Karly Lane Stephanie Parkyn Dominic Knight Andrew P Street DECEMBER 2017 Jim Eames n ew book s SIX WAYS TO SUNDAY Karly Lane
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A rip-roaring tale about a woman determined to stand up for her convictions
When city naturopath, Rilee Summers meets gorgeous farmer, Dan Kincaid, sparks fly. A whirlwind romance follows, and the next thing Rilee knows she's married and living on her husband's family property in a small rural community. Never one to shy from a challenge, Rilee is determined to win over her in-laws and the townsfolk of nearby Pallaburra, but her city ways and outspoken views only seem to alienate her further.
Opening her own naturopathy practice has always been her dream. Although Pallaburra isn't Sydney, and despite the fact she's not exactly inundated with new clients, she's not ready to give up. Things get even worse for Rilee when she champions the issue of teen pregnancies in the deeply conservative town. Worn down by the ill-will towards her and what she sees as Dan's lack of support, Rilee flees the station to think about the future. Can her marriage survive—or is she destined to leave Dan and move back to the city?
Karly Lane is the bestselling author of Second Chance Town, North Star, Morgan's Law, Bridie's Choice, Poppy's Dilemma, Gemma's Bluff, Tallowood Bound, Third Time Lucky and If Wishes Were Horses. She lives on the mid-north coast of NSW.
2 INTO THE WORLD ALLEN & UNWIN Stephanie Parkyn
ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760296513 | $29.99 | PB | FICTION |
Inspired by a true story, a compelling novel of one woman’s desperate choice—find a man or become one
In the midst of the 1791 French Revolution, unwed mother Marie-Louise Girardin takes one last look at her baby before thrusting him into the THE WHITE BOOK arms of her friend, the revolutionary Olympe Han Kang de Gouges. Disguising herself as a man, she escapes as a steward on a ship journeying to the PORTOBELLO Great Southern Ocean in search of the missing 9781846276293 | $24.99 | HB | FICTION | explorer La Perouse. When the expedition docks in Java, chaos erupts with news of King Louis From the winner of the Man Booker International XVI's execution and the crew is imprisoned by Prize for The Vegetarian comes her most the Dutch. Marie-Louise seems certain to be autobiographical and experimental book to date. unmasked. Will she ever return to France and Written while on a writer's residency in Warsaw, be reunited with her child? Inspired by a true a city scarred by the violence of the past, the story, Into the World is a compelling novel of the narrator finds herself haunted by the story amazing life of Marie-Louise Girardin battling of her older sister, who died two hours after perilous seas and her own self-doubt, and finding birth. The White Book is a book like no other. unforeseen loves on a journey to reclaim her Illustrated with black and white photographs, it child. is a meditation on a colour, on the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit, and our attempts to Stephanie Parkyn is a writer and environmental graft new life from the ashes of destruction. scientist. She lives in Tasmania. Han Kang is the multi-award winning Korean author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts.
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THE ALARMING PALSY OF NINE LESSONS MURDER ON CHRISTMAS JAMES ORR Nicola Upson EVE Tom Lee Classic mysteries for the festive season FABER Various GRANTA 9780571324774 | $29.99 | HB | FICTION | 9781783783939 | $24.99 | HB | FICTION | PROFILE BOOKS In the years before the Great War, M.R. 9781781259184 | $19.99 | PB | FICTION | James Orr—husband, father, reliable James told ghost stories by candlelight employee and model citizen—wakes to find to a handful of friends and scholars. Now, Christmas Eve. While the world sleeps, snow himself quite transformed. He wanders the twenty-five years later, those men are falls gently from the sky, presents await uniform streets and manicured lawns of his dying, killed off one by one . . . Josephine under the tree . . . and murder is afoot. perfect suburban home. But there are cracks Tey is in Cambridge, a town gripped by fear In this collection of ten classic murder in the veneer. And it seems that in James and suspicion as a serial rapist stalks the mysteries from the best crime writers in himself there was only ever the thinnest streets, and in the shadow of King's College history, death and mayhem takes many of lines holding the monstrous at bay. The Chapel, Detective Chief Inspector Archie festive forms, from the inventive to the story of an everyday man who has become Penrose faces some of the most horrific and unexpected. From a Santa Claus with a inexplicable to himself, The Alarming Palsy audacious murders of his career. grudge to missing diamonds spirited away of James Orr is an exquisite nightmare in by a mysterious visitor, this second volume suburbia. Nicola Upson is the author of the highly- of the bestselling crime collection Murder praised Josephine Tey series. She lives in under the Christmas Tree presents more Tom Lee teaches postgraduate creative Cambridge. stories to enjoy—and be mystified by. writing at Goldsmiths College, UK.
