBER 2017 Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent Ryan Holiday

A powerful meditation on the nature and dangers of ego, from the bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way.

Description It's wrecked the careers of promising young geniuses. It's evaporated great fortunes and run companies into the ground. It's made adversity unbearable and turned struggle into shame. Every great philosopher has warned against it, in our most lasting stories and countless works of art, in all culture and all ages. Its name? Ego, and it is the enemy - of ambition, of success and of resilience.

In Ego is the Enemy, Ryan Holiday shows us how and why ego is such a powerful internal opponent to be guarded against at all stages of our careers and lives, and that we can only create our best work when we identify, acknowledge and disarm its dangers. Drawing on an array of inspiring characters and narratives from literature, philosophy and history, the book explores the nature and dangers of ego to illustrate how you can be humble in your aspirations, gracious in your success and resilient in your failures.

The result is an inspiring and timely reminder that humility and confidence are our greatest friends when confronting the challenges of a culture that tends to fan the flames of ego, a book full of themes and life lessons that will resonate, uplift and inspire.

About the Author Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of Trust Me, I'm Lying, Growth Hacker Marketing and The Obstacle is the Way. His books have been translated into seventeen languages and his writing has appeared everywhere from the Columbia Journalism Review to Fast Company. He was director of marketing at American Apparel for many years, and his strategies in growth hacking and advertising are used as case studies by Twitter, YouTube and Google.

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Profile Trade SEPTEMBER 2017 Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great War Peter Hart

The First World War in the words of the men who fought it, from the author of Gallipoli and The Great War.

Description Every man who served in the Great War is now deceased, but they have left behind them an enormous collection of oral history, which captures the authentic voices of the front line soldiers.

In Voices from the Front, oral historian Peter Hart brings together accounts from across the conflict, from soldiers, sailors and airmen, from officers and privates alike. In the course of his research, he talked to men who saw their friends die in front of them, who were seriously wounded themselves, men who refused to fight on principle and those whose indomitable spirit carried them through thick and thin. Sometimes they were there at crucial turning points in the war - going over the top in the slaughter of the Somme in 1916 or punching through the German lines to victory in 1918 - and sometimes they sweated, toiled and suffered on a forgotten front, thousands of miles from home.

In the vein of The Beauty and the Sorrow, this is the First World War seen through the eyes of the men who experienced it for themselves.

About the Author Peter Hart is the oral historian at the Imperial War Museum and has written several titles on the First World War. His latest books for Profile are Gallipoli, The Great War and Voices from the Front.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781781254752 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 420 pages

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Profile Trade SEPTEMBER 2017 White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s Joe Boyd

How was one man present at so many pivotal points of the birth of modern rock? An insight into Joe Boyd's career, and London's music scene in the late 60s.

Description When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the '60s, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Joe Boyd was plugging in his guitar; when the summer of love got going, Joe Boyd was running the coolest club in London, the UFO; when a bunch of club regulars called Pink Floyd recorded their first single, Joe Boyd was the producer; when a young songwriter named Nick Drake wanted to give his demo tape to someone, he chose Joe Boyd. More than any previous '60s music autobiography, Joe Boyd's White Bicycles offers the real story of what it was like to be there at the time. His greatest coup is bringing to life the famously elusive figure of Nick Drake - the first time he's been written about by anyone who knew him well. As well as the '60s heavy-hitters, this book also offers wonderfully vivid portraits of a whole host of other musicians: everyone from the great jazzman Coleman Hawkins to the folk diva Sandy Denny, Lonnie Johnson to Eric Clapton, The Incredible String Band to Fairport Convention.

About the Author Record and film producer Joe Boyd was born in Boston in 1942 and graduated from Harvard in 1964. He went on to produce Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, Fairport Convention, REM and many others. He produced the documentary 'Jimi Hendrix' and the film 'Scandal'. In 1980 he started Hannibal Records and ran it for 20 years. Boyd lives in London where he writes for the Guardian and Independent. His next book is about World Music.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781781257944 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages Main Category: AV Music Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Serpents Tail SEPTEMBER 2017 Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 Lizzy Goodman

An intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scene, led by a group of iconoclastic rock bands.

Description In the second half of the twentieth-century New York was the source of new sounds, including the Greenwich Village folk scene, punk and new wave, and hip-hop. But as the end of the millennium neared, cutting-edge bands began emerging from Seattle, Austin, and London, pushing New York further from the epicentre. The behemoth music industry, too, found itself in free fall, under siege from technology. Then 11/9/2001 plunged the country into a state of uncertainty and war - and a dozen New York City bands that had been honing their sound and style in relative obscurity suddenly became symbols of glamour for a young, web-savvy, forward-looking generation in need of an anthem.

