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FICTION
NEW TITLES 2 THE DARK LAKE & CITY OF STARS – SARAH BAILEY 3 SIGN – COLIN DRAY 4 TRYST – JARRAH DUNDLER 5 THE MAN ON THE STAIR – KATE LYONS 6 LITTLE GODS – JENNY ACKLAND 7 LOVESOME – SALLY SELTMANN 8 THE SISTERS’ SONG – LOUISE ALLAN 9 ELEANOR’S SECRET – CAROLINE BEECHAM 10 THE SILVER BRACELET – JULIE SHACKLEMAN 11 THE OPAL DRAGONFLY – JULIAN LEATHERDALE
RECENT HIGHLIGHTS 14 THE CHOKE – SOFIE LAGUNA 15 THE PASSAGE OF LOVE – ALEX MILLER 16 THE NECESSARY ANGEL – C. K. STEAD 17 THE MUSEUM OF MODERN LOVE – HEATHER ROSE 18 THE LOST PAGES – MARIJA PERICIC 19 WE THAT ARE LEFT – LISA BIGELOW 20 THE MUMMY BLOGGERS – HOLLY WAINWRIGHT 21 OFF RESERVATION & THE FIGHTING SEASON – BRAM CONNOLLY 22 THE TWENTIETH MAN – TONY JONES NON-FICTION
CURRENT AFFAIRS 24 TOTAL PROPAGANDA – HELEN RAZER 25 POLITICS WILL EAT ITSELF! – BERNARD KEANE 26 THE DARKEST WEB – EILEEN ORMSBY 27 FIGHT LIKE A GIRL – CLEMENTINE FORD 28 THE PHOENIX YEARS – MADELEINE O’DEA 29 NEW WOMEN OF THE MOSQUE – NADIA JAMAL
BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR 30 GIRLS AT THE PIANO – VIRGINIA LLOYD 31 TEACHER – G J STROUD 32 UNTITLED MEMOIR – HANNAH GADSBY 33 DANGER MUSIC – EDDIE AYRES 34 MICHAEL: INXS’S LOST BOY REMEMBERED – TINA HUTCHENCE 35 WOMAN IN THE WILDERNESS – MIRIAM LANCEWOOD 36 SAM’S BEST SHOT – JAMES BEST 37 IN HIS SECRET HANDS – DR SANDUK RUIT AND ALI GRIPPER 38 BECOMING – ANNE SUMMERS 39 DAUGHTER OF GLORIAVALE – LILIA TARAWA
MILITARY 40 NO FRONT LINE – CHRIS MASTERS 41 CREW: THE MEN OF LANCASTER J FOR JIG – MIKE COLMAN 42 THE BODY SNATCHERS – MARIANNE VAN VELZEN
HEALTH & SELF-IMPROVEMENT 43 SLOW – BROOKE MCALARY 44 UNF*CK YOUR FINANCES – MELISSA BROWNE 45 A GOOD LIFE TO THE END – DR KEN HILLMAN 46 WRITING TRUE STORIES – PATTI MILLER
FOOD & DRINK 47 CHAMPAGNE – ROBERT WALTERS 48 SUPER GREEN SIMPLE AND LEAN – SALLY OBERMEDER AND MAHA KORAIEM
HUMOUR 49 OZZY MAN’S MAD WORLD – OZZY MAN 50 HOW TO DAD VOL. 1 & 2 – JORDAN WATSON
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THE DARK LAKE Sarah Bailey
Publisher’s Lunch ‘Buzz Books’ for Fall/Winter 2017!
A hot summer. A shocking murder. A town of secrets, waiting to explode. A brooding, suspenseful and explosive debut that will grip you from the first page to the last.
There had been a few minutes when I was alone with her in the autopsy room. I'd felt wild. Absent. Before I could stop myself, I was leaning close to her, telling her everything. The words draining out of me as she lay there. Her long damp hair hanging off the back of the steel table. Glassy eyes fixed blindly on the ceiling. She was still so beautiful, even in death.
A beautiful young teacher has been murdered, her body found in the lake, strewn with red roses. Local policewoman Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock pushes to be assigned to the case, concealing the fact that she knew the murdered woman in high school years before. But that's not all Gemma's trying to hide. As the investigation digs deeper into the Praise for The Dark Lake victim's past, other secrets threaten to come to light, secrets that were supposed to remain buried. The lake holds the key to solving the murder, but it also has the power to ‘Tense and thought drag Gemma down into its dark depths. provoking… [a] stellar first novel’ – Starred review in Publishers Weekly CITY OF STARS
‘Hooked me from page Senior Detective Gemma Woodstock returns not wholly the same person that she was one! Sarah Bailey combines before the murder of Rosalind Ryan, but perhaps an even better detective. Woodstock has the very best elements in this left behind the (mostly) sleepy town of Smithson and is working the big-time cases in the stunning debut thriller--a metropolitan headquarters of the Melbourne homicide squad. As Gemma struggles with troubled detective still trying being so far away from her son, Ben, back in Smithson, an up-and-coming Australian to find her way as a female movie star, Sterling Wade, is stabbed to death while the cameras are rolling on a new investigator, a small town blockbuster film. haunted by secrets both past How can it be so hard to catch the crazed culprit with the whole thing caught from multiple and present, and a beautiful angles? And who would want to hurt Sterling Wade, Australia’s boy next door? Has an victim whose unsettling allure adoring fan taken an obsession to violent ends, or has someone much closer to the star appears to be her biggest turned? Sterling's bit-part actress girlfriend, his headline Hollywood co-star, his gay asset and largest lover, and even his jealous brothers are all on the hook of Gemma and her detective downfall. With clever twists partner, Fleet. Will they solve the murder or just unravel the many secrets the famous try and all-too-human characters, to hide from their adoring public? this book will keep you racing toward the end.’ – Lisa SARAH BAILEY is a Melbourne based writer with a background in advertising and communications. Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling crime novelist
Pub Date June 18 Extent 420pp ISBN 9781760297480 Rights Held World Format Paperback Rights Sold North America (Grand Central), UK (Atlantic) Previous Rights North America (Grand Central), UK (Atlantic), Italian Sold (Edizioni Piemme), German (C. Bertelsmann), Chinese Simplified (Beijing White Horse Time Culture Development) Dimensions 234x153mm Category Fiction
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SIGN Colin Dray
A compelling novel told from the perspective of a ten-year-old boy, Sam, who is recovering from a cancer operation that leaves him unable to speak ever again.
Sam lives with his mother, sister Katie and Aunt Dettie, his father's sister, who help to look after Sam and Katie. His father is notably absent, and has been for some time, and when Sam and Katie’s mother begins to date again, Aunt Dettie reacts very badly. One day Aunt Dettie unexpectedly packs Sam and Katie into the backseat of her car and tells them that she's taking them to Perth to be reunited with their father. As Dettie drives the children across Australia in the middle of a sweltering and dangerous bushfire season, her behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, and the children begin to realise that there is something very wrong.
Sign is an unputdownable, ultimately heartwarming novel about family, illness and the back roads of life, reminiscent of Lost and Found by Brooke Davis and Little Miss Sunshine. Dray is a gifted writer who has produced a novel that is evocative, perceptive and original.
COLIN DRAY was shortlisted for the 2015 Vogel’s Award. He lives on the South Coast of NSW.
Pub Date Feb 18 Extent 232pp
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TRYST Jarrah Dundler
A genuine and engaging portrayal of a 14-year-old country lad, with a tonne of adolescent awkwardness and a family who loves each other despite crises big and small.
Tristen is like any other 14-year-old country boy. He catches the bus to school with his best friend, Ricky, has a crush on the new girl at school, Jessica, and tries to be a peacekeeper between his loving mum and bumbling dad, Old Greggy Boy, who lives in a caravan down near the lake after a tiff that doesn’t quite mend. When Tristen’s brother, Shaun, is sent off to fight in Afghanistan in the 2000s war everything goes a bit pear shaped. Shaun’s mum starts drinking and Old Greggy Boy has a fight with Shaun before he ships off, condemning him to his caravan. When Uncle Trev, a hard- drinking former drug dealer also shows up, Tristen has a lot to work out at home while trying to keep his promises to Shaun to look after everyone.
When the family receives news that Shaun is coming home, no minute is spared in celebrating the return of their beloved son and brother. But, like all who return from the trauma of war, Shaun isn’t quite the same as when he left, carrying more damage Praise for Tryst than victory. A story with sharp contemporary relevance: the plight of a soldier who served in Afghanistan. This post-battle stress is a huge and little-discussed issue and ‘Good knack for writing here Dundler handles it with restraint but makes a powerful case for empathy voices… a classic story of through the eyes of an adoring Tristen, looking up to the brother he has always teenage love and family’ worshipped, struggling like he has never seen anyone struggle before. – Judges, The Australian/Vogel Literary A totally believable coming-of-age story with beautifully drawn characters Award Panel 2017 who you’re sure Dundler has cut from real life. Tryst is a funny and engaging novel, that shows a slice of country life without treating its characters as socioeconomic curiosities. Dundler creates well-paced tension across the multiple storylines that reflect being a teenage kid with a whole lot of problems, but some sweet young love action on the side.
JARRAH DUNDLER is the author of several published short stories. Tryst is his first novel and was shortlisted in the 2017 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award.
Pub Date Jul 18 Extent 238pp
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THE MAN ON THE STAIR Kate Lyons Told between two narrators in split time frames six months apart, Man on the Stair is a mysterious and absorbing exploration of memory, mistaken identity, and family secrets.
Ray McCullough’s life is turned upside down when, age fourteen, he discovers a fact about his family which forces him from home and into a life of roaming.
Thirty years later, news of his grandmother’s death sparks a journey which will take Ray back to the heart of the mystery – a twisting path of secrets and searching, ending in a dead body bearing Ray’s wallet and identification being found in a country pub.
On hearing of Ray’s death, his mother Ursula starts in turn to look for answers. Her own search, six months after Ray’s, is intertwined with his story. Between Ray and Ursula, the past unravels, secrets are untangled, and stories about their family come to light. At points where their paths cross, separated by geography or time, they discover that each only holds part of the key to the past.
Kate Lyons has crafted a tense and winding novel of the ties that bind family, and the secrets we hide.
