AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Lying Life of Adults Elena Ferrante
A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the beloved best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend.
Description 'Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly. The sentence was uttered under his breath, in the apartment that my parents, newly married, had bought in Rione Alto, at the top of Via San Giacomo dei Capri. Everything - the spaces of Naples, the blue light of a very cold February, those words - remained fixed. But I slipped away, and am still slipping away, within these lines that are intended to give me a story, while in fact I am nothing, nothing of my own, nothing that has really begun or really been brought to completion: only a tangled knot, and nobody, not even the one who at this moment is writing, knows if it contains the right thread for a story or is merely a snarled confusion of suffering, without redemption.'
Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find herself and save herself?
She is searching for a new face in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: the Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and the Naples of the depths, which professes to be a place of excess and vulgarity. She moves between these two cities, disoriented by the fact that, whether high or low, the city seems to offer no answer and no escape.
About the Author Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 2005), Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008) and the four volumes of the Neapolitan Quartet (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child), published by Europa Editions between 2012 and 2015. She is also the author of a children's picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night, and a work of non-fiction, Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey. Incidental Inventions, her collected Guardian columns, was published in 2019. Price: $32.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9781787702400 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 300 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
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Europa Editions AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Better Luck Next Time Kate Hilton
A brilliant generational family comedy for fans of Curtis Sittenfeld and Nora Ephron, and television's This Is Us, Offspring and Parenthood.
Description 'Kate Hilton's writing reminds me of Nora Ephron's work: it's laugh-out-loud funny, with startling observations about life, love, family and reinvention at any age. Witty, poignant, and deeply observant, I loved every moment I spent with Hilton's latest novel!' - Marissa Stapley, bestselling author of The Last Resort
An iconic feminist leader, elderly, powerful and respected, is mother to three adult daughters in various stages of self- destruction. Their whole life they've been told they could have it all, but why are their lives falling apart? The choices they've made over their adult years are coming back to haunt them. And how do they start again?
Over the course of an eventful year, the Hennessey children contend with the big struggles of midlife: aging parents, raging teens, crumbling marriages and bodies, new loves, and the choice between playing it safe or taking life-altering risks. And as they inch toward a new definition of happiness, they might even persuade their parents - and themselves - that they're all grown up.
Lydia Hennessey, feminist icon, presides over a family of three adult daughters who should have it all, if only they'd stop self-destructing. Her eldest, Mariana, is throwing away her talent and her marriage. Her middle daughter, Beata, has a hostile teenaged son who just discovered the existence of a father who didn't know about him either. And her youngest, Nina, has returned from a medical mission overseas as a changed woman but won't discuss it. Meanwhile, her niece Zoe is making divorce look like a death-match, while her nephew Zack is grappling with the fallout from his popular television dramedy, based far-too-closely on Lydia herself.
Lydia's relentless optimism and shared wisdom/unsolicited advice aren't enough to make the younger generation pull themselves together, and she's just about ready to wash her hands of them. But first they have to march with her in the biggest political demonstration of her career. Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781760878085 Format: Paperback - C format Praise for Kate Hilton: Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) 'Better Luck Next Time is a hilarious, captivating novel for fans of Where'd You Go, Bernadette and The Nest. If you've Bic2: ever been part of a family, or wished perhaps you weren't, you'll adore this tender, wise novel about the ways that love Illustrations: imprisons and liberates?.' - Elizabeth Renzetti, author of Based on A True Story Previous Titles: Author now living: Toronto, Canada 'With Better Luck Next Time, Kate Hilton has crafted a novel that will make you belly laugh, tug at your heartstrings, and fall in love with the Hennessey-Goldstein families. Full of charm and depth, I loved this quirky family saga!' - Karma Brown, bestselling author of Come Away With Me Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Better Luck Next Time 10 copy pack Point of Sale
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 On a Barbarous Coast Craig Cormick and Harold Ludwick
On a Barbarous Coast is an alternative retelling of Captain James Cook's story co-written by Craig Cormick and Harold Ludwick in the tradition of imagined histories.
Description We were becoming the wild things we most feared, but could not see it at the time.
An ill-timed night of raging winds and rain and Captain Cook's Endeavour lies splintered on a coral reef off the coast of far north Australia. A small disparate band of survivors, fracturing already, huddle on the shore of this strange land - their pitiful salvage scant protection from the dangers of the unknown creatures and natives that live here.
Watching these mysterious white beings, the Guugu Yimidhirr people cannot decide if they are ancestor spirits to be welcomed - or hostile spirits to be speared. One headstrong young boy, Garrgiil, determines to do more than watch and to be the one to find out what exactly they are.
Fierce, intriguing and thoughtful, On a Barbarous Coast is the story of a past and future that might have been.
About the Author HAROLD LUDWICK comes from the Cooktown/Guugu Yimidhirr area and works as a guide and cultural historian, and is the recipient of a prestigious Encounters Fellowship with the National Museum of Australia.
CRAIG CORMICK is an award-winning author and science communicator. Cormick was a former Chair of the ACT Writers Centre and has taught creative writing at both university and community level.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781760877347 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Historical fiction Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Hopevale, QLD Canberra, ACT
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Bottlebrush Creek Maya Linnell
A pitch-perfect rural romance of changing relationships and family ties from the bestselling author of Wildflower Ridge.
Description Between managing a bustling beauty salon, hectic volunteer commitments and the lion's share of parenting two-year-old Claudia, Angie McIntyre barely has time to turn around. And with each passing month, she feels her relationship with fly- in, fly-out boyfriend Rob Jones slipping through her fingers.
When Rob faces retrenchment, and the most fabulous fixer-upper comes onto the market, Angie knows this derelict weatherboard cottage will be the perfect project to draw their little family together.
There's just one catch: the 200-acre property is right next door to Rob's parents in south-west Victoria.
It doesn't take long for rising tensions to set a wedge between the hard-working couple. Angie and Rob have to find out the hard way whether their grand design will draw them closer together or be the very thing that tears them apart.
A sparkling rural romance of changing relationships and family ties from the bestselling author of Wildflower Ridge.
'A heart-warming, funny and poignant story about the joys and heartbreaks of country living. A winner.' Victoria Purman, bestselling author of The Land Girls
About the Author Maya Linnell grew up in a small country town, climbing towering gum trees and reading her way through her family's bookshelves before discovering a never-ending supply of novels at the local library. She found her feet in journalism, working at a rural newspaper before segueing into public relations and now fiction writing and blogging for Romance Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781760529819 Writers Australia. Her first novel, Wildflower Ridge, was published in 2019. Bottlebrush Creek is her second novel. Maya Format: Paperback - C format currently lives in rural Victoria with her husband and three children. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Romance Wildflower Ridge, is shortlisted for 'Favourite Debut Romance Author', 'Favourite Australian Romance Author' and Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) 'Favourite Small Town Romance' by Australian Romance Readers Awards 2019. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Narrawong, VIC
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Breaking Kathryn Heyman
Nominated for the Scottish Writer of the Year Award and the Orange Prize, The Breaking is a unique, lyrical testament to the power of the human spirit.
Description Eleven-year-old Sarah is a watcher. She sees the way the smoke rises from the sulphide works to wreath the little Australian town of Boolaroo; she watches Dad, when he's not being a policeman, breaking horses in the back paddock behind the house. Sarah Sweet has learnt to observe, to be quiet, to avoid notice, filled with a rage so intense it threatens to overwhelm her.
The Breaking is the story of a family tainted by its force, of a young life haunted by it, but also of the strength it gives to fight back. In its evocation of the parched landscape of rural Australia, the strange cadences of the language and the filmic vividness of its characters, The Breaking is a unique, lyrical testament to the power of the human spirit.
"The Breaking is a book of opposites: rural heat, city rain; male power and female powerlessness; paternal tenderness and a lover's violence; silences and singing. This strong first novel is remarkable for its depiction of a family drama played out in an arid small town, with the local lock-up in the backyard, and Sarah Sweet's slow education in love and change, courtesy of a glowing, nail-biting taxi driver." Scottish Writer of the Year Judging Committee
"Powerful and accomplished ... Heyman reveals her pedigree as a playwright and poet in stunning language and original imagery ... profoundly moving." - The Scotsman
"Haunting ... compelling ... the magnetism of a violent man is made palpable." - The Times
"Fizzes with childhood energy, frustration and hilarity... Heyman's words and style leap at you with real punch." - Scotsman Weekend
"Astounding ... a writer of immense promise." - Sunday Tribune Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781760878153 Format: Paperback - B format "A pleasure ... this is a novel which never betrays its promise. The rawness of the emotion and the beauty of its Dimensions: 198x128mm conveyance into words is a potent combination which will not easily be forgotten." - Australian Book Review Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: "Gripping ... Heyman's poetic style adds an extra dimension to this gripping tale." - Belfast Telegraph Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Birchgrove, NSW About the Author Kathryn Heyman is a novelist, essayist and scriptwriter. Her sixth novel, Storm and Grace, was published to critical acclaim in 2017. Her first novel, The Breaking, was shortlisted for the Stakis Prize for the Scottish Writer of the Year and longlisted for the Orange Prize. Other awards include an Arts Council of England Writers Award, the Wingate Scholarship, the Southern Arts Award, and nominations for the Edinburgh Fringe Critics' Awards, the Kibble Prize, andAllen the West& Unwin AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Six Minutes Petronella McGovern
An unputdownable thriller for fans of Liane Moriarty and Caroline Overington. If you were gripped watching The Cry, you'll be hooked on Six Minutes.
Description 'Impossible to put down and full of twists and turns you won't see coming! I loved this fabulous debut novel.' Liane Moriarty, bestselling author of Nine Perfect Strangers
'...a suspenseful suburban thriller that steals your time and won't give it back.' Crime Book of the Month, Readings.com
How can a child disappear from under the care of four playgroup mums?
One Thursday morning, Lexie Parker dashes to the shop for biscuits, leaving Bella in the safe care of the other mums in the playgroup.
Six minutes later, Bella is gone.
Police and media descend on the tiny village of Merrigang on the edge of Canberra. Locals unite to search the dense bushland. But as the investigation continues, relationships start to fracture, online hate messages target Lexie, and the community is engulfed by fear.
Is Bella's disappearance connected to the angry protests at Parliament House? What secrets are the parents hiding? And why does a local teacher keep a photo of Bella in his lounge room?
What happened in those six minutes and where is Bella?
The clock is ticking... Price: $16.99 $18.99 ISBN: 9781760877569 Format: Paperback - B format This gripping novel will keep you guessing to the very last twist. Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 440 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) 'In a small community where everyone knows everyone else, everybody has secrets. No matter how far you try to outrun Bic2: your past, even uprooting your life and the lives of your family to the literal other side of the planet, somehow you never Illustrations: escape.' Newtown Review of Books Previous Titles: Author now living: Davidson, NSW About the Author Petronella McGovern is a writer and editor who grew up on a farm outside Bathurst, NSW. After working in Canberra for a number of years, she now lives on Sydney's northern beaches with her husband and two children. Six Minutes is her first novel. Her second thriller will be published in September 2020. Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Wonder of Lost Causes Nick Trout
A single mum learns that her son can talk to a very special dog - and the lessons the dog teaches will transform them all.
Description 'Inspiring... An artfully crafted story about the connection between a boy and his dog and the deep bond between a son and his mother.' Kirkus Reviews
Dr Kate Blunt will do anything for her son, Jasper. Well, almost anything. Kate's always told him he's not allowed to get a dog. She's a single mum taking care of a kid who has to fight for every breath he takes and Jasper's daily medical routine is complicated enough without adding a mutt to the mix. The terrible irony for Kate is that, as the overworked veterinarian running an animal shelter, her life is full of dogs in constant need of rescuing.
Kate has to live with the fact that every abandoned dog is on a two-week deadline to find a human - so when a scarred, mistreated wreck turns up, she knows he doesn't stand a chance. Named Whistler, he's too old, too ugly. A lost cause. But the dog forms an instantaneous, almost magical connection with Jasper. Whistler never makes a sound, let alone a bark, yet he speaks to Jasper in a myriad of mysterious ways, forging an indelible bond with the boy.
But time is running out. As Kate and Jasper fight to give Whistler another chance, one thing becomes clear: the dog has chosen them for a reason. And what Whistler inspires in them may be his most important lesson of all.
Transformative, moving and life-affirming, The Wonder of Lost Causes will break your heart and make it sing.
'Suspenseful, heart-wrenching, and life-affirming, this riveting book is at once great fiction and vividly, urgently true.' Sy Montgomery, New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Good Creature
'If you cried at the end of Marley and Me... you'll love the wonders found within the pages of this heartwarming story.' James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of Crucible Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781760877590 Format: Paperback - B format 'A true testament to the power of love in its purest and most absolute form.' Rachael Lippincott, New York Times Dimensions: 198x128mm bestselling author of Five Feet Apart Extent: 448 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: About the Author Illustrations: Dr. Nick Trout is a British staff surgeon at the prestigious Angell Animal Medical Center in Boston. He's also the author of Previous Titles: Author now living: Massachusetts, USA five books: three memoirs (including the NYT Bestseller Tell Me Where It Hurts - published in the UK by LittleBrown) and two novels (published Hyperion in the US and Allen & Unwin in ANZ).
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Below the Big Blue Sky Anna McPartlin
Anna McPartlin's new novel will make you laugh, cry and shout with joy.
Description From the bestselling author of The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes comes a huge-hearted novel about death, family and finding laughter in the most bloody mental places.
When forty-year-old Rabbit Hayes dies, she leaves behind a family broken by grief. Her mother Molly is distraught and in danger of losing her faith. Her father Jack spends hour upon hour in the family attic, poring over his old diaries, losing himself in the past.
Rabbit's brother Davey finds himself suddenly guardian to her twelve-year-old daughter Juliet. Juliet might be able to fill a hole in Davey's heart - but how can he help Juliet through her grief when he can barely cope with his own?
Meanwhile, Rabbit's sister Grace is struggling with the knowledge that she carries the same gene that made her sister ill, and Rabbit's best friend Marjorie is lost, struggling to remain a part of a family she has always wished was her own now that her link to them is gone.
But even though the Hayes family are all fighting their own battles, they are drawn together by their love for Rabbit, and their love for each other. In the years that follow her death they find new ways to celebrate and remember her, to find humour and hope in the face of tragedy, and to live life to its fullest, as Rabbit would have wanted.
Below a Big Blue Sky will make you laugh, cry and shout with joy for the colourful, unruly Hayes family as they battle with the loss of their beloved Rabbit, the daughter, mother, sister and friend, who in her own crazy way taught each of them how to live, and goes on showing them how to love from beyond the grave.
About the Author Anna McPartlin is a novelist and scriptwriter from Dublin, who has written for TV serial dramas featured on BBC UK, RTE Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781838770792 Ireland and A&E America. She has been writing adult fiction for over ten years, and also writes for children under the Format: Paperback - C format name Bannie McPartlin. She lives with her husband Donal and their four dogs. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 496 pages Bic1: Adult & contemporary romance Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Ghost Fire Wilbur Smith with Tom Harper
The brand new Courtney Series novel.
Description In this brand new Courtney Series novel by bestselling author, Wilbur Smith, comes an epic story of tragedy, loss, betrayal and courage that brings the reader deep into the seething heart of the French and Indian War.
1754. Inseparable since birth and growing up in India, Theo and Connie Courtney are torn apart by the tragic death of their parents.
Theo, wracked with guilt, seeks salvation in combat and conflict, joining the British in the war against the French and Indian army. Connie, believing herself abandoned by her brother, and abused and brutalised by a series of corrupt guardians, makes her way to France, where she is welcomed into high society. Here, she once again finds herself at the mercy of vicious men, whose appetite for war and glory lead her to the frontlines of the French battlefield in North America.
As the siblings find their destinies converging once more, they realise that the vengeance and redemption they both desperately seek could cost them their lives...
About the Author Wilbur Smith is a worldwide phenomenon. His readership has built up over fifty-five years of writing. Born in Central Africa in 1933, Wilbur became a full-time writer in 1964 following the success of When the Lion Feeds, and has since published over forty global bestsellers, including the Courtney Series, the Ballantyne Series, the Egyptian Series, the Hector Cross Series and many successful standalone novels, all meticulously researched on his numerous expeditions worldwide. The establishment of the Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation in 2015 cemented Wilbur's passion for empowering writers, promoting literacy and advancing adventure writing as a genre. The foundation's flagship programme is the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781785769436 For all the latest information on Wilbur visit www.wilbursmithbooks.com or facebook.com/WilburSmith Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Tom Harper is the author of thirteen thrillers and historical adventures including The Orpheus Descent, Black River and Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Lost Temple. Research for his novels has taken him all over the world, from the high Arctic to the heart of the Amazon Bic2: Adventure jungle. He lives with his family in York. For more information about Tom's books, visit www.tom-harper.co.uk. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Shadow James Swallow
Ex-MI6 officer Marc Dane faces a deadly challenge to stop a devastating attack before a new kind of weapon is unleashed...The latest bestselling thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of NOMAD.
Description A ruthless far-right terrorist is broken out of captivity.
A mysterious scientist with a terrible secret is abducted.
A lethal contagion threatens millions of lives across Europe and the Middle East.
Ex-M16 officer Marc Dane faces a deadly race against time to stop a devastating attack - before a new kind of weapon is unleashed...
What price would you pay to stop a global catastrophe?
About the Author James Swallow is a scriptwriter and veteran author with over 750,000 books currently in print around the world. He was BAFTA-nominated for his writing on the critically acclaimed video game DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION.
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Zaffre AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Nomad James Swallow
Someone has betrayed your country and murdered your friends. You're the only suspect. And the only one who can stop them striking again...
Description Find the truth before they find you...
Marc Dane is a MI6 field agent at home behind a computer screen, one step away from the action. But when a brutal attack on his team leaves Marc as the only survivor - and with the shocking knowledge that there are traitors inside MI6 - he's forced into the front line.
However the evidence seems to point towards Marc as the perpetrator of the attack. Accused of betraying his country, he must race against time to clear his name. With nowhere to turn to for help and no one left to trust, Marc is forced to rely on the elusive Rubicon group and their operative Lucy Keyes. Ex-US Army, Lucy also knows what it's like to be an outsider, and she's got the skills that Marc is sorely lacking.