Meet Me in the Bathroom charts the transformation of the New York music scene in the first decade of the 2000s, the bands behind it - including The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem, Interpol, and Vampire Weekend - and the cultural forces that shaped it, from the Internet to a booming real estate market that forced artists out of the Lower East Side to Williamsburg. Drawing on 200 original interviews with James Murphy, Julian Casablancas, Karen O, Ezra Koenig, and many others musicians, artists, journalists, bloggers, photographers, managers, music executives, groupies, models, movie stars, and DJs who lived through this explosive time, journalist Lizzy Goodman offers a fascinating portrait of a time and a place that gave birth to a new era in modern rock-and-roll.

About the Author Lizzy Goodman has written about rock and roll, fashion, and popular culture for the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Spin, Interview, Billboard, NME, and others. She is a contributing editor at Elle and frequently appears on VH1 and NPR. She lives in High Falls, New York.

Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9780571337972 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: mm Extent: pages Main Category: AV Music Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Social SEPTEMBER 2017 Faber & Faber Poetry Diary 2018: Royal Blue Various Poets

A full colour hardback A5 size desk diary with a week to a view, with 40 poems. Illustrated throughout with vintage and contemporary book jackets, the diary has a sturdy cover and an elastic closure.

Description The Faber poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T. S. Eliot who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Since the sixties, each passing decade has seen the list grow with the addition of poets who were arguably the finest of their generation. In recent years the creation of the Poet to Poet series has further broadened the scope of Faber poetry by including the work of great poets from the past selected and introduced by the contemporary poets they have inspired.

Samuel Beckett * Emily Berry * William Blake * Emily Bronte * Rupert Brooke * Lord Byron * John Clare * Julia Copus * Walter de la Mare * Carol Ann Duffy *Douglas Dunn * T.S. Eliot * Seamus Heaney * Thomas Hood * Gerard Manley Hopkins *A.E. Housman *Ted Hughes * Ben Jonson * John Keats * Philip Larkin * Lachlan Mackinnon * Louis MacNeice * Dorothy Molloy * Bernard O'Donoghue * Sylvia Plath * Maurice Riordan *Sam Riviere * William Shakespeare * Percy Bysshe Shelley * Stevie Smith * Stephen Spender * Wislawa Szymborska * Alfred, Lord Tennyson * Edward Thomas * Jack Underwood * Hugo Williams * William Wordsworth * W.B. Yeats

About the Author

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571334360 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 210x145mm Extent: 128 pages Main Category: WZG Gift Books Sub Category: WZS Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Poetry SEPTEMBER 2017 The Secret Teacher: Despatches from the Classroom Anon

I will teach them literature, poetry, culture. I will teach them The Waste Land! I will be the Best Teacher Who Has Ever Lived! Or so The Secret Teacher thinks. A frank, funny, exasperated account of a teacher's first year in a modern secondary school.

Description I will teach them literature, poetry, culture. I will teach them The Waste Land! I will be the Best Teacher Who Has Ever Lived! Or so The Secret Teacher thinks. On his first day at an inner-city state school he gets nuked. The class he is made to cut his teeth on are an unruly mob stuffed with behavioural issues. There is Milosz, who is put in detention for committing the sin of onan with a Pritt Stick; Kieran, the class rebel; Donnie, a hard-working kid desperate for approval; Mercedes, a volatile rude girl; and Salim, who loves Bollywood and the number 5.

Somehow, The Secret Teacher needs to enthuse this lot with a love of books. Or at least keep them sitting at their desks until the end of the lesson. And then he's got to deal with the Observations, marking, standardisations, book checks, OFSTED, Educational Consultants, spreadsheets, personal statements, school trips, strikes, class, race, love, death, birth, manhood, dry cleaning, the end of literary culture, the end of the Old World, the whole shebang.

In this vivid account of his first few years in the classroom, The Secret Teacher grapples with the complicated questions of how to teach, how we learn - and how little he actually knows. He celebrates the world's greatest stories, the extraordinary teachers he has worked with, and the kids: bolshy, bright, funny and absolutely electric. The result is a book brimful of wit, insight and tenderness.

About the Author Just call me 'sir'.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781783351268 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages Main Category: B Biography/autobiography Sub Category: BM Memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Guardian Books SEPTEMBER 2017 Can You Solve My Problems?: A casebook of ingenious, perplexing and totally satisfying puzzles Alex Bellos

The bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland tells the story of the puzzle through 125 of the world's best brainteasers. Packed with eye-opening anecdotes, brain-stretching ideas and thoroughly addictive puzzles Can You Solve My Problems? will leave you wonderstruck

Description Are you smarter than a Singaporean ten-year-old? Can you beat Sherlock Holmes? If you think the answer is yes - I challenge you to solve my problems.