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THE WORLD GOES ON LIKE A FADING SHADOW THE FUTURE WON'T BE Laszlo Krasznahorkai Antonio Munoz Molina LONG Jarett Kobek TUSKAR ROCK TUSKAR ROCK 9781788160117 | $29.99 | HB | FICTION | 9781781258934 | $32.99 | HB | FICTION | SERPENT’S TAIL 9781781258552 | $32.99 | HB | FICTION | In The World Goes On a narrator tells twenty- Like a Fading Shadow is the hypnotic new one unforgettable stories; A Hungarian novel by one of Spain's most important It's 1986 and Baby is the freshest-faced interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at an contemporary authors. Aided by the young homo in all of New York City, straight abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic recent declassification of FBI case files, off the bus from backwoods Wisconsin. streets of Shanghai. A traveller, reeling this hypnotic retelling of James Earl Ray’s Adeline is his rich-art-school-kid saviour from the sights of Varanasi, encounters a assassination of Martin Luther King boldly with a spare bed. The Future Won't Be Long man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on weaves a taut, true-crime tale of Ray's follows Baby and Adeline through a decade the nature of a single drop of water. A child time on the run and his eventual capture of mad, bad New York life punctuated by the labourer in a Portuguese quarry wanders with a highly original, fearlessly honest death of Warhol and the gentrification of the off into a surreal realm utterly alien from examination of the novelist's own past. It East Village. Riotously funny, provocative his daily toils. This is an outstanding new explores the borders between the imagined, but tender, it is a sprawling, ecstatic elegy to work of fiction from the 2015 Man Booker the reported and the experienced past in the New York, and to the friendships that have International Prize winner. construction of identity. the power to change—and save—our lives.
Laszlo Krasznahorkai won the 2015 Man Antonio Munoz Molina is the award-winning Jarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer Booker International Prize. He lives in Spanish author of more than a dozen novels, and author of I Hate the Internet. Hungary. including In the Night of Time. 5
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THE MEMOIRS OF NORMA MR DICKENS AND HIS MOOMINPAPPA Sofi Oksanen CAROL MOOMINLAND MIDWINTER Samantha Silva Tove Jansson ATLANTIC 9781782399766 | $29.99 | HB | FICTION | ALLISON & BUSBY SORT OF 9780749022914 | $24.99 | HB | FICTION | 9781908745668 | 9781908745675 | $19.99 | HB When Anita Naakka jumps in front of a | FICTION | train, her daughter, Norma, is left alone with 'A charming, comic, and ultimately poignant their secret: Norma has supernatural hair, Christmas tale about the creation of the These special collectors' editions of the sensitive to the slightest changes in her most famous Christmas tale ever written. ever-loved Moomin titles have been lovingly mood and those around her. And so it is her It's as foggy and haunted and redemptive restored to their original stunning design— hair that alerts her that her mother may not as the original; it's all heart, and I read it in including the original fold-out Moomin Valley have taken her own life. A deliciously dark a couple of ebullient, Christmassy gulps.' map. family drama that is a searing portrait of Anthony Doerr, bestselling author of All The both the exploitation of women's bodies and Light We Cannot See. Tove Jansson (1914-2001) is a Finnish artist the extremes to which people will go for the and author best known for the world famous sake of beauty. Samantha Silva is a writer and screenwriter Moomin series. based in Idaho. Sofi Oksanen is the internationally acclaimed author of Purge and When the Doves Disappeared. She lives in Helsinki.
