Wakefield Press For all flyers and complete stocklist visit www.wakefieldpress.com.au For all price and availability queries visit www.titlepage.com New Releases August/September 2008 Wakefield Press Me and My Holden A nostalgia trip with the early Holdens New DON LOFFLER JACKETED HB 240 PP 230 X 210 FULL COL T/OUT ISBN 9781862548039 Fathers’ Day title AU$49.95 NZ$65.00 History Wakefield Press August 2008 from best-selling ‘My father treasures your books so much that he won’t let anyone but himself handle author! them.’– B.K. Since the success of his first three best-selling books, She’s a Beauty!, Still Holden Together and The FJ Holden, Don Loffler has been inundated with photographs, stories and memorabilia from Holden lovers across Australia. In Me and My Holden, Don continues his crusade to record these gems for posterity, creating a stunning time capsule and preserving Australia’s and Holden’s history for future generations. • Almost all the images in Me and My Holden are published here for the first time. • Launched to coincide with the National All Holdens Day held in Sydney 3 August 2008. • Fathers’ Day release of this fabulous illustrated hardback collectors’ item. • Author lives in Adelaide, but will travel widely in 2009 to promote the book. Related title: She’s a Beauty! The Blue Ribbon Cookbook Stories, recipes and tips from prize-winning show cooks LIZ HARFULL PB 184 PP 230 x 190 ILLUS FULL COL T/OUT ISBN 9781862547926 Great gift title! AU$39.95 NZ$59.90 Cooking/History Wakefield Press September 2008 Been to a country show and wondered who are the people behind the vast spread? Ever thought about entering yourself? Here are 53 country shows, the cooks behind the scenes, and their prize-winning recipes. Dip in for fascinating insights into the lives of these cooks, and get busy in the kitchen with their dos and don’ts, and advice from the eagle-eyed judges. The Blue Ribbon Cookbook is a goldmine for anyone who loves to cook, and enjoy the rewards with friends and family. • Full of fabulous historical photos, show memorabilia and contemporary colour cooking shots. • Sponsored by the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia and the Agricultural Society Council. • September release timed for country show season. • 100 plus illustrations and photographs of show memorabilia. • 57 entries and recipes. Related titles: The Market, Barossa Food, The Haigh’s Book of Chocolate, Your Brick Oven Flavours of Melbourne A culinary biography 2008 CHARMAINE O’BRIEN Melbourne PB 320 PP 230 x 170 2-COL ILLUS ISBN 9781862547629 AU$39.95 NZ$49.90 Food/History Wakefield Press August 2008 Writers’ Festival In this colourful and cleverly written culinary history of the city of Melbourne, author guest Charmaine O’Brien guides the reader through the changing eating habits of Melburnians. Beginning with the little-known and diverse diet of Port Philip Bay’s Indigenous inhabitants prior to white settlement, the book charts the effects of local and global events on Melbourne’s gastronomy. Along the way O’Brien introduces us to some forgotten, and often quirky, restaurateurs, food writers and culinary professionals and each chapter contains recipes relevant to what Melburnians were eating during that time period. • Author is a guest speaker at Melbourne Writers’ Festival 2008. • Author lives in Melbourne and conducts tours of historic food sites. Related titles: Seasonal Fare, Queen Victoria Market Gerry Wedd MARK THOMSON JACKETED HB 192 PP 190 x 170 ILLUS FULL COL ISBN 9781862547964 Mambo artist AU$45.00 NZ$59.90 Art/Biography Wakefield Press September 2008 In the late 1980s the young surfer and artist, Gerry Wedd, came to the attention of joins SALA list! Mambo Graphics, the iconoclastic surf-wear company. With his sense of humour, his subject matter, his encyclopedic knowledge of surfing culture, and his ‘scratch board’ style of drawing, Wedd found a spiritual home in Mambo and helped build the developing Mambo ethic. But there’s more to Gerry Wedd than Mambo. This latest book in the South Australian Living Artists (SALA) series showcases the work of a unique artist who works in a wide range of media, including ceramics, public art, jewellery and fabric design. • Broad commercial interest for Mambo brand and for Mark Thomson books. • This is