KATE LYONS was born in 1965 in country New South Wales. She has been writing for nearly twenty years and has had her short fiction and poetry published in various Australian literary journals. A working journalist and part-time lecturer at university, she lives in the Blue Mountains. Her first novel, The Water Underneath, was shortlisted in the 1999 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and was published to acclaim in 2001. Her second novel, The Corner of Your Eye was published in 2006.
Pub Date Sep 18 Extent 400pp
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LITTLE GODS Jenny Ackland
This is a rare and original novel about a remarkable girl who learns the hard way that the truth doesn't always set you free.
When Olive holds still and turns her mind inwards, she can see there are many versions of herself concertinaed within like a string of paper dolls. There she is, six years old, then nine, then eleven, a repeating pattern of girl children, thoughts fluid yet certain. She is grown now but what separates her from them? …
You take your past with you and it repeats indigestibly, lodged like a rock in the belly, the gullet, the guts, wherever it is a person carries their messes and shame.
The place is the Mallee, in north-west Victoria, wide flat scrubland where the men are bred quiet, and women tough. Olive Lovelock is twelve and on the cusp of something larger than the world she has known her whole life.
Praise for The Secret Son When Olive learns she had a baby sister who died—a child unacknowledged by her ‘A powerful story of good close but challenging family—she is determined to discover what happened. and evil, and belonging’ – Intelligent, fanciful and brave, Olive's growing obsession with the mystery and her The Sydney Morning Herald relentless attempts to find out have seismic repercussions for the rest of her family and their community. But as everything starts to change, it is Olly herself who might ‘Ackland holds this complex have the most to lose as the secrets she unearths multiply and take on complicated narrative together with a lives of their own. beautiful sense of place and character.’ – Derek Parker, With echoes of Australian classics like Seven Little Australians and Cloudstreet, Little Spectator Gods is Jasper Jones, told from a girl’s perspective with similar idiosyncracy and style. Funny, heartbreaking and dazzlingly original, this is a rare and original novel about a ‘Powerful and elegant’ – remarkable girl who learns the hard way that the truth doesn't always set you free. Australian Book Review JENNY ACKLAND was born in Melbourne and has a background in primary teaching. She teaches sexuality and relationships education in primary and secondary schools. She’s been blogging since 2005, and her short fiction has been listed in prestigious literary prizes and awards, such as the Bridport and Fish Prizes, as well as published in various literary magazines, including Visible Ink, The Big Issue, & Kill Your Darlings.
Pub Date Apr 18 Extent 320pp
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LOVESOME Sally Seltmann
A heartwarming debut romance for lovers of Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler.
Joni, a 21-year-old artist and part-time waiter is in love with her young life in one of the most beautiful places in the world. Set against the backdrop of a rather classy French restaurant in the bohemian but gentrified suburb of Balmain, right on the waters of Sydney Harbour, it tells of the affection that binds Joni and her co-workers at the restaurant and the small jealousies that threaten their friendships.
Joni is a wonderful creation – uncertain and shy, working among older and more worldly people, desperately seeking lasting companionship. Her lack of confidence and hesitation are at times amusing, but always utterly compelling as she tries to carve out her space in the world and find love. We sense from the get-go that Joni wants to find love; but the mystery is who she is going to light upon and whether they will return her affection.
Lovesome is book for anyone who remembers stealing lingering glances at slightly too handsome coworkers during the long shift jobs of young adulthood that propelled many into maturity, and sometimes taught us more about the world than plates were ferried to customers. With a talent for evoking the real feeling of things, Sally Seltmann has crafted a wonderful debut that will inspire real love for Joni, her magical world and have you cheering for a happy ending.
SALLY SELTMANN is an Australian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Seltmann and Canadian singer-songwriter Feist co-wrote the song, 1234, which became a Top 10 hit on the United States Billboard Hot 100. In 2010, she released her third solo album and formed an indie rock trio, Seeker Lover Keeper, with fellow Australians Sarah Blasko and Holly Throsby. This is her first novel.
Pub Date May 18 Extent 320pp
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THE SISTERS' SONG Louise Allan
A wonderful debut about playing with the hand life deals us, and the strength of sisterhood. Set in rural Tasmania from the 1920s to the 1990s, The Sister’s Song traces the lives of two very different sisters. One for whom giving and loving are come naturally and the other, who cannot forgive and forget.
As children, Ida loves looking after her younger sister, Nora, but when their beloved father dies in 1927, everything changes. The two girls move in with their grandmother who is particularly encouraging of Nora's musical talent. In Nora, she sees herself, the artist she was never allowed to be. As Nora follows her dream of a brilliant musical career, Ida takes a job as a nanny and their lives become quite separate.
The two sisters are reunited as Nora's life takes an unwelcome direction and she finds herself isolated in the Tasmanian bush saddled with a husband and children. Embittered and resentful about her lost chances, Nora welcomes Ida's help with her chaotic household. When Ida marries Len, a reliable and good man, she hopes her dreams of a family of her own will be fulfilled. Unfortunately, it becomes clear that this is never likely to happen. In Ida's eyes, Nora possesses everything in life that could possibly matter, yet she values none of it.
Set in rural Tasmania over a span of seventy years, the strengths and flaws of motherhood are revealed through the mercurial relationship of these two very different sisters, Ida and Nora. The Sisters' Song speaks of dreams, children and family, all entwined with a musical thread that binds them together.
LOUISE ALLAN is a debut author from Western Australia. This manuscript was awarded a Varuna residential fellowship in 2014 and shortlisted for the City of Fremantle-TAG Hungerford Award. Louise grew up in Tasmania but has since moved to Perth where she lives with her husband, four children and two dogs. She is a former doctor and has a passion for music.
Pub Date Jan 18 Extent 288pp
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ELEANOR’S SECRET Caroline Beecham
Shifting between a World War II ravaged London and the present day, Eleanor’s Secret is at once a surprising mystery and compelling love story.
Kathryn can't refuse when her grandmother, Eleanor, asks her to help return a precious painting to its artist but when the search uncovers a long held family secret, Kathryn has to make a choice that will change her family's future.
It's London, 1942, and when art school graduate, Eleanor Roy, is recruited by the War Artist Advisory Committee to help their scheme employing artists to record the war, she comes one step closer to realising her own dream of becoming a war artist. While breaking into the art establishment proves more difficult than she thought, she soon meets war artist, Jack Valante, and they fall in love. As their relationship intensifies, he promises to help her and proposes on the night before he is posted overseas.
Praise for Maggie’s Kitchen 2010 and it's a difficult time for designer Kathryn to leave Melbourne for London- her husband Christopher never puts family before work and her young son Oliver's ‘an extremely engaging learning difficulties demand extra devotion. She has never been away from him, but novel for a broad has always shared her grandmother's passion for art and the love of a favourite readership… reads like the painting. Now Eleanor is adamant that the painting must be returned to its rightful work of a veteran owner, the war artist Jack Valante – but nobody even knows if he is still alive. storyteller.’ – The Saturday Age Kathryn's journey takes her back to Eleanor’s life as a young woman in war-torn London as she uncovers Jack's missing war diaries, aware of the confronting contrast ‘A book that’s sure to warm of Jack's record of war compared to the media's depiction of terrors of the present the soul.’ – Woman’s Day day. But when it becomes evident that Jack's nephew is trying to stop her finding him, and her concern for Christopher's care of Oliver deepens, she has to make the decision whether to return home or risk the danger to carry on.
CAROLINE BEECHAM grew up at the English seaside and relocated to Australia to continue her career as a writer and producer in film and television. Caroline decided on a new way of storytelling and studied the craft of novel writing at the Faber Academy in 2012. She has an MA in Film & Television and a MA in Creative Writing and lives with her husband and two sons by Sydney harbour.
Pub Date May 18 Extent 400pp
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THE SILVER BRACELET Julie Shackleman
A charming women’s commercial fiction novel of family, love, and following your heart.
Lara’s drab, ordinary life has very little in the way of glamour or adventure. Broken- hearted and having abandoned her career, she is working in the tea room in her Scottish hometown, Fairview, suffering daily scolding from her overly-controlling boss. The grind is eased somewhat by baking delicious treats—banoffee pie, raspberry and coconut macaroons, brownies—but even this is bittersweet, her creations deemed ‘unsuitable’ for the tea room.
Enter Hugo Carmichael, elderly laird of the nearby Glenlovatt Manor. Before Lara knows it, her life has changed immeasurably—it seems adventure has found her out, after all. Her days become a whirlwind of creating her dream tea room in part of the ancient Manor.
But questions niggle…Why did the old laird take an interest in her, of all people? And why won’t his moody grandson quit frowning at her, and let her get on with her work?
Set in the large ancestral Scottish home of the Carmichael family, The Silver Bracelet follows the adventures and tribulations of Lara as tries to revive the crumbling fortunes of Glenlovatt. A deliciously cosy romp through tea rooms, baking, funny warm characters, adversity, family and love.
JULIE SHACKLEMAN trained as a journalist and studied Media & Communication before turning her hand to women’s fiction. She lives in Scotland.
Pub Date Jul 18 Extent 300pp
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THE OPAL DRAGONFLY Julian Leatherdale
Inspired by the other grand villas of the wealthy upper classes of 1850s Sydney (with a nod to Jane Austen), The Opal Dragonfly tells the story of an ambitious family's fall from grace and a young woman's struggle to find her true self.
"Miss Isobel Clara Macleod, youngest of the seven children of Major Sir Angus Hutton Macleod, Surveyor-General of the colony of New South Wales, had the singular misfortune to know that at seven o'clock that morning her father was going to die."
Seventeen-year-old Isobel is determined to save her beloved father. But when she dares to trespass into a forbidden male world, she is plunged into disgrace and exile. A wave of ill fortune threatens to swallow up her family and their stately home, Rosemount Hall, 'the finest house in the colony' on the foreshores of Sydney Harbour.
