HIGHLIGHTS 2019 Welcome to Brio Books’ 2019 Highlights Catalogue

Within, you’ll find spirited reading for young and old – from the latest in literary fiction, to hilarious activity books for kids, from invigorating popular mathematics, to compelling memoir. GENERAL ENQUIRIES Brio is an independent publishing company founded BRIO BOOKS PHONE: 02 8399 1850 in 2011 with offices in Sydney and Melbourne. 307/4–14 BUCKINGHAM ST SURRY HILLS NSW 2010 We publish approximately 20 non-fiction, fiction and children’s books a year under five imprints: ALICE GRUNDY ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Brio, our literary list; Xoum, our general non-fiction, Mobile: 0401 845 442 fiction and children’s list; Seizure, our incubator [email protected] for new talent; XO Romance, our contemporary ROD MORRISON women’s fiction list; and Fantastica, our PUBLISHING DIRECTOR Mobile: 0402 168 400 science fiction and fantasy list. [email protected] Brio Books’ titles are sold and distributed in FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO DOWNLOAD IMAGES, PLEASE VISIT WWW.BRIOBOOKS.COM.AU Australia and New Zealand by Hardie Grant

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Make a Home to Love Anna-Carin McNamara ��6

The F. A .R .T. Files Dr Rob Bell ��8

Carter Brown 'Al Wheeler' Books 3 and 4 Carter Brown ��10

Signs From Spirit Paperback Edition Mitchell Coombes ��12

Adam Spencer’s mini book of numbers Adam Spencer ��14

The Orphancorp Trilogy Marlee Jane Ward ��16

Meet Me in Milan Hedley Derenzie ��18

Adam Spencer’s Top 100 B+ format Adam Spencer ��20

HEDLEY DERENZIE Her Kind of Luck Michelle Balogh ��22 Viva La Novella VII ��24 At the Edge of the Solid World Daniel Davis Wood ...... 26 New Oracle Cards Mitchell Coombes ��28

The Fantastica Prize ��30 The Prime Suspects Adam Spencer ��32

A Number of Things Adam Spencer ��34 MAKE A HOME TO LOVE

18 ANNA-CARIN MCNAMARA Anna-Carin McNamara

On the subject of surplus ‘stuff’, I would like to present you with some statistics I first about read in a book called Organizing from the Inside Out by Julie Morgenstern. The statistics are American, but Australians are no different.

Have you ever picked up an interior design magazine, • We waste nine million hours per day searching for misplaced items (American Demographics Society). drooled over the beautiful, stylised spaces, put it • The average executive wastes six weeks per year searching for missing information in messy desks and files The( Wall Street Journal). back down, looked around your home and thought, • Cleaning professionals say that getting rid of excess clutter would eliminate 40 per cent of the housework in an average home (National Soap & Detergent ‘How on earth do I do that?’ Would you like a home Association).

• Real estate agents regard ‘first impression’ improve- of which you can be proud? A home that you are ments such as decluttering closets to be one of the smartest ways to speed the sale of a home and fetch a happy to return to every single day? A home that better price (New York State Association of Realtors). I thoroughly recommend Morgenstern’s book for the invalu- able information and methodology it contains. These figures you truly love? If so, then this book is for you. cannot lie. Many of us are guilty of excess clutter, which takes up as much headspace as it does floor and surface space, and Make a Home to Love takes you through ten simple clouds our vision of our personal sanctuaries. steps that will help you to review your house and

turn it into a home you can love and be proud of for 46 ANNA-CARIN MCNAMARA years to come. Written by Swedish-born interior designer Anna-Carin McNamara, the book offers LAUNDRY practical, accessible advice on how to turn any The laundry can be small. It can be a cupboard in a wall, lit- erally a door that you open and there’s a washing machine, a dryer, a bench and a sink and that’s it. Mine is tiny. As such, abode into a stylish Scandinavian sanctuary. it’s not often prioritised. But I’m including it here because it relates directly to the ritual of washing clothes, folding them, and putting them away. Many people do this every day of their lives, and as such it should be as pleasant—and logical—an experience as possible.

