AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Let's Hope for the Best Carolina Setterwall

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. A Scandinavian One Day, Let's Hope for the Best is a beautifully written, intimate and emotionally brave debut novel about a young mother facing the sudden death of her partner.

Description THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. A Scandinavian One Day, Let's Hope for the Best is a beautifully written, intimate and emotionally brave debut novel about a young mother facing the sudden death of her partner.

The last time I say goodnight to you I don't know it's the last time.

One evening, thirty-six-year-old Carolina says goodnight to her partner, Aksel. There'll be time tomorrow time to work on their relationship, to calm their nine-month-old son, to embark on a new chapter as a family. But then Aksel dies unexpectedly in the night, and Carolina's world is turned upside down. Told in two narratives that work towards the moment of Aksel's death, Let's Hope for the Best recounts the intensity of falling in love. Carolina unpacks the small details of life before tragedy, determined to find some explanation for the bad hand she's been dealt. When an opportunity for new romance presents itself, she finds herself assuming the reticent role Aksel once held. She's been given the gift of love again. But will she take it?

About the Author Carolina Setterwall was born in 1978 in Sala, Sweden. She studied Media and Communication in Uppsala, Stockholm and London and has worked within the music and publishing industries as an editor and writer. Setterwall lives in Stockholm with her son. Let's Hope for the Best is her first novel. carolinasetterwall.se

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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Let's Hope For The Best 8 Copy Pack

Comprising 8 copies of Let's Hope for the Best, plus a free reading copy.

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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun Guillermo del Toro, Cornelia Funke

A thrillingly dark and imaginative novel inspired by Guillermo del Toro's captivating 2006 film, this is a beautiful and haunting modern fairytale by bestselling author Cornelia Funke, featuring gorgeous original illustrations

Description A thrillingly dark novel that shows the rare magic that can happen when two dazzlingly original imaginations come together to make a book. Bestselling author Cornelia Funke has written a novel inspired by Guillermo del Toro's captivating 2006 film. Beautiful, haunting, visceral, gutsy, it's a vastly inventive, grown-up modern fairytale, pulsing with power of stories to shape lives, hearts and minds. Ofelia has been sent to stay with her new stepfather, a ruthless captain of the Spanish army. For him, the dark and eerie forest in which they live is a cage, serving only to hide resistance fighters in the drawn-out and bloody civil war those he has made it his aim to destroy. But with her mother bedridden, Ofelia is left unchecked and becomes enchanted by their magical home. Obsessed with fairytales, she is drawn deeper and deeper into a mythical world which is both cruel and kind, benign and deadly. For Ofelia, too, must endure violence if she is to complete the tasks that will win her place at the centre of the labyrinth: the palace of the Faun -

About the Author Cornelia Funke is an award-winning children's author. Her books have been translated from German into 35 different languages, and include Inkheart, Inkspell, Inkdeath, The Thief Lord, Dragonrider and the Reckless series. A film adaptation of The Thief Lord came out in 2006 and the Hollywood production of Inkheart was released in 2008. Cornelia lives in Malibu, California.

Guillermo del Toro is a Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer, and novelist. In his career, del Toro has alternated between Spanish-language dark fantasy pieces, such as The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth, and more mainstream American action films, such as Blade II, Hellboy and Pacific Rim. His 2017 film The Shape of Water won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2018. Del Toro also received an Academy Award for Best Director, as well as the Golden Globe, BAFTA, Critics' Choice, and Directors Guild of America. Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781526609571 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Pan's Labyrinth 8 Copy Pack

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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 A Nice Cup of Tea Celia Imrie

The witty and enchanting fourth novel from the well-loved actress and Sunday Timese--bestselling author of Not Quite Nice and Nice Work (If You Can Get It) follows the hilarious antics of a group of retired expats in the South of France

Description The witty and enchanting third novel from the well-loved actress and Sunday Timese--bestselling author of Not Quite Nice and Nice Work (If You Can Get It) follows the hilarious antics of a group of retired expats in the South of France

The beautiful town of Bellevue-sur-Mer, tucked between glitzy Monte Carlo and the plush red carpets of Cannes, is home to Theresa, Carol, William, Benjamin and Sally: five retired expats who have pooled their resources to set up La Mosa que, a divine little restaurant. But there is trouble in paradise: the friends are desperately struggling to make ends meet, and when the much hoped for sale of their Picasso mosaic falls through they realise it will take every bit of their talent and gumption to save La Mosa que. But with fussy customers, obnoxious cruise parties and a failing delivery van, it's certainly not going to be easy. On top of this, Theresa and Sally have their own distractions. Theresa's teenage granddaughter has gone missing, and the chap she's run off with sounds distinctly unsavoury; plus she's getting mysterious phone calls, and the strong sense that someone's watching her. Meanwhile, Sally's run into the Markhams: a grisly husband and wife pair of luvvies from her acting days, whose jibes are enough to send her on an ill-advised search for the limelight -

About the Author Celia Imrie is an Olivier award-winning and Screen Actors Guild-nominated actress. She is known for her film roles in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Calendar Girls and Nanny McPhee. Celia has recently starred in the major films Bridget Jones's Baby, Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, Year by the Sea and A Cure for Wellness. In 2016 she also appeared in FX's new comedy series Better Things, and returned to the stage in King Lear at The Old Vic. She co-stars with Imelda Staunton, Timothy Spall and Joanna Lumley in the this year's major film Finding Your Feet. Celia Imrie is also the author of an autobiography, The Happy Hoofer, two top ten Sunday Times bestselling

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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Anarchists' Club Alex Reeve

The second book in the acclaimed new historical crime series, set in Victorian London and featuring a transgender protagonist

Description The second book in the acclaimed new historical crime series, set in Victorian London and featuring a transgender protagonist It's been a year since Leo Stanhope lost the woman he loved, and came closing to losing his own life. Now more than ever, he is determined to keep his head down and stay safe, without risking any of those he holds dear. But Leo's hopes are shattered when the police unexpectedly arrive at his lodgings: a woman has been found murdered at a club for anarchists, and Leo's address is in her purse. Not only that, but a member of the same club knows Leo's birth identity and will share it with the authorities if Leo does not provide him with an alibi. If Leo is unmasked, he will be thrown into an asylum, but if he lies, will he be protecting a murderer?

About the Author Alex Reeve lives in Buckinghamshire and is a university lecturer, working on a PhD. The Anarchists' Club is the second in a series of books featuring Leo Stanhope, following on from The House on Half Moon Street.

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Raven Books AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 A Friend of the Earth T.C. Boyle

An ecological black comedy and provocative modern morality tale; 'Boyle's prose is so good and his imagination so fertile that after a while you just sit back and are swept along' (Daily Telegraph)

Description An ecological black comedy and provocative modern morality tale; 'Boyle's prose is so good and his imagination so fertile that after a while you just sit back and are swept along' (Daily Telegraph) It's 2025, and 75-year-old environmentalist Ty Tierwater is eking out a bleak loving managing a pop star's private zoo. It is the last one in southern California and vital for the cloning of its captive species. Once, Ty was so serious about environmental causes that as an eco-terrorist committed to Earth Forever! he endangered the lives of both his daughter, Sierra, and his wife, Andrea. Now, when he's just trying to survive in a world cursed by storm and drought, Andrea returns to his life. Frightening, funny, surreal and gripping, T.C. Boyle's story is both a modern morality tale, and a provocative vision of the future

About the Author T. C. Boyle is the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels including The Tortilla Curtain, Drop City, San Miguel and The Terranauts, and ten collections of stories, most recently T. C. Boyle Stories II. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and has won both the PEN/Malamud and Rea Awards in recognition of his short fiction. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California.

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Bloomsbury Pb AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Talk Talk T.C. Boyle

There's more than one to way to take a life in this masterful thriller from one of the greatest voices in American contemporary fiction

Description There's more than one to way to take a life in this masterful thriller from one of the greatest voices in American contemporary fiction

Dana sits in a courtroom with her legs shackled as a long list of charges is read out, many of them dangerous. But the panic that grips her is not because she has been caught. She knows there has been a terrible mistake - she didn't commit any of these crimes. As Dana and her lover Bridger set out to clear her name and find the person who is living a blameless life of criminal excess at her expense, they begin to test the life they have built together to its limits.

About the Author T. C. Boyle is the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels including The Tortilla Curtain, Drop City, San Miguel and The Terranauts, and ten collections of stories, most recently T. C. Boyle Stories II. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and has won both the PEN/Malamud and Rea Awards in recognition of his short fiction. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California.

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Bloomsbury Pb AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 World's End T.C. Boyle

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award; 'not since Thomas Pynchon has any fresh American writer so cunningly lit the fuses of history so that they detonate in time recently past' (The Times)

Description Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award; 'not since Thomas Pynchon has any fresh American writer so cunningly lit the fuses of history so that they detonate in time recently past' (The Times)

Walter Van Brunt is a dreamer, and a lover of drugs, alcohol and speed. He likes nothing better than to fly along on his motorbike, invincible and immortal. But one day, dodging a mysterious shadow on the road, he crashes into a barrier and loses his right foot. Walter is a descendant of Dutch yeomen and since the day of the accident he has been haunted by their ghosts. When he receives a new plastic foot he is determined to find his father who deserted his family years ago, and to uncover the secrets of his ancestors.

About the Author T. C. Boyle is the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels including The Tortilla Curtain, Drop City, San Miguel and The Terranauts, and ten collections of stories, most recently T. C. Boyle Stories II. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and has won both the PEN/Malamud and Rea Awards in recognition of his short fiction. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California.

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Bloomsbury Pb AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 We Shall Not All Sleep: A Novel Estep Nagy

'An utterly compelling novel from a brilliant new voice.' --M.L. Stedman, author of The Light Between Oceans

Description 'An utterly compelling novel from a brilliant new voice.' --M. L. Stedman, author of The Light Between Oceans For generations they've shared the small Maine island of Seven, but the Hillsingers and the Quicks have always kept apart, even since before Jim Hillsinger and Billy Quick married sisters. When Jim is ousted from the CIA under suspicion of treason, he begins to suspect that he has been betrayed--by his brother-in-law, Billy, and also by his own wife, Lila. In retaliation, he decides to carry out an old threat: to send their twelve-year-old son, Catta, to a neighboring island to test his survival skills. Set over three summer days in 1964, Estep Nagy's debut novel moves among the communities of Seven--the families, the servants, and the children as longstanding tensions become tactical face-offs in which love, loss, and long-held secrets become brutal ammunition. Vividly capturing the rift between the cold warriors of Jim's generation and the rebellious seekers of Catta's, We Shall Not All Sleep is a richly told story of American class, family, and manipulation, and a compelling portrait of a unique and privileged enclave on the brink of dissolution.

About the Author Estep Nagy's writing has appeared in Southwest Review, The Believer, The Spectator, Paper, and elsewhere. He is the writer and director of The Broken Giant, an independent feature film starring Will Arnett, John Glover, and Chris Noth that is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, and his plays have been produced across the U.S., as well as in the UK. and Australia. He attended Yale University.

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Bloomsbury USA AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: A Board Game of English Magic Marco Maggi, Francesco Nepitello

A 2-4 player game for natural magicians and careful readers alike, based on the cult-classic book by Susanna Clarke.

Description Number of Players: 2-4 Ages: 14+ Playing Time: 60-80 minutes Components: Map of Europe, 4 Magician boards, 4 Player markers, Fairy marker, 12 Cards of Marseilles, 170+ cards including spells, invitations, Feats of Magic, and more. Set during the events of the cult-classic book, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell sees players delve into the world of English magic, developing their talents and expanding their social reach as they aim to become the most celebrated magician of the age. Take on the role of an aspiring magician, including the titular characters Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell themselves, and start them down the path to greatness. Build up your power and status by travelling across Europe and London, performing feats of magic and attending social engagements. The most celebrated magician will face the gentleman with the thistle-down hair, but only the strongest will defeat him.

About the Author Italy-based designers Marco Maggi and Francesco Nepitello started collaborating on creative projects in the late eighties of the past century. In a career now spanning almost thirty years, they have created role-playing games, card games and board games for children and adults. They are especially known for games based on popular intellectual properties, like the Marvel universe, Doctor Who, Conan the Barbarian or the writings of H.P. Lovecraft. Their greatest achievements so far are tied to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien Marco and Francesco have created some of the best-known games based of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Their love for deep and engaging fantastical worlds has led them to appreciate and explore Susanna Clarke's masterpiece - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Ian O'Toole is an Irish graphic designer and illustrator working out of Perth in Western Australia. Focused primarily on tabletop gaming, Ian's work combines his experience in concise visual communication with his flexible approach to Price: $79.99 $84.99 ISBN: 9781472835178 illustration Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 1 pages Bic1: Board games Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey Games AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke

A beautiful new limited edition paperback of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list

Description A beautiful new limited edition paperback of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list

Two magicians shall appear in England. The first shall fear me; the second shall long to behold me ...

The year is 1806. England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation's past. But scholars of this glorious history discover that one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell whose displays of magic send a thrill through the country. Proceeding to London, he raises a beautiful woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French. Yet the cautious, fussy Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician: the brilliant novice Jonathan Strange. Young, handsome and daring, Strange is the very opposite of Norrell. So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men which overwhelms the one between England and France. And their own obsessions and secret dabblings with the dark arts are going to cause more trouble than they can imagine.

About the Author Susanna Clarke lives in Cambridge with her partner, the novelist and reviewer Colin Greenland. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell was first published in 2004 in more than thirty countries and shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Guardian First Book Award. It won British Book Awards Newcomer of the Year, the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award in 2005. The Ladies of Grace Adieu, acollection of short stories, some set in the world of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, was published by Bloomsbury in 2006.

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Bloomsbury Pb AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Misconception Rebecca Freeborn

An emotionally charged novel about love, loss, and what it means to be a mother.

Description An emotionally charged novel about love, loss, and what it means to be a mother.

Ali and Tom are the perfect couple. They both have successful careers and are still madly in love after ten years. But when they are told their unborn baby has died, their picture-perfect life is shattered.

Faced with an empty room, the prospect of catching up with friends and returning to work, Ali feels her control over the reality she wanted slipping further and further away.

But when Ali's irresponsible mother re-enters her life, Ali discovers secrets from a past she'd forgotten ever existed.

Can Ali find a way to move forward without letting go of her memories?

About the Author Misconception marks the first book by Rebecca Freeborn in the commercial fiction space. She works as a communication and content editor for the South Australian Government. She lives with her husband and three children in Adelaide.

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BLM Pantera AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Strange Tombs - An Essex Witch Museum Mystery Syd Moore

The fourth instalment in Syd Moore's spooktacular witch detective series

Description The fourth instalment in Syd Moore's spooktacular witch detective series Halloween in Essex, and things are going well for the writers on the Mystery and Suspense course at old Ratchette Hall. Things however take a turn when early on All Saints Day the course administrator is discovered murdered in the hall. Why would anyone, dead or alive, want to kill mild-mannered Graham? The Essex Witch Museum investigators are quickly drafted in. As Rosie Strange and Sam Stone's investigation progresses they find more questions than answers: who is making the unearthly howling noises late into the night? What is the strange glimmering glimpsed in the woods about the Hall? Why is one of the church crusaders missing a finger? And what of the enigma of the ancient empty tomb? When another one of the writers turns up dead the pair must use their experience of folklore, mystery and magic as well as their wits to solve the mystery before the body count grows.

About the Author Syd Moore lives in Essex where the Rosie Strange novels are set. Previously to writing, she was a lecturer and a presenter on Pulp, the Channel 4 books programme. She is the author of the mystery novels The Drowning Pool and Witch Hunt.

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Oneworld AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Biggerers Amy Lilwall

Introducing a witty and unique voice poised to take the literary world by storm. For fans of The Borrowers, Munmun and The Truckers.

Description Introducing a witty and unique voice poised to take the literary world by storm. For fans of The Borrowers, Munmun and The Truckers. Everybody became a bit mean. A bit individual. Units. That's all humanity could say for itself well, it couldn't actually, because it was made up of too many, um, units. And then there were the elderly, who could never bear to be so isolated, yet isolated they were. It was cruel, really it was. And kids not that many people had them any more they seemed to be born sitting in one of those egg-shaped chairs, only seeing what was right in front of them. So, the government asked a doctor, that famous one, to get a team together and figure it all out. He did. Everyone got a playmate. Well, everyone who wanted one, could buy a playmate. About a foot tall, they stood, naked (except in winter), very affectionate, not too intelligent. Mute, but cute - exactly what every home needs. Something to love, little units of love. The Biggerers is set in a dystopian future where our two heroes, Bonbon and Jinx, spend their days gathering stones and feathers for their basket, and waiting to be fed by their owners. But it's not long before getting sick, falling in love and wondering why they can't eat with a spoon pushes them to realise they are exactly the same as their owners -only smaller.

About the Author After studying at Kent University, Amy Lilwall went onto a Master's in The Contemporary Novel and a PhD in Creative Writing. She lives in Falmouth, Cornwall.

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Oneworld AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Syndicate Guy Bolton

THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE PICTURES WHICH WAS SHORTLISTED FOR A CWA NEW BLOOD AWARD.

Description THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE PICTURES WHICH WAS SHORTLISTED FOR A CWA NEW BLOOD AWARD. Jonathan Craine has left his old life in Hollywood behind him, content to live out his days with his son on a rural farm in California. But when infamous mobster Bugsy Siegel is murdered, Craine is forced to face his past once again. Summoned to Las Vegas to meet mob head Meyer Lansky, Craine is given the impossible task of finder Siegel's murderers. All he has to help him is an ageing hit man and a female crime reporter with her own agenda. And he knows that if he doesn't succeed in five days, both he and his son will pay for it with their lives -

About the Author Guy Bolton lives in London and has worked in publishing, film and television. He currently works in drama at the BBC. Guy is also a screenwriter whose work has been optioned by Bedlam Productions, Hat Trick and Tiger Aspect. The Pictures is his first novel. Last year it was short-listed in the Telegraph Harvill Secker crime writing competition.

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Oneworld AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Touchstone Edith Wharton

The first of Edith Wharton's works depicting life in 'old New York', The Touchstone is an acutely observed novella

Description Stephen Glennard is in desperate need of money. So when he becomes aware of the potential value of a series of passionate love letters written to him by the recently deceased author Margaret Aubyn, he sells them and marries the beautiful Alexa Trent. However, his shame and guilt at building a new life on the betrayal of another's love slowly begins to eat away at him, and Margaret's memory has a power that can reach him from beyond the grave. The first of Edith Wharton's works depicting life in 'old New York', The Touchstone is an acutely observed novella , and an exploration of the tension between self-serving opportunism and the desire to live a moral life.

About the Author Edith Wharton (1862 1937) was an American author best known for the novel The Age of Innocence, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921, making her the first female winner of the award.

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Alma Classics AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton

An extraordinarily well-observed dissection of New York's high society in the 1870s

Description The intelligent and charming Newland Archer a member of one of New York's most prominent families is living the life that has always been expected of him: he is a successful lawyer engaged to the beautiful and well-connected May Welland. However, with the arrival of May's cousin, the free-spirited and unconventional Countess Ellen Olenska, doubts begin to grow in Newland's mind. As the bond between them grows, Newland comes increasingly to question all that had once seemed so simple. An extraordinarily well-observed dissection of New York's high society in the 1870s the world Edith Wharton grew up in The Age of Innocence shines a critical light on the social mores and values of the old order.

About the Author Edith Wharton (1862 1937) was an American author best known for the novel The Age of Innocence, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921, making her the first female winner of the award.

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Alma Classics AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Three Women Lisa Taddeo

One of the most highly anticipated non-fiction debuts of 2019, Three Women is a groundbreaking examination of the sex lives and desires of three ordinary women.

Description ELIZABETH GILBERT: 'This is a non-fiction literary masterpiece at the same level as In Cold Blood and just as suspenseful, bone-chilling and harrowing, in its own way'

DAVE EGGERS: 'This is one of the most riveting, assured and scorchingly original debuts I've ever read. Taddeo's beautifully written and unflinching portraits of desire allow her protagonists to be wholly human and wholly, blessedly complex. I can't imagine a scenario where this isn't one of the more important and breathlessly debated books of the year'

GILLIAN ANDERSON: 'Intense and riveting. It gives us epic themes in miniature. These women broke my heart and I won't forget them' All Lina ever wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town? All Sloane wanted was to be admired. How did she end up a sexual object of men, including her husband, who liked to watch her have sex with other men and women? Consequences are handed out to some but not to others. Three Women is a record of unmet needs, unspoken thoughts, disappointments, hopes and unrelenting obsessions that tests the boundaries of non-fiction.

About the Author Lisa Taddeo spent eight years and thousands of hours tracking the women whose stories comprise Three Women, moving to the towns they lived in to better understand their lives. She has contributed to New York magazine, Esquire, Elle, Glamour and many other publications. Her short stories have won two Pushcart Prizes. She lives with her husband Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781526611659 and daughter in Connecticut. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Prose: non-fiction Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

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BLM Circus AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Autumn Light Pico Iyer

From one of our most astute observers of human nature, a far-reaching exploration of Japanese history and culture and a moving meditation on impermanence, mortality and grief

Description For decades now, Pico Iyer has been based for much of the year in Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wife, Hiroko, share a two-room apartment. But when his father-in-law dies suddenly, calling him back to Japan earlier than expected, Iyer begins to grapple with the question we all have to live with: how to hold on to the things we love, even though we know that we and they are dying. In a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honouring the dead, this question has a special urgency and currency. Iyer leads us through the autumn following his father-in-law's death, introducing us to the people who populate his days: his ailing mother-in-law, who often forgets that her husband has died; his absent brother-in-law, who severed ties with his family years ago but to whom Hiroko still writes letters; and the men and women in his ping-pong club, who, many years his senior, traverse their autumn years in different ways. And as the maple leaves begin to redden and the heat begins to soften, Iyer offers us a singular view of Japan, in the season that reminds us to take nothing for granted.

About the Author Pico Iyer has written nonfiction books on globalism, Japan, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and forgotten places, and novels on Revolutionary Cuba and Islamic mysticism. He regularly writes about literature for the New York Review of Books; about travel for the Financial Times; and about global culture and the news for Time, the New York Times, and magazines around the world.

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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Autumn Light 8 Copy Pack POS

Comprising 8 copies of Autumn Light, plus a free reading copy

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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 One Hundred Miracles: A Memoir of Music and Survival Zuzana Ruzickova, Wendy Holden

The remarkable memoir of Zuzana Ruzickova, Holocaust survivor and world-famous harpsichordist. An inspiring and spirited account of a life spent living and breathing music, of finding beauty in world of chaos and disorder.

Description The remarkable memoir of Zuzana Ruzickova, Holocaust survivor and world-famous harpsichordist. Zuzana Ruzickovia grew up in 1930s Czechoslovakia dreaming of two things: Johann Sebastian Bach and the piano. But her peaceful, melodic childhood was torn apart when, in 1939, the Nazis invaded. Uprooted from her home, transported from Auschwitz to Hamburg to Bergen-Belsen, bereaved, starved, and afflicted with crippling injuries to her musician's hands, the teenage Zuzana faced a series of devastating defeats. Yet with every truck and train ride, a small slip of paper printed with her favourite piece of Bach's music became her talisman. Armed with this 'proof that beauty still existed', Zuzana's fierce bravery and passion ensured her survival of the greatest human atrocities of all time, and would continue to sustain her through the brutalities of post-war Communist rule. Harnessing her talent and dedication, and fortified by the love of her husband, the Czech composer Viktor Kalabis, Zuzana went on to become one of the twentieth century's most renowned musicians and the first harpsichordist to record the entirety of Bach's keyboard works. Zuzana's story, told here in her own words before her death in 2017, is a profound and powerful testimony of the horrors of the Holocaust, and a testament in itself to the importance of amplifying the voices of its survivors today. It is also a joyful celebration of art and resistance that defined the life of the 'first lady of the harpsichord' a woman who spent her life being ceaselessly reborn through her music. Like the music of her beloved Bach, Zuzana's life is the story of the tragic transmuted through art into the state of the sublime.

About the Author Zuzana Ruzickova was a celebrated Czech harpsichordist and a survivor of three Nazi concentration and slave labour camps. She recorded over one hundred albums, performed across the world to great acclaim, and became an influential teacher at the Prague Academy. Zuzana died in Prague in 2017 aged ninety.Wendy Holden is the author of more than thirty published titles, many of them about the lives of remarkable women. A journalist and former war correspondent, she

Price: $37.99 $39.99 wrote Born Survivors, about three mothers and their babies who survived the Holocaust. She lives in Suffolk, England. ISBN: 9781408896808 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Music Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 One Hundred Miracles 6 Copy Pack

Comprising 6 copies of One Hundred Miracles, plus a free reading copy.

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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Apology Eve Ensler

From Eve Ensler, author of one of the most influential works of the twentieth century--The Vagina Monologues--and one of Newsweek's '150 Women Who Changed the World,' comes a powerful, life-changing examination of abuse and atonement.

Description From Eve Ensler, author of one of the most influential works of the twentieth century--The Vagina Monologues--and one of Newsweek's '150 Women Who Changed the World,' comes a powerful, life-changing examination of abuse and atonement.

Like millions of women, Eve Ensler has been waiting much of her lifetime for an apology. Sexually and physically abused from the age of 5 by her father, Eve has struggled and suffered her whole life from this betrayal, longing for an honest reckoning from a man who is long dead. After years of work as an artist and anti-violence activist, she decided she was no longer waiting; an apology could be imagined, by her, for her, to her. This book, The Apology, written by Eve from her father's point of view in the words she longed to hear attempts to transform the abuse she suffered, with unflinching truthfulness, compassion, and an expansive vision for the future.

Through The Apology Eve has set out to provide a new way for herself and a possible road for others, so that survivors of abuse may finally imagine how to be free. In it, she grapples with questions she has sought answers to since she began to understand the impact of her father's abuse on her life: How do we offer a doorway rather than only a locked cell? How do move from humiliation to revelation, from curtailing behavior to changing it, from condemning perpetrators to calling them to reckoning?

The Apology is a remarkably original book that explores the deepest and most intimate questions that can be asked at this moment: Why do men carry out abuse, often against the people they know and love the most? How can we-- together--stop it? What does it mean to apologize for these acts? What will it take for the men who have committed abuse to make a deep reckoning and actually apologize? As Tony Porter from A Call to Men says, 'We've called men out, now

Price: $37.99 $39.99 how do we call them in?' ISBN: 9781635574388 Format: Hard Cover The Apology is an acutely transformational book--about how, from the wounds of sexual abuse, we can begin to re- Dimensions: 0x0mm emerge and heal. It is a revolutionary book asking everything of each of us: courage, truthfulness, and forgiveness. Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Autobiography: literary Bic2: About the Author Illustrations: Eve Ensler is a Tony Award winning playwright, author, performer, and activist. She wrote the international bestselling Previous Titles: Author now living: phenomenon The Vagina Monologues, which won an Obie, has been published in 48 languages, and has been performed in more than 140 countries. She is the author of many plays and books, including the NYT bestseller I Am an Emotional Creature. She recently adapted her highly praised memoir In the Body of the World into a play, which ran to critical acclaim at the American Repertory Theater and Manhattan Theatre Club. Her play The Vagina Monologues gave birth to V-DAY, a global activist movement to end gender-based violence. Through benefit productions ofBloomsbury her artistic AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris: Fashion, Genius and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris Alicia Drake

'Fashion is an endless process of elimination: in and out, now and then, new and old, right and wrong ... But with the thrill of being chosen comes the fear of the fall from grace.'

Description In 1954 they were two young talents from the provinces, both dreaming of Paris, glamour and glory. Yves Saint Laurent was the charmed youth, the enfant terrible inheritor of Dior's couture crown. Karl Lagerfeld was the jobbing freelance designer with a talent for ready-to-wear. Seemingly from a background of wealth and privilege, he was in fact a tireless workaholic, driven by his passion for capturing the pose of the moment. Then 1968 happened and Paris exploded like a champagne bottle left in the sun. The city embraced liberation and hedonism, making up for years of post-war insecurity. It was a decade dominated by intrigue, infidelities and addiction - and parties.

Each designer created his own mesmerising world, drawing towards them people attracted by their power, charisma and fame. Paloma Picasso, Pierre Berg and Jacques de Bascher were all living in the mirror of fashion. The tensions of class and nationality, bohemia and luxury, youth and yearning, talent and ambition were subsumed in the creation of glamour. The two cliques could not help but become rivals. But as the 70s turned to the 80s, heroin and Aids cast their shadow; fashion became an industry, money prevailed and the beautiful people discovered the danger of living their dreams. The Beautiful Fall is Alicia Drake's brilliant chronicle of this dangerous, brazen, fabulous time.

About the Author Alicia Drake writes regularly for a variety of publications, including the International Herald Tribune, Travel and Leisure,W magazine and British Vogue, for which she was a contributing editor. She has lived and worked in Paris for the last ten years.

Price: $26.95 $32.99 ISBN: 9780747585466 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 196x130mm Extent: 448 pages Bic1: Biography: general Bic2: Biography: general Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Pb AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe Sarah Churchwell

There are many Marilyns: sex goddess and solitary figure, crafty manipulator and dumb blonde, liberated woman and innocent child.

Description 'Ferociously smart. A rare combination of guilty pleasure and intellectual insight' VOGUE 'Perceptive. Refreshing. Tears away layers of false readings and conspiracy theories' NEW YORK TIMES

Intricately researched. Churchwell's Marilyn is a complex, well-rounded creature in the best sense the human sense' OBSERVER

There are many Marilyns: sex goddess and innocent child, crafty manipulator and dumb blonde, screen legend and Hollywood victim. In this incisive and subtle book, Sarah Churchwell looks at how the stories we tell have trivialised a woman we supposedly adore, and at what they reveal about our attitudes towards sex symbols and icons, to women, death, biography and Marilyn herself.

About the Author SARAH CHURCHWELL is Professor of American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is the author of Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream, Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby and The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe. Her literary journalism has appeared widely in newspapers and she comments regularly on arts, culture and politics for television and radio, where appearances include Question Time, Newsnight and The Review Show. She has judged many literary prizes, including the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction and the 2014 Man Booker Prize, and she was a co-winner of the 2015 Eccles British Library Writer's Award.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781526613349 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Prose: non-fiction Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 One Person, No Vote Carol Anderson

From the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, the startling history of voter suppression in America, from the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to the present-day rise of legislated voter discrimination, and the forces that are fighting back.

Description From the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, the startling history of voter suppression in America, from the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to the present-day rise of legislated voter discrimination, and the forces that are fighting back. In her New York Times bestselling White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of policies that have systematically aimed at impeding black progress in America, from 1865 to our combustible present. With One Person, No Vote, she chronicles a related history: the rollbacks to African American participation in the democratic vote since the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which hindered politicians in racist counties and states from diminishing the electoral strength of African Americans and Latinos at the polls. While the VRA has required vigilant safeguarding against the efforts of the GOP, its blanket protections remained in effect until 2013, when the Shelby County Supreme Court decision effectively stripped it, allowing states, counties, and municipalities with a demonstrated history of racial discrimination to change voting requirements without approval from the Department of Justice.

Focusing on the aftermath of the Shelby ruling, Anderson follows an astonishing series of undemocratic electoral actions fueled by Republican-sponsored hysteria about massive voter fraud. With her combination of gripping storytelling and enlightening description she explains how each method of voter suppression works, from photo ID requirements to gerrymandering to poll closures. And with vivid characters, she explores the resistance: the organizing, activism, and court battles to restore the basic right to vote to all Americans. The story of government-dictated racial discrimination is unfolding before our very eyes, as more and more states adopt voter suppression laws. As the nation gears up for the 2018 mid-term elections, One Person, No Vote, and its incredible history of affronts to the democratic process, carries the fierce urgency of now.

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Price: $32.99 $34.99 Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University. ISBN: 9781635571370 She is the author of White Rage, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bourgeois Radicals, and Eyes Off Format: Hard Cover the Prize. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Dimensions: 241x163mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Political science & theory Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury USA AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Protest and Power: The Battle For The Labour Party David Kogan

The definitive chronicle and analysis of the rise, fall and rise again of the left in the Labour movement

Description 'The definitive account' Nick Robinson 'If you want to understand ... Labour, this is the only book to read' Robert Peston Labour has shifted from the New Left, to New Labour, to Corbynista Labour. Now, it may see power again with a most unlikely group of activists from the 1970s, becoming the fourth generation to win power since 1945. Only Clement Atlee, Harold Wilson and Tony Blair have won power from a sitting Conservative government. Of the ten general elections since 1979, Labour has won three, all under Blair. This record of failure, if applied to any other walk of life, would raise the fundamental question of why continue to fight a losing battle? For Labour, it asks whether it is a party of protest designed only to be a voice from opposition, commenting on the flaws and falsities of Conservative police or a party of power? Including exclusive interviews with key party members from the 1970s to today, including Neil Kinnock, Tony Blair, Ed Miliband and Jon Lansman, this book chronicles the conflicts within the Labour party, the schisms between ideologues and pragmatists, and how these fissures seem destined to keep Labour in opposition. The battle for the Labour party is dramatic and intense. This is its definitive history.

About the Author David Kogan has worked in the UK and US media as both a journalist and a senior executive at the BBC, Reuters Television, Granada, Reel Enterprises which he founded, Wasserman Media Group and Magnum Photos as CEO. His first book, The Battle for the Labour Party, published in 1981, remains essential reading about the Labour party. He lives in London.

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BLM Reader AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Dragon Lady Louise Treger

Historical fiction about Lady Virginia Courtauld in the last days of colonial Rhodesia, a daring blend of crime, romance and history, deeply evocative of time and place.

Description 'A daring blend of romance, crime and history, and an intelligent expose of the inherent injustice and consequences of all forms of oppression' Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions

Opening with the shooting of Lady Virginia 'Ginie' Courtauld in her tranquil garden in 1950s Rhodesia, The Dragon Lady tells Ginie's extraordinary story, so called for the exotic tattoo snaking up her leg. From the glamorous Italian Riviera before the Great War to the Art Deco glory of Eltham Palace in the thirties, and from the secluded Scottish Highlands to segregated Rhodesia in the fifties, the narrative spans enormous cultural and social change. Lady Virginia Courtauld was a boundary-breaking, colourful and unconventional person who rejected the submissive role women were expected to play.