A terrorist attack is coming, one bigger and more deadly than has ever been seen before. With the eyes of the security establishment elsewhere, only Lucy and Marc can stop the attack before it's too late.
About the Author James Swallow is an veteran author and scriptwriter with over 15 years of experience in fiction, television, radio, journalism, new media and video games. He is a three-time New York Times bestselling author of 38 novels with over 750,000 books currently in print, in nine different worldwide territories. He was nominated by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) for his writing on the critically acclaimed Deus Ex: Human Revolution, 2013's blockbuster videogame with over 2.18 million copies sold.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781785760433 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 512 pages Bic1: Thriller / suspense Bic2: Thriller / suspense Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Dangerous Kind Deborah O'Connor
A stunning new thriller that will make you think; then think again. Perfect for fans of Anatomy of a Scandal and He Said/She Said and readers of Jon Ronson's The Psychopath Test.
Description What if the people we trust are the ones we should fear?
We all recognise them. Those who sit just on the fringes of society. Who send prickles up the back of our necks. The charmers. The liars. The manipulators. Those who have the potential to go that one step too far. And then take another step.
Jessamine Gooch makes a living from these people. Each week she broadcasts a radio show looking into the past lives of convicted killers; asking if there was more that could have been done to prevent their terrible crimes.
Then one day she is approached by a woman desperate to find her missing friend, Cassie, fearing her abusive husband may have taken that final deadly step. But as Jessamine delves into the months prior to Cassie's disappearance she fails to realise there is a dark figure closer to home, one that threatens the safety of her own family...
Set over a long, dark winter in London and perfect for fans of He Said/She Said and Belinda Bauer, The Dangerous Kind is at once a gripping thriller and a stunning portrayal of the monsters that live among us.
About the Author Deborah O'Connor is a writer and TV producer. Born and bred in the North-East of England, in 2010 she completed the Faber Academy novel writing course. She lives in London with her husband and daughter. Deborah's first novel was the bestseller My Husband's Son.The Dangerous Kind is her second novel. You can follow her on twitter @deboc77
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Zaffre AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Wilde Women Louise Pentland
The funny and relatable new novel from Louise Pentland - perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella, Giovanna Fletcher and Lindsey Kelk.
Description Meet Robin Wilde: mum, newly-appointed official girlfriend, make-up artist extraordinaire and general plate-spinning, life- juggling, balance-seeking badass. Or so she likes to think.
Everything seems to be slotting into place, not just for Robin but for her close-knit little world of friends and family too. Yet despite all that, she still feels like she's blagging it.
Although things seem pretty great on paper, cracks are beginning to show. Robin's best friend Lacey is struggling to bond with her baby, her Auntie Kath suddenly seems distant and her daughter Lyla is finding it hard to adapt to having a man in their lives. For once everybody is depending on Robin, but the pressure is mounting and she's starting to feel overwhelmed.
So, when Robin's asked to go to the States for work, it seems like the getaway they all need. Look out New York, Robin and her girls are on their way! But will the city that never sleeps make or break them?
About the Author Louise Pentland is the number one bestselling author of Wilde Like Me, which shot to the top of the charts and into readers' hearts in summer 2017. Her protagonist, single mum Robin Wilde, was a huge hit with fans and returned to the bestseller lists in the acclaimed and irresistible Wilde About the Girl in 2018.
Louise is the number one and award-winning parenting vlogger in the UK, with 8 million followers. She is a UN Global Ambassador for Gender Equality, was shortlisted for 2016's Glamour Woman of the Year and recently won InStyle 'Best High-Street Fashion YouTuber' and the Shorty Award for 'Best YouTube Guru'. Louise has filmed with the Pope at the Vatican to discuss the challenges facing young people today and HRH Prince Charles and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781838770747 to support Bookstart to encourage childhood literacy. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Romance Bic2: Fiction & related items Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Greek Island Escape Patricia Wilson
How far will a mother go to find her daughter?
Description 'I am Sofia. I am searching for my daughter, born 1st November 1972. Can you help me?'
On the beautiful beaches of Crete, an old woman is handing out scraps of paper. Sofia, eighty-five years old, unable to speak, is desperate to find a daughter she has never known. After a tragic childhood in Athens and a soaring career as a singer, the brutal treatment of the man she loved by a tyrannical regime forced her to give up her daughter mere days after her birth. Now she longs to be reunited with her child before it's too late.
Meanwhile in London, Zoe is searching too. In the months since the disappearance of her teenage daughter, Zoe's life has crumbled apart. Her husband has left her, her son feels forgotten, and every day is a struggle. But Zoe is desperate to track her daughter down, even if she doesn't want to be found . . .
About the Author Patricia Wilson was born in Liverpool, has lived on Crete and is now settled on Rhodes. She was first inspired to write when she unearthed a rusted machine gun in her garden - one used in the events that unfolded during World War II on the island of Crete. The now elderly women involved in those events told Patricia their story, and her celebrated debut Island of Secrets (150k copies sold) was the result.
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Zaffre AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Women of Primrose Square Claudia Carroll
The number one bestselling author Claudia Carroll returns! Perfect for fans of Marian Keyes and Joanna Trollope.
Description Frank Woods at number seventy-nine Primrose Square is about to turn fifty, and nobody seems to care. His friends are all busy; his wife and children have other plans. After years of being 'Mr Cellophane', he decides, finally, to do something for himself. But when he gets home to a surprise birthday party, it is his guests who get the real surprise.
Standing in the doorway is not Frank, but Francesca.
As she transitions, Francesca struggles to come to terms with her true self, and her relationship with her family is thrown into turmoil. At a loss of where to turn, she moves in with her cantankerous neighbour Miss Hardcastle, who hasn't left her home for decades. There she befriends fellow lodger Emily Dunne - fresh out of rehab, finally off the drink and desperate to make amends.
As gossip spreads through Primrose Square and every relationship is tested, nothing in this close-knit community will ever be the same again . . .
About the Author Claudia Carroll lives in Dublin. She's the author of fourteen novels, selling more than half a million copies and gracing the bestseller charts regularly; including the Irish number one spot. Three of her books have been optioned for film and TV. Claudia stars in the Dublin-based soap opera Fair City.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781785767760 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Romance Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Broken Ones Ren Richards
Who do you turn to when you're not sure if you love your child? And when they're taken, will anyone believe you're innocent?
Description When her child was taken what did she really see?
A bestselling true crime writer, Nell Way tells other people's stories. But there is one story Nell won't tell. Ten years ago and with a different name, she was a teenage mother with a four-year-old she found desperately hard to love. Then the little girl disappeared, and Nell has never shaken off the shadow of suspicion.
As she begins to interview the subject of her next book - a woman convicted of murdering her twin sister - it becomes clear that someone has uncovered her true identity. And they know that Nell didn't tell the truth about the day her daughter disappeared...
About the Author Ren Richards is the pen name for New York Times and USA Today bestselling YA author Lauren DeStefano. DeStefano has published seven YA novels, four middle-grade novels and has an impending picture book but has always dreamed of breaking in to the adult suspense category.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781788166065 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 A Bookshop in Algiers Kaouther Adimi
A moving novel inspired by the true story of an extraordinary bookshop and the man who founded it.
Description A Bookshop in Algiers celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto 'by the young, for the young', discovering the twenty-four-year-old Albert Camus in 1937. His entire archive was twice destroyed by the French colonial forces, but despite financial difficulties and the vicissitudes of wars and revolutions, Charlot carried forward Les Vraies Richesses as a cultural hub of Algiers.
A Bookshop in Algiers interweaves Charlot's story with that of another twenty-year-old, Ryad, who is dispatched to the old shop in 2017 to empty it of books and repaint it. Ryad's no booklover, but old Abdallah, the bookshop's self-appointed, nearly illiterate guardian, opens the young man's mind.
Cutting brilliantly from Charlot to Ryad, from the 1930s to current times, from WWII to the bloody 1961 Free Algeria demonstrations in Paris, Adimi delicately packs a monumental history of intense political drama into her swift and poignant novel. But most of all, it's a hymn to the book and to the love of books.
About the Author Kaouther Adimi is a young Algerian novelist living in France. A Bookshop in Algiers is her third novel and was published in France in 2017, where it sold over 50,000 copies and received the trifecta of major French award nominations for the Goncourt, Renaudot and Medicis prizes.
Price: $27.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781788164696 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Warlow Experiment Alix Nathan
What kind of person keeps a man underground for seven years?
Description The year is 1793 and Herbert Powyss is set on making his name as a scientist. Determined to study the effects of prolonged solitude on another human being, he advertises for someone willing to live in his cellar for seven years in return for a generous financial reward. The only man to apply is John Warlow, a semi-literate farm labourer with a wife and six children to support. Cut off from nature, Warlow soon begins losing his grip on sanity while, above ground, Powyss rapidly becomes obsessed with Warlow's wife, Hannah.
About the Author Alix Nathan read English and Music at York University. She lives in the Welsh Marches where she owns some ancient woodland with her husband. Her short stories have been published in Ambit, The London Magazine and New Welsh Review and read on BBC Radio 4.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781788161701 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Historical fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Pine Islands Marion Poschmann, translated by Jen Calleja
Shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2019 - a charming, playful, profound tale of lost souls in search of transformation in modern Japan.
Description When Gilbert Silvester, a journeyman lecturer on beard fashions in film, awakes one day from a dream that his wife has cheated on him, he flees - immediately, irrationally, inexplicably - for Japan.
In Tokyo he discovers the travel writings of the great Japanese poet Basho. Suddenly, from Gilbert's directionless crisis there emerges a purpose: a pilgrimage in the footsteps of the poet to see the moon rise over the pine islands of Matsushima.
Falling into step with another pilgrim - a young Japanese student called Yosa, clutching a copy of The Complete Manual of Suicide - Gilbert travels with Yosa across Basho's disappearing Japan, one in search of his perfect ending and the other the new beginning that will give his life meaning.
The Pine Islands is a serene, playful, profoundly moving story of the transformations we seek and the ones we find along the way.
About the Author Marion Poschmann was born in Essen in 1969. A prize-winning poet and novelist, she has won both of Germany's premier poetry prizes and the Berlin Prize for Literature. Poschmann has been shortlisted for the German Book Prize on three occasions and won the 2013 Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781788160926 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Fiction in translation Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Anthill Julianne Pachico
An arresting debut novel from one of the most innovative young fiction writers today.
Description Once they put you in the trash, everyone's rotten, and nobody gives a damn about who you used to be anymore, or what you used to do. That's just the way it is.
Lina has come home to the country of her childhood. She's not been back for twenty years. Sent away from Colombia to England after her mother's death when she was eight, she's searching for the person who can tell her about their shared past.
She's never forgotten him. Matty - her childhood friend, her best friend, her brother, her protector - now runs the Anthill, a day care refuge for the street kids of Medellin. Lina begins volunteering there, but her reunion with Matty is riven with tension. Memory is fallible, and their versions of what happened are very different.
While Lina confronts her understanding of the country's political and social ruptures, strange events at the Anthill start taking place: scratches on the supply closet door, disturbing crayon drawings, and sightings of a small, dirty boy with pointy teeth. Is this a vision of the boy she once knew, or something more frightening? Did she ever really understand what happened to her own mother, or what happened to Matty's?
The Anthill is the dark and intoxicating debut novel by the author of The Lucky Ones. It's asks what we choose to do with our identity - both inherited and created - and it is a blazing, unforgettable excavation of the very nature of imagination.
About the Author Julianne Pachico was born in 1985 in Cambridge and grew up in Cali, Colombia. She is a graduate of both the MA and PhD in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, where she currently teaches on the Creative Writing MA. She is the only writer to have two stories in the 2015 anthology of the Best British Short Stories, and her short fiction has been published by The New Yorker among other publications. In 2017 Pachico was shortlisted for the Sunday Times/Peters Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9780571331475 Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Format: Paperback - C format Award. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Alexandria Paul Kingsnorth
The visionary final novel in Paul Kingsnorth's iconic Buccmaster Trilogy - a timely and seminal portrait of climate apocalypse.
Description A small religious community is living in what were once the fens of eastern England. They are perhaps the world's last human survivors. Now, they find themselves stalked by a force that draws ever closer, a force intent on destroying everything they stand for.
Set on the far side of the ecological apocalypse, Paul Kingsnorth's new novel is a mythical, polyphonic drama driven by elemental themes: of community versus the self, the mind versus the body, machine versus man - of whether to put your faith in the present or the future.
Alexandria completes the Buckmaster Trilogy, which began with Kingsnorth's prize-winning The Wake.
About the Author Paul Kingsnorth's debut novel, The Wake, won the 2014 Gordon Burn Prize and the Bookseller Book of the Year Award, as well as being longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Folio Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize, and shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. Beast, the second book in his Buckmaster Trilogy, was shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award 2017. He is also the author of the non-fiction books One No, Many Yeses, Real England, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Savage Gods, as well as two poetry collections, Kidland and Songs from the Blue River. Kingsnorth is the co-founder of The Dark Mountain Project.
Price: $34.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9780571322107 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Platform Seven Louise Doughty
Platform Seven is the new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Louise Doughty.
Description Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkway on this freezing November morning is confident he's alone. As he sits on the metal bench at the far end of the platform it is clear his choice is strategic - he's as far away from the night staff as he can get.
What the man doesn't realise is that he has company. Lisa Evans knows what he has decided. She knows what he is about to do as she tries and fails to stop him walking to the platform edge.
Two deaths on Platform Seven. Two fatalities in eighteen months - surely they're connected?
No one is more desperate to understand what connects them than Lisa Evans herself. After all, she was the first of the two to die.
About the Author Louise Doughty is the author of eight novels, most recently Black Water, which was published in 2016 to critical acclaim in the UK and US, where it was nominated as one of the New York Times' Notable Books of the Year. Her previous book was the Top Ten bestseller Apple Tree Yard, adapted for BBC One as a four-part series starring Emily Watson. She is a critic and cultural commentator for UK and international newspapers and broadcasts regularly for the BBC. She lives in London.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9780571321964 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 496 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Lady in the Lake Laura Lippman
A stunning, multi-voiced, period piece - tackling race, gender politics, and the volatility of mid '60s America - from one of today's most interesting crime writers.
Description Cleo Sherwood disappeared eight months ago. Aside from her parents and the two sons she left behind, no one seems to have noticed. It isn't hard to understand why: it's 1964 and neither the police, the public nor the papers care much when Negro women go missing.
Maddie Schwartz - recently separated from her husband, working her first job as an assistant at the Baltimore Sun - wants one thing: a byline. When she hears about an unidentified body that's been pulled out of the fountain in Druid Hill Park, Maddie thinks she is about to uncover a story that will finally get her name in print. What she can't imagine is how much trouble she will cause by chasing a story that no-one wants her to tell.
About the Author Laura Lippman has been awarded every major prize in crime fiction. Since the publication of What the Dead Know, each of her hardcovers has hit the New York Times bestseller list. A recent recipient of the first-ever Mayor's Prize, she lives in Baltimore, New Orleans and New York City with her family.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9780571339457 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Fullalove Gordon Burn
'Remarkable...Devastating...Required reading for anyone interested in what British fiction should be doing today.' (Stephen Amidon, Esquire)
Description Norman Miller used to be one of Fleet Street's finest. Now he's a middle-aged, burned-out hack with a gift for the sensational story, the shouting tabloid lead. But as he reports on a series of brutal murders and sex crimes, he's forced to wonder whether he is just a witness - or part of some deeper pattern of cause and effect...
About the Author Gordon Burn was the author of four novels, Alma Cogan (winner of the Whitbread First Novel Prize), Fullalove, The North of England Home Service and Born Yesterday. He was also the author of the non-fiction titles Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son, Pocket Money, Happy Like Murderers, On The Way to Work (with Damien Hirst) and Best and Edwards. His last book, Sex & Violence, Death and Silence, was a collection of his essays on art.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9780571353620 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Bramble and the Rose Tom Bouman
A riveting new mystery from the Edgar and LA Times Book Award winning author of Dry Bones in the Valley.
Description When Henry Farrell took a job policing Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, he was recently widowed and still trying to find his feet. Wild Thyme was going through its own changes, too, with fracking threatening the land, and the drug trade threatening its people. His first big cases put Officer Farrell face to face with Wild Thyme's encroaching demons. Now, he's got the lay of the land and he's newly married to a local girl.
Then a body - headless and half eaten by a bear - is discovered in the woods. With the help of a local biologist, Henry tracks the bear, hoping to catch him before any more lives are lost, but when his nephew disappears into the same woods they realise they may be facing a far bigger and more sinister threat.
About the Author Tom Bouman is the author of Fateful Mornings and Dry Bones in the Valley, which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He lives in upstate New York.
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Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Beowulf: In Blank Verse Richard Hamer
A highly readable and natural-sounding blank verse translation of one of the most important works of English literature.
Description The Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf tells the story of the hero's slaying of three fabulous monsters, set against the historical background of sixth-century Scandinavian wars and dynasties. Its alliterative and metrical rules are complex, and many previous translators have attempted to replicate them. Here, blank verse has been used, as being more suitable for the less inflected and freer syntax of modern English, and therefore offering a more familiar and neutral form - less likely to distract from the interest and subtleties of the poem. Staying close to the original throughout, Richard Hamer's translation is ideal for contemporary readers to fully enjoy this early masterpiece.
About the Author Richard Hamer was a tutor in medieval English literature at Christ Church, Oxford for forty years, retiring in 2002. His translation of all the most famous shorter Anglo-Saxon poems was published in 1970 as A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse, and in a revised and expanded version in 2015.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9780571352159 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Translation & interpretation Bic2: Poetry Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Poetry AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Pew Catherine Lacey
An eerie modern tale for fans of Shirley Jackson and Sarah Hall from a young American writer hailed as one of the finest of her generation.
Description Fleeing a past they can no longer remember, Pew wakes on a church bench, surrounded by curious strangers.
Pew doesn't have a name, they've forgotten it. Pew doesn't know if they're a girl or a boy, a child or an almost-adult. Is Pew an orphan, or something worse? And what terrible trouble are they running from?
