AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Maeve Binchy's Treasury Maeve Binchy
Over 40 delightful stories drawn from The Return Journey and This Year it will be Different, plus eight new autobiographical stories.
Description These stories from Australia and around the world abound with Maeve Binchy's trademark generosity of spirit. Drawn with affection and wisdom, this heart-warming treasury embraces families, friends, lovers and the lonely with laughter and sadness, thoughtfulness and humour.
Molly is on an unexpected holiday in Greece in a villa for four. And in being true to herself, she finds more than she ever imagined.
Nick and Janet meet at the Sydney Fish Markets… everything seems perfect, what could go wrong?
Victoria imagines what it would mean to her widowed father to join her in his beloved Paris for a weekend.
Victor, a self-confessed romantic, accompanies a friend to Australia with no thought of love on his mind.
Elsa makes a Christmas wish at the Statue of Liberty which comes true in a most unexpected way.
Ben chooses Ireland as his Christmas-time hideout where he acts as peace-maker between an estranged father and daughter.
About the Author Maeve Binchy was born in Co Dublin in 1940 and was educated at the Holy Child Convent in Killiney and at UCD. After a spell as a teacher in various girls schools, she joined the Irish Times. Her first novel, Light a Penny Candle, was published in 1982, and each one of Binchy's twenty-one novels and short-story collections were bestsellers. Several have been
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 adapted for cinema and television, most notably Circle of Friends in 1995. Binchy was awarded the Lifetime Achievement ISBN: 9781760879228 Award at the British Book Awards in 1999; and at the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards ceremony in 2010 she was Format: C-Format PB presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the then President of Ireland, Mary McAleese. Sadly and much- Package Type: PAPERBACK mourned, Maeve Binchy died in July 2012. Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: pages Bic1: Bic2:
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Maeve Binchy's Treasury 18 copy pack Point of Sale
Includes 18 copies of Maeve Binchy's Treasury.
Description Includes 18 copies of Maeve Binchy's Treasury.
About the Author
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Hideout Jack Heath
A tense, unputdownable thriller from the author of Hangman.
Description Timothy Blake, ex-FBI, finds himself at a remote house in rural Texas. The house is occupied by six criminals who believe Blake is their ally. Secretly, he intends to pick them off one by one. But when one of the psychopaths is found dead, he realises that someone else in the house may have the same plan - and he might be the next victim.
'Jack Heath is worryingly skilled in all things dark and sinister. Luckily he is also bitingly, outrageously funny.' - Sarah Bailey, author of The Dark Lake
'Jack Heath's Hangman is a perverse, twisted take on a crime novel - and I loved every page of it. What a rarity to find a thriller as dark as a Palahniuk and as compulsively readable as a Patterson. Two well-chewed thumbs up for Hangman.' - Gregg Hurwitz, author of New York Times bestseller Hellbent
About the Author Jack Heath is the award-winning author of more than thirty thrillers for children and adults. He was born in Sydney in 1986 and has lived in Canberra since 1996. He wrote his first novel in high school and sold it to a publisher at age 18. In 2018 his first crime novel for adults, Hangman, was a smash-hit in Australia and has since been translated into French, German, Russian and Serbian. It was voted one of the 101 best books of all time by Dymocks Booklovers, and TV rights were optioned by Disney. Now the troubled hero, FBI consultant Timothy Blake, has returned in Hideout.
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Hideout 12 copy pack Point of Sale
Includes 12 copies of Hideout plus a free reading copy.
Description Includes 12 copies of Hideout plus a free reading copy.
About the Author
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Something Like This Karly Lane
A spellbinding new rural romance from the bestselling author of the Callahans of Stringybark Creek trilogy and Fool Me Once.
Description Jason Weaver just wants to be left alone. It was a tough transition from his army days to civilian life, so when he buys an isolated fixer-upper property on the outskirts of Ben Tirran in the New England mountains, he's looking forward to some peace and quiet.
Tilly Hollis is working two jobs to save for her dream career: running an equine therapy program from her farm in Ben Tirran. It's not the most glamorous life - as her New York fashion designer sister would agree - but Tilly loves her horses more than anything, and after losing her husband and business partner just a few years earlier, she's determined to make it work on her own.
When Jason walks into the cafe where Tilly works, his plans for a quiet, solitary life quickly evaporate. They're drawn to one another immediately, but they both have walls up and aren't afraid to tell it like it is. They've both been alone for too long, but can they overcome their pasts to build a future together?
About the Author Karly Lane lives on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. Proud mum to four children and wife of one very patient mechanic, she is lucky enough to spend her day doing the two things she loves most - being a mum and writing stories set in beautiful rural Australia.
Her bestselling novels include North Star, Morgan's Law, Bridie's Choice, Poppy's Dilemma, Gemma's Bluff, Tallowood Bound, Second Chance Town, Third Time Lucky, If Wishes Were Horses, Six Ways to Sunday, Someone Like You, Fool Me Once, and the bestselling Callahans of Stringybark Creek series - The Wrong Callahan, Mr Right Now, Return to Stringybark Creek and Fool Me Once. This is her sixteenth novel.
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Going Under Sonia Henry
A darkly funny and sexy novel that blows the lid off the medical profession and life inside a hospital by a young doctor whose anonymous article about the pressures of trainee doctors went viral around the world.
Description 'A compelling eye-opener written by one who clearly knows.' Judy Nunn, bestselling author of Sanctuary
Dr Katarina 'Kitty' Holliday thought once she finished medical school and found gainful employment at one of Sydney's best teaching hospitals that her dream was just beginning. The hard years, she thought, were finally over.
But Kitty is in for a rude shock. Between trying to survive on the ward, in the operating theatre and in the emergency department without killing any of her patients or going under herself, Kitty finds herself facing situations that rock her very understanding of the vocation to which she intends to devote her life.
Going Under is a rare insight into the world of a trainee female medic that takes an unflinching look at the reality of being a doctor. It explores the big themes - life, death, power and love - through the eyes of Dr Holliday as she loses her identity and nearly her mind in the pressure-cooker world of the hospital. But it is also there that Kitty might find her own redemption and finally know herself for the first time. Darkly funny, sexy, moving and shocking, Going Under will grip you from the opening page and never let you go.
'From the first grim failed attempt to cannulate a vein, I knew Going Under was the real deal. I'm still having flashbacks to my own intern days because of it. Sonia Henry writes with a combination of heart and precision that only the best of writers, and doctors, can manage.' Nick Earls, bestselling author of Bachelor Kisses
About the Author Sonia Henry is in her early thirties and lives and works in Sydney as a doctor. When she's not being a medic she devotes her spare time to writing and has been published in Kevin MD (America's leading physician blog), the Sydney Morning
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 Herald, the Australian Medical Students Journal, and has scientific publications in the ANZ Journal of Surgery. ISBN: 9781760878641 Format: B Her most widely read article was an anonymous piece, 'There is something rotten inside the medical profession', which Package Type: PAPERBACK detailed the stress of medical training and was shared more than 22,000 times and re-published widely around the world. Dimensions: 198h x 128w mm Extent: 416 pages This article led to the start of a conversation that her novel Going Under seeks to continue. Dr Brad Frankum, head of the Bic1: AMA NSW, penned an open letter in response to her piece, as did many other doctors who decided that it was time to Bic2:
In her spare time, Sonia loves drinking wine with her friends, eating good food, and trying to save money to travel to new and fabulous places. She is a keen skier in the winter and likes Sydney for its beaches in the summer. She tried to join a gym but isn't a morning person so has replaced exercise with an extra hour of sleep. Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 The Lincoln Lawyer Michael Connelly
Introducing Mickey Haller, 'The Lincoln Lawyer': a blistering tale about a cynical defence attorney whose one remaining spark of integrity may cost him his life.
Description Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldn't recognize innocence if it stood right in front of him. But what he should have been on the watch for was evil.
Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defence attorney who operates out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car, travelling between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers - they're all on Mickey Haller's client list. For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence - it's about negotiation and manipulation. Sometimes it's even about justice. A Beverly Hills playboy arrested for attacking a woman he picked up in a bar chooses Haller to defend him, and Mickey has his first high-paying client in years. It is a defence attorney's dream, what they call a franchise case. And as the evidence stacks up, Haller comes to believe this may be the easiest case of his career.
Then someone close to him is murdered and Haller discovers that his search for innocence has brought him face-to-face with evil as pure as a flame. To escape without being burned, he must deploy every tactic, feint and instinct in his arsenal - this time to save his own life.
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 and the legal thriller series featuring Mickey Haller, as well as several stand-alone bestsellers. His most recent #1 bestseller is Fair Warning.
Michael Connelly's books have sold more than seventy-four million copies worldwide. They have been translated into 40 languages and have won awards all over the world, including the Edgar and Anthony Awards. Michael Connelly has also
Price: AU $14.99 NZ $16.99 been awarded the 2018 CWA Diamond Dagger, the highest honour in British crime writing. ISBN: 9781760879297 Format: B He is the executive producer of the successful TV series Bosch, starring Titus Welliver, and the creator and host of the Package Type: PAPERBACK podcast Murder Book. He spends his time in California and Florida. Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: pages Bic1: To find out more, head to: Bic2:
Michael Connelly AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Darkness for Light Emma Viskic
The third thrilling instalment in the award-winning Caleb Zelic series.
Description 'A mazey delight of a mystery …' - Ian Rankin
When deaf PI Caleb Zelic finds one of his clients murdered, it's a bad day; when he discovers the man was a federal cop, it's the beginning of a nightmare.
Against his better judgement, Caleb is drawn into the investigation. Soon he finds himself mixed up with his crooked ex- partner Frankie and the fallout from a money laundering scheme gone wrong. Then Frankie's nine-year-old niece is kidnapped.
Desperate to save the girl's life, they follow every lead. But the trail will end in death, betrayal and an agonising choice...
About the Author Emma Viskic is author of the multi award-winning Caleb Zelic series, which is published in six territories worldwide. Resurrection Bay won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction, as well as an unprecedented three Davitt Awards. It was iBooks Australia's Crime Novel of the Year and was shortlisted for the UK CWA Gold Dagger and New Blood awards. Book two, And Fire Came Down, won the 2018 Davitt Award for Best Novel and was longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Award. Book three, Darkness for Light, has been longlisted for a Davitt Award. Formerly a classical clarinettist, Emma's musical career ranged from performing with Jose Carreras, to playing at an engagement party that ended in a brawl. She learned Australian sign language (Auslan) in order to create the character of Caleb Zelic. She lives in Melbourne with her family.
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Echo AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Resurrection Bay Emma Viskic
The multi-award-winning first novel in the Caleb Zelic series.
Description Caleb Zelic may be deaf, but he knows how to read people better than anyone. When his childhood friend is brutally murdered while helping him on an insurance case, Caleb vows to find the killer. But he can't do it alone. Caleb and his business partner Frankie, an ex-cop, start with one clue: Scott, the last word the victim texted to Caleb.
But chasing the elusive Scott leads them back to Caleb's hometown of Resurrection Bay. And it's here he learns that everyone - including his murdered friend - is hiding something. And the deeper he digs, the darker the secrets...
About the Author Emma Viskic is an award-winning Australian crime writer. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Resurrection Bay, won the 2016 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction, as well as an unprecedented three Davitt Awards: Best Adult Novel, Best Debut and Readers' Choice. Resurrection Bay was iBooks Australia's Crime Novel of 2015. Emma learned Auslan (Australian sign language) in order to write the character of Caleb Zelic.
Also a classically trained clarinettist, Emma's musical career has ranged from performing with Jose Carreras and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, to busking in the London Underground. She lives in Melbourne and divides her time between writing, performing and teaching.
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Echo AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 And Fire Came Down Emma Viskic
The thrilling second novel in the award-winning Caleb Zelic series, and winner of the Best Novel award at the 2018 Davitt Awards.
Description Deaf since early childhood, Caleb Zelic is used to meeting life head-on. Now, he's struggling just to get through the day. His best mate is dead, his ex-wife, Kat, is avoiding him, and nightmares haunt his waking hours.
But when a young woman is killed, after pleading for his help in sign language, Caleb is determined to find out who she was. The trail leads Caleb back to his hometown, Resurrection Bay. The town is on bushfire alert, and simmering with racial tensions. As Caleb delves deeper, he uncovers secrets that could ruin any chance of reuniting with Kat, and even threaten his life. Driven by his own demons, he pushes on. But who is he willing to sacrifice along the way?
About the Author Emma Viskic is an award-winning Australian crime writer. Her critically-acclaimed debut novel, Resurrection Bay, won the 2016 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction, as well as an unprecedented three Davitt Awards: Best Adult Novel, Best Debut and Readers' Choice. Resurrection Bay was iBooks Australia's Crime Novel of 2015. Emma learned Auslan (Australian sign language) in order to write the character of Caleb Zelic.
Also a classically trained clarinettist, Emma's musical career has ranged from performing with Jose Carreras and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, to busking in the London Underground. She lives in Melbourne and divides her time between writing, performing and teaching.
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Echo AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Charlotte Helen Moffett
For lovers of Pride and Prejudice and Longbourn, an intoxicating novel that tells the story of Charlotte Lucas, who marries the unfortunate Mr Collins after Lizzy Bennet spurns him.
Description Everybody believes that Charlotte Lucas has no prospects. She is unmarried, plain, poor and reaching a dangerous age. When she stuns the neighbourhood by accepting the proposal of buffoonish clergyman Mr Collins, her best friend Lizzy Bennet is appalled by her decision. Yet this is the only way Charlotte knows how to provide for her future. Her married life will propel her into a new world: not only of duty and longed-for children, but secrets, grief, unexpected love and friendship, and a kind of freedom.
Jane Austen cared deeply about the constraints on women in Regency England. This powerful reimagining takes up where Austen left off in Pride and Prejudice, showing us a woman determined to carve a place for herself in the world. Charlotte offers a fresh, feminist addition to the post-Austen canon, beautifully imagined, and brimming with passion and intelligence.
About the Author Helen Moffett is a South African writer, freelance editor, activist and award-winning poet. She has a PhD on PreRaphaelite poetry and has authored or co-authored university textbooks, short story anthologies, non-fiction books on the environment, two poetry collections and various academic projects. Charlotte is her first novel. She blogs at helenmoffett.com and can be found on Twitter @heckitty.
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Manilla AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Love and Theft Stan Parish
'A dark jewel, polished and precision-cut ... Love and Theft pays tribute to classic capers - and rivals the best of them for verve and ingenuity. A breathless adventure both starry-eyed and cool-blooded, both charming and diabolical.' - A. J. Finn, author of the #1 bestseller The Woman in the Window
Description What price would you put on a second chance?
When Alex Cassidy and Diane Alison meet by chance at a party in Princeton, New Jersey, there are instant sparks. Both are single parents living in wealthy suburbia, independent, highly competent and seemingly settled in their lives. She runs a successful catering business. He's part of a crew that robs banks, casinos and jewellery stores around the world. Neither realises initially that their lives have overlapped before, or that their shared history and burgeoning relationship will come to threaten everything they love. As Alex prepares for one final, daunting job, he discovers that he's not the only one with secrets - and that both of them are playing for the highest stakes imaginable.
About the Author Stan Parish is the former editor-in-chief of The Future of Everything at The Wall Street Journal and the author of the novel Down the Shore. His writing has appeared in GQ, Esquire, Surface, The New York Times, and The New York Times Magazine, among other publications. He holds a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and lives in Los Angeles.
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Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 The Snow Ball Brigid Brophy
The scandalous cult classic with a new foreword by Eley Williams: when Anna is kissed by a masked figure at a New Year's Eve masquerade ball, a heady dance of seduction begins.
Description 'Superb ... Sheer artistic insolence.' - Iris Murdoch
'Brilliantly seductive...A witty, sexy, sophisticated treat.' - Sarah Waters
London, New Year's Eve. Snow falls on a Georgian mansion, vibrating with the festivities of an eighteenth-century themed masquerade ball within. Middle-aged divorcee Anna stands alone, mourning her youth - until the clock chimes midnight and a mysterious masked figure kisses her on the mouth. Thus begins a heady dance of seduction charged by other clandestine romances swirling around them, whipping the ball into an erotic frenzy of operatic proportions - until the night climaxes, revealing unease beneath the glitter...
A scandalous sensation in 1964, Brigid Brophy's The Snow Ball is a dazzling festive classic ripe to seduce a new generation of readers.