Here is the story of the puzzle, one of mankind's oldest and greatest forms of entertainment and enlightenment, told through 125 of the world's best brainteasers from the last two millennia. It takes us from ancient China to medieval Europe, Victorian England to modern-day Japan, with stories of espionage, mathematical breakthroughs and puzzling rivalries along the way. You'll pit your wits against logic puzzles and kinship riddles, pangrams and river-crossing conundrums. Some solutions rely on a touch of cunning, others call for creativity, others need mercilessly logical thought. Some can only be solved by 2% of the population. All are guaranteed to sharpen your mind. Let's get puzzling...

About the Author Alex Bellos is brilliant on all things mathematical. He has a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from Oxford University. His bestselling books Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Alex Through the Looking-Glass have been translated into more than 20 languages. He is the co-author of a mathematical colouring book, Snowflake, Seashell, Star, and he has launched an elliptical pool table, LOOP. He writes a popular maths blog and a puzzle blog for the Guardian.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781783351152 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages

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Faber Paperback SEPTEMBER 2017 Psychedelia and Other Colours Rob Chapman

A seminal book on Psychedelia, that explores in crystalline detail the history, precedents and cultural impact of LSD.

Description In Psychedelia and Other Colours, acclaimed author Rob Chapman explores in crystalline detail the history, precedents and cultural impact of LSD, from the earliest experiments in painting with light and immersive environments to the thriving avant-garde scene that existed in San Francisco even before the Grateful Dead and the Fillmore Auditorium. In the UK, he documents an entirely different history, and one that has never been told before. It has its roots in fairy tales and fairgrounds, the music hall and the dead of Flanders fields, in the Festival of Britain and that peculiarly British strand of surrealism that culminated in the Magical Mystery Tour. Sitars and Sergeant Pepper, surfadelica and the Soft Machine, light shows and love-ins - the mind-expanding effects of acid were to redefine popular culture as we know it.

Psychedelia and Other Colours documents these utopian reverberations - and the dark side of their moon - in a perfect portrait.

About the Author Rob Chapman is the author of perhaps the most acclaimed biography of Syd Barrett, Syd Barrett: An Irregular Head. He has written three other books and was a member of the Bristol based group, The Glaxo Babies.

Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9780571282746 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 656 pages

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Faber Non Fiction SEPTEMBER 2017 How to Win: Lessons from the Premier League Anon

The new book from The Secret Footballer. And now he's not just getting under people's skins, he's getting inside their heads.

Description I saw men under pressure. I saw men succeed and more men fail. I always wondered where the difference lay.

What separates the good from the truly great players? How do football managers get the best out of their team? How do you come back from a crushing defeat to win?

In an inspirational, funny and thought-provoking new book, The Secret Footballer teams up with The Secret Psychologist to crack the secrets of success and share with us the tricks and tips that keep the top players at the top of their game. Exploring the winning mindset from confidence to concentration, exposing the successes, the failures and the frauds, this book will shock and entertain. And while most of us will never dribble like Messi or strike like Suarez, we can learn to think like them.

How To Win is the thinking fan's handbook for those who want to win. At football or at life.

About the Author Despite much speculation, The Secret Footballer's identity remains anonymous.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781783351244 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages Main Category: WSJA Sub Category: WS Sport Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback SEPTEMBER 2017 The 50 Greatest Prehistoric Sites of the World Barry Stone

The most incredible places to relive humankind's deep past.

Description Humanity's written history stretches back only 5,000 years, a mere blip on the timeline of our existence. If you want to know what it really means to be fully human, to see the whole story, you need to go back. Way, way back.

Prehistoric humans couldn't write, but they were adept at telling their own stories. On every continent and outpost where they gained a foothold, they left signs for modern man to decipher.

From the Middle Bronze Age settlement of Arkaim on the Kazakh Steppes to the temples of the Olmec in Mexico; from one of the first European proto-cities at Nebelivka in Ukraine to the neolithic henges of Avebury and Stonehenge; from the dolmens of Antequera in the heart of Andalucía to the megalithic culture that thrived in isolation on Indonesia's tiny Nias Island.

About the Author Barry Stone is an established travel writer and author of books on subjects ranging from religious hermits to mutinies in the age of sail and military history titles, for publishers including Hardie Grant, Allen & Unwin and HarperCollins. He is also the author of The 50 Greatest Walks of the World and The 50 Greatest Westerns in this series. He lives in Sydney, Australia.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781785782350 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages

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Icon SEPTEMBER 2017 Big Data: How the Information Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives Brian Clegg

New for Icon's Hot Science series - a startling insight into the data that runs our lives.

Description Is the Brexit vote successful big data politics or the end of democracy? Why do airlines overbook, and why do banks get it wrong so often? How does big data enable Netflix to forecast a hit, CERN to find the Higgs boson and medics to discover if red wine really is good for you? And how are companies using big data to benefit from smart meters, use advertising that spies on you and develop the gig economy, where workers are managed by the whim of an algorithm?