Ostracised by society for being a foreign divorcee at the time of Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson, Ginie and her second husband ,Stephen Courtauld, leave the confines of post-war Britain to forge a new life in Rhodesia, only to find that being progressive liberals during segregation proves mortally dangerous. Many people had reason to dislike Ginie, but who had reason enough to pull the trigger?

Deeply evocative of time and place, The Dragon Lady subtly blends fact and fiction to paint the portrait of an extraordinary woman in an era of great social and cultural change.

About the Author Louisa Treger, a classical violinist, studied at the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and worked as a freelance orchestral player and teacher. She subsequently turned to literature, earning a Ph.D. in English at University College London, where she focused on early-twentieth-century women's writing and was awarded the West Scholarship and the Rosa Morison Scholarship 'for distinguished work in the study of English Language and Literature'. Louisa's first Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781448217458 novel, The Lodger, was published by Macmillan in 2014. She lives in London. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Reader AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 City of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the Borderlands Dan Werb

For decades, American hungers sustained Tijuana. In this scientific detective story, an award-winning public health expert reveals what happens when an entire city's heartline is brutally severed.

Description For decades, American hungers sustained Tijuana. In this scientific detective story, a public health expert reveals what happens when a border city's lifeline is brutally severed.

Despite its reputation as a carnival of vice, Tijuana was, until recently, no more or less violent than neighboring San Diego, its sister city across the border wall. But then something changed. Over the past ten years, Mexico's third-largest city became one of the world's most dangerous. Tijuana's murder rate skyrocketed and produced a staggering number of female victims. Hundreds of women are now found dead in the city each year, or bound and mutilated along the highway that lines the Baja coast. When Dan Werb began to study these murders in 2013, rather than viewing them in isolation, he discovered that they could only be understood as one symptom among many. Environmental toxins, drug overdoses, HIV transmission: all were killing women at overwhelming rates. As an epidemiologist, trained to track epidemics by mining data, Werb sensed the presence of a deeper contagion targeting Tijuana's women. Not a virus, but some awful wrong buried in the city's social order, cutting down its most vulnerable inhabitants from multiple directions. Werb's search for the ultimate causes of Tijuana's femicide casts new light on immigration, human trafficking, addiction, and the true cost of American empire-building. It leads Werb all the way from factory slums to drug dens to the corridors of police corruption, as he follows a thread that ultimately leads to a surprising turn back over the border, looking northward. 'City of Omens is a compelling and disturbing tour of a border world that outsiders rarely see and simultaneously, a clear guide to a field of public health that offers an essential framework for understanding how both ideas and diseases can spread.' -- MAIA SZALAVITZ, author of Unbroken Brain 'Dan Werb combines his expertise as a trained epidemiologist with his keen discernment as an investigative journalist to depict what happens when poverty, human desperation, and unfathomable greed at the highest levels of a society mix with imperial ambition and a criminally ill-conceived policy towards drug use. It is a riveting and heartbreaking story, told Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781635572995 with eloquence and compassion.' -- GABOR MATE, MD, bestselling author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Format: Hard Cover Encounters with Addiction Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Society & social sciences Bic2: 'City of Omens is an urgent and needed account of a desperate problem. The perils that Mexico's women face haunt the Illustrations: conscience of a nation.' -- ALFREDO CORCHADO, author of Homelands and Midnight in Mexico Previous Titles: Author now living: About the Author Dan Werb, PhD, is an assistant professor in epidemiology at the University of California San Diego and the University of Toronto. He has received major grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, and other organizations. His writing has appeared in publications such as the Believer and the WalrusBloomsbury, where his feature USA AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life Louise Aronson

As revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life.

Description As revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life.

For more than 5,000 years, 'old' has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease, a condition to be dreaded, denigrated, neglected, and denied.

Reminiscent of Oliver Sacks, noted Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients, and draws from history, science, literature, popular culture, and her own life to weave a vision of old age that's neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy--a vision full of joy, wonder, frustration, outrage, and hope about aging, medicine, and humanity itself.

Elderhood is for anyone who is, in the author's own words, 'an aging, i.e., still-breathing human being.'

About the Author Louise Aronson, MD, is the author of A History of the Present Illness and is a geriatrician, educator, and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she directs UCSF Health Humanities. A graduate of Harvard Medical School and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, Dr. Aronson has received the Gold Professorship in Humanism, the California Homecare Physician of the Year Award, and the American Geriatrics Society Clinician-Teacher of the Year Award, as well as numerous awards for her teaching, educational research, and Price: $39.99 $42.99 writing. The recipient of a MacDowell fellowship and four Pushcart nominations, her articles and stories have appeared in ISBN: 9781620405468 many publications, including the New York Times, New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, and Bellevue Literary Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Review. She lives in San Francisco. Extent: 464 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury USA AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 America: The Epic Story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898 Robert Goodwin

An epic history of the Spanish empire in North America from 1493 to 1898 by Robert Goodwin, author of Spain: The Centre of the World.

Description An epic history of the Spanish empire in North America from 1493 to 1898 by Robert Goodwin, author of Spain: The Centre of the World. At the conclusion of the American Revolution, half the modern United States was part of the vast Spanish Empire. The year after Columbus's great voyage of discovery, in 1492, he claimed Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands for Spain. For the next three hundred years, thousands of proud Spanish conquistadors and their largely forgotten Mexican allies went in search of glory and riches from Florida to California. Many died, few triumphed. Some were cruel, some were curious, some were kind. Missionaries and priests yearned to harvest Indian souls for God through baptism and Christian teaching. Theirs was a frontier world which Spain struggled to control in the face of Indian resistance and competition from France, Britain, and finally the United States. In the 1800s, Spain lost it all. Goodwin tells this history through the lives of the people who made it happen and the literature and art with which they celebrated their successes and mourned their failures. He weaves an epic tapestry from these intimate biographies of explorers and conquerors, like Columbus and Coronado, but also lesser known characters, like the powerful GAilvez family who gave invaluable and largely forgotten support to the American Patriots during the Revolutionary War; the great Pueblo leader Popay; and Esteban, the first documented African American. Like characters in a great play or a novel, Goodwin's protagonists walk the stage of history with heroism and brio and much tragedy.

About the Author Dr. Robert Goodwin is an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London. His two trade books, Crossing the Continent 1527-1540: The Story of the First African-American Explorer of the American South and Spain: The Centre of the World 1519-1682, were published to critical acclaim. He appears on Spanish radio and TV and writes for Spanish newspapers. He lives between London and Seville, where he regularly conducts archival research.

Price: $55.00 $57.99 ISBN: 9781632867223 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 544 pages Bic1: History of the Americas Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury USA AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Island Kitchen: A culinary tour of Mauritius and the Indian Ocean Selina Periampillai

Irresistible, feel-good recipes from the sun-drenched islands of the Indian Ocean

Description This ravishing cookbook will take you on a journey around the Indian Ocean islands, to taste the flavours of the colourful markets of Mauritius, the aromatic spice gardens of the Seychelles, the fishing coasts of the Maldives, the lagoons of Mayotte and the forests of Madagascar. Selina Periampillai, born in London but of Mauritian descent, celebrates the vibrant home-cooking of the islands, with dishes such as Sticky chicken with garlic & ginger, Mustard- & turmeric- marinated tuna, Seychellois aubergine & chickpea cari, and Pineapple upside-down cake with cardamom cream.

With 80 simple recipes for everything from quick mid-week suppers to large rum-fuelled gatherings, and beautiful food photography and illustrations, this book will take you straight to the warm, welcoming kitchens of these beautiful islands.

About the Author Selina Periampillai is a London-based self-taught chef, born to Mauritian parents. She grew up in the UK but was inspired by her heritage to share recipes from her family. She hosted the first Mauritian supperclub from her home in London and, garnering a loyal following on social media, went on to host pop ups, write recipes for websites such as JamieOliver.com, Air Mauritius and Great British Chefs, and feature in BBC Good Food, the Guardian, Huffington Post and the Telegraph. She now privately caters events, teaches cookery classes, and demos at various food festivals to share her insight and knowledge of the unique melting pot of flavours from the Indian Ocean. This is her first book. tastemauritius.com / @tastemauritius

Price: $49.99 $52.99 ISBN: 9781526601384 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 252x183mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Mandalay: Recipes and Tales from a Burmese Kitchen MiMi Aye

Demystifying the cuisine of Burma, MiMi Aye presents 100 authentic but simple mouth-watering recipes

Description A flavour explosion Influenced by its neighbours and the countries closest to it, Burmese food draws techniques and ingredients from Thailand, India and China but uses flavours of its own to make something subtle, delicious and unique. The food of Burma is little known, but MiMi seeks to change that within these pages, revealing its secrets and providing context to each recipe with stories from her time in Burma and her family's heritage. Beginning with a look at the ingredients that make Burmese food unique as well as suitable alternatives MiMi goes on to discuss the special techniques and equipment needed before delving into chapters such as fritters, rice and noodles, salads, meat and fish and sweet snacks. Within these pages you'll find 100 incredible recipes, enabling you to create a taste of Burma in your own kitchen.

About the Author MiMi Aye is the British Burmese writer of www.meemalee.com, founder of supper club and community Burmese Food and Beyond, and author of NOODLE! 100 Great Recipes (Absolute Press). MiMi has appeared on BBC Radio 4's award-winning Woman's Hour and Food Programme, as well as the BBC TWO show A Question of Taste, and her recipes have also appeared in METRO, The Evening Standard, Woman & Home and Red magazines. She is featured as a chef on the Good Food Channel online, and her recipes have been featured on Channel 4 Food online to accompany Gordon Ramsay's TV show Gordon's Great Escapes. @meemalee / @burmesebeyond

Price: $49.99 $52.99 ISBN: 9781472959492 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Pam the Jam: The Book of Preserves Pam Corbin

A modern bible of jams and preserves from the UK's leading expert

Description Bottled Sunshine is the culmination of more than twenty years of expertise, distilled into 80 of Pam Corbin's delicious, tried-and-tested recipes. There are reduced-sugar versions of the nation's favourites Strawberry jam, Raspberry jam and Seville orange marmalade as well as the more creative pairings of Kiwi and banana jam, Blueberry and mint compote, Turkish delight jelly and Passionfruit and coconut curd. Making jams, jellies and chutneys has always been about preserving produce at the peak of its season, allowing it to be enjoyed all year round. In this compendium of preserves, Pam challenges the traditions of jam-making and the recipes that have been passed down through generations. Armed with brand new research and with a strong focus on low-sugar jams, she has devised new methods and techniques that are revolutionising modern preserving. With a chapter of step-by-step techniques clearly illustrated with photographs and helpful guides to buying equipment and sourcing seasonal produce, Bottled Sunshine is the essential handbook for every modern jam-maker.

About the Author Pam Corbin has been making preserves for as long as she can remember, and for more than twenty years her passion has been her business. As well as judging at the annual Marmalade Awards in Cumbria (entries come from across the world every year), she works closely with the team at River Cottage. She is the author Preserves and Cakes, both of which are part of the award-winning River Cottage Handbook series. Pam lives in Dorset.

Price: $35.00 $37.99 ISBN: 9781408884492 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Cookery / food & drink etc Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Eat Like a Local SHANGHAI Bloomsbury

A food-focused city guide containing everything you need to eat, drink, shop and cook your way through Shanghai

Description Food-focused travel guides for the world's most exciting cities This book is a food tour in your pocket, featuring more than 100 of the best restaurants, cafes, bars and markets recommended by a team of in-the-know Shanghainese, including expert contributing editor Michael Zee (author of Symmetry Breakfast). You'll also find insights into the city's idiosyncratic food culture, and a handful of iconic recipes to cook in the holiday kitchen or once you've returned home. It's the inside knowledge that allows you to Drink, Shop, Cook and Eat Like a Local.

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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Eat Like a Local BARCELONA Bloomsbury

A food-focused city guide containing everything you need to eat, drink, shop and cook your way through Barcelona

Description Food-focused travel guides for the world's most exciting cities This book is a food tour in your pocket, featuring more than 100 of the best restaurants, cafes, bars and markets recommended by a team of in-the-know Barcelonians. You'll also find insights into the city's idiosyncratic food culture, and a handful of iconic recipes to cook in the holiday kitchen or once you've returned home. It's the inside knowledge that allows you to Drink, Shop, Cook and Eat Like a Local.

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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Eat Like a Local LONDON Bloomsbury

A food-focused travel guide with everything you need to eat, drink, shop and cook your way through London

Description Eat Like a Local is a series of stylish travel guides that focus on the culinary scenes of the world's most-visited cities. The first of their kind, these books act as a food tour in your pocket, giving you inside knowledge to eat, drink, shop and cook like a local.

Contents include over 100 listings for the best restaurants, cafes, bars, markets and street food as recommended by savvy locals native to the city; short essays that give a real insight into the ins and outs of the city's idiosyncratic food cultures; plus a handful of iconic recipes to cook from your holiday kitchen or back home.

Whether you're visiting for a weekend or a week, these sleek little guides will equip you with everything you need to get off the well-worn tourist track and under the skin of the city's food scene, leaving you feeling satisfied that you've eaten your way through the very best the city has to offer.

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Price: $19.99 $21.99 ISBN: 9781408893234 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 176x113mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Cookery / food & drink etc Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Eat Like a Local NEW YORK Bloomsbury

A food-focused travel guide with everything you need to eat, drink, shop and cook your way through New York City

Description Eat Like a Local is a series of stylish travel guides that focus on the culinary scenes of the world's most-visited cities. The first of their kind, these books act as a food tour in your pocket, giving you inside knowledge to eat, drink, shop and cook like a local.

Contents include over 100 listings for the best restaurants, cafes, bars, markets and street food as recommended by savvy locals native to the city; short essays that give a real insight into the ins and outs of the city's idiosyncratic food cultures; plus a handful of iconic recipes to cook from your holiday kitchen or back home.

Whether you're visiting for a weekend or a week, these sleek little guides will equip you with everything you need to get off the well-worn tourist track and under the skin of the city's food scene, leaving you feeling satisfied that you've eaten your way through the very best the city has to offer.

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Price: $19.99 $21.99 ISBN: 9781408893272 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 177x113mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Cookery / food & drink etc Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Pb AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Eat Like a Local PARIS Bloomsbury

A food-focused travel guide with everything you need to eat, drink, shop and cook your way through Paris

Description Eat Like a Local is a series of stylish travel guides that focus on the culinary scenes of the world's most-visited cities. The first of their kind, these books act as a food tour in your pocket, giving you inside knowledge to eat, drink, shop and cook like a local.

Contents include over 100 listings for the best restaurants, cafes, bars, markets and street food as recommended by savvy locals native to the city; short essays that give a real insight into the ins and outs of the city's idiosyncratic food cultures; plus a handful of iconic recipes to cook from your holiday kitchen or back home.

Whether you're visiting for a weekend or a week, these sleek little guides will equip you with everything you need to get off the well-worn tourist track and under the skin of the city's food scene, leaving you feeling satisfied that you've eaten your way through the very best the city has to offer.

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Price: $19.99 $21.99 ISBN: 9781408893241 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 177x113mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Cookery / food & drink etc Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Eat Like a Local TOKYO Bloomsbury

A food-focused travel guide with everything you need to eat, drink, shop and cook your way through Tokyo

Description Eat Like a Local is a series of stylish travel guides that focus on the culinary scenes of the world's most-visited cities. The first of their kind, these books act as a food tour in your pocket, giving you inside knowledge to eat, drink, shop and cook like a local.

Contents include over 100 listings for the best restaurants, cafes, bars, markets and street food as recommended by savvy locals native to the city; short essays that give a real insight into the ins and outs of the city's idiosyncratic food cultures; plus a handful of iconic recipes to cook from your holiday kitchen or back home.

Whether you're visiting for a weekend or a week, these sleek little guides will equip you with everything you need to get off the well-worn tourist track and under the skin of the city's food scene, leaving you feeling satisfied that you've eaten your way through the very best the city has to offer.

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Price: $19.99 $21.99 ISBN: 9781408894002 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 176x113mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Cookery / food & drink etc Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 To Obama: A People's History Jeanne Marie Laskas

One of the most important politics books of the year, To Obama is a record of a time when politics intersected with empathy.

Description One of the most important politics books of the year, To Obama is a record of a time when politics intersected with empathy.

'The real story of Obama's America' Sunday Times

Every day, President Obama received ten thousand letters from ordinary American citizens. Every night, he read ten of them before going to bed. In To Obama, Jeanne Marie Laskas interviews President Obama, the letter-writers themselves and the White House staff in the Office of Presidential Correspondence who were witness to the millions of pleas, rants, thank-yous and apologies that landed in the mailroom during the Obama years. At once desperate, joyful, hateful and despairing, they form an intimate portrait of one man's relationship with the American people, and of a time when empathy intersected with politics in the White House.

About the Author Jeanne Marie Laskas is the author of eight books, including the New York Times bestseller Concussion. She is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, a correspondent at GQ and a two-time National Magazine Award finalist. Her stories have also appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic and Esquire. She lives in Pennsylvania. jeannemarielaskas.com / @jmlaskas

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781408894507 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Prose: non-fiction Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Napoleon: Passion, Death and Resurrection 1815-1840 Philip Dwyer

The final volume of the critically acclaimed and groundbreaking trilogy chronicling the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, one of history's most complex and charismatic leaders

Description The final volume of the critically acclaimed and groundbreaking trilogy chronicling the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, one of history's most complex and charismatic leaders

This meticulously researched study opens with Napoleon no longer in power, but instead a prisoner in a dressing-gown just off the English coast. This may have been a great fall from power, but Napoleon, international celebrity of his age, still held immense attraction and glamour. Every day, huge crowds would gather on the far shore in the hope of catching a glimpse of him. Exile on St Helena was decided upon by his captors as the only solution for containing the troublesome potential of this once most powerful of leaders.

Philip Dwyer closes his ambitious trilogy exploring Napoleon's life, legacy and myth by moving from those first months of imprisonment, through the years of exile, up to death and then beyond, examining how the foundations of legend that had been laid by Napoleon during his lifetime continued to be built upon by his followers.

Napoleon III: The Passion, Death and Resurrection of Napoleon Bonaparte, 1815-1840 is a considered and illuminating exploration of one of the most charismatic and able leaders of history in the closing chapters of his life. It is a fitting and authoritative end to a definitive work.

About the Author Philip Dwyer studied in Perth (Australia), Berlin and Paris, where he was a student of France's pre-eminent Napoleonic scholar, Jean Tulard. He has published widely on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, and is Director of the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781408891728 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: General & world history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Pb AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream Sarah Churchwell

What does America stand for in the twenty-first century? Behold, America confronts this urgent question by looking at the story behind two of the most contentious phrases in the American political playbook: the 'American dream' and 'America first'

Description SELECTED AS A 2018 SUMMER READ BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, I-PAPER AND THE BIG ISSUE

'Enormously entertaining' SUNDAY TIMES 'Fascinating' NEW STATESMAN 'Excoriating, brilliant' ALI SMITH 'Enthralling' GUARDIAN 'My number one contributor when it comes to US politics' DAN SNOW

'The American dream is dead,' Donald Trump said when announcing his candidacy for president in 2015. How would he revive it? By putting 'America First'.

The 'American Dream' and 'America First' are two of the most loaded phrases in America today and also two of the most misunderstood. As divides within America widen, Sarah Churchwell looks to the past to reveal what the surprising history of these two phrases can tell us about today.

About the Author Sarah Churchwell is Professor of American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is the author of Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and The Invention of The Great Gatsby and The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe. Her literary journalism has appeared widely in newspapers and she comments regularly on arts, culture, and politics for television and radio. She lives in London.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781408894774 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Pb AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Orchid Summer: In Search of the Wildest Flowers of the British Isles Jon Dunn

A heady celebration of the beauty and history of the wild orchid species of the British Isles, embraced in one glorious and kaleidoscopic summer-long hunt by naturalist Jon Dunn

Description A heady celebration of the beauty and history of the wild orchid species of the British Isles, embraced in one glorious and kaleidoscopic summer-long hunt by naturalist Jon Dunn From the chalk downs of the south coast of England to the heathery moorland of the Shetland Isles, and from the holy island of Lindisfarne in the east to the Atlantic frontier of western Ireland, Orchid Summer is a journey into Britain and Ireland's most beautiful corners. The flowers that are the focus of this treasure hunt are exquisite and diverse. Some resemble insects and develop scents that mimic the smell of a virgin female wasp in order to lure male wasps to sample their unsatisfying charms. Some tower above the surrounding vegetation; others are vanishingly small and discrete. Some are sweetly scented; others smell of ripe billy goats. Some can be readily found but some will prove more elusive none more so than the last to flower, the rarest of them all, the ghost orchid - Capturing the intoxicating beauty of these rare and charismatic flowers, Orchid Summer is also an exploration of their history, their champions, their place in our landscape and the threats they face. Combining infectious enthusiasm and a painterly eye with a deep knowledge that comes from a lifetime's passionate devotion to their study, Dunn sweeps us up on his adventure, one from which it is impossible not to emerge enchanted and enriched.

About the Author Jon Dunn is a natural-history writer, photographer and tour leader based in Shetland, who travels worldwide searching for memorable wildlife encounters. A childhood exploring the water meadows and abandoned orchards of the Somerset Levels and the droves and ancient woods of Dorset's Blackmore Vale spurred a lifelong passion for all things natural history based. His Shetland home features otters on his doorstep, and summer evenings watching porpoises from the kitchen window. Once stalked by a mountain lion in Mexico's Sierra Madre Occidental, he generally prefers experiencing wildlife on his own terms and not as part of the food chain. jondunn.com / @dunnjons

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781408880944 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Prose: non-fiction Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Pb AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Arlott, Swanton and the Soul of English Cricket Stephen Fay, David Kynaston

A fascinating account of how two BBC broadcasters battled for the soul of English cricket during a time of great social change

Description A fascinating account of how two BBC broadcasters battled for the soul of English cricket during a time of great social change

For more than a quarter of a century after the Second World War, as the BBC tightened its grip on the national consciousness, two of the most famous English voices were commentators on games of cricket. John Arlott and E.W. ('Jim') Swanton transformed the broadcasting of the nation's summer game into a national institution. For any cricket follower in his fifties or older, just the mention of their names immediately evokes a flood of memories. Swanton was born into a middle-class family and privately educated; Arlott was the son of a working-class council employee, educated at state schools until he left at the age of sixteen. Because of their strong personalities and distinctive voices Swanton's crisp and upper-class, Arlott's with its Hampshire burr each had a loyal following in the post- war years, when England's class system had a slot for almost everyone. Within a few minutes of the start of a conversation, it would be possible to identify the speaker as an Arlott or a Swanton man. Arlott and Swanton never grew to like each other, but both typified the contrasting aspects of post-war Britain and the way both it and the game they loved was to change. As England moved from a class-based to a more egalitarian society, nothing stayed the same including professional cricket. Wise, lively and filled with rich social and sporting history, Arlott, Swanton and the Soul of English Cricket shows how these two very different men battled to save the soul of the game as it entered a new era.

About the Author Stephen Fay has written extensively on finance, the theatre and cricket. His books include Tom Graveney at Lord's, and he is a former editor of Wisden Cricket Monthly.

David Kynaston has written twenty books, including Austerity Britain, Family Britain and Modernity Britain. His most recent Price: $24.99 $26.99 ISBN: 9781408895375 cricket book is WG's Birthday Party, an account of the historic 1898 Gentlemen v Players match at Lord's. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Biography: sport Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Men on Magic Carpets Ed Hawkins

The bizarre true story about the cosmic side of sports

Description Imagine you are a professional footballer, golfer or athlete. Now imagine you are that professional sportsman or sportswoman but using no more than the power of your own mind you can make yourself bigger, faster, more accurate, or able to control your opponent's mind. You would be the world's first superhuman sports star. In the 1970s the US military believed they could create a 'super soldier' one who could use psychic powers to walk through walls, disarm the enemy through telepathy, or kill a goat by staring at it. The brain behind these techniques was Michael Murphy, one of the founders of 'New Age' spiritualism in the hippy enclaves of San Francisco. But Murphy's primary goal was to use these powers in sport to create a supreme athlete capable of extraordinary feats. Murphy and his proteges have dedicated their lives to teaching athletes and coaches to use his methods. Locking runners in huts to make them believe they were dead saints, spies using mind control to win chess matches, Russian Olympians 'shape shifting', and golfers imagining they were Darth Vader coaches and athletes soon began to trust in very weird things. So weird, in fact, that sport's burgeoning obsession with money and image meant the hippies went underground and the superhuman powers became mythical. But the trailblazers now more hip-replacement than hippy are making a comeback, influencing some of the world's top teams. Award-winning investigative journalist Ed Hawkins meets Murphy and his proteges as well as a cast of athletes and coaches convinced by their methods as he immerses himself in a world shrouded in secrecy and weirdness. In a simultaneously hilarious and unsettling tale, he experiences first-hand the techniques as he endeavours to reveal the truth about sports psychology. Is it really possible to enter a mind-altering state or to shift your body shape? Or is it all just bunkum? And are the American military still watching?

About the Author Ed Hawkins is an award-winning author and investigative journalist. He has written several books including the critically acclaimed The Lost Boys: Inside football's slave trade and Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy, which was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. He has won three Sports Journalist Association awards. He lives in Kent. Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781472942630 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Lifestyle, sport & leisure Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Sport AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Vinyl Frontier Jonathan Scott

The fascinating story of Earth's interstellar mix-tape humanity's message to the stars

Description 'Blends extraterrestrial wonder with earthbound charm and brims with poignant revelations.' Mojo

'Bursts with gloriously geeky detail.' The Telegraph Have you ever made someone you love a mix-tape? Forty years ago, a group of scientists, artists and writers gathered in a house in Ithaca, New York to work on the most important compilation ever conceived. It wasn't from one person to another, it was from Earth to the Cosmos. In 1977 NASA sent Voyager 1 and 2 on a Grand Tour of the outer planets. During the design phase of the Voyager mission, it was realised that this pair of plucky probes would eventually leave our solar system to drift forever in the unimaginable void of interstellar space. With this gloomy-sounding outcome in mind, NASA decided to do something optimistic. They commissioned astronomer Carl Sagan to create a message to be fixed to the side of Voyager 1 and 2 a plaque, a calling card, a handshake to any passing alien that might one day chance upon them. The result was the Voyager Golden Record, a genre-hopping multi-media metal LP. A 90-minute playlist of music from across the globe, a sound essay of life on Earth, spoken greetings in multiple languages and more than 100 photographs and diagrams, all painstakingly chosen by Sagan and his team to create an aliens' guide to Earthlings. The record included music by J.S. Bach and Chuck Berry, a message of peace from US president Jimmy Carter, facts, figures and dimensions, all encased in a golden box. The Vinyl Frontier tells the story of NASA's interstellar mix-tape, from first phone call to final launch, when Voyager 1 and 2 left our planet bearing their hopeful message from the Summer of '77 to a distant future.

About the Author Jonathan Scott is a writer, record collector and astronomy geek. He received his first telescope aged eight, using it to track Halley's Comet in 1986. Having followed Voyager's planetary fly-bys throughout his childhood, he first got to write about the missions in 2004. Jonathan has written for Record Collector magazine, edited books about Prince, Cher and the San Francisco psych Price: $34.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9781472956132 explosion, and penned articles on Nirvana, the Pogues, the Venga Boys, Sir Patrick Moore and Sir Isaac Newton in a Format: Hard Cover variety of magazines. If he'd been in charge of the Voyager Golden Record, aliens would assume humanity had three Dimensions: 0x0mm chords. Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Popular science @thejonoscott Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Sigma AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Out of Our Minds Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

An extraordinary journey through the history of the human imagination, from the dawn of civilization to the advent of social media

Description To imagine to see that which is not there is the startling ability that has fuelled human development and innovation through the centuries. As a species we stand alone in our remarkable capacity to refashion the world after the pictures in our minds. Traversing the realms of science, politics, religion, culture, philosophy and history, Felipe FernAindez-Armesto reveals the thrilling and disquieting tales of our imaginative leaps from the first Homo sapiens to the pioneers of the digital age. Through ground-breaking insights in cognitive science, he explores how and why we have ideas in the first place, providing a tantalising glimpse into who we are and what we might yet accomplish. A magisterial paean to the human imagination from a wonderfully elegant thinker, Out of Our Minds is a unique history of our species that is sure to linger long in the -

About the Author Felipe FernAindez-Armesto is an award-winning British historian and the author of several bestselling books, including 1492, Ideas that Changed the World and The Americas. He lives in Indiana and is a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame.

Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781786076946 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 496 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Out of Our Minds 8 Copy Pack

Contains 8 copies of Out of Our Minds, plus a free reading copy.

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Oneworld AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Bipolar Disorder: The Ultimate Guide Sarah Owen and Amanda Saunders

Updated edition of one of the most respected introductions to Bipolar Disorder

Description The shocking truth is that one in fifty of us will have Bipolar Disorder at some point in our lives. If you, a friend or a family member, is diagnosed with Bipolar, or if you suspect that someone you know may have Bipolar, this book is a fantastic first port of call for advice and support. Written in a highly-accessible question and answer format, this comprehensive and compassionate guide draws on a broad range of expert opinion, the very latest research, and personal experience to explain what Bipolar Disorder is. Including numerous real-life case studies, a full list of support organisations and online resources, this book is designed to answer all your questions, from how to recognise the symptoms to how to explain to a child that their parent has been diagnosed.

About the Author Sarah Owen has been a health journalist for UK newspapers and glossy magazines, such as Psychologies and Cosmopolitan, for fourteen years. Amanda Saunders has worked as an editor and writer for The National Childbirth Trust in the UK for the last eleven years.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781780745435 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Diseases & disorders Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Biggest Prison on Earth Ilan Pappe

A powerful, groundbreaking history of the Occupied Territories from one of Israel's most influential historians

Description Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2017 From the author of the bestselling study of the 1948 War of Independence comes an incisive look at the Occupied Territories, picking up the story where The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine left off. In this comprehensive exploration of one of the world's most prolonged and tragic conflicts, Pappe uses recently declassified archival material to analyse the motivations and strategies of the generals and politicians and the decision- making process itself that laid the foundation of the occupation. From a survey of the legal and bureaucratic infrastructures that were put in place to control the population of over one million Palestinians, to the security mechanisms that vigorously enforced that control, Pappe paints a picture of what is to all intents and purposes the world's largest 'open prison'.

About the Author ILAN PAPPE is Professor of History at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the College of Social Sciences and International Studies and Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter, and the author of over a dozen books including the bestselling The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781786073419 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Middle Eastern history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Billionaire Raj James Crabtree

A timely account of the emerging superpower that is India and the rise and rise of the Bollygarchs

Description Can one of the most divided nations on the planet become its next superpower? James Crabtree reveals the titans of politics and industry shaping India in a period of breakneck change from controversial prime minister Narendra Modi, victor in the largest election in history, to the leading lights of the country's burgeoning billionaire class. While 'King of the Good Times' Vijay Mallya languishes in exile in Britain, other major 'Bollygarchs' prosper at home despite a series of scandals. Issuing jewel-encrusted invitations to their children's weddings, these tycoons exert huge power in both business and politics. But India's explosive economic rise has driven inequality to new extremes. Millions remain trapped in slums and corruption is endemic. Reformers fight to wrest the nation from these dark forces, leaving its fate poised between that of a prosperous democratic giant and a saffron-tinged version of Russia.

About the Author James Crabtree is a writer and journalist who spent five years in India as Mumbai bureau chief for the Financial Times. He is now an associate professor of practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. Follow him @jamescrabtree.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781786075598 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Superminds Thomas W. Malone

In the future, the smartest minds will not be human or artificial they will be both

Description There are new kinds of intelligence forming. Computers are beginning to teach themselves with spectacular results. But in our excitement over the promise of neural networks and deep learning, we have neglected the most important development of all. Superminds groups of people and computers working together can act more intelligently than any person, group, or computer has ever done before. They already make many of our most important decisions, whether through the hierarchy of a multinational company or the democracy of a nation state. And they will do a lot more. Groundbreaking and utterly fascinating, Superminds shows that instead of fearing the rise of artificial intelligence we should be focusing on what we can achieve by working with computers because together we will change the world.

About the Author Thomas W. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. He was also the founder and director of the MIT Center for Coordination Science and one of the two founding co-directors of the MIT Initiative on 'Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century.' He is the author of The Future of Work, and he has published more than 100 articles, research papers, and book chapters; been an inventor on 11 patents; and co-edited three books.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781786075680 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Social, group or collective psychology Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Livingstone's London Ken Livingstone

Ex-Mayor of London Ken Livingstone celebrates his home town

Description As a passionate Londoner, Ken Livingstone has seen London change dramatically over the last 60 years. From playing on bomb sites in an era where St Pauls was the tallest building in the city to 2018 where the gleaming towers of the Shard and Walkie Talkie dominate the skyline, thanks to new building rules introduced by his administration. With a witty and worldly eye he takes a look at his home town; the people, places and the politics that have shaped the landscape. On this personal journey he shares his views on every aspect of the city from his favourite tube line and most loved architecture to anecdotes about fellow politicians and the triumphs and disasters encountered running the largest metropolis in Europe.

About the Author Ken Livingstone was born into a working-class family in South London. In his early 20s he became interested in politics, swiftly rising through the Labour party to run the GLC. He went on to become MP for Brent and wrote a popular restaurant column for the Evening Standard. In 2000 he became the inaugural Mayor of London and served two terms. He was praised for integrating London's transport networks, improving social justice and supporting minority rights. In 2005 he led the team which brought home the Olympics and was widely lauded (even by opponents) for his leadership following the 7/7 bombings the day after. He lives in North West London with his family and dog Coco.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781999613570 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 180 pages Bic1: Biography: general Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Muswell Press AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Food: Bigger than the Plate Catherine Flood, May Rosenthal Sloan

From edible insects and lab-grown meat to industrial farming and freeganism, the future of food is the debate on everyone's lips.

Description From edible insects and lab-grown meat to industrial farming and freeganism, the future of food is the debate on everyone's lips. The need for change in our food systems-to secure a more sustainable, healthy and fair future-is recognized as a major global challenge. Food: Eating Tomorrow engages with the work of artists, designers and food professionals who are examining key activities and relationships through food. It discusses diverse and creative ways to reimagine food waste, biodiversity, supply chains and social empowerment through the politics and the pleasures of one of life's single greatest necessities.