'A magical capering beast by a comet in her day.' - Terry Castle
About the Author Brigid Brophy (1929-1995) was a prize-winning British novelist, critic, and political campaigner, championing causes as diverse as gay rights, pacifism, vegetarianism, and aetheism. A provocative public intellectual in the 1960s, she was a celebrated literary name and byword for controversy. Openly bisexual, she was sent down from Oxford for 'excessive carousing' before marrying Michael Levey, Director of the National Gallery, in 1954. Brophy published her acclaimed debut, Hackenfeller's Ape, in 1953, followed by multiple novels including The King of a Rainy Country, Flesh, The Finishing Touch, The Snow Ball, and In Transit, as well as critical studies of Mozart, Aubrey Beardsley, and Ronald
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 Firbank, among others. ISBN: 9780571362875 Format: B Eley Williams lectures at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her short story collection Attrib. and Other Stories won Package Type: PAPERBACK the James Tait Black Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize and was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 208 pages debut novel, The Liar's Dictionary, was published in July 2020. Bic1: Bic2:
Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Out of Darkness, Shining Light Petina Gappah
Prize-winning author Petina Gappah's tale of Dr Livingstone's epic journey through nineteenth-century Africa is'incredible' (Yaa Gyasi), 'powerful' (Jesmyn Ward), and 'beautiful' (Anthony Doerr).
Description 'A fine writer.' - J.M. Coetzee
'Wonderful.' - The Times
'Captivating.' - Guardian
This is the story of the body of Bwana Daudi, the Doctor, the explorer David Livingstone - and the sixty-nine men and women who carried his remains for 1,500 miles across the African interior so that he could be borne across the sea and buried in his own country. This is the story of those in the shadows of history: those who saved a white man's bones, his dark companions, who became his faithful retinue on an epic funeral march - little knowing that his corpse carried the maps that sowed the seeds of the continent's brutal colonisation and enslavement. This is the story of how human bravery, loyalty, and love can triumph over darkness - and it is Petina Gappah's radical masterpiece.
'Incredible.' - Yaa Gyasi
'Beautiful.' - Anthony Doerr
'Powerful.' - Jesmyn Ward
About the Author Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer with law degrees from Cambridge, Graz University and the University of Zimbabwe. Her short fiction and essays have been published in eight countries. Her debut story collection, An Elegy for
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 Easterly, won the Guardian First Book Award in 2009, and her first novel, The Book of Memory, was longlisted for the ISBN: 9780571345342 2015 Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction. Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 The Cummings Files: CONFIDENTIAL Arthur Mathews
In this illuminating collection of diary entries, notes-to-self and crumpled post-its, we reveal what's really going on in the Cummings brain.
Description Dominic Cummings has a lively mind. He is constantly thinking; planning; coming up with BIG ideas. During a time of momentous events in Britain (Brexit, a General Election, The Covid 19 Pandemic) the Government's chief adviser has been writing down his thoughts - in diaries, blog posts, on post-it notes and any scrap of paper he can find.
Discovered in an abandoned back-pack on a train (was the Government's chief advisor breaking the lockdown regulations for an unnecessary journey? - surely not), we reveal the intriguing contents.
These include: The full story of those trips to Durham (he travelled up every weekend - once on a horse and cart) His plans for a biopic of Otto Von Bismarck (starring Sanjeev Bhaskar) The contents of his 1995 Russian diary (which he planned to destroy) What happens when you hit Michael Gove over the head with a pencil His close relationship with the Prime Minister (and reaction to his death when given wrong information by Matt Hancock)
And much, much more....
About the Author Arthur Mathews co-wrote Father Ted with Graham Linehan, his other credits include: The Fast Show; Armstrong and Miller; Catherine Tate; The Tracy Ulman Show; Toast of London and the 2019 BBC TV show The Road to Brexit.
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Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 These Women Ivy Pochoda
A serial killer story like you've never read before - a literary thriller of female empowerment and social change.
Description 'These Women is full of resilient and undaunted characters that society often doesn't give a second look to. But Ivy Pochoda does and in these pages she gives us the small story that grows so large in meaning and emotion as to transcend genre. It tells us how to look at ourselves and at what is important.' - Michael Connelly
The dancer. The mother. The cop. The artist. The wife.
These women live by countless unspoken rules. How to dress; who to trust; which streets are safe and which are not. The rules grow out of a kaleidoscope of fear, anguish, power, loss and hope. Maybe it is only these rules which keep them alive.
When their neighbourhood is rocked by two murders, the careful existence these women have built for themselves begins to crumble.
'Pochoda turns grief, suffering and loss into art, crafting a literary thriller that is no less compelling for its deep emotional resonance.' - Vogue
About the Author Ivy Pochoda is the author of The Art of Disappearing, Visitation Street - a Guardian and Amazon best book of 2013 - and Wonder Valley, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and a winner of the Strand Critics Circle Award. For many years she was a world-ranked squash player. She teaches creative writing at the Lamp Arts Studio in Skid Row. Ivy grew up in Brooklyn, NY and currently lives in West Adams, Los Angeles.
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Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Sudden Traveller Sarah Hall
The new story collection from one of our most celebrated masters of the form, Sarah Hall.
Description 'No one writes stories the way Hall does and quite possibly no one ever will. Astonishing, miraculous, a gift.' - Daisy Johnson
WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD WINNER OF AN O.HENRY PRIZE FOR SHORT FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE 2020
The seven stories of Sudden Traveller immerse us anew in one of the most distinctive literary imaginations. In Turkish forests or rain-drenched Cumbrian villages, characters walk, drive, dream and fly, trying to reconcile themselves with their journey through life and death. A woman fitted with life-changing technology returns to the site of her strongest memories; a man repatriated in the near east hears the name of an old love called and must unpack history's suitcase; and from the new world-waves of female anger and resistance, a mythical creature evolves.
Radical, charged with a transformative creative power, each of these stories opens channels in the human mind and spirit, as Sarah Hall once more invites the reader to stand at the very edge of our possible selves.
'Hall's stories are extraordinary. Magical. I never know where the next one will take me, but I know it will be unexpected, memorable, and built from language that crackles with energy.' - Chris Power
About the Author Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria in 1974. Twice nominated for the Man Booker Prize, she is the award-winning author of five novels and two short-story collections - The Beautiful Indifference, which won the Edge Hill and Portico prizes, and Madame Zero, shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and winner of the East Anglian Book Award. She is currently the only author to be three times shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, which she won in 2013 with 'Mrs Fox'. Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9780571345052 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Christmas in Austin Benjamin Markovits
This luminous family saga from one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists is a must for fans of Anne Tyler and Jonathan Franzen.
Description A luminous family saga from one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists.
When the four Essinger children gather in Austin for Christmas, they all bring their news. Nathan wants to become a federal judge. Susie's husband has taken a job in England. Jean has asked her boyfriend and (once-married) boss to meet her family. Paul has broken up with Dana, mother of their son Cal. But their parents have plans, too, and Liesel, the materfamilias, has invited Dana and Cal to stay, hoping to bring them back together. As the week unfolds, each of the Essingers has to confront the tensions and conflicts between old families and new.
Rich, intimate, and deeply perceptive, Christmas in Austin beautifully explores the deep-rooted division between the world we grow up in, and the life we make for ourselves.
About the Author Benjamin Markovits grew up in Texas, London, and Berlin. One of Granta's Best Young British Novelists and the winner of the James Tait Black Award, he is the author of eight novels. He has published essays, stories, poetry, and reviews on subjects ranging from the Romantics to American sports in the Guardian, Granta, The Paris Review, and The New York Times, among other publications. He lives in London and teaches creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Crow Ted Hughes
Fiftieth anniversary edition of this ambitious, shapeshifting, mythical work.
Description This anniversary edition with a new foreword by Marina Warner celebrates fifty years since original publication of Crow (1970), which marked a pivotal moment in Ted Hughes's writing career.
Growing out of an invitation by Leonard Baskin to make a book with him about crows, Hughes found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A deep engagement with history, mythology and the natural world combine to forge a work of impressive and unsettling force.
About the Author Ted Hughes (1930-1998) won instant acclaim with his first book, The Hawk in the Rain, and a glittering literary career culminated four decades later with the Whitbread Book of the Year award for Tales from Ovid (1997) and then again for Birthday Letters (1998). He served fourteen years as Poet Laureate and in 1998 was appointed to the Order of Merit.
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Faber Poetry AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 That Old Country Music Kevin Barry
A brilliant story collection - full of love, melancholy and magic - from the Goldsmiths Prize and IMPAC award- winning author of the Booker-longlisted Night Boat to Tangier.
Description Since his landmark debut collection, There Are Little Kingdoms in 2007, and its award-winning sequel in 2012, Dark Lies the Island, Kevin Barry has been acclaimed as one of the world's most accomplished and gifted short-story writers.
Barry's lyric intensity, the vitality of his comedy, and the darkness of his vision recall the work of masters of the genre like Flannery O'Connor and William Trevor, but he has forged a style which is patently his own.
In this rapturous third collection, we encounter a ragbag of West of Ireland characters, many on the cusp between love and catastrophe, heartbreak and epiphany, resignation and hope. These stories show an Ireland in a condition of great flux but also as a place where older rhythms, and an older magic, somehow persist.
About the Author Kevin Barry is the author of three novels and two short story collections. His awards include the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize and the Lannan Foundation Literary Award. His stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta and elsewhere. He also works as a playwright and screenwriter, and he lives in County Sligo, Ireland. His latest novel, Night Boat to Tangier, was an Irish number one bestseller, was longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards.
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Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Night Boat to Tangier Kevin Barry
The Booker-longlisted novel, drenched in sex, death and narcotics, in sudden violence, old magic and the mysteries of love, from the winner of the IMPAC Award and the Goldsmiths Prize.
Description It's late one night at the Spanish port of Algeciras and two fading Irish gangsters are waiting on the boat from Tangier. A lover has been lost, a daughter has gone missing, their world has come asunder - can it be put together again?
About the Author Kevin Barry is the author of the novels Beatlebone and City of Bohane and the story collections Dark Lies the Island and There Are Little Kingdoms. His awards include the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize and the Lannan Foundation Literary Award. His stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta and elsewhere. He also works as a playwright and screenwriter, and he lives in County Sligo, Ireland. Night Boat to Tangier was an Irish number one bestseller, was longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards.
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Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 We Yevgeny Zamyatin, translated by Bela Shayevich and introduction by Margaret Atwood
A radical new translation of the dystopian classic that influenced George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, introduced by Margaret Atwood.
Description 'The best single work of science fiction yet written' - URSULA K. LE GUIN
One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is universal and life runs according to algorithmic rules to ensure perfect happiness. And Chief Engineer D -503 is the ideal citizen, at least until he meets I-330, who opens his eyes to new ideas of love, sex and freedom.
A foundational work of dystopian fiction, inspiration for both Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley's Brave New World, We is a book of radical imaginings - of control and rebellion, surveillance and power, machine intelligence and human inventiveness, sexuality and desire. It is both a warning and a hope for a better world.
'It is in effect a study of the Machine, the genie that man has thoughtlessly let out of its bottle and cannot put back again' - GEORGE ORWELL
About the Author Yevgeny Zamyatin was a naval engineer and author. He wrote short stories, plays and essays. His masterpiece, We, was written in 1920-21 and was banned in Russia on the grounds of being ideologically undesirable. It was quickly translated and published in many languages around the world, finally being publishing in Russia in 1988.
Bela Shayevich is a Soviet-American writer, translator and illustrator. She translated Nobel Prize Winner Svetlana Alexievich's Second-hand Time.
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Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 PARADISE Alasdair Gray, Dante Alighieri
The final book from the late Alasdair Gray - the conclusion to his remarkable interpretation of Dante's Divine Comedy.
Description Dante, now guided by Beatrice, faces the final third of his epic journey through the wheels of divine justice. Yet as he passes through the spheres of Heaven, he struggles with his faith, striving to understand the scales of good and evil that determine the fate of a human soul.
The final book from Alasdair Gray, Paradise is a fitting conclusion to his own irreplaceable body of work, as well as to his masterful retelling of Dante's trilogy.
About the Author Born in 1934, Alasdair Gray graduated in design and mural painting from the Glasgow School of Art. Since 1981, when Lanark was published by Canongate, he authored, designed and illustrated seven novels, several books of short stories, a collection of his stage, radio and TV plays and a book of his visual art, A Life in Pictures. In November 2019, he received a Lifetime Achievement award from the Saltire Society. He died in December 2019, aged eighty-five.
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Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 The Killer in the Choir Simon Brett
When Jude joins the Fethering community choir, she discovers that at least one of her fellow choristers is hiding a deadly secret.
Description At her husband's funeral, Heather Mallet it publicly accused of murder. But did Heather really kill her husband, as many Fethering residents now believe?
To get to the heart of the matter, Carole's neighbour Jude joins the new community choir. There she discovers that amidst the clashing egos and petty resentments lurk some decidedly false notes. At least one chorister would appear to be hiding a deadly secret - and it's up to Carole and Jude to unearth the truth.
About the Author Simon Brett worked as a producer in radio and television before taking up writing full-time. He was awarded an OBE in the 2016 New Year's Honours for services to Literature and also was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2014 he won the CWA's prestigious Diamond Dagger for an outstanding body of work.
The Killer in the Choir is the nineteenth book in the series.
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Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay Elena Ferrante
Description Set in the late 1960s and the 1970s, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay continues the story of the feisty and rebellious Lina and her lifelong friend, the brilliant and bookish Elena. Lina, after separating from her husband, is living with her young son in a new neighbourhood of Naples and working at a local factory. Elena has left Naples, earned a degree from an elite college, and published a novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned and fascinating interlocutors. The era, with its dramatic changes in sexual politics and social costumes, with its seemingly limitless number of new possibilities, is rendered with breathtaking vigour. This third Neapolitan Novel is not only a moving story of friendship but also a searing portrait of a rapidly changing world.
Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan Novels, Elena Ferrante's fame as one of today's most compelling, insightful, and stylish authors has grown. She has gained admirers among authors, artists, and critics. But her most resounding success has undoubtedly been with readers, who have discovered in Ferrante a writer who speaks with great power and beauty of the mysteries of belonging, human relationships, love, family, and friendship.
About the Author Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 2005), Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008) and the four volumes of the Neapolitan Quartet (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child), published by Europa Editions between 2012 and 2015. She is also the author of a children's picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night, and a work of non-fiction, Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey. Incidental Inventions, her collected Guardian columns, were published in 2019.
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Europa Editions AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Your Duck Is My Duck Deborah Eisenberg
By turns dark and hilarious, at times solemn and mysterious,Your Duck is My Duck cements Deborah Eisenberg's reputation as one of America's greatest living writers of fiction.
Description Each of the six stories that make up this new collection - Eisenberg's first for twelve years - has the heft and complexity of a novel. With her own inexorable logic and uncanny ability to conjure up the strange states of mind and emotion that constitute our daily consciousness, Eisenberg pulls us as if by gossamer threads through the lives of her characters. In her world, the forces of money, sex and power cannot be escaped, and the force of history, whether confronted or denied, cannot be evaded. No one writes better about time, tragedy and grief, and the indifferent but beautiful universe around us.
About the Author Deborah Eisenberg is the author of four previous collections of short stories. She is professor of writing at Columbia University.
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Europa Editions AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Three-Fifths John Vercher
Set against the backdrop of the simmering racial tension produced by the LA Riots and the O.J. Simpson trial, comes this powerful hard boiled noir of violence and obsession.
Description Pittsburgh, 1995. Twenty-two year old Bobby Saraceno is a biracial man, passing for white. Bobby has hidden his identity from everyone, even his best friend and fellow comic-book geek, Aaron, who has just returned from prison a newly radicalized white supremacist.
During the night of their reunion, Bobby witnesses Aaron mercilessly assault a young black man with a brick. In the wake of this horrifying act of violence, Bobby must conceal his unwitting involvement in the crime from the police, as well as battle with his own personal demons. A harrowing story about racism and brutality that is more urgent now than ever.
About the Author John Vercher is a writer currently living in the Philadelphia area with his wife and two sons. He holds a Bachelor's in English from the University of Pittsburgh and an MFA in Creative Writing from the Mountainview Master of Fine Arts program.
His fiction has appeared on Akashic Books' Mondays are Murder and Fri-SciFi. and he is a contributing writer for Cognoscenti, the thoughts and opinions page of WBUR Boston. Two of his essays published there on race, identity, and parenting were picked up by NPR, and he has appeared on WBUR's Weekend Edition. His non-fiction has also appeared in Entropy Magazine. You can find him on his website www.johnvercherauthor.com and on Twitter at @jverch75.
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Pushkin Vertigo AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 The Second Life of Inspector Canessa Roberto Perrone, translated by Hamish Goslow
Family secrets, terrorist plots and the return of a legendary cop: a ferociously paced noir thriller from one of Italy's top crime writers, and the second book in Pushkin Press's collaboration with Walter Presents.