I actually love laundries. When I design a laundry I try to make sure there’s natural lighting, it’s well ventilated, and there’s enough room to stand comfortably, with access to a work surface. There must be somewhere that you can hang clothes when Praise for Make a Home to Love it’s raining and you can’t put everything in the dryer. Even just a rod in the ceiling with hangers will do. If you have room, the laundry should be in an accessible position in the house and not necessarily always tucked back in the worst spot. You are spending a lot of time there, after all.

Acknowledging your daily routines and rituals forms a critical ‘Make a Home to Love teaches you how to create part of your home review. Japanese organising consultant and author Marie Kondo introduced us to the fine art of cherishing a home you love – one that you love spending time in every day – so that you can excel in all areas of your life, because your home and the spaces you spend time in influence your productivity, creativity and inspiration.’ Anna-Carin McNamara is a Swedish-born interior —Kristina Karlsson, founder of kikki.K. designer with a Master’s degree in Interior Design from the Royal College of Art in London. She is ‘Anna-Carin’s work reflects the quality, elegance the founder and director of Anna Carin Design and clean details of Swedish design, and draws (ACD), a Sydney-based interior design studio that on the earthy warmth of her rural heritage.’ specialises in high-end Scandinavian interiors. Her —House of Home Forsa Rug Collection for Designer Rugs, inspired by her Swedish roots, was a finalist in the 2014 ‘Anna-Carin McNamara demonstrates a profound ‘The question Good Design Awards. Anna-Carin’s work has of what you want eloquence in her narrative ... Having made Sydney been featured in many publications, including to own is actually her home, her kinship and admiration for local the question of Vogue Living, Belle, Home Beautiful and Australian how you want materials are inspired by her years in Sweden to live your life.’ House & Garden. She is currently developing April 2019 and provide both utility and humilty in her work.’ Category: Interior design further products under the ACD brand and the —The Local Project Imprint: Xoum studio is working on a wide range of projects in Format: Hardback RRP $34.99 ISBN: 9781925589771 both Australia and Scandinavia. Make a Home Rights: World Marie Kondo to Love is her first book. She lives in Sydney.

6 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 7 THE F.A.R.T. FILES Book 2 Dr Rob Bell

Sommerton High is in lockdown! A fiendish prankster is on the loose! Someone has planted a fake bomb in the playground and the whole school is freaking out! Of course it doesn’t take the police long to realise it’s a fake. But two days later a series of petty thefts rocks the neighbourhood. Who’s behind it all? And why target Sommerton High? Meet the Forensic Amateur Research Team – or F.A.R.T. for short. This crack squad is made up of Sam Tran: unofficial team leader, Madison ‘Maddie’ Litchfield: tech whiz, Arlia Humphreys: new kid at school (possibly a spy), and Declan Peterson: science guru (prone to accidents). Oh, and Dan Tran, Sam’s little brother, who regularly brings everyone lunch. Using their intuition, wits and some surprising knowledge of physics and chemistry, this unlikely mob of misfits sets about finding the prankster thieves!

Dr Rob Bell has a Bachelor of Science with Honours and a PhD in materials chemistry from the University of Queensland. He says that his love of science (and particularly the environment) came from growing up on a pineapple farm, where he became passionate about the impact that humans have on our world and its natural resources. Dr Rob has worked as a Science Education Officer for the CSIRO, teaching students about science in the lab and at schools, May 2019 and spent nearly 11 years hosting the Network Category: Children’s fiction, Ten kids science show Scope. These days he runs ages 8–12 Imprint: Xoum a science education website while writing his new Format: Paperback RRP $14.99 series of books for kids aged eight to twelve: The ISBN: 9781925589726 Rights: World F.A.R.T Files. He lives with his family in Brisbane.