6 ALLEN & UNWIN 7 BLOOMSBURY Martha Batalha EURIDICE GUSMAO EURIDICE | | PB | FICTION | $24.99 9781786072986 THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF THE INVISIBLE is a Gusmao Euridice of Life Invisible The and keenly funny wickedly wildly inventive, surrounded who, sisters two of tale observed assert characters, unforgettable of a cast by carve and courageously their independence Rio de Janeiro. in 1940s their own of a path It is a deeply human and truly unforgettable new exciting the most one of from novel already that is literature in world voices attention. international critical receiving and journalist is a Brazilian Martha Batalha publisher. BLOOMSBURY STRANGER David Bergen David | B | FICTION | H | $34.99 9780715652411 Iso is a young Guatemalan woman working working woman Guatemalan is a young Iso rich, northern to clinic catering at a fertility the American meets she There women. her leaves and their affair Eric, doctor, her baby raising of Her dreams pregnant. is a halt when her daughter to come with Eric and in America live to abducted reclaim to Determined wife. his infertile into north crossing her way makes Iso her, without documents America a dystopian where story . . . An ageless or money exploitation and disruption, dislocation in a collide rich and poor and vulnerability, novel. and affecting powerful Canadian is the award-winning Bergen David in Between. Time The author of PUSHKIN | | PB | FICTION | $27.99 HILLSIDE TOWN 9781782273370 Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen Pasi SECRET PASSAGES IN A IN A PASSAGES SECRET In a small hillside town, Olli Suominen— In a small hillside town, husband—is publisher and discontented He has joined a umbrellas. losing constantly has added an old flame, And Greta, film club. more becomes As his life him on Facebook. and his with Greta's, entangled and more the aftermath into dragged are and son wife to Olli is forced romance, this teenage of atmospheric Tense, a horrible choice. make in a Passages Secret funny, very and often story love is an atmospheric Hillside Town with a twist. is the award- Ilmari Jaaskelainen Pasi Back Rabbit The winning Finnish author of Society. Literature STRAYAPEDIA Dominic Knight
ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760296070 | $29.99 | PB | HUMOUR | ALLEN & UNWIN A brilliantly funny guide to Australia's legends and icons from one of our best-known satirists
Strayapedia is the certified true dinkum, 100% Australian made, albeit foreign owned, answer to Wikipedia. Except it's run by one person, like Wikileaks, and also operates for legal reasons from the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Conveniently omitting all areas not relating to Australia, Strayapedia provides essential alternative facts about Tony Abbott, the ABC, AC/DC, the Akubra, Canberra, cask wine, Kylie Minogue, Bob Hawke, Hey Hey It's Saturday, Ned Kelly, koalas and Shane Warne, among many other indispensable topics.
For anyone seeking to pass a citizenship test, or win a trivia night MCed by Cory Bernardi, Strayapedia is as valuable as a tiny apartment in Sydney. Patriotically basted in the goon-filled trough of Australian values, it's as quintessentially Strayan as bowling your final over underarm, not asking awkward questions about the contents of your meat pie, and naming a swimming pool after Harold Holt.
Dom Knight is an Australian novelist, comedy writer, radio host and media commentator best known as one of the founders of The Chaser.
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‘Andrew tells us things about the songs that we might not know and things about the songs that no THE LONG AND WINDING WAY TO THE one should ever know. He does it with intelligence TOP and humour, not to mention acid wit.’ Australia in fifty songs (or so) JIMMY BARNES Andrew P Street
ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760293727 | $29.99 | PB | MUSIC | THE LONG AND Australia likes to celebrate its musical heritage, but there are so many stories that haven't been told . . .