About the Author Catherine Flood is a Curator in the Word and Image Department at the V&A. May Rosenthal Sloan is the Exhibition Research Assistant for the Food: Eating Tomorrow exhibition at the V&A.

Price: $49.99 $54.99 ISBN: 9781851779765 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Food & society Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

V&A Publications AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Social Photo Nathan Jurgenson

A set of bold theoretical reflections on how the social photo has remade our world

Description With the rise of the smart phone and social media, cameras have become ubiquitous, infiltrating nearly every aspect of social life. The glowing camera screen is the lens by which many of us apprehend and communicate our experience. But our thinking about photography has been slow to catch up; this major fixture of everyday life is still often treated in the terms of art or journalism. In The Social Photo, social theorist Nathan Jurgenson develops bold new ways of understanding the transformations wrought by these image-making and sharing technologies and the cultural objects they have ushered in: the selfie, the faux-vintage photo, the self-destructing image, the food photo. Jurgenson shows how these devices and platforms have remade the world and our understanding of ourselves within it.

About the Author Nathan Jurgenson is a social media theorist. He is co-founder and Co-Chair of the annual Theorizing the Web conference, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Real Life magazine, Editor Emeritus at New Inquiry, and a sociologist at Snap Inc. His work, which appears in academic journals and popular outlets, centres on a critique of 'digital dualism', a phrase he coined to describe the false belief that the internet is a separate virtual sphere or cyberspace. Instead, Nathan approaches digitality as embodied, material, and real.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781788730914 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Media studies Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Rape Mithu Sanyal

A bold, honest and unflinching look at the way we talk and think about rape.

Description From Title IX cases on campus, to #metoo and #timesup, rape is a definitive issue at the heart of feminism, and lately, it's barely out of the news. Cultural critic Mithu Sanyal is picking up where Susan Brownmiller left off in her influential 1975 book Against Our Will. In fact, she argues that the way we understand rape hasn't changed since then, even as the world has changed beyond recognition. She contends that it is high time for a new and informed debate about rape, sexual boundaries and consent. Sanyal argues that the way we as a society understand rape tells us not just how we understand sexual violence, but how we understand sex, sexuality, and gender itself. For instance, why is it so hard to imagine men as victims of rape? Why do we expect victims to be irreparably damaged? When we think of rapists, why do we still think of strangers in dark alleys, rather than uncles, husbands, priests, or boyfriends? The book examines the role of race and the trope of the black rapist, the omission of male victims, and what we mean when we talk about rape culture. She provocatively takes every received opinion we have about rape, and turns it inside out arguing with liberals, conservatives, feminists and sexists alike.

About the Author Mithu M. Sanyal is an award-winning broadcaster, academic and author. Her first book, Vulva was translated into five languages.

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Verso Trade AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Future Histories Lizzie O'Shea

A highly engaging tour through progressive history in the service of emancipating our digital tomorrow.

Description When we talk about technology we always talk about the future which makes it hard to figure out how to get there. In Future Histories, Lizzie O'Shea argues that we need to stop looking forward and start looking backwards. Weaving together histories of computing and social movements with modern theories of the mind, society, and self, O'Shea constructs a 'usable past' that can help us determine our digital future.

What, she asks, can the Paris Commune tell us about earlier experiments in sharing resources like the Internet in common? Can debates over equal digital access be guided by Tom Paine's theories of democratic, economic redistribution? And, how is Elon Musk not a visionary but a throwback to Victorian-era utopians?

In engaging, sparkling prose, O'Shea shows us how very human our understanding of technology is, and what potential exists for struggle, for liberation, for art and poetry in our digital present. Future Histories is for all of us makers, coders, hacktivists, Facebook-users, self-styled Luddites who find ourselves in a brave new world.

About the Author Lizzie O'Shea is a lawyer, writer, and broadcaster. She is regularly featured on national television programs and radio to comment on law, digital technology, corporate responsibility, and human rights, and her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, and The Sydney Morning Herald, among others.

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Verso Trade AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Riot. Strike. Riot Joshua Clover

Award winning poet Joshua Clover theorises the riot as the form of the coming insurrection

Description Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an 'age of riots' as the struggle of people versus state and capital has taken to the streets. Award-winning poet and scholar Joshua Clover offers a new understanding of this present moment and its history. Rioting was the central form of protest in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, yet it was supplanted by age of the glorious strike and labour protests of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From, from the seventies on, we're seen a return of the strike - now changed along with the coordinates of race and class. From early wage demands to recent social justice campaigns pursued through occupations and blockades, Clover connects these protests to the upheavals of a sclerotic economy in a state of moral collapse. Riot.Strike.Riot is a tour de force of political and theoretical analysis.

About the Author Joshua Clover is a professor of literature and critical theory at the University of California Davis. A widely published essayist, poet, and cultural theorist, his most recent books are Red Epic and 1989: Bob Dylan Didn't Have This to Sing About.

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Verso Trade AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Red State Revolt Eric Blanc

One of the most comprehensive portraits of a strike wave ever written, an indispensable window into the changing shape of the working class and American politics

Description After nearly four decades of labor quiescence, the US was hit by a wave of strikes in early 2018. Inspired by the wildcat victory in West Virginia, educators in Oklahoma, Arizona and beyond walked off their jobs to demand increased school funding and better pay. Confounding all expectations, these actions erupted in Republican-dominated states with weak unions, bans on public sector strikes, and electorates that voted for Trump in 2016. With similar movements now emerging in California, Colorado, North Carolina, and Massachusetts, there is no sign that this upsurge will be short-lived. Red State Revolt is an compelling analysis of the emergence and development of this historic strike wave, with an eye to extracting its main strategic lessons for educators, labor activists, and radicals across the country. A former high school teacher and longtime activist, Eric Blanc embedded himself into the rank-and-file leadership of the walkouts, where he was given access to internal organizing meetings and secret Facebook groups inaccessible to most journalists, populating the book with the voices of the school workers who put their livelihoods on the line.

About the Author Eric Blanc is the son of educators, a former high school teacher, a writer for Jacobin, and a doctoral student in sociology at New York University.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781788735742 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Sociology: work & labour Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Being Numerous Natasha Lennard

Leading radical journalist on violence and anti-fascism, certainty and lies, sex and ghosts

Description On Certainty shatters the mainstream consensus on truth, politics, violence, the self, and our relationships. Following on from Joan Didion, Roxane Gay and Maggie Nelson, Natasha Lennard's powerful essays carve out a new path from the political to the personal. Along the way she shatters a number of liberal shibboleths on truth and justice, violence and anti-fascism, sex and suicide. Lennard has a radical perspective on the world that is both capacious and politically committed, and looks towards new political strategies that might follow from it.

About the Author Natasha Lennard is a contributing writer for the Intercept, and her work has appeared regularly in the New York Times, Nation, Esquire, Vice, Salon, and New Inquiry, among others. She teaches critical journalism at the New School for Social Research, and Violence (with Brad Evans) will be published this year by City Lights.

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Verso Trade AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Full Surrogacy Now Sophie Lewis

In order to become ethically acceptable, surrogacy must change beyond recognition - but we need more surrogacy, not less!

Description The surrogacy industry is worth an estimated 1 billion dollars a year, and many of its surrogates work in terrible conditions, while many gestate babies for no pay at all. Should it be illegal to pay someone to gestate a baby for you?

Full Surrogacy Now brings a fresh and unique perspective to the debate. Rather than making surrogacy illegal or allowing it to continue as is, Sophie Lewis argues, we should be looking to radically transform it. Surrogates should be put front and centre, and their rights towards the babies they gestate should be expanded to acknowledge that they are more than mere vessels. In doing so, we can break down our assumptions that children necessarily belong to those whose genetics they share.

This might sound like a radical proposal, she admits, but expanding our idea of who children belong to would be a good thing. Taking collective responsibility for children, rather than only caring for the ones we share DNA with, would radically transform notions of kinship. Adopting this expanded concept of surrogacy, helps us to see that it always, as the saying goes, takes a village to raise a child.

About the Author Sophie Lewis is a researcher, teacher, free-lance writer, translator and activist. She writes for Blind Field, Jacobin, The New Inquiry, Mute, Salvage and Viewpoint.

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Verso Trade AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 In the Long Run We Are All Dead Geoff Mann

A groundbreaking debunking of moderate attempts to resolve financial crises

Description In the ruins of the 2007 2008 financial crisis, progressives the world over clamoured to resurrect the economic theory of John Maynard Keynes. The crisis seemed to expose the disaster of small-state, free-market liberalization and deregulation. Keynesian political economy, in contrast, could put the state back at the heart of the economy and arm it with the knowledge needed to rescue us. But what it was supposed to rescue us from was not so clear. Was it the end of capitalism or the end of the world? For Keynesianism, the answer is both. Geoff Mann's In the Long Run We're All Dead is a thoroughgoing critique of Keynes for our post-crash world, and an accessible and historically grounded introduction to his masterwork The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. Mann argues that Keynesianism is thus modern liberalism's most persuasive internal critique, meeting two centuries of crisis with a proposal for capital without capitalism and revolution without revolutionaries.

About the Author Geoff Mann is Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy, Simon Fraser University.

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Verso Trade AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Poets of the Chinese Revolution Mao Zedung, Zheng Chaolin, Chen Duxiu

How poetry and revolution meshed in Red China

Description This is a book of poems by four veteran Chinese revolutionaries. Chen Duxiu led China's early cultural awakening before founding the Communist Party in 1921. Mao led the Party to power in 1949. Zheng Chaolin, Chen Duxiu's disciple and, like him, a convert to Trotskyism, spent 34 years in jail, first under the Nationalists and then under Mao. The guerrilla Chen Yi wrote poems in mountain bivouacs or the heat of battle. All wrote in the classical style, which Mao Zedong officially proscribed, though he and other leaders kept using it. Poetry, especially classical poetry, plays a different role in China, and in Chinese revolution, from in the West it is collective and collaborative. The four poets were entangled with one another in various ways. Chen Duxiu inspired Mao, though Mao later denounced him. Mao and Zheng joined the leadership under Chen Duxiu in the 1920s, though Mao later gaoled Zheng. The maverick Chen Yi was Zheng's associate in France and Mao's comrade-in-arms in China, but he clashed with the Maoists in the Cultural Revolution. Together, the four poets illustrate the complex relationship between Communist revolution and Chinese cultural tradition.

About the Author Gregor Benton is emeritus professor of Chinese history at Cardiff University. He has published many books on China and other subjects. His principal research areas are modern Chinese history, dissent under communism, and Chinese diaspora. His Mountain Fires: The Red Army's Three-Year War in South China, 1934-1938 (1992) won several awards, including the Association of Asian Studies' prize for the Best Book on Modern China. His translation of Mei Zhi's Hu Feng's Prison Years won the English Pen Award.

Chongyi Feng is Associate Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney, and adjunct Professor of History at China's Nankai University. His research focuses on intellectual and political development in modern and contemporary China, including the growth of rights consciousness and democratic forces. He has been named as one of China's top hundred public intellectuals by several Chinese websites.

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Verso Trade AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Afterlives of Chinese Communism Christian Sorace, Ivan Franceschini, Nicholas Loubere

What is the legacy of communism from Mao's China

Description Afterlives of Chinese Communism includes essays from over 40 world-renowned scholars in the China field, from different disciplines, and continents. It provides an indispensable guide for understanding how the intellectual legacies of the Mao era shape Chinese politics today. Each chapter discusses a concept or practice from the Mao era, what it attempted in its historical context, and what has become of it since. The authors respond to the legacy of Maoism in each their own way, to consider what lessons Chinese Communism can offer today and whether there is a future for the egalitarian politics that Communism once promised. Authors include: Joel Andreas, Tani Barlow, Lin Chun, Alex Sasha Day, Michael Dutton, Dai Jinhua, Rebecca Karl, Gao Mobo, Elizabeth Perry, Alessandro Russo

About the Author Editors: Christian Sorace, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Colorado College. His research focuses on ideology, discourse, urbanization, and aesthetics. He is the author of Shaken Authority: China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake. Ivan Franceschini, Marie Curie Fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World, the Australian National University, and at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. His research focuses on Chinese labour and civil society. He is the author of several books, translations, and co-director of the documentary Dreamwork China. Nicholas Loubere, Associate Senior Lecturer in the Study of Modern China at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University. His research examines socio-economic development in rural China, with a particular focus on microcredit and the rural financial system.

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Verso Trade AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Allegory and Ideology Frederick Jameson

Fredric Jameson takes on the allegorical form

Description This major new work by Fredric Jameson is not a book about 'method', but it does propose a dialectic capable of holding together in one breath the heterogeneities that reflect our biological individualities, our submersion in collective history and class struggle, and our alienation to a disembodied new world of information and abstraction. Eschewing the arid secularities of philosophy, Walter Benjamin once recommended the alternative of the rich figurality of an older theology; in that spirit we here return to the antiquated Ptolemaic systems of ancient allegory and its multiple levels (a proposal first sketched out in The Political Unconscious); it is tested against the epic complexities of the overtly allegorical works of Dante, Spenser and the Goethe of Faust II, as well as symphonic form in music, and the structure of the novel, postmodern as well as Third-World: about which a notorious essay on National Allegory is here reprinted with a theoretical commentary; and an allegorical history of emotion is meanwhile rehearsed from its contemporary, geopolitical context.

About the Author Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture's relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity, The Modernist Papers, Archaeologies of the Future, Brecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, Valences of the Dialectic, The Hegel Variations and Representing Capital.

Price: $49.99 $54.99 ISBN: 9781788730259 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Political ideologies Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Good Thieves Katherine Rundell

Bestselling and multiple-award winning author Katherine Rundell returns with a brilliant new story packed with adventure and excitement

Description 'Vita set her jaw, and nodded at New York City in greeting, as a boxer greets an opponent before a fight.' Fresh off the boat from England, Vita Marlowe has a job to do. Her beloved grandfather Jack has been cheated out of his home and possessions by a notorious conman with Mafia connections. Seeing Jack's spirit is broken, Vita is desperate to make him happy again, so she devises a plan to outwit his enemies and recover his home. She finds a young pickpocket, working the streets of the city. And, nearby, two boys with highly unusual skills and secrets of their own are about to be pulled into her lawless, death-defying plan. Katherine Rundell's fifth novel is a heist as never seen before - the story of a group of children who will do anything to right a wrong.

About the Author Katherine Rundell is the bestselling author of five children's novels, for which she has won the Costa Children's Book Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize amongst many others. She spent her childhood in Africa and Europe before taking her degree at the University of Oxford and becoming a Fellow of All Souls College. As well as writing, she studies Renaissance literature; and is learning, as a direct result of writing The Good Thieves, to fly on the flying trapeze.

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Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Good Thieves Katherine Rundell

Bestselling and multiple-award winning author Katherine Rundell returns with a brilliant new story packed with adventure and excitement

Description 'Vita set her jaw, and nodded at New York City in greeting, as a boxer greets an opponent before a fight.' Fresh off the boat from England, Vita Marlowe has a job to do. Her beloved grandfather Jack has been cheated out of his home and possessions by a notorious conman with Mafia connections. Seeing Jack's spirit is broken, Vita is desperate to make him happy again, so she devises a plan to outwit his enemies and recover his home. She finds a young pickpocket, working the streets of the city. And, nearby, two boys with highly unusual skills and secrets of their own are about to be pulled into her lawless, death-defying plan. Katherine Rundell's fifth novel is a heist as never seen before - the story of a group of children who will do anything to right a wrong.

About the Author Katherine Rundell is the bestselling author of five children's novels, for which she has won the Costa Children's Book Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize amongst many others. She spent her childhood in Africa and Europe before taking her degree at the University of Oxford and becoming a Fellow of All Souls College. As well as writing, she studies Renaissance literature; and is learning, as a direct result of writing The Good Thieves, to fly on the flying trapeze.

Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781408854891 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Good Thieves 8 Copy Pack

Includes 8 copies of The Good Thieves paperback plus free reading copy.

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Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Good Thieves 16 copy Pack

Includes 16 copies of The Good Thieves paperback plus free reading copy.

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Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Explorer Katherine Rundell

Award-winning author Katherine Rundell returns with a new story inspired by her expedition to the Amazon and Eva Ibbotson's beloved Journey to the River Sea. A modern classic of adventure, survival and friendship, The Explorer is the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award and is the must-have book of the year by the finest writer of her generation

Description Winner of the Children's Book Prize Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2017 Winner of the London Book Fair Children's Travel Book of the Year Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal

'I loved The Explorer' Jacqueline Wilson 'Rundell is now unarguably in the FIRST RANK' Philip Pullman From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the Amazon jungle pass by below him. He has always dreamed of becoming an explorer, of making history and of reading his name amongst the lists of great discoveries. If only he could land and look about him. As the plane crashes into the canopy, Fred is suddenly left without a choice. He and the three other children may be alive, but the jungle is a vast, untamed place. With no hope of rescue, the chance of getting home feels impossibly small. Except, it seems, someone has been there before them -

About the Author Katherine Rundell spent her childhood in Africa and Europe. After completing a degree in English and a doctorate on John Donne, she is now a full-time writer and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where she studies Renaissance literature and climbs old buildings at night. Katherine is the bestselling author of The Wolf Wilder and Rooftoppers, which won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award and was shortlisted for many others. In 2017 she was selected as one of Hay Festival's Hay30 influential young thinkers to watch. Price: $16.99 $18.99 Hannah Horn is a UK-based artist who specialises in illustration, paint and printmaking. Born in Aberdeen, Hannah ISBN: 9781408882191 studied fashion illustration at the London College of Fashion. In her career thus far she has produced work for a diverse Format: Paperback - B format range of projects including fashion, print, skateboarding brands and album artwork. The Explorer is her first children's Dimensions: 197x129mm Extent: 416 pages fiction illustration project. Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Wolf Wilder Katherine Rundell, illustrated by Gelrev Katherine Rundell Ongbico

A much anticipated new novel from the award-winning author of Rooftoppers, Katherine Rundell. Told with brilliant imagination and a unique voice, this is a modern children's classic in the making

Description Feodora and her mother live in the snowbound woods of Russia, in a house full of food and fireplaces. Ten minutes away, in a ruined chapel, lives a pack of wolves. Feodora's mother is a wolf wilder, and Feo is a wolf wilder in training. A wolf wilder is the opposite of an animal tamer: it is a person who teaches tamed animals to fend for themselves, and to fight and to run, and to be wary of humans. When the murderous hostility of the Russian Army threatens her very existence, Feo is left with no option but to go on the run. What follows is a story of revolution and adventure, about standing up for the things you love and fighting back. And, of course, wolves.

About the Author Katherine Rundell spent her childhood in Africa and Europe and is now a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She is also the bestselling author of Rooftoppers, a story inspired by summers working in Paris and by night-time trespassing on the rooftops of All Souls. Rooftoppers won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Award in 2014 and was shortlisted for many others. The Wolf Wilder is the first of three new novels with Bloomsbury.

Price: $14.99 $16.99 ISBN: 9781408854853 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 196x131mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Classic fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: UK

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Queen's Secret Jessica Day George

Description Bestselling author Jessica Day George continues her heartfelt fantasy series about a girl who can communicate with horses and a kingdom on the brink of collapse. Anthea knows the truth about horses. They're not carriers of deadly disease like everyone in their kingdom thinks; they're majestic creatures who share their thoughts and feelings with her through The Way. Anthea has convinced the king of this, but at a cost--he demands that horses and riders with The Way do his bidding.

But when a deadly plague breaks out, the people believe that horses are the cause. As more fall ill, it's up to Anthea and her friends to transport medicine, all while keeping out of reach from Anthea's wicked mother. And when Anthea discovers a secret that could change the kingdom forever, she must risk everything to reveal the truth before it's too late. Continuing the sweeping storytelling of The Rose Legacy, bestselling author Jessica Day George delights readers-- especially horse lovers--once again.

About the Author JESSICA DAY GEORGE is the New York Times bestselling author of the Rose Legacy series, Tuesdays at the Castle series, the Twelve Dancing Princesses series, and the Dragon Slippers trilogy. Originally from Idaho, she studied at Brigham Young University and worked as a librarian and bookseller before turning to writing full-time. She now lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband and their three young children. www.jessicadaygeorge.com @jessdaygeorge

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Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Funny Face Nicola Smee

How many funny faces can you pull? A delightful, interactive board book, perfect for little hands with an exciting mirror on the final page so you and your little one can see how funny you look! Now reissued with a brand new cover

Description Funny face. Naughty face. Cross face. Happy face. How many funny faces can you pull? When a big bear takes baby's ball, baby is shocked, then upset, then angry. But when the bear comes back to play, soon baby is having lots of fun! Children will love pulling all the hilarious faces in this charming board book classic now reissued with a brand new cover. Turn to last page to see how funny you look in the surprise mirror! Filled with adorable baby faces, this interactive first storybook is perfect for exploring feelings with your little one, from surprise and sadness to anger and amusement. Making faces has never been so much fun!

About the Author Nicola Smee studied at Birmingham College of Art and has been writing and illustrating since childhood. She lives in Essex with her family, where she works on her delightful books for children. Nicola's first book for Bloomsbury, No Bed Without Ted, was shortlisted for the Booktrust Early Years Award, and was followed by the bestselling Funny Face and Ten Little Babies. She has published over 100 books, which have been widely translated and shortlisted for several awards.

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Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Slick M.M. Vaughan

Eric Young is the first child android to be trialled in society, but he doesn't know that -

Description Eric Young is the first child android to be trialled in society, but he doesn't know that. He does know that he's just moved to Ashland from New York City, so it's important that he makes new friends. Not just any friends, but the right kind, the kind that would be interested in skateboarding and the new Slick trainers his Uncle Martin sends him. He's already growing his social media presence, but he knows it's important to make friends in the real world too. Danny Lazio doesn't have any friends, but he doesn't care about that. He would rather not be friends with someone like Eric, who's had seemingly everything handed to him. But when Eric takes an interest in Land X, Danny's favourite online game, Danny thinks he might have found a real friend - if he can figure out the mystery behind Eric's sudden disappearances and strange lifestyle. As their friendship grows it becomes harder to ignore the weird events that happen around Eric, from weekly ''dentist'' appointments to inexplicable medical mishaps. But uncovering the truth is an act that might cost them both as powerful forces soon move in around them.

About the Author The daughter of South American parents, Monica Meira Vaughan grew up in Spain before moving to London at the age of five, where she learnt English by watching Sesame Street and reading every Roald Dahl book she could get her hands on. She has over ten years' experience as a teacher, working mostly with children with emotional and behavioural difficulties. Monica loves writing after midnight, building cardboard cities and collecting notebooks. She lives in London with her daughter and their cat 'Toto From-Kansas'.

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Alma Books AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Story of the Amulet E. Nesbit

An unforgettable tale of magic and time travel that has been loved by children and parents alike for more than a century

Description When Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane find the Psammead, a magical sand fairy, in a pet shop in London, they have no idea that they are about to embark on their greatest adventure yet. The Psammead leads them to an Egyptian amulet that has the power to grant whatever their hearts desire. The problem is that the amulet is broken, and the other half needed if their wishes are to be granted is lost. Yet with their half of the amulet able to transport them through time, the children set out on a search for the missing half, and the realization of their wildest dreams - From an encounter with Julius Caesar to a visit of the lost city of Atlantis, The Story of the Amulet the final instalment in the Psammead Trilogy is an unforgettable tale of magic and time travel that has been loved by children and parents alike for more than a century.

About the Author English author and poet Edith Nesbit (1858 1924) is best remembered as E. Nesbit, the name she used for all of her children's books and stories. She achieved fame for Five Children and It, The House of Arden and The Railway Children, which has become one of the most loved classics of English literature.

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Alma Classics AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Call It What You Want Brigid Kemmerer

From the author of the Zoella Book Club-pick Letters to the Lost comes another emotionally complex, romantic story about two teens struggling to unpick the grey area between right and wrong, perfect for fans of John Green and Jennifer Niven

Description From the author of the Zoella Book Club-pick Letters to the Lost comes another emotionally complex, romantic story about two teens struggling to unpick the grey area between right and wrong, perfect for fans of John Green and Jennifer Niven

Rob had it all friends, a near-guaranteed lacrosse scholarship to college and an amazing family but all that changed when his dad was caught embezzling funds from half the town. Now he's a social pariah. Maegan always does the right thing. But when her sister comes home from college pregnant, she's caught between telling their parents the truth about the father and keeping her sister's trust. When Rob and Maegan are paired together for a project, they form an unexpectedly deep connection. But Rob's plan to fix his father's damage could ruin more than their new friendship -

About the Author Brigid Kemmerer is the author A Curse So Dark and Lonely, More Than We Can Tell, Letters to the Lost and the Elementals series. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska, though her parents quickly moved her all over the United States, from the desert in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to the lakeside in Cleveland, Ohio, and several stops in between, eventually settling near Annapolis, Maryland. brigidkemmerer.com/@BrigidKemmerer

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Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Call It What You Want 6 Copy Pack

Includes 6 copies of Call It What You Want paperback plus free reading copy.

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Price: $101.94 $113.94 ISBN: 9781472996503 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 More Than We Can Tell Brigid Kemmerer

A dark and beautiful novel about learning to be fearless and set your secrets free. An intense and gripping love story that will speak to fans of John Green and Jennifer Niven

Description NOMINATED FOR THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019 Swoon-inducing' IRISH TIMES This is a story about learning to be fearless and set your secrets free. An intense and gripping novel that will speak to fans of John Green and Jennifer Niven. Rev works hard to keep the demons of the time before his adoption at bay ... until a letter from his father after his 18th birthday brings the trauma of his childhood hurtling back.

Emma escapes real life by perfecting the online game she built from scratch. Coding is way easier than facing her parents' nasty relationship or the growing distance with her best friend ... But when an online troll's harassment starts to escalate, she fears for her safety.

When Rev and Emma meet, they're buckling under the weight of their secrets. Though both of them find it hard to put their problems into words, they connect instantly and deeply. Rev and Emma's problems might be worlds apart, but they promise to help each other no matter what. But promises are made to be tested and some things hurt more than we can tell.

About the Author Brigid Kemmerer is the author of Letters to the Lost and the YALSA nominated Elementals series and the paranormal mystery Thicker Than Water. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska, though her parents quickly moved her all over the United States, from the desert in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to the lakeside in Cleveland, Ohio, with several stops in between. Brigid is now settled near Annapolis, Maryland, with her husband and children. brigidkemmerer.com @BrigidKemmerer Price: $16.99 $17.99 ISBN: 9781408885079 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 197x128mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Romance & relationships stories (Children's / Teenage) Bic2: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Letters to the Lost Brigid Kemmerer

Juliet writes letters to her dead mother. Declan finds one and writes back, sparking true love in this compelling romance.

Description Juliet Young has always written letters to her mother, a world famous photojournalist--even after her mother's death, she leaves letters at her grave. It's the only thing that helps Juliet cope. Declan Murphy is the sort of guy you wouldn't want to cross. In the midst of his court-ordered community service doing landscaping at the local cemetery, he is holding inside ghosts of his own past. When Declan finds a haunting letter left beside a grave, he can't resist the urge to write back. Soon, he is sharing his pain with a perfect stranger and somehow he feels like he might be helping her too. Except they're not strangers, and when real life interferes with their secret life of letters, sparks will fly as Juliet and Declan discover truths that might tear them apart.

About the Author Brigid Kemmerer is the author of the Elementals series. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska, though her parents quickly moved her all over the United States, from the desert in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to the lakeside in Cleveland, Ohio, and several stops in between, eventually settling near Annapolis, Maryland. www.brigidkemmerer.com @BrigidKemmerer

Price: $16.99 $17.99 ISBN: 9781408883525 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 197x128mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Wild and Crooked Leah Thomas

Description Critically-acclaimed author Leah Thomas blends a small-town setting with the secrets of a long-ago crime, in a compelling novel about breaking free from the past. In Samsboro, Kentucky, Kalyn Spence's name is inseparable from the brutal murder her father committed when he was a teenager. Forced to return to town, Kalyn must attend school under a pseudonym . . . or face the lingering anger of Samsboro's citizens, who refuse to forget the crime.

Gus Peake has never had the luxury of redefining himself. A Samsboro native, he's either known as the 'disabled kid' because of his cerebral palsy, or as the kid whose dad was murdered. Gus just wants to be known as himself.

When Gus meets Kalyn, her frankness is refreshing, and they form a deep friendship. Until their families' pasts emerge. And when the accepted version of the truth is questioned, Kalyn and Gus are caught in the center of a national uproar. Can they break free from a legacy of inherited lies and chart their own paths forward?

About the Author Leah Thomas frequently loses battles of wits against her students and her stories. When she's not huddled in cafes, she's usually at home pricking her fingers in service of cosplay. Leah lives in San Diego, California and is the author of When Light Left Us, Nowhere Near You, and the William C. Morris YA Debut Award finalist, Because You'll Never Meet Me.

Price: $29.99 $31.99 ISBN: 9781547600021 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 448 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Bear Out There Jacob Grant

In this charming and quirky follow-up to Bear's Scare, Bear and Spider learn that even the rainiest days can be sunny when you have a friend by your side.

Description Bear and Spider are best friends, but they couldn't be more different. Spider loves the outdoors the warm sun, the fresh breeze, the colourful plants. Bear prefers being inside, with his cosy chair and warm tea. But when Spider's kite gets stuck in a tree, Bear agrees to help his friend get it back - even though he doesn't like the forest. As their quest to find Spider's kite goes from bad to worse, Bear realises that being a good friend sometimes means stepping out of your comfort zone. The fantastic duo from Bear's Scare is back in another quirky, charming friendship story, proving that true friends will stay by your side even on the rainiest of days.

About the Author Jacob Grant is the author and illustrator of Bear's Scare, Scaredy Kate, Little Bird's Bad Word, Cat Knit and Through the Zoo. He is a winner of the annual Don Freeman Work-in-Progress Grant by the SCBWI. Jacob lives in Chicago with his family. www.jacobgrantbooks.com jacobgerms.tumblr.com @jacob_germs (Twitter)

Price: $14.99 $16.99 ISBN: 9781526607416 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 40 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Bear's Scare Jacob, Grant

This adorable, quirky picture book features a charming odd-couple friendship and is perfect for fans of Peter Brown and Greg Pizzoli.

Description Bear likes to keep his house clean and tidy. In fact, the only thing Bear loves more than cleaning is taking care of his small stuffed friend, Ursa. Then Bear sees a sticky spiderweb . . . and where there's a web there is certainly a spider! The messy guest must be found, but what Bear and Ursa finally discover might just be an unlikely friend. Opposites attract in this adorable story, where new friends come in all shapes and sizes.

About the Author Jacob Grant is the author and illustrator of Scaredy Kate, Little Bird's Bad Word, and his newest book, Cat Knit. He is a winner of the annual Don Freeman Work In-Progress Grant by the SCBWI. Jacob lives in Chicago with his family. www.jacobgrantbooks.com jacobgerms.tumblr.com @jacob_germs (Twitter)

Price: $12.99 $14.99 ISBN: 9781681199948 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 40 pages Bic1: Picture books Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 I Can Dress Myself Nicola Smee

The perfect book for parents struggling to get their children dressed with fun activities and over 200 stickers

Description Leo and Lily do not like getting dressed at all. They will even hide their clothes if they have to! Can you find a yellow jumper, two red shoes or even - Dad's glasses? This is the perfect activity book for parents struggling to get their children dressed. With plenty of fun and colourful activities, this activity book encourages children to enjoy getting dressed. Little ones will learn how to identify jeans, shirts and shoes as well as understand what we wear for each season. I Can Dress Myself will have children exploring their wardrobes and collecting reward stickers each time they get dressed on their own!

Activities include: spot the odd one out, pick and choose, adding stickers, match the socks, drawing, tick the boxes, collect your reward and more!

About the Author Sarah Jennings has been illustrating children's books since graduating in 2013. At a young age she discovered a love of drawing and has been scribbling ever since. Sarah enjoys combining traditional and digital techniques to create her illustrations and particularly loves designing characters. She currently lives in London and works from her home studio in the company of her very cheeky three-legged cat. Sarah has illustrated several books for Bloomsbury, including How Are You Feeling Today?, What's Worrying You? My Trip to the Dentist Activity and Sticker Book and My Feelings.

Price: $15.99 $17.99 ISBN: 9781526606464 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 20 pages Bic1: Early learning: first experiences Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Gryffindoor Edition J.K Rowling

The exclusive, bespoke Gryffindor House Edition of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban a highly collectable must-have for all Harry Potter fans! WEAR YOUR HOUSE COLOURS WITH PRIDE.

Description Let the magic of J.K. Rowling's classic Harry Potter series take you back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Issued to mark the 20th anniversary of first publication of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, this irresistible Gryffindor House Edition celebrates the noble character of the Hogwarts house famed for its courage, bravery and determination. Harry's third year at Hogwarts is packed with thrilling Gryffindor moments, including the appearance four of its most memorable alumni, Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs! With vibrant sprayed edges in Gryffindor house livery, the book features beautiful house-themed cover artwork with intricate gold foiling. With an exciting, bespoke introduction exploring the history of Gryffindor House, and exclusive insights into the use of the Patronus Charm by favourite Gryffindor characters, the book also boasts a spectacular image by Kate Greenaway winner Levi Pinfold of Hermione Granger conjuring her Patronus. All seven books in the series will be issued in these highly collectable, beautifully crafted House Editions, designed to be treasured and read for years to come.

A must-have for anyone who has ever imagined sitting under the Sorting Hat in the Great Hall at Hogwarts waiting to hear the words, 'Better be GRYFFINDOR!'

About the Author J.K. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos), and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos), as well as a screenplay inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which marked the start of a five-film series to be written by the author. She has also collaborated on a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two, which opened in London's West End in the summer of 2016 and on Broadway in early 2018. In 2012, J.K. Rowling's Price: $27.99 $29.99 ISBN: 9781526606167 digital company Pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy news, features and articles, as well as original content Format: Hard Cover from J.K. Rowling. She is also the author of The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adult readers, and the Strike crime series, Dimensions: 0x0mm written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE and Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) Companion of Honour, France's Legion d'honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Hufflepuff Edition J.K Rowling

The exclusive, bespoke Hufflepuff House Edition of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban a highly collectable must-have for all Harry Potter fans! WEAR YOUR HOUSE COLOURS WITH PRIDE.