8 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 9 CARTER BROWN ‘Al Wheeler’ Books 3 and 4

Alan Geoffrey Yates (aka Carter Brown) was a literary phenomenon. He wrote westerns under the pseudonym Todd Conway; romances under Caroline Farr and science fiction under Paul Valdez. He even found the time to write books under various versions of his own name as well as other pseudonyms including Dennis Sinclair and Sinclair MacKellar. But it was his pseudonym Carter Brown who was to become the international bestselling pulp fiction sensation. Born in England, Yates married and settled in Australia in 1948. He worked as a film technician, a salesman and in public relations for Qantas before taking up writing full-time. Early success in the 1950s meant that he was contracted to produce one short novel and two longer novels each and every month. He was truly prolific with 322 published Carter Brown novels and was a huge international success with reportedly 150 Praise for Carter Brown million books sold, second only to The Bible in terms of the number of languages they were translated ‘At his peak in America, Carter Brown was into. There was a comic book series, the ‘Carter selling 350,000 copies a book a year and in Brown Murder Mystery Hour’ on radio, three French Australia we were doing 30,000—40,000 a book films, a Japanese TV series, and a French literary ... so you can see how he built up to 100 million award for ‘The most whiskies drunk in a single copies. Yates was bigger than big … it was novel’. Carter Brown was also rumoured to have difficult to find a country he wasn’t published been one of John F Kennedy’s favourite authors. in.’ —Lyle Moore, Horwitz Publications In the early 1980s, Yates and Richard O’Brien of The Rocky Horror Show fame wrote a musical ‘Pulp fiction, in its most innocent form, was written of the Carter Brown novella, The Stripper, for eternally adolescent males. It featured guns, described in the parlance of the day as ‘the gals and wise-acre cops with a penchant for girl who says it all from the neck down’. corny, hard-boiled dialogue. The most astonishing Yates died in 1985 in Sydney. In 1997, he was thing about the Carter Brown stories is the posthumously awarded a Ned Kelly, Australia’s fact that he could weave his way through this leading literary award for crime writing, phalluscentric age of fiction without his work for his lifelong contribution to the art. becoming misogynistic. Possibly this is because In June 2019, Brio will rerelease more classic ‘Al the author himself was incapable of such behaviour.’ Wheeler’ novellas by the legendary Carter Brown. —Richard O’Brien, Rocky Horror creator June 2019 Category:Category: Crime Children’sfiction fiction, ages 8–12 Imprint:Imprint: CB Xoum Format:Format: Paperbacks Paperback RRP $24.99 RRP $14.99 each ISBNs:ISBN: 9781922057372 9781925589726 / 9781922057396 Rights:Rights: World exWorld US/Canada

10 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 11 SIGNS FROM SPIRIT Paperback edition Inspiring true stories from the afterlife Mitchell Coombes

We can all learn to notice signs from Spirit. Just like a friend who sends an emoji to your mobile phone to say ‘hello’, ‘smile’, or ‘I’m thinking of you’, our departed loved ones say ‘hi’ or ‘I’m here’ using our memories, mother nature, uncanny events, songs, feelings or even words from a stranger to deliver their message. In the paperback edition of Signs from Spirit, readers from all walks of life share with Mitchell Coombes their enchanting, heart-warming and breath-taking stories about the moment their departed loved ones sent a much-needed sign. From messages in dreams, feather-like touches and signature scents, through to radios bursting into song and the wonders of nature – Spirit reaches out to all in amazing, wonderful, and sometimes life-changing ways. The bonus ‘Meditation Analysis Dictionary’ features a collection of over one hundred signs, including colours and numbers. Together with Spirit, celebrity medium Mitchell Coombes interprets the meaning of these signs to provide the special messages each may hold for you.

Mitchell Coombes is Australia’s most trusted psychic medium and the author of the bestselling books Sensing Spirit, Sensing Psychic and Signs from Spirit. Coming from a long line of gifted psychics, Mitchell first recalls seeing spirits as a toddler. Soon after, his Nanna taught him to read tea leaves, and at the age of twelve Mitchell inherited a set of tarot cards that had belonged to his departed uncle – an accomplished astrologer. June 2019 Calling on his remarkable psychic gifts to reveal Category: Children’s fiction, ages 8–12 Category:Imprint: Xoum Mind, body, spirit the future and communicate with the Spirit Imprint: Xoum Format: Paperback RRP $19.99$14.99 World, Mitchell has helped people from all walks ISBN: 9781925589726 ISBN:Rights: 9781925589818 World of life. He lives on the NSW Central Coast. Rights: World