Description Annibale Canessa didn't want to go back to his old life. When everything went wrong in 1984, he traded his brutal, exciting career in the Carabinieri for paradise in San Fruttuoso. He started swimming in the bay at dawn and helping his elderly aunt run a small restaurant. His life was calm.
But some shattering news pulls him back in - his estranged brother has been found dead; lying beside him, the body of an ex-terrorist, a man Canessa himself caught. Back in Milan, Canessa must pursue old connections and unsolved crimes, which draw him ever deeper into the underworld he thought he'd left behind...
About the Author Roberto Perrone was born in Rapallo and lives in Milan. As a journalist he has written extensively about food, travel and sports. He is the author of several books of fiction and non-fiction, most famously his crime series featuring Annibale Canessa.
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Pushkin AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig Stefan Zweig, translated by Anthea Bell
Perfectly paced and brimming with passion - twenty-two tales from a master storyteller of the twentieth century.
Description In this magnificent collection of Stefan Zweig's short stories the very best and worst of human nature are captured with sharp observation, understanding and vivid empathy. A knock on a door that forces a whole community to take flight, an ageing womaniser who meets his match, a love soured into awful cruelty-these stories present a master at work, at the top of his form.
Translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell.
About the Author Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Between the wars, Zweig was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear.
In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, Zweig left Austria, and lived in London, Bath and New York-a period during which he produced his most celebrated works: his only novel, Beware of Pity, and his memoir, The World of Yesterday. He eventually settled in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.
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Pushkin AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 In the House in the Dark of the Woods Laird Hunt
A hallucinatory fairytale, full of witchcraft, where nothing is as it seems - from the critically acclaimed author of Neverhome.
Description In this darkest of fairy tales, a young woman sets off to pick berries in the depths of the forest, but can't find her way home again. Or perhaps she has fled or abandoned her family. Or perhaps she's been kidnapped, and set loose to wander in the dense woods of the north. Alone and possibly lost, she meets another woman who offers her help. Then everything changes.
On a journey that will take her to the depths of the witch-haunted woods, through a deep well wet with the screams of men, and on a living ship made of human bones, our heroine may find that the evil she flees has been inside her all along.
'A dark treat of a novel: lush, exciting and gorgeously strange' - Sarah Waters
About the Author Laird Hunt is an American writer and translator. He has written seven novels, including Neverhome, which was a New York TimesBook Review Editor's Choice selection, an IndieNext selection, winner of the Grand Prix de Litterature Americaine and The Bridge prize, and a finalist for the Prix Femina tranger. A resident of Boulder, CO, he is on the faculty in the creative writing PhD program at the University of Denver.
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Pushkin AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 The Darkroom of Damocles Willem Frederik Hermans, translated by Ina Rilke
A classic pitch-black wartime thriller from the author of An Untouched House.
Description During the German occupation of Holland, tobacconist Henri Osewoudt finds himself drawn into the resistance when he is visited by the ruthless Dorbeck, who also happens to look remarkably like him. Soon Osewoudt is carrying out dangerous missions, helping British agents and killing collaborators with aplomb. But after the war, he is taken for a collaborator himself. How can he prove that he was on the right side - and how much of what he remembers is real?
The Darkroom of Damocles is a razor-sharp thriller set in a world where everything is permitted, even murder. As unsettling and morally challenging today as when it was first written.
About the Author Willem Frederik Hermans (1921-1995) was one of the most prolific and versatile Dutch authors of the twentieth century. In 1977 he received the Dutch Literature Prize - the most prestigious literary prize in the Netherlands. He is considered one of the three most important authors in the Netherlands in the postwar period, along with Harry Mulisch and Gerard Reve.
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Pushkin AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Carmilla Sheridan Le Fanu
A beautiful gift edition of this cult classic female vampire story, which predated and greatly influenced Dracula.
Description "I have been in love with no one, and never shall," she whispered, "unless it should be with you."
A lonely castle, deep in the Styrian forest - here Laura leads a solitary life, with only her elderly father for company, until a moonlit night brings an unexpected guest to the schloss. At first Laura is glad to finally have a female companion of her own age, but her new friend's strange habits and eerie nocturnal wanderings quickly become unsettling, and soon a ghastly truth is revealed.
Suffused with gothic horror and sexual tension, Carmilla predated Dracula by 26 years, has inspired generations of writers and is the foundation of the lesbian vampire myth.
About the Author Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of gothic tales, mystery novels and ghost stories, most famous for his novel Uncle Silas. Carmilla was first published in 1872 and has served as an inspiration countless books, from Bram Stooker's Dracula and Henry James' The Turn of the Screw to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, and a slew of films such as Hammer Horror's Karnstein Trilogy.
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Pushkin AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 The Invisible Land Hubert Mingarelli, translated by Sam Taylor
From the author of A Meal in Winter and Four Soldiers, a poignant story of war, trauma and its aftermath.
Description Dinslaken, Germany. July 1945. The war is over, and the allied forces are beginning to assess the damage. Among them, is a war photographer. As the rest of the press corp return home, he finds himself reluctant to leave and, in the company of the young and sensitive driver he has been assigned, he sets out to photograph ordinary German people in front of their homes. As the pair continue their journey, it becomes clear that the young driver has his own reasons for not wishing to return home.
Told with Mingarelli's trademark restraint and elegance, this is a tense, tender story of the emotional and moral repercussions of violence.
About the Author Hubert Mingarelli is the author of numerous novels, short story collections and fiction for young adults. Four Soldiers won the Prix Medicis and was longlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International. His novel A Meal in Winter was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. The Invisible Land was his last novel. He died in 2020.
Sam Taylor is a translator, novelist and journalist. His translated works include Laurent Binet's award-winning novel HHhH and Leila Slimani's Lullaby. His own novels have been translated in 10 languages.
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Granta Paperbacks AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Lake Like A Mirror Sok Fong Ho
Mysterious, perturbing and strikingly beautiful, this collection of stories explores the lives of Malaysian women: immigrants, rebels, lost souls, pragmatists, dreamers.
Description By an author described by critics as 'the most accomplished Malaysian writer, full stop'. Lake Like a Mirror is a scintillating exploration of the lives of women buffeted by powers beyond their control. Squeezing themselves between the gaps of rabid urbanisation, patriarchal structures and a theocratic government, these women find their lives twisted in disturbing ways.
In precise and disquieting prose, Ho Sok Fong draws her readers into a richly atmospheric world of naked sleepwalkers in a rehabilitation centre for wayward Muslims, mysterious wooden boxes, gossip in unlicensed hairdressers, hotels with amnesiac guests, and poetry classes with accidentally charged politics - a world that is peopled with the ghosts of unsaid words, unmanaged desires and uncertain statuses, surreal and utterly true.
About the Author Ho Sok Fong is the author of one other short story collection, Maze Carpet. Her literary awards include the Chiu Ko Fiction Prize (2015), the 25th China Times Short Story Prize, and the 30th United Press Short Story Prize. She has a PhD in Chinese Language & Literature from NTU Singapore, and lives in Malaysia.
Natascha Bruce translates fiction from Chinese. Her work includes short stories by Hong Kong surrealist writer Dorothy Tse, Lonely Face by Singapore's Yeng Pway Ngon and, with Nicky Harman, A Classic Tragedy by Xu Xiaobin.
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Granta AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Saturday Lunch with the Brownings Penelope Mortimer
Penelope Mortimer's only collection of short stories.
Description A mother and her young son arrive at a rental house in rural France only to find themselves locked out; a fractious family of five try and get through a Saturday at home together; a publisher with a penchant for parties reconnects with an old acquaintance who's the life and soul; and a woman in a maternity ward is an unwitting witness to a disturbing drama behind the hospital curtains next to her. Sharp, unsettling, and darkly humorous, Saturday Lunch with the Brownings is fiction drawn from life that unerringly captures the complexities and cruelties of family dynamics.
About the Author Penelope Mortimer (1918-1999) was born in Wales. In 1947 her first novel, Johanna, was published and she began writing for The New Yorker. Mortimer wrote nine novels, including Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1958) and two volumes of memoir. Her best-known work, the semi-autobiographical novel The Pumpkin Eater (1962), was adapted for the screen by Harold Pinter and made into a film starring Anne Bancroft.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781911547723 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK WITH FLAPS Dimensions: 198h x 128w mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Daunt Books AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 To My Country Ben Lawson
On January 10, Ben touched the hearts of Australians with the reading of his poem To My Country in response to the Australian bushfires. This gorgeous 4 colour book combines Ben's heartfelt words with stunning illustrations by Bruce Whatley.
Description Ben Lawson was preparing for another Christmas away from home when the Black Summer bushfires began to burn their way across Australia's eastern coast. As the bushfires continued to rage into the new year on an unprecedented scale, Ben, feeling angry, helpless and broken-hearted as he watched the devastation from across the ocean, sat down and put his feelings into words. To My Country is an ode to the endurance of the Australian spirit and the shared love of our country.
In the true Aussie spirit, Ben and Allen & Unwin will be donating proceeds of To My Country to The Koala Hospital.
'A delightful love letter to a homeland: the kind only an Australian could write. Full of humour, charm and deeply felt belonging. And to think of all the orphaned koalas who will benefit from you buying and enjoying this wonderful little book ...' -Stephen Fry-
'An impassioned cry from the big, kind heart of a big, kind man.' -Tim Minchin-
'Ben Lawson's love of his homeland inspires us all to think of our own roots . . . and the need to protect them.' -Dolly Parton-
'Ben Lawson's book is a heartfelt reminder of how desperately we need to think about our future as a country. His sincerity is moving. I dare you not to cry.' -Julia Stone-
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 'Ben Lawson writes in the tradition of his namesake Henry Lawson; an eloquent bush ballad that mourns the tragic fate of ISBN: 9781760878719 one billion bushfire victims.' Format: Misc HB -Barry Humphries- Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 215h x 165w mm Extent: 96 pages About the Author Bic1: Ben Lawson grew up in Brisbane, one of five boys. He studied acting at NIDA and worked in theatre throughout Sydney Bic2:
Includes 12 copies of To My Country and a free reading copy.
Description Includes 12 copies of To My Country and a free reading copy.
About the Author
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Sunshine Samantha C. Ross
Confronting, confessional and wildly entertaining, Sunshine lays bare the business of stripping and what goes on in the backrooms of 'gentlemen's clubs'. Coming to TV in 2021!
Description There are a lot of Ambers in the stripping world. And Aprils and Summers, and Skys and Rains. There are quite a few gems: Sapphires, Diamonds, Rubies and even an Amethyst. And exotic creatures: Tigers, Cheetahs, Phoenixes and Kitties. Plenty of weather conditions, like Misty, Stormy and Cloudy. There are, of course, a selection of fruits: Cherry, Berry, Peaches and Apple. And confectionery to go with it, like Candy, Lolly and Caramel. And then there are the generic hot-girl/sexy names: Lolita, Tiffany, Chanel, Lulu, Sasha and Brigitte.
Meet Sunshine. That's her stage name. Follow her downstairs into the shadowy underworld of the so-called Gentlemen's Clubs, where men hide in dark corners and pay gorgeous women like Sunshine to take their clothes off. Follow her to the private rooms where the lap dances happen, the hustle plays out and the real money flows. Sit with her in the back room with the other dancers, her friends and colleagues, who laugh and cry and rake in the dollars and party as though a zombie apocalypse is on the horizon.
Sunshine tells us in her own brutally honest and audacious words what it's like to work as a stripper, both in Australia and overseas.
Confessional, confronting, revealing, wildly entertaining and often laugh-out-loud funny, Sunshine: The diary of a lap dancer will take you into a world that some of us can only imagine and that others know all too well. But only the dancers know what really goes on - and this book shows you their world stripped bare.
About the Author Samantha C. Ross is a writer from Melbourne who, while studying for her Bachelor of Arts, decided to work around the globe as an exotic dancer. During this adventure, under her stage name Sunshine, she viewed firsthand the sometimes
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 funny, mostly shocking behaviour of celebrities, famous and infamous, and kept a diary. These days she goes to bed at a ISBN: 9781760878344 reasonable hour, and is living happily away from the nightlife with her husband and a Chihuahua named Dexter - whom Format: C-Format PB she swears she did not meet at a gentleman's club. The husband, not the Chihuahua. Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Sunshine 10 copy pack Point of Sale
Includes 10 copies of Sunshine and a free reading copy
Description Includes 10 copies of Sunshine and a free reading copy
About the Author
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 2020 Dictionary Dominic Knight
From the bestselling author of Strayapedia comes the definitive dictionary of the year the world went to sh*t
Description From bushfires to floods, from a recession to a global pandemic, and then Kanye West's presidential bid, 2020 was a terrible year. But it was also the year we all watched Hamilton, baked sourdough, had dinner parties on Zoom and drank lots - okay, so maybe the drinking bit wasn't great either.
But at the end of a year of trauma, but also great togetherness and community spirit - though mostly trauma - it's time to look back at the year that was, and laugh about it all. The 2020 Dictionary contains everything we learned the year the world went to sh*t, helpfully collected in alphabetical order, and with jokes.
About the Author Dom Knight is one of the founders of The Chaser, and as a writer on most of their projects he was definitely responsible for all of the jokes you liked and none of the bad ones. In recent years he's also presented serious programmes on ABC Radio and a silly one on Triple M. His books include The Strayan Dictionary, Strayapedia and Trumpedia.
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Strayan Dictionary Dominic Knight
The hilarious dictionary of Australia's unique words and phrases
Description The most un-un-Australian dictionary ever created, The Strayan Dictionary is your indispensable guide to the native tongue of Warnie, Hawkie, Dame Nellie, Kylie (Minogue and Mole), Little Johnny, Barty and of course Boonie.
More bonzer than a long weekend, as respectable as an underarm delivery and as easy to understand as 'yeah-nah-nah- yeah-nah', The Strayan Dictionary is guaranteed* to be as honest as a sickie, as useful as a beer snake and as unputdownable as a stubby,
* This guarantee is a furphy (also defined within)
'One wishes one had learned Strayan instead of the Queen's English. This book is bloody grouse, cobber.' QUEEN ELIZABETH II 'How good is The Strayan Dictionary! How good is constantly saying "how good!"' SCOTT MORRISON 'Reading this thing is like being flogged with warm letters.' PAUL KEATING 'My quote was placed on this back cover without my knowledge.' GLADYS LIU 'I started reading The Strayan Dictionary, but I pulled out after a few pages.' BERNARD TOMIC 'This book was useless. I still don't know what "xenophobic" means.' PAULINE HANSON
About the Author Dom Knight is one of the founders of The Chaser, and as a writer on most of their projects he was definitely responsible Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781760529352 for all of the jokes you liked and none of the bad ones. In recent years he's also presented serious programmes on ABC Format: C-Format PB Radio and a silly one on Triple M. His books include Strayapedia and Trumpedia. Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Rolling with the Punchlines Urzila Carlson
Chuckle, laugh and snigger along with Urzila in this fascinating memoir of a life in comedy.
Description Updated with new chapters and written with her trademark deadpan humour, Urzila's memoir is full of ripping yarns about both the big and the little things in life.
Urzila's accidental beginning in stand-up has led to an incredibly successful career in comedy, with regular gigs on Channel 10's Have you Been Paying Attention? in Australia and 7 Days in New Zealand, as well as sell-out shows across both countries, appearances at international festivals and a Netflix special.
But life hasn't always been a bundle of laughs. Urzila talks candidly about her childhood within a happy family - apart from her abusive dad - and about growing up in South Africa. She shares crazy but true tales about her travels, her move down under, coming out, getting married and having children, and cracking Australia.
About the Author Internationally and locally Urzila is a sought-after act, both as a stand up headliner and as an MC.
Since taking the comedy stage in 2008 she has had five sold-out seasons at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, television appearances on Spicks and Specks, Dirty Laundry, Have You Been Paying Attention?, The Great Debate with Barry Humphries, Comedy Up Late as a guest and a host, and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Galas.
Urzila has also sold out festival shows in Perth, Sydney and Adelaide Comedy Festivals, and performed for Just For Laughs at The Sydney Opera House. In New Zealand she has sold out every solo show she's had since 2009.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781988547725 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 128w mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 The Big Book of Great Australian Bush Yarns Graham Seal
Two of Graham Seal's bestselling collections of stories from around Australia, now in one volume.
Description 'Aussies know how to spin a good yarn, and Graham Seal knows how to tell them' - Weekly Times
Graham Seal is one of Australia's master storytellers. This bumper collection of yarns from the bush gathers some of our best stories since colonial times, retold in Graham's warm style.
It takes a certain character to make a living in the Australian bush. In the most difficult situations, laughter often comes to the rescue. Here are pioneers and battlers, convicts and settler's children, and a land that tests them with fire, flood and drought, in stories resonant with Australia's distinctive wry humour.