Who knew that Australian pub rock was a direct consequence of the rise of feminism—or that the world's first sampler was WINDING WAY built in Australia and named after a Sydney hydrofoil? Why does no-one talk about our rich history of forcing bands to move overseas before claiming we understood them all along, from the Birthday Party to the Go Betweens? Or acknowledge the beloved Australian bands that no-one cared about overseas (hi, Cold TO THE TOP Chisel! How goes it, Powderfinger?)? Or how Australia proudly invented the notion of both the terrible, hard-to-get-to, washed FIFTY (OR SO) SONGS THAT MADE AUSTRALIA out music event and the money-losing touring festival?
This will be the only book brave enough to explore the fake indie explosion of the 90s; the decade-long battle against Aussie hip hop; the bad deals and schemers and fly-by-night operators who created the music industry—and to answer why we quietly pretend that Australian music isn't largely the work of New Zealanders. It's the history of Australian popular music, with all the weird stuff left in.
Andrew P Street is a political commentator, former music ANDREW P STREET journalist and author of The Short and Excruciatingly Embarrassing Reign of Captain Abbott. 9 THE FRENCH ART OF NOT GIVING A F*CK The simple secret to true happiness, the French way Fabrice Midal
ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760632083 | $29.99 | PB | PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT |
A new solution to the perennial problem of our too-much, too-fast modern life
Be calm . . . Stop stressing . . . Embrace the universe . . . Try yoga . . . Be fulfilled . . . and that's an order! We're overwhelmed with these sorts of commands, and we often torture ourselves to ‘try harder’, yet somehow we never feel we've done quite enough. In this international bestseller, one of the world's leading teachers of meditation and mindfulness explains why the key to true mindfulness is freeing ourselves from social and often self- imposed stresses. It's OK to say no. It's fine to quit the things that don't fulfill you. It's necessary, in fact, to give ourselves a break and say, simply, c'est la vie. The French Art of Not Giving a F*ck gives each of us permission to stop doing the things that don't make us happy . . . so we have room in our lives for the things that do.
Fabrice Midal has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Paris and is the founder of The Western School of Meditation.
10 BIG BASH BOOK 2017-18 GREAT CONVICT STORIES Daniel Lane Dramatic and moving tales from Australia's brutal early years ALLEN & UNWIN Graham Seal 9781760631253 | $29.99 | PB | SPORT | ALLEN & UNWIN
'The Big Bash is now an essential thread in the 9781760297787 | $29.99 | PB | HISTORY | ALLEN & UNWIN fabric of an Australian summer.' Adam Gilchrist A fascinating insight into the notorious criminals, Go behind the scenes and learn about the colourful characters, and harsh punishments of players, the grounds and all the action of the Big Australia's convict system Bash League. Packed with exclusive content, this comprehensive guide provides insights from the Graham Seal takes us back to Australia's players, the gob smacking moments, interviews ignominious beginnings, when a hungry child with the stars, and all the facts 'n' stats needed could be transported to the other side of the to be a T20 expert! globe for stealing a loaf of bread. It was a time when men were flogged till they bled for a minor Fun and informative for all the family, the Big misdemeanour, teams in iron chains carved roads Bash Book will allow you to keep track of your through sandstone cliffs with hand picks, and favourite KFC Big Bash League and Rebel wives were selected from a line up at the Female Women's Big Bash League players, to learn more Factory. From the notorious prison regimes about the young guns coming through and to at Norfolk Island, Port Arthur and Macquarie pad up for another big season where the stumps Harbour came chilling accounts of cruelty, and big sixes will fly! Big Bash Book 2017-18 is murder and even cannibalism. With a cast of essential reading for every BBL & WBBL fan. colourful characters from around the country: the real Artful Dodger, intrepid bushrangers Daniel Lane is an award-winning sports like Martin Cash and Moondyne Joe, and the journalist. legendary nurse Margaret Catchpole, Great Convict Stories offers a fascinating insight into life in Australia's first decades.