12 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 13 ADAM SPENCER’S MINI BOOK OF NUMBERS Adam Spencer In 1996, while doing a Maths PhD at Sydney Uni, Adam Spencer won the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Raw Comedy Championship. Our very own Sultan of STEM, Crusader of He went on to host the triple j breakfast show Calculus, Prince of Pi – Adam Barrington with Wil Anderson before graduating to 702 Spencer – is back in 2019 with more teasing, ABC Sydney where he hosted the breakfast tantalising and tricky maths games, puzzles show for eight years. His TV credits include The and quizzes for young and hungry minds. Scared of square roots? Petrified of Pythagoras? Glasshouse, Good News Week, The Project, Q&A Frightened of factorials? Let Australia’s funniest and, with Dr Karl, Sleek Geeks. He is the author mathematician enthral and entertain as he of several wickedly popular and side-splittingly dymystifies numbers in this bumper new edition. funny mathematics books and lives in Sydney. Adam Spencer’s Mini Book of Numbers follows on from the bestselling Enormous Book of Numbers (2015), Number Crunchers (2016), and The Number Dectective (2018), and is guaranteed to keep kids aged 6—12 occupied for hours on end.

Praise for Big Book of Numbers

‘Funny, informative and, even better for dummies like me, all the answers are in the back!’ —Wil Anderson

‘Every bright young mind in Australia should read Adam Spencer’s Big Book of Numbers – and we oldies would benefit too.’ —Peter FitzSimons

‘Even the page numbers will start to look fascinating once you’ve read this book!’ —Amanda Keller

‘A brilliant introduction to the world of numbers. Funny yet with hidden depths, like its author.’ —Brian Cox July 2019 Category: Children’s activity, ages 6–12 Imprint: Xoum Format: Paperback RRP $19.99 ISBN: 9781925589849 Rights: World

14 Brio Books 2019 THE MARLEE JANE WARD ORPHANCORP TRILOGY Marlee Jane Ward A sharp-edged coming-of-age trilogy with a sassy protagonist. Think Never Let Me Go meets Orange is the New Black. WELCOME TO

’An intimate, heartfelt story set in the darkest of places. I can’t stop thinking about these characters.’ Kij Johnson Welcome to Orphancorp Mirii Mahoney is an orphan who can’t remember life outside the walls of Orphancorp. If she can just keep out of trouble, she’s going to taste freedom for the first time, but she’s fighting against the system, against the other kids, and against herself. A heartfelt, brutal, funny, and diverse story that is pacey, fresh and timely.

Psynode Having barely made it out of Orphancorp alive, Marlee Jane Ward is a writer, reader and weirdo Mirii’s search for the most important babe in her living in Melbourne. She grew up on the Central life, Vu, continues. Vu has been taken to ‘Psynode’, Coast of New South Wales and studied Creative a secret facility operated by the megacorp Allnode. Writing at the University of Wollongong. She After wrangling her way into the Allnode likes dreaming of the future, cats, and making warehouse as a picker, Mirii meets Rowe, the an utter spectacle of herself. You can find her daughter of one of Allnode’s execs, who may just be short stories in the Hear Me Roar Anthology, the perfect person to help her with the mission. Interdictions and Mad Scientist Journal. Her But life at Allnode is far from cushy and novella Welcome to Orphancorp won the 2015 Mirii has to battle her way through the dangers Seizure Viva La Novella Prize and the 2016 Victorian of her new job, the corps that she knows are Premier’s Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction. watching her and get to Vu before it’s too late. Its sequel, Psynode, was published in 2017.

Prisoncorp (2019) Mirii has been caught – along with the friends who were helping her find her partner, Vu. Being in prison is just like her revisiting her childhood in Orphancorp – only worse. Under August 2019 the beating heat of a desert sun, the prisoners Category: YA fiction/dystopia fight for food, water and a safe place to sleep. Imprint: Seizure Our heroine begins to question her urge to fight Format: Paperback RRP $19.99 ISBN: 9781925589542 back and rebel as all it seems to do is lead her and Rights: World the people she cares for deeper into trouble.

16 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 17 MEET ME IN MILAN Hedley Derenzie

Four years after her disastrous search for love in Paris (the alleged ‘city of love’), Hedley Derenzie is ready to give it another go. Determined to break out of her comfort zone of singledom, she engages professional help in the form of a psychologist before deciding the best form of therapy would be to take herself to Italy. Early on in her travels, Hedley meets a man who captures her attention and before she knows it she’s jetting around the country, dining at fabulous restaurants and living the life of Riley (that’s if Riley were a woman in her late thirties looking for love). So what if this man is older (as in a lot older) and reminds her of her father? Hedley can’t help but wonder – could he be the one? Meet Me in Milan is a funny, honest and raw memoir about Hedley’s ongoing quest for love, this time in the land of la dolce vita.