But is Isobel really to blame for her family's fate? Or does the cause lie in her father's past? When Isobel was seven, Major Macleod returned from an expedition with two 'souvenirs' that would change her world: an Aboriginal girl who became her Praise for Palace of Tears playmate and a dragonfly brooch, fashioned from two opals, for her mother.Isobel inherits this 'unlucky' heirloom and wonders if these strange visions it conjures are ‘A tap-dancing debut novel, a curse or a gift. beautifully and lyrically written.’ – Australian Isobel's hopes for the future are tied to her illicit passion for a charming but Women’s Weekly tormented artist. Will she be permanently exiled from her family home and cut off from her past? Or will she be transformed into a new self, like a dragonfly emerging ‘Passionate palatial page- into the sunlight? turner… a Gothic fiction masterpiece’ – Tasmanian Two men bid for the love of one woman, freedom is found in the heart of a dust Times storm, a great house sinks beneath the harbour anda father's inheritance reveals past crimes. ‘A rollicking, epic tale’ – Adelaide Advertiser JULIAN LEATHERDALE’S first novel Palace of Tears was published by Allen & Unwin in 2015 and HarperCollins Germany in 2016. The Opal Dragonfly is his second novel.
Pub Date Mar 18 Extent 576pp
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THE CHOKE Sofie Laguna
The Choke is a harrowing, but ultimately uplifting novel from the 2015 Miles Franklin winner, about the quick and cruel coming-of-age girls are often forced to endure, in the vein of recent remarkable literature of dangerous girlhoods, The Girls by Emma Cline and Marlena by Julie Buntin.
The water that had never been to the sea, or seen it, knew the way it wanted to go, even in the darkness it kept flowing forward past our hideouts, past our ring of stones, past the blackened butt of the cigarette lying under the ground like a body.
Abandoned by her mother and only occasionally visited by her secretive father, Justine is raised by her pop, a man tormented by visions of the Burma Railway. Justine finds sanctuary in Pop's chooks and The Choke, where the banks of the Murray River are so narrow it seems they might touch - a place of staggering natural beauty. But the river can't protect Justine from danger. Her father is a criminal, and the world he exposes her to can be lethal.
Justine is overlooked and underestimated, a shy and often silent observer of her chaotic world. She learns that she has to make sense of it on her own. She has to Praise for The Choke find ways to survive so much neglect. She must hang on to friendship when it comes, she must hide when she has to, and ultimately she must fight back. 5/5 stars: ‘Fearsome, vivid and raw… The Choke is Thirteen years old and still isolated, Justine falls under the spell of a dangerous older emotionally intense, deeply neighbour. Her infatuation will end her painful childhood and set her free to live a engaging and quietly new, fuller life, although not necessarily an easier one. Justine is a magnet for pain haunting.’ – Books + and a clear mirror for the corruption of the world, but she sees the seams of colour Publishing and magic in the darkness.
'It is quite a feat to write The initial sketches for this story came after Laguna watched a documentary on the characters with such nuance childhood of Aileen Wuornos and felt compelled to imagine how a child might go . . . Laguna is an author through terrible things, but survive a whole person. Sofie Laguna once again shows proving the novel is a crucial she is a writer of rare empathy, originality and although there is darkness in this document of the times.' book, there is also much hope. – Louise Swinn, The SOFIE LAGUNA's second novel for adults, The Eye of the Sheep—shortlisted for the Australian Stella Prize—won the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award. It has been optioned for both film and theatre. Her first novel for adults, One Foot Wrong, published throughout Europe, the US and the UK, was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award.
Pub Date Sept 17 Extent 384pp ISBN 9781760297244 Rights Held World Format Paperback Rights Sold Available Previous Rights French (Actes Sud), Bulgarian (Ednorog), Catalan (Ara Sold Llibres), Chinese Complex (Global Publishing Group), Dutch (A W Bruna), US (Other Press), UK (Allison & Busby), German (Pendo Verlag), Italian (Garzanti), Russian (Arabesque), Spanish (Espasa), Turkish (Maya Kitap) Dimensions 234x153mm Category Literary Fiction
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THE PASSAGE OF LOVE Alex Miller
Critically acclaimed, two-time winner of the Miles Franklin award, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and numerous other literary awards, Miller's new work is an exquisitely personal novel of love and creativity. I said, ‘There’s no right or wrong about it really, is there? It’s up to you. We all read our own story, don’t we?’ Sitting in a New York park, an old man holds a book and tries to accept that his contribution to the future is over. Instead, he remembers a youthful yearning for open horizons, a yearning he now knows inspired his life as a writer. Instinctively he picks up his pen and starts at the beginning...
At twenty-one, Robert Crofts leaves his broken dreams in Far North Queensland, finally stopping in Melbourne, almost destitute. It's there he begins to understand how books and writing might be the saving of him. They will be how he leaves his mark on the world.
When Robert is introduced to Lena Soren, beautiful, rich and educated, his life takes a very different path. But in their connection lies an unknowability that both Praise for Alex Miller torments and tantalises as Robert and Lena long for something that neither can ‘Alex Miller is a wonderful provide. In a rich blend of thoughtful and beautifully observed writing, the lives of writer, one that Australia has a husband and wife are laid bare in their passionate struggle to engage with their been keeping secret from the individual creativity. rest of us for too long’ – John A blend of memoir and fiction, when Miller the man sat down to write his Banville autobiography, Miller the author seized the pen from his hand and insisted on ‘the Australian master, so this deep and reflective story that exposes both the beauty and heartache of a admired by other writers… a life lived outside a one-track lane. Despite the obstacles of sorrow, temptation, work of subtle genius’ – isolation and illness, the power to write and to love, overcomes. This is a rich and Sebastian Barry (on Landscape textured picture of how one man, through relationships and connections to land, of Farewell) country, art and women comes to be, himself.
'A wonderful novel of stunning ALEX MILLER's novels have been critically acclaimed and have won or been intricacy and great beauty.' – shortlisted in all of the major Australian literary awards. He is twice winner of Michael Ondaatje (on The Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and is an Ancestor Game) overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for The Ancestor Game. In 2015, The Simplest Words, Alex Miller's first collection of stories, memoir, commentary and poetry, was published to great acclaim. Alex Miller is published internationally and his works have been widely translated.
Pub Date Nov 17 Extent 600pp ISBN Rights Held World Format Paperback Rights Sold Available Previous Rights Chinese Simplified (Hachette-Phoenix China), Dutch (House Sold of Books), Canadian (HarperCollins Canada), French (Societe Libella), German (Berlin Verlag), Hungarian (Libri Konyvkiado; Park Publishing), Korean (Balgunsesang), Turkish (Pegasus), Serbian (Angora), Slovenian (Zalozba) Dimensions 234x153mm Category Fiction
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THE NECESSARY ANGEL C.K. Stead
A dazzling new novel from the award-winning C.K. Stead, current New Zealand poet laureate.
This bubbling, conversational book pulls the reader in to modern day Paris, flitting between food and philosophy, politics and romance. Stead has evoked a choir of voices in his novel of a group of friends and a city at large. Over the course of a hot Parisian summer, we follow them as the ins-and-outs of their everyday lives are shaped and moulded by the world around them, their jealousies and desires, long- running family fueds and the mysterious theft of a painting.
A story of people grappling with love and fidelity; a story about the importance of books; a commentary on living in complex modern-day Europe; The Necessary Angel is a sophisticated novel that shows C.K. Stead writing at the height of his powers.
‘Stead is a master at maintaining the reader’s curiosity in “what happens next”. And there is a mystery to be solved. This is elegant fiction with more than a little reflection on the art that has created it.’ – Macdonald P. Jackson, Emeritus Praise for C.K. Stead Professor of English, University of Auckland
‘Very few people can put C.K. STEAD is a distinguished, award-winning novelist, literary critic, poet, essayist together such luminous and emeritus professor of English of the University of Auckland. He is the current sentences.’ – Iain Sharp, New Zealand Poet Laureate, has won the Prime Minister's Award for Fiction, and is Sunday Star-Times a Member of the Order of New Zealand, the highest honour possible in New Zealand. His novels have been translated into 11 languages. ‘Delightful, ingeniously comic, elegant and sensitive…’ – John Mellors, London Magazine
‘Suddenly what seemed to be interesting takes flight into the infinite white spaces, the blank page of the imagination, and life becomes art.’ – James McLean, Evening Post
Pub Date Oct 17 Extent 240pp
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16 Fiction THE MUSEUM OF MODERN LOVE Heather Rose
A mesmerising literary novel about a lost man in search of connection - a meditation on love, art and commitment, set against the backdrop of one of the greatest art events in modern history, Marina Abramovic's The Artist is Present.
‘Framing a love story around a long-durational performance work, where the passage of time is essential, is a profoundly original idea. I loved this book.’ – Marina Abramovic
‘One of my stand-out Australian reads from 2016 was undoubtedly The Museum of Modern Love… It is a glorious novel, meditative and special in a way that defies easy articulation.’ – Hannah Kent, The Guardian
'It is rare to encounter a novel with such powerful characterisation, such a deep understanding of the consequences of personal and national history, and such dazzling and subtle explorations of the importance of art in everyday life.' – Stella Prize Judges Report
She watched as the final hours of The Artist is Present passed by, sitter after sitter in Praise for The Museum of a gaze with the woman across the table. Jane felt she had witnessed a thing of Modern Love inexplicable beauty among humans who had been drawn to this art and had found the reflection of a great mystery. What are we? How should we live? Winner, Stella Prize 2017 If this was a dream, then he wanted to know when it would end. Maybe it would end Shortlisted, The Australian if he went to see Lydia. But it was the one thing he was not allowed to do. Literature Society Gold Medal 2017 Arky Levin is a film composer in New York separated from his wife, who has asked him to keep one devastating promise. One day he finds his way to The Atrium at Winner, Christina Stead MOMA and sees Marina Abramovic in The Artist is Present. The performance Prize for Fiction, NSW continues for seventy-five days and, as it unfolds, so does Arky. As he watches and Premier's Literary Awards meets other people drawn to the exhibit, he slowly starts to understand what might 2017 be missing in his life and what he must do.
Shortlisted, Best Fiction – This dazzlingly original novel asks beguiling questions about the nature of art, life Queensland Premier’s and love and finds a way to answer them. Literary Awards The Museum of Modern Love is HEATHER ROSE's sixth novel. It is preceded by White Heart, The Butterfly Man, The River Wife and as Angelica Banks Finding Serendipity and A Week Without Tuesday, both books for children which have been published in the US by Knopf.
Pub Date Sept 16 Extent 296pp
ISBN 9781760291860 Rights Held World Format Paperback Rights Sold Chinese Simplified (Lijiang Publishing), Greek (Psichogios Publications), Hebrew (Modan), Korean (Hankyoreh)
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17 Fiction
THE LOST PAGES Marija Peričić
A stunning novel of friendship, fraud and betrayal within a compelling literary rivalry.