Graham Seal is the bestselling author of Great Australian Stories, Larrikins, Bush Tales and Other Great Australian Stories, The Savage Shore and Great Australian Journeys.
11 COURAGE IN THE SKIES CHAMPAGNE The untold story of Qantas, its brave men and A secret history women and their extraordinary role in Robert Walters World War II Jim Eames ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760630690 | $32.99 | PB | FOOD & DRINK ALLEN & UNWIN
ALLEN & UNWIN 9781760293932 | $29.99 | PB | HISTORY Controversial and ground breaking, Champagne will change the way you think about this The extraordinary and little known story of celebrated wine style Qantas' significant role during WWII The rise and rise of a group of artisanal Courage in the Skies is the story of Qantas' producers in Champagne over the last twenty role during WWII, particularly in its campaigns years has challenged everything we thought we against the Japanese. It tells of truly heroic knew about this famous region. Champagne sees deeds during the fall of Singapore and how Robert Walters take us on a journey to visit these Qantas confronted the Japanese advance into great growers. Along the way, he reveals a secret Indonesia and on to Timor, of its planes being history of Champagne shattering old myths shot down by Japanese Zeros, and the little and revealing new truths with verve and wit, mentioned bombing of Broome during which making Champagne, the place and the wine—as fourteen flying boats were destroyed and many intriguing, beautiful and magical as ever. lives were lost. Then there are the Papua New Guinea campaigns, the highlights of which are Robert Walters is a wine merchant, vineyard the rescue of ninety Australian civilians who owner and writer with over 25 years of made it through to Mt Hagan after the Japanese experience in the wine trade. took Rabaul and the airline's involvement in the great battles of Kokoda, Buna and Gona. This is a story of an extraordinary group of Australians who confronted these dark days with bravery, commitment and initiative. They just happened to be Qantas people.
Jim Eames is a former Director of Public Affairs for Qantas and author of Taking to the Skies and The Flying Kangaroo.
12 ALLEN & UNWIN 1313 of living of PROFILE BOOKS BOOKS PROFILE JOURNAL Hanselman THE DAILY STOIC STOIC THE DAILY Ryan Holiday and Stephen and Stephen Holiday Ryan ERSONAL DEVELOPMENT | HB | PERSONAL | $24.99 9781788160230 366 days of writing and reflecting on the art writing and reflecting of days 366 Daily Stoic The to volume companion This apply the help you journal to is an elegant and virtue in wisdom of principles stoic An interactive world. tumultuous today's philosophy ancient this integrating guide to for it is perfect lives, century our 21st into in and clarity inner peace seeking anyone world. our volatile author of is the bestselling Holiday Ryan is the and Ego is the Way Obstacle The with Daily Stoic The of and coauthor Enemy, Hanselman. Stephen YOU PROFILE BOOKS BOOKS PROFILE POPULAR SCIENCE | PB | POPULAR SCIENCE | $29.99 Emma Byrne 9781781255773 The amazing science of bad language bad of amazing science The SWEARING IS GOOD FOR IS GOOD FOR SWEARING Swearing is an incredibly useful part of part of useful incredibly is an Swearing Is Good Swearing repertoire. our linguistic and hilarious defence is a spirited You For case historical by backed words, dirty of It research. and cutting-edge studies behind science the fascinating outlines physically us both it affects how swearing; natural it is more and how and emotionally, to believe. led we are than and beneficial is a British scientist, Dr Emma Byrne and public speaker. journalist, CANONGATE Mark Cousins CULTURAL STUDIES STUDIES | HB | CULTURAL | $49.99 9781782119111 THE STORY OF LOOKING OF THE STORY The The throughout, in full colour Illustrated the into is an investigation Looking of Story science, art, looking, combining of elements an album create to and history psychology It years. six thousand over visual culture of a more the reader will leave that is a story as a result. skilled looker and filmmaker is a producer, Mark Cousins of Story The author of critically-acclaimed He series. tie-in TV fifteen-part Film and its in Edinburgh. lives