Praise for Finding Paris by Hedley Derenzie

‘Hedley Derenzie writes with startling resonance about the rocky road to self-discovery after it dawns on her that she alone is the common denominator in her heartbreaks. A love story told with raw emotion, heart and great optimism.’ —Jacinta Tynan, journalist and author of Mother Zen HEDLEY DERENZIE

Hedley Derenzie is a Sydney-based writer whose work has appeared Nature & Health, The Huffington Post and Thought Catalog, among other publications. She is the author Category:August 2019 Children’s fiction, ages 8–12 of several books, including two on public Category: Memoir Imprint: Xoum speaking; Write Way Home, a personal guide Format: Paperback RRP $14.99 ISBN:Format: 9781925589726 Paperback RRP $29.99 to unlocking creativity; and Finding Paris, the ISBN: 9781925589825 Rights: World first in her travel/romance memoir series.

18 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 19 ADAM SPENCER’S TOP 100 B+ format Adam Spencer

Which number terrifies Ogdokontaheptaphobes? Why would you watch the same clock for 14 years? And have you met the 23-million-digit prime? The answers to all of these questions – and much, much more – are in Adam Spencer’s Top 100. Bursting at the seams with puzzles, quizzes, games, numerical trivia and fun, this nicely priced B+ format edition of the 2018 bestseller is the ultimate book for maths nerds – and anyone with an inquiring mind. Whether you’re 8 or 80, strap your thinking cap on, grab a pencil and get ready to count down from 100 to 1 with Australia’s favourite – and funniest – mathematician.

Praise for Big Book of Numbers

‘Funny, informative and, even better for dummies like me, all the answers are in the back!’ —Wil Anderson

‘Even the page numbers will start to look fascinating once you’ve read this book!’ —Amanda Keller

In 1996, while doing a Maths PhD at Sydney Uni, Adam Spencer won the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Raw Comedy Championship. He went on to host the triple j breakfast show with Wil Anderson before graduating to 702 ABC Sydney where he hosted the breakfast show for eight years. His TV credits include The August 2019 Glasshouse, Good News Week, The Project, Q&A Category: Science Imprint: Xoum ‘If you find this book boring, and, with Dr Karl, Sleek Geeks. He is the author Format: Paperback RRP $26.99 of several wickedly popular and side-splittingly ISBN: 9781922267023 you should be in a clinic!’ Rights: World funny mathematics books and lives in Sydney. —John Cleese on Big Book of Numbers

20 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 21 HER KIND OF LUCK Michelle Balogh

A violin prodigy. A Guinness World-Record- Holder. An ASIO target. A grandmother ...

Michelle Balogh was depressed, unemployed and rudderless when she moved into her step- great-grandmother Shan-Yi’s Sydney flat. Recently deceased, Shan-Yi had been part of her family since before Michelle was born and staying at the glamourous art deco apartment was meant to help Michelle back on her feet. However, the experience did more than just give Michelle respite. She found an extraordinary trove of letters, diaries and papers that told of her great- grandmother’s unique life – one of adventure and heartache, trans-Atlantic travel and espionage. Part memoir, part biography and part historical reconstruction, Her Kind of Luck is about the luck we find – and the luck we make for ourselves. Through careful research, Michelle Balogh paints an unforgettable picture of her great-grandmother, while coming to terms with her own choices and responsibilities.

Michelle Balogh is a freelance writer and illustrator. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Music from the University of New South Wales, and in 2014 she completed a Master of Arts in Creative Writing at UTS. Her work has been shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia Aspiring Writers’ Mentorship, and highly commended in the University of New South Wales literary journal. Following graduation, she pursued a brief career in beauty and lifestyle writing, before August 2019 discovering that the stories she wanted to tell Category: Memoir were closer to home. Her short work of memoir Imprint: Brio Format: Paperback RRP $29.99 and imaginative biography, ‘Shan-Yi’, on which ISBN: 9781925589856 Her Kind of Luck is based, was shortlisted for the Rights: World Scribe Nonfiction Prize in 2016. She lives in Sydney.