Originally published as two bestselling collections: Great Australian Stories and Larrikins, Bush Tales and Other Great Australian Stories.
'Graham Seal has the knack of the storyteller.' - Warren Fahey AM
About the Author Graham Seal is a former Professor of Folklore at Curtin University. He is a leading expert on Australian cultural history and an award-winning songwriter. He is the bestselling author of Australia's Funniest Yarns, Great Australian Journeys, Great Bush Stories and Great Convict Stories.
Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 ISBN: 9781760879280 Format: C-Format PB Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 616 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 The 52 Week Project Lauren Keenan
Life is short. Make the most of it.
Description It was winter. Lauren Keenan was separated from her husband, lonely, and miserable. Then came the Night of 27 Rejections of Doom: asking 27 people to hang out one Friday night, and every single person saying no. Her attempts to console herself by going to the movies and eating ice-cream were thwarted by dropping her ice-cream on the toilet floor while fumbling with her phone looking for text messages that weren't there.
Lauren realised that this version of life wasn't working and that she needed to change it. It was time to try something new. 52 new things in fact. 52 new things in 52 weeks.
From entering a public dance competition to trying fake lashes; from starting a Wine and Netflix club to zip-lining; from giving up drinking for six months to going to a music festival alone to feeding a lion; Lauren put herself out there with surprising results.
Each chapter in The 52 Week Project looks at a wider societal issue - chapters include alcohol, parenting, loneliness and social media - and is informed by both Lauren's extensive research into social psychology and her observations about pop-culture.
Her year of new experiences was a game changer. It repaired her relationship with her husband, she regained confidence in herself, and she realised how satisfying it can be to push yourself to your limits and to do things alone. She also learned that true happiness is more likely to be found in the everyday fabric of life.
About the Author Lauren started writing in earnest after having children, initially focusing on short stories and journalistic pieces. She has had eight short stories published in three collections, Huia 11 (2015), Huia 12 (2017) and Huia 13 (2019).
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781988547503 In 2017 she won the Best Short Story Pikihuia award, and in 2019 was a finalist in the Best Emerging Maori Writer Format: C-Format PB category of the same awards. Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 272 pages She has a Master of Arts in New Zealand History. Bic1: Bic2:
A&U New Zealand AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Someone's Wife Linda Burgess
A brilliant collection of personal essays from a quietly subversive writer.
'A work written with brio, Someone's Wife is hilarious and devastating, a sliver of New Zealand culture and history told through a single vibrant life and its entanglements with others. Slouching towards Aotearoa, perhaps Burgess is our Didion, albeit less aloof, more gregarious and with better jokes.' Emma Gattey, Landfall
Description 'Wise, compassionate collection of personal essays that forms a nationally important chronicle of our social and political history.' NZ Listener
'Linda Burgess can make you laugh and break your heart, often in the same sentence. Clear-eyed and wise, these elegant essays are the stories we share to survive.' Diana Wichtel
'You'll want to read this in one sitting but it's worth savouring every line.' Madeleine Chapman
'Somehow it makes perfect sense that a great New Zealand memoir would be written by a dreamy, left-handed wife of an ex-All Black.' Steve Braunias
These pieces read like the freshest of recent novels: clever, restrained and wittily observant. They range across the personal and the observational. There are essays on Linda's lifetime of being an All Black wife (once an AB, always an AB); her love of teaching, education and the young; and a powerful essay on the death of her baby, Toby, striking in its honesty.
Linda is interested in family and friendship; shared and sometimes distorted memories. Her personal truths link to universal truths. She explores the era in which she grew up, and her experiences are timeless. She looks at living abroad, Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 at children leaving home, at house-hunting in Wellington, at travelling with a grandchild, at Leonard Cohen concerts as ISBN: 9781760878993 tribal gatherings. Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 128w mm Moving but never sentimental, Linda Burgess's essays are an engrossing read. Extent: 304 pages Bic1: About the Author Bic2:
Relax: it's the best way to be better at everything.
Description We've often been told that anything worthwhile can only be achieved through sustained effort, hard work or 10,000 hours of practice. But what if the opposite were true?
The French have known it for centuries. We can see it in their laissez faire parenting, their chic style and their haute cuisine - the French barely seem to be trying, yet the results are world famous.
Here, philosopher Ollivier Pourriol draws lessons from French legends to show that the best results in life come not from working harder but from letting go. From Stendhal's writing technique to Phillipe Petit's grace on the tightrope; from the eloquence of Cyrano de Bergerac to the serenity of Rodin and the simplicity of Descartes, this book shows how the greatest French artists, musicians, writers, thinkers and chefs have perfected the art of making their achievements seem easy. And how we can cultivate such je ne sais quoi in our own lives.
About the Author Ollivier Pourriol is a philosopher, writer and prize-winning novelist, who has been exploring the art of living, ambition and creativity for over twenty years. He has lectured at the Paris Philharmonie, and many cinemas, where his lectures mix philosophy and film. Throughout his work he explores the role of imagination in our lives, and easier ways to reach our goals. He lives in Paris, where he puts his ideas into practice
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9781788163279 Format: Misc HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 204h x 138w mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops Shaun Bythell
Shaun Bythell, Scotland's grumpiest bookseller, is back, with seven witty and affectionate portraits of bookshop regulars.
Description Everyone knows who you find in bookshops: people who want to buy books. But, as Shaun Bythell, author of the bestselling Diary of a Bookseller and Confessions of a Bookseller, reveals, that's really only half the story.
Join Shaun as he introduces us to seven bookshop characters, from the Person Who Doesn't Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover) to the harried Parents Secretly After Free Childcare and all the way over to the erotica section, where we'll meet The Person Who Is Up to No Good.
Affectionate, sardonic and laugh-out-loud funny, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops is your indispensable guide to the flora and fauna of your local bookshop.
About the Author Shaun Bythell bought The Bookshop in Wigtown on 1 November 2001, and has been running it ever since with an increasing passion for the business, matched only by a sense of despair for its future, and an ill-humour inspired by almost two decades of dealing with confused customers and surly staff. His internationally-bestselling books The Diary of a Bookseller and Confessions of a Bookseller have been translated into over twenty languages, including Russian, Korean and French.
Price: AU $14.99 NZ $16.99 ISBN: 9781788166584 Format: A Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 178h x 111w mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 War Margaret MacMillan
How the human history of conflict has transformed the world we live in - for good and evil.
Description The time since the Second World War has been seen by some as the longest uninterrupted period of harmony in human history: the 'long peace', as Stephen Pinker called it. But despite this, there has been a military conflict ongoing every year since 1945. The same can be said for every century of recorded history. Is war, therefore, an essential part of being human?
In War, Professor Margaret MacMillan explores the deep links between society and war and the questions they raise. We learn when war began - whether among early homo sapiens or later, as we began to organise ourselves into tribes and settle in communities. We see the ways in which war reflects changing societies and how war has brought change - for better and worse.
Economies, science, technology, medicine, culture: all are instrumental in war and have been shaped by it - without conflict it we might not have had penicillin, female emancipation, radar or rockets. Throughout history, writers, artists, film- makers, playwrights, and composers have been inspired by war - whether to condemn, exalt or simply puzzle about it. If we are never to be rid of war, how should we think about it and what does that mean for peace?
About the Author Margaret MacMillan is Emeritus Professor of International History, University of Oxford and Professor of History, University of Toronto. She is the author of Women and the Raj and the international bestsellers Nixon in China and Peacemakers, which won the 2002 Samuel Johnson Prize, and The War that Ended Peace, The Uses and Abuses of History and History's People, all published by Profile.
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9781788162562 Format: C-Format HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Figuring Out The Past Peter Turchin, Daniel Hoyer
The numbers that tell the story of humanity
Description What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? The average wage in Old Kingdom Egypt? Where did scientific writing first emerge? What was the bloodiest ritual human sacrifice ever?
We are used to thinking about history in terms of stories. Yet we understand our own world through data: vast arrays of statistics that reveal the workings of our societies. So, join the radical historians Peter Turchin and Dan Hoyer for a dive into the numbers that reveal the true shape of the past. Drawing on their own Seshat project, a staggeringly ambitious attempt to log each piece of demographic and econometric information that can be reliably estimated for every society that has ever existed, Figuring Out The Past does more than tell the story of the past: it shows you the large-scale patterns.
About the Author Professor Peter Turchin is the founder of a new transdisciplinary field of Cliodynamics. He has authored seven books and has published 200 articles, including a dozen in such top journals as Nature, Science, and PNAS. Dr Dan Hoyer works with Peter Turchin on the Deep Roots of the Modern World, part of the Seshat: Global History Databank Project.
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781788161923 Format: Demy Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 216h x 135w mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Profile Business AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 In the Dream House Carmen Maria Machado
A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the prizewinning author of Her Body and Other Parties.
Description 'Ravishingly beautiful' - Observer 'Excruciatingly honest and yet vibrantly creative' - Irish Times 'Provocative and rich' - Economist 'Daring, chilling, and unlike anything else you've ever read' - Esquire 'An absolute must-read for 2020' - Stylist
In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing experience with a charismatic but volatile woman, this is a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse.
Each chapter views the relationship through a different lens, as Machado holds events up to the light and examines them from distinct angles. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction, infusing all with her characteristic wit, playfulness and openness to enquiry. The result is a powerful book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.
About the Author Carmen Maria Machado is the author of Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is the writer-in-residence at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where she lives with her wife.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781788162258 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Her Body And Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado
'Impossible, imperfect, unforgettable.' - Roxane Gay - Demolishes the borders between magical realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism.
Description Shortlisted for the National Book Award Fiction Prize 2017
Shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize 2018
In her provocative debut, Carmen Maria Machado demolishes the borders between magical realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the mysterious green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague spreads across the earth. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery about a store's dresses. One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted house guest.
A dark, shimmering slice into womanhood, Her Body and Other Parties is wicked and exquisite.
‘A writer of rare daring … there's a ragged glory to the stories' formal experimentation and erotic fearlessness, and the gusto with which they reinvent horror, SF and fairytale tropes.’ - Guardian
‘A love letter to an obstinate genre that won't be gentrified. It's a wild thing, this book, covered in sequins and scales, blazing with the influence of fabulists from Angela Carter to Kelly Link and Helen Oyeyemi, and borrowing from science fiction, queer theory and horror …’ - New York Times
About the Author Carmen Maria Machado is a fiction writer, critic, and essayist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Guernica, Electric Literature, The Paris Review, AGNI, NPR, Gulf Coast, Los Angeles Review of Books, VICE, and
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 elsewhere. ISBN: 9781781259535 Format: B She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Package Type: PAPERBACK Michener-Copernicus Foundation, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the CINTAS Foundation, the Speculative Literature Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 256 pages Foundation, the University of Iowa and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She is the Artist in Residence at the University of Bic1: Pennsylvania, and lives in Philadelphia with her partner. Bic2:
Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 This Book Will Make You Kinder Henry James Garrett
A sweetly illustrated examination of what makes us kind
Description Why are you kind?
This book will make you kinder by introducing you to your empathy, and by pointing out what limits that empathy. Not just the everyday kindness of taking out your neighbour's bins - the strong, courageous, moral kindness of fighting cruelty. It's needed now more than ever. Unkindness has been given new energy in recent years.
So get to know your empathy a little better. Where it comes from, and why every human - and some animals - have it. Empathy is what makes us kind, but it must be combined with a conscious effort to learn about different kinds of people. A world in which everyone acted on their empathy would be a very kind world indeed. Let's work toward that world.
About the Author Henry James Garrett has written and illustrated for The New York Times, created Valentine's cards for The Fawcett Society, provided a drawing of Meghan Markle's dog as a gift for her, cartooned for the i Newspaper, Buzzfeed and London Pride, had solo exhibitions in London and a beautiful phonebox in Brighton and made greeting cards. He can be found on Instagram @henryjgarrett.
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9781788165488 Format: B Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Souvenir Press AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 This Book Will Make You Kinder 10 copy pack
Includes 10 copies of This Book Will Make You Kinder, plus a bonus reading copy.
Description Includes 10 copies of This Book Will Make You Kinder, plus a bonus reading copy.
About the Author
Price: AU $249.90 NZ $279.90 ISBN: 9324551077504 Format: Pack Package Type: MIXTURES PACK Dimensions: h x w mm Extent: pages Bic1: Bic2:
Souvenir Press AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Loved and Wanted Christa Parravani
A harrowing account of one woman's reckoning with life, death and choice. For readers of Educated, Hillbilly Elegy and Three Women.
Description 'Haunting, wild, and quiet at once. A shimmering look at motherhood, in all gothic pain and glory. I could not stop reading' - Lisa Taddeo, bestselling author of Three Women
In 2017 Christa Parravani had recently moved her family from California to West Virginia and was surviving on a teacher's salary and raising two young children with her husband, screenwriter Anthony Swofford.
Another pregnancy, a year after giving birth to her second child, came as a shock. Christa had a history of ectopic pregnancies, and worried that she wouldn't be able to find adequate medical care. She immediately requested a termination, but her doctor refused to help. The only doctor who would perform an abortion made it clear that this would be illicit, not condoned by her colleagues or their community.
Christa Parravani has crafted, through her own harrowing experiences with healthcare in contemporary America, a brilliant and moving exploration of the choices women have.
About the Author Christa Parravani is the bestselling author of the critically acclaimed memoir Her, which shares Parravani's journey through grief after the loss of her identical twin sister Cara. She is an Assistant Professor in Creative Non-fiction at West Virginia University.
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781786580559 Format: Demy Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 216h x 135w mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Manilla AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Funny You Should Ask . . . John and Sarah Lloyd
The perfect gift for all those big and little kids in your life who ask 'why...?'.
Description The QI Elves are the clever clogs behind the hit panel show QI. Every Wednesday the Elves appear on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show's 'Why Workshop' where they answer the ponderings and wonderings of Radio 2's most inquisitive listeners. Funny You Should Ask features the QI Elves' answers to questions on topics ranging from goosebumps to grapefruit, pizza to pirates and everything in-between. Generously sprinkled with extra facts from the Elves this is essential reading for the incurably curious.
How much water would you need to put out the Sun? If spiders can walk on the ceiling why can't they get out of the bath? What's the point of snot? Why does my pizza taste so much better the next morning? Why do dads make such bad jokes? Why am I a capital letter and you're not? Why is there an Essex, a Wessex, a Sussex but no Nossex? Can I dig a tunnel to the other side of the Earth? Why aren't unicorns called unihorns? Do cats get goosebumps? When does a rock become an island? Why don't clouds freeze? Can I live forever?
About the Author Led by Chief Gnome John Lloyd, the QI Elves are the team of writers behind BBC Two's smash hit panel show QI. They have authored over twenty books, reached the semi-finals of BBC Two's Only Connect and had over 250 million listens on their podcast No Such Thing as a Fish. Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9780571363377 Format: Misc HB Zoe Ball is the current and first female host of the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show. After presenting the much-lauded Live & Package Type: HARD BACK Kicking on the BBC, she was also the first woman to front the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show. An avid film buff, Zoe Dimensions: 198h x 153w mm Extent: 288 pages interviews all the top stars for BAFTA's Red Carpet and presents SKY's exclusive coverage of the OSCARs. Zoe can also Bic1: be seen providing the nation with behind the scenes Strictly gossip on her weekday show, It Takes Two on BBC2. Bic2:
Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Rough Ideas Stephen Hough
Illuminating insights into the life and mind of a top concert pianist.
Description Stephen Hough is indisputably one of the world's leading pianists, winning global acclaim and numerous awards, both for his concerts and recordings. He is also a writer, composer and painter and was recently described by the Economist as one of '20 Living Polymaths'. As an international performer he spends much of his life at airports, on planes, and in hotel rooms - and this book expands notes he has made, in his words, 'during that dead time on the road'.
He writes about music and the life of a musician, from exploring the broader aspects of what it is to walk out on to a stage or to make a recording, to specialist tips from deep inside the practice room: how to trill, how to pedal, how to practise. He also writes vividly about people he's known, places he's travelled to, books he's read, paintings he's seen; and touches on more controversial subjects, such as assisted suicide and abortion. Even religion is there - the possibility of the existence of God, problems with some biblical texts and the challenge involved in being a gay Catholic.
An illuminating and absorbing introduction into the life and mind of one of our great cultural figures.
About the Author One of the most distinctive artists of his generation, Stephen Hough performs with the world's major orchestras and in recital at the most prestigious concert halls. He has made over sixty CD recordings, and has composed works ranging from solo piano to orchestral. As an author, he has written articles for the Guardian and The Times amongst others, and wrote a blog for the Telegraph for seven years. His first novel The Final Retreat was published in 2018.