Pew won't speak, but the men and women of this small, god-fearing town are full of questions. As the days pass, their insistent clamour will build from a murmur to a roar, as both the innocent and the guilty come undone in the face of Pew's terrible silence.
About the Author Catherine Lacey is the author of the novels The Answers and Nobody Is Ever Missing, and the collection of stories Certain American States. She has won a Whiting Award, was a finalist for the NYPL's Young Lions Fiction Award, and was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. Her books have been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch & German. She was born in Mississippi and is based in Chicago.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781783785179 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Certain American States Catherine Lacey
Twelve stories - each a masterful and compassionate guide to the fluctuations of the human heart - from one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists.
Description Certain states are hard to shake, or so Catherine Lacey's characters find in these twelve tales of love, loss and longing.
A grieving wife gives away the shirts her husband has left behind. A flirtatious widow takes a honeymooning couple to see her husband's grave. A businessman working for a shadowy organization known as 'The Company', checks-in to a room in a strange and remarkable hotel.
About the Author Catherine Lacey is the author of The Answers and Nobody Is Ever Missing. She has won a Whiting Award, was a finalist for the NYPL's Young Lions Fiction Award, and was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. Her books have been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch & German. She was born in Mississippi and is based in Chicago. Certain American States is her first story collection.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781783782215 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta Paperbacks AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Answers Catherine Lacey
A dating dystopia for our modern age, from one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists.
Description WELCOME TO THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIMENT
Mary is out of options. Estranged from her family and beset by phantom pain, she signs up for 'The Girlfriend Experiment' - a mysterious project masterminded by a famous Hollywood actor who hires a collection of women to fulfil the different roles of a relationship. Mary is to play the Emotional Girlfriend, alongside a Maternal Girlfriend, a Mundane Girlfriend, an Angry Girlfriend and, of course, an Intimacy Team. Each woman has her debts and her difficulties, her past loves and her secrets.
As Mary and the actor are drawn ever closer together, the nature of the experiment changes, and the Girlfriends find themselves exposed to new perils, foremost among them love.
About the Author Catherine Lacey is the author of Nobody Is Ever Missing, a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. Her short fiction and essays have been published widely. She was the recipient of a Whiting Award in 2016, was named a Granta New Voice in 2014, was awarded a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2012, and has taught in the Creative Writing Program at Columbia University. A collection of her short stories is forthcoming from Granta Books.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781783782185 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Fiction & related items Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta Paperbacks AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Heavens Sandra Newman
A mind-expanding story of love complicated by time travel, for fans of David Mitchell and Jennifer Egan
Description New York, 2000. The United Nations has just planted its flag on Mars, and a Green Party senator is about to become the first female president of the United States. At a party in the almost-Utopian world, Kate and Ben fall in love.
London, 1593. Kate wakes as Emilia, mistress to a nobleman and friend to a lowly court poet called Will. Afflicted by apocalyptic premonitions, she sets out to save the world.
Each decision she makes as Emilia will change Kate's life with Ben forever.
About the Author Sandra Newman is the author of three previous novels; The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done, (shortlisted for The Guardian First Book Award), Cake and The Country of Ice Cream Star (longlisted for the Bailey's Prize for Women's Literature). She co-authored the hugely successful How Not to Write a Novel. She has also written The Western Lit Survival Kit, Read This Next, and a memoir, Changeling. She lives in New York.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781783784868 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta Paperbacks AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The River Within Karen Powell
The River Within will surely take its place as a classic in a tradition of English fiction that takes in Thomas Hardy, Graham Swift and Helen Dunmore.
Description Laughter, sharp like a fox bark. She had not seen him so happy in days.
Set in North Yorkshire in the 1950s, The River Within is a piercingly evocative literary novel centred around the lives of two women.
On a summer's day in 1955, in the village of Starome, the drowned body of young Danny Masters is discovered by three of his teenage friends: Alexander, the volatile heir to Richmond Hall, the country estate that neighbours Starome, and sister and brother, Lennie and Tom, whose father is land agent to the Richmond family.
How did Danny Masters die?
'Child of nature' Lennie is in love with volatile Alexander, but is he in love with her or merely playing with her? Alexander's mother Venetia has been a widow for less than a year, and yet her husband's brother seems always to be by her side.
In an interweaving narrative that moves across the months before and after Danny's death, village secrets gradually come to the surface.
About the Author Karen Powell was born in Rochester, Kent. She left school at 16 but returned to education as a mature student to study English Literature at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. She lives in North Yorkshire. An early draft of The River Within was awarded a Northern Writers TLC New Fiction Reads prize, which seeks to support work-in-progress by new, emerging and established writers across the North of England.
Price: $34.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9781787702165 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 210x137mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Europa Editions AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Beautiful Massimo Cuomo
A magical tale of love and rivalry between two brothers.
Description Miguel is beautiful. His beauty is so rare and miraculous that it has made him the object of cult-like devotion in the city. Santiago, his older brother, watches with a mix of admiration and disquiet the prodigious effect that Miguel's looks have on his mother and father, on passersby, their neighbours, and the droves of female suitors that follow him everywhere. With Miguel constantly under the spotlight, Santiago is left to inhabit darker, hidden places, from where he will finally learn that life is not easy for anyone, even his prodigiously handsome brother.
Set in Mexico, this story shines at every turn with the colours and mythical light of magical realism. The conflict between brothers, the role of the parents, the loves, the violence, the journeys are presented with realism and deep psychological insight yet possess an aura of legend. Disappointments, flights, regrets, reunions, goodbyes, epiphanies make up this story, as we follow the two brothers, and the people around them-all forever marked, each in their own way, by their extraordinary encounter with Beauty.
About the Author Massimo Cuomo was born in Venice in 1974 and lives in the countryside near Portogruaro. He is the author of three novels. Beautiful is his first book to appear in English. Will Schutt is an award-winning poet and translator.
Price: $27.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781787702141 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 210x137mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Europa Editions AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Shooting Down Heaven Jorge Franco
A novel about the children raised by 1990s Colombia's most dangerous drug lords
Description Larry returns to Colombia twelve years after the disappearance of his father, an old associate of Pablo Escobar. His remains have finally been unearthed in a mass grave, and Larry is returning to give them a proper burial...but not before a reunion with his childhood friend Pedro. Pedro takes him straight from the airport to the Alborada celebration, during which fireworks explode all over Medellin, and the entire city loses its inhibitions.
His homecoming quickly becomes a rude awakening. The years of luxury living in bodyguard-surrounded mansions are now firmly in the past, as Larry watches his family-including his ex-beauty queen mother and troubled brother-fall deeper into depression, drug addiction, and the traps of the family business.
Faced by an uncertain reality, Larry is forced to confront his family's turbulent history and reclaim himself from the dark remnants of a city trying to rediscover itself. Unflinching and remarkably controlled, Jorge Franco creates a stunning portrait of a generation wounded by their parents' mistakes.
About the Author Award-winning writer Jorge Franco Ramos was born in 1962 in Medelli n. His novels Rosario Tijeras and Paraiso Travels were both bestsellers in Colombia and marked the breakthrough of one of the most promising writers of new Latin American narrative. Shooting Down Heaven has been optioned for TV rights. Andrea Rosenberg translates from Spanish and Portuguese. She holds an MFA in literary translation from the University of Iowa and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. She is also the translator of David Jimenezs essays on Asia, Children of the Monsoon, and Pablo Escobar: My Father by Juan-Pablo Escobar.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781787702158 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 210x137mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Europa Editions AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Total Chaos: The Marseilles Trilogy Book 1 Jean-Claude Izzo
Izzo's Marseille is explosive, tragic, breathtakingly beautiful and deadly - the first volume in Jean-Claude Izzo's acclaimed Marseille trilogy.
Description Fabio Montale is the perfect protagonist in this city of melancholy beauty. A disenchanted cop with an inimitable talent for living who turns his back on a police force marred by corruption and racism and, in the name of friendship, takes the fight against the mafia into his own hands.
About the Author Jean-Claude Izzo (Marseilles 1945 2000) achieved astounding success with publication of the Marseilles Trilogy: Total Chaos, Chourmo and Solea. His two novels, The Lost Sailors and A Sun for the Dying, and the posthumous collection of essays and shorter pieces Garlic, Mint, & Sweet Basil also enjoy great success with critics and the public.
Award- winning translator Howard Curtis has worked on more than sixty books from French, Italian and Spanish. Among his recent translations for Europa are works by Jean-Claude Izzo and Santiago Gamboa.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781787702073 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Europa Editions AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Chourmo: The Marseilles Trilogy Book 2 Jean-Claude Izzo
The second volume in Jean-Claude Izzo's acclaimed Marseilles Trilogy, featuring ex-cop Fabio Montale.
Description The second novel in Izzo's acclaimed Marseilles trilogy is a touching tribute to the author's beloved city, in all its colour and complexity. Fabio Montale is an unwitting hero in this city of melancholy beauty. Fabio Montale has left a police force marred by corruption, xenophobia, and greed. But getting out is not going to be so easy. When his cousin's son goes missing, Montale is dragged back onto the mean streets of a violent, crime-infested Marseilles. To discover the truth about the boy's disappearance, he infiltrates a dangerous underworld of mobsters, religious fanatics, crooked cops, and ordinary people whom desperation has driven to extremes.
About the Author Jean-Claude Izzo was born in Marseilles, France, in 1945. Best known for the Marseilles trilogy (Total Chaos, Chourmo, Solea), Izzo is also the author of The Lost Sailors, A Sun for the Dying, Garlic, Mint, & Sweet Basil, and one collection of short stories, Living Tires. He died in 2000 at the age of fifty-five. Award-winning translator Howard Curtis has worked on more than sixty books from French, Italian and Spanish. Among his recent translations for Europa are works by Jean- Claude Izzo and Santiago Gamboa.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781787702240 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 197x130mm Extent: pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Europa Editions AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Night Boat to Tangier Kevin Barry
The Booker-longlisted novel, drenched in sex, death and narcotics, in sudden violence, old magic and the mysteries of love, from the winner of the IMPAC Award and the Goldsmiths Prize.
Description It's late one night at the Spanish port of Algeciras and two fading Irish gangsters are waiting on the boat from Tangier. A lover has been lost, a daughter has gone missing, their world has come asunder - can it be put together again?
About the Author Kevin Barry is the author of the novels Beatlebone and City of Bohane and the story collections Dark Lies the Island and There Are Little Kingdoms. His awards include the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize and the Lannan Foundation Literary Award. His stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta and elsewhere. He also works as a playwright and screenwriter, and he lives in County Sligo, Ireland. Night Boat to Tangier was an Irish number one bestseller, was longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781782116202 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Sideman Caro Ramsay
DI Costello must break the rules if she is to catch a ruthless killer in the tenth Anderson and Costello thriller.
Description Inside a beautiful Victorian family home in Glasgow's West End, a mother and her young son are found brutally murdered. DI Costello is furious and knows exactly who did it, George Haggerty, the husband and father. The only problem is that Haggerty has a cast-iron alibi - the police themselves caught him speeding on the A9 at the time of the murders. But Costello can't let it go. Determined to expose Haggerty as a ruthless killer, she's gone solo.
DCI Colin Anderson has no time to ponder his partner of twenty years going rogue, as his own cases are piling up. But Costello's absence becomes increasingly worrying. Has she completely disappeared following the tracks of a dangerous man?
About the Author CARO RAMSAY is the Glaswegian author of the critically acclaimed Anderson and Costello series, the first of which, Absolution, was shortlisted for the CWA's New Blood Dagger for best debut of the year. The ninth book in the series, The Suffering of Strangers, was longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize 2018.
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Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Notes From Underground Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Natasha Randall
A groundbreaking new translation of Dostoyevsky's most radical work of fiction. Introduced by DBC Pierre.
Description 'I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too...'
In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a retired civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society. The underground man's manifesto reveals his erratic, self-contradictory and even sadistic nature. Yet Dostoyevsky's disturbing character causes an uncomfortable flicker of recognition, and we see in him our own human condition.
About the Author Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. He has written many works of fiction including Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov. He died in St. Petersburg on 9th February 1881.
Natasha Randall is a writer and literary translator. Her translations include We by Yevgeny Zamyatin and A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov. Her writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, New York Times, Los Angeles Book Review and more.
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Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Mystery of Henri Pick David Foenkinos
The delightful first title in a new series - a fast-paced comic mystery enriched by a deep love of books.
Description In the small town of Crozon in Brittany, a library houses manuscripts that were rejected for publication: the faded dreams of aspiring writers. Visiting while on holiday, young editor Delphine Despero is thrilled to discover a novel so powerful that she feels compelled to bring it back to Paris to publish it.
The book is a sensation, prompting fevered interest in the identity of its author - apparently one Henri Pick, a now- deceased pizza chef from Crozon. Sceptics cry that the whole thing is a hoax: how could this man have written such a masterpiece? An obstinate journalist, Jean-Michel Rouche, heads to Brittany to investigate.
By turns farcical and moving, The Mystery of Henri Pick is a fast-paced comic mystery enriched by a deep love of books - and of the authors who write them.
About the Author Novelist, screenwriter and musician David Foenkinos was born in 1974. He is the author of fourteen novels that have been translated into forty languages. Several of his works have been adapted for film, including Delicacy (2011). The Mystery of Henri Pick is the first title in a new collaboration with Channel 4's Walter Presents.
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Pushkin AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 She Would Be King Wayetu Moore
Spectacular historical fiction reimagining the early years of Liberia through the linked stories of three supernatural characters.
Description In the West African village of Lai, red-haired Gbessa is cursed at birth and exiled on suspicion of being a witch. Bitten by a viper and left for dead, she nevertheless survives to discover new life with a group of African American settlers in the colony of Monrovia. There Gbessa meets two extraordinary others: June Dey - a man of unusual strength, and Norman Aragon, who can fade from sight at will.
Soon all three realise that they are all cursed - or, perhaps, uniquely gifted. Together they protect the weak and vulnerable, but only Gbessa can salvage the tense relationship between the settlers and the indigenous tribes.
In her transcendent debut, Wayetu Moore illuminates the tumultuous roots of Liberia, blending history and magical realism in a profound tale of resistance and humanity.
About the Author Wayetu Moore is the founder of One Moore Book and is a graduate of Howard University, Columbia University, and the University of Southern California. She teaches at the City University of New York's John Jay College and lives in Brooklyn.
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Pushkin AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Miss Iceland Audur Ava Olafsdottir
A funny and poignant new novel about a female writer trying to make it in a conservative world, from Iceland's hottest literary star.
Description Named after one of Iceland's most magnificent volcanoes, Hekla always knew she wanted to be a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and there are more writers per capita than anywhere else in the world, there is only one problem: she is a woman.
She decides to try her luck in Reykjavik, and moves in with her friend Jon, a gay man who longs to work in the theatre, but can only find dangerous, backbreaking work on fishing trawlers. Hekla's opportunities are equally limited: marriage and babies, or a job as a waitress, in which harassment from customers is part of the daily grind. They both feel completely out of place in a small and conservative world.
And yet that world is changing: JFK is shot, hemlines are rising, and in Iceland another volcano erupts, and Hekla knows she must escape to find freedom abroad, whatever must be left behind.
About the Author Audur Ava Olafsdottir is a prize-winning novelist, playwright and poet. Her novels have been translated into over 25 languages, and they include Butterflies in November and Hotel Silence, also published by Pushkin Press. Hotel Silence won the Nordic Council Literature Prize, the Icelandic Literary Prize, and was chosen Best Icelandic Novel in 2016 by booksellers in Iceland. Audur Ava lives in Reykjavik.
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Pushkin AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Inspector of Strange and Unexplained Deaths Olivier Barde-Cabucon
Fans of Abir Mukherjee and Sarah Waters will love this gloriously macabre romp racing through the glitzy Versailles Palace by way of the shady criminal underworld of Paris on the brink of the revolution.
Description Everyone has secrets. Especially the king.
When a gruesomely mutilated body is found on the squalid streets of Paris in 1759, the Inspector of Strange and Unexplained Deaths is called to the scene. The body count soon begins to rise and the Inspector is brought even further into a web of deceit that stretches from criminals, secret orders, revolutionaries and aristocrats to very top of society.
In the murky world of the court of King Louis XV, finding out the truth will prove to be anything but straightforward.
About the Author Olivier Barde-Cabucon is a French author and the creator of The Inspector of Strange and Unusual Deaths, who has featured in seven bestselling historical mysteries so far. The Inspector of Strange and Unusual Deaths (previously titled Casanova and the Faceless Woman) won the Prix Sang d'Encre for crime fiction in 2012 and is the first of the series to be translated into English.
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Pushkin Vertigo AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Wild Swims: Stories Dorthe Nors
An unsettling, darkly humorous and haunting new short story collection from the Man Booker International Prize shortlisted author.
Description In this dazzling new collection, the acclaimed Danish writer Dorthe Nors creates a series of intimate, psychologically acute portraits of individuals in states of emotional crisis: a woman's attempts to cope with a recent breakup lead her to commit a deeply immoral act, a professor's relationship with a much older woman takes a sudden sinister turn, a man who has grown resentful of his partner takes drastic action, and a young woman's nostalgic memories of wild swimming draw her back to the water.
In attempting to escape the present moment, Nors's characters must confront the impact of the past. In prose that is both elegantly spare and saturated with emotion, Nors explores the relationships that we have with others, and those we forge with ourselves, with characteristic empathy and insight.
About the Author Dorthe Nors was born in 1970 and studied literature at the University of Aarhus. Her short stories have appeared in numerous international periodicals including The Boston Review and Harpers, and she is the first Danish writer ever to have a story published in the New Yorker. Nors has published four novels so far, including Mirror, Shoulder, Signal - shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize - and a collection of stories, Karate Chop, also published by Pushkin Press. She lives in rural Jutland, Denmark.
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Pushkin AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Island Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen
A lyrical, moving tale of love, loss and belonging, across three generations of a Faroe Islands family.
Description Death brings the young woman back to the Faroes, the windswept rocky islands of the north where she has never lived but which she has always called home. There she finds her stories entwining with those of her ancestors as she searches for a way to connect with Faroese culture. But is "home" just a place name, or something more?