22 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 23 VIVA LA NOVELLA VII

Seizure’s innovative Viva La Novella Prize is in its seventh year. The Prize has reinvigorated interest in short-form fiction and it has been an honour to publish the breakout works of fourteen talented new authors. Each year the competition gets more and more attention – particularly after Marlee Jane Ward won the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for her novella Welcome to Orphancorp and when The Fish Girl by Mirandi Riwoe was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the Queenland Literary Award, Fiction Prize in 2018. In 2018, for the first time, we had Kiwi winners with Avi Duckor-Jones and Anna Jackson showing off the writing talents of our antipodean neighbours. Viva La Novella is now firmly established as a launchpad for new authors who want to publish fresh and edgy works in an accessible format.

In 2019, we will be thrilled to announce two brilliant new titles and introduce two new voices to the world of literature.

September 2019 Category: Children’sLiterary fiction/novella fiction, ages 8–12 Imprint: SeizureXoum Format: PaperbacksPaperback RRP RRP $14.99 $17.99 each ISBNs:ISBN: 9781925589726 9781925589870 / 9781925589894 Rights: World

24 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 25 AT THE EDGE OF THE SOLID WORLD Daniel Davis Wood

In a snowbound village in the heart of the Swiss Alps, a husband and wife find their lives breaking apart in the days and months following the death of their firstborn. On the far side of the world, in their hometown of Sydney, a man on the margins of Australian society commits an act of shocking violence that galvanises international attention. As the husband recognises signs of his own grief in both the survivors and the perpetrator, his fixation on the details of the case feeds into was born in Sydney and is insomnia, trauma, and an obsession with the Daniel Davis Wood currently based in Birmingham, England. In a terms on which we give value to human lives. At the Edge of the Solid World is a compulsive, previous life, he taught literature and history at the compelling and lyrical novel, told with extraordinary Arts Educational Schools in London and at the Ecole empathy and emotional intelligence. It is the story d’Humanité in Hasliberg Goldern, Switzerland. He of a child’s life cut short after just one day. Of a holds a PhD in English on the jurisprudential legacy mother and father bereft at the loss of the future of the nineteenth century frontier in American they’d imagined. Of an unspeakable crime, public literature and popular culture. In addition to outrage, anguish on the streets and a media frenzy teaching and conducting research, he co-edited that engineers heroes and villains, martyrs and the academic journal Antithesis and edited and scapegoats. Most of all, it is a profound meditation on published a collection of essays on the work of the the nature of loss, the resilience and fragility of the American writer Edward P. Jones. Currently he is family unit and the stories we tell to explain the world. editor at Splice, a small press based in the UK.

Praise for Daniel Davis Wood

‘[Blood and Bone] ... fulfils two objectives: shedding light on a dark past, and exploring intellectual and aesthetic problems that the writing of such a story might create. [It] is grounded in factual material and Wood has filled the gaps with imagined scenes and conversations, but the September 2019 tale is made seamless by a tight structure and a Category: Literary fiction Imprint: Brio hypnotic style.’ —The Sydney Morning Herald Format: Paperback RRP $29.99 ISBN: 9781922267009 Rights: World

26 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 27 MITCHELL COOMBES

NEW ORACLE Mitchell Coombes is Australia’s most trusted CARDS psychic medium and the author of the bestselling Mitchell Coombes books Sensing Spirit, Sensing Psychic and Signs from Spirit. Coming from a long line of gifted Mitchell Coombes’ new Oracle Cards offer insightful psychics, Mitchell first recalls seeing spirits as answers and spiritual guidance on your love life, a toddler. Soon after, his Nanna taught him to career, health, family, finances and more. Each of read tea leaves, and at the age of twelve Mitchell the 52 cards in this unique deck features a beautiful inherited a set of tarot cards that had belonged to design to help you tune into your intuition and his departed uncle – an accomplished astrologer. Calling on his remarkable psychic gifts to reveal awaken your psychic senses. With the help of the September 2019 the future and communicate with the Spirit Category: Children’s fiction, ages 8–12 bonus guidebook, you’ll discover the meaning Imprint:Category: Xoum Mind, body, spirit World, Mitchell has helped people from all walks Imprint: Xoum of each card and learn how to give yourself and Format: BoxedPaperback cards RRP RRP $14.99 $24.99 others accurate and insightful readings. of life. He lives on the NSW Central Coast. ISBN: 97819255899179781925589726 Rights: World