The volumes of data we now access can give unparalleled abilities to make predictions, respond to customer demand and solve problems. But Big Brother's shadow hovers over it. Though big data can set us free and enhance our lives, it has the potential to create an underclass and a totalitarian state.

With big data ever-present, you can't afford to ignore it. Acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg - a habitual early adopter of new technology (and the owner of the second-ever copy of Windows in the UK) - brings big data to life.

About the Author Brian Clegg's most recent books are What Colour is the Sun (Icon, 2016) and Ten Billion Tomorrows (St. Martins, 2016). His Dice World and A Brief History of Infinity were both longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. Brian has written for numerous publications including The Wall Street Journal, Nature, BBC Focus, Physics World, The Times, The Observer, Good Housekeeping and Playboy. Brian is editor of popularscience.co.uk and blogs at brianclegg.blogspot. com.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781785782343 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 176 pages Main Category: P Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon SEPTEMBER 2017 How to be a Study Ninja: Study smarter. Focus better. Achieve more. Graham Allcott

A fun, accessible and practical guide on how to get the most out of your studying and love the quest for knowledge again.

Description In the world of smartphones, instant internet access and on-demand documentaries, studying should be easier than ever. Yet all this background noise can make us unfocused and inefficient learners.

So how can you cut through the distractions and get back to productive, rewarding learning? Four little words: Think like a Ninja.

Paralysed by procrastination? Harness some Ninja Focus to get things started. Overwhelmed by exam nerves? You need some Zen-like Calm to turn those butterflies into steely focus. Surrounded by too many scrappy notes and unfinished to- do lists? Get Weapon-savvy with the latest organizational technology.

With nine Ninja techniques to learn, there is a solution here for everyone who wants to learn better- and they don't involve giving up the rest of your life.

Written by one of the world's foremost productivity experts, How to be a Study Ninja is a fun, accessible and practical guide on how to get the most out of your studying and love the quest for knowledge again.

About the Author Graham Allcott is the author of How to be a Productivity Ninja and the founder of Think Productive, one of the world's leading productivity training companies. Think Productive's diverse list of clients includes eBay, the British Library and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781785782374 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages Main Category: VSD Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon SEPTEMBER 2017 How to be a Productivity Ninja: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do Graham Allcott

Move beyond time management, get your inbox to zero and learn to think like a Productivity Ninja!

Description In the age of information overload, traditional time management techniques simply don't cut it when it comes to overflowing inboxes, ever-expanding to-do lists and endless, pointless meetings. Thankfully there is a better way: The Way of the Productivity Ninja.

Using techniques including Ruthlessness, Mindfulness, Zen-like Calm and Stealth & Camouflage you will get your inbox down to zero, make the most of your attention, beat procrastination and learn to work smarter, not harder.

Written by one of the UK's foremost productivity experts, How to be a Productivity Ninja is a fun, accessible and practical guide to staying cool, calm and collected, getting more done, and learning to love your work again.

About the Author Graham Allcott is a productivity trainer, social entrepreneur and founder of Think Productive. Think Productive run public workshops throughout the UK and also run in-house workshops for staff at a diverse range of organizations, including the Cabinet Office (UK government), The National Trust, eBay, Heineken, BT, GlaxoSmithKline and the University of Bristol. Prior to founding Think Productive, Graham's career has been primarily focused on social action. He ran community volunteering projects for the University of Birmingham before becoming Chief Executive of the charity Student Volunteering England, and has since worked on a number of social enterprise and charity projects. Graham lives in Brighton, UK.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781785780288 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages

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Icon SEPTEMBER 2017 Messi - 2018 Updated Edition: More Than a Superstar Luca Caioli

The updated edition of Luca Caioli's brilliant biography of Barcelona soccer star Lionel Messi, now covering the 2016/17 season.

Description Lionel Messi is the greatest footballer of our time: a magician with uncanny ability to beat defenders, find space and score goals. 2016 saw him win the Ballon d'Or for a record fifth time, further emphasising his status as the greatest footballer in the world today, and possibly ever.

Messi is Luca Caioli's classic portrait of modern football's undisputed superstar, now fully updated to include all the action from 2016/17. Featuring exclusive testimony from those who know him best, including coaches, teammates and even Messi himself, it offers an unrivalled behind-the-scenes look at the life of a football superstar.

About the Author Luca Caioli is the bestselling author of Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar and Suarez. A renowned Italian sports journalist, he lives in Spain corresponding for SKY Italia and Corriere della Sera.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781785782305 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages

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Icon SEPTEMBER 2017 Ronaldo - 2018 Updated Edition: The Obsession For Perfection Luca Caioli

A fully revised look at the career of Real Madrid's global superstar.