It is 1908, and Max Brod is the rising star of Prague's literary world. Everything he desires-fame, respect, love - is finally within his reach. But when a rival appears on the scene, Max discovers how quickly he can lose everything he has worked so hard to attain. He knows that the newcomer, Franz Kafka, has the power to eclipse him for good, and he must decide to what lengths he will go to hold onto his success. But there is more to Franz than meets the eye, and Max has secrets that are darker than even he himself knows; secrets that may in the end, destroy them both.
The Lost Pages is a richly reimagined story of Max Brod's life, filtered through his relationship with Franz Kafka. In this inspired novel of friendship, fraud, madness and betrayal, Marija Pericic writes vividly and compellingly of an extraordinary literary rivalry.
‘Through its reordering of what we think we know about these figures the novel becomes molten, destabilising, and, therefore, at this ever-late hour of the Kafka Praise for The Lost Pages industry, welcome… By moving well beyond the shores of historical truth it Nominated for the Readings scrambles our preconceptions, managing to reanimate the subject with unforeseen Prize for New Australian inversions, queries, possibilities and dilemmas... Whole eras are traversed by the Fiction 2017 imagination of a talented writer as absorbed with the private complexities of literary success as with the ethics of a creative friendship.’ – The Sydney Morning Herald, 'To frame The Lost Pages as The Age being about Brod is clever and interesting. The Kafka MARIJA PERIČIĆ grew up in Perth, Western Australia, the child of German and we meet here is almost the Croatian immigrants. She holds a Masters degree in English Literature. She now lives opposite of the one we have in Melbourne where she teaches English as a foreign language. The Lost Pages is her come to expect.' – Stephen first novel. Romei, Literary Editor, The Australian
Pub Date May 17 Extent 276pp
ISBN 9781760296865 Rights Held World
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18 Fiction
WE THAT ARE LEFT Lisa Bigelow
A moving debut novel about love and war, and the terrifyingly thin line between happiness and tragedy, hope and despair.
Melbourne, 1941. Headstrong young Mae meets and falls head over heels in love with Harry Parker, a dashing naval engineer. After a whirlwind courtship they marry and Mae is heavily pregnant when she hears that Harry has just received his dream posting to HMAS Sydney. Just after Mae becomes a mother, she learns Harry's ship is missing.
Meanwhile, Grace Fowler is battling prejudice to become a reporter on the afternoon daily newspaper, The Tribune, while waiting for word on whether her journalist boyfriend Phil Taylor, captured during the fall of Singapore, is still alive.
Surrounded by their friends and families, Mae and Grace struggle to keep hope alive in the face of hardship and despair. Then Mae's neighbour and Grace's boss Sam Barton tells Mae about a rumour that the Japanese have towed the damaged ship to Singapore and taken the crew prisoner. Mae's life is changed forever as she focuses her efforts on willing her husband home. Praise for We That Are Left We That Are Left is a moving and haunting novel about love and war, the terrifyingly ‘It has just about everything thin line between happiness and tragedy, and how servicemen and women are not a good read needs: strong the only lives lost when tragedy strikes during war. characters, a believable setting, an engaging plot and LISA BIGELOW's life revolves around story-telling. An avid reader from age five, her a fair dollop of love and career as a journalist and communicator has been all building and delivering tragedy,’ – Christopher compelling stories. We That Are Left is her first novel. Bantick, Weekly Times
Pub Date Sept 17 Extent 400pp
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19 Fiction
THE MUMMY BLOGGERS Holly Wainwright
Sometimes life behind the screen is not as rosy as it seems... For fans of Liane Moriarty, The Mummy Bloggers is the feisty, fast-paced and funny debut novel from entertainment editor, Holly Wainwright.
'The freshest, funniest new voice in fiction since Liane Moriarty.' – Mia Freedman
Meet three Mummy Bloggers - each of them followed, idolised, imitated, taunted and trolled online.
Elle Campbell is a glossy, lycra-clad mum with washboard abs, a ten-year plan and a secret past. Abi Black has quit sugar, moved to the country and is homeschooling her kids. Leisel Adams slogs away at her office job each day before rushing home, steeped in guilt, to spend precious moments with her kids before bedtime. All three share a label that they simultaneously relish and loathe – mummy blogger. And the connections don't stop there . . .
When all three women are nominated for a prestigious blogging award with a hefty cash prize, the scene is set for a brutal and often hilarious battle for hearts, minds- and clicks. As the awards night gets closer, their lies get bigger, their stunts get crazier - and some mistakes from the past become harder and harder to hide.
The Mummy Bloggers is smart and savvy, glamourous and hippie, bubbly and scathing. It offers a satirical view on the brave new world of mummy blogging, a clever take on a world so many of us follow guiltily from the outside.
Wainwright shines a mirror on the lives we create for ourselves – and the vortex of lies we can fall into when living life through the filter of social media.
HOLLY WAINWRIGHT is a former-Mancunian Sydneysider who came to Australia as a footloose traveller more than 20 years ago. Since then, Holly has had a long career as a journalist and editor, originally in travel and celebrity magazines and now online. She's been working in digital media for three years, most recently as Head of Entertainment at Mamamia. She also hosts a parenting podcast, has two small children, lives by the ocean and wishes there were four more hours in every day.
Pub Date Sep 17 Extent 352pp
ISBN 9781760297503 Rights Held World
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Fiction
OFF RESERVATION Bram Connolly
Australian Special Forces commander Matt Rix in another action packed adventure.
Ultra-tough and ultra-lethal, Australian Commando Captain Matt Rix is one of Special Forces' most lethal operators. But when a training exercise goes horribly wrong, he is given an ultimatum that brings his world crashing down. There is only one choice left to him and that's to go 'off reservation'.
What follows is the frantic pursuit of escaped Taliban commander Faisal Khan. Chasing Khan across Turkey would be easy; stopping a nuclear weapon he has received from falling into the hands of the world's most feared terrorist organisation, that's going to be the hard part.
Rix might be disgraced and discarded, but he should never be underestimated.
Nothing is ever as it seems…
BRAM CONNOLLY As a Special Forces officer, Bram Connolly served several tours in Praise for The Fighting Afghanistan and was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for leadership in Season combat. He takes you deep into the world of high-intensity combat few have experienced. His first book, The Fighting Season, was published in 2016. '…military fiction of the first order: as tough as nails and packed with insider knowledge of someone who has done it for real.' – Matthew Reilly
Pub Date Aug 17 Extent 288pp ISBN 9781760295455 Rights Held WORLD Format Paperback Rights Sold Available Previous Rights German (Festa Verlag) Sold
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Political Thriller
THE TWENTIETH MAN Tony Jones
Terrorism, politics and betrayals collide in this unputdownable, fast-paced thriller in the tradition of John le Carre and Norman Master.
He was the only one left alive; now it was his turn to die.
In September 1972, journalist Anna Rosen takes an early morning phone call from her boss at the ABC, telling her about two bombings in Sydney's busy CBD. It's the worst terrorist attack in the country's history and Anna has no doubt which group is responsible for the carnage. She has been investigating the role of alleged war criminals in the globally active Ustasha movement. The daughter of a noted communist, Anna is a fiery young woman finding her way in a male-dominated world.
High in the Austrian Alps, Marin Katich is one of twenty would-be revolutionaries who slip stealthily over the border into Yugoslavia on a mission planned and funded in Australia. It will have devastating consequences for all involved, not least of whom Anna, who has loved Marin since they were at university together.
The arrival in Australia of Yugoslavia's prime minister will trigger a deadly international struggle. Tony Jones, one of Australia's most admired journalists, has written a brilliantly compelling thriller, taking us from the savage mountains of Yugoslavia to Canberra's brutal yet covert power struggles in a novel that is intelligent, informed and utterly suspenseful.
TONY JONES is a lead journalist for Australia’s national broadcaster. He worked as a foreign correspondent for a time in London and later in Washington. Inter alia, he covered the war crimes in Bosnia. This is his debut novel.
Pub Date Aug 17 Extent 480pp
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22 NON-FICTION
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Politics & Government
TOTAL PROPAGANDA Basic Marxist Brainwashing for the Angry and the Young Helen Razer
Marxism and socialism explained for a younger readership.
For Millenials tired of being told their brunches and Uber rides are the reasons they cannot afford to buy houses, Total Propaganda offers an introduction to the communist theories of Karl Marx.
Marx may not have had much to say about brunch in the twenty-first century, but he sure had some powerful thoughts about where the system of capitalism would land us. Over time, it would produce a series of crises, he said, before pushing the wealth so decisively up, a top-heavy system would come crashing down with a push.
Aimed at a younger readership, Helen Razer calls upon those tired of wage stagnation, growing global poverty and jaded economists to think outside of the capitalist square, and open their minds to the possibilities that a communist future could hold. It is, as she puts it, ‘Marx for Millenials’.
This is a serious/funny introduction to the theories of Karl Marx for the angry youth
who see that the future needs to change. It is accessible, playful and offers some fascinating ideas that will cause readers to debate the future of politics and the world in general… over brunch, perhaps.
For more than two decades, HELEN RAZER has been broadcasting and writing her way into disagreement of various scales. She has been employed as a contributor by The Age and The Australian, and is now a columnist on dissent with Crikey and gardening correspondent for The Saturday Paper. Helen has produced four previous books of humorous non-fiction and her frequently published thoughts on the impotence of current public debate are extended in A Short History of Stupid.
Pub Date Sep 17 Extent 242pp ISBN 9781760297312 Rights Held World Format Paperback Rights Sold Korean (TBA) Previous Rights Sold Simplified Chinese (W. E. Time Digitech)
Dimensions 208x138mm Category Political Science & Theory
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Politics & Government
POLITICS WILL EAT ITSELF! Bernard Keane
A tide of populism and xenophobia is sweeping the western world. Voters are disillusioned, are turning to political outsiders and reject the liberal economic solutions of out of touch elites. Despite having access to more information than at any time in human history, we reject experts, evidence and facts themselves in a new Era of Electronic Ignorance. Many warn darkly of a repeat of the chaos, misery and war of the 1930s.