28 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 29 THE FANTASTICA PRIZE

Fantastica’s inaugural prize celebrates science fiction, not fantasy. Anything high-tech, low-tech or even no-tech. Stories set on a generation ship, on a futuristic terra firma or on a planet a million light years away. Works that start with a bang, blow readers’ minds and subvert their expectations. The winner will receive $2000 and print and digital publication through Fantastica. They will have their manuscript carefully shepherded to publication by an editor and the Fantastica team. The winning novel will be professionally designed with our usual flair and unleashed in digital and printed form in bookshops, on our website and eBook retailers.

October 2019 Category: ScienceChildren’s fiction fiction, ages 8–12 Imprint: FantasticaXoum Format: Paperback RRP $29.99$14.99 ISBN: 97819255897269781925589986 Rights: World

30 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 31 THE PRIME SUSPECTS Adam Spencer

A group of seven numerical mischief makers has turned the world of numbers on its head! It’s up to you to solve the puzzles, find the clues and get to the bottom of the mystery. After the runaway bestsellers Enormous Book of Numbers (2015), Number Crunchers (2016), and The Number Dectective (2018), Australia’s funniest maths dude is back with another bumper activity book for young and eager minds. Perfect for ages six and up, Adam Spencer’s The Prime Suspects is chock full of quizzes, code-breaking challenges, facts and games that will keep kids both large and small entertained for hours on end.

A group of seven numerical mischief makers turn the

We've got him (or her) on the run! Crossnumbers! world of numbers

2 8 x 9

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5 on its head.

7 8

Across Down 2. Two consecutive numbers to give 72. 1. Get 57 from the digits of 193. 3. Make 10 with the factors of 21 using only one 3. Make 10 using the factors of 21 basic operation. using three basic operations. 5. Make 33 using the 2nd and 5th prime numbers. 4. Two consecutive odd numbers 6. The largest number you can make using the to get 143. digits 1234. 8. 24 12 8 6 4 3 2 1 – Using only 7. Make 44 using the three largest factors of 24. two factors of 24, make 48. 9. Two consecutive numbers to give 30.

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November 2019 Category: Children’s activity, ages 6–12 Imprint: Xoum Format: Paperback RRP $19.99 ISBN: 9781925589931 Rights: World

32 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 33 A NUMBER OF THINGS Adam Spencer

Get ready for another nailbiting nerdfest as Australia’s funniest mathematician returns in 2019 with a rollicking romp through the world of science, technology, numbers and all things geeky! This terrific new fully illustrated title follows on from the bestselling Big Book of Numbers (2014), World of Numbers (2015), Time Machine (2016), The Number Games (2017), and Top 100 (2018). It’s packed full of fascinating facts, tantalising trivia, brainbusting puzzles, and much much more.

Praise for Big Book of Numbers

‘Funny, informative and, even better for dummies like me, all the answers are in the back!’ —Wil Anderson

‘Every bright young mind in Australia should read Adam Spencer’s Big Book of Numbers – and we oldies would benefit too.’ —Peter FitzSimons

‘Even the page numbers will start to look fascinating once you’ve read this book!’ —Amanda Keller

In 1996, while doing a Maths PhD at Sydney Uni, Adam Spencer won the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Raw Comedy Championship. He went on to host the triple j breakfast show with Wil Anderson before graduating to 702 ABC Sydney where he hosted the breakfast November 2019 show for eight years. His TV credits include The Category: Science Glasshouse, Good News Week, The Project, Q&A Imprint: Xoum Format: Paperback RRP $34.99 and, with Dr Karl, Sleek Geeks. He is the author ISBN: 9781925589924 of several wickedly popular and side-splittingly Rights: World funny mathematics books and lives in Sydney.

34 Brio Books 2019 2019 Highlights 35 www.briobooks.com.au