Island is a literary tale of exile and homecoming, split across three generations of a Faroe islands family, strongly inspired by the author's own family history. It is a beautiful story of emigration and immigration, and of what it means to belong.
About the Author Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen was born in 1980, into the third generation of a Faroese family living in Copenhagen. She works as a literary reviewer for a number of Danish publications. Island is her acclaimed debut novel, and has been translated into four languages.
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Pushkin AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Coral Merchant: Essential Stories Joseph Roth
New translations of the greatest short stories by Joseph Roth, collected in a beautiful edition.
Description Joseph Roth's sensibility-both clear-eyed and nostalgic, harshly realistic and tenderly humane-produced some of the most distinctive fiction of the twentieth century. This collection of his most essential stories, in exquisite new translations by Ruth Martin, showcases the astonishing range and power of his short stories and novellas.
In prose of aching beauty and precision, Roth shows us isolated souls pursuing lost ideals and impossible desires. Forced to remove a bust of the fallen Austrian emperor from his house, an eccentric old count holds a funeral for it and intends to be buried in the same plot himself; a humble coral merchant, dissatisfied with his life and longing for the sea, chooses to adulterate his wares with false coral, with catastrophic results; young Fini, just entering the haze of early sexuality, falls into an unsatisfying relationship with an older musician. With the greatest craft and sensitivity, Roth unfolds the many fragilities of the human heart.
About the Author Joseph Roth was born into a Jewish family in the small town of Brody in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied first in Lemberg and then in Vienna, and served in the Austrian army during World War I. He went on to work as a journalist, travelling widely, staying in hotels and living out of suitcases, while also being a prolific writer of fiction, including the novels Job (1930) and The Radetzky March (1932). Roth left Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933 and settled in Paris, where he died in 1939.
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Pushkin AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Dominant Animal Kathryn Scanlan
'Shh, said the surgeon. Over my face, his gloved hand hung - you could even say it twitched. Then, with two fingertips, he pushed the lids of my eyes shut. You've seen this move before - some man, overcome with shame, unable, for selfish reasons, to look at what he's done.'
Description Anonymous people in anonymous towns; mothers screaming inside their houses, unapologetic doctors, mournful dogs, hungry girls, grandmothers on the couch tethered in a blue spell, steaks in soft sacks of blue blood, rare breeds of show cats in big black sedans, baby rabbits beneath heavy boots; and lonesome men crouched among the thorny shrubs and the rough, wild grasses...
This is the singular vision of Kathryn Scanlan. With the economy of Lydia Davis and Grace Paley, and the unsettling verve of Mary Gaitskill and Claire-Louise Bennett, The Dominant Animal is a powerful and much-anticipated first collection. 'No mercy', says one of Scanlan's characters, and that is how it feels to encounter these stories. Morbid humour, tender horror - no comfort here, only a startling, uncompromising voice that is here to stay.
About the Author Kathryn Scanlan lives in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in NOON, Granta and Fence, and is forthcoming in The Paris Review. She's received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Centre and the Tin House Summer Workshop, and her story 'The Old Mill' was selected by Michael Cunningham for the 2010 Iowa Review Fiction Prize. She has degrees in painting, writing, and English from the University of Iowa and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her debut novel, AUG 9-FOG, a literary adaptation of a found diary, was published by FSG in 2019.
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Daunt Books AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Carbon Club: How a network of influential climate sceptics, politicians and business leaders fought to control Australia's climate policy Marian Wilkinson
The inside story of how a network of influential climate sceptics, politicians and business leaders fought to control Australia's response to the climate crisis.
Description As the climate crisis threatens more extreme bushfire seasons, droughts and floods, many Australians are demanding their leaders explain, 'Why didn't you do something?' This book answers that question.
The Carbon Club is the story of how influential climate science sceptics, politicians and business leaders sought to control Australia's response to the climate crisis. They shared a fear that dealing with climate change would undermine the nation's wealth, jobs and competitive advantage - and the power of the carbon club.
Central to their strategy was an international campaign to undermine climate science and the urgency of climate crisis. The more the climate science was questioned, the more politicians lost the imperative to act. The sustained success of the carbon club over two decades explains why Australian governments failed to deal with the challenge of climate change. But at what cost to us and the next generation?
One of Australia's most respected investigative journalists, Marian Wilkinson has tracked the rise and rise of the Australia's carbon club in brilliant detail with extraordinary access to key players on all sides. The result is a book that is both essential and disturbing reading.
About the Author Marian Wilkinson is a multi-award-winning journalist with a career that has spanned radio, television and print.
Price: $32.99 $36.99 She has covered politics, national security, refugee issues and climate change as well as serving as a foreign ISBN: 9781760875992 correspondent in Washington, DC for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. She was a deputy editor of the Sydney Format: Paperback - C format Morning Herald, executive producer of the ABC's Four Corners program and a senior reporter with Four Corners. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 440 pages Bic1: Climate change As environment editor for the Sydney Morning Herald, she reported on the rapid melt of Arctic sea ice for a joint Four Bic2: Corners-Sydney Morning Herald production that won a Walkley Award for journalism and the Australian Museum's Illustrations: Eureka prize for environmental journalism. She also covered the UN climate conferences in Bali and Copenhagen. Previous Titles: Author now living: None As a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), she reported on the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers for Four Corners.
She has written several books, including the political biography The Fixer, on former Labor powerbrokerAllen Graham & Unwin AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Carbon Club 12 copy pack Point of Sale
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Sad Mum Lady Ashe Davenport
For fans of David Sedaris, Jenny Lawson and Caitlin Moran comes a new book from Ashe Davenport, journalist at The Design Files and sad mum extraordinaire.
Description Sad Mum Lady is a collection of essays by a woman who loves her kids and hates motherhood. Pregnancy dragged Ashe kicking and screaming into parenthood, and when she arrived it hit her in the face with a brick. Repeatedly. The stories take place during her own excruciating birth as a mother. Her claw marks can be traced from hospital corridors to play centres and a lingerie shop by the sea. This book is motherhood "real-talk" meets bitey anecdotes with a touch of the surreal. It's for the mum wrestling her screaming toddler out of the cafe, her cheek red from having just been slapped with a tiny sticky hand. It's for the partners pushing the pram on a Saturday morning, mystified as to why they just received a hissing death threat in response to their suggestion that the baby needed feeding. It's for smart funny mothers and people who like them.
During Ashe's first pregnancy she started a blog called Sad Pregnant Lady. According to the internet, sadness and pregnancy meant postnatal depression. The internet kept telling her she was something that needed to be fixed. The blog was Ashe's attempt to reclaim sadness as an appropriate human response to pregnancy. Her life as she knew it was about to change forever, her body and mind were no longer her own and the climate crisis was potentially going to engulf her child's future in flames. It connected with a lot of people. Most of them were mothers who were struggling too. After Ashe became a mother, she found that she was still quite sad, and this book is her exploring and sharing that experience. Writing this book helped Ashe a lot and it is her hope that its humour and raw honesty will help others too.
About the Author Ashe is a copywriter and family columnist for The Design Files. She used to have a blog called Sad Pregnant Lady and later, felt compelled to change the name to Sad Mum Lady. Ashe has a one and three-year-old. She loves her children and hates motherhood, comparing the latter to receiving a brick to the face. She and her three sisters were raised by their single mother in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. After completing a Bachelor of Media she worked as a receptionist for a company that sold pre-recorded sports content to cable channels in the Middle East. These days, she Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781760877637 writes from home in Northcote, citing 'day care' and 'supportive partner' as the reasons she's able to do so as a parent of Format: Paperback - C format young children. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: pages Bic1: Humour collections & anthologies Bic2: Humour Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: None
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Out!: How to be your authentic self Miles McKenna
Miles McKenna is a queer and trans activist. He transitioned online in front of a million people. This is his survival guide.
Description When Miles came out on his YouTube channel in 2015 - then transitioned online in 2017 - his aim was to help other teens navigate their identities and take charge of their own coming-out stories. From that experience comes Out!, the ultimate coming-out survival guide for anyone questioning or queer.
Out! covers questions big and small: How to stay safe when coming out in a toxic environment, what to do if you don't feel comfortable with your birth name, what style haircut best suits your identity and how to find your chosen family. Miles offers readers coming-out conversation starters ('Can I have the bathroom pass? Also, the correct pronouns?'), a recipe for a very gay cake and a guide to mastering the masculine haircut. You'll find resources for finding a gender therapist, pointers for being a queer ally and Miles's Ten Commandments (#5: You are valid in your identity, even if you're the only one who can define it).
If you're a person seeking answers, look no further! This book is for you. And remember: Whoever you are, you are worth fighting for.
About the Author Miles McKenna is an actor and social media icon known for his comedic voice and LGBTQ+ advice and activism. He was recently awarded the Shorty Award for Best LGBTQ+ Account of 2017, headlined two nationwide tours that covered a total of 35 shows, and has creatively collaborated with companies like Google, HBO, ATT, and Lyft. Find out more on his YouTube channel, MilesChronicles, or on Instagram at @themilesmckenna.
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Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Mackenzie's Mission: How one family turned tragedy into hope and love Rachael Casella
A story of triumph over adversity, the strength that can be found in love and kindness, and the power of one couple to effect positive change in the world.
Description 'A true love story' - Mia Freedman, founder of Mamamia
Rachael and Jonathan were thrilled to welcome their baby Mackenzie into the world and to start their new lives as parents. Little did they know that in a few months they would be tested to endurance and beyond.
Like many other couples starting a family, Rachael and Jonathan had no idea they were both carriers for a genetic disease, and that 1 in 20 babies are affected by genetic birth defects. Their daughter was one of those babies, and Mackenzie's Mission is Rachael's beautiful and heartwarming account of Mackenzie's life, child loss, and a journey through IVF.
Determined that other couples should not go through the same heartbreak, Rachael and Jonathan are now champions for genetic testing.
This is a story of triumph over adversity, the strength that can be found in kindness and the power of one couple to affect positive change in the world.
'Heartbreaking and inspiring. A must read for anyone who's lost a child, loved a child, or is desperately trying to for a child. You will cry but you will also find comfort in this incredible story.' - Erin Molan, sports presenter, Nine Network
'A book about grief and finding purpose through unimaginable loss and heartbreak. Beautiful Mackenzie will continue to Price: $29.99 $32.99 have a powerful impact on this world through the work of her remarkable parents.' - Libby Trickett, Olympic swimming ISBN: 9781760527457 gold medallist and author of Beneath the Surface Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 328 pages 'The most extraordinary story of a mother's love and her daughter's legacy.' - Marcia Leone, creator of Not So Mumsy Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Pregnancy, birth & baby care Illustrations: About the Author Previous Titles: Rachael Casella is a police officer with the Australian Federal Police. She lives in Sydney with her husband Jonathan, Author now living: Sydney's Eastern Suburbs who also works for the Australian Federal Police.
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Convict Valley: The bloody struggle on Australia's early frontier Mark Dunn
The story of the second British penal settlement in Australia, where a notoriously brutal convict regime became the template for penal stations in other states. Mark Dunn explores relations between the white settlers and the local Aboriginal landholders, and uncovers a long forgotten massacre.
Description In 1790, five convicts escaped Sydney by boat and were swept ashore near present-day Newcastle. They were taken in by the Worimi people, given Aboriginal names and started families. Thus began a long and at times dramatic series of encounters between Aboriginal people and convicts in the second penal settlement in Australia.
The fertile valley of the Hunter River was the first area outside the Sydney basin explored by the British, and it became one of the largest penal settlements. Today manicured lawns and prosperous vineyards hide the struggle, violence and toil of the thousands of convicts who laid its foundations. The Convict Valley uncovers this rich colonial past, as well as the story of the original Aboriginal landholders. While there were friendships and alliances in the early years, in the later scramble for land in the 1820s - as the Valley was opened to free settlers - tensions rose and bloodshed ensued.
With fascinating stories about convicts, white settlers and the Aboriginal inhabitants that have long been forgotten, The Convict Valley is a new Australian history classic.
'Deeply researched and beautifully written.' Grace Karskens
'Interweaving the Aboriginal, convict and mining pasts of the Hunter Valley, gifted storyteller Dunn reveals the missing and misunderstood complexities of these histories.' Professor John Maynard, The University of Newcastle
Price: $32.99 $36.99 'In this groundbreaking book, Mark Dunn shows how the Hunter Valley became the heartland of convict Australia.' ISBN: 9781760528645 Professor Lyndall Ryan, author of Tasmanian Aborigines Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm About the Author Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Australasian & Pacific history Mark Dunn is a public historian and former chair of the Professional Historians Association of NSW and ACT. He is Bic2: Indigenous peoples descended from convicts who settled in the Hunter, and he has spent two decades investigating the history, heritage and Illustrations: archaeology of the region. Previous Titles: Author now living: Newtown, NSW
Allen & Unwin AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Wine O'Clock Myth: The Truth You Need To Know About Women and Alcohol Lotta Dann
'I deserve this.' 'This is my reward.' 'I'm allowed to treat myself.' Ever uttered these statements to yourself as you opened a bottle of wine at 5pm? If so, you're not alone.
Description Women around the globe are buying and consuming alcohol at alarming rates never seen before. But is it doing us any favours? Is it really that treat or reward that we deserve? Lotta Dann thinks not.
In The Wine O'Clock Myth, Lotta takes an in-depth and eye-opening look at women's drinking habits. Written through the lens of her own story and her work in the field of addiction and recovery, Lotta explores the privileged position alcohol holds in our society, the way the liquor industry targets women and the damaging 'Wine Mum' social media culture.
She reveals the damage alcohol is causing to women: physically, emotionally and socially; and the potential reasons why so many women are drinking at harmful levels.
And she talks to a number of brave women who share detailed, intimate stories about their personal relationships with alcohol. Stories that are at times brutal and heartbreaking, but also inspiring and heart lifting.
The Wine O'Clock Myth is a powerful, important book that may well change the way you think about alcohol forever.
About the Author Lotta Dann has a degree in broadcasting and communications and a master's degree in film, television and media studies. She worked as a TV journalist, producer and director until she got sober aged 39, at which point her career changed as much as her interior life did. She now works largely from her home in the hills of Wellington, New Zealand, which she shares with her husband, three sons and a black Labrador. She runs busy social-media accounts promoting Price: $32.99 $36.99 recovery, manages the highly successful online community Living Sober (livingsober.org.nz), and lately has been taking ISBN: 9781988547220 Format: Paperback - C format regular trips away to run day-long workshops on addiction and recovery. The Wine O'Clock Myth is her third book. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: True stories Bic2: Society & culture: general Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Wellington, New Zealand
A&U New Zealand AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Grief on the Run Julie Zarifeh
What happens when your life is rocked by unimaginable loss and grief? How do you survive and how do you keep going?
Description Julie Zarifeh shares her tragic story of the double whammy of her 27-year-old son Sam dying in a whitewater rafting accident just 16 days after her 60-year-old husband, Paul, died of pancreatic cancer. The loss of her beloved husband and son threw Julie and her surviving son and daughter into the depths of grief.
She describes how they dealt with this huge impact and how she has been embracing the notion of 'active grieving', practising what she preaches in her job as a consultant clinical psychologist. So far this has included a 450-kilometre bike ride around Sri Lanka, raising money to supply disadvantaged Kiwi children with new bikes; trekking the 800-kilometre Camino de Santiago across Northern Spain, which was made into a documentary (www.caminoskies.com); and running the New York marathon on behalf of the Mental Health Foundation.
This is an inspirational and ultimately uplifting account of learning to live with grief, with Julie's experience as a clinical psychologist an additional plus.
About the Author Julie Zarifeh is a consultant clinical psychologist who has worked across a variety of community and district health board mental health teams. Around the time of the Christchurch earthquakes she became part of a multidisciplinary team investigating the psychological factors contributing to 'broken heart syndrome'. Changing from a clinical to a research focus led to publications in academic journals, and presentations at New Zealand and international conferences.
In 2017, Julie's life changed dramatically with the deaths of her husband, Paul, and son Sam. This fuelled in Julie a passion for resilience psychology, as she worked to accept and adjust to the double bereavement. She is now studying for a Diploma in Positive Psychology and Wellbeing, and in 2019 she featured in the documentary Camino Skies about walking the Camino. Price: $32.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9781988547367 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Sumner, Christchurch NZ
A&U New Zealand AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Paris Match: Falling in (love) with the French John von Sothen
An American falls in love and becomes a Parisian - just not the way he imagined.
Description In Brooklyn, John von Sothen fell in love with Anais, a French waitress. And then, one night in Paris, on the Pont Neuf, she agreed to marry him ("Bah, we can always get divorced!"). A couple of decades in, the two have become quatre, living in their beloved 10th arondissement with teenage kids who chat to their African neighbours in fluent Parisian slang, and John has even become kind of French himself. Well, he likes to think he has. The family still see him as an American innocent abroad.
Paris Match is one of those rare books that makes you laugh out loud, as von Sothen attempts to understand what makes the French tick. Why do they take such long holidays with friends who ration snacks and mock you for sleeping in; why do French men turn to him (an American!) for fashion tips; what really is the correct way to cut brie, and how do you tell if you're being invited to a super-exclusive secret society of intellectuals or a weird sex club? John von Sothen has found most of the answers and in this delightful, witty book shares his experience, insights and humour into the fine art of becoming everyday French.
About the Author John von Sothen is an American writer living in Paris, where he works for Vanity Fair, Esquire and other magazines, does voice-overs for French luxury brands, and occasionally performs stand-up comedy (in French and English!). He lives with his actress wife Anais, their children Bibi and Otho, and their dog Bogart, who has recently become a rom-com film star.
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Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Together: Loneliness, Health and What Happens When We Find Connection Vivek H. Murthy
Obama's former Surgeon General explores the global loneliness epidemic - and how we can overcome it.
Description When Vivek Murthy accepted the role of Surgeon General under Obama, he thought his main focus would be tackling the opioid crisis and obesity. Instead, he discovered a much larger health crisis, one that connects the sick and the seemingly well: loneliness.