Description A three-time winner of the FIFA Ballon d'Or, Cristiano Ronaldo's status as a footballing superstar is unquestionable. His insatiable desire to succeed and to improve himself year after year has seen him rise to the very pinnacle of his sport and kept him there for nearly a decade now.

Here Madrid-based journalist Luca Caioli tells the inside story of the global superstar, featuring insights from those who know him best: coaches, teammates, girlfriends and even the man himself.

Updated to include all the action from the 2016/17 season, the year after he claimed his third Champions League winner's medal and became the tournament's all-time top goalscorer. Ronaldo lays bare the career of a modern footballing icon.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781785782312 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 316 pages

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Icon SEPTEMBER 2017 Neymar - 2018 Updated Edition: The Unstoppable Rise of Barcelona's Brazilian Superstar Luca Caioli

Luca Caioli's latest biography of Neymar, fully revised and updated.

Description From a young age, Neymar was identified as a future great of world soccer. Since his move to Barcelona in 2013 he has progressed at an unstoppable rate, not simply coping but thriving under the pressure of expectation.

After three seasons in Spanish football, Neymar has become an essential part of one of the greatest teams in Barcelona's history. Standing out in a team that boasts Messi and Suarez, it is surely only a matter of time before he is considered the world's greatest.

Fully updated and drawing on exclusive interviews with those who have known and worked with him, Neymar paints a compelling picture of the life and career of a global superstar.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781785782329 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages

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Icon SEPTEMBER 2017 The Best of Dear Coquette: Shady Advice From A Raging Bitch Who Has No Business Answering Any Of These Questions Coquette

Razor-sharp advice on dating, love, sex, drugs and life in general, from mysterious author The Coquette.

Description Dear Coquette unleashes the brutal truth about life, love, dating, sex and everything in between.

For nearly a decade, The Coquette has delivered wisdom with a harsh wit and devastating elegance to the hundreds of thousands of readers who know where to come for her practical, no-nonsense advice.

Rising forth from the glitter and madness of the L.A. party scene, this mysterious online oracle has evolved into one of the most insightful and conscientious voices of her generation, and Dear Coquette is consistently rated amongst the funniest and most beloved blogs on the net by publications ranging from The Guardian to The Huffington Post.

Here, for the first time between hard covers, is the very best of Dear Coquette.

About the Author The Coquette, described by The Daily Dot as witty, blunt, and beloved, is the creator of the hugely successful blog Dear Coquette. She is the author of Notes to My Future Husband and has written pop culture and advice columns for Playboy, Nerve, The Daily, and many others. @coketweet

Find out more: DearCoquette.com

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781785781803 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 400 pages

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Icon SEPTEMBER 2017 How to be Cool: The 150 Essential Idols, Ideals and Other Cool S*** Thomas Hodgkinson

From the co-author of the brilliant How to Sound Cultured, a wry and incisive guide to the people and ideas that have defined cool.

Description Cool can't be taught. Or can it?

That's the received wisdom, yet the idea behind this sleek, entertaining compendium by Thomas W. Hodgkinson (author of How to Sound Cultured) is that, on the contrary, anyone can increase their cool quotient by learning from the masters and the methods of the past.

As well as identifying the Nine Defining Qualities of Cool, the book takes you on a tour of the 75 'Idols' (from William Blake to Kate Moss, via Marlon Brando and Lou Reed) and 50 'Ideas and Ideals' (drugs, Buddhism, base jumping, irony, etc.) that have created and embodied those qualities. A slim final section, 'The Real Deal', presents the author's own personal, often surprising selection of the 25 coolest things on the planet.

Uncoolness can be unlearnt, is the implication, but anyone aspiring to true cool must ultimately find it for themselves.

About the Author Thomas W. Hodgkinson is the co-author of How to Sound Cultured (Icon, 2015) and author of the novel Memoirs of a Stalker (Silvertail, 2015). He writes regularly for The Spectator and the Daily Mail, and is a contributing editor at The Week. He lives in North London.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781785782626 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages

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Icon SEPTEMBER 2017 Michael Faraday and the Electrical Century (Icon Science) Iwan Morus

Part of the new Icon Science series: a collection of the best of Icon's entertaining and informative introductions to groundbreaking moments in science history.

Description The only scientist to ever appear on the British twenty pound note, Michael Faraday is one of the most recognisable names in the history of science.

Faraday's forte was electricity, a revolutionary force in nineteenth-century society. The electric telegraph had made mass- communication possible and inventors looked forward to the day when electricity would control all aspects of life. By the end of the century, this dream was well on its way to being realised. But what was Faraday's role in all this? How did his science come to have such an impact on the lives of the Victorians (and ultimately on us)?