the 10th title in acclaimed art series published by Wakefield Press for SALA. • Artist and author live in South Australia. • Groovy new ‘surfie’ format – gift friendly. Wakefield Press Wagner’s Parsifal The journey of a soul New PETER BASSETT PB 192 PP 230 x 150 ILLUS ISBN 9781862548060 AU$34.95 NZ$45.00 illustrated Arts, Architecture and Design Wakefield Press September 2008 edition! Parsifal was Richard Wagner’s last opera, and many consider it his most beautiful and moving work. Peter Bassett, author of the highly successful A Ring for the Millennium, has made a special study of Parsifal, looking particularly at the relationship between Wagner’s sources and his text and identifying important thematic connections with other works, notably Der Ring des Nibelung. This guide – which includes a translation of the libretto – will be invaluable to those new to Parsifal, but will also provide fresh insights for readers who are already familiar with Wagner’s final work. This new edition is illustrated with historical photographs and a new format. • Illustrated with historical photographs and a new format. • Author will host a tour entitled Verdi, Wagner and operas of a Golden Age between 19 June and 6 July to Austria, the Czech Republic and Germany. Related titles: The Nibelung’s Ring, Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde Media Teaching Language, Audience and Production EDITED BY ANDREW BURN AND CAL DURRANT New title in PB 208 PP 240 x 170 ISBN 9781862548077 AU$34.95 NZ$49.90 Media Education AATE and Wakefield Press August 2008 popular series This book presents ideas, theories and practices of media education in Australia and the UK in the first decade of the 21st century. Contributors explore many of the key themes and debates that currently engage both English and media teachers across the English speaking world, including: • Teaching critical perspectives on the media; • Developing pedagogical approaches that incorporate student production using the ‘new media; • Examining time allocation pressures in designing media education programs; • Creating manageable methods of evaluation and assessment; • Exploring future demands in relation to audiences, texts and media institutions. Contributors include Steve Archer, Andrew Burn, Steve Connolly, Cal Durrant, Mark Howie, Jan McMahon, Robyn Quin, Len Unsworth. Related titles: Empowering Readers, English Teachers at Work, For All Time?, ‘Only Connect …’, P(ICT)ures of English, Writing=Learning Not Only in Stone PHYLLIS SOMERVILLE PB 304 PP 158 x 115 ISBN 9780949268044 AU$18.95 NZ$24.90 History Reprint by Wakefield Press Available September 2008 popular Not Only in Stone is the story of Polly Thomas, a woman of strength, courage, and compassion, whose life is intimately tied to the pioneering era of South Australia. demand! Polly arrivesin Adelaide from Cornwall in 1865 with her husband Nathan, a miner, Richard, her baby son, and Ellen, her young sister. The baby had been born on the long and ardous voyage to Australia. Polly and Nathan move to the copper mining towns on the Yorke Peninsula where tragedy and death haunt Polly’s life. Her sister dies in childbirth; Polly has four children but only two survive; Nathan is crippled; and a crooked lawyer swindles Polly of her life savings. Although tradegy robs Polly’s life of joy, her independent spirit is never quelled. This is a history with a human face. ‘A family life chronicle full of the stuff of the pioneers . . . a closely woven tapestry of the humour and pathos of life.’ – Advertiser In the Limelight Special Deals Rainbow Bird The Single Girl’s Guide CZENYA CAVOURAS IMOGEN LLOYD WEBBER HB 24 PP 280 x 215 4-COL T/OUT ISBN PB 160 PP 180 x 155 ISBN 9781862547728 9781862547735 AU$24.95 NZ$29.90 AU$9.95 NZ$32.90 Humour/Self Help Children’s Reference/Refugees Wakefield Press September 2007 Wakefield Press Available • Rainbow Bird has been named a ‘Notable Book’ The Single Girl’s Guide is a tongue-in-cheek but by the Victorian branch of the Children’s Book practical manual on life management for the Council of Australia. bachelorette. 