We live in an age steeped in disconnection. As a doctor, Murthy encountered people who struggled with addiction, disease, and pain, and often found loneliness at their very core. But while other illnesses can be more visible, loneliness keeps its sufferers silent. So how can we treat it, and what does it mean to live in this lonely age?
This book traces Murthy's journey to find the answers. As he uncovers the global proportions of this epidemic, and explores the root causes and devastating effects of loneliness, he also finds good news. From social support groups in Okinawa, to mentoring circles in Chicago, he looks at community efforts to combat loneliness around the world and what they can teach us about doing so in our own lives.
Part personal journey, part medical exploration, part social toolkit, this essential book shows how together we can learn to build a more connected, less lonely world.
About the Author Dr. Vivek H. Murthy is a physician, researcher, public health expert, and entrepreneur. From 2014 to 2017, he served as the 19th Surgeon General of the United States, tackling the nation's most urgent public health issues, including the opioid epidemic, vaccine-preventable illness, and physical activity. His writings have been published in leading medical journals, newspapers and magazines, and his work has been covered extensively in national and international media.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781788164740 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Illness & addiction: social aspects Bic2: Health & personal development Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: None
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Acting with Power: Why We Are More Powerful than We Believe Deborah Gruenfeld
A bold and eye-opening exploration of the true nature of power; using techniques borrowed from actors, we can all learn to wield power more confidently in our personal and professional lives.
Description Most of us tend to think that there are two kinds of people in world: those who have power, and those who don't. But in reality, says Stanford Business School professor Deborah Gruenfeld, we all have more power than we think. And success is not about how much power we have, but rather how we use it. In Acting with Power, readers will learn:
- how to read the power dynamics of room and understand where we fit in - techniques for getting "into character" when thrust into a role that feels unnatural - why some people fear power, while others abuse theirs - strategies for overcoming "performance anxiety" around stepping into a bigger role - why power doesn't necessarily corrupt; it's only when power meets insecurity that people and power get abused - how to use power as leaders to inspire great performances in others
Some of us constantly crave a bigger role, while some of us feel like imposters in our current ones. Acting with Power shows us how to give a more powerful performance in any role, and on any stage.
About the Author Deborah Gruenfeld is a social psychologist who has been teaching at the Stanford Graduate School of Business for almost 15 years. She created one of the most popular course there called Acting With Power which is the inspiration for writing this book. She has a Masters in Journalism from NYU and a PhD in Psychology from University of Illinois.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781788164962 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Business communication & presentation Bic2: Management: leadership & motivation Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Natural: The Seductive Myth of Nature's Goodness Alan Levinovitz
Why arguments based on what is 'natural', in food, medicine, and society at large, are appeals to a false idol - our oldest, most persistent superstition. In this sparking and mind-expanding essay, a scholar of religion shows where that ancient delusion came from and how we can at last break free of it.
Description Without our realising it, a single, slippery concept has become a secular deity throughout the modern industrial world. We make terrible sacrifices in its name: of our money, our health, and our planet. That deity is nature itself.
From supermarket shoppers to evolutionary biologists, from atheists to pastors, from Alex Jones to Gwyneth Paltrow, we are all prone to the intuitive faith that life should be lived 'naturally'.
But nature can't teach us how to live. If we try to stick to its imagined commands, eschewing human artifice in pursuit of Edenic purity, we jeopardise the environment, our health, and our society (we also waste a lot of money on pots of weird slime). It is time to accept our profound responsibility to shape the world of which our technology and our selves are wholly a part.
About the Author Alan Levinovitz is an assistant professor at James Madison University, Virginia. His writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Slate, Salon, Wired, The Believer, and The Millions.
Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781788161985 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Religion & beliefs Bic2: Philosophy Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Concise Laws of Human Nature Robert Greene
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power comes the concise edition of the definitive book on decoding the behaviour of the people around you.
Description Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves.
We are social animals. Our very lives depend on our relationships with people. Knowing why people do what they do is the most important tool we can possess, without which our other talents can only take us so far. Drawing from the ideas and examples of Pericles, Queen Elizabeth I, Martin Luther King Jr, and many others, Greene teaches us how to detach ourselves from our own emotions and master self-control, how to develop the empathy that leads to insight, how to look behind people's masks, and how to resist conformity to develop your singular sense of purpose.
Whether at work, in relationships, or in shaping the world around you, The Concise Laws of Human Nature offers brilliant tactics for success, self-improvement, and self-defence.
About the Author Robert Greene, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, The 33 Strategies of War, The Art of Seduction and Mastery (all published by Profile) is an internationally renowned expert on power strategies. He lives in Los Angeles.
Price: $17.99 $19.99 ISBN: 9781788161565 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 165x115mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Business & management Bic2: Popular psychology Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare Thomas Rid
This startling history of secret psychological operations traces the century-long rise of organised deception from the Russian Revolution to contemporary internet troll farms.
Description We live in an age of subterfuge. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and forging data, often with the goal of weakening the very foundation of liberal democracy: trust in facts. Thomas Rid, a renowned expert on technology and national security, was one of the first to sound the alarm. Even before the 2016 election, he warned that Russian military intelligence was 'carefully planning and timing a high-stakes political campaign' to disrupt the democratic process. But as crafty as such so-called active measures have become, they are not new.
In this astonishing journey through a century of secret psychological war, Rid reveals for the first time some of history's most significant operations - many of them nearly beyond belief. A White Russian ploy backfires and brings down a New York police commissioner; a KGB-engineered, anti-Semitic hate campaign creeps back across the Berlin Wall; the CIA backs a fake publishing empire, run by a former Wehrmacht U-boat commander that produces Germany's best jazz magazine.
About the Author Thomas Rid is a professor at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author most recently of the acclaimed Rise of the Machines (2016), a history of cybernetics. He testified on disinformation in front of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Price: $34.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9781788164757 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 448 pages Bic1: Defence strategy, planning & research Bic2: Military history Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Classical School: The Turbulent Birth of Economics in Twenty Extraordinary Lives Callum Williams
A fresh and irreverent look at the founders of economics, showing how they lived and what they thought, why they thought it, and why they still matter.
Description Opinions vary about who really counts as a classical economist: Marx thought it was everyone up to Ricardo. Keynes thought it was everyone up to Keynes. But there's a general agreement about who belongs to the heroic early phase of the discipline. Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Malthus, Mill, Marx: scarcely a day goes by without their names being publicly invoked to celebrate or criticise the state of the world or the actions of governments.
Few of us, though, have read their works. Fewer still realise that the economies that many of them were analysing were quite unlike our modern one, or the extent to which they were indebted to one another. So join the Economist's Callum Williams to join the dots. See how the modern edifice of economics was built, brick by brick, from their ideas and quarrels. And find out which parts stand the test of time.
The Classical School is a breezy, bracingly irreverent introduction to those founding intellects - how they lived, what they thought, what they got wrong and which of their ideas we still need.
About the Author Callum Williams is senior economics writer for the Economist. Scrutinising the rationale behind economic and political developments from Brexit to Jeremy Corbyn's economic policy, he has seen the ghosts of the founders of economics being invoked in all sorts of doubtful ways. Follow @econcallum on Twitter
Price: $32.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9781788164733 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Economics Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Business AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 At Close Range: Life and Death in an Artillery Regiment, 1939-45 Peter Hart
A British Band of Brothers: a thrilling account of the Second World War, told through the eyes of a regiment who fought at battles from Tobruk to the D-Day Landings.
Description The best way to understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to see it through the eyes of the soldiers who fought it. The South Notts Hussars fought at almost every major battle of the Second World War, from the Siege of Tobruk to the Battle of El Alamein and the D-Day Landings.
Here, Peter Hart draws on detailed interviews conducted with members of the regiment, to provide both a comprehensive account of the conflict and reconstruct its most thrilling moments in the words of the men who experienced it.
This is military history at its best: outlining the path from despair to victory, and allowing us to share in soldiers' hopes and fears; the deafening explosions of the shells, the scream of the diving Stukas and the wounded; the pleasures of good comrades and the devastating despair at lost friends.
About the Author Peter Hart is the oral historian at the Imperial War Museum. His last book The Last Battle: Endgame on the Western Front, 1918 won the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award 2018.
Price: $49.99 $55.00 ISBN: 9781788161657 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 560 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Military history Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Moon: A History for the Future Oliver Morton
An intimate, profound portrait of the Earth's closest neighbour.
Description Every generation has looked up from the Earth and wondered at the beauty of the Moon. 50 years ago, a few Americans became the first to do the reverse - with the whole world watching through their eyes.
In this short but wide-ranging book, Oliver Morton explores the history and future of humankind's relationship with the Moon. A counterpoint in the sky, it has shaped our understanding of the Earth from Galileo to Apollo. Its gentle light has spoken of love and loneliness; its battered surface of death and the cosmic. For some, it is a future on which humankind has turned its back. For others, an adventure yet to begin.
Advanced technologies, new ambitions and old dreams mean that men, women and robots now seem certain to return to the Moon. What will they learn there about the universe, the Earth-and themselves? And, this time, will they stay?
About the Author Oliver Morton is a senior editor at Economist and an award winning writer. He is the author of Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World, Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet and The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781788162555 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Popular astronomy & space Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Business AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Trials of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics Jonathan Sumption
Judges are meant to interpret laws but, increasingly, they make them.
Description In the past few decades, legislatures throughout the world have suffered from gridlock. In democracies, laws and policies are just as soon unpicked as made. It seems that Congress and Parliaments cannot forge progress or consensus. Moreover, courts often overturn decisions made by elected representatives.
In the absence of effective politicians, many turn to the courts to solve political and moral questions. Rulings from the Supreme Courts in the United States and United Kingdom, or the European court in Strasbourg may seem to end the debate but the division and debate does not subside. In fact, the absence of democratic accountability leads to radicalisation. Judicial overreach cannot make up for the shortcomings of politicians. This is especially acute in the field of human rights. For instance, who should decide on abortion or prisoners' rights to vote, elected politicians or appointed judges?
Expanding on arguments first laid out in the 2019 Reith Lectures, Jonathan Sumption argues that the time has come to return some problems to the politicians.
About the Author Jonathan Sumption, Lord Sumption, is a British judge and historian. He served as a Justice of the Supreme Court from 2012 to 2018. He has written several books of Medieval history including The Age of Pilgrimage, The Albigensian Crusade, and four books on the Hundred Years War, the third of which, Divided Houses, won the 2009 Wolfson History Prize. His previous books were published by Faber & Faber.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781788163736 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Jurisprudence & philosophy of law Bic2: Politics & government Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 How Bad Are Bananas?: The carbon footprint of everything Mike Berners-Lee
Ten years on from first publication, a new edition of this invaluable and entertaining guide that shows just what effect everything has on carbon emissions, from a Google search to a plastic bag, from a flight to a volcano.
Description How Bad Are Bananas? was a groundbreaking book when first published in 2009, when most of us were hearing the phrase 'carbon footprint' for the first time. Mike Berners-Lee set out to inform us what was important (aviation, heating, swimming pools) and what made very little difference (bananas, naturally packaged, are good!).
This new edition updates all the figures (from data centres to hosting a World Cup) and introduces many areas that have become a regular part of modern life - Twitter, the Cloud, Bitcoin, electric bikes and cars, even space tourism. Berners- Lee runs a considered eye over each area and gives us the figures to manage and reduce our own carbon footprint, as well as to lobby our companies, businesses and government. His findings, presented in clear and even entertaining prose, are often surprising. And they are essential if we are to address climate change.
About the Author Mike Berners-Lee is a professor of sustainability at Lancaster University and the founder of Small World Consulting, a world leader in supply chain carbon metrics and management that has worked with organisations of all sizes, from the world's largest tech giants to supermarkets to micro businesses. Mike makes regular speaking, TV and radio appearances to promote awareness of sustainability and climate change issues. He is also the author of The Burning Question and There Is No Planet B.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781788163811 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: The environment Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Where Power Stops: The Making and Unmaking of Presidents and Prime Ministers David Runciman
David Runciman grapples with how character defines and limits the holders of the highest offices in the UK and America.
Description Lyndon Baines Johnson, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, Theresa May, and Donald Trump: each had different motivations, methods, and paths, but they all sought the highest office. And yet when they reached their goal, they often found that the power they had imagined was illusory. Their sweeping visions of reform faltered. They faced bureaucratic obstructions, but often the biggest obstruction was their own character.
However, their personalities could help them as much as hurt them. Arguably the most successful of them, LBJ showed little indication that he supported what he is best known for - the Civil Rights Act - but his grit, resolve, and brute political skill saw him bend Congress to his will.
David Runciman tackles the limitations of high office and how the personal histories of those who achieved the very pinnacles of power helped to define their successes and failures in office. These portraits show what characters are most effective in these offices. Could this be a blueprint for good and effective leadership in an age lacking good leaders?
About the Author David Runciman is Professor of Politics at Cambridge University and the former Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies. He is the author of six previous books, including How Democracy Ends (Profile), Political Hypocrisy, The Confidence Trap and Politics (for the Ideas in Profile series). He writes regularly about politics for the London Review of Books and hosts the widely acclaimed weekly podcast Talking Politics.
Price: $22.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781788163347 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Comparative politics Bic2: Politics & government Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Infamy: The Crimes of Ancient Rome Jerry Toner
A journey to the dark side of Roman nature - like Horrible Histories for grown-ups.
Description Rome is an empire with a bad reputation. From its brutal games to its depraved emperors, its violent mobs to its ruthless wars, its name resounds down the centuries like a scream in an alley. But was it as bad as all that? Join the historian Jerry Toner on a detective's hunt to discover the extent of Rome's crimes.
From the sexual peccadillos of Tiberius and Nero to the chances of getting burgled if you left your apartment unguarded (pretty high, especially if the walls were thin enough to knock through) he leaves no stone unturned in his quest to bring the Eternal City to book.
Meet a gallery of villains, high and low. Discover the problems that most exercised its long-suffering citizens. Explore the temptations of excess and find out what desperation can make a pleb do. What do we see when we look at Rome? A hideous vision of ancient corruption - or a reflection of our own troubled age?
About the Author Dr Jerry Toner is Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics, Churchill College, Cambridge University. He is the author of How to Manage Your Slaves and Release your Inner Roman, which were published by Profile under his pseudonym Marcus Sidonius Falx.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781781253861 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Empowering Women Professor Linda Scott
An urgent analysis of global gender inequality and a passionately argued case for change by a pioneer in the movement for women's economic empowerment.
Description Women's economic development expert Linda Scott coined the paradigm-shifting concept of the 'double X economy' to describe both the shocking gender inequalities that are built into our global economy, and the collective power of women that could be harnessed to combat those inequalities.
Drawing on a wealth of sources including radical original research and vivid case studies, Scott reveals how economic subordination and exclusion are systemic for women in the developing and the developed worlds; and shows that by pulling women in as equal participants in the economy, we could address many of humankind's most pressing problems.
Provocative, accessible and potentially game-changing, The Double X Economy is the feminist answer to Jeffrey Sach's The End of Poverty: both a work of expert analysis and an urgent call to action.
About the Author Linda Scott is an internationally renowned expert on women's economic development, and Emeritus DP World Professor for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University ofOxford. She is founder of the Power Shift Forum for Women in the World Economy, which brings together leaders from across sectors; and founder and senior advisor of the Global Business Coalition for Women's Economic Empowerment, a consortium of major multinationals working to empower women in developing countries. She is Senior Consulting Fellow at Chatham House, and a frequent consultant to the World Bank Group on gender economics. Linda Scott's work has been covered by The Economist, BBC, New York Times, Guardian and Financial Times, and Prospect magazine has twice listed her among their Top 25 global thinkers. @ProfLindaScott
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9780571353606 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 302 pages Bic1: Economics Bic2: Behavioural economics Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Then It Fell Apart Moby
The hotly-anticipated second volume of Moby's memoirs after Porcelain: a celebrity car crash of epic proportions after the release of PLAY.
Description *Featured in The Times' 'Best Books of the Year So Far'*
What do you do when you realise you have everything you think you've ever wanted but still feel completely empty? What do you do when it all starts to fall apart? The second volume of Moby's extraordinary life story is a journey into the dark heart of fame and the demons that lurk just beneath the bling and bluster of the celebrity lifestyle.
In summer 1999, Moby released the album that defined the millennium, PLAY. Like generation-defining albums before it, PLAY was ubiquitous, and catapulted Moby to superstardom. Suddenly he was hanging out with David Bowie and Lou Reed, Christina Ricci and Madonna, taking ecstasy for breakfast (most days), drinking litres of vodka (every day), and sleeping with super models (infrequently). It was a diet that couldn't last. And then it fell apart.
The second volume of Moby's memoir is a classic about the banality of fame. It is shocking, riotously entertaining, extreme, and unforgiving. It is unedifying, but you can never tear your eyes away from the page.
About the Author Moby was born in Harlem in 1965. He is a singer-songwriter, musician, DJ and photographer. The first volume of his memoirs, Porcelain, was published by Faber in 2016.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9780571339419 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Music Bic2: Memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Social AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Porcelain Moby
From one of the most interesting and iconic musicians of our time, a piercingly tender, funny, and harrowing account of the path from suburban poverty and alienation to a life of beauty, squalor, and unlikely success out of the New York City club scene of the late 1980s and 90s.
Description There were many reasons Moby was never going to make it as a DJ and musician in the New York club scene of the late 1980s and early 90s. This was the New York of Palladium, of Mars, Limelight, and Twilo, an era when dance music was still a largely underground phenomenon, popular chiefly among working-class African Americans and Latinos. And then there was Moby - not just a poor, skinny white kid from deepest Connecticut, but a devout Christian, a vegan, and a teetotaller, in a scene that was known for its unchecked drug-fuelled hedonism. He would learn what it was to be spat on, literally and figuratively. And to live on almost nothing. But it was perhaps the last good time for an artist to live on nothing in New York City ...