Iwan Morus tells the story of Faraday's upbringing in London and his apprenticeship at the Royal Institution under the supervision of the flamboyant chemist, Sir Humphry Davy, all set against the backdrop of a vibrant scientific culture and an empire near the peak of its power.

About the Author Iwan Rhys Morus is a professor of history at Aberystwyth University. He is the author, most recently, of William Robert Grove: Victorian Gentleman of Science (University of Wales Press, 2017) and the editor of the Oxford Illustrated History of Science (OUP, 2017).

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781785782671 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages Main Category: P Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Icon SEPTEMBER 2017 Good Friday: Before Prime Suspect there was Tennison ? this is her story Lynda La Plante

From the creator of the award-winning ITV series Prime Suspect, this is Jane Tennison's story, from rookie police officer to fully-fledged detective.

Description Lynda La Plante was born in Liverpool. She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with the National Theatre and RDC before becoming a television actress. She then turned to writing - and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful TV series Widows. Her novels have all been international bestsellers.

Her original script for the much-acclaimed Prime Suspect won awards from BAFTA, Emmys, British Broadcasting and Royal Television Society as well as the 1993 Edgar Allan Poe Writer's Award. Lynda has written and produced over 170 hours of international television. Tennison has been adapted by ITV and will be broadcast in March 2017 in the UK; international broadcast will then follow.

Please visit www.lyndalaplante.com for further information. You can also follow Lynda on Facebook and Twitter.

About the Author Lynda La Plante was born in Liverpool. She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with the National Theatre and RDC before becoming a television actress. She then turned to writing - and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful TV series Widows. Her novels have all been international bestsellers.

Her original script for the much-acclaimed Prime Suspect won awards from BAFTA, Emmys, British Broadcasting and Price: $44.99 (NZ$49.99) Royal Television Society as well as the 1993 Edgar Allan Poe Writer's Award. Lynda has written and produced over 170 ISBN: 9781785762819 hours of international television. Tennison has been adapted by ITV and will be broadcast in March 2017 in the UK; Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm international broadcast will then follow. Extent: 400 pages Main Category: FF Lynda is one of only three screenwriters to have been made honorary fellow of the British Film Institute and was awarded Sub Category: Illustrations: the BAFTA Dennis Potter Writer's Award in 2000. In 2008, she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List Previous Titles: for services to Literature, Drama and Charity. Author now living: Please visit www.lyndalaplante.com for further information. You can also follow Lynda on Facebook and Twitter.

Zaffre SEPTEMBER 2017 The Floating Theatre Martha Conway

In a nation divided by prejudice, everyone must take a side... A gloriously involving and powerful read for fans of Gone With The Wind and Tracy Chevalier's The Last Runaway.

But cruising the border between the Confederate South and the 'free' North is fraught with danger.

For the sake of a debt that must be repaid, May is compelled to transport secret passengers, under cover of darkness, across the river and on, along the underground railroad.

But as May's secrets become harder to keep, she learns she must endanger those now dear to her.

And to save the lives of others, she must risk her own...

Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781785762901 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Zaffre SEPTEMBER 2017 Shelter Sarah Franklin

A woman in war. What price will she pay for freedom?

Description It's 1944 and Connie is a trainee 'lumberjill.' She's been transferred from blitzed Coventry to the Forest of Dean to learn the lumberjack trade as one of the women forming the backbone of Britain's war effort. She's nursing a huge secret and running from her tragic past, and will soon have to make a life-changing decision...

Women like Connie are finding opportunity and liberty like never before, but in this explosive moment of history everything is changing for women ... and nothing is changing. Then, as now, is the price Connie must pay for her freedom too great?

This is a novel about imprisonment and escape, about what makes a family, about solace in nature as civilisation is ripping itself apart, about renewal after devastation, about searching for safety, about love and about what personal liberty means for a woman.

A bold and brilliant debut by a sparkling new talent.

About the Author Sarah lectures in publishing at Oxford Brookes, is the host of Short Stories Aloud and a judge for the Costa Short Story Award. She has written for the Guardian, Psychologies magazine, The Pool, the Sunday Express and the Seattle Times. In 2014, Sarah was awarded a Jerwood/Arvon Mentorship on the strength of her opening pages of Shelter.

Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781785762994 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 432 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Zaffre SEPTEMBER 2017 The City Always Wins Omar Robert Hamilton

A thrilling and important debut about the Arab Spring - and a generation that tried to change the world - from an exciting and talented new voice.

Description We've been doing the same thing for hundreds of years. Marching, fighting, chanting, dying, changing, winning, losing, marching, fighting, chanting, dying, marching, chanting, planning, failing, fighting, marching, marching, fighting, fighting . This time will be different. This time the future can still be made new.