How did it all go so wrong? Politics Will East Itself! explains how of a perfect storm of historical developments has left us feeling as though a Dark Age beckons. How the triumphant economic philosophy of neoliberalism has failed us and provoked a backlash that is sweeping it aside. How the internet is rewiring our economies, our media, our culture and even our own brains. How politics has become a hollowed- out industry rather than a public service. And how, together, they’ve unleashed a wave of anger and fear that has swept the world.
But don’t panic (too much) – things are better than they seem, and there is a way forward. And Australia can show what it is.
BERNARD KEANE has been Crikey's correspondent in Canberra since 2008, writing on politics, media and economics. He was educated at the University of Sydney, where he studied history. Before joining Crikey he was a public servant and speechwriter in transport and communications. He is the author of the ebook War On The Internet and co-author of the bestseller A Short History of Stupid, with Helen Razer. He is also the author of Surveillance, his first novel.
Pub Date Aug 18 Extent 304pp
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25 True crime
THE DARKEST WEB Eileen Ormsby
This book will take you into the murkiest depths of the web's dark underbelly: a place of hitmen for hire, red rooms, hurtcore sites and online black markets. The darkest web.
There's the world wide web - the internet we all know that connects us via news, email, forums, shopping and social media. Then there's the dark web - the parallel internet accessed by only a select few. Usually, those it connects wish to remain anonymous and for good reason.
In the dark web, email is designed never to reveal users; the news and forums are dedicated to topics of true crime, but with inside information and gruesome detail rarely found on the 'clearweb'. Shopping is paid for with cryptocurrency like bitcoin, but the markets advertise drugs, weapons, hacking tools and far more nefarious goods and services.
Eileen Ormsby has spent the past five years exploring every corner of the Dark Web. She has shopped on darknet markets, contributed to forums, waited in red rooms and hacked hitmen-for-hire sites. On occasions, her dark web activities have poured out into the real world and she has attended trials, met with criminals and the law enforcement who tracked them down, interviewed dark web identities and visited them in prison.
EILEEN ORMSBY is a lawyer and investigative journalist. Her first book, The Silk Road, was published in 2014.
Pub Date Mar 18 Extent 420pp
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26 Current Affairs
FIGHT LIKE A GIRL Clementine Ford
Nearly 50,000 copies sold. The bestselling call to arms for feminists old, new and yet to be realised, told by one of our most outspoken feminist writers. Fight Like A Girl will receive a world English release in 2018 through Oneworld.
‘The book I’ve been waiting for: an impassioned call to arms for girls of all ages.’ – Anne Summers
‘With wit, insight and glorious, righteous rage, Clementine Ford lays out all the ways in which girls and women are hurt and held back, and unapologetically demands that the world do better. A passionate and urgently needed call to arms, Fight Like A Girl insists on our right to be angry, to be heard and to fight. It'll change lives.' – Emily Maguire, author of An Isolated Incident
A friend recently told me that the things I write are powerful for her because they have the effect of making her feel angry instead of just empty. I want to do this for all women and young girls - to take the emptiness and numbness they feel about being a girl in this world and turn it into rage and power. I want to teach all of them Praise for Fight Like a Girl how to FIGHT LIKE A GIRL. – Clementine Ford
Shortlisted, Indie Book Online sensation, fearless feminist heroine and scourge of trolls and misogynists Awards – Best Non-fiction everywhere, Clementine Ford, is a beacon of hope and inspiration to thousands of Australian women and girls. Her incendiary debut Fight Like A Girl is an essential #1 Bestseller on Australian manifesto for feminists new, old and soon-to-be, and exposes just how unequal the Independents Bookseller's world continues to be for women. Crucially, it is a call to arms for all women to List rediscover the fury that has been suppressed by a society that still considers #1 Reader's Choice on ABC feminism a threat. TV's show The Book Club Fight Like A Girl will make you laugh, cry and scream. But above all it will make you demand and fight for a world in which women have real equality and not merely the Top 5 Book for the Year 2016 illusion of it. in The Age and The Australian CLEMENTINE FORD is a freelance writer, broadcaster and public speaker based in ‘A fascinating, heartbreaking, Melbourne. maddening, enlightening, comforting, inspiring, thought-provoking read…’ – Shirley Manson, lead singer Garbage
Pub Date Oct 16 Extent 288pp
ISBN 9781760292362 Rights Held World
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27 Current Affairs
THE PHOENIX YEARS Art, resistance and the making of modern China Madeleine O'Dea
The transformation of modern China told through the eyes of its dissident artists and writers.
'Amidst all the chatter about China lies this rock of a book, a magnificent memoir/history from the very core of modern Chinese society and history. It's a wonderful thing where the essential book and the delightful book are, as in this case, the one thing. Let no one speak of China who has not read The Phoenix Years.' – Tom Keneally, author of Australians
The Phoenix Years tells the riveting story of China's rise from economic ruin to global giant in the four decades since the country started opening to the world in 1978. This remarkable narrative is informed and illuminated by another one running beneath its surface - the story of the country's emerging artistic avant-garde and the Chinese people's ongoing struggle for freedom of expression.
By following the personal stories of nine contemporary Chinese artists, The Phoenix Praise for The Phoenix Years Years shows how China's rise unleashed creativity, thwarted hopes and sparked ‘To call The Phoenix Years tensions between the individual and the state that continue to this day. It relates merely a history of Chinese art the amazing years of self-discovery and hope in the 1980s, which ended in the might be akin to calling Madame disaster of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Following that tragedy comes the story Bovary a novel about some of China's meteoric economic rise, of the opportunities that emerged and the affairs: part of the pleasure of it difficult compromises artists and others have to make to be citizens in modern is to encounter the breadth of China. O’Dea’s engagement with recent Journalist and foreign correspondent Madeleine O'Dea has been an eyewitness for Chinese history, as well as her over 30 years to the rise of China, the explosion of its contemporary art and cultural ability to turn what might scene, and its citizens' long struggle for free expression. Over that time she has otherwise feel like a morass of known many of the key players, some of whom are now international art stars. Their detail into a compelling stories tell the history of their country. narrative.’ – The Saturday Paper At once a fascinating and accessible account of the birth of modern China and a 'An illuminating chronicle of moving chronicle of decades of courageous political resistance and cultural activism, several generations of resilient The Phoenix Years is vital reading for anyone interested in China today. and beleaguered Chinese artists, with minibiographies, a helpful MADELEINE O'DEA is a writer and journalist who has been covering the political, timeline, and extensive notes.' - economic and cultural life of China for the past three decades. Kirkus Reviews
Pub Date Sept 16 Extent 400pp
ISBN 9781760291259 Rights Held World
Format C, Paperback Rights Sold North America (Pegasus)
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28 Biography/Autobiography
NEW WOMEN OF THE MOSQUE Nadia Jamal
Jihan stood by the side of the road and watched from a short distance away as her two-day-old son's coffin was deposited into the earth. She was practically lurking in the bushes and wondered what a passer-by would make of her. Would they think her an intruder, rudely imposing on a stranger's private grief? To the men at the gravesite, Jihan may as well have been holding up a protest sign. Regardless of her status as the mother of the child they were burying, Jihan was warned: as a Muslim woman attending the funeral, she was threatening her baby's passage to heaven. Her presence, his mother's presence, could cause him harm in the afterlife.
The women in these stories consider themselves Australian, but they don't want to deny their heritage. At times they feel like they live in two worlds. They are torn between two cultures, when they want to be both.
In these fascinating and candid real-life stories, journalist Nadia Jamal reveals the dilemmas of young women trying to be true to the values of their religion and their cultures, and also be true to themselves.
NADIA JAMAL was a senior journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald. She was at various times Chief of Staff and Night Editor. She contributed to the Op Ed pages, worked on the World desk, helping to coordinate coverage of major events including the war in Iraq, and edited the daily pages. She currently works as a business analyst for Westpac. Her previous book, The Glory Garage: Growing up Lebanese Muslim in Australia, was a collection of stories about young Muslim women growing up in Sydney.
Pub Date May 18 Extent 240pp
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29 Biography/Autobiography
GIRLS AT THE PIANO Virginia Lloyd
Girls at the Piano is a charming and fascinating memoir that explores the changing relationship between women and the piano over the course of the instrument’s 275-year history. Virginia, who at one stage in her life thought she would make a career as a pianist, started writing this book in an attempt to understand the mystery of her very musical and deeply unhappy grandmother Alice, and Virginia’s own abandonment of the piano after many years of serious study as an adolescent.
Travelling from the salons of 18th century Europe to an amateur jazz workshop in Manhattan in the early 21st, this textured memoir traces the genealogy of literary women at the piano over the course of the instrument’s history – and its representation in fiction – playing with the echoes and contrasts between eras as women’s choices developed beyond the ability to play the instrument. Historical and literary figures who appear in the work include Nannerl Mozart, Jane Austen, Clara Schumann, George Eliot, Henry Handel Richardson, Virginia Woolf, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Miles Franklin.
VIRGINIA LLOYD’s first book, also a memoir, was The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement. She lives in Sydney and works in publishing.
Pub Date Apr 18 Extent 384pp
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30 Education
TEACHER Gabrielle Stroud
A moving and informative look into the current state of the education system, and the slow grinding down of teachers in the name of ‘standardisation’.
Watching children learn is a beautiful and extraordinary experience. Their bodies transform, reflecting inner changes. Teeth fall out. Knees scab. Freckles multiply. Throughout the year they grow in endless ways and I can almost see their self-esteem rising, their confidence soaring, their small bodies now empowered. Given wings.
They fall in love with learning. It is a kind of magic, a kind of loving, a kind of art.
It is teaching. Just teaching. Just what I do.
What I did. Past tense.
Gabrielle Stroud is a 30-something, dedicated teacher, who resigned in frustration and despair when she realised that the shape of the education system was stopping her from doing the very thing she was best at: teaching individual children according to their needs and talents.
This is a scandal that is yet to properly break – that the education nsystem is u fair to children, and destroying their teachers.
The archaic learn-to-work model of schooling, first established during the industrial revolution, has locked the education system into constant and mandatory assessment of children’s likely productivity and economic potential.
Fundamental to this model is the idea of standardising. Making every kid the same. Making every teacher the same.
If I was successful in my job, that’s what would happen.
Based on that, I don’t want the job anymore.
GABRIELLE STROUD is a primary school teacher who taught for 15 years before leaving her job in 2014. Her first novel, Measuring Up, was published by Scribe in 2009.