And so by the end of the decade, Moby contemplated the end of things, in his career and elsewhere in his life, and he put that emotion into what he assumed would be his swan song, his good-bye to all that, the album that would be in fact the beginning of an astonishing new phase in his life, the multimillion-selling PLAY. Porcelain is about making it, losing it, loving it, and hating it. It's about finding your people, and your place, thinking you've lost them both, and then, finally, somehow, creating a masterpiece. As a portrait of the young artist, Porcelain is a masterpiece in its own right, fit for the short shelf of musicians' memoirs that capture not just a scene but an age and something timeless about the human condition. Push play.
About the Author Moby was born in Harlem in 1965. He is a singer-songwriter, musician, DJ and photographer.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9780571321490 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 512 pages Bic1: Autobiography: general Bic2: Autobiography: general Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession Gavin Francis
An exploration of isolation and connectedness based on thirty years of travel, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Adventures in Human Being and Empire Antarctica.
Description In Island Dreams, Gavin Francis examines our collective fascination with islands. He blends stories of his own travels with psychology, philosophy and great voyages from literature, shedding new light on the importance of islands and isolation in our collective consciousness.
Comparing the life of freedom of thirty years of extraordinary travel from the Faroe Islands to the Aegean, from the Galapagos to the Andaman Islands with a life of responsibility as a doctor, community member and parent approaching middle age, Island Dreams riffs on the twinned poles of rest and motion, independence and attachment, never more relevant than in today's perennially connected world.
Illustrated with maps throughout, this is a celebration of human adventures in the world and within our minds.
About the Author Gavin Francis is an award-winning writer and GP. He is the author of four books of non-fiction, including Adventures in Human Being, which was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the Saltire Scottish Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award, and Empire Antarctica, which won Scottish Book of the Year in the SMIT Awards and was shortlisted for both the Ondaatje and Costa Prizes. He has written for the Guardian, The Times, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. His work is published in eighteen languages. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.
@gavinfranc | gavinfrancis.com
Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781786898180 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 220x162mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Travel writing Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate Trade AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth Dan Richards
An exploration of the outposts set along the edges of civilisation and their impact on the human spirit, from the co-author of Holloway.
Description There are still wild places out there on our crowded planet.
Through a series of personal journeys, Dan Richards explores the appeal of far-flung outposts in mountains, tundra, forests, oceans and deserts. Following a route from the Cairngorms of Scotland to the fire-watch lookouts of Washington State; from Iceland's 'Houses of Joy' to the Utah desert; frozen ghost towns in Svalbard to shrines in Japan; Roald Dahl's writing hut to a lighthouse in the North Atlantic, Richards explores landscapes which have inspired writers, artists and musicians, and asks: why are we drawn to wilderness? What can we do to protect them? And what does the future hold for outposts on the edge?
About the Author Dan Richards is the co-author of Holloway (with Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood) and the author of The Beechwood Airship Interviews and Climbing Days. He has written for The Guardian, Harper's Bazaar, Caught by the River, Monocle and The Quietus. He is an RLF Fellow at Bristol University.
@Dan_Zep
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Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 London Made Us: A Memoir of a Shape-Shifting City Robert Elms
A personal journey - part anecdotal, part impressionistic - through London's constantly shifting cityscape by BBC Radio London's Robert Elms.
Description 'London is a giant kaleidoscope, which is forever turning. Take your eye off it for more than a moment and you're lost.'
Robert Elms has seen his beloved city change beyond all imagining. London in his lifetime has morphed from a piratical, bomb-scarred playground, to a swish cosmopolitan metropolis. Motorways driven through lost communities, accents changing, skyscrapers appearing. Yet still it remains to him the greatest place on earth.
Elms takes us back through time and place to myriad Londons. He is our guide through a place that has seen scientific experiments conducted in subterranean lairs and a small community declare itself an independent nation; a place his great-great-grandfather made the Elms' home over a century ago and a city that has borne witness to world-changing events.
About the Author Robert Elms is a broadcaster and writer, well-loved for his eponymous radio show on BBC Radio London. Elms started out as a journalist, writing for The Face and NME. He is a Londoner through and through, growing up in West London and living in the city for most of his life.
The Robert Elms Show is a celebration of every aspect of the tumultuous city. He interviews Londoners - famous and non-famous - and every week looks at all sides of the city, be that architecture, language, music, clothes and more.
Elms is the author of two previous works of non-fiction, The Way We Wore: A Life in Threads and Spain: A Portrait After the General, and a novel, In Search of the Crack. He lives in London with his wife and children.
@RobertElms Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781786892133 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Social & cultural history Bic2: Memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Necropolis Boris Pahor, translated by Michael Biggins and introduction by Alan Yentob
A classic of Holocaust literature from the camps' oldest known survivor; introduced by Alan Yentob
Description Boris Pahor spent the last fourteen months of World War II as a prisoner and medic in the Nazi camps at Bergen-Belsen, Harzungen, Dachau and Natzweiler-Struthof. Twenty years later, as he visited the preserved remains of a camp, his experiences came back to him: the emaciated prisoners; the ragged, zebra-striped uniforms; the infirmary reeking of dysentery and death.
Necropolis is Pahor's stirring account of providing medical aid to prisoners in the face of the utter brutality of the camps - and coming to terms with the guilt of surviving when millions did not. It is a classic account of the Holocaust and a powerful act of remembrance.
About the Author Boris Pahor is a member of the Slovenian national minority in Italy, and is considered among the greatest living writers in the Slovenian language. Several of his works portray the experiences of World War II concentration camp prisoners, and their attempts to reintegrate into everyday life after the war - a process Pahor, a Dachau survivor, personally experienced.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781838852290 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: The Holocaust Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Misadventures Sylvia Smith
The extraordinary memoir of an ordinary woman's life.
Description Misadventures is a unique ensemble of mishaps and anecdotes revealing the ups and downs of one woman's life in twentieth-century London. Sylvia Smith's deadpan patter belies the startling complexities, humour and darkness at the heart of this remarkable memoir.
About the Author Born in East London to working-class parents as the Second World War was drawing to a close, Sylvia Smith ducked out of a career in hairdressing at the last minute to begin a life of office work. A driving licence and a school swimming certificate were her only qualifications, although she was also quite good at dressmaking. Misadventures was her first book. She died on 23 February 2013.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781786893987 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Japan: The Passenger Volume 1
'Some Japanese stories end violently. Others never end at all, but only cut away, at the moment of extreme crisis, to a butterfly, or the wind, or the moon.' - Brian Phillips
Description Visitors from the West look with amazement, and sometimes concern, at Japan's monolithic social structures and unique, complex culture industry; the gigantic scale of its tech corporations and the resilience of its traditions; the extraordinary diversity of the subcultures that flourish in its "post-human" megacities. The country nonetheless remains an impossibly complicated jig- saw puzzle whose overall design eludes us. Its inscrutability has made the country an inexhaustible source of inspiration for stories, reflections, and re- portage. The subjects in this volume range from the Japanese veneration of the dead to the Tokyo music scene, from urban alienation to cinema, from sumo to machismo. Caught between an ageing population and extreme post-mod- ernity, immobile yet futuristic, Japan is an ideal observation point from which to understand our age and the one to come.
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Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781787702196 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 241x159mm Extent: pages Bic1: Travel writing Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Europa Editions AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Greece: The Passenger Volume 2
'On the Greek island of Ikaria, life is sweet . . . and very, very long. What is the locals' secret?' - from "The Island of Long Life" by Andrew Anthony
Description Few countries have received more media attention in recent years and even fewer have been represented in such vastly divergent ways. There's a down- side to all this attention: everyone seems to have something final to say about Greece. News replaces people's actual stories, impressions substitute facts, characters take the place of people. In this volume of The Passenger, we chose to set those opinions aside in order to give to the stories, facts, and people of Greece the dignity and centrality they deserve.
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Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781787702189 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 241x159mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Travel writing Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Europa Editions AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Wild Child: Coming Home to Nature Patrick Barkham
An intuitive and inspiring study of childhood and the joy and wonder to be found in neighbourhood nature, from one of our finest nature writers.
Description From climbing trees and making dens, to building sandcastles and pond-dipping, many of the activities we associate with a happy childhood take place outdoors. And yet, the reality for many contemporary children is very different. The studies tell us that we are raising a generation who are so alienated from nature that they can't identify the commonest birds or plants, they don't know where their food comes from, they are shuttled between home, school and the shops and spend very little time in green spaces - let alone roaming free.
In this timely and personal book, celebrated nature writer Patrick Barkham draws on his own experience as a parent and a forest school volunteer to explore the relationship between children and nature. Unfolding over the course of a year of snowsuits, muddy wellies, and sunhats, Wild Child is both an intimate story of children finding their place in natural world, and a celebration of the delight we can all find in even modest patches of green.
About the Author Patrick Barkham was born in 1975 in Norfolk and was educated at Cambridge University. He is a features writer for the Guardian, where he has reported on everything from the Iraq War to climate change. He is the author of The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals, Badgerlands: The Twilight World of Britain's Most Enigmatic Animal, Coastlines: The Story of Our Shore and Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago. He lives in Norfolk with his wife and three children.
Price: $34.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9781783781911 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x138mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Natural history Bic2: Cultural studies Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Those Who Forget Geraldine Schwarz
A memoir of the past and a warning for today: the urgent account of a woman delving into her family's complicity with the Nazis during World War Two.
Description Geraldine Schwarz's family never discussed what happened in the war. Neither heroes nor villains, her German grandparents were merely the 'Mitlaufer' - those who followed the current. They just wanted to forget, to bury it all under the wreckage of the Third Reich. But decades later when, delving through filing cabinets in the basement of their apartment building in Mannheim, Geraldine discovers that her grandfather Karl profited from the forced 'Aryanisation' of Jewish businesses, she is compelled to investigate her ancestors' past. How guilty were they?
Weaving together the threads of three generations of family history - from Nazi Germany to Vichy France - with that of Europe's process of postwar reckoning, Schwarz explores how millions were seduced by ideology, how they were overcome by a fog of denial after the war and how, eventually, they confronted the past. In doing so, she asks: what makes us become complicit? How should nations deal with collective guilt? And, amid the rise of extremism today, how do we ensure we remember?
About the Author Geraldine Schwarz is a German-French journalist, author and documentary filmmaker based in Berlin. Those Who Forget, an account of her family's complicity with fascism, is her first book. It has been translated into eight languages and won the European Book Prize 2018, the Winfried Preis and the Nord-Sud Prize.
Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781782275350 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Pushkin AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 What Do You Think You Are?: The Science of What Makes You You Brian Clegg
The popular science equivalent of the TV show Who Do You Think You Are?
Description Popular science master Brian Clegg's new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you. From the atomic level, through life and energy to genetics and personality, it explores how the billions of particles which make up you - your DNA, your skin, your memories - have come to be.
It starts with the present-day reader and follows a number of trails to discover their origins: how the atoms in your body were created and how they got to you in space and time, the sources of things you consume, how the living cells of your body developed, where your massive brain and consciousness originated, how human beings evolved and, ultimately, what your personal genetic history reveals.
About the Author Brian Clegg's most recent books for Icon are Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon and Conundrum. He has also written Big Data and Gravitational Waves for the Hot Science series. He is editor of popularscience.co.uk and blogs at brianclegg.blogspot.com.
Price: $32.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9781785786235 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Popular science Bic2: Human biology Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future Iwan Rhys Morus
A new biography of electrical pioneer Nikola Tesla, one of the most enigmatic and influential figures in the history of science.
Description Nikola Tesla is one of the most enigmatic, curious and controversial figures in the history of science. An electrical pioneer as influential in his own way as Thomas Edison, he embodied the aspirations and paradoxes of an age of innovation that seemed to have the future firmly in its grasp.
In an era that saw the spread of power networks and wireless telegraphy, the discovery of X-rays, and the birth of powered flight, Tesla made himself synonymous with the electrical future under construction but opinion was often divided as to whether he was a visionary, a charlatan, or a fool.
Iwan Rhys Morus examines Tesla's life in the context of the extraordinary times in which he lived and worked, colourfully evoking an age in which anything seemed possible, from capturing the full energy of Niagara to communicating with Mars.
Shattering the myth of the 'man out of time', Morus demonstrates that Tesla was in all ways a product of his era, and shows how the popular image of the inventor-as-maverick-outsider was deliberately crafted by Tesla - establishing an archetype that still resonates today.
About the Author Iwan Rhys Morus is professor of history at Aberystwyth University. He graduated in Natural Sciences from Cambridge and completed his doctorate there in the history and philosophy of science. He has published widely on the history of science. Recent publications include Michael Faraday and the Electrical Century (Icon Books, 2017) and the Oxford Illustrated History of Science.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781785786174 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Biography: science, technology & medicine Bic2: Popular science Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Waiting for War: Britain 1939-1940 Barry Turner
For the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of war in 1939, a new history of the 'Phoney War'.
Description At the outbreak of war in 1939, ordinary people were quickly forced to adapt to the realities of a nation under dire threat.
But it soon became known as the Phoney War, a time when official incompetence reigned supreme. Theatres and cinemas were closed and football matches cancelled, only for the government to realise belatedly that morale was plunging as a result. Thousands of women and children were evacuated to the countryside, only for many to flood back to the cities, preferring the dangers to separation from their families. Censorship of news was heavy-handed and bred widespread resentment.
In fact, the period from September 1939 to May 1940 was a time of intense political and military activity - the blitzkrieg on Poland, the start of the U-boat menace, the disastrous Norwegian campaign, the political manoeuvrings that brought Churchill to power. Barry Turner skilfully weaves these events into a compelling home front narrative which evokes the fears and dangers but also the humour and the absurdities of everyday life in the dark days of 1939-1940.
About the Author Barry Turner is a popular historian whose many books include Suez 1956, When Daddy Came Home (with Tony Rennell), Karl Doenitz and The Last Days of the Third Reich (Icon, 2015) - 'a page-turning narrative' (Daily Mail) - and The Berlin Airlift (Icon, 2017) - 'a fine piece of popular history' (BBC History).
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781785786167 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: British & Irish history Bic2: Second World War Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 There Will Be No Miracles Here: A memoir from the dark side of the American Dream Casey Gerald
The testament of a life in the shadow of the American Dream - now in paperback.
Description Casey Gerald's story begins at the end of the world: on New Year's Eve 1999, Casey gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church to witness the rapture. The journey that follows is a beautiful and moving story of a young man learning to question the dreams of success and prosperity that are the foundation of modern America.
Growing up gay in an ordinary black neighbourhood in Dallas, his parents struggling with mental health problems and addiction, Casey finds himself on a remarkable path to a prestigious Ivy League college, to the inner sanctums of power on Wall Street and in Washington DC. But even as he attains everything the American Dream promised him, Casey comes to see that salvation stories like his own are part of the plan to keep others from rising.
Intense, incantatory, shot through with sly humour and quiet fury, There Will Be No Miracles Here is an extraordinary memoir that forces us to judge our society not on those who rise highest, but on those left behind along the way.
About the Author Casey Gerald grew up in Dallas, Texas, and went to Yale, where he majored in political science and played varsity football. After receiving an MBA from Harvard Business School, he cofounded MBAs Across America. He has been featured on MSNBC, at TED and SXSW, on the cover of Fast Company, and in The New York Times, Financial Times, and The Guardian, among others.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781788161978 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Serpents Tail AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool Emily Oster
An empowering new way to make decisions as a parent - take out the judgement, use the data.
Description 'Emily Oster is the non-judgemental girlfriend holding our hand and guiding us through pregnancy and motherhood. She has done the work to get us the hard facts in a soft, understandable way' - Amy Schumer
Parenting is full of decisions, nearly all of which can be agonized over. There is an abundance of often-conflicting advice hurled at you from doctors, family, friends, and strangers on the internet. But the benefits of these choices can be overstated, and the trade-offs can be profound. How do you make your own best decision?
Armed with the data, Oster finds that the conventional wisdom doesn't always hold up. She debunks myths and offers non-judgemental ways to consider our options in light of the facts. Cribsheet is a thinking parent's guide that empowers us to make better, less fraught decisions - and stay sane in the years before preschool.
About the Author Emily Oster is a professor of economics at Brown University and the author of Expecting Better. She spoke at the 2007 TED conference and has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Esquire. Oster is married to economist Jesse Shapiro and is also the daughter of two economists. She has two children.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781788164498 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Child care & upbringing Bic2: Pregnancy, birth & baby care Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Souvenir Press AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Weep Not for Me: In Memory of a Beloved Cat Constance Jenkins
A beautiful poem to help comfort those who have experienced the loss of a beloved pet.
Description The death of a beloved companion animal can cause as much grief as the death of a human being. Weep Not For Me is a moving poem providing the comfort that helps to bring acceptance of a pet's death.
Constance Jenkins composed this poem to comfort her sister whose beloved cat had died. Published in beautiful hardback book form, the poignant verse is complemented by illustrator Pat Schaverien's beautiful etchings of cats.
About the Author Constance Jenkins has loved and lived with animals all her life. She composed the poem Weep Not For Me to comfort her sister, who had lost her much-loved cat. She lives in Chandler, Arizona.
Pat Schaverien lives in London and specialises in drawings of animals of all kinds, using sugar lift etchings and aquatint. Her work is published as greetings cards and limited edition prints.
Price: $12.99 $14.99 ISBN: 9781788166126 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 150x111mm Extent: 32 pages Bic1: Poetry by individual poets Bic2: Poetry Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Souvenir Press AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel Carl Safina
In a world where we measure animals by human standards, prize-winning author and MacArthur Fellow Carl Safina takes us inside their minds, witnessing their profound capacity for perception, thought and emotion.
Description THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that for a scientist was forbidden fruit: Who are you?
Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina's landmark book offers an intimate view of animal behaviour to challenge the fixed boundary between humans and animals. Travelling to the threatened landscape of Kenya to witness struggling elephant families work out how to survive poaching and drought, then on to Yellowstone National Park to observe wolves sort out the aftermath of one pack's personal tragedy, the book finally plunges into the astonishingly peaceful society of killer whales living in the crystalline waters of the Pacific Northwest. Beyond Words brings forth powerful and illuminating insight into the unique personalities of animals through extraordinary stories of animal joy, grief, jealousy, anger, and love. The similarity between human and nonhuman consciousness, self-awareness and empathy calls us to re-evaluate how we interact with animals. Wise, passionate, and eye-opening at every turn, Beyond Words is ultimately a graceful examination of humanity's place in the world.