This is a revolution. On the streets and in the clubs of Cairo, a political uprising is fermenting that will change the course of modern history. Mariam and Khalil, young activists and film-makers committed to their ideals, are swept up in a blaze of revolutionary fervour that will change their lives for ever.

Omar Robert Hamilton's extraordinary debut captures the feverish intensity and trauma of one of the century's defining uprisings: the 2011 Egyptian revolution. From the euphoria of mass protests to the chilling silence of the morgue, The City Always Wins is a hugely ambitious novel of breathless, dazzling scope. In this electric sketch of a vibrant city - alive and teeming with political unrest - Cairo is both the backdrop and focus of the novel, as the author crafts unbearably vivid images with a filmmaker's voracious eye. With razor-sharp dialogue and unforgettable characters, The City Always Wins is the only book that allows readers to pierce to the bloody heart of this uprising. Arrestingly visual, piercingly lyrical, and intensely political, this is the definitive novel of the Arab Spring channelling the voices of those who were really there. Brave, raw, and urgently contemporary, Omar Robert Hamilton looks set to become the defining voice of his generation.

Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9780571335176 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 210x140mm Extent: 336 pages

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Faber Fiction SEPTEMBER 2017 A Landing on the Sun Michael Frayn

A backlist fiction masterpiece from the author of Spies and Skios.

Description Ever since an obscure Civil Servant called Stephen Summerchild fell to his death from a window in the Admiralty, rumours have circulated about a connection with some secret defence project. Now, as a television company reinvestigates the case, the Cabinet Office feels it may be prudent to make a reassessment of its own, in case of any sudden alarm at Number Ten.

About the Author Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong, Spies and Skios. His seventeen plays range from Noises Off, recently chosen as one of the nation's three favourite plays, to Copenhagen, which won the 1998 Evening Standard Award for Best Play of the Year and the 2000 Tony Award for Best Play. He is married to the writer Claire Tomalin.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571315901 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages Main Category: FC Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback SEPTEMBER 2017 The Trick of It Michael Frayn

A compelling drama, a vivid study of obsession and a playful account of life at the fringes of the creative world.

Description He knows everything about her before they meet; more about her nine novels than she does herself. He has devoted his life to studying and teaching them and yet he is four times as clever as she is. Now, as she steps off the train in London, something about her in the flesh sets him thinking. Maybe he has a chance to resolve the one remaining mystery at the heart of things . . .

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571315918 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 144 pages Main Category: FC Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback SEPTEMBER 2017 Now You Know Michael Frayn

Set in Westminster, in the political world of civil servants and pressure groups where the award-winning author of Spies, Skios and Headlong, plots one of his most celebrated satirical novels.

Description Bit of a wide boy, Terry. Got a spot of form, eye for the ladies, a real rough diamond some might say. Not without his virtues, though, as his campaign for open government shows. No secrets, that's Terry's secret. Allied to charm, that is, of course.

Only one person finds it easy to resist his charm and counter his arguments and that's Hilary - one of the serious and dedicated young Civil Servants working in the Home Office in Westminster, who just happens to know the truth about the case in which Terry is currently interested. She despises him and everything he stands for. But then why is she to be found one evening walking through the back streets behind the Strand, to the run-down block where Terry's pressure group has its headquarters?

Now You Know takes on government campaigns, ambitious civil servants and determined pressure groups with Frayn's trade-mark wit. Michael Frayn's other novels include Headlong, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Spies, which won the Whitbread Best Novel Award.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9780571315864 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages Main Category: FC Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback SEPTEMBER 2017 How Not to Be a Boy Robert Webb

Following ten series of the award-winning Peep Show, comes part-memoir, part call-to-arms from the award- winning and hilariously funny Robert Webb

Description Rules For Being A Man: Don't Cry Love Sport Play Rough Drink Beer Don't Talk About Feelings

But Robert Webb has been wondering for some time now: are those rules actually any use? To anyone?

Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781786890085 Robert has been a columnist for The Telegraph and The New Statesman, and now lives in London with his wife and Format: Hard Cover daughters, where he continues trying to be funny and to fumble beyond general expectations of manhood.@arobertwebb Dimensions: 214x135mm Extent: 336 pages

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Canongate Trade SEPTEMBER 2017 Significant Figures: Lives and Works of Trailblazing Mathematicians Ian Stewart

Vivid accounts of the lives of 25 of the world's greatest mathematicians with clear descriptions of their far- reaching discoveries.

Ian Stewart presents the extraordinary lives and amazing discoveries of twenty-five of history's greatest mathematicians from Archimedes and Liu Hui to Benoit Mandelbrot and William Thurston. His subjects are the inspiring individuals from all over the world who have made crucial contributions to mathematics. They include the rediscovered geniuses Srinivasa Ramanujan and Emmy Noether, alongside the towering figures of Muhammad al-Khwarizmi (inventor of the algorithm), Pierre de Fermat, Isaac Newton, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Bernhard Reimann (precursor to Einstein), Henri Poincar., Ada Lovelace (arguably the first computer programmer), Kurt G.del and Alan Turing.