Pub Date July 18 Extent 352pp
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Biography/Autobiography
UNTITLED MEMOIR Hannah Gadsby
From the most recent winner of the Best Comedy Show Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 comes a memoir that, like the best of all comedy, teaches us something true about the painful experience of being totally human.
Hannah Gadsby always dreamt of being a cool kid but she had to accept that, just like her childhood dream of being a dog, 'normal' isn't always possible. In the vein of David Sedaris, Hannah's memoir is a string of stories that draws together the varied funny and sometimes dark events of her life, compelling readers to understand the damage society can visit upon those who find themselves on the outside.
Told through the countless injuries and illnesses that have blighted her life, this is a funny and ultimately uplifting tale of coming to terms with who you are and learning
to love a difficult mother. Hannah’s fans include Emma Thompson, David Sedaris, Judith Lucy and soon a wide audience of reader’s of this debut. HANNAH GADSBY is an Australian comedian. Her latest show, Nanette won this year’s Best Comedy Show Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017, Barry Award for Best Show
Melbourne Comedy Festival 2017 and Best Comedy Performer Helpmann Awards 2017. She has toured extensively internationally and her star is only just beginning to rise.
Pub Date Feb 18 Extent 304pp
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DANGER MUSIC How teaching the cello to children in Afghanistan led to a self-discovery almost too hard to bear Eddie Ayres
From the former ABC Classic FM classicist comes a remarkable story about the power of music and courage to be one's self
Eddie Ayres has a lifetime of musical experience - from learning the viola as a child in England and playing with the Hong Kong Philharmonic for many years, to learning the cello in his thirties and landing in Australia to present an extremely successful ABC Classic FM morning radio show. But during all of these experiences, Eddie was Emma Ayres.
In 2014 Emma Ayres was spiralling into a deep depression, driven by anguish over her gender. She quit the radio, travelled, and decided on a surprising path to salvation - teaching music in a war zone. Emma applied for a position at Dr Sarmast's renowned Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul, teaching cello to orphans and street kids.
In Danger Music, Eddie takes us through the bombs and chaos of Kabul, into the lives of the Afghan children who are transported by Bach, Abba, Beethoven and their own exhilarating Afghan music. Alongside these epic experiences, Emma determines to take the final steps to secure her own peace; she becomes the man always there inside - Eddie.
EDDIE AYRES learnt the viola as a child in England, studying in Berlin and London before playing the viola with the Hong Kong Philharmonic. As Emma Ayres, she moved from Hong Kong to Australia to present a long-running radio program on ABC Classic FM, while teaching music privately and professionally.
What the devoted audience didn't see, however, was Emma's struggle to live within her woman's body. For sixteen years she had known that she was transgender, but to take any action seemed impossible. Emma believed there was too much to lose - family, friends and her career.
In 2016, Emma accepted a position teaching children at the world-renowned Afghanistan National Institute of Music. Amid the chaos and unpredictability of life in war-savaged Kabul, Emma realised she had to accept her future and returned to Australia to begin transitioning from female to male. In 2016, Emma became Eddie.
Pub Date Oct 17 Extent 304pp
ISBN 9781760290696 Rights Held World
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33 Biography/Autobiography
MICHAEL: INXS’S LOST BOY REMEMBERED Christina Hutchence
Lead singer of INXS, Michael Hutchence, lived to the fullest the legendary life of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll to the fullest. Eulogised by rock music historian Ian McFarlane, "He was the archetypal rock showman. He exuded an overtly sexual, macho cool with his flowing locks, and lithe and exuberant stage movements."
His private life enlivened the press, with a string of love affairs with prominent actresses, models and singers. Among the beautiful women with whom he was romantically involved were the supermodel Helena Christensen, Bob Geldof’s ex- wife Paula Yates (by whom he had his daughter, Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily) and (surprising everyone at the time) Kylie Minogue.
On the morning of 22 November 1997, Michael was found dead in his hotel room in Sydney. His death was reported by the Coroner to be the result of suicide. In 2000, Paula Yates died of a heroin overdose. The couple's daughter was placed in Geldof's custody with her half-sisters.
22 November 2017 is the twentieth anniversary of Michael Hutchence’s dramatic death. He is to be remembered in a number of different ways that will introduce his story to a new generation of music lovers and readers, and revive fond memories amongst old fans.
This will be the definitive account of his extraordinary life.
CHRISTINA HUTCHENCE is Michael Hutchence’s sister. Jen Jewel Brown cut her teeth on the Daily Planet – Michael Gudinski and Michael Browning’s counter- culture music paper – and went on to rule at long-form rock journalism.
Pub Date Jun 18 Extent 320pp
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WOMAN IN THE WILDERNESS Finding meaning and adventure in a simple life Miriam Lancewood
An inspirational story of adventure and bravery, of how one woman learned to dig deep and push the boundaries in order to discover what really matters in life.
Living on the edge allows me to feel free.
Miriam Lancewood is a young Dutch woman who lives off-grid in the heart of New Zealand’s mountains with her New Zealand husband. She lives simply in tents or huts and survives by hunting wild animals and using minimal supplies. For the last five years she has lived this way, through all seasons, often cold, hungry and isolated in the bush. She loves her life and feels free, connected to the land, spiritually enlightened and happy.
This book tells the story of that life, including the very practical aspects of her trials of learning to hunt with a bow and arrow, struggling to create a warm environment in which to live, and finding safe ways to cross raging rivers and get through dense bush. This is woven in with the more esoteric things like adjusting to a very slow pace of life, her relationship with her much older husband, her thoughtful observations of the few other people they encounter in this time, and her growing awareness of a strong spiritual connection to the natural world.
There’s a lot of drama out there in the wilds and Miriam knows how to spin a good yarn with lots of tension, colour and light, meaning that this is a gripping and engaging read. Reminiscent of both adventure writing like Wild and nature writing like H is for Hawk this is perfect for those exploring the idea of living a simple, real life.
MIRIAM LANCEWOOD is a Dutch woman who has lived in the wilderness of New Zealand since 2010.
Pub Date Apr 17 Extent 336pp (16pp insert)
ISBN 9781877505751 Rights Held World Format Paperback Rights Sold UK (Piatkus), German (Droemer), Chinese Simplified (W.E. Time DigiTech), Dutch (Kosmos)
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SAM'S BEST SHOT A father and son’s life-changing journey through autism, adolescence and Africa James Best
Inspiring, entertaining and a beacon of hope for those touched by autism.
Life with a teenage boy on the autism spectrum has its challenges. Fourteen-year- old Sam is a world authority on Harry Potter but can't get to the corner store on his own.
Sam's parents Dr James Best and Benison O'Reilly decide to think radically to help their son. They sell the family home to finance a six-month-long trip to Africa for James and Sam, in the hope that it will have far-reaching and life-changing results for Sam.
Their plan is to take Sam a long way out of his comfort zone, so that he has to face new challenges and learn to navigate the completely unexpected - and that the exposure of all of these new experiences will help Sam grow emotionally and conversationally to achieve what he hasn't been able to in a familiar environment. Praise for Sam’s Best Shot The results were extraordinary and will give hope to many families dealing with 'James Best and his son autism. travel across Africa in the Sam's Best Shot is the moving and inspiring account of the amazing journey James search for nothing other and Sam took through the teeming cities and stunning landscapes of ten African than randomness and countries - nerve-wracking and hugely challenging, but also transformative, fulfilling unpredict-ability. It presents and entertaining. This is a father and son story like no other. as a travelogue with autism as a sub-plot but, in fact, it is JAMES BEST has spent many years heavily involved in teaching medical students at a divine love story of a the University of Sydney and University of NSW and also training the next generation father and son who are of GPs. In 2010 he was awarded the prestigious RACGP General Practice Supervisor bound together in the of the Year Award in recognition for his outstanding work as a GP and educator. Dr adventure of their lifetime.' Best's articles have been published in Australian Doctor, The Medical Journal of – Nicole Rogerson, CEO Australia, and The Sydney Morning Herald. He also regularly presents to the public Autism Awareness Australia on issues regarding children with disabilities, including appearances on morning TV. He currently lives in Sydney with his wife and three sons.
Pub Date Aug 17 Extent 432pp
ISBN 9781760113148 Rights Held World
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IN HIS SECRET HANDS Dr Sanduk Ruit with Ali Gripper
This is the inspiring and remarkable story of Dr Sanduk Ruit, an extraordinary surgeon who is changing the lives of worlds' poorest people one pair of eyes at a time. He is the man of whom Fred Hollows said, 'If I've done one thing in life I'm proud of, it's launching Ruit into the world'.
It is the story of a boy from the lowest tiers of a rigid caste system who grew up in a tiny, remote village in the Himalayas to become one of the most respected ophthalmologists in the world. It is the story of a young doctor who became Fred Hollows' medical soul mate and who chose to defy the world's medical establishment and the lure of riches to make the world a better place.
Dr Ruit's work has been recognised around the world and he has many influential supporters including the Dalai Lama and Richard Gere, who has already agreed to help promote the book. In Australia, he has a deep relationship with Gabi Hollows and the Hollow Foundation.
ALI GRIPPER has been a newspaper and magazine features writer for more than two decades, including for Good Weekend and The Australian Magazine. She is currently senior communications advisor to the Fred Hollows Foundation.
Pub Date Jun 18 Extent 320pp
ISBN 9781760292706 Rights Held World
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BECOMING A Memoir Anne Summers
This book is the follow-up to Anne Summers' memoir Ducks on the Pond, published by Penguin in 1999. The narrative in that book stopped just as her book that defined a generation - Damned Whores and God's Police - was published. Here is the story of what happened after: of the debates and fights to change the way women were perceived, and of Anne's progress through the National Times and the Australian Financial Review to her time in Canberra, running the federal Office of the Status of Women.
Summers also spends much energy detailing her New York years, where she was editor-in-chief of the landmark feminist magazine Ms., and connected to the MBO of Sassy magazine. When she returned to Australia she was for a while Good Weekend editor and chair of Greenpeace International (2000-2006) and Deputy President of the Powerhouse Museum.
Anne's book for the first time records the life of someone who was so instrumental to the making of the political, cultural and social fabric of the country better for all women. This book is an impressionistic and thematic story of the efficacy and effectiveness of what she and women of her generation did all those years ago.