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Best-selling SALA Series Aldo Iacobelli Julie Blyfield I love painting STEPHANIE RADOK AND DICK RICHARDS JOHN NEYLON HB 104 PP 280 x 135 FULL COL ILLUS ISBN HB 104 PP 280 x 135 FULL COL ILLUS 9781862547636 AU$45.00 NZ$60.00 ISBN 9781862547315 AU$45.00 NZ$59.90 Art/Biography Wakefield Press Available Now Art/Biography Wakefield Press Available Now Aldo Iacobelli, one of Australia’s most distinctive Julie Blyfield is one of Australia's leading artists, has tapped into a rich vein of imagination contemporary jewellers. Her work has consistently to produce iconic images that capture a sense of kept pace with investigations of location, identity guarded wonder, or at times, a deep anxiety about and cross-cultural understanding, and involves an the future of a troubled world. innovative engagement with traditional jewellery John Neylon is both an Adelaide-based and metalwork techniques from all over the world. independent art writer for The Adelaide Review and a curator. Kathleen Petyarre Annette Bezor Genius of place A passionate gaze CHRISTINE NICHOLLS AND IAN NORTH RICHARD GRAYSON HB 112 PP 280 x 240 Ltd Ed. 80 COL ILLUS HB 72 PP 280 x 240 80 FULL COL ILLUS ISBN 9781862545472 AU$80.00 NZ$99.90 ISBN 9781862545281 AU$39.95 NZ$49.90 Aboriginal/Art/Biography Wakefield Press Art/Biography Wakefield Press Available Now Available Now Annette Bezor works in areas which are endlessly PB 112 PP 280 x 240 FULL COL ILLUS significant and engaging – gender, sexuality, beauty, ISBN 9781862545465 AU$39.95 NZ$49.90 human relations and their representation. This Aboriginal/Art/Biography Wakefield Press retrospective of her work to date showcases fifty paintings in full colour, framed with an essay by Available Now Richard Grayson. Eastern Anmatyerr artist Kathleen Petyarre was born Deborah Paauwe around 1940 on the Atnangker homelands in the Beautiful games Northern Territory, arid spinifex country. Kathleen WENDY WALKER Petyarre presents a stunning full colour HB 88 PP 280 x 240 FULL COL ILLUS retrospective of Petyarre’s work to date and includes ISBN 9781862546417 AU$45.00 NZ$59.90 a framing essay by Christine Nicholls which offers Art/Biography Wakefield Press Available Now an account of Kathleen’s life. ‘I portray, the manner in which young girls interact with each other in the process of establishing an Michelle Nikou understanding of the private and public realms of KEN BOLTON intimacy. The gestures of grooming each other and HB 88 PP 280 x 235 FOUR-COL T/OUT the act of dress-up, play important roles in the ISBN 9781862546769 AU$45.00 NZ$59.90 Art experience of young girls coming to terms with the changes taking place in their lives.’ – Wakefield Press Available Now Deborah Paauwe ‘Michelle Nikou works in a variety of materials Ian W. Abdulla ranging from buttons and lint, toilet paper and embroidery, to cast lead and bronze … Generally Elvis has entered the building STEPHEN FOX AND JANET MAUGHAN small in scale, her artefacts have an exquisite hand- HB 104 PP 280 x 240 FULL COL ILLUS made, if unconventional aesthetic and a recurrent ISBN 9781862546189 AU$45.00 NZ$59.90 vein of wry humour.’ – Vivienne Webb, Curator, Art/Biography Wakefield Press Available Now Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Ian Abdulla is recognised as one of Australia’s most Nick Mount distinctive and appealing contemporary visual artists. This book takes you on a journey into the Incandescence world of Ian Abdulla as he grew up along the MARGOT OSBORNE River Murray. HB 88 PP 280 x 240 FULL COL ILLUS Ltd Ed. James Darling ISBN 9781862915879 AU$80.00 NZ$99.90 Instinct, imagination, physical work Art/Craft/Biography Wakefield Press DANIEL THOMAS Available Now HB 112 PP 280 x 240 80 COL ILLUS ISBN 9781862545687 AU$45.00 NZ$59.90 PB 88 PP 280 x 240 FULL COL ILLUS Art/Biography Wakefield Press Available Now AU$39.95 NZ$49.90 ISBN 9781862915886 ‘Nature is not a background.’ Art/Craft/Biography Wakefield Press The manifesto of farmer-artist James Darling Nick Mount is an iconic figure in the hothouse of underscores every page of this book. Curator and contemporary glass. This book traces his career so former director of the Art Gallery of South Australia, far and features the work he is best known for, Daniel Thomas traces Darling’s artistic career from tentative beginnings to his place as the creator of including his stunning Scent Bottles series, in some of Australia’s most arresting sculptural works. sumptuous full colour.