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9780571350483 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 464 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Faber Music AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 The Wichita Lineman Dylan Jones
Dylan Jones' luminous excavation of Jimmy Webb's song 'Wichita Lineman' offers a portal into a defining moment of American cultural history.
Description The sound of 'Wichita Lineman' was the sound of ecstatic solitude, but then its hero was the quintessential loner. What a great metaphor he was: a man who needed a woman more than he actually wanted her.
Written in 1968 by Jimmy Webb, 'Wichita Lineman' is the first philosophical country song: a heartbreaking torch ballad still celebrated for its mercurial songwriting genius fifty years later. It was recorded by Glen Campbell in LA with a legendary group of musicians known as 'the Wrecking Crew', and something about the song's enigmatic mood seemed to capture the tensions in America at a moment of crisis. Fusing a dribble of bass, searing strings, tremolo guitar and Campbell's plaintive vocals, Webb's paean to the American West describes a telephone lineman's longing for an absent lover, who he hears 'singing in the wire' - and like all good love songs, it's an SOS from the heart.
Mixing close-listening, interviews and travelogue, Dylan Jones explores the legacy of a record that has entertained and haunted millions for over half a century. What is it about this song that continues to seduce listeners, and how did the parallel stories of Campbell and Webb - songwriters and recording artists from different ends of the spectrum - unfold in the decades following? Part biography, part work of musicological archaeology, The Wichita Lineman opens a window on to America in the late-twentieth century through the prism of a song that has been covered by myriad artists in the intervening decades.
'Americana in the truest sense: evocative and real.' - Bob Stanley
'It's just another song to me. I've written 1,000 of them and it's really just another one.' - Jimmy Webb
'When I heard it I cried. It made me cry because I was homesick. It's just a masterfully written song.' - Glen Campbell
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9780571353415 'I love the song because its as though it's been in my life forever.' - Amy Raphael Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK 'It's not just the perfect pop song, it's almost perfect as an idea, existing outside of the song itself.' - Stuart Maconie Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: 'I don't really think of 'Wichita Lineman' as easy listening, I just think it's a great song.' - Paul Weller Bic2:
This journal contains satirical advice to politicians ranging from Boris Johnson to Kim Jong-un, from The Man in the Room Next Door.
Description Just who is the secret political adviser calling himself The Man in the Room Next Door? No one knows. We don't even know his name.
But now the lid is about to be blown clean off, because the secret files of the world's most influential* political media adviser are published in this book. Packed with letters, memos, texts, tweets, emails, journal entries, leaked documents and crude doodles, these pages will reveal who The Man in the Room Next Door is and, more importantly, his thoughts on those who employ his services, including Donald 'dangerous puffin' Trump, Boris 'posh motorboat' Johnson and some of the their least competent colleagues.
This book is the evidence that anyone can be a world leader. Just as long as they're wearing the right earpiece.
*fictional
About the Author Michael Spicer is a comedy writer, actor, director and the creator of the internet sensation The Room Next Door. His sketches and short films on YouTube and Twitter have resulted in international media attention, with his secret political adviser making appearances on The Late Late Show in the US. The story of Spicer's life before his overnight success is now a Radio 4 show, titled Before Next Door. He has written and performed in a variety of online comedy projects for Channel 4, Hat Trick and Comedy Central and is a regular on The Mash Report on BBC Two.
@MrMichaelSpicer | michaelspicer.co.uk
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Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 A Long Stride Nicholas Morgan
The remarkable history of how Johnnie Walker became the world's number one Scotch, a perfect gift for whisky fans.
Description The history of Johnnie Walker, beginning in 1820, is also the history of Scotch whisky. But who was John Walker - the man who started the story? And how did his business grow from the shelves of a small grocery shop in Kilmarnock to become the world's No. 1 Scotch?
A Long Stride tells the story of how John Walker and a succession of ingenious and progressive business leaders embraced their Scottish roots to walk confidently on an international stage. By doing things their own way, Johnnie Walker overturned the conventions of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, survived two world wars, flourished despite Prohibition and the Great Depression to become the first truly global whisky brand, revolutionising the world of advertising along the way. Ultimately the story is a testament to how an obsession with quality and a relentless drive to always move forward created the most recognised Scotch whisky brand in the world.
About the Author Nicholas Morgan is Head of Whisky Outreach, tasked with reinvigorating heritage blends, including Johnnie Walker. He is the winner of an Outstanding Achievement in Scotch Whisky Award. His work has earned him a place on the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trustee board, further supporting excellence in British Craftsmanship. Nicholas was made the forty- eighth inductee into the Whisky Hall of Fame in March 2018. He lives in London.
Price: AU $34.99 NZ $37.99 ISBN: 9781838852078 Format: Misc HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 220h x 162w mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 The Assassin's Cloak edited by Irene Taylor, edited by Alan Taylor
A beautiful and updated edition of this collection of the world's greatest diarists on its twentieth anniversary.
Description 'A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen', wrote William Soutar in 1934. But a diary is also a place for recording everyday thoughts and special occasions, private fears and hopeful dreams. The Assassin's Cloak gathers together some of the most entertaining and inspiring entries for each day of the year, as writers ranging from Queen Victoria to Andy Warhol, Samuel Pepys to Adrian Mole, pen their musings on the historic and the mundane.
Spanning centuries and international in scope, this peerless anthology pays tribute to a genre that is at once the most intimate and public of all literary forms.
This new updated edition is published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the book's original publication.
About the Author Alan Taylor has been a journalist for over thirty years. He was deputy editor of the Scotsman, managing editor of Scotsman Publications, and writer-at-large for the Sunday Herald. He has edited several acclaimed anthologies, most recently Glasgow: The Autobiography (2016). He is the author of Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship with Muriel Spark and, in 2018, series editor of the centenary edition of Spark's novels. He is the co-founder and editor of the Scottish Review of Books.
Irene Taylor was born and brought up in Edinburgh. For many years she worked in public libraries. She has a degree in history from Edinburgh University and she now works for the National Trust for Scotland.
Price: AU $49.99 NZ $55.00 ISBN: 9781786899118 Format: Misc HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 240h x 162w mm Extent: 720 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Think Like a White Man Boule Whytelaw, Nels Abbey
A bold, satirical humour book on how to achieve success like a Great White Male, which Benjamin Zephaniah called 'the work of a true mastermind'.
Description 'This book rewarded me with dark, dry chuckles on every page' - Reni Eddo-Lodge
'Hilarious . . . This original approach to discussing race is funny, intellectual and timely' - Independent
'The work of a true mastermind' - Benjamin Zephaniah
I learned early on that, for me as a black professional, to rise through the ranks and really attain power, I needed to adopt the most ruthless of mindsets possible: the mindset of the White Man who would tear your cheek from your face before he even considered turning his one first.
About the Author Dr Boule Whytelaw III is the Distinguished Professor of White People Studies at Bishop Lamonthood University and the Deputy Vice Chair of the Centre for (Trying to) Understand White People (CTUWP).
He has written numerous successful TV shows, including Good Cops, Good White Folk and Other Wild Fantasies and Scientific Proof: The White Man's Ice Is Indeed Colder. Since dictating the thesis of Think Like a White Man to Nels Abbey, he has neither been seen nor heard from.
Nels Abbey is a British-Nigerian writer and media executive based in London. This is his first book.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781786894403 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Not a Novel Jenny Erpenbeck
A collection of intimate and explosive essays on literature, life, history, politics and place from the award- winning author of Go, Went, Gone and The End of Days.
Description Not a Novel gathers together the best of Jenny Erpenbeck's non-fiction. Drawing from her 25 years of thinking and writing, the book plots a journey through the works and subjects that have inspired and influenced her. Written with the same clarity and insight that characterise her fiction, the pieces range from literary criticism and reflections on Germany's history, to the autobiographical essays where Erpenbeck forgoes the literary cloak to write from a deeply personal perspective about life and politics, hope and despair, and the role of the writer in grappling with these forces.
Here we see one of the most searching of European writers reckoning with her country's divided past in all its complexity, and responding to the world today with insight, intelligence and humanity.
About the Author Jenny Erpenbeck is the author of The Old Child & The Book of Words (2008), Visitation (2010) and The End of Days (2014, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize), and Go, Went, Gone (2017). Her fiction has been translated into over 30 languages.
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781783786091 Format: Demy Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 216h x 138w mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Granta AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Go, Went, Gone Jenny Erpenbeck
Now in paperback, the unforgettable German bestseller about the European refugee crisis.
Description One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue
Richard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas, but now he is retired, his books remain in their packing boxes and he steps into the streets of his city, Berlin. Here, on Alexanderplatz, he discovers a new community -- a tent city, established by African asylum seekers. Hesitantly, getting to know the new arrivals, Richard finds his life changing, as he begins to question his own sense of belonging in a city that once divided its citizens into them and us.
At once a passionate contribution to the debate on race, privilege and nationality and a beautifully written examination of an ageing man's quest to find meaning in his life, Go, Went, Gone showcases one of the great contemporary European writers at the height of her powers.
About the Author Jenny Erpenbeck is the author of The Old Child & The Book of Words (2008), Visitation (2010) and The End of Days (2014, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize), and Go, Went, Gone (2017), all published by Portobello. Her fiction is published in fourteen languages.
Susan Bernofsky has translated works by Robert Walser, Hermann Hesse, Gregor von Rezzori, Yoko Tawada, Ludwig Harig and Franz Kafka. She is the author of Foreign Words: Translator-Authors in the Age of Goethe and is currently at work on a biography of Robert Walser. Her translation of The Old Child and Other Stories was awarded the 2006 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781846276224 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Portobello PBS AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Anatomy of a Killing Ian Cobain
The untold story of an IRA unit, and a killing that has echoed across the decades.
Description On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a car and crossed the countryside to the town of Lisburn. Within an hour, they had killed an off-duty policeman in front of his young son.
In Anatomy of a Killing, award-winning journalist Ian Cobain documents the hours leading up to the killing, and the months and years of violence, attrition and rebellion surrounding it. Drawing on interviews with those most closely involved, as well as court files, police notes, military intelligence reports, IRA strategy papers, memoirs and government records, this is a unique perspective on the Troubles, and a revelatory work of investigative journalism.
About the Author Ian Cobain is an award-winning investigative reporter whose work has appeared in the Guardian, The Times, the Irish Times and Middle East Eye. For his journalism he has won he Martha Gellhorn Prize and the Paul Foot Award, along with two Amnesty International media awards. His first book, Cruel Britannia (Portobello 2012) won the Paddy Power Total Politics Award for Debut Political Book of the Year. His second book was The History Thieves (Portobello 2016).
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Granta AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Who Killed John Lennon? Lesley-Ann Jones
A compelling biography that unravels the enigma of John Lennon from acclaimed music biographer Lesley- Ann Jones.
Description In this compelling biography, acclaimed music biographer Lesley-Ann Jones unravels the enigma that was John Lennon to present a complete portrait of the man, his life, his loves, his music, his untimely death and ultimately his legacy. Pulling back the many layers, Jones closely tracks the life events and personality traits that led to Lennon living in self- imposed exile in New York, where he was shot dead outside his apartment on the 8th December 1980.
Who, or what, really killed John Lennon? And when did the 'real' John Lennon die?
Using fresh first-hand research, unseen material as well as exclusive interviews with the people who knew Lennon best, Jones' search for answers offers a spellbinding, 360-degree view of one of the world's most iconic music legends. Who Killed John Lennon? delves deep into his psyche - the good, the bad and the genius - forty years on from his death.
About the Author Lesley-Ann Jones is an acclaimed biographer, novelist, broadcaster and keynote speaker. She honed her craft on Fleet Street, as a newspaper journalist. She is the bestselling author of Bohemian Rhapsody: The Definitive Biography of Freddie Mercury, Hero: David Bowie, and Ride a White Swan: The Lives & Deaths of Marc Bolan. A childhood friend of David Bowie, Lesley-Ann has interviewed many of the world's best-loved artists, including Paul McCartney, Madonna and Prince, often forming lifelong friendships with her subjects. She is a mother of three and lives in London.
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781789462975 Format: C-Format PB Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 448 pages Bic1: Bic2:
John Blake AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Would You Rather? Joe Shooman
The Ultimate Collection of Preposterous Posers to Ponder
Description Would you rather...look ten years older from the neck up, or from the neck down?
Would you rather...have everyone always be able to read what you're thinking, or always be able to see what you're doing?
Would you rather...lose the ability to lie, or have to believe everything you hear?
Get stuck in with friends and family to work your way through over 200 mind-bending, side-splitting hypothetical dilemmas. Guaranteed to split opinions and get everyone talking - and laughing - at your next party, gathering or festive get-together!
About the Author Joe Shooman has written words on music, entertainment, sport, news and crisps for many national newspapers and magazines over the years, and worked in radio as a presenter, producer and reporter. He is contributor to the legendary Viz comic and is the author of numerous books on musicians, punk, Internet culture and more. He once was sacked from his newspaper column for hiding rude messages about his team's rivals in the text. He lives on the smudgy border, and contrary popular rumours, does not like to move it, move it.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781789463880 Format: A Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 178h x 110w mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Bic2:
John Blake AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Atlantis Carlo Piano, Renzo Piano and translated by Will Schutt
Description World-famous architect Renzo Piano and his son Carlo set sail from Genoa one late Summer day, guided by the ancestral desire felt by many explorers before them: to find Atlantis (in Italian, Atlantide). Atlantis is the perfect city, built to harbour a perfect society. This is its true beauty, precious and elusive.
Renzo Piano, a man who can not only measure land at a glance but also the sea's infinite geometry, returns to the places where he has erected his works, mosaic pieces in the infinite, necessary quest for perfection. With his son he sails across the Pacific, along the banks of the Thames and the Seine, reaching as far as Athens, San Francisco's Golden Gate Park and Osaka Bay.
In search of beauty, he finds the imperfections that every building project carries within it. And so, all that remains is to sail on.
About the Author Carlo Piano, the son, journalist. Curious explorer of cities and their customs. Author of books on urban hinterlands. He loves the sea.
Renzo Piano, the father, architect. Has built cities all over the world. In this book he tells of an adventurous profession. He loves the sea and shared his passion with his son.
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781787702615 Format: Misc HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 210h x 135w mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Europa Editions AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Brazil contributions by
Description Order and Progress? by Jon Lee Anderson Pride, Prejudice, and Funk by Alberto Riva I Was King of The River by Eliane Brum
In the second half of the 20th century Brazil made extraordinary contributions to music, sport, architecture. From "bossa nova," to acrobatic soccer, to the daring architecture of Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa, the country seemed to embody a new, original vision of modernity, at once "fluid, agile, and complex." Seen from abroad, the victory of the far right in the 2018 elections was a rude awakening that suddenly turned the Brazilian dream into a nightmare. For locals, however, illusions had started fading long ago, amid paralyzing corruption, environmental degradation, racial discrimination, and escalating violence. Luckily, Brazilians are still willing to fight in order to build a better future. Today the challenge of telling the story of this extraordinary country consists in finding its enduring vitality amid the apparent melancholy.
About the Author
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781787702417 Format: Misc PB Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 240h x 160w mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Europa Editions AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Japan
'Some Japanese stories end violently. Others never end at all, but only cut away, at the moment of extreme crisis, to a butterfly, or the wind, or the moon.' - Brian Phillips
Description Visitors from the West look with amazement, and sometimes concern, at Japan's monolithic social structures and unique, complex culture industry; the gigantic scale of its tech corporations and the resilience of its traditions; the extraordinary diversity of the subcultures that flourish in its "post-human" megacities. The country nonetheless remains an impossibly complicated jigsaw puzzle whose overall design eludes us. Its inscrutability has made the country an inexhaustible source of inspiration for stories, reflections, and reportage. The subjects in this volume range from the Japanese veneration of the dead to the Tokyo music scene, from urban alienation to cinema, from sumo to machismo.
Caught between an ageing population and extreme post-modernity, immobile yet futuristic, Japan is an ideal observation point from which to understand our age and the one to come.
About the Author
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Europa Editions AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Greece
'On the Greek island of Ikaria, life is sweet . . . and very, very long. What is the locals' secret?' - from "The Island of Long Life" by Andrew Anthony
Description Few countries have received more media attention in recent years and even fewer have been represented in such vastly divergent ways. There's a down- side to all this attention: everyone seems to have something final to say about Greece. News replaces people's actual stories, impressions substitute facts, characters take the place of people. In this volume of The Passenger, we chose to set those opinions aside in order to give to the stories, facts, and people of Greece the dignity and centrality they deserve.