ANNE SUMMERS is a writer, a journalist and author, whose latest books are The Lost Mother and On Luck. She writes opinion columns for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Sunday Age. Summers was a leader of the generation and the movement that changed Australia for women. Her involvement in the women's movement has earned her community respect and has been honoured with Honorary Doctorates from both Flinders University (1994) and the University of New South Wales (2000).
Pub Date Jul 18 Extent 384pp
ISBN 9781743318416 Rights Held World
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DAUGHTER OF GLORIAVALE My Life in a Religious Cult Lilia Tarawa
One young woman's true story of growing up in Gloriavale Christian Community the repressive cult led by her grandfather, the charismatic and controlling Hopeful Christian.
In this personal account, Lilia Tarawa exposes the shocking secrets of the cult, with its rigid rules and oppressive control of women. She describes her fear when her family questioned Gloriavale's beliefs and practices.
When her parents fled with their children, Lilia was forced to make a desperate choice: to stay or to leave. No matter what she chose, she would lose people she loved.
In the outside world, Lilia struggled. Would she be damned to hell for leaving? How would she learn to navigate this strange place called 'the world'? And would she ever find out the truth about the criminal convictions against her grandfather?
LILIA TARAWA is a health and lifestyle business mentor who lives in Christchurch.
Pub Date Sep 17 Extent 320pp
ISBN 9781760631499 Rights Held World
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39 Military
NO FRONT LINE Australian special forces in Afghanistan Chris Masters
Australia's foremost investigative journalist goes deep into the heart of our Special Forces long war in Afghanistan.
Chris Masters is Australia's foremost investigative journalist. In his previous work, Uncommon Soldier, he explored the nature of Australian soldiering from recruitment to being on the front line in Afghanistan. His descriptions of battle are some of the most powerful reporting from that war. No Front Line takes this story even further, to the heart of Special Forces and its war in Afghanistan, a war the Australian public know very little about. Implicitly trusted by Special Forces, Chris gives voice to these soldiers. He takes us right into the centre of some of the fiercest combat, opens up the story of the relationship between the Australians and their US partners and provides the most intimate examination of what it is like to be a member of this country's elite fighting forces.
Masterfully told, No Front Line will be as controversial as it is revealing. It will also find a place as one of the finest contemporary books on soldiering.
CHRIS MASTERS is the author of the bestselling Jonestown (2006). In 1985, he won Australia's most prestigious award in journalism, the Gold Walkley, for his Four Corners report on the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. His reports 'The Big League' and 'The Moonlight State' both led to royal commissions that helped transform the nation. His most recent book is the critically acclaimed Uncommon Soldier.
Pub Date Nov 17 Extent 608pp
ISBN 9781760111144 Rights Held World
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40 Military
CREW: THE MEN OF LANCASTER BOMBER J FOR JIG Mike Colman
Lancaster bomber ND394 took off on 24 February 1944 from RAF Binbrook airfield, near Bookenby, Lancashire, at 6:02 on a night in 1944. On board was a crew of seven, including Australians Warrant Officer D. W. Baxter, the pilot; Flight Officer A. D'Arcey, the bomb aimer; wireless operator Flt Sgt R.C.Ferguson; and upper gunner Warrant Officer W. J. Martin. The RAF's Sgt P. Mallon was flight engineer and Sgt J. D. Dunlop rear gunner. Australian Flt Sgt Clifford Berger Hopgood was navigator. The mission was to bomb factories in Schweinfurt, Germany. After taking off nothing was heard from the aircraft and it did not return to base.
This book is about the seven lives on that aircraft. It is about their families and the children some of them never saw. It is about the French villagers who helped some escape from the Nazis and buried others - two escaped through Switzerland, one became a POW and the other four were killed.
Mike Colman deftly recreates the mission and tells each individual's story - how they came to be on the plane, what happened to them that night, what happened afterwards and how it affected those left behind both in France and at home.
MIKE COLMAN is associate editor of the Courier Mail. He is the author of over a dozen books, including best-selling biographies of rugby league's Paul Vautin, Fatty: The Strife and Times of Paul Vautin, and Gordon Tallis, Raging Bull. Eddie Gilbert, The True Story of an Australian Cricketing Legend won the Australian Cricket Society's Jack Pollard Award in 2003. The biography Payne VC: the story of Australia's Most Decorated Soldier of the Vietnam War was published in March 2009.
Pub Date Mar 18 Extent 336pp
ISBN 9781742379111 Rights Held World
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Dimensions 234x153mm Category Air Forces & Warfare
41 History
BODY SNATCHERS Marianne van Velzen
At the end of WW1 45,000 Australians had died on the Western Front. Some bodies had been hastily buried mid-battle in mass graves; some were mutilated beyond recognition. In some cases their next of kin had been informed of the death of their loved ones; but in most instances men were listed as 'Missing in Action', because nobody knew for sure.
Now that the guns were silent, a loud clamour arose for information and for the dead to be buried respectfully. But the men put in charge of this exercise and those engaged in 'body divining' were deeply flawed men, many of them with their own personal reasons for preferring to remain in France unearthing bodies rather than being demobilised and sent home.
In the end there was a great scandal, with allegations of 'body hoaxing' and gross misappropriation of money and army possessions. There were two highly secretive inquiries. This is the untold story of those dark days and darker deeds. It makes for a compelling narrative by one of our best literary sleuths and story-tellers, Marianne van Velzen.
MARIANNE VAN VELZEN was born in The Netherlands in 1953 and emigrated to Australia in the mid-1950s. She migrated back to The Netherlands when she was in her teens. After having worked at various jobs she became a journalist and later an editor for one of the prominent Dutch publishers, Wegener Press. She has worked in radio and TV.
Pub Date Jun 18 Extent 342pp
ISBN 9781760632809 Rights Held World
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42 Health & Wellbeing
SLOW Brooke McAlary
From the creator of the award-winning Slow Home podcast comes Slow the perfect companion on the long road to living a simpler and more fulfilled life.
'Dear Mr & Mrs Jones, I am writing to inform you of my withdrawal from the race to keep up with you . . .'
Once upon a time, Brooke McAlary thought she was close to having it all. Married to a wonderful man, mother to a lively young daughter and pregnant for a second time. She'd acquired all the things she'd once thought important: holidays, cars, a renovated home. Yet despite this, she found herself utterly despondent. Realising that they wanted a simpler, more fulfilling existence, Brooke and her family gradually created their own way of living, with an emphasis on depth, connection and experiences.
In Slow Brooke gently encourages you to find pleasure and value in a simpler life, sharing the practical tips and rituals that have helped her on her own journey, from decluttering to de-owning, messiness to mindfulness, from asking why to asking where to now?
Part memoir, part practical companion, Slow provides a fascinating insight into the benefits of slowing down. It will inspire you to forget about the Joneses and create a life filled with the things that really matter to you . . . slowly, of course.
BROOKE MCALARY is passionate about slow living. As the host and creator of the award-winning Slow Home Podcast (downloaded more than 2 million times) she encourages thousands of people every day to live a simpler, slower life.
Six years ago, Brooke was completely overwhelmed. She had two young children, a husband who worked long hours, a business, a home filled to the brim with all the trappings of a 'successful life' and a severe case of post-natal depression.
Everything changed when she began decluttering. What began as an effort to remove some of the excess, slowly evolved into a complete transformation. Gone is the overwhelm, the clutter, the excess, the busy-ness, replaced by a simpler, more meaningful, more connected life.
Now she and her husband are self-employed and enjoy a life centred on the important things - which, it turns out, aren't really things at all.
Pub Date Sep 17 Extent 264pp ISBN 9781760296919 Rights Held World Format Hardback Rights Sold North America (SourceBooks), German (Luebbe), Chinese Complex (Business Weekly Media), Chinese Simplified (ThinKingdom Media) Previous Rights North America & UK (Head of Zeus), Danish (TBC), French Sold (Guy Tredaniel), Poland (Wydawnictwo Literackie)
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43 Self-Improvement
UNF*CK YOUR FINANCES Melissa Browne
A complete and unapologetic guide to modern day finance for millenials, with step-by-step how-to’s and invaluable advice to inspire, empower and educate young women (and men) to become both business and financially savvy. I know the title of this book will be problematic for some. I know it will raise eyebrows and probably cause my parents to look at me sternly and reach for the soap. But the thing is, it’s written for you. The Gen X or Gen Y gal who just needs to sort yourself out. Most of us weren’t taught the basics of managing our finances – either by our parents, at school or at university. Which is a problem. Most of us aren’t talking about money with our girlfriends because it’s icky, it’s shameful or it’s just not polite. Which is a problem. Most of us aren’t actually dealing with our finances in a way that is helpful because we don’t enjoy it, we don’t value it and we’re carrying twisted money messages around with us which sabotage us from actually creating great finances. Which again, is a problem. Which is exactly why I wrote this book. At the end of the day unf*cking your finances, developing financial resilience and ultimately embracing financial wellness starts with you. It starts with owning up to your behaviour, your values, possibly breaking with money for a while, discovering why budgeting is a dirty word, becoming a conscious consumer, learning about shares, home ownership, sexually transmitted debt and discovering how to girlboss like you mean it. I know if you read it, absorb it and most importantly, do something about it, you can actually do it. Unf*ck your finances that is. MELISSA BROWNE delights in demystifying the world of business strategy, tax and money. She is the founder and CEO of award-winning accounting and advisory firm A&TA, and co-founder of the financial planning business for Gen X and Gen Y ‘The Money Barre’. Melissa writes a fortnightly column for the money section of the Sydney Morning Herald, and in 2016 she was listed as one of the Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence.
Pub Date Feb 2018 Extent 244pp
ISBN 9781760633127 Rights Held World
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Current Affairs
A GOOD LIFE TO THE END Taking control of our inevitable journey through ageing and death Ken Hillman
A professor of intensive care provides a practical guide to how we and our health care systems can care better for the ageing, sick and dying.
A huge majority of people at the end of their lives want to die at home, but only a small number manage to do this. This vital book asks why.
Many of us have experienced an elderly loved one coming to the end of their life in a hospital - over-treated, infantilised and, worst of all, facing a death without dignity. Families are being herded into making decisions that are not to the benefit of the patient.