Description Let the magic of J.K. Rowling's classic Harry Potter series take you back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Issued to mark the 20th anniversary of first publication of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, this irresistible Hufflepuff House Edition celebrates the noble character of the Hogwarts house famed for its dedication, patience and loyalty. Harry's third year at Hogwarts is packed with thrilling Hufflepuff moments, including the appearance of Quidditch captain and Hufflepuff heart-throb Cedric Diggory! With vibrant sprayed edges in Hufflepuff house livery, the book features beautiful house-themed cover artwork with intricate silver foiling. With an exciting, bespoke introduction exploring the history of Hufflepuff House, and exclusive insights into the use of the Patronus Charm by favourite Hufflepuff characters, the book also boasts a spectacular image by Kate Greenaway winner Levi Pinfold of Luna Lovegood conjuring her Patronus. All seven books in the series will be issued in these highly collectable, beautifully crafted House Editions, designed to be treasured and read for years to come.

A must-have for anyone who has ever imagined sitting under the Sorting Hat in the Great Hall at Hogwarts waiting to hear the words, 'Better be HUFFLEPUFF!'

About the Author J.K. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos), and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos), as well as a screenplay inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which marked the start of a five-film series to be written by the author. She has also collaborated on a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Price: $27.99 $29.99 ISBN: 9781526606204 Two, which opened in London's West End in the summer of 2016 and on Broadway in early 2018. In 2012, J.K. Rowling's Format: Hard Cover digital company Pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy news, features and articles, as well as original content Dimensions: 0x0mm from J.K. Rowling. She is also the author of The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adult readers, and the Strike crime series, Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE and Bic2: Companion of Honour, France's Legion d'honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Ravenclaw Edition J.K Rowling

The exclusive, bespoke Ravenclaw House Edition of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban a highly collectable must-have for all Harry Potter fans! WEAR YOUR HOUSE COLOURS WITH PRIDE.

Description Let the magic of J.K. Rowling's classic Harry Potter series take you back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Issued to mark the 20th anniversary of first publication of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, this irresistible Ravenclaw House Edition celebrates the noble character of the Hogwarts house famed for its wit, learning and wisdom. Harry's third year at Hogwarts is packed with thrilling Ravenclaw moments, including the appearance of the inimitable Professor Trelawney! With vibrant sprayed edges in Ravenclaw house livery, the book features beautiful house-themed cover artwork with intricate bronze foiling. With an exciting, bespoke introduction exploring the history of Ravenclaw House, and exclusive insights into the use of the Patronus Charm by favourite Ravenclaw characters, the book also boasts a spectacular image by Kate Greenaway winner Levi Pinfold of Cho Chang conjuring her Patronus. All seven books in the series will be issued in these highly collectable, beautifully crafted House Editions, designed to be treasured and read for years to come.

A must-have for anyone who has ever imagined sitting under the Sorting Hat in the Great Hall at Hogwarts waiting to hear the words, 'Better be RAVENCLAW!'

About the Author J.K. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos), and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos), as well as a screenplay inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which marked the start of a five-film series to be written by the author. She has also collaborated on a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two, which opened in London's West End in the summer of 2016 and on Broadway in early 2018. In 2012, J.K. Rowling's digital company Pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy news, features and articles, as well as original content Price: $27.99 $29.99 ISBN: 9781526606181 from J.K. Rowling. She is also the author of The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adult readers, and the Strike crime series, Format: Hard Cover written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE and Dimensions: 0x0mm Companion of Honour, France's Legion d'honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Slytherin Edition J.K Rowling

The exclusive, bespoke Slytherin House Edition of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban a highly collectable must-have for all Harry Potter fans! WEAR YOUR HOUSE COLOURS WITH PRIDE.

Description Let the magic of J.K. Rowling's classic Harry Potter series take you back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Issued to mark the 20th anniversary of first publication of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, this irresistible Slytherin House Edition celebrates the noble character of the Hogwarts house famed for its pride, ambition and cunning. Harry's third year at Hogwarts is packed with thrilling Slytherin moments, including Draco Malfoy's typically sneaky attempts to sabotage the Gryffindor Seeker - With vibrant sprayed edges in Slytherin house livery, the book features beautiful house-themed cover artwork with intricate gold foiling. With an exciting, bespoke introduction exploring the history of Slytherin House, and exclusive insights into the use of the Patronus Charm by favourite Slytherin characters, the book also boasts a spectacular image by Kate Greenaway winner Levi Pinfold of Severus Snape conjuring his Patronus. All seven books in the series will be issued in these highly collectable, beautifully crafted House Editions, designed to be treasured and read for years to come.

A must-have for anyone who has ever imagined sitting under the Sorting Hat in the Great Hall at Hogwarts waiting to hear the words, 'Better be SLYTHERIN!'

About the Author J.K. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos), and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos), as well as a screenplay inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which marked the start of a five-film series to be written by the author. She has also collaborated on a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two, which opened in London's West End in the summer of 2016 and on Broadway in early 2018. In 2012, J.K. Rowling's Price: $27.99 $29.99 ISBN: 9781526606228 digital company Pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy news, features and articles, as well as original content Format: Hard Cover from J.K. Rowling. She is also the author of The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adult readers, and the Strike crime series, Dimensions: 0x0mm written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE and Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) Companion of Honour, France's Legion d'honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Gryffindoor Edition J.K Rowling

The exclusive, bespoke Gryffindor House Edition of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban a highly collectable must-have for all Harry Potter fans! WEAR YOUR HOUSE COLOURS WITH PRIDE.

Description Let the magic of J.K. Rowling's classic Harry Potter series take you back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Issued to mark the 20th anniversary of first publication of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, this irresistible Gryffindor House Edition celebrates the noble character of the Hogwarts house famed for its courage, bravery and determination. Harry's third year at Hogwarts is packed with thrilling Gryffindor moments, including the appearance four of its most memorable alumni, Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs! With vibrant sprayed edges in Gryffindor house livery, the book features beautiful house-themed cover artwork with intricate gold foiling. With an exciting, bespoke introduction exploring the history of Gryffindor House, and exclusive insights into the use of the Patronus Charm by favourite Gryffindor characters, the book also boasts a spectacular image by Kate Greenaway winner Levi Pinfold of Hermione Granger conjuring her Patronus. All seven books in the series will be issued in these highly collectable, beautifully crafted House Editions, designed to be treasured and read for years to come.

A must-have for anyone who has ever imagined sitting under the Sorting Hat in the Great Hall at Hogwarts waiting to hear the words, 'Better be GRYFFINDOR!'

About the Author J.K. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos), and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos), as well as a screenplay inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which marked the start of a five-film series to be written by the author. She has also collaborated on a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two, which opened in London's West End in the summer of 2016 and on Broadway in early 2018. In 2012, J.K. Rowling's Price: $16.99 $18.99 ISBN: 9781526606174 digital company Pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy news, features and articles, as well as original content Format: Paperback - B format from J.K. Rowling. She is also the author of The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adult readers, and the Strike crime series, Dimensions: 0x0mm written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE and Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) Companion of Honour, France's Legion d'honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Hufflepuff Edition J.K Rowling

The exclusive, bespoke Hufflepuff House Edition of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban a highly collectable must-have for all Harry Potter fans! WEAR YOUR HOUSE COLOURS WITH PRIDE.

Description Let the magic of J.K. Rowling's classic Harry Potter series take you back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Issued to mark the 20th anniversary of first publication of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, this irresistible Hufflepuff House Edition celebrates the noble character of the Hogwarts house famed for its dedication, patience and loyalty. Harry's third year at Hogwarts is packed with thrilling Hufflepuff moments, including the appearance of Quidditch captain and Hufflepuff heart-throb Cedric Diggory! With vibrant sprayed edges in Hufflepuff house livery, the book features beautiful house-themed cover artwork with intricate silver foiling. With an exciting, bespoke introduction exploring the history of Hufflepuff House, and exclusive insights into the use of the Patronus Charm by favourite Hufflepuff characters, the book also boasts a spectacular image by Kate Greenaway winner Levi Pinfold of Luna Lovegood conjuring her Patronus. All seven books in the series will be issued in these highly collectable, beautifully crafted House Editions, designed to be treasured and read for years to come.

A must-have for anyone who has ever imagined sitting under the Sorting Hat in the Great Hall at Hogwarts waiting to hear the words, 'Better be HUFFLEPUFF!'

About the Author J.K. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos), and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos), as well as a screenplay inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which marked the start of a five-film series to be written by the author. She has also collaborated on a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Price: $16.99 $18.99 ISBN: 9781526606211 Two, which opened in London's West End in the summer of 2016 and on Broadway in early 2018. In 2012, J.K. Rowling's Format: Paperback - B format digital company Pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy news, features and articles, as well as original content Dimensions: 0x0mm from J.K. Rowling. She is also the author of The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adult readers, and the Strike crime series, Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE and Bic2: Companion of Honour, France's Legion d'honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Ravenclaw Edition J.K Rowling

The exclusive, bespoke Ravenclaw House Edition of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban a highly collectable must-have for all Harry Potter fans! WEAR YOUR HOUSE COLOURS WITH PRIDE.

Description Let the magic of J.K. Rowling's classic Harry Potter series take you back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Issued to mark the 20th anniversary of first publication of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, this irresistible Ravenclaw House Edition celebrates the noble character of the Hogwarts house famed for its wit, learning and wisdom. Harry's third year at Hogwarts is packed with thrilling Ravenclaw moments, including the appearance of the inimitable Professor Trelawney! With vibrant sprayed edges in Ravenclaw house livery, the book features beautiful house-themed cover artwork with intricate bronze foiling. With an exciting, bespoke introduction exploring the history of Ravenclaw House, and exclusive insights into the use of the Patronus Charm by favourite Ravenclaw characters, the book also boasts a spectacular image by Kate Greenaway winner Levi Pinfold of Cho Chang conjuring her Patronus. All seven books in the series will be issued in these highly collectable, beautifully crafted House Editions, designed to be treasured and read for years to come.

A must-have for anyone who has ever imagined sitting under the Sorting Hat in the Great Hall at Hogwarts waiting to hear the words, 'Better be RAVENCLAW!'

About the Author J.K. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos), and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos), as well as a screenplay inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which marked the start of a five-film series to be written by the author. She has also collaborated on a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two, which opened in London's West End in the summer of 2016 and on Broadway in early 2018. In 2012, J.K. Rowling's digital company Pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy news, features and articles, as well as original content Price: $16.99 $18.99 ISBN: 9781526606198 from J.K. Rowling. She is also the author of The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adult readers, and the Strike crime series, Format: Paperback - B format written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE and Dimensions: 0x0mm Companion of Honour, France's Legion d'honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Slytherin Edition J.K Rowling

The exclusive, bespoke Slytherin House Edition of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban a highly collectable must-have for all Harry Potter fans! WEAR YOUR HOUSE COLOURS WITH PRIDE.

Description Let the magic of J.K. Rowling's classic Harry Potter series take you back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Issued to mark the 20th anniversary of first publication of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, this irresistible Slytherin House Edition celebrates the noble character of the Hogwarts house famed for its pride, ambition and cunning. Harry's third year at Hogwarts is packed with thrilling Slytherin moments, including Draco Malfoy's typically sneaky attempts to sabotage the Gryffindor Seeker - With vibrant sprayed edges in Slytherin house livery, the book features beautiful house-themed cover artwork with intricate gold foiling. With an exciting, bespoke introduction exploring the history of Slytherin House, and exclusive insights into the use of the Patronus Charm by favourite Slytherin characters, the book also boasts a spectacular image by Kate Greenaway winner Levi Pinfold of Severus Snape conjuring his Patronus. All seven books in the series will be issued in these highly collectable, beautifully crafted House Editions, designed to be treasured and read for years to come.

A must-have for anyone who has ever imagined sitting under the Sorting Hat in the Great Hall at Hogwarts waiting to hear the words, 'Better be SLYTHERIN!'

About the Author J.K. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos), and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos), as well as a screenplay inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which marked the start of a five-film series to be written by the author. She has also collaborated on a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two, which opened in London's West End in the summer of 2016 and on Broadway in early 2018. In 2012, J.K. Rowling's Price: $16.99 $18.99 ISBN: 9781526606235 digital company Pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy news, features and articles, as well as original content Format: Paperback - B format from J.K. Rowling. She is also the author of The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adult readers, and the Strike crime series, Dimensions: 0x0mm written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE and Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) Companion of Honour, France's Legion d'honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Potter AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Prisoner of Azkaban House Editions 12 copy MIXED PACK

Pack includes 3 copies of each of the 4 House Edition paperbacks, plus free reading copy POS TBC

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Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Prisoner of Azkaban House Editions 24 copy MIXED PACK

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Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Celebrating Difference: A whole-school approach to LGBT+ inclusion Shaun Dellenty

Celebrating Difference is an inspiring handbook for LGBT+ inclusion, aimed at all primary and secondary teachers and leaders. It is filled with practical advice enabling schools to bring about organisational change to ensure the safety, success and wellbeing of all pupils and staff members. Based on the author's award- winning training programme Inclusion for All,

Description Celebrating Difference is an inspiring handbook for LGBT+ inclusion, aimed at all primary and secondary teachers and leaders. Written by Shaun Dellenty, internationally celebrated lead in LGBT+ inclusion in education, it is filled with practical advice to enable schools to bring about organisational change to ensure the safety, success and wellbeing of all pupils and staff.This ground-breaking book examines the roots and impact of identity-based prejudice in schools, drawing on Shaun's own experiences of homophobic bullying and his subsequent career as a teacher and school leader. The core of the book is based on Shaun's award-winning training programme Inclusion for All, endorsed by the Department for Education, presenting an effective approach to LGBT+ inclusion at a whole-school level. This includes practical strategies to eradicate prejudice, prevent bullying, embrace diversity and improve whole-school outcomes such as attendance and attainment, as well as ideas for INSET training sessions and school assemblies. Case studies and interviews with pupils and teachers who have experienced the Inclusion for All process and unique research insights from Dr Joseph Hall, University of Leeds, demonstrate how the strategies work in practice. Clear guidance will also enable schools to comply with Ofsted and statutory equality legislation.Written with warmth, humour and compassion, this is a must-read guide for all teachers and school leaders who wish to promote inclusion, celebrate difference and ensure safer futures for all young people

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Price: $39.99 $42.00 ISBN: 9781472961501 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Children's / Teenage: general non-fiction Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Happy Birthday, Sausage! A Bloomsbury Young Reader Michaela Morgan

Sausage is excited about his birthday party, with cake and presents and all his friends. But the mean cats, Fitz and Spatz, are determined to stop him from having a good time. Can anything be done to give Sausage a happy birthday? Bloomsbury Young Readers provide engaging, illustrated stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson, tailored to get children reading.

Description It's Sausage's birthday and he's going to have a party with all of his friends. But the mean, jealous cats have hidden all of the invitations and no one turns up. Poor Sausage is the saddest little sausage dog in the whole wide world! What can be done to give Sausage a happy birthday? This endearing, yet amusing story from outstanding author Michaela Morgan is perfect for children who are learning to read by themselves and for Key Stage 1. It features engaging illustrations from Felicity Sheldon and quirky characters young readers will find hard to resist. Bloomsbury Young Readers are the perfect way to get children reading, with book-banded stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson. They are packed with gorgeous colour illustrations and include inside cover notes to help adults reading with children, as well as ideas for activities related to the stories. Book Band: White Ideal for ages 6+

About the Author Michaela Morgan is a long-established children's author with a string of award-winning books to her name, including titles which have won a UKRA (now UKLA) award and have been an International Reading Association Choice and a World Book Day Recommended Read. Michaela has taught a wide age range, from bright-eyed infants to jaded fraudsters and worked in various prisons as Writer in Residence. She is also a National Poetry Day Ambassador and is regularly involved in school and festival events. Felicity Sheldon is an illustrator based in Cambridge who studied illustration at Lincoln University. Her passion for illustration started as a young child when she would spend hours writing and illustrating her own stories. Felicity takes Price: $9.99 $11.99 great pride in adding vivid details to her work. ISBN: 9781472959638 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 211x145mm Extent: 48 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Escape Under Sail Leonard Skinner, Mary Cooney

Covers everything you need to know and do to go from casual cruiser to long-term liveaboard, whether on a budget or with cash to splash

Description Foreword by Laurel Cooper, author of Sell Up and Sail

Selling up and escaping to sea on their own boat is a dream that many think they can never make happen. Escape Under Sail is here to show you that it can be done, and for less money that you might think.

This book delves to the very heart of what it takes and shows you exactly how you can go from casual cruiser to long- term liveaboard. Escape Under Sail covers all of the crucial topics, including budget and costs, how to choose a boat, making sure crew are equipped and trained, letting go both practically and psychologically, preparation and provisionioning, education and, most importantly, the challenges and rewards of living at sea.

The book pays special attention to making the liveaboard dream come true for those with a limited budget, while providing further options for those with the means and desire to spend more and splurge where they like. Written in the voices of both authors, so you can follow their experiences from each of their perspectives, which are sometimes wildly different, this practical handbook is peppered with personal anecdotes and hard-earned wisdom. Light-hearted but informative, it contains all the questions, answers, lists, figures and diagrams you need to make your liveaboard dreams come true.

About the Author Leonard Skinner, Mary Cooney and her teenage twins live and travel aboard a 39-foot sailboat, Faoin Speir. Since embarking as liveaboards they have developed one of the most subscribed Irish sailing channels on YouTube. Leonard has written for Yachting Monthly, Practical Boat Owner and the American magazine Good Old Boat.

Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781472959263 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 233x156mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Sailing Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Adlard Coles Nautica AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Reeds Weather Handbook Frank Singleton

This pocket-sized aide-memoire will equip sailors (and other outdoors people) with the knowledge to read and predict the weather.

Description Weather determines when we sail, where we sail to and whether we arrive safely. This essential pocket-sized guide, now revised for its second edition, equips the reader with all the necessary tools to predict and deal with local and distant weather conditions, whether on a day trip or a longer cruise, along the coast or further offshore. Each topic is broken down into digestible chapters, explaining the origins and effects of the full spectrum of weather conditions, including: - using and evaluating weather forecasts - depressions, fronts, isobars and other coastal effects - waves and swell - weather lore and sky watching. Meteorology is still advancing and sources of forecasts are changing. This new edition keeps the handbook up-to-date, with a particular focus on the increasing use of GRIB files, computer weather modelling and sources of forecasts, especially with the proliferation of computer forecasts becoming available free of charge. With practical explanations and helpful diagrams and photographs, this is the ideal aide-memoire for skippers and crew, especially those studying for their Day Skipper and Yachtmaster exams.

About the Author Frank Singleton is a former Senior Forecaster with the Met Office and is an RYA Yachtmaster with over 50,000 miles under his keel, mainly on the family Hallberg-Rassy 34. He has cruised widely in European and Mediterranean waters and enjoyed 10 Caribbean charter holidays. His weather website for sailors (weather.mailasail.com/Franks-Weather) is known worldwide as an extensive, informed and informative resource for all sea-goers. He has given many lectures to sailors, especially for the Cruising Association and the Royal Yachting Association.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781472965066 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 159x101mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Weather Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Adlard Coles Nautica AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 RSPB Spotlight Osprey Tim Mackrill

The osprey is one of the most well-loved and iconic birds, and also a species with a cosmopolitan distribution: occurring on every continent except Antarctica.

Description The osprey is one of the UK most well-loved and iconic birds, and also a species with a cosmopolitan distribution: occurring on every continent except Antarctica. A hunting osprey is one of the great sights of the natural world and its fishing prowess is admired and revered around the globe. However, its penchant for taking fish from mediaeval trout ponds resulted in a drastic decline in the UK with the species wiped out by human persecution and habitat loss. Thanks to concerted conservation effort, it has made an encouraging comeback in the UK in recent decades giving people across the country the chance to see this majestic hunter in action once again.

The easy-to-read text explores all aspects of the osprey's biology and ecology, including a detailed overview of the adaptations that make it such a skilled and proficient hunter. There is also a chapter dedicated to osprey migration with an overview of the findings of ground-breaking satellite tracking research. Recent studies have demonstrated the osprey's unique ability to make vast non-stop flights across the ocean, its capacity to exploit thermal updrafts to aid flight across the Sahara Desert and the capability of adult ospreys to return to exactly the same wintering site each year. The book also explores the relationship between humans and ospreys, from the days of Shakespeare to the visionary decision of George Waterston to invite the public to view nesting ospreys at Loch Garten for the first time in the late 1950s and the subsequent rise of osprey tourism and webcams.

About the Author Tim Mackrill has been part of the Rutland Water Osprey team since 1997 when he was a volunteer aged 15. He joined the staff a few years later and since 2005 has been the team's Project Officer. In his spare time, Tim is also currently studying for and writing his PhD on Ospreys.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781472956033 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Natural history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Natural History AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 RSPB Spotlight Ladybirds Richard Comont

RSPB Spotlight: Ladybirds is packed with eye-catching, informative colour photos and features succinct, detailed text written by a knowledgeable naturalist.

Description Brightly coloured and pleasingly patterned, ladybirds are among some of our most beloved and familiar invertebrates. Their role in helping to protect our crops by devouring huge numbers of pests has firmly established these tiny, flying beetles as the gardeners' friend.

Spotlight Ladybirds focuses on the 26 species that are resident in the UK, from the widespread but unusual Orange Ladybird to the rare and aptly named Scarce 7-spot Ladybird. Ladybird expert, Richard Comont considers the conservation challenges facing these iconic species, whose populations are now at risk thanks to the threat posed by one of their own, the invasive alien Harlequin Ladybird. And he covers all aspects of ladybirds' biology, from tiny larvae emerging from their oval eggs to large aggregations that converge at specific sites around the world. Richard also examines the natural history and cultural significance of this fascinating group of beetles, from Ladybird Books to Thor.

The Spotlight series introduces readers to the lives of our favourite animals with eye-catching colour photos and informative expert text.

About the Author Richard Comont is an ecologist and the winner of the 2016 Gilbert White Award for terrestrial and freshwater biological recording. He works as Science Manager for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust and is part of the UK Ladybird Survey team. Richard earned a PhD in zoology from the University of Oxford in 2014 for his work on the impacts of the Harlequin Ladybird on native ecosystems. He writes a wildlife blog and is a regular 'Local Patch' contributor to BBC Wildlife magazine.

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BLM Natural History AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Bumblebee Flies Anyway Kate Bradbury

The story of a garden brought back from the dead and the wildlife that returns to it, set amidst the chaos of new beginnings, old haunts and nearly losing everything.

Description 'Wonderfully intense and honest - a poignant manual of how to grow hope against the odds.' Chris Packham, TV presenter and author of Fingers in the Sparkle Jar Finding herself in a new home in Brighton, Kate Bradbury sets about transforming her decked, barren backyard into a beautiful wildlife garden. She documents the unbuttoning of the earth and the rebirth of the garden, the rewilding of a tiny urban space. On her own she unscrews, saws and hammers the decking away, she clears the builders' rubble and rubbish beneath it, and she digs and enriches the soil, gradually planting it up with plants she knows will attract wildlife. She erects bird boxes and bee hotels, hangs feeders and grows nectar- and pollen-rich plants, and slowly brings life back to the garden. But while she's doing this Kate's neighbours continue to pave and deck their gardens locking them away, the wildlife she tries to save is further threatened, and she feels she's fighting an uphill battle. Is there any point in gardening for wildlife when everyone else is drowning the land in poison and cement? Sadly, events take Kate away from her garden, and she finds herself back home in Birmingham where she grew up, travelling the roads she used to race down on her bike in the eighties, thinking of the gardens and wildlife she loved, witnessing more land lost beneath paving stones. If the dead could return, what would they say about the land we have taken, the ancient routes we have carved up, the wildlife we have lost?

About the Author Kate Bradbury is an award-winning author and journalist, specialising in wildlife gardening. She edits the wildlife pages of BBC Gardeners World Magazine and regularly writes articles for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, RHS magazine The Garden and BBC Wildlife and BBC Countryfile magazines. In 2015 she became the first Butterfly Ambassador for conservation charity Butterfly Conservation, and she writes a quarterly column for its magazine, Butterfly. Kate regularly talks at events and festivals and appears on radio including BBC Gardeners Question Time and the popular RHS gardening podcast. She also makes wildlife gardening videos for gardenersworld.com. She lives and Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781472943125 breathes wildlife gardening and is currently transforming a tired north-facing patio garden into a wildlife oasis, where she Format: Paperback - B format hopes to attract a wealth of creatures including frogs, toads, newts, birds, beetles, hedgehogs, butterflies, not to mention Dimensions: 0x0mm her very favourite, and first love: bees. Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Natural History AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Botanical Illustration The Next Ten Lessons: Colour and Composition Valerie C. Price

Ten graded lessons to tackle beautiful colour in stunning botanical compositions

Description This practical introduction to the colour and composition in botanical illustration is formed of ten graded lessons, where each teaches you new skills to build upon the last. From red tulips and pink roses to blackberries and green foliage; once you've completed these lessons you will have all the techniques you need in order to tackle far more complex arrangements. An experienced teacher of botanical illustration, Valerie Price shows even the uninitiated illustrator how to produce accurate and beautiful results, with her step-by-step instructions on how to tackle each individual project.

About the Author Valerie C. Price is a professional botanical illustrator and teacher. She gained a degree in scientific illustration, and has since worked at Kew Gardens, contributing to their publications and journals. Her work has been published by the Royal Horticultural Society, Collins, Dorling Kindersley and many others. Valerie has exhibited her work on several occasions, including at the Hunt Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, the Kew Gallery, and the Society of Botanical Illustrators.

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Herbert Press AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Kate Nicholson Jovan Nicholson

The first publication on painter Kate Nicholson's work and a sequel to Winifred Nicholson: Liberation of Colour

Description This book explores the career of the St Ives artist Kate Nicholson, daughter of Ben and Winifred Nicholson, from her early landscapes, the still lifes painted in Cumberland and St Ives, the abstracts many of them inspired by her travels in Greece to the late works made on the Isle of Eigg in the Hebrides. It examines her artistic relationship with her mother, with whom she painted side by side in Cumberland and Scotland, and on their many Greek travels. It also discusses her creative relationship with her father with whom she lived in St Ives in the mid-1950s for two years, as well as her friendship with many of the St Ives artists and her role in the Penwith Society.

Published to accompany the exhibition 'Kate Nicholson' at Falmouth Art Gallery, this book is the first monograph on this highly talented artist who deserves to be better known. It illustrates many works from both public and private collections and draws on groundbreaking new research, together with the author's experience of travelling with her on painting trips.

About the Author Jovan Nicholson is an independent art historian and curator with a particular interest in modern British art. He has worked on various projects with the Henry Moore Foundation, the Barbican Art Gallery, the Russian Museum, St Petersburg, the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow and the British Council, organising exhibitions between Russia, the former Soviet Republics, and Great Britain. He curated and wrote the accompanying catalogues for Art and Life: Ben Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis, William Staite Murray, 1920-1931 (Dulwich Picture Gallery); Winifred Nicholson in Cumberland (Abbot Hall Art Gallery); Winifred Nicholson: Liberation of Colour (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art). He is an acknowledged expert on Winifred Nicholson's work, a grandson of Ben and Winifred Nicholson, and a nephew of Kate Nicholson.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781781300879 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 112 pages Bic1: Art & design styles: from c 1960 Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Philip Wilson AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Australian Army at War 1976-2016 Leigh Neville

An illustrated study of the radical evolution of the Australian Army's capabilities, and its combat operations, that has taken place since the end of the Vietnam War.

Description Since the end of their involvement in the Vietnam War, the Australian Army has been modernized in every respect. After peacekeeping duties in South-East Asia, Africa and the Middle East in the 1980s 90s, 'Diggers' were sent to safeguard the newly independent East Timor from Indonesian harassment in 1999, and to provide long-term protection and mentoring since 2006. Australian Army units have served in the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Australian Special Forces are currently operating alongside US and British elements against ISIS in northern Iraq. During these campaigns the Australian SAS Regiment and Commandos have fully matured into 'Tier 1' assets, internationally recognized for their wide range of capabilities.

The book, written by an Australian author who has written extensively about modern warfare, traces the development of the Army's organization, combat uniforms, load-bearing equipment, small arms and major weapon systems using specially commissioned artwork and photographs.

About the Author Leigh Neville is an Australian national who has written a number of books on both modern conventional military units and special operations forces serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, their weapons and their vehicles, including multiple titles for Osprey with several more in development. He has also consulted on military topics for several wargame companies and television documentary makers. He lives in Sydney with his wife and two dogs. Peter Dennis was born in 1950. Inspired by contemporary magazines such as Look and Learn he studied illustration at Liverpool Art College. Peter has since contributed to hundreds of books, predominantly on historical subjects, including many Osprey titles. A keen wargamer and model maker, he is based in Nottinghamshire, UK.

Price: $24.99 $26.99 ISBN: 9781472826329 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 48 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Persian War: A military history William Shepherd

Weaving together the accounts of the ancient historian Herodotus with other ancient sources, this is the engrossing story of the triumph of Greece over the mighty Persian Empire.

Description The victory of a few Greek city-states over the world's first superpower was an extraordinary military feat that secured the future of western civilization. All modern accounts of the war as a whole, and of Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis, the best-known battles, depend on the ancient sources, foremost amongst them Herodotus, but generally quote very little from them. This is the first book to bring together Herodotus' entire narrative and interweave it with other ancient voices to present the original texts that comprise almost all that is known about this immense clash of arms.

About the Author William Shepherd studied classics at Clare College, Cambridge, in the 1960s and then embarked on a career in publishing which finally brought him to Osprey, where he retired as chief executive in 2007. He is author of The Persian War (Cambridge, 1982), translated from Herodotus. He has also written reading books for children and articles in the Osprey Military Journal, of which he was joint editor, and makes regular contributions to the Osprey blog. He lives in the Cherwell Valley, north of Oxford.

Price: $34.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9781472808639 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 328 pages Bic1: Warfare & defence Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 F-80 Shooting Star Units of the Korean War Warren Thompson

Fully illustrated study of the US Korean War fighter that fought in the first ever jet-versus-jet engagement in the history of aviation.

Description Built within a 180-day time limit in 1943, the F-80 Shooting Star first saw service in Italy in the final year of World War 2, and consequently was sent to bases in the US, Europe and the Far East after VJ Day. It was the latter groups based in Japan that initially bore the brunt of the early fighting in Korea, engaging MiG-15s in the world's first jet-versus-jet combat. Flown principally by the 8th and 49th Fighter Bomber Wings, the F-80 served until the end of the war, completing an astonishing 98,515 combat sorties, shooting down 17 aircraft (including three of the vastly superior MiG-15s), dropping over 33,000 tons of bombs, and firing over 80,000 air-to-ground rockets. Aside from the fighter-bomber Shooting Stars, the ultra-rare, but heavily used, photo-reconnaissance RF-80A saw extensive use in the frontline in Korea as a replacement for the vulnerable RF-51D. Filled with first-hand accounts and rare colour photographs taken by the veterans themselves, this is the engrossing story of the pioneering F-80 Shooting Star.

About the Author Warren Thompson has had numerous books and magazine articles published over the past 30 years. His interest in the Korean War has spanned almost this entire length of time. Thompson has written more than 15 books for Osprey since 1990. He lives in Germantown, Tennessee.

Jim Laurier is a native of New England, growing up in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. He has been drawing since he could hold a pencil and throughout his life he has worked in many mediums creating artwork on a variety of subjects. He has worked on the Osprey Aviation list since 2000 and in that time he has produced some of the finest artwork seen in these volumes. He has specialised in aircraft of the Vietnam War period. He lives in New Hampshire.

Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781472829054 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Nieuwpoort 1600: The battle of the Dunes Bouko de Groot

A highly illustrated study of the battle of Nieuwpoort in 1600, one of the key engagements of the Eighty Years War. It will appeal to all enthusiasts of 16th and 17th century warfare and the development of military strategy generally.

Description The Eighty Years' War began as a limited Dutch rebellion seeking only religious tolerance from their Spanish overlords, but it quickly escalated into one of the longest wars in European history. Spain's failed invasion of 1599 and the mutinies that followed convinced Dutch leaders that they now should go on the offensive. This campaign pitted two famous leaders' sons against each other: Maurice of Nassau and Archduke Albert VII. One led an unproven new model army, the other Spain's 'unbeatable' Tercios, each around 11,000-men strong. The Dutch wanted to land near Nieuwpoort, take it and then march on to Dunkirk, northern home port of the Spanish fleet, but they were cut off by the resurgent and reunited Spanish army. The two forces then met on the beach and in the dunes north of Nieuwpoort. This book uses specially commissioned artwork to reveal one of the greatest battles of the Eighty Years' War one whose influence on military theory and practice ever since has been highly significant.

About the Author Bouko de Groot has a BA in Art History and an MA in Egyptology. He has served in the army and is a published author of a number of academic, popular scientific and business journalistic articles. When not writing about current affairs, he continues to study and write about military history. He is Dutch and currently lives in The Hague. Peter Dennis was inspired by contemporary magazines such as Look and Learn, leading him to study Illustration at Liverpool Art College. Peter has since contributed to hundreds of books, predominantly on historical subjects, including many Osprey titles. A keen wargamer and modelmaker, he is based in Nottinghamshire, UK.

Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781472830814 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Union Sharpshooter vs Confederate Sharpshooter: American Civil War 1861-65 Gary Yee

This fully illustrated study assesses the fighting techniques, armament and combat record of the Union and Confederate sharpshooters who clashed in battles and sieges throughout the American Civil War.

Description During the American Civil War, the Union and the Confederacy both fielded units of sharpshooters. Sometimes equipped with firearms no better than those of their infantry brethren, they fought in a manner reminiscent of Napoleonic-era light infantry. Siege warfare placed a premium on marksmanship and the sharpshooter became indispensable as they could drive artillerymen from their guns. They could also become expert scouts and, for the Confederacy, impressive raiders one raid netted almost 250 prisoners. Initially, Union marksmen enjoyed the upper hand, but as the Confederates began raising and training their own sharpshooters, they proved themselves as worthy opponents. In this study, Gary Yee, an expert in firearms of the period, assesses the role played by sharpshooters in three bloody clashes at the height of the American Civil War the battle of Fredericksburg, the siege of Vicksburg, and the siege of Battery Wagner.