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THE JEWISH JOKE NEMO'S ALMANAC GAME QUERY Devorah Baum A quiz for book lovers The mind-stretching economist quiz Ian Patterson edited by Philip Coggan PROFILE BOOKS 9781781255230 | $19.99 | HB | HUMOUR PROFILE BOOKS PROFILE BOOKS 9781781259504 | $22.99 | HB | GIFT BOOKS 9781788160100 | $19.99 | PB | GIFT BOOKS The Jewish joke is as old as Abraham, and like the Jews themselves it has wandered Nemo's Almanac is a literary quiz that will General knowledge quizzes are ten a penny. over the world, learned countless new challenge, cheer and enlighten book buffs. Trust The Economist, which knows both languages, worked with a range of different With tantalising, elegant quotes arranged the price and the value of everything, to materials, been performed in front of some around themes, each chapter will test do something different. In its first ever pretty hostile crowds, but still retained its your knowledge and literary instinct—and quiz book in a 175-year history, it throws own distinctive identity. With jokes from if that tip-of-your-tongue feeling doesn't down the gauntlet for a genuinely severe Woody Allen, Lena Dunham and Jerry materialise into words, you can check the contest—a non-trivial trivia quiz that asks Seinfeld, as well as Freud and Marx (Groucho back of the book for answers that will send how well you really know your world. mostly), The Jewish Joke is both a witty you on fresh journeys of literary discovery. Ranging over the globe and the sweep compendium and a fascinating and revealing Wonderful, maddening, enlightening, Nemo's of world history, peering into the most celebration of the great Jewish joke. Almanac is the ultimate quiz for bibliophiles. significant developments in science, politics and culture, its answers shed real light on Devorah Baum is the author of Feeling Ian Patterson is a British writer, poet the ways of the world. Jewish and affiliate of the Parkes Institute and editor of Nemo's Almanac, a literary for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish competition in its 126th year. Philip Coggan is a British columnist and Relations. author of Paper Promises. 14 ALLEN & UNWIN
WHAT WE THINK ABOUT THE RISE OF ROME A NEW MAP OF WONDERS WHEN WE THINK ABOUT 1000 BC-264 BC A journey in search of modern marvels FOOTBALL Kathryn Lomas Caspar Henderson Simon Critchley PROFILE BOOKS GRANTA PROFILE BOOKS 9781846684111 | $49.99 | HB | HISTORY 9781783781331 | $39.99 | HB | PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT 9781781259214 | $19.99 | HB | SPORT In the late Iron Age, Rome was a small From divine visions in burning bushes, to the Football is about so many things: memory, collection of huts. By the third century Romantic Era's fascination with wild nature, history, place, class, gender, identity. It is BC, it had become a powerful city, with our sense of wonder has long served as a essentially collaborative, even socialist, yet it monumental public buildings and grand starting point for experiencing the world. exists in a sump of capitalism and autocracy. houses. It had conquered Italy and was But in our rapidly accelerating culture, this This is a philosopher's take on what makes poised to establish an empire. But how did intuitive celebration can pass by unnoticed. the beautiful game. It explores how football it accomplish this historic transformation? A New Map of Wonders is a mesmerising opens a particular dimension in time; how This fresh, original account of the ancient investigation of wonder: what it is, why its magic wards off oblivion; how its dramas world's greatest imperial power examines it matters, how to cultivate it, how it has play out national identity and non-identity; the context and impact of the city's changed and what its future might be. and how we as spectators participate in the dominance, as well as the key political, social play. and economic changes it engendered. Caspar Henderson is an award-winning British journalist and author of The Book of Simon Critchley is Professor of Philosophy Kathryn Lomas is Honorary Research Barely Imagined Beings. at the New School for Social Research and is Fellow in Classics and Ancient History at the a Liverpool fan. University of Durham. 15