Ian Stewart's vivid accounts are fascinating in themselves and, taken together, cohere into a riveting history of key steps in the development of mathematics.

About the Author Ian Stewart is Mathematics Professor Emeritus at the University of Warwick.

His recent books include Incredible Numbers, Seventeen Equations that Changed the World, Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries and Calculating the Cosmos (all published by Profile). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Price: $44.99 (NZ$49.99) ISBN: 9781781254295 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages Main Category: P Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade SEPTEMBER 2017 Hinterland Chris Mullin

A wry and revealing political memoir from the man behind the celebrated diaries: A View from the Foothills, A Walk-On Part and Decline & Fall.

Description All serious politicians are supposed to possess a hinterland, but not all do. Chris Mullin was one who did. By the time he entered parliament he had reported from the wars in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia and tracked down the survivors of the CIA operation in Tibet. He was the author of three novels, including the classic A Very British Coup. His successful campaign to free the innocent people convicted of the Birmingham bombings was described as 'one of the greatest feats ever achieved by an investigative reporter'.

Elected to parliament, aged 39, he quickly established himself as a fearless inquisitor before going on to become a minister in three departments. His three volumes of diaries have been widely acclaimed as the best account of the Blair years and the rise and fall New Labour. He left parliament in 2010 ('better to go while people are still asking why rather than when'). These are his memoirs.

About the Author Chris Mullin was the Labour MP for Sunderland South from 1987 until 2010. He played a key role in Tony Blair's New Labour government, chairing the Home Affairs Select Committee and served in three departments. He is the author of three volumes of diaries, A View from the Foothills, A Walk-On Part and Decline and Fall, and the bestselling novel A Very British Coup, re-published by Serpent's Tail, which was turned into an award-winning television series.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781781256060 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 386 pages

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Profile Trade SEPTEMBER 2017 Folk Song in England Steve Roud

A brand new look at the folk music tradition in England, a hugely readable social history of the phenomenon.

Description In Victorian times, England was famously dubbed the land without music - but one of the great musical discoveries of the early twentieth century was that England had a vital heritage of folk song and music which was easily good enough to stand comparison with those of other parts of Britain and overseas. Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger, and a number of other enthusiasts gathered a huge harvest of songs and tunes which we can study and enjoy at our leisure.

But after over a century of collection and discussion, publication and performance, there are still many things we don't know about traditional song - Where did the songs come from? Who sang them, where, when and why? What part did singing play in the lives of the communities in which the songs thrived? More importantly, have the pioneer collectors' restricted definitions and narrow focus hindered or helped our understanding? This is the first book for many years to investigate the wider social history of traditional song in England, and draws on a wide range of sources to answer these questions and many more.

About the Author Steve Roud is the Founder of the Roud Folk Song Index and the author of a number of major works on English folkways and customs, including The English Year.

Price: $49.99 (NZ$55.00) ISBN: 9780571309719 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 800 pages

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Faber Social SEPTEMBER 2017 King Kong - Our Knot of Time and Music: A personal memoir of South Africa's legendary musical Pat Williams

Published to coincide with the stage revival of King Kong, a behind the scenes account of the legendary South African musical and its ongoing legacy.

Description On 2nd February 1959, a musical about the life and times of heavyweight boxing star Ezekiel Dlamini (known as 'King Kong') opened in Johannesburg to a packed audience that included Nelson Mandela. King Kong was not just South Africa's first ever musical, but one that grew out of a collaboration between black people and white, and showcased an all black cast. It was an instant hit, bursting through the barriers of apartheid and eventually playing to 200,000 South Africans of every colour before transferring to London's West End.

Pat Williams, the show's lyricist, was at the time an apolitical young woman trying to free herself from the controls and prejudices of the genteel white society in which she lived. Here she recounts her experience of growing up in a divided South Africa, her involvement in the musical, and its lasting impact both on herself and on the show's cast, many of whom went on to find international fame. Her memoir takes the story up to the present, and is not only a vivid evocation of a troubled time and place, but also a celebration of a joyous production, in which a group of young people came together in South Africa's dark times - to create a show which still lives on today.

About the Author Pat Williams, who began her working life at sixteen, is an award-winning writer, journalist, script-writer and broadcaster, as well as a psychotherapist. She loves stories, spent ten years as director of the College of Storytellers (formed to help kickstart the British storytelling revival), and gives popular workshops and seminars on metaphor and therapeutic storytelling in Britain and elsewhere. Pat has lived in London for decades, as well as, in recent years, on the Isle of Arran.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781846276538 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 336 pages Main Category: BM Sub Category: AVGM Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

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