About the Author
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781787702189 Format: C-Format PB Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 241h x 159w mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Europa Editions AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 The Night in Gethsemane Massimo Recalcati, translated by Ann Goldstein
Description As the Gospels tell us, after the Last Supper Jesus retreats to a small field just outside the city of Jerusalem: Gethsemane, the olive grove. His prayers are interrupted when Judas arrives with a group of armed men, and kisses him. The kiss, given to point Jesus out to the guards, has become a powerful symbol of the wrenching experience of betrayal, and abandonment. Betrayed by his disciples, even by Peter, the most faithful of them all, Jesus is forsaken. His sin, to have drawn God closer to man.
In The Night in Gethsemane, Massimo Recalcati, one of Italy's highest regarded psychoanalysts, traces the relationship between biblical text and psychoanalytical theory, revealing human life in all its fragility and its agony.
About the Author Massimo Recalcati is a psychoanalyst and author who teaches at the universities of Pavia and Verona.
Ann Goldstein is one of the most accomplished translators from the Italian working today. Best known for her translations of Elena Ferrante's oeuvre, she has also translated novels by Primo Levi, Pierpaolo Pasolini, Alessandro Baricco and other classic and contemporary Italian writers.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781787702592 Format: Misc HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 210h x 135w mm Extent: 80 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Europa Editions AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Travels with Marx Marcello Musto, translated by Patrick Camiller
Whether you're an expert on the subject or eager to learn more about the modern world's most influential political philosopher, you'll be surprised and fascinated by Musto's Travels with Marx
Description The portrait of the modern world's most influential political philosopher that emerges in this book is very different from the granitic, sphinx-like image memorialised in public squares during the 20th century. After spending some desperately poor years in Britain, in the mid-1870s Marx started traveling again. Travels with Marx tells the stories of those travels, peregrinations, encounters, conversations, and reflections and by bringing readers closer to the man who was Karl Marx is also an invitation to revisit his philosophical ideas.
About the Author
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781787702172 Format: Misc PB Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 180h x 120w mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Europa Editions AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Past Mistakes David Mountain
From the fall of Rome to the Wild West, Mountain brings colour and perspective to historical mythmaking.
Description Our museums are full of pure white Classical sculptures. Over the years, we've ignored evidence that they were originally painted bright colours, 'restoring' sculptures to a gleaming white and becoming heated about the very idea of a lick of paint. Why? Because the stories we tell about our past affect how we see ourselves today.
Just one wrong turn in our understanding of history can infect whole areas of thought - as well as how we look at society and relate to others in the 21st century. Exploring some of the biggest myths, mysteries and misconceptions about the past (Columbus didn't discover America, the Vandals weren't vandals, Boudicca wasn't English), David Mountain reveals how ongoing revolutions in history and archaeology are finally shedding light on the truth.
We discover how prejudices, hoaxes and misinterpretations have whitewashed entire chapters of history, dismissed and demonised female leaders, and invented entire civilisations. Past Mistakes will make you reconsider your notion of what is and isn't 'history' - and why it matters now.
About the Author David Mountain is a freelance writer whose work has been featured in Free Inquiry, The Humanist and Nadja. He has also given talks at the Edinburgh Fringe and Belfast's Festival of Ideas and Politics. He currently lives in Edinburgh.
Price: AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 ISBN: 9781785786624 Format: Demy Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 216h x 135w mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Icon AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Right, Said Fred Andrew Flintoff
The hilarious and eye-opening new book from one of Britain's best-loved figures.
Description The hilarious and eye-opening new book from one of Britain's best-loved figures.
About the Author Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff (MBE) is a presenter, broadcaster, television panellist and former England international cricketer. He lives with his wife, Rachael, and their three children.
Freddie won BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2005. Following his retirement from sport, he joined the panel of BAFTA-winning A League of Their Own, has presented documentaries and interviewed some of the world's most famous figures. He has written for newspapers, fronted his own radio show and currently works alongside Robbie Savage and Matthew Syed on their hugely successful and award-winning podcast Flintoff, Savage and the Ping Pong Guy.
Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781788703079 Format: C-Format PB Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Blink AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Do You Know What? Andrew Flintoff
Do You Know What? is the hilarious and eye-opening new book from one of Britain's best-loved figures.
Description What's the worst that can happen? Are there aliens out there somewhere? What happens when I die?
In Do You Know What?, Britain's favourite sportsman-turned-comedian-slash-leftfield-thinker Freddie Flintoff expels an eclectic and entertaining smorgasbord of anecdotes, impressions, reflections, ruminations, musings, cogitations, observations, rants, confessions and pearls of wisdom on all aspects of life's rich tapestry.
As a prolific philosopher of life's most unfathomable questions, Freddie uses his own inexplicable experiences - from the sublime: giving up booze, shopping in Poundland with his family, exploring the wonders of the universe with his mates; to the ridiculous: wrestling with WWE's finest, singing in a musical on the West End, pranking teammates - to help us all gain the comfort of his life mantra: What's the worst that can happen?
Do You Know What? is an unexpectedly helpful, occasionally silly and absorbing brain dump on life and everything it holds, from one of Britain's most-loved national treasures.
About the Author Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff (MBE) is a presenter, broadcaster, television panellist and former England international cricketer. He lives with his wife, Rachael, and their three children. Freddie won BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2005. Following his retirement from sport, he joined the panel of BAFTA-winning A League of Their Own, has presented documentaries and interviewed some of the world's most famous figures. He has written for newspapers, fronted his own radio show and currently works alongside Robbie Savage and Matthew Syed on their hugely successful and award- winning podcast Flintoff, Savage and the Ping Pong Guy.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781788700962 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Blink AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 The Feminist Quiz Book Sian Meades-Williams, Laura Brown
Test your knowledge with over 100 questions on feminist history from around the world!
Description Test your friends and family on what they really know, and find out what your teachers should have taught you...
Delve into the fascinating history of women who refused, dared, led, asked and discovered, from Queen Elizabeth II to Mary Wollstonecraft, from the incredible Rosa Parks to the inspiring Malala Yousafzai.
Covering all of the topics you studied at school, find out if you know the women who created the very items that surround you, discover the women who weren't afraid to be the first, and test yourself on the women who keep fighting.
The Feminist Quiz Book is a celebration of women from around the word and the perfect gift for the feminist in your life. From easy to difficult questions, find out how good of a feminist you really are in this fun and interactive quiz book.
About the Author Laura Brown is an award-winning freelance writer, journalist and editor. She was the Editor and Agony Aunt of Shout for many years, before becoming Editor-in-Chief of comics such as Beano, Commando and Oor Wullie. Now she writes up a storm for a variety of magazines and newsletters. She's @EnchantedTrifle on Twitter.
Sian Meades-Williams is an award-winning writer, editor and pistachio ice-cream fan. Her newsletters, Tigers are Better Looking - which she writes with Laura - and Freelance Writing Jobs are read by thousands of subscribers every week. She's @SianySianySiany on Twitter.
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9781788703567 Format: Demy Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 216h x 135w mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Blink AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Nietzsche Stefan Zweig, translated by Will Stone
A dazzling, tour de force biography of the one of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, by one of the bestselling writers of the twentieth.
Description In this vivid biography, Zweig eschews traditional academic discussion and focuses on Nietzsche's habits, passions and obsessions. Concentrating on the man rather than the work, on the tragedy of his existence and his apartness from the world in which he moved in enforced isolation, Zweig draws the reader inexorably into Nietzsche's tragic life.
This edition is illustrated with numerous photographs relating to Nietzsche and his European locations, in a superb translation by Will Stone.
About the Author Stefan Zweig was one of the most popular and widely translated writers of the early twentieth century. Born into an Austrian-Jewish family in 1881, he became a leading figure in Vienna's cosmopolitan cultural world and was famed for his gripping novellas and vivid psychological biographies.
In 1934, following the Nazis' rise to power, Zweig fled Austria, first for England, where he wrote his famous novel Beware of Pity, then the United States and finally Brazil. It was here that he completed his acclaimed autobiography The World of Yesterday, a lament for the golden age of a Europe destroyed by two world wars. The articles and speeches in Messages from a Lost World were written as Zweig, a pacifist and internationalist, witnessed this destruction and warned of the threat to his beloved Europe. On 23 February 1942, Zweig and his second wife Lotte were found dead, following an apparent double suicide.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781782276364 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Pushkin AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Approaching Eye Level Vivian Gornick
Seven seminal essays addressing loneliness, friendship and feminism, written in Gornick's inimitable voice, this collection has never been published in Australia.
Description Vivian Gornick's writing has always explored the hard truths of existence: the nature of human loneliness, and the struggle to love, work, and connect.
In these seven seminal essays Gornick chronicles the New York streets that energise her, and looks back on the dangerously charged atmosphere of the Catskills where she waitressed as a student in the late fifties. She describes her introduction to the feminism of the 1970s and the lessons it taught her, reflects on a friendship with an older female writer that faltered, and analyses the failure of connection among like-minded people. She considers what it means to live alone, and the absorbed solitude of writing letters.
Approaching Eye Level is an unrelentingly honest collection of essays that finds Gornick at her best, reminding us that we can come to know ourselves only by engaging fully with the world
About the Author Vivian Gornick is the author of several books, including the acclaimed memoir Fierce Attachments, the essay collectionsThe End of the Novel of Love, The Men in My Life, and The Odd Woman and the City. She began her career as a staff writer for The Village Voice in 1969, and her work has since appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, and many other publications.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781911547648 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 128w mm Extent: pages Bic1: Bic2:
Daunt Books AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 The Golden Flea Michael Rips
The captivating story of Manhattan's legendary Chelsea Flea Market.
Description For decades the legendary Chelsea flea market sprawled over several blocks on the west side of Manhattan. Visitors would trawl through booths crammed with vintage dresses, rare books, ancient swords, glass eyeballs, Afghan rugs, West African fetish dolls, Old Master paintings, and much more, seeking treasure.
In The Golden Flea, Michael Rips tells the story of his obsession with this curious, captivating world and its eccentric cast of characters. Writing with a beguiling style that has won praise from Joan Didion and Susan Orlean, Rips introduces us to the flea's vendors, pickers, and collectors, including a haberdasher who only sells to those he deems worthy; an art dealer whose obscure paintings often go for enormous sums; a troubadour who sings to attract customers; and the Prophet, who finds wisdom amongst the treasures and trash. As Rips's passion for collecting grows and the flea's last days loom, he undertakes a quest to prove the provenance of a mysterious painting that just might be the one.
About the Author Michael Rips is the author of Pasquale's Nose, and The Face of a Naked Lady. He is the executive director of the Art Students League of New York and lives in the Chelsea Hotel in New York City.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781911547761 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 128w mm Extent: pages Bic1: Bic2:
Daunt Books AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 In the Kitchen Risbridger, Freeman, Tandoh, Annan, Aribisala, Golby, Johnson, Johnson, Liu, Powles, Roddy, Sen and Turshen
A collection to savour and inspire, In the Kitchen brings together thirteen contemporary writers whose work brilliantly explores food, capturing their reflections on their culinary experiences in the kitchen and beyond.
Description 'I learned that before entering the kitchen, I must get the measure of its hold over me.'
Food speaks to our personal history as well as wider cultural histories. But what are the stories we tell ourselves about the kitchen, and how do we first come to it? How do the cookbooks we read shape us? Can cooking be a tool for connection in the kitchen and outside of it?
In these essays thirteen writers consider the subjects of cooking and eating and how they shape our lives, and the possibilities and limitations the kitchen poses. Rachel Roddy traces an alternative personal history through the cookers in her life; Rebecca May Johnson considers the radical potential of finger food; Ruby Tandoh discovers a new way of thinking about flavour through the work of writer Doreen Fernandez; Yemisi Aribisala remembers a love affair in which food failed as a language; and Julia Turshen considers food's ties to community.
About the Author Contributors including: Yemisi Aribisala, Laura Freeman, Rebecca May Johnson, Ella Risbridger, Rachel Roddy, Mayukh Sen, Julia Turshen, Juliette Annan, Ruby Tandoh, Joel Golby, Rebecca Liu, Nina Mingya Powles, Daisy Johnson.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781911547662 Format: Misc PB Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: pages Bic1: Bic2:
Daunt Books AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 F*ck It!
Journal your rage and have a good rant with these humorous prompts designed to help you let off steam!
Description A fill-in journal that encourages you to vent your feelings, jot down your anger and scribble out your rage. Irreverent, hilarious and more than a little bit sweary, this is the perfect place to let it all out. Make a paper voodoo doll, invent your own swear words and scribble as hard as you possibly can. With plenty of space to have a good rant about those daily things that just really get on your nerves, this is the perfect book for anyone who loves a really good moan - just make sure it's for your eyes only!
About the Author
Price: AU $14.99 NZ $16.99 ISBN: 9781787416925 Format: Misc PB Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 172h x 144w mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Studio AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 The World of Peaky Blinders Dan Whitehead, illustrated by Mat Edwards
Head to the 1920's with this entertaining cultural guide to Peaky Blinders.
Description Welcome to The World of Peaky Blinders, a cultural guide to the world that inspired the hit BBC drama. Get ready to meet television's most notorious family. This fun compendium of trivia, quizzes and 'how-to' guides will teach you how to dress, talk, drink and thrive like a Peaky Blinder. So, don your flat cap and head to the Garrison. Thomas Shelby will see you now.
About the Author Dan Whitehead has been writing about movies, games, TV and other pop culture for almost 30 years. He has written for Guinness World Records, BAFTA and the TV show Dara O'Briain's Go 8 Bit, and is also an accomplished scriptwriter for games and comics.
Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781787417656 Format: Misc HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 192h x 142w mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Studio AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 The Adulting Manual Milly Smith, illustrated by Katie Abey
An interactive manual for when being an adult is a bit too much.
Description You know those things you're supposed to know how to do as an adult, but you really don't know? Ever been in that situation where you're looking for the adult in the room, and then you realise YOU are the adult? Yeah, that. There's adulting, then there's adulting for the messy mind. Sometimes you just need extra maps and a GPS. This manual is for adults that sometimes need a little extra help.
From top small talk tips to use next time you're at the hairdressers to advice on how to ask for help, this interactive journal offers a safe place for people to explore their mental health and express themselves.
Written by Milly Smith, a mental health and body acceptance advocate and public speaker. Milly uses her Instagram account @millykeepsgoing to send positive messages to her 170,000 strong following.
Milly's wise words are accompanied by the whimsical and quirky illustrations of Katie Abey. Katie's motivational and pun- filled illustrations have a huge appeal to adults.
Chapters: - Body image, body acceptance and body love - Mental health - Riding the lows and coping with crisis - How to do... stuff - It's okay... - Social media - Mindfulness - Let's talk about sex - Worried about worrying about worries Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9781787416130 - Self-worth, self-love and self-acceptance Format: Misc PB Package Type: PAPERBACK Plus... two sticker sheets and four pull-out postcards. Dimensions: 214h x 150w mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: About the Author Bic2:
Toy inventor and designer Tom Karen recounts his colourful and creative life through the objects and mementos that have come to define it
Description This is a story about life, about imagination, about being in the present and existing in the past; this is a story about painting, drawing, chopping and changing; about thinking, discussing, arguing and listening. This is a tale of a century of creativity and how 'things' come to define who we are.
Tom Karen is the Vimp, and Aircruiser and a Water Line Ship; he's a 'Big Fat Peace Bomb', a Bond Bug and the Marble Run; he's the Chopper bike and the 'man that designed the 1970s'; he's every one of his thousands of sketches contained in London's Victoria & Albert Museum - each a testament to a lifetime of artistry and creativity. He's also a living embodiment of a life immersed in inventiveness, imagination and thought: visit his home and you will see his world come to life with papier-Mache birds, life-size toy dogs and various model Marble Runs hogging every corner of his house; his work-bench is a vibrant collage of creativity, from hand-drawn maps and postcards to newly devised toys for his ever- spoilt grand children and their friends. He's a real-life 'Geppetto' - a man who lives for children and for creativity, and should his toys ever come to life they would have such a story to tell.
From his early life in Czechoslovakia, his journey fleeing Nazi Germany across continental Europe, and his formative years in the UK as a Jewish immigrant landing on these shores with little-to-no money; through to his ascent to the top of the design tree, becoming the 'man who designed the 1970s', and his later years as a creative polymath and design mentor. In Toymaker Tom Karen presents some of the most cherished items that tell a story of not just an extraordinary life, but show the importance of nurturing one's own imagination.
About the Author Tom Karen was born in Czechoslovakia in 1926, into a relatively well-off Jewish family based in the city of Brno. Following the rise of Nazi Germany, his family had to flee their home country, settling in the UK via Belgium, France and Spain. A
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 creative at heart, Tom trained in product design at Central St Martins and went on to work at Ford and Hotpoint before ISBN: 9781788700863 taking over Ogle Design, when its founder, David Ogle was killed in a car accident. It was at Ogle where Tom reached the Format: C-Format HB top of the design game, inventing the Chopper bike, the Marble Run, the Scimitar GTE and the Bond Bug, amongst many Package Type: HARD BACK other cult transport vehicles, and toys and games loved by kids the world over. Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Bic2:
535 AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Beatlebone Kevin Barry
One of the most talked-about novels of 2015. Winner of the Goldsmiths prize and shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year.