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THE WRITTEN WORLD CRAEFT WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE How literature shaped history How traditional crafts are about more than CASABLANCA Martin Puchner just making The life, legend, and afterlife of Hollywood’s Alexander Langlands most beloved movie GRANTA Noah Isenberg 9781783783137 | $32.99 | HB | HISTORY | FABER 9780571324408 | $39.99 | HB | HISTORY | FABER You're likely to list the invention of paper, 9780571313488 | $49.99 | HB | THE ARTS | the printing press and the world wide web In a period of mass manufacturing, our as major influences on the way we share appetite for hand-made objects, artisan Released in 1942, Casablanca won four stories. You probably wouldn't include food, and craft beverages reveals our deep Oscars and featured unforgettable Malian singers, American astronauts, Greek cravings for tradition and quality. The Old performances by Humphrey Bogart generals, Japanese courtiers and Spanish English word craeft possessed an almost and Ingrid Bergman. We'll Always Have adventurers. And yet all played a crucial indefinable sense of knowledge, wisdom, and Casablanca offers a rich account of the film's role in shaping and spreading literature as power. Through a vibrant series of mini- origins, the myths and realities behind its we know it today. The Written World is a histories, this fascinating book resurrects production, and the reasons it remains so hugely engaging exploration of how writing the ancient craftspeople who fused revered today. Through extensive research changed civilizations, cultures and the exquisite skill with back-breaking labour, and interviews with film-makers, it explores history. and passionately defends the renewed the ways in which the film continues to importance of craeft today. saturate popular culture 75 years after its Martin Puchner is the general editor of release. the six volume Norton Anthology of World Dr. Alex Langlands is a British archaeologist Literature. and popular TV historian. Noah Isenberg is director of screen studies 16 at the New School, New York. ALLEN & UNWIN
ALL THINGS NO WORRIES ROOMS WITH A VIEW REMEMBERED How to calm an anxious mind The secret life of great hotels Goldie Dr Ashley Conway Adrian Mourby
FABER FABER ICON 9780571332076 | $39.99 | HB | MEMOIR | 9781780723419 | $9.99 | PB | PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT | 9781785782756 | $29.99 | HB | HISTORY |
As one of Britain's most influential DJs, More people are anxious than ever before: Salvador Dali asked room service at Hotel producers, promoters and record-label in the modern world it has become almost Le Meurice in Paris to send him up a flock owners, Goldie is an iconic figure. Hugely a default position to live in ‘fight or flight’ of sheep. George Bernard Shaw tried to addictive, this gonzo memoir is a vertiginous mode. It doesn't have to be this way. Anxiety learn the tango at Reid's Palace in Madeira. thrill-ride from the darkest depths of can be overcome. No Worries draws on The details of India's independence were the West Midlands care-home system illuminating case studies to explain the worked out in the ballroom of the Imperial to the snowiest uplands of coke-crazed root causes of anxiety and its physical Hotel, Delhi. Great hotels have provided international celebrity. It is an explosive effects. Whether you are suffering from mild glamorous backgrounds for some of the story of abuse, revenge, graffiti, gold teeth, symptoms or from serious distress, it offers most momentous—and most bizarre—events sawn-off shotguns, car crashes, hot yoga, tried and tested methods that will liberate of world history. Rooms with a View tells absent fatherhood, and redemption through you from worry and fear, and help you take some inside stories from fifty of the world's reality TV. back control of your life. most magnificent hotels.