About the Author Carl Safina's writing about the living world has won a MacArthur "genius" prize, Pew, and Guggenheim Fellowships; book awards from Lannan, Orion, and the National Academies; and the John Burroughs, James Beard, and George Rabb medals. He has studied seabirds, worked to ban high-seas drift nets and to overhaul U.S. fishing policy. Safina is now the first Endowed Professor for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University and he runs the not-for-profit Safina Center. He is author of the classic book, Song for the Blue Ocean. He lives on Long Island, New York with his wife Patricia and their dogs and feathered friends.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781788164238 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Science: general issues Bic2: Popular science Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Souvenir Press AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Being A Good Carer: An Invaluable Guide to Looking After Others - And Yourself Amanda Waring
An invaluable, inspiring guide to how to give your loved one the best possible care while addressing the anxieties that all carers suffer.
Description Being a Good Carer is essential reading for anyone who cares for an elderly person, whether as a professional or as a loved one, in its promotion of the role dignity and respect should play.
This accessible and detailed guide includes practical tips, checklists for best practice, and case studies from a wide range of carers that addresses solutions to common problems and giving expert advice on how to deliver compassionate and dignified care to older people. It is easy to read and provides anecdotal experience from carers and tips from the experts.
Uniquely, Amanda Waring also provides support and guidance for the carer, on how to maintain energy and commitment, recognise the signs of compassion fatigue and where to get help if you need it. Essential reading for anyone who cares for an elderly person, whether as a professional or as a loved one, Being a Good Carer advocates for dignity and respect for all.
About the Author Amanda Waring is a campaigner for dignity within health and social care. She is the author of The Heart of Care. A filmmaker, her campaigning film What Do You See has been shown across the world, and she is a leader of training workshops on dignified care of the elderly. Amanda is a presenter for Aged Care TV, an advisor on the government's Dignity Board.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781788164252 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Home nursing & caring Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Souvenir Press AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Concise 48 Laws Of Power Robert Greene
The Concise Edition of this huge international bestseller - the 48 laws are illustrated through the tactics, triumphs and failures of great figures from the past who have wielded - or been victimised by - power.
Description The perfect gift book for the power hungry (and who doesn't want power?) at an excellent price. At work, in relationships, on the street or on the 6 o'clock news: the 48 Laws apply everywhere. For anyone with an interest in conquest, self- defence, wealth, power or simply being an educated spectator, The 48 Laws of Power is one of the most useful and entertaining books ever.
This book 'teaches you how to cheat, dissemble, feign, fight and advance your cause in the modern world.' (Independent on Sunday) The distilled wisdom of the masters -illustrated through the tactics, triumphs and failures from Elizabeth I to Henry Kissinger on how to get to the top and stay there.
Wry, ironic and clever this is an indispensable and witty guide to power. The laws are now famous: Law 1: Never outshine the master Law 2: Never put too much trust in friends; learn how to use enemies Law 3: Conceal your intentions Law 4: Always say less than necessary
About the Author Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power and The Art of Seduction (both from Profile), has a degree in Classical Studies and has been an editor at Esquire and other magazines. He is also a playwright and lives in Los Angeles.
Price: $17.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781861974044 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 164x117mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Assertiveness, motivation & self-esteem Bic2: Assertiveness, motivation & self-esteem Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Concise Mastery Robert Greene
A concise guide to living by your own rules (and a radical new guide to achieving greatness) from Robert Greene, author of international bestseller The 48 Laws of Power.
Description The perfect pocketbook gift for the power-hungry - from 'the modern Machiavelli', Robert Greene, international bestselling sensation author of The 48 Laws of Power, Seduction and War. This concise version of the business classic Mastery provides a shortcut to Greene's powerful new tools for achieving greatness. Around the globe, people are facing the same problem - that we are born as individuals but are forced to conform to the rules of society if we want to succeed. To see our uniqueness expressed in our achievements, we must first learn the rules - and then change them completely.
Charles Darwin began as an underachieving schoolboy, Leonardo da Vinci as an illegitimate outcast. The secret of their eventual greatness lies in a 'rigorous apprenticeship': they learnt to master the 'hidden codes' which determine ultimate success or failure. Then they rewrote the rules as a reflection of their own individuality.
Told through Robert Greene's signature blend of historical anecdote and psychological insight and drawing on interviews with world leaders, Concise Mastery builds on the strategies outlined in The 48 Laws of Power to provide a practical guide to greatness - and learn how to start living by your own rules.
About the Author Robert Greene is author of The 48 Laws of Power (9781861972781), The 33 Strategies of War (9781861979780) The Art of Seduction (9781861977694), The 50th Law (9781846680687) and Mastery (all Profile). He has a degree in Classical Studies and has been an editor at Esquire and other magazines.
Price: $17.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781846681561 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 166x118mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Self-help & personal development Bic2: Self-help & personal development Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Concise 33 Strategies of War Robert Greene
The third in Robert Greene's bestselling series is now available in a pocket sized concise edition. Following 48 Laws of Power and The Concise Art of Seduction, here is a brilliant distillation of the strategies of war to help you wage triumphant battles everyday.
Description From bestselling author Robert Greene comes a new guide to the strategies of war that can help us gain mastery in the modern world.
Spanning world civilisations, and synthesising dozens of political, philosophical, and religious texts, The Concise 33 Strategies of War is a guide to the subtle social game of everyday life. Based on profound and timeless lessons, it is abundantly illustrated with examples of the genius and folly of everyone from Napoleon to Margaret Thatcher and Hannibal to Ulysses S. Grant, as well as diplomats, captains of industry and Samurai swordsmen.
About the Author Robert Greene is author of The 48 Laws of Power, The 33 Strategies of War, The Art of Seduction, The 50th Law and Mastery (all Profile). He has a degree in Classical Studies and has been an editor at Esquire and other magazines.
Price: $17.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781861979988 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 168x117mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Business & management Bic2: Military tactics Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Concise Seduction Robert Greene
The companion book to the bestselling Concise 48 Laws of Power.
Description Which sort of seducer could you be: Siren? Rake? Cold Coquette? Star? Comedian? Charismatic? Saint?
Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who is able to manipulate, mislead and give pleasure all at once.
When raised to the level of art, seduction - an indirect and subtle form of power - has toppled empires, won elections and enslaved great minds. In this beautiful, sensually designed book, Greene unearths the two sides of seduction: the characters and the process. Discover who you, or your pursuer, most resembles. Learn, too, the pitfalls of the anti- Seducer. In part II, immerse yourself in the twenty-four manoeuvres and strategies of the seductive process, the ritual by which a seducer gains mastery over their target.
Understand how to 'Choose the Right Victim', 'Appear to Be an Object of Desire' and 'Confuse Desire and Reality'. In addition, Greene provides instruction on how to identify victims by type. Each fascinating character and each cunning tactic demonstrates a fundamental truth about who we are, and the targets we've become - or hope to win over. The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer on the essence of one of history's greatest weapons and the ultimate power trip.
About the Author Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power and The Art of Seduction (both from Profile), has a degree in Classical Studies and has been an editor at Esquire and other magazines. He is also a playwright and lives in Los Angeles.
Price: $17.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781861976413 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 165x116mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Assertiveness, motivation & self-esteem Bic2: Assertiveness, motivation & self-esteem Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The 50th Law Robert Greene and 50 Cent
Bestselling author Robert Greene combines forces with 50 Cent to help you get ahead.
Description The ultimate hustle is to move freely between the street and corporate worlds, to find your flow and never stay locked in the same position. This is a manifesto for how to operate in the twenty-first century, where everything has been turned on its head. Building on the runaway success of Robert Greene's The 48 Laws of Power (almost five million copies sold), the 'modern Machiavelli' teams up with rapper 50 Cent to show how the power game of success can be played to your advantage.
Drawing on the lore of gangsters, hustlers, and hip-hop artists, as well as 50 Cent's business and artistic dealings, the authors present the 'Laws of 50', revealing how to become a master strategist and supreme realist. Success comes from seeking an advantage in each and every encounter, and The 50th Law offers indispensable advice on how to win in business - and in life.
About the Author Robert Greene is the author of three international bestsellers. He has been an editor at Esquire and other magazines.
50 Cent is a US rapper and entrepreneur. He has released four major label albums, earned eleven Grammy nominations and taken street culture by storm from music and movies to clothing and books.
Price: $19.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781846680793 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Business strategy Bic2: Business strategy Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Lying Life of Adults Elena Ferrante
A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the beloved best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend.
Description 'Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly. The sentence was uttered under his breath, in the apartment that my parents, newly married, had bought in Rione Alto, at the top of Via San Giacomo dei Capri. Everything - the spaces of Naples, the blue light of a very cold February, those words - remained fixed. But I slipped away, and am still slipping away, within these lines that are intended to give me a story, while in fact I am nothing, nothing of my own, nothing that has really begun or really been brought to completion: only a tangled knot, and nobody, not even the one who at this moment is writing, knows if it contains the right thread for a story or is merely a snarled confusion of suffering, without redemption.'
Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find herself and save herself?
She is searching for a new face in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: the Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and the Naples of the depths, which professes to be a place of excess and vulgarity. She moves between these two cities, disoriented by the fact that, whether high or low, the city seems to offer no answer and no escape.
About the Author Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 2005), Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008) and the four volumes of the Neapolitan Quartet (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child), published by Europa Editions between 2012 and 2015. She is also the author of a children's picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night, and a work of non-fiction, Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey. Incidental Inventions, her collected Guardian columns, was published in 2019. Price: $44.99 $49.99 ISBN: 9781787702363 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Europa Editions AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Below the Big Blue Sky: From the bestselling author of The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes
Anna McPartlin's new novel will make you laugh, cry and shout with joy.
Description From the bestselling author of The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes comes a huge-hearted novel about death, family and finding laughter in the most bloody mental places.
When forty-year-old Rabbit Hayes dies, she leaves behind a family broken by grief. Her mother Molly is distraught and in danger of losing her faith. Her father Jack spends hour upon hour in the family attic, poring over his old diaries, losing himself in the past.
Rabbit's brother Davey finds himself suddenly guardian to her twelve-year-old daughter Juliet. Juliet might be able to fill a hole in Davey's heart - but how can he help Juliet through her grief when he can barely cope with his own?
Meanwhile, Rabbit's sister Grace is struggling with the knowledge that she carries the same gene that made her sister ill, and Rabbit's best friend Marjorie is lost, struggling to remain a part of a family she has always wished was her own now that her link to them is gone.
But even though the Hayes family are all fighting their own battles, they are drawn together by their love for Rabbit, and their love for each other. In the years that follow her death they find new ways to celebrate and remember her, to find humour and hope in the face of tragedy, and to live life to its fullest, as Rabbit would have wanted.
Below a Big Blue Sky will make you laugh, cry and shout with joy for the colourful, unruly Hayes family as they battle with the loss of their beloved Rabbit, the daughter, mother, sister and friend, who in her own crazy way taught each of them how to live, and goes on showing them how to love from beyond the grave.
About the Author Anna McPartlin is a novelist and scriptwriter from Dublin, who has written for TV serial dramas featured on BBC UK, RTE Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781838770785 Ireland and A&E America. She has been writing adult fiction for over ten years, and also writes for children under the Format: Hard Cover name Bannie McPartlin. She lives with her husband Donal and their four dogs. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 496 pages Bic1: Adult & contemporary romance Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 A Precious Gift Rosie Goodwin
The perfect new wartime saga from bestselling author Rosie Goodwin.
Description Nuneaton, 1911
When Holly Farthing's overbearing grandfather tries to force her to marry a widower twice her age, she finally says no. After he refuses to support her any longer, Holly flees to London, bringing her best friend and maid, Ivy, with her.
In the big smoke, Holly searches for the father she's never met and begins nurse training in the local hospital. There she meets the dashing Doctor Parkin. Kind and compassionate, he is everything Holly has ever dreamt of.
When Doctor Parkin proposes, Holly finally feels like she'll have the family she so longs for. But soon, she discovers some shocking news that means they can never be together, and her life is suddenly thrown into turmoil. Supporting the war effort, she heads to France and throws herself into volunteering on the front line.
Can Holly ever find the happiness she so truly deserves?
About the Author Rosie Goodwin is the million copy bestselling author of more than thirty novels. She is the first author in the world to be allowed to follow three of Catherine Cookson's trilogies with her own sequels. Having worked in the social services sector for many years, then fostered a number of children, she is now a full-time novelist. She is one of the top 50 most borrowed authors from UK libraries. Rosie lives in Nuneaton, the setting for many of her books, with her husband and their beloved dogs.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781785767609 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 528 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Secrets of Ironbridge Mollie Walton
A heartwarming saga sets in 1850s Shropshire, following on from Mollie Walton's debut saga novel The Daughters of Ironbridge.
Description 1850s Shropshire.
Returning to her mother's birthplace at the age of eighteen, Beatrice Ashford encounters a complex family she barely knows. Her great-grandmother Queenie adores her, but the privileged social position of Beatrice's family as masters of the local brickworks begins to make her uncomfortable.
And then she meets Owen Malone: handsome, different, refreshing - and from a class beneath her own. They fall for each other fast, but an old family feud and growing industrial unrest threatens to drive them apart.
Can they overcome their different backgrounds? And can Beatrice make amends for her family's past?
About the Author Mollie Walton has always been fascinated by history and on a trip to Shropshire, while gazing down from the iron bridge, found the inspiration for her debut saga novel, The Daughters of Ironbridge. This was followed by The Secrets of Ironbridge. Mollie is currently at work on the third book in the series.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781838770686 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Sagas Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 This Green and Pleasant Land Ayisha Malik
Timely, humorous and deeply moving. This is the absolute standout new novel by acclaimed author (and 2018 Asian Woman of Achievement nominee) Ayisha Malik.
Description Accountant Bilal Hasham and his journalist wife Mariam plod along contentedly in the sleepy, chocolate box Dorset village they've lived in for ten years.
Then Bilal is summoned to his mother's bedside in Birmingham. Mrs Sakheena Hasham knows she is not long for this world. She has a final request. Instead of whispering her prayers in her dying moments, she instructs her son: You must go home to your village, and you must build a mosque.
Mariam is horrified. The villagers are outraged. How can a grieving Bilal choose between honouring his beloved mum's last wish and preserving everything held dear in the village he calls home? But it turns out home means different things to different people.
Battle lines are drawn and this traditional little community becomes the colourful canvas on which the most current and fundamental questions of identity, friendship, family and togetherness are played out.
What makes us who we are, who do we want to be, and how far would we go to fight for it?
About the Author Ayisha Malik is a writer and editor, living in South London. She holds a BA in English Literature and a First Class MA in Creative Writing. Her novels Sofia Khan is Not Obliged and The Other Half of Happiness, starring 'the Muslim Bridget Jones', were met with great critical acclaim, and Sofia Khan is Not Obliged was chosen as 2019's Cityread book. Ayisha was a WHSmith Fresh Talent Pick, shortlisted for the Asian Women of Achievement Award and Marie Claire's Future Shapers Awards. Ayisha is also the ghost writer for The Great British Bake Off winner, Nadiya Hussain.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781785764509 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 464 pages Bic1: Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Buried Lynda La Plante
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Zaffre AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Anthill Julianne Pachico
An arresting debut novel from one of the most innovative young fiction writers today.
Description Once they put you in the trash, everyone's rotten, and nobody gives a damn about who you used to be anymore, or what you used to do. That's just the way it is.
Lina has come home to the country of her childhood. She's not been back for twenty years. Sent away from Colombia to England after her mother's death when she was eight, she's searching for the person who can tell her about their shared past.
She's never forgotten him. Matty - her childhood friend, her best friend, her brother, her protector - now runs the Anthill, a day care refuge for the street kids of Medellin. Lina begins volunteering there, but her reunion with Matty is riven with tension. Memory is fallible, and their versions of what happened are very different.
While Lina confronts her understanding of the country's political and social ruptures, strange events at the Anthill start taking place: scratches on the sup- ply closet door, disturbing crayon drawings, and sightings of a small, dirty boy with pointy teeth. Is this a vision of the boy she once knew, or something more frightening? Did she ever really understand what happened to her own mother, or what happened to Matty's?
The Anthill is the dark and intoxicating debut novel by the author of The Lucky Ones. It's asks what we choose to do with our identity - both inherited and created - and it is a blazing, unforgettable excavation of the very nature of imagination.
About the Author Julianne Pachico was born in 1985 in Cambridge and grew up in Cali, Colombia. She is a graduate of both the MA and PhD in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, where she currently teaches on the Creative Writing MA. She is the only writer to have two stories in the 2015 anthology of the Best British Short Stories, and her short fiction has been published by The New Yorker among other publications. In 2017 Pachico was shortlisted for the Sunday Times/Peters Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9780571331468 Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Fiction AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic Simon Armitage
Now in paperback - a collection of commissioned, collaborative and occasional poems, demonstrating the range of Poet Laureate Simon Armitage's writing outside of his mainstream volumes.
Description Over the course of several years, Simon Armitage has written hundreds of poems for various projects, commissions, collaborations and events, which stand outside of his mainstream collections but now form a substantial body of work in their own right. They vary from single poems, such as 'Zodiac T Shirt', written to be performed at the launch of Beck's Song Reader, to the suite of ten poems about Branwell Bronte written at the time of the writer's bicentenary. Some have been published - such as the Walking Home and Walking Away poems - but the majority has not, and together they cover an eclectic array of subjects including sculpture, the environment, travel, drama, and media.
Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic represents the nature and scale of Armitage's work - it is an important reflection of his public engagement as a poet and the astonishing range of his interests and talents.
About the Author Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. A recipient of numerous prizes and awards, he has published eleven collections of poetry, including Seeing Stars (2010), The Unaccompanied (2017) and his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007). He writes extensively for television and radio, and is the author of two novels and the non-fiction bestsellers All Points North (1998), Walking Home (2012) and Walking Away (2015). His theatre works include The Last Days of Troy, performed at Shakespeare's Globe in 2014. In 2015 he was appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford University and in 2018 he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9780571334971 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 216 pages Bic1: Poetry Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Poetry AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Randomly Moving Particles Andrew Motion
In this new poetry collection, histories - both real and imagined - meet with astute present-day perceptions to create a richly layered portrait of contemporary life.