About the Author Gary Yee is a former firearms and relics curator at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center and a curator/conservator at Francisco Fort Museum in Colorado. An active member in the Civil War community, he is the author of Sharpshooters 1750 1900: The Men, their Guns, their Story and Sharpshooters: Markmen through the Ages as well as many articles for magazines such as Muzzle Blasts, Muzzle Loader, The Gettysburg Magazine, The Skirmish Line, Crossfire, and The Military Collector and Historian. Trained as a gunsmith at Trinidad State College, Gary lives in Aguilar, Colorado. Johnny Shumate works as a freelance illustrator living in Nashville, Tennessee. He began his career in 1987 after graduating from Austin Peay State University. Most of his work is rendered in Adobe Photoshop using a Cintiq monitor. His greatest influences are Angus McBride, Don Troiani, and Edouard Detaille.

Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781472831859 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 80 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Castagnaro 1387: Hawkwood's Great Victory Kelly DeVries, Niccolo Capponi

A highly illustrated study of the medieval Italian battle of Castagnaro, the famous English condottiere captain Sir John Hawkwood's greatest victory.

Description The battle of Castagnaro, fought on 11 March 1387 between the Veronese and the Paduans, is one of the most famous Italian medieval conflicts in the English-speaking world. This is thanks in no small part to the exploits of the renowned English mercenary (or condottiero) captain, Sir John Hawkwood. Commanding the Paduan army, he led them to a stunning victory. This new study challenges the conventional story of the battle, relocating it to the other side of the Adige River, and showing that Hawkwood was no mere disciple of his previous commander, the Black Prince he was a highly talented and intelligent general in his own right. Using specially commissioned full-colour artwork, this fascinating book shows how Hawkwood used his own acumen, and the training, skills, and discipline of his very experienced condottieri, to defeat his opponents at Castagnaro.

About the Author Kelly DeVries holds a PhD from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. He is professor of history at Loyola University Maryland and has most recently written Medieval Weapons: An Illustrated History of their Impact (2007) and The Artillery of the Dukes of Burgundy, 1363-1477 (2006), both with Robert Douglas Smith. His other books include: Medieval Military Technology (1992); Infantry Warfare in the Early Fourteenth Century: Discipline, Tactics and Technology (1996); The Norwegian Invasion of England in 1066 (1999); Joan of Arc: A Military Leader (1999); A Cumulative Bibliography of Medieval Military History and Technology (2002; updated 2005); and Guns and Men in Medieval Europe, 1200-1500: Studies in Military History and Technology (2002), as well as several edited works. In addition he is the author of more than 60 articles on military history and the history of military technology. He currently edits the Journal of Medieval Military History and is the series editor for the History of Warfare series of Brill Publishing.

Count NiccolA2 Capponi is a part of Florence's living history. His family has been in the city since the thirteenth century and he is a historian. After earning a PhD in military history from the University of Padova, he returned to Florence where Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781472833518 he currently teaches political science and the history of Florence to Americans studying abroad. He is, most recently, Format: Paperback author of Victory of the West: The Story of the Battle of Lepanto, as well as I legionari rossi: Le brigate internazionali nella Dimensions: 0x0mm guerra civile spagnola 1936-1939, a history of the international brigades during the Spanish Civil War. Extent: 96 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Armies of Russia's War in Ukraine Mark Galeotti

Illustrated investigation of the forces fighting today's civil war in Ukraine, including Russian regular and clandestine units.

Description In February 2014, street protests in Kiev and other Ukrainian cities led to the ousting of the Russian-backed President Yanukovych. The so-called Euromaidan Revolution saw many changes to Ukraine's constitution, but the violent reaction in the east and south of the country led to armed counter-revolution, unofficially backed by Russia. This conflict is the essential example of Russia's new policy of 'hybrid warfare', which blends propaganda, misinformation, and the deployment of 'deniable' Special Forces and regular troops alongside proxies and mercenaries to achieve its strategic ends. Using his extensive contacts in both Russia and Ukraine, and access to a mass of official and unofficial sources, Mark Galeotti presents a thorough and intriguing primer on all the forces involved in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Supported by specially commissioned artwork, he analyses both the progress of the war, and what it teaches us about Russia's current military capabilities.

About the Author Professor Mark Galeotti, formerly senior lecturer in international history at Keele University, is Clinical Professor of Global Affairs, New York University. He is a former Foreign Office adviser on Russian security affairs, and for 15 years (1991 2006) wrote a monthly column on this for Jane's Intelligence Review. Mark's most recent books for Osprey are ELI 217 The Modern Russian Army 1992 2016 and ELI 197 Russian Security and Paramilitary Forces since 1991. Johnny Shumate works as a freelance illustrator living in Nashville, Tennessee. He began his career in 1987 after graduating from Austin Peay State University. Most of his work is rendered in Adobe Photoshop using a Cintiq monitor. His greatest influences are Angus McBride, Don Troiani and Edouard Detaille.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781472833440 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 64 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 An Englishman Abroad: Soe Agent Dick Mallaby's Italian Missions, 1943-45 Gianluca Barneschi

A dramatic account of the missions of a real-life James Bond, Special Operations Executive agent Dick Mallaby, in Italy during World War II.

Description Based on 20 years of research, Gianluca Barneschi has uncovered the true story of a real-life James Bond. The debonair Special Operations Executive agent Richard 'Dick' Mallaby was the first Briton to be sent to Italy as an SOE operative, parachuted unceremoniously into Lake Como in August 1943. Arrested and initially tortured by the Italian authorities, he managed to sweet-talk his way out of trouble, and helped Marshal Pietro Badoglio and King Victor Emmanuel III escape to the Allied lines. He also helped negotiate the armistice with Italy, for which he was awarded the Military Cross. He was back in action in 1945, when he crossed into Fascist-controlled northern Italy from Switzerland but was swiftly captured and interrogated by the SS. Narrowly avoiding a firing squad once again, he helped to secure the surrender of 800,000 German forces in Italy in May 1945.

About the Author Gianluca Barneschi is an author, historian, and attorney in the field of radio and telecommunications Among several newspapers and magazines, his essays have also been published in Nuova Storia Contemporanea and featured in various television documentaries, having gained literary recognition. His debut work, Balvano 1944: The Secrets of an Ignored Railway Disaster, was the winner of the Basilicata Prize 2005 in the historical non-fiction category. In 2013, The Englishman Who Traveled with the King and Badoglio - the Missions of the Special Agent Dick Mallaby, was the recipient of the Cerruglio Prize 2014 for historical essays and has reached its third edition in Italy. Barneschi has spent 20 years researching the story of Richard Mallaby's missions and lives primarily in Rome with his family.

Price: $34.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9781472835444 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 US Navy Battleships 1882-98: Pre-dreadnoughts and monitors that fought the Spanish-American War Brian Lane Herder

The story of how the US Navy developed its first battleship fleet, their first combat test in the Spanish- American War and the battleships' careers through World War I.

Description After the American Civil War, the US Navy had been allowed to decay into complete insignificance, yet the commissioning of the modern Brazilian battleship Riachuelo and poor performance against the contemporary Spanish fleet, forced the US out of its isolationist posture towards battleships.

The first true US battleships began with the experimental Maine and Texas, followed by the three-ship Indiana class, and the Iowa class, which incorporated lessons from the previous ships. These initial ships set the enduring US battleship standard of being heavily armed and armoured at the expense of speed. This fully illustrated study examines these first six US battleships, a story of political compromises, clean sheet designs, operational experience, and experimental improvements. These ships directly inspired the creation of an embryonic American military-industrial complex, enabled a permanent outward-looking shift in American foreign policy and laid the foundations of the modern US Navy.

About the Author Born in 1981, Brian Lane Herder graduated with a BA in History from the University of Kansas in 2003, and a Masters of Library Science from Emporia State University in 2009. He is a legislative librarian for the Kansas state government and his historical research interests include the US military, naval warfare, and World War II. He lives in Topeka, Kansas.

Price: $24.99 $26.99 ISBN: 9781472835024 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 48 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Six-Day War 1967: Operation Focus and the 12 hours that changed the Middle East Shlomo Aloni

The story of how the Israeli Air Force achieved one of the most audacious and important air power victories in history, wiping out enemy air forces more than twice its own size in a single morning.

Description The Israeli Air Force's Operation Focus was not only a watershed in the history of the modern Middle East but was one of the greatest and most effective air superiority campaigns ever waged. On a single morning, almost the entire IAF was committed to a surprise, preemptive airstrike against the air forces of the encircling Arab states. The attack was extraordinarily successful. Hundreds of Arab aircraft were destroyed, their airfields crippled, and the IAF gained almost complete air supremacy for the rest of the war.

This new illustrated study examines the planning, execution and aftermath of Operation Focus showing how it not only effectively won the Six-Day War for Israel, but also impacted military thinking in the Middle East and all over the globe so profoundly that military leaders' perceptions of air superiority were practically transformed in its wake, signalling a turning point in the Cold War.

About the Author Shlomo Aloni has authored dozens of books and hundreds of articles covering Israel Air Force heritage and Middle East air warfare history. He lives in Israel.

Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781472835277 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 German submarine U-1105 'Black Panther': The naval archaeology of a U-boat Aaron Stephan Hamilton

A detailed study of history and marine archaeology of a U-boat.

Description Now in its final resting place at the bottom of the Potomac River in Maryland, the U-Boat U-1105 is unique among German World War II submarines. It was the only U-Boat to conduct a wartime patrol while equipped with three technological innovations that revolutionized submarine warfare in the post-war world. These were: the snorkel (air-mast) that allowed the U-Boat to remain submerged indefinitely; the GHG Balkon passive sonar mounted forward of the keel that increased listening range by 70%; and a rubberized coating known as Alberich designed to reduce its acoustic signature and hide from Allied sonar. This is the first book to analyse the U-1105 combat record using primary documents in order to evaluate the effectiveness of its late war technologies, document its extensive postwar testing and detail all the features still present on the wreck site today. The U-1105 remains the only U-Boat in North America that someone can dive and still see remnants of its snorkel trunking and Alberich coating. The book gives details of the U-Boat's construction, training, first and only combat patrol, and extensive postwar testing and evaluation by both the Royal and US Navies. It contains c. 50 images of U-1105 from wartime, postwar testing and of its condition at the bottom of the Potomac. Many of the images are new and previously unpublished anywhere.

About the Author Aaron S. Hamilton is an academically trained historian and published author who holds both a B.A. and a M.A. in History. He has particular expertise in the archival records of the last year of the war in Europe and his books include Bloody Streets: The Soviet Assault on Berlin, April 1945 and The Oder Front 1945. Aaron is also a certified technical diver and an amateur maritime archaeologist who maintains a keen interest in naval history, particularly submarines. He has contributed original research to published academic works and on various websites.

Price: $49.99 $54.99 ISBN: 9781472835819 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Military & naval ships Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Walker Bulldog vs T-54: Laos and Vietnam 1971-75 Chris McNab

During the later stages of the Vietnam War, the US-made M41 Walker Bulldog light tank fought the Soviet- designed T-54 main battle tank in a series of battles in Laos and Vietnam. Fully illustrated, this engaging study investigates the origins, combat record and legacy of these two armoured fighting vehicles.

Description During the Vietnam War, both the United States and the Soviet Union supplied all manner of weapon systems to the opposing sides, including tanks and armoured vehicles. Two tanks in particular took momentary prominence in the later years of the conflict. On the South Vietnamese side, it was the US M41 Walker Bulldog; for the communist North Vietnamese, the Soviet-supplied T-54 main battle tank was the core of their armoured power.

In their first major engagement, during Operation Lam Son 719 (February March 1971), it was the Walker Bulldog in the ascendant, but in later battles the T-54s inflicted heavy losses on their lighter opponents, taking the advantage through their superior manoeuvrability and gunnery.

Illustrated with full-colour artwork as well as rare and revealing photographs from both sides, this book studies these two iconic tanks in Vietnamese service, examining how their differing designs and fighting doctrines affected their performance in this unique theatre of combat.

About the Author Chris McNab is an author and editor. To date he has published over 100 books, many of them for Osprey. He lives in South Wales. Johnny Shumate works as a freelance illustrator. He began his career in 1987 after graduating from Austin Peay State University. His greatest influences are Angus McBride, Don Troiani, and Edouard Detaille. He lives in Tennessee. Born in Malaya in 1949, Alan Gilliland studied photography/film and architecture, and spent 18 years as the graphics editor of the Daily Telegraph. He now writes, illustrates, and publishes fiction as well as illustrating for a variety of publishers. He lives in Lincolnshire.

Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781472836120 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 80 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Women in Aviation Julian Hale

This title charts the history of women's involvement in aviation, exploring how British and American women donned goggles and gloves to fly through a predominantly masculine world and onwards into an age of aviation equality.

Description This title explores the scope of women's activities in aviation, from the time of the Wright Brothers to the present day. After highlighting the earliest female aviators, as well as the trailblazers of the inter-war period such as Amy Johnson and Amelia Earhart, the book goes on to examine the experience of women in aviation during the Second World War, including those flying with the Air Transport Auxiliary and the American Women Airforce Service Pilots. The post-war years are also covered and the title emphasises the growth in women's participation in civil and military spheres of aviation by the last decades of the twentieth century, women had progressed even further, undertaking many of the jobs previously reserved for men, including space flight and combat flying. From the earliest women to obtain pilot's licenses to the female astronauts of the modern day, this is a concise introduction to the development of British and American women's roles in aviation.

About the Author Julian Hale read History at Lancaster University and completed an MA on the RFC and RAF in the Middle East during the First World War. In 2012, he joined the RAF Museum and catalogued the Jack Bruce Collection, an archive of First World War and inter-war aircraft and personnel images. He was the Assistant Curator for the Museum's Centenary Programme until June 2018 and is the author of The RAF: 1918-2018.

Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781784423636 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 64 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: A Board Game of English Magic Marco Maggi, Francesco Nepitello

A 2-4 player game for natural magicians and careful readers alike, based on the cult-classic book by Susanna Clarke.

Description Number of Players: 2-4 Ages: 14+ Playing Time: 60-80 minutes Components: Map of Europe, 4 Magician boards, 4 Player markers, Fairy marker, 12 Cards of Marseilles, 170+ cards including spells, invitations, Feats of Magic, and more. Set during the events of the cult-classic book, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell sees players delve into the world of English magic, developing their talents and expanding their social reach as they aim to become the most celebrated magician of the age. Take on the role of an aspiring magician, including the titular characters Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell themselves, and start them down the path to greatness. Build up your power and status by travelling across Europe and London, performing feats of magic and attending social engagements. The most celebrated magician will face the gentleman with the thistle-down hair, but only the strongest will defeat him.

About the Author Italy-based designers Marco Maggi and Francesco Nepitello started collaborating on creative projects in the late eighties of the past century. In a career now spanning almost thirty years, they have created role-playing games, card games and board games for children and adults. They are especially known for games based on popular intellectual properties, like the Marvel universe, Doctor Who, Conan the Barbarian or the writings of H.P. Lovecraft. Their greatest achievements so far are tied to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien Marco and Francesco have created some of the best-known games based of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Their love for deep and engaging fantastical worlds has led them to appreciate and explore Susanna Clarke's masterpiece - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Ian O'Toole is an Irish graphic designer and illustrator working out of Perth in Western Australia. Focused primarily on tabletop gaming, Ian's work combines his experience in concise visual communication with his flexible approach to Price: $79.99 $84.99 ISBN: 9781472835178 illustration Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 1 pages Bic1: Board games Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey Games AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Reality's Edge: Cyberpunk Skirmish Rules Joseph McGuire

Reality's Edge is a gritty, action-packed skirmish wargame set in a dystopian cyberpunk world.

Description Hyper-reality. The area between the thriving mass of humanity known as the Sprawl and the digital refuge of Cyberspace. This is your playground. As a data-jack, you can see and manipulate the flow of digital data through the real world for you, reality is limitless.

Welcome to Reality's Edge, a wargame so shiny you are going to need mirror shades. Set in a dystopian cyberpunk future, players take on the role of a data-jack, a mercenary hacker who leads a small team of trusted operatives and disposable freelancers. Funded by shadow backers, the data-jacks accept jobs from faceless clients for profit, glory, and better chrome - always better chrome. Battles take place in the concrete jungle known as the Sprawl, but data-jacks must remain wary of the threat posed by Cyberspace. Hacking rules are pivotal to the game, with data nodes, robots, machines, and even enemy chrome presenting potential targets for a cunning data-jack. No-one plugged into Cyberspace is entirely safe from intrusion, and the electronic sprites and digital djinn you can deploy alongside your team can be just as dangerous as any mercenary or assassin.

Gameplay focuses on individual characters, with each skirmish offering you the opportunity to earn experience and equipment for your data-jack and operatives. A wide range of items and upgrades are available, from advanced weaponry and synthetics through to cyber-implants, biological enhancements, clones, and much more. This is a world obsessed with whether something can be done, not whether it should.

About the Author Joey McGuire is the President and Head Janitor of World's End Publishing, and is the author of This Is Not a Test. A geek and long-time gamer, Joey got into the miniatures hobby after entering a gaming store in 1997 and discovering the Games Workshop product catalog. Since that auspicious day, Joey has been modelling and painting miniatures, building terrain, and writing his own rules. This Is Not a Test was his first solo publication, but he has also worked on several other Price: $49.99 $52.99 ISBN: 9781472826619 projects, both personal and for Rattrap Productions. Currently residing in Maryland, Joey is also a devoted husband, Format: Hard Cover proud father, and a humble civil servant by day. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Role-playing, war games & fantasy sports Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey Games AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Frostgrave: Ghost Archipelago: Cities of Bronze Joseph A. McCullogh

A supplement for Frostgrave: Ghost Archipelago, focusing on the Dricheans, the Lost Isles' most powerful faction, and featuring new scenarios, creatures, crew options, and treasure.

Description The islands of the Ghost Archipelago are covered in the ruins of ancient civilizations, but there is one group whose culture still thrives and whose power still grows the Dricheans. Divided into many small kingdoms and city-states that wage near- constant war with snake-men, native tribes, and with each other, the Dricheans are renowned for the gleaming bronze of their weapons and armour, and their martial prowess. While adventurers exploring the Lost Isles will face many threats, the Dricheans are certainly the most organized and militaristic. This supplement for Ghost Archipelago: Fantasy Wargames in the Lost Isles examines the scattered realms of the Dricheans, presenting players with three new mini- campaigns featuring these bronze-armed warriors. Also presented are optional rules for using Drichean Heritors, Wardens, and Crew, and guidelines for creating your own Drichean kingdoms.

About the Author Joseph A. McCullough is the author of several non-fiction books including A Pocket History of Ireland, Zombies: A Hunter's Guide, and Dragonslayers: From Beowulf to St. George. In addition, his fantasy short stories have appeared in various books and magazines such as Black Gate, Lords of Swords, and Adventure Mystery Tales. He is also the creator of the wargame, Frostgrave: Fantasy Wargames in the Frozen City, and co-wrote The Grey Mountains, a supplement for the Middle-Earth Role-Playing game. His continued ramblings can be read at: http://therenaissancetroll.blogspot.co.uk/ Dmitry Burmak is a freelance artist from Moscow, Russia. After graduating as an engineer, he decided to change his career plans and took another degree in Fine Art. Dmitry started as an artist in the video games industry and now works as a freelance illustrator with his wife Kate, who is also an artist. Dmitry specializes in fantasy and sci-fi art for roleplaying games, card games and video games.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781472832795 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: Role-playing, war games & fantasy sports Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey Games AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 A View from the Bridge: Methuen Student Editions Arthur Miller, edited by Steve Marino

A View from the Bridge is the story of Eddie Carbone and his tragic betrayal of his community's moral code. This definitive critical edition of the play features a comprehensive commentary together with notes and questions prepared by one of the leading international Miller experts in consultation with the author's estate.

Description This Student Edition of A View from the Bridge is perfect for students of literature and drama and offers an unrivalled guide to Miller's play. It features an extensive introduction by Steve Marino which includes: a chronology of Miller's life and times; a summary of the plot and commentary on the characters, themes, language, context and production history of the play. Together with over twenty questions for further study and detailed notes on words and phrases from the text, this is the definitive edition of the play.

Set among Italian-Americans on the Brooklyn waterfront, A View from the Bridge is the story of longshoreman Eddie Carbone. When his wife's cousins arrive as illegal immigrants from Italy, he is honoured to take them into his house. But when his niece begins to fall in love with one of them Eddie grows increasingly suspicious, eventually precipitating his violation of the moral and cultural codes of his community and leading to the play's tragic finale. With its examination of the themes of sexuality, responsibility, betrayal and vengeance, the play is vintage Miller and a modern classic.

About the Author Arthur Miller (1915-2005) was arguably the most important playwright of the twentieth century whose oeuvre includes novels, screenplays, essays and an autobiography. Six volumes of his plays and a volume of his theatre essays are published by Methuen Drama. Steve Marino is Professor of English at Saint Francis College, Brooklyn, N.Y, and President of the Arthur Miller Society.

Price: $22.99 $25.99 ISBN: 9781408108406 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x132mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Methuen Drama AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Pomona Alistair McDowall

A sinister and surreal thriller from Alistair McDowall, one of the most important playwrights of this generation.

Description I think I'd sleep a lot easier if I knew none of us would wake up tomorrow. Ollie's sister is missing. Searching Manchester in desperation, she finds all roads lead to Pomona - an abandoned concrete island at the heart of the city. Here at the centre of everything, journeys end and nightmares are born.

A sinister and surreal thriller from Alistair McDowall, Pomona received its world premiere at the Orange Tree Theatre, London, on 12 November 2014.

About the Author Alistair McDowall grew up in the North East of England. Brilliant Adventures was awarded a Bruntwood Prize in 2011, and was developed as part of the Young Writers Festival 2012 at the Royal Court. Other plays include Talk Show (Royal Court) and Captain Amazing (Live Theatre). He has been a writer on attachment with the Royal Court, Paines Plough, and the National Theatre Studio (Summer 2013) and was nominated for the Writers Guild Best New Play Award in 2013.

Price: $19.99 $21.99 ISBN: 9781474236010 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 202x131mm Extent: 136 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Methuen Drama AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Macbeth: Arden Performance Editions William Shakespeare, edited by Katherine Brokaw

A unique annotated edition designed for use in the rehearsal room - for actors and directors.

Description 'I wish I had copies like this at Drama School. Essential notes on the language for those who will get up and speak it, not purely for those who will sit and study it. An incredibly useful tool with room on every page to make notes. Next time I'm in rehearsal on a Shakespeare play, I have no doubt that a copy from this series will be in my hand.' ADRIAN LESTER, Actor, Director and Writer

Arden Performance Editions are ideal for anyone engaging with a Shakespeare play in performance. With clear facing- page notes giving definitions of words, easily accessible information about key textual variants, lineation, metrical ambiguities and pronunciation, each edition has been developed to open the play's possibilities and meanings to actors and students.

Each edition offers: -Facing-page notes -Short, clear definitions of words -Easily accessible information about key textual variants -Notes on pronunciation of difficult names and unfamiliar words -An easy to read layout -Space to write notes -A short introduction to the play

About the Author Katherine Steele Brokaw is Associate Professor of English at University of California, Merced, USA and co-founder of Shakespeare in Yosemite. She has taught, written about, adapted, and acted in Shakespeare's plays in a number of venues across the USA and Europe

Price: $15.99 $17.99 ISBN: 9781350046788 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Acting techniques Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Arden Shakespeare AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Social Design Reader Elizabeth Resnick

Brings together essential writings on social design theory and practice from the 1960s to the present day, combined with contextualising editorial introductions and useful resources for students.

Description The Social Design Reader explores the ways in which design can be a catalyst for social change. Bringing together key texts of the last fifty years, editor Elizabeth Resnick traces the emergence of the notion of socially responsible design. This volume represents the authentic voices of the thinkers, writers and designers who are helping to build a 'canon' of informed literature which documents the development of the discipline. The Social Design Reader is divided into three parts. Section 1: Making a Stand includes an introduction to the term 'social design' and features papers which explore its historical underpinnings. Section 2: Creating the Future documents the emergence of social design as a concept, as a nascent field of study, and subsequently as a rapidly developing professional discipline, and Section 3: A Sea Change is made up of papers acknowledging social design as a firmly established practice. Contextualising section introductions are provided to aid readers in understanding the original source material, while summary boxes clearly articulate how each text fits with the larger milieu of social design theory, methods, and practice.

About the Author Elizabeth Resnick is Professor Emerita of Graphic Design at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, USA.

Price: $56.99 $62.99 ISBN: 9781350026056 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Art & design styles: from c 1960 Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 For the Love of Letterpress: A Printing Handbook for Instructors and Students Cathie Ruggie Saunders and Martha Chiplis

Everything you need to know about the practicalities and art of letterpress.

Description Conveying the authors' love of the letterpress process and product, this book presents the technical, historical, aesthetic and practical information necessary for both students and instructors. The 2nd edition of For the Love of Letterpress includes an updated gallery of contemporary images of letterpress printing, as well as a new chapter of letterpress assignments from the United States, United Kingdom and Europe. Both additions attest to the dynamic and continued relevance of the media. The authors show how contemporary digital processes have expanded the boundaries of traditional letterpress. By writing with passion and experience, they indicate why a 15th century printing technology based upon crafting with one's hands, still has appeal and value to 21st century artists and designers. Whether incorporated into an academic curriculum or used for self-study, For the Love of Letterpress is a must for students who wish to learn letterpress and instructors seeking inspiration and reference.

About the Author Cathie Ruggie Saunders has been making letterpress books since 1973 and has 35 years of experience teaching letterpress printing to graduate and undergraduate students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Martha Chiplis has more than 16 years of experience printing limited edition books and has been teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 2008.

Price: $53.99 $59.99 ISBN: 9781350051287 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Typography & lettering Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 3D Printing Design: Additive Manufacturing and the Materials Revolution Francis Bitonti

This is the guide for anyone eager to get to grips with the new manufacturing technologies shaping the landscape of fashion today.

Description To work with the materials of tomorrow, design students across visual arts disciplines need to understand the cutting edge of today. Whether you're modelling in interiors, designing in fashion or constructing for interiors, in your work or as part of a final project, 3D Printing design is an encouraging guide to additive manufacturing within design disciplines. Francis Bitonti gives an insider's view from his design studio on how 3D printing is already shaking up the industry, and where it's likely to go next. Complete with interviews from designers, business owners and 3D-print experts throughout, Bitonti considers whether 3D body scans mean couture for all, how rapid prototyping can change your design method and if 3D printing materials can enhance medical design, amongst other areas of this emerging method of manufacture. This is inspirational reading for the designers of tomorrow.

About the Author Francis Bitonti is a designer who specialises in cutting-edge digital design and manufacturing technologies. He is a co- founder of Lexset and founded and continues to run the Francis Bitonti Studio. His studio projects have been featured in Wired, The New York Times, Fast Company, and The Wall Street Journal. His pieces have been collected and featured in the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National design Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design, the Boston Museum of Fine Art, the High Museum, and the Mint Museum.

Price: $51.99 $57.99 ISBN: 9781474220965 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Cultural studies Bic2: Cultural studies Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Fairchild USA AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Context and Narrative in Photography Maria Short, Sri-Kartini Leet and Elisavet Kalpaxi

A visually stunning introduction to the use of storytelling in photographic imagery.

Description However beautiful or technically dazzling your photographs might be, if they don't tell a story, convey an idea or make your viewer stop and think, they are unlikely to make a lasting impression. Context and Narrative in Photography introduces practical methods to help you plan, develop and present meaningful, communicative images. With dozens of examples from some of the world's most thought-provoking photographers, this is a beautiful introduction to a fascinating aspect of photography. Beginning with an exploration of different narrative techniques, you'll be guided through selecting and developing a compelling concept for your project and how it might be conveyed either through a single image or a series of photographs. You'll also learn ways to incorporate signs, symbols and text into your work and how to present the finished piece to best reach your audience. New to this edition are extended projects, additional exercises and discussion questions, expanded case studies, around 25% of the images and an expanded Chapter 6 on integrating text into photographic projects.

About the Author Maria Short is a Senior Lecturer in Photography at the University of Brighton, UK. Dr Sri-Kartini Leet is Subject Leader for Photography at the University of Northampton. Elisavet Kalpaxi is a Lecturer in Photographic Practice at the University of Northampton.

Price: $49.99 $54.99 ISBN: 9781474291170 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Photography & photographs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Book of Pockets: A Practical Guide for Fashion Designers Adriana Gorea, Katya Roelse and Martha L. Hall

A practical guide to designing and constructing pockets for a broad range of design briefs, from activewear to couture, featuring step-by-step instructions, engaging construction challenges and patterns of this important design detail to inspire readers who want to up their pocket-making game.

Description Whether fashionable or functional or both pockets are an important design detail that can enhance the aesthetic of your collection and improve the experience of the wearer. Whether it's for fashion design, construction, patternmaking or costume design, if you're looking to get the full picture on patch pockets, better command of the cargo, or more know-how on welts, this is your go-to resource. The Book of Pockets includes: - inspirational imagery, overlaid with fl at patterns or zoom-ins of the pocket detail - comprehensive information on all things pocket, beginning with their long history and going all the way from workwear to activewear and couture - practical advice through interviews with fashion designers, curators, and technology developers a Pocket Flat Sketch Library appendix for quick reference, and - step-by-step construction tutorials, illustrated with flats throughout, showing you how to create nested pockets with gussets, invisible zipper patch pockets, cascading pockets, and more. With consumers crying out for stylish, functional pockets, The Book of Pockets is the ultimate guide to help you successfully incorporate them into your designs.

About the Author Adriana Gorea is an assistant professor of fashion design at Syracuse University, USA. She teaches senior design collection and fashion illustration courses. Katya Roelse is an instructor at the University of Delaware, USA. She also works as a freelance technical designer. Martha L. Hall is Director of Innovation at the College of Health Sciences at the University of Delaware, USA.

Price: $59.99 $65.99 ISBN: 9781474272490 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Fashion & textiles: design Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Classroom Behaviour Management in Further, Adult and Vocational Education: Moving Beyond Control? edited by Denise Robinson

Draws together a research and practice informed exploration of behaviour in the Further, Adult and Vocational Education sector.

Description Guiding you through research and practice, Classroom Behaviour Management in Further, Adult and Vocational Education offers a new perspective. The authors help you to understand how you can create a positive classroom ethos and learning experience in the further, adult and vocational education sector. They explore the need to engage with students' previous experiences, be they positive or negative, and look at why it is important to engage with the wider economic, social and political issues at play in the classroom to understand how these may influence behaviour and responses.

You'll find a wealth of information on a range of topics, including: Understanding behaviour Teaching strategies Institutional practice Professional Standards

Each chapter supports your learning with reflective activities, exercises, question and answer sections, case studies and suggestions for further reading.

About the Author Denise Robinson is a consultant and external examiner in teacher education. She was previously Director of the Huddersfield University Consortium, UK, (including the Centre for Excellence in Teacher Training) in partnership with 24 Further Education colleges and their teacher education courses. She was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the HEA for her work in widening participation. Price: $53.99 $59.99 ISBN: 9781350076150 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Teaching staff Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Science: Antiquity and its Legacy Philippa Lang

Modern science and its technology are the children of the seventeenth-century. Shedding fresh light on topics such as Euclid's geometry, Aristotelian physics and the proto-Darwinism of pre-Socratic thinkers like Empedocles, this work addresses the fascinating differences and similarities between ancient and modern conceptions of 'science'.

Description Ancient science is a subject that commands extensive general interest. This is the first non-technical survey of the interface between ancient and modern science. It is aimed at crossover student sales in classics, the history of ideas and the history and philosophy of science. Modern science and its technology are the children of the seventeenth-century. But the bold investigative experimentation and scientific systems of thought that this era spawned were in turn thoroughly influenced by Greek and Roman authors and ideas. Xenophanes' ideas about fossils informed the science of geology. Copernicus and his novel notion that the earth revolved around the sun, and not vice versa, were arguably influenced by the Samian philosopher and mathematician, Aristarchus. And the anatomists of Alexandria still - even today - have valuable insights to bring to current ethical discussions of vivisection and animal welfare. Shedding fresh light on topics such as Euclid's geometry, Aristotelian physics and the proto-Darwinism of pre-Socratic thinkers like Empedocles, Philippa Lang addresses the fascinating differences and similarities between ancient and modern conceptions of 'science'.She discusses the origins of the cosmos; natural laws in mathematics and physics; conceptions and philosophies of biology and disease; ideas about mechanistic science and technology as they have been used to control the societies of human beings; and the important nexus between science, morality and ethics. Greek and Roman parallels illuminate and clarify the meaning of science itself.

About the Author Philippa Lang is Assistant Professor of Classics at Emory University, and the author of A Dream of Healing: Medicine in Ptolomaic Egypt (2011).

Price: $39.99 $43.99 ISBN: 9781350121515 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Classical history / classical civilisation Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 On Women's Films: Across Worlds and Generations edited by Ivone Margulies and Jeremi Szaniawski

This pioneering collection looks at the invaluable contribution and innovations of female filmmakers from all around the world, from the trailblazing figures of the 1960s-1970s to contemporary auteurs, their legacy and influence, and the trans-formative tradition they have upheld through constant cinematic reinvention and audiovisual experiments.

Description On Women's Films looks at contemporary and classic films from emerging and established makers such as Maria Augusta Ramos, Xiaolu Guo, Valerie Massadian, Lynne Ramsay, Lucrecia Martel, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Chantal Akerman, or Claire Denis. The collection is also tuned to the continued provocation of feminist cinema landmarks such as Chick Strand's Soft Fiction; Barbara Loden's Wanda; Valie Export's Invisible Adversaries, Cecilia Mangini's Essere donne. Attentive to minor moments, to the pauses and the charge and forms bodies adopt through cinema, the contributors suggest the capacity of women's films to embrace, shape and question the world.

About the Author Ivone Margulies is Professor in the Film and Media Studies Department at Hunter College, CUNY. She is the author of In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema (2018), Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday (1996), and is the editor of Rites of Realism: Essays on Corporeal Cinema (2003).