Description John is so many miles from love now and home. This is the story of his strangest trip.
A novel of family, ghosts, love, music and the quest for truth, Beatlebone recounts a wild journey through the west of Ireland in 1978. At its helm is John, a maddened genius fleeing fame and seeking peace. With his deadpan Irish driver, Cornelius, at his side, John is hellbent on reaching the Island of Dorinish, an assignment he arranged ten years before. Lyrical, freewheeling, quixotic and fun, Bealtlebone is a sad and beautiful comedy.
About the Author Kevin Barry is the author of the novel City of Bohane and two short story collections, Dark Lies the Island and There Are Little Kingdoms. He was awarded the Rooney Prize in 2007 and won The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize in 2012. For City of Bohanehe was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the Irish Book Award, and won the Author's Club First Novel Prize, The European Prize for Literature and the IMPAC Prize. Beatlebone, his second novel, was the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize and was shortlisted for the Irish Book Award.
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Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump Rob Sears
Does a poet's heart beat under Donald Trump's brash exterior? Experience his best quotes and tweets, rearranged into poems and haikus. It's a new word order. Now with twelve all-new poems as we lurch deeper into the Trump presidency,
Description What if there's a hidden dimension to Donald Trump; a sensitive, poetic side? Driven by this question, Rob Sears began combing Trump's words for signs of poetry.
What he found was a revelation. By simply taking the 45th President of the United States' tweets and transcripts, cutting them up and reordering them, Sears unearthed a trove of beautiful verse that was just waiting to be discovered.
This groundbreaking collection will give readers a glimpse of Trump's innermost thoughts and feelings on everything from the nature of truth, to what he hates about Lord Sugar. And it will reveal a hitherto hidden Donald, who may surprise and delight both students and critics alike.
Now with twelve all-new poems as we lurch deeper into the Trump presidency, this timely publication also includes Sears' scholarly footnotes and introduction, in which he excavates new critical angles and insights into the President's poetry which the casual reader might initially overlook.
About the Author Rob Sears is a creative director at McCann Erickson advertising agency, has written comedy and fiction for McSweeney's and (with his brother) wrote a sitcom for Audible starring Kevin Eldon, Felicity Montagu and Mitch Benn. He lives in Finsbury Park with his wife.
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Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Vladimir Putin: Life Coach Rob Sears
Be the dictator you've always dreamed of being, with this handy guide to life inspired by everyone's favourite autocrat.
Description What can the rise and reign of this century's most feared politician teach us about life, work and love? Rob Sears shows how the machinations that enabled Putin to dominate the Kremlin and undermine the United States of America could also help you take control of your mundane life. How would you like to ruin your enemies by sharing compromising material about that time they didn't wash their hands? Or annex territory by claiming the stationery cupboard at work as your personal empire? Fancy hacking democracy at the parent-teacher association to ensure you're a shoo-in for social secretary? Or serving up a cold dish called revenge in a high street restaurant?
Filled with stories from Putin's extraordinary time in power, and ideas and illustrations to help you emulate him on a small scale, Vladimir Putin: Life Coach is the ultimate guide to releasing the pseudo-elected, judo black-belt, 5D chess-playing autocrat inside each and every one of us.
About the Author Rob Sears is a creative director at McCann Erickson advertising agency, has written comedy and fiction for McSweeney's and (with his brother) wrote a sitcom for Audible starring Kevin Eldon, Felicity Montagu and Mitch Benn. He is the author of the hit humour title The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump. He lives in Finsbury Park with his wife.
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Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 The Diary of a Bookseller Shaun Bythell
Love, Nina meets Black Books: a wry and hilarious account of life in Scotland's biggest second-hand bookshop and the band of eccentrics and book-obsessives who work there.
Description Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost ...
In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribulations of life in the book trade, from struggles with eccentric customers to wrangles with his own staff, who include the ski-suit-wearing, bin-foraging Nicky. He takes us with him on buying trips to old estates and auction houses, recommends books (both lost classics and new discoveries), introduces us to the thrill of the unexpected find, and evokes the rhythms and charms of small-town life, always with a sharp and sympathetic eye.
About the Author Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, and also one of the organisers of the Wigtown Festival.
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Profile Trade AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Confessions of a Bookseller Shaun Bythell
Tricky customers, rude staff and everyone's favourite misanthropic bookseller: it's the second volume of the Sunday Times bestselling bookshop diaries, now available in paperback.
Description A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Irreverently funny ... kept me giggling all week.' - Scotland on Sunday
"Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?"
Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. With more than a mile of shelving, real log fires in the shop and the sea lapping nearby, the shop should be an idyll for bookworms.
Unfortunately, Shaun also has to contend with bizarre requests from people who don't understand what a shop is, home invasions during the Wigtown Book Festival and Granny, his neurotic Italian assistant who likes digging for river mud to make poultices.
About the Author Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, and also one of the organisers of the Wigtown Festival. He is the author of two bestselling volumes of diaries: The Diary of a Bookseller and follow-up, Confessions of a Bookseller. His books have been translated into Russia, Italian, Icelandic and Korean, among many other languages.
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Profile Trade AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Schadenfreude Tiffany Watt Smith
A hilarious quest to understand life's ultimate guilty pleasure - in a beautiful gift package.
Description 'Nothing makes the world gleam like bad people getting the fate they deserve. For one glorious moment, the stars align, the universe delivers, and the commuter who barged past us all down the station stairs misses the train'
Schadenfreude - enjoying the pain and failures of others - is an all-too-familiar feeling. It has perplexed philosophers and psychologists for centuries but, in a time of polarised politics, twitter trolls and 'sidebars of shame', has never been more relevant. Recent studies have shown that we smile more at a rival's loss than at our own success. No wonder we're said to be living in the 'Age of Schadenfreude'. But why can it be so much fun to witness another's distress? And what, if anything, should we do about it?
In Schadenfreude, historian of emotions Tiffany Watt Smith offers expert insight and advice. Ranging across thinkers from Nietzsche to Homer Simpson, investigating the latest scientific research, and collecting some outrageous confessions on the way - she reveals how everyone, babies, nuns, your most trusted friends, are enjoying your misfortunes. But rather than an emotional glitch, she argues, Schadenfreude can reveal profound truths about our relationships with others and our sense of who we are.
Frank, warm and laugh-out-loud funny, Schadenfreude makes the case for thinking afresh about this much-maligned emotion - and perhaps, even, embracing it.
About the Author Tiffany Watt Smith is a Research Fellow at the QMUL Centre for the History of the Emotions, and was a 2014 BBC New Generation Thinker. Before beginning her career in academia she worked as a theatre director for seven years, including stints as Associate Director at the Arcola Theatre and International Associate Director at the Royal Court. She lives in London.
Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9781781259085 Schadenfreude is published in association with Wellcome Collection, a free museum and library that aims to challenge Format: B how we think and feel about health. Inspired by the medical objects and curiosities collected by Henry Wellcome, it Package Type: HARD BACK connects science, medicine, life and art. Wellcome Collection exhibitions, events and books explore a diverse range of Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 160 pages subjects, including consciousness, forensic medicine, emotions, sexology, identity and death. Bic1: Bic2:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Fucking Good Manners Simon Griffin
The author of Fucking Apostrophes takes on another of life's biggest irritations.
Description This is not a book about how to be posh. We have some slightly bigger issues to deal with these days.
We've all got a million things to do and are constantly connected to millions of other people all doing a million other things, so the faster we get things done the better, right? Wrong. Among all the busyness and confusion it seems we've forgotten a few of the basics in life, like the ability to treat one another with respect, dignity and some fucking good manners.
Enter Simon Griffin, author of Fucking Apostrophes.
From the entry-level stuff like saying please, thank you and sorry; manspreading on public transport and double-lane queuing at airports, to those that require just a little bit more thought, such as correct urinal protocol in public toilets, making tea rounds in the office and online public displays of affection, Simon imparts rules and advice to living life in a way that makes it just a bit better for everyone. With some liberal use of rude words thrown in to emphasise the point.
With chapters on driving, social media, the environment, getting on with your neighbours, and the best manners for a trip to the cinema, this is the perfect gift for a manners enthusiast, or those in need of a gentle (but sweary) nudge in the right direction.
About the Author Simon Griffin has been a writer for nearly 40 years, but it's only in the last two that people have actually used their own personal money to buy what he's written. In 2016 his book Fucking Apostrophes became an international bestseller, featuring in the Guardian, BBC Radio 5Live and on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. He currently lives with his wife and two children in Leeds, where he uses slightly less vulgar words to earn a living as a freelance copywriter. See more at www.simon-griffin.com.
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Icon AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Fucking Apostrophes Simon Griffin
The bestselling hilarious, furious and profoundly useful short guide to the most maddening punctuation in English.
Description Apostrophes are a f'ing pain. The rules about how to use them are complicated, and have evolved haphazardly.
Originally written as advice by a copywriter for designers - wont to insert and remove apostrophes at will, for visual effect - this is a light-hearted, pocket-sized guide to getting the f'ing things right.
Simon Griffin lets off steam so that we don't have to, showing precisely why 'Rhianna and Jennifer's photos were all over the internet' is quite different to 'Rhianna's and Jennifer's photos' or what words apostrophes are replacing in sentences such as 'He'd like you to buy him some cocaine', or 'They've got it all on camera.'
Elegantly produced, this is the perfect gift for any pedant, as well as an indispensable guide in all our moments of grammar-related frustration.
WARNING: CONTAINS EXPLICIT LANGUAGE!
About the Author Simon Griffin is the founder of copywriting agency Hyperbolic (www.thisishyperbolic.com) and lives with his wife and two children in Leeds. He currently has no plans to learn how to touch type and can happily write whole paragraphs without realising he's left caps lock on.
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Icon AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Charlotte Helen Moffett
For lovers of Pride and Prejudice and Longbourn, an intoxicating novel that tells the story of Charlotte Lucas, who marries the unfortunate Mr Collins after Lizzy Bennet spurns him.
Description Everybody believes that Charlotte Lucas has no prospects. She is unmarried, plain, poor and reaching a dangerous age. When she stuns the neighbourhood by accepting the proposal of buffoonish clergyman Mr Collins, her best friend Lizzy Bennet is appalled by her decision. Yet this the only way Charlotte knows how to provide for her future. Her married life will propel her into a new world: not only of duty and longed-for children, but secrets, grief, unexpected love and friendship, and a kind of freedom.
Jane Austen cared deeply about the constraints on women in Regency England. This powerful reimagining takes up where Austen left off in Pride and Prejudice, showing us a woman determined to carve a place for herself in the world. Charlotte offers a fresh, feminist addition to the post-Austen canon, beautifully imagined, and brimming with passion and intelligence.
About the Author Helen Moffett is a South African writer, freelance editor, activist and award-winning poet. She has a PhD on PreRaphaelite poetry and has authored or co-authored university textbooks, short story anthologies, non-fiction books on the environment, two poetry collections and various academic projects. Charlotte is her first novel. She blogs at helenmoffett.com and can be found on Twitter @heckitty.
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Manilla AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 The Winter Promise Rosie Goodwin
With all her signature warmth, wonderful characters and unforgettable drama, start this brand new chapter in the storytelling of Rosie Goodwin, Britain's best-loved saga author.
Description 1850.
When Opal Sharp finds herself and her younger siblings suddenly orphaned and destitute, she thinks things can get no worse. But soon three of them - including Opal - are struck down with the illness that took their father from them, and her brother Charlie is forced to make an impossible decision. Unable to afford a doctor, he know s the younger children will not survive.
So, unbeknownst to Opal, Charlie takes their younger siblings to the workhouse, w here he knows they will at least be fed and have a roof over their heads. Opal is heartbroken and struggles to forgive him. Charlie, in turn, takes bigger and bigger risks to try to support what's left of the Sharp family and earn Opal's forgiveness - but he takes it too far and finds himself in trouble with the law. Soon, he is sent on a convict ship to Australia.
As poor Opal is forced to say goodbye to the final member of her family, she makes a promise to reunite them all one day.
About the Author Rosie Goodwin is the million copy bestselling author of more than thirty novels. She is the first author in the world to be allowed to follow three of Catherine Cookson's trilogies with her own sequels. Having worked in the social services sector for many years, then fostered a number of children, she is now a full-time novelist. She is one of the top 50 most borrowed authors from UK libraries. Rosie lives in Nuneaton, the setting for many of her books, with her husband and their beloved dogs.
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Zaffre AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 How to Belong Sarah Franklin
Sarah Franklin returns with a compelling tale of lost connection and finding a home, perfect for fans of Tessa Hadley and Maggie O'Farrell.
Description In the follow up to her acclaimed novel Shelter, Sarah Franklin returns to the Forest of Dean, this time exploring what it means to belong to a rural community in a rapidly changing world.
Jo grew up in the Forest of Dean, but she was always the one destined to leave for a bigger, brighter future. When her parents retire from their butcher's shop, she returns to her beloved community to save the family legacy, hoping also to save herself. But things are more complex than the rose-tinted version of life which sustained Jo from afar.
Tessa is a farrier, shoeing horses two miles and half a generation away from Jo, further into the forest. Tessa's experience of the community couldn't be more different. Now she too has returned, in flight from a life she could have led, nursing a secret and a past filled with guilt and shame.
Compelled through circumstance to live together, these two women will be forced to confront their sense of identity, and reconsider the meaning of home.
About the Author Sarah Franklin grew up in rural Gloucestershire and has lived in Austria, Germany, the USA and Ireland. She lectures in publishing at Oxford Brookes University and has written for the Guardian, the Irish Times, Psychologies magazine and The Pool.
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Zaffre AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Blood's Campaign Angus Donald
Angus Donald mixes historical fact with fiction in this exciting new series.
Description One of the most turbulent reigns in history paved the way for the first modern revolution.
After the Tudors came the Stuarts...
If you enjoy S. J. Parris and Andrew Taylor, then this is the series you need to read next.
August 25, 1689
The English Army is besieging Carrickfergus in Ireland. Brilliant but unusual gunner Holcroft Blood of the Royal Train of Artillery is ready to unleash his cannons on the rebellious forces of deposed Catholic monarch James II. But this is more than war for Captain Blood, a lust for private vengeance burns within him.
French intelligence agent Henri d'Erloncourt has come across the seas to foment rebellion against William of Orange, the newly installed Dutch ruler of England, Scotland and Ireland. But Henri's true mission is not to aid the suffering of the Irish but to serve the interests of his master, Louis le Grand.
Michael 'Galloping' Hogan, brigand, boozer and despoiler of Protestant farms, strives to defend his native land - and make a little profit on the side. But when he takes the Frenchman's gold, he suspects deep in his freedom-loving heart, that he has merely swapped one foreign overlord for another.
July 1, 1690
On the banks of the River Boyne, on a fateful, scorching hot day, two armies clash in bloody battle - Protestant against Catholic - in an epic struggle for mastery of Ireland. And, when the slaughter is over and the smoke finally clears, for Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781785767463 these three men, nothing will ever be the same again . . . Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK 'Splendid series . . . a sword-and-spies romp that has a keen sense of the political pressures of the time' - The Times Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: 'A proper story-teller' - S. G. MacLean Bic2:
The perfect festive read.
Description A feel-good, festive read to keep you cosy this winter. For fans of Heidi Swain, Sarah Morgan and The Archers.
Recently divorced, the family home sold and her son all grown-up, Clare is at a crossroads. She's dedicated her whole adult life to her family, and now it's time she did something for herself.
In the lead up to Christmas, Clare decides that a bit of time in the countryside might be just what she needs, so she moves back to Little Bramble, the village she grew up in. But living with her mum for the first time in years - and not to mention Goliath the Great Dane - can be a challenge at times.
When Clare finds herself running the village Christmas show, it feels like she has purpose in her life again. Bringing together people from all sides of the community, and all walks of life, will Clare manage to pull off a festive feat like no other? And will she find the new start in life - and possibly love - that she's been looking for?
The Country Village Christmas Show is the perfect romantic read to get cosy with this winter.
About the Author Cathy Lake is a women's fiction writer who lives with her family and three dogs in beautiful South Wales. She writes uplifting stories about strong women, family, friendship, love, community and overcoming obstacles.
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Zaffre AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Murder in the Cathedral T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot's first major full-length verse drama reissued for the 850th anniversary of Thomas Becket's death.