Description Andrew Motion's expansive new collection is built around two long poems that form its opening and close. The title poem, in a kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, engages with subjects that include migration, placement, loss, space exploration and current British and American politics. The more straightforwardly narrative poem, 'How Do the Dead Walk', while reaching back to immemorial stories of brutality, addresses issues of contemporary violence. The book is direct in its emotional appeal, ambitious in its scope, all the while retaining the cinematic vision and startling expression that so freshly lit the lines of his last, Essex Clay.
About the Author Andrew Motion was UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009 and is co-founder of the online Poetry Archive. In 2015 he was appointed Homewood Professor in the Arts at Johns Hopkins University; he lives in Baltimore.
Price: $34.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9780571352081 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 112 pages Bic1: Poetry by individual poets Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Poetry AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Paris: A Poem Hope Mirrlees
Modernism's lost masterpiece.
Description Centenary edition of 'modernism's lost masterpiece'.
About the Author Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978) was a British translator, poet and novelist. She published three novels in her lifetime, Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists (1919), The Counterplot (1922) and the fantasy novel Lud-in-the-Mist (1926); and two collections of poetry, Poems (1963) and Moods and Tensions (1976).
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9780571359936 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 48 pages Bic1: Poetry by individual poets Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Poetry AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Manor Moira Buffini
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About the Author Moira Buffini's plays include Blavatsky's Tower (Machine Room), Gabriel (Soho Theatre), Silence (Birmingham Rep), Loveplay (Royal Shakespeare Company), Dinner (National Theatre and West End), Dying for It, adapted from The Suicide by Nikolai Erdman (Almeida), A Vampire Story (NT Connections), Marianne Dreams (Almeida Theatre) and Welcome to Thebes (National Theatre). She lives in London with her husband and children.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9780571363315 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Plays AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Pass Over Antoinette Nwandu
'This is the story of two young black American men who are deeply troubled by the lack of their American Dream and the lack of a promised land.'
Description A lamppost. Night. Two friends are passing time. Stuck. Waiting for change.
Inspired by Waiting for Godot and The Exodus, Antoinette Nwandu fuses poetry, humour and humanity in a rare and politically charged new play which exposes the experiences of young men in a world that refuses to see them.
Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu opens at the Kiln Theatre, London, in February 2020.
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Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9780571361762 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 112 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Plays AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Collected Screenplays Paul Auster
Collected Screenplays brings together the film work of Paul Auster.
Description Paul Auster's novels have earned him the reputation as 'one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers.' He has also brought this sense of invention to the art of screenwriting, producing Smoke, Blue in the Face, Lulu on the Bridge and The Inner Life of Martin Frost.
Smoke tells the story of a novelist, a cigar store manager and a black teenager who unexpectedly cross paths. Blue in the Face is a largely improvised comedy directly inspired by Smoke.
In Lulu on the Bridge, jazz musician Izzy Maurer is accidentally hit with a bullet during a performance in a New York club, propelling him on a strange and frightening journey.
The Inner Life of Martin Frost follows the unsettling experiences that befall a writer who borrows a friend's country house.
The volume also contains production notes, as well as interviews with Paul Auster about his work in film.
About the Author Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Among his other honours are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Medicis Etranger for Leviathan. He has also been shortlisted for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more than forty languages.
Price: $59.99 $69.99 ISBN: 9780571353934 He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 512 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Film scripts & screenplays Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Film AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 August Callan Wink
From an assured new voice in American fiction, a magnificent and moving first novel about a boy coming of age in the American heartland.
Description August is an average twelve year old - he likes dogs and fishing, and doesn't even mind early morning chores on his family's farm. When his parents' marriage falls apart and he has to start over in a new town, he tries hard to be an average teen - playing football and doing his homework - but he struggles to form friendships, and when a shocking act of violence pushes him off course once more, he flees to rural Montana. There, as he throws himself into work on a ranch, he comes to learn that even the smallest of communities have secrets and even the most broken of families have a bond.
Beautifully written and unfolding against an epic American landscape, August is a compelling, authentic and poignant story of the joys and traumas that irrevocably shape us all.
About the Author Callan Wink was born in Michigan in 1984 and now lives in Livingston Montana, where he is a fly-fishing guide on the Yellowstone River. He has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His stories and essays appear widely, including in The New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope, Playboy, Men's Journal and The Best American Short Stories Anthology. His first book, Dog Run Moon, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and received a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention.
Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781847088109 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x138mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Together: Loneliness, Health and What Happens When We Find Connection Vivek Murthy
Barack Obama's former Surgeon General explores the global loneliness epidemic - and how we can overcome it.
Description When Vivek H. Murthy accepted the role of Surgeon General under Obama, he thought his priorities might be the opioid crisis or obesity. Instead, he discovered a much larger underlying problem: loneliness. It is a global health crisis, and it is killing us. So how can we treat it?
In this book, Dr Murthy uncovers the proportions of this epidemic, and explores the root causes and devastating effects of loneliness. But most importantly, he discovers a solution that can be applied to our individual lives, and inform how we raise our children, think about work, and create communities. Real human connection is not just nice, he shows, it is essential to our lives.
From social support groups in Okinawa, to welcoming sheds for older men in Australia and the UK, via Phone Pal programmes in California, Murthy looks at efforts to combat loneliness and create community around the world and what they can teach us about doing so in our own lives. Part personal journey, part medical exploration, part social toolkit, this essential book shows how together we can learn to build a more connected, less lonely world.
About the Author Dr. Vivek H. Murthy is a physician, researcher, public health expert, and entrepreneur. From 2014 to 2017, he served as the 19th Surgeon General of the United States. His writings have been published in leading medical journals, newspapers and magazines, and his work has been covered extensively in national and international media.
Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781788162777 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Illness & addiction: social aspects Bic2: Health & personal development Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: None
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Acting with Power: Why We Are More Powerful than We Believe Deborah Gruenfeld
A bold and eye-opening exploration of the true nature of power; using techniques borrowed from actors, we can all learn to wield power more confidently in our personal and professional lives.
Description Most of us tend to think that there are two kinds of people in world: those who have power, and those who don't. But in reality, says Stanford Business School professor Deborah Gruenfeld, we all have more power than we think. And success is not about how much power we have, but rather how we use it. In Acting with Power, readers will learn:
- how to read the power dynamics of room and understand where we fit in - techniques for getting "into character" when thrust into a role that feels unnatural - why some people fear power, while others abuse theirs - strategies for overcoming "performance anxiety" around stepping into a bigger role - why power doesn't necessarily corrupt; it's only when power meets insecurity that people and power get abused - how to use power as leaders to inspire great performances in others
Some of us constantly crave a bigger role, while some of us feel like imposters in our current ones. Acting with Power shows us how to give a more powerful performance in any role, and on any stage.
About the Author Deborah Gruenfeld has been a professor of social psychology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She has a masters in journalism from NYU and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois and began her academic career at Northwestern before being recruited to Stanford. Widely published in her field, she is a frequent keynote and featured speaker at executive conferences and internal events at large corporations.
Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781788164948 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Business communication & presentation Bic2: Management: leadership & motivation Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare Thomas Rid
This startling history of secret psychological operations traces the century-long rise of organised deception from the Russian Revolution to contemporary internet troll farms.
Description We live in an age of subterfuge. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and forging data, often with the goal of weakening the very foundation of liberal democracy: trust in facts. Thomas Rid, a renowned expert on technology and national security, was one of the first to sound the alarm. Even before the 2016 election, he warned that Russian military intelligence was 'carefully planning and timing a high-stakes political campaign' to disrupt the democratic process. But as crafty as such so-called active measures have become, they are not new.
In this astonishing journey through a century of secret psychological war, Rid reveals for the first time some of history's most significant operations - many of them nearly beyond belief. A White Russian ploy backfires and brings down a New York police commissioner; a KGB-engineered, anti-Semitic hate campaign creeps back across the Berlin Wall; the CIA backs a fake publishing empire, run by a former Wehrmacht U-boat commander that produces Germany's best jazz magazine.
About the Author Thomas Rid is a professor at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author most recently of the acclaimed Rise of the Machines (2016), a history of cybernetics. He testified on disinformation in front of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Price: $49.99 $55.00 ISBN: 9781788160742 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 448 pages Bic1: Defence strategy, planning & research Bic2: Military history Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Classical School: The Turbulent Birth of Economics in Twenty Extraordinary Lives Callum Williams
A breezy, bracingly irreverent introduction to the founders of economics - how they lived, what they thought, what they got wrong and which of their ideas we still need.
Description Opinions vary about who really counts as a classical economist: Marx thought it was everyone up to Ricardo. Keynes thought it was everyone up to Keynes. But there's a general agreement about who belongs to the heroic early phase of the discipline. Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Malthus, Mill, Marx: scarcely a day goes by without their names being publicly invoked to celebrate or criticise the state of the world or the actions of governments.
Few of us, though, have read their works. Fewer still realise that the economies that many of them were analysing were quite unlike our modern one, or the extent to which they were indebted to one another. So join the Economist's Callum Williams to join the dots. See how the modern edifice of economics was built, brick by brick, from their ideas and quarrels. And find out which parts stand the test of time.
About the Author Callum Williams is senior economics writer for the Economist. Scrutinising the rationale behind economic and political developments from Brexit to Jeremy Corbyn's economic policy, he has seen the ghosts of the founders of economics being invoked in all sorts of doubtful ways. Follow @econcallum on Twitter
Price: $45.00 $50.00 ISBN: 9781788161817 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Economics Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Business AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 15 Minutes of Power: The Uncertain Life of British Ministers Peter Riddell
Peter Riddell explores what it means to be a minister in the British Government.
Description Aside for the secretaries of state, those lofty roles at the Home Office, MOD, Exchequer, and Foreign office, the ministers of the UK are a cast of roles that expand, and contract based on the whims and political needs of the Prime Minister. Within their portfolios those MPs and Lords are immensely powerful - able to reshape whole sectors of British society, grant or refuse government contracts and planning permission, and intervene in matters throughout the country.
And yet, few members of the British Public could name every single minister and fewer still could say the extent of each minister's responsibilities. We like to imagine that they are competent, prepared, and entirely in control, and we hold them to standards as though they are. But they are often none of those things.
These men and women serve at the pleasure of the Prime Minister. Any misstep or scandal can invite media attention, public outcry, and their swift departure. At the same time, their resignations can shatter political alliances and bring down Prime Ministers and even governments. Their positions are, therefore, both immensely powerful and precarious. In Fifteen Minutes of Power, Peter Riddell draws on interviews with former ministers, conducted on behalf of the Institute of Government, to reveal the fraught existence of these powerful men and women.
About the Author Peter Riddell is the former director of the Institute of Government and current Public Appointments Commissioner for the British Government. He is a journalist and was a regular contributor to the Financial Times, where he was US Editor and Washington Bureau Chief until 1991, and the Times. Over his career, he has gained access to the innermost reaches of Whitehall and has written seven books and dozens of articles revealing the inner-workings of British Politics. This work earned him a President's Medal from the British Academy and, in 2012, a CBE.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781788162197 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Public administration Bic2: Central government Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Empowering Women Professor Linda Scott
An urgent analysis of global gender inequality and a passionately argued case for change by a pioneer in the movement for women's economic empowerment.
Description An urgent analysis of global gender inequality and a passionately argued case for change by a pioneer in the movement for women's economic empowerment.
'A compelling and actionable case for unleashing women's economic power' - Melinda Gates
Women's economic development expert Linda Scott coined the paradigm-shifting concept of the 'double X economy' to describe both the shocking gender inequalities that are built into our global economy, and the collective power of women that could be harnessed to combat those inequalities.
Drawing on a wealth of sources including radical original research and vivid case studies, Scott reveals how economic subordination and exclusion are systemic for women in the developing and the developed worlds; and shows that by pulling women in as equal participants in the economy, we could address many of humankind's most pressing problems.
Provocative, accessible and potentially game-changing, The Double X Economy is the feminist answer to Jeffrey Sach's The End of Poverty: both a work of expert analysis and an urgent call to action.
About the Author Linda Scott is an internationally renowned expert on women's economic development, and Emeritus DP World Professor for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University ofOxford. She is founder of the Power Shift Forum for Women in the World Economy, which brings together leaders from across sectors; and founder and senior advisor of the Global Business Coalition for Women's Economic Empowerment, a consortium of major multinationals working to empower women in developing countries. She is Senior Consulting Fellow at Chatham House, and a frequent consultant to the World Bank Group on gender economics. Linda Scott's work has been covered by The Economist, BBC, New York Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9780571337569 Times, Guardian and Financial Times, and Prospect magazine has twice listed her among their Top 25 global thinkers. Format: Hard Cover @ProfLindaScott Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Economics Bic2: Behavioural economics Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Pocket Money Gordon Burn
A classic of sports journalism, and a unique snapshot of Thatcher's Britain seen through the boom sport of the 80s.
Description Following the 1985 final between Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis, Britain found itself in the grip of a new sporting obsession. Snooker, or 'Coronation Street with balls', was suddenly big business and 1986 was set to be a crucial year. In one corner was Barry Hearn and his Romford Mafia - Davis, Taylor and Griffiths - and in the other were the bad boys - Higgins, White and Knowles - threatening the game's good name, and its earning potential.
For one year, Gordon Burn travelled with this snooker circus, from Hong Kong and China to out of season resorts in the North of England and the season's finale in Sheffield. With unprecedented access to the leading players and personalities involved, Pocket Money affords a unique snapshot into an extraordinary time and place.
About the Author Gordon Burn was the author of four novels, Alma Cogan (winner of the Whitbread First Novel Prize), Fullalove, The North of England Home Service and Born Yesterday. He was also the author of the non-fiction titles Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son, Pocket Money, Happy Like Murderers, On The Way to Work (with Damien Hirst) and Best and Edwards. His last book, Sex & Violence, Death and Silence, was a collection of his essays on art.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9780571353613 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Snooker, billiards, pool Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Non Fiction AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 Forced Out: A Detective's Story of Prejudice and Resilience Kevin Maxwell
An explosive insider's account of racism, homophobia and wrongdoing in today's police force and his fight for change.
Description Kevin Maxwell was a dream candidate for the police force - he had a long-held desire to serve his community, a strong moral compass and a clear aptitude for both the strategic and practical aspects of policing. And, as a gay black man from a working class family, he could easily have been a poster boy for the force's stated commitment to equal opportunities. Joining just after the 9/11 attacks, Kevin entered policing determined to keep communities safe in the face of a changing world. But instead he came up against entrenched prejudice, open racism and homophobia. For more than ten years, Kevin strove against the odds, until he took the force to an employment tribunal - with devastating results.
Forced Out is a revelatory expose combining deeply affecting memoir with sharp analysis and a fascinating insider perspective on day-to-day life in the force. It is a touchstone for the silent many who have either tried to ignore abuse for the sake of their career or who have been bullied out of their jobs. It paints a sobering portrait of an institution that has not yet learned the lessons of the past and whose prejudice is informing the cases it chooses to investigate and the way it investigates them. And it asks the important question: what needs to change?
About the Author Kevin Maxwell served as a detective in both the Greater Manchester and London's Metropolitan Police forces. He now writes and advocates for social justice and equality. He has written for newspapers and magazines including the Independent and the Guardian, and has appeared on television and radio for the BBC and Sky News.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781846276804 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Police & security services Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Portobello Trade AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac
The defining book on the climate crisis that shows us how we can and will survive.
Description We can survive the climate crisis. This book shows us how.
We have two choices for our future, which is still unwritten. It will be shaped by who we choose to be right now. So, how can we change the story of the world?
The Future We Choose is a passionate call to arms from former UN Executive Secretary for Climate Change, Christiana Figueres, and Tom Rivett-Carnac, senior political strategist for the Paris Agreement. We are still able to stave off the worst and manage the long-term effects of climate change, but we have to act now. We know what we need to do, and we have everything we need to do it.
Practical, optimistic and empowering, The Future We Choose is a book for every generation, for all of us who feel powerless in the face of the climate crisis.
This is the final hour: it can be our finest.
But we must act now.
About the Author Christiana Figueres was the UN Executive Secretary for Climate Change between 2010 and 2016. She was the public face of the most pivotal climate agreement in history, the Paris Climate Agreement, in 2015.
Tom Rivett-Carnac was senior political strategist for the Paris Agreement. Together they are the co-founders of Global Optimism, an organisation focused on creating environmental and social change, and co-hosts of the podcast Outrage and Optimism. Price: $39.99 $45.00 ISBN: 9781838770822 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 222x144mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Climate change Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Manilla AUSTRALIA JUNE 2020 A Belfast Child James Hodgkinson
Northern Ireland's answer to Philomena, but with bombs and bullets. . .
Description John Chambers was brought up on Belfast's notorious Loyalist Glencairn estate, during the height of the Troubles. From an early age he witnessed violence, hatred and horror as Northern Ireland tore itself apart in civil strife. Kneecapping, brutal murders, and even public tarring-and-feathering were simply a fact of life for the children on the estate. He thought he knew which side he was on, but although raised as a Loyalist, he was hiding a troubling secret: that his disappeared mother - whom he'd always been told was dead - was a Roman Catholic, 'the enemy'.
In a memoir of rare power, John explores the dark heart of Northern Irish sectarianism in the seventies and eighties. With searing honesty and native Belfast wit, he describes the light and darkness of his unique childhood, and his teenage journey through mod culture and ultra-Loyalism, before an escape from Belfast to London - where, still haunted by the shadow of his fractured family history - he began a turbulent and hedonistic adulthood.
A Belfast Child is a tale of divided loyalties, dark secrets and the scars left by hatred and violence on a proud city - but also a story of hope, healing and ultimate redemption for a family caught in the rising tide of the Troubles.
About the Author John writes a popular blog, www.belfastchildis.wordpress.com which deals with issues surrounding The Troubles and Northern Ireland's more recent, less conflicted, history. His blog has had approximately 65,000 visitors over the past six months, the majority from the UK, the United States and mainland Europe.
Price: $24.99 $27.99 ISBN: 9781789462746 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
John Blake