Jeremi Szaniawski is the co-editor of Directory of World Cinema: Belgium (2014) and The Global Auteur: The Politics of Authorship in 21st Century Cinema (2016) and the author of The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov: Figures of Paradox (2014).

Price: $49.99 $54.99 ISBN: 9781501332456 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Film theory & criticism Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Understanding Records, Second Edition: A Field Guide to Recording Practice Jay Hodgson

A revised edition of the book explains the musical language of recording practice in a way that requires no previous knowledge of the subject - with updated musical references, audio examples, and expanded sections on mixing and audio mastering

Description The revised edition of Understanding Records explains the musical language of recording practice in a way any interested reader and student can easily understand. Drawing on readily available hit records produced since 1945, each section of this book explains a handful of core production and engineering techniques in chronological record-making sequence, elucidates how those techniques work, what they sound like, how they function musically, where listeners can hear them at work in the broader Top 40 soundscape, and where they fit within the broader record-making process at large. As the only book to introduce music production and its practical elements with no assumed prior knowledge, the revised edition includes: e Exclusive print and video interviews with emerging and established recordists, including: Alex Chuck Krotz (Drake, Three Days Grace, Mother Mother); Kevin O' Leary (Shawn Mendes, The Glorious Sons, Monster Truck); Alastair Sims (Rush, The Tragically Hip, Barenaked Ladies); Matt Shelvock (kingmobb, san holo, bitbird, DROLOE); and Russ Hepworth-Sawyer (Billy Ray Cyrus, Steve Earle, Amadou & Miriam) e Numerous 'real word' audio examples, organized into easily accessible streaming playlists, culled from Juno-nominated sessions the author himself worked on, and numerous other professional sources. e Easy to understand explanations of each facet of the record production process, which avoid technical jargon and clarify terminology. e Information on new developments in recording practice and updated musical references. Completely reworked and expanded sections on mixing and audio mastering.

About the Author Jay Hodgson is Associate Professor of Popular Music Studies at Western University, Canada. He is author or editor of Price: $49.99 $54.99 numerous books, including Audio Mastering: The Artists (with Russ Hepworth-Sawyer, 2018) and Mixing Music (with ISBN: 9781501342370 Format: Paperback Russ Hepworth-Sawyer, 2016). He was awarded a Governor General's Academic Gold Medal in 2006, primarily in Dimensions: 0x0mm recognition of his research on recording practice. He has mastered two records nominated for Juno awards, and Extent: 256 pages contributed music to films recognized by the likes of Rolling Stone and which screened at the United Nations General Bic1: Theory of music & musicology Assembly. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 On Solitude, Conscience, Love and Our Inner and Outer Lives Ronald Haflidson

Recovers Augustine's penetrating diagnosis of why we need solitude and how we flee from it.

Description Ron Haflidson places the theology of Augustine in conversation with contemporary authors, who warn of the dangers of abandoning solitude for constant (often technological) connection. Haflidson addresses an essential question that has previously been neglected: What difference does it make to the practice of solitude if one believes that even in the absence of any human company, God is always intimately present? For Augustine, solitude is a moral necessity: he recommends that we regularly retreat from the crowd into the depths of our conscience, where we can dwell alone in the company of God, and enter into dialogue before and with God about who we are and how we love. Throughout this book, Haflidson pairs close readings of Augustine with those of noted cartographers of our inner lives, literary greats including Jane Austen, George Eliot, Marilynne Robinson and George Saunders. This book explores what undiscovered possibilities may lie in solitude.

About the Author Ron Haflidson is a Tutor in the great books program at St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, USA.

Price: $38.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9780567682734 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Ethics & moral philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

T&T Clark AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan Joanna Lillis

A compelling portrait of secretive Kazakhstan: the last cold war state

Description Dark Shadows is a compelling portrait of Kazakhstan, a country that is little known in the West. Strategically located in the heart of Central Asia, sandwiched between Vladimir Putin's Russia, its former colonial ruler, and Xi Jinping's China, this vast oil-rich state is carving out its place in the world as it contends with its own complex past and present. Journalist Joanna Lillis paints a vibrant picture of this emerging nation through vivid reportage based on 13 years of on-the-ground coverage, and travels across the length and breadth of this enigmatic country that lies along the ancient Silk Road and at the geopolitical and cultural crossroads where East meets West. Featuring tales of murder and abduction, intrigue and betrayal, extortion and corruption, this book explores how a president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, transformed himself into a potentate and the economically-struggling state he inherited at the fall of the USSR into a swaggering 21st-century monocracy. A colourful cast of characters brings the politics to life: from strutting oligarch to sleeping villagers, from principled politicians to striking oilmen, from crusading journalists to courageous campaigners. Traversing dust-blown deserts and majestic mountains, taking in glitzy cities and dystopian landscapes, Dark Shadows conjures up Kazakhstan as a living, breathing place, full of extraordinary people living extraordinary lives.

About the Author Joanna Lillis is a Kazakhstan-based journalist reporting on Central Asia whose work has featured in the Guardian, The Economist and the Independent newspapers, the Eurasianet website and Foreign Policy and POLITICO magazines. Prior to settling in Kazakhstan in 2005, she lived in Russia and Uzbekistan between 1995 and 2005, and worked for BBC Monitoring, the BBC World Service's global media tracking service. While completing a BA in Modern Languages at the University of Leeds, she studied Russian in the Soviet republics of Belorussia and Ukraine before the collapse of the USSR, and has an MA in Interpreting and Translation from the University of Bradford.

Price: $40.00 $44.00 ISBN: 9781784538613 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 222x145mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Promise: Love and Loss in Modern China Xinran Xue

A spellbinding story of love and the history of modern china

Description At the start of the twentieth century in China, the Hans were married in an elaborate ceremony before they were even born. While their future was arranged by their families, this couple had much to be grateful for. Not only did they come from similar backgrounds and as such were recognized as a good match - they also had a shared passion in their deep love of ancient Chinese poetry. They went on to have nine children and chose colours portrayed in some of their favourite poems as nicknames for them - Red, Cyan, Orange, Yellow, Green, Ginger, Violet, Blue and Rainbow. Fate, and the sweep of twentieth century history would later divide these children into three groups: three went to America or Hong Kong to protect the family line from the communists; three were married to revolutionaries having come of age as China turned red; while three suffered tragic early deaths.

With her trademark wisdom and warmth, Xinran describes the lives and loves of this extraordinary family over four generations. What emerges is not only a moving, beautifully-written and engaging story of four people and their lives, but a crucial portrait of social change in China. Xinran begins with the magic and tragedy of one young couples wedding night in 1950, and goes on to tell personal experiences of loss, grief and hardship through China's extraordinary century. In doing so she tells a bigger story how traditional Chinese values have been slowly eroded by the tide of modernity and how their outlooks on love, and the choices they've made in life, have been all been affected by the great upheavals of Chinese history. A spell-binding and magical narrative, this is the story of modern China through the people who lived through it, and the story of their love and loss.

About the Author Xinran is a Chinese author, journalist and activist. The host of a ground-breaking Chinese radio show 'Thoughts on the Night Breeze' which invited women from across the country to discuss their issues in a frank and open setting, Xinran was a pioneer. Her first book, based on ten years of her radio show, was released in 2002 The Good Women of China was a literary sensation in the West and has now been published all over the world in more than 30 languages, becoming an Price: $40.00 $44.00 ISBN: 9781788313629 international bestseller. She has written one novel, Miss Chopsticks, and four other non-fiction books: Sky Burial, China Format: Hard Cover Witness, Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother and Buy Me the Sky. Xinran lectures and gives speeches on writing Dimensions: 222x144mm and Chinese women and history in over twenty countries. In 2004, she set up The Mothers' Bridge of Love charity to Extent: 288 pages Bic1: create a bridge of understanding between China and the West. Xinran is based in London, but visits China regularly. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Women in the Room: Labour's Forgotten History Nan Sloane

Incisive new history of the early Labour Party with the women written back in.

Description In February 1900 a group of men representing trade unionists, socialists, Fabians and Marxists gathered in London to make another attempt at establishing an organisation capable of getting working-class men elected to Parliament. The body they set up was the Labour Representation Committee; six years later when 29 of its candidates were elected to the House of Commons it changed its name to the Labour Party.

No women took part in that first meeting, but several watched from the public gallery. Amongst them was Isabella Ford, an active socialist and trade unionist who would have been familiar to most of the men assembled below. She had been asked by her friend, Millicent Fawcett, to attend and report back on what happened. Millicent was the President of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, and Isabella had been involved with the suffrage movement for a long time. A few years later she would become the first woman to speak at a Labour Party conference, moving a resolution on votes for women but, at the Party's inception in 1900, she and every other woman in the hall was silent.

Throughout Labour's history, even in its earliest years, women were present in the room, but they were not always recorded or remembered. They came from many different backgrounds and they worked for the causes they believed in as organisers, campaigners, negotiators, polemicists, public speakers and leaders. They took on the vested interests of their time; sometimes they won. Yet the vast majority of them have been forgotten by the Labour movement that they helped to found. Even Margaret Bondfield, who became Britain's first woman cabinet minister, often barely merits a footnote. Women made real and substantial contributions to Labour's earliest years and had a significant impact on the Party's ability to attract and maintain women's votes after World War I. In addition to Margaret and Isabella, in many of the rooms in which the Labour Party found its feet, remarkable women wait to be rediscovered. This book tells their story.

About the Author Nan Sloane is the Director of the Centre for Women and Democracy. She is Training Coordinator of the Labour Women's Network, a former Labour councillor and Regional Director of the Labour Party. She is currently a member of Fawcett Price: $40.00 $44.00 ISBN: 9781788312233 Society's 'Does Local Government work for women' Commission. She is the author In Our Own Words: A Dictionary of Format: Hard Cover Women's Political Quotations; A Great Act of Justice: The Flapper Election and After and lead author of Sex & Power Dimensions: 0x0mm 2014: Who Runs Britain? Extent: 272 pages Bic1: British & Irish history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Mugabe: A Life of Power and Violence Stephen Chan

'Only God, who appointed me, will remove me - not the MDC, not the British. Only God will remove me!' - Robert Mugabe

Description On 21st November 2017 Robert Mugabe resigned as President of Zimbabwe after 37 years in power. A week earlier the military had seized control of the country and forced him to step down as leader of the ruling Zanu-PF party. In this revised and updated edition of his classic biography, Stephen Chan seeks to explain and interpret Mugabe in his role as a key player in the politics of Southern Africa. In this masterly portrait of one of Africa's longest-serving leaders, Mugabe's character unfolds with the ebb and flow of triumph and crisis. Mugabe's story is Zimbabwe's - from the post-independence hopes of idealism and reconciliation to electoral victory, the successful intervention in the international politics of Southern Africa and the resistance to South Africa's policy of apartheid. But a darker picture emerged early with the savage crushing of the Matabeleland rising, the elimination of political opponents, growing corruption and disastrous intervention in the Congo war, all worsened by drought and the HIV/AIDS crisis. Stephen Chan's highly revealing biography, based on close personal knowledge of Zimbabwe, depicts the emergence and eventual downfall of a ruthless and single-minded despot amassing and tightly clinging to political power. We follow the triumphant nationalist leader who reconciled all in the new multiracial Zimbabwe, degenerate into a petty tyrant consumed by hubris and self-righteousness and ultimately face an ignominious endgame at the hands of his own army.

About the Author Stephen Chan is Professor of International Relations at SOAS, University of London and Honorary Professor of Humanities at University of Johannesburg. He received an OBE in 2010 for services to Africa and Higher Education. He has also received the International Studies Association's Eminent Shcolar in Global Development award.

Price: $26.99 $29.99 ISBN: 9781788314282 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Biography: historical, political & military Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Mrs Petrova's Shoe: The True Story of a KGB Defection Wilhelm Agrell

Unique spy drama at the heart of the Cold War

Description Two men are holding a woman between them in a firm grip. In one hand she is carrying her handbag; the other she places on her heart. The man on her right stares into the camera, his colleague stares resolutely ahead. But there is something else, something missing. The despairing woman is wearing only one shoe. On 19 April 1954 the world was gripped by an unfolding drama at Sydney Airport. A small, seemingly fragile woman, was being aggresively marched to an awaiting plane by two burly men. Evdokia Petrova was the wife of Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov who, two weeks earlier, had defected from the embassy in Canberra after a prolonged 'cultivation' by the Australian Security Service, supported by MI5. Evdokia was now being hurried back to Moscow by the KGB. The subsequent intervention by Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies kept the world's media on tenterhooks. But who were the couple at the centre of this global news story? After the defection it turned out that Evdokia was, in fact, an even bigger catch than her husband. With a background both in cryptological work in Moscow and in field operations, she was able to supply Western intelligence with a wealth of information and insight into the workings of the Soviet intelligence system. With access to newly-released archives and sources, this book sheds extraordinary new light on the two people at the heart of the Petrov Affair, one of the most bizarre stories of the Cold War era.

About the Author Wilhelm Agrell is Professor of Intelligence Analysis at Lund University and guest Professor at the Swedish National Defence College.

Price: $40.00 $44.00 ISBN: 9781788314602 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 America & Islam: Soundbites, Suicide Bombs and the Road to Donald Trump Lawrence Pintak

How to understand America's problem with Islam

Description Donald Trump's first term as the 45th President of the United States of America has shocked the world. His attitudes towards Islam became a key point of contention on the campaign trail, and in power Trump has continued his war of divisive words and deeds. Here, acclaimed journalist Lawrence Pintak scrutinizes America's relationship with Islam since its foundation. Casting Donald Trump as a symptom of decades of misunderstanding and demonization of the Islamic world, as well as a cause of future tensions, Pintak shows how and why America's relationship with the world's largest religion has been so fractious, damaging and self-defeating.

Featuring unique interviews with victims and perpetrators of Trump's policies, as well as analysis of the media's role in inflaming debate, America & Islam seeks to provide a complete guide to the twin challenges of terrorism and the polarizing rhetoric that fuels it, and sketches out a future based on co-operation and the reassertion of democratic values.

About the Author Lawrence Pintak is an award-winning journalist and scholar who has written about America's complex relationship with Islam since 1980. He was the founding dean of The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University (2009-2016) and was named a Fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists in 2017 for 'outstanding service to the profession of journalism' around the world.

A former CBS News Middle East correspondent with a PhD in Islamic Studies, Pintak been called the foremost chronicler of the interaction between Arab and Western media. He has won two Overseas Press Club awards and was twice nominated for international Emmys. Prior to WSU, Pintak served as director of the Kamal Adham Center for Journalism Training and Research at The American University in Cairo.

Price: $36.99 $40.99 He is the host of The Murrow Interview, a series of broadcast conversations with leading figures in international affairs ISBN: 9781784539092 and global journalism and was founding publisher of the online journal Arab Media & Society. His work appears in The Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm New York Times, ForeignPolicy.com, CNN.com, the International Herald Tribune, The Seattle Times and a variety of Extent: 288 pages other publications and he is frequently interviewed by NPR, CNN, Al Jazeera English, BBC and news organizations Bic1: around the world. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: His books include Islam for Journalists (co-editor, 2014); The New Arab Journalist (2011); Reflections in a Bloodshot Author now living: Lens: America, Islam & the War of Ideas (2006); Seeds of Hate: How America's Flawed Middle East Policy Ignited the Jihad (2003); and Beirut Outtakes (1988). He holds a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Wales. AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 China's Forgotten People: Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State Nick Holdstock

The inside story of Xinjiang and China's repression of the Uyghur people

Description After isolated terrorist incidents in 2015, the Chinese leadership has cracked down hard on Xinjiang and its Uyghurs. Today, there are thought to be up to a million Muslims held in 're-education camps' in the Xinjiang region of North-West China. One of the few Western commentators to have lived in the region, journalist Nick Holdstock travels into the heart of the province and reveals the Uyghur story as one of repression, hardship and helplessness. China's Forgotten People explains why repression of the Muslim population is on the rise in the world's most powerful one-party state. This updated and revised edition reveals the background to the largest known concentration camp network in the modern world, and reflects on what this means for the way we think about China.

About the Author Nick Holdstock is an award-winning writer of fiction and journalism who work appears in The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, Financial Times, n+1, Dissent and Literary Review. He is the author of three non-fiction books about China, The Tree That Bleeds (Luath, 2011), China's Forgotten People (IB Tauris, 2015) and Chasing the Chinese Dream (IB Tauris, 2017) and a novel, The Casualties (St Martins, 2015). His first short story collection, The False River, is due out in late 2019. He is a frequent commentator on China for a variety of media outlets.

Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781788319799 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Crisis of Globalization: Democracy, Capitalism and Inequality in the Twenty-First Century edited by Patrick Diamond

Crucial contribution to key issue in current political and economic affairs.

Description In recent years, the effects of economic openness and technological change have fuelled dissatisfaction with established political systems and led to new forms of political populism that exploit the economic and political resentment created by globalization. This shift in politics was evident in the decision by UK voters to leave the European Union in June 2016, the November 2016 election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States, as well as the rise of populist movements on left and right throughout much of Europe. To many voters, the economy appears to be broken. Conventional politics is failing. Parties of the left and centre-left have struggled to forge a convincing response to this new phase of globalization in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis. This book examines the challenges that the new era of globalization poses for progressive parties and movements across the world. It brings together leading thinkers and experts including Andrew Gamble, Jeffry Frieden and Vivien Schmidt to debate the structural causes and political consequences of this new wave of globalization.

About the Author Patrick Diamond is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Queen Mary, University of London and Chair of the Policy Network think-tank. He is the former Head of Policy Planning in Number Ten Downing Street. Patrick's publications include Endgame for the Centre Left? The Retreat of Social Democracy across Europe; Can Labour Win? The Hard Road to Power; The Predistribution Agenda: Tackling Inequality and Supporting Sustainable Growth (with Claudia Chwalisz); Governing Britain: Power, Politics and the Prime Minister; Progressive Politics After the Crash (with Olaf Cramme and Michael McTernan); and After the Third Way (with Olaf Cramme).

Price: $46.99 $51.99 ISBN: 9781788315166 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 215x139mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: 21st century history: from c 2000 - Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Women of Westminster: The MPs who Changed Politics Rachel Reeves

Complete account of the first 100 years of women in Parliament

Description In 1919 Nancy Astor was elected as the Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton, becoming the first woman MP to take her seat in the House of Commons. Her achievement was all the more remarkable given that women (and even then only some women) had only been entitled to vote for just over a year. In the past 100 years, a total of 491 women have been elected to Parliament. Yet it was not until 2016 that the total number of women ever elected surpassed the number of male MPs in a single parliament. The achievements of these political pioneers have been remarkable Britain has now had two female Prime Ministers and women MPs have made significant strides in fighting for gender equality from the earliest suffrage campaigns to Barbara Castle's fight for equal pay to Harriet Harman's recent legislation on the gender pay gap. Yet the stories of so many women MPs have too often been overlooked in political histories. In this book, Rachel Reeves brings forgotten MPs out of the shadows and looks at the many battles fought by the Women of Westminster, from 1919 to 2019.

About the Author Rachel Reeves is Labour MP for Leeds West. She was a member of Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet from 2013-2015.

Price: $40.00 $44.00 ISBN: 9781788312202 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 221x147mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: British & Irish history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Beyond Brexit: Towards a British Constitution Vernon Bogdanor

What will Brexit mean for Britain's unwritten constitution? Constitutional expert Vernon Bogdanor explores the greatest political question of the moment

Description Brexit means exit, but what exactly will we be leaving behind? Entry into the European Community in 1973 was a momentous event one which had seismic effects on the politics and constitution of Britain. Brexit, while equally as momentous, has almost wholly been confined to discussions of economic consequence. But what will happen to the constitution? Beyond Brexit looks for the first time at the impact of Brexit and the constitutional consequences of Britain's EU membership, raising the question of just how the United Kingdom is to be preserved. In this book, Vernon Bogdanor explores the ever-changing relationship between Britain and the European Union from the original concept of European unity to 21st century Euroscepticism, the fundamental problems confronting Britain on its exit from the European Union, and argues that Brexit is the start of new beginnings heralding a peaceful constitutional moment.

About the Author Vernon Bogdanor was, until 2010, Professor of Government at Oxford University. He is now a Research Professor at King's College, London,Gresham Professor of Law, a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.

Price: $40.00 $44.00 ISBN: 9781788316798 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 221x148mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: British & Irish history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Singapore: A Modern History Michael D. Barr

Comprehensive modern history of Singapore, from C16 to present.

Description Singapore gained independence in 1965, a city-state in a world of nation-states. Yet its long and complex history reaches much farther back. Blending modernity and tradition, ideologies and ethnicities, a peculiar set of factors make Singapore what it is today. In this thematic study of the island nation, Michael D. Barr proposes a new approach to understand this development. From the pre-colonial period through to the modern day, he traces the idea, the politics and the geography of Singapore over five centuries of rich history. In doing so he rejects the official narrative of the so-called 'Singapore Story'. Drawing on in-depth archival work and oral histories, Singapore: A Modern History is a work both for students of the country's history and politics, but also for any reader seeking to engage with this enigmatic and vastly successful nation.

About the Author Michael D. Barr is Associate Professor in International Relations, Flinders University, Australia. He has recently been elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He is an Associate Editor of Asian Studies Review and the author of Cultural Politics and Asian Values, Paths Not Taken: Political Pluralism in Post-War Singapore (edited with C. Trocki), Constructing Singapore (with Z. Skrbi i), Lee Kuan Yew, and The Ruling Elite of Singapore: Networks of Power and Influence (I.B.Tauris).

Price: $50.00 $55.00 ISBN: 9781780763057 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 233x162mm Extent: 296 pages Bic1: Asian history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Someone Else's War: Fighting for the British Empire in World War I John Connor

Untold story of British Empire at war.

Description World War I was the first truly global conflict and its effects were felt across the British Empire. When war broke out in 1914, Great Britain had the largest empire, encompassing one quarter of the population of the world. Many colonial citizens were to be enlisted into the war effort and shipped from their homes in Africa, Asia and Australasia to fight on the battlefields of the Western Front. What was the experience of war like for citizens of empire, whether combatants or not? How did the empire affect countries administered by Great Britain but geographically located tens of thousands of miles from the conflict? In this book, John Connor tells the story of the people whose lives were profoundly affected by 'someone else's war' dragged, against their will, into a geopolitical conflict vastly removed from their normal lives.

About the Author John Connor is Senior Lecturer and History Discipline Head at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. He is one of Australia's leading military historians and has published widely on World War I. His previous books include The Australian Frontier Wars.

Price: $50.00 $55.00 ISBN: 9781784532703 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 233x164mm Extent: 360 pages Bic1: Colonialism & imperialism Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Phoney Victory: The World War II Illusion Peter Hitchens

Major new book by leading columnist Peter Hitchens Peter Hitchens debunks the myths about Britain's role in 'The Good War'

Description Was World War II really the `Good War'? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945 many myths have sprung up around the conflict in the victorious nations. In this book, Peter Hitchens deconstructs the many fables which have become associated with the narrative of the `Good War'. Whilst not criticising or doubting the need for war against Nazi Germany at some stage, Hitchens does query whether September 1939 was the right moment, or the independence of Poland the right issue. He points out that in the summer of 1939 Britain and France were wholly unprepared for a major European war and that this quickly became apparent in the conflict that ensued. He also rejects the retroactive claim that Britain went to war in 1939 to save the Jewish population of Europe. On the contrary, the beginning and intensification of war made it easier for Germany to begin the policy of mass murder in secret as well as closing most escape routes. In a provocative, but deeply-researched book, Hitchens questions the most common assumptions surrounding World War II, turning on its head the myth of Britain's role in a `Good War'.

About the Author Peter Hitchens is a journalist and commentator. He has a weekly column in the Mail on Sunday and is the author of several books, including The Abolition of Britain; The Cameron Delusion; The Rage Against God and The War We Never Fought.

Price: $36.99 $40.99 ISBN: 9781788313292 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 221x146mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia's Great Archipelago Philip Bowring

Unique history of Maritime Southeast Asia.

Description Nusantaria often referred to as 'Maritime Southeast Asia' is the world's largest archipelago and has, for centuries, been a vital cultural and trading hub. Nusantara, a Sanskrit, then Malay, word referring to an island realm, is here adapted to become Nusantaria - denoting a slightly wider world but one with a single linguistic, cultural and trading base. Nusantaria encompasses the lands and shores created by the melting of the ice following the last Ice Age. These have long been primarily the domain of the Austronesian-speaking peoples and their seafaring traditions. The surrounding waters have always been uniquely important as a corridor connecting East Asia to India, the Middle East, Europe and Africa. In this book, Philip Bowring provides a history of the world's largest and most important archipelago and its adjacent coasts. He tells the story of the peoples and lands located at this crucial maritime and cultural crossroads, from its birth following the last Ice Age to today.

About the Author Philip Bowring is an Asia-based journalist. He was formerly the editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review and has written for the International Herald Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the South China Morning Post and the Guardian. He studied at Cambridge University and is an expert on maritime history and the history of Southeast Asia.

Price: $50.00 $55.00 ISBN: 9781788314466 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 232x165mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Asian history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Missionary and the Maharajas: Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe and the Making of Modern Kashmir Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe

Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe polarised opinion in early 20th India by his unconventional methods of educating Kashmiris and, through them, changing the social order of a society steeped in old superstitions. He was a man of contradictions: a Christian and a boxer, a missionary who made very few converts, a staunch supporter of British imperialism and a friend of Kashmir's political reformers. He made enemies of the Hindu Establishment, who described him as 'exceedingly a bad man and one too much fond of cricket,' but earned the respect of two successive Hindu Maharajas, as well as the Muslim leader, who succeeded them.

Description Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe polarised opinion in early 20th India by his unconventional methods of educating Kashmiris and, through them, changing the social order of a society steeped in old superstitions. He was a man of contradictions: a Christian and a boxer, a missionary who made very few converts, a staunch supporter of British imperialism and a friend of Kashmir's political reformers. He made enemies of the Hindu Establishment, who described him as 'exceedingly a bad man and one too much fond of cricket,' but earned the respect of two successive Hindu Maharajas, as well as the Muslim leader, who succeeded them. He was 27 when he became the Principal of the Church Missionary Society's school in Kashmir in 1890 and he left as India gained independence in 1947. His vision was of a school in action, vigorously involved in the affairs and problems of the city of Srinagar, to support the weak and to fight corruption wherever it occurred. Under his leadership the masters and boys were engaged in fighting fires in the city, saving people from drowning, taking hospital patients for outings on the lakes, helping women and removing the ban on the remarriage of young widows. His avowed purpose was to make his students into honest, fearless leaders, who would serve their beloved country of Kashmir. The book begins with the medieval condition of Kashmir in the nineteenth century; describes the development of his unusual approach to education; explores the many challenges he had to overcome, including his chronic bad health, his difficulties with the CMS and the opposition of the Hindu establishment and State Government; and contrasts this with the speedy and enthusiastic acceptance by his young Kashmiri teachers and students of what he was offering and how together they transformed their society and prepared Kashmir for independence. Price: $60.00 $66.00 ISBN: 9781788314794 Format: Hard Cover About the Author Dimensions: 222x146mm Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe is an acclaimed marsupial biologist, who served latterly as Chief Research Scientist at the Extent: 360 pages Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation's Division of Wildlife and Rangelands Research. Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Among the Wolves of Court: The Untold Story of Thomas and George Boleyn Lauren Mackay

Dramatic new retelling of the Anne Boleyn tale, through the stories of her father and brother

Description The tragic story of Anne Boleyn has been retold over the centuries, yet two key figures in Anne's life her father Thomas and brother George are often relegated to the margins of Henry VIII's turbulent reign. Well before Anne's coronation in 1533, Thomas was regarded as one of Henry's most skilled and experienced ambassadors, and George was a talented young courtier on the rise. But Anne's downfall was to have a devastating effect on her family ultimately costing her and her brother their lives. A family whose success and prestige had been shaped over generations was destroyed in a violent and brutal episode as the king sought a new wife and a male heir. In this first biography devoted to the Boleyn men, Lauren Mackay takes us beyond the stereotypes of Thomas and George to present a story that has almost been lost to history. This book follows the Boleyn men as they negotiated their way through the ruthless game of politics among the wolves of the court, and establishes their place in Tudor history.

About the Author Lauren MacKay is a historian of Tudor England. She is the author of Inside the Tudor Court and a regular contributor to BBC History and All About History. She has lectured at the Tower of London, Hever Castle, Leeds Castle and the National Archives at Kew.

Price: $39.99 $43.99 ISBN: 9781788310437 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 312 pages Bic1: Biography: historical, political & military Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 A Short History of the Crimean War Trudi Tate

Concise overview of the first modern war

Description The Crimean War (1853-1856) was the first modern war. A vicious struggle between imperial Russia and an alliance of the British, French and Ottoman Empires, it was the first conflict to be reported first-hand in newspapers, painted by official war artists, recorded by telegraph and photographed by camera. In her new short history, Trudi Tate discusses the ways in which this novel representation itself became part of the modern war machine. She tells forgotten stories about the war experience of individual soldiers and civilians, including journalists, nurses, doctors, war tourists and other witnesses. At the same time, the war was a retrograde one, fought with the mentality, and some of the equipment, of Napoleonic times. Tate argues that the Crimean War was both modern and old-fashioned, looking backwards and forwards, and generating optimism and despair among those who lived through it. She explores this paradox while giving full coverage to the bloody battles (Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman), the siege of Sebastopol, the much-derided strategies of the commanders, conditions in the field and the cultural impact of the anti-Russian alliance.

About the Author Trudi Tate is an Affiliated Lecturer in English in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow and Tutor of Clare Hall, Cambridge.

Price: $26.99 $29.99 ISBN: 9781848858619 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 214x137mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Social & cultural history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 A Ransomed Dissident: A Life in Art Under the Soviets Igor Golomstock

The extraordinary story of the man who introduced Western art into Soviet Russia

Description In 1939, a ten-year-old Igor Golomstock accompanied his mother, a medical doctor, to the vast network of labour camps in the Russian Far East. While she tended patients, he was minded by assorted 'trusty' prisoners hardened criminals and returned to Moscow an almost feral adolescent, fluent in obscene prison jargon but intellectually ignorant. Despite this dubious start he became a leading art historian and co-author (with his close friend Andrey Sinyavsky) of the first, deeply controversial, monograph on Picasso published in the Soviet Union. His writings on his 43 years in the Soviet Union offer a rare insight into life as a quietly subversive art historian and the post-Stalin dissident community. In vivid prose Golomstock shows the difficulties of publishing, curating and talking about Western art in Soviet Russia and, with self- deprecating humour, the absurd tragicomedy of life for the Moscow intelligentsia during Khruschev's thaw and Brezhnev's stagnation. He also offers a unique personal perspective on the 1966 trial of Sinyavsky and Yuri Daniel, widely considered the end of Khruschev's liberalism and the spark that ignited the Soviet dissident movement.In 1972 he was given 'permission' to leave the Soviet Union, but only after paying a 'ransom' of more than 25 years' salary, nominally intended to reimburse the state for his education. A remarkable collection of artists, scholars and intellectuals in Russia and the West, including Roland Penrose, came together to help him pay this astronomical sum. His memoirs of life once in the UK offer an insider's view of the BBC Russian Service and a penetrating analysis of the notorious feud between Sinyavsky and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Nominated for the Russian Booker Prize on its publication in Russian in 2014, The Ransomed Dissident opens a window onto the life of a remarkable man: a dissident of uncompromising moral integrity and with an outstanding gift for friendship.

About the Author Igor Golomstock (1929 2017) was a distinguished Russian art historian. He spent 12 years working as researcher and curator at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and published books on C zanne, Picasso, Hieronymus Bosch and the art of ancient Mexico, as well as the seminal study of 'totalitarian art'. Sara Jolly is a literary translator.Boris Dralyuk is a literary translator and the Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Price: $40.00 $44.00 ISBN: 9781788312950 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 232x164mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Autobiography: historical, political & military Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Citadel of the Saxons: The Rise of Early London Rory Naismith

Recalling the lost cities which laid the foundations of today's metropolis, Rory Naismith tells the stirring story of how dead Londinium was reborn, against the odds, as bulwark against the Danes and pivotal English citadel.

Description With a past as deep and sinewy as the famous River Thames that twists like an eel around the jutting peninsula of Mudchute and the Isle of Dogs, London is one of the world's greatest and most resilient cities. Born beside the sludge and the silt of the meandering waterway that has always been its lifeblood, it has weathered invasion, flood, abandonment, fire and bombing. The modern story of London is well known. Much has been written about the later history of this megalopolis which, like a seductive dark star, has drawn incomers perpetually into its orbit. Yet, as Rory Naismith reveals in his zesty evocation of the nascent medieval city much less has been said about how close it came to earlier obliteration. Following the collapse of Roman civilization in fifth-century Britannia, darkness fell over the former province. Villas crumbled to ruin; vital commodities became scarce; cities decayed; and Londinium, the capital, was all but abandoned. Yet despite its demise as a living city, memories of its greatness endured like the moss and bindweed which now ensnared its toppled columns and pilasters. By the 600s a new settlement, Lundenwic, was established on the banks of the River Thames by enterprising traders who braved the North Sea in their precarious small boats. The history of the city's phoenix-like resurrection, as it was transformed from an empty shell into a court of kings and favoured setting for church councils from across the land is still virtually unknown. The author here vividly evokes the forgotten Lundenwic and the later fortress on the Thames Lundenburgh of desperate Anglo-Saxon defenders who retreated inside their Roman walls to stand fast against menacing Viking incursions. Recalling the lost cities which laid the foundations of today's great capital, this book tells the stirring story of how dead Londinium was reborn, against the odds, as a bulwark against the Danes and a pivotal English citadel. It recounts how Anglo-Saxon London survived to become the most important town in England and a vital stronghold in later campaigns against the Normans in 1066. Revealing the remarkable extent to which London was at the centre of things, from the very beginning, this volume at last gives the vibrant early medieval city its due.

About the Author Price: $40.00 $44.00 ISBN: 9781788312226 A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Rory Naismith is Lecturer in Medieval British History at King's College London, Format: Hard Cover UK. His earlier books include Money and Power in Anglo-Saxon England (2012), which in 2013 won the Best First Book Dimensions: 222x143mm Prize of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists. Extent: 288 pages Bic1: History of architecture Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Exit Visa: A Family's Flight from Nazi Europe Sheila Rosenberg

A moving Holocaust memoir telling the story of a unique journey across wartime Europe.