Description Murder in the Cathedral, written for the Canterbury Festival in 1935, was one of T. S. Eliot's first dramatic achievements, and it remains one of the great plays of the century. It takes as its subject matter the martyrdom of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, depicting the events that led to his assassination, in his own cathedral church, by the knights of Henry II in 1170. Like Greek drama, the play's theme and form are rooted in religion, ritual purgation and renewal, and it was this return to the earliest sources of drama that brought poetry triumphantly back to the English stage at the time.
This anniversary edition marks 850 years since Becket's dramatic murder, and eighty-five years since Eliot's play was first performed.
About the Author Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He came to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.
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Faber Plays AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Two Besides Alan Bennett
Two brand new monologues in the Talking Heads series, published here for the first time.
Description The gorgeous, pocket-sized edition of the two brand-new Talking Heads.
'Given the opportunity to revisit the characters from Talking Heads I've added a couple more, both of them ordinary women whom life takes by surprise. They just about end up on top and go on, but without quite knowing how. Still, they're in good company, and at least they've made it into print.'
Alan Bennett's twelve Talking Heads are acknowledged masterworks by one of our most highly acclaimed writers. Some thirty years after the original six, Bennett has written Two Besides, a pair of monologues. Each, in its way, is a devastating portrait of grief. In An Ordinary Woman, a mother suffers the inevitable consequences when she makes life intolerable for herself and her family by falling for her own flesh and blood; while The Shrine tells the story behind a makeshift roadside shrine, introducing us to Lorna, bearing witness in her high-vis jacket, the bereft partner of a dedicated biker with a surprising private life.
The two new Talking Heads were recorded for the BBC during the exceptional circumstances of coronavirus lockdown in the spring of 2020, directed by Nicholas Hytner and performed by Sarah Lancashire and Monica Dolan.
The book contains a substantial preface by Nicholas Hytner and an introduction to each, by Alan Bennett.
About the Author Alan Bennett has been one of our leading dramatists since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic, as have many of his works for the stage including Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van (together with the screenplay), A Question of Attribution, The Madness of George III (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplay The Madness of King George), and an adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. At the National Theatre, London, The History Boys (also a screenplay) won numerous awards including Price: AU $24.99 NZ $27.99 ISBN: 9780571365852 Evening Standard and Critics' Circle awards for Best Play, an Olivier for Best New Play and the South Bank Award. On Format: Misc HB Broadway,The History Boys won five New York Drama Desk Awards, four Outer Critics' Circle Awards, a New York Package Type: HARD BACK Drama Critics' Award, a New York Drama League Award and six Tonys. The Habit of Art opened at the National in 2009; Dimensions: 168h x 129w mm Extent: 96 pages in 2012, People, as well as the two short plays Hymn and Cocktail Sticks, was also staged there. Bic1: Bic2:
Faber Plays AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Life Without Air Daisy Lafarge
The debut collection of a stand-out contemporary poet, bringing an ecological vision to relationships
Description When Louis Pasteur discovered the process of fermentation in the 1870s, he noted that, while most organisms perished from lack of oxygen, some were able to adapt and even thrive as 'life without air'. In this capricious, dreamlike collection, characters and scenes traverse states of airlessness, from suffocating relationships, religions and institutions to toxic environments and ecstatic asphyxiations.
Both compassionate and ecologically nuanced, this innovative collection bridges poetry and prose to interrogate the conditions necessary for survival.
About the Author Daisy Lafarge was born in Hastings and studied at the University of Edinburgh. Her debut novel, Paul, is forthcoming from Granta Books. She has published two pamphlets of poetry: understudies for air (Sad Press, 2017) and capriccio (SPAM Press, 2019), and her visual work has been exhibited in galleries such as Tate St Ives and Talbot Rice Gallery. She has received an Eric Gregory Award and a Betty Trask Award, and was runner-up in the 2018 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Daisy is currently working on Lovebug - a book about infection and intimacy - for a practice-based PhD at the University of Glasgow. Life Without Air is her first collection of poetry.
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Granta Paperbacks AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Bedtime Stories for Worried Liberals Stuart Heritage
Updated with new stories for 2020: the perfect humorous Christmas gift for the snowflake in your life
Description Anxious? Angry? Waking up in the middle of the night to worry about plastic pollution, Brexit and why everything seems to be so horrible all the time? Thumb sore from scrolling through the Guardian news app, even though it makes you want to cry?
Us too.
But help is here, in the shape of Stuart Heritage's hilarious Bedtime Stories for Worried Liberals. Put down your phone, log off Twitter, and let yourself be lulled to sleep by stories from a world where Brexit disappears in a puff of smoke, Waitrose is free, and Fairy Godmothers look a lot like Barack Obama.
Including: The Three Liberal Pigs; Jack and the Sustainably Produced Meat Substitute Stalk; and The Night Before Brexmas; The Very Trendy Caterpillar; Trumplestiltskin; Camerella.
About the Author Stuart Heritage is a writer and columnist for Guardian, The Times, i and Esquire, and the author of Don't be a Dick, Pete. In addition to this, he has written for a range of publications and television programmes, founded and edited award- winning blogs. For two years running he was named as one of the 50 most influential emerging figures in the British media by Independent, an honour that has singularly failed to manifest itself into anything even slightly meaningful. He is going bald.
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Profile Trade AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Loved and Wanted Christa Parravani
A harrowing account of one woman's reckoning with life, death and choice. For readers of Educated, Hillbilly Elegy and Three Women.
Description 'Haunting, wild, and quiet at once. A shimmering look at motherhood, in all gothic pain and glory. I could not stop reading' - Lisa Taddeo, bestselling author of Three Women
A harrowing account of one woman's reckoning with life, death and choice in Trump's America. For readers of Educated and Hillbilly Elegy.
In 2017 Christa Parravani had recently moved her family from California to West Virginia and was surviving on a teacher's salary and raising two young children with her husband, screenwriter Anthony Swofford.
Another pregnancy, a year after giving birth to her second child, came as a shock. Christa had a history of ectopic pregnancies, and worried that she wouldn't be able to find adequate medical care. She immediately requested a termination, but her doctor refused to help. The only doctor who would perform an abortion made it clear that this would be illicit, not condoned by her colleagues or their community.
Christa Parravani has crafted, through her own harrowing experiences with healthcare in contemporary America, a brilliant and moving exploration of the choices women have.
About the Author Christa Parravani is the bestselling author of the critically acclaimed memoir Her, which shares Parravani's journey through grief after the loss of her identical twin sister Cara. She is an Assistant Professor in Creative Non-fiction at West Virginia University.
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Manilla AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Klopp Anthony Quinn
In the first UK-written book about this extraordinary football manager, life-long Liverpool fan Anthony Quinn has crafted a uniquely revealing love-letter to Jurgen Klopp.
Description In early March 2020 Liverpool were two wins away from an extraordinary achievement, on course for their first league title win in 30 years - since the heads days of Kenny Dalglish - and likely to seal it in the Liverpool derby against their great rivals Everton. And all this an incredible two months before the season was due to end. Then, as we all know, the season was postponed.
What will happen next, we don't know, for now, but the architect of the club's great resurgence - including their 2019 Uefa Champions League win - has been Jurgen Klopp. In his personal love-letter to the man, Anthony Quinn, journalist, novelist, Scouser and life-long Liverpool fan, has written an inspiring, affectionate and hugely revealing portrait of this incredible German manager, who had performed a similar job at his previous club Borussia Dortmund, where he is still idolised despite his departure.
Less full biography and more love-letter, Klopp will also be, like Fever Pitch, a study of the author himself, and of the universal appeal of sport, fandom and obsession.
About the Author Anthony Quinn was born in Liverpool in 1964. From 1998 to 2013 he was the film critic for the Independent. He is the author of six novels: The Rescue Man, which won the 2009 Authors' Club Best First Novel Award; Half of the Human Race; The Streets, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Walter Scott Prize; Curtain Call, which was chosen for Waterstones and Mail on Sunday Book Clubs; Freya, a Radio 2 Book Club choice, and Eureka.
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9780571364961 Format: Demy Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 216h x 135w mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Anatomy of a Killing Ian Cobain
The untold story of an IRA unit, and a killing that has echoed across the decades
Description On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a car and crossed the countryside to the town of Lisburn. Within an hour, they had killed an off-duty policeman in front of his young son.
In Anatomy of a Killing, award-winning journalist Ian Cobain documents the hours leading up to the killing, and the months and years of violence, attrition and rebellion surrounding it. Drawing on interviews with those most closely involved, as well as court files, police notes, military intelligence reports, IRA strategy papers, memoirs and government records, this is a unique perspective on the Troubles, and a revelatory work of investigative journalism.
About the Author Ian Cobain is an award-winning investigative reporter whose work has appeared in the Guardian, The Times, the Irish Times and Middle East Eye. For his journalism he has won he Martha Gellhorn Prize and the Paul Foot Award, along with two Amnesty International media awards. His first book, Cruel Britannia (Portobello 2012) won the Paddy Power Total Politics Award for Debut Political Book of the Year. His second book was The History Thieves (Portobello 2016).
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9781846276408 Format: C-Format HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 234h x 156w mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Heading Bic2:
Granta AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Portsmouth FC: 2019-2020 Neil Allen
Neil Allen's account of an unforgettable season at Portsmouth is told with the same passion as the Sunday Times bestseller 100 Years of Leeds United and Netflix's Sunderland 'Til I Die.
Description Neil Allen's account of an unforgettable season at Portsmouth is told with the same passion as the Sunday Times bestseller 100 Years of Leeds United and Netflix's Sunderland 'Til I Die.
In 2013, in the midst of financial turmoil, on the brink of expulsion from the Football League and liquidation, the Pompey Supporters' Trust seized ownership of their club.
Four seasons later, on the back of promotion to League One, the fans sold their stake to former Disney CEO Michael Eisner. 'We Will Never Die' had been the battle-cry of the faithful. Now they were striving for more than mere survival.
Given unparalleled access, Allen watches team and management alike as they bid to secure promotion back to the Championship. But the battles on the pitch are only part of the story. Portsmouth FC takes you inside a club like no other.
About the Author Neil Allen is The News' chief sports writer covering Portsmouth Football Club. He won the Regional Journalist award at the 2018 British Sports Journalism Awards. His previous books Played Up Pompey (2015) and Played Up Pompey Too (2017) were sold and promoted by the football club.
Price: AU $49.99 NZ $55.00 ISBN: 9781785786693 Format: C-Format HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Icon AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Right, Said Fred Andrew Flintoff
The hilarious and eye-opening new book from one of Britain's best-loved figures.
Description The hilarious and eye-opening new book from one of Britain's best-loved figures.
About the Author Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff (MBE) is a presenter, broadcaster, television panellist and former England international cricketer. He lives with his wife, Rachael, and their three children.
Freddie won BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2005. Following his retirement from sport, he joined the panel of BAFTA-winning A League of Their Own, has presented documentaries and interviewed some of the world's most famous figures. He has written for newspapers, fronted his own radio show and currently works alongside Robbie Savage and Matthew Syed on their hugely successful and award-winning podcast Flintoff, Savage and the Ping Pong Guy.
Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9781788701983 Format: C-Format HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Bic2:
Blink AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Who Killed John Lennon? Lesley-Ann Jones
A compelling new book that unravels the enigma of John Lennon from acclaimed music biographer Lesley-Ann Jones.
Description Late on 8 December 1980, the world abruptly stopped turning for millions, as news broke that the world's most beloved bard had been gunned down in cold blood in New York city. The most iconic Beatle left behind an unrivalled catalogue of music and legions of faithful disciples - yet his profound legacy has brought with it as many questions and contradictions as his music has provided truths and certainties.
In this compelling exploration, acclaimed music biographer Lesley-Ann Jones unravels the enigma that was John Lennon to present a complete portrait of the man, his life, his loves, his music, his untimely death and, ultimately, his legacy.
Pulling back the many layers, Jones closely tracks the life events and personality traits that led to Lennon living in self- imposed exile in New York, where he was shot dead outside his apartment on that fateful autumn day.
Who, or what, really killed John Lennon? And when did the 'real' John Lennon die?
Using fresh first-hand research, unseen material and exclusive interviews with the people who knew Lennon best, Jones' search for answers offers a spellbinding, 360-degree view of one of the world's most iconic music legends. Who Killed John Lennon? delves deep into psyche of the world's most storied musician - the good, the bad and the genius - forty years on from his tragic death.
About the Author Lesley-Ann Jones is an acclaimed biographer, novelist, broadcaster and keynote speaker. She honed her craft on Fleet Street, as a newspaper journalist. She is the bestselling author of Bohemian Rhapsody: The Definitive Biography of Freddie Mercury, Hero: David Bowie, and Ride a White Swan: The Lives & Deaths of Marc Bolan. A childhood friend of
Price: AU $45.00 NZ $49.99 David Bowie, Lesley-Ann has interviewed many of the world's best-loved artists, including Paul McCartney, Madonna and ISBN: 9781789461404 Prince, often forming lifelong friendships with her subjects. She is a mother of three and lives in London. Format: C-Format HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 234h x 153w mm Extent: 448 pages Bic1: Bic2:
John Blake AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Silent Child Toni Maguire
From bestselling author Toni Maguire comes a new true story of abuse and escape.
Description Unlike people with carefree previous lives, I packed away my past. There are some memories labelled 'Look at', and others 'Leave well alone'...
Emily Smith was held in a prison of fear for ten years. When she was four, her father left and a new man was brought into her life. He loved her, he kept telling her so, but the emotional and physical abuse she suffered at his hands were a daily nightmare. Until one day, after he crept into her bedroom, her life became unbearable.
Emily found she was different in another way as her autism became more noticeable and punishments for her 'abnormal' behaviour more severe. Astonishingly, she managed to escape her home of hell, where she was abused right in front of her mother. Emily determinedly gained a university place and emerged triumphant with a new life and family in Ireland, desperate to treat her daughter, so similar to her, to a different life.
Heartbreakingly true, Silent Child is a testament to Emily's strength as she sheds light on rampant abuse still happening today. Powerful and shocking, sharing her story means she finally has a voice to say: enough.
About the Author Toni Maguire is the author of ten books, including her own bestselling memoirs Don't Tell Mummy and When Daddy Comes Home. Telling her own story encouraged others who had kept their childhood secrets hidden to approach her, and she now writes for those who need a voice too.
To date, she has sold over 1.5 million books worldwide. Toni lives in the UK but loves travelling to South Africa often.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781789463057 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 200h x 130w mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Bic2:
John Blake AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 Marvellous: Neil Baldwin - My Story Neil Baldwin
The story of Stoke City's kit man, Neil Baldwin, memorably played by Toby Jones in the 2014 BBC2 television film Marvellous, which received widespread critical acclaim.
Description Bishops and archbishops, top footballers, politicians and actresses...they all count him as their friend. Prime ministers and senior royals stop and listen to his opinions. He's got an honorary degree and his very own football club. He has even been on TV.
Born with 'learning difficulties' and all but abandoned by his schools, Neil went on to become kit man to Stoke City FC. Lou Macari, the club's then manager, described him as 'my best ever signing'. But who is Neil Baldwin? As a boy in a working-class part of the Potteries in the fifties and sixties, the education system wrote him off. But Neil, who believes you can just 'get things by asking for them', knows his late Mum wanted him to have a happy life, and it's his duty to her to have one. So he does. At Keele University, they hold regular celebrations and services for the decades he's been a friend to the students, academics and vice-chancellors; but he's never been a student, a teacher, or had any formal connection with the place. At Stoke City Football Club, he's 'more famous than the players'. He's even got a dialogue going with the Queen - though that one's still a little one-sided. This is the inspiring, moving and at times hysterically funny story of Neil Baldwin's marvellous life.
About the Author Neil 'Nello' Baldwin w as born in 1946. As a child he was assessed as having (in today's language) learning difficulties, a label which he has ignored to live a colourful life. At various times he has been a circus clown; Stoke City kit man; friend of the famous; active church member and ran his own football team. He was awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the 2019 New Year's Honours list, and has also been granted the Freedom of Stoke-on-Trent, as well as holding an honorary degree from Keele University for services to student welfare.
Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781789463408 Format: B Package Type: PAPERBACK Dimensions: 198h x 129w mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Bic2:
John Blake AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2020 More Classic Art Memes Ellie Ross
A hilarious book full of laugh-out-loud memes that will brighten up your day.
Description From Renaissance classics to Romantic favourites, even more historical artworks are given a modern twist with the next book in this popular series of amusing meme books.
What is really going on in these pictures? This compact gift book offers up a unique perspective on art history - one that is sure to make you laugh out loud as the old is juxtaposed with the very new.
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Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781787416161 Format: Misc HB Package Type: HARD BACK Dimensions: 172h x 132w mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Bic2:
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