Goldie, born Clifford Joseph Price, is a world- Dr Ashley Conway is a chartered Adrian Mourby is a distinguished hotel renowned musician, producer, record-label psychologist based in London. historian, travel journalist and author of owner, artist and actor. Room of One’s Own. 17
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THE 50 GREATEST BLOWFISH'S THE BUMPER BOOK OF CHURCHES AND OCEANOPEDIA THINGS NOBODY KNOWS CATHEDRALS 291 extraordinary things you didn't know William Hartston Sue Dobson about the sea Tom ‘Blowfish’ Hird ATLANTIC ICON 9781786490742 | $29.99 | HB | HUMOUR | 9781785782831 | $22.99 | PB | HISTORY | ATLANTIC 9781786492401 | $32.99 | HB | POPULAR SCIENCE | Do animals have a sense of humour? Cathedrals and great churches are among Why do we have five fingers? Can robots the most iconic sights of the world’s towns The seas cover more than seventy percent become self-aware? Bringing together The and cities. The cathedrals of Canterbury, St of the Earth, but still remain shrouded in Things That Nobody Knows and Even More Paul’s, Chartres and St Stephen’s dominate mystery. This entertaining and enlightening Things That Nobody Knows, this bumper their skylines. Others surprise by their new book lifts the lid on a treasure chest volume takes us on a guided tour of 1,001 statistics: Salisbury has Britain’s tallest of fascinating facts to reveal what lurks gaps in our knowledge of cosmology, spire, Wells the largest display of medieval beneath the waves. For the simply curious mathematics, animal behaviour, medical sculptures in the world, while King’s College and the budding scientist alike, Blowfish's science, music, art and literature. It is a witty Chapel in Cambridge boasts the largest Oceanopaedia is a one-stop guide to all we and fascinating exploration of the limits of fan vaulting in existence. The 50 Greatest know about our oceans. human knowledge of our planet, its history Churches and Cathedrals gives us a highly and culture, and the universe beyond. personal tour of their highlights. Tom ‘Blowfish’ Hird is a marine biologist, ardent marine conservationist and presenter William Hartston is a Cambridge-educated Sue Dobson is an awarding-winning travel on BBC Earth. mathematician, industrial psychologist and writer and magazine editor. international chess master. 18 ALLEN & UNWIN
ONLY DEAD ON THE RAILWAYS AND THE RAJ LADY FANSHAWE'S INSIDE How the age of steam transformed India RECEIPT BOOK A parent's guide to surviving the zombie Christian Wolmar The life and times of a civil war heroine apocalypse Lucy Moore James Breakwell ATLANTIC 9780857890641 | $49.99 | HB | HISTORY | ATLANTIC ATLANTIC 9781782398103 | $39.99 | HB | BIOGRAPHY | 9781786493422 | $24.99 | HB | GIFT BOOKS | In 1842 not a single mile of railway line existed in India: by 1929 41,000 miles of In the mid seventeenth century, England Raising kids can sometimes feel like society track served the country. Railways and was divided by war and bloodshed. For Ann has ended, so why not go one further, and The Raj traces the evolution of India's Fanshawe and her children it meant a life of actually plan for it? This hilarious book will rail network, revealing how it was largely insecurity and constant jeopardy as she and help you through the rise of the undead, subverted for British economic and military her husband, a Royalist diplomat, dedicated with helpful tips on raising human offspring. purposes—while examining the chequered their lives to the restoration of the Stuart So, hunker down, stock up on supplies role of the railways in Indian history and the monarchy. Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book (alcohol, primarily) and get ready for the part they played in the creation of today's brilliantly brings to life Ann's struggles and long haul. It may even help you survive modern state. her joys, revealing how ordinary women everyday life as well. across the country fought to protect their Christian Wolmar is the acclaimed author loved ones in the face of conflict. James Breakwell is a professional TV of The Subterranean Railway, The Great comedy writer and Twitter sensation @ Railway Revolution and To the Edge of the Lucy Moore is a bestselling British author XplodingUnicorn. World. and broadcaster.
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