Description 6th September, 1942: a middle-aged Jewish refugee stands on the Swiss side of the Franco-Swiss border above Geneva. He has been living in Switzerland since he fled Vienna in November 1938, as the Nazi persecution of the city's Jewish population intensified. He is now waiting for the arrival of the wife he has not seen for nearly four years. Against all odds he has managed to get an entry permit for her to join him in Switzerland. She appears on the French side. They see each other. Call out. She begins to cross the few yards of no-mans-land that separate them. An official calls her back. She hesitates, turns, goes back - and is lost forever. This book tells the story of the wartime journey of Toni Schiff, as she ventured across Europe to the this fateful near-meeting at the Franco-Swiss border and what happened next. Based on the extensive research of her daughter, Kindertransportee Hilda Schiff, and told by Sheila Rosenberg, who shared much of the later research and many of the research journeys, this book sheds light on the lives of one family caught up in, and ultimately separated by, the tragic and tumultuous events of World War II.

About the Author Sheila Rosenberg was a teacher of English Literature and published in the area of Victorian Studies. She then moved into teaching, developing and publishing in English as a second language and in 2011 received an OBE for her contribution to ESOL teaching.

Price: $40.00 $44.00 ISBN: 9781788314954 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 239x164mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Fragile Nation, Shattered Land: The Modern History of Syria James A. Reilly

The complete story of modern Syria

Description The Syrian state is less than 100 years old, born from the wreckage of World War I. Today it stands in ruins, shattered by brutal civil war. How did this happen? How did the lands that are today Syria survive incorporation with the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century and the trials and vicissitudes of the Sultan's rule for four centuries, only to collapse into civil war in recent years? Arguably it was the Ottoman period that laid the fragile foundations of a state that had to endure a turbulent twentieth century under French rule, tentative independence, a brutal and corrupt dictatorship and eventual disintegration in the twenty-first. Across a diverse cast of individuals, rich and poor, James Reilly explores these fractious and formative periods of Ottoman, Egyptian and French rule, and the ways that these contributed to the contradictions and failings of the rule of the Assad family; and to a civil war which produced the so-called Islamic State. In charting Syria's history over the last five centuries in their entirety for the first time, Reilly demonstrates the myriad historical, cultural, social, economic and political factors that bind Syrians together, as well as those that have torn them apart. Based on primary sources, recent historiography in English, French and Arabic and more than 30 years' experience living and working in the region, this is the essential book for understanding modern Syria and the Middle East.

About the Author James Reilly is Professor of History at the University of Toronto and specialises in the social history of Syrian cities. He travelled widely in Syria between 1974 and 2010, living there on two separate occasions, and is the author of A Small Town in Syria and The Ottoman Cities of the Lebanon (I.B.Tauris).

Price: $50.00 $55.00 ISBN: 9781784539610 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 312 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Persia Reframed: The Modern and Contemporary Art of Iran Fereshteh Daftari

An elegantly illustrated history of Iranian modern art viewed as an arena where different styles and ideas have thrived from the late nineteenth century to the contemporary era

Description The modern and contemporary art of Iran has often been understood, and positioned by commercial institutions, as decorative or ethnic hence the focus on calligraphy and veiled women. At a scholarly level it has been characterized as a comment on the socio-political context of the country. Viewing Iranian art as neither a commodity, nor an illustration of theory, Fereshteh Daftari approaches the modern art of Iran as a democratic space where pluralism a range of different styles and ideas can thrive.

This art historical exploration offers new insights into Iranian art, from the late nineteenth century Qajar period, via the Saqqakhaneh movement of the 1960s and into the contemporary world. In the process the author comments on the concept of modernism in a non-Western environment and the shifting meanings of abstraction. She takes both a specific and a panoramic view of Iranian art to expose new themes such as the subversive appropriation of traditional art, whilst also tackling more perennial issues such as gender.

With experience as an international curator, Daftari reviews the representations of Iranian artists outside the country and discusses the varied angles from which she has introduced the art to a Western audience. She explains how in the process she has steered clear of contentious rubrics, valorized contemporary media, and probed the complex relation between the individual and the political.

About the Author Fereshteh Daftari was Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) between 1999 and 2009, where she curated 13 exhibitions. She is now an independent scholar who has also curated exhibitions on contemporary art at institutions in New York, Paris and Toronto. She has a PhD in Art History from Columbia University, New York.

Price: $89.99 $98.99 ISBN: 9781788315364 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Theory of art Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Great Betrayal: How America Abandoned the Kurds and Lost the Middle East David L. Phillips

Why does the United States repeatedly sell out the Kurds? Author and former US State Department advisor reveals the real crisis at the heart of current Middle East conflicts.

Description The twentieth century saw dramatic changes in the once Kurd-dominated Kirkuk region of Iraq. Despite having repeatedly relied on the Kurdish population of Iraq for military support, on three occasions the United States have abandoned their supposed allies in Kirkuk. The Great Betrayal provides a political and diplomatic history of the Kirkuk region and its international relations from the 1920s to the present day. Based on first-hand interviews and previously unseen sources, it provides an accessible account of a region at the very heart of America's foreign policy priorities in the Middle East. In September 2017, Iraqi Kurdistan held an independence referendum, intended to be a starting point on negotiations with the Iraqi Government in Baghdad on the terms of a friendly divorce. Though the US, Turkey, and Iran opposed it, the referendum passed with 93% of the vote. Rather than negotiate, Iraq's Prime Minister Heider al-Abadi issued an ultimatum and then attacked the region. Iraq's Kurdish population have been abandoned, once again, by their supposed allies in the US. In this book, David L. Phillips reveals the failings of America's policies towards Kirkuk and the devastating effects of betraying an ally.

About the Author David L. Phillips is Director of the Program on Peace-building and Human Rights at Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights. He has worked as a senior adviser to the United Nations Secretariat and as a foreign affairs expert and senior advisor to the U.S. Department of State. His previous publications include An Uncertain Ally: Turkey under Erdogan's Dictatorship; The Kurdish Spring and Losing Iraq. He writes regularly for publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, and Foreign Affairs.

Price: $40.00 $44.00 ISBN: 9781788313971 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Middle Eastern history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Culture, Time and Publics in the Arab World edited by Tarik Sabry and Joe F. Khalil

A new perspective on digital media in the Arab world.

Description In this revealing new study, Tarik Sabry and Joe Khalil preside over an original new exploration of Arab culture. They employ subjects as varied as anthropology, media studies, philosophy, political economy and cultural studies to illuminate the relationship between culture, time and publics in an Arab context, whilst also laying the foundations for a much more nuanced picture of Arab society. The diverse themes and locations explored include communities at borders, in rural and urban locations, Syrian drama audiences, Egyptian, Saudi and Tunisian artists and activists and historical and contemporary Arab intellectuals. This fresh empirical research and interdisciplinary analysis illuminate intricate experiences that transcend local, national and religious boundaries and expose how Arab publics combine the media and technology to create a rich experience that shapes their collective imagination and social structure. Providing a grounded orientation to key debates on time and what can be defined as public in modern Arab cultures, Sabry and Khalil address teachers, students and those concerned about the delicate structures that underpin the upheavals of the modern Arab world.

About the Author Tarik Sabry is Reader in media and communication theory at the University of Westminster where he is a member of the Communication and Media Research Institute and the director of the Arab Media Centre. He is author of Cultural Encounters in the Arab World: On Media, the Modern and the Everyday ( I.B.Tauris, 2010), Editor of Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Field (I.B. Tauris, 2012) and Co-editor of Arab Subcultures: Reflections on Theory and Practice (I.B. Tauris, 2016). Joe F. Khalil is an Associate Professor of Communication in Residence at Northwestern University in Qatar. Khalil is a scholar on global media and an expert on Arab youth media. He has been part of both the Arab alternative and mainstream media, first as a pirate radio DJ and then as a TV executive.

Price: $46.99 $51.99 ISBN: 9781788311922 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Communication studies Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Captain Gill's Walking Stick: The True Story of the Sinai Murders Saul Kelly

The story of the murders of three Victorian men in the Sinai Desert in 1883

Description At an auction in Edinburgh in 2010, the sale of an old walking stick belonging to a British officer, Captain Gill, shed new light on one of the mysterious crimes of the Victorian era. Captain William Gill and his companions, the noted Arabist Professor Edward Palmer of Cambridge University and a young naval lieutenant, Harold Charrington, were killed in an ambush by Bedouin in the Sinai Desert in 1883. The trio had been tasked with informal diplomacy in the region, specifically to prevent the Arab sheikhs from joining the Egyptian rebels and to secure their non-interference with the Suez Canal. The gruesome murders shocked late-Victorian Britain, and led to pressure from the Queen, Parliament and the Press for the British government to launch a manhunt for the killers in a vast desert area with mountainous terrain. This book traces the story behind the murder of the three men, uncovering the reason for their journey to the desert, the story of the murder itself and the backlash home in England. It shines light on a fascinating, forgotten crime, as well as on early intelligence operations in the Middle East.

About the Author Saul Kelly is Reader in International History in the Defence Studies Department, King's College London at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham, and also a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He is the author of The Hunt for Zerzura: The Lost Oasis and the Desert War; Cold War in the Desert: Britain, the United States and the Italian Colonies, 1945-52 and Whitehall and the Suez Crisis.

Price: $40.00 $44.00 ISBN: 9781784533410 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Middle Eastern history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Life of the Red Sea Dhow Dionisius A. Agius

Offers a lucid and wide-ranging history of the iconic dhow from medieval to modern times

Description Few images are as evocative as the silhouette of the Arab dhow as, under full sail, it tacks to windward on glittering waters of Red Sea before moving across the face of the rising or setting sun. In this authoritative new book, Dionisius A. Agius, one of the foremost scholars of Islamic material culture, offers a lucid and wide-ranging history of the iconic dhow from medieval to modern times. Traversing the Arabian and African coasts, he shows that the dhow was central not just to commerce but to the vital transmission and exchange of ideas. Discussing trade and salt routes, shoals and wind patterns, spice harvest seasons and the deep and resonant connection between language, memory and oral tradition, this is the first book to place the dhow in its full and remarkable cultural contexts.

About the Author Dionisius A. Agius is Al Qasimi Professor of Arabic Studies and Islamic Material Culture at the University of Exeter. He is the author of numerous books including Seafaring in the Arabian Gulf and Oman (2005), winner of The Abdullah Al- Mubarak Al-Sabah Foundation and British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize, and Class Ships of Islam (2008). He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Geographical Society.

Price: $50.00 $55.00 ISBN: 9781838603427 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 360 pages Bic1: Middle Eastern history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Saudi Arabia and Iran: Power and Rivalry in the Middle East Simon Mabon

Updated edition of a unique work surveying the relationship between two of the Middle East's biggest rivals

Description In the wake of the 1979 Iranian revolution, relations between states in the Middle East were reconfigured and reassessed overnight. Amongst the most-affected was the relationship between Iran and Saudi Arabia. The existence of a new regime in Tehran led to increasingly vitriolic confrontations between these two states, often manifesting themselves in the conflicts across the region, such as those in Lebanon and Iraq, and more recently in Bahrain and Syria. In this new and revised second edition, Simon Mabon examines the different identity groups within Saudi Arabia and Iran (made up of various religions, ethnicities and tribal groupings), proposing that internal insecurity has an enormous impact on the wider ideological and geopolitical competition between the two. With analysis of this heated and often uneasy relationship and its impact on the wider Middle East, this book is vital for those researching international relations and diplomacy in the region.

About the Author Simon Mabon is Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University, UK and a research associate with the Foreign Policy Centre. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Leeds.

Price: $26.99 $29.99 ISBN: 9781788314145 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 196x130mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Middle Eastern history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Representing Palestine: Media and Journalism in Australia Since World War I Peter Manning

After more than half a century, the Israel-Palestine conflict continues to dominate headlines.

Description After more than half a century, the Israel-Palestine conflict continues to dominate headlines. But how has the coverage of Palestinians by foreign media changed? How did foreign correspondents influence the perception of Palestine amongst their audiences? And why is understanding this so important? Based on extensive original research in the archives of Australia's oldest newspaper, Peter Manning shows how the Sydney Morning Herald portrayed Palestine during three key periods - the end of World War I (1917-8); the Nakba and the creation of Israel (1947-8); and 9/11 and its aftermath (2000-2). In the process, he takes the reader on a unique journey from the moment information was gathered on the ground in Palestine, through to its final processing and publication. Crucially, when correspondents neglected to write about Palestinians, their perspective never made it to readers and a space emerged for stereotyping and misunderstanding. Manning reveals how the newspaper reported on key events such as Australian troops in Palestine and the Holocaust, but also how the newspaper failed to cover massacres and forced migrations. Combining close textual analysis of more than 10,000 articles with cutting-edge quantitative research methods, this book is important reading for anyone with an interest in how the print media has portrayed the conflict in Palestine - both in Australia and beyond.

About the Author Peter Manning is a senior lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney, where he also received his PhD in 2014. Before turning to academia, he was an investigative reporter, producer and then executive producer of Four Corners in the 1980s and head of ABC TV News and Current Affairs in the early 1990s, starting Lateline, Foreign Correspondent and Landline. He later went on to be head of Current Affairs at the Seven Network.

Price: $140.00 $154.00 ISBN: 9781788311823 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 221x147mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Media studies Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Rome Victorious: The Irresistible Rise of the Roman Empire Dexter Hoyos

A brilliantly written and engaging new perspective on the most popular debate of all: how Rome became the imperial power it did

Description Rome Urbs Roma: city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines was the epicentre of a far-flung imperium whose cultural legacy is incalculable. How a tiny settlement, founded by desperate adventurers beside the banks of the River Tiber, came to rule vast tracts of territory across the face of the known world is one of the more improbable stories of antiquity. The epic scale of the Colosseum; majestically columned temples; formidable legionaries marching in burnished steel breastplates; and capricious Caesars clad in purple robes who thought themselves gods: all these images speak of a grandeur that continues to be associated with this most celebrated of ancient capitals. The glory of Rome is further underlined by enduring monuments like Hadrian's Wall, holding the line as it did against ferocious Pictish barbarians thought to be from Hyperborea: the mythic Land Beyond the North Wind. This book vividly recounts the rags-to-riches story of Rome's unlikely triumph. Perhaps the most famous example in history of modest beginnings rising to greatness, Rome's empire was never static or uniform. Over the centuries, under the 'boundless grandeur of the Roman peace' (as the Elder Pliny put it), imperial law, civilisation and language vigorously interacted with and influenced local cultures across western and central Europe and North Africa. Provincial subjects were made Roman citizens, generals and senators. In AD 98 Trajan became the first of many Romans from outside Italy to assume supreme power as Emperor. Poets, philosophers, historians and legalists and many others besides all participated in the brilliant intellectual constellation secured by the pax Romana.

However, as Dexter Hoyos reveals, the empire was not won cheaply or fast, and did not always succeed. The Carthaginian general Hannibal came close to destroying it. Arminius freed Germania by brutally annihilating three irreplaceable legions in the Teutoburg Forest a disaster that broke Augustus' heart. And the Romans themselves, in expanding their empire, were often ruthless. Caesar boasted of killing a million enemy fighters in his Gallic Wars, while the accusation of a Caledonian lord became proverbial: they make a desert and call it peace. Yet at the same time the Romans strove to impose moral and legal principles for directing their subjects as much as themselves, and laid down standards of government that are still valid today. Rome Victorious is a masterful new treatment of the rise of Rome from Price: $50.00 $55.00 ISBN: 9781780762746 the viewpoints both of the city itself and the people it came to rule and make its own. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 223x145mm About the Author Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Dexter Hoyos is Associate Professor (retired) of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney, Australia. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Warriors of Anatolia: A Concise History of the Hittites Trevor Bryce

A lively and unconventional new study of the Hittites

Description The Hittites in the Late Bronze Age became the mightiest military power in the Ancient Near East. Yet their empire was always vulnerable to destruction by enemy forces; their Anatolian homeland occupied a remote region, with no navigable rivers; and they were cut off from the sea. Perhaps most seriously, they suffered chronic under-population and sometimes devastating plague. How, then, can the rise and triumph of this ancient imperium be explained, against seemingly insuperable odds? In his lively and unconventional treatment of one of antiquity's most mysterious civilizations, whose history disappeared from the records over three thousand years ago, Trevor Bryce sheds fresh light on Hittite warriors as well as on the Hittites' social, religious and political culture and offers new solutions to many unsolved questions. Revealing them to have been masters of chariot warfare, who almost inflicted disastrous defeat on Rameses II at the Battle of Qadesh (1274 BCE), he shows the Hittites also to have been devout worshippers of a pantheon of storm-gods and many other gods, and masters of a new diplomatic system which bolstered their authority for centuries. Drawing authoritatively both on texts and on ongoing archaeological discoveries, while at the same time offering imaginative reconstructions of the Hittite world, the author argues that while the development of a warrior culture was essential, not only for the Empire's expansion but for its very survival, this by itself was not enough. The range of skills demanded of the Hittite ruling class went way beyond mere military prowess, while there was much more to the Hittites themselves than just skill in warfare. This engaging volume reveals the Hittites in their full complexity, including the festivals they celebrated; the temples and palaces they built; their customs and superstitions; the crimes they committed; their social hierarchy, from king to slave; and the marriages and pre-nuptial agreements they contracted. It takes the reader on a journey which combines epic grandeur, spectacle and pageantry with an understanding of the intimacies and idiosyncrasies of Hittite daily life.

About the Author Trevor Bryce is Honorary Professor in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Queensland, Australia, and Emeritus Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Price: $40.00 $44.00 ISBN: 9781788312370 Australia. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 221x143mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh Alan Strachan

Major new biography of the most iconic actress of the twentieth century.

Description Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth century. As Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of the most pivotal roles in cinema history. Yet she was also a talented theatre actress with West End and Broadway plaudits to her name. In this ground-breaking new biography, Alan Strachan provides a completely new full-life portrait of Leigh, covering both her professional and personal life. Using previously unseen sources from her archive, recently acquired by the V&A, he sheds new light on her fractious relationship with Laurence Olivier, based on their letters and diaries, as well as on the bipolar disorder which so affected her later life and work. Revealing new aspects of her early life as well as providing glimpses behind-the-scenes of the filming of Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire, this book provides the essential and comprehensive life-story of one of the twentieth century's greatest actresses.

About the Author Alan Strachan is a theatre director. In London's West End he has directed over thirty productions, and has also worked in regional theatre as well as in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Dublin and New York often with leading actors and on plays ranging from Shakespeare, Shaw and Tennessee Williams to Alan Ayckbourn and Tom Stoppard. He is the author of Secret Dreams: A Biography of Michael Redgrave and Putting It On: The West End Theatre of Michael Codron.

Price: $50.00 $55.00 ISBN: 9781788312080 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 231x165mm Extent: 376 pages Bic1: Individual actors & performers Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Creating the Culture of Peace Anwarul K. Chowdhury and Daisaku Ikeda

A series of dialogues on peace by two high-profile thinkers and activists, Daisaku Ikeda andAnwarul K. Chowdhury

Description A culture of peace and non-violence is essential to human existence and development. In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the first ten years of the 21st century the 'International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World'. Governments, NGOs and other civil society organizations were urged to contribute to a global movement for a culture of peace. Related to this vision, these rich and varied dialogues discuss how peace can be achieved in the world. Based on the extensive personal and professional experiences of two high-profile thinkers and activists, they analyse the challenges unfolding in the international arena and how these relate to humanity's quest for security and personal fulfilment. Although coming from very different positions one a Buddhist philosopher, educator and leader; the other a U.N. diplomat renowned for his work in development and human rights these interlocutors are united in their search for justice and their conviction that young people are the means to achieving positive change in the world. The dialogues provide ideas on the key challenges that face the modern age: terrorism, nuclear weapons, global warming, financial crises, youth alienation and the materialist drive. They also invite us to consider how a culture of peace can be practically achieved. Recognizing the significance of global citizenship, multilateralism, women's equality and education are central themes, but equally important is the strength to be found in human experience and expression, such as empathy, poetry and the challenges of life.

About the Author Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury was, until recently, the Senior Special Advisor to the UN General Assembly President. From 2002 - 2007 he served as the Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the United Nations. He is recipient of the U Thant Peace Award and the UNESCO Gandhi Gold Medal.Daisaku Ikeda is President of Soka Gakkai International, a Buddhist organization with some twelve million adherents in 192 countries and regions throughout the world. A prolific author, poet, peace activist and educator, he is the author of numerous books on Buddhism, humanism and ethics, and received the United Nations Peace Award in 1983. Price: $26.99 $29.99 ISBN: 9781788313278 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Oriental & Indian philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Teffi: A Life of Letters and of Laughter Edythe Haber

The first biography of one of Russia's most celebrated authors

Description Teffi was one of twentieth century Russia's most celebrated authors. Born Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya in 1872, she came to be admired by an impressive range of people from Tsar Nicholas II to Lenin and her popularity was such that sweets and perfume were named after her. She visited Tolstoy when she was 13 to haggle with him about the ending of War and Peace and Rasputin tried (and utterly failed) to seduce her. After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 she was exiled and lived out her days in the lively Russian emigre community of Paris, where she continued writing and enjoying comparable fame until her death in 1952.

Teffi's best stories effortlessly shift from light humour and satire to pathos and even tragedy ever more so when depicting the daunting hardships she and her fellow emigres suffered in exile. While best known for her stories and feuilletons, she also moved over to other genres, from serious poetry to theatrical miniatures and even music, and inhabited an extraordinary range of spheres connected to both high and popular culture.

In the first biography of her in any language, Edythe Haber here brings Teffi who has recently been 'rediscovered' in the West to resounding acclaim to life. Teffi's life and works afford a unique panoramic view of the cultural world of early twentieth century Russia, from the debauchery of the Silver Age to the terror and euphoria of revolution, and of interwar Russian emigration. But they also offer fresh insights into the seismic events from the 1905 Russian Revolution and World War II to life as a refugee that she experienced first-hand and recreated in her vivid, penetrating, moving and witty writing.

About the Author Edythe Haber is Professor Emerita at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a Center Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, USA. She is the author of an acclaimed book on Mikhail Bulgakov's early years and of many publications on Bulgakov, Teffi, and Nabokov. She wrote the introduction to Teffi's Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea (2016), which in 2017 was awarded Pushkin House's 'Special Award for Best Price: $40.00 $44.00 ISBN: 9781788312585 Book in Translation,' and has been researching and enjoying Teffi's work for more than 40 years. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 298x201mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Biography: literary Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Indispensable Reading: 1001 Books From The Arabian Nights to Zola Wm Roger Louis

A selection of 1001 indispensable books curated by Wm. Roger Louis

Description The world of books can seem like a trackless forest stretching to the horizon in all directions, full of wrong turns, dead ends, and pitfalls. But it is in fact full of treasure, and Indispensable Reading is a map to books that can provide a lifetime of reading that is thoughtful, provocative, pleasurable, and, above all, memorable for at a minimum, a book worth reading should linger in the mind. The selections are informed by Wm. Roger Louis's lifetime of reading and 56 years of university teaching. The range of titles is vast. Almost 50 countries are represented in the literature category, and in history the scope is equally broad. A highlight of the book is the carefully curated section on politics. Extensive chapters cover biographies and memoirs, ancient and modern philosophy, and religion. Smaller groupings take account of the social and natural sciences, ethnic and gender studies, and the arts. Indispensable Reading is not meant to be a prescribed course of study. It is not a standardized list of 'best books' or 'great books' or 'read before you die' books. Many of its choices are quirky, surprising. Ultimately, its goal is to stimulate a reader into making a personal list of titles that he or she finds indispensable, another unique map of the way through the forest of books.

About the Author Wm. Roger Louis is the Kerr Professor of English History and Culture and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. An Honorary Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford, he is a past President of the American Historical Association and a former chairman of the U.S. State Department's Historical Advisory Committee. He held the Kluge Chair at the Library of Congress (2010) and delivered the Bancroft Lecture at the U.S. Naval Academy in 2015. He is the founder of the British Studies Seminar at the University of Texas (1975 ), where in 2009 he was chosen Professor of the Year by the 50,000-member student body. His books include Imperialism at Bay, 1977, The British Empire in the Middle East, 1984, and Ends of British Imperialism, 2006. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the five-volume Oxford History of the British Empire (1998 99) and its Companion series (2004 ). In 1999, Queen Elizabeth II appointed him Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He has edited some 30 books, including the third volume of The History of Price: $50.00 $55.00 ISBN: 9781788315333 Oxford University Press. In 2013, he was awarded the Benson Medal of the Royal Society of Literature; in 2014 he Format: Hard Cover received a Certificate in Arabic after intensive study in Oman; and in 2016 he delivered the Chaim Weizmann Memorial Dimensions: 252x197mm Lecture in the Humanities in Israel. Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Literature & literary studies Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 New York, New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Art in Emerging Practice Kathy Battista

New York is a centre of creative production for an exciting, emerging generation of women artists.

Description New York is a centre of creative production for an exciting, emerging generation of women artists. Their work investigates themes such as the body as medium and subject matter; the deconstruction of the existing patriarchal order of the art world; the appropriation of earlier art historical references; and the use of so-called abject and everyday materials. New York New Wave investigates the relevance of earlier feminist practice for this 'new' generation, asking: Does gender difference still play a role in today's practice? How can younger women artists embrace a radical political ideology and yet remain market friendly? How far have these artists diverged from the established feminist 'tradition'? Artists discussed include: Firelei Baez, EV Day, Ruby LaToya Fraser, Diana Al-Hadid, K8 Hardy, Valerie Hegarty, Cindy Hinant, Dawn Kasper, Anya Kielar, Liz Magic Laser, Narcissister, Alix Pearlstein, Aurel Schmidt, AL Steiner and W.A.G.E.

About the Author Kathy Battista is a Faculty Member and Founding Program Director of the MA Contemporary Art Program, Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York and a writer and curator.

Price: $34.99 $38.99 ISBN: 9781848858954 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 232x155mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Theory of art Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Three Women Lisa Taddeo

One of the most highly anticipated non-fiction debuts of 2019, Three Women is a groundbreaking examination of the sex lives and desires of three ordinary women.

Description ELIZABETH GILBERT: 'This is a non-fiction literary masterpiece at the same level as In Cold Blood and just as suspenseful, bone-chilling and harrowing, in its own way'

DAVE EGGERS: 'This is one of the most riveting, assured and scorchingly original debuts I've ever read. Taddeo's beautifully written and unflinching portraits of desire allow her protagonists to be wholly human and wholly, blessedly complex. I can't imagine a scenario where this isn't one of the more important and breathlessly debated books of the year'

GILLIAN ANDERSON: 'Intense and riveting. It gives us epic themes in miniature. These women broke my heart and I won't forget them' All Lina ever wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town? All Sloane wanted was to be admired. How did she end up a sexual object of men, including her husband, who liked to watch her have sex with other men and women? Consequences are handed out to some but not to others. Three Women is a record of unmet needs, unspoken thoughts, disappointments, hopes and unrelenting obsessions that tests the boundaries of non-fiction.

About the Author Lisa Taddeo spent eight years and thousands of hours tracking the women whose stories comprise Three Women, moving to the towns they lived in to better understand their lives. She has contributed to New York magazine, Esquire, Elle, Glamour and many other publications. Her short stories have won two Pushcart Prizes. She lives with her husband Price: $39.99 $44.99 ISBN: 9781526611635 and daughter in Connecticut. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Prose: non-fiction Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun Guillermo del Toro, Cornelia Funke

A thrillingly dark and imaginative novel inspired by Guillermo del Toro's captivating 2006 film, this is a beautiful and haunting modern fairytale by bestselling author Cornelia Funke, featuring gorgeous original illustrations

Description A thrillingly dark novel that shows the rare magic that can happen when two dazzlingly original imaginations come together to make a book. Bestselling author Cornelia Funke has written a novel inspired by Guillermo del Toro's captivating 2006 film. Beautiful, haunting, visceral, gutsy, it's a vastly inventive, grown-up modern fairytale, pulsing with power of stories to shape lives, hearts and minds. Ofelia has been sent to stay with her new stepfather, a ruthless captain of the Spanish army. For him, the dark and eerie forest in which they live is a cage, serving only to hide resistance fighters in the drawn-out and bloody civil war those he has made it his aim to destroy. But with her mother bedridden, Ofelia is left unchecked and becomes enchanted by their magical home. Obsessed with fairytales, she is drawn deeper and deeper into a mythical world which is both cruel and kind, benign and deadly. For Ofelia, too, must endure violence if she is to complete the tasks that will win her place at the centre of the labyrinth: the palace of the Faun -

About the Author Cornelia Funke is an award-winning children's author. Her books have been translated from German into 35 different languages, and include Inkheart, Inkspell, Inkdeath, The Thief Lord, Dragonrider and the Reckless series. A film adaptation of The Thief Lord came out in 2006 and the Hollywood production of Inkheart was released in 2008. Cornelia lives in Malibu, California.

Guillermo del Toro is a Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer, and novelist. In his career, del Toro has alternated between Spanish-language dark fantasy pieces, such as The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth, and more mainstream American action films, such as Blade II, Hellboy and Pacific Rim. His 2017 film The Shape of Water won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2018. Del Toro also received an Academy Award for Best Director, as well as the Golden Globe, BAFTA, Critics' Choice, and Directors Guild of America. Price: $37.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9781526609557 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 A Nice Cup of Tea Celia Imrie

The witty and enchanting fourth novel from the well-loved actress and Sunday Timese--bestselling author of Not Quite Nice and Nice Work (If You Can Get It) follows the hilarious antics of a group of retired expats in the South of France

Description The witty and enchanting third novel from the well-loved actress and Sunday Timese--bestselling author of Not Quite Nice and Nice Work (If You Can Get It) follows the hilarious antics of a group of retired expats in the South of France

The beautiful town of Bellevue-sur-Mer, tucked between glitzy Monte Carlo and the plush red carpets of Cannes, is home to Theresa, Carol, William, Benjamin and Sally: five retired expats who have pooled their resources to set up La Mosa que, a divine little restaurant. But there is trouble in paradise: the friends are desperately struggling to make ends meet, and when the much hoped for sale of their Picasso mosaic falls through they realise it will take every bit of their talent and gumption to save La Mosa que. But with fussy customers, obnoxious cruise parties and a failing delivery van, it's certainly not going to be easy. On top of this, Theresa and Sally have their own distractions. Theresa's teenage granddaughter has gone missing, and the chap she's run off with sounds distinctly unsavoury; plus she's getting mysterious phone calls, and the strong sense that someone's watching her. Meanwhile, Sally's run into the Markhams: a grisly husband and wife pair of luvvies from her acting days, whose jibes are enough to send her on an ill-advised search for the limelight -

About the Author Celia Imrie is an Olivier award-winning and Screen Actors Guild-nominated actress. She is known for her film roles in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Calendar Girls and Nanny McPhee. Celia has recently starred in the major films Bridget Jones's Baby, Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, Year by the Sea and A Cure for Wellness. In 2016 she also appeared in FX's new comedy series Better Things, and returned to the stage in King Lear at The Old Vic. She co-stars with Imelda Staunton, Timothy Spall and Joanna Lumley in the this year's major film Finding Your Feet. Celia Imrie is also the author of an autobiography, The Happy Hoofer, two top ten Sunday Times bestselling

Price: $37.99 $39.99 novels, Not Quite Nice and Nice Work (If You Can Get It) and Sail Away. ISBN: 9781408883266 celiaimrie.info @CeliaImrie Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Anarchists' Club Alex Reeve

The second book in the acclaimed new historical crime series, set in Victorian London and featuring a transgender protagonist

Description The second book in the acclaimed new historical crime series, set in Victorian London and featuring a transgender protagonist It's been a year since Leo Stanhope lost the woman he loved, and came closing to losing his own life. Now more than ever, he is determined to keep his head down and stay safe, without risking any of those he holds dear. But Leo's hopes are shattered when the police unexpectedly arrive at his lodgings: a woman has been found murdered at a club for anarchists, and Leo's address is in her purse. Not only that, but a member of the same club knows Leo's birth identity and will share it with the authorities if Leo does not provide him with an alibi. If Leo is unmasked, he will be thrown into an asylum, but if he lies, will he be protecting a murderer?

About the Author Alex Reeve lives in Buckinghamshire and is a university lecturer, working on a PhD. The Anarchists' Club is the second in a series of books featuring Leo Stanhope, following on from The House on Half Moon Street.

Price: $34.99 $37.99 ISBN: 9781526604163 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Raven Books AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Let's Hope for the Best Caroline Setterwall

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. What if one moment changed everything you've ever known? Let's Hope for the Best is a beautifully written, intimate and emotionally brave debut novel about a young mother facing the sudden death of her partner.

Description 'This book! Swedish, confessional, shockingly honest about desire, love, loss. I've read it twice now and can't stop thinking about Carolina. Utterly compulsive' MARIAN KEYES

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

The last night, I fall asleep believing we have thousands of days ahead of us. We don't. This night is our last night.

One evening, Carolina says good night to her partner, Aksel. Things have been tough for both of them recently, especially with an eight-month-old son to raise. So when Aksel dies unexpectedly in the night, Carolina's world is turned upside down. Based on the author's own experiences, Let's Hope for the Best details the small moments of life before and after tragedy. It's a story about motherhood, family and the difficulties of loving someone who is distant, and then who is gone. Brave and unsparing, packed with emotion and humanity, it is about how the life we envisage for ourselves can be altered in an instant. What if one moment changed everything you've ever known?

About the Author Carolina Setterwall was born in 1978 in Sala, Sweden. She studied Media and Communication in Uppsala, Stockholm and London and has worked within the music and publishing industries as an editor and writer. Setterwall lives in Stockholm with her son. Let's Hope for the Best is her first novel. carolinasetterwall.se

Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781526604910 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 One Hundred Miracles: A Memoir of Music and Survival Zuzana Ruzickova, Wendy Holden

The remarkable memoir of Zuzana Ruzickova, Holocaust survivor and world-famous harpsichordist. An inspiring and spirited account of a life spent living and breathing music, of finding beauty in world a of chaos and disorder.