Professor Ken Hillman has worked in intensive care since its inception. But he is appalled by the way the ICU has become a place where the frail, soon-to-die and dying are given unnecessary operations and life-prolonging treatments without their wishes being taken into account.
A Good Life to the End will embolden and equip us to ask about the options that
doctors in hospital should offer us but mostly don't. It lets us know that there are other, gentler options for patients and their loved ones that can be much more sympathetic to the final wishes of most people facing the end of their lives.
An invaluable support for the elderly as well as their families, and a rallying cry for anyone who's had to witness the unnecessary suffering of a loved one, A Good Life to the End will spark debate, challenge the status quo and change lives.
KEN HILLMAN is a practising intensive care specialist who is a Professor of Intensive Care at the University of New South Wales, the Foundation Director of The Simpson Centre for Health Services Research, and a member of the Ingham Institute of Applied Medical Research. Professor Hillman is internationally recognised as a pioneer in the introduction of the Medical Emergency Team, which recognises and responds to seriously ill hospital patients early in their deterioration and has been adopted in the majority of hospitals in the United Kingdom, the United States of America and several European countries. He is also a passionate advocate of improving the management of the dying patient in acute hospitals.
Pub Date Jul 17 Extent 304pp
ISBN 9781760294816 Rights Held World
Format Paperback Rights Sold Complex Chinese (Commercial Press), Simplified Chinese (China Renmin University Press) Dimensions 234x153mm Category Current Affairs
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Language
WRITING TRUE STORIES Patti Miller
The complete guide to writing autobiography, memoir, personal essay, biography, travel and creative nonfiction.
Writing True Stories is the essential book for anyone who has ever wanted to write a memoir or explore the wider territory of creative nonfiction. It provides practical guidance and inspiration on a vast array of writing topics, including how to access memories, find a narrative voice, build a vivid world on the page, create structure, use research-and face the difficulties of truth-telling.
This book introduces and develops key writing skills, and then challenges more experienced writers to extend their knowledge and practice of the genre into literary nonfiction, true crime, biography, the personal essay, and travel and sojourn writing. Whether you want to write your own autobiography, investigate a wide-ranging political issue or bring to life an intriguing history, this book will be your guide.
Writing True Stories is practical and easy to use as well as an encouraging and insightful companion on the writing journey. Written in a warm, clear and engaging Praise for Writing True style, it will get you started on the story you want to write-and keep you going until Stories you reach the end.
‘Patti Miller believes we all 'A rich, practical and accessible source of wisdom ... the complete tool kit.’ – Caroline have a story to tell and she Baum, author of Only has a unique ability to coax 'Patti is the writing whisperer! She taught me how to stop daydreaming and to get it out of us… Without Patti, I writing. I couldn't have written my memoir without her!' – Jessica Rowe, author of would never have Is This My Beautiful Life? discovered my creative voice beyond writing the news.’ – PATTI MILLER is an award-winning memoirist and nonfiction writer, whose 2012 Jacinta Tynan, Journalist, book, The Mind of a Thief, was longlisted for the Stella Prize and the Nita Kibble Columnist, Author. Prize, shortlisted for the WA Premier's Prize for Non-Fiction, winner of the NSW Premier's Prize for History and on the syllabus for English for the VCE in Victoria. Her most recent memoir, Ransacking Paris, was released in April 2015 to critical acclaim. Her two previous writing books, Writing Your Life and The Memoir Book, have been continually in print since publication. Patti is a highly successful life-writing teacher and mentor who offers courses at the Faber Academy, as well as many other writing centres around Australia and in Paris.
Pub Date Jul 17 Extent 352pp
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46 Food and Drink
CHAMPAGNE A secret history Robert Walters
Robert Walter shatters old myths and reveals new truths with verve and wit, making Champagne - the place and the wine - as intriguing, beautiful and magical as ever.
The rise and rise of a group of artisanal producers in Champagne over the last twenty years has challenged everything we thought we knew about this famous region. This book sees Robert Walters take us on a journey to visit these great growers. Along the way, he reveals a secret history of Champagne and dispels many of the myths that still persist about this celebrated wine style. Controversial and ground breaking, Champagne: A secret history will change the way you think about Champagne.
‘The most refreshing, pretension-pricking, myth-busting and amusingly unfrothy book on the subject I’ve read.’ – Andrew Jefford, author of The New France and contributing editor for both Decanter and The World of Fine Wine Praise for Champagne
‘There's much to agree with ‘In the tradition of Kermit Lynch’s Adventures on the Wine Route… It shatters old in this book. It is well written myths and reveals new truths, making Champagne – the place and the wine – as and researched, a pleasure intriguing, beautiful and magical as ever.’ – Andrea Frost, author of Through a Sparkling Glass and columnist for The World of Fine Wine to read and Walters argues his case persuasively. Most ‘… this is a meticulously researched and scholarly work but it is written with verve importantly… it and wit. In addition to a fascinating historical examination, Walters explodes communicates a joy and numerous myths, which will amuse any lover of wine trivia.’ – Tim White, enthusiasm for good Australian Financial Review Champagne. I whole- heartedly recommend it.’ – ROBERT WALTERS is a wine merchant, vineyard owner and writer with over 25 Huon Hooke, years of experience in the wine trade. His obsessive search for great grower wines therealreview.com, April has led him to work closely with many important producers in Europe, Australia and 2017 New Zealand, as well as many of Champagne's finest artisans. Over the years he has also found the time to write for publications such as The World of Fine Wine, and it was a series of these articles - on grower Champagnes - that eventually led to this groundbreaking book.
Pub Date Dec 17 Extent 304pp
ISBN 9781760630690 Rights Held World excluding Dutch, United Kingdom and South Africa
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SUPER GREEN SIMPLE AND LEAN Sally Obermeder and Maha Koraiem
140 brilliant new super quick and super easy recipes for smoothies, salads, bowls and snacks by the bestselling authors of Super Green Smoothies.
The Queens of Green are back!
In their new cookbook, Super Green Simple and Lean, Sally Obermeder and Maha Koraiem have created brand new smoothie recipes, monster salads, nourishing bowls and satisfying snacks that will help you to make healthy living faster, easier and more delicious than you ever thought possible.
Their nutritious, easy to make recipes will help you to lose weight, gain energy and feel fantastic.
If you loved their Super Green Smoothies, this book will take your Super Green Life to the next level. Sally and Maha can't wait for you to join them in feeling fab!
SALLY OBERMEDER is one of the best-known faces on Channel 7. She co-hosts the daily news and lifestyle program, The Daily Edition. She has also worked on The Morning Show, Today Tonight, and Sydney Weekender along with a stint on Dancing with the Stars. Sally also co-founded and runs the lifestyle blog SWIISH.com with her sister Maha. SWIISH.com is a leading lifestyle website and online store, where women get their daily fix of luxe for less. Sally lives in Bondi, NSW, with her husband and daughters Annabelle and Elyssa. She is also the author of Never Stop Believing (2013), her memoir of growing up, finding her way into TV, undergoing IVF and battling cancer, as well as the co-author of Super Green Smoothies and The Good Life.
MAHA KORAIEM is the co-founder and director of SWIISH.com. Maha adopted the green smoothie lifestyle along with her sister Sally, with similarly fantastic results. Her love for green smoothies led to co-authoring her first book, the number 1 bestseller Super Green Smoothies. She is also co-author of The Good Life. Maha is a certified Health and Nutrition Coach and a freelance writer. She is passionate about cooking, creating recipes, and good health. Maha also lives in Bondi, NSW.
Pub Date Oct 17 Extent 256pp ISBN 9781760292027 Rights Held World Format Paperback Rights Sold Available Previous Rights Polish (Illuminatio) Sold
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48 Humour
OZZY MAN'S MAD WORLD Ozzy Man
A book that reviews the bizarreness that is daily life on Earth... OzzyMan style.
Ozzy Man's Mad World will be a literary exploration of all things Ozzy Man finds strange, comedic, befuddling, and as he so eloquently puts it…yeah nah strange. It is part nature book, part sports book, part film and TV review book and part world news and viral entertainment book. Basically, it's like Ozzy Man's digital presence, it's like his video channels and his blog, a complete hodgepodge of the bizarreness that is daily life of Earth.
OZZY MAN Reviews started a cheeky YouTube channel and Facebook page in April of 2014. He remembers it like it was yesterday. He had no long-term goals, no savings, no girlfriend, and no proper direction in life overall. He was so incredibly hopeless, he didn't even cook his 2-minute noodles. He would eat them dry with the beef or chicken or shrimp flavouring sprinkled on top (this gourmet meal is best served with a port or beer). He would defend the dry noodle dish as being a Statistics on Ozzy Man legitimately tasty cuisine when family or friends voiced concern over its • Posts reached over 100 consumption, which they linked to his mental well-being. million Facebook users in May 2017 alone
• Over 6 million Facebook followers
• Ozzy Man Reviews were viewed 561 million times between January and April 2017
Pub Date Nov 17 Extent 208pp
ISBN 9781760631185 Rights Held World
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49 Parenting
HOW TO DAD: VOLUME ONE & TWO Jordan Watson
‘Best parenting hack ever!’ – Dail Mail UK
Well-known for his funny videos on Facebook and YouTube channels that have 1.5 million followers from across the globe, Jordan Watson shares his best stories and tricks. HOW TO DAD was a roaring success! Now we’re getting even more hilarious advice with HOW TO DAD Volume Two in August 2017, coinciding with the release of Jordan’s upcoming web series.
How to DAD wrote a book?! Well I scribbled some stuff down and some other people were crazy enough to publish it so I'll take it! I'm known for making silly viral parenting videos on things like 'How to get a baby to clean the house' or 'How to travel with a baby' and I've put my Dad skills on paper. OK they might not be 'skills' - but the Dad 'stuff' in this book might just help you in your quest to master the art of Dadding. Dadding? Is that a thing...? Well you'll have to buy this book to find out. NAILED IT! Back of book bit - Done.
JORDAN WATSON is married and has two young daughters. He created his first hilarious video 'How to hold a baby' for a mate who was about to be a Dad for the first time. That video went viral, and since then his videos have been shared hundreds of thousands of times, around the world. He is now working on a web series and preparing for a comedy tour of New Zealand.
Pub Date Nov 16 & Aug 17 Extent 160pp
ISBN 9781877505850, 9781760631505 Rights Held World
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