Description The remarkable memoir of Zuzana Ruzickova, Holocaust survivor and world-famous harpsichordist. Zuzana Ruzickova grew up in 1930s Czechoslovakia dreaming of two things: Johann Sebastian Bach and the piano. But her peaceful, melodic childhood was torn apart when, in 1939, the Nazis invaded. Uprooted from her home, transported from Auschwitz to Hamburg to Bergen-Belsen, bereaved, starved, and afflicted with crippling injuries to her musician's hands, the teenage Zuzana faced a series of devastating losses. Yet with every truck and train ride, a small slip of paper printed with her favourite piece of Bach's music became her talisman. Armed with this 'proof that beauty still existed', Zuzana's fierce bravery and passion ensured her survival of the greatest human atrocities of all time, and would continue to sustain her through the brutalities of post-war Communist rule. Harnessing her talent and dedication, and fortified by the love of her husband, the Czech composer Viktor Kalabis, Zuzana went on to become one of the twentieth century's most renowned musicians and the first harpsichordist to record the entirety of Bach's keyboard works. Zuzana's story, told here in her own words before her death in 2017, is a profound and powerful testimony of the horrors of the Holocaust, and a testament in itself to the importance of amplifying the voices of its survivors today. It is also a joyful celebration of art and resistance that defined the life of the 'first lady of the harpsichord' a woman who spent her life being ceaselessly reborn through her music. Like the music of her beloved Bach, Zuzana's life is the story of the tragic transmuted through art into the state of the sublime.

About the Author Zuzana Ruzickova was a celebrated Czech harpsichordist and a survivor of three Nazi concentration and slave labour camps. She recorded over one hundred albums, performed across the world to great acclaim, and became an influential teacher at the Prague Academy. Zuzana died in Prague in 2017 aged ninety.Wendy Holden is the author of more than thirty published titles, many of them about the lives of remarkable women. A journalist and former war correspondent, she

Price: $32.99 $34.99 wrote Born Survivors, about three mothers and their babies who survived the Holocaust. She lives in Suffolk, England. ISBN: 9781408896839 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Music Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Autumn Light Pico Iyer

From one of our most astute observers of human nature, a far-reaching exploration of Japanese history and culture and a moving meditation on impermanence, mortality and grief

Description For decades now, Pico Iyer has been based for much of the year in Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wife, Hiroko, share a two-room apartment. But when his father-in-law dies suddenly, calling him back to Japan earlier than expected, Iyer begins to grapple with the question we all have to live with: how to hold on to the things we love, even though we know that we and they are dying. In a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honouring the dead, this question has a special urgency and currency. Iyer leads us through the autumn following his father-in-law's death, introducing us to the people who populate his days: his ailing mother-in-law, who often forgets that her husband has died; his absent brother-in-law, who severed ties with his family years ago but to whom Hiroko still writes letters; and the men and women in his ping-pong club, who, many years his senior, traverse their autumn years in different ways. And as the maple leaves begin to redden and the heat begins to soften, Iyer offers us a singular view of Japan, in the season that reminds us to take nothing for granted.

About the Author Pico Iyer has written nonfiction books on globalism, Japan, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and forgotten places, and novels on Revolutionary Cuba and Islamic mysticism. He regularly writes about literature for the New York Review of Books; about travel for the Financial Times; and about global culture and the news for Time, the New York Times, and magazines around the world.

Price: $37.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9781526611475 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Out of Our Minds Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

An extraordinary journey through the history of the human imagination, from the dawn of civilization to the advent of social media

Description To imagine to see that which is not there is the startling ability that has fuelled human development and innovation through the centuries. As a species we stand alone in our remarkable capacity to refashion the world after the pictures in our minds. Traversing the realms of science, politics, religion, culture, philosophy and history, Felipe FernAindez-Armesto reveals the thrilling and disquieting tales of our imaginative leaps from the first Homo sapiens to the pioneers of the digital age. Through ground-breaking insights in cognitive science, he explores how and why we have ideas in the first place, providing a tantalising glimpse into who we are and what we might yet accomplish. A magisterial paean to the human imagination from a wonderfully elegant thinker, Out of Our Minds is a unique history of our species that is sure to linger long in the -

About the Author Felipe FernAindez-Armesto is an award-winning British historian and the author of several bestselling books, including 1492, Ideas that Changed the World and The Americas. He lives in Indiana and is a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame.

Price: $49.99 $54.99 ISBN: 9781786075819 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 496 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Dragon Lady Louise Treger

Historical fiction about Lady Virginia Courtauld in the last days of colonial Rhodesia, a daring blend of crime, romance and history, deeply evocative of time and place.

Description 'A daring blend of romance, crime and history, and an intelligent expose of the inherent injustice and consequences of all forms of oppression' Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions

Opening with the shooting of Lady Virginia 'Ginie' Courtauld in her tranquil garden in 1950s Rhodesia, The Dragon Lady tells Ginie's extraordinary story, so called for the exotic tattoo snaking up her leg. From the glamorous Italian Riviera before the Great War to the Art Deco glory of Eltham Palace in the thirties, and from the secluded Scottish Highlands to segregated Rhodesia in the fifties, the narrative spans enormous cultural and social change. Lady Virginia Courtauld was a boundary-breaking, colourful and unconventional person who rejected the submissive role women were expected to play.

Ostracised by society for being a foreign divorcee at the time of Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson, Ginie and her second husband ,Stephen Courtauld, leave the confines of post-war Britain to forge a new life in Rhodesia, only to find that being progressive liberals during segregation proves mortally dangerous. Many people had reason to dislike Ginie, but who had reason enough to pull the trigger?

Deeply evocative of time and place, The Dragon Lady subtly blends fact and fiction to paint the portrait of an extraordinary woman in an era of great social and cultural change.

About the Author Louisa Treger, a classical violinist, studied at the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and worked as a freelance orchestral player and teacher. She subsequently turned to literature, earning a Ph.D. in English at University College London, where she focused on early-twentieth-century women's writing and was awarded the West Scholarship and the Rosa Morison Scholarship 'for distinguished work in the study of English Language and Literature'. Louisa's first Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781448217267 novel, The Lodger, was published by Macmillan in 2014. She lives in London. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Herbert Press AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Men on Magic Carpets Ed Hawkins

The bizarre true story about the cosmic side of sports

Description 'An absolute gem. Funny, incredible and brilliantly reported, in Ed Hawkins the sports world has its own Jon Ronson.' - Will Storr The bizarre true story about the cosmic side of sports Ever wondered if the mind tricks used by Luke Skywalker or his Star Wars brethren were real? Ed Hawkins did. A Jedi- wannabe and sports nut, he pondered: what if a coach or athlete had tried to harness such mysterious powers? They would be unstoppable. This set Ed off on an extraordinary adventure across the West Coast of America in search of a superhuman sports star. He discovers cosmic thinkers who, back in their 1960s heyday, believed that through the power of thought alone a superhuman could be created. One that could see into the future, slow down time and control minds. So successful were their tactics that they attracted the attention of the US government. Meanwhile in Russia their Soviet counterparts were employing equally bewildering brain power. Their goal? To win the Cold War. And so from the 1970s and into the Eighties the underground free-thinking movement became a fully-funded state secret in an 'inner space race' between the US and the Soviet Union. Both sides attempting to create the perfect human killing machine. It worked. Sort of. Instead of building a super soldier, the mystics from both sides came together to preach peace and love to their political paymasters. After the thaw, the search for the superhuman sports star began again and continues to this day. In The Men on Magic Carpets Ed goes deep into a secret network of supernatural sages and is told about a mysterious American football coach who made it to the top by teaching his players The Force. But can he be found? Will he admit to what he truly believes? And how does our intrepid author cope with his own brush with the Dark Side as the shadowy military once again attempt to use the mystical powers for ill?

About the Author Ed Hawkins is an award-winning author and investigative journalist. He has written several books including the critically acclaimed The Lost Boys: Inside football's slave trade and Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy, which was shortlisted for the Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781472942593 William Hill Sports Book of the Year. He has won three Sports Journalist Association awards. He lives in Kent. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Lifestyle, sport & leisure Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Sport AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Reeds Maritime Meteorology Elaine Ives, Maurice Cornish

The fourth edition of this established and popular text analyses the elements and forces which contribute to maritime meteorology and the principles which govern them

Description Written primarily for serving and trainee deck officers, those studying for certificates of competency in merchant shipping and fishermen, Reeds Maritime Meteorology analyses the elements and forces which contribute to maritime meteorology and the principles which govern them. Updated to include the latest developments in the use of satellite technology in forecasting, Navtext and the ramifications of GMDSS, the book examines: e cloud formation and development e precipitation and thunderstorms e atmospheric pressure and wind e ocean currents and swell e tropical revolving storms e the development and distribution of sea ice e weather routeing e passage planning e the management and care of cargo in heavy weather This revised edition covers significant developments in the variety of forecasts available for the seafarer, coverage of global warming and weather routing options, as well as updates throughout in line with technological advancements and research discoveries, and updates to the exam questions at the end of each chapter.

About the Author Elaine Ives was Head of the School of Maritime Studies at Glasgow College and Senior Lecturer in Meteorology. Maurice Cornish, Extra Master, FNI, served as a navigating officer on tankers and then as Head of the Maritime Studies Department at Glasgow College of Nautical Studies.

Price: $59.99 $64.99 ISBN: 9781472964151 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Boating Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Adlard Coles Nautica AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Coastal Britain: England and Wales Stuart Fisher

The most comprehensive survey of the British coastline ever compiled, exploring every stretch of the shores of England and Wales via their history, architecture, wildlife, culture and more.

Description When all her islands are taken into consideration, the British coastline spans almost 8,000 miles, which is longer than both Brazil's and Mexico's. From the clear blue waters of serene Cornish bays to the tempestuous seas around rugged Pembrokeshire headlands, this new book journeys around the varied shorelines of England and Wales to complete the most comprehensive survey ever taken.

Stuart Fisher, bestselling author of the similarly comprehensive Canals of Britain, visits all the places of interest along the entire coastline of England and Wales: from remote countryside to modern cities, exploring history and heritage, striking architecture and dramatic engineering, wildlife, wonderful flora and fauna, art and literature.

His journey takes him from industrial hubs to small villages and fishing communities, providing a keen insight into what makes each stretch of Britain's shoreline unique and special. Evocative and often dramatic colour photographs help capture the great variety of the coast, and maps, book covers, stamps and local artefacts help convey the character of each area.

This comprehensive and absorbing survey is a treasure trove of interest and knowledge for walkers, cyclists, boaters, holidaymakers and indeed anyone with an interest in coastal Britain.

About the Author Stuart Fisher is the author of the bestselling Canals of Britain (now in its 3rd edition). He has made it his life's work to research Britain's waterways, both inland and coastal, and has a reputation second to none for the depth and range of his research and knowledge.

Price: $49.99 $52.99 ISBN: 9781472958693 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Physical geography & topography Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Adlard Coles Nautica AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo Allison Levy

A look into the tantalising secrets of Florence's Palazzo Rucellai.

Description When Italian Renaissance professor Allison Levy takes up residency in the palazzo of her dreams the Palazzo Rucellai in Florence she finds herself consumed by the space and swept into the vortex of its history. She spends every waking moment in dusty Florentine libraries and exploring the palazzo's myriad rooms seeking to uncover its secrets. As she unearths the stories of those who have lived behind its celebrated facade, she discovers that it has been witness to weddings, suicides, orgies and even a murder. Entwining Levy's own experiences with the ghosts of the Palazzo Rucellai's past, House of Secrets paints a scintillating portrait of a family, a palace and one of the most iconic cities in the world.

About the Author Allison Levy is Digital Scholarship Editor at Brown University. An art historian, educated at Bryn Mawr College, Allison has taught in the US, Italy, and the UK. The author and editor of four books on early modern Italy and Europe, she is also General Editor of the book series Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700, published by Amsterdam University Press.

Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781788313605 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 240x166mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Social & cultural history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Strolling Through Rome: The Definitive Walking Guide to the Eternal City Mario Erasmo

Here is a rich cultural history of Rome that brings its epic past alive, illuminating the extraordinary sights and fascinating secrets of one of Europe's most beguiling cities.

Description Rome, the Eternal City - birthplace of western civilisation and soul of the ancient world - has a history that stretches back two thousand five hundred years. It is also one of the most-visited places in the world, but where does one begin to delve into two millennia of history, culture, art and architecture, whilst also navigating the vibrant modern city? Mario Erasmo here guides the traveller through Rome's many layers of history, exploring the streets, museums, piazze, ruins and parks of this 'city of the soul'. Punctuated with anecdote, myth and legend, these unique walks often retrace the very steps taken by ancient Romans, early Christians, medieval pilgrims, Renaissance artists and aristocrats on the Grand Tour. Here is a rich cultural history of Rome that brings its epic past alive, illuminating the extraordinary sights and fascinating secrets of one of Europe's most beguiling cities.

About the Author Mario Erasmo is Professor of Classics at the University of Georgia. He specialises in the Legacy of Classical Antiquity and leads art and garden tours in Europe retracing the travels of the Grand Tour. He is the author of Death: Antiquity and its Legacy (I.B.Tauris) and Reading Death in Ancient Rome.

Price: $26.99 $29.99 ISBN: 9781788319744 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 196x130mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: History of art / art & design styles Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Strolling Through Istanbul: The Classic Guide to the City Hillary Sumner-Boyd, John Freely

A travel guide to Istanbul. It describes historic monuments and sites of what was once Constantinople and the capital in turn of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, in the context of a city.

Description This classic guide to Istanbul by Hilary Summer-Boyd and John Freely - the 'best travel guide to Istanbul' ('The Times'), 'a guide book that reads like a novel' ('New York Times') - is here, for the first time since its original publication thirty-seven years ago, published in a completely revised and updated new edition. Taking the reader on foot through this captivating city - European City of Culture 2010 - the authors describe the historic monuments and sites of what was once Constantinople and the capital in turn of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, in the context of the great living city. Woven throughout are vivid anecdotes, secret histories, hidden gems and every major place of interest the traveler will want to see. Practical and informative, readable and vividly described, this is the definitive guide to and story of Istanbul, by those who know it best.

About the Author The late Hilary Sumner-Boyd was professor of humanities at Robert-College-Bosphorus University. His magisterial work, The Seven Hills of Constantinople: A Study of the Byzantine and Turkish Monuments of the City, was unpublished at the time of his death in 1977 and is now being prepared for publication by Bosphorus University Press.John Freely (1926 -2017) was of the most widely respected writers of travel books, histories and guides about Greece and Turkey. He is the author of The Grand Turk, Storm on Horseback, Children of Achilles, The Cyclades, The Ionian Islands, The Western Shores of Turkey, Strolling through Athens, Strolling through Venice and the bestselling Strolling through Istanbul (all I.B. Tauris). He lives in Istanbul.

Price: $26.99 $29.99 ISBN: 9781838600020 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 196x130mm Extent: 512 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea Gertrude Bell

When Gertrude Bell's uncle was appointed Minister in Tehran in 1891, she declared that the great ambition of her life was to visit Persia. Several months later, she did. And so began a lifetime of travel and a lifelong enchantment with what she saw as the romance of the East.

Description 'Are we the same, I wonder, when all our surroundings, association, acquaintances are changed? I conclude that it is not the person who danced with you at Mansfield St who writes to you today from Persia. Yet there are dregs, English sediment at the bottom of my sherbet, and perhaps they flavour it more than I think. I write to you of Persia: I am not me, that is my only excuse. I am merely pouring out for you some of what I have received in the last two months.' When Gertrude Bell's uncle was appointed Minister in Tehran in 1891, she declared that the great ambition of her life was to visit Persia. Several months later, she did. And so began a lifetime of travel and a lifelong enchantment with what she saw as the romance of the East, which evolved into a deep understanding of its cultures and people. This vivid and impressionistic series of sketches, her first foray into writing, is an evocative meditation that moves between Persia's heroic past and its long decline; the public face of Tehran and the otherworldly 'secret, mysterious life of the East', the lives of its women, its lush, enclosed gardens; from the bustling cities to the lonely wastelands of Khorasan.

About the Author Gertrude Bell, CBE (1868 - 1926) was a writer, traveller, political officer, archaeologist and spy who travelled extensively throughout Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor and Arabia. Along with T. E. Lawrence, Bell helped establish the Hashemite dynasties in what is today Jordan and Iraq. She played a major role in the birth of the modern state of Iraq, using the perspective gained from her travels and relations with tribal leaders in the Middle East. 'In British diplomatic group photographs of the early 20th-century Middle East, amid the plumes and uniforms and the calm paraphernalia of an empire going to hell in a bucket, there is often a solitary female. The woman is slim, with a head of luxuriant hair, and neatly dressed in billowing muslins or in the pencil silhouette and cloche hats of jazz-age Baghdad. The woman is Gertrude Bell.' James Buchan, Guardian.

Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781788319751 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Classic travel writing Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Man Who Wasn't There: A Life of Ernest Hemingway Richard Bradford

Ground-breaking and intensely revealing examination of the life of the 20th century's most iconic writer

Description Ernest Hemingway was an involuntary chameleon, who would shift seamlessly from a self-cultivated image of hero, aesthetic radical, and existential non-conformist to a figure made up at various points of selfishness, hypocrisy, self- delusion, narcissism and arbitrary vindictiveness. Richard Bradford shows that Hemingway's work is by parts erratic and unique because it was tied into these unpredictable, bizarre features of his personality. Impressionism and subjectivity always play some part in the making of literary works. Some authors try to subdue them while others treat them as the essentials of creativity but they endure as a ubiquitous element of all literature. They are the writer's private signature, their authorial fingerprint. In this ground-breaking and intensely revealing biography, which includes a complete reassessment of Hemingway's oeuvre Hemingway's unfixed personality is shown to be the index to why and how he wrote as he did.

About the Author Richard Bradford is Research Professor in English at Ulster University and Visiting Professor at the University of Avignon. He has published over 25 acclaimed books, including a biography of Philip Larkin, which was an Independent Book of the Year, the authorised biography of Alan Sillitoe, a life of Kingsley Amis and a biography of Kingsley's son, Martin. He has been on the longlist for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, has written for The Spectator and The Sunday Times and has been interviewed on his work for various BBC Radio Arts Programmes, as well as appearing on the Channel 4 Series `Writers in their Own Words', talking mainly on Martin Amis and the post-1960s generation of British novelists. The BBC TV programme `Through the Lens of Larkin', in which he appeared, was inspired by his The Importance of Elsewhere. Philip Larkin's Photographs.

Price: $40.00 $44.00 ISBN: 9781788319959 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Biography: literary Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Social Design Reader Elizabeth Resnick

Brings together essential writings on social design theory and practice from the 1960s to the present day, combined with contextualising editorial introductions and useful resources for students.

Description The Social Design Reader explores the ways in which design can be a catalyst for social change. Bringing together key texts of the last fifty years, editor Elizabeth Resnick traces the emergence of the notion of socially responsible design. This volume represents the authentic voices of the thinkers, writers and designers who are helping to build a 'canon' of informed literature which documents the development of the discipline. The Social Design Reader is divided into three parts. Section 1: Making a Stand includes an introduction to the term 'social design' and features papers which explore its historical underpinnings. Section 2: Creating the Future documents the emergence of social design as a concept, as a nascent field of study, and subsequently as a rapidly developing professional discipline, and Section 3: A Sea Change is made up of papers acknowledging social design as a firmly established practice. Contextualising section introductions are provided to aid readers in understanding the original source material, while summary boxes clearly articulate how each text fits with the larger milieu of social design theory, methods, and practice.

About the Author Elizabeth Resnick is Professor Emerita of Graphic Design at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, USA.

Price: $160.00 $176.00 ISBN: 9781350026063 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Art & design styles: from c 1960 Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 3D Printing Design: Additive Manufacturing and the Materials Revolution Francis Bitonti

This is the guide for anyone eager to get to grips with the new manufacturing technologies shaping the landscape of fashion today.

Description To work with the materials of tomorrow, design students across visual arts disciplines need to understand the cutting edge of today. Whether you're modelling in interiors, designing in fashion or constructing for interiors, in your work or as part of a final project, 3D Printing design is an encouraging guide to additive manufacturing within design disciplines. Francis Bitonti gives an insider's view from his design studio on how 3D printing is already shaking up the industry, and where it's likely to go next. Complete with interviews from designers, business owners and 3D-print experts throughout, Bitonti considers whether 3D body scans mean couture for all, how rapid prototyping can change your design method and if 3D printing materials can enhance medical design, amongst other areas of this emerging method of manufacture. This is inspirational reading for the designers of tomorrow.

About the Author Francis Bitonti is a designer who specialises in cutting-edge digital design and manufacturing technologies. He is a co- founder of Lexset and founded and continues to run the Francis Bitonti Studio. His studio projects have been featured in Wired, The New York Times, Fast Company, and The Wall Street Journal. His pieces have been collected and featured in the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National design Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design, the Boston Museum of Fine Art, the High Museum, and the Mint Museum.

Price: $150.00 $165.00 ISBN: 9781350065529 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 168 pages Bic1: Fashion & textiles: design Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Classroom Behaviour Management in Further, Adult and Vocational Education: Moving Beyond Control? edited by Denise Robinson

Draws together a research and practice informed exploration of behaviour in the Further, Adult and Vocational Education sector.

Description Guiding you through research and practice, Classroom Behaviour Management in Further, Adult and Vocational Education offers a new perspective. The authors help you to understand how you can create a positive classroom ethos and learning experience in the further, adult and vocational education sector. They explore the need to engage with students' previous experiences, be they positive or negative, and look at why it is important to engage with the wider economic, social and political issues at play in the classroom to understand how these may influence behaviour and responses.

You'll find a wealth of information on a range of topics, including: Understanding behaviour Teaching strategies Institutional practice Professional Standards

Each chapter supports your learning with reflective activities, exercises, question and answer sections, case studies and suggestions for further reading.

About the Author Denise Robinson is a consultant and external examiner in teacher education. She was previously Director of the Huddersfield University Consortium, UK, (including the Centre for Excellence in Teacher Training) in partnership with 24 Further Education colleges and their teacher education courses. She was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the HEA for her work in widening participation. Price: $160.00 $176.00 ISBN: 9781350076167 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Teaching staff Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 On Women's Films: Across Worlds and Generations edited by Ivone Margulies and Jeremi Szaniawski

This pioneering collection looks at the invaluable contribution and innovations of female filmmakers from all around the world, from the trailblazing figures of the 1960s-1970s to contemporary auteurs, their legacy and influence, and the trans-formative tradition they have upheld through constant cinematic reinvention and audiovisual experiments.

Description On Women's Films looks at contemporary and classic films from emerging and established makers such as Maria Augusta Ramos, Xiaolu Guo, Valerie Massadian, Lynne Ramsay, Lucrecia Martel, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Chantal Akerman, or Claire Denis. The collection is also tuned to the continued provocation of feminist cinema landmarks such as Chick Strand's Soft Fiction; Barbara Loden's Wanda; Valie Export's Invisible Adversaries, Cecilia Mangini's Essere donne. Attentive to minor moments, to the pauses and the charge and forms bodies adopt through cinema, the contributors suggest the capacity of women's films to embrace, shape and question the world.

About the Author Ivone Margulies is Professor in the Film and Media Studies Department at Hunter College, CUNY. She is the author of In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema (2018), Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday (1996), and is the editor of Rites of Realism: Essays on Corporeal Cinema (2003).

Jeremi Szaniawski is the co-editor of Directory of World Cinema: Belgium (2014) and The Global Auteur: The Politics of Authorship in 21st Century Cinema (2016) and the author of The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov: Figures of Paradox (2014).

Price: $180.00 $198.00 ISBN: 9781501332463 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Film theory & criticism Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Understanding Records, Second Edition: A Field Guide to Recording Practice Jay Hodgson

A revised edition of the book explains the musical language of recording practice in a way that requires no previous knowledge of the subject - with updated musical references, audio examples, and expanded sections on mixing and audio mastering

Description The revised edition of Understanding Records explains the musical language of recording practice in a way any interested reader and student can easily understand. Drawing on readily available hit records produced since 1945, each section of this book explains a handful of core production and engineering techniques in chronological record-making sequence, elucidates how those techniques work, what they sound like, how they function musically, where listeners can hear them at work in the broader Top 40 soundscape, and where they fit within the broader record-making process at large. As the only book to introduce music production and its practical elements with no assumed prior knowledge, the revised edition includes: e Exclusive print and video interviews with emerging and established recordists, including: Alex Chuck Krotz (Drake, Three Days Grace, Mother Mother); Kevin O' Leary (Shawn Mendes, The Glorious Sons, Monster Truck); Alastair Sims (Rush, The Tragically Hip, Barenaked Ladies); Matt Shelvock (kingmobb, san holo, bitbird, DROLOE); and Russ Hepworth-Sawyer (Billy Ray Cyrus, Steve Earle, Amadou & Miriam) e Numerous 'real word' audio examples, organized into easily accessible streaming playlists, culled from Juno-nominated sessions the author himself worked on, and numerous other professional sources. e Easy to understand explanations of each facet of the record production process, which avoid technical jargon and clarify terminology. e Information on new developments in recording practice and updated musical references. Completely reworked and expanded sections on mixing and audio mastering.

About the Author Jay Hodgson is Associate Professor of Popular Music Studies at Western University, Canada. He is author or editor of Price: $180.00 $198.00 numerous books, including Audio Mastering: The Artists (with Russ Hepworth-Sawyer, 2018) and Mixing Music (with ISBN: 9781501342387 Format: Hard Cover Russ Hepworth-Sawyer, 2016). He was awarded a Governor General's Academic Gold Medal in 2006, primarily in Dimensions: 0x0mm recognition of his research on recording practice. He has mastered two records nominated for Juno awards, and Extent: 256 pages contributed music to films recognized by the likes of Rolling Stone and which screened at the United Nations General Bic1: Theory of music & musicology Assembly. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 On Solitude, Conscience, Love and Our Inner and Outer Lives Ronald Haflidson

Recovers Augustine's penetrating diagnosis of why we need solitude and how we flee from it.

Description Ron Haflidson places the theology of Augustine in conversation with contemporary authors, who warn of the dangers of abandoning solitude for constant (often technological) connection. Haflidson addresses an essential question that has previously been neglected: What difference does it make to the practice of solitude if one believes that even in the absence of any human company, God is always intimately present? For Augustine, solitude is a moral necessity: he recommends that we regularly retreat from the crowd into the depths of our conscience, where we can dwell alone in the company of God, and enter into dialogue before and with God about who we are and how we love. Throughout this book, Haflidson pairs close readings of Augustine with those of noted cartographers of our inner lives, literary greats including Jane Austen, George Eliot, Marilynne Robinson and George Saunders. This book explores what undiscovered possibilities may lie in solitude.

About the Author Ron Haflidson is a Tutor in the great books program at St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, USA.

Price: $120.00 $132.00 ISBN: 9780567682680 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Ethics & moral philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

T&T Clark AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 The Crisis of Globalization: Democracy, Capitalism and Inequality in the Twenty-First Century edited by Patrick Diamond

Crucial contribution to key issue in current political and economic affairs.

Description In recent years, the effects of economic openness and technological change have fuelled dissatisfaction with established political systems and led to new forms of political populism that exploit the economic and political resentment created by globalization. This shift in politics was evident in the decision by UK voters to leave the European Union in June 2016, the November 2016 election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States, as well as the rise of populist movements on left and right throughout much of Europe. To many voters, the economy appears to be broken. Conventional politics is failing. Parties of the left and centre-left have struggled to forge a convincing response to this new phase of globalization in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis. This book examines the challenges that the new era of globalization poses for progressive parties and movements across the world. It brings together leading thinkers and experts including Andrew Gamble, Jeffry Frieden and Vivien Schmidt to debate the structural causes and political consequences of this new wave of globalization.

About the Author Patrick Diamond is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Queen Mary, University of London and Chair of the Policy Network think-tank. He is the former Head of Policy Planning in Number Ten Downing Street. Patrick's publications include Endgame for the Centre Left? The Retreat of Social Democracy across Europe; Can Labour Win? The Hard Road to Power; The Predistribution Agenda: Tackling Inequality and Supporting Sustainable Growth (with Claudia Chwalisz); Governing Britain: Power, Politics and the Prime Minister; Progressive Politics After the Crash (with Olaf Cramme and Michael McTernan); and After the Third Way (with Olaf Cramme).

Price: $140.00 $154.00 ISBN: 9781788315159 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: 21st century history: from c 2000 - Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 A Short History of the Crimean War Trudi Tate

Concise overview of the first modern war

Description The Crimean War (1853-1856) was the first modern war. A vicious struggle between imperial Russia and an alliance of the British, French and Ottoman Empires, it was the first conflict to be reported first-hand in newspapers, painted by official war artists, recorded by telegraph and photographed by camera. In her new short history, Trudi Tate discusses the ways in which this novel representation itself became part of the modern war machine. She tells forgotten stories about the war experience of individual soldiers and civilians, including journalists, nurses, doctors, war tourists and other witnesses. At the same time, the war was a retrograde one, fought with the mentality, and some of the equipment, of Napoleonic times. Tate argues that the Crimean War was both modern and old-fashioned, looking backwards and forwards, and generating optimism and despair among those who lived through it. She explores this paradox while giving full coverage to the bloody battles (Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman), the siege of Sebastopol, the much-derided strategies of the commanders, conditions in the field and the cultural impact of the anti-Russian alliance.

About the Author Trudi Tate is an Affiliated Lecturer in English in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow and Tutor of Clare Hall, Cambridge.

Price: $90.00 $99.00 ISBN: 9781848858602 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Social & cultural history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Culture, Time and Publics in the Arab World edited by Tarik Sabry and Joe F. Khalil

A new perspective on digital media in the Arab world.

Description In this revealing new study, Tarik Sabry and Joe Khalil preside over an original new exploration of Arab culture. They employ subjects as varied as anthropology, media studies, philosophy, political economy and cultural studies to illuminate the relationship between culture, time and publics in an Arab context, whilst also laying the foundations for a much more nuanced picture of Arab society. The diverse themes and locations explored include communities at borders, in rural and urban locations, Syrian drama audiences, Egyptian, Saudi and Tunisian artists and activists and historical and contemporary Arab intellectuals. This fresh empirical research and interdisciplinary analysis illuminate intricate experiences that transcend local, national and religious boundaries and expose how Arab publics combine the media and technology to create a rich experience that shapes their collective imagination and social structure. Providing a grounded orientation to key debates on time and what can be defined as public in modern Arab cultures, Sabry and Khalil address teachers, students and those concerned about the delicate structures that underpin the upheavals of the modern Arab world.

About the Author Tarik Sabry is Reader in media and communication theory at the University of Westminster where he is a member of the Communication and Media Research Institute and the director of the Arab Media Centre. He is author of Cultural Encounters in the Arab World: On Media, the Modern and the Everyday ( I.B.Tauris, 2010), Editor of Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Field (I.B. Tauris, 2012) and Co-editor of Arab Subcultures: Reflections on Theory and Practice (I.B. Tauris, 2016). Joe F. Khalil is an Associate Professor of Communication in Residence at Northwestern University in Qatar. Khalil is a scholar on global media and an expert on Arab youth media. He has been part of both the Arab alternative and mainstream media, first as a pirate radio DJ and then as a TV executive.

Price: $140.00 $154.00 ISBN: 9781788311915 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Communication studies Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 Creating the Culture of Peace Anwarul K. Chowdhury and Daisaku Ikeda

A series of dialogues on peace by two high-profile thinkers and activists, Daisaku Ikeda andAnwarul K. Chowdhury

Description A culture of peace and non-violence is essential to human existence and development. In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the first ten years of the 21st century the 'International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World'. Governments, NGOs and other civil society organizations were urged to contribute to a global movement for a culture of peace. Related to this vision, these rich and varied dialogues discuss how peace can be achieved in the world. Based on the extensive personal and professional experiences of two high-profile thinkers and activists, they analyse the challenges unfolding in the international arena and how these relate to humanity's quest for security and personal fulfilment. Although coming from very different positions one a Buddhist philosopher, educator and leader; the other a U.N. diplomat renowned for his work in development and human rights these interlocutors are united in their search for justice and their conviction that young people are the means to achieving positive change in the world. The dialogues provide ideas on the key challenges that face the modern age: terrorism, nuclear weapons, global warming, financial crises, youth alienation and the materialist drive. They also invite us to consider how a culture of peace can be practically achieved. Recognizing the significance of global citizenship, multilateralism, women's equality and education are central themes, but equally important is the strength to be found in human experience and expression, such as empathy, poetry and the challenges of life.

About the Author Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury was, until recently, the Senior Special Advisor to the UN General Assembly President. From 2002 - 2007 he served as the Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the United Nations. He is recipient of the U Thant Peace Award and the UNESCO Gandhi Gold Medal.Daisaku Ikeda is President of Soka Gakkai International, a Buddhist organization with some twelve million adherents in 192 countries and regions throughout the world. A prolific author, poet, peace activist and educator, he is the author of numerous books on Buddhism, humanism and ethics, and received the United Nations Peace Award in 1983. Price: $50.00 $55.00 ISBN: 9781788313261 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Oriental & Indian philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: AUSTRALIA JULY 2019 New York, New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Art in Emerging Practice Kathy Battista

New York is a centre of creative production for an exciting, emerging generation of women artists.

Description New York is a centre of creative production for an exciting, emerging generation of women artists. Their work investigates themes such as the body as medium and subject matter; the deconstruction of the existing patriarchal order of the art world; the appropriation of earlier art historical references; and the use of so-called abject and everyday materials. New York New Wave investigates the relevance of earlier feminist practice for this 'new' generation, asking: Does gender difference still play a role in today's practice? How can younger women artists embrace a radical political ideology and yet remain market friendly? How far have these artists diverged from the established feminist 'tradition'? Artists discussed include: Firelei Baez, EV Day, Ruby LaToya Fraser, Diana Al-Hadid, K8 Hardy, Valerie Hegarty, Cindy Hinant, Dawn Kasper, Anya Kielar, Liz Magic Laser, Narcissister, Alix Pearlstein, Aurel Schmidt, AL Steiner and W.A.G.E.

About the Author Kathy Battista is a Faculty Member and Founding Program Director of the MA Contemporary Art Program, Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York and a writer and curator.

Price: $140.00 $154.00 ISBN: 9781848858947 